November 3, 2008
No word from Devils on Brodeur
By MARK EVERSONDevils GM Lou Lamoriello today would not declare whether Martin Brodeur's injury is major or minor."I couldn't answer that right now," Lamoriello said before Brodeur's streak of starting...
Deal of the Day-Kaoru
Delicate rings will never go out of style, and it's always great to have an intricate but tiny one on hand. This Silver Stardust Cluster Ring from Kaoru is the...
SCHILLING: MCCAIN'S LIKE MY RED SOX
Campaigning with John McCain this weekend, Curt Schilling compared the big-spending Barack Obama team to the Yankees and reportedly said the Democratic Presidential candidate was more like Derek Jeter than...
FABER TOO BUSY TO VOTE
Urijah Faber won't be able to vote Tuesday because he's getting ready to defend his WEC Featherweight championship against Mike Brown Wednesday on VERSUS. By GEORGE WILLISUrijah Faber isn't one...
Decision day nearing for Tyree
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants in the coming days have what is sure to be a difficult decision regarding David Tyree, their Super Bowl hero.By 4 p.m. Wednesday, the Giants must...
JETER GETS NO GLOVE FROM SURVEY
Time to give back those Gold Gloves, Derek. Derek Jeter's defensive ability took another hit on Bill James' Fielding Bible Web site, where a panel voted him 22nd among major...
Shaq and Amare...and Robin
By FRED KERBERShaquille O'Neal and Amare Stoudemire. Just your typical 13 feet, 11 inches and 575 pounds (listed) of center and power forward fun.Aren't Josh Boone, Brook Lopez, Yi Jianlian...
Elect to be Stylish and Frock the Vote
IT'S a historic fashion moment. Exercise your right - to look good at the polling station.By all means wave the flag, from your frocks to your socks. But remember that...
Pulse Sales-11/03
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FX TO SHOOT COP SHOW IN 'STATEN ISLAND'
New York's forgotten borough is getting its moment in the sun. FX is developing "Staten Island," a new cop show created by Lawrence O'Donnell, who wrote for and produced "The...
Four Minutes in 'Love'
Chalk it up to the never-ending writer's strike coupled with bad timing, but we can barely remember the last time we watched "Big Love" on the little screen.When HBO's favorite...
Cameron stays with Brewers
MLB.com reports Mike Cameron will be back in center field for the Brewers next season.The Web site says, "Facing a Monday deadline for their decision, the Brewers exercised a $10...
Ax Falls on 'Heroes' Writers
NBC has fingered two high-profile producer-writers as the villains behind the fall of "Heroes."Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander, two of the show's most instrumental writer/producers, have been dropped from the...
Celebrity Encounters of the Coffee Kind
Recent grad Tyler Flowers writes about his first year in the television business.When I say I work in television in New York, it sparks people's interests.They wonder if I actually...
TOP EXECUTIVE BOLTS FROM TROUBLED AMI
American Media President and Chief Operating Officer John Miller resigned suddenly late last week, the latest sign of turmoil to hit the embattled company that publishes the National Enquirer, Star...
NUGGETS TRADE IVERSON TO PISTONS
After months of trying to move Allen Iverson, the Nuggets have found a new home for the 33-year-old they acquired 1 ½ seasons ago from the 76ers, agreeing to trade...
UPDATE: Payback time
Okay. This is what you call a happy place for those of us who miss travel to the United Kingdom, on account of refusing to pay double for everything.Not seeing...
JUDGE DISMISSES OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE CHALLENGE
HARTFORD, Conn. - A Connecticut judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday that alleged election fraud and questioned whether Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was qualified to appear on the ballot for...
TEEN PREGNANCY TIED TO SEXY TV WATCHING
CHICAGO - Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behavior compared with those who have tamer...
Serie A: AC Milan Shoots Into First Place
AC Milan took first place in the Serie A standings on Sunday night following a 1-0 win at home over Napoli.The game -- arguable the most riveting and hard-fought of...
ELECTING A PRESIDENT - YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE VOTE
IN the 1972 presidential election between Richard Nixon and George McGovern, 52% of people 18 to 24 voted, compared to 68% of older citizens. But 28 years later, in 2000,...
