October 14, 2008
Deal of the Day-Nine West
Get ready to channel a sexy schoolmarm in these Undertoe slingbacks from Nine West.The open toe oxford shoes will look edgy with trouser jeans and chunky wool socks or streamlined...
PlayStation hits YouTube, awesome
This just in: PlayStation has officially launched their own YouTube station.What can you expect to find there?"...new trailers and game footage, check out interviews with publishers and developers, share user-generated...
Eric Smith back; Montgomery waived
The announced today that S Eric Smith has been activated from the Reserve/Suspended list, OL Will Montgomery has been waived and LB Brandon Renkart has been released from the practice...
Trenton gets all-star game
APThe 2009 Eastern League All-Star Game will be played at Mercer County Waterfront Park on July 15, the Trenton Thunder announced Tuesday."We are thrilled at the opportunity to host the...
Some thoughts on Dead Space
It's a big day for games! After a brief period of nothing psycho notable, today sees both the release of "Saints Row 2" (see yesterday's post) and "Dead Space."First, a...
Rossi to Start for Italy
American-born forward Giuseppe Rossi could make his first start for Italy when the injury-plagued champions host Montenegro in a World Cup qualifier on Wednesday night.With Luca Toni suspended, Italy coach...
MILITARY: IRAQI PUPPY IS ALIVE
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi puppy adopted by an American soldier but refused a flight to the U.S., is alive, the military said Tuesday, giving hope to an animal rescue group...
Look to ship Seahawks
Gone is RB Shaun Alexander. WR Deion Branch has a foot problem. The once dominant offensive line is a shell of its former self. And now Matt Hasselbeck's sore right...
Eli OK after tests
By PAUL SCHWARTZEli Manning came out of the 35-14 loss to the Browns complaining of pain in his chest area after he completed a pass and was landed on in...
WHAT'S UP: NFC
The Giants watched their two closest pursuers in the NFC East fall on Sunday, but couldn't take advantage Monday night, losing to the Browns 35-14. But at least Eli Manning...
'LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE' SUIT
There's some wrangling on the "Prairie." Friendly Family Productions, which produced NBC's "Little House on the Prairie," is suing a museum of the same name - claiming trademark infringement, unfair...
Trade deadline approaching
By PAUL SCHWARTZTeams in the NFL have until 4 p.m. today to make trades and usually this day is quiet and much ado about nothing. That might not be the...
Ceramic Catfight
Serena, meanwhile, is looking forward to visiting Brown and tries to make nice with Blair, who undercuts her by reminding her about how Brown will turn her into a "militant...
Recap of the first week in the AFL - Mets
After looking at the Yankees' prospects in the Arizona Fall League, it's time to look at how the Mets' prospects have done through the first week in the AFL.Daniel Murphy...
Recap of the first week in the AFL - Yankees
Back from a weekend at my alma mater, St. Bonaventure University, it's time to take a look at the first week of play in the Arizona Fall League.For the Yankees,...
LATE-NIGHT SUMMIT
Jay Leno may have an October surprise up his sleeve for rival David Letterman. After much ado, Letterman is slated to interview Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Thursday night...
Voracious
Aaron Voros says he has the easy part, that all he has to do is get in front of the net while teammates do all the work getting the puck...
WHAT'S UP: AFC
These aren't the 2007 Patriots. If the 35-13 rout by the Dolphins three weeks ago wasn't proof enough, then the 30-10 drubbing the Chargers laid on New England this Sunday...
Audrina and Her Revolving Barn Door
Horsey tells Lauren that she hung out with "Cory, the Australian" all weekend, and she's seeing him tonight. She hasn't told Justin Bobby about it because he'll be totally weird...
3 UP: GILLICK, FLOYD AND RED SOX VETS
1. In a column in today's Post, I recommended that Yankee GM Brian Cashman should make a play to hire Pat Gillick, who is stepping down as the Phillies' GM...
