October 15, 2008
Passing the TAT
Sharpen your clicking finger, its time for your Television Aptitude Test (TAT). Drama and Comedy sections below - good luck!Click here for dramaClick here for comedy
Italy and England Grab Wins
Alberto Aquilani struck twice to hand Group Eight leaders Italy a 2-1 win on Wednesday over Montenegro.The midfielder slid home his first international goal on eight minutes after goalkeeper Vukasin...
MLS expansion bids announced; New York NOT on the list
By BRIAN LEWISApparently New Yorkers hoping for a second MLS team to support _ or any MLS team to support, when you consider how they've been ignored by the MetroStars...
Favre on next season: Let's wait and see
It took only six weeks into the regular season, but Brett Favre today fielded his first question about whether he'll come back to play next season."I haven't thought about next...
Smashing Pumpkins are kewl again thanks to Guitar Hero World Tour
Have you heard the news? The Smashing Pumpkins are on tour again. Well, half of the Pumpkins - namely Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Everyone else has boycotted.Anyway, to...
TRANSCRIPT: OFFICER'S 911 CALL
Transcript of Officer Enchautegui's last call before he was shot by intruders. Steven Armento is on trial for the man's 2005 shooting death. Enchautegui: "Hello" 911 Operator: "Yes." Enchautegui: "Yes....
Deal of the Day-Lenora Dame
If cheap and cheerful is what you're after, this Thick Bangle from Lenora Dame is a chunky piece of sunshine on your wrist.Brighten up any outfit with this printed bangle...
CLEMENS: I'M NOT MAD AT YANKEES
Roger Clemens has told a Houston TV station that he isn't upset with the Yankees for not including him in the final festivities at Yankee Stadium and claims he didn't...
EAST SIDE RIPPER GETS 16 YEARS IN SLAMMER
"Die! Die! Die!" a homeless, shirtless, madman had screamed last October at clinical psychologist Susan Barron, straddling her body and slashing her with knives during a bloody midtown sidewalk rampage....
A Lotta Fight
By FRED KERBERAsk the Nets about that they learned over in Europe for two games and virtually to a man, they tell you they are going to be a team...
GIANTS STADIUM GETS POOR MARKS
Maybe the Giants and Jets really do need a new stadium after all. But it doesn't look like it'll solve fans' main complaint. In fact, it might make it worse....
Sneak Preview: 'Stylista'
Looks like "The Devil Wears Prada" may have met its match.Cue Anne Slowey, Elle magazine's Fashion News Director - and primetime's next Queen of Mean.She is the star of the...
MACY'S HEIR SUES LENO FOR CAR
Didja hear the one about the elderly car enthusiast who took it on the chin from Jay Leno? The family of Macy's heir John Straus is suing the "Tonight Show"...
EMOTIONS RUN HIGH AT COP SHOOTING TRIAL
The trial of a man accused of gunning down an off-duty Bronx cop began today with a show of police solidarity - and accusations from the defense that the officer's...
TIM GUNN MEASURES UP 'RUNWAY' SHOWDOWN
After five seasons, "Project Runway's" Tim Gunn says he knows where this cutthroat competition is won or lost. It's not in the designers' workroom at Parsons. And it's not on...
STUDENT: I THOUGHT DARRYL LITTLEJOHN WOULD KILL ME
A York College student testified today in chilling detail how she was snatched up off the street by a man posing as a law enforcement officer and tossed into a...
NEXT UP: GIANTS
A Monday night road loss to the Browns is one thing. Despite a 1-3 record going in, you cannot ignore the talent the Browns possess. The same cannot be said...
NEXT UP: JETS
The fact a team that won four games all of last season is even being asked about overlooking an opponent is a good sign for the Jets. That's the scenario...
MLS expansion bids announced at 5 p.m.; will New York be among them?
By BRIAN LEWISThe deadline to submit formal applications for the next round of MLS expansion is today at 5 p.m., in about four hours. And the official bids will be...
Gossage book signing
Goose Gossage will sign copies of the book, "Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective" at the following locationsThursday, Oct. 16, from 7-9 p.m. at Bookends, 232 E. Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, N.J.Friday,...
Report: Favre calls Romo
ESPN.com reports that Brett Favre called injured Tony Romo to offer support as the Cowboys quarterback deals with a fractured pinkie that will end a streak of 30 straight games...
MADONNA, A-ROD STILL STEAMY: REPORT
Madonna and A-Rod are still carrying on a steamy relationship, according to one magazine report. Sources tell Us magazine that the pair -- who made headlines when the Yankee slugger's...
