February 6, 2009
F-Mart out at least three weeks
Prized outfielder Fernando Martinez, the club's top prospect, will miss the first week or so of spring training after suffering a strained right elbow in the Caribbean Series this week....
STARS STILL DON'T WANT AVERY
The Dallas Stars said today they still do not want Sean Avery on their hockey team, and his agent said the Rangers are a "logical" landing spot for the troubled...
OBAMA PROMISES 9/11 FAMILIES 'QUICK JUSTICE'
WASHINGTON - President Obama met with the relatives of 9/11 victims and the 17 sailors killed in the bombing of the USS Cole this afternoon - promising them he "would...
PHOTOS: Four Seasons Bora Bora
Don't get me wrong. Six-month-old Four Seasons Bora Bora is an incredible looking place, no doubt. As incredible as the crapload of 10,000 other over-water resorts in the area, in...
JOBA EXCITED TO GET STARTED
TAMPA, Fla. - Yankees right-hander Joba Chamberlain threw 31 fastballs and changeups in the bullpen Friday and is set to use all of his pitches during his next mound session....
ST. JOHN'S, MARY IMMACULATE TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY
After a week of frantic negotiations failed, the cash-strapped St. John’s Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica announced they would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and close...
FACE TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT LEAVES HOSPITAL
She can eat pizza. And hamburgers. She can smell perfume, drink coffee from a cup, and purse her lips as if to blow a kiss. Except that one lip is...
SPITZER HOOKER RING BOSS GETS PRISON
The boss of the prostitution ring that ensnared former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. Mark Brener learned his fate Friday in...
The Rookies, Yi, Bobby
By FRED KERBERBrook Lopez and Ryan Anderson have been rookie revelations for the Nets and right now are averaging 19.2 combined points.And as good as they've been, they have a...
Red Bull notes
Just some minor Red Bull housekeeping for you guys:The striker that showed up and joined the team in Florida is Leonel Saint-Preux, a 23-year-old Haitian. He was on the National...
PHELPS UNSURE OF 2012 GAMES: REPORT
Embattled Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps now says he's contemplating whether or not he will compete at the 2012 London Games. "This is a decision of mine that I'm not going...
911 CALL CENTER SHRINKS
by amanda marinaccio Good news for Bronx residents as the 911 Emergency Call Center is brought down in size and price. On Monday, January 26, the NYC Department of Design...
PERMANENT CLOSURE FOR LADDER 53
When Mayor Michael Bloomberg released his doomsday budget that called for the elimination of 23,000 city jobs, it became known that one of the casualties might be City Island's Ladder...
ACTIVIST WARNS PEPSI PLANT PRIME FOR VANDALS
Community leaders and activists in Ferry Point are worried about the rear of the massive new Pepsi Bottling plant in the community becoming a haven for graffiti once a work...
PENNYFIELD CAR WRECKED IN HIT AND RUN
Residents along Pennyfield Avenue have had enough excessive speeding on their streets. Recently a fast-moving SUV wiped out a parked car. On Friday, January 30, Carol Nuzzolo's vehicle was damaged...
SHERIDAN AVE. TENANTS BLAST COSMETIC FIXUP
Carlton Hazel hears the hammers, smells the sawdust, sees the fresh paint. But he isn't satisfied. Hazel deems the ongoing repairs at 1530 Sheridan Avenue merely "cosmetic." Hazel's landlord, SG2...
2 PLEAD GUILTY IN NYC BUS BRIBE CASE
Two former New York City school system employees have pleaded guilty to charges that they accepted bribes from private bus companies. Prosecutors say Neil Cremin and Ira Sokol were among...
OCTUPLET MOM: I TOOK A GAMBLE
Octomom Nadya Suleman said she had six embryos placed in her uterus as part of her fertility procedure - more than industry guidelines recommend - and was well aware that...
Revis getting head start
The AFC Pro Bowl team is being coached by the Baltimore Ravens staff, with plenty of coaches remaining who worked with former defensive coordinator Rex Ryan.That's given CB Darrelle Revis...
SALMONELLA SCHOOL SCARE
WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department shipped possibly contaminated peanut butter and other foods to schools in at least three states under a contract with the Georgia company blamed for a...
QUEENS FIFTH MOST EXPENSIVE SPOT IN NATION; REPORT
The cost of living is pushing the middle class out of New York City and Queens is a large part of the problem, according to a new report. The Center...
