January 21, 2009
CAROLINE KENNEDY ENDS SENATE SEAT BID
Caroline Kennedy last night withdrew from consideration to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - just two months after she rocked the New York political landscape by throwing her hat in...
HEMMERDINGER OUT AS MANAGER OF SHOPS AT ATLAS PARK
Three years after opening the Shops at Atlas Park in Glendale, developer Damon Hemmerdinger is out of the project, leaving his company’s creditors to run the mall. In an open...
EUPHORIA GRIPS QUEENS FOR OBAMA'S INAUGURATION
From the heart of the borough’s African-American community in Jamaica to Flushing Town Hall and a St. Albans elementary school, Queens residents celebrated a watershed moment in the country’s history...
QUEENS MAN CHARGED WITH CALLING IN 2 PHONY BOMB TREATS
A Queens man who once busted for threatening to kill former President Ronald Reagan was hauled into court today on charges he staged a bomb scare in an FBI office....
"Red Alert," C & C to debut on PS3
Yes! It's true! For the first time ever, Command & Conquer will be available to PS3 players with the upcoming March release of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Ultimate...
BARACK'S AIR FORCE ONE BURGER
What does the most powerful man in the world want as his first meal onboard his new luxury plane? Apparently a burger and fries. That's exactly what Barack Obama ordered...
MATT DILLON PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO SPEEDING
Matt Dillon pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a Dec. 30 speeding charge in which police say they spotted the actor doing 106 miles per hour on an interstate highway. Dillon's...
SENATE CONFIRMS CLINTON AS SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state Wednesday as President Barack Obama moved to make his imprint on U.S. foreign policy, mobilizing a fresh team...
LAST ISRAELI TROOPS LEAVE GAZA
JERUSALEM - Israel's last troops left the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, although the cease-fire was frayed when its navy opened fire toward beaches in northern Gaza, and smugglers' tunnels that...
Mike Petke's Return to New York
Bohemia's Mike Petke said he couldn't be happier to be a Red Bull and that even though he won an MLS Cup with D.C. and played in Colorado, he never...
RUSSIA: NO MORE SPACE TOURISTS AFTER 2009
MOSCOW - Russia won't be sending tourists to the international space station after this year because of plans to double the station's crew from three to six people, the head...
ADELE AND POLLY
Gina Adele and Daniel Polly of Staten Island. We were set up on a blind date through mutual friends. My best friend and his best friend knew each other and...
RIDGE AND MCNAMARA
Elizabeth Ridge and Robert McNamara of Queens. Elizabeth and Bobby met as undergraduate students at Siena College. On March 9, 2007, Bobby, from Belle Harbor, Queens, proposed to Elizabeth, from...
IBANEZ DE GARAYO AND NAGASE
Raul Ibanez de Garayo and Yurika Nagase of Manhattan. Yurika and Raul met in New York four years ago and were meant to be with each other. After a small...
SILVER AND YURACK
Lindsay Silver and Adam Yurack of Bergen County, NJ. Well, let's just say we had to keep our relationship a secret for six months. We both worked together and didn't...
Brodeur could start skating soon
By MARK EVERSONDevils goalie Martin Brodeur is close to beginning on-ice workouts in his rehabilitation from biceps tendon reattachment. "Hopefully, here soon, he'll be able to get back on the...
Moving On. They Say
By FRED KERBERNEW ORLEANS - The second half of the season starts tonight for the Nets who hope matters go smoother than the way the first half ended.Now it's wait...
Michael Bradley scores a golazo
Sorry about the lack of posting the last few days. But between both NBA teams, the Jets ushering in their new coach today and the country ushering in it's new...
HOW REX ANSWERED OUR QUESTIONS
In today's paper, The Post posed five questions that needed to be answered when the Jets introduced Rex Ryan as head coach. Now that the press conference is over, let's...
NY PRO SCOUTS HOT STOVE
Went to the New York Professional Baseball Hot Stove League Dinner over the weekend and had a blast. In the deep January freeze there was plenty of baseball talk to...
LABRADOR VOTED MOST POPULAR DOG
NEW YORK - If there was any doubt, the Labrador retriever is the people's choice among purebred pooches for the 18th straight year. That's the word today from the American...
AIKMAN DOUBTS ROMO'S FUTURE
Troy Aikman won three Super Bowls with the Cowboys, but he doesn't sound too confident that Dallas' current quarterback has the right attitude to lead his former team back to...
