March 15, 2009
RON SILVER DEAD
Actor and longtime political activist Ron Silver died Sunday morning, succumbing to a long battle with cancer, friends of the liberal Democrat-turned-GOP stalwart told The Post. "Ron Silver died peacefully...
RAGE OVER AIG BONUSES
The White House went ballistic today, blasting bailed-out insurance giant AIG over $450 million in bonuses for the same execs whose record losses drove it into the ground. "There are...
Early St. Patrick's Day, No WBC Fever tonight
Went to church this morning in Ft. Lauderdale and before the mass started the priest had everyone turn to their neighbor and wish a Happy St. Patrick's Day. They also...
NCAA TOURNAMENT PAIRINGS
Final Four: South vs. West, Midwest vs. EastSouth (Memphis)Greensboro 1. North Carolina vs. 16. Radford 8. LSU vs. 9. Butler Portland 5. Illinois vs. 12. Western Kentucky 4. Gonzaga vs....
Here and there
JUPITER, Fla. -- News and notes after the Mets rallied here from a 4-0 deficit in the first inning for a 10-5 win over the Marlins in Grapefruit League play...
Box Office: 'Sunshine' Cleans Up
"Sunshine Cleaning'' scored the best limited opening of the year on a per-venue basis, averaging a whopping $53.300 at four locations in New York and Los Angeles. Congratulations to Overture...
The Sunday Whacks
Let's put it this way: If Michael Ausiello's story on Entertainment Weekly's Web site this week plays out as he says it might, and "Friday Night Lights" isn't only renewed...
UPPER WEST SIDE FIRE APT FIRE
An elderly Upper West Side woman is in critical condition after a blaze broke out inside her 8th floor apartment, just across West 77th Street from the American Museum of...
CONEY ISLAND DEVELOPER FORCING THROUGH ZONING CHANGES
Coney Island's biggest developer successfully strong-armed local officials into backing changes to zoning laws that could pad his profits from a planned amusement district, sources told The Post. Joe Sitt...
Padres sign Sanchez
JUPITER, Fla. -- Well, that didn't take long. According to MLB.com, Duaner Sanchezsigned a minor-league deal with the Padres. The move comes just five days after Sanchez was abruptly released...
'THEY SHOT ME WITH AN ARROW!'
A Yonkers woman got a terrifying taste of the Old West today when she was pierced by an arrow as she stepped out of a car at a Bronx nursing...
Iraqi player shot dead right on the pitch
In yet another sign that the End Is Neigh, an Iraqi soccer player got gunned down Sunday by a fan just as he was about to score the game-tying goal.Good...
Knicks, Nets Playoff Push
Sure, it's not pretty and the winner of this race is all but certainly doomed for failure and perhaps embarrassment, but let's break down the Knicks and Nets chase for...
Maine struggling again
JUPITER, Fla. -- John Maine isn't going to be in a good mood again after this one. Maine just finished an ugly first inning here against the Marlins, giving up...
CHENEY: OBAMA MAKES US LESS SAFE
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that President Barack Obama's overturning of Bush administration terrorism-fighting initiatives are making Americans less safe. In noting the sixth anniversary of the U.S....
MEET THE FAMILY
Brazilian media are reporting that Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are in the supermodel's hometown so that she can introduce the New England Patriots' star quarterback to her family. Zero...
Grapefruit: Mets at Marlins
JUPITER, Fla. -- John Maine will try to bounce back from a rough outing last Tuesday when he takes on the Marlins in Grapefruit League action here today. Maine gave...
Final Bracket Projection
Here's our final stab at what the NCAA bracket will look like tonight. We'll tweak it later if any of the four games deem it necessary.Final Four: South vs. West,...
MASS-QUITO LASER KILLER
Scientists are developing a WMD - weapon of mosquito destruction - in an effort to eliminate malaria around the world, a British newspaper reports. The laser has been designed with...
MODELS IN MASS MAYHEM
Talk about a catwalker calamity. Auditions for Tyra Banks' "America's Next Top Model" turned ugly last night when a stampede broke out in front of a Midtown hotel where the...
ARREST WARRANT OUT ON LINDSAY
It was another Freaky Friday for professional train wreck Lindsay Lohan as a California judge issued a warrant for her arrest. A Beverly Hills court is looking to haul in...