Eli, Peyton enjoying Pro Bowl
The Honolulu Advertiser has a report on Eli Manning and brother Peyton competing against each other at the Pro Bowl."It's really fun for us because we don't get a whole...
HERO PILOT TO RETURN TO NYC
New York City never got a chance to say a proper thank you to the hero pilot who miraculously landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River last month,...
BRIGHTON BEACH REZONE - CB13 TO HOLD HEARINGS ON PLAN TO REVAMP 50 BLOCKS
The Brighton Beach downzoning plan is now in the public review phase. Last week, the Department of City Planning certified its long-awaited rezoning plan. Community Board 13 now has 60...
FATHER OF SLAIN DENTIST TAKES THE STAND
In long and emotionally painful testimony before his son’s accused killers Thursday, Khaifka Malakov recounted his son’s final minutes with his granddaughter before he was gunned down in a Forest...
FLA. DOCTOR LOSES LICENSE AFTER BOTCHED ABORTION
Fla. doctor loses license after botched abortion TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a Florida doctor accused of medical malpractice in a botched...
Feliciano avoids arbitration
The Mets have gone to arbitration just once since 1992 (last year with Oliver Perez) and won't have to worry about that this year, either, after reliever Pedro Feliciano signed...
Strangest Bernie Madoff Fallout: Gray Lady Disses Norma Shearer
Up in MGM's version of heaven -- the one the studio conjured up for "Ziegfeld Follies'' -- I'm not sure whether the former Queen of the Lot, Norma Shearer, is...
PROGRESS MADE IN STIMULUS BILL NEGOTIATIONS: REID
WASHINGTON - The Senate Democratic leader expressed optimism Friday about the prospects for a massive economic recovery package while President Barack Obama used the cudgel of his office - and...
PUTIN'S $45K ABBA OBSESSION
Mamma mia! Who knew that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was a dancing queen? Australian ABBA tribute band Bjorn Again was recently paid a jaw-dropping $45,000 by the Kremlin for...
Starr Report: Chapter 11
Former Ch. 11 reporter Glenn Thomson, laid off in December, says the station won't cough up his severance pay. "I'm due four months' severance and they don't want to pay,"...
VAL KILMER PONDERS GOV RUN
Holy hornet's nest, it's Gov. Batman. Following in the footsteps of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor Val Kilmer said he is pondering running for governor of New Mexico next year....
GRIM JOBS REPORT SHOWS NO SIGNS OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY
The country's unemployment rate jumped to a staggering 7.6 percent last month after recession-battered employers eliminated 598,000 jobs -- the most at one time since 1974 -- in another sign...
THE COMING STORM WITH JETER
FROM JOEL SHERMANIn the Post today, I wrote a column about the coming storm when the Yankees have to determine what to do when Derek Jeter's contract expires following next...
3 UP: THE DEREK JETER EDITION
In the Post today, I wrote a column about the coming storm when the Yankees have to determine what to do when Derek Jeter's contract expires following next season. Here...
UNIFORMLY ABSURD
WASHINGTON - New uniforms for everyone! The massive $900 billion stimulus bill making its way through Congress would require the feds to purchase up to 100,000 uniforms for the Transportation...
PAPA'S 'HIT' ANGUISH
Khaika Malakov hunched forward on the witness stand and sighed deeply, as if in mourning, as he recounted his last moments with his son. Testifying in Queens Supreme Court yesterday,...
DRUG-SEX COP IN PLEA DEAL
A Brooklyn narcotics cop who allegedly had sex with an informant and paid her for tips using seized drugs entered a secret guilty plea in a sealed courtroom yesterday, sources...
FAKE-DEATH WIFE'S WOE$
The estranged wife of an Indiana money manager who tried to fake his death by crashing his plane dipped into bank accounts with investors' money a week before she filed...
PATERSON'S PAROLE PICK QUIT AMID SEX FUROR: ACCUSER
Gov. Paterson's nominee for parole chief abruptly dropped his bid for the job after it was discovered he had been accused of sexually harassing a female employee 14 years ago,...
BAM SLAMS FOES OF $$ PLAN
A fired-up President Obama teed off on his critics last night, slamming Republicans for dragging their heels on his almost $1 trillion stimulus plan. "This is not a game," said...
SC RACIST SAYS SORRY TO POL FOR '61 ASSAULT LEWIS
WASHINGTON - Elwin Wilson was an unabashed racist, the sort who once hung a black doll from a noose outside his home. John Lewis was a young civil-rights leader bent...