OBAMA HAIR STYLIST CUTS TV DEAL
Michelle Obama's mane man is getting his own TV show. Johnny Wright, Obama's longtime hair stylist, is shopping a reality show along the lines of "Blow Out" or "Shear Genius"...
QUEENS RESIDENTS LASH OUT AT MTA OVER PROPOSED CUTS, FARE HIKE
It was Queens straphangers’ turn to let the MTA know what they thought of plans to raise fares and cut service on buses and subways and they gave MTA board...
HUDSON CRASH SPARKS CALL TO GROUND GEESE AT LAGUARDIA
As the city hailed the flight crew involved in the near-miraculous water landing of a jetliner and lauded the rescuers of its passengers from the frigid Hudson River, state officials...
QUEENS HOSPITALS SEEK BAILOUT
Board members of the parent company for St. John’s Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica were expected to meet this week to discuss what to do about...
OBAMA CALLS MIDEAST LEADERS
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama called four Middle East leaders on Wednesday, weighing in for the first time about the Gaza crisis by pledging to support a fragile cease-fire. Obama...
CHINA CENSORS OBAMA ADDRESS
BEIJING -- China censored its translation of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech, removing references to communism and dissent, and quickly halted state television's live broadcast of the address when Cold...
DANE COOK'S EX AN 'IDOL' WANNABE
COMEDIAN Dane Cook's ex-girlfriend Raquel Houghton could be headed to Hollywood, "American Idol" style. Houghton, is no stranger to Hollywood, she spent more than two years shacked up with Cook...
OBAMA TO FREEZE WHITE HOUSE PAY
WASHINGTON - The Associated Press has learned that President Barack Obama is freezing the pay of the about a hundred White House employees who make over $100,000 a year. The...
Pat Burns battles cancer again
The French Canadian Web site cyberpresse.ca reports that former Devils coach Pat Burns has again been stricken with cancer, this time in his lungs.Burns, 56, tells the Web site he...
TOYOTA TOPS GM IN GLOBAL AUTO SALES
Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. sold more cars and trucks last year than General Motors Corp., stripping the Detroit automaker of the No. 1 global sales crown. But it's a victory...
'City' Boys Douchey, Lacking in Morality
Nevan is slothing at Olivia's while she reads him the rules. No chicks, naked or otherwise. Take your shoes off but leave your green rhinestone belt buckled at all times....
POLICE: ENVELOPES WITH POWDER AT WSJ BUILDING HARMLESS
Police say white powder sent in envelopes to the Wall Street Journal building in New York was harmless and probably was flour. Authorities say similar mail was received Wednesday at...
'Idol' Fix: Show Plants Next Carly Smithson
San Francisco's finest "stepped out in style" last night. With most of the ridiculousness now drained from auditions, the night definitely had a little less humor, but not much more...
DA: HUMAN RIGHTS WORKER CHARGED WITH CHILD SMUT
A human rights worker with ties to the United Nations has been charged with possession of child pornography after authorities say the sexual material was found in his luggage as...
KENNEDY RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has been released from the hospital after suffering a seizure during an inaugural luncheon. Kennedy's office confirmed that on Wednesday morning he left Washington...
GEITHNER: I'M SORRY FOR NOT PAYING TAXES
WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner said Wednesday he was careless in failing to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes earlier this decade but declared "I have paid...
Starr Report: 'House' in order
"House" (Hugh Laurie) continues to score solid numbers, pulling in nearly 15 million viewers on Fox Monday night (8-9) and finishing first in adults 18-49 by a healthy margin. It...
NEW COACH RYAN TAKES OVER JETS
One day after change came to Washington, D.C., it visited New Jersey with the Jets' introduction of head coach Rex Ryan. Saying the flashing cameras made him look around for...
OBAMA LAYS DOWN THE LAW WITH NEW STAFF
WASHINGTON - In a Day One burst of activity, President Barack Obama stepped into the Oval Office for the first time as chief executive Wednesday, summoned advisers to begin dealing...
TOWN TO HOLD PARADE FOR HERO PILOT
DANVILLE, Calif. - Officials in the California town that is home to the pilot who safely landed a jetliner in the Hudson River plan a big welcome back for their...
Duhon's guest column
Chris Duhon did a guest column in today's Post on his thoughts on yesterday's presidential inauguration that the team watched together in the locker room. Duhon got to know President...