BAILED-OUT AIG EXECS GET $165M
Embattled insurer American International Group plans to pay its executives $165 million in bonuses today, despite having received billions in taxpayer bailout money. While the government was unable to block...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS JON STEWART Lots of ink spilled on host of "The Daily Show" after trashing CNBC. TIM ARMSTRONG Google veteran tapped to lead AOL and devise a new ad revenue-based...
L'VILLE GRABS TITLE FROM WEARY 'CUSE
Louisville's first season in the Big East was a galling one for a street-hardened New Yorker like Rick Pitino who learned early that "No Blood, No Foul," was the way...
FLYNN-TASTIC EVEN IN DEFEAT
Terrence Williams saw something familiar when he watched Jonny Flynn play this week. "[Watching] him play against UConn and Seton Hall, I say he reminds me a lot of Chris...
WITH REPUBLICAN FRIENDS LIKE THESE ...
Dear Mainstream Media: I'm a conservative who believes that other conservatives are fat, drug-stuffed, money-grubbing warthogs like Rush Limbaugh, or scary inbred backwoods retards like Sarah Palin. So can I...
LIES & ORDER
With the cancellation of ABC's "Life on Mars" last week, it's official: The cop drama as we've known it since "Hill Street Blues" in 1981 is dead. Twenty-eight years is...
GIVING 'TIL IT HURTS
The Kibera slum in Nairobi is roughly the size of Central Park, home to 1.5 million people who live surrounded by raw sewage and garbage. Less than a mile from...
BLOG WATCH
Texas ranger Chuck Norris writes: "I once quipped that 'I may run for president of Texas.' That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not me, someone...
SO LONG, SECRET BALLOTS?
The secret ballot is as American as apple pie. For now, anyway. But it might not last: Big Labor wants to take away workers' privacy in deciding whether to unionize...
NY'S TREASURE ISLAND
What to do with Governors Island? Though Albany and City Hall share joint custody of the landmark, the state is two years delinquent on its share of the island's operating...
VICTORIAN VALUES
Nick Gillespie, in his review of Donna Dennis' "Licentious Gotham," demonstrates that he does not know the difference between flawed, fallen men and a culture that knows right from wrong...
A-WRONG
Alex Rodriguez never ceases to amaze me ("Yanks Still Undecided about A-Rod's Hip Fix," March 8). All of sudden he elected to have hip surgery? I find it pretty coincidental...
'CAIN MUTINY
President Obama may well be "the hippest politician around," but that reflects egregiously on the state of America, not the GOP ("Sen. John McCain's Daughter Meghan Calls Barack Obama 'Hip',"...
IRISH SNUB
John O'Sullivan uses the recent attacks on British army and local police forces in the north of Ireland to drag out old biased accusations ("Murderous Myth," PostOpinion, March 11). He...
JOKE'S ON HIM
In Linda Stasi's " 'W'inging It" (March 11), Will Ferrell describes President Obama as being too "politically savvy" to make fun of and says that Obama "thinks so carefully before...
BAD EDUCATION
Even though I voted for President Obama, his speech on education shows me that he is living in a dream world ("O Makes Pitch for Teacher Merit Pay," March 11)....
REQUIRED READING
Hunting Eichmann How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Israel's capture of Nazi war...
KILL KHALID
On September 25, 1997, five Mossad agents entered Jordan disguised as Canadian tourists. Their mission: assassinate Khalid Mishal, a 41-year-old operative of the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas. Their method:...
INSIDE THE APPLE
Are you a history-minded tourist or longtime Noo-Yawkah ever-curious about the city's past but too proud to walk around with a guidebook? "Inside the Apple," a collection of 14 walking...
FOREVER BLUE
Was Walter O'Malley the villain who stole the Dodgers away from Brooklyn, or the visionary who brought baseball to the West Coast? Was he a ruthless opportunist who rode Branch...
BESTSELLER: THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE
There have been a slew of memoirs, many very good, from soldiers who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan. But Mullaney's honest, elegantly-written account has gained particularly notice. Mullaney, a Rhode...
IN MY LIBRARY: FRANK MCCOURT
"It's like food," says Frank McCourt. "Deprive people of food and they're hungry. We didn't have books - so any printed material that came into our domain was instantly seized...
