February 22, 2009
Liveblogging the Oscars: Coming Up
While you're waiting for my Oscar liveblog to start up around 8, visit to Danica Lo's Hi-Lo blog for live coverage from the red carpet.
Box Office: Madea Breaks the Bank
It was another weekend of records at the box office, with Tyler Perry's "Madea Goes to Jail'' taking in a whopping $41.4 million, more than $10 more than his previous...
11-YEAR-OLD BOY TOO SMALL FOR JAIL
- A western Pennsylvania jail warden wants a judge to move an 11-year-old boy accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancee from an adult lockup to a juvenile detention center....
Champions League-winning, World Cup defender Albert Celades trialing w/ RBNY
Albert Celades on trial with RBNY The Red Bulls' quest for defensive help has taken a quantum leap forward in both intensity and quality. Three trialists joined the club in...
RAPTORS BEAT KNICKS 111-100
Andrea Bargnani had 28 points and 10 rebounds Sunday to help the Toronto Raptors beat New York 111-100 two days after absorbing a 30-point loss against the Knicks. Each of...
GRANDMOTHER CHARGED WITH MURDER OF 4-YEAR-OLD
A Bronx grandmother with three arrests was busted today for fatally beating her 4-year-old grandson, cops said. Angela Barksdale, 45, was awaiting arraignment on murder charges in connection with the...
So much for that platoon ...
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Jerry Manuel livened up a sleepy news conference once again today, casually mentioning that the planned left-field platoon of Daniel Murphy and Fernando Tatis is likely...
COP BY KILLED BY DRUNK DRIVER IN SUFFOLK CRASH
A veteran Suffolk County cop responding to a call was killed early today when a drunk driver plowed into his squad car, police said. The officer, from the department's Second...
The Sunday Whacks
If you still care a little bit about college basketball in our area, then you must at once transfer your loyalties to the only team left that still can give...
Hughes looks to shake rust
By MARC BERMANTORONTO - Larry Hughes, who hasn't played in a month, is ready to make his Knicks' debut today vs. the Raptors at noon. Rusty?"We'll find out, Hughes said...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS JOHN MALONE Liberty Media boss rescues Sirius XM, lending the struggling satellite-radio company cash at 15% interest. MEREDITH WHITNEY Top banking analyst strikes out on her own, forms new...
NEW YORK'S OSCARS
Voting for the Oscars is easy when you belong to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. You get to kick back in your living room with free DVDs...
REQUIRED READING
Try to Tell the Story by David Thomson (Knopf) The British-born film historian and critic ("New Biographical Dictionary of Film," "Have You Seen . . .?") tells his own story...
LOFTUS, 27, AND MARCHETTI, 27
Dec. 5 - Jo-Anna Marchetti got the fairy-tale wedding she always dreamed of when she married Steven Loftus. Loftus, a scenic designer for the Westchester Broadway Theatre, proposed in front...
EINHORN, 38, AND RAWITZ, 37
Dec. 6 - Not only did Tracy Einhorn and Michael Rawitz share their first kiss after exchanging vows, but they witnessed the season's first snowfall, too. "One of our guests...
REEL GOOD
THE PRODUCERS (1968) Sunday, 10:45 a.m., TCM One of the flat-out funniest movies ever made, with at least twice as many laughs as the stage version. Zero Mostel is a...
DE VALLE, 48, AND KONTARAKIS, 40
Nov. 22 - A chill in the air didn't stop Anastasia Kontarakis and Raphael de Valle from celebrating their big day. When the furnace broke before their ceremony at St....
PRIME TIME
Half a day in, CNN seemed to be doing a good job covering the Newark-to-Buffalo air crash. The network steadily demonstrated breaking news hustle while applying the appropriate sensitivities to...
FINDLEY, 28, AND PEREZ, 34
Dec. 21 - Molly Findley and Steven Perez gave a whole new meaning to "The Book of Love" when the Upper West Side duo married at Housing Works Bookstore in...
OSCAR RESCUE
By the time the endless Oscar ceremony gets under way tonight, we will have been inundated with pre-pre-red carpet coverage that began while most of us were still asleep, pre-red-carpet...
DON'T MISS
DRAMA Revenge of the Thieves After their last caper gets foiled and the team is forced to split up and go underground, ex-insurance agent Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton) surfaces in...