OBAMA DRAFT ORDER CALLS FOR CLOSING GITMO
WASHINGTON -- The new Obama administration circulated a draft executive order Wednesday that calls for closing the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay within a year and halting any war...
BEST PHOTOS OF OBAMA'S INAUGURATION
People cheering in the street, Obama with his hand on the Bible, Michelle in her stunning white dress, Sasha giving Dad a thumb's up -- these are the images that...
INJURED CHENEY IS THE 'ODD' MAN OUT
WASHINGTON - No, that wasn't Dr. Strangelove sitting on the platform as Barack Obama was sworn in as president. It was former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was forced by...
YES, LIFE IS GOOD AMID THE TURMOIL
WASHINGTON - Life is good. I saw a glistening sun over a city filled with promise in a nation bursting with pride. And even though the January air slapped my...
BUSH PASSES OFF 'FOOTBALL' TO NEW QUARTERBACK
The nuclear "football" was handed off yesterday without a fumble. The metal briefcase with the power to launch Armageddon arrived at the Capitol yesterday behind George W. Bush and left...
'ON THIS DAY, WE WE HAVE CHOSEN GATHER BECAUSE HOPE OVER FEAR'
This is the entire text of President Barack Obama's historic inaugural address, delivered yesterday from the steps of the Capitol after he took the oath of office. My fellow citizens:...
SLEEPLESS HARLEM FLOCK'S JOY
WASHINGTON - Members of a Harlem church where Martin Luther King spoke 10 days before he was assassinated watched with bleary eyes after an all-night bus ride as President Obama...
LET'S HAIR IT FOR THE NEW PREZ
HYDE PARK, Ill. - At Barack Obama's old neighborhood barbershop, the new president's "magical chair" was the hottest seat in town. More than a dozen local patrons, friends and well-wishers...
STUDENTS HAIL CLASS ACT
Area students and teachers, watching the inaugural festivities on TV or by live Internet feed beamed to more than 1,200 public schools, reveled yesterday in the once-in-a-lifetime chance to live...
IT'S GLOBAL GLEE OVER BIG DAY
Three exotic locales where Barack Obama's fabled life story took root - Kenya, Indonesia and Hawaii - celebrated his inauguration yesterday with the time-honored traditions of dance, drumming and communal...
HISTORIC POST FLIES OFF STANDS
The Post's special afternoon edition on the history-making inauguration of the nation's first African-American president flew off the newsstands yesterday, as readers around the metropolitan area collected a souvenir they'll...
MCGRAW-HILL'S DELUXE LOUNGE
A new upscale cocktail lounge expects to take the concept to the next level. Dubbed for its location on the W. 48th Street side of the McGraw Hill Building at...
GOOGLE SPIKES PRINT ADS PROGRAM
Google is getting out of the newspaper ad business, ending one of its high-profile efforts to expand beyond paid search. The Internet giant is canceling the program on Feb. 28...
FIRST KIDS ARE J.CREW-NERS
Presidential daughters Sasha and Malia made their grand entrance at their father's swearing-in ceremony yesterday dressed entirely in J.Crew's children's line, Crewcuts. Malia, 10, wore a double-breasted periwinkle blue coat...
WORLD SHARES IN JOY OF AMERICA'S NEW ERA
President Obama's inauguration ignited a flurry of celebration around much of the globe, with joy and jubilation from frozen Antarctica to the capitals of Europe. Temple bells rang out and...
TRAFFIC TANGLES UP WEB
Barack Obama's historic inauguration was a seminal event in cyberspace, where Web sites experienced record traffic and frustrating slowdowns. With so many people at work as Obama took the oath...
BUSH RIDES OFF INTO THE SUNSET
W. is now an ex. George W. Bush flew back to his beloved Texas yesterday, ending eight years in the White House. "The presidency was a joyous experience but, as...
TEDDY SUFFERS SEIZURE
WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Kennedy collapsed with a seizure inside the Capitol yesterday shortly after Barack Obama was sworn in - and the new president rushed to the side of...
MICHELLE IN A 'HUE'-TURN
IT'S the inaugural ball, not the first couple's second wedding vows, but that hasn't stopped several first ladies over the years from wearing white. And Michelle Obama followed suit last...
NOW COMES THE HARD PART FOR O
President Obama rolls up his sleeves today for a frenetic first full day at the office that includes White House meetings with Gen. David Petraeus and a session with key...
