October 29, 2008
Captain Carter
By FRED KERBERWASHINGTON - The final precincts have been heard from.The Nets have a different team captain for the first time since Jason Kidd was elevated to the honor in...
TINA FEY GETS BACK TO HER DAY JOB ON '30 ROCK'
SHOCKING true fact: Tina Fey is Jack Donaghy in real life! You think Fey likes playing Sarah Palin or hawking American Express? Nah! Remember last season's premiere episode, when Jack...
CAROL ALT LOSES LAWSUIT
Supermodel Carol Alt's lawsuit against her ex-hubby, former Ranger captain Ron Greschner, was iced today by a federal judge who blasted her and everyone else involved in the long-simmering contract...
Jets sign a running back
The Jets today filled the roster spots vacated by the placement of RB Jesse Chatman (knee) and QB Erik Ainge (foot) on injured reserve with RB Marcus Mason, who was...
Deal of the Day-Theory
Pick up this Mahira Ombre Top by Theory right now and layer it under your favorite gray cardigan paired with trouser jeans.Marked down from $180 to $54 on shopbop.com, it's...
Bleich, Brackman having different experiences in HWL
The Yankees top picks in 2007 (right-hander Andrew Brackman) and 2008 (left-hander Jeremy Bleich) both are making their first extended appearances in pro ball in this year's Hawaiian Winter League....
FAVRE FORCED TO FOCUS ON 'SPITEGATE' -- AGAIN
Brett Favre today again spent more time talking about a reported phone call with the Lions made seven weeks ago. The current Jets quarterback claimed the effect of the "Spitegate"...
Parnell outpitches Matusz in AFL
While the game is still going on, Bobby Parnell succeeded in outpitching one of the top picks in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, Brian Matusz, in Arizona Fall League action...
Trenton named top Double-A team in minors
After Yankee prospect Pat Venditte picked up one of milb.com's end-of-year awards for being the best short-season reliever in the minors, the Yankees collected another award when the Trenton Thunder...
Venditte named top short season reliever in minors
Ambidextrous reliever Pat Venditte rode a dominant NY-Penn League season to earning the top short-season reliever in the minors, according to milb.com.Venditte was 1-0 with an 0.83 ERA and 23...
SHANAHAN WON'T WAIT FOR RANGERS
The waiting is over. And so, too, is Brendan Shanahan's career as a Ranger. The 39-year-old unsigned right wing who'd been advised for months by GM Glen Sather to "sit...
Mets, Yankees prospects among AFL statistical leaders
As the Arizona Fall League continues, there are several players from the Mets' and Yankees' systems near the top of the statistical leaderboards in the Arizona Fall League. We will...
NEXT UP: JETS, GIANTS
The surprise in the AFC East is that the Bills are on top of the division. The surprise in the NFC East is that the Cowboys aren't on top. NEXT...
Sanchez struggling mightily in AFL
Humberto Sanchez has had a rough go of it so far in the Arizona Fall League.The centerpiece of the Gary Sheffield trade with Detroit after the 2006 season spent the...
JETER: CLEMENS, KABBALAH AND KELLY
Derek Jeter talks about Roger Clemens and Kabbalah, but won't discuss Minka Kelly or the presidential election in a lengthy interview out today. Jeter, interviewed by SI.com while promoting the...
Estelle Reiner (1914-2008)
Reiner, whose death on Saturday was reported by the L.A. Times today, only had a cameo as a customer at Katz' Deli in "When Harry Met Sally,'' directed by her...
MLS unveils it's new Cup at Tiffany's
By BRIAN LEWISIt's not Breakfast at Tiffany's. More like Trophy at Tiffany's.MLS unveiled its newly-redesigned MLS Cup trophy, named for Philip Anschutz. The sterling silver trophy, created by Tiffany &...
Tina Fey's Kid Can't Tell the Difference Between Sarah Palin and Mommy
Not even Tina Fey could make this stuff up.The current queen of TV tells Conan that Sarah Palin offered daughter Bristol as a babysitter for Fey's daughter Alice. Watch the...