HIGH BRASS DINING
Atria 13-15 W. 54th St.; 212-262-4600, atrianyc.com This Rockefeller townhouse, formerly the home of Aquavit and most recently Grayz, is now an elegant Midtown reprieve with a vaulted downstairs atrium,...
PROOF POSITIVE
Happy National Margarita Day! Tonight, cast aside tired traditions and celebrate this beloved holiday - we'd never heard of it, either - with one of Tanteo's flavor-infused tequilas. Tanteo begins...
'NCIS,' JR. TAKES SHAPE
With "NCIS"' ratings at an all-time series high, it's no wonder that CBS wants a spinoff of the hit drama. Although the network is reluctant to dish out details of...
'DANCING' WITH THE FELONS
'Dancing with the Stars" has tangoed straight from the trash heap and down into the sewer. The cheesy reality competition used to traffic in Olympic athletes (Apolo Ohno) and entertainers...
MAKING THE SCENE...
409 W. 13th St.; 212-255-1933; Hours: Tues.- Sat., 10 p.m. - 4 a.m. Best not to have any false hopes about getting into RdV (short for "rendezvous"). With a successful...
HEIGL: PREPARE FOR OBSCURITY
Before Katherine Heigl slams the door on "Grey's Anatomy" to make way for movie stardom, she may want to consider the fates of other prime-time actors who thought that small-screen...
'BACHELOR' MUST DECIDE
By MAXINE SHEN The last two fiancees-in-waiting have been selected, which means it's time to take a good, hard look at the women vying to win the hand of "The...
IZZIE OR ISN'T SHE
Katherine Heigl, who plays Dr. Izzie Stevens on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," has been on her way out of the hit hospital drama for almost two years now. But now she...
THIS WEEK'S COUPLE
When an allergic reaction left Diana, a 26-year-old career counselor, covered in hives on the day of her date, she wielded her coverup and tried her best to stop itching...
TOP WORST THINGS TO MENTION IN A LOVE LETTER
According to captive hearts on line at the post office. "That your parole just got denied." - Ingrid " 'I want to devour you like a moth on a sweater.'...
MLB PROBE COULD STICK IT TO ALEX
TAMPA - Alex Rodriguez anxiously is awaiting the arrival of Major League Baseball investigators. MLB is looking into Rodriguez's role in a steroid trail from the Dominican Republic to the...
MATTINGLY IS TIRED OF A-ROD BASHING
PORT ST. LUCIE - Don Mattingly reached a boiling point. The Dodgers' hitting coach watches the TV, listens to the commentary and hears a steady stream of negativity toward Alex...
MIAMI GYM RATS 'COULDN'T BELIEVE IT'
MIAMI - Alex Rodriguez is 200 miles north of here, taking part in spring training, but the revelations of his steroid use still reverberate where he conducts offseason workouts. Rodriguez...
FINALLY, A CHANCE TO TALK BASEBALL
TAMPA - OK. So you say you're tired of hearing about boli and testosterone and human growth hormone, you're worn out by what Alex Rodriguez may or may not have...
MEET MARKET
He may resemble everyone's favorite stereo-toting sweetie, Lloyd Dobler, but Ryan, a 30-year-old bond trader, says brews and nights behind bars are more his style. Here's hoping his date looks...
MEMORABLE MEN
TWO Fridays ago, I reached out to Joe Goldstein. The notable publicist and unofficial NBA encyclopedia had sent me a note a while back on Ossie Schectman, his Boca Raton...
GIVE 'ROIDERS MARKS OF SHAME? THEN SAVE SOME FOR REST OF GAME
TAMPA - For the start of today's lesson, students, we turn to our old Greek etymology textbooks. "Asterisk," we discover as we blow the dust off the cover, derives from...
BUS KILLS TEACHER
A Queens teacher of autistic kids was crushed to death when she slipped and fell under a city bus, cops said yesterday. Hwi Wu, 26, of Ridgewood, fell beneath a...
A-ROD DODGES $$ BULLET
A-Rod finally caught a break. Admitted former steroid doper Alex Rodriguez displayed sound judgment when he withdrew money he'd invested with firms associated with alleged multibillion-dollar Ponzi schemer Robert Allen...
O'S BUDGET: 'WEALTH' TAX AND $2T DEFICIT
President Obama will roll out an ambitious budget this week that seeks to halve the federal deficit by 2013, primarily by raising taxes on the wealthy and cutting spending in...
