November 29, 2008
Josh Goes Home, Eduardo Stays Home
November 29, 2008 | 7:29pmBy FRED KERBERSALT LAKE CITY -- Scratch Josh Boone from the trip. Nets sent him home and he'll get an MRI on his left ankle Monday.And the hope was that...
NEW YORK ON THE BLOCK
November 29, 2008 | 7:01pmThe pause in New York City's building boom may have one side benefit: It gives everyone a chance to think. As projects skid to a halt and buildings get stopped...
Box Office: 'Four Christmases' Leads Turkey Weekend
November 29, 2008 | 5:30pm"Four Christmases'' sold an estimated $13 million worth of tickets on Friday and should finish the five-day Thanksgiving weekend with between $45-48 million, forecasts Gitesh Pandya at Box Office Guru....
Williams Stays Busy Vs. Phillips
November 29, 2008 | 3:09pmWelterweight champion Paul Williams moves up a weight class Saturday night against Verno Phillips. By GEORGE WILLISTwo-time WBO welterweight champion Paul Williams moves up one weight class when he faces...
Walsh to set record straight
November 29, 2008 | 2:12pmBy MARC BERMANDonnie Walsh will address the media tonight before the Golden State game and finally riff on Stephon Marbury. Before yesterday's statement, he had not commented on Marbury since...
CRAWFORD: BRASS BLEW IT BY KEEPING STEPH AROUND
November 29, 2008 | 9:04amJamal Crawford, who makes his Garden return tonight as a Warrior, said Knicks brass should have rid themselves of Stephon Marbury before training camp began. "Honestly, everybody there thought it...
FINE, SUSPENSION PRECURSOR TO FINAL MAR-BURIAL
November 29, 2008 | 9:03amDonnie Walsh battered Stephon Marbury yesterday with a one-game suspension and $400,000 worth of fines, and Monday the Knicks president is planning to send the lightning-rod point guard packing for...
OKLAHOMA WILL SHOOT DOWN COWBOYS
November 29, 2008 | 8:59amOklahoma at Oklahoma State 8:05 p.m., ABC LINE: Oklahoma -71⁄2 - O/U: 75 ANGLE: The Sooners need to make one more statement in the wake of their 65-21 win over...
VEGAS NOT SOLD ON JETS DESPITE UPSET
November 29, 2008 | 8:55amHERE'S a look at how the ever-changing NFL spreads are faring so far this week, according to our favorite Vegas insiders: BRONCOS-JETS The Bretts are -71⁄2, with a few lines...
TRENDSETTERS
November 29, 2008 | 8:53amPATRIOTS (-1) VS. STEELERS (4:15) New England has covered four of five in conference, six of eight after allowing more than 250 yards through the air the week before (330)...
HILBERT NEVER DOUBTED GORDON
November 29, 2008 | 8:48amBecause the Islanders started off the season winners of just two of their first 10 games, during which they went through a six-game losing streak, it would be understandable if...
BC TROPHY CASE FULL THANKS TO DEVS PAIR
November 29, 2008 | 8:47amThey have the pictures to prove it. Boy, do they have the pictures. It's quite a set, among Scott Clemmensen's treasures, the photos of the 2001 Boston College hockey team's...
NOT MANY RANGERS MAKE IT BEHIND BENCH
November 29, 2008 | 8:46amSeeing Wayne Gretzky behind the Phoenix bench Monday night at the Garden served as a reminder of just how few former Rangers have graduated to the team's coaching staff, let...
D'ANTONI HAD TIM PICKINGS WHEN HE TURNED TO THOMAS
November 29, 2008 | 8:44amIt should read, Tim Thomas knows a little what Stephon Marbury is going through. Thanks. Thomas was in exile during most of the 2005-06 season - a situation that ultimately...
NETS HAVE VARIETY OF 'BACKUP' JOBS
November 29, 2008 | 8:43amThere are no astronauts, presidents, double-naught spies. But there is a policeman, a chef and a full-time student. Oh, and one basketball player competing outside the NBA. That's what some...
