November 9, 2013
In my Library: Rob Delaney
Considering he's neither a movie star, nor Cory Booker, Rob Delaney has quite a following: about 940,000 strong. Now the man Comedy Central crowned "Funniest Person on Twitter" has a...
Undefeated Pacers making early statement
The Pacers had just endured having their hearts ripped out as they fell to eventual NBA champion Miami in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals last season. Rising MVP-caliber...
Giants never blamed Eli Manning for awful start
They never wavered, never whispered behind his back when he couldn’t stop throwing interceptions and could not lift them all from their mushrooming malaise, never looked at Eli Manning as...
Knicks hope J.R. Smith will save their season
J.R. Smith looked as if he were about to puke. After most of the Knicks had left the practice floor on Saturday, Smith was still doing shooting and conditioning drills...
Rob Lowe on the end of Camelot in 'Killing Kennedy'
Rob Lowe lost it when he saw John F. Kennedy’s black limousine. It was a black stretch bubble-top Lincoln Continental, a replica of the car in which Kennedy would become...
Kennedy: TV specials airing this week and next
Monday, Nov. 11 THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 9 p.m., PBS A two-part profile of John F. Kennedy details his heroism after his PT boat was hit by an enemy destroyer during...
Dear John: Lou Gehrig signed the ball twice
Dear John: I have a 1933 Yankees team baseball with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and three other Hall of Famers’ signatures. The ball has been authenticated by J[ames] Spence. The...
Damon Wayans Jr. gets his job back on 'New Girl'
First, the bad news. Damon Wayans Jr. was working on the film “Let’s Be Cops” this summer when he found out his ABC series “Happy Endings” would be canceled after...
What's worth your money of the pay-cable offerings?
Mama rates what is worth your time and money of the pay-cable offerings: “Homeland” (Sunday, 9 p.m., Showtime) We were probably supposed to cheer when we found out Carrie (Claire...
Don't miss: A preview of the week's top shows
STAY OUT OF THE SUN Grayson (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) ruthlessly sets out to compromise Lady Jayne (Victoria Smurfit) by winning her heart. Lucy’s (Katie McGrath) enthusiastic plans forMina (Jessica De...
Short holiday shopping season adds to retailers headaches
Goodbye, Thanksgiving. Hello, Thanksgetting. The economy is still hurting, and this holiday shopping season will be hurt by another thing nobody can do anything about — it’s so darned short....
TV violence pushes vulnerable to brink
It seems we’ve run out of options. There’s nothing left but to expect the worst, and just hope that the worst, like the now-standardized daily “stray bullet,” avoids us and...
Despite little playing time, Copeland happy with Pacers
Chris Copeland walked right into the belly of the beast, into the very lair of the enemy and made a discovery. The Pacers really are nice guys. That was anything...
Meet Oscar, the start-up that may revolutionize health insurance
Starting with the premise that health-insurance companies should relieve, not create, headaches, a group of venture capitalists and health care professionals believe they have the right prescription. Josh Kushner of...
Islanders drop third straight, fall to Blue Jackets
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Islanders dropped their third straight game, a 5-2 loss to the Blue Jackets on Saturday. The game was tied, 2-2, before a big third period broke...
Nets unable to knock off unbeaten Pacers
The losses keep coming in the same way for the Nets, the same mistakes happening in the same fashion at the same times. Even the explanations sound similar. “I feel...
Justin Bieber's world tour of shame
Around the world in 80 scandals: From visiting Brazilian brothels to fighting in the Hamptons, Justin Bieber has stunk up the whole globe this year.
What would Janet Yellen do?
It’s happened only twice in the past 26 years, but this week Americans will get to watch as the Senate Banking Committee grills someone who is poised to become the...
Ex-'SNL' funnyman takes a serious turn in 'Nebraska'
“I came out from California, so I had the hotel press my pants, and they put this old-man crease down the front of ’em,” says Will Forte, iron in hand....
Georgina Chapman: My New York
Georgina Chapman is a busy woman: co-designer of the Marchesa and Notte by Marchesa fashion lines and mother to 3-year-old India and 6-month-old Dashiell. When she can, though, the London-born...
Meet Lady Gaga's 24-year-old producer
When Lady Gaga set out to create her album “ARTPOP,” out Monday, it only took 90 seconds for her to choose Zedd as her producer. Not bad for a 24-year-old...