FAUX-RENSIC EVIDENCE
It's CSI: Undone. A damning new report questioning the reliability of forensic science in analyzing fingerprints, hair, bullets, footprints and other crime-scene evidence will lead to a wave of legal...
11-YR.-OLD 'SLAYS' HIS DAD'S GAL
A baby-faced 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy killed his father's pregnant fiancée with a kiddie shotgun - and then hopped on the bus to school, authorities said yesterday. Jordan Brown allegedly shot...
BREAK AT LAST IN CHANDRA MYSTERY
Washington's most enduring mystery since Deep Throat may soon be solved. Police are close to making an arrest in the slaying of Chandra Levy, the intern whose disappearance ended the...
NJ MINI-QUAKES SHOULD SHAKE NY AWAKE: EXPERTS
The Big Apple is due for the Big One. The trio of earthquakes that surprised New Jersey over the past month has seismologists wondering what's next - and they say...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... CC SABATHIA
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Yankees' ace lefty who is beginning his seven-year, $161 million contract. Q: What did you weigh at birth? A: Eight pounds, six ounces....
RUMBLE
He put up his Dukes Heyman lit fuse for Tobacco Road rivalry DESPITE the fact that eight miles separate the campuses of Duke and North Carolina, the genesis of their...
AL CHAMPS TOP HARDBALL'S LIST OF OFFSEASON WINNERS
PORT ST. LUCIE - I can't wait for Manny Ramirez any longer. Hardball is yet to declare its offseason winners and losers, though the offseason is now over, and a...
PICKING HIS BRAIN
I'm particularly enthused by independent animated features. "The most remarkable recent piece of animation is 'Sita Sings the Blues' (below) by Nina Paley - a one-woman tour de force that...
Q&A: MATT GROENING
Creator of 'The Simpsons' looks to the 31st century, thinks Cartman would chop off Bart's head in a fight. The irony that Matt Groening's first acclaimed comic strip was called...
BEST EDITING: OSCAR REVAMPS TV BROADCAST
There are things you can always count on from Oscar: The show will run long, the winner of the documentary short will be sat waaay in the back and the...
25 RANDOM THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE NOMINEES
1. Sean Penn's first role was as an extra on a 1974 episode of "Little House on the Prairie." (His father, Leo, directed it.) 2. Josh Brolin is an experienced...
OSCAR'S INCONVENIENT TRUTHS
Tonight's Oscars will celebrate only-in-the-movies fantasy figures like Wall-E and the Joker . . . and Harvey Milk and Richard Nixon. Even when Hollywood is dealing with documented reality, it...
OSCAR BINGO
This year's Oscar telecast promises to be different (again), but there are some moments you can always count on. Join the festivities and play along with The Post's Oscar Bingo....
RED CARPET DIARIES
Like any good circus, the red carpet at the Oscars has its gorgeous, exotic creatures - marvel at Tilda Swinton, half woman, half alien! - and its stolid trainers, gently...
BLOG WATCH
The savior "The expression 'create or save,' which has been used regularly by the President and his economic team, is an act of political genius. You can measure how many...
AFGHAN TRUTHS
On the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, lies the Kabre Ghora graveyard. It is believed to contain the graves of 158 British soldiers, diplomats and their families who died in...
LANDMARKING DECAY
West Park Presbyterian Church, the 116-year-old house of worship at 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, is falling apart. Literally. Congregants, in fact, have had to move services to another church...
WELFARE BLINDNESS
Is this the beginning of the end for welfare reform? Of all the left-wing wish-list whoppers stuffed into President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, the most consequential may be a...
HIS 2 CENTS
As it costs more than one cent to manufacture each penny, the argument that it is wasteful, even in prosperous times, to keep them in circulation is a sound one...
MONKEY BUSINESS
You can't domesticate chimps, and it is cruel to treat them as pets. This animal is meant to live in the wild, not in someone's home ("Furious George," Feb. 17)....
BURRIS' BULL
Nobody should be surprised that the Rod Blagojevich-appointed Democratic senator, Roland Burris, now finds himself mired in scandal ("Blago Senator Must Quit," Feb. 16). Anyone with the slightest shred of...
TOY MONSTER
After consummating yet another evening of compulsive sex - this night with the tall redhead who is Mattel's top-secret voice of the first talking Barbie doll - Jack Ryan, the...
