August 24, 2008
THOMPSON: LET VOTERS DECIDE
City Comptroller and likely mayoral candidate Bill Thompson today said he opposes any move to change term limits through legislation - which sources say Mayor Bloomberg is considering - and...
RED BULLS DEFEAT DYNAMO 3-0
The Houston Dynamo wasn't dynamic enough to beat the Red Bulls today. Perhaps if they called themselves the Dynamos, plural, they wouldn't play as though they had only a single...
YANKEES SURVIVE MARATHON, BEAT ORIOLES 8-7
BALTIMORE - Three wins over the pitching-pathetic Orioles shouldn't have people believing the Yankees have borrowed a bit of Lazarus' medicine. Darrell Rasner and Carl "American Idle'' Pavano reside in...
METS LOSE TO ASTROS 6-4 IN 10 INNINGS
It is the Mets' version of a perfect storm, and the timing could not be worse. Suddenly creaky starting pitching combined with an unreliable bullpen and bats gone eerily quiet...
The explanation on Jorge Rojas
By BRIAN LEWISOK, here is the deal with Jorge Rojas. The long and short of it is his passport got damaged, and an official at the US consulate in Venezuela...
Umenyiora done for season
BY PAUL SCHWARTZThe worst news turned out to come true for the Giants, who suffered a devastating blow when they learned defensive end Osi Umenyiora will miss the entire 2008...
UMENYIORA OUT FOR SEASON
Trying to get some rest today, Justin Tuck put his cell phone on silent but when he casually rolled over he was startled by a blinking light. There were more...
Red Bulls First XI vs. Houston
By BRIAN LEWISSo this is the Red Bulls' gutted lineup that will face two-time MLS Cup champion Houston at 3 p.m. I'm assuming this is going to be arrayed as...
BEIJING 08: Empty "Nest" syndrome
Hey - you can't park there! David Beckham, David Beckham, David Beckham.Did I mention David Beckham? I think I did. Just in case, David Beckham. Anyway. He was at the...
BEIJING 08: Scene and heard II
SCENE Two Olympic athletes getting penalized for their bad behavior during the Beijing Games. Cuban taekwondo fighter Angel Valodia Matos was banned from all World Taekwondo Federation championships for kicking...
Box Office: Win-Win for Stiller, Faris
It was a horse race all right this week, but not, as expected, between incumbent "Tropic Thunder'' and "Death Race.'' Instead, estimates have "The House Bunny'' coming within $1 million...
Mets might shut down Maine
Ailing right-hander John Maine might be shut down for the season if Jerry Manuel and the Mets donât like what they see from Maineâs shoulder in a throwing session this...
Game 131: Astros at Mets
The Mets will try to bounce back from Saturday nightâs 8-3 loss to the Astros when Oliver Perez (pictured) takes on fellow left-hander Randy Wolf in an afternoon matchup at...
Coverage in today's Post
The Mets came crashing back to earth Saturday night at Shea Stadium as the Astros pounded out an 8-3 win that raised questions about starter John Maine's health. The loss...
Miss at your own risk: 'Sweet 16' payback
Highlights for the week of Aug. 25"General Hospital's" Julie Berman with Genie Francis U.S OpenIt starts today, and plays through Sept. 7. The perfect salve for those missing the Summer...
REDEEM TEAM PUTS US HOOPS BACK ON TOP
BEIJING - The world was watching, and waiting. The 11,083 people inside the Wukesong Olympic Basketball Gymnasium had already shifted their fickle allegiance, the chants of "U! S! A!" now...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 133; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 7513; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Sat: 995; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 3138;...
'KICK' ASS: SORE-LOSER OLYMPIAN NAILS REF
A crazed Cuban Olympian lost it yesterday and kicked a referee in the face after he was disqualified from the tae kwon do bronze-medal bout. Tae kwon do champ Angel...
AGE-DEFYING PILLOW CASE
The battle against aging has a new weapon: a copper-oxide pillow case that inventors say will diminish wrinkles and lines on people's faces after just four weeks. Scientists believe moisture...
