January 14, 2007
DOG THAT FAT
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNOT a day goes by where my dogs don't look to extend their walk time. They know instinctively that outdoor exercise will make them healthier and happier. Owners could actually...
ODOR-ABLE DOGS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amDEAR DR. FOX: We have two female dogs whom I bathe and brush every couple of weeks. However, they often come back into the house stinking to high heaven -...
SETUP FAULTY - SO HE GOES TO PIECES
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amCHESS WHEN a grandmaster sets up the pieces wrong, is it an innocent mistake? Or something else? This was the question in an elite blitz tournament in Moscow last month....
ADOPT ME
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amYoung Mr. Brisbaine is a sweet, gentle cat. He knows how to make himself right at home. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of...
HOT SEAT
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTHERE are many reasons why Chris Meloni's Detective Elliot Stabler on NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" has become one of the more effective, consistent and reliable characters on...
HOT LIST
January 14, 2007 | 10:00am1 The Brit is coming! David Beckham and Posh Spice (a k a Mrs. Beckham) finally have a good reason to invade our shores. He's signed a multimillion dollar deal...
MEAN GIRLS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amEvery Thursday night and Sunday afternoon in Toronto, a group of women get together with a bunch of pillows and have it out on a mat. No, this isn't the...
ROCK THE CELLS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amYes, Apple has announced that the Second Coming of the Cellphone - the MP3-playing, Internet-browsing, call-taking gadget possibly (post-litigation) known as the iPhone - will hit stores in June. But...
FATHER'S DAZE SLACKER DUDE TURNS SLACKER DAD
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNEAL Pollack's "Alternadad" is the first father's-eye view in the growing subgenre of books by hip moms trying to parent without shedding the ethos of underground culture. It gives us...
SNOW PATROL
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amLOST PLANET: EXTREME CONDITION 3 ½ STARS (For Xbox360) Capcom, $59.99 lostplanet-thegame.com Global warming, schmobal warming. In this chilly third-person shooter you play as Wayne, a young man whose planet,...
PAINTING PIXELS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amFOR only $150,000, you can be like Brad Pitt or Salma Hayek. How? Commission a high-definition "video portrait" - kind of a mini cinematic homage on a plasma flat screen...
THE PERFECT CONTRAST
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amMIX 'N' MATCH Feeling inspired? Check out these brands for some great black and white basics: GREAT WHITES ? Fitted stretch shirt with French cuffs, $175, Anne Klein New York,...
BETTIN' ON THE OLDIES
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTHE list of artists who had No.1 albums in 2006 reads like the music industry's "it" list - Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Ludacris and Diddy, to name a few. But among...
GOOD GOLLY, GOOD 'GRAVY'
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amLITTLE Richard may whoop it up onstage and in Geico commercials, but on the phone, he's more like your typical 74-year-old grandpa. Not one wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop bam-boo comes out in...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amFUNERAL GAMES Let's go back in time, to, say, 44 B.C. Despite all the fabulous architecture, day-to-day life was brutal, unforgiving and short. On the HBO series "Rome," Julius Caesar...
FOUR PLAY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThe Dawg knows he's got the world by the tail. As Randy Jackson gets ready for Tuesday's season six premiere of "American Idol," there's absolutely nothing about the Fox megahit...
'DANCE' DATE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amABC has made no secret of the fact that they want this fall's massive hit, "Dancing With The Stars," to return to the airwaves as soon as possible. What has...
REEL GOOD
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amFORREST GUMP (1994) Sunday, 8 p.m., TBS Life is like a box of chocolates -- and so is this movie. Tom Hanks plays a guy with a low IQ who...
SINKING 'FORTUNE' SHILLS FOR IL DIVO
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amI'd like to buy a scowl. When's the last time you watched "Wheel of Fortune" and Pat Sajak suddenly became Ed Sullivan? When's the last time the game part of...
HOPE FLOATS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amWhen a television show starts shooting in your neighborhood, it's usually a pox on the community - no parking zones, blinding lights shining late into the night and rude production...
'SIZEMORE' CELEBRATES CREEPY HAS-BEEN
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amSo many questions, so little time. VH1 is giving troubled actor Tom Sizemore just six half-hours to tell the epic story of his life since 2001. In that tight time...