CZAR VLAD'S TOLERANT TYRANNY
WHILE Western leaders remain mired in 20th-century thinking, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia has reinvented dictatorship for a new century. The new czar's creation is tolerant totalitarianism. Putin's one...
BITING BLOOMBERG: G'HOG SPEAKS FOR ALL
THE ISSUE: The Staten Island Zoo groundhog that took a bite of Mayor Bloomberg's finger. *** Can you blame the groundhog ("Groundhog Day: Lingering Questions," Editorial, Feb. 4)? After being...
MIKE SCOFFS AT ELEX-CASH CAP
Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg is refusing to agree to a spending limit for his third-term bid, dismissing it as ridiculous. He poured $155 million of his own money into his first...
'STIMULUS' FOLLIES: PELOSI'S POISON
AFTER defending President Obama on TV last week, I found a curt message on my voicemail: "I have major problems with this stimulus package." It was the first-ever call from...
DON'T COPY BILL'S MISTAKE
PRESIDENT Obama must now decide whether he'll govern from the center or from the left. President Bill Clinton faced the exact same decision in 1993 - and spent years paying...
HOSP DEATH SPURS REFORM
Kings County Hospital "failed" a psychiatric patient who died after collapsing, ignored, in the emergency room - and the facility is undergoing a major overhaul, a top city health official...
WARNER MUSIC'S SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT IN Q1
Warner Music Group swung to a first-quarter profit thanks to a one-time gain from the sale of its minority stake in artist-representation firm Front Line Management. CEO Edgar Bronfman has...
THIS GOOSE IS COOKED
THE ISSUE: What to do about Canada geese, which pose a safety threat to airplanes. *** I agree with your editorial, "Geese No Peace," (Feb. 2) - the Canada geese...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Five boys, all believed to be students from a Gramercy Park Catholic school, were victims of wanton sex attacks over the past five months, police said. The victims, ages...
HOME LOAN ASSIST
A cornerstone of the economic recovery plan that President Barack Obama is expected to unveil Monday will be modifying problem mortgages, The Post has learned. In a nod to Main...
IRAN-ARMS MYSTERY
A SHIP now being held in Cyprus presents a test of the Obama administration and of the West's efforts to stop Iran's export of arms - indeed, a test of...
'CUT!' & RUN LOOMS
Hollywood on the Hudson is in danger of losing its luster. A highly successful state program that pro vides tax credits to lure TV and film productions to New York...
FIRE HERO'S 'LEAP' TEARS
A Bronx firefighter wept yesterday as he described how he and two colleagues jumped from a fourth-floor window as flames closed in during the 2005 "Black Sunday" inferno. "I went...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Estee cuts Estee Lauder said it will cut 2,000 jobs as de clines in makeup and perfume sales reduced second-quarter profit. The job cuts, which rep resent 6 percent of...
GINSBURG CANCER OP
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery yesterday for pancreatic cancer, raising the possibility that one of the ideologically divided court's leading liberals - and its only...
THE STREET JEERS IMMELT'S SWAGGER
Wall Street gave a resounding "Boo" to GE chief Jeff Immelt for his swaggering remarks that he can run the conglomerate fine without holding onto its gold-plated, AAA rating. Already-skittish...
HAMAS' BAGMEN CAUGHT WITH $9M+
CAIRO - Hamas negotiators left Egypt without a long-term cease-fire with Israel yesterday - but not before members of the group's delegation were stopped at the Gaza border carrying millions...
MONEY WOES HIT WORLD OF EXECS, TOO
As the US economy buckles, executives are delaying retirement, cutting back on their pension savings and trimming contributions to their children's college funds, according to a survey released yesterday. A...
SULLY RELIVES SPLASH
First came the bird strike. Then everything went dead silent. "It was the worst, sickening, pit-of-your-stomach, falling-through-the-floor feeling I've ever felt in my life," hero pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger...
BAD LUXE RETAILERS ARE THE LATEST 'RED' SCARE
Steep sales declines in January stoked fears that retailers haven't seen the worst of the downturn, with more shakeouts and strategy shifts to come, especially at the high end. The...
RUDY: GOP OUGHT TO LIKE MIKE
Rudy Giuliani and former Gov. George Pataki shored up Mayor Bloomberg's right flank yesterday in Hizzoner's struggle for the Republican line, saying the mayor is the best option they have....
10 YRS. LATER, RED TAPE KEEPS DIALLO MOM FROM HIS GRAVE
It's been 10 years since Amadou Diallo was gunned down in a hail of police gunfire outside his Bronx home, but an immigration issue continues to prevent his mother from...