IT'S HER PARTY
Democratic activist Saharra Bledsoe had been petitioning Denver to declare this coming Tuesday "Hillary Appreciation Day." She was shot down. "Someone from the city called me Thursday and said they...
'DEM'OGRAPHIC SPLIT
Joe Biden's effects on the electoral map may be more subtle than that of other possible Democratic vice-presidential selections like Hillary Rodham Clinton or Evan Bayh. However, based on a...
PALS SAY SHE'S OK WITH JOE
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton insiders saw Barack Obama's pick of Joe Biden over her as a missed opportunity, but not a surprise. And at the end of the day, several...
O DELIVERS A JOE BLOW TO MCCAIN
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Barack Obama yesterday hailed new Democratic running mate Joe Biden as a statesman with the courage and "fortitude" to serve - then Biden immediately showed why he...
LIFE OF GAFFES FOR SLOPPY JOE
Joseph Biden brings more than three decades of Washington experience to the Democratic ticket, but the "safe" veep choice has accumulated his share of political baggage along the way. The...
IT'S DEATH ROW-MANCING
Wedding cakes from snack machines. Blessed memories captured by Polaroid. Armed guards as ushers. No honeymoon - ever. Those are the breaks for marital bliss behind bars - until death...
BIDEN & MAC BEST OF 'FRENEMIES'
What 25 years of bipartisan bliss put together, presidential politics is already tearing asunder. John McCain is "one of my heroes," Democratic vice-presidential pick Joe Biden once declared. But yesterday,...
JAIL-BOUND BLING KING IS ALL 'DUN'
"Jacob the Jeweler" Arabov, the guy who blinged out the rap world, is calling in his chips, hoping to collect a heap of unpaid bills as he heads to prison....
TEXT MARKS THE SPAT FOR O FANS
OMG . . . It's 3 a.m. R U awake? Maceo Brown wasn't. The 25-year-old from Harlem was jolted out of a deep sleep in the wee hours yesterday by...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN * The decomposing body of a 46-year-old woman was found in the Chelsea Hotel, police said yesterday. The woman, whose name was not released because her family had not...
ON 'TRACK' TO NAB CROOKS
When cops busted a band of thieves who ripped off Gucci, Fendi and Prada stores, the hero of the case was a "rookie" - a tracking device officers placed in...
JFK GETS NEW 'BLUE' HEAVEN
Imagine this, frustrated fliers: automated baggage screening, zippy security lines, clean bathrooms, top-notch dining - and food orders delivered to the gate as you wait for your plane to board....
NEIGHBORS IGNORE CRIES OF SLAIN GAL
A Queens mom was hacked to death by her ex-boyfriend in a College Point apartment building early yesterday, screaming for help for more than a half-hour before neighbors called cops,...
QUINN'S RENT RANT AT 'VULTURE' LANDLORDS
It's time to go after landlords who prey on vulnerable tenants, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn demanded yesterday after The Post reported a state employee had been charged with selling...
CLEANING US OUT
Spare a square? It'll cost you - inflation has sent the price of toilet paper and a host of other bathroom products through the roof. Prices of drugstore essentials, from...
IT'S NAPA 'VARICK' IN SOHO
Napa Valley's got nothing on New York - not with Gotham's first winery set to open in SoHo. City Winery, at 143 Varick St., will offer wealthy wine lovers the...
BRUISED CRUISERS
The NYPD's cars are taking a beating out on the beat. The total number of cop-car accidents surged by 11 percent over the past three years, with many of the...
'SAFE' PICK FOR TICKET LEAVES WOMEN SCORNED
IT doesn't take a political genius to realize that Barack Obama needed to nominate a woman for vice president. Obama's key problem is that there is no gender gap. In...
BAM BRAIN TRUST EYES BLOOMBERG
ONE of the nation's top Democrats says Barack Obama will find a place for Mayor Bloomberg in his administration, if the mayor wants one. "He has a great opportunity in...
GOP 'FLIPPING' WITH DELIGHT AT NO. 2'S U-TURNS
DENVER - Political marriages are never pretty. Given the inbred cesspool that is Washington politics, it's always easy to dig up damning statements that today's bedfellows made about one another...
