December 26, 2008
Week 17: End of the Year Awards
Most fantasy football leagues have come to an end, and regardless of how your team may have finished, there have been some surprises and busts that have contributed to the...
STATE COULD HIKE CUNY TUITION, PARE AID TO CITY SCHOOLS
Queens students and city education advocates denounced Gov. David Paterson's proposal to increase tuition at CUNY schools and cut about $660 million in education to the city in an attempt...
MONSERRATE HAS PRICKLY HISTORY IN BORO POLITICS
The counts against City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D−East Elmhurst) sent a shock wave through Queens this week, but the fiery domestic violence advocate has been a polarizing figure for the...
BORO BRACES FOR AUSTERITY PLAN AIMED AT MIDDLE CLASS
Gov. David Paterson's budgetary belt tightening is chafing Queens politicians, who warned that the austere budget proposal he unveiled last week to bridge a projected $13.7 billion deficit in the...
POLS WEIGH IN ON MONSERRATE
Following the arrest of state Sen.−elect Hiram Monserrate Friday, Democratic players in the borough said the East Elmhurst politician is an essential piece to delivering the Senate majority post to...
MONSERRATE ASSAULT ON CAMERA: SOURCES
Authorities have obtained video surveillance that allegedly shows embattled City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D−East Elmhurst) pulling his girlfriend's hair outside his apartment early Friday morning just hours before he was...
Ross out Sunday vs. Vikings
Tom Coughlin said today that CB Aaron Ross (concussion) and LB Gerris Wilkinson (knee) are out of Sunday's game against the Vikings.Of Ross, Coughlin said, "He is doing better, yeah....
Might as well start tonight
By FRED KERBERBroken record 101.The Nets stink at home. They start tonight as the seventh seed in the East with a most commendable 9-4 road record and a you-have-got-to-be-kidding 5-10...
O/U RICO
Rico got back to .500, going 11-5 (3-0 Best Bets) on the over/unders last week, to bring the season record to 117-117-6 (27-20-1). The selections for Week 17: OVER: Vikings...
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TIM SULLIVAN
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No more excuses
By MARC BERMANMike D'Antoni didn't have a real answer to my question at yesterday's practice. Was he satisfied with the 11-16 record considering everything the team has gone through?It sounded...
Oscar Watch: Kate, Leo Wading Into Choppy Waters
A month ago, I thought "Revolutionary Road'' looked like a sure thing for a Best Picture Oscar nomination, but it may just be too grim to resonate the academy in...
Box Office: Jen, Brad Make History, Snatch Christmas Crown From Adam
Maybe all those endless interviews that erstwhile lovers Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt did actually paid off on Christmas Day. Based on preliminary numbers, Steve Mason at Big Hollywood is...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A mosquito took a bite out of crime. Finnish cops have arrested a suspected car thief - after finding a sample of his DNA in a mosquito trapped inside a...
ST. JOHN'S DIVINE AGAIN
Their hearts leaping with holiday spirit, joyous congregants celebrated The Cathedral of St. John the Divine's return to glory yesterday at the fully restored church's first Christmas service since a...
'SUPER GIRL'S' BRAVE HEART
Even Santa couldn't top the gift doctors delivered to little Kaelin Jones this year. The 20-month-old girl got the most precious present of all - the gift of life -...
2002 FINALE GOOD HARBINGER FOR JETS
Brett Favre and Chad Pennington meet Sunday with the Jets' playoff lives hanging in the balance - again. Six years ago these two hooked up in the final week of...
PENN' CAN AUTHOR END OF MANGINI ERA
ATTENTION all of you Jets fans who want Eric Mangini cleaning out his office Monday morning. There's one thing you need to do this Sunday: Cheer for Chad. That's right....
HONDO HOPES FOR THE BEST & WORST
Hondo would like to use this space to express his three early New Year's wishes: 1) Peace on earth; 2) An end to world hunger; and 3) That Wimbish, Ms....
TITANS WILL TAKE DOWN COLTS
Including the 1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year record in print stands at 354-295 (54.5 percent) against the spread. SUNDAY Titans (-3) over COLTS: Line askew because Tony Dungy...
