October 23, 2009
The Rangers’ blueline enigma
The Rangers’ situation on defense right now might be one of the weirdest personnel-to-performance relationships the NHL has seen in ages.Their two most consistent players are both rookies, a 19-...
Red Bulls to play final soccer game at Giants Stadium Saturday
When the Red Bulls host Toronto tomorrow (7:30 p.m., MSG2), it'll not only be their season finale, but the curtain call on the last soccer game ever at Giants Stadium....
Cardinals' Boldin practices, questionable for Giants
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin is questionable for Sunday night's game at the New York Giants after going through a limited practice on Friday.It was the first time all...
Yankees sticking with Hughes, Joba
As unreliable as Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain have been this postseason, the Yankees have no choice but to trust their two young righty relievers to be a bridge to...
Struggling Swisher confident Yankees will finish off Angels
As Yankees fans were calling for his head this afternoon, Nick Swisher spent some much-needed time trying to fix his swing. “Oh, hell yeah,” Swisher said when asked if he...
Child abuse suspected as Brooklyn boy, 4, dies
A 4-year-old Brooklyn boy was killed today in what appears to be a heinous case of child abuse, sources said. Jayden Lenescar’s mother found the boy unconscious at their first...
PSAL Class A boys soccer: Martin Luther King Jr. bracket breakdown
New York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at Martin Luther King Jr.’s path in its quest to win a fourth straight city title. Teams (in seed...
PSAL Class A boys soccer: Tottenville bracket breakdown
New York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at the teams in Tottenville’s way of reaching the PSAL Class A semifinals. Teams (in seed order): Tottenville, Lehman,...
PSAL Class A boys soccer: Francis Lewis bracket breakdown
New York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at the teams in Francis Lewis’ way of returning to the PSAL Class A semifinals. Teams (in seed order):...
Nets could be Newark-bound ... for now
The Devils could have some company in Newark. A deal between the Meadowlands’ Izod Center and the Prudential Center in Newark seems to be imminent, according to published reports. Part...
CHSAA boys soccer roundup: Prep clinches B/Q title
Frank Biordi scored the lone goal, his team-leading sixth of the season, on an assist from Jason Gonzalez to lift St. Francis Prep to a 1-0 victory against Xaverian Thursday...
PSAL Class B bracket breakdown
New York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski takes a look at Flushing's road to repeat as champion. Teams (in seed order): Flushing, FDR, Richmond Hill, MLK, New Utrecht,...
Joining Navy was life-changing experience
It's hard to believe where I am in my life right now. I've changed so much from the person I was before I joined the Navy.One day during my senior...
Devils' Mottau to miss Penguins game
Devils defenseman MIke Mottau will miss tomorrow's game in Pittsburgh with a hip injury suffered in Thursday's 4-2 victory at MSG over the Rangers. New Jersey has activated D Mark...
The weekly wrap-up, October 23
This week we learned that...... Tishman-Speyer has a bit of a problem.... So, however, might market-rate renters. [Curbed]... The NAHB's new logo means the housing crisis is officially over. [WSJ]......
Bloomberg breaks his own campaign spending record
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has broken his own spending record from four years ago, dropping $85.2 million so far on his campaign for a third term. The billionaire...
Man found with $205M in cash sold meth chemical
MEXICO CITY — A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a...
Kerik trial postponed
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The corruption trial of former New York police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has been postponed. The trial had been scheduled to begin with jury selection on Monday....
Hunter: Pressure is on Yankees
The Angels went through a light one hour workout today at Angel Stadium after their huge 7-6 win over the Yankees last night in Game 5. The weather was perfect....
Stern to LeBron: Stay in Cleveland
The thought of having the NBA’s biggest star in the league’s biggest market apparently does not appeal to Commissioner David Stern. The NBA’s head honcho told the Sports Take on...
Gal drops Phillips restraining order after settlement talk
She loved him, she loved him not. She loved him . . . ESPN production assistant Brooke Hundley dropped a restraining order against her former lover – married baseball analyst...
Girardi running out of reliable relievers
You know things are getting bad when you don’t mind the sight of Damaso Marte trotting in from the bullpen.The bullpen was thought to be an advantage for the Yankees...
Retrial set for Kirsten Dunst robbery case
Prosecutors plan to retry a suspect in the theft of Kirsten Dunst’s $2,000 purse during a Manhattan movie shoot after a jury deadlocked on the top charges against him. But...
Red Bulls' Celades retires
Red Bull midfielder Albert Celades will retire after Saturday's season finale against Toronto FC at Giants Stadium (7:30 p.m., MSG2). “It is time to say goodbye to soccer,” said Celades....
Brooke Hundley's restraining order affidavit
Brooke Hundley, who had a fling with ESPN's Steven Phillips, filed a restraining order against him the day after she harassed his wife at their home. This is her "statement...
Lockdown due to 'parental domestic' situation lifted at 4 LI schools
MILLER PLACE, N.Y. — A lockdown at four schools on eastern Long Island has been lifted. Miller Place School Deputy Superintendent Dr. Marianne Higuera said in a statement on the...
Qns. woman killed in LES car crash
A Queens woman was killed in a tragic early morning collision in an East Village intersection. At about 6:15 a.m., a blue cargo van traveling east on East 4th Street...