MORE TAXING PROBLEMS
WASHINGTON - Hilda Solis became the latest Cabinet nominee to face questions about unpaid taxes yesterday as a Senate panel abruptly postponed a scheduled vote on her confirmation as labor...
IRAQ VOTE A TRIUMPH FOR US ALLY
The purple-fingered voters who streamed out of polls in Iraq's peaceful elections said as much about the state of the country's security than did the results - announced yesterday -...
JUST SHUT UP!
Art Shamsky's enraged ex-wife better just zip it, the Miracle Met's lawyer warned yesterday. "I cautioned [her lawyer] today that if he doesn't zipper up his client's mouth, we're going...
SEC'S BLIND SPOT
Newly installed SEC boss Mary Schapiro is quietly searching to replace Linda Thomsen, the agency's embattled enforcement chief, with a prosecutor's Street cred, according to people familiar with the situation....
A BONUS BY ANOTHER NAME IS CALLED A 'RETENTION'
Just don't call it a bonus. That was the message from Morgan Stanley Co-President James Gorman to his legion of brokers after they asked about the details of the billions...
NEWS CORP. POSTS LOSS; CABLE UNIT GAINS 27%
News Corp. yesterday reported a fiscal second-quarter loss on the back of an $8.4 billion writedown on the value of its television stations, newspapers and other assets, which obscured continued...
THAT SMELL IS NJ
Who knew that America's armpit could smell so sweet? Turns out the syrupy smell that has wafted across the Hudson from time to time for the past three years was...
A LITTLE MUGGING
A 4-foot-11 thug beat a 14-year-old boy senseless in a bizarre mugging where the victim was lured with a promise of buying Air Jordan sneakers, The Post has learned. After...
VICTIM EXPECTED RUBOUT BY MOB GOON: WITNESS
Court officer Albert Gelb knew he was going to die. Just days before he was allegedly gunned down by a vengeful mob hit man, Gelb, 24, told a friend it...
ELITE-SCHOOL FEARS EASE
Fears that the tanking economy could drive private- and parochial-school kids to the city's elite public high schools in droves weren't backed up by Department of Education data. Applications from...
SLAUGHTER BY SOAPS ON ROPES
In a plot worthy of a soap opera, "serial" killers are wiping out the top stars of daytime dramas - often in pairs. The economic crisis has finally trickled down...
SPITZER GAL BARES EXEC HO $CANDAL
Horny corporate bigwigs racked up huge bills on their company expense accounts for sex with high-priced hookers, says the madam whose girls were linked to Eliot Spitzer. Kristin Davis tells...
THE SOURCE FINALLY DRIES UP
Fortunoff is set to be portioned off. Confirming a report in The Post on Saturday, the 86-year-old jewelry-and-housewares chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday. Now, Fortunoff is being circled...
MOODY'S WILL REVIEW SOME RATINGS
Moody's Investors Service is reviewing the ratings of $302.6 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities as real-estate values drop and property owners fall behind on payments. The review encompasses 52 percent...
SORRY, O: 'I WON' WON'T COVER THIS
Faith-based economy policy? BARACK Obama, a reputed master of the persuasive art, has settled on his central argument for the stimulus bill: I won. That Obama is reduced to this...
BERNIE'S GOT NOTHING ON FED LOOTERS
WASHINGTON - It could very well be re membered as the $900 billion Ponzi scheme. Faced with the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt hired millions of Americans to build great...
S.O.S.
President Obama is right. It would be a "catastrophe" if we don't pass a stimulus bill - but it would be a much, much bigger catastrophe if he allows THIS...
INSIDERS ACCUSED IN $11.6M SCHEME
The feds yesterday accused two mergers-and-acquisitions advisers with using inside information to enrich friends and family, including a former hedge-fund manager, with ill-gotten gains of $11.6 million. Nicos Achilleas Stephanou,...
THRILLS & CHILLS AT CITY 'BOARD' GAMES
We're heading down a slippery slope - and, dude, it's gnarly! More than 2,000 people braved icy temps yesterday for a rare Manhattan spectacle - world-class snowboarders speeding down a...
WAL-MART'S EMPTY RACKS
TERRY McDonell, group ed itor of Sports Illustrated, may have a big headache on his hands as he gets ready to publish SI's swimsuit issue, his biggest issue of the...