STRAHAN SAYS PLAX IS 'A REALLY GOOD GUY'
Michael Strahan doesn't have to be in a Giants uniform to influence his former team. And if there is one Giants player who needs to be talked to, it's Plaxico...
Freddie Ljungberg to Seattle
By BRIAN LEWISMLS is collecting pretty-boy European underwear models that moonlight as 30-something midfielders. After David Beckham led the L.A. Galaxy to yet another playoff-less offseason, expansion club Sounders FC...
'Boys owner prefers Brad over Brooks
The San Antonio Express-News reports that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Brad Johnson would start at quarterback against the Giants on Sunday, not Brooks Bollinger, because "Johnson's ability to protect...
Opening Night
By FRED KERBERWASHINGTON - One over/under says the Nets will win 27 and a half games (figure that's an overtime game), they're six point road underdogs to a team that...
BODY FOUND IN SEARCH FOR MISSING LONG ISLAND TEACHER
The husband of a missing Long Island special-ed teacher, whose body was discovered yesterday in a ditch near a country club, was busted last night and charged with killing her,...
Starr Report: D.L.'s big 'News'
D.L. Hughley's new CNN show got off to a solid start last Saturday night. "D.L. Hughley Breaks The News" averaged nearly 1.5 million viewers, a 72 percent timeslot increase over...
CW Revisits 'Melrose Place'
First "90210" -- now "Melrose Place."The CW is "exploring developing" a revised version of "Melrose Place," the popular Fox series that aired from 1992-1999, according to sources.The new "Melrose Place"...
Kiwanuka gets NFC honors
BY PAUL SCHWARTZDefensive end Mathias Kiwanuka had a breakout game last Sunday in Pittsburgh and was rewarded for his performance, as he was named the NFC Defensive Player of the...
3 UP: MORE WORLD SERIES THOUGHTS
1. In my column in today's Post, I wondered if the foul-weather interruption could actually enhance the World Series. Many folks say they don't watch an entire game because it...
LIVEBLOG: Best beach you'll never visit
Greetings from Punta Gallinas, b&#@%$!Where might that be, you ask? Well, it's in Colombia. You have likely never been here. Whatever. I have.The area's claim to fame is its designation...
Prediction time! (update)
By MARC BERMANI picked 37-45 in yesteday's Post. Now it's your turn.It's Showtime tonight. The Knicks have a soft early schedule (Milwaukee, Charlotte are on tap at the Garden after...
BIDEN BLOWS FUZZY TAX MATH
Gaffe-prone Joe Biden put his foot in his mouth again yesterday, mistakenly excluding millions of Americans from his running mate's tax-cut proposal. The Delaware senator's latest blunder came while discussing...
'KOZY RIPS BAM ON IRAN
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has privately ripped Barack Obama's posture on Iran as "utterly immature," according to a stunning report. Sarkozy, who gushed over Obama when they met this summer,...
MORE 'NAZI ASSASSINS' ON LOOSE
Barack Obama yesterday downplayed an alleged neo-Nazi plot to assassinate him, even as law-enforcement officials hunted for others who might have been involved in the conspiracy. PHOTOS: NAZI CAR GALLERY...
NUTJOB LIED B-FORE THIS
A volunteer for John McCain who carved a B into her cheek and lied to cops that a black man mugged her had already been booted from a group which...
CITY VOTERS FACING POLL LOTTA TROUBLE
Election Day could be D-Day - for disaster. Worried city election officials are biting their nails after Mayor Bloomberg turned down an emergency request to hire extra workers at polling...
NEW YORK TO CHUCK: RESCUE US - FROM YOU
THE ISSUE: Sen. Schumer's letter to Secretary Paulson on how to invest economic-rescue funds. It would be best for Sen. Charles Schumer to step back from prescribing that federal bailout...
PITBULL IN LIPSTICK AND HEELS
THE ISSUE: News coverage of the amount of money spent on Sarah Palin's campaign clothing. With the economy waning and a war raging, liberals and their media cronies attack their...
DERANGED BY O
IT'S official: Obama Derangement Syndrome is sweeping the nation. The Urban Dictionary defines ODS as: "The acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the...
