October 8, 2008
ABREU SEEKS RETURN TO YANKEES
The Yankees are going to have to make some changes if they want to return to the AL's elite next season, but Bobby Abreu does not want to be one...
Deal of the Day-Miss Sixty
This printed Toffee Dress in Black is a great staple for fall whether you're wearing it over tights and with a blazer or a belted grandpa cardigan.Pick it up for...
FATAL 'HOUR'
IS it Dr. House or Dr. Hood? Is it Gil Grissom or the Grim Reaper? Welcome to the life and crimes of Dr. Jacob Hood, (Rufus Sewell), FBI crime scene...
STOCKS ZIGZAG, END LOWER AFTER EMERGENCY RATE CUT
Central banks in the United States and Europe, for the first time in history, today slashed interest rates in a coordinated move to stop a worldwide financial meltdown - but...
Bernazard up for M's job
According to The Seattle Times, Mets VP of player development Tony Bernazard is one of five candidates for the Mariners' GM vacancy being interviewed in Seattle this week. Bernazard played...
World Cup Qualifying Resumes Saturday
APCristiano Ronaldo returns after injury for Portugal. Adriano is recalled from the cold for Brazil. Michael Owen is still shut out by England coach Fabio Capello.World Cup qualifying returns Saturday....
'I WANT HIM TO PAY'
Former workers at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square who sued the eatery for sexual harassment said this afternoon that they want to see the restaurant's former manager sent...
NEXT UP: GIANTS
The Browns were everybody's "it" team this year. So much for that. Cleveland has stumbled out of the gate, with their only win coming against the winless Bengals who were...
NEXT UP: JETS
The Bengals come in winless and beat up, but Eric Mangini is not taking them lightly. "I never get caught up in the records. I really don't believe in that,...
PARIS HILTON HOT FOR FAKE PRESIDENCY
The presidency - now that's hot. Pretend President Paris Hilton would have a closet, not a cabinet, employ platform-shoe diplomacy and buy American - as in American designers. Hilton spelled...
The Laveranues Show
There were some funny moments inside the Jets' locker room today with Laveranues Coles.The first occurred when a TV reporter, identifying himself from PBS, asked Coles, "What does victory mean...
Soccer look-alikes
BY BRIAN LEWISRed Bull fullback Chris Leitch might get the start in tomorrow's huge game at Real Salt Lake. FWIW, anyone else thinking Leitch looks like Rick Astley?Rick Astley
Paris Calling
By FRED KERBERLawrence Frank dialed in from Paris on a conference call today to give the latest on the Nets European trek. The Nets open their pre-season tomorrow against the...
RBNY needs result at Real Salt Lake
By BRIAN LEWISThe Red Bulls have thrown away what was a five-point cushion in the MLS Cup race with three straight losses, including a 3-1 setback at home to last-place...
Jackson, Hughes impress in Arizona opener
Austin Jackson and Phil Hughes, two of the Yankees' top young players, both acquitted themselves quite well in the opening game of the Arizona Fall League yesterday.Jackson went 2-for-4 with...
Mets prospects begin play in Arizona
It was a busy day for the Mets' prospects on the Peoria Sagueros in the Arizona Fall League's opening day yesterday.At the plate, Shawn Bowman went 2-for-3 with a run...
Osorio to players: Forget the pressure and play, I'll take the heat
Can the Red Bulls handle the pressure? By BRIAN LEWISThe Red Bulls go into tomorrow's game at Real Salt Lake with three starters missing and the pressure mounting. Coach Juan...
REPORT: MCCARVER MAULS MANNY
Former Mets and current FOX analyst Tim McCarver won't be joining the Manny Ramirez Fan Club. On the eve of the NLCS pitting Ramirez's Dodgers against the Phillies, the former...
Veloz, Tejada off to hot starts in Hawaii
Greg Veloz and Ruben Tejada haven't taken much time to warm up to the baseball in Hawaii.Veloz is hitting .345 (10-for-29) through seven games in the Hawaiian Winter League, scoring...
Giants moving on with Plaxico
By PAUL SCHWARTZPlaxico Burress had plenty to say the other day when for the first time he spoke about his one-game suspension for violating team rules, stating he had no...