Knicks extend Gallinari, Chandler
The Knicks exercised their fourth-year option on Wilson Chandler and third-year option for Danilo Gallinai, team president Donnie Walsh announced today.Chandler, who is expected to start for the Knicks in...
Cotchery out vs. Raiders
The Jets had hoped to get Jerricho Cotchery back from his hamstring injury in time to play Sunday in Oakland, but the starting wide receiver will miss his second straight...
Man who shot 'granny' saw his mother murdered: lawyer
The kid who cops say shot and killed a 92-year-old woman watched his father murder his mother when he was just 2 years old, his defense attorney said today. Attorney...
Judge tells rude opera singer in restaurant flap to stay out of trouble
Gabriela Pochinki, the Argentine opera singer whose rude antics sent customers fleeing from an Upper West Side restaurant, was told today charges against her will be dropped if she stays...
Mastermind behind Hollywood burglaries ID'd
A California woman who wanted what Hollywood stars have is the mastermind behind a string of robberies that included the homes of Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge, according to reports....
ESPN's Steve Phillips' mistress returns to Connecticut home
Brooke Hundley, the shlubby seductress whose tawdry trysts with fellow ESPN employee Steve Phillips helped wreck his marriage, finally returned to her Connecticut home yesterday where she picked up some...
Jean Paul at Target: Love it.
Here's something we're over the moon about: Jean Paul Gaultier's line for Target, which is scheduled to hit stores on March 7, 2010. Images and samples aren't out yet, but...
1 dead, 8 hurt in helicopter crash on Navy ship
NORFOLK, Va. — An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during training, killing one service member and injuring eight, the Navy said. Service members were rappelling down...
Prosecutor: Reverend found with 'homicide' wounds
A priest whose body was found in St. Patrick’s Church’s rectory in Chatham, NJ, today was murdered, officials said. The clothed body of the Rev. Ed Hinds, 61, was found...
Probe into Northwest pilots who overshot destination by 150 miles
WASHINGTON -- Controllers on the ground, pilots of other planes, even a flight attendant back in the cabin tried to alert the crew as the U.S. passenger airliner flew past...
Paper Garden Playground At 3rd Ward
3rd Ward Brooklyn (195 Morgan Avenue, Williamsburg) is quickly becoming the go-to venue for vibrant, multipurpose arts and music performances.In the past month alone, 3rd Ward hosted the Last Supper...
Mets fans on highway to hell
ANAHEIM, Calif. — This has happened before, of course. Happened plenty, in fact. In 1986, there was nowhere a Yankees fan could turn without being reminded that hell had, in...
NY, LA children’s museums join anti-obesity fight
Museums in New York and New Orleans will use the arts to fight childhood obesity. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan is launching a pilot program at the East Side House...
Amtrak to repair track problem in NJ
SECAUCUS, N.J. — Amtrak hopes to have trains traveling at normal speeds between Newark and New York City in time for the ride home Friday. Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole says...
The Daily Whacks, Friday Edition
Nick Swisher was a wonderful surprise for most of this season. He was supposed to be the Yankees' starting first baseman until, in the parlance of college basketball coaches, the...
And now, a folk song plucked from our police blotter!
He even provided the lyrics this week.For a Dollar EachWords and music by Frank HoierThey robbed a manFor a dollar eachThey robbed a manFor a dollar eachWith an automatic gunDown...
'Boozed up' mom indicted for fatal slumber party crash
A Bronx woman accused of drunken driving has been indicted in connection with an accident that killed an 11-year-old girl and injured six of her friends on their way to...
Woman survives 135-foot bridge jump on Hudson River
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — State police say a woman survived a leap off a 135-foot-high Hudson River bridge. Police say a call was placed from the Mid-Hudson Bridge’s help line Thursday...
Reports: Henry reps talking to Red Bull
Reports of Thierry Henry negotiating with the Red Bulls for a move to MLS next summer seem to be popping up on a daily basis. Two days after Sky Sports'...
Dead Florida girl's mother: We'll get you
ORANGE PARK, Fla. — The mother of a 7-year-old Florida girl whose body was found in a landfill made a promise on national TV Friday to the unknown killer: "We'll...
NATO leaning toward sending more troops to Afghanistan
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that NATO allies are moving toward sending more troops and civilian aid to Afghanistan. Gates said he was "heartened" by...
Iran rejects UN plan for uranium
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is still studying a U.N.-drafted plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia for further enrichment and will formally respond to the offer next week,...
Lousy umps get the boot from World Series
Stung by a rash of blown calls in the playoffs, Major League Baseball is breaking tradition and sticking with only experienced umpires for the World Series. Longtime crew chiefs Joe...
3UP: Girardi, Hughes and CC
1. Being a manager, especially at this time of year, is never easy. When your team losses, there will inevitably be a move or three that will be dissected and...
Soupy Sales (1926-2009)
If you weren't around in 1965, it would be hard to grasp just what a huge cultural phenomenon Soupy Sales was at the time. This idol of my adolecence became a national...
Parents protest school bake sale ban
Don’t hate on cupcakes! That’s the message parents are sending in response to the city Department of Education’s (DOE) decision to limit the number of bake sales in public schools....