Starr Report: 'Men,' squared
NBC's ballyhooed "My Own Worst Enemy" (Christian Slater) finished third at 10 in total viewers (7.3 million) Monday, but second in adults 18-49 (behind "CSI Miami").Viewership for AMC's "Mad Men,"...
Barcelona to Form MLS Team
Barcelona will submit a bid Wednesday to bring a Major League Soccer franchise back to South Florida.The Spanish soccer club is partnering with Marcelo Claure, a Miami resident and owner...
LIVEBLOG: Hello from Pueblo
Colorado has done a great job selling its easy, breezy, outdoorsy image to the rest of the country. Most New Yorkers think skiing; they think Vail and Telluride and Breckenridge...
BARACK BACKS AWAY FROM ACORN
Barack Obama yesterday distanced himself from the activist group ACORN, which has become tangled up in a national voter-registration fraud scandal. "We've got the best voter registration and turnout and...
OBAMA FIRES A 'ROBIN HOOD' WARNING SHOT
WASHINGTON - You won't find it in his campaign ads, but Barack Obama let slip his plans to become a modern-day Robin Hood in the White House, confiscating money from...
O POSTER EXPELLED AT CITY HS
The Department of Education is forcing a Brooklyn middle school to remove a poster of presidential candidate Barack Obama that's hung prominently above its main entrance, officials said yesterday. MORE:...
MAC'S TAX AX A 'SAVING' GRACE
Tens of millions of Americans who took a beating in the Wall Street crash would get to recover thousands of dollars under a tax-cutting plan unveiled by John McCain yesterday....
MCCAINIAC NAMES TOT AFTER GOP TICKET
She's as cute as a campaign button. Five-day-old Sarah McCain Palin was named by her father as a show of support for the Republican ticket. But Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton,...
PAKISTAN FREES US MAN
An American citizen who was picked up by police near Pakistan's unstable tribal areas bordering Afghanistan has been released, according to reports. Florida college student Juddi Kenan, 20, told police...
NEW AIG $$ PERK JERKS
. . . and a partridge in a taxpayer-funded boondoggle. A group of AIG execs went on an $87,000 partridge hunt at a posh English manor last week - on...
NOBEL BOOBY PRIZE FOR RESEARCHER
A former scientist who contributed to the research behind this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry has been shut out from the glory and will remain in Alabama making $10 an...
SPLITSVILLE AT LAST FOR MADONNA
Madonna and Guy Ritchie are finally, officially, pulling the plug on their troubled eight-year marriage, The Post has learned. Madonna's rep released a statement this morning saying the singer and...
WYNN'S $TROKE OF LUCK
This is the amazing story of how Las Vegas hotel billionaire Steve Wynn clumsily managed to rip a hole in his priceless Picasso masterpiece - and ended up making millions....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A lesbian love triangle ended with two women in handcuffs after one was splashed with boiling water, authorities said yesterday. Cops say Jevonna Gordon, 29, clashed with one of...
BABY MAKES JFK ARRIVAL
A baby boy entered the world by going through Customs yesterday when his mother gave birth at Kennedy Airport, authorities said. Officers from US Customs and Border Protection delivered the...
COOK'S TURBULENCE
Here's Peter Cook getting ready to fly off into the wild blue yonder last Friday with his kids on a small plane - and away from the uproar over the...
BASHED RETAILERS HOPE FOR HALLOWEEN $$ TREAT IN TRICKY TIMES
The economy's scarier than a slasher flick, but consumers aren't too frightened to open up their wallets for some serious Halloween spending. Americans plan to spend an average of $47...
DEEP LOOK INTO FUTURE
A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History shows how global warming could put much of lower Manhattan underwater. Melting ice sheets could cause sea levels to rise...
STATE PAROLE KID-PERV RAP
ALBANY - A state Parole Board commissioner was charged yesterday with trying to lure two preteen sisters to an Albany-area hotel room for sex. Former Assemblyman Chris Ortloff, 61, was...
LILLO BUDDY'S TRIAL STARTING
Police plan to pack a Bronx courtroom today for the start of the trial of "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato's alleged cohort in the 2005 shooting death of an off-duty cop....
GHOSTFELLA'S LI'L CHOP OF HORRORS
In this haunted house, prosecutors didn't need the walls to talk. A mob turncoat testified in grisly detail yesterday how a member of his crew brutally hacked and drowned a...