THE GANG'S OUTTA HERE
THE Dolphins' coaches, with their ever-evolving Wildcat offense, have proven bigger geniuses than the Mangenius himself. Chad Pennington, the passer the Jets passed on, has outshone Hall of Famer Brett...
JETS NEED WIN - AND HELP - TO DODGE DISASTER
If the Jets beat the Dolphins on Sunday and still don't make the playoffs, the Brett Favre experiment will be a failure. If Chad Pennington comes into the Meadowlands and...
BROTHERS IN ARMS
It's double trouble for the bad guys! Two Bronx brothers who served heroically in Iraq will graduate together from the same Police Academy class next week. Armando Guzman, 25, a...
'NAZI LOOT' BIDDER-NESS
Christie's dropped the hammer on a painting that had been looted by Nazis during their occupation of Paris, the furious buyer is claiming as she tries to unload the artwork....
TRASHIN' OUT OF FASHION IN NYC
The more people you have, the more garbage they produce - except, it seems, in New York City. In a mystery that has baffled even the city's veteran sanitation commissioner,...
SANTA MASSACRE
COVINA, Calif. - A gun-toting madman in a Santa suit barged into his ex-wife's Christmas Eve party and shot an 8-year-old girl in the face before spraying the house with...
KEEP IT CANNED
City residents with Thursday recycling pick-ups are being asked to cling to their recyclables for a bit longer. The two back-to-back Thursday holidays of Christmas and New Year's Day are...
GAZA ON THE BRINK
Israel is on the verge of a massive offensive in the Gaza Strip to end a wave of terrorist rocket attacks that began when a six-month truce ended last week....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Two thugs slashed a man to death yesterday in a Marble Hill housing project, police said. Donald Colbert, 37, and Dennis Bates, 33, allegedly slashed Pedro Torres' neck in...
RICH 'SCAM' LADY SHOWS REAL NERVE
The Upper West Side socialite charged in a $20 million charity scam says her nerves are so racked that she suffers "debilitating panic attacks" that completely immobilize her. Dina Wein-Reis...
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Just when we thought state Sen. Eric Adams was finally showing some common sense - and a little de cency - when it comes to the NYPD, he went and...
HONESTY WELL-REWARDED?
With all of the terrible news these days, it was refreshing to read about an honest 24-year-old man who did the right thing by returning the lottery ticket to the...
AN INTREPID IDEA: HIRE THE BEST QUALIFIED
Though I am not gay, my compliments to The Post for recommending that President-elect Barack Obama give openly gay Bill White "a close look" for secretary of the Navy because...
YOU HELPED HEROES
A YEAR ago this month, the Post ran a week-long series of columns on the courage and grit of our wounded troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their medical treatment was...
MIKE, GOV HAIL BUSH UNPARDON
Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson yesterday praised President Bush for revoking a pardon granted to crooked Brooklyn real-estate developer Isaac Toussie one day after it was granted. "I thought it...
BLOOMBERG FURIOUS OVER LILLO'S EXCUSES
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday ripped the excuses actor-turned-junkie Lillo Brancato used to persuade a Bronx jury to acquit him of murdering an off-duty cop. The mayor said society was hurt by...
CHRISTMAS MOURNING
A 7-year-old autistic girl who plunged from her fifth-floor window in The Bronx on Christmas Eve died from her injuries yesterday, police said. Chelsea Maldonado slipped out a bathroom window...
WHEN A BUSH TURNS INTO A FAMILY TREE
Here's a Texas-size photo of the Bush clan. It was President Bush's last Christmas at Camp David, and he gathered his extended family to mark the occasion. The president was...
NOW'S TIME TO $LASH & EARN
Desperate to avoid a Black-and-Blue Friday, retailers reeling from a horrible holiday shopping season have hacked cut-rate prices even deeper and thrown their doors open early today in a bid...
VICTIM: 'ROT WITH RATS,' BERNIE
Swindler Bernard Madoff is a "murderer" who deserves to "rot with the rats," says a fleeced investor who spent Christmas consoling the widow of the French aristocrat who committed suicide...