JETS' WESTHOFF TO COACH AGAIN
It appears former Jets special teams coach Mike Westhoff will be returning to the team, according to two NFL sources. The Jets somewhat confirmed a report that Westhoff, who stepped...
GREEN OFFENSE FAVRE FROM PERFECT
BRETT Favre dropped back to pass on third-and-1 near midfield. Fullback Tony Richardson sneaked out into the left flat wide open. And Favre never saw him. Favre instead threw short...
BRETT TAKES ONE GIANT STEP
If this was the last we'll see of Brett Favre in the preseason, it looks as if he's quite ready for the real thing - the Jets' Sept. 7 regular-season...
'COLONEL' BY A NOSE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - What a finish! Yesterday was the 139th Travers Stakes at Saratoga, and if they run the "Midsummer Derby" another 139 times, they will not top the spine-tingling...
HILL BRINGS HOME BOMB
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Who needs the lottery when you've got Channing Hill? Up-and-coming reinsman turned 21 on Friday, but celebrated with longshot lawn party yesterday at Old Spa, making some...
25 BEST YANKEE STADIUM MOMENTS: NO. 5
As both New York baseball stadiums prepare to close, The Post looks back at the 25 most memorable moments in the history of Yankee Stadiums. This week, No. 5.Oct. 1,...
BECKETT WON'T MAKE BRONX START
The Yankees are getting a break Tuesday night when Josh Beckett won't face them in the first of three games against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. Beckett skipped a...
O'S GET 'IDLE'-IZED
BALTIMORE - The Yankees welcomed back "American Idle" last night, and Carl Pavano gave them what they requested. Not having pitched seemingly forever, Pavano wasn't sharp. However, he found a...
JOE NOT WORRIED ABOUT JOBA
BALTIMORE - After watching Joba Chamberlain throw 35 pitches in a bullpen yesterday, Joe Girardi believes Chamberlain will pitch for the Yankees this season even though he didn't know if...
UMENYIORA TO UNDERGO MRI
The sight of Osi Umenyiora needing help to hobble off the field and then get carted away was enough to weaken even the strongest of the Giants. "Any time a...
THE RUMBLE
Re-heating Roddick Andy is hungry for Open success Rather than serving up his normal speciality - one of the hardest serves on the ATP Tour - American tennis star Andy...
GOOD NIGHT KIDS
CAN'T Make This Stuff Up, Contin ued: Too bad if you bought tickets months in advance. Too bad if you were going to take the kids. Too bad if the...
SCRAP-HEAP HEROES
WHAT do you think is the greater athletic achievement of this summer: Michael Phelps winning eight gold medals or Mike Hampton and Carl Pavano starting major league games in the...
PICK RIGHT ROUND TO CATCH RECEIVERS
There is no position in fantasy football less consistent than wide receiver. They are notorious for being feast or famine - 100-plus yards and a pair of scores one week,...
TWO WEEKS OF PURE GOLD
* Attention professional athletes: I hope you spent a few minutes watching the Olympics and remembered what it was like to exhibit sportsmanship and play for the love of the...
HONDO HAS BUCS
There's no disgrace in losing to a gritty competitor like Carl "The American Idle" Pavano. Hondo went down with the Orioles last night, losing at the Bird cage to trim...
HUNTING LICENSES ON SALE
THAT slight chill in the air is a reminder that the hunting season is just around the corner. New York's hunting, fishing and trapping licenses and Deer Management Permits (DMPs)...
SPORTS SHORTS
In Irving, Texas, Texans receiver Harry Williams fractured a vertebra in Friday night's 23-22 loss to the Cowboys and is facing spinal surgery after being hit in the head during...
DISARMING DECISION
AND so it develops that Baseball New York had its eyes (and its Back Pages) focused obsessively on the wrong pitcher's innings limit for 2008. Because as the season moves...
CASTILLO: KEEP ME OUT, COACH
In Jerry Manuel's nearly seven years as a big-league manager, no player had ever come to him and begged out of the starting lineup. Until yesterday. Manuel said Luis Castillo,...