OBAMA REFUSES TO BE PRESS-URED
Barack Obama will finally face reporters in a formal press conference - after the election, the candidate revealed. "I will - on Wednesday," Obama shot back when asked when he...
MAC BACKER THINKS COM-PARIS-ON FITS OBAMA TO A T
Steve Duprey, a top New Hampshire backer of John McCain, yesterday distributed T-shirts suggesting that Barack Obama is more of an airhead than Paris Hilton. "Barack Obama. Paris Hilton. At...
FEDS LOOK FOR AUNT KIN-SPIRACY
The feds launched a probe yesterday into whether laws were broken by the potentially damaging 11th-hour leak about Barack Obama's illegal-alien aunt. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked the agency's inspector...
MCCAIN HAS THE BATTLEGROUND BLUES
New surveys in battleground states - including such longtime GOP safe havens as North Carolina - show Barack Obama either ahead of John McCain or keeping several places in toss-up...
IT WON'T BE 'BLUE' HEAVEN: CHUCK
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are not likely to win enough seats tomorrow to hold a filibuster-busting majority next year, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday. "The bottom line is: I think...
BARACK BORN TO RUN AWAY WITH IT
Barack Obama did a duet with The Boss in Ohio yesterday, appearing with Bruce Springsteen at a massive rally as a crush of new polls pointed toward a victory tomorrow...
WEIRD BUT TRUE ON THE TRAIL
You are twice as likely to be hit by lightning as to have your vote swing a state that would tip the balance in the Electoral College. The odds of...
DEMS SET TO SNAG STATE SENATE: POLL
The struggle for the Republican-controlled state Senate took a dramatic turn yesterday, as a poll suggested that the Democrats were on the verge of winning a slim majority. Most striking,...
WRIGHT & HILL IN GOPERS' 1-2 PUNCH
Republicans unloaded both barrels on Barack Obama yesterday, launching a phone-call blitz with a recording of Hillary Rodham Clinton blasting her fellow Dem while praising John McCain, and airing a...
WHERE TO WATCH THE ELECTION TOMORROW NIGHT
Big-screen TVs hanging over the bar. Raucous crowds. Beer by the buckets. "Monday Night Football" at your favorite neighborhood tavern? Try Election Night Madness all over the city. Not since...
CHARLIE GIVES SELF 'TOP' BILLING OVER O
Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel has his own running mate. His name is Barack Obama. At least that's the way it looks uptown, where campaign posters show Rangel's name above the...
MCCAIN TAKES BLAME - BUT BAM'S MORE AT FAULT
* Rich Lowry is correct: John McCain has no one to blame for his problems but himself - but do you hear him blaming someone else ("His Own Mess," PostOpinion,...
AMERICA'S BURDEN
WE'RE condemned to lead. No matter which presidential candidate we choose tomorrow, his decisions to act or not to act will determine not only the safety of our country but...
THE RIGHT MODEL FOR FREE MARKETS
WE learned something important in the past year or so. There is more to a political campaign than "It's the economy, stupid." That is not to say that the economy...
STEALING AN ELECTION?
WHETHER or not Barack Obama wins election tomorrow, his campaign has exposed some gaping weaknesses in the electoral process - and some even more serious problems with today's mass media....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 550; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 3784; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 484; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
'HS MUSICAL' GETS AN A
"High School Musical 3: Senior Year" held on to the No. 1 slot at the box office over the weekend, but with a relatively modest $15 million take. Although that...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN * A thief was arrested after he broke into the basement office of a Park Slope bar, police said. A worker at Dram Shop Bar on Ninth Street near...
TAX-CHEAT GOV AIDE'S SUGAR-DADDY PAYOUT
At the same time he was too "depressed" to pay his taxes, Charles O'Byrne, the disgraced former top aide to Gov. Paterson, was able to bankroll his younger boyfriend's grad-school...
A 'PLAYER' PRAYER AT CHURCH OF REV. ELVIS
The Queens church where a randy reverend stands accused of carrying on a torrid seven-month love affair with a parishioner will hold a special prayer service Wednesday to help heal...
