November 17, 2006
No Shaq for tonight and awhile
November 17, 2006 | 11:38pmBy MARC BERMANMIAMI - Heat coach Pat Riley pulled another one over on the Knicks. Yesterday and at the morning shootaround he said Shaquille O'Neal would return tonight against the...
They'll be whole someday. Maybe.
November 17, 2006 | 8:56pmBy FRED KERBERAnother new guy was expected to sit against Indiana Friday. Marcus Williams "probably" was going to be scratched, coach Lawrence Frank said, because of tendinitis in his right...
WEEK'S END UPDATE: Nov. 17
November 17, 2006 | 1:23pmWelcome to the weekly who's who and the what's happening from around the planet, aired live every Friday, here in blog land.HERE'S TO KEEPING IT ALL IN PERSPECTIVE: From a...
FUND'S PENNY PARTY - TINY FIRMS PAID BIG $
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe parent of a high-flying Los Angeles hedge fund has been boosting its bottom line by taking fees from some of its portfolio companies. Trinad Management LLC, which controls a...
PERELLA PLAYS IN RECKSON BID
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amJoseph Perella's boutique investment bank, Perella Weinberg, is quietly advising billionaire investor Carl Icahn and developer Harry Macklowe in their surprise offer for Reckson Associates Realty, sources told The Post....
PEAK FISHING SEASON - SPORTSMAN CHANNEL BACKER JOINS FIELD FOR TIME INC. TITLES
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amFORMER YES Network boss Leo Hindery - now managing director of private equity firm InterMedia Partners LP - is in the hunt for Time4 Media's sport titles that Time Inc....
N.Y. PENSION FUNDS BOOK HOTEL DEAL
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amIn a deal that reflects the shifting real estate winds over two decades, a fund mainly capitalized through city and state pension fund commitments has bought the Crowne Plaza Hotel...
MAYS' $200M GIVEBACKS SPEED DEAL
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amTo keep buyers interested in Clear Channel Communications, the nation's largest radio broadcaster, its controlling Mays' family agreed to cut about $200 million from the fat change of control payments...
ED'S TRADES CARRY SEARS; STREET BOOS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amEd Lampert's trading wizardry earned a quick $101 million to shelter his Sears-Kmart empire from its latest sales slump - but his trading trigger finger wound up backfiring and costing...
DIGEST PRIVATELY SWALLOWED
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amTHE Readers Digest Association yesterday struck a $1.6 billion agreement with private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings to take the media giant private, thus bringing to a close a turbulent 16-...
FEDERATED NEARS DIVORCE OF BRIDAL OUTFITS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amFederated Department Stores was near a deal to sell its David's Bridal wedding gown division to private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners while separately selling the tuxedo business to...
GAO AUDIT: SEC HAS PROBLEMS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission has its own problems over bungled books - with millions in cash slipping through the cracks, and a computer system so vulnerable that hackers can...
DRUG STORY ALL NEEDLES BUT NO PINS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amI'M not sure there's a lot more to say about heroin addiction, but if there is, "Candy" doesn't say it. "Trainspotting" goes Down Under ("Wombatspotting"?) as Heath Ledger and Abbie...
ICE ICE, BABY!
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amGEORGE Miller's "Happy Feet" may be the 10th animated film this year with talking critters - but, trust me, you're probably going to want to see the best feature-length cartoon...
CAN'T MARTIAL ENOUGH FORCE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amSHINOBI [*] (One star)'SHINOBI" is a wimpy martial-arts reinvention of "Romeo and Juliet." It's love at first sight for two young people in 17th-century Japan, but there's a problem -...
'I'M A BETTER DANCER': MARIO
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amMARIO Lopez agrees with you - he thinks he was a better dancer than Emmitt Smith too. "I would like to think the criteria was based solely on being the...
ASSASSIN-INE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amEMILIO Estevez - you, sir, are no Robert Altman. "Bobby," the erstwhile Brat Packer's ambitious but utterly wrong-headed trivialization of history, follows 22 characters at L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel through that...
GUEST'S H'WOOD SPOOF HAS ZEST IN SHOW
November 17, 2006 | 5:00am'BOBBY" isn't the only bad movie with Oscar buzz - there's also "Home for Purim," the sublimely awful imaginary indie set in World War II Georgia that's the centerpiece of...
