October 2, 2007
Gaming goes green
Man, I loved "Chibi-Robo" when it came out for the GameCube. Now, they've brought all the quirky robotic weirdness to the DS with "Chibi-Robo! Park Patrol." Instead of pottering around...
Naruto noodle nosh fest
'Cause gamers and ramen noodle are a match made in heaven... D3 and Tomy are celebrating the release of "Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution" for the Nintendo Wii with a...
Too sexy for their coveralls and hitting up Playboy
Eidos has partnered up with Fox Interactive Media and Playboy Magazine to find the ideal chica to accompany the release of "Kane & Lynch: Dead Men." They're hosting a Cyber...
"Command" this, sucker
EA has announced that they're releasing all 13 "Command & Conquer" games in a single package. Called "Command & Conquer Saga," it'll be available for the PC on Oct. 30...
Willie's back
Just leaving the Mets' press conference now -- Willie Randolph will return next season."It's my decision," Omar Minaya said, calling ownership "in full support of my decision."
Deal of the Day
Get ready for those crisp chilly fall days. And get ready to keep wearing some of those summer shoes through the transition.With a nice chunky heel and a stacked bottom,...
Isiah guilty, Garden to pay landmark $11.6M
By MARC BERMANCHARLESTON - The Knicks franchise hit an all-time low point today - on the first day of training camp.The damages are just in and it's a whopper -...
Starr Report
Billy Bush (right) has inked a new, multi-year deal that will keep him co-hosting "Access Hollywood" for the forseeable future. Bush - described by high-octane executive producer Rob Silverstein as...
TOKYO - THE CITY IN THE EAST
The city of Tokyo came into existence in 1603. It was once a woody marshland called Edo. The settlement of Edo was a result of the decisive victory by Ieyasu...
YOU'VE GOT 'ME-MAIL'
IT'S a typical day, and I'm starting to sift through my pile of e-mail when I'm suddenly assaulted by a note from someone I've met twice. Her "years of Method...
BUYONIC WOMAN
* You can't fight bad guys if you're flabby around the middle. The quickest new way to achieve core strength is by literally shaking up your workout with vibration training...
RADIOHEADING IN A NEW DIRECTION
RADIOHEAD, one of rock's most popular acts, shocked and awed fans yesterday by announcing that its new album, "In Rainbows," would be digitally available next week - and you could...
SIXX APPEAL
M"TLEY Cr-e bassist Nikki Sixx recalls celebrating Christmas Day 1986 in a most unusual way: crouched naked under the tree with a needle in one arm watching his "holiday spirit...
'SING' ANNIE'S SONG
BACK when she was a Eurhythmic, Annie Lennox recorded with Aretha Franklin what has become arguably one of the most important feminist anthems of our time: "Sisters Are Doin' It...
MPFREE
Download these free MP3s at nypost.com now through Friday.The Cult, "Dirty Little Rock Star" It's been more than six years since we've gotten a new release from the influential English...
PROUD FOGERTY NOT TOO OLD TO FIGHT ANOTHER WAR
ROCK icon John Fogerty is madder than a hoodoo- chasin' hound dog at the fortunate sons who send others to war. His righteous anger toward the Bush administration and the...
STARR REPORT
Paying their BillBilly Bush has inked a new, multi-year deal that will keep him co-hosting "Access Hol lywood" for the forseeable future. Bush - described by high-octane executive pro ducer...
GOT PANTS?
IF you're a married man in the suburbs, it might interest you to know that ABC thinks you're a boring, henpecked, sad sap, or failing that, the product of a...
SILVERMAN INTO GOLD
COMEDY Central is banking that potty- mouthed petunia Sarah Silverman will turn out to be their next Dave Chappelle. "Night and day compared to last year," Silverman says of Comedy...
METS' DARLING TO TBS
SNY's Ron Darling was certain he'd be working the Mets-Phillies tiebreaker yesterday to determine the NL East champ. Instead, he's on the phone from the airport - on his way...
PARIS HOT ON YOUTUBE
DAVID Letterman's mer ciless grilling of jail bird Paris Hilton on Friday's "Late Show" has emerged as another YouTube.com sensation. Yesterday, video of the riveting confrontation between the gap-toothed late-night...
MORE TV CASTAWAYS
NBC is hoping to strand viewers on its own deserted island with a new TV version of "Robinson Crusoe." If it gets on the air, the castaway drama, based on...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
The more you are involved in things that require discipline and focus the more important it becomes to set aside time to let down your hair and have a good...
MORE BOMB THAN BALM
SOMETIMES, a "natu ral" cure ends up being worse than the sickness itself. When people randomly combine prescription remedies with herbal ones, they can make their malady worse. A survey...