DRINKING WHILE AFGHANISTAN BURNS
'The Hun is always either at your throat or your feet," said Winston Churchill, famously, in 1943. These days, he's at the beer tent - at least in Afghanistan, and...
VIAGRA IS STIFF RESISTANCE TO TERROR
The CIA is taking a hard line against terrorism - bribing Afghan tribal chiefs with Viagra, it was reported yesterday. While the spy agency has a long history of buying...
BARACK ABS-TAINS FROM GYM
And on the 49th day, he rested. President-elect Barack Obama used yesterday's Christmas holiday to take a break from the morning-workout regimen he had been following for nearly seven weeks....
HORROR STRIKES HANUKKAH FEST
An out-of-control SUV turned a party into a horror show yesterday when it smashed through the window of a Long Island center hosting a "Chanukah Wonderland" festival, injuring more than...
IT COULD GET CONDé NASTY
Condé Nast Chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr. is slated to return from his extended annual European vacation next week and already insiders are growing nervous ahead of his "January surprise." The...
MORTGAGE THAW DOESN'T CHEER 'JUMBO' BUYERS
The good news is that mortgages are available at the cheapest rates in years - but not for the pricier dwellings on the market around here. An average 30-year, fixed-rate...
BLOCKING THE EXITS
The creativity that hedge-fund managers use when times get tough is being taken to another level as they seek innovative ways to block investors from withdrawing money from the funds....
MIKE & DAVE CHEER & FEAR
Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson separately delivered holiday cheer to the city's homeless yesterday, but Hizzoner also had somber economic news for a children's hospital. Bloomberg began at St. Mary's...
LMDC NOW SHEL'S OWN 'PORK FARM'
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has transformed the lower Manhattan rebuilding agency into his own multimillion-dollar piggy bank, critics charge. In the last two years, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. has...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
WE'RE TALKIN' TO YOU Film - All weekend! The Film Society of Lincoln Center has a holiday gift for New Yorkers: a six-day, 11-film Martin Scorsese retrospective. This weekend's offerings...
FILM
IFC CENTER: Wes Craven's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) screens at midnight today and tomorrow. 323 Sixth Ave.; 212-924-7771. FILM FORUM: In Max Fleischer's 1941 animated classic "Hoppity Goes...
DANCE
CITY CENTER: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates New Years Eve at 7 p.m. with a short film documenting this, its 50th anniversary season, followed by three original dance performances...
CABARET
FEINSTEIN'S: Michael Feinstein performs "The Sinatra Holiday Project" today and tomorrow at 8 and 10:45 p.m., and Monday and Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. He performs a New Year's Eve show...
CLASSICAL
AMATO OPERA HOUSE:Franz Lehar's "The Merry Widow" is performed tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m., and it's also the centerpiece of a New Year's Eve celebration Wednesday...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: Trumpeter Chris Botti leads his quintet through Sunday at 8 and 10:30 p.m., Monday at 10:30 p.m., Tuesday at 8 and 10:30 p.m., and Wednesday at 7 and...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
MATISYAHU: The Hasidic reggae artist celebrates Hanukkah with 8:30 p.m. shows tomorrow through Tuesday at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn; 718-486-5400. NEW YORK DOLLS: Though...
OFF-BROADWAY
"THE ATHEIST:" ** 1/2 Campbell Scott is compelling in this unconvincing solo drama about an unscrupulous journalist. Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow St.; 212-243-6262. "BACK BACK BACK": ** Disjointed play...
AUTOMATED REALITY TRYOUTS
VENDING machines are about to lend a mechanical hand to reality show casting directors. While soda, nachos, even iPods can be bought through vending machines, reality TV guru Mark Burnett...
MIDEAST MEMORY
HAUNTING is the best word for "Waltz With Bashir," a striking ani mated documentary - not an oxy moron, despite how it sounds - from Israel. In a sort of...