FINDING THE RIGHT NOTE IN AN OFF-KEY WORLD
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amTHE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES [***] (Three stars)EASTERN European surrealism meshes with German expressionism in "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes," the second feature by twin brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay....
STICK IT IN YOUR BUN
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amSOME films want to make you laugh. Or cry. "Fast Food Nation" wants to make you vomit. When you finish your popcorn, save the empty bucket. You'll need it. But...
HEATHER TALKING TODAY
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amHEATHER Mills is finally going to talk - to "Extra" in an exclusive interview airing next week. The two-part interview, being taped today in L.A., will air on "Extra" next...
NO STOPPIN' THIS 'POPPINS'
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amLOVELY! With her carpetbag, a parrot-headed umbrella for airy transport and the rare ability to slide up banisters, the inimitable heroine of "Mary Poppins" put down and took off at...
NOW, WAR'S PERSONAL - BRIT SEES LIFE, POST-9/11
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amIN the gripping "Stuff Happens," produced last year by the Public Theater, British playwright David Hare chronicled the march to war in Iraq on an epic scale. Among the play's...
HITCHCOCK'S N.Y. CAMEOS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amLONDON'S Robyn Hitchcock is one of those artists whose banter between songs is as genius, psychedelic and entertaining as his music. He's on the road again - this time with...
MARY'S HOT PICK
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amIF you're a Thelonious Monk-ophile, here's a concert to tickle your ears. Over a few Mondays in the next month, the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (199 Chambers St.; [212] 220-1460)...
CASINO BEAT
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amNEW JERSEY * THE ROLLING STONES play the Boardwalk Hall Arena tonight at 8. Tickets: $60-$450. Filipino pop princess SARAH GERONIMO performs Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Adrian Philips...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - THE GRAND AND GLORIOUS AUTOMAT
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amBefore fast-food chains became a mainstay of our diet, automats were the way to get great food - really fast. And you didn't need much money because here, a nickel...
GLAMTRASHTIC - PERFECT GARB-AGE FOR NAOMI'S N.Y. GRIME SPREE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amFROM classy to trashy - despite her lawyer's pleas, Naomi Campbell might have to take her stylish strut from the catwalk to New York streets as a city garbage collector....
TOE-TO-TOE - 'DANCING' GOES AFTER 'IDOL
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S no "Idol" rumor: TV's two most popular talent programs might go head-to-head as early as this March, creating a potential headache for fans of both shows. The possibility that...
STARR REPORT
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amBooked on the Web Promoting your work on mainstream TV usually helps sell more books, movie tickets, etc. But who figured a Webcast would have the same impact? Former CNNer...
TALKING TURKEY - SOME THINGS ABOUT SEA CRUISES NEVER CHANGE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amWELL, who would have guessed! Turns out that the Puritans' and pilgrims' voyage on the Mayflower to the New World wasn't a fun cruise with a midnight buffet and an...
UNDONE BY HIS 'SPIT' DECISION
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA driver is in a wad of trouble after spitting at a Queens traffic agent who was writing him a summons, then was found to have a cache of guns...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * This man (above) is the note-passing thief who robbed two Upper East Side banks, police say. He struck first around 10 a.m. on March 14, at the North...
MIKE LASHES POLS' 'LULUS'
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amAlthough he said he would sign legislation giving City Council members a 25 percent raise, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he doesn't think they deserve to get additional stipends for serving...
BEAR STEARNS IS BULLI$H ON CITY SCHOOLS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amBear Stearns is underwriting $650 million worth of bonds that will help pay for new city schools, officials announced yesterday. "The sale of today's bonds marks a victory for schoolchildren...
MA'S PLEA TO MODELS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe heartbroken mother of a Brazilian model who died of anorexia spoke out yesterday - begging parents to keep a close eye on youngsters who dream of strutting the catwalk....
'THOUSANDS' SEND ELIOT THEIR RÉSUMÉS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer added 13 new advisory committees to his transition team yesterday as he revealed that thousands of New Yorkers "of remarkable quality" have already sought jobs...
STRESSED FOLKS TURN ON THE TV
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amIf you habitually plop down in front of the TV and crack open a beer when you're stressed, you are not alone. More than four out five people (82 percent)...
CALL HER 'NANCY SHREW'?
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amFORGET "The Devil Wears Prada"; the hot show in Washington is "The Shrew Adores Armani." In just a few short days, House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi has turned into a caricature...