LOST LANGUAGES
The writings left on tombs and tablets by the great civilizations of the ancient past have mostly now been read. This intriguing book on the strange art of "decipherment" focuses...
GAS-GUZZLING BOOZE STAFF IS WORST OFFENDER
* The State Liquor Authority is drunk on state cars. Personal use of the cars - gassed up at taxpayer expense - is a rampant abuse at the booze-regulating agency,...
ARREST IN PARIS CELL SELL
Here's one Paris souvenir no one would want. After a night out at a Manhattan nightclub, hotel manager Marc Marrouche (right) ended up with Paris Hilton's cellphone, but when he...
COMIC SUPERSALE
A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction yesterday. The previous owner of Action Comics No. 1 got it for 35...
CITY 'SLAP' AT 9/11 UNIFORMED HEROES
The city has asked a judge to toss out 9/11 claims by 4,600 cops, firefighters, and paramedics, arguing the "uniformed" personnel are not entitled to workplace protection under state labor...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan * Police are hunting the Gramercy Park bank bandit who fled empty-handed when a teller ignored him. The robber walked into the Bank of America branch on Sixth Avenue...
RUSSIAN BOMBER 'THREAT'
MOSCOW - A Russian air-force chief said yesterday that the country could base strategic bombers in Cuba or on an island offered by Venezuela, the Interfax news agency reported. But...
RUTH IN CROSSHAIR$
Federal investigators are "working around the clock" to freeze the assets of mega-fraudster Bernie Madoff's wife, fearing she will try to flee the country or stash the nearly $93 million...
BENEFITS $LAM CITY
THE city is within sight of a scary tipping point. Within a few years, it could be spending more on pensions and health benefits than on the salaries of its...
HUNT'S ON TO CHOP TREE SLAYER
There's a tree killer on the loose in Inwood. Two tulip trees and 15 pines, sugar maples and hackberry trees in Inwood Hill Park were hacked to their stumps last...
FEDS EYEING '91 TEEN SLAY
The feds may reopen the murder investigation of a Dominican honor student beaten to death by a gang of white teens in Queens nearly 20 years ago, sources said. Manuel...
CRUDE REALITY
WITH the price of a barrel of oil up more than 40 percent from its pre-Christmas low, motorists may be getting a case of déjà vu all over again. Are...
BIG BAD BERNIE NOT THE ONLY RECESSION SCOUNDREL
AS Bernie Madoff went from his Manhattan penthouse to the Big House in a matter of hours on Thursday, cheers rang out from the Long Island Sound to the Palm...
LI EXEC'S 'JUST A GIGOLO' SUIT
A Long Island man claims his boss tried to pimp him out to a client, a lawsuit alleges. Christopher Ruppmann, 27, says he was doing just fine in his first...
'PLEASE, MR. KLEIN - I'M SCARED OF THEM'
An honor student says she was attacked in her Bronx high school after sending Chancellor Joel Klein 25 e-mails over three months begging to be transferred away from bullies who...
'SORRY' COP ON RAPE TAPE
The on-duty cop accused of raping a drunken executive apologized for forcing himself on her, according to a secret tape-recording the woman made shortly after the alleged assault, police sources...
NFL STAR KILLS PEDESTRIAN
MIAMI - Cleveland Brown wide receiver Donte' Stallworth hit and killed a pedestrian with his Bentley yesterday on a busy causeway linking Miami and Miami Beach, police said. Stallworth, a...
COMMISH A 'TWO-TIMER'
The city gave secret permission to Finance Commissioner Martha Stark to moonlight at a real-estate company -- despite rules forbidding department heads to engage in outside employment, The Post has...
HOUSE CLEANING
Mortgage brokers and banks making home loans are going to come under increased scrutiny and regulation in legislation making its way through Congress, The Post has learned. The legislation, being...
DAD DRIVING BRAZIL NUTS
RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil - In the United States, he's a cause celebre, a special pet of Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department and a sympathetic TV and Internet star. But...
3 SLASHED IN TIMES SQUARE
Three Newark teenagers were hospitalized with slash wounds after clashing with teens from Brooklyn in Times Square early yesterday, police said. The two groups met up on Broadway near West...
SHOPPING CENTER PAIN
Landlords for the nation's 100,000 shopping centers, including those whose shares are already under pressure because of store closings in the wake of a consumer-spending pullback, are facing a second,...