Mets pitching prospects off to hot start in Hawaii
It is an admittedly small sample size, but the three Mets pitching prospects in the Hawaiian Winter League - Scott Shaw, Roy Merritt and Josh Stinson - have all gotten...
'IDOL' ARCHIE INKS DEAL
Irving Azoff, meet Jeff Archuleta. Oh yeah--and his son, David. "American Idol" favorite David Archuleta has inked a management deal with Azoff Management, the brains behind musical powerhouses including Christina...
Sublett, Romine off to hot starts in Hawaii
Yankee prospects Austin Romine and Damon Sublett are holding their own in the Hawaiian Winter League.Romine, who was half of the Yankees' highly touted catching duo with Low-A Charleston (along...
Bleich, Brackman continue in Hawaii
Waikiki hasn't been a paradise for Yankee pitching prospects Jeremy Bleich and Andrew Brackman in the early going of the Hawaiian Winter League.Both pitchers made their second starts in the...
Ranieri Safe At Juve -- For Now!
Juventus chief executive Jean-Claude Blanc has dismissed speculation about coach Claudio Ranieri's future following four games without a win and reports of locker room unrest."We are not hiding from the...
Joe Biden 'SNL's' No. 1 Fan
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden suffered from a serious case of the giggles during an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer this morning.When shown a clip of his "Saturday Night...
Deja Hou!
By MARC BERMANTORONTO - Allan Houston is out tonight for the preseason opener with a sore quad. Shocker!Houston, 37, did OK at Camp Saratoga. He pulled himself out of just...
LIVEBLOG: Good morning, Salt Lake
It's been years since my last plane change at Salt Lake (on my way to Alaska, back before Tina Fey Sarah Palin became a household name); time for a proper...
Starr Report: Taking a Victory lap
"Most of the time the director comes in and is the person least familiar with the show," says McCarthy, who didn't have to worry about that. He was mostly distracted,...
WILL THE YANKS DEAL CANO?
FROM JOEL SHERMANThe more I talk to Yankee officials the more I become convinced that Robinson Cano will not be dealt. That is because the Yanks plan on valuing him...
Cano, Kuo and Abreu
1. The more I talk to Yankee officials the more I become convinced that Robinson Cano will not be dealt. That is because the Yanks plan on valuing him as...
AN UNENLIGHTENING NIGHT
In last night's debate, a substantively unserious affair, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama struggled with the two chief challenges facing this nation: how to keep America's economy afloat, and...
A COMEDY GETS TOO REAL
Shady billionaire financiers, hapless politicians, a mysterious missing videotape . . . sounds like perfect fodder for one of those election-year sendups on "Saturday Night Live," right? Oh, wait. This...
GOP 'SMELLS' RAT IN OHIO
CLEVELAND - John McCain's campaign yesterday questioned a move by pro-Barack Obama groups in Ohio to bus homeless people, the elderly and women in domestic-abuse shelters to polling places, saying...
MCCAIN RIPS O AS HOOVER BAM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - John McCain charged last night that Barack Obama would be the worst president for the economy since Herbert Hoover in Depression, by pushing tax hikes during a...
BARACK ON THE ROCKS AT A PUB IN CRUCIAL VIRGINIA
ASHBURN, Va. - John McCain's jabs at Barack Obama during last night's debate won high marks at Clyde's restaurant in a burgeoning Virginia suburb where the candidates are engaged in...
FRAUD RAID SACKS BAM ACTIVISTS
Officials yesterday raided the Las Vegas headquarters of a major pro-Obama community-organizing group as part of a probe into alleged voter fraud that includes using the names of Dallas Cowboy...
POETIC JUICESTICE: OJ LOSES IT ALL IN VEGAS
THE ISSUE: The jury's finding O.J. Simpson guilty on 12 charges of robbery and kidnapping. At long last, Lady Justice has been served ("Juicestice," Oct. 5). May Nicole Brown and...
GOLD-PLATED PENSIONS
NEW York's deepening fiscal crisis should refocus public attention on the need to reform the city's unsustainably costly package of generous retirement benefits for municipal workers. So far, the reaction...