'BRIBERY' JUDGE'S LAWYER CALLS IT QUITS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe lawyer who battled on behalf of disgraced Brooklyn Judge Gerald Garson for more than three years - at one point scoring his client a sweet deal - bowed out...
15 MORE YRS. FOR MURDERER
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA coldblooded thug - already serving 51 ½ years to life in prison for killing a Chinese-food deliveryman - was sentenced again yesterday to 15 more years behind bars for...
MOTHER'S BLAZE OF GLORY - SAVES 5 KIDS FROM FIRE AS FRIENDS HELP
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA desperate Brooklyn mom saved her five young kids from a raging inferno yesterday, tossing four of them out her second-floor window into a blanket held outstretched by heroic neighbors...
DEERLY DEPARTED
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amHe did not have sex with that deer! That's what lawyer Fredric Anderson is arguing on behalf of a client charged with sexual gratification with an animal. Anderson claims the...
PELOSI'S FIRST FLOP - DEMS' HEALTHY INFIGHTING
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amDEFEATED Republicans are strangely jubilant, while victorious Democrats are shaking their heads in dismay. Why, oh why, did civil war have to erupt inside the Democratic Party only a week...
'NET-BOOKIE RAIDERS ON A LUCKY $TREAK
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amGiant piles of cash kept turning up across the country yesterday, as cops probed a $3.3 billion international online gambling ring allegedly run by a former New York poker pro....
MCCAIN TO GOP: LESS IS MORE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain stirred the 2008 political pot yesterday by creating a presidential exploratory committee and calling on fellow Republicans to return to the principles of "commonsense conservatism"...
HOSPITAL SYSTEM IS SICK, SAYS HEALTH BIG
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe Big Apple is a "hospital town" with too many beds, creating a market that has New Yorkers spending more time in sick beds and at a far higher cost...
DIRTY LOOK TURNED DEADLY - SPARKED SUBWAY TRAGEDY
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA dirty look from a rival set Dwayne Holmes to firing his gun outside the Canarsie subway station and led to the killing of an innocent bystander, police sources said...
HOUSE DIVIDED FOR NYERS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Queens Democrats Joe Crowley and Anthony Weiner fought a behind-the-scenes battle rounding up votes yesterday in Steny Hoyer's fight with John Murtha to be the House's No. 2...
STEWART EYED AS 4TH PA AIRPORT
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amDesperate for a new airport, the Port Authority is going to take a close look at Stewart Airport in upstate Newburgh, officials said yesterday. Because Newark, Kennedy, and La Guardia...
BLOODY MURTHA - PELOSI'S DEMS DEFEAT HER PICK FOR NO. 2
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi suffered a stunning setback yesterday when arch-rival Rep. Steny Hoyer clobbered her close ally, Rep. John Murtha, in bitter race to...
EXCOMMUNICATION THREAT - WITNESS GAG ORDER IN CHURCH SEX TRIAL
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amCatholic officials are threatening to excommunicate witnesses at a top New York priest's sexual misconduct trial if they dare discuss their testimony outside the church court, The Post has learned....
GOOD JOB! BIG APPLE UNEMPLOYMENT SINKS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amIf the subways seem more crowded than ever during rush hour, here's one reason why: The city's unemployment rate fell last month to 4.1 percent, the lowest level in 30...
WHY I SQUEEZED THE JUICE - PUBLISHER'S 'REVENGE'
November 17, 2006 | 5:00am'Like Nicole Brown, I believed with all my heart . . . and then got punched in the face. Literally.' - Publisher Judith Regan The powerhouse publisher who's hawking O.J....
SCREEN JEANINE - 'LAW & ORDER' TO AIR EPISODE BASED ON PIRROS' SEXCAPADES
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amJeanine Pirro may have just lost an election - but she has won TV immortality on NBC's "Law & Order." An upcoming episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" will...
BUS FIRMS GEAR UP TO FIGHT ROUTE CUTS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA group of 10 school-bus companies filed court papers yesterday to put the brakes on a controversial city Department of Education cost-cutting plan to eliminate 250 routes beginning Dec. 4....
BOMB WATCH - N.Y. SECURITY BIGS HEAR NEW INTEL
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amNew York City private-sector security companies were given a terrorism briefing by the NYPD yesterday and told to learn from newly obtained intelligence data gleaned from England's top terror suspect....