IN MY LIBRARY: LILI TAYLOR
If you've ever seen Lili Taylor - in "Mystic Pizza," "I Shot Andy Warhol" or, in one of her most memorable roles, as the tortured free spirit of HBO's "Six...
THE LOST CITY OF Z
The Amazon - biodiverse, so unknown, so full of life while having obliterated so many explorers - has been, for many, that singular, unconquerable thing. Its impenetrability gave rise to...
THE REBELLION OF RONALD REAGAN
What motivated Ronald Reagan's shift from fulminant Cold Warrior to pragmatic peacemaker? Part of the credit may go to Suzanne Massie, a "lowly American author" and pop historian of imperial...
GIMME SHELTER
"We live in the most expensive shantytown on earth," writes Mary Elizabeth Williams about her neighborhood, Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens. "It's the place we can get bok choy at 3 a.m....
BESTSELLER: GET MOTIVATED!
The Dow dives, but it's boom times for motivational speakers, who promise to get you off that couch and into a high-paying job. Lowe, a "former drug addict and dropout,"...
AGENDA
Art attack Sun 22, Art P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens; 718-784-2084, ps1.org At its very best, transcendent art holds a mirror up to the society in which...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
DEAR DR. FOX: My brother-in-law wants to breed his dog and have puppies. But I feel it is cruel to breed a dog and have the puppies taken away from...
2010 DATE FOR 9/11 TOXIC SUITS
The first 30 trials of the sickest of thousands of 9/11 responders will start on May 17, 2010, The Post has learned. In setting the date, Manhattan federal Judge Alvin...
GUNMAN $QUEEZES JUICERS
A fleet-footed gunman cleaned out the safe and cash register at a Midtown Jamba Juice yesterday after forcing two employees into a back room - and he managed to outrun...
LI DUNGEON PERVERT DIES
Sal Inghilleri, the Long Island man convicted of molesting 9-year-old Katie Beers in a dungeon in 1992, died in the Suffolk County jail yesterday. Inghilleri, 55, collapsed of a possible...
CHINA PUTS FOES ON LOCKDOWN AMID CLINTON VISIT
Hillary Rodham Clinton's weekend visit to Beijing sparked a crackdown on dissidents, some of whom have been confined to their homes while others were monitored by Chinese police, a human-rights...
GOV BOOTS LIQUOR 'LIAR'
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson has ousted an aide who improperly contacted a member of the state Liquor Authority as it considered the controversial renewal of liquor licenses for the Cipriani...
ARREST IN MURDER OF KNICK EX
An arrest has been made in the grisly slaying of Knick center Eddy Curry's ex-girlfriend and her infant daughter, Chicago police said. "We do have one person in custody, and...
SNEAKERS STEP OUT
CONVERSE'S Chuck Taylor sneakers, one of the oldest athletic shoe brands in the world, struck early success selling a line of footwear linked to some of the greatest graybeard rockers...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Bronx * A 4-year-old boy was found dead yesterday in his grandmother's Parkchester apartment, cops said. The child, whose name was not released, was discovered with head trauma on a...
THE LOAN RANGER
While the Obama administration battles to keep people from losing their homes, one Florida lawyer said she has a better answer to the toxic mortgage epidemic sweeping the country -...
STARS' POWER OUTAGE
For years, celebrities have made a nice little side business pitching clothes, fragrances, cars and host of other items. On newsstands now, you can see singer Liz Phair lounges in...
DAVE SCANDAL AIDE NIXES COMEBACK
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson suffered an embarrassing rejection yesterday when Charles O'Byrne, his former chief of staff, who resigned in October in a tax-evasion scandal, refused to accept the troubled...
NY'S CRAPPIEST NEIGHBORHOODS
Step lightly in New York's crappiest neighborhood - the Upper West Side. The tony area is ground zero for doggy doo, packed with inconsiderate people who don't pick up after...
SHUT UP, MAESTRO
WELL, at least he doesn't have to worry about irrational exuberance any more. You remember the famous term coined by then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan back in 1996 to encapsulate his...
TIPS FOR KEEPING CREDIT CARD LIMIT
If you want to avoid having your bank cut your credit-card limit or have it jack up your interest rate, use cash when you shop at discount stores, one online...