HE'S A JET-'DEBTOR'
The mortgage broker who shelled out $400,000 for the two best seats at the Jets' new stadium has been sacked with a lawsuit by an ex-pal who says the man...
FATHER FINEST
A former cop is preparing to go from hearing the confessions of criminals to the confessions of everyday sinners - as a Catholic priest. Nicholas Fernandez, 25, traded in his...
IMMIGRANT JAIL SURGE
Nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants and legal residents with green cards who ran afoul of the law in the New York area were detained by US immigration last year - a...
POLO FOR DUMBOS
And you thought keeping your balance on the A train was tricky. Try whacking a yellow ball from the rooftop of a careening SUV - and then imagine it from...
HUNDREDS BID LEAH FAREWELL
Hundreds packed a Long Island funeral home yesterday to say goodbye to Leah Walsh, the teacher strangled to death, allegedly by her husband. "This is the ultimate pain a family...
'BANDIT' COP'S BOAST: BANK HEISTS ARE EASY
An NYPD hero cop accused of turning robber boasted of how easy it was to rob banks during a cable-TV interview recorded a month before he was busted for allegedly...
TEEN VALET KILLED IN B'KLYN GEAR-SHIFT TRAGEDY
A College of Staten Island freshman and part-time valet at a Brooklyn oyster bar was crushed to death Saturday by a minivan he was parking, witnesses and police said. Mousa...
FAITH GOES WIRELESS
Tech-savvy Orthodox Jews can now reach out for the handset of God. Two entrepreneurs who attended Yeshiva University have written software that turns the BlackBerry from a device to check...
BRAVEST RUNS AMAZING RACE
A firefighter who miraculously cheated death three years ago completed his triumphant comeback yesterday by running all 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon. Matthew Long crossed the finish...
BRITAIN'S BLINDNESS
Great Britain may be facing a terror threat even more perilous than Amer ica's - but you wouldn't know it from the deep thoughts coming from the UK's counterterrorism "experts."...
BATTERED MORGAN STANLEY DEEP-SIXES ITS HOLIDAY PARTY PLANS
The party on Wall Street is over, and the holidays aren't going to change that. Banking company Morgan Stanley - having weathered a financial crisis that crippled profits and took...
REAL CLOTHES CALL
Call it a gift of the garb: thanks to the soft economy, plenty of clothing bargains are in the offing at department stores this fall. And for the lowdown on...
LET 'EM EAT CAKE
The honeymoon that followed the Vegas-style marriage of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America appears to be over. According to people familiar with the matter, a culture clash between the...
PENSION FUNDS BUCK BUYOUT BIGS
Private-equity firms - already under pressure from a drop in the financing needed to do deals - are now facing resistance from another key funding source: pension funds. With both...
AT STAKE TOMORROW
Americans go to the polls tomorrow for what will be their most critical presidential choice in a generation. Not since 1980 has the contrast between the candidates been so stark...
DEM BIDS TO DUMP MALCOLM
BRONX state Sen. Jeff Klein has launched a behind-the-scenes challenge to Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith of Queens, in hopes of becoming majority leader if Democrats win control of the...
PINCHING PENNIES BEFORE O'S COMING CLA$$ WAR
SOME of us are not celebrating. We're taking a drink - while we can still afford it. As America prepares to usher in a smooth, inexperienced Barack Obama as president,...
HILLARY CAN KISS HER W. HOUSE HOPES GOODBYE
PHILADELPHIA - Hillary Rodham Clinton is on her way to becoming the biggest loser of this election. If he wins tomorrow, Barack Obama will certainly be his party's standard-bearer in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Connecticut woman could inherit $1.2 million from her dead husband's estate - even though she killed James Langley by dousing him with gasoline and setting him on fire. Mary...
TORT STORIES
A successful lawsuit can restore a woman's reputation and make a wronged man whole. But other suits seem designed to do nothing but publicly humiliate the clowns that file them,...
GO TO GREG
This is not your typical how-to-dress-for success question. I'm a professional recently laid off from the financial sector, where a premium was placed on how well one dressed. My attire...