ARRESTS OF IRA TRIO SPARK RIOT
LURGAN, Northern Ireland - Irish nationalist gangs hurled gasoline bombs at cops yesterday after three IRA dissidents were busted for killing two British soldiers in an attack designed to trigger...
TIME TRAVEL DOWNTOWN
Fulton Street is going back to the future. The lower Manhattan commercial strip is set to receive a multimillion-dollar makeover to restore its storefronts to what they looked like a...
BANKS FORCED TO LOWER CREDIT LIMITS
Dear John: My credit score for the past three months was a very high 713, 721, and 717. Until last Friday, I had three credit cards with a total limit...
RAPE TEACH IN LOVE-NOTE BUST
A Nassau County teacher convicted of having a protracted affair with a teenage student was busted again yesterday for sending him love letters from the slammer, police said. Heather Kennedy...
CONEY PIZZERIA OVERBAKED
A fire raged through a famed Coney Island pizzeria yesterday morning, leaving the 85-year-old Brooklyn institution severely damaged, fire officials said. The blaze hit Totonno's at about 8:45 a.m. and...
REHAB BLITZ AMID ECON 'BUZZ KILL'
Forced to move in with his father after losing his own retirement nest egg to Bernard Madoff, one 52-year-old real-estate pro trudges to rehab every morning to fend off what...
VAN MAN SLEEPS IN PARK
It's the apartment of many New Yorkers' dreams - two bedrooms, great river views in the West Village and a low, low rent: $0 a month. There's only one problem:...
BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
Former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne has had better years. In the 12 months since the government forced his beloved-but-teetering-on-the-edge-of-insolvency brokerage firm to be sold to JPMorgan Chase, the 75-year-old...
'PARK' SCULPTOR PUTS PETAL TO THE METAL
Spring has sprung in bronze and steel. Seven nature-inspired sculptures by renowned artist James Surls blossomed along Park Avenue yesterday, as the 1,500-to-3,800-pound artworks were installed in regular intervals between...
PLENTY OF LAWSUITS ON DECK
LENNY Dykstra could be getting close to being named one of media world's worst bosses. An upcoming GQ magazine article reveals the former NY Met standout is an insensitive and...
BEAR ALUMNI: NO REUNION
A year after the fall of Bear, former Bear CEO Alan Schwartz is now "camping out" at the Manhattan offices of British investment advisory firm Rothschild. As first reported in...
STATE BIGS TAKE NYERS FOR A RIDE
While the rest of us tighten our belts, state employees buckle up in free cars provided to them by the state - paid for and gassed up with $86 million...
BLAZING PAST TAX COPS
Employees who commute using a state car are required to pay taxes on that benefit - yet many officials, including seven state senators, fail to do so, The Post found....
DIGGING UP THE CITY'S PAST
The concept of a time capsule, at least, is solid: Seal a bunch of stuff in a box, bury it and hope that the objects contained within will prove enlightening...
VILLAGE HONOR FOR NYPD HEROES
A street corner in the heart of Greenwich Village was renamed yesterday to honor two auxiliary cops gunned down there two years ago. Signs at the intersection of Bleecker and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A gun would have been a lot quicker. A Florida man ended up in the hospital after being hit in the leg by shrapnel from a bullet that exploded after...
GOTHAM GRADS
When Jacinto Guarddarrama first walked into Gotham Bar and Grill 24 years ago, it wasn't to whisk sauces or prep mise en place. He slaved over a steaming hot dishwasher,...
JETS SIGN EX-RAVENS DE
The Jets have agreed to terms with defensive end Marques Douglas, a person familiar with the contract told The Associated Press yesterday. Douglas is yet another former Baltimore defensive player...
MEET MARKET
Lauren, a 22-year-old events production assistant, is looking for a guy who will try - or taste - anything. Guys with picky palates need not apply! Joe, 24 production assistant...
PARISIAN PAIR
Shea, a 34-year-old software eveloper, showed up a bit late to his date with Rosanna, a 31-year-old video production manager, but the two definitely made up for lost time at...
PRETTY WOMAN MEETS HUNKY GUY
They call him the Chancer. With his dark, swept-back hair and smoldering eyes, he's the hottest and most dangerous man around in a long time - 6 ft. 2 in....