GOOD GU$H! APPLE EYES BIG H2O HIKE
In a stunning development, homeowners may soon get socked with an extraordinary water-rate hike of up to 18 percent - on top of the 11.5 percent increase that kicked in...
100TH PARTY PLAZA SWEET
The Plaza last night threw itself a birthday party fit for a king - and a king just might wind up owning a condo there, given the famed digs', multimillion-dollar...
MET FANS WATCHED UNTIL END
Call it train-wreck TV. The majority of Mets fans watched their team's final meltdown Sunday on WPIX/Channel 11 until the bitter end. The Mets' 8-1 loss to Florida at Shea...
MOGUL IN ARREST FOR CHILD SEX
A Queens real-estate mogul was busted at his Hamptons estate for allegedly molesting and assaulting a 12-year-old girl. Michael Rich, 71, was arrested by Southampton Village Police at his multimillion-dollar...
GOV'S LICENSE TO SLAM GOP
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer yesterday accused GOP critics of his plan to let illegal aliens get driver's licenses of engaging in "fear mongering and extremist rhetoric." "What I object to...
'BLEEDING' MEDICAID
The operators of a home health-care agency have been charged with fraudulently billing Medicaid to the tune of $300,000 - and spending it on jewelry, a luxury car and overseas...
A JURY OF HIS FEARS
Knicks coach Isiah Thomas isn't getting any love from the jury in his sensational sexual harassment case, a bombshell note from the panel revealed yesterday. As a second full day...
B'KLYN COPS MOURN COLLEAGUE AND SEEK ARREST
Brooklyn cops yesterday mourned slain fellow Officer Sonia Garcia - erecting a poignant memorial to her inside their Bedford-Stuyvesant station house - even as they grew impatient for an arrest...
$1M LAWSUIT OVER IPHONE PRICE SLASH
Hold the iPhone! A Queens woman is so angry at Apple for slashing the iPhone's price by $200 less than three months after it went on sale that she's suing...
GIULIANI PREACHES GOP UNITY
Rudy Giuliani insisted yesterday he can unite the Republican Party as its standard-bearer for president, brushing aside threats from Christian right activists to run an independent candidate if the ex-mayor...
BILL GOLF PAL'S 'CULT' COURSE
A longtime friend and golfing buddy of Bill Clinton's is a student of the controversial cult-like upstate group whose members recently poured thousands into Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign coffers, The...
GRAND ARMY PLAZA TO GET PED-FRIENDLY
Brooklyn's iconic Grand Army Plaza - which includes the borough's biggest and most dangerous traffic circle - is about to get safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Construction has kicked off...
ZAHN LOSES LEGAL ROUND
A judge says Paula Zahn is giving her estranged hubby the business by pretending her lawsuit against him is nothing personal. Zahn had filed a commercial suit against real-estate honcho...
SUSPECT BUSTED IN E. VILLAGE SEX ATTACKS
A Queens man suspected of a summer-long robbery and sex attack spree in the East Village has been linked to six assaults - and is being eyed in two more,...
COPS GRILLED
Two off-duty Bronx cops were questioned yesterday in the brutal beating of a man outside a Yonkers pub, officials said. Sources said 44th Precinct Officers Thomas Wimmer and Michael McGhee...
G-MAN AND G-STRINGS
Purported rogue FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio took bribes of booze, cash, jewelry and prostitutes, Brooklyn prosecutors alleged in a letter unsealed yesterday. The 10-page document outlines a mile-long laundry list...
REV. AL IN TAX DEAL
The Rev. Al Sharpton has cut a deal with the state attorney general that will require his National Action Network to turn over several years' worth of delinquent tax filings...
TWIN-TURTLE SHELL SHOCK
Meet Jekyll & Hyde - extremely rare baby twin turtles - who share a shell and are now being studied by amazed scientists on Long Island. The conjoined diamondback turtles,...
'GAY-SLAYER:' I'M GAY TOO
A defendant in the hate-crime slaying of a gay man in Brooklyn insisted yesterday he went along with a drug scheme targeting the victim only to give himself a chance...
JAIL ME, SAYS KILLER THIEF
With a mountain of damning evidence against him, a Queens man ended his trial after a single day and pleaded guilty to killing a Russian immigrant in a robbery in...
COP'S DEATH NOT FRIENDLY FIRE: EXPERT
The bullet that felled Police Officer Dillon Stewart in 2005 was not an NYPD-issued brand of ammunition, a ballistics expert testified yesterday - effectively destroying a defense gambit of trying...