LIST SHOCK FOR MADOFF INVESTORS
Bianca Murray was already dealing with the agony of losing her entire life savings - and facing a $2,210 tax payment due today - when the 82-year-old widow got a...
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO A LAWYER
'We're going to be in the Hudson," said Chesley Sullenberger. And so they were: the passengers and crew of US Airways Flight 1549, all 155 of them, on an icy,...
TIME TO GET TOUGH
Uh-oh - it's worse than anyone thought: A report this week by investment bank UBS says the city's economic nosedive has only just begun. Unemployment, the report said, may soon...
CHARLIE'S 30-YEAR PROBLEM
"Assets worth between $239,026 and $831,000 appear or disappear with no disclosure of when they were acquired, how long they were held or when they were sold." - The nonpartisan...
BABY MAMA OUT FITTY MIL
A Manhattan judge has thrown out a $50 million lawsuit against 50 Cent by the baby mama who said he'd promised to always take care of her. Shaniqua Tompkins charged...
9/11 KIN MEETING WITH PREZ ON GITMO
President Obama, under fire for suspending trials of suspected terrorists and for phasing out the Guantanamo prison in Cuba, has invited relatives of 9/11 victim's to the White House for...
CITY JOBLESS RATE MAY HIT CRIPPLING 10.5%
New York City's economic decline is likely in its early stages - and the unemployment rate may reach 10.5 percent, a level not seen since the mid-1970s administration of Mayor...
STATE'S 100G DO-ZILCH JOB
ALBANY - It's a job that would make a recession victim cry: nearly $100,000 a year to sit in a warm state office doing nothing except listening to an iPod...
BROOD-THIRSTY
Having 14 kids was no accident. Octomom Nadya Suleman said that she planned all along to be a one-woman baby boom, and adding eight children to the six she already...
DOUBLE DUNKING
It was the bong seen 'round the world - but Michael Phelps is just beginning to take the hit. Kellogg yesterday became the first major consumer firm to ax its...
BIZMAN SCAMS DAUGHTER IN ID THEFT: COPS
A Long Island businessman betrayed his daughter - stealing her identity and wrecking her life by taking out nearly $100,000 in phony loans, authorities said. Jacob Armon's scheme was uncovered...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
When one is not enough. A 51-year-old man was busted in a Florida parking lot engaged in a tryst with several blow-up sex dolls in the back seat of his...
RED STORM PLAYERS LET ROBERTS DOWN
There isn't much worse a team can do than talk the talk and then flop the flop. That's what St. John's did last night. The day after several Red Storm...
XAVIER WINS 11TH STRAIGHT
B.J. Raymond scored 24 points and led a 3-point barrage that swept No. 9 Xavier to its 11th straight win, an 83-74 victory over Temple last night in Cincinnati that...
ISLES' FOUR-GAME WIN STREAK SNAPPED
SUNRISE, Fla. - It was good while it lasted. Richard Zednik's highlights-reel goal in the second period led the surging Panthers to a 3-2 victory, snapping the Islanders' season-high, four-game...
NETS' SCHEDULE TURNING BRUTAL
If history is a gauge, this next stretch of games might not be pretty. The Nets have another one of those five-game stretches from hell, facing five teams - Denver,...
BLUESHIRTS SET OFFENSIVE GOALS
The problem is hardly a new one for the Rangers: How do they get more goals? They enter tonight's game in Dallas (8:30, MSG2, WABC 770 AM) losers of three...
MEMORIAL DAY
HAVING just flown in from Amsterdam, I blamed jet lag for the confusion and claustrophobia that engulfed me watching "Memorial Day." A second viewing proved otherwise, putting the blame squarely...
LIFE. SUPPORT. MUSIC.
IN 2004, Jason Crigler, a hap pening New York guitarist, suffered a brain hemorrhage during a Manhattan concert. He was left unresponsive and near death, and doctors said that if...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
IT'S GEEK TO ME February - 8 Manhattan should be a pretty safe place for a few days, considering the world's top superheroes will be in town for New York...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
ANYBODY HOME?: Tour the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a very busy place these days, and find out what its been up to. Today's free tours start at half-past...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Robert Downey Sr.'s satirical "Babo 73" (1964) tells of an incompetent US presidential administration pitted against the diabolical "Red Siamese" government tomorrow at 6 p.m. and Sunday...
DANCE
LINCOLN CENTER: The New York City Ballet tackles Peter Martin's two-act version of Balanchine's "Swan Lake" as well as Balanchine's rarely performed "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" tomorrow at 2 and...