MCCAIN'S MISSING KO PUNCH
John McCain probably won last night's debate on points - but he needed a knockout, and he didn't get it. His proposal to help homeowners by buying their mortgages was...
SOOTHING SMOOTHIE OBAMA BEATS FOE AT OWN MCGAME
Barack Obama is the unflappable front-runner. John McCain can jab him, mock him and all but call him a fraud - but Obama barely bats an eye. McCain Rips O...
THE PRO-BARACK VOTE-FRAUD DRIVE
SYSTEMIC corruption of our election process continues. Barack Obama and his old friends at ACORN and Project Vote are leading the way. This radical revolution is taking place in your...
TERROR VICTIM'S QS FOR BARACK
WHEN John Murtagh was 9 years old, Bill Ayers' friends tried to kill him. "I remember my mother's pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen...
ROUND TWO: WE ALL LOSE
John McCain needs a game-changer, but he didn't get it last night Barring some crisis that shifts the public debate away from the cratering world economy and onto foreign policy,...
PUTIN GOES TO THE MAT ON JUDO VID
Polonium isn't the only way that Vladimir Putin can kill you. The Russian prime minister is showing off his lethal skills at martial arts by releasing a new DVD called...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK- Midday Nos. Tue.: 716; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 4482; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 136; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3047;...
PREVENT EWI (E-MAILING WHILE INTOXICATED)
Google wants e-mail users to back away from their keyboards after hitting the sauce. A creative Google engineer - and admitted drunken e-mailer - unveiled a new gmail.com option that...
HOWARD'S BAND MATE
When a man is best known for hanging out with lesbian strippers and organizing mother-daughter dial-a-dates, this photo is sure to tarnish his reputation - the moment when he says,...
508-POINT PLUNGE ON DAY 5 OF DIVE
Stocks plunged for a fifth straight day yesterday - with the Dow Jones industrial average posting a 508-point loss - as Wall Street continued giving a big Bronx cheer to...
RETIREMENT PLANS LOSE $2T
Americans' retirement plans - including pensions, 401(k)s and IRAs - have lost up to a staggering $2 trillion in value over the past 15 months, a top government analyst said...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
Manhattan A man was killed by a subway train last night as he tried to cross the tracks at an Inwood elevated station, authorities said. The victim, whose name was...
RR PROBE'S NEW TARGETS
Authorities have subpoenaed a second "disability specialist" in the widening LIRR pension-scam probe, along with a golf-playing former union official who is receiving one of the federal "gravy train" pensions,...
SPEED 'LIMITS'
Whatever Ronald Lauder does, Mayor Bloomberg plans to rush through a bill this month to permanently amend term limits, sources said yesterday. "They're really fast-tracking it because of the mounting...
DIRE STRAITS DIARY
Well, that's shoe-biz! Wilson Silver, owner of Nu-Way Shoe Repairs on John Street in the Financial District, said business is down 35 percent. "People on Wall Street aren't getting their...
LI NURSING HOME RAPS
Four Long Island nursing-home workers were charged yesterday with endangerment of the senior citizens in their care after being secretly recorded on hidden cameras as part of a state investigation....
CITY TITLE'S IN THE BAG
Call Millie Lugo a bag lady and she won't be a bit insulted - in fact, she's the best bag lady in the city. Lugo, the co-manager of an East...
STINKIN' LINCOLN HOAX BUST
The last laugh is on two New Jersey guys who have been fingered in an aggravating hoax that clogged Lincoln Tunnel traffic for hours Friday. Lawrence Fellilppello, 39, of Vernon,...
FEDS SET 'RAT' TRAP
The feds are hunting for a former mob informant and lifelong con artist who was mistakenly released on bail last month. Kenny "The Rat" O'Donnell is believed hiding out in...
CHRISTIE EX: NO THANKS!
Peter Cook wouldn't be considered such a "scumbag pervert" if ex-wife Christie Brinkley had said "thank you" more often, the notorious teen-skirt-chaser said. In an unbelievable chat with Barbara Walters...
