March 16, 2007
THE 6TH QUESTION W/ MIKE BREEN
By PAT REICHARTEvery 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 is...
Clash of Titans: Bart Says A.O. Scott Not Buff Enough to Mock '300'
Variety editor Peter Bart, who has replaced Jack Valenti as Hollywood's blowhard-in-chief, once again panders to the studio suits (i.e., his biggest advertisers) by attacking the New York Times' A.O....
Look, Ma. No shame!
The Post sent Regis a custom Get Well card today and Kelly liked it so much she showed it on "Live" this morning."Right now, Regis is up sitting, watching the...
Vintage Handbags at the Pier Antiques Show
THE PIER ANTIQUES SHOWPier 94 at the West Side Highway; (212) 691-7297March 17, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m.March 18, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Collectors and designer handbag connoisseurs should brave the nor'easter...
TOP 10 BASEBALL MOVIES
Here we are stuck in the dog days of spring training – enough about who’s going to be the fifth starter – can’t the games start to count. At least...
Deal of the Day
Isaac Mizrahi for Target is always spot on with cute basics at prices so low they evoke the word thievery.And this Jersey Matte Dress with an oversized keyhole back and...
Day 35: Yankee Thoughts
I have returned to New York for a little bit to see my young twins. I leave Yankee camp with several thoughts:1. Hideki Matsui looks great. It is almost as...
LIVEBLOG/LONDON: Day 3 - Where to stay next
The Haymarket: Color yourself there.Got to love hotelier-designer Kit Kemp, whose quirky tastes have set her Firmdale hotels in London apart so completely from everything else on offer (we love...
LEGENDS UPDATE: ROUND OF 32 UNDERWAY
Our readers have spoken — more than 25,000 votes were cast in the first round — and the Legends Mania field has been cut in half. Voting for the round...
The Little Movie That Could
The box-office success of "300'' has been getting a lot of ink, and a lot pixels on this blog. But I just wanted to note that while "300'' grossed a...
Sandler Does 9/11
Joe Leydon of Variety gushes, no, make that raves about Adam Sandler's performance as a man trying to pick up the pieces after losing his family on 9/11 in "Reign...
Beef, Hogs and Sacrifical Lambs
We like this clever poster much more than anything else about the lame Sandra Bullock thriller "Premonition'' (which has inched up to 6 per cent favorable ratings at Rotten Tomatoes...
And Then There's That Title
"Is it just me, or does the movie poster for Pride (which I noticed while walking through Chelsea this morning on the way to work) look like the cover of...
I Bet Michael Caine Will Mentor Him
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, who has figured in more movies than any other fictional character, is going to be re-invented as an action-adventure hero, Variety reports today. The as-yet-uncast...
BELLA ABZUG - NATURAL BORN REBEL
"Sometimes I'm asked when I became a feminist, and I usually answer, 'The day I was born.' " - Bella Abzug Bella Savitzky was born in The Bronx on July...
RO, RO, RO YOUR BOT, GENTLY . . .
LADIES and gentlemen, let's get ready to robot! This weekend, high school students from across the area and around the world will sharpen their gears, shine their circuit boards and...
SHINS WITHOUT KICK
IN the anatomy of indie music, the Shins bone isn't connected to the hipbone - it's wired straight to the brain. At the Theater at Madison Square Garden Wednesday, the...
ENERGETIC TROUPE NOT VERY MOVING
THE Buglisi Dance Theatre that returned to the Joyce Theater Tuesday night remains a strong, vivacious group of performers, with some vibrant young recruits. Formerly known as Buglisi/Foreman Dance, it...
COCK - AND BULL
THERE'S a schizophrenic divide between the atmosphere and the offerings at Studio Dante, the chamber-size theater run by "The Sopranos" star Michael Imperioli and his wife, Victoria. With its high-backed...
SIDLE UP TO CARROLL IN 'SIDES'
'BOTH Sides Now" is the title of Diahann Carroll's new act at Feinstein's, and it proves apt. This veteran of stage, screen, TV and nightclubs displays both the glamour and...