HOW TAXES WILL KILL US
LIKE so much Barack Obama glibly says, raising taxes on "the rich" has potentially disastrous implications. Jack up the capital-gains-tax rate in the United States and more Americans can be...
BANKRUPT ROGUES: BEWARE FAILING FOES
FEELING gleeful at the misfortunes of others is an ugly-but-common human characteristic. The world delighted in our crashing economy, then we got our own back as Euro-bankers and Russian billionaires...
OBAMA'S SLOBBERING SCRIBES
TO paraphrase Queen Elizabeth II, 2008 is not a year on which honest journalists shall look back with undiluted pleasure. So many journalists were swimming in the Democratic tank this...
NOW EL LOCO'S PURSUING THE BOMB
RUSSIA'S alliance with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez just keeps getting tighter - and worse for America. Now, Moscow could be putting "El Loco" on the road to getting the bomb....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK- Midday Nos. Tue.: 953; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 6104; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 121; Lucky Sum: 4 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 2403;...
HUDSON-KIN SLAY TWIST
The Chicago parolee suspected of murdering three of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's relatives was busted in June for cocaine possession - but officials failed to lock him back up for the...
BRITNEY'S DAD $TILL IN CHARGE
A judge yesterday gave Britney Spears' father permanent control over the pop tart's financial affairs. LA Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz granted Jamie Spears' request to make his conservatorship over...
MTV SITE GETS ALL THE 'HITS'
You want your MTV? Now you've got it. More than 22,000 music videos - nearly every video that's ever been played on MTV - are now available free on one...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
BrooklynTwo crooks were being sought in the robbery of a Crown Heights clothing store at gunpoint last night. The stick-up occurred at 204-B Utica Ave. at about 7:40 p.m. One...
TAXMAN SAYS NELLO & GOODBYE
It's going to take a lot of osso buco to get him out of this hole. The taxman put a padlock yesterday on Nello, gossip-page gadfly Nello Balan's signature Upper...
'MOP-SLAY' MOM SPENT 3G TO BRING GIRL HERE
The Brooklyn mother accused of beating her 11-year-old daughter to death with a mop handle shelled out $3,000 in September to have the girl illegally brought across the border from...
SEINFELD JOKES NOT FUNNY TO MY KID, SAYS FOE
"The Sneaky Chef" author embroiled in a legal battle with Jerry Seinfeld and his cookbook-writing wife claims the funny man's snarky jokes "scared" both the author and her young daughter....
2ND BRONCO-BUSTED DRUNK SUES BAR OVER BULL FLIP
Let a drunk ride the bull, get a lawsuit every time. A Queens woman is suing a Rockefeller Center bar where she was allegedly tossed around by a rampaging mechanical...
THORNY FLOWER FRACAS
It's a war of the roses on Staten Island. The family that runs Gregorio's Florist is feuding over the local institution, with the shop's matriarch, Kathleen Gregorio, and two of...
COLD-AS-ICE EX
Supermodel Carol Alt was reduced to tears yesterday during a courtroom face-off against her ex-hubby, former Ranger captain Ron Greschner. The stunning, 47-year-old brunette had maintained her composure during more...
VILLAGE HOSP GETS BIG RAZE
St. Vincent's Hospital won a crucial victory in its quest to build a new medical center in Greenwich Village yesterday when the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the demolition of the...
GRAMPS, 83, AND KIN SLAIN IN BROOKLYN
An outstanding debt sparked an attack in Brooklyn that left a man and his 83-year-old great-uncle dead, cops said. Richard Hughes, 31, and Astrum Stapleton were standing in front of...
CITY'S DEADLIEST ROADS TO WALK
Manhattan walkers, beware - Third Avenue and Broadway rank as the two deadliest streets in the city for pedestrians, according to a new report. Ten pedestrians were killed on each...
CHECK THIS OUT!
The economic downturn has New Yorkers embracing a new home-entertainment mantra: Why rent when you can borrow a movie for free? Libraries across the city are reporting a spike in...