CLEAVER-SLAY FIEND 'UNFIT'
Admitted cleaver killer David Tarloff has been hallucinating, staring into space and defecating on himself, and is thus unfit for trial in the murder of an Upper East Side psychotherapist,...
KILLER EXCUSE TO SKIP JURY DUTY
Being dead is an acceptable excuse for getting off jury duty - unless you come back to life. A woman being interviewed in Bronx Supreme Court as a potential juror...
LIGHT-HEARTED IN MADISON PK.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer wants to take the pulse of the Big Apple. The international artist plans to set up two sensors that will transmit the heartbeats of visitors to 200 theatrical...
'RAPIST' ORDEAL AT HOT SPOT
The Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square may be advertised as "The Hottest Place on Earth," but it turned into a living hell for four female workers who claim that...
MISSILE-BLOWERS
What's the easiest way to get a 25-foot-long missile into Manhattan? Apparently, the Queens Midtown Tunnel. A Long Island man offered up that astonishing answer yesterday to an incredulous judge...
CITY'S CRANE SHAME
Psssst - wanna operate a 50-ton construction crane in New York City, but without the fuss and bother of studying the licensing textbooks or taking the driver's exam? A corrupt...
FEDS GET A 'HAND' IDING MOB CORPSE
It's William "Wild Bill" Cutolo by a finger. Actually, make that several fingers. While the feds yesterday used dental records to officially ID Cutolo's corpse, which was found in a...
HOLDING GOLDEN BALL
The final home run hit at Yankee Stadium may not rank up there in Bomber lore with Roger Maris' 61st in '61 or Chris Chambliss' pennant clincher in 1976, but...
A HEALTH OF INFORMATION
Not sure what to order at McDonald's? Ask the city's dietitian for help. A new blog will take questions about how to eat out healthily at everywhere from a hot-dog...
'CHILD-CARE'
Rhianna Hopkins was only 10 years old, but the Queens fifth-grader had a lot of senior moments last year - she helped many older New Yorkers feel young at heart....
'GOONS' IN 'WIENER ROAST' BUST
Three men - two of them Gambino crime-family associates - have been charged with shaking down a Bronx hot-dog vendor and beating him, cops said yesterday. The men - also...
HIGH ON HARLEM
City lawmakers yesterday cleared the way for a sprawling, $700 million redevelopment of mostly vacant lots along 125th Street in East Harlem that will include an office tower, shops and...
DAN WANTS TO TAILOR HIS SUIT
Dan Rather isn't ready to abandon his charge that his old bosses at CBS defrauded him. The former "CBS Evening News" anchor wants a judge to let him amend his...
EATING THE ODD$: VEGAS TOPS NY ON DINER TABS
People in Las Vegas have always spent a bundle feeding slot machines - now they also have the record for spending the most to feed themselves. Sin City diners for...
SHOW GATHERS NO MOSS
SAN FRANCISCO - New York magazine Editor-in-Chief Adam Moss was among the no-shows at this year's American Magazine Conference, but his magazine dominated the third annual best covers award handed...
CREDIT MARKET ANSWER
In an effort to bring some degree of safety to the $60 trillion credit default swaps market, futures giant CME Group and hedge fund Citadel plan to launch an electronic...
SAKS' ICELANDIC INVESTOR MAY BE LEFT IN THE COLD
Hopes that an Icelandic investor will buy Saks are melting away fast. Jon Asgeir Johannesson, who owns European retail giant Baugur, said as recently as August that he was "actively"...
VICTORIA'S NEW PLACE
VICTORIA'S Secret has just inked a deal worth $100 million for a 24,000 foot duplex spread in SoHo at 591-593 Broadway. But the 15-year lease is for a space that...
LINENS 'N THINGS TO LIQUIDATE
Linens 'n Things, conceding defeat in a multiyear turnaround effort, asked a Delaware judge for permission to quickly liquidate its stores. Confirming exclusive reports by The Post - including a...
DOW MAY HIT 8,750
Investors suffering from five-straight days of global economic turmoil are searching for relief at the bottom of the black hole of Wall Street stocks - possibly at a floor of...
INVESTOR CONFAB SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
Despite another down day for stocks, rumblings that the worst may be over continued to dominate the 4th annual Value Investing Congress in New York. "We believe the bulk of...