25 BEST MOMENTS AT SHEA: NO. 5
As both New York baseball stadiums prepare to close, The Post looks back at the 25 most memorable moments in the history of Shea. This week, No. 5.Oct. 27, 1986...
METS MAINE-HANDLED
John Maine expects to have arthroscopic surgery this winter to remove a bone spur from his ailing right shoulder but plans to pitch through the pain the rest of the...
AYALA MAY RECEIVE MORE CLOSE(R) CALLS
Luis Ayala breezed through a save situation Friday night, pitching a perfect ninth inning. He didn't get a chance to close last night - but it may have been only...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH DANIEL MURPHY
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the 23-year-old rookie who has gone from off-the-radar minor leaguer to key contributor to the Mets' late-season surge.Q: Tell me the story about when...
ALL AMERICAN GIRLS
BEIJING - Lisa Leslie was not sneaking up on anybody last night. You could hear the U.S. women's basketball star coming from around the corner - it was the sound...
YOU CAN'T TAKE 'EM WITH YOU
BEIJING - We all bring our own baggage to the party, our own biases, our own preconceived notions and prejudices. We grow up with certain black-and-white beliefs that are awfully...
FIGHT FLUB
BEIJING - The last American standing was smiling in a narrow corridor of Worker's Gymnasium, enjoying the last few moments of his Olympics, not much caring that they were waiting...
FREE AGENCY IS NOW GLOBAL WAR
BEIJING - We are just getting a taste of what they already know in Japan, where the notion of sporting colonialism already has gotten a foothold and threatened to erode...
MAN OF STREEL
Forget about the points system and positioning for what might happen four weeks from now. As far as The Barclays is concerned, the FedEx Cup is a one-day event, an...
NOT OPEN & SHUT
Roger Federer will let everyone else label Rafael Nadal, newly ranked the No. 1 player in the world, as the big favorite at the U.S. Open, which begins tomorrow. But...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A North Carolina woman was arrested after numerous attempts to kidnap a man with whom she'd had an online relationship. Things turned sour after the couple met in person and...
COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2008
THE HEISMAN RACE FAVORITES Tim Tebow, QB, Florida - The reigning champ. Chris Wells, RB, Ohio State - Ran for 1,609 yards on a bum ankle. Michael Crabtree, WR, Texas...
KNOW' STOPPING HIM
Do you Know Shon? Hundreds of T-shirts bearing that slogan were sold out of the trunks of cars in Athens, Ga. last fall. Georgia fans believe they have come to...
THE POST'S UNDERPUBLICIZED TEAM
COACH Kevin Sumlin, Houston OFFENSIVE ASS'T Stan Parrish, Ball State DEFENSIVE ASS'T Gary Anderson, Utah OFFENSE POS. PLAYER, SCHOOL QB Chase Holbrook, New Mexico State RB Luke Lippincott, Nevada RB...
SOONER COUNTRY
They began lamenting this unprecedented humiliating stretch in Oklahoma football the day after getting dusted by West Virginia in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl. "Four years straight, man," bemoaned defensive tackle...
THE POST'S ALL-AMERICA TEAM
COACH Mark Richt, Georgia DEFENSIVE ASS'T Will Muschamp, Texas OFFENSIVE ASS'T David Clawson, Tennessee OFFENSE POS. PLAYER, SCHOOL QB Tim Tebow, Florida RB Knowshon Moreno, Georgia RB Chris Wells. Ohio...
THE POST'S TOP 25
1.OKLAHOMA 11-3, lost 48-28 to West Virginia in Fiesta Bowl. Coach: Bob Stoops, 97-22 in nine seasons. Stars: DTs Gerald McCoy and DeMarcus Granger. Key game: Nov. 22 vs Texas...
HOW BAD MOVES WIN
CHESS was never meant to be fair. The player who finds 35 good, even excellent, moves will often lose to an opponent who chooses 35 mediocre ones - because the...
WEB SLINGER
GeminiDivision.com Electric Farm Entertainment and NBC join forces in this slick, 50-episode Web drama that stars Rosario Dawson as an undercover detective who discovers a global conspiracy while investigating the...