YANKS' PARK PLAN GETS GREEN LIGHT
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe Yankees were handed a victory yesterday as a federal judge struck out a Bronx community group's bid to stop construction of their new stadium. Save Our Parks had accused...
'FORGER' HELD IN TIX SCAM
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amJohn Nevarez figured if he could use his expertise to secure green cards for immigrants, perhaps he could also use the same skills to overturn parking tickets. That skill was...
HEAD-CHOP TEEN TELLS ALL ON TAPE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe Long Island teen accused of nearly decapitating his stepfather with a samurai sword last year admitted to the grisly killing in a videotaped confession shown at his murder trial...
TOMKAT SET FOR AN 'I DOOZY' - STARS ALIGN IN ROME ON EVE OF WEIRD WEDDING
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amTomKat hosted a star-studded dinner at a romantic bistro in Rome last night, as the road leading to their wedding site - a majestic lakeside castle - was transformed into...
MOURNER PEE-VED AS THE PLOT SICKENS - WORKER USED GRAVE AS TOILET, HE SAYS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man walking his dog was outraged to see a cemetery caretaker urinating on his beloved grandmother's grave - then was attacked when he took the worker to task...
RUDY'S ROUNDUP - FUND-RAISING PANEL HAS LOADS OF TEX APPEAL
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amWhile Rudy Giuliani explores a run for the White House, he's managed to round up some of the Texas moneymen who helped bankroll President Bush's presidential campaigns, including oil billionaire...
COP BUSTED ON STEPKID-SEX RAP
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA police officer assigned to the 41st Precinct station house in The Bronx was charged yesterday with sexually abusing his stepdaughter, authorities said. The name of the four-year NYPD veteran...
ED. SHRINK 'INFLATE$' HIS PUPILS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA psychologist responsible for evaluating the progress of special-education kids conned the city school system out of $10,000 by falsely claiming he examined 26 Bronx students, city investigators charged yesterday....
BLAZING HEROES - MOM, PALS SAVE 5 KIDS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA desperate Brooklyn mom saved her five young kids from a raging inferno yesterday, tossing four of them out her second-floor window into a blanket held outstretched by heroic neighbors...
'ALTAR' EGOS HONOR TOMKAT - STARS ALIGN IN ROME ON EVE OF WEIRD WEDDING
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amTomKat hosted a star-studded dinner at a romantic bistro in Rome last night, as the road leading to their wedding site - a majestic lakeside castle - was transformed into...
TRIAL SET FOR L.I. 'TERROR' SUSPECT
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island man who was picked up in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks is to be tried on charges of aiding a Sikh terrorist group known as...
VILLAGE WIFE'S MYSTERY DEATH
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA Greenwich Village man discovered his wife mysteriously dead when he came home yesterday, he told cops. Donna West, 60, was found by her husband inside their Christopher Street apartment...
'TRANNY BASH' OFFICER BUSTED
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx cop, charged with sexually assaulting a transvestite, was arrested yesterday at the Port Authority Bus Terminal two days after skipping a court date, police sources said. The arrest...
GAME PS3 BUYERS PAY 3G ON EBAY
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThey got game - but it didn't come cheap. Antsy video gamers, desperate for the new PlayStation 3, shelled out nearly $3,000 a pop on eBay early today - five...
MCCAIN TAKES CONSERVATIVE APPROACH
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen.John McCain stirred the 2008 political pot yesterday by creating a presidential exploratory committee and calling on fellow Republicans to return to the principles of "common sense conservatism"...
HOWDY RUDY'S ROUNDUP - FUND-RAISE TEX APPEAL
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amRudy Giuliani has tapped some major Texas moneymen - including oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens - to help fill his coffers as he considers a run for the presidency. Another...
IT'S ON-LINE GAMING - PLAYING HOOKY FOR PS3
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amOne cut short his Florida vacation, one let his 12-year-old son skip school and another has been kicked out of college - just to be the among the first to...
'SIKH TERRORIST' TRIAL SET
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island man who was picked up in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks is to be tried on charges of aiding a Sikh terrorist group known as...
I TIED JUICE'S NOOSE - PUBLISHER: MY REVENGE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe powerhouse publisher who's hawking O.J. Simpson's "tell-all" tome - and asked him point-blank how he "would" have killed his wife - is now making a confession of her own....
SPARTANS SURVIVE NO. 19 LONGHORNS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amMich. St. 63 - Texas 61 In a clash between fight and finesse, a contest between blue collar and blue chip, Michigan State outhustled, outworked and eventually outlasted No. 19...