SOLD-OUT SISTERS
WHEN it comes to box-office prowess on Broadway this spring, the ladies are wiping the floor with the men. Vanessa Redgrave, Joan Didion, Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes have been...
X-FILER BACK IN SERIES
DAVID Duchovny will appear in his first TV series since "The X-Files" as a man addicted to women. The yet-to-be-titled Showtime comedy is expected to debut this summer and be...
END RUN ON HUBBY
IT sounded like a good idea - mount hidden cameras in the TV rooms of football-obsessed husbands and then let them (and us) see what a burden their football habits...
'MAYBE IT'S YOUR HAIR KEEPING YOU IN'
ONCE upon a time the king of pop attempted to turn himself into the princess of Motown, Diana Ross - and he had the hair to prove it. But Michael...
$100G 'LOVE IDOL'
SIMON Cowell was once offered $100,000 to watch a couple have sex and then critique their lovemaking, the "American Idol" star tells "60 Minutes" this Sunday night. "I stupidly turned...
DON TURNED DOWN 'DANCING'
DON Johnson says that, among the many roles he's turned down, the most recent was a chance to compete on "Dancing with the Stars." "I. . .turned down the show...
NEVER MIND THE BULLOCK
'PREMONITION" is the latest in a long line of thrillers that plays with a sometimes irresistible sci-fi/fantasy ploy - that if you know something bad is going to happen in...
CLOSE TO ROCK BOTTOM
CHRIS Rock, who famously mocked Jude Law's movie career at the Oscars, ought to watch out for his own after his second dud in a row as an actor-director, the...
THIS 'SILENCE' ISN'T GOLDEN
THE dolls/slasher movie "Dead Silence" opened today without benefit of advance screening for critics, a sure sign that producers know they have a dud on their hands. A review will...
RARE FOOTAGE REVEALS LENINGRAD HORROR
THE old saw that one picture is worth a thousand words applies to "Blockade," a documentary about the World War II siege of Leningrad. The infamous stranglehold on the Russian...
FIGHTING MAD
THE fight for independence by the Irish and the IRA is a story that should be told, must be told, has been told. And retold and re-retold. I count eight...
SO I MADE MYSELF A LEGENDARY AX MURDERER
'BEHIND the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon" does a "Scream" take in reverse: This time we hang out with the scythe-wielding maniac as he walks us through his job...
I AM KAZAKH, I AM AN ISLAND
A sweeping, '60s-style historical epic that reportedly cost $40 million, "Nomad" was the first submission by Kazakhstan - yes, the same Central Asian nation mocked in "Borat" - for Oscar's...
ADAM'S APPLES
ADAM (Ulrich Thomsen), a middle-age neo-Nazi, is freed from prison on condition that he perform community service at a sleepy rural church. But he hadn't bargained on the pompous pastor,...
AMERICAN CANNIBAL
'AMERICAN Cannibal," a purported documentary about an abortive reality-TV series that bowed at last year's Tribeca Film Festival, is every bit as sleazy as its subject matter. It follows the...
PERUVIAN DIVA
Eva Ayllón is one of Peru's leading vocalists and exponents of Afro-Peruvian music. The Peruvian diva -- who has performed with Marc Anthony -- had El Gran Combo sit on...
PREVIEWS
"CURTAINS": David Hyde Pierce plays a detective who tries to solve a murder and fix a show in this Kander and Ebb musical comedy. Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 W. 45th...
BROADWAY
"THE COAST OF UTOPIA": Four stars Tom Stoppard's thrilling trilogy of 19th-century Russian activists and thinkers, together with their lovers and friends, makes up one of the truly epic theater...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": Three stars John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue; (212) 239-6200. "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST": Two and a half stars Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ALTAR BOYZ": Three stars New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues; (877) 226-9941. "THE AWESOME '80s PROM": Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., between Third...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
The following listings are subject to change. It's best to call ahead before going to any event. SUSAN McKEOWN: The singer will give a free St. Patrick's Day concert at...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Today and tomorrow: Steve Kuhn Trio. Sunday: Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band. 315 W. 44th St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Rachelle...
