March 5, 2008

Surgery to sideline Alou 4-6 weeks

PORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets' injury picture took a dramatic turn for the worse tonight with the news that Moises Alou faces hernia surgery.The 41-year-old left fielder can't begin...

Joba struggles in loss

APJoba Chamberlain was far from automatic against the Twins.Chamberlain allowed a two-run homer to Garrett Jones in a 7-5 loss today, the first Grapefruit League loss in four games for...

PATRICK SWAYZE HAS PANCREATIC CANCER

Patrick SwayzeYeah, I have to say, patrick_swayze_going_to_die is pretty callous... posted by MikeClick here to comment March 5, 2008 -- Twinkle-toed tough guy Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with cancer...

No Need For Vasquez-Marquez IV

Israel Vasquez and Rafael Marquez gave us one of the best trilogies in the history of boxing over the last 12 months. There's no need for more, and certainly no...

Coughlin contract likely Thursday

By PAUL SCHWARTZThe contract extension for Tom Coughlin that kept on growing and growing in value as the Giants surged to victory in Super Bowl XLII is likely to be...

DiPietro at practice, may sit again

APRick DiPietro rejoined the Islanders for practice today with no assurance he would be back in goal Thursday night for the second half of a home-and-home series with the Rangers.DiPietro...

Peaceful matchup for Francona, Torre

APAfter four years as Boston’s manager, Terry Francona can finally put his arm around Joe Torre behind the batting cage.If Francona tried that when both led enemy squads in the...

Diane Von Furstenberg is a model citizen.

Tomorrow night, celebs and personalities such as Christiane Amanpour, The Clementes, Eva Amurri and Kim Catrall are expected to come out in support of Diane Von Furstenberg and Vital Voices,...

The Williams Guys

By FRED KERBERIt has been a little tough of late for two of the guys who were the building blocks of the future not that long ago.Sean Williams is now...

3 DOWN: Santana, Murcer, Torre

1. Sitting behind homeplate, even in early March, you can get a great view of why Johan Santana’s changeup is so devastating. His arm speed and release points are clones...

Cats & Dogs in Times Square Saturday

From noon to 3 p.m. this Saturday at the Sanrio store in Times Square, Hello Kitty and Blue costume characters will meet-greet fans and take photos as the store introduces...

PATRICK SWAYZE HAS PANCREATIC CANCER

Twinkle-toed tough guy Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and might only have weeks to live, a rep for the dirty dancer said yesterday. Swazyze's publicist confirmed to...

Santana sharper in second start

PORT ST. LUCIE –- Johan Santana's second spring start as a Met was dramatically better than his debut last Friday. An inning-by-inning rundown of Santana's day against the Dodgers at...

GOOD NEWS TRAVELS FAST

The news was good on Bobby Murcer today.Bobby offered a statement, saying, “We received great news this morning. The biopsy revealed scar tissue. It showed no signs of cancer. We...

UPDATE: The girls are off tonight

Here's what you will not see in Las Vegas tonight Not to go all how-the-sausage-is-made on you here or anything, but this week's print cover story on Las Vegas put...

Alou, Vargas latest to go down

PORT ST. LUCIE -– The injuries just keep piling up for the Mets, who lost 41-year-old outfielder Moises Alou and pitcher Jason Vargas this afternoon.Alou -- who turns 42 in...

Tribeca Finally Gets Preggers

The Tribeca Film Festival, which lost "Knocked Up'' to the hipper South by Southwest last year, has landed another pregnancy comedy from founders Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal's longtime business...

Marbury: I'll be there

By MARC BERMANStephon Marbury told The Post in an email this morning he will make his first appearance at the Garden tonight vs. the Cavaliers since having ankle surgery Jan....

Church suffers setback

PORT ST. LUCIE -– Mets right fielder Ryan Church is scheduled to see a neurologist here this afternoon after suffering a setback in his recovery from a Grade 2 concussion....

Her Name Is Paris... Hilton

Paris Hilton will grace the TV screen during the hour-long return of NBC's beloved "My Name is Earl" on April 3. The heirhead will play herself in a dream sequence...