'GOLDEN' DIGGERS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amSOME stars may go for the Malibu mansion, the private plane or the two-day marriage to Pamela Anderson, but today's most valuable status symbol in Hollywood is having a successful...
AND OUR NOMINEES ARE...
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amA guide to why we're watching...Who'll get drunk and make a total fool of himself? Getting sauced at the Globes became a tradition in 1958, when the whiskey-soaked Rat Packers...
GREAT BRIT
January 14, 2007 | 10:00am'I've been a zombie, a vampire and a squid," Bill Nighy says, cheerfully. "It's quite nice to play someone in a normal pair of trousers." These days, it's twice as...
LYNCH WILL RUB YOU THE RIGHT WAY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amPENCIL this in on your calendar: A newly restored print of "Eraser head," the never-to-be-forgotten feature debut by David Lynch, receives a one-week run, starting Thursday, at the Museum of...
SLICIN' & DICIN'
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amWHEN a night on the job includes taking Cameron Diaz's "uni-virginity," you know you've got it good. "I got her to eat uni, and she loved it!" says Sumile Sushi's...
FELICIANO, 29, AND BARRETT, 42
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 24 - Despite being out of their teens when they first met, John Barrett and Christine Feliciano still managed to become high school sweethearts. "We first met at the...
TOLENTO, 37, AND LOMBARDI, 37
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 4 - People say that love is patient, and Gina Tolento and Tony Lombardi wouldn't disagree. The pair dated as high school freshmen and again as college students, but...
TSANTES, 31, AND MOORE, 35
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amOCT 21 - On the day of her nuptials to Derek Moore, Krissy Tsantes' maid of honor treated the 300 guests to a bit of inside gossip. "She sold me...
LENT, 41, AND O'SULLIVAN, 41
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 25 - Patricia Lent and Owen O'Sullivan lost touch after graduating from Cardinal Spellman HS in 1983, but their lives were unknowingly headed in the same direction. The duo...
CORRADO, 45, AND MADDEN, 31
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 24 - On their sixth trip to Venice, Italy, together, New York actor Alex Corrado proposed to Lisa Madden at the top of the Rialto Bridge on his parents'...
CORZINE TALKS THE TALK
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNew Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine last week showed that he knows how to talk the talk when it comes to meaningful and sustainable tax cuts - unusual for a Democrat....
WELFARE-A-GO-GO
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amA recent City Hall press release pulled the curtain back on a jaw-dropping statistic: Gotham's social-services agency offers "vital services to more than 3 million New Yorkers." Feel free to...
THE STRANGE DEATH OF THE ROYAL NAVY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amA 400-YEAR epoch of world history is about to draw to a close. If Britain's current Labor government has its way, Britain's Royal Navy will mothball at least 13, and...
PREZ TOSSES A HAIL MARY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amDURING the battle of the Marne in September 1914, France's Marshal Foch declared: "My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking." His brio is...
COURT-OK'D THEFT
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTHE U.S. Supreme Court may have ruled that private property could be taken for public benefits like jobs or taxes, but what about for outright extortion? Can my private property...
BUMP & STICK THE FEC
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: The FEC's monitoring of endorsements, including on bumper stickers. Apply more bumper stickers and drive them nuts ("A Bumper-Sticker Menace?" Ryan Sager, PostOpinion, Jan. 3). America is still...
WHO'LL RUN THE IRAQ WAR - BUSH OR THE DEMS?
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: The Democratic Congress' role in making U.S. military policy. Will somebody please tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that we already have a twice-elected president - one elected with...
WRONG 'REFORM'
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTHE FALLACY OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORMBY JOHN SAMPLESUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 328 PAGES, $29 SOMETIMES the most complex problems have the simplest answers. America's campaign-finance laws are just such a...
THE PRAY-ERS ARE THE GIVERS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amWHO REALLY CARES? AMERICA'S CHARITY DIVIDE - WHO GIVES, WHO DOESN'T, AND WHY IT MATTERSBY ARTHUR C. BROOKSBASIC BOOKS, 256 PAGES, $26 THE publisher of "Who Really Cares?" and lots...
AGE OF ACID & ABERRATION
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amPRIME GREEN: REMEMBERING THE SIXTIESBy ROBERT STONEECCO, 240 PAGES, $25.95 ROBERT Stone's memoir "Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties" is a prime example of how what you leave out can be...