CABARET
FEINSTEINS: Jane Monheit performs cabaret and jazz standards at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow. 540 Park Ave. South; 212-339-4095. METROPOLITAN ROOM: Skie Ocasio sings Broadway classics and '80s ballads that...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Conductor Kurt Masur and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter team with the New York Philharmonic for program of Mendelssohn tonight and tomorrow at 8. Lincoln Center; 917-441-6109. CARNEGIE HALL:...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: The Yellowjackets perform through Sunday at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. 131 W. Third St.; 212-475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Sax star Benny Golson celebrates his 80th birthday with a...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
ANA GABRIEL: One of the world's most successful Latin artists sings tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Sixth Ave.; 212-307-7171. THE JUG ADDICTS: In the dozen...
OFF-BROADWAY
(Starred reviews by Frank Scheck)"BECKY SHAW": *** 1/2 Gina Gionfriddo's scathingly funny, class-conscious comedy about a blind date gone horribly awry. Second Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St.; 212-246-4422. Closes...
LAKERS STOP CELTICS' STREAK AT 12 GAMES
BOSTON - Ray Allen was still on the floor, knocked on his back, when the Lakers began hugging and chest-bumping under the 2008 NBA Championship banner that was earned at...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... HAROLD REYNOLDS
MLB Network's Harold Reynolds told the Post's Justin Terranova that the Yankees and Mets should go after Manny Ramirez, and if they do, the World Series is theirs to lose....
FIGHTING NATURAL GAS ISLE
IT will be 14 times the size of Giants Stadium, require 14 million tons of fill and they're going to build it less than 15 miles off our beaches. Does...
DEVILS REFUSE TO 'DIVE' TO GAIN MAN-ADVANTAGE
First in the Atlantic in points, last in the entire NHL - by a lot - in power play chances. The Devils say they are paying for playing like men....
INJURY, TORMENT KEEPING CURRY OFF THE COURT
Eddy Curry - dealing with an injured right knee and a tragic January - was spotted briefly at Knicks practice yesterday before he ducked into a back room. But Curry...
LEWIS SEEKING REUNION WITH REX
Could it be that one of the baddest linebackers in the NFL could be coming to the Jets as a free agent this offseason? If you listen to Ravens' LB...
THIS DEFENSIVE GENERAL BELONGS IN BIG APPLE
THE latest, maybe greatest rea son the Jets need Brett Favre to retire is the real chance to bring Ray Lewis, the best leader in the sport, to Gang Green....
KNICKS OUT TO END 'NIGHTMARE WEEK' WITH WIN
When the Knicks' schedule came out, this week's grueling three-game stretch jumped off the page: The Lakers, Cavaliers and Celtics - currently the NBA's three best teams - all playing...
JETER'S NEXT CONTRACT WILL BE MOTHER OF ALL YANKEES FLAPS
CONSIDER this week, when Joe Torre revealed his inner vigilante, to be just another trial run toward the mother of all Yankee controversies. Because if you think Torre blindsiding Brian...
PATRIOTS TAG CASSEL FOR INSURANCE
BOSTON - The Patriots placed the franchise tag on Matt Cassel yesterday, making it tougher for other teams to sign the free agent quarterback. The Patriots might keep him if...
TWO COACHES JOIN RYAN'S STAFF
The Jets yesterday made several assistant coaching hirings that appear to have closed out the majority of Rex Ryan's staff other than a quality control coach or two. The Jets...
JETER'S CLOTHES ENCOUNTER VS. YANKS
Derek Jeter has to hope there won't be a bench-clearing brawl during the March 3 exhibition game in which the Yankees will participate. In that case, which comes first for...
METS EYE LEFTY RELIEVER OHMAN
Omar Minaya confirmed this week that the Mets remain in the market for a low-priced left-handed reliever, and that reliever might turn out to be Will Ohman. The Mets' GM...
RANGERS TRYING TO BRING AVERY BACK
The Rangers have conducted thorough internal discussions regarding the feasibility of bringing Sean Avery back to Broadway and appear to be on the verge of allowing Dallas to send Hockey's...
JUDGE MIGHT KO KEY EVIDENCE IN BONDS TRIAL
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors trying to prove Barry Bonds lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs suffered a setback yesterday, with a federal judge saying...
GOING TO PIERCE-S
THE way the Knicks are genu flecting to superstars, I'm guessing they don't have much of a shot of stopping Paul Pierce from changing Vitamin Water into wine tonight. First...