SPIDEY DENIAL
An ex-con drug dealer pleaded not guilty in Manhattan to ripping off the SoHo penthouse hotel suite of Kirsten Dunst in August. Jarrod Beinerman, 33, of Brooklyn, faces felony burglary...
TRAGIC FINAL NIGHT
The blond Scottish beauty mowed down by a hit-and-run driver early Sunday was giving a visiting British pal a taste of Lower East Side nightlife before tragedy struck. Gorgeous Julia...
'RAPE' POL NIXES DEAL
Queens Councilman Dennis Gallagher, under indictment for rape, has turned down a plea deal that would keep him out of jail, The Post has learned. Under the rejected offer, the...
MANHATTAN CONDOS $KYROCKET
Forget the surging stock market - it's Manhattan condos where the bulls have been stampeding. According to four quarterly reports by the city's top real-estate companies, condominiums in the city's...
JUMP THE FAST TRACK TO PENN
One of the bids to develop the West Side rail yards will propose an elevated "people mover" to get residents and office workers in the new development to and from...
HS 'RAPE' SHOCKER
A Bronx high-school counselor who advised students on drugs and sex has been charged with statutory rape and criminal sexual conduct involving a 16-year-old girl now pregnant with his baby,...
SPYDERMAN MIKE
LONDON - Mayor Bloomberg wants to keep more of an eye on you. After a demonstration here that included surveillance on his convoy, Bloomberg said he wants to follow London's...
'DOLLAR' KID, 15, HANGED
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket - and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as...
U.S. TOLL PLUNGES IN IRAQ
Deaths among U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians fell dramatically last month - to their lowest levels in more than a year, according to figures released yesterday. The numbers, from Iraqi...
U.S. SEEKS 'BLOCK' ON IRAN: RICE
A stable Iraq will serve as "a block" against Iran's growing Mideast ambitions, but an unstable Iraq will serve as "bridge" for them, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday....
TART'S 2 TOTS SENT TO POP'S
Britney Spears' out-of-control antics have finally cost her the mother lode - custody of her kids. A furious Los Angeles judge yesterday ordered the rebellious, booze- and drug-addled pop star...
RAZING ARIZONA
Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum yesterday suggested that Phoenix cops "manhandled" and mistreated her daughter-in-law before she mysteriously died in custody after an airport meltdown - and The Post has learned...
DEMS & LIMBAUGH AT WAR
WASHINGTON - As top Democrats blasted Rush Limbaugh yesterday, the conservative talk-show host challenged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to face him "like a man" in his studios. Limbaugh said...
GORE AND HILLARY BITTER RIVALS: BOOK
WASHINGTON - Once-friendly relations between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Al Gore deteriorated into bitter slights and outright rivalry as the two competed for power and perks at the end of...
OBAMA CASH FLOW SLOWS
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama's fundraising slowed dramatically in the last three months, according to figures released yesterday by his presidential campaign. With $20 million raised last quarter, Obama fell...
SADDAM'S TEXAS OILMAN CONFESSES
Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt cut his losses mid-trial and 'fessed up to paying illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime in exchange for lucrative oil contracts through the U.N. oil-for-food program....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A member of a biker gang beat up a good Samaritan who tried to help people involved in a car accident in Brownsville, authorities said yesterday. Craig Sams, 36,...
FINALLY, RIGHT CHOICE IN CRAZY BREEDERS' CUP
MIRACLES can happen, even in California. In that vapid state where even Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson can get their long, bony fingers on little kids, a Family Court commissioner...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 160; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 0498; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 752; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win- 4 Mon.:...
MIKE, HEAL THYSELF
Look who's calling whom a spendthrift: Mayor Mike - who's presided over the biggest jumps in city outlays in decades, much of it paid for with plastic - says President...
THE ANTI-NUCLEAR MENACE
In facing its energy challenges, is New York heading in the complete opposite direction as the rest of the country - and, indeed, parts of the world? Last month, an...
ROBINSON'S REVENGE
It's Major League Baseball playoff time, and this October's installment boasts a familiar cast of characters. Like the New York Yankees, for one, whose unbelievable second-half turnaround positions them once...
SAVED BY THE SURGE
IS the surge in Iraq working? Consider this plain, simple and overwhelmingly power ful fact: Hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis are alive today, on Oct. 2, who'd be dead by...
MYANMAR MESS: BLAME BEIJING
AS the junta's misbehavior worsened in Myanmar (as those thugs have re-chris tened Burma) last week, pundits suggested that we should force China to pressure its client to treat the...