After a rough patch, things are looking up for Paramore
It wasn’t even a song that she wanted to do. Hayley Williams of Tennessee emo-pop band Paramore had to be given a gentle push into making a guest appearance on...
TPG Capital's 'Dire' fund performance
When private equity giant TPG Capital chose the entertainment for its annual meeting last week, one has to wonder ‘what were they thinking?’ TPG — which is greatly underperforming its...
Introducing the snobbiest restaurant in New York
It’s 11 o’clock on a recent Tuesday morning, and Le Bilboquet is already bustling. Women in head-to-toe Lululemon — sporting fresh-from-the-salon blowouts — and men in tailored Zegna blazers and...
Decades after death, hamster is family's muse
By all accounts, Edward the hamster fell short as a childhood pet. He refused to play with his young owners, lived for less than a year and had strange tendencies....
Music-producing law student seeks muse who will raise the bar
Alex, 23, hits the books by day and tries to make hits by night — but in between, he’d love to find time for a girl with a couple of...
Top 5 worst things to say at the end of a first date
According to one-and-done flirters near One and One “I can’t wait to get you back to my place — my mom’s going to love meeting you!” — Omar “Cool, look...
This week's couple: Mane event
According to OKCupid, Lauren, 25, and Chris, 28, are nearly 97 percent compatible. But when the site sent us the two New York City singles, we had a hunch they...
Why one single Brooklyn woman lowered her expectations
In September, a report by online dating site Are You Interested crowned Brooklyn women the pickiest online daters in the nation. As a fervent advocate of Internet dating and someone...
New smartbracelet is wearable tech with a formal look
For those truly inseparable from their tech toys, the trick’s in the wrist. Actually, it’s on the wrist, as the early success of the Pebble smartwatch shows. But whereas the...
Founder: Some women can’t wear Lululemon yoga pants
Lululemon’s founder Chip Wilson is stretching his customers’ patience. Wilson was on Bloomberg TV for a promotional interview on a new meditation initiative created by Wilson and his wife, former...
Online boutique wants to change how women buy lingerie
A New York-based lingerie brand is hoping to change the way women buy bras and underwear with a new online boutique, BeMe New York, which launched this summer. Its investors...
Talent agency, IMG, expected to fetch $2.7B bid
Morgan Stanley and Evercore are getting down to business this weekend. The two banks working on the hottest media auction in town, IMG, are set to cut their list of...
Cohen's SAC Capital may become 'family business'
Steven Cohen may be about to join a new level among the elite money managers handling tens of trillions as a condition of his $1.8 billion civil settlement. Cohen’s SAC...
Big changes at Microsoft starting with CEO's retirement
Nowadays social media are getting all the buzz. Look no further than Twitter’s spectacular IPO Thursday or Facebook’s move into mobile. But they aren’t the only ones innovating out West....
5 crazy things you never knew about recycling
When you drop an empty can into the recycling bin, where does it go? To a $500 billion global recycling industry that impacts the life of every American, and likely...
Sens. push Dublin to tax tech firms at full rate
Washington is looking to trip up Silicon Valley multinationals in their double-Dutch tax-avoidance scheme with Ireland. The chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Carl Levin (D-Mich.), and Sen....
De Blasio plan will keep 16,000 students out of charters
Bill de Blasio won election as mayor with 74% of the vote — an impressive achievement by any measure. But we suspect that the roughly one-quarter of New Yorkers who...
NYers paying the price for Gov. Cuomo's fracking delay
Here’s the way it works in New York: Gov. Cuomo delays and delays and delays a decision on fracking, and almost no one holds him to account. Then the chairman...
David Wright ready to sell free agents on Mets
Free agency has barely begun, but David Wright has already started his second job. The Mets third baseman said he has been talking to players who might be interested in...
J.R. Smith returns after weed suspension
While the other Knicks were going through a light workout, J.R. Smith was on his own. He was working furiously with trainer Idan Ravin, running baseline to baseline, sinking one...
Back spasms sideline Andrei Kirilenko
Andrei Kirilenko was forced to sit out of Saturday night’s 96-91 loss to the undefeated Pacers in Brooklyn after suffering a reoccurrence of back spasms. Kirilenko played more than 12...
Resurgent Giants can't afford loss to Raiders
It is unwise for a head coach to stand up in front of his team and say “Look, fellas, we got to win every game from here on out, or...
Was Joe Philbin doing what we expect of coaches?