Christina Aguilera for Stephen Webster

To be unveiled in the April issue of W. “Stephen and I have been friends for many years and working together on this campaign and collection has been an incredible...

MARBURY TELLS POST: 'I'M THERE'

Stephon Marbury told The Post in an e-mail this morning that he will make his first appearance at the Garden tonight since having ankle surgery Jan. 22. "I'm there," Marbury...

Promotion dates announced

The Mets announced their promotion dates for the final season of Shea Stadium this morning. Here’s the rundown:-- Saturday, April 12 vs. Milwaukee: Citi Field Cap Day (first 25,000 fans).--...

'American Idol': The Paula Show

The "Idol" cameras last night captured two great Simon moments of disgust. It leads us to wonder how many times frustration over Paula gets the best of Simon on any...

Carrie on the Croisette?

Is Carrie Bradshaw, the saucy sex columnist played by Sarah J. Parker, headed back to France? The Cannes Film Festival rumor du jour, courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business...

Starr Report: They're wearing a tie

In other fashion-show news, former "America's Next Top Model" contestant April Wilkner (from the show's second season) hosts this year's American Legacy Foundation Honors Monday at The Pierre. Last, but...

El Duque tries out new wind-up

PORT ST. LUCIE -– Orlando Hernandez took his new wind-up for a test spin this morning and could be closer to making his first start of the spring. Willie Randolph...

Deal of the Day

Pick up this 3/4-Sleeved Cropped Jacket to throw over a T-shirt and wide leg jeans or over one of the floral dresses that you’re bound to buy.The large collar and...

What's the Last Straw?

Sean Avery has been a key component of Ranger success since he was brought over at the trade-deadline last season. Whether in part or in whole, he was the catalyst...

3 UP: Delgado, Giambi, Met Bench

1. In today’s Post, I wrote a column about Carlos Delgado and his attempt at a rebound, and more specifically should we buy into the likelihood that he will return...

MAYOR ORDERS 3RD CASH SLASH

Six weeks after Mayor Bloomberg ordered city agencies to slash their budgets by 5 percent, he hit them yesterday with another 3 percent in cuts, worth $500 million. And that...

MIKE LAUDS 500-GRAND OLD PARTY

Trying to calm the furor over his shocking $500,000 campaign contribution to state Senate Republicans, Mayor Bloomberg argued yesterday they deserve his support because "most of them are from upstate"...

DEMI'S ONE HOT MAMA

Demi Moore shows off her nurturing side as she poses with her three daughters for a sleepover-style photo in the April issue of Harper's Bazaar. The hot-as-ever mom teamed up...

COLD HARD CASH

It's nothing to sneeze at. Airborne, the herbal-supplement maker, has agreed to pay through the nose - $23.3 million to be exact - to settle a class-action suit charging it...

FACE TIME ON B'WAY

Now you can be larger than life - projecting your toothy grin high above Times Square on a giant billboard. The 2,500-square-foot interactive digital screen, which sits atop the 48-story...

CITY NIXES SUGAR SHACK

City officials yesterday said they're sour on a planned five-story glass addition for the historic Domino Sugar condo conversion in Brooklyn, telling its developer to go back to the drawing...

FEAR STALKING VILLAGE STREETS

A lightning bolt of fear struck the heart of the West Village yesterday as word spread of two terrifying assaults on women by a crazed sex fiend. "It's really frightening....

COMMUTE IN RUINS

Metro-North riders suffered a hellish commute home yesterday after a Harlem building collapse knocked out service on several lines. The Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines were suspended for almost...

MRS. MCG'S PERKY BID FOR 600G

Dina Matos McGreevey wants $605,999 in damages for her marriage to Jim McGreevey, a sum she claims represents the taxpayer perks she lost when the gay former love gov resigned...

NIXZMARY DAD WITNESS A DUD

Jurors in the Nixzmary Brown case yesterday heard testimony from a secret defense witness - who apparently hurt the dead girl's stepfather. The testimony by an unidentified former female Rikers...

TWISTED SISTER'S 'THREAT'

The older sister of a Russian doctor accused of orchestrating the murder of her orthodontist ex-hubby was busted yesterday for allegedly threatening his brother in an attempt to stop him...