CLASSICAL
TODAY: The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, 8 p.m. Prazak Quartet at Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Keyboardist Nico Muhly and Vox Vocal Ensemble at Zankel Hall, 7:30 p.m....
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Through Tuesday, the experimental films of the late Harry Smith. 32 Second Ave., at Second Street; (212) 505-5181. FILM FORUM: Through March 29, Max Ophuls' "The Earrings...
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: Greg Proops, Paul Mooney. 1626 Broadway, between 49th and 50th streets; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: 117 MacDougal St., between Bleecker and Third streets; (212) 254-3480. THE CUTTING...
CABARET
CARLYLE HOTEL: Through March 31: Jane Monheit. 35 E. 76th St., at Madison Avenue; (212) 744-1600. FEINSTEIN'S: Today and tomorrow: Diahann Carroll. 540 Park Ave., at 61st Street; (212) 339-4095.
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
TIMES SQUARE GOES GREEN: Eighteen Irish pubs in the Times Square area will celebrate St. Patrick's Day with singalongs, happy-hour drink specials, bagpipe performances, live Irish music, photo ops with...
FILM PICK
Things will be more fashionable than usual this weekend and next at the Museum of the Moving Image. The reason? A festival of fashion-related films. Included is "Liquid Sky,'' the...
COMIC ABSTRACTION
Until recently, this show's title would have seemed like a contradiction in terms, even heresy. In the postwar years, there was nothing comic about abstract art. Often beautiful, occasionally charming,...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * Brooklyn native TONY DANZA performs tromorrow night at 9 at 9 in the Trump Plaza Theater. Tickets: $45.50; trumpplaza.com, (609) 441-6000. * Catch the acrobatic troupe IL...
BILLY'S HOT PICK
Diana Ross is performing at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on April 6, but if you'd rather hear Supremes hits like "Baby Love" and "Stop! In the Name of...
WALKING ON EIRE
I'M walking up the Hill of Tara, Ard Ri Eireann, the seat of the High Kings of Ireland in County Meath. The wind is up and the air is moist...
THE OFFICIAL LINE OF MARCH
Mounted Police Military Escort "THE FIGHTING 69th" The 69th Regiment of New York, 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry : Lieutenant Colonel Charles T. Crosby, Commanding Piper for the Regiment Pipe Major...
IN MEMORY OF THOMAS MANTON
THIS year's parade wil remember Thomas J. Manton, a successful and distinguished career politician who died last year at the age of 73. Grand Marshal of the 1994 St. Patrick's...
A PIE AND A PINT
TRENDY Trinity Place Bar and Restaurant 115 Broadway (212) 964-0939; www.trinityplacenyc.com Trinity Place Bar and Restaurant, located in the heart of Wall Street, has a contemporary Irish pub-club feel with...
AFTER THE PARADE
TODAY AND TOMORROW Historic Richmond Town Tavern Concert Series: Irish Fever 7.30 p.m. and 9 p.m. $15, $12 members. Historic Richmond Town, 441 Clarke Ave, Staten Island (718) 351-1611 Staten...
CELTIC PRIDE
THE hard-partying Pogues were on top of the musical world in the '80s until the band - led by the poetic and gaptoothed Shane MacGowan - tumbled over the edge....
NO TICKET TO THE POGUES? HERE'S MORE IRISH MUSIC FOR YOUR EARS
TODAY * Susan McKeown lives in the Village but her influences are far-reaching, from Irish legends to Emily Dickinson. She performs a free show at 12:30 p.m. at the World...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
3 train: No trains between 96th and 148th Streets 4 train: Uptown trains skip Fulton Street. Downtown trains skip Fordham Road5 train: Uptown trains skip Fulton Street 6 train: Manhattan-bound...
WHISKEY IN THE JAR
IRISH toasts are a great way to honor St. Patrick's Day. But who knows what to say? Colum Egan, master distiller for Bushmills Irish whiskey, does. "The most important aspect...
