October 4, 2010
Red Bulls goalie named MLS player of week
Red Bulls goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul has been named the MLS player of the week. Coundoul made a career-high 12 saves in a 1-0 victory over the Kansas City Wizards on...
Survey hits a ‘Shore’ spot
Bad news for all aspiring guidos and guidettes!Radaronline.com reported that according to a survey released by Wet, a leading manufacturer of intimacy products, 80 percent of people would not sleep...
Longtime Mets employee Mandt dies
Bob Mandt, who was a Met before Casey Stengel, Marv Throneberry and Gil Hodges, passed away yesterday at the age of 74, after a losing a battle with emphysema. Mandt...
The first time
The Online Film Critics Society Monday released its list of the 100 best feature-film debuts. And the winner is -- you guessed it -- Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane'' (1941), followed by...
Woodstock winners
The British drama "Strange Things,'' the story of the friendship between a lonely woman and a homeless man, directed by Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal, took the prize for best...
Giants' O'Hara feeling much better
Giants center Shaun O’Hara has missed the past two games because of what was diagnosed as tendonosis in his left ankle and Achilles, a lingering problem that wasn’t really getting...
Rooney canned from Coca-Cola ad campaign over infidelity claims
Coca-Cola canceled a U.K. advertising campaign that featured England striker Wayne Rooney’s likeness on bottles and cans of Coke Zero due to recent revelations involving his personal life, MarketingWeek reported...
FIFA suspends Nigerian soccer federation
FIFA suspended the Nigerian soccer federation today due to what it called “government interference.” FIFA has become frustrated with events in the African country and, until the matter is resolved, the...
Bayern bosses: No beer for you!
After one of their worst ever starts to a season, German giants Bayern Munich will not be making their traditional visit to their home city's world-famous beer festival, the club...
Hodgson admits Liverpool fighting to avoid relegation
Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson conceded English Premier League giant Liverpool is facing a battle against relegation after Sunday’s shock 2-1 loss to Blackpool condemned the Reds to their worst start...
Four Red Bulls get call-ups; Marquez to face RSL; Coundoul MLS Player of the Week
The flip side of having a loaded team is international call-ups, and the Eastern Conference-leading Red Bulls are experiencing that with four players called into in duty, three of whom...
TiVO Alert: TCM kicks off 'Critic's Choice'
Tonight, Turner Classic Movie kicks off its "Critic's Choice'' series, with Robert Osborne welcoming 16 prominent critics as guest programmers every Monday and Wednesday this month. I'm appearing on Oct....
Box Office: What happened to 'Let Me In'?
Most of this weekend's box office coverage understandably focused on the much buzzed-about critics' darling "The Social Network,'' which opened at the lower end of expectations -- $23 million --...
Big, expensive stuff
Two things really seem to rile theater purists (or would-be purists): screen actors who do a play and outlandish budgets, especially when a big chunk of said budget goes to the sets. I'll save...
An even briefer 'Encounter'
One of the best shows on Broadway right now is the delightful play with music "Brief Encounter" (see my review here). If you need more, check out this wicked parody...
CK's Oden commits to Illinois
Christ the King's Nia Oden has verbally committed to the University of Illinois, the senior forward told The Post. She chose the Big Ten school over St. Bonaventure, Brown, UMBC...
Knicks' Turiaf trying to cling to starting job in Paris
PARIS -- Now it's Knicks center Ronny Turiaf's turn to enjoy a Parisian homecoming. Turiaf, who grew up in the French province of Martinique in the Caribbean, spent his high...
Tight races for two open Senate seats, says Siena
ALBANY – Two unexpectedly tight state Senate contests could complicate Republican hopes of taking back the legislative chamber in November, according to the latest poll results.A group of Siena College...
3UP: Jeff Wilpon, Ollie Perez, Yankees Foe
1. I would assume at some point today – at the latest tomorrow -- that the Mets officially will announce that Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya have been removed from...
Vac's Monday Whacks on Coughlin's resilience, remembering Maury and Ollie's Follies
The people have spoken, and they have done so with unfiltered voice:They vote for Tom Coughlin.They did so loudest on Sunday night, when they cheered a Giants team that had...
Where are the Jews?
ABC's Christiane Amanpour has a townhall discussion entitled "Holy War: Should Americans fear Islam?" Not a single Jewish panelist but one Imam from London who called Israel a "pirate state."...
Rahm isn't a legal resident of Chicago
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has an 'immigration' problem. He left Chicago a year and a half ago to move to Washington. His family moved with him...
Brooklyn chef set to show off skills on Food Network
The executive chef at Morton’s Steakhouse in Downtown Brooklyn will be one of four chefs to will square off Oct. 5 in a nationally televised cooking competition to air on...