MILITARY'S CITY HS OFFENSIVE
A new Department of Education policy makes it easier for the military to get high-school students' personal information than for colleges, trade schools and employers, advocates say. The policy allows...
QUINN TARGETING TERM FOE'S PLUM
In a major power play, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is threatening to oust a powerful committee chairman because he is a leading opponent of extending term limits, The Post...
TRAGIC RANGER'S HEART WOE
The Rangers prospect who collapsed and died during a hockey game in Russia had a heart condition - and paramedics didn't have a defibrillator that might have saved his life,...
NIXZMARY MOM'S GAMBIT
The lawyer for Nixzmary Brown's mother yesterday conceded that her client was guilty - but only of failing to realize that her child was dying after a beating by her...
'VICE-LOVER' COP GETS YR.
A crooked ex-cop who pimped out his badge for a Korean brothel owner, taking cash and discounted sex with hookers, was sentenced yesterday to more than a year behind bars....
IMETTE GUY'S '2ND ATTACK' TRIAL
Bouncer Darryl Littlejohn - accused of murdering of John Jay student Imette St. Guillen after she left his SoHo bar - went on trial in Queens yesterday in a separate...
ANGER AS SHRINK KILLER GETS PSYCHO LOCKUP
The cleaver-swinging psycho who admitted hacking a beloved psychologist to death in her Upper East Side office was sent indefinitely to a locked loony bin yesterday, infuriating family members who...
SWINDLER BEDEVILED BY GLITZ
Pity poor con man Raffaello Follieri - a rube from the sticks of southern Italy burned by the bright lights and big city while scamming gullible investors out of millions....
POL OPTED OUT OF 'NO LIMIT' GAME
The most vehement opponent of changing term limits through legislation felt a lot differently just three years ago. City Councilman Bill DeBlasio, who's been pounding Mayor Bloomberg and other supporters...
GRENADE SCARE AT PENN STA.
Penn Station was shut for an hour yesterday because of a scare caused by a smoke grenade. At 9:50 a.m., after an LIRR train pulled in, a cleaner found a...
COLUMBIA ALERT FOR THUG GANG
Cops are looking for a gang of teen thugs who roughed up students in five separate incidents near Columbia University over the weekend, officials said. The bad guys attacked their...
JOYOUS COUPLE HITS A TRIPLE
All parents think their kid is one in a million - but these three bundles of joy really are. They're not only triplets, they're identical triplets! Yesterday, 5-day-old Kevin Patrick...
GUY GETS A BIG GRASS KICKIN'
Call it a case of lawn and order. A cash-strapped former Long Island resident was sent to jail for not taking care of the dying grass in the front yard...
BROOKLYN IS GOING FI$HING
Brooklyn is spoiling for a fight with Manhattan in a new push to lure businesses across the East River. Taking advantage of the slumping economy, the public-private Downtown Brooklyn Partnership...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
"It was like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds.' " That's what the superintendent of a West Virginia high school said after a creepy day in which more than...
THE SECRET SCHOOL
Written by Avi Illustrated by Brian FlocaSTORY SO FAR: When the one-room schoolhouse teacher announces she's leaving, it has been suggested that Ida Bidson become teacher and run the school...
CORRECTION
IN the Sept. 19 review of the Celine Dion concert at Madison Square Garden, a reference was made to Dion's singing the song "All By Myself" by the Bee Gees....
'CHOCOLATE' REIGN
IF you've never gotten over the cancellation of "In Living Color" or the abrupt departure of Dave Chappelle and "Chappelle's Show," have I got a show for you. Tonight, Comedy...
'WHEEL'S $1MILLION BRIDAL SWEET
TALK about the proverbial gusher. Newlywed Michelle Loewenstein became the first $1 million winner in "Wheel of Fortune" history last night. Her winning puzzle phrase? "Leaky faucet." Loewenstein, who's originally...
STARR REPORT
'Men,' squared "Two and a Half Men" continues to be TV's top- rated sitcom - and a Monday-night boon for CBS. Consider that CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" averaged 9.4...
THE OBAMA TRICK UP JAY'S SLEEVE
JAY Leno may have an Octo ber surprise up his sleeve for rival David Letterman. After much ado, Letterman is slated to interview Republican presidential nominee John McCain tomorrow night...
'PRAIRIE' PLAYS HARDBALL
THERE'S a bit of wrang ling on the "Prairie." Friendly Family Productions, which produced NBC's "Little House on the Prairie," is suing a museum of the same name - claiming...