FORMER JASPER LIVING MICHIGAN DREAM
November 29, 2008 | 8:41amC.J. LEE paused, clearly fazed by his trip down memory lane. The senior point guard for the University of Michigan was asked about his transfer three years ago from Manhattan...
A LOOK AT WHO TO PLAY THIS WEEK, AND WHO TO SIT:
November 29, 2008 | 8:38amBIG WEEKS Ryan Grant RB, Packers Panthers run defense hasn't shown up since Week 9 bye, having yielded at least 130 yards three straight games, including four TDs last week...
PROSPECTING
November 29, 2008 | 8:35amYANKEES The final line on Phil Hughes in the Arizona Fall League, which concluded last Saturday: 3.00 ERA, 38 punchouts in 30 innings, .198 opponents' BA, and a fastball that...
AMAZIN' SURPRISE STAR TATIS BUILDS CHURCH
November 29, 2008 | 8:33amEarlier this week, Fernando Tatis walked into a church in his Dominican Republic hometown of San Pedro de Macoris and gave thanks. This was not just any church and not...
LAGGING HORSE BIZ STILL SETTING PACE
November 29, 2008 | 8:30amTHE racing business is about to wrap up 2008 with a daunting collection of negatives - falling attendances, betting declines, purse cuts, collapsing horse sale prices, a sharp drop in...
AFTER LEGAL SQUABBLE, DE LA HOYA SEEKING PACQUIAO PAYBACK
November 29, 2008 | 8:29amOSCAR De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank Inc., headed by Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum, supposedly ended their feud over Manny Pacquiao in the summer of...
PAPER-TIGER 'BANDIT' KEEPS 30 COPS AT BAY FOR AN HOUR
November 29, 2008 | 8:20amA group of cops in New Jersey looked like turkeys Thanksgiving night after an hourlong standoff at a bank with an armed "bandit" that turned out to be a life-size...
'GRAND' FDNY PAIN
November 29, 2008 | 8:20amA new, massive bike lane has clogged Grand Street so badly that firefighters are having trouble turning their rigs onto the road, downtown shopkeepers and residents told The Post. Eyewitnesses...
FIREHOUSE BLAZE HURTS 8 BRAVEST
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amEight FDNY firefighters were hurt, including five who were hospitalized, when a fast-moving blaze swept through their Harlem firehouse last night, officials said. Members of Engine Company 80 and Ladder...
LET THE TEACHERS TEACH
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amTHE ISSUE: The DOE's challenge to best fill positions vacated by excessed teachers. *** Why do you call the new financial incentives to place excessed teachers a "step back" ("The...
NO-PRONGED $TRATEGY SHOCKS CAFÉ'S LAPTOP USERS
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amCustomers at one Upper East Side café who want to juice up their laptops are really being squeezed. M. Rohrs' House of Fine Teas and Coffees on East 86th Street...
EX-COP SHOOTS BURGLAR
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amA retired cop on Staten Island yesterday shot a burglar who then ran over the former officer as he tried to make a getaway, police sources said. Carmine Longo, who...
KILLER TIDE AT SHOP OF HORROR
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amA rampaging mob of bargain hunters trampled a Long Island Wal-Mart employee to death early yesterday as he opened the store for the post-Thanksgiving sale - unleashing a stampede that...
B'KLYN RABBI A TERROR VICTIM
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amA beloved young Brooklyn rabbi and his wife were among four people with New York ties confirmed dead in the terror spree at a Mumbai Jewish center where hostages reportedly...
TERROR'S NEW FACE
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amTHE world confronted a new face of terror this week - operating with brand new tactics and a host of goals. Earlier this week, for example, Pakistan President Assif Ali...
MOTO-MURDERER GETS LIFE
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amThe ruthless "Honda Hit Man" got six life sentences yesterday, one for each of the men he shot dead from the back of one of his high-speed motorcycles. Fausto Gonzales,...