IRISH PUBS AND BARS IN MANHATTAN
A.J. Kelly's 6 Stone Street (212) 425-1700 The Baggot Inn 82 W. 3rd Street (212) 477-0622 The Banshee Pub 1173 First Avenue (212) 717-8177 Biddy's Pub 301 E. 91st Street...
RAYMOND FLYNN, GRAND MARSHALL
RAYMOND Flynn was surprised to be chosen as the Grand Marshal of this St. Patrick's Day Parade. But upon reflection, this turned to gratitude and pride. "My heart felt big...
SHOCK ANATOMY OF A SLAUGHTER
A chilling video shows a deranged ex-Marine pumping five shots into an unarmed auxiliary cop slumped behind a car in Greenwich Village before chasing down the victim's teenage partner and...
TRAGIC BARMAN'S GAL HAD HORROR 'PREMONITION'
At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Alfredo Romero Morales' girlfriend told him she had a premonition that something terrible was going to happen. "You're crazy," Romero replied, dismissing the idea. Some...
VIDEO CLUE INTO MOVIE MAKER'S MADNESS
The gunman who went on a murderous Village rampage left behind an eerie record of his descent into a sickening, sinister madness. The transformation stunned friends of David Garvin, 42,...
HEROES' LIVES FULL OF HOPE
Nicholas Todd Pekearo was an auxiliary cop who had written three thriller novels and was planning to attend the Police Academy this summer. Eugene Marshalik was an "A" student at...
FORCE DOES ITS PART & GIVES ITS ALL
They are the eyes and ears of the NYPD. But they aren't given guns. And they aren't given bulletproof vests. Nevertheless, the Big Apple's 4,800 auxiliary cops - armed only...
IRS $LICES INTO N.Y. DELI MOGUL
A former Manhattan restaurateur was sentenced yesterday to 15 months behind bars for swindling Uncle Sam out of nearly a quarter-million dollars. Ralph Scotto, 59, admitted he cooked up more...
BLOOMY AIDE'S BOOZY FAREWELL
A Bloomberg administration official bid a boozy farewell from his job last night when he was arrested for DWI outside a trendy Chelsea hotel, sources said. Christopher Coffey, a deputy...
NET TIGHTENING ON GRANNY-BASHING GOON
Cops are looking at a mental patient in the mugging of two elderly Queens women, police sources said yesterday. The NYPD wants to question the man in the brazen attacks...
NICOLE-SLAY PLEA
The girlfriend-accomplice of the punk who murdered actress Nicole duFresne pleaded guilty to robbery yesterday, a deal that will send her to prison for six years. Ex-cheerleader Ashley Evans was...
SICK NURSE SPARKS TB ALARM AT HOSP
A staggering 700 patients - including 238 newborns and infants - may have been exposed to killer tuberculosis by an infected nurse at a Bronx hospital, officials said yesterday. The...
EXECS QUIT MED 'UNION' AGAINST SPITZER
Hospital executives have pulled out of a joint multimillion-dollar advertising campaign with the health-care workers union attacking Gov. Spitzer's budget plan - one week after Spitzer charged the commercials were...
MEDIC BAND BANNED
St. Patrick's Day Parade organizers have pushed another group of lifesavers back to the middle of the route - Emergency Medical Service workers have been told they can't march with...
SKI VICTIMS PLAYED IT SAFE
A Park Avenue businessman and a friend caught in a Rocky Mountain avalanche this week died even though they took proper safety precautions, investigators said yesterday. "From a back-country users'...
MOB RAT STRIP-MAULS GOTTIS
The Gotti clan had its version of Tony Soprano's Bada Bing in a Manhattan jiggle joint - stripping the club of piles of cash and doling out jobs to pals,...
BEGORRAH! EXPECT WEE BIT OF SNOW
Say bye-bye to the city's flaky springtime weather and hello to flakes - up to half a foot of snow could fall today and turn the streets white for the...