THE POLITICS OF CLASSROOM
WOW, what an election! No, not the McCain-Obama faceoff - I'm talking about the contest for student council president and vice president at Stuyvesant High, a jewel of New York...
LANE CHANGE FOR 'GODOT'
NEXT year is shaping up to be one of heavy-duty existential angst - the perfect time, in other words, for a Broadway revival of "Waiting for Godot." Nathan Lane and...
DULL DIRECTION, DOWDY SET AND NO JACK BENNY
WENDING my way through impenetrable Eighth Ave nue traffic the other day, I couldn't think of anything worse than missing the first 10 minutes of "To Be or Not To...
BENOIT'S NO BALL
OK, Alain Ducasse and the folks at Benoit: It wasn't my idea to go back and see how the West 55th Street bistro was doing four months after a rugged...
BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A STEAK?
WHO says there's no such thing as a free lunch - or at least a discounted dinner? We took to the streets to see if local restaurateurs would let us...
SUBSTITUTIONS, PLEASE!
TOUGH times call for tough measures. Which got us thinking: If you can score knockoffs of fancy perfume and handbags in this town, why not restaurants? We scoured the city...
TIME FOR JETS TO GIVE JONES THE BALL
MEMO to Jets offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer: Feed Thomas Jones the ball. Jones is hungry for more carries, though he'll never say that publicly, and he's the type of running...
CURLIN A GO AT BREEDER'S CLASSIC
The Breeders' Cup lost Big Brown, but the $5 million Classic still has a superstar: defending Horse of the Year Curlin. After the big chestnut worked a serious five furlongs...
PAVLIK CAN BE BOXING'S NEXT BIG THING
Kelly Pavlik is everywhere these days, or so it seems. He is boxing's next big thing, or at least that is what the boxing industry needs him to be. He's...
YANKS CRACK DOOR FOR WILLIE
BOSTON - The Yankees need a third-base coach, and Willie Randolph needs a job. So there is a chance the former Mets manager might return to The Bronx. In a...
GIANTS REPORT CARD
Week 6 vs. Browns Here are the grades following the Giants' 35-14 loss to the Browns on Monday night:
GIANTS MUST HEED MESSAGE FROM BROWNS ROUT
WEEK after week, the Giants won games this season and then tried their hardest to act as if they had come up short. "We've done a good job even after...
LUCKY MANN: ELI OK AFTER MONSTER MONDAY HIT
Eli Manning came out of Monday's 35-14 loss to the Browns complaining of pain in his chest area after he completed a pass and was landed on in the second...
RANGERS ROCKIN' ON PENALTY KILLS
There's Blair Betts pressuring the puck. There's Fredrik Sjostrom, driving in straight lines, forcing the play, going to the net. There are Chris Drury and Scott Gomez, hounding the opposition...
TORRE ROASTED FOR GAME 4 LOSS
LOS ANGELES - Joe Torre isn't getting a pass for leading the Dodgers to the NLCS in his first season in L.A. That was obvious yesterday, when Torre awoke to...
VICTORINO'S GAME TOUGH AS 'NAILS'
LOS ANGELES - Shane Victorino is looking like the new Nails. Philadelphia's 5-foot-9 center fielder is drawing comparisons to Lenny "Nails" Dykstra for his size, energy and knack for being...
BAN 'CONMAN' JONES
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's indefinite suspension of Pacman Jones doesn't go far enough. He should boot the bum out of his league once and for all. Jones simply does not...
BIG PAPI COMING UP SMALL
BOSTON - David Ortiz doesn't believe his dead wood is the biggest problem facing the Red Sox, who trail the Rays 3-1 in the ALCS and have been outscored 22-5...
BOSOX ON BRINK AFTER FENWAY BASHING
BOSTON - History screams at us to avoid counting out the Red Sox in the ALCS. Four years ago the Yankees ordered the hearses and it was them who took...
BORAS: IT'S MANNY BEING MONEY
LOS ANGELES - Manny Ramirez is now treated like Barry Bonds. His home crowd loves him, even if the rest of the country considers him an affront to sports. You...
HONDO EYES PHINISH LINE
Hondo, who went draino Monday with the Red Sawx to reduce his haul to 375 monbouquettes, was expecting Boston to bounce back last night. Tonight, he's figuring on Cole to...
TIME TO RECOGNIZE TAMPA TAKEOVER
BOSTON - Well, there's cer tainly no need to tell you what happened the last time the Red Sox were nudged to the brink of ALCS elimination with a sledgehammer;...