'DONOR': HOW SEEDY OCTOMOM GOT MY SEED
Octomom tricked me! The man who claims to be Nadya Suleman's sperm donor says the bountiful baby-maker hoodwinked him into making several donations by saying she had cancer and was...
MARTS HAVEN'T YET HIT BOTTOM
Dear John: Do you feel the stock market has found its bottom and turned the corner? F.S. Dear F.S.: Not at all. I think the US economy is in serious...
DOOBIE-OUS IMPORTERS BUSTED
The feds smoked out a massive pot smuggling ring that stretched from Canada to Queens, raking in more than $100 million over the past six years, sources said. Ten people...
'CLUBLAND' GAL IS ASSAULTED
A young woman was mugged and sexually assaulted as she walked to her home near Manhattan's notorious "clubland" early yesterday, police said. A thug approached the victim from behind on...
JUST CALL ME OFFICER DOOFUS
When we meet Officer Paul Bacon, he's wrestling on the floor of an Old Navy in Harlem with a coked-up, 250-pound shoplifter whose welfare card identifies him - to the...
BOY, 9, DEAD IN BX. MYSTERY
A 9-year-old boy who loved baseball and dreamed of being a cop died yesterday after being found unconscious in his Bronx home, police said. Derek Peralta was found unresponsivein his...
THOU SHALT NOT NICKEL-&-DIME!
It's time to cash in on Catholic guilt. At least that's what some parishioners think is happening at St. Luke's Church in Whitestone, Queens, where detailed breakdowns of members' weekly...
BONDS BECOME FAVORITE PORT IN THE FINANCIAL STORM
Investors are betting on bonds to see them through bad times. Cash flows over a recent one-year period show bond funds gaining billions of dollars of new money, while investors...
HILL $QUEEZES SERBS
One of Hillary Rodham Clinton's first acts as secretary of State was to broker a $1 million blood-money payout by the Serbian government for the New York victim of a...
HEAT'S ON CHEATS
The number of people caught as welfare and Medicaid cheats in New York City skyrocketed by 45 percent last year, potentially costing taxpayers millions in fraudulent claims, figures obtained by...
HSBC DRAWS RENEWED IRE OF ACTIVIST INVESTOR
Activist investor Eric Knight is set to ramp up his campaign against HSBC next week with renewed calls for the troubled bank to dump its struggling US loan operation amid...
FROM GLAM TO BLAND
* It's the red-carpet recession. Oscar designers say they plan to dial down the bling for tonight's telecast, showing a little sensitivity for strapped viewers. Out: diamonds. In: discounts. Famed...
NYC'S BEASTY 'JOYS'
It's an urban jungle out there: Big Apple animal lovers go just as wild over exotic pets as Connecticut woman Sandra Herold did over her chimp. In the past year,...
NYC BILLIONAIRE, IGNORING RECESSION, SHOPS FOR BARGAINS
One of New York City's wealthiest residents, shrugging off the deepening recession, has been on a real estate buying spree - buying up parcels across the country at depressed prices....
BROOKLYN KIDS' HOOP DREAMS DASHED
A group of youth basketball teams from Brooklyn is crying foul after being bounced from a prominent interborough tournament just days before tipoff. Teams from at least four Brooklyn churches...
FEUD OVER COUNCIL CLOUT
A LITTLE-noticed dis pute over construc tion of a four- story building in Brooklyn has escalated to the point where a powerful state legislator is threatening to rein in the...
HOW B'KLYN WOMAN KEPT HER HOME
Aquila Rose got a $475,000 mortgage from Fremont Investment & Loan for her Flatbush home in January 2007 and made exactly one payment before defaulting. When Fremont started a foreclosure...
RATES FLAT
Mortgage rates were unchanged last week, with the 30-year fixed mortgage holding at an average of 5.34 percent. The average points on the loan clocked in at 0.41, according to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Good luck trying to watch now. An aging "good ol' boy" cable-TV viewer in Joplin, Mo., lost his picture when the signal went out. He then hooked up his old...
RUFFS FOR 'THE RAM'
AGEISM AFFECTS dogs as well as people and, sadly, senior dogs get little respect. But the AARP contingent now has two famous new poster boys - one on two legs...
BRIDGE
GOLFERS often take the liberty of hitting a "mulligan" on the first tee. (Even Tiger Woods might like one occasionally, though you won't see him taking one.) Bridge often offers...