MIKE SHOWS BLIND FAITH
He hadn't even met him until a week ago, but yesterday Mayor Bloomberg endorsed Democrat Dennis Shulman - a blind rabbi - over Republican Scott Garrett in a hotly contested...
PUNK FANS TO ROCK THE AUCTION HOUSE
Sid Vicious would be rolling in his grave, but for punk fans, it's nirvana. Want signed publicity photos of all the members of Sid's Sex Pistols, including Johnny Rotten, from...
AUTHOR'S TOMELY WIN OVER SIS
"Gilding Lily" author Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover has won the first round of her literary legal battle with her big sister over rights to a new book. A federal judge yesterday...
2-BLOCK-LONG LINE FOR JOBS
Some 800 unemployed former Wall Street workers lined up for nearly two blocks yesterday in lower Manhattan in a desperate quest to get a job. The line that circled around...
SCHOOLS THINK TANK BACK IN BIZ
A group launched more than a year ago to conduct independent research on the city school system's practices is - well - re-launching. Since its inaugural conference on Oct. 7,...
'BURNS' ON SLAIN COP
Tiny red dots on slain Officer Daniel Enchautegui's hand proved he was shot at close range, a city coroner testified yesterday at the trial of the cop's accused killer. Deputy...
PATERSON PLEA TO FEDS: RE$CUE US!
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson grimly declared yesterday that New York faces a historically unprecedented four-year, $47 billion budget deficit, $20 billion higher than projected just three months ago - and...
ROCKY WIDOW IN 'TITLE' BOUT
Rocky Graziano's widow wants to KO her "little creep" of a grandson for planning to auction the former world middleweight boxing champ's title belt, which she says belongs to her....
MYSTERY OF MISSING GAL
A Long Island teacher has mysteriously vanished - and, in a bizarre twist, her dad spotted her abandoned car along the side of a highway as he drove a school...
SERBS FINALLY ARREST SUNY THUG
The hulking Serbian hoopster who fled the United States after leaving a fellow student in a coma during an upstate bar brawl was arrested in his native country yesterday. American...
RICH GET RICHER IN LUCKY $CRATCH
If the first winner of the "$1 million a year for life" scratch-off game seemed less than ecstatic yesterday, it's because he wasn't exactly struggling to scratch out a living....
TWO W HOTELS GO ON MARKET
THE W New York Tuscany at 120 E. 39th St. and the W New York Court at 130 E. 39th St., which sit on the same block between Park and...
WAL-MART HAMMERS APPLE'S ITUNES
Wal-Mart is lowering the bar in an escalating pricing battle in digital music. The retail giant unwrapped an updated version of its digital music store at walmart.com yesterday, offering its...
GOOGLE, AUTHORS WIN
Google is coughing up $125 million to US authors and publishers for the right to include excerpts from over 4 million out-of-print books in its online search results. The pact...
BANKS BALK AT BLACK'S $6B BUYOUT
Fund boss Leon Black has won the latest round in his bitter $6.5 billion buyout feud with the father-and-son team controlling a chemical company that Black would rather wash down...
ACKMAN'S REAL ESTATE 'TARGET'
Shareholder activist Bill Ackman is prodding cheap chic retailer Target to boost its shares by tinkering with the ownership structure of its real estate. Ackman - who earlier this year...
VW BUGS MARKETS
A huge short squeeze, which briefly pushed German automaker Volkswagen to be the largest corporation in the world yesterday, will likely exacerbate losses already plaguing the hedge-fund industry. Even traders...
IT'S A GLOBAL BINGE
Traders launched a global rally yesterday to help lift flattened portfolios off the ground and ignite investor spirits again - just in time for Wall Street's hallowed October effect. Markets...
AD BIGS SEE DOWNTURN, LAYOFFS INTO 2009
Ad chiefs are taking a dim view of the fourth quarter and beyond and are bracing for cutbacks, including more layoffs. Three agency holding companies - Interpublic, Britain's Aegis and...
ANN'S TIME FOR A CHANGE
LIKE a storm moving up the coast, the downsizing at Time Inc. that began last week in Birmingham, Ala., is about to hit New York. While the precise number of...