Oh yes, Allan is done
By MARC BERMANI had withheld some information in the last blog posted Monday afternoon because I was writing it for Tuesday's newspaper. Houston isn't just out again tonight vs. Philly,...
LIVEBLOG: The new White Castle!
Love sliders? Don't love feeling ill after a trip to White Castle? If your travels bring you to the Mountain Time Zone, look up GoodTimes. This mini-chain, mostly in Colorado,...
BECKHAMS' WORKERS ARRESTED FOR THEFT
LONDON- Two housekeepers working at the English mansion belonging to David Beckham and his wife Victoria have been arrested on suspicion of stealing memorabilia belonging to the soccer star, media...
BOGUS VOTER BOOTED AMID PROBE OF ACORN
Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that...
MAC TRIES TO RALLY TROOPS
WASHINGTON - Down in the polls, John McCain yesterday delivered a feisty locker-room-style speech to fire up his supporters, while accusing Barack Obama of measuring the White House drapes. "We...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 438; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 1655; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 496; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 7054;...
BOOZE BATTERS BRAINS
Booze waters down your mind and leads to long-term loss of brain volume, according to a disturbing new study. Researchers had wanted to see if moderate alcohol consumption - proven...
SAD FINISH FOR BIG BROWN
Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown, whose bid for the Triple Crown thrilled the nation last spring, was retired yesterday after gashing his foot during a morning workout at Aqueduct racetrack....
MARCIA BRADY TRADED SEX FOR COCAINE
Oh, my nose! TV sweetheart Maureen McCormick traded sex for cocaine and wasted her young adulthood hooked on drugs, the "Marcia Brady" actress admits in a shocking tell-all book. McCormick's...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
The Bronx Detectives nabbed a man for allegedly shooting and critically wounding another man for looking at him the wrong way on a Mott Haven street. Giovanny Eligio, 18, was...
SURE PAYS FOR MARTY TO BE MIKE'S BUDDY
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is cashing in big-time by being a favorite of Mayor Bloomberg. Since 2003, the Bloomberg administration has handed out at least $2.7 million in taxpayer...
PLAYING WITH FIRE
Fire marshals believe that a child playing with matches or a lighter accidentally set off the horrific Chelsea apartment blaze that killed five family members and left a 10-year-old boy...
UPSTATE POL BUSTED FOR KIDDIE PORN
ALBANY - A former assemblyman and current parole-board member was busted last night on child-pornography and soliciting charges, officials said. Chris Ortloff, 61, was arrested in a Plattsburgh-area motel room...
MAYOR'S PARKING 'OFFENSE'
Mayor Bloomberg waged his fierce campaign to slash traffic through congestion pricing even as his administration's parking policies encouraged more people to drive to work, a study released today has...
BLOOMY KISS FOR CHRIS
Mayor Bloomberg praised City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to the high heavens yesterday, and didn't deny a Post report he could offer her a job - a day after she...
LIRR RETIREES LAWYERING UP
The vast majority of the LIRR retirees who were contacted by the state Attorney General's Office in the pension-scam probe declined to talk without their lawyers present, law-enforcement sources said....
NUN SICKO AIDED JOEL
In a bizarre footnote to two of the most heinous New York crimes of the 1980s, Max Lindeman, who served 13 years for a sex attack on a nun, helped...
CORRECTION
The Post incorrectly reported Friday that Columbus Citizens Foundation raffle tickets for a 2009 Maserati are tax deductible. They are not. Call CCF for more info: (212) 249-9923.
WALL STREET BULLS ROAR BACK
The stock market rocketed to its biggest one-day points gain ever yesterday - reversing a string of huge losses - as investors finally began believing that the global financial rescue...
TERM-LIMIT $$ TANGLE
The city's Campaign Finance Board may ask for public comments as early as this week to address how a possible change in term limits will affect its complex regulations regarding...
