September 22, 2007
A Nice Preseason Start
The Rangers took care of the Devils in last night's pre-season match-up. Tonight, they face the retooled Flyers in a preview of what's the east coast rivalry might look like...
Bore or Masterpiece?
The biggest critic divider so far in 2007 is "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,'' which currently averaging a 69 percent positive rating at Rotten tomatoes....
YOU'LL BE SARI
It's hard to believe that India - the earth' second-most populous nation, home of the world's largest democracy, curried cuisine, the Kama Sutra and Bollywood, the world's most prolific film...
WHAT'S UP
TODAYBIRDS OF PLAY: Pigeons aren't the only winged things native to the city. Learn more about Brooklyn's birds of prey at the Audubon Center of Prospect Park's Hawk Weekend, complete...
JOURNO JAMS
MEGAWATT comedy stars Conan O'Brien, Robin Williams and Lewis Black are joining forces with the Bob Woodruff Family Fund at this year's New York Comedy Festival on Nov. 7 for...
THE 'BIG' DIG
TV's obsession with sperm and masturbation continues. The opening scene of "The Big Bang Theory," an otherwise promising CBS comedy series about two socially inept geniuses, takes place in a...
FLICKED-OFF VIDEO
HERE'S the problem with video-game movies like the third in the "Resident Evil" franchise: no joysticks at the movie theater. So "Resident Evil: Extinction" is no more interesting than watching...
PLEASE FORGIVE ME!
OY gevalt! Prepare to atone - and watch a few good movies and shows at the same time - with the inaugural Yom Kippur "Forgive Me Filmathon," sponsored by the...
GOV TAKING LICENSE WITH ALIEN-DRIVER ID
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer announced yesterday that illegal immigrants will get driver's licenses - but at a cost to legal citizens because they'll now be useless as airport ID. Spitzer...
MY CUZ VITO'S A BIG POL
A relative of Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella was busted for making a ruckus in a Brooklyn courthouse and allegedly insisted to officers that she couldn't be arrested because "my...
'ELIOT KNEW' OF DIRTY TRICKS
ALBANY - Albany District Attorney David Soares yesterday said he found nothing illegal by officials of the Spitzer administration in the Dirty Tricks scandal, but his investigation found Gov. Spitzer...
MIDTOWN DRIVERS GIRD FOR U.N. GRIDLOCK
The United Nations will likely generate more gridlock than consensus when the General Assembly meets next week. A slew of streets will be closed for the week starting tomorrow at...
BOARD STIFF
Convicted felon and FDNY wannabe Ronald Deshields' desire to serve the public went beyond battling blazes - he got Brooklyn's borough president to name him to his local community board....
LOTTO'S LUCKIEST SEVEN
They may come from different parts of New York, but now they're all on easy street. Seven lucky New Yorkers gathered on Central Park South yesterday at Mickey Mantle's restaurant...
GIFF'S $1.7M FLIERS BIDDER PILL FOR CITY
Former City Council Speaker Gifford Miller broke just about every rule in the book by plastering the city with $1.67 million worth of taxpayer-funded newsletters when he ran for mayor...
CITY'S FIREARMS SUIT STILL UNDER THE GUN
Gunmakers asked a federal appeals court to shoot down a city lawsuit that seeks to hold manufacturers and retailers responsible for allowing firearms to fall into the hands of criminals....
GOV FILLS POST-SCANDAL 'INTEGRITY' PANEL
Gov. Spitzer yesterday named members of a new state public-integrity panel he controls that will have the dubious honor of taking over an investigation into the Team Spitzer's dirty-tricks scandal....
3 TEENAGE GALS SHOT ON B'KLYN STOOP
A chat session turned tragic for three teenage girls who were shot last night while hanging out on a front stoop in Brooklyn, police said. They were sitting outside of...
'CARJACKER' SHOT IN BX.
Bronx cops shot a carjacking suspect in the right thigh yesterday after he ignored pleas to drop a 13-inch carving knife, authorities said. James Briggs, 44, of Hartford, Conn., was...
HIT-RUN MARINE GETS 6 MONTHS
As a Marine he bravely faced combat in Iraq. But as the man behind the wheel one warm Friday night in Chelsea, Lameen Witter showed the ultimate cowardice - striking...
LIRR FIEND WILL ROT
An appeals court ruling gave a sneering killer a shot at a lighter sentence with another judge - but the new judge yesterday also sentenced LIRR killer Nelson Zuniga to...
RANDALLS WATER PARK GOES DOWN THE DRAIN
The proposed Randalls Island water park just got flushed. In an embarrassing admission of failure, the Parks Department late yesterday said it was yanking a contract with the Aquatic Development...
'ASSAULT' MAN THROWN IN CAN
A Long Islander really knew how to "Dole" out a beating when he saw his nemesis in a supermarket - he used a can of pineapple. Humberto Arribasplata, 40, of...
NYC GOES LOONY FOR CANADIAN $$
Hordes of "loonies' are about to flood our borders - and the Big Apple is waiting with open arms. With the Canadian dollar at parity with the greenback for the...