CHILDREN'S MUSIC ROCKS THE STAGE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amWatch out Barney, there's a new force rising in children's music. Today's children's music acts are more classic four-and-five-person bands singing rock-infused and rockabilly songs that are as easy on...
THE TRANSFORMERS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTomorrow night's Golden Globes ceremony, where Paramount Pictures received the most nominations of any studio, was supposed to mark the beginning of a year of redemption for CEO Brad Grey....
A TIME TO SIMPLIFY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amAs folks hopscotch from one job to another - either by choice or because of layoffs - and enroll in one 401(k) after another, their true retirement picture can be...
WHY A BAD REAL ESTATE MARKET ISN'T GOOD
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amDear John: I'm not 100 percent sure why a drop in housing prices - especially in an overheated market - is such a bad thing. Cheap gas is good, so...
GET STAGE COACHED
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amRon and Jane Palmer put their four-bedroom home in Manalapan, N.J., on the market last June and there it stayed for three months with little traffic and no offers. But...
JOBS' STOCK HABIT
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amSTEVE Jobs: Phone home. That may have been the message this week as the iconic founder of Apple Computer unveiled the company's new iPhone to nearly universal applause. Trouble is,...
5 POTENTIAL SNAGS FOR THE IPHONE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amApple's expected to get a nice slice of the cellphone market when it unleashes its eagerly awaited iPhone in June. But where there is near-universal acclaim for the iPhone, here...
PROTEST SHARKS CIRCLING
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amA school of sharks will swarm the New Jersey headquarters of tax prep titan Jackson Hewitt on Tuesday to protest huge fees it attaches to the instant-refund service used by...
'UGLY BETTY' IS BEST AD DEAL
January 14, 2007 | 10:00am"Ugly Betty" is sitting pretty. The quirky ABC drama, which has been drawing 5 million viewers aged 18 to 49, is Madison Avenue's best buy on television this season among...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amWINNERSSTEVE JOBS Apple guru enthralls masses and rides stock up 13% with the unveiling of the iPhone.JEFF FLUHR Chief of online ticket broker StubHub accepts eBay's $310 million buyout bid....
BLOCKBUSTER DEAL
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amWHEN the Weinstein Co. announced in November that it granted exclusive U.S. rental rights for its new movies to Blockbuster, many industry observers were left scratching their heads. Why, in...
GET YOUR FREEBIE CALENDAR? NEITHER DID MOST
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amIt may be a new year, but you wouldn't know it from looking at April Griffiths' kitchen wall - for the first time ever, the Queens resident came up empty...
KING DAY CLOSINGS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal, state and city holiday. Government offices, courts, schools and post offices are closed, as are the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq,...
CITY SET TO LICENSE BUILDERS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThe Bloomberg administration and the City Council will soon enact legislation requiring the city's more than 600 home builders to get licenses before they erect any more homes here, The...
$390M DISORDER IN THE SINKING BX. COURTHOUSE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amCourt isn't quite ready to come to order in The Bronx. Construction is complete on the state-of-the-art, $390 million Bronx Criminal Courthouse on East 161st Street, but an alarming structural...
'TRAIN' RIDE: POLICE ACADEMY MAY MOVE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amPolice Academy 2? The NYPD is looking for a new home for its main training facility, hoping to transfer the Police Academy from its current location on East 20th Street...
NOW TO COVER $PREAD
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amGiants player Michael Strahan may have to tighten his belt for a while, but his ex-wife said she's sure he'll be able to foot the $15.3 million bill in their...
SEINFELD REALTOR GETS HERS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amJerry Seinfeld must pay a Manhattan Realtor at least $98,000 after trying to beat her out of her fee because she wasn't available at his beck and call, a judge...
MEDIC BID TO REVIVE FREE SPEECH
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amCity medics are threatening to join the firefighters union in a planned lawsuit against the FDNY over stickers on lockers. Department brass have ordered all decorations to be removed from...
DINNER AT TIFFANY'S
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThe Tiffany Network's evening news anchor, vet eran broadcaster Katie Couric, donned an Audrey Hepburn-inspired black cocktail dress to her "Breakfast at Tiffany's"- themed 50th-birthday party at the iconic Fifth...
'VICTIM'S' TIP TO JOUMANA: RUN!
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amWhen she heard that Jason Kidd got married in 1997, Tameka Tate wanted to call his wife, Joumana, with a warning: "He did this to me, girl - you just...