STEAK TAKE
'ARE you sure this is a Tom Collins?" I asked our Center Cut waiter, referring to an unsweetened, off-key libation that tasted as if I'd bitten into a whole lemon....
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, JOE DIMAGGIO?
WHAT'S in a name? If it happens to be Joe DiMaggio Jr. - everything. A distant cousin of the Yankee legend, this DiMaggio, 49, recently took over the kitchen of...
THE NEW AUDREY?
PARK CITY, Utah - A little-known 24-year-old British actress has emerged as the "It" girl of this year's Sundance Film Festival. Carey Mulligan is being compared to Audrey Hepburn for...
CITY SAVY SOCIAL
UNTIL a few weeks ago, 22-year-old Olivia Palermo was best known to a certain subset of New Yorkers as one of the city's most controversial socialites: embroiled in an unseemly...
RYAN MUST CONQUER GHOSTS OF 'GAG' GREEN PAST
NOW Rex Ryan stares eyeball to eyeball at evil, the evil curse that has followed the Jets since - that's right - Joe Namath sold his soul to the devil...
REPORT: FAVRE NO-GO FOR PRO BOWL
Don't look for Brett Favre in Hawaii next month. The Jets quarterback has pulled out of the Pro Bowl on Feb. 8 in Honululu, ESPN.com reported last night. Favre, 39,...
NEW COACH MUST ANSWER SOME PRESSING QUESTIONS
Rex Ryan's football education began as a ballboy watching his dad's defenses and continued through stops as an assistant coach in places like Richmond, Ky., and Las Vegas, N.M., before...
MONEY HONEY STICKS
THE Money Honey seems poised to lock up a new pot o' money at CNBC. Maria Bartiromo appears close to signing a new multi-year deal with CNBC, where she is...
'SPONGE' BLAB
'SPONGEBOB Square Pants" is ready for its close-up. Nickelodeon's iconic series is getting the documentary treatment to celebrate its 10th anniversary in July. Noted filmmakers Patrick Creadon and Christine O'Malley...
PRUCHA BACK ON RANGERS BENCH
Petr Prucha doesn't need to look up at Tom Renney's greaseboard to read the writing on the Rangers wall. "When the team needs a spark by changing players, there are...
JEANS MAKE HIM LOOK FIRED
The coffee was fine, but his jeans were a little too hot. Charlie Batista, 28, says he was forced out of his job at java giant Nespresso for wearing "too...
HOSTAGE TYCOON'S EIGHT-DAY ORDEAL
ATHENS, Greece - Kidnappers released an elderly and ill Greek shipping magnate early yesterday, eight days after snatching him at gunpoint from a seaside suburb of Athens, police said. A...
UN CHIEF SEES GAZA DAMAGE
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon inspected the devastation wrought by Israel's onslaught in Gaza yesterday as the territory's militant Hamas rulers held "victory" rallies amid the...
EUROS FLUSH BULGARIA 'ART'
BRUSSELS, Belgium - An art installation of the European Union presidency yesterday covered up the part that showed Bulgaria as a squat toilet after protests from the aggrieved nation. Bulgaria...
SHELLING OUT $93M FOR TORTOISE
SALT LAKE CITY - The Mojave desert tortoise is among the top recipients of money spent by state and federal agencies trying to keep it from the brink of extinction,...
UK HACKER FIGHTING EXTRADITION
LONDON - Lawyers for a British man accused of hacking into US military computers asked Britain's High Court yesterday to block his extradition to the United States. They say Gary...
'HOUSEWIVES' CANCER
The husband of "Desperate Housewives" co-star Marcia Cross is fighting cancer. Tom Mahoney, a stockbroker, "is currently under treatment and is responding very well," the actress' rep told People magazine....
GOTHAM HOORAY FOR MUST-SEE TV
Their eyes glued to jumbo TV screens set up across the city, New Yorkers and tourists watched in awe yesterday as Barack Obama ushered in a "turning point in history."...
'JUDA$' PRIESTS
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Two priests suspected of stealing millions from their Florida church's offering plate to pay for lavish lifestyles are due in court today. Monsignor John Skehan, 81,...
BRO: SIS STOLE MOM'S HOME
A Queens man says his sister bamboozled their elderly mother out of the deed to a $1.2 million house in exclusive Forest Hills Gardens, according to court papers. James Leong...