3 BRAVEST HURT IN COLLAPSE
Three firefighters were injured when a stairway collapsed during a blaze in a vacant building last night, officials said. Firefighters had been conducting searches at the four-story building at Sutphin...
NYERS IN RAGE OVER 'TEHRAN'TING LUNATIC
There's nothing like a visit from the leader of an Axis of Evil nation to get New Yorkers shouting mad. The controversy over Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New...
MADDIE 'CREMATE' QUESTIONS
Portuguese authorities asked a convicted terrorist who owns an animal crematorium whether he'd helped dispose of the body of 4-year-old Madeleine McCann, the missing daughter of a pair of British...
RED PLANET PHOTOS PUT DAMPER ON WATER HOPE
Water may not flow on the Red Planet after all. Photos of craters on Mars - that scientists originally suspected could prove that life-sustaining liquids recently ran across the bone-dry...
MARCIA! MARCIA! MARCIA!
Here's the story - of a Sapphic love affair? "Brady Bunch" star Maureen McCormick - who played the TV family's oldest girl Marcia Brady - will reveal in a new...
FRED HOTTER THAN PISTOL
WASHINGTON - Fred Thompson strolled into the National Rifle Association yesterday firing shots at his GOP presidential rivals, but he also took aim at Bill and Hillary Clinton. Introducing his...
BAD CALL BY RUDE RUDY
Hold on, it's Judi. That's the stunning line Rudy Giuliani told an already-skeptical crowd of gun enthusiasts yesterday when he abruptly interrupted his speech - to take a call from...
BACK TO 'E.R.'
George Clooney and his girlfriend were thrown from his motorcycle yesterday after being clipped by a car in New Jersey - breaking one of his ribs and her foot. The...
HEY, HO - YOU OWE!
A drummer who spent four years with the Ramones might want to be sedated after allegedly losing a fortune in royalties, but he's taking legal action instead. Richard Reinhardt, a...
BOMB JERK
An MIT computer geek set off a Boston terror scare at Logan Airport yesterday when she wore a battery-powered blinking circuit board on her sweatshirt. Sophomore Star Simpson, 19, told...
DENT-AND-RUN BRITNEY COULD FACE JAIL STRETCH
Call it a case of "Brit" and run. Pathetic pop tart Britney Spears was charged yesterday with misdemeanor counts of hit-and-run and driving without a valid license after she allegedly...
KAZAKH KASH
Rudy Giuliani is reaching out to Borat's glorious nation of Kazakhstan to make benefit his presidential campaign. The campaign will throw a fund-raiser in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. "Rudy will be...
MARCIA ON 'STUPID' O.J.
Ex-prosecutor Marcia Clark says the sight of O.J. Simpson back in court makes her wonder: "How stupid do you have to be [to keep getting into such trouble]?" It's been...
WEB SURFING BEATS OUT SEX FOR SOME
Who needs sex when you have MySpace? An eye-opening new study by ad agency JWT found 20 percent of Americans are giving up friends and yes, even sex, to spend...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND The corpse of a Bangladeshi man who jumped off a cargo ship with his brother last week was found floating near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge yesterday, police said. The...
I'D KILL FOR A LIFE LIKE HIS
FOR a guy who owes $33 million, O.J. Simpson ain't doing that bad. He lives in a five-bedroom ranch with the obligatory in-ground pool surrounded by 12-foot-high hedges on a...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 257; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 1583; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 512; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 9133;...
PROFILES IN COWARDICE
The Senate stood up Thursday for the honor of America's top commander in Iraq - with a few notable exceptions. New York Sens. Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer among them....
WHITEWASH
Albany DA David Soares yesterday gave Gov. Spitzer a license to use State Police to spy on and try to frame his enemies. We're not kidding. Nearly everyone in Spitzer's...
RUDY ROMPS WITH RIGHTIES
Rudy Giuliani scored a hit with conserva tive activists by getting ahead of his Re publican presidential competitors in blast ing Sen. Hillary Clinton for not denouncing MoveOn.org's attack on...
SAVE THE CHILDREN
GLOBAL capitalism has long lacked for a ringing slogan like "workers of the world unite." It's never too late to find one, and a good candidate - with apologies to...
SCHOOLS MAKE THE GRADE - WHO GETS THE CREDIT?
Chancellor Joel Klein is certainly deserving of congratulations for New York City schools' winning the Broad Foundation Prize for Urban Education ("The Schools Score," Editorial, Sept. 19). However, unless The...
LYNCHED BY JACKSON'S MOB
Jesse Jackson rips Sen. Barack Obama for "acting white" ("Racial Shocker," Sept. 20)? Maybe Obama should rip Jackson for acting like a racist fool. Jackson has no credibility left and...
MERGER SUIT BY GENESCO
Shoe retailer Genesco yesterday slapped rival Finish Line with a harshly worded lawsuit, demanding that its future partner close the $1.5 billion merger it agreed to three months ago. The...
KKR, GOLDMAN DROP $8B HARMAN DEAL
Wall Street powerhouses Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Goldman Sachs have decided to pull out of their $8 billion deal to buy Harman International Industries, maker of Infinity and...