PAKISTAN LINK 'SHORE' THING
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amIndia directly pointed at Pakistan yesterday as the source of the Mumbai massacre, and media reports cited crucial evidence found in a satellite phone and GPS records on the terrorists'...
SCHUMER'S WINNING WAY
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amAs Sen. Chuck Schumer steps down as chairman of the Democrats' Senate campaign committee, Republicans must be thinking: Too bad he's not one of ours. Not because they like his...
GOTBAUM'S DATA DUMP
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amPublic Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, mean while, seems to believe in public- school accountability - on the cheap. Gotbaum asked the Independent Budget Office to find out how much the Department...
THOMPSON'S TAX PANDER
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amAs he prepares to enter his eighth year as New York's top fiscal watchdog, City Comptroller William Thompson by now certainly should know better. Actually, he does - which makes...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amQueens Cops nabbed a pair of Fresh Meadows car thieves red-handed, authorities said. Adolfo Rosario, 23, was allegedly sitting behind the wheel of a 1991 Honda, parked on 197th Street...
STOCKS WRAP NOV. ON HIGH
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amWall Street had plenty to be thankful for - stocks enjoyed their best week in 28 years. Buoyed by hopes of success for Uncle Sam's total $8.2 trillion economic-recovery plan,...
CASE MAKES COMPUTER USE A 'CRIME'
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amA YEAR ago, Jack Banas, prosecuting attorney for St. Charles County, Mo., said he would not bring charges against Lori Drew for her role in a MySpace prank that apparently...
INDIFFERENT TO TERRORISM? NOTHING'S NEW AT THE UN
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amTHE ISSUE: The threat that the United could become the target of a terrorist attack. *** Perhaps Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other UN bureaucrats should be called the turtles at...
GIFT WOE IN CARDS: CHUCK
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amGift-card buyers, beware - these popular presents can be the gift that keeps on taking. Early expiration dates and monthly fees unfairly drain many cards' value, Sen. Chuck Schumer warned...
PHELPS' BREAST STROKE
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amGuess who came to dinner? Michael Phelps arrived at his mom's Thanksgiving celebration with his new girlfriend - a tattooed strip-club waitress who has bared her chest for photographers almost...
FOREIGN SPENDING TO SLOW
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amCatherine Hester of England shopped up a storm at Macy's yesterday, but some experts say most retailers this year should not bank on overseas visitors giving them as big a...
NOT MUCH GREEN ON BLACK FRIDAY
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amThey came, they saw, but they barely bought. Deep discounts failed to impress scores of tightfisted shoppers yesterday who packed the aisles at New York City stores, but often spent...
BEHIND CITY'S 'BOX' $CORE
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amBefore they agreed to a deal for the $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium, city and team officials haggled for months over terms of a free luxury box granted to the city...
RAMPAGING CONTAGIOUS, SHRINKS SAY
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amStanding in line for hours surrounded by thousands of keyed-up competitors, all clamoring to get their hands on the same items, can turn even the best-intentioned individual into a Black...
MATA HARI MAMA'S STUNNING TRIAL RUSE
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amDesperate to prove her son innocent in a notorious murder, a Brooklyn mom set up an elaborate sting in which she took on the look of a sexy young California...
RUBIN DEFENDS HIS JOB AT CITI
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amUNDER fire for his role in the near-collapse of Citigroup, Robert Rubin said its problems were due to the buckling financial system, not its own mistakes, and that his role...
TOMMY DELISTS $50M PLAZA SUITE
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amTommy Hilfiger no longer has the priciest apartment listing at the Plaza. The fashion icon has just taken his $50 million duplex condo at the Manhattan hotel off the market...
VICTIM'S LIFE A STRUGGLE
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amStampede victim Jdimytai Damour was just one of millions of Americans who lost his job recently in this tough economy. The 34-year-old Queens man was working at the Wal-Mart at...
2 MACHINE-GUN THUGS FROM BRITAIN: PAPER
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amTwo of the terror thugs behind the Mumbai massacre are British-born Pakistanis, according to a published report. The men were among the eight seized by the commandos, the Telegraph newspaper...