KOZY'S IN TRAINING FOR SEX
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has enlisted a personal trainer to help get him back in shape - and make him better in the sack. Julie Imperiali, 26, visits Élysée Palace...
MERE PENNIES FOR PONZI DUPES
Investing a dollar and getting 10 cents back in return is a bad deal even in today's market. But recovering 10 cents on the dollar might be optimistic for investors...
PAST HAUNTS 'PERV' PRIEST
A Queens man is suing a Las Vegas priest for allegedly sexually abusing him 20 years ago. Philip Franco, 33, alleges that the Rev. Robert Petekiewicz sexually and physically abused...
THIS SURPRISED CYNIC RAISES A GLASS TO NEW ERA
I DON'T blame President Obama for forgetting to invite me to his inauguration. After all, I was a fierce Obama skeptic from Day One. Didn't vote for him. Didn't trust...
DAVE IN NEW HILL FLIP-FLOP
Gov. Paterson was being as inscrutable as ever yesterday as he first suggested he did, and then said he didn't, have a replacement for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - even...
NOT GUILTY PLEA IN TRIPLE SLAY
CHICAGO - A man accused of killing three members of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson's family in Chicago has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and home invasion. William...
DANCIN' IN THE STREETS
President Obama yesterday led a boisterous, pageant- filled parade down America's main street - a two-hour spectacle hailing civil-rights pioneers and looking optimistically to the future. Just 15 minutes into...
RAP FOR 'BIGGIE' ACTOR
A Brooklyn rapper who's hit the big time playing hip-hop legend Biggie Smalls in the new movie "Notorious" is getting some unwanted notoriety. Jamal Woolard, 33, was busted last year...
HUGE KIDNEY STONE IS QUARRIED
Passing this stone just wasn't an option. Surgeons removed a kidney stone 17 centimeters in diameter - roughly the size of a coconut - from a man in Hungary yesterday....
CITY TAKES BRUISIN' OVER SLIPPERY BRIDGE BIKE LANES
Several East River bridges have turned into a slushy slip-and-slide for pedestrians and cyclists, a local advocacy group claimed yesterday. Transportation Alternatives, a bicyclist- and pedestrian-friendly organization, took the city...
E. SIDE PARLOR HEIST NETS $300
Two thieves must have really kneaded the money when they held up a Manhattan massage parlor. The men asked for massages at the Song Spa on East 48th Street before...
YOU CAN STILL RELISH NATHAN'S
The city's $2.5 billion rezoning plan for Coney Island took a step toward reality yesterday, as Nathan's Famous vowed to stay put for many years to come. While city officials...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan The serial bank-robbery suspect pictured above wished a bank employee "Happy New Year" during his Dec. 31 heist, police said. The smart-aleck suspect is wanted for five robberies at...
BX. FIRE HEARTACHE
Fire ripped through two wood-frame buildings in The Bronx yesterday, leaving several families without a home - including a woman who had gone to Washington to attend the inauguration of...
FATAL KITTY TOSS
A heartless thug killed his teenage cousin's cat in a drunken rage when he tossed it out a sixth-floor window of his Brooklyn apartment, police said. Keyleste Williams, 29, was...
BRITNEY'S '$14 MIL' MEMOIRS
Her life has been an open book - and now Britney Spears may get $14 million to write her memoirs. The 27-year-old pop tart is close to signing a publishing...
SULLYBRATION FOR PILOT AS ENGINE IS LOCATED
Searchers were confident yesterday that they've located the missing engine from the US Airways jet that crash-landed in the Hudson River after an apparent bird strike, and planned last night...
PLANE CRAZY
A US citizen was booted from a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to New York after he complained there were "Arab types" on board, Turkish news media reported. Daniel Sussman...
MYSPACED-OUT COPS
It's a sign of the times. The NYPD is requiring police recruits who have MySpace or Facebook pages to watch as an investigator sifts through their most private postings, The...
SOBER TALK OF CHALLENGE TEMPERS A JOYFUL MOOD
WASHINGTON - Teddy Kennedy is gallant. He at tended the swearing-in of the new president yesterday in the midst of serious illness, white-haired and frail - in his jaunty fedora,...
INSPIRING BREAK FROM THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD
EMBEDDED in the soaring rhetoric and high ideals of President Obama's historic inaugural address yesterday were several key signposts that show a man with a fresh new way of thinking...