JUNIOR SHAKES OFF CRITICISM
FONTANA, Calif. - Dale Earnhardt Jr. found himself in the rare position this week of being the object of a chorus of criticism from fellow drivers, the media and even...
LENDL FINE WITH WTA SANCTIONS
Ivan Lendl, who is hosting the Garden's Fab Four women's exhibition March 2, agrees wholeheartedly with the WTA's sanctions against the Dubai women's tournament that prevented Israeli Shahar Peer from...
CONFIDENT JETS COACH STRESSES TEAM-FIRST APPROACH
What you see is what you get with Rex Ryan. And what you get with the Jets' new head coach is a fascinating blend of unbridled bravado complemented by a...
AT LAST, 'CHANTS' TO SALUTE TWO GOLDEN OLDIES
BUFFALO - They come from the era of black-and- white, but no two players in franchise history were ever more blue, red and white than the great Andy Bathgate and...
FREE-FALLING NETS SEARCHING FOR A WAY TO REBOUND
They talk about playing with a sense of urgency. Lately, they don't. They talk about making the playoffs. Keep it up, they won't. So the Nets, who have endured the...
GM: GIANTS AIM TO GET PLAX BACK
Giants GM Jerry Reese said yesterday the team is prepared to go into the 2009 season with Plaxico Burress on the roster. "It doesn't slow down our process," Reese said...
TITANS GO DOWN FIGHTING IN ROCHESTER
The New York Titans indoor lacrosse team lost a fight- filled game to the Rochester Knighthawks 15-7 last night in Rochester. The Titans fell to 5-4, 2.5 games behind the...
VET JOHNSON FIGHTS CANCER IN RIGHT EYE
TAMPA -Pitcher Jason Johnson has been limited to indoor work due to being diagnosed with cancer of the retina in the right eye shortly before reporting to camp. COMPLETE YANKEES...
BY ADDING ONLY ARMS, METS PUT OFFENSE AT RISK
PORT ST. LUCIE - Orlando Hudson's price kept drop, drop, dropping this offsea son until the point you began to wonder if he was going to have to pay for...
JOE: RIGHT FIELD STILL UP IN AIR
TAMPA - The most talked about competition in Yankees camp will take place in center field between Melky Cabrera and Brett Gardner. Yet, move to right field and Joe Girardi...
TOE TROUBLE PUTS REDDING ON THE SIDELINE INDEFINITELY
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets' fifth-starter spot is even more of a horse race now. Jerry Manuel revealed yesterday that veteran right-hander Tim Redding, the leading candidate for the...
STRRRRETCHING THE TRUTH
* Alex Rodriguez's "come clean" press conference was a failure in the biggest Hall of Fame test he will ever take. He still doesn't get it. A-Rod played the jury...
MAINE TAKES ENCOURAGING STEP ON MOUND
PORT ST. LUCIE - John Maine wasn't happy after throwing live batting practice for the first time in six months, but the Mets sure were. The young right-hander had not...
HUGHES, WILCOX READY FOR RAPTORS
Three days after getting traded to the Knicks, Larry Hughes and Chris Wilcox appear set to make their debuts with the team today, though they may end up playing only...
FAVORITES RULE DAY AT BIG A
Chalk ruled the day, as first six races were won by favorites at an average mutuel of $4.40. Ramon Dominguez, who wins races in bunches every Saturday, had another three-bagger,...
PAVLIK THRILLS HIS FANS
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - No longer perfect, Kelly Pavlik is still the best middleweight in the world. Dominating overmatched Marco Antonio Rubio from the start, Pavlik emphatically rebounded from his first...
STIMULUS WILL HELP OUTDOORS GROUPS
THE stimulus bill has money in it that can benefit outdoors en thusiasts through improvements of wetlands and forests. There are opportunities for hunters and anglers to see improvements in...
TWINS SIGN CREDE
The Twins finally made a big move. After sitting idle for more than four months following a season in which they lost to the White Sox in a one-game playoff...
CALHOUN RIPS WRITER OVER SALARY QUESTIONS
Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun got into a heated exchange at a postgame news conference yesterday with a freelance journalist and political activist who questioned why the coach of a public...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Garnett out 2-3 weeks The Celtics say forward Kevin Garnett will miss two to three weeks because of a strained muscle behind his knee. Garnett returned Friday to Boston...