NEAR-FATAL QNS. SLASH
A Queens woman was clinging to life early today after she was slashed in the neck outside her home yesterday morning, cops said. The 20-year-old victim, whose name was withheld,...
COMIN' UP JO$IE
Josie Almonte can't believe she just shook hands with Lady Luck. "I've never won anything in my life," said the 35-year-old Upper West Side resident, a real winner who snared...
'PONZI' PARIAH IS SUED
New York-area residents defrauded out of up to $60 million in an alleged Ponzi scheme are filing a federal lawsuit in Manhattan against the accused swindler - boy-band impresario Lou...
TEACH IN BUTT-PINCH BUST
A Bronx high-school teacher was arrested yesterday for allegedly pinching a female student on the buttocks. Jeff Jones, 52, who joined the faculty of Morris HS in September 2005, groped...
'50 SHOT' RECOIL
The two sides in the Sean Bell shooting case traded barbs yesterday over the last-minute testimony of a witness while waiting for a Queens grand jury to decide the fate...
FEDS FILE SKULLCAP LAWSUIT
The feds have lobbed a civil-rights lawsuit at the state Correction Department for barring Muslim officers from wearing a religious skullcap on the job. Abdus Samad Haqq, 53, claims he...
'PERVY' LITTLE VALENTINE
Jurors in the statutory-rape case against an Upper East Side Montessori school headmistress heard creepy details about the accused seductress yesterday - including how her allegedly besotted 12-year-old victim presented...
HOLOCAUST FUND ATT'Y GETS BOO$T
The lawyer who brokered a deal between Holocaust survivors and the Swiss banks that plundered their accounts is entitled to a $3 million fee, despite a contention by some clients...
'RIGHT' ON, GOV
Saying he's horrified by the huge spending increase sought by Senate Republicans, the leader of the state's Conservative Party grudgingly announced yesterday that he backs Gov. Spitzer's budget. Conservative Chairman...
POL RIPS PARKING TIX RULES
A city councilman yesterday called on the Big Apple to make parking regulations less confusing by posting the rules for every block on the Internet. Residents and businessmen have complained...
'SHAKEDOWN SLUT' ALL SMILES
The female half of the "Horny and Clyde" sextortion scheme smirks in a Long Island courtroom yesterday as she faces additional charges that she and a con-man partner lured victims...
'MIDDLE' CLASS WOE
The number of city public schools named among the state's worst reached its all-time low yesterday, but a larger proportion of those cited for poor performance are middle schools. Of...
LIFE AND LIMB
Paramedic David Kruysman made FDNY history yesterday when he became the first member of the department with a prosthetic limb. Kruysman, 37, who wears a prosthesis on his left leg...
A BUDGET TOO FAR
THE Conservative Party this week released to the press my letter to Gov. Spitzer essentially stating our disappointment in his budget and in what the Republican state Senate majority added...
SACRED BURIAL GROUND AWAITS BX. FIRE DEAD
BAMAMKO, Mali - After a journey of thousands of miles, the bodies of a mother and her four kids who died in a Bronx fire that killed 10 will be...
BIG SIX SPANK IRAN
Six world powers struck a U.S.- backed deal yesterday to hit Iran with new sanctions because of its continued drive toward nuclear weapons. After lengthy negotiations, China and Russia agreed...
MEET 'PAX' JOLIE
Here's the first look at the Vietnamese tot who stole Angelina Jolie's heart. Pham Quang Sang, 3, became the latest addition to the "Tomb Raider" star's rainbow coalition of children...
KILLER KHALID: I BEHEADED PEARL
WASHINGTON - Terror mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed has admitted to personally beheading reporter Daniel Pearl - confessing to yet another horrific crime, including the Sept. 11 attacks. "I decapitated with...
ANNA PAPERWORK IS NEW DRUG CLUE
Evidence emerged yesterday purporting that Anna Nicole Smith was using powerful prescription sedatives while pregnant. The gossip site TMZ.com claims it obtained an airway bill showing that a shipment of...