HANK'S GLASS HALF-FULL
Hank Steinbrenner emerged from hibernation yesterday, but not to predict six more weeks of winter - or even a World Series championship for the Yankees. With pitchers and catchers set...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Brand done for season Elton Brand's first season in Philadelphia is over. Brand will have season-ending surgery on his right shoulder Monday, reducing the 76ers' marquee free-agent to only...
LIGHTS, CAMILO, ACTION AT BUICK
SAN DIEGO - Camilo Villegas seems to play his best golf when Tiger Woods isn't around to defend a title. Villegas holed out for an eagle early in his round...
KIFFIN SORRY FOR URBAN SLIGHT
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Lane Kiffin's first game against Florida as Tennessee coach just got much more interesting. The new Volunteers' coach was reprimanded by the Southeastern Conference and issued an...
SUMMITT NETS NO. 1,000
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Pat Summitt now has 1,000 victories, an unprecedented height even she finds dizzying. "It's a hard number to even comprehend," the Tennessee coach said. Summitt became the...
D-FENSE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
The Knicks were doing a little too much "wishing they were swishing" and not enough "hustling and muscling" at the start of the season. If Walt "Clyde" Frazier, king of...
EPHL LOOKING TO EXPAND
Rob Miller prepared to be the head coach of the New Hampshire Freeze in the fledgling Eastern Professional Hockey League. But when Wall Street collapsed, the Freeze was one of...
SCRIPT HITS THE FANNING IN SENSELESS SCI-FI
HEY, gang! Let's go line up overnight so we can be the first to nab tickets to the new Dakota Fanning action movie. Li'l Fanning plays a girl who can...
BY GEORGE, IT'S A FERRELL OF LAUGHS
AT this point, the prospect of spending an evening in the company of George W. Bush hardly sounds appealing, whatever your political persuasion. But as personified by Will Ferrell, reprising...
SHADES OF LAGERFELD
YOU might think it's difficult being fabulous. And if you think that, you're not. Fabulous, I mean. I'm talkin' really, really fabulous - not fake fabulous like, say, the detestable...
CLOUSEAU BAD IT HURTS
THIRTEEN words are all you need to know about "The Pink Panther 2." Boss: "You fly to Kyoto in the morning." Clouseau: "But I can't fly!" So goes one of...
LONG ROAD FOR SPACE CADETS
"FANBOYS," a lame comic tribute to the dwindling band of "Star Wars" aficionados, is one of those be nighted projects whose back story turns out to be significantly more compelling...
DARKNESS & DELIGHT
IT'S generally best to avoid movies released at the beginning of the year, but I urge you to make an exception for Henry Selick's wonderfully creepy "Coraline," the first stop-motion...
SHORT FILMS LONG FOR OSCARS
THE 10 short films (half ani mated, half live-action) nominated for Oscars this year are a mixed bag, but it is still a public service to give them a two-week...
'BACH' LOVER'S LAMENT
'BACHELOR" favorite Stephanie Hogan, elim inated from competition Monday night, says she never quite cemented a love connection with star Jason Mesnick. "As far as the physical connection . ....
PIANO MAN WINS FRAY
THERE'S no tougher way to make it in rock 'n' roll than as a piano-playing frontman, but the Fray's Isaac Slade has met the challenge. Planted center stage with his...
STARR REPORT
Chapter 11 Former Ch. 11 reporter Glenn Thomson, laid off in December, says the station won't cough up his severance pay. "I'm due four months' severance and they don't want...
CRAMPS PUNK PIONEER DIES
PUNK rocker Erick Lee Purkhiser, best known as Lux Interior of the famed psychobilly band the Cramps, died yesterday while in the care of Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, Calif.,...
NEVER SAY DIET
WE know what you're doing when you watch "Biggest Loser." If you always suspected that viewers of the popular NBC weight-loss competition are sitting on the couch, scarfing down ice...
FESTIVAL OF SAINT STEPHEN
THE title has to be changed, but the show itself sounds promising - and is sure to be on every Broadway producer's radar this spring. James Lapine, the Tony-winning director,...
JOE BUCK FOR BOB COSTAS
It didn't take long for HBO to find a replacement for Bob Costas. FOX analyst Joe Buck, who covers football and baseball for the network, will be taking over Costas'...
NEEDIEST CASES
THE economic implosion is turning movies like "He's Just Not That Into You" - basically a PG-13 version of the 2007 "Sex and the City" movie minus the designer shoes...