TOO MUCH 'COURAGE' SHOWN
JOHN Walter's documentary "Theater of War" goes backstage as Meryl Streep rehearses for the Public Theater's 2006 staging of Bertolt Brecht's antiwar play "Mother Courage and Her Children," as directed...
PREDICTING DIGITAL DISASTER
AS many as three million peo ple may decide next Febru ary that the switch from analog TV to digital isn't worth the trouble and will simply stop watching television,...
BOYS WILL BE GIRLS
WAIT till you see Victoria Parker onstage, shaking her booty in a short baby-blue dress. Just be aware that Victoria is really a guy named Victor Bowley (a k a...
'50S WAY TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
AFTER 11 years, those "Titanic" kids, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, are finally back together. And this time, they're both drowning - in three-martini despair - and doing the best...
DEMONS OF DOPE
GET ready to say "hey" to the bad, old '80s. What "Mad Men" did for the 1960s, HBO is hoping "Cocaine Cowboys" will do for the wild and wooly days...
DON'T GIMME NO FLIP
NEXT time a college student tells you they're "flipping" for MTV, believe 'em - it's true. MTV has distributed Flip video cameras to 100 college students nationwide, asking them to...
BROADWAY
"ALL MY SONS": ** 1/2: Arthur Miller's period piece is given a starry cast (John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, Katie Holmes) who were apparently told to shout their lungs...
TALK ABOUT YOUR STACKED DECKS
SO you tune to ESPN and there's one of those poker games. Looking for a rooting interest, you learn that one of the guys at the table is filthy rich,...
ISLANDERS SET TO 'LEAF' LOSSES BEHIND
The Islanders have gone the past two days without a loss or an injury, which is about as much success as they've had this month. Unfortunately for the Isles, the...
RANGERS CANNOT AFFORD TO SIT PRUCHA
REGARDING the Rangers: It is unfathomable that Petr Prucha cannot get a chance to play for this team. If Tom Renney doesn't believe that Prucha is a more viable option...
OUT TO CONTINUE SOLID SHOWING IN ATLANTIC
The Devils enter tonight's contest against the Penguins with a 7-4-1 record versus divisional opponents this season, including wins in each of the past four such games. That is a...
THOMAS TRIES TO CORNER MARKET ON BIG PLAYS
Terrell Thomas nearly had an interception of Jake Delhomme last Sunday night that might have been run back for a touchdown, but the Giants cornerback didn't expect the ball to...
GIANTS CAN GIVE FANS GREATEST GIFT OF ALL
AS the quiet of the close of the regular season soon gives way to the storm of the opening of the playoffs, the Giants are preparing a greater gift for...
NETS SET TO PROVE THEY CAN WIN IN NEW JERSEY
It's not just another game when coach Lawrence Frank and the Nets (14-14) return from their holiday siesta tonight to play host to the Bobcats (10-19). It's a chance to...
HUNTERS: REOPEN NEW YORK'S PHEASANT FARM
SPORTSMEN and women are furious that Governor Paterson closed the state's pheasant rearing farm and is giving away birds that were paid for by sportsmen. Harold Palmer, president of the...
KNICKS LOOK TO STAY IN HUNT FOR PLAYOFFS
Nate Robinson got a gift on Christmas Day, invited again to compete in the Slam-Dunk competition during February's All-Star Weekend as a former champion. KNICKS BLOG As the Knicks embark...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Howard to defend dunk title Magic center Dwight Howard will try to defend his Slam Dunk championship at the NBA All-Star weekend in Phoenix in February. In New Orleans...
STEPHON WON'T SEE TELFAIR AT GARDEN
At least Brooklyn's Sebastian Telfair will be allowed into the building tonight. KNICKS BLOG Stephon Marbury has lost his team. Telfair has just lost his starting point-guard job, not to...
LAKERS AVENGE FINALS DEFEAT
LOS ANGELES - The six-month wait is over. The Lakers can put the anguish of losing the NBA Finals to the Celtics and the embarrassment over the way the series...
5 QUESTIONS FOR HOWIE LONG
THE Giants got back on the Super Bowl path with a win last week over the Panthers. Fox analyst Howie Long talked with The Post's Justin Terranova about what it...