RUDY TARGET OF WEB SLINGER
A conservative who once ran against Rudy Giuliani in New York is trying to puncture his national rise, with a dossier and a Web site that call him a "lifelong...
HILL REDRAWING HER BATTLE LINE
WASHINGTON - After recently vowing to quickly end the Iraq war if she becomes president, Hillary Rodham Clinton is now stressing a plan to keep some U.S. forces there indefinitely...
OBAMA CATCHING UP TO CLINTON IN N.H., MICH.
Sen. Barack Obama is within striking distance of Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in two states, new polls for the 2008 White House race show. In New Hampshire, site...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens Cops say a would-be thief named Licorish told his victim he likes to "eat people." Roy Licorish, 24, confronted the 24-year-old victim in a coin laundry on Linden Boulevard...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 960; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 8701; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 694; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 4640;...
MOHAMMED SPEAKS
There's no way of knowing for certain how much of Khalid Sheik Moham med's dramatic confession is true. Indeed, describing his blood-soaked activities to a Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearing...
IN THE LINE OF DUTY
As New Yorkers were waiting anx iously yesterday to see if a Queens grand jury would indict any of the cops in the Sean Bell case, the families of two...
THE REAL AMERICA
NEW Yorkers and Americans this week opened their hearts and pocketbooks to the families that lost 10 members, including nine kids, in that ghastly Bronx inferno. Folks of every religious...
FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD
OK, this is weird. Since about, oh, Sept. 12, 2001, every writer, producer, director and suit in Hollywood has known one sure rule: Don't make fun of our so-called "enemies."...
BEING FAIR TO KHALID
THE transcript of al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed's March 10 tri bunal hearing runs 26 pages. It was a very polite proceeding - and remained so even as Mohammed's...
PULL SOME STRINGS
THE ISSUE: The Post's story indicating that the city's puppeteers are paid more than rookie cops. Would someone please ask Mayor Bloomberg when the last time was that a puppeteer...
HOLLANDER GREW SICK OF MOONVES' RADIO GA-GA
CBS Radio Chairman and CEO Joel Hollander is quietly laying the groundwork to step down before his contract expires at year's end after a discordant relationship with CBS boss Les...
LES WANTS MORE
Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone and CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves are at odds over Moonves' pay package, according to several sources familiar with the situation. These sources said Redstone wants...
MACBAIN'S PAIN: MARCH BLOUIN IN
FINALLY some good news for the Red Queen, Louise T. Blouin MacBain, the wealthy French Canadian behind the churning LTB Media empire: she isn't going to be the subject of...
TIME FOR A NEW REDESIGN? YUP
Time magazine's much vaunted redesign hits newsstands today and so far, the read seems largely positive. Even critics of change concluded that Managing Editor Rick Stengel and designer Luke Heyman...
FUTURES SHOCK AT MERC OVER ICE BID
The IntercontinentalExchange's bombshell bid for the Chicago Board of Trade could create a new powerhouse that poses a serious threat to New York's dominant position in energy and metals trading....
FAST ASLEEP
CHICAGO - As a federal judge yesterday wrapped up two days of exhaustive questioning of nearly 100 prospective jurors for Conrad Black's racketeering trial, the dethroned newspaper baron's lead lawyer,...
HEDGE ANALYST INDICTED
A research analyst who was at the center of a battle between an insurance giant and short sellers was indicted yesterday on unrelated wire fraud charges tied to his arrest...
CALPERS VOTES AGAINST CVS BID
PHILADELPHIA - The California Public Employees' Retirement System has voted its proxies against CVS Corp.'s plan to acquire pharmacy-benefits manager Caremark Rx Inc. for roughly $26 billion, according to the...
TIME FOR A BRAND NEW 'RELIGION'
True Religion said Kymberly Lubell, who founded the company with husband and CEO Jeff Lubell, would leave the trendy denim maker. The Post reported in January that the Lubells were...
OXLEY'S NEW NBY PAUL THARPASDAQ LOBBYIST
After causing grief and lost millions for many high-tech companies, Michael Oxley is now their new friend in high places. The veteran politician and co-author of the controversial Sarbanes-Oxley corporate...