FIRE WIDOW RIPS MIKE'S 'CRUEL' TIP
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amAt a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the Black Sunday tragedies, in which three firemen lost their lives in two separate blazes, Mayor Bloomberg callously admonished the widow of...
2 CLUBS REOPEN TO SLOW BIZ
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThe beautiful people were outnumbered by police and security this weekend at two Chelsea nightclubs that reopened after being shuttered by cops. At Club Sol and Crobar, bouncers used handheld...
HOUSEWIFE'S 7G THANK-YOU TO CITY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amIt's not every day the city gets a gift - especially a fat check from a former Queens housewife. But that's exactly what happened recently when city officials received a...
BARUCH DEANS OFF THE BOOK$
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTwo former Baruch College deans used school money and interns for personal gain, according to court papers filed as part of a federal wrongful-termination lawsuit. Abe Tawil and Paul Russo,...
MAN DEAD IN 15-STORY DROP
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amA man plummeted to his death from a Midtown high-rise early yesterday, cops said. Alvin Cheung, 24, was found on the sidewalk outside his residence at the Executive Plaza building...
LANDSLIDE LAWSUIT HITS MTA
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amAn archaeologist nearly buried alive while unearthing a 17th-century stone wall in lower Manhattan is suing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for $4.6 million - blaming the agency for allegedly making...
MO TOWN RISING
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amMo Vaughn strolled through the dilapidated Brownsville housing complex in a pinstriped suit that likely cost more than most residents earn in a week. But don't let the fancy duds...
2 SHOT IN BED-STUY STICKUP
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amA "scared" holdup man screaming for the key to a locked cash register opened fire in a Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon - wounding two workers, one critically. The...
RALLY RIPS HOLOCAUST-DENY RABBI
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amSome 200 people gathered outside a Brooklyn hotel last night to protest the presence of an anti-Israel rabbi who spoke last month at a Holocaust-denial conference in Iran. Moshe Aryeh...
B'KLYN COP & HIS KIDS LAID TO REST
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amHundreds of police officers packed a Crown Heights church to mourn a fellow cop killed in a tragic New Year's Day car crash. Brooklyn housing cop Louicasse Pierre, 39, and...
'GANGLAND' G-MAN SENT RAT INTO TRAP
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amIt was the FBI's version of a planned hit. That's what mob turncoat Carmine Imbriale says he faced in 1992 after former G-man Lindley DeVecchio rigged him with a wire...
TERROR RATS GO GOOGLE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTerrorists may be using Google to search and destroy. They're pinpointing attacks on British bases with aerial and satellite images from the popular Google Earth software, intelligence sources told London's...
HILLARY'S BAGHDAD INSECURITY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amClad in body armor and escorted by a heavily-armed security team, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Iraq yesterday and called the situation there "heartbreaking." "I don't know that the American...
WILD TIMES OFF SET OF AMERICAN IDOL
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amAs Season Six of "American Idol" debuts Tuesday, it turns out that the drama onstage is nothing compared to the soap-opera antics offstage - in the luxury bunkhouses where finalists...
KIDNAPPED KID HID IN PLAIN SIGHT FOR 4 YRS. AS KIN 'NEVER GAVE UP HOPE'
January 14, 2007 | 10:00am"Oh, my God! That's my son!" Those were the words Craig Akers cried as his stepson, who had gone missing without a trace for more than four years, stepped off...
MY SON'S GONE - BUT HEROES FIGHT ON
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amMarine Cpl. Jason Dunham, 22, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Bush on Thursday for saving several men in his unit when he jumped on a grenade...
TOWN WAS FOOLED BY QUIET KID AND 'DAD'
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNeighbors never suspected that Michael Devlin and the boy he's now accused of kidnapping were anything but father and son. Living a quiet, reclusive life in a suburban St. Louis...
'RAPE' D.A. IS PULLED
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThe North Carolina attorney general announced yesterday his office would take over the controversial sexual-assault case against three Duke University lacrosse players. The latest twist comes a day after embattled...
NETS STAR A PROBLEM KIDD
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNBA superstar Jason Kidd has a long and troubled off-court history of rowdy behavior, drunken rages - and an apparent penchant for hitting petite women, police and court records show....
