January 8, 2009
KILLER MONKEYS
Think "300" with monkeys. "Dark Days in Monkey City" is going where only monkeys have gone before for a new bizarre, violent and visually unique series. In Monkey City, Sri...
Report: Chipper calls Derek Lowe
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Chipper Jones called Mets free-agent target Derek Lowe on Wednesday to make a recruiting pitch to join the Braves, shortly before John Smoltz called Jones...
Chad felt unwanted in '07
Chad Pennington, the quarterback the Jets cast aside to make room for Brett Favre, said today he felt he was being pushed out as early as 2007 when Eric Mangini...
FALLOUT FROM GAZA BLOODBATH HITS HOME - BROOKLYNITES WITH PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI ROOTS SOUND OFF ON LATEST VIOLENCE
One is a Palestinian-American from Bay Ridge and the other is an Israeli-American from Flatbush, but the two people share a very real concern over the latest Middle Eastern conflict...
POLAR BEARS FOREGO HIBERNATION FOR FUN
Fugghedabout Hawaii, hardy Brooklynites donned their swimsuits and embrrrrraced Year 2009 by frolicking in the frigid waves off Coney Island — with smiles as wide as the sun. Marine marvels...
BOROUGH OF POTHOLES
The pungent scent of hot asphalt is something that Brooklynites probably ought to get used to. According to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Brooklyn has the largest number of reported potholes of...
CONEY ISLAND CROSSROADS - ULURP TO START UP SOON
With the start of the New Year, the city believes it is now just a few short weeks away from certifying its rezoning plan for Coney Island with an eye...
MURDER RATE SKYROCKETS IN 2008
Despite a decrease in overall felony crime, murders on the streets of Patrol Borough Brooklyn South jumped more than 35 percent in 2008, according to the unofficial year-end police statistics....
Oscar Watch: TDK Now Looks Inevitable
With the Director's Guild today joining the Producers Guild in nominating "The Dark Knight'' for its feature prize, it now looks like "The Dark Knight'' will indeed land a spot...
Spring training tickets on sale
From the YankeesThe Yankees have announced that individual game tickets for 2009 spring training go on sale Friday, Jan. 9.Tickets can be purchased beginning at 10 a.m. at the Steinbrenner...
LIRR POSTS BEST ON-TIME PERFORMANCE EVER FOR 2008
The Long Island Rail Road reports its trains were on time more than 95 percent of the time last year, the best performance since it began keeping records. The 95.14...
A "Mass Effect" movie in the works?
Yes, I'm a little (a lot) behind the times... While looking up something for another story, I stumbled across a Variety piece from September that says that ex-Marvel head Avi...
VAN NEST BLAZE ENGULFS 2 HOMES
Van Nest suffered a tragedy this past weekend, as a devastating fire consumed two homes and injured civilians and a firefighter. On Saturday, January 3, a fire erupted at 1728...
FLAMES ENGULF CHURCH
A freak fire tore through Norwood's Lutheran Church of the Epiphany on Saturday, January 3, destroying the St. Stephen's Meals soup kitchen and displacing community groups. The accidental basement blaze...
NYS TO LOOK AT HOME $$
The New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities has agreed to examine the purchase price a group home's sponsor has offered for a 2-family house in Waterbury...
SIMONE SEALS WEST. SQUARE VERIZON DEAL
The real estate developer responsible for Pelham Bay's upscale Hutchinson Metro Center closed on a prime piece of Westchester Square property on Thursday, December 18. Simone Development will rework 2510...
CITY ISLAND BLAZE DESTROYS 2-STORY BUILDING
Fire tore through a small apartment building on City Island in the early morning hours of Tuesday, January 6, illustrating the need for Mayor Bloomberg to reconsider plans to close...
DO A-ROD AND TEX GET ALONG?
ESPN baseball analyst Peter Gammons appeared on Boston radio station WEEI yesterday and referenced a rift between new Yankees teammates Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez. "As you probably remember, there...
GOV AMDITS HE HAD JITTERS BEFORE SPEECH
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. David Paterson says he was dizzy, anxious and uncertain he could make it to the podium before delivering his first State of the State...
NY MAN ACCUSED OF FLATTENING ENEMIES' TIRES
STONY POINT, N.Y. - A 60-year-old man has been causing flat tires for two years by tossing roofing nails onto the driveways of people he didn't like, police said Thursday....