ROUGH JUSTICE
TO complain to HR about a sex-crazed supervisor is human. To sue the company that won't do a thing about Boss Perv is divine. Or so many employees think. But...
SHOULD YOU SUE?
Thinking about suing your employer? Potential plaintiffs can spare themselves a boatload of misery if they understand which circumstances may justify legal action. Discrimination based on race, gender, age, religion,...
MIRÓ, MIRÓ ON THE WALL . . .
BACK when he was still finding himself, the great Spanish painter Joan Miró liked to make "ob jects." Looking at one of them - a crude wooden box with a...
STARR REPORT
Big day for "iCarly" fans on Wednesday, when series star Miranda Cosgrove reads to kids at The Scholastic Store (557 Broadway between Prince and Spring) from 4 to 5 p.m....
JUMPIN' JACK
JACK Bauer sustains the usual bumps and bruises in the long-awaited two-hour "24" movie on Fox, but it's the United Nations that really takes it on the chin. The producers...
HUDSON FIANCÉ HITTING THE MAT
THE fiancé of "American Idol" singer Jennifer Hudson has been signed to fight for the WWE. David "Punk" Otunga - who came to prominence as a contestant on the VH1...
'KISSEL' AND TELL
LIFETIME is my new BFF. Yes, it's true that I had turned against them faster than Paris Hilton turned on Britney. But now I love them again. Why, you may...
FROCK THE VOTE
IT'S a historic fashion moment. Exercise your right - to look good at the polling station. By all means wave the flag, from your frocks to your socks. But remember...
A BLEAK JOURNEY INTO UNFORGETTABLE CHAOS
I can guarantee two things about "Blasted," the literally explosive play by Sarah Kane. The first is that you'll be utterly repulsed by what you see - the other is...
PLAYOFFS IN SIGHT AT HALFWAY MARK
ORCHARD PARK - This was exactly what you've been waiting for, Jets fans: A signature, statement victory over a division opponent with a winning record in the their house. There...
MANGINI'S GUYS PUT IT ALL TOGETHER - AT LAST
ORCHARD PARK - The crowd of 70,000-plus at Ralph Wilson Stadium was on its feet in delirious celebration after watching Bills cornerback Jabari Greer return a Brett Favre interception 42...
JETS GET HELPFUL HINTS WATCHING FILM
ORCHARD PARK - All three turnovers the Jets forced yesterday were the result of film study during the week and tendencies to which the Jets coaching staff alerted players. On...
JENKINS KEEPING HIS NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE
ORCHARD PARK - The mere mention of Kris Jenkins' name after yesterday's stirring 26-17 Jets win over the Bills elicited this response from linebacker Calvin Pace: "That's our MVP, man."...
'EDISON' RUNS OFF WITH NASHUA
After a couple of hard-luck runs breaking from the one hole in the Hopeful (fourth) and Champagne (eighth), Break Water Edison, a strapping 2-year-old son of Lemon Drop Kid, finally...
FEAR MARTY MIGHT MISS MAJOR TIME
The Martin Brodeur Mystery grew more ominous yesterday, after the Devils' franchise player compared symptoms with those of his replacement, who required summertime surgery. Jumping to any conclusions about Brodeur's...
NOT EVEN A FAIR FIGHT
THIS is the way bullies do it when the guy on the other side is a 98-pound weakling. This is the way bullies do it when a cowboy shows up...
GIANT LAUGHER PUTS DALLAS IN NFC EAST CELLAR
There was no mistaking what the Giants saw when they looked at this particular version of the Cowboys. "There was blood in the water," linebacker Danny Clark said. No doubt,...
WEBSTER'S PICKS SEND JOHNSON TO THE BENCH
Corey Webster may never outdo his interception of Brett Favre last January, but the Giants cornerback added to his highlight reel yesterday. Webster had the first two-interception game of his...
'BOYS NOW FAR FROM FAVORITES
The upside for Cowboys fans is they probably won't have to watch Tony Romo make another postseason blunder this year. At this rate, it looks as if Dallas will be...