Part of it is this: We’re confused. Let’s start with our ideal image of a coach. It may be 2013, we may well be past the hoary old notions of...
Jets' surprising start has raised expectations
The Jets season has been a game of “odds and evens” through their first nine games. They win when it’s an odd week and lose when it’s an even week....
Dolphins make light of Jonathan Martin allegations
DAVIE, Fla. — The Dolphins remain under siege, but at least some of them are now in the mood to laugh about it. The fallout from the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin...
An inside look at what happens at MLB's GM meetings
Baseball’s Hot Stove season features mileposts just like the regular season and postseason, and we’ve got a big one this week in Orlando, Fla. Owners, presidents, general managers and managers...
Documentary revisits historic 1963 Army-Navy game
I’m still told I was supposed to have been deeply traumatized by the whole thing. But as a 10-year-old, it was hard to lose sleep over what you didn’t really...
Jones Day moves downtown
Jones Day, the international law firm based in Midtown, has signed a long-rumored lease on Saturday for 330,000 square feet to move to 4 Brookfield Place. The 20-year lease covers...
Rangers star Rick Nash skating again
This day has been a long time coming, with doubts it would come at all anytime soon.But on Saturday at the MSG Training Facility in Westchester, Rick Nash took the...
Yankees only team to offer Robinson Cano so far
Though the Yankees are ready to pursue free agents such as Brian McCann and Shin-Soo Choo, they continue to wait for their top target to come back to them. Robinson...
Saints set to deliver another Cowboys crash
It always is something with the Cowboys. What can go wrong, will go wrong — Jerry’s Law, the football equivalent of Murphy’s Law. It’s Tony Romo fumbling a field goal...
Pat Burns, Eric Lindros should get into hockey Hall
There never should have been a debate about Fred Shero’s worthiness for Hall of Fame induction, but now that this historically wrong snub will be righted Monday night with The...
Serby's Q&A with Jon Beason
New Giants linebacker Jon Beason tackled some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: Does the nickname “Beast” fit you? A: It does. It fits me, one, because of my...
Red-hot Panthers invade San Francisco
Cam Newton might command the headlines, but he almost is beside the point if you want to know how the Panthers are relevant again. Defense — violent, relentless, disruptive defense...
Andrea Bargnani's defense impresses Mike Woodson
Andrea Bargnani produced 25 points Friday night, his finest performance by far in his short Knicks career, in a 101-91 win over the Bobcats in Charlotte, N.C., but coach Mike...
Lundqvist talks up 'mature' Cam Talbot
Nothing has changed with Henrik Lundqvist’s competitive mentality, nor the fact he wants to play every night. But the Rangers’ franchise goaltender is happy he has a reliable backup in...
Ravens struggling to defend title -- again
Twelve years have passed since the Ravens won their first Super Bowl title, defeating the Giants in 2001. The next season wasn’t quite as successful. The Ravens finished 9-7 and...
US women's soccer stars hitchhike after bus stalls
That’s what fans are for! Some of the world’s best female soccer players got a little help from their fans in Florida Saturday after the team bus broke down on...
Inside the world of JFK conspiracy theories
Half a century later, and we still have our doubts. More than 50% of Americans believe that there were multiple shooters involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—...
Playing Raiders will bring back memories for Boothe
Kevin Boothe still has his black No. 67 Raiders jersey and his silver helmet from his 2006 rookie season — a treasured possession. As a sixth-round pick out of Cornell...
Witt's NFL picks Week 10
SUNDAY Eagles (+1) over PACKERS: The shoulder injury Aaron Rodgers incurred early Monday night vs. the Bears will require weeks of recuperation — and reduced opening line on this clash...
Boomer & Carton Kitchen opens at Barclays
WFAN radio morning men Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton have bolted the Garden for Barclays Center. The tandem had simulcasted their “Boomer & Carton Show” on MSG Network, but the...
St. John's Rewind: Offensive chemistry is early problem
CHICAGO – So long, Sioux Falls. After meeting some of the friendliest people in the country and crossing South Dakota off whatever is the opposite of a bucket list, I...
Nets Rewind: Jason Kidd extending rotation
Here are my three thoughts on the Nets’ 112-108 overtime loss to the Wizards Friday night in the nation’s capital: 1. The Nets are clearly committed to holding down everyone’s...