BUSINESS TAXES ON STEEP DECLINE IN NYC
The Wall Street meltdown and its fallout have caused city budget analysts to predict for the first time that revenue from business taxes will decline for three years in a...
CATCHING UP: GIANTS
The question shouldn't be: Are the Eagles this year's Giants, and are the Giants last year's Cowboys? CATCHING UP: PHOTOS Dallas was clearly the NFC's most talented team last season,...
STEPHANIE MARCH RETURNS TO 'SVU'
Stephanie March is going back to work as New York prosecutor Alexandra Cabot on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." March will return to the NBC drama for six episodes,...
SHOOTING BY OAKLAND OFFICER SPARKS ANGER
Heavy police presence greeted Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters Thursday, a day after more than 100 people were arrested in violent protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black...
"Godfather II" game ready to hit
Cast your mind back to the good old days, way back in 2006. For that is when we last heard from the Godfather and EA. Until now.EA's announced that the...
CHILLING CONFESSION IN LINDA STEIN MURDER
Realtor to the stars Linda Stein had it coming, suspect Natavia Lowery told prosecutors in a chilling taped murder confession revealed for the first time today. "She has never, never,...
Three new "Fallout 3" DLC screens
By now, you've probably finished playing Fallout 3 and have it on your trade-in pile. But don't get rid of it just yet: Bethesda's got a DLC in the works...
NYPD TO DISRUPT CELL PHONE CALLS TO PREVENT TERROR
The New York Police Department is looking for ways to disrupt cell phone calls and other forms of electronic communication among terrorists in the event of another terror attack in...
Carrie Underwood Hooks a Fisher
America, agonize no longer. In only one more week, viewers will get to meet Kara DioGuardi and reunite reality TV's favorite lovebirds, Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul. To hold you...
Talk Show Guests: Daniel Craig
Bond himself Daniel Craig fires up the little screen tonight on Jay Leno while "Gran Torino's" Clint Eastwood shoots for Ellen tomorrow.Get the complete list of today and tomorrow's Talk...
Everton after Jozy Altidore
I'd heard that Everton was interested in Our Own Jozy Altidore well before he scored a huge move to Villarreal. Now, the Toffees have made their admiration official.According to Sky...
TRAVOLTAS HOLD FUNERAL FOR SON
OCALA, Fla. - John Travolta and family were expected to host a private memorial service Thursday for their son, 16-year-old Jett Travolta, at their gated-community home in central Florida.PHOTOS: Jett...
Baseball America releases top 10s for Mets, Yankees
With spring training fast approaching, Baseball America is out with its top 10 prospect lists for many teams throughout baseball, with the rest coming over the next few weeks. However,...
Hello Cleveland
Eric Mangini had his introductory presser this morning in Cleveland. Is it me or did he look like someone making their first Communion with that crooked tie? He didn't shed...
FEDS: MADOFF WAS READY TO SEND OUT $173M IN CHECKS
Accused Ponzi scheme king Bernard Madoff had $173 million worth of signed checks sitting in his office desk - which he was planning to mail out to others - when...
TRUMP'S PLAYMATES
Donald Trump has a new class of celebrities to fire. From country crooners to washed up comics, the different worlds of show business are set to collide when "Celebrity Apprentice"...
HOFSTRA EDGES DELAWARE 66-61
This couldn't have been what Dr. Naismith had in mind. Last night, Hofstra and Delaware made making a shot look like pulling teeth, which is probably what it felt like...
Red Sox on verge of adding Smoltz
Players that haunted the Mets for seasons continue to make their way into the AL East and become the Yankees' problem.First Pat Burrell signed with the Rays and now former...
All hands on deck
BY PAUL SCHWARTZThose awaiting word on the health of the Giants for today's practice should be aware of this: There wasn't a single player on the side riding a stationary...
MACY'S WILL SHUTTER 11 STORES
Department-store operator Macy's Inc. said Thursday it will close 11 underperforming stores in nine states - affecting 960 employees - and lowered its forecast for the fourth quarter after one...
FREIGHT TRAIN DERAILMENT AFFECTS LIRR SERVICE
Long Island Rail Road service between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma has been restored following the derailment of a freight train. The railroad says the derailment occurred at 9:10 a.m. Thursday east...