THE HOTTEST GADGETS OF THE WEEK
Speedo LZR Racer $550; speedousa.com Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll recognize this as the suit that Michael Phelps rocked at the Olympics. Speedo's kindly decided to make...
AUGUST 24-30
Laugh at (someone else's) awkward teenage angst; bid on celebrity clothes; enjoy raging rock by the Seaport or mellow blues (and tasty 'cue) on the pier; and see the Mets...
BRIDGE
BIDDING theory has progressed - if that's the right word - but some of that progress has given us a better means of going backward. In today's deal, South's bid...
K-9 CAMPAIGNERS
Tomorrow is Day One of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo. As political animals await the party's official nomination of Sen. Barack Obama, dog lovers are hoping their candidate...
THE PARAMORE THE MERRIER
Hayley Williams has forgotten what it's like to wake up in her own bed. The lead singer of the pop/punk group Paramore has been catching her zzz's in hotel rooms...
IN OVER HIS HEAD
Chatty moviegoers, beware: You never know who could be sitting behind you, listening in. Just the other day, for example, Oliver Stone was kicking back at his local cineplex to...
TRIBUTE TO RICHARD WIDMARK
BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn remembers Richard Widmark, who died in March at age 93, with screenings of three of his films. Tomorrow: "Hell and High Water" (1954), a Sam...
RAISE THE TITANIC!
OSCAR BAITThe Curious Case Of Benjamin ButtonWho's in it: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda SwintonWhy you'll see it: Director David Fincher's last film, "Zodiac," was one of the most criminally...
WHAT WOULD BILL MAHER WATCH?
SOMEONE order 3 million "Hail Marys" and 2 billion "Our Fathers" for Bill Maher. His upcoming documentary "Religulous" - a combination of the words "religion" and "ridiculous" - is a...
SAM ROCKWELL 'CHOKES' UP
Sam Rockwell gets so much enjoyment out of researching his roles, one might think he's just in it for the free field trips. Take his new movie, "Choke" (Sept. 26):...
KEVIN SMITH
'Clerks' filmmaker shoots the you-know-what about pornos and why Seth Rogen is the new Tom Cruise JACKPOT! After years of using virtually the same core cast in all his movies,...
MAKING THE SCENE...
Eden 760 Eighth Ave. (between 46th and 47th streets); 212-398-2188 Hours: Thurs. and Fri., 5 p.m.-4 a.m.; Sat. 10 p.m.-4 a.m. For a decade 760 Eighth Ave. was the address...
MR. NICE GUY
Allegretti 46 W. 22nd St.; 212-206-0555 Provençal cuisine is the hook at newly opened Allegretti, the namesake restaurant of chef Alain Allegretti, a Nice native who's cooked in the kitchens...
PROOF POSITIVE
As a rule, blanco tequilas are feeble counterparts to their aged brethren. And when I learned that Luna SueÑo distills its spirits no less than four times, I assumed its...
MAXIS, 36, AND PIERRE, 40
July 26 - From their first date at soul food restaurant Jezebel to their first kiss atop 30 Rockefeller Center, Nicole Maxis and Michael Pierre had a fairytale relationship with...
MILLER, 33, AND LESIN, 28
May 26 - It's easy being green for newlyweds Sara Lesin and Jared Miller. Almost five years after meeting, the Astoria duo enjoyed an eco-friendly ceremony and reception at Battery...
MIGNEREY, 31, AND TAFFEL, 32
July 26 - In March 2007, Carissa Mignerey felt like a little girl all over again when Jeremy Taffel proposed on a snow-covered beach in Stony Brook, LI. "He proposed...
ALONGE, 25, AND HANSON, 28
July 26 - When Alexandra Alonge challenged John Hanson to a game of one-on-one basketball, the ball was most definitely in her court. Lo and behold, they duked it out,...
WHAT'S IN MIND
Joel Klein realized that improving academic achievement required radical innovation; that's why the Department of Education invested in cutting-edge professional development at the start of his tenure ("School for Snowflakes,"...