Richie Incognito's long history of violence
You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. Richie Incognito is the NFL’s Incredible Hulk, a rampaging behemoth whose history of violence was born in childhood and nurtured throughout his life...
Knicks Rewind: Happy Melo may have found his wingman
CHARLOTTE - For all his supposed selfishness with the ball, nobody cherishes a secondary scorer like Carmelo Anthony does. He seemed lost without one during preseason and through the first...
The Olympic torch handover - 230 miles up
MOSCOW — The Sochi Olympic torch has started its first spacewalk. NASA Live TV showed Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy carrying the unlit Olympic torch, bobbing weightlessly at...
2 dead in horrific Bronx crash
Two people are dead in a gruesome crash in the Bronx after an allegedly speeding driver lost control of his SUV on the Hutchinson River Parkway and smashed into a...
10,000 estimated dead in history's strongest storm
It was the strongest storm ever — and maybe the deadliest. Super Typhoon Haiyan swept across the Philippines, killing an estimated 10,000 people and chasing 800,000 people from their homes...
De Blasio basks in victory and the sun
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Now that’s a sunny disposition. A jovial Bill de Blasio touted the wonders of sunshine and fresh air on Friday halfway through a mixed work...
Jury finds Utah doctor guilty in wife's death
PROVO, Utah — A jury convicted a doctor of murder early Saturday in the death of his wife six years ago, bringing an end to a trial that became the...
New WTC is finally beaming
Lower Manhattan residents were awestruck Friday night as the bright lights atop 1 World Trade Center were switched on in a test for the first time. “It’s absolutely amazing, it’s...
Lucky break for yacht owner rescued from sinking ship
A boat owner nearly went down with his ship Friday night after his 43-foot yacht struck a rock off the coast of Queens and sank into the East River. Police...
Pollock scholar rages at new painting proof
A cantankerous Jackson Pollock scholar pounded his cane and angrily refused to accept that the abstract artist had painted a canvas for his mistress just weeks before his 1956 death...
Pollock mistress was plotting to date all the greats
She was Jackson Pollock’s “death-car girl” — and quickly became mistress and muse to an impressive string of New York’s most famous postwar artists. Free spirited Ruth Kligman was a...
Incognito feels 'betrayed' by Martin
The hits keep on coming for exiled Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito. One day after the attorney for Incognito’s former teammate, Jonathan Martin, delivered a scathing statement implicating Miami teammates...
Pricey social site makes matches for Wall St. titans
In this economy, even Wall Street’s masters of the universe need help making their sales pitch. Relationship Science, a social networking startup that leverages relationships within the clubby world of...
CC Sabathia to Cano: Don't leave
CC Sabathia has just one piece of advice for his friend Robinson Cano as the Yankees second baseman navigates free-agent waters for the first time. “Stay here,” Sabathia said Friday....
Dem Sen. Landrieu vanishes while Obama visits state
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu was happy to hop a lift aboard Air Force One Friday — but she wasn’t ready to hang out in her home state with...
MLB lawyers rip A-Rod
Attorneys for Major League Baseball accused Alex Rodriguez of “a brazen attempt to circumvent the ongoing arbitration process” in a motion filed Friday to dismiss A-Rod’s lawsuit against MLB and...
Woodson: Knicks won’t add center
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Mike Woodson confirmed The Post’s report the Knicks would stand pat and not add a center in light of Tyson Chandler’s broken leg that will keep him...
Sickest patients scramble to meet ObamaCare deadline
Thousands of the country’s sickest patients are scrambling to obtain new insurance coverage amid the ObamaCare rollout debacle. While most uninsured Americans have until February to meet the March 31...
Just 22% of likely ObamaCare users have visited the site
Only 22 percent of Americans who say they plan to get insurance through ObamaCare have actually visited the health plan’s Web sites, according to a Gallup Poll. “It may be...
Blame game as insurers dump doctors
Let the blame game begin over ObamaCare’s oversights. The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, claims the Affordable Care Act is responsible for forcing it to boot doctors from its Medicare...
Trans fat frauds! Some 'healthy' food full of it
It’s a big fat secret! Dozens of products thought to be healthy — including granola bars, cereals and Fig Newtons — are made with trans fat, the artery-clogging substance the...
Lefty trio emerges for Council Speaker
SAN JUAN, PR — Three City Council members have emerged as early favorites in the race for speaker — with progressives rallying to Manhattan’s Melissa Mark-Viverito, a close ally of...