SICKING DOCS ON ALBANY

Hordes of city doctors yesterday left their white coats on the steps of the Capitol building in Albany to protest soaring medical malpractice costs and lawsuits. Hundreds of the protesting...

THE $49M TOWN HOUSE

The Upper East Side mansion seized from former Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione has been sold by his creditors for a very sexy price. According to city transfer records, the...

M&M POKES AT COWBOY

The giant blue M&M that was banished from two video billboards for imitating Times Square's Naked Cowboy has come back swinging. Mars, the maker of M&Ms, has filed a petition...

ANNA TOT INHERITS WINDFALL

It's a good heir day for little Dannielynn Birkhead. The mop-topped daughter of Anna Nicole Smith yesterday was named the sole heir to her tragic mother's potentially mega-million-dollar estate. A...

MIND WENT BLANK

The undercover detective who fired 31 of the 50 shots in the slaying of Sean Bell blacked out minutes after the shooting - saying "he didn't remember" firing his gun...

BELLEVUE'S 'BRIBE' BIG

The former head of Bellevue Hospital wrung bribes including a no-show job for his girlfriend out of a medical transcription firm that hoped to do business with the hospital, according...

PREGNANCY FRACAS FOR WAL-MART

A pregnant worker at a Long Island Wal-Mart is claiming she almost had a miscarriage when she was forced to push heavy shopping carts around to make her bosses look...

'DUNGEONS & DRAGONS' CREATOR 'ROLLS' INTO HEAVEN

Gary Gygax, co-creator of board game Dungeons & Dragons, rolled his last 20-sided die yesterday and passed away to his ultimate castle in the sky. He was 69. Gygax had...

OH, CHUTE! RAP IS BACK

That'll take the wind out of his parachute. High-flying daredevil Jeb Corliss once again faces criminal charges for his flamboyant but foiled April 2006 attempt to jump off the Empire...

FRAUDSTER GETS AWAY

A suspect wanted for a multimillion-dollar identity fraud managed to elude a massive FBI and NYPD dragnet in Brooklyn last night. The unidentified man is the subject of a sealed...

FREE RENT FOR STUY TOWNERS

No, it's not a dream, a trick or someplace in Kansas. The new owners of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village are offering a month's free rent and adopting new, pet-friendly policies...

VILLAGE SICKO OFF TO PRISON

A violent pedophile was found guilty yesterday of masturbating, nude, in the doorway of his West Village town house - and sent to serve 60 days in jail. Carl Fisher,...

O SACKS MAC BUT MAC WHACKS HILLARY

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama would handily beat John McCain in a head-to-head match-up, according to a compilation of poll results, while Hillary Rodham Clinton would lose to the likely GOP...

HILL-RAISING DOUBLE WIN

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Call her the Comeback Kid II. Hillary Rodham Clinton scored stunning victories over Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas early this morning - snapping her 12-state losing...

SHE'S THE STRIFE OF THE PARTY

Hillary Rodham Clinton can not win the Democratic nom ination without destroying her party. Going into last night's voting, she trailed Barack Obama by more than 150 delegates. In order...

SHADY TV AD DARKENS 'O'

A prominent left-wing Web site is questioning whether Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is playing the race card - by darkening the tone of Barack Obama's skin in a new TV...

HILLARY SCORES 2 GAL-LANT WINS IN CRUCIAL VOTES

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton wrestled back her base of women, blue-collar workers and older voters in her key victories over Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas last night, according...

MCC WINS NOD AS HUCK QUITS

John McCain clinched the Republican presidential nomination with four big victories last night - driving his last remaining opponent, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, out of the race. McCain won...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

QUEENS A thief is being sought in the botched robbery of a Kew Gardens Hills bank, police said yesterday. The suspect, in his 30s, walked into the Chase branch on...

OBAMA BETTER BATTLE BACK BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

WITH big wins in Ohio and Texas last night, Hillary Clinton has finally broken her losing streak and sent a clear message to Barack Obama: I'm not getting out. For...

JOHN RUSTLES UP PUBLICITY AS DEMS SCRAP

WASHINGTON - As Mike Huckabee makes his carni val-act exit from the GOP stage, Sen. John McCain is left with little to attract the media's attention away from the battle...