QNS. GIVES MTA ROYAL REAMING
MTA officials and board members got an earful last night for the second time in two weeks - this time from Queens residents. The straphangers railed against the proposed fare...
THOMPSON GIVES BACK TOUSSIE $$
City Comptroller Bill Thompson, who is running for mayor, returned a $500 donation to real-estate scam artist and Brooklyn developer Isaac Toussie, who was pardoned and then quickly unpardoned by...
GANG STABS OPERA TEEN TO DEATH
The son of a Metropolitan Opera singer was stabbed to death on a Queens street, police said yesterday. Nicholas Donaldi, 18, whose mother, Maria, is an alto in the company's...
DAY OF DESTINY FOR ALL AMERICA
Taking his place in history as the first black US president, Barack Obama yesterday hailed the nation's unwavering resolve and made a sweeping call to all citizens to join him...
CARTER SNUBS THE CLINTONS
President Obama might have an easier time uniting the nation - or even bringing peace to the Middle East - than healing the rift between former Presidents Jimmy Carter and...
MUSIC 'FARE' WAS UNFAIR FOR RIDER
Talk about music piracy. Uniformed JFK Airport officers forced a teary-eyed, 20-year-old woman to surrender her red iPod Nano as cab fare - or be "taken downtown" - when her...
ROBERTS IS THE OAF OF OFFICE
President Obama's oath of office was slightly marred yesterday when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts stumbled over the word "faithfully," throwing off the new commander-in-chief. The oath, dictated by...
WHOLE NEW 'BALL' GAME
They saved their first dance for the 'hood. To the classic ballad "At Last," President Obama and First Lady Michelle slow-danced at the Neighborhood Ball, the first of 10 all-through-the-night...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Spontaneous combustion is real, man. Investigators in Tennessee were baffled when they found a man with second- and third-degree burns in his apartment but there were no signs of fire...
STARR REPORT
'House' in order "House" (Hugh Laurie) continues to score solid num bers, pulling in nearly 15 mil lion viewers on Fox Monday night (8-9) and finishing first in adults 18-49...
DEPARTING SHOT
PRESIDENT George W. Bush may have left the White House with approval ratings somewhere beneath the Underground Railroad, but "Broadway" George W. Bush (that is, Will Ferrell) arrives in New...
REFLECTIONS ON HIS LIVERPOOL
TERENCE Davies' "Of Time and the City" is a highly personal documentary about the filmmaker's hometown, the English city of Liverpool. And no, he doesn't like The Beatles. Davies, who...
'LOST' FEMME FATALE
BRITISH actress Zuleikha Robinson is playing one of only three new characters in the new season of "Lost," which starts tonight. Known for her role as Gaia - a defiant...
THE TIME SHIFTERS
SO, two quantum physi cists walk into a bar and one says to the other, "It's 10 p.m. Do you know what time it is?" If you love that joke,...
KNICKS' DUHON REFLECTS ON PICKUP GAMES WITH OBAMA
Chris Duhon got to know President Barack Obama during pickup games in Chicago last spring and summer. Here are his thoughts, as told to Marc Berman, on yesterday's inauguration of...
OBAMA'S RISE SWEET - BUT CAN'T ERASE BAD OLD DAYS
(Second of two parts) LOS ANGELES - Base ball's commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, said black players couldn't compete on the highest level against whites. Proving him ignorant aside from...
HARRIS OFF NETS BENCH - AND ONTO HOT SEAT
All eyes in the Nets' universe will be on Devin Harris tonight when the Nets take on Chris Paul and the Hornets in New Orleans (8:00, YES, WBBR-1130 AM). And...
KIM OUT OF HOPE GOLF
LA QUINTA, Calif. - Anthony Kim withdrew from the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic because of a sore left shoulder, leaving the tournament without a player ranked among the top 15....
LIKE OLD TIMES FOR SHANAHAN
Some of the Devils fans who will welcome back Brendan Shanahan tonight weren't born when he left, pushing 18 years ago. It was the Meadowlands, the uniforms were white, red...
ISLANDERS' DIPIETRO OUT FOR SEASON
In a season filled with disasters, add one more unsurprising one to the list: Rick DiPietro will not be back this year. The Islanders finally announced yesterday that their franchise...
DE LA HOYA THE PROMOTER HYPES MMA CARD
It might have been the worst timing for a press conference for Oscar De La Hoya to formally announce his entry into mixed martial arts. About the same minute Barack...