MANNING, BURRESS GET THEIR SIGNALS CROSSED
A rare and glaring botched play by Eli Manning and Plaxico Burress turned into a touchdown for the Cowboys, who nevertheless were routed by the Giants, 35-14. Manning, leading 14-0...
NO RICK, BUT ISLES FIGHT ON ?
After his team fell apart in the third period of Saturday night's loss, Islanders head coach Scott Gordon said that he hadn't really thought about being without Rick DiPietro for...
MEMO TO RENNEY: STOP WASTING GOMEZ
THE 5-2 Ranger loss in Toronto on Saturday - in which the Maple Leafs scored four times on five shots within 3:30 and five times on seven shots within a...
RADCLIFFE IN A BREEZE; GOMES NEEDS LATE PUSH
Paula Radcliffe led the women's field in yesterday's New York City Marathon from the start at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, while Marilson Gomes dos Santos took his lead near the finish...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Palmer wins on 18Ryan Palmer won the Ginn sur Mer Classic in Palm Coast, Fla., making a 10-foot birdie on the 18th hole yesterday to break out of a...
GOUMRI'S KICK IS 'SECOND' TO ONE
MARILSON Gomes Dos Santos went by Abderrahim Goumri so fast on Central Park South, the Moroccan came out lucky to get a second place medal and not a ticket for...
FOX PROMOS PRE-EMPT TITAN-IC FINISH
WE know, we know, it's only early 21st century. Still, isn't there a way that Fox could sacrifice just one network promo to show 15 more seconds of live football?...
GOUCHER IS 'QUEEN' FOR A DAY
As Queens-born Kara Goucher high-fived the crowd after the New York City Marathon, signed autographs after her dazzling third-place 2:25.43 marathon debut, she finally allowed herself to break down. The...
RED RAIDERS 'TOP' CURTIS
Port Richmond held off Curtis yesterday, completing its undefeated regular season and assuring the Red Raiders of the top spot in the PSAL football playoffs, which begin next week. Port...
KNICKS OUTCLASSED BY BUCKS
If this is the "new direction" Mike D'Antoni is taking with his starting backcourt, it's time to warm the seat in Secaucus for May's lottery. In a second straight pitiful...
WALSH READY TO TALK WITH STEPH
The end of the Stephon Marbury Era may come as soon as today when Knicks president Donnie Walsh and Marbury are expected to meet in what could turn into an...
ALABAMA, TEX. TECH LEAD BCS
One week after saying the BCS's arguments against a college football playoff were bogus, Joe Paterno's worst fears were realized yesterday when Texas Tech leapfrogged the Nittany Lions in the...
Q&A: TRACY MORGAN
Stadtmiller: What are you doing right now? Morgan: Just watching TV. Stadtmiller: You're just calling from home? Morgan: Yeah, I'm at home. I'm just channel surfing. Stadtmiller: I wanted to...
Q&A: JOEL MCHALE
Stadtmiller: I was just watching a clip of you on YouTube from when you were younger. McHale: What was I doing? Stadtmiller: You were making jokes about Al Gore being...
Q&A: LOUIS C.K.
Stadtmiller: I watched "Chewed Up" last night, and it was hilarious. Just like the set you did last year at Town Hall. So, you're not doing any of that material...
Are you kidding me?
By MARC BERMANAs I wrote in my game story tonight, if this is the "new direction'' Mike D'Antoni has for the Knicks starting backcourt, it's time to begin analyzing candidates...
GIANTS: BETWEEN THE HASHMARKS
TURNING POINT The Cowboys had trimmed a 14-0 Giants lead to 14-7 and it appeared this would be similar to so many of the close games these rivals have played...
MCCAIN TRAILS BATTLEGROUND STATES
New surveys in battleground states - including longtime GOP safe havens such as North Carolina - show Barack Obama either ahead of rival John McCain or keeping several places in...
JETS: BETWEEN THE HASHMARKS
TURNING POINT Abram Elam's 92-yard interception return for a touchdown on the final play of the first quarter gave the Jets a 13-7 lead that they would not relinquish.QUOTE OF...