NYPD: WOMAN'S BODY FOUND ON BX ROOF
Police say they found the charred, dismembered remains of a woman on the roof of a Bronx apartment building. Police were responding to a 911 call of a missing person...
PANEL POISED TO BACK BLAGOJEVIC IMPEACHMENT VOTE
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A draft report from the Illinois House panel investigating Governor Rod Blagojevich calls for the full chamber to vote on whether to impeach him. The impeachment committee...
RETAILERS REPORT DISMAL SALES FIGURES
Retailers reported dismal sales figures for December on Thursday as even Wal-Mart Stores Inc., one of the bright spots in the industry, finally buckled under the pressures of the deteriorating...
MACY'S TO CLOSE 11 STORES
NEW YORK - Department-store operator Macy's Inc. said Thursday it will close 11 underperforming stores in nine states - affecting 960 employees - and lowered its forecast for the fourth...
'Doubt' About Scott Rudin (and, Updated, Compassion)
The Sisters of Charity are liveblogging a discussion of "Doubt'' today from 2 to 4 p.m. EST. I've posted the following query,Dear Sisters,I have a question about this movie and...
Sights, sounds from southwest
By MARC BERMANDALLAS - Mike D'Antoni, the noted offensive genius, sounded yesterday like fellow Italian Leonardo Da Vinci arising from bed only to see a mustache being drawn on his...
OBAMA: IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO FIX THE ECONOMY
FAIRFAX, Va. - President-elect Barack Obama warned of dire and long-lasting consequences if Congress doesn't pump unprecedented dollars into the national economy, making an urgent pitch Thursday for his mammoth...
FINDS: Eurostyle Your Life, Seattle
Seattle's Fremont neighborhood is known as a stubbornly countercultural and rather artistically inclined place. It is less known for, say, for its conceptually fresh home and personal furnishings boutiques. Leslie...
NEW FERRY TO CONNECT BROOKLYN TO GOVERNOR'S ISLAND
The city plans to connect Brooklyn to Governor's Island with a new ferry that would dock at a revamped Pier 11, officials announced this week. The new Red Hook terminal...
EX IS AN ORGAN MOANER
She stole his heart, but it's his kidney that he wants back. A Long Island surgeon who dumped his wife after she allegedly had a steamy affair wants her to...
A RETAILING BUMMER
A flurry of post-Christmas shopping won't be enough to save retailers' profits for the crucial fourth quarter. Major chains today are expected to collectively post a 1.2 percent decline in...
EARLY CABINET CASUALTY: RICHARDSON BOWS OUT
Without even taking office, our new American Idol president-elect has shown the American public that talk is still cheap ("Dramaless Demurral," Dale McFeatters, PostOpinion, Jan. 6). Anyone who couldn't or...
TAKE THIS TAX & SMOKE IT!
I cannot believe this fine, freedom-loving newspaper would advocate persecuting Indian tribes just because the state of New York can't collect draconian tobacco taxes on them ("Tribal Cigs in Court,"...
A PASSING VICTORY
ISRAEL'S critics have a point about the Gaza campaign: It won't do anything to end the "endless cycle of violence." But it's not supposed to. The point is simply to...
THE NEXT SUBPRIME SINKHOLE
IN America's ever-more-democratic society, egalitarianism seeps into everything, even the supposedly severe meritocracy of sport. So almost every college football team that is not dreadful is "bowl eligible." That is...
GUTTING SECURITY
PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama's appointments to Homeland Security, the Justice Department and now the CIA indicate a virtual abandonment of the War on Terror. As Homeland Security chief, he's named a...
KEMP HAS CANCER
BUFFALO - Jack Kemp's office says the former housing secretary, congressman and Buffalo Bills quarterback has been diagnosed with cancer. A brief statement said Kemp, 73, is undergoing tests to...
THE DEMS' 'POLICE' NEED POLICING
IF it was true that when the Republicans enjoyed House and Senate majorities and ran the White House there was no one to object when they overspent, grew the government...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Police yesterday were searching for this pistol-packing thief (right), who robbed three Upper West Side banks last month. In each case, the 6-foot-1, 190-pound suspect flashed a silver gun,...
HILLARY POWWOWS WITH KERRY AHEAD OF HEARING
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton has held private discussions with leaders of the Senate committee reviewing her nomination to be secretary of state and will face a public hearing Tuesday....