JAGR SETS SIGHTS ON GOAL NO. 600
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amJaromir Jagr is about to reach a hockey milestone that only 15 other NHL players have ever reached. Tomorrow at the Garden. Jagr will attempt to score career goal No....
TRUSTING IN A THRILLER
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amWHEN A boxing promoter says, "Trust me," that's usually a hint to check your wallet. But Top Rank boss Bob Arum was being sincere. "Trust me," he said. "It will...
FLICKS OF THE WEEK - WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP (1992)
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amWoody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes star as two hustling hoopsters on the street courts of Venice Beach, Calif. Sidney Dean (Snipes) and Billy Hoyle (Harrelson) try to form a basketball...
KRSTIC STEPS UP FOR JEFFERSON
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amNETS at PACERS - Tonight 7:00 - YES; WFNY (92.3) Richard Jefferson will be out at least one more Nets game, which should mean another good showing from teammate Nenad...
GONZALEZ RULES OVER 'CITY' HALL
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amBOBBY Gonzalez is many things to many people. He's aggressive, energetic, relentless, brash, bold, baffling - the list goes on. But, most off all, Seton Hall's new coach is confident....
EXECS: ZITO WILL END UP A MET
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amNAPLES, Fla. - Eight executives were queried as they departed the GM Meetings yesterday on where they thought free agent Barry Zito would end up, and five predicted the Mets....
A HEARTFELT FAREWELL TO CAPT. RICCA
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amFOR THOSE not heading up for New York's deer season opener, there are still lots of stripers moving along the beaches, and black-fishing has busted open. There is, however, a...
BRIGHT KNIGHTS - SCHIANO HAS FOUNDATION TO BUILD SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amNOT long ago, Rutgers football was buried so far in the deep sub-consciousness of metropolitan sports that it couldn't even come up with its own original self-deprecating jokes. A few...
SCREEN PLAY GONE ASTRAY - ADDITIONAL PROMOTIONS SUBTRACT FROM COVERAGE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amIMAGINE Christopher Columbus, his fleet equipped with the latest and greatest 21st century navigational gear, returning to Spain and telling Queen Isabella, "My bad; it's flat, flatter than a pancake."...
DEVILS' TASK: PAY BACK SENATORS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amSenators at Devils - Tonight 7:30 - FSN; WFAN (660) Shaken by their 90-second Garden collapse, the Devils tonight will be fighting that fragile feeling as well as the Senators,...
COVER CHARGE - WEBSTER MUST GET OFF BEATEN PATH
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amCount cornerback Corey Webster among those who must pick up the pace with all the injuries to hit the Giants defense. "I feel like I have to step up and...
JOSEPH GETTING NEW START AT END
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThis year, William Joseph, the Giants' 2003 first-round pick, has been very quiet - on and off the field. On the field, after starting a career-high 10 games last season,...
FOLLOW THE MONEY
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amNAPLES, Fla. - It has so far been a tremendous offseason to be an agent, old or an Asian star. The GM Meetings are traditionally the groundbreaking to the offseason....
SHEA IT'S SO - YANKS EYEING HILLENBRAND
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amShea Hillenbrand's rickety reputation isn't scaring the Yankees away in their search for a right-handed hitting first baseman. According to industry sources, the Yankees have Hillenbrand high on their list....
DOGGING MICHIGAN'S CARR THE WRONG CALL
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amWHO let the dogs out? Two years after the fact, Michigan coach Lloyd Carr still would love to know the truth. When the Michigan team bus pulled up in front...
YEAH, BABIES! - KID BENCH IS KNICKS' FORMULA
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amMore than once this season, the Knicks' bench players have supplied a jolt of energy equivalent to a 7 a.m. cup of cappuccino. They've captivated the few thousand fans who...
OPENING NIGHT AT THE 'NEW' YR
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe new and improved Yonkers Raceway, completely refurbished after a $240 million construction project to accommodate its Empire City casino, opens tonight for a nine-race card of live harness racing,...
ISIAH, RILEY DIFFER ON MAGIC-AL PAST
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amKNICKS at HEAT - Tonight 7:30 - MSG; ESPN (1050 AM) MIAMI - As the Knicks face the NBA champion Heat here tonight, Isiah Thomas admitted he gleaned knowledge from...