A BANNER DAY FOR ITALIANS
Ciao about that! Gorgeous Italian TV host Francesca Alderisi is a vision in green, white and red as she proudly carries her homeland's flag up Fifth Avenue in the Columbus...
CITY $CHOOLED ON PUSHING KIDS OUT
City officials have agreed to pay for the education of hundreds of students who claim they were prevented from attending regular classes at their Brooklyn high school and otherwise encouraged...
RESCUERS CUT 600-LB. MAN OUT OF LI TRAILER
A 600-pound Long Island man who fell and lay helpless on the floor of his mobile home for nearly two days was rescued early yesterday by an army of firefighters...
'BOYS' ARE PRETTY BAD
A new offshoot of the notorious Bloods gang has raised its ugly head in South Williamsburg, sparking a police crackdown in the Brooklyn neighborhood, authorities say. Since September, the Pretty...
STROKE OF GENIUS
Olympic swimmer Jane Katz has loved the water ever since she was a 7-year-old playing in the Hamilton Fish public pool on the Lower East Side. Almost six decades later,...
DROWNING MAN SAVED
A Long Island man trapped inside his SUV as it sunk into the water was saved by an EMT and cop before the vehicle was fully submerged, police said yesterday....
SLAY KID'S MA: COPS BEAT ME
A Harlem mom claims she was roughed up by cops two weeks after her 13-year-old son was murdered. Tyshene Mungo said NYPD officers attacked her after she laid into them...
DIRE $TRAITS DIARY
Leaving an investment bank for a museum may seem like a step down, but these days there is a fine line between working in the financial sector and for a...
EX-COP HURT AS FLAMES RIP THROUGH B'KLYN BUILDING
A retired member of the NYPD was critically injured in a Brooklyn fire yesterday, authorities said. The ex-cop, whose name was withheld, lived above the fourth-floor apartment at 2240 Burnett...
RED ALERT FOR BLOOD BANKS
The New York Blood Center says its reserves in the New York metropolitan area are declining because of the financial crisis. The center says financial-services companies, which are among its...
TRAGIC END TO EGG-TOSS PRANK
It was a Humpty Dumb-ty prank - and for a Bronx youth, it was deadly. David Diaz, 19, fell six stories to his death early yesterday after he and four...
EGGSTRA, EGGSTRA: HERO 'MOTHER HEN' TURNS 103
They're planning a big birthday bash today for a 103-year-old woman who won't be able to drive to her party - because her car is in the shop. Until a...
1-2 PUNCH AT HOT SPOT
The celeb-studded Hell's Kitchen hot spot Club Pacha got another black eye over the weekend when cops were called there twice to bust two patrons on assault charges, police said....
$10M SUIT IN CONEY DROWN
The family of a 10-year- old girl swept out to sea at Coney Island has filed a $10 million notice of claim against the city, alleging the Parks Department should...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A man stands to cop a cool $2 million should a UFO appear in the sky today. British gaming house William Hill covered a $2,000 bet from Lawrence Trout of...
BUCK UP BY BANTERING
IN the face of global economic collapse, the urge to panic is a natural one. Yet our stress and worry isn't going to help stabilize even a single stock price,...
GO WITH THE WOE
A thousand points up, seven hundred down - whether people have been directly affected by the stock market or not, the financial instability has New Yorkers feeling it. People from...
SECRET 'SEEKER'
Have Sword of Truth, will travel. That could be the motto for a new TV hero arriving next month who uses his newly acquired sword less for truth-telling than for...
'SNL' PLOTTING OWN WEB SITE
THANK YOU, Sarah Palin. "Saturday Night Live" is so hot all of a sudden that it has quietly begun developing a Web site specifically dedicated to the show - offering...
EMMYS TO JUDGE JUDGES
REALITY show judges often make news (think Paula Abdul or Simon Cowell, for starters). Now, they're going to be honored for their efforts. The Emmys will create a separate category...