LABOR'S JOBS NUMBERS WILL NOT REFLECT ANY REALITY
HERE'S some good news about the economy. (OK, take a second to compose yourself. I know you weren't expecting me to lead with that sentence.) But it's true - the...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Home loans Late payments on home-equity lines of credit rose to a record in the third quarter, showing consumers re main under financial stress as unemploy ment rises amid the...
AIG DRIVING SUITORS INTO CAR INSURANCE
American International Group, the insurer that renamed its US auto business earlier this week to prepare the operation for potential buyers, may find that unit among the easiest piece to...
PERSHING SQ. TAKE$ BIG HIT
Pershing Square International Ltd., the main hedge fund of activist investor William Ackman, lost 12 percent in 2008, according to a letter obtained by Bloomberg News. The hedge fund fell...
BLACK'S APOLLO OWED $2B IN BACK LOANS FROM LYONDELL
Apollo Management, the private-equity firm led by Leon Black, holds about $2 billion of loans from Lyondell Chemical, which filed for bankruptcy protection, people with direct knowledge of the matter...
ELEGANT NUPS ON A BUDGET
Viva New York! The Big Apple is bidding to rival Las Vegas with a snazzy new municipal wedding chapel that offers a wealth of features intended to make tying the...
BIG SALES COLLAPSE AT INTEL
Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, said fourth-quarter sales dropped 23 percent, more than it projected, as the global recession kills demand for personal computers. The stock fell 6.1 percent, or...
BIG WHEEL BARACK & HIS COOL CADDY
When Barack Obama is sworn in, he will be the coolest cat in Washington - so it's more than fitting that his car is called "The Beast." The 44th president...
JAY-Z'S DC RAP ON I-DAY EVE
Jay-Z isn't performing at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, but he is planning to make a big splash on the eve of the event. The rapper, one of Obama's biggest celebrity...
BARACK UNLEASHES WATCHDOG
WASHINGTON - Pointing with concern to "red ink as far as the eye can see," President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to tackle out-of-control Social Security and Medicare spending, and named...
PAULSON'S LOAN 'MODEL'
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson recommended replacing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with utility-like companies that would guarantee mortgages without maintaining investment portfolios. "A public utility-like mortgage credit guarantor could be...
WRONG ADDRESS, GOV
ALBANY - Gov. Pater son squandered an opportunity to con front New York's fiscal problems yesterday in a rambling, thin and cliché-ridden State of the State Address that failed to...
YOU'RE FEELING VERY WEALTHY...
When hypnotist Selena Valentine snaps her fingers, the economy will still be in the toilet, but that hasn't stopped dozens of New Yorkers from paying her hundreds of dollars for...
NO LIGHT AT END OF TUNNEL IN UNDERGROUND WAR
RAFAH, Egypt - Angry at Hamas' ability to fire rockets at Israel, the United States last year allocated $23 million to help train Egyptian officials to stop the smuggling into...
TW SEEING RED IN '08
Time Warner hit the bad news trifecta yesterday, as the company announced a $25 billion writedown on the value of some assets and further reductions in advertising revenue at AOL...
UNLICENSED TO KILL
The campaign-bus driver allegedly driving on a suspended license when he hit and killed a 9-year-old Queens boy told cops he didn't know he had been stripped of his right...
ROLAND OUT RED CARPET
WASHINGTON - Roland Burris made a second trip into the Capitol building yesterday to try to claim his Senate seat - and this time, he wasn't forced back out into...
FUEL AID STILL A CIT-GO
BOSTON - Citgo, the Venezuelan government's US-based oil subsidiary, yesterday said it will continue shipments of heating oil to poor Americans - only two days after announcing it would suspend...
EMPIRE STATE DEATH PLUNGE
A middle-aged woman plunged to her death yesterday after she apparently jumped out a 39th-floor window of the Empire State Building, police said. The 54-year-old Manhattan woman, whose name was...
A DEMAND TO BOUNCE BOARD
An activist Wall Street investor is calling for the ouster of the board of Yeshiva University, following the school's endowment's devastation by the alleged Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. Andrew Sole...
PARKS SENT TO CYBERIA
No more Googling in the park. Free wireless Internet connections in city parks are the latest victims of the free-falling economy. Wi-Fi Salon, the company under contract with the city...
GIANT BARGAIN ON PLAYOFF TIX
There's value in having a hot team in a down economy - Giants fans seeking tickets for Sunday's matchup vs. the Eagles can get a seat on the 50-yard line...