Possible zoning changes for P.S. 128 and I.S. 690
Two Bensonhurst schools want to form a partnership. The principals of P.S. 128, 2075 84th Street, and I.S. 690 Brooklyn Studio Secondary School, 8310 21st Avenue, attended a meeting of...
Afternoon horror: Canarsie teen attacked, nearly raped
A 14-year-old girl was grabbed and nearly raped during a confrontation with a knife-wielding lunatic Tuesday, police said.Now armed with a sketch of the suspect, investigators are scouring the streets...
Nanny State Squared
Government is controlling a lot more and doing it badly (Investor's Business Daily)
Bailouts & Bonuses
Steven Pearlstein on the deeper problem of executive pay caps (Washington Post)Capping pay is easy real reform is hard (Wall Street Journal)
Drama Mama: TGI 'Friday Night Lights'
Need something to do while you’re eating all the Halloween candy you bought despite the fact there aren’t even any kids in your building? Drama Mama has several suggestions: “Friday...
Living Off 5th Avenue
Brooklyn’s 5th Avenue Committee brought its board members and financiers on a Prevost bus this week for a tour of its latest construction projects, and its staff members were repeatedly...
Hate Crimes & Defense spending
GOP lost fight to separate new rules from Pentagon budget (Reuters)
Box Office: Old-school horror vs torture porn
Lionsgate's torture-porn/cash-cow franchise "Saw'' generally rules the box-office roost just before Halloween, but this year it faces a battle for supremacy with Paramount's gore and violence-free old-school shocker "Paranormal Activity,'' which is finally expanding...
Pedro wants another shot at Yankees
PHILADELPHIA -- Amid the euphoria and champagne in the Phillies victorious clubhouse early yesterday, the Yankees weren't far from Pedro Martinez's mind. Martinez's face lit up at the prospect of...
Oscar Watch: 'Amelia' lost at sea
Mira Nair's "Amelia'' is a contender in the cinematography, production design and costume categories, but it's pretty certain this deadly dull biography of Amelia Earhart with two-time Best Actress winner...
Palin for Hoffman
Comes out for Conservative in Upstate NY (Weekly Standard)
Deadly Anniversary
Michael Ledeen says we have met the enemy (Weekly Standard)Story needs to be told (Jacksonville Daily News)A Blast that still Echoes (U.S. Naval Institute)
U.S. asks Switzerland to extradite Roman Polanski
GENEVA — The United States has asked Switzerland to hand over Roman Polanski to authorities in California, where he is wanted for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl,...
ESPN encourages sexual insensitivity on air to snag ratings
The funny thing about ESPN isn't all that funny: The only time it indulges — even encourages — sexual insensitivity from employees is as a matter of commerce, while in...
Yankees no strangers to October thrills – no matter result
ESPN play-by-play man Jon Miller did not have to think for a second before deciding which World Series was his most memorable as a broadcaster. “In 2001 between the Yankees...
Giants on the rebound
The full-touchdown spread seeming a bit high, a search was undertaken for a good reason to back the underdog Cardinals against the Giants on Sunday night in the Meadowlands. Couldn’t...
O/U Rico
Rico went 7-6-1 (1-1-1 Best Bets) last week, bringing the season record to 41-48-1 (8-9-1). The selections for Week 7: OVER: Colts / Rams; Packers / Browns; Steelers / Vikings;...
Miss Charleen
SUNDAY: Jets, Cardinals, Chiefs, Rams, Bengals, Browns, Vikings, Patriots, 49ers, Panthers, Saints, Cowboys MONDAY: Eagles BEST BETS: Cardinals, Chiefs, Bengals
Tim Sullivan
SUNDAY: Jets, Giants, Chargers, Colts, Bears, Packers, Steelers, Buccaneers, 49ers, Panthers, Dolphins, Cowboys MONDAY: Eagles BEST BETS: Steelers, Panthers, 49ers
Night moves send Hondo surging into Sunday
Hondo scraped together a solid performance last week, posting an 8-6 mark that included a sweep of the Sunday and Monday nighters. The late surge is expected to provide Mr....
Sister act leads Fontbonne past Notre Dame
The Fontbonne Hall offense was in total sync and for good reason. Freshman Cindy Henderson would win a 50-50 ball, then find her sister Katie who would juke two defenders,...
Weekend calendar
THE BEST OF THE WURST There’s no better time than October for an Oktoberfest, so head to Brooklyn, where it’s all about bottoms-up and chowing down on the last Sunday...
'Brighton' ready
Before Matthew Broderick was Matthew Broderick — before he was even Ferris Bueller! — he was Neil Simon’s alter ego, Eugene. If stardom’s in the Genes, can Noah Robbins and...
PSAL girls soccer: MSIT bracket breakdown
New York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski takes a look at McKee/Staten Island Tech’s road to repeat as champion. Teams (in seed order): McKee/Staten Island Tech, Bayside, Petrides,...
Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83
DETROIT — Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died....
CHSFL predictions, Week 7
Every week in the fall, NYPost.com’s Dylan Butler and Joseph Staszewski will attempt to prognosticate the coming Catholic High School Football League weekend. RECORDS AFTER WEEK 6 Butler: 42-9 (7-1...