PRETTY PRETTY BANG! BANG!
It's the guiltiest of pleasures: In spite of everything Julia Roberts has accomplished in the past decade - breaking the $20 million salary mark, redefining roles for 30- and 40-something...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... JAMIE DIXON
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the coach of the Pittsburgh Panthers about his late sister Maggie, his own life-threatening injury, coaches who influenced him, and a few of his...
THE RUMBLE
THROUGH his first five outings this spring, right-handed pitcher Matt DeSalvo (right) has a 3.38 ERA in his attempt to find a place in the Mets bullpen. Nevertheless, a much...
AGENDA
The great 'Escape' BOOKS - Fri, 20 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St.; 212-601-1000; 92y.org "I like to think of myself as the Steve McQueen of Bellevue, but it was much more...
WHY YOU'LL NEVER FORGET SYRACUSE-UCONN CLASSIC
YOU will remember this, and remember it well, and for the rest of your life. Believe it. Bank on it. If you stayed with that Syracuse-Connecticut game all the way...
DRIVIN' 65 ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NCAA TOURNEY
Selection Sunday has arrived. After four months of jostling, jockeying and jousting for position, the bracket is released today with the 65 teams ready to chase a national title. As...
Q&A WITH MICHAEL MCKEAN
FEW acts can boast of being one of England's loudest bands, and Spinal Tap went all the way to 11. But for the 25th anniversary of "This Is Spinal Tap,"...
CTK'S ARBITELLO UNSURE OF COACHING FUTURE
Joe Arbitello will coach Christ the King in the CHSAA AA city title game today, but knows there's a chance it could be his last on the sidelines with the...
BRUINS TOO MUCH FOR ISLES
BOSTON - The Islanders are playing better - but they're still not in Bruins' league. Young forward Phil Kessel, benched by coach Claude Julien during last year's playoff series against...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSNFL: Cutler puts house on sale The Broncos insist quarterback Jay Cutler isn't on the market. His house, though, is another matter. Cutler put his 7,516-square-foot, four-bedroom, seven-bath home...
BRADLEY, DAY LEAD IN PUERTO RICO
Michael Bradley shot a 4-under 68 in windy conditions yesterday for a share of the third-round lead with Australian Jason Day in the PGA Tour's Puerto Rico Open. The 42-year-old...
TRASH GOES TECH!
Mode Premium All-in-One Home Recycling Center $299, ModeProducts.com When compared to that bright yellow recycling bucket you're currently using, this can is an upgrade in both function and fashion. A...
EXTRA DEMAND COST RANGERS GUERIN AT DEADLINE
PHILADELPHIA - You can't analyze a trade, much less a trade-deadline day, without knowing what the alternatives might have been. Well, you can, but given the lack of available information,...
DECEASED PISTONS OWNER HAD BIG IMPACT ON GAME
ALREADY staggered by the deaths this young year of Larry Miller, Red Kerr and Norm Van Lier, as well as the life-threatening illness of ex-Pistons maestro Chuck Daly, the NBA...
LEBRON, CAVS NEXT FOR SURGING KNICKS
CLEVELAND - Go for Four! Tonight isn't about trying to sign LeBron James in July of 2010. It's about beating LeBron James in March and April of 2009. In the...
SLUMPING NETS STRUGGLING TO CLOSE OUT GAMES
LOS ANGELES - The silver linings and moral victories are as valuable as Bernie Madoff's Guide to Financial Planning for the Nets. This month, the Nets led the Hornets by...
GIANTS FAILED T.O. BENEFIT
* The Buffalo Bills just got a lot better. And the Giants lost an opportunity to catch lightning in a bottle. There were no game-breaking receivers available to the Giants...
A.J. LOOKS A-OK
TAMPA - If the Yankees didn't panic after subpar second outings by Joba Chamberlain and CC Sabathia, it wouldn't be right to get giddy about A.J. Burnett's second effort yesterday....
PELFREY GETS A LEG UP IN RETURN FROM INJURY
PORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Pelfrey might want to pitch with a strained leg muscle more often. The big right-hander was terrific here yesterday in his first start since missing...
A-ROD DITCHING CRUTCHES
TAMPA - After Joe Girardi talked to Alex Rodriguez Friday, the manager said the plan was for A-Rod to toss the crutches away yesterday. "He was in a good frame...