HEDGER PAULSON BETTING ON OIL, NATURAL GAS
Hedge fund superstar John Paulson seems to be building his stake in beaten-down energy companies. Paulson's firm raised its position in Cheniere Energy, which develops liquefied natural gas terminals, by...
SARAH STOOD TALL
Gov. Sarah Palin got it right yesterday: Monday was "a sad day for Alaska when he was found guilty of seven felonies," she said of Sen. Ted Stevens - her...
FAIR WARNING
Is Joe Biden the foot-in-mouth candidate - or is he the Obama campaign's designated teller of inconvenient truths? First, the Democratic veep hopeful declared that America's enemies will generate "an...
A $47 BILLION GAP
Maybe the bombshell Gov. Paterson dropped yesterday will finally get New York lawmakers to wake up: The state, Paterson said, is facing an "unprecedented" $47 billion four-year budget shortfall. That's...
'DUMB' GAL IS ONE SLICK $TICKHANDLER ON THE STAND
WHY are pretty women so cotton-pickin' dumb? Or are they? Carol Alt sailed into the courtroom - tall and willowy at 47, she came here to fight her ex-husband, former...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Does a frozen chicken qualify as a deadly weapon? It does in Michigan, where a man who stabbed his mother with a fork also pleaded guilty to felonious assault for...
THE SECRET SCHOOL
Written by Avi Illustrated by Brian Floca STORY SO FAR: When the one-room schoolhouse teacher suddenly resigns, the children decide to secretly continue school, with Ida, who is fourteen, as...
'SNL' OVERHAUL
THE irreplaceable Amy Poehler will not be replaced on "Saturday Night Live." Seth Meyers, who co-anchors the show's centerpiece feature - "Weekend Update" - will be anchoring alone, at least...
NEW 'MELROSE' RE-DO NEXT
FIRST "90210" - and now "Melrose Place." The CW is "exploring developing" a revised version of "Melrose Place," the popular Fox series that aired from 1992-1999, according to sources. The...
JULIANNE HAD TO SEE DOC
'DANCING With the Stars" hoofer Ju lianne Hough said yesterday that she will likely be off the show for two weeks after undergoing abdominal surgery this week. Hough was diagnosed...
BAD 'IDOL'
WHAT would Amy Winehouse do if she were a contestant on "American Idol?" How would Janis Joplin have behaved if she had been on "America's Got Talent?" What if Courtney...
STARR REPORT
D.L.'s big 'News'D.L. Hughley's new CNN show got off to a solid start last Saturday night. "D.L. Hughley Breaks The News" averaged nearly 1.5 million viewers, a 72 percent timeslot...
THE KIDS ARE STILL ALL RIGHT
'TIS the season when mature women inject a bit of whimsy into their lives with the help of cheap, sexy Halloween costumes. At Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, however, a...
NO 'DOUBT' OF SUCCESS
JOHN Patrick Shanley may take a few hits today from critics for his musical "Romantic Poetry" [see review below], but when the movie version of his Tony- winning play "Doubt"...
NO LOVE LOST ON 'POETRY' WITH NO RHYME, REASON
THERE'S little chance of being moonstruck by "Romantic Poetry," the new musical collaboration between John Patrick Shanley and composer Henry Krieger ("Dreamgirls"). This leaden attempt at whimsicality tries without success...
SPECIAL DELIVERY
FORGET fine china. These days, cardboard containers are in. The ups and downs of a volatile stock market are causing some New Yorkers to lose their appetite for fancy restaurants...
A FERRY GOOD SLICE
STATEN Island and Waco, Texas, have more in common than you might think - and no, it's not guys with guns. "You have the same image problem we have," says...
TABLE FOR WHO?
PRIX-FIXE menus starting at $76 in TriBeCa. Entrees up to $75 in the Plaza Hotel. A rarefied French-Asian menu behind a scaffold on Broad Street. Is this what terrified New...
JETS TAKE SCHOTTS AT GAME PLAN
THE Jets locker room is generally a pretty harmonious place. Considering the influx of new talent brought in during the offseason, there's a pretty good chemistry beginning to develop. WHAT'S...