Eulogy for a vampire
There's a line late into "Eu logy for a Vampire" uttered by the tormented Father Anthony -- and he seems to be speaking for the filmgoer who unwittingly bought a...
Stan Helsing
The crude spoof movie "Stan Helsing" manages to deliver a few laughs, which is a few more than bigger-budget competitors like "Dance Flick" managed. Two couples (Kenan Thompson of "Saturday...
(Untitled)
The movie "(Untitled)" is a tinny satire destined to go "(Unwatched)" because it is "(Uninteresting)." Adam Goldberg plays an atonal composer (his pieces rely on lots of shattering of wine...
Weekend Guide
DANCE COMPANHIA DE DANCA DEBORAH COLKER: Colker accompanies her Brazilian dance company on piano as they perform their piece "4 Por 4." Tonight and tomorrow night at 8 and Sunday...
Weekend Guide: Music
POP, ROCK, FOLK BOBBY BROWN: Whitney Houston's ex stages a comeback with a performance taking us back to his days as a New Edition band member. Tonight at 8 p.m....
Rematch, division title 'slip away' from Kearney
This is what Kristin Wulff had been waiting for all season, what her Bishop Kearney girls volleyball team was capable of all along. The Tigers dominated the first set against...
No doubt about Brooklyn's best
Sarah McCarthy doesn’t like to look at the score when she’s playing. The Fontbonne Hall senior doesn’t want it to affect what she does on the court. But Thursday in...
Hill inches closer to first CHSAA Staten Island title
The last time St. Joseph Hill met St. Joseph by the Sea, there was a freak occurrence. The referee was two hours late and both teams had to wait around...
The Fulton Mall lacks bling — in the sidewalk, that is
Gold, silver, diamonds, and platinum sparkle in the shop windows on the Fulton Mall, but some area residents think the street’s new sidewalks don’t sparkle enough!Newly poured concrete sidewalks —...
Hasids fight for naming rights
You can believe everything you read in The Brooklyn Paper — unless it’s in the comments section of our award-winning Web site.Imposters have been commenting under the names of prominent...
District 21 CEC welcomes new president
School District 21’s Community Education Council (CEC) has finally elected a president.Yoketing Eng, who held the presidency until his term expired this summer, won the seat at last week’s CEC...
Weekend Guide: Theater
PREVIEWS “BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS”: Laurie Metcalf heads the cast of this Neil Simon revival about growing up in Brooklyn. Nederlander, 208 W. 41st St.; 212-307-4100.Opens Sunday. “THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS”: “The...
1st-class seat to dullsville
A lazy coffee-table book of a movie, "Amelia" is dressed to the nines with nowhere to go, its hackneyed script and Mira Nair's unfocused direc tion never allowing Hilary Swank's...
Fangs for nothing: 'Freak' show sucks
'Cirque du Freak: Thec" calls to mind Grandpa taking out his dentures and trying to put on a comedy monster show for little kids at Halloween: When he tries to...
Going 'Bak' in time
A plot? Tony Jaa don't need no stinking plot. The Thai martial-arts actor returns to the screen with "Ong Bak 2: The Beginning." He stars in, wrote and co-directed the...
'Astro'-nomical
Attention, parents: Don't hate "Astro Boy" just because his giant image is embla zoned across the front of the Times Square Toys 'R' Us. This computer-animated adaptation of the 1950s-created...
'Antichrist' sure to shock, but it also awes
Lars von Trier might not be, as he famously boasted in Cannes, "the best director in the world." But, as witnessed by his "Antichrist," he certainly is one of them....
Frightful wedding night
French director Karin Albou's coming-of- age drama "The Wedding Song" is an in telligently written and directed story of two 16-year-old girls -- one Jewish and one Muslim -- and...
Throw mama from the train
If Carrie Bradshaw ever trades her Manolos for sneakers and starts blogging about raising children, I pray she wouldn't be as tiresome as the heroine of Katherine Dieckmann's insufferable comedy...
Classes struggle; restraint dulls the blows
Remakes are common in films, much less so at the theater. Revivals -- check. Modern-dress stagings of classics -- yeah, we've endured Shakespeare in fascist uniforms. But seeing a playwright...
Adieu free Hulu
Hulu's days as a free Web site appear to be numbered. The online video site that offers full-length versions of current TV shows -- one of the fastest growing sites...
Starr report
Two Smiths -- lifestyle ex pert B. and "Early Show" co- host Harry -- will join Food Network's Alex Guarnas chelli ("Alex's Day Off"/ "Chopped") at the James Beard Foundation...
'Saw' not seen by critics
The torture porn flick "Saw VI" opens today, but there is no review because it wasn't made available to critics beforehand. And we all know what that means.
'Sons of Anarchy' surprise hit of the fall
'S ons of Anarchy," the hardcore series about a gun-run ning motorcycle club, is starting to leave tire tracks all over the competition. Without a lot of fanfare, "Sons," now...
'Melrose' axes Ashlee
The casualty of the murder- mystery plot on the CW's "Melrose Place"? It's Ashlee Simpson-Wentz's job. Simpson and co-star Colin Egglesfield got the boot as their storylines were wrapping up...