BOFA BEGINS LAYOFFS
Bank of America's CEO Ken Lewis started doling out pink slips yesterday to rank and file staffers as part of a plan to slash workers at the Charlotte, N.C.-based financial...
IMETTE-SLAY DEFENDANT GETS LIFE FOR '05 KIDNAP
A furious Queens judge called the suspected killer of Imette St. Guillen a "typical, classic sociopath" before sentencing him to life in prison for kidnapping a teenager who managed to...
VAIN TRY TO SAVE HEROES
A firefighter yesterday relived his desperate attempts to revive two brothers in arms who had jumped from the fourth floor of a burning Bronx apartment house. "John, hang in there,...
S&P GETS MR. FIXIT
Just two weeks after finally posting tardy warnings that banking faces a credit crisis, Standard & Poor's played more catch- up yesterday by anointing an ombudsman for transparency at the...
REDSTONE RETAINS PARAMOUNT BOSS
Brad Grey can breathe easy. In a move so stunning it caught Hollywood flat-footed, Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone actually stayed true to his vow not to fire the Paramount Pictures...
SERVICE SET TODAY FOR JETT
John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston will bid their beloved son goodbye today at a private memorial service at the exclusive "fly-in" Florida community where the actor has a home,...
TRIAL BY JEWRY
A $500 million landmark Upper West Side building might be heading into foreclosure unless its dueling owners can quickly find a rabbi they both consider kosher. Lev Leviev and Maurice...
MADOFF PROBER DISSED
The Securities and Exchange Commission investigator who gave Bernard Madoff the all-clear in a 2006 probe insists she's not at fault, but the whistleblower who led her to the $50...
DEFIANT HIRAM JOINS SENATE
ALBANY - Queens Democrat Hiram Monserrate (right), accused of smashing a glass into his girlfriend's face, defiantly marched into the state Senate chamber to take his oath of office yesterday,...
REALITY BITES MARTS AFTER SHORT SURGE
Wall Street slid back into all the worries it already saw coming - rising layoffs, falling earnings and fears of a bond bubble. Blue-chip stocks suffered their worst decline in...
SKI-BUFF FOTOG BUTTED OUT
The photographer who grabbed the butt-baring shot of a skier dangling from a Vail chairlift got the bum's rush from his boss. Marty Odom, a ski photographer for Sharpshooter Imaging,...
BREAK FOR MILLIONAIRE DWI KILLER
A millionaire Wall Street executive will serve just 16 days in jail for a fatal case of drunken driving, after prosecutors admitted yesterday that it was impossible to tell if...
BERNIE'S PAL MERKIN NEEDS TO LEAVE GMAC: ANALYSTS
The cry for money manager Ezra Merkin's immediate ouster as chairman of troubled automotive outfit General Motors Acceptance Corp. is gearing up. The move to oust Merkin comes in the...
DR. TOMFOOLERY
Talk about a waste of money: The city Health Department just put out a $3 million contract to buy anti-smoking ads on phone kiosks. Such ads already are ubiquitious: New...
PATERSON PUNTS AGAIN
Gov. Paterson yesterday delivered his first State of the State Address - a rightly gloomy report that offered scant grounds to think he's on the correct track to making things...
HIS MASTER'S VOICE
Outgoing Education Commissioner Richard Mills, whose dead hand has lain across public education in the Empire State for the past 14 years, takes issue with Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's stewardship...
CON ED EYES NEW $5 JOLT
Look for a Con Ed electric-rate increase of around $5 a month starting in April. That's what typical city apartment dwellers would pay under a plan by state utility regulators...
ALL PREZ-ENT & ACCOUNTED FOR
With the economy in the sewer, the country at war and the Middle East aflame, President-elect Obama met yesterday with the only men on earth who understand what he's in...
CRITICS LACE INTO BLOOMY
This time, a picture was worth several dozen shoes. At least 150 pro-Palestinian New Yorkers rallied against Mayor Bloomberg for his recent trip to Israel and unfettered support of that...
HERO'S WELCOME FOR 'FIGHTING 69TH'
WASHINGTON - The Army said yesterday that 7,000 relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as "John Doe." Army Chief of Staff Gen....