D'ANTONI NOT SWEATING VISIT FROM EX-TEAM
Mike D'Antoni knows he'll face an elite team tonight, one that's still strong without him as coach.Despite his history with the Suns, the Knicks coach is concerned only about a...
GALLINARI'S PLAYING TIME WON'T SKYROCKET
It sounds as though Danilo Gallinari's playing time could increase at least a little bit, but Mike D'Antoni doesn't want to go overboard with Gallinari's minutes just yet. In the...
HALEY DRIVES CARDS' OFFENSE
TEMPE, Ariz. - Todd Haley is loud, blunt and often argues with his players. He also is an emerging coaching star as the man who calls the shots for the...
LARRY GIVING TOMLIN 'FITZ'
PITTSBURGH - Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald might be the most scouted player in Steelers history. For two years, they needed only to look out their office windows to watch him....
CHURCH, METS OK $2.8M DEAL
Two more down, two to go. Ryan Church and Angel Pagan yesterday became the latest Mets to forego arbitration, agreeing to one-year contracts with the team. Church will receive $2.8...
JETER MAKES 1ST CUT FOR U.S. DREAM TEAM
It won't be last year's All-Star Game, when the American League's starting infield was all Yankees and Red Sox, but this could come close. Maybe the most noticeable aspect of...
HOWARD ASKS PHILLIES FOR $18M
Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard asked for $18 million in arbitration yesterday, the third-highest figure submitted since the process began in 1974. Philadelphia offered $14 million to the 2006 NL...
KNICKS REACTION TO OBAMA
Hours after President Barack Obama's inauguration - after an African-America became the leader of the free world and brought Dr. Martin Luther King's dream the closest it has ever been...
ARIZONA FANS TARGET MCNABB
CHANDLER, Ariz. - Two Cardinals fans hung their team's flag in a tree and burned "Go Cards," "Go Kurt," and "I heart AZ" in the yard of Eagles quarterback Donovan...
SPORTS SHORTS
NCAA: KU's Self under scrutiny Kansas officials are checking to see if basketball coach Bill Self's brief encounter with a top recruit might constitute an NCAA infraction. Self agrees he...
RANGERS ROLLING INTO ALL-STAR BREAK
And so the Rangers go into the All-Star break on another one of those mystifying mini-rolls they've been able to construct this season. The Blueshirts rarely look formidable, but the...
NEW DOLPHINS OWNER: PARCELLS STAYS
MIAMI - New Dolphins majority owner Stephen Ross won't mess with success: He says Bill Parcells will remain in charge of the football operation. Ross, a New York real estate...
FEDERER WINS IN 86 MINUTES
MELBOURNE- Roger Federer's quest for a record 14th major got more compelling today when he set up a third-round match with Marat Safin at the Australian Open. Second-ranked Federer was...
DUKE TOPS N.C. STATE
Gerald Henderson scored 21 points and No. 2 Duke pulled away late to beat North Carolina State 73-56 last night in Durham, N.C. Nolan Smith hit consecutive 3-pointers 30 seconds...
COLLISION COURSE: GOOSE VS. PLANE
THE ISSUE: The danger posed by Canada geese, which likely caused the US Airways' crash. *** As a licensed pilot, I can tell you that flight-safety issues are always a...
MOORE'S WAR ON TRUTH - AND THE HARM DONE
THE ISSUE: Michael Moore's unauthorized use of a photo of an Iraqi girl killed in a bombing. *** Michael Moore's use of a photo of a wounded Iraqi girl to...
'TO SET ASIDE CHILDISH THINGS'
WONDERING if his publisher liked the manuscript of "Les Miserables," Victor Hugo sent a terse note: "?" His publisher replied as tersely: "!" That was the nation's response to Barack...
ONE JOURNEY ENDS
WE have come to the end of one extraordinary American journey - even while, as our new president noted yesterday, the larger journey continues. It's a moment to celebrate, whatever...
FROM BITTERNESS TO HOPE & JOY
THE Rev. Joseph Lowery's inaugural benediction - which began with the words from "Lift Every Voice And Sing," often called the Negro National Anthem - underscores how far the nation...
A LEADER FOR US ALL
IN his inaugural address, President Obama spoke with force and depth - and went far to confirm himself as more than the winner of an election, but as the leader...