PROSECUTORS' SLIPSHOD JOB

WHAT if they held a trial and prosecutors stayed home? The whispers have started in earnest here in Queens, where three cops - Detective Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 767; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 7405; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 772; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3012;...

SUBWAY PIE-IN-THE-SKY

Straphangers may soon be enjoying new subway lines, less crowded trains, a new rail line to LaGuardia, the sun, the moon and the stars - if you believe MTA boss...

COPS IN THE DOCK

If two NYPD officers did what prosecut ors yesterday said they did to a boy on Staten Island last Halloween, they deserve to be locked behind bars for a long...

DOOMING OUR CITIES

UH-OH: Here we go again. The so-called federal urban agenda - a set of ideas and policies that helped bring American cities to their knees in the 1960s and '70s...

OBAMA'S REAL MIDEAST PROBLEM

IS pronouncing a man's mid dle name tantamount to in sulting him? In Sen. Barack Obama's case, the answer appears to be yes. Sen. Hillary Clinton has already apologized because...

FEMINIST FOLLIES: SLAPPING SOLDIERS

BEHOLD with me the politics of gynocentrism. What a depressing and desiccative sight it is. Just look at Gloria Steinem. From once-ripe feminist icon to idea-barren harridan, she offers nothing...

BACK FROM THE BRINK

NO one would have guessed back in De cember that, come March, Hillary Clinton would be the gutsy underdog sticking it to the purveyors of political conventional wisdom. But she...

A POORLY 'TORT' LESSON: SILVER HAS NO SHAME

So long as Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is allowed to be associated with Weitz & Luxenberg, there will never be reform ("Silver's Tort-Bar Outrage," Editorial, March 1). He doesn't want...

A RIGHT TO CHOOSE WRONG

Michelle Malkin's sad tale of the young woman who killed herself because of the guilt she felt after aborting her twin babies is really a downer ("Abortion: Untold Truths," Post-...

4 EVER BRETT

IN GREEN Bay, Wis., and all across America, really, we will all miss Brett Favre, we will root for him to change his mind between now and summer training camp,...

LINCOLN SHINES WITHOUT ITS STAR

Top-seeded Lincoln's defense of its PSAL title started easily enough, a 111-59 win over No. 16 Lehman yesterday, but did not come without some potential controversy. The Railsplitters played their...

SPORTS SHORTS

NFL: Patriots sign Webster With cornerbacks Asante Samuel and Randall Gay leaving as free agents, the Patriots yesterday signed former Buffalo CB Jason Webster . . . Former Titans DE...

DEVS' ZACH ON TRACK

TORONTO - Martin Brodeur's excellence is the given, win or lose. This season, though, as Zach Parise goes, so go the Devils. The third-year winger responded to slashed ice-time with...

FAVRE'S FINALE A GIANT FIT

Any thrilled Giants fan who reveled in their incredible and improbable Super Bowl run is sure to win a bet in the years to come when the following trivia question...

ISLES WON'T GO AWAY

THERE is no cream in the Eastern Conference, or by 68 games it would have already risen somewhere. In the capped-out world, where talent is spread too thin and the...

PACE: I'M NOT THE SAVIOR

When the Jets opened the coffers and handed over superstar money to unheralded linebacker Calvin Pace, they invested in his future potential based on one solid season with the Cardinals....

ISIAH MUM ON STEPH'S NO-SHOW

There wasn't any let-up in the Isiah Thomas-Stephon Marbury circus yesterday, with Thomas deferring questions about Marbury to Marbury himself and declaring that he expects the injured point guard at...

MAINE STREAM

JUPITER, Fla. - John Maine couldn't agree on his salary with the Mets this year, so they decided it for him yesterday. A 15-win season last season resulted in a...

BELIEVE IT, OR NOT

PORT ST. LUCIE - This is that time of year when even the most jaded person can be intoxicated by optimism simply by entering a spring camp. It is about...

AMAZIN'S ARE BACK IN MARKET FOR BACKUPS

PORT ST. LUCIE - Joe Smith was a revelation in Mets spring training last year, winning the award as the most impressive first-timer in camp and, more important, winning a...