'POOR BROKAW'
CBS Newsman Bob Schieffer says he was wincing for former rival Tom Brokaw during last week's presidential debate. "I felt very badly for Tom Brokaw during this last [debate], because...
'EXTREME' LOOKS FOR TWISTER HOME
ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team is looking for a house to rebuild in the tornado-decimated town of Chapman, Kansas. One family, out of five initially chosen, will have their house completely...
MADDEN GROUNDED FOR GAME
JOHN Madden is getting next week off - so he can avoid traveling by bus from the West Coast to the East Coast. Cris Collinsworth is expected to fill in...
HE'S STILL STANDING
BETWEEN foot ache and heartbreak, Kenny Chesney knows pain. Country music's biggest star is still in recovery from his marital split from actress Renée Zellweger, but with today's CD release...
MPFREES
Ra Ra Riot, "Dying Is Fine" The orchestral-pop band takes its indie-rock stylings to exuberant, epic and emotional places. The Little Ones, "Morning Tide" The debut record's title track is...
TRAGEDY WON'T QUIET RIOT
HOW'S this for a setup to recording your debut album: You form an indie band in college and - less than a year later - your pop sextet becomes the...
HARRY'S MANE MAN
SO this is the guy Harry Potter thinks is hot. Meet "Equus" actor Lorenzo Pisoni, of whom Daniel Radcliffe said, "If I was gay or a female, I'd just want...
SCALING WALLS OF INTIMACY
THERE are so many posi tive ways we can relate to each other - whether it's trusting friends, nurturing family or being attracted to romantic partners. But it's possible to...
JENKINS' PRESENCE HAS JETS' D STRUTTING STUFF
The Jets' run defense the last two seasons had been closer to the punch line of a joke than it has been to a unit that punches out opposing running...
JETS REPORT CARD
Week 6 vs. Bengals Here are the grades following the Jets' 26-14 win over the Bengals this Sunday: REPORT CARD GALLERYMORE: Complete Jets Coverage
DEATH OF NY PROSPECT SHOCKS DEVS
The Devils' hearts went out to the family of Rangers first-rounder Alexei Cherepanov - especially the one that was recently repaired. "It gives you a whole new perspective on life,"...
GM GILLICK STRIKES GOLD WITH LIDGE
LOS ANGELES - The Phillies did not want the best closer in the National League. That is how last offseason began. They were quite content with Brett Myers' transformation from...
BLUNDER-FUL DEFEAT ENDS PURSUIT OF PERFECTION
CLEVELAND - They had not lost a game in so long - 10 months, to be exact - that the Giants did not remember exactly how to respond to such...
JACOBS HAS TO 'TIPTOE' IN DEFEAT
CLEVELAND - Brandon Jacobs behaved himself all week after hearing Browns defensive end Corey Williams call him out with some highly abusive trash talk. Jacobs kept his mouth shut but...
ELI & CO. BLUE IT BIG IN CLEVELAND
THOSE couldn't possibly have been the Super Bowl Giants. Those had to be imposters wearing red, white and blue last night. That couldn't possibly have been Aaron Ross trying to...
BUFFALO RUNS AWAY WITH VICTORY
The Islanders battled and fought the Sabres nearly to a draw, bringing the Nassau Coliseum crowd to its feet. Unfortunately, that was during a second period scrum that led to...
RANGERS' PROSPECT, 19, DIES DURING GAME
Tragedy struck the Rangers' family yesterday when 2007 first-round draft selection Alexei Cherepanov died after collapsing on the bench late in the third period of a KHL game in Russia....
HENRIK STILL KING OF HUDSON
It is a new season with a new team that has a new identity. But there are at least two constants from last year. They are Ranger domination of the...
B.J. FORTUNATE TO HAVE MADDON
BOSTON - The fruits of the manager's labors, and his values, have been on display all across October, the prized pupil bashing baseballs over walls, running from alley to alley...