MITCHELL'S MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
President Obama is reportedly set to appoint former Sen. George Mitchell as America's new special envoy to the Middle East. Good luck to Mitchell with that. Sure, the former Senate...
A NEW BEGINNING
Barack Obama, whose soaring rhetoric carried him from the back benches of the Illinois legislature to the pres idency of the United States in four short years, dialed it down...
RETURN TO ORATORY: WHY O CAN LEAD
O's symbolic status lets us hear him in a special way. THE amazing thing about President Obama's inaugural ad dress was that America was sitting rapt listening to, of all...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Warner cuts Time Warner's Warner Bros. Enter tainment plans to elimi nate about 800 jobs, or 10 percent of its staff, in response to the US re cession and deteriorat...
UK EYES ASSET BUY FOR CREDIT MARKETS
Bank of England Gov. Mervyn King said officials may start buying assets in the next weeks to loosen credit markets as the lowest interest rates since 1694 fail to avert...
PRINCE ALWALEED'S FUND TAKES $8.2B HIT ON CITI STAKE
Kingdom Holding Co., the investment company controlled by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, reported a fourth-quarter loss of almost $8.26 billion after Citigroup shares plunged in the credit crisis. Kingdom...
AUDI LOOKS TO SCORE BIG WITH SUPER BOWL SPOT
While most of its luxury rivals retrench, Audi is looking to grab more market share with a stunt-filled Super Bowl spot. After generating buzz with its "Godfather" spoof last year,...
NADEL'S SECOND STRIKE
The accountant for missing Sarasota, Fla., hedge manager Arthur Nadel was slapped with a cease-and-desist order in 1999 for unlawfully practicing as a certified public accountant, The Post has learned....
NO BANK HOLIDAY
Citigroup led banking's bad news parade yesterday as it slashed its once-rich dividend to an embarrassing penny while investors raised new alarms that big banks are insolvent money pits. The...
DOLAN CAVES IN NEWSDAY ROW
Newsday can call off the search parties - Editor-in-Chief John Mancini has been found. After nearly a week of being MIA, Mancini resurfaced yesterday in the Newsday newsroom, as it...
INVESTORS TURN THEIR BACK ON NEW PREZ
Gripped by the weakest economy in decades, Wall Street posted its worst performance ever for an incoming president. Analysts said the global banking crisis rattled investors, sending the Dow Jones...
NEWSSTAND HOLDUP
FOR the nation's magazines, seven is proving to be an unlucky number. Ron Burkle's magazine distribution company Source Interlink Cos. is joining Anderson News in demanding publishers pay an additional...
Knicks talking Obama
By BRIAN LEWISHours after President Barack Obama's inauguration _ after an African-America became the leader of the free world and brought Dr. Martin Luther King's dream the closest it has...
Sundance: A Star is Porn
Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience,'' which debuted tonight as an unannounced work-in-progress at the Eccles after being shot in October, shares several distinctions. It's apparently the first film to reference...
Mets new Triple-A affiliate unveils new uniforms
With a new affiliation comes new duds for the Buffalo Bisons. After spending the last several years with a white, green and red color scheme during their time as the...
OBAMAS DANCE TO 'AT LAST' AT NEIGHBORHOOD BALL
"At Last" may have been just what President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were thinking Tuesday night as they glided through their first inaugural dance to the Etta James...
DEALS: $499pp, 4 nights at Atlantis
Big savings at Atlantis. You know. Paradise Island? In The Bahamas?Anyone who's been knows that cheap is not this mega-resort's forte. So, it behooves those interested to pay attention to...
NY SUBURB MOM ACCUSED OF SERVING ALCOHOL TO MINORS
A Long Island woman has been accused of serving liquor to minors at a house party in West Islip. Suffolk County Police arrested 53-year-old Clare Gude on Tuesday afternoon on...
INAUGURATION SECURITY TIGHT; COLD TAKING A TOLL
Fifty-eight federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and tens of thousands of cops secured the inauguration of Barack Obama and parade that followed - and no one got busted....
BUSH RETURNS TO STATE HE LOVES
Leaving the White House for the last time on Tuesday, President George W. Bush blew a kiss out the window of his presidential limousine, a gesture that capped an eight-year...
BOATS SCOUR ICY HUDSON RIVER FOR US AIRWAYS ENGINE
Sonar-equipped police boats trolled the frigid, murky Hudson River on Tuesday in search of the missing engine from US Airways Flight 1549 that investigators want to examine to figure out...