LAINO'S HOPING FOR TITLE
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amWith time winding down in Fort Hamilton's PSAL semifinal game against Wagner last week, coach Vinny Laino called two plays - one running, the other passing - that would either...
'BAMA BIG FAVE DESPITE SIX STRAIGHT LOSSES TO AUBURN
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amTUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Like a wounded animal in the wild, there is nothing more dangerous in college football than the team that has nothing to lose in a rivalry game....
DEVS READY TO PUT WIN STREAK TO 'TEST'
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amPITTSBURGH - While savoring his career highlight, his first-ever four-game winning streak, and the Devils' five consecutive victories when they might have sunk from sight, Scott Clemmensen counsels caution. "Our...
JETS ARE FULL OF 'GUARD'-ED HOPE
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amBRETT Favre is the face of the Jets' turnaround only because every time he turns around, no longer is there an opponent in his face. "We're getting our rhythm," said...
GOING IS GETTING TOUGH FOR HARRIS
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amSALT LAKE CITY - Think of your typical weekend. Now think of how much you'd enjoy it if you had to swim the Hudson with a Buick engine strapped to...
CUTLER GIVES FAVRE 'EL'
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amBroncos quarterback Jay Cutler, considered by some the next Brett Favre, prepared himself for his showdown Sunday with the old Brett Favre, by taking on the question yesterday about whether...
TAYLOR HAD BIG BLUE BUDDIES
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amWhen the late Sean Taylor is honored before tomorrow's game at FedEx Field, the Redskins won't be the only team emotionally driven by his memory. Several Giants will be motivated...
HAMMY TO KEEP BURRESS OUT VS. 'SKINS
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amThe Giants will be without wide receiver Plaxico Burress in Washington tomorrow, according to a release issued yesterday by the team. Burress will be sidelined with a sore hamstring that...
BIG FT EDGE HELPS OU RALLY OVER PURDUE IN OT
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amBoth teams were sure they would prevail in the NIT Season Tip-Off championship game - but only Oklahoma was able to make good on that belief. Purdue held a nine-point...
SPORTS SHORTS
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amSPORTS SHORTSFOOTBALL: Tennessee hires Kiffin The University of Tennessee and Lane Kiffin have reached a tentative agreement with the former Raiders coach to lead the Volunteers, a person familiar with...
RANGERS WIN ANOTHER SHOOTOUT
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amSUNRISE, Fla. - There is no doubt that the Eastern Conference-leading Rangers have championship aspirations. To that end, Chris Drury has a bit of advice for his teammates in the...
SWEET (SEXY) CHARITY
November 29, 2008 | 5:12amWHAT'S that, you say? Your dating life's a desert and you've decided to focus instead on other things, like helping out people less fortunate than you? Nice excuse, but it...
WHAT'S UP?
November 29, 2008 | 5:10amTODAY BETWEEN THE LIONS: The New York Public Library's landmark Fifth Avenue building unveils its revamped Children's Center with a flurry of freebies: a "Birds of Prey" demo at 11:30...
FEST DRESSED
November 29, 2008 | 5:09amIT'S the most wonderful time of the year - again - and that means getting the kids all dolled up. But pretty party dresses and handsome holiday attire don't have...
MET PUTS ON ONE HELLUVA 'FAUST'
November 29, 2008 | 5:02amTECHNOLOGICAL wonders never cease filling the eye in the Metropolitan Op era's new production of "La Damnation de Faust," but Hector Berlioz's opera still manages to make itself heard. Did...
HEAD DETECTIVE
November 29, 2008 | 5:02amNOT to get you upset or anything, but according to MSNBC's new series, "Mindhunter," there are 30-50 serial killers active and "working" at any one time in the USA. Tomorrow...
ROSIE BOMB BLAST
November 29, 2008 | 5:02amROSIE O'Donnell's attempt to revive TV variety shows might have crashed and burned on opening night. Her widely publicized, one-hour special originating live from an off-Broadway theater Wednesday night not...