FEDS WANT BERNIE IN CAN FOR CLAMMING UP
Federal prosecutors are trying to jail accused swindler Bernard Madoff as payback for his decision to quit cooperating in the probe of his admitted $50 billion fraud, according to reports....
GOTTI HIT OF 'ACID'
The man who accidentally ran over John Gotti's young son was allegedly dumped in a vat of acid by a twisted Gambino hit man. Charles Carneglia, 62, who is awaiting...
HUNTER IN TOP 10
You don't have to trek to Harvard, Yale or Stanford to get yourself some collegiate prestige. One of the best educational buys in America is right here on East 68th...
BUS-FREEZE MATRON GOES BALLISTIC
Fired bus matron Linda Hockaday - accused of abandoning a cerebral-palsy patient overnight in a freezing vehicle - threw a tantrum outside a Manhattan courthouse yesterday, insisting she, too, has...
GAL'S CORPSE ON BX. ROOF
The burned body of a Bronx woman whose arms and legs had been severed was found on the roof of her apartment building yesterday days after she went missing, police...
COPS LOOSEN UP ON PETTY CRIME
SOME petty crime is apparently too petty for the NYPD. The department is edging away from a highly successful model of attacking all minor offenses to focus more on major...
UN, RED CROSS HALT DELIVERIES TO GAZA
JERUSALEM (AP) - The U.N. and the Red Cross curtailed aid shipments in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after accusing Israeli forces of firing on their drivers, killing one. The...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Yep, yep, yep - this is the life. A hungry harbor seal broke into a Cape Cod fish hatchery and gorged on trout for hours before employees discovered what was...
COWBOYS PART WITH PACMAN
Troubled cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones was released by the Cowboys following a season in which he was suspended six games for an off-field fight. The transaction will not become official...
BALTIMORE'S RYAN DRAWS RAVE REVIEWS
OWINGS MILLS, Md. - Don't expect Rex Ryan to show up for his interview for the Jets' head coaching vacancy armed with Power Point presentations, flow charts or any other...
MANGINI NAMED BROWNS COACH
Eric Mangini was not out of work for long. The former Jets coach agreed to become head coach of the Cleveland Browns yesterday, nine days after the Jets fired him....
FAVRE MUM ON FUTURE
Brett Favre 2009 watch has begun, and the Jets quarterback spoke with a reporter in Mississippi yesterday. The Biloxi Sun Herald caught up with Favre and asked him when he...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Harvard upsets BC Jeremy Lin scored 27 points as visiting Harvard (8-6) upset No. 17 Boston College (13-3), 82-70, last night in Boston, three days after the Eagles upset...
THE BEST AND WORST OF THE BOWLS
THE RUNNING joke, seemingly all season around the nation, was that league officials were considering removing the "0" from this conference's name, since Southern Cal and a crop of left-coast...
BC JET-TISONS JAGS
The Jets keep sending coaches to the unemployment line. Boston College coach Jeff Jagodzinski was fired, as expected, yesterday after interviewing for the Jets' head-coaching vacancy on Tuesday. MANGINI NAMED...
SELFISH PLAY SPOILING SPEEDBALL
DALLAS - Amidst the rubble of Tuesday's pitiful loss in Oklahoma City, Mike D'Antoni went on a long rant yesterday, saying the club has a loser's mentality and doesn't grasp...
REDDING MULLS OFFER FROM METS
As Mets GM Omar Minaya continues negotiations to secure Derek Lowe's services, he also has other starting-pitching options in mind. Minaya, according to a source, has offered a contract to...
BAD HAB-ITS SPELL DOOM FOR RANGERS
If Monday's 4-0 victory over the Penguins represented a step back to the identity the Rangers had created for themselves the first six weeks of the season, then last night's...
DEVIN-LESS NETS SCHOOL GRIZZLIES
The Nets sought their first win of the season without Devin Harris. And they were going for their first three-game home winning streak of the season, which the way they've...
BOSOX WANT SMOLTZ
Good-bye, Atlanta. Hello, Boston. The Red Sox are on the verge of signing John Smoltz. The 41-year-old righty and the Red Sox are closing in on a deal that would...
BRUTAL SCHEDULE WEARS ON KNIGHTS
Friedrich Nietzsche said that which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. It looks like that grueling three-game gantlet Rutgers just ran made the young Scarlet Knights stronger _ just not...