BROADWAY
(Reviews by Clive Barnes, unless noted otherwise)"THE AMERICAN PLAN": ** 1/2 Richard Greenberg's intermittently intriguing 1990 play is a bit like "Glass Menagerie" set in the "Dirty Dancing" era. Samuel...
A GUY'S TAKE ON 'HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU'
Never, ever, under any circumstances, should a woman try to spark romance with a guy, or even, horror of horrors, just call to ask him out. This is the dominant...
LOVE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Thanks to the Internet, the latest news is always accessible, the next meal is a mere click away and everything from a grilled cheese sandwich to a faceless coed's virginity...
OCTUPLET MOM'S VEIL OF SECRECY VANISHES
WHITTIER, Calif. -- The veil of secrecy octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman shrouded herself in for more than a week was lifted Thursday with the release of public documents showing that...
Box Office: Big Love Foreseen -- Just Not From Us Critics -- For Jennifer, Jennifer and Ginnifer
It's truly upsetting that Mase predicts the week's best-reviewed new wide-release movie, Henry Selick's beautifully executed, dark stop-motion fantasy "Coraline'' (with the voice of the ubiquitous Ms. Fanning) will do...
Beckham's No Soccer Missionary
By CLEMENTE LISIOnce hailed as the savior who was going to spread the message across America that soccer is a sport worth watching, David Beckham has shown his true colors...
Knick-watching
By BRIAN LEWISThe Knicks' Dream Week _ Lakers, Cavs and Boston in three straight games _ is turning into a nightmare. But even though they're probably not enjoying it, I'll...
Tivo Alert: 31 Days of Oscar, Day 6
Even though the reactionary Al Capp's liberal-bashing comic strip was phenomenally popular in the 1950s (it was a fixture in the red-baiting New York Daily Mirror), Paramount demurred when Frank...
KELLOGG DROPS PHELPS AFTER PHOTO BROUHAHA
Cereal and snack maker Kellogg Co. said it won't renew its sponsorship contract with Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps because of a photo that showed him inhaling from a marijuana...
No way! F-Mart hurt again
Mets uber prospect Fernando Martinez is getting perilously close to wearing the dreaded "oft-injured" collar. The speedy, big-hitting outfielder is hurt again, having been sent back to New York from...
PARENTING: SITCOM STYLE : SAGET IS MUCH BETTER AT WRY THEN HAM
ORIGINAL SIN SERIES: FIRST REVIEWS OF TV'S GREATEST SHOWS THAT WE GOT WRONG - STRAIGHT FROM THE FILES OF THE POSTPublished Sept. 22, 1987 in the New York Post: Two...
NBC'S LEFT HOOK HITS 'WING': PREACHY WASHINGTON DRAMA A REAL YAWNER
ORIGINAL SIN SERIES: FIRST REVIEWS OF TV'S GREATEST SHOWS THAT WE GOT WRONG - STRAIGHT FROM THE FILES OF THE POSTPublished Sept. 22, 1999 in the New York Post: NBC...
HBO'S 'CITY': SEX LIVES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS
ORIGINAL SIN SERIES: FIRST REVIEWS OF TV'S GREATEST SHOWS THAT WE GOT WRONG - STRAIGHT FROM THE FILES OF THE POSTPublished June 5, 1998 in The New York Post: Some...
SLICK CRIME SHOW NEEDS HELP IN WRITING WRONGS
ORIGINAL SIN SERIES: FIRST REVIEWS OF TV'S GREATEST SHOWS THAT WE GOT WRONG - STRAIGHT FROM THE FILES OF THE POSTPublished Sept. 13, 1990 in the New York Post: As...
BEVERLY HILLS FLOP
ORIGINAL SIN SERIES: FIRST REVIEWS OF TV'S GREATEST SHOWS THAT WE GOT WRONG - STRAIGHT FROM THE FILES OF THE POSTPublished Oct. 3, 1990 in the New York Post: First...
Reeves: Cowboys mixed on T.O.
After spending one day with the Dallas Cowboys in a coaching/advisory role, Dan Reeves apparently went on every sports-radio talk show in the area.And he had some interesting things to...
Reeves: Cowboys mixed on T.O.
After spending one day with the Dallas Cowboys in a coaching/advisory role, Dan Reeves apparently went on every sports-radio talk show in the area.And he had some interesting things to...
Original Sin- Intro
A letter from Post TV Editor Mike Shain:Dear You:My biggest surprise going back through our archives - starting in the 1970s - was that we didn't get it wrong very...