METS TIX ON SALE
The Mets announced the sale for single game tickets for April and May home games for the Inaugural Season at Citi Field will go on sale today exclusively online at...
BUM SHOULDER KNOCKS TIM OUT OF RACE TO BE 5TH STARTER
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets' already uninspiring fifth-starter race shrunk by one yesterday. The club shut down Tim Redding and will put the veteran right-hander on the disabled list...
RANGERS NOT ALL THERE, AGAIN
PHILADELPHIA - The required 60-minute effort was missing, so was the finish, and if the Rangers aren't able to correct these issues, they will be finished when the regular season...
HEART ASHLEY TAKES CICADA
Heart Ashley broke sharply and was sent to the front by CC Lopez and never looked back as she won the $107,300, Grade 3 Cicada Stakes for 3-year-old fillies by...
DON'T WORRY, TIGER'S STARTING TO REGAIN FORM
DORAL, Fla. - Don't fret, Tiger Woods fans. Despite what has been a somewhat uneventful comeback to stroke play competition this week at the WGC-CA Championship at Doral, Woods doesn't...
METS NOT UPSET ABOUT FOUR-OUT SAVE
MIAMI - Good for Venezuela, bad for Mets fans. Francisco Rodriguez certainly wasn't going to decline yesterday when Venezuela pitching coach Roberto Espinoza asked him if he could take the...
NO WADE THAT TORTORELLA CAN GET REDDEN OUT
PHILADELPHIA - John Tortorella made his point. Sort of. For sure the Rangers coach would have made it bigger and better than ever yesterday had Nik Zherdev, benched for the...
PEAVY BASHED BY BELTRAN, PUERTO RICO
MIAMI - Mercy, mercy, mercy. Who would have thought mighty Team USA could be forced to make that kind of plea to an opponent in the World Baseball Classic? Here...
WHY BASEBALL REMAINS (LATIN) AMERICA'S GAME
MIAMI - This is the sad state that is America's Game. Is Team USA bet ter than the Netherlands? America's Team, which said it was taking this World Baseball Classic...
BIG TESTS THIS WEEK FOR MARIANO, POSADA
TAMPA - There was a safety screen in front of Mariano Rivera yesterday, and one at second base where Joe Girardi and two of his coaches watched. There was a...
CANO, MARTE TO HAVE MRIS TODAY
TAMPA - The Carl "American Idle" Pavano Memorial MRI Tube will be expanded into a two-seater today when the Yankees should hold their breath the machine doesn't spit out bad...
BUTCH PUPILS TO DUEL IT OUT AT DORAL
DORAL, Fla. - Phil Mickelson believes he's on the cusp of something special. Eighteen holes at Doral's Blue Monster in today's WGC-CA Championship final round stand in the way of...
BRODEUR TIES MARK WITH 551ST WIN
MONTREAL - Tuesday can be Marty's Party and St. Patrik's Day, all rolled into one. Records are teetering all over Devildom. Martin Brodeur can become the NHL's all-time winningest goalie...
RELEASED & DECEASED: IT'S NO FLUKE
RECREATIONAL an glers killed as many fluke by releasing them as they did by putting them in their coolers. That is a sad indictment of today's federal management plan. The...
NFL BOSS: NY FANS, GO TO PS-HELL!
PERHAPS the most disgraceful, greed- based story in NFL history is playing out while the sports media respond with typical silence and Commissioner Roger Goodell performs a dead-on imitation of...
BINGHAMTON EARNS INITIAL NCAA BERTH
The Binghamton Bearcats, for the first time in their 63-year history, are going to the NCAA Tournament. Senior Reggie Fuller scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the...
CLOCK CAUGHT UP WITH BOEHEIM'S BUNCH
DEAR Syracuse Basketball: Just a quick note to let you know that even though you lost last night, you won. Years from now, no one outside of Louisville will be...
OWLS WIN 2ND STRAIGHT TITLE
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - When Fran Dunphy took over for the legendary John Chaney as coach at Temple, it was understood that the Owls were in the midst of a...
ACHILLES' HEELS: FALL TO 'NOLES MINUS LAWSON
The last time North Carolina came down to the wire against Florida State, Ty Lawson bailed out the Tar Heels with a last-second 3-point shot. This time, sitting with an...