RAIN FORCES ACTION TO INNER TRACK
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amALERT: Because of anticipated heavy rains, racing for today, tomorrow and Sunday at Big A has been shifted from main track to inner dirt, which does better job of holding...
GLAVINE '50-50' - STILL TORN BETWEEN METS AND BRAVES
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amAll-Star left-hander Tom Glavine, who isn't signed yet and who has said he'll pitch for the Mets or Atlanta, told The Post yesterday he is not leaning toward Shea Stadium...
DEAL NOT TAKEN - SOMETIMES IT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amTHE BIGGEST (sticker) shock attached to Kenyon Martin's season-ending knee surgery, I submit, is the Nuggets failed to pawn off his 5-year $72 million obligation (including this one) on the...
SHEFFIELD TAKIN' THE HIGH ROAD
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amFor the time being, Gary Sheffield is done throwing verbal jabs at the Yankees. Sheffield is a happy man after getting traded to the Detroit Tigers, and says he has...
RED STORM BLOWN OUT
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amMaryland 92 - St. John's 60"One of the key things that I think is very important is that we do not lose our foundation of what we are. Our foundation...
YONKERS RETURNS TONIGHT
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe new and improved Yonkers Raceway, completely refurbished after a $240 million construction project to accommodate its Empire City casino, opens tonight for a nine-race card of live harness racing,...
BIGGEST GAME EVER? STAKES NEVER HIGHER IN COLLEGE GRID'S GREATEST RIVALRY
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amSaturday's Michigan-Ohio State spectacular is the equivalent of an ALCS Game 7 between the Yankees and Red Sox. Like the Yanks and Sox, the Buckeyes and Wolverines make up their...
TV HAS HOT STOVE, TOO - RUMOR MILL ABUZZ OVER BASEBALL JOBS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amFox Sports is waiting to hear if YES' Joe Girardi will join its broadcast team. ESPN thinks Dusty Baker could be a Baseball Tonight star. And SportsNet NY had Lee...
BEARS FALL CHI
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amOF ALL the great things the Jets did in their 17-14 victory in New England, there are three that stood out and bode well for the rest of the season:...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amTo: ESPN Execs From: Andrew Marchand Re: Dancing With The Stars CC: Emmitt Smith Dear Execs: On Tuesday's SportsCenter, reporter Colleen Dominguez "interviewed'' ABC's Dancing with the Stars judge Len...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JERRY RICE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with arguably the greatest wide receiver of all-time - Jerry Rice. Rice, 44, is a talk-show host on Sirius NFL Radio. Q:...
TRENDSETTERS - THE TOP PLAYS
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amFALCONS (+4) AT RAVENS, 1 P.M. Atlanta has covered six of seven following a loss, five of six as an underdog and hasn't dropped three in a row since October...
JETS FLYING FIRST CLASS - NAMATH TO ERIC: WAY TO JOE!
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amTHE PLEA comes from No. 1 Fan Joe Namath, to his beloved Jets. "Win for yourself, yeah," Namath was saying, and quickly chuckling. "Win for US too! What do you...
TOUGH LOVE DOES TRICK FOR COLEMAN
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amSince the day he was selected in the sixth round of the 2004 draft, Erik Coleman has been a wonderboy of sorts, a model of success, proof that a lowround...
DARRYL'S SON AT HOME WITH MARYLAND
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amThe bats of Yankees greats past and present, including those of his father, the Straw who stirred New York baseball for so many seasons, are in storage, waiting for the...
FB ASKEW LIKES UM IN BIG GAME
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amJET NOTES There has been some spirited banter amongst the Jets about tomorrow's pivotal college football game between Michigan and Ohio State. Fullback B.J. Askew, one of two Michigan products...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 17, 2006 | 5:00amA 7-year-old girl just didn't want to let go of the Legos. She was trying to sneak two boxes of the toy blocks out of a Wal-Mart in Largo, Fla.,...
THE 6TH QUESTION W/ JERRY RICE
November 17, 2006 | 2:55amBy ANDREW MARCHANDEvery Friday in NYP TV Sports, our sports television pullout that appears in the middle of the print edition and online, we present "Five Questions for …" This...
Miami here they come
November 17, 2006 | 12:09amBy MARC BERMANMIAMI- The fingers of the players, coaching staff and Miami Heat staffers have been redecorated with big, bold and black championship rings. About 420 of them were bought...