HUNTERS CAN NOW SPEAK IN THE PHEASANT TENSE
The pheasant-hunting season in New York is under way, and thanks to a great stocking program hunters should find plenty of action. New York's DEC says it has released close...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Cowboys trade for Williams The Cowboys acquired wide receiver Roy Williams from the Lions for a first-round pick in 2009, plus a third- and sixth-rounder that year and a...
ROUGH NIGHT FOR MARBURY
Although Stephon Marbury is in good shape, he admitted last night to feeling out of sorts following a scoreless, off-the-bench outing in the Knicks' 116-109 loss to the 76ers in...
THE TOP 25 IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The Post's Top 25 In College Football
YANKEE COACHING IDEAS
FROM JOEL SHERMANJoe Girardi had the first major shot taken in his direction when one of his two key coaching staff allies, Bobby Meacham, was fired. Bullpen coach Mike Harkey,...
3 UP: YANKEE COACHES, BOWA AND MO
1. Joe Girardi had the first major shot taken in his direction when one of his two key coaching staff allies, Bobby Meacham, was fired. Bullpen coach Mike Harkey, the...
Locker room tales
By MARC BERMANMike D'Antoni admitted it. The defense stunk. The Knicks' home opener ended in scattered boos as the fans realized D'Antoni's edition will not win a lot close games...
WHAT BAM OFFERS VOTERS: A POCKETFUL OF CHANGE
THE ISSUE: Which presidential candidate is better suited to handle the economic crisis. If you like welfare and living off of hard-working people; if you think health benefits are your...
'RAGE' ON THE LEFT
WHEN a few unruly McCain-Palin supporters show their anger at campaign rallies, it's national news. New York Times columnist Frank Rich called it an epidemic of "Weimar-like rage" and "violent...
GAY MARRIAGE & SCHOOLKIDS
IF, when the dust settles Nov. 4, California voters definitively repudiate their state Supreme Court's unjust gay-marriage ruling by voting Yes on Prop 8, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will...
A LAUGHABLE 'RACISM' CHARGE
THE Democratic nominee scorned the "prejudice and bigotry and hatred and division" on display in the Arizona senator's campaign. As for his own platform, he said, "We will do all...
BARNEYS' RUBBLE
The search for a new chief executive at Barneys - a topic that has obsessed New York fashion insiders for months - may be nearing an end. The limping luxury...
NBC EYEING BROADWAY DIGS
NBC, which has flitted every which way in its citywide search for office space, and in the process has looked more like a butterfly than a peacock, might have just...
CREDIT MARTS THAW
Frozen credit markets eased slightly as investors braced for the money to begin flowing from the federal government's new multi-faceted plan to stabilize the nation's financial markets. The amount that...
WOBBLY MARKETS TRY TO REGAIN BALANCE; DOW FALLS
With new safety nets intact, Uncle Sam sent rattled stock markets back onto Wall Street's roller coaster for another wild ride of quick profits for the fleet-footed. Blue chips rallied...
GUIDE EYEING DIRECTION
IT looks like TV Guide will be staying put in New York even though the magazine is going to be owned by a Beverly Hills venture-capital firm. Macrovision earlier this...
'MAD MONEY' HOST ATTACKED IN FOX ADS
Keeping up the financial-news wars, Fox Business Network is airing ads on much-larger rival CNBC, bashing Jim Cramer, one of the cable channel's biggest stars. The TV spots, which have...
GOOGLE SEARCHES FOR QUICK $TOCK FIX
As Google prepares to release third-quarter earnings tomorrow, a big question likely to be on the minds of employees - and analysts, for that matter - is what the Web...
OBAMA TELLS THE TAX TRUTH
An unscripted moment with an Ohio plumber produced a startling confession from Barack Obama Sunday: The Democrat's "middle-class tax cut" is in fact a scheme to "spread the wealth around."...
VOTE FRAUD: SEND IN THE FEDS
Meanwhile, Barack Obama's favorite band of "community organizers," ACORN, has caught the attention of prosecutors in both Ohio and Indiana. The bipartisan board of elections in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, voted...
NJ WOMAN WINS BIGGEST 'FORTUNE' AFTER HONEYMOON
TALK about the pro verbial gusher. Newlywed Michelle Loewenstein became the first $1 million winner in "Wheel of Fortune" history last night. Her winning puzzle phrase? "Leaky faucet." Loewenstein, who's...