JUSTICE THOMAS' TOUGH-LOVE TALE
IF Clarence Thomas weren't a black conservative, his new memoir, "My Grandfather's Son," would be hailed as a kind of classic - a powerful, moving tale of a black man's...
BEAT THE METS: ONE AMAZIN' COLLAPSE
In all my years as a hapless Mets fan, I have never seen a team lay down and die as badly as this one (Cryin' Shame," Oct. 1). I feel...
WHAT RECESSION?
Alan Greenspan reclaimed the center stage spotlight with just a few choice words that Wall Street wanted to hear - and stocks soared to a record high. Despite weaker economic...
CITI CAN'T SLEEP WITH THESE EARNINGS
Chuck Prince's $6 billion bombshell losses at Citigroup could make him one of the highest paid victims of the subprime fiasco - and unemployed. The head of Citigroup yesterday presided...
A PRODUCT TO KEEP YOUR KID SAFE
WHAT'S better than a product that will blow you away? It's a product that will keep your kids from getting blown away. Yep, it's come to this - armor-plated backpacks....
VC'S OFFENSIVE
Venture capitalists are feverishly trying to separate themselves from billionaire leveraged buyout kings like Steve Schwarzman in an effort to get Congress to abandon its efforts to raise taxes on...
FINALLY LOOKING BETTER AT AMI
American Media's long nightmare may finally be over. The publisher of Star and The National Enquirer yesterday released its quarterly earnings report for the period ending June 30, 2007 -...
'GREY' MATTERS
CBS' "CSI" wins the ratings battle, but ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" gets top dollar. ABC charges $419,000 for a 30-second spot on its hit hospital drama, making it the most expensive...
A BIG GULP
WE spotted Kent Swig beaming ear-to-ear as he lunched on the Cipriani restaurant terrace at 55 Wall St. the other day, and now we know why. Swig just scooped up...
'SAY HEY' KID BOOK GRABS $1.5M
Baseball great Willie Mays, better known as the "Say Hey" kid, has agreed to cooperate with author Jim Hirsch on a biography that snagged an estimated advance of $1.5 million...
FINANCIAL TIMES ALTERS WEB ACCESS
In a bid to attract more readers and boost ad revenue, business newspaper the Financial Times plans to let readers of its Web site, FT.com, read up to 30 articles...
WAL-MART SETS 'WISH LIST' CUTS
Gearing up for the holiday, Wal-Mart Stores yesterday cut prices on a slew of popular toys 12 weeks before Christmas. The nation's largest retailer marked down some "wish list" items...
SEC HALTS TRADING IN CHINA TECH FIRM
The Securities and Exchange Commission stopped trading yesterday in the shares of a Chinese company over concerns that its public disclosures might prove misleading to investors. Concerns over the "accuracy...
RED FLAG @ EBAY
Online auction house eBay said yesterday that it will take a $1.43 billion charge related to its 2005 purchase of Skype and that the Internet phone company's CEO Niklas Zennstrom...
FACEBOOK GOES NATIVE
Facebook is looking to take its act on the road, preparing to translate its popular Web site into non-English languages as part of a broader plan to expand overseas. According...
HONDO TAKES A BREAK
Hondo padded the account last night when the Patriots, perhaps using some sort of subterfuge en gineered by Belichick, romped in Cincy to boost the earnings to 475 parillis. Today,...
SPORTS SHORTS
SHOOTING: Memphis player gunned downTaylor Bradford, a University of Memphis football player, was fatally shot on campus in what police believe was a targeted attack, and classes were canceled yesterday...
KICKING MISSES A WORRY
Two straight victories does not a season make and Tom Coughlin knows the games are going to get close and the opportunities for points cannot be wasted. And so, he...
WHAT A RUSH!
As he paced the sideline Sunday night, Tom Coughlin was amazed as Osi Umenyiora embarked on the most prolific pass-rushing game in Giants history. Watching intently, Coughlin found himself experiencing...
WELL-COORDINATED
QUARTERBACKS C Not one of the better nights for Eli Man ning (14 of 26, 135 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT). He made a terrible throw on costly errant pass...
NOT FILLING THE BILL
QUARTERBACKS C Chad Pennington (32-of-39, 290 yards, 1 TD, 2 INTs, 84.8 rating) had some terrific moments, leading the Jets on a couple of two-minute-drill situations. But in the end,...
IMPRESSED BY BIG BLUE PRESSURE
After the Jets' charter flight landed Sunday evening and the players got home to lick their respective wounds from their loss to the Bills in Buffalo, a number of them...
PLAY BY PLAY
Eric Mangini gathered his players together yesterday in the aftermath of the Jets' indefensible loss to the Bills and showed them edited film of several mistakes that led to a...