'Sweet 16' meets 'Scream' in fun MTV flick
Don't you just hate it when your best friend's head gets chopped off at your special birthday party by someone who looks exactly like the Burger King king? I sure...
Hey, 'Fela!' You need some buzz
Jay-Z and Will Smith are getting behind "Fela!" in a big way. The hip-hop mogul and the movie star are putting a combined $3 million into Bill T. Jones' rousing...
Zany laugh master Soupy Sales dies
Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances, died in a Bronx hospice last night. He was...
City sues to keep 'Tavern on the Green' name
The city has sued the operators of the bankrupt Tavern on the Green, claiming it has the sole right to use the storied restaurant's name. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday,...
Passing the torch
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece -- The flame for the Vancouver Olympics was lit by the sun's rays in an ancient ceremony yesterday, heralding the start of the torch relay for the...
Geek's puzzling present for traveling pal's nups
There's only one spot on Earth to open this wedding gift. It comes in a carved wooden box, with a GPS display, that won't unlatch until it's taken to a...
Top cop, top 'crook': the fall of Bernie Kerik
THE ISSUE: A judge's decision to send ex-police boss Kerik to jail as he faces corruption charges. *** It pains me to see former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik on the...
Slay-probe guru's life of big $$, ego, sweat and tears
DENVER -- The story that self-help guru James Arthur Ray loves to tell his new audiences is a modern-day parable, a tale of overcoming adversity. The key character: James Arthur...
Upstate gets good 'car'-ma
SYRACUSE -- An Indian car company has chosen upstate New York for a factory to build electric cars for North America. A state official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said...
Madonna mission
LILONGWE, Malawi -- Madonna will visit the African nation of Malawi to lay the foundation stone of a multimillion-dollar girls school she is building. The singer, who has adopted two...
Nokia sues over iPhone
Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker, said yestterday it had filed a suit in a US district court against Apple, alleging that its iPhone infringes Nokia's patents. Nokia said the...
Bloomberg for Mayor
The Post this morning endorses the candidacy of Michael R. Bloomberg to serve four more years as mayor of New York City. We do so for many of the same...
Life under ObamaCare?
Critical shortages of medicine. Ration ing of medical care. Many say that's what Americans will face if the government runs the nation's health-care system, as Democrats in Washington propose. And...
Body of Fla. girl, 7, found
ORANGE PARK, Fla. The body of a 7-year-old north Florida girl who vanished on her way home from school Monday has been found under trash in a landfill in Georgia,...
Bailouts & bonuses
MEMBERS of AIG's finan cial-products unit should take heart. Yes, Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg is coming down on them with the awesome power of his czardom, dictating that...
N. Korea: dangerous model for Iran
IN the nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, this week, Iranian negotia tors seem to have agreed that Iran will ship a portion of its stockpile of nuclear fuel to Russia....
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn The guy just wigged out. Michael Ingram, 28, swiped a hairpiece off a mannequin in a Downtown Brooklyn beauty-supply store and as he fled sprayed the storeowner with Mace,...
Breaking away
Pounded relentlessly by a flood of negative ads, Comptroller Bill Thompson now trails Mayor Bloomberg by 16 points as the race for City Hall heads into the home stretch, according...
Fortune cuts back
Time Inc. is betting fewer issues will bring good luck to its business magazine Fortune. As part of a major redesign to be unveiled in January, Fortune is cutting its...
O fires back at Cheney
WASHINGTON -- President Obama yesterday answered ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's charge that he was "dithering" and too scared to make a decision on Afghan strategy. White House Press Secretary Robert...
'Man cave' duo facing charges
ALBANY -- Two state workers accused in July of operating a "man cave" drug and party den near the Capitol were indicted on 22 criminal charges yesterday, including cocaine and...
Upstater's plate gripe
CANTON, NY -- A northern New York county clerk is carrying out an online petition drive to thwart Gov. Paterson's plan to require all New Yorkers to purchase new license...
Why Jerry's $5.4B gamble failed
Tishman Speyer can blame itself for getting creamed by the state Court of Appeals yesterday. Not because it thought it was violating the law -- far from it, based on...
Classic Jacko in last gig
Jacko looks like a strong-voiced King of Pop, and not a sickly man at death's door, in a 12-minute clip from his new posthumous film, "This Is It." The movie,...
Ben's check list
Fat Wall Street paychecks may soon hit the endangered species list. A day after Obama's pay czar said banks that took federal rescue dough will have to slash top salaries...
Gal's got beef with butcher
An aspiring meat wrapper has a bone to pick with her butcher boss who fired her after she spurned his sexual advances, a new lawsuit alleges. Jessica McCarthy, 23, claims...
Bronfman faces trial for Vivendi
One of the worst media-merger flops of the last decade is coming back to haunt Edgar Bronfman Jr. and French entrepreneur Jean-Marie Messier in a widening scandal of alleged stock...
Smile! You're on hacker cam
Keep it clean in front of your Web cam -- anyone could be watching. Up to 65,000 Time Warner computer routers have flaws that could let hackers record user activity...