BIOVAIL NOT WELL
Banadian drug maker Biovail disclosed that federal prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York are investigating issues related to its accounting and stock trading going back to 2001. Biovail,...
GOODBYE, BOWIE
BUFFALO - Nobody recognized him. That was the shocking part. This was five years ago, a summer night in Newark, and Bowie Kuhn was watching a minor-league baseball game and...
A REGULAR EPIC BATTLE
FOR those who devoted Wednesday night to filling out an NCAA pool with Rick Neuheisel's help, you missed a helluva 58-minute pro bout featuring MVP frontrunners, Steve Nash and Dirk...
HOYAS, SAPP SHOW SOME ZAP
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Inside Team Room B, an improbable dream still lived on for the Belmont Bruins. They had somehow jumped on Georgetown, to the delight of the small army...
DON'T KO BOXING'S ETHNICITY
SOMEWHERE along the way, it became politically incorrect to root for your own. It's OK to root for team, country and even borough, but root for your own color or...
IRISH BACKERS WILL BE SEEING GREEN
EACH day during the NCAA tournament, hoop maven Tim Sullivan, the Post's two-time defending Saturday's Heroes champion, will offer his plays of the day: Notre Dame (-31/2) over Winthrop: You'll...
FOR OLD TIMES SAKE
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - In the final minutes, with the outcome having been decided, the fans of favored Georgetown and underdog Belmont engaged in some of the witty college-student zeal and...
SHOCK TREATMENT
BUFFALO - As far as Eric Maynor was concerned, the other nine players on the floor could have been invisible. The 18,843 people in the stands could have been gathered...
BC KISSES TECH GOOD KNIGHT
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - To the untrained eye, Boston College's first two offensive possessions against Texas Tech yesterday were an eyesore. Sean Marshall hoisted up a 3-pointer from the top of...
'EYES HAVE IT
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Central Connecticut State coach Howie Dickenman's worst fear played out before his eyes last night. "I told my coaches the first three minutes of the game were...
CREAN'S CREW CREAMED BY STORMIN' SPARTANS
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C - Tick, tick, tick. Brick, brick, brick. Imagine receiving an invitation to The Dance, and leaving your shoes home. Imagine preparing your team for four days for a...
NIGHT'S ALL WRIGHT FOR PITT
BUFFALO - If Pittsburgh had any inclination to play at anything less than full tilt last night, those worries were squashed by what they saw waiting in the wings before...
'NOVA LOOKING TO HEARTY NARDI
CHICAGO - Learning to make do without a key player is nothing new for Villanova. But it's better for the Wildcats if they don't have to, which now appears to...
CARDINALS RULE
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Rupp Arena and its sea of 23,000 Kentucky Wildcat blue seats looked as if they were in an identity crisis, filled to the roof with red-clad Louisville...
SPARTANS STORM PAST CREAN CREW
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Tick, tick, tick. Brick, brick, brick. Imagine receiving an invitation to The Dance, and leaving your shoes home. Imagine preparing your team for four days for a...
AGGIES SHAKE OFF QUAKERS
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Before Pennsylvania, in its third consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, played Texas A&M in yesterday's opening round at Rupp Arena, Quakers junior guard Brian Grandieri said getting to...
BOEHEIM NIXED BID TO TAKE HIGH ROAD
MAYBE it's because I read all those Chip Hilton books when I was a kid. Hank Rockwell, Chip's coach at State, always knew the right thing to do and say....
THE X SMILES
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The smallest player on the floor made the biggest plays of the game in Xavier's stirring 79-77 win over BYU in last night's fourth and final game...
KENNEDY, GLENN SET FOR FINAL
O'Neil Glenn made quite a first impression on Tatiyiana McMorris. "I had never seen a coach that big," the Kennedy senior said. "It was a little scary." Glenn is not...
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Did you have a little trouble filling out your NCAA Tournament bracket this year? Join the club. It seems like anything is possible this March - and Vegas oddsmakers agree,...