CLOSING THE DEAL
LOS ANGELES - The Phillies did not want the best closer in the National League. That is how last offseason began. They were quite content with Brett Myers' transformation from...
TAMPA STICKS SOX TO GO UP 2-1
BOSTON - Their top two starters have been spanked in consecutive games. They don't have a hit between their leadoff and third place hitters. And tonight in Game 4 of...
HOOP WORLD MOURNS FOR FLETCHER JOHNSON
FLETCHER JOHNSON passed away last week. He was 77. A renowned cardiovascular surgeon in New City, where he was an attendant physician for three hospitals, he kept working until a...
QUIET BIG PAPI MORE LIKE BIG POP-UP THIS POSTSEASON
BOSTON - David Ortiz put his mouth where his bat is last night: on mute. After going hitless in four at-bats during a 9-1 loss to the Rays in Game...
IT'S THE MANNY SHOW MINUS HOLLYWOOD ENDING
LOS ANGELES - Manny Ramirez is the sun of this NLCS. All events revolve around him. Brawls, strategy, reporters after the game to get interviews. We are all just planets...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Fratello new Nets analyst on YES YES and the Nets yesterday announced that Mike Fratello will be the club's new TV analyst, replacing Mark Jackson, who resigned at the...
LATE HRS GIVE PHILS 3-1 LEAD
LOS ANGELES - The Phillies' late-August trade with the Blue Jays for Matt Stairs won't go down as one of the season's blockbuster acquisitions. It was huge last night, though,...
MLB SLAPS SEVEN WITH FINES
LOS ANGELES -- No punches were thrown Sunday night, but that didn't keep Major League Baseball from coming down swiftly on the Dodgers and Phillies. Fines were handed down yesterday...
STICK A FORK IN HOUSTON
It seems just a matter of time before Allan Houston is released and reassigned to the front office. Get MORE at the Knicks Blog Houston, 37, battling a quad strain,...
D'ANTONI AT HOME IN GARDEN
Mike D'Antoni said he's always enjoyed coaching at the Garden. "Yeah, because I thought we'd win," D'Antoni cracked, then adding, "That was a cheap shot." Tonight, D'Antoni for the first...
BEYOND LA PLAYA
WHO doesn't love an underground film festival? Hobnobbing with scruffy artistic types, catching screenings of edgy, transgressive celluloid that'd have Donald Wildmon and his ilk in a twist (the good...
HOUSE PARTY
IT seemed like a good enough excuse: my 30th birthday. It was also the dead of winter, when heavy doses of sun, sand and rum are most appreciated. There are...
HOT DEALS
* NEW JERSEY $149 per night at the Marriott Seaview Resort & Spa in Absecon, now through Feb. 28, including a $20 gas card for every night you stay. Use...
YOUR PLACE IN THE SUN
A BLAST of southern sun is the best winter medicine; tight times don't mean a tropical getaway need be out of the question. While the idea of "renting a villa"...
NEWS + NOTES
REVERSE VIKING YOUR local news might like to make cute jokes about Iceland's economy "melting", but it's really not that funny - the crisis even sent our Nordic friend's president...
PICTURE PERFECT
OKAY, I know what you're thinking. Why the hell would anyone want to pay Four Seasons prices for a no-name hotel in Florida's Panhandle? That's like paying upwards of $400...
STAR TREK
Travels with Olympic champ Michael PhelpsSo, you're from Baltimore. I love being back home.What does one do there? It has everything. Baltimore is such a big sports town, amazing aquarium,...
OBAMA & BILL AYERS: AN INEXCUSABLE LINK
I generally enjoy Kirsten Powers' musings on the election, but her latest piece on Barack Obama's association with Bill Ayers is narrow-minded ("The Outrageous 'Terrorist' Smear," PostOpinion, Oct. 13). Obama...
BAM'S SPEECH POLICE
'I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors," Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. "I want you to talk to...