THE MATCHUPS
MIAMI - Oklahoma clashes with Florida tonight in the BCS National Championship Game. The Sooners (12-1) are going for their eighth national title and their second under coach Bob Stoops....
ALL THIS PROVES IS WE NEED A PLAYOFF
MIAMI - If the horse isn't dead yet, he has surely been beaten senseless, but facts are facts: Most people want a college football playoff. Most people have leapt past...
GATORS & SOONERS DROP GLOVES TONIGHT, FINALLY
MIAMI - This is not a clash of titans. This is a clash of angry titans. We've had titanic BCS Championship Game showdowns. Oklahoma vs. USC in the 2005 Orange...
NEWFOUND SWAGGER DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED
Kevin Dockery knows what's different about Donovan McNabb from earlier in the year. "He's got his swagger back," the cornerback said yesterday at Giants Stadium, where Big Blue will have...
TIDE TURNED AFTER DONOVAN BENCHING
PHILADELPHIA - First, Donovan McNabb didn't know that NFL games can end in a tie, then he forgot how to win. As a November deadlock in Cincinnati morphed into a...
JACOBS JACKED TO BE BACK FOR GIANTS
Brandon Jacobs came to work on Monday and nearly had to be hosed down. "He was rip-roaring and yelling," guard Chris Snee said. "I kind of said, 'Hey Brandon, we...
NO HIDING THE HATE WHEN IT'S ALL ON LINE
Any playoff game is enough to get the blood flowing, but a postseason game against a fierce division rival is cause for emotions to go into overdrive. The Giants and...
ELI'S GROWTH THE DIFFERENCE IN PLAYOFF MOJO
THIS is the beauty of newspaper microfilm: The things written, and said, remain written and said forever. You cannot erase the microfilm machine, use revisionist history, much as you may...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan CHELSEA $965,000 133 W. 22nd St. One-bedroom, one-bath condo, 760 square feet, with Bosch/Sub-Zero appliances, Kohler tub and laundry hookup; building features parking and pool. Common charges $538, taxes...
OFF THE WALL
How weak is the Manhattan rental market these days? Well, if things keep going the way they have been, you might want to slip your next rent check inside a...
PLAN B: RENT
Back in 1995, when a savvy buyer could get New York City real estate for a song and Alphabet City was still a frontier, Karl Peterson bought the second floor...
FIRE IT UP
THREE years ago, a massive brick fireplace and nearly an acre of woods sold me on an 1850s farmhouse that was pretty much a teardown. The fireplace, which needed paint...
'SUPERSTAR' ME
EVERYTHING old is new again - at least in the world of network TV. This time it's ABC and its recycling of "Superstars," which originally aired on "Wide World of...
OPRAH GAINS
OPRAH Winfrey's weight woes wooed millions to her first show of the year. OPRAH'S SECRET SOIRE Monday's episode - when Oprah came clean about her weight gain and her efforts...
'LOSER' ASSAULTS WITH FLOUR
A contestant on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" is just that after a run-in with the law this week. Shanon Thomas, 30, was arrested on Tuesday - the day the show...
JUDGMENT DAY
POOR Jack Bauer. There is simply no joy in the man's life. In fact, things have turned so bad this season that if Jack were Oprah, he'd be so depressed...
'IDOL' MAIL SCAM
FOX has taken the unusual step of posting a warning on the "American Idol" Web site alerting viewers to a sweepstakes scam purporting to involve the show. The Web site...
LARCHMONT, NY
This 98-year-old "jewel" has been "sensitively renovated" to create a pleasing blend of old and new. Some of the architectural details preserved throughout the Colonial home's 4,679 square feet include...
UPPER EAST SIDE
Ah, sweet 16 . . . million, that is. Trumpeted as "truly one of the most spectacular" penthouses in Manhattan, this never-lived-in 3,252-square-foot duplex condo atop the Barbizon on East...
CARNEGIE HILL
Here we have three apartments for the price of one (well, one that's $100,000 shy of $11 million). This "immaculate" home, located in a full-service condo on East 94th Street,...
HELL'S KITCHEN
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,658 Common charges: $1,037 -- Located in a prewar building, this loft condo on West 36th Street was redesigned "from the ground up" in...
JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 1,148 Common charges: $642 -- "Priced to sell," this top-floor condo on 88th Street in the Jackson Heights Historic District offers old-world charm, including...