HEAVY METAL - VERY HEAVY
You have to give ESPN credit for creativity. For years, "SportsCenter'' advertisements have been among the most clever on television - whether it was the Manning brothers goofing around on...
5 QUESTIONS FOR MIKE BREEN
This week, NYP TV Sports' Pat Reichart spoke with Mike Breen, MSG's Knicks play-by-player and ESPN/ABC's main NBA voice. Q: Earlier this week, the Knicks gave Isiah Thomas a multi-year...
BIG A CANCELS TODAY'S CARD
Big A won't race today; card was canceled yesterday because of winter storm watch. From fast to not-so-fast: If you bet on even-money favorite Summer Doldrums in last Saturday's Gotham...
SPORTS SHORTS
BLOTTER: Tank headed to jail In Skokie, Ill., Bears defensive lineman Tank Johnson was sentenced to four months in jail for violating probation in a 2005 gun case. Johnson immediately...
INJURY-RIDDLED DEVILS FEEL ALL RIGHT
RALEIGH - They may have issues, but the Devils also have guts. It's their identity this season, their response to adversity, their toughness in tight games. Last night was perhaps...
PEEVED THOMAS: GET BALL TO CURRY!
Isiah Thomas staged a one-hour, chewing-out, film session yesterday to underscore the importance of getting Eddy Curry more touches. Steve Francis, who had a miserable seven-turnover performance in Wednesday's 104-94...
MARBURY'S SHOW DRAWS LOW RATING
Stephon Marbury's point rampage has not yet extended to ratings points. The ratings for Marbury's premiere TV talk show with Kobe Bryant, "Stars on Stars" received a .1 rating (75,000...
JOLLY OLLIE
PORT ST. LUCIE - David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez made the grueling three-plus hour bus trip from Ft. Myers, Fla, to Port St. Lucie. It certainly wasn't worth their time....
BAH HUMBER! PHILIP DEMOTED
PORT ST. LUCIE - Philip Humber, the team's 2004 first-round pick, was optioned to the minors yesterday after posting a 16.20 ERA in three outings. Humber, who allowed eight hits...
A STEP BACK
Beating the Grizzlies and Hornets back-to-back in offensive shootouts doesn't frighten any among the NBA power elite. So the Nets, just hoping to make the playoffs, have been a broken...
WRIGHT: I WAS MISLED BY 'COSTAS'
The Nets' Antoine Wright isn't backtracking about slams he put on his college "education" at Texas A&M. But he says he aimed his controversial comments at all colleges, not just...
RANGERS UPBEAT ABOUT SHANAHAN
At Rangers practice, the yellow jersey normally indicates an injured player. But yesterday as Brendan Shanahan donned the bright and unfamiliar No. 47, he looked more like a beacon of...
KARSTENS IS LIKELY TO GET STUCK IN TRIPLE-A
TAMPA - Remember the kid who played ahead of you because his father wrote a big check to the athletic department? It wasn't fair, but it happened far too often....
FEHR REMAINS WARY OF HGH BLOOD TESTS
TAMPA - Union head Donald Fehr surfaced at Legends Field yesterday afternoon to chat with the Yankees. One issue on the docket was HGH. Currently MLB doesn't have a test...
LEGENDS UPDATE: ROUND OF 32 UNDERWAY
Our readers have spoken -- more than 25,000 votes were cast in the first round -- and the Legends Mania field has been cut in half. Voting for the round...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A bumbling burglar left behind his ID card, which he had used to jimmy the lock of a Rock Island, Ill., home before stealing $400. Cops had no trouble tracking...
Lugo comes to town - for a day
In September, Julio Lugo said being a Met "would be a dream come true." Despite the Mets’ offseason interest in the Brooklyn-raised Lugo, he eventually woke up as a member...
A Good Night for the Rangers
I found myself rooting for the Devils tonight, but only because a win for them is more of a help to the Rangers' playoff hopes than a win for Carolina.The...