HOW CAPITALISM IS BOUNCING BACK
THE gloating didn't last long. A few weeks ago, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck proclaimed that "Anglo-Saxon capitalism" is "finished." He stuck it to the hated Anglo-Saxon capitalists just in...
THE O JESSE KNOWS
EVIAN, FRANCE PREPARE for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort...
DEVIL IN DETAILS FOR 666 FIFTH
IF you needed further proof that the New York Times had it wrong about law firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe supposedly deciding to stay at 666 Fifth Ave., here it...
FREE UP RETIREMENT FUNDS TO POWER THE RESCUE PLAN
WHAT I am about to suggest as help for the auto industry will shock many people. But since shock (as well as terror) seems to be the order of the...
SPIELBERG RETURNS TO UNIVERSAL
In a move that reads like a script for a romantic comedy, filmmaking partners Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider are back in the loving arms of Universal Studios after a...
A BIG MACK ATTACK
Just hours after securing a much-needed capital injection for his ailing Morgan Stanley, an emboldened CEO John Mack yesterday took on the role of a predator on the hunt for...
APPLE'S GRAVITY ACT
Apple Inc. boss Steve Jobs today is widely expected to introduce the company's first laptop computer priced at less than $1,000 in a bid to pick up the pace of...
US TO BUY $250B IN BANKS' STOCK, INSURE LOANS
Uncle Sam today is expected to unveil a plan to spend $250 billion of the $700 billion rescue fund buying stock in private banks in an effort to restore confidence...
LIVE NATION TEES UP ROSELAND TICKET BIZ
Live Nation continues to push further onto Ticketmaster's turf as it gears up to launch its own ticketing business in January. The company today is expected to unveil a five-year...
GOLDMAN SOCKS SAD-SACK SEARS
Sears was a "blue" chip stock yesterday. Shares fell 4.3 percent amid news the retailer controlled by hedge-fund billionaire Eddie Lampert, a former Goldman Sachs trader, was slapped with a...
BIG ESCAPE FOILED
The accused mastermind of a $3 billion Ponzi scam uncovered in the global stock meltdown had plotted an escape in a yacht with bags of cash, his mistress and their...
MEDIA IN A MUDDLE
Ongoing fallout from the credit crisis could mean tough times ahead for media companies carrying heavy debt loads. Trouble in the credit markets is sparking fresh concerns that highly leveraged...
NEED FOR SPEED
"A program as large and complex as this would normally take months - or even years - to establish. We don't have months or years." - The Treasury Dept.'s Neel...
READY, SET . . . SPEND!
You'd think having to engineer a $700 billion Wall Street rescue would've taught Washington the importance of a sound bottom line. Apparently not - especially if Democrats take full control...
WEINER'S BANK BUNGLE
What, did Rep. Anthony Weiner sleep through the terrifying economic news of the past several weeks? Especially the part about how political pressure forced banks to make improvident loans -...
BROWNS LEAVE GIANTS SINGING BIG BLUES
Those couldn't possibly have been the Super Bowl Giants. Those had to be imposters wearing red, white and blue tonight against the Browns. That couldn't possibly have been Aaron Ross...
BROWN OUT
No need to worry for the Giants. They no longer have to deal with all the talk about them being the best team in the NFL. Not after they came...
EX COP HURT AS FLAMES RIP THROUGH BROOKLYN BUILDING
A retired member of the NYPD was seriously injured in a Brooklyn fire today, authorities said. The ex-cop, whose name was withheld, lived above the fourth-floor apartment at 2240 Burnett...
4,000 SHADY SIGN-UPS
An Ohio man who registered to vote several times cast a bogus ballot with a fake address in a vote-fraud case stemming from ACORN, officials said today, as they revealed...
MARCIA BRADY TRADED SEX FOR COKE
Oh, my nose! TV sweetheart Maureen McCormick traded sex for cocaine and wasted her young adulthood hooked on drugs, the "Marcia Brady" actress admits in a shocking tell-all book. McCormick's...