Business briefs
Amazon up Amazon.com re ported third-quarter profit increased 69 per cent to $199 million, or 45 cents a share, from $118 million, or 27 cents, a year earlier. Amazon.com rose...
Calling all potty people
Charmin is offering the chance to turn toilet paper into wads of cash. The company is hiring five "ambassadors" at $2,000 per week to serve as bathroom attendants at its...
Drilling -- and, maybe, killing
THE ISSUE: The Paterson administration's move to allow gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. *** Max Schulz knowingly disregards the potential for catastrophic damage to the drinking water, created by...
Video: Hero store clerk grabs gun from robbers
Long Island gas-station clerk Mustafa Yakupoglu had been held up twice at gunpoint, and decided enough was enough. So when two thugs put a 12-gauge shotgun to his neck, he...
Lil Wayne cops to gun rap in shock plea
Rap superstar Lil Wayne is prison bound after taking a surprising -- and surprisingly docile -- plea of guilty to gun possession yesterday in return for a promise of one...
City's pay-TV plan
Crime may not pay -- but the crime TV shows that shoot in New York are about to. The city is nearing a decision to charge TV shows and film...
Times is getting better
The New York Times reported better -- or at least less bad -- results than investors had expected after it slashed costs and raised newsstand prices. The struggling publisher posted...
Bernie's wheel of fortune
He drove countless people into bankruptcy, and now you can drive away with his car. US marshals are auctioning off Bernie Madoff's sleek black Mercedes today to raise money for...
Cuomo's pay-to-play rap for nonprofits
As part of a probe into sleazy "pay-to-play" donations made by nonprofit groups, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has ordered dozens of charities to take back illegal contributions they've made...
Grading teachers
A data system being developed by the state Education Department to track students from pre-kindergarten through college could also be used to evaluate teachers based on how their kids do,...
Gov's $1 bil fuzzy math
ALBANY -- Gov. Paterson yesterday claimed President Obama's crackdown on Wall Street pay could cost the state $1 billion. But experts questioned the figure and the governor's own Budget Division...
Waiters' $3M beef
Stick a fork in it -- Sparks Steak House has settled a class-action lawsuit accusing the famed Midtown eatery of shorting waiters on tips for over $3 million. "What're you...
Deadly anniversary
AT 6:22 on Sunday morning, 26 years ago today, a huge explosion rocked my head quarters at Beirut International Airport, where the US Multinational Peacekeeping Force had been operating for...
Tsk, tsk, Tishman
Tishman Speyer Properties was dealt a huge setback yesterday after the state's highest court ruled that the real estate giant improperly raised rents on thousands of rent-stabilized apartments at the...
'Shake It Like Shakira' suit tossed out
Shake it like Shakira at your peril. A Manhattan judge has thrown out a big-bucks lawsuit against Calico Jack's Cantina on East 42nd Street by a woman injured while dancing...
'Voice op' for Julie Andrews
The world could hear "The Sound of Music" once again. Singing legend Julie Andrews, 74, could soon get her beloved voice back, as she is reportedly set to undergo a...
Just say nyet to Nello
IT'S NO shock that Nets buyer Mikhail Prokhorov celebrated the other day at Nello. The Madison Avenue joint's overpriced food and underfed blondes are perfect for a bimbo-craving, globetrotting gazillionaire...
Polo honcho saddles up for last ride
The man who turned around Polo Ralph Lauren may have renewed his contract for the last time. President and Chief Operating Officer Roger Farah -- one of the most respected...
'Junior' jurors lapping it up
Could this be a sign of things to come? After griping that their court-ordered lunches lacked variety, jurors at John "Junior" Gotti's racketeering trial yesterday gave a lower Manhattan restaurant...
Web charge at Newsday
Newsday will charge $5 a week for non-subscribers to access its Web site, starting next week. The fee is roughly equivalent to the charge for home delivery of the paper....
Trump told to reveal casino info
Donald Trump, who is trying to regain control of Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., must disclose details about the investment he and his partners still hold in the bankrupt casino company,...
Teen found in Times Square doesn't know who she is
Authorities are pleading for the public's help identifying a "Jane Doe" teen with amnesia who has been in the city's care for two weeks. One of the few clues to...
Minnelli's unwanted court gig
A Manhattan judge is ordering Liza Minnelli to sing. In a decision made public yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Paul Feinman ordered Liza to answer questions under oath in her former...
Graydon AWOL as Vanity Fair cuts staff
VANITY Fair yesterday took some of the deepest staff cuts at Condé Nast, but Editor Graydon Carter didn't deliver the bad news himself. Although Carter was said to have been...
Nets buyer & pals hoop it up
Russia's richest man blew the equivalent of 552,000 rubles for lunch at one of the city's priciest restaurants as he celebrated his soon-to-be new career as a basketball baron, sources...
Booksellers seek price-war probe
The American Booksellers Association has asked the US Department of Justice to investigate a recent price war on books sold online between such retail giants as Wal-Mart, Amazon.com and Target...
Fraud case a horse opera
The feds burst out of the gate yesterday in an attempt to seize up to 32 race horses owned by opera-loving fraudster Alberto Vilar's partner in crime. Prosecutors say crooked...
Granny-slay bust
The stray bullet that killed a beloved 92-year-old woman as she sat in her Bronx home was fired by a teen trying to break up a noisy gang fight that...