SCHOOLED
Charles Murray's "Leave This Child Behind" (PostScript, Aug. 17) is, by far, one of the best articles regarding education. Since we insist on an academic education for all children, we...
VATICAN'TS
As Roman Catholics, we still have a long row to hoe, but not because of a more conservative pope or the remnants of the scandals that linger like a skunk...
URBAN MYTHS
Broadway runs east of Seventh Avenue north of 45th Street. Donald Trump owns an office building on Sixth Avenue. Lee Brown, the early 1990s police commissioner who presided over the...
SLANDER AND TREASON!
Folks, you're not gonna believe this one. The headline was right there, on the front page, plain as grandma's knickers: "Obama's Hillbilly Half-Brother Threatening to Derail Campaign." The brother's name...
THEY NEVER LEARN
Ask people who were there, and they will tell you that Barack Obama's candidacy is a direct descendant of the 1968 Democratic Convention: the intra-party fighting, the metastasizing anti-war movement,...
BLOG WATCH
Upside down "The selection of Joe Biden as VP seems to cast doubt on the entire premise of the Obama campaign which is that experience doesn't matter. If we are...
"GORGEOUS GEORGE"
You see the title of John Capouya's biography of Gorgeous George - which claims the flamboyant wrestler "created pop culture" - and you are struck by its audacity. A wrestler...
REQUIRED READING
A Splintered History of Wood by Spike Carlsen (Collins) If you've ever taken wood for granted - and who hasn't? - the former editor of Handyman magazine will get you...
BESTSELLER: WATCHMEN
Perhaps the greatest comic book ever written, "Watchmen" has re-entered the Amazon.com sales charts after a crackerjack trailer for its 2009 movie adaptation was released. First published as a series...
"THE GREAT AMERICAN ATTRACTION"
The idea for Rich Smith's second book is exhilarating - traveling around America for 80 days taking in our more obscure and weird festivals, taking part where possible. Smith starts...
IN MY LIBRARY: DANICA MCKELLAR
You've no doubt played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, where you try to link an actor to the prolific "Footloose" stars in the fewest number of films. Math geeks have...
"THE HURRICANES"
When Hurricane Katrina crashed down on Port Sulphur, football coach Cyril Crutchfield Jr. was one of the few who stayed put in lower Plaquemines Parish, the so-called "end of the...
"CROWDSOURCING"
Wired writer Jeff Howe's "Crowdsourcing" thesis is this: the "experts" - whether they're top-tier physicists or movie-studio heads - don't have a monopoly on the creation or distribution of information...
SPORTS BUCKS TREND
A thrilling and unpredictable year in sports is keeping the healthy and growing sector from suffering any affects of the slowing economy. From the Giants' Super Bowl win in February...
ED'S BELT-TIGHTENING
SO Ed McMahon has reached a deal to sell his six-bedroom, five-bathroom Beverly Hills mansion. The 85-year-old TV personality, who was thisclose to losing his beloved $5 million home to...
TUDOR JONES' BLACK-BOX FUND FIGURES ON A GOOD 7 MONTHS
Paul Tudor Jones' trading firm Tudor Investment might be a newbie to trading mathematical- quant strategies but it has soared to the top of the sector through July 31 -...
HOMES ARE FOR LIVING, NOT EQUITY
Dear John: A reader recently asked about securing his money that's in a national bank as he prepared to purchase a home for all cash. Your closing remark - "You...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSTOM WYATT Named president of Gap's struggling Old Navy unit, plans to emphasize value over trendy apparel offerings.CRAIG DONOHUE Top dog at CME, the parent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange,...
OIL'S FUTURE PRICE IS REALLY DEPENDENT ON WHO YOU ASK
Drivers looking for insight into how much they'll be paying at the pump this winter shouldn't look to Wall Street for any guidance - oil analysts on the Street don't...
BEN'S NOT FEELING A ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH
SANDWICHED between the XXIX Summer Olympic Games and the Democratic and Republican conventions is an annual gathering of a quieter sort - the invitation-only central banking conference in Jackson Hole,...