HAMPTON BAYS, LI
Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 2,200 -- At just under an acre, this "fabulous piece of land" on the bay includes a "fabulous old house" with "tons of charm"...
DUMBO, BROOKLYN
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 710 Common charges: $265 -- Eleven-foot beamed ceilings, bamboo floors, oversized windows, granite kitchen counters, wine cooler, whirlpool bathtub, walk-in shower, Bosch washer/dryer: OK,...
'IDOL' MAIL SCAM
FOX has taken the unusual step of posting a warning on the "American Idol" Web site alerting viewers to a sweepstakes scam purporting to involve the show. The Web site...
FREEBIE-JEEBIES
LOOKS like the party really is over. The days before a Hollywood awards ceremony were once a wonderland of fab freebies - fully loaded Mexico vacations! Private jet vouchers! $100...
PIGSKIN PRINCESSES
YOU won't find the two members of the Giants organization with the best football pedigree on the field this weekend. But before you get outraged, know this: Even though they're...
SIT BACK, RELAX AND LAUGH
NOW that "Boeing-Boe ing" has flown the coop, the sexiest stewardesses in the theater these days are at "Wickets" - an inventive and immersing theatrical experience that's a lot cheaper...
SINKING KNICKS TURNING SPEEDBALL INTO SELFBALL
DALLAS - Amidst the rubble of Tuesday's pitiful loss in Oklahoma City, Mike D'Antoni went on a long rant yesterday, saying the club has a loser's mentality and doesn't grasp...
PARTY'S ON AT HUNTER
The biggest and longest ski party of the year will kick off at Hunter Mountain this weekend when the facility celebrates its 50th birthday. The celebration will start on Saturday,...
Shop drop stopped
Christmas came after Dec. 25. Post-holiday shopping sprees shored up December results for retailers, boosting hopes that shell-shocked consumers will return to stores in 2010. Luxury chains were among the...
Kumar pleads guilty
A former high-ranking technology consultant from McKinsey & Co. yesterday pointed the finger at Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, saying the hedge fund manager paid him nearly $2 million over...
KKR eyes splitsville yet again
Private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is taking another run at splitting up the largest leveraged buyout in history. KKR is in negotiations with the leader of the lending group...
Clash of the cable titans
Say this about Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan: The dude's got a pair of cable systems on him -- if you know what we mean. During an investor conference at San...
French culture vultures want to tax 'net firms
Here's a policy that doesn't translate. Tax-happy officials in Paris are eyeing Google as a source of cash for France's fading culture. A startling report yesterday from Culture Minister Frederic...
New CEO for Holt Renfrew
Canadian luxury retailer Holt Renfrew said CEO Caryn Lerner has stepped down and will be replaced by insider Mark Derbyshire. Lerner is a respected retail veteran who insiders had speculated...
Condé Nast boob-job exec is gone in a flash
AFTER media training from p.r. guru and crisis manager Michael Sheehan, Condé Nast CEO Charles Townsend is trying to put a new face on his company, which shut down six...
Ex-Cohen exec tied to fed case
Another ex-employee of Steven Cohen's $16 billion hedge fund has been linked to allegations of insider trading. The news comes as speculation has been growing over whether SAC Capital could...
Formula One mogul makes bid for Saab
Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone and his partner Genii Capital are among bidders that plan to make last-ditch efforts to buy General Motors Co.'s Saab unit as a sale deadline...
TCW sues Gundlach
TCW Group, the Los Angeles-based unit of Société Générale, sued former investment chief Jeffrey Gundlach and three ex-employees after more than half of its fixed-income professionals joined his new firm....
Google boosts its On2 bid
Google Inc. sweetened its bid for On2 Technologies with a cash portion that boosts the deal value by 20 percent to $134 million, months after shareholders of the video compression...
HAUTE LIST
WITH its low prices, free overnight shipping and free returns, shopping on Zappos.com can be a slippery slope into shoe-fetish heaven of the credit-card-max-out variety. But uh-oh! Looks like some...
OBAMA HAILS 'EXTRAORDINARY' MOMENT WITH PRESIDENTS
Confronting a grim economy and a Middle East on fire, Barack Obama turned Wednesday to perhaps the only people on the planet who understand what he's in for: the four...
Offer made to Redding
From MIKE PUMA A baseball source said today that Mets GM Omar Minaya has offered a contract to Tim Redding, who went 10-11 with a 4.95 ERA for the Nationals...