Travolta bids for US trial
With the John Travolta extortion case thrown into chaos after a mistrial yesterday, a move is in the works to take it out of the Bahamas and bring it to...
Election Board broke
The city's Board of Elections says it's burned through its budget for the Nov. 3 election and won't have enough money to pay thousands of poll workers needed that day....
Pepsi scraps 'pickup' app
PepsiCo has removed its iPhone application that promised to help men "score" with different types of women, about a week after it was ripped for stereotyping. The soft-drink maker announced...
Forced flu shots nixed
The state Health Department yesterday suspended a ruling that would have forced health-care workers to get vaccinated against the swine flu by the end of November or risk losing their...
ESPN's Brooke Hundley sought restraining order against Steve Phillips
ESPN production assistant Brooke Hundley reportedly filed for a restraining order against Steve Phillips -- the baseball analyst who briefly shared her bed -- charging that last July he "bought...
2 ESPN execs playing around
There must be something in the water at ESPN. On the heels of the Steve Phillips affair-with-an-assistant revelation, two other network bigs have been exposed for a steamy in-house liaison....
5 questions for Walt Frazier
ALL the hype about the Knicks surrounds the 2010 free-agent class, but Hall of Famer and MSG analyst Walt "Clyde" Frazier told The Post's Justin Terranova that this year's team...
Sex at ESPN taboo unless it's on air
THE funny thing about ESPN isn't all that funny: The only time it indulges -- even encourages -- sexual insensi tivity from employees is as a matter of commerce, while...
Chip-Chip Hooray! He's done!
THE only reasonably good news is that it lasted "only" nine games. With that Tigers-Twins one-game play-in thrown in, this TBS postseason, starring Chip Caray, could have gone, yikes, 13...
The Post Line
NFLSundayFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogGIANTS 7 7 (46½)CardinalsJets 7 6 (34½)RAIDERSChargers 4½ 4½(44) CHIEFSColts13½13 (45) RAMSBENGALS 2½ 1 (42) BearsPackers 8 9 (41) BROWNSSTEELERS 5 4½(45) Vikingsx-Patriots14 14½(45) BuccaneersTEXANS 3 3 (44)...
Giants' Sheridan ready to amp up pressure on Cardinals
WHEN coach Tom Coughlin promoted Bill Sheridan to follow Steve Spagnuolo as defensive coordinator, he was certain this would not be Ray Handley following Bill Parcells, Rod Rust following Bill...
Sunday's Best
The experts make their picks:THE LINEGREG GALLOSTEVE SERBYMARK CANNIZZAROPAUL SCHWARTZTIM BONTEMPSRICOJets 6 (34½) RAIDERS (Sunday, CBS, 4:05)JetsRaiders★ JetsJetsJetsJetsGIANTS 7 (46½) Cardinals (NBC, 8:20)Cardinals★ Cardinals★ GiantsCardinalsGiantsCardinalsChargers 4½ (44) CHIEFS (1:00)★ ChargersChiefsChargersChargers★...
Rangers couldn't ice Chelios deal
Rangers general manager Glen Sather recently offered Chris Chelios an AHL contract to play in Hartford, but the veteran free agent defenseman rejected that offer to sign a deal with...
Nicks sees self as Big Blue's Boldin
Heading into the NFL Draft, the player Hakeem Nicks was likened to most often was Anquan Boldin, the explosive, powerful Cardinals receiver who is not the biggest or fastest but...
O'Hara won't 'hold' back from appealing $5G fine
Giants Pro Bowl center Shaun O'Hara was severely critical of a holding penalty called on him in the fourth quarter of last Sunday's loss in New Orleans. An Eli Manning...
Scioscia knows Yankees have no soft spots
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- This is really a simple game. The Angels were facing elimination last night in Game 5 of the ALCS because of what the Yankees have accomplished on...
Isiah 'blindsided' by Johnson's book
A feud between Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas escalated yesterday when the former Knicks president lashed out at the Lakers legend for destroying him in a new book. That Johnson...
Knicks see upswing in ticket sales
The Knicks have proven cap space sells. The Knicks, with virtually the same roster but a new salary-cap situation, have seen an inordinate rise in new full season-ticket packages, according...
Harris' woes cloud Nets' forecast
Devin Harris has spent much of the Nets' preseason watching. And wincing. He has appeared in half of the six losses, alternately nursing two ankle sprains and now a strained...
Raiders know Gang Green's ground game must be stopped
The Raiders know exactly what the Jets are going to do against them Sunday. The Jets are going to run, run and then run a little bit more. And then,...
DA says Raiders' Cable free of charges
Raiders coach Tom Cable won't face charges after being investigated over allegations that he assaulted one of his assistants, ending a two-month saga that was a cloud over the team's...
Hondo knows Diddley
Girardi and the Yankees cost Hondo a big score last night, stumbling in Game 5 to push the debt to 1,820 chamblisses. Today, he'll try to get the beat going...
Ryan not going to tolerate 'selfish' play
Coach Rex Ryan yesterday spoke for the first time about his benching of James Ihedigbo and Marques Murrell this week against the Raiders after they threw punches at Bills tight...