BECKS BENCHED
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amSoccer superstar David Beckham found out yesterday that he'll be sidelined for the rest of his stint in Madrid - as his wife, Victoria, embarked on another house-hunting trip to...
NYPD BLOTTER
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amQUEENS Not satisfied with stealing his prey's money, a robber shot a man in the buttocks yesterday in Jamaica, police sources said. Two men confronted the 27-year-old victim in front...
TAX BILLS HIT POOR HARDEST
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amHOUSE owners are pay ing an average of 46.7 percent more in property taxes since 2002 - even though the city raised the tax rate by only 18.5 percent -...
LOTTERY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Numbers Sat.: 622 Midday Win-4 Sat.: 2711 Evening Numbers Sat.: 098 Evening Win-4 Sat.: 3102 Pick-10 Sat.: 5, 6, 13, 20, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36, 39,...
MANNING FINALLY GETS THE HELP HE'S NEEDED
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amBALTIMORE - There had been too many days and nights just like this one for the greatest quarterback of his generation, too many games where Peyton Manning's skills seemed to...
BUNCH OF TUR-KEYS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTHIS is strictly be tween us, OK? I've got here the keys to today's NFL games. Ready? I'll go slowly, so you can get it all down: 1) Stop 'em...
GO, STEALERS!
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amBALTIMORE - In a perfect sporting world, the men with horseshoes on their helmets would have been wearing the dark blue home jerseys yesterday afternoon, and not the all-white road...
BRADY PUNCH
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - If there is anyone who can do this, of course, it is Tom Brady. If there is anyone who can stay poised and unflappable as a beast...
TANGLED WEBB
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amEVIDENTLY Gregg Popovich and this chief petty observer have at least one thing in common: We carry grudges into the hereafter. As coherent as my logic may have been regarding...
BUY CHI & CHARGERS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTODAY BEARS (-81/2) over Seahawks; OVER 361/2: Forget the Three Faces of Eve. We're talking Sybil . . . she of the 16 separate, distinct personalities. And Rex Grossman has...
EASY WIN IN WINDY CITY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amAdding to his stuffed trophy case, The Wildcat captured first place over 49 foes in Playbook's long-running Wise Guys Contest with an overall record of 25-11 ATS (going 16-2 on...
CHICK-A-BOOM!
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amPHEASANT hunting in New York is a group effort with the state supplying birds to those willing to raise and release them. The Department of Environmental Conservation will be accepting...
IN-D PUTS BEST FOOT FORWARD
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amBALTIMORE - In the past, Peyton Manning would be done by now, finished for the season, no more games to play, plenty of time on his hands to dwell on...
CLARK CATCH KILLS THE CLOCK AND THE RAVENS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amBALTIMORE - When the Colts last night needed to finally put together a drive to seal their 15-6 AFC divisional playoff victory over the Ravens, they did it, thanks to...
SAINTS MARCH IN
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amNEW ORLEANS - Let the party begin. For a city badly in need of a reason to party, the Saints ended a 40-year love affair with utter humiliation and self-inflicted...
'HAWKS IN A HARD PLACE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amCHICAGO - The six long weeks the Seahawks spent without Shaun Alexander still hang heavy on the hands of quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. As 27 touchdowns and 1,860 Alexander rushing yards...
LOOSE BOLTS HAVE NO FEAR
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - Three days before today's Chargers-Patriots AFC divisional playoff showdown at Qualcomm Stadium, an exclusive look inside the inner sanctum of the Chargers' locker room showed a team...
WHAT THE BLEEP . . .?
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amIf you were watching the Saints-Eagles game, your eyes did not deceive you. Midway through the first quarter of Fox's broadcast, a fan was shown wearing a shirt that said,...
MR. BIG SCHOTT
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - Clear across the country from where the Jets do their work are a group of San Diego Chargers players who were hardly surprised to hear that Jets'...
ROG NO CLOSER TO '07 DECISION
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amRoger Clemens reportedly said he's not any closer to deciding whether to pitch in 2007, but the Rocket acknowledged the Yankees, Red Sox and Astros will be in the mix...
FOUR LOCAL ALL-STARS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amAs if Devils defenseman Brian Rafalski hasn't logged enough ice-time the past few games, now he will give up his midseason break for his second appearance in the NHL All-Star...
BIG EAST BATTLERS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThis time they shook hands, a firm man-to-man grip. Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun lowered his head to make sure his counterpart at St. Johns, Norm Roberts, heard what he had...