FED'S PAPER PURCHASE GETS A THUMBS-UP
Even as stock market professionals applauded the government's dramatic new plan to unfreeze the lending system, investors shrugged off the move, and it did not reverse the market's slide. Yesterday,...
OBAMA'S (LUCKY?) BREAK
Chicago power merchant Tony Rezko, a major benefactor of Barack Obama, was to have been sentenced on fed eral fraud, bribery and money laundering charges just days before voters go...
PUTTING ON AYERS
"The relationship between [Barack] Obama and [Bill] Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer and was much more political than Obama said." - CNN's summary of its investigation into the...
A COMEDY GETS TOO REAL
Shady billionaire financiers, hapless politicians, a mysterious missing videotape . . . sounds like perfect fodder for one of those election-year sendups on "Saturday Night Live," right? Oh, wait. This...
NAVY MAN MAC LOOKS LOST AT SEA
NASHVILLE - And that was supposed to be the platform where John McCain would shine the brightest? For months, he begged Barack Obama to join him for weekly town-hall debates...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Relying on a designated driver may have been the only smart thing this clown did. Police in Blountville, Tenn., say Randy Lewis, 43, told them he'd had 15 beers, so...
MO 'SCOPE SMOOTH; REHAB IN 3 MOS.
The rehab process is always tricky, but the first step in correcting a bothersome problem in Mariano Rivera's right shoulder was taken yesterday when he underwent arthroscopic surgery to correct...
THE SECRET SCHOOL
STORY SO FAR: With the teacher leaving, the one-room school house must close, putting an end to Ida's hopes of going on. Tom, Ida's friend, suggests she be the teacher....
STARR REPORT
Taking a Victory lap "Lipstick Jungle" co-star Andrew McCarthy (Joe) has directed an episode of the NBC series scheduled to air early next month. It's McCarthy's episodic TV directorial debut;...
'FAB' REMAKE
FOX is cutting a pattern to remake the British fashion comedy, "Absolutely Fabulous." The show followed the misadventures of a pair of over-the-hill, drug-addled fashionistas, Edina and Patsy, who were...
SEACREST RADIO SHOW BEAMS IN
RYAN Seacrest is coming to New York. Beginning Monday, Seacrest's newsy radio show, "On Air with Ryan Seacrest," will air from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. weekdays on Z100 (100.3 FM). The...
NATALEE HOLLOWAY MOVIE
THE tragic tale of Nata lee Holloway is about to be given the Lifetime movie treatment. "The Natalee Holloway Story" will be based on the true disappearance of the teenage...
BAD HAIR DAY
'KATH & Kim," NBC's unfunny adaptation of the wildly funny Australian sitcom, is arguably the worst idea for an import from the Land Down Under since Vegemite. "Kath & Kim,"...
TIM PICKIN'S
THE death last summer of Tim Russert is taking a toll on the once invincible "Meet the Press." The show that Russert hosted for 17 years is steadily falling in...
CAB GETS GOOD MILEAGE
IF you've ever hailed Death Cab for Cutie, you know the Seattle quartet usually gives a smooth albeit melancholy cruise in concert. But at Radio City Music Hall on Monday,...
GANGSTER'S PARADISE
YEARS ago, Guy Ritchie used to make corkscrewy cockney capers like "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch." Then something seems to have distracted him. Today, he's once again...
'MAN' STAR SHINES, REST NEED SEASONING
IT'S easy to see why Frank Langella chose "A Man for All Seasons" for his return to the stage after "Frost/Nixon." This endlessly versatile three-time Tony winner brings as much...
TAYMOR'S WEB OF RICHES
IN this econ omy, every body's tight ening their belts. Every body, that is, but Julie Taymor. The genius director of "The Lion King" has never met a budget she...
LE CIRQUE'S PERKS
A young woman watching the Sarah Palin-Joe Biden debate at Le Cirque's Wine Bar Lounge last week was fed up with Girls-in-Groups yakking and politely asked one table to pipe...
CHOOSE YOUR PATTY!
WHEN the first New York City Wine & Food Festival rolls into town this weekend, no event will be more closely watched than Rachael Ray's sold-out Burger Bash on Friday...