Daniels didn't deserve Pacers ax
YOU know the regular season is getting close when the commissioner is poised to throw out the first replacement referee. You know we've been on a slippery slope since the...
Islanders routed by Canadiens, 5-1
Montreal -- Scott Gomez and Marc-Andre Bergeron scored in the first period to give Montreal its first two-goal lead of the season, sending the Canadiens on to a 5-1 win...
Sports shorts
GRID: Florida State rallies past UNC In Chapel Hill, N.C., Christian Ponder threw for 395 yards and three touchdowns to help Florida State rally from a big second-half deficit and...
Rangers 'average' effort leads to loss to Devils, 4-2
They're 7-3 in their opening 10 games, which, as Chris Drury said last night, "anyone would have taken coming out of training camp." But the Rangers have lost two straight...
Brodeur ends Rangers' hex
After the final buzzer, after finally breaking the jinx, Martin Brodeur was nonchalant on the ice. But once the crowd departed, the winningest goalie of all time confessed relishing beating...
Yankees unable to Phil in blank
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Damn, it's a great game. How great? Two outs, nobody on, ninth inning, Angels up a run. And up steps Alex Rodriguez. Every conceivable mathematical application tells...
Ex-Devil, Ranger Shanahan wants to keep playing
The NHL's leading active career goal-scorer wants to remain that way, the Post has learned. Brendan Shanahan's agent, Rick Curran, said the 40-year-old right wing, cut by the Devils on...
Callahan's struggles continue for Rangers
Henrik Lundqvist blamed himself for the Dainius Zubrus' game-winning deflection in front off Zach Parise's left wing drive that gave the Devils a 3-2 lead at 7:51 of the third....
Angels find winning formula vs. Burnett
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The patience Bobby Abreu spread through the Angels' free-swinging batting order during the regular season was the reason the Angels went into last night's Game 5 of...
Dream finish is Swisher's nightmare
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Here is when baseball is as beautiful as a sunset on the Pacific Coast Highway, as breathtaking as your first view from the top of the Empire...
Gritty Angels survive to fight another day
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Mike Scioscia was saved by his Smurfs. Scioscia, outdoing the Alfredo Aceves move by manager Joe Girardi in Game 3, pulled out his bulldog starter John Lackey...
Hughes blows it again
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Phil Hughes isn't exactly rising to the occasion this October. After a four-month stretch in which he was just about money in the bank setting up Mariano...
Teixeira finally busts out of slump
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Mark Teixeira picked a great time to end his postseason RBI slump. Just when nothing was going right for his team with runners in scoring position, Teixeira...
Yankees Series ticket on hold after wild 7th with Angels
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- A.J. Burnett placed them in a cavernous crater early. The trench Phil Hughes dug late wasn't as deep, but together the right-handed ditch diggers cost the Yankees...
Girardi gaffes let Angels rally back into ALCS
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Mark Teixeira had finally awoken and Robinson Cano had actually registered a huge hit, and if that wasn't a sign of the Apocalypse, it was at least...
Lackey irate at Scioscia over 7th-inning hook
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- John Lackey was furious as Mike Scioscia came out to the mound in the seventh inning. Lackey yelled at his manager, "This is mine! This is mine!"...
Bombers Burn-ed in seventh
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Forget A.J. Burnett's disastrous first inning last night. The fact he couldn't get anybody out in the seventh hurt the Yankees exponentially more. The right-hander had everything...
Weird but true
Here's a guy who had his beer and drank it, too. Dennis LeRoy Anderson was charged with DWI after crashing his motorized La-Z-Boy lounger into a parked car as he...
Huskies out to honor murdered teammate
Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun has a theme for most practices. Saturday it was this: "Nothing in life is guaranteed." "The thought behind that is we have today to be...
Rams relying on youngsters
One of the few bright spots in Fordham's dismal 3-25 season last year -- including a 1-15 record in the Atlantic 10 -- was the play of freshman point guard...
Ellerson right fit for Cadets
WEST POINT -- When Rich Ellerson was named the new Army head football coach last December, it caused quite a stir in the college football ranks. There was some speculation...
For A-Rod, Yankees, no walk in the park
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Damn, it's a great game. How great? Two outs, nobody on, ninth inning, Angels up a run. And up steps Alex Rodriguez. Every conceivable mathematical application tells...
Zubrus and Parise lift Devils to win over Rangers
While many clad in red and black gasped at Martin Brodeur's blunder behind his net, the NHL's winningest goalie remained calm despite the chaos around him. Brodeur and the New...
PSAL Class A & B boys soccer seeding released
The PSAL seeding committee released its brackets Thursday night with few surprises. Three-time defending champion Martin Luther King Jr. is first, followed by Queens A East champ Francis Lewis, Bronx...
Ex-Lewis coach ousted from all-star game
Former Francis Lewis coach Mike Eisenberg was removed earlier this week as an assistant for the Metro Classic’s New York City girls basketball team at the behest of the PSAL,...
Sky Sports: Red Bull met with Henry's reps
Apparently now the English media is joining in with the Spanish and U.S. branches of the Fourth Estate in picking up on the Thierry Henry-to-Red Bull rumors. Yesterday Sky Sports' Guillem...