REYES HAS 2K8 COVERED

PORT ST. LUCIE - If there's a dreaded MLB 2K8 cover jinx, Jose Reyes isn't worried. The Mets' All-Star shortstop said he couldn't be happier about following Derek Jeter as...

METS GET GOOD NEWS ON GOTAY

JUPITER, Fla. - The Mets finally got some positive injury news yesterday, they hope. A CT scan showed backup infielder Ruben Gotay suffered only a sprain of his right ankle...

NETS IN DEVIN & HELL

SAN ANTONIO - Inevitably, no matter what Marcus Williams did, Devin Harris was going to become the Nets' starting point guard. And Harris did. Inevitably, no matter what the Nets'...

TOUGH NIGHT FOR HENRIK

Henrik Lundqvist played well enough to lose and so did the Rangers. As such, call last night's 4-3 shootout victory for the Islanders at the Garden, justice. Actually, call it...

NOT JUST O-KEI: A PERFECT DAY

DUNEDIN, Fla. - If you rightfully crucified Kei Igawa for a putrid outing against the University of South Florida last week, then you have to praise him for two perfect...

FUL-PHIL-ING PROPHECY

DUNEDIN, Fla. - A year ago they didn't give Phil Hughes a chance to be a Yankee starter. It wasn't in the plans. This spring there is no stopping the...

TEAM MCNAMEE EMPLOYS 'MOTION' OFFENSE

Lawyers for Brian McNamee filed motions yesterday with a federal judge in Texas to have Roger Clemens' defamation suit dismissed and Clemens' lead lawyer disqualified from the case. The motions...

MATSUI COULD SIT FOR 10 MORE DAYS

DUNEDIN, Fla. - Hideki Matsui and the Yankees insist a stiff neck and a surgically repaired right knee aren't going to hold Matsui back from being ready for Opening Day....

WEIRD BUT TRUE

This couple took the "death do us part" bit a little too seriously. Just 90 minutes after her 83-year-old husband, Bill Caswell died, Miriam Caswell joined him in the hereafter....

ROYAL FLUSH

SURE, there was that whole Revolution thing against the British king. But today, Americans seem to be smitten with royalty - especially when it comes to the Tudor dynasty. You...

LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMA HAS FAMILIAR RINGTONE

FOR a woman in her early 30s, Sarah Ruhl sure seems obsessed with death. The subject - central to her plays "The Clean House" and "Eurydice" - forms the theme...

HE SAID. I SAID. PERIOD.

A couple of weeks ago, in a column about a sneak-peek at the up coming Broadway musical "Shrek," I made some minor - and, of course, constructive - criticisms of...

FLASH FASH' FINALE

IT'S a matter of taste. Tim Gunn, the wise and well-spoken sage of "Project Runway," says the decision about who wins this year's competition will come down to the personal...

CLEAN & SOBER

VH1's harrowing "Celeb rity Rehab," the limited-run series, ends tonight - not with the bang we got on every other episode, but with a whimper. It's graduation time and clearly...

DOC'S MURDER ON 'L&O' FIRST

ON tonight's "Law & Order," a psychiatrist is brutally murdered - and one of his patients is suspected. Sound familiar? The episode, "Betrayal," is airing just three weeks after Upper...

OPRAH FIASCO

OPRAH flattened the Internet Monday night. The first of several heavily hyped live Webcasts featuring Oprah Winfrey and the author of her current book club pick crashed about 10 minutes...

STARR REPORT

They're wearing a tie Ratings: The "NBC Nightly News" (Brian Williams) beat ABC's "World News" (Charlie Gibson) by 256,000 total viewers last month. The newscasts did, however, tie in the...

A REALITY-TV STAR AND A RABBI WALK INTO A KITCHEN . . .

WHEN Hung Huynh - last season's "Top Chef" winner - recently announced he was taking up residency in a kosher New York restaurant, it sparked some foodie head-scratching. Was this...

BRAND-NEW CENTRAL PARK MOUTH-WATERING

M ANHATTAN dining revolutions - real ones, not ones invented by publicists - occur out of the blue. One day, Allen Street is a wasteland; the next, it's home to...