KNICKS A FREAK SHOW BUT NOT A ZEKE SHOW
Eddy Curry sat at one table, talking about nearly getting accidentally shot during a robbery at his Chicago home in July. Stephon Marbury sat at another table, saying he found...
GARDEN OF HOPE
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The last thing I wanted to hear late yesterday afternoon as column deadline closed in fast was that the Isiah Thomas sexual-harassment suit jury reached a verdict....
DELGADO HAS NO PLANS FOR CHANGE
After undergoing offseason elbow and wrist surgeries and missing time in September with a hip injury, Carlos Delgado had career lows in just about every offensive category since he became...
MAINE PLAYED WITH HIP INJURY ALL SEASON
One of the Mets' Maine men wouldn't give into the pain and be a lame man this season. Pitcher John Maine, who with his brilliant performance on Saturday gave the...
STEROID SHOCK
One day after their season ended in disgrace at Shea Stadium, the Mets faced more bad news yesterday: According to a report on ESPN.com, a source in Florida close to...
ANOTHER STAIN IN FLUSHING
THE Mets, it turns out, are like the small pellet of blue ink that accidentally falls into the load of whites just before you put them in the washing machine....
AMAZIN' APATHY
THE workers were busy yesterday at Shea Stadium. Up and down the lower stands, men with paint rollers were touching up the orange box seats, sweeping sunflower seeds out of...
HERE'S HOW METS CAN BE GREAT IN '08
A FEW weeks ago, before the Mets began their meltdown, GM Omar Minaya declared he wanted Tom Glavine to return next year. Yesterday, Minaya had downgraded his interest. "We'll be...
OH MY! OMAR IN QUITE A BIND
THIS is Omar Minaya's mess. It might turn out that Minaya is a better politician than talent evaluator, great at accepting bouquets in good times, but better yet at ingratiating...
LETTER TO MET FANS AMAZIN'
The Mets officially apologized to their fans yesterday: Sorry, our bad. In an extraordinary statement of regret for pulling up lame down the stretch, the team e-mailed supporters to recognize...
METS TRY THE MAIL REVIEW
Omar Minaya's future is now tied directly to Willie Randolph. Mets ownership has ordered Minaya to recommend either the firing or the retaining of Randolph with the proviso that the...
HEALTHY RJ A NET GAIN
There were talks of swapping him for Jermaine O'Neal. There was talk of a three-team deal that would have sent him out and imported Lamar Odom. But in the end,...
RANGERS CUT MONTOYA
An hour after Rangers practice officially broke up yesterday, goalie Al Montoya was still on the ice, turning away shots from Jaromir Jagr. An hour after that, Montoya was packing...
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...
MATSUI MAY SIT OPENER
Joe Torre said Hideki Matsui's right knee will allow him to play in the upcoming ALDS but it will likely limit the left-handed hitter to DH duties. However, Indians stud...
BERNIE: MELKY'S A GREAT CATCH
Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Bernie Williams - Melky Cabrera? That doesn't sound so farfetched to Williams. But Williams, the former Yankees center fielder, also has a suggestion for the position's...
ROCKET SCIENCE
Game 3 of the ALDS is scheduled for Sunday, and the Yankees are still waiting to see if Roger Clemens' balky left hamstring will allow him to pitch. "Right now...
ISIAH'S JUST DESERTS
When he didn't get his way this time, there was no one he could bully, no one he could humiliate, no one he could fire. There was no rich-boy sucker...
KILTY PLEASURE
WHEN you think of golfing in Scotland, St. Andrews - the home of the golf - comes immediately to mind, with its regal Royal & Ancient clubhouse overlooking the grand...
GREEN PARTY
THE DUMMKOPFS over at the International Olympic Committee might not think so, but golf is a sport. Actually, it was played during the Summer Games of 1900 and 1904 before...
NEWS AND NOTES
* MGM IN THE 3-1-3 The goal's lofty, to say the least: Bringing Las Vegas-grade luxury and dining to (cue the timpani) - Detroit? It's no longer just a Pollyanna's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Westchester burglar walked out of a house with no booty - and no boots. John Lyles climbed through the window of a Yonkers home around 4 a.m. Friday and...
Playoff Pitching Preview
Yanks' playoff pitching match-ups:10/04/2007 6:30 PMC. Wang vs C. Sabathia10/05/2007 5:00 PMA. Pettitte vs F. Carmona10/07/2007 6:30pmJ. Westbrook vs R. ClemensRead Sherman's scouting report. Vegas has the Yankees as -170...