MICKELSON FIRES 62 TO GRAB 3RD-ROUND LEAD
Phil Mickelson was in contention for the first time all year and wanted to make sure he stayed there. Moments after signing his scorecard following the second round - nine...
ISLES BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
If nothing else, the Islanders at least have done a decent job of stockpiling draft picks. All they have to do is turn them into decent players. After Friday's trade...
DEVILS LAY AN EGG VS. ISLANDERS
The Devils' Stanley Cup aspirations? The lottery-picking Islanders, worst in the NHL, made them look like pretenders. "There's a fine line in this league between being good and not so...
FLAWED RANGERS SINK TO EIGHTH WITH PASSIONLESS PLAY
BUFFALO - So now the first week of July is coming back to bite the Rangers and bite them when it hurts. Now the impact of the decisions to wave...
COTTO WINS TITLE WITH 5TH-ROUND TKO
He had a few new tattoos, but otherwise Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico looked like his old self again last night, destroying his opponent and winning another world championship. Cotto...
BRUCE FOUGHT SCAM ON TIX & BUD LOOKED OTHER WAY
LET'S examine how two prominent bosses in American life, Bruce Springsteen and Bud Selig - same initials, too - responded to the same stimuli, the same ripoff made in their...
RED STORM AND ROBERTS HAVE EARNED RESPECT
For just a moment, please, let's forget the pros and cons of head coach Norm Roberts, the man who took over the St. John's job after it had become a...
UCONN SHAKY, BUT BOUNCES BACK
HARTFORD, Conn. - It wasn't a bounce-back blowout, but No. 1 Connecticut responded to its second loss of the season by grinding out its 14th win in 15 games. Hasheem...
JASPERS BUST OUT A BIG VICTORY
Darryl Crawford scored a game-high 17 points and Chris Smith had a double-double with 12 points and 13 rebounds to lead Manhattan (16-11) to a 54-39 victory over William &...
TERPS 'TRIP' HEELS IN OT
Greivis Vasquez had a career-high 35 points and 11 rebounds and 10 assists - Maryland's first triple-double in 22 years - and the Terrapins rallied from a 16-point deficit to...
NO OSCAR NIGHT FEVER
RUMOR has it that there is some big Hollywood awards show tonight, but I have more important matters to write about: cinematic discoveries unearthed during my annual visit to the...
TIME IS MONEY
AT the highest ranks of chess, speed kills. That's the message Vishy Anand's win of the world championship last fall and the start of the current Veselin Topalov-Gata Kamsky showdown...
'Wrestler,' Rourke, Leo Top Honor Spirits Honors
"The Wrestler'' won best picture today at the Indie Spirit awards in Santa Monica, with Mickey Rourke named best actor and Melissa Leo of "Frozen River'' named best actress. Tom...
THE HEART OF STONES
Brooklyn kid Bill German trailed the Rolling Stones for 17 years, chronicling their exploits in his fanzine, "Beggars Banquet." But he wasn't the only non-Stone backstage. The group traveled with...
'DONOR': HOW SEEDY OCTOMOM GOT MY SEED
Octomom tricked me! The man who claims to be Nadya Suleman's sperm donor says the bountiful baby-maker hoodwinked him into making several donations by saying she had cancer and was...
MIKE MYERS AND PARIS HILTON LOSERS AT RAZZIES
Mike Myers and Paris Hilton were the big losers tonight at the Razzies, the Oscar spoof paying tribute to Hollywood's most dubious achievements of 2008. Myers was named Worst Actor...
TYCOON AND DRUGGIE SON IN $500M POWER STRUGGLE
Beleaguered real estate tycoon Eric Hadar is out of rehab, but not out of trouble. He's facing drug charges, a custody battle, and now, a power struggle with his own...
THE DARK HEART OF THE INTERNET
On the Internet, he's a god. In real life, he's an out-of-work 21-year-old, $20,000 in debt, living in his mom's Westchester apartment. Meet Christopher Poole, known to his online fans...
Alfredo Pacheco confirms RBNY interest; to scrimmage River Plate & Boca Juniors
I don't know if Pacheco will hook up with the team in Argentina, but it wouldn't shock me to see Costa Rican Carlos Johnson show up. The 24-year-old has been...
NY'S CRAPPIEST NEIGHBORHOODS
Step lightly in New York's crappiest neighborhood - the Upper West Side. The tony area is ground zero for doggy doo, packed with inconsiderate people who don't pick up after...