GRANT RETURNS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amMalcolm Grant decided he didn't want to go to Seton Hall last year after Louis Orr got fired, making his senior season at Robeson all the more important. "I had...
THE RUMBLE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amShotgun formationHolmgren amazed at NFLweaponry Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren, who tells his players they have to check their guns with the team's head of security during training camp each year...
VAC'S WHACKS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThat creepy man-hug between Eric Mangini and Bill Belichick last week reminded me less of an emotional reunion between estranged brothers and more of the embrace Michael and Fredo had...
BIG A FAN: 101 AND STILL BETTIN'
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amYesterday, a week after 71-year-old Frank Amonte Sr. became the oldest jockey to ride a race in New York, Philip Laub laid claim to being the Big Apple's oldest horseplayer,...
HENNING HEAVES A VERY NICE DAY
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amSt. Anthony's senior Walter Henning set a meet record yesterday at the Archbiship Molloy-Stanner Games for the 25-pound weight throw at 84 feet, 101/4 inches, and for the shot put...
'INTENTIONS' MADE KNOWN
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amGreat Intentions, favored at 6-5 in field of six fillies and mares despite finishing fourth last out in Interborough Handicap, went right to front in $65,000 Affectionately 'Cap, opened daylight...
NO TOM TO GO
January 14, 2007 | 10:00am* Three years ago, the nattering nabobs of negativity, also known as the New York sports writers, were screaming for the Giants to get rid of coach Jim Fassel. The...
SPORTS SHORTS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amRACING: Part of Barbaro's hoof removedBarbaro was placed under general anesthesia yesterday at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center so his laminitic left hind hoof, which flared up again...
YAWN! DEVILS GRAB OT WIN
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amClaude Julien recalls fighting the Islanders coach, oh, some 30 years ago as juniors. After Ted Nolan's rip of Devils hockey last night, in discouraging defeat, their tempers may flare...
ICE NEVER MELTS IN DEVS' EMPIRE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amIT IS THE Land That Time For got, the cocoon into which outside influences do not in trude, the bubble in which the boys go about their business as if...
NO CAPERS LEFT ON GIANTS' DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR MENU
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amScratch Dom Capers off the list of new defensive coordinators for the Giants. Capers was surely a top candidate to replace fired Tim Lewis, but he's no longer on the...
DEFENSE RESTS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThe Knicks size up their 16-22 record and still feel the comfort of being in a playoff race. But - as Larry Brown might say - it's "fool's gold." The...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...DAVID LEE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThe Post's Steve Serby caught up with the energetic, second-year forward who is averaging a double-double (10.6 points, 10.5 rebounds) this season: Q: What's it like looking up from the...
MINNY MELTDOWN
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The Nets went on the road and faced an 18-point deficit in Chicago. And won. This time they were hit with the overpowering ferocity of Kevin Garnett, an...
MIKKI'S WALLET IN 'FINE' $HAPE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Mikki Moore got payback - literally - yesterday. The NBA rescinded a technical foul - and its accompanying $1,000 fine - that was levied on Moore on Thursday...
RANGERS EYE DEAL
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amThe changes the Rangers made yesterday by first replacing Adam Hall, Jason Ward and Darius Kasparaitis in the lineup with Jason Krog, Colton Orr and Thomas Pock, and then going...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amGeorge Hood wants to ride into the record books without moving an inch. The DEA supervisor from Illinois yesterday started pedaling a stationary bike at his gym - and plans...
5 LOVE NOTES - AND WHY THEY'RE KEEPERS
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amIn an era flooded with voicemail messages, instant messages, text messages and more, is the good old-fashioned love letter a lost art? Not at all, we found out. In fact,...
DEAR POST MAN
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amDear Post Man: I have been dating (name omitted) 2 years now. He is Jewish (35 years old) and I, 29, am not. I am totally in love with him...
STRAIGHT SHOOTER
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amTHIS week, both Meet Market daters described themselves as "gay." Only one of them is kidding. Find out who dropped the bomb when John, a 31-year-old track athlete and coach,...
MEET MARKET
January 14, 2007 | 10:00amFOR some, first dates are all about tentatively feeling out the other person and generally keeping your penchant for bawdy humor under wraps. But for Carmen, there's no such thing...