ONE WILD PITCH
Goldman Sachs, still trying to unload its stake in YES, the cable network home of the Yankees, has reached out to Cablevision's founding Dolan family to gauge its interest in...
HSBC YOWLS AS ROSS PROWLS
As Europe's biggest bank bailed from America's risky home-mortgage business, Wilbur Ross dived in as the latest billionaire to go bottom-fishing for bargains created by the subprime mortgage mess. Ross,...
MUSCLED OUT
Thanks for the memories. Now don't let the door hit you in the backside. Barry Bonds has received that message from the Giants, who will not retain the all-time home...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
'SATURDAY' TIME
In the run-up to the Oct. 27 Breeders' Cup Classic, five weeks away at Monmouth Park, opinions vary whether 3-year-old Street Sense, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Travers, or...
COLASANTO CAPTURES 200TH WIN
Carmine Colasanto got his 200th career victory in his second try yesterday, as Lehman held off New Utrecht, 24-20. "It's special," Colasanto said after his team improved to 2-1. New...
SPORTS SHORTS
BOXING: Maskaev backs out WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev (34-5, 26 KOs) pulled out of his Oct. 6 title defense at Madison Square Garden against Samuel Peter (28-1, 22 KOs),...
BRITS PLAY CATCH-UP TO U.S.
TIANJIN, China - English soccer has been trying to catch up for years with the women's game in the United States. The measure of progress will be today's World Cup...
CORRECTION
In yesterday's Phil Mushnick column, a paragraph referring to last Sunday night's ESPN telecast of the Yankees-Red Sox game should have read: With the score tied, Joe Torre pinch-hit Jason...
HONDO DOING THE WAVE
Hondo cruised with over-67½ last night in the Ok lahoma-Tulsa tussle as the high-powered duo scored early and often to bludgeon the number and boost the bankroll to 135 selmons....
BARRY-FREE GIANTS CAN GO AFTER A-ROD
THE Giants are now free to enter the A-Rod Opt-Out Sweepstakes. By finally saying no to Barry Bonds, they are creating an opening for Alex Rodriguez. You can expect the...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
EAST CAROLINA at WEST VIRGINIALINE: West Virginia by 24 ½ ANGLE: The Mountaineers might be the best offensive team in the nation. Certainly there is no faster running- back combo...
BIG TEN SAVIOR
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Penn State must win today's game against Michigan. It must win, not so Joe Paterno can snap his record streak of eight straight losses to the...
WEEKES HURT IN LOSS
The Devils' new coach skates them into the ground because he wants his team to do that to their foes. Brent Sutter is emphasizing speed and quickness as opposed to...
PLAX PROBLEM
Just as Eli Manning was last weekend, more and more it's looking as though Plaxico Burress will be a game-time decision for the Giants tomorrow in Washington. The receiver returned...
JETS TURN TO VILMA, LEON FOR SPECIAL TEAMS HELP
First, there was the record-setting 108-yard kickoff return by New England's Ellis Hobbs in the Jets' seasonopener. That was followed by a 61- yarder by Baltimore's Yamon Figurs, in the...
WORRY WASHED AWAY FOR A DAY
MIAMI - The Mets needed to make an early comeback to get their critical win last night. But they also had to have Scott Schoeneweis' late-game save. Trailing by three...
METS, PEDRO GRIND ONE OUT
MIAMI - This is the way it's going to be for the Mets from here on in, long days and longer nights of grinding, scoreboard watching, and remembering that there...
GREAT SCOTT! STILL NO WAGNER
MIAMI - Mets closer Billy Wagner did not appear for a second straight game due to back spasms. Instead, Scott Schoeneweis closed out the Mets' 9-6, rain-delayed win over the...
SURPRISE CUT FOR RANGERS
The Rangers' cuts so far have been of the color-by-number variety: predetermined and uninspiring. All, that is, except one. All except for the Rangers sending 20-year-old winger Alex Bourret to...
EXTRA PAINFUL
Late yesterday afternoon, the Yankees announced rookie Ian Kennedy wouldn't start today due to a strained muscle in the upper back. In his place would be Roger Clemens. Yet, minutes...
JOBA'S FATHER SEES SON NEW YORK-STYLE
Harlan Chamberlain's early tour of Monument Park yesterday afternoon produced the same result as watching his son, Joba, pitch for the first time in the big leagues two weeks ago:...
PETTITTE BACK AFTER KID SCARE
Andy Pettitte was expected to rejoin the Yankees last night or today after traveling to his Texas home to be with his son Josh, who was injured playing football Wednesday...
YANKS LOSS
DIVISION-CHAMPIONSHIP fever was cooled last night, chilled, despite a four-run, game-tying, ninth-inning rally, by a Red Sox win and a Gregg Zaun 14th-inning homer off Brian Bruney. At least the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A West Virginia man with a phone and a fetish for feet has marched himself into a lot of trouble. James Lee Fink, 31, made more than 600 phone calls...
Week 3 matchups
We're going to assume you know to start the top tier players at each position. So here's a glimpse at how this week's matchups affect the rest of your fantasy...