KIDS' NIGHT FOR DEVILS
The Devils need their latest call-ups to be more than awestruck visitors. They need them to help prevent their first minor losing streak of the season from turning into something...
MOOSE DECISION MAY COME SOON
PHILADELPHIA - Arn Tellem will travel to Montoursville, Pa., shortly to find out what Mike Mussina's future holds. "I am going to see him at the end of the week,"...
OSI: I COULD'VE RETURNED
It's scary to imagine what the Giants defense would look like if Osi Umenyiora didn't tear the lateral meniscus in his left knee against the Jets on Aug. 24. Through...
GIANTS HAVE TO BURY BROKEN 'BOYS
NO Eli Manning. No Corey Webster, Aaron Ross or Kevin Dockery at cornerback. No James Butler at safety. No Derrick Ward running the ball. No Rich Seubert blocking at guard....
RANGERS IN 'DUBI'-OUS $ITUATION
You can't necessarily put a price on education. Yet that's just what the Rangers are going to have to do sometime between now and June 30 in order to prevent...
HONDO'S WAITING GAME
Hondo, who scored with the Titans Monday night to widen the wad to 345 buckners, had the wait of the World Series on his shoulders last night. Tonight, Mr. Aitch...
PHILLIES HAVE THE UPPER HAND
PHILADELPHIA - The Phillies are still in control of this weather-ravaged 104th World Series that has been held hostage since late Monday night.When - or if - Game 5 resumes...
NEVER MIND SCORE: VEGAS SAYS PHILS WON
RAY It Ain't So!!!! That was the anguished scream of World Series Game 5 Tampa Bay bettors who thought they'd gotten a reprieve when the Rays tied the game in...
RAIN GIVING SERIES JUICE
PHILADELPHIA - There were moments on Monday night - rain and wind making the conditions biting at Citizens Bank Park - that I expected to look outside the dugout and...
TERGAT ROLLS AGAIN
Mentally drained and physically exhausted, former marathon world record holder Paul Tergat stepped away from running for the first time in 15 years. He went weeks without so much as...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Halos re-up Guerrero, Lackey The Angels will exercise 2009 options on outfielder Vladimir Guerrero and pitcher John Lackey, but will decline their option on outfielder Garret Anderson.NFL: Chargers fire...
PHILS HOPE TO MAKE BIG SPLASH TONIGHT
PHILADELPHIA - What a mess! Major League Baseball will try again tonight to finish Game 5 of the World Series and perhaps finish the series itself with a hoped-for 8:37...
RUN-AND-GUN KNICKS OPEN TONIGHT VS. HEAT
The Mike D'Antoni Show begins tonight at the Garden vs. the Heat, with the Knicks new head coach promising a good show, but not necessarily victory. Expectations are so low...
CURRY FURY: DROPPED FROM ROTATION
Eddy Curry ripped Mike D'Antoni yesterday for not telling him he was out of the rotation for tonight's season opener vs. the Heat. Curry was informed by the media that...
D'ANTONI BRINGS HOPE
THE first time, the first taste, was March 1967, a few months before Mike D'Antoni's 16th birthday. Walt Frazier would introduce himself to the Garden and to the world that...
LEAN TIMES MAY LOOM FOR CARTER AND THE KIDS
This has all the makings of your basic sitcom: "Carter and the Kids." Tune in this season for zany, madcap escapades as All-Star guard Vince Carter, aided by some kindly...
BOONE FEELS LIKE A NETS OLD-TIMER
WASHINGTON - It is weird, Josh Boone admits. He officially enters his third NBA season tonight when the Nets open the season here with the Wizards. He is a veteran...
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A MELTING ECONOMY
showvideo("NY%20Post","1458_412885"); In downtown Manhattan, two artists, Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano sculpted the word "ECONOMY" from a block of ice to symbolize the economic downfall. The 1500 lbs. of ice...
BIDEN'S FUZZY TAX MATH
Gaffe-prone Joe Biden put his foot in his mouth again today, mistakenly excluding millions of Americans from his running mate's tax-cut proposal. The Delaware senator's latest blunder came while discussing...