PRESSURE 'D' EARNS USC 1ST PAC-10 TITLE
LOS ANGELES - Southern California's defensive style is man-to-man. The Trojans don't pressure full-court, and yet that's what earned them the school's first Pac-10 tournament championship. Daniel Hackett hit the...
MEMPHIS ROLLS TO 4TH STRAIGHT C-USA CROWN
Robert Dozier had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Tyreke Evans scored 18 points yesterday, leading No. 4 Memphis past Tulsa 64-39 for its fourth straight Conference USA tournament title....
WEB SLINGER
Saturday Morning Watchmen NewGrounds.com The costumed crimefighters from "Watchmen" re-imagined as a cheery team from a 1970s children's cartoon. White Wedding Literal Video Version FunnyOrDie.com As the copy says, "Ever...
TRADING FACES
WITH SPRING ON THE horizon, most women find themselves thinking about change. I'm one of them: In the past two years, I've realized, I haven't varied the way I look...
ON 'THE EDGE' OF FASHION
In turbulent times, it's nice to have something rock-solid to count on, like Keira Knightley starring in a period movie - Friday's WWII-era "The Edge of Love." Another sure thing:...
MY NEW YORK
Daytime's demure and petite leading lady regularly uses two F-words to describe Manhattan. Yes, it's true. Susan Lucci is a "fabulous" and "fantastic" kinda gal. What, you expected something else...
ADOPT ME
Jay is a 5-year-old male, neutered tabby who's wise, cool and a true friend to the friendless! Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of...
MEI MEI HOME ALONE
IHAVE HAD more than one cat for 17 years. But now, with Yang Yang and Yin Yin gone, Mei Mei is an only cat. Mei Mei has a huge personality...
RUFF GUIDE TO TIDY
AS A NEWSPAPER columnist and frequent guest on Sirius Radio's Martha Stewart show, "Morning Living," I'm asked pet-related questions all the time. On the radio, the most paw-pular subject seems...
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
THE annual Canadian Front festival is headed to the Museum of Modern Art, bringing with it 10 films made by our northern neighbors. The festival kicks off Wednesday and runs...
BRIDGE
THE renowned partnership of Jeff Meckstroth and Eric Rodwell began almost 30 years ago. "Meckwell," as they are known, won their first world title in 1981 and continue to confirm...
GM ON THE RUN
HOW do you play yourself into the Guinness Book of World Records? Kiril Georgiev began by running four miles a day for two months through a forest in his native...
Red Bulls' Carlos Johnson day-to-day w/ subluxed shoulder; Brunner update
When Carlos Johnson left the Red Bulls' final preseason friendly following a nasty tackle, it cast some dount over the defender's status, especially because the club never announced the official...
HELP! WE'RE ADDICTED TO BAD TV
It's the end of the winter and too often, where do we find ourselves? Planted in front of the television, watching the most godawful junk. And loving it. We're suckers...
'GOSSIP GIRL' VS. 'THE AGE OF THE INNOCENCE'
Not since "Moonlighting" used "The Taming of the Shrew" as an analogous narrative has a prime-time soap attempted something quite so literary and apt: Tomorrow, "Gossip Girl" returns after an...
DON'T MISS LIST
UGLY BETTY, Thursday, 8 p.m., ABC 'Betty' gets it on - Daniel (Eric Mabius) and Wilhelmina (Vanessa Williams) hope that an issue dedicated to S-E-X will turn the economic tide...
BIBLE BELT
In the Bible, David killed the giant Goliath with a slingshot. In "Kings," the new NBC series based on the biblical story of David, Goliath is a tank he counters...
REEL GOOD
25th HOUR (2002), Tuesday, 8 p.m., Ch. 55 Spike Lee's almost-under-the-radar drama centers on the last night of freedom before a convicted Queens drug dealer, (Edward Norton) goes to jail....
PRIMETIME
To best measure the state of local TV newscasts, consider these two irrefutable facts: 1) For approximately 15 consecutive weeks, every year for the last five years, the most repetitive...
Knicks 111, Cavs 109
RUST BELT: (official definition in Wikipedia); The Rust Belt, sometimes called the Manufacturing Belt, is an area in parts of the Northeast U.S. and parts of the upper Midwest. Economic...