CHEF JAM

'TOP Chef" host Padma Lakshmi really does eat. And while she's hands down the hottest person on the set, she's not the only diva (paging head judge Tom Colicchio!). That's...

GLOBAL WARMING WILD CARDS

You've now read about and thought about some of the things that could happen as the world warms. At this point it's important to remind you that no one knows...

ROYAL FLUSH

SURE, there was that whole Revolution thing against the British king. But today, Americans seem to be smitten with royalty - especially when it comes to the Tudor dynasty. You...

HE SAID. I SAID. PERIOD.

A couple of weeks ago, in a column about a sneak-peek at the up coming Broadway musical "Shrek," I made some minor - and, of course, constructive - criticisms of...

LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMA HAS FAMILIAR RINGTONE

FOR a woman in her early 30s, Sarah Ruhl sure seems obsessed with death. The subject - central to her plays "The Clean House" and "Eurydice" - forms the theme...

STARR REPORT

They're wearing a tie Ratings: The "NBC Nightly News" (Brian Williams) beat ABC's "World News" (Charlie Gibson) by 256,000 total viewers last month. The newscasts did, however, tie in the...

OPRAH FIASCO

OPRAH flattened the Internet Monday night. The first of several heavily hyped live Webcasts featuring Oprah Winfrey and the author of her current book club pick crashed about 10 minutes...

FLASH FASH' FINALE

IT'S a matter of taste. Tim Gunn, the wise and well-spoken sage of "Project Runway," says the decision about who wins this year's competition will come down to the personal...

DOC'S MURDER ON 'L&O' FIRST

ON tonight's "Law & Order," a psychiatrist is brutally murdered - and one of his patients is suspected. Sound familiar? The episode, "Betrayal," is airing just three weeks after Upper...

CLEAN & SOBER

VH1's harrowing "Celeb rity Rehab," the limited-run series, ends tonight - not with the bang we got on every other episode, but with a whimper. It's graduation time and clearly...

CHEF JAM

'TOP Chef" host Padma Lakshmi really does eat. And while she's hands down the hottest person on the set, she's not the only diva (paging head judge Tom Colicchio!). That's...

BRAND-NEW CENTRAL PARK MOUTH-WATERING

M ANHATTAN dining revolutions - real ones, not ones invented by publicists - occur out of the blue. One day, Allen Street is a wasteland; the next, it's home to...

A REALITY-TV STAR AND A RABBI WALK INTO A KITCHEN . . .

WHEN Hung Huynh - last season's "Top Chef" winner - recently announced he was taking up residency in a kosher New York restaurant, it sparked some foodie head-scratching. Was this...

B&N FALLS 5% ON '08 OUTLOOK

A bitter battle is brewing between big booksellers. Shares of Barnes & Noble dropped nearly 5 percent yesterday after the giant chain warned the coming year's profits will sorely miss...

PANDIT-MONIUM

Wall Street fears Citigroup faces the end of its run as a global giant, mired in losses so steep that even oil sheiks can't rescue it. Investors fled Citi yesterday,...

LEDGER ADJUSTMENT

THE ax man is coming to the Newhouse empire - at least to unionized, blue-collar workers on the newspaper side of the operation. George Arwady, publisher of the Star-Ledger in...

FIREBRAND FOLDS AFTER ITS FORMULA JUST DIDN'T AD UP

It turns out people really don't want to watch ads. Firebrand, a New York startup that tested the popular notion on Madison Avenue of ads as entertainment, has folded after...

DILLARD'S FACING PROXY BATTLE

A shareholder activist group signaled it is gearing up for a proxy battle against Dillard's, the department-store chain that has been criticized for hit-and-miss operations and poor corporate governance. In...

FAMILY JEWELS

Never mind those $300 million paychecks among the hedge fund crowd - the real bucks are coming from billion-dollar windfalls of stock cash-outs or the selling of family empires. With...

GM TOWER SWEEPSTAKES

THE pack chasing the GM Building is getting thinner and pinching its pennies. Just as we were ready to "out" SL Green Realty Corp. as the third of three bidders...

$WEET MUSIC

The guys behind Viacom's popular new video game "Rock Band" are in line to collect over $200 million if profits from the chief rival to Activision's "Guitar Hero" hit certain...