THE FERNET EFFECT
IF bartenders were to form a fraternal society, a shot of Fernet Branca might be their version of the secret handshake. "It's bitter, kind of gross and has a certain...
JETS SHOULD BE WARY OF 0-5 (BUT FEISTY) BENGALS
SHOULD the Jets have fleeting thoughts that they can simply show up at Giants Stadium on Sunday wearing their throwback Titans uniforms and dominate the winless Bengals, they would do...
RENTAL CAR TROUBLE FOR BURRESS
The Giants shouldn't feel bad. They weren't alone in having a hard time getting in touch with Plaxico Burress. He also has dodged calls from Khoury Alternative Claims Management, a...
GIANTS NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT LAID-BACK RECEIVER
PLAXICO Burress isn't taking the Giants anywhere except for another ride into the playoffs. He's a terrific player who not one teammate emulates when it comes to punctuality or the...
BAILEY MAKES ISLES
Less than a week after it appeared that first-round pick Josh Bailey would not make the Islanders' opening night roster, the 19-year-old made the team. There remains a distinct chance,...
RANGERS IN CAP TRAP
Back in the US, back in the US, back in the USA ... Their excellent European adventure completed, the Rangers yesterday returned to their practice rink, where they went through...
BELIEVE IT: THIS BOSTON BUNCH IS VERY BEATABLE
BOSTON - The way they're acting up here you would think these Red Sox are the '27 Yankees or the world championship Yankees of the Joe Torre Era or the...
SUDDEN SURGE NO SURPRISE TO ZIM
On a frigid night in the middle of January, Don Zimmer saw it coming. No, not the AL East title or beating the White Sox in the ALDS. But on...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Cubs' Marmol hurt in crash Cubs reliever Carlos Marmol suffered minor injuries in a car accident early yesterday in the Dominican Republic. A truck hit a car carrying Marmol,...
MO 'SCOPE SMOOTH; REHAB IN 3 MOS.
The rehab process is always tricky, but the first step in correcting a bothersome problem in Mariano Rivera's right shoulder was taken yesterday when he underwent arthroscopic surgery to correct...
'THONER RUNS FOR FALLEN PAL
Abdi Abdirahman's last race in New York was a heartbreaking one. A hip injury forced him to quit during the Olympic marathon trials - and then he found out after...
HONDO HORSING AROUND
Hondo took a small beating yesterday because of Anthony Affrunti's horse sense, losing at the Big M with Always in Love in the second and Amenable in the fourth. In...
NY JOINS SUIT AGAINST EPA
IN order to plug up a loophole in the Clean Water Act that is threatening our fishing industry here in New York, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is taking the...
UPSTART SQUAD SHRUGS OFF UNDERDOG STATUS
CHICAGO - Move over, Red Sox, this is the Ray-LCS. Too bad most of America won't see it that way. Despite their Cinderella ride through the regular season and disposal...
COLANGELO: I KNOW MY ITALIAN
Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo has taken criticism for making Italian 7-foot center Andrea Bargnani the No. 1 pick in the 2006 draft. Colangelo even heard before the 2008 draft that...
D'ANTONI LASHES OUT AT KNICKS
TORONTO - The Knicks won't play their first preseason game until tonight, but Mike D'Antoni already has seen "bad habits" from his club and called its effort "spotty" yesterday. On...
TOP 25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The Post's Top 25 College Football
GREEN MACHINE RUNS TO KEEP JOEPA HAPPY
THERE is a star in the making at Penn State, and his name is Stephfon Green. Green, a redshirt freshman from The Bronx who played at PSAL prep power Kennedy,...
D'Antoni's Knicks showcased in Canada
By MARC BERMANTORONTO - Why am I so excited on the eve of the Knicks' preseason opener vs. the Raptors? It's the first meaningful Knick game I've covered since Feb....
BLOOMBERG IN RUSH FOR TERM LIMIT VOTE
Whatever Ronald Lauder does, Mayor Bloomberg plans to rush through a bill this month to permanently amend term limits, sources said today. "They're really fast-tracking it because of the mounting...