MILTON BROS. FEEL HEAT ON FUNDS
The heat is getting turned up under Alan and Philip Milton, the brother team that runs Greenwich-based Windmill Management and its embattled SageCrest hedge funds. A lawyer for an investor...
ACTIVIST HEDGES' BIG HITS
When activist investors like Carl Icahn or Bill Ackman announce new campaigns to shake up a company, should you follow them into battle? It's a question many investors wrestle over,...
EYE 'CANDY' ON SALE
Bankers are aggressively shopping online media assets in the hopes of getting a taste of some of that sweet DailyCandy cash. The eye-popping $125 million sale of the shopping and...
NEWELL FOR ASSEMBLY
Democratic voters in Lower Manhattan have a chance to send a dramatic message on Primary Day, Sept. 9: They can bring down Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - and shake Albany's...
THE DRINKING DEBATE
A group of America's top academics is doing something useful for a change: They've started a long-overdue debate on the nation's alcohol policies. More than 100 college and university presidents...
MEET MARKET-MOVIE MAN SKS ROMANCE WITH A TWIST
Brooklyn boy Rob is a 28-year-old production coordinator who moonlights as a filmmaker. Sure, he likes baseball and beers, but this self-proclaimed rock star is also a serious romantic. In...
HOOK, LINE AND STINKER
BRIDGET, a 22-year-old attorney development assistant, was looking for a date filled with laughs. We thought she'd hit it off with Rory, a 22-year-old research analyst with a rugged background...
TOP 5 WORST THINGS TO FIND IN YOUR DATE'S BATHROOM:
According to Duane Reade shoppers "Hair clinging to the drain in the tub." - Santiago "A bottle of prescribed Valium." - David "Fungal cream." - Stephanie "Dry toothpaste next to...
U.S. OPEN FEVER
If you're finding it hard to shake your 24/7 TV sports addiction after watching the Summer Olympics non-stop over the past two weeks, never fear: the next two weeks is...
DON'T DIE ON THE 'JOB'
How would you define the hardest jobs in America? If you're NBC and trying to create a nail-biting reality contest, "America's Toughest Jobs," you look for jobs as far removed...
HIGH & MIGHTY
Now that the reign of "The Sopranos" is over, there's a new subversive family of criminals on TV: The Botwins of Showtime's "Weeds." Mom (Mary-Louise Parker) is a hardcore drug-dealer,...
PRIMETIME
Tomorrow is a biggie at NBC. It's Moving Day, when NBC's news departments, national and local, revert to serving American audiences as the gatherers and delivers of news, as opposed...
MTV'S WORTHY GENTLEMAN'S CLUB
A man named Fonzworth Bentley wants to bring good manners to the 'hood. "I believe that we're truly living in the golden age of disrespect," said "Mr." Bentley (he prefers...
REEL GOOD
JEZEBEL (1938) Sunday, 12:45 p.m., TCM Bette Davis' may not have nabbed "Gone With The Wind" but her portrayal of Julie, an antebellum Dixie chick makes Scarlett look beige by...
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: DOCUMENTARY Bear claw The curious and shocking tale of Timothy Treadwell, the environmentalist who lived among bears, documented their behavior and then was gruesomely devoured by a grizzly, has...
ROUND THE CLOCK OBAMA
The Summer Games in Beijing have drawn to a close, but another sort of Olympics is just beginning for the cable news networks.Over the next two weeks, CNN, MSNBC, Fox...
Maine: Offseason surgery needed
John Maine (pictured) told The Post after tonight's loss to the Astros that he expects to have arthroscopic surgery after the season to remove a painful bone spur in his...
PAVANO WINS!
Carl Pavano waited a long time for such a short outing, yet the oft-injured Yankees pitcher hung around long enough to pick up the win Saturday night in New York's...
Umenyiora's X-rays negative
By PAUL SCHWARTZX-rays taken of Osi Umenyiora's left knee came back negative, but that does not mean the star defensive end is out of the woods. The X-ray showed that...
Umenyiora hurt in preseason game
By PAUL SCHWARTZGiants defensive end Osi Umenyiora went down with a left knee injury with 10:48 remaining in the second quarter and was taken inside for X-rays. Umenyiora could not...