October 8, 2007
Clemens replaced
Roger Clemens was removed from the New York Yankees' division series roster Monday, replaced by left-handed reliever Ron Villone. Under a new rule, Clemens now is ineligible for the AL...
"That's not an Xbox and you're not an X-Men"
NBC's "Chuck" is probably about as close to video game nerd nirvana as a network comedy/drama is going to get. Beyond having a star, Zachary Levi, who is totally obsessed...
Master Chief does a little dance
This song is awesome and will, forever, remind me of the dancing twits from "A Night at the Roxbury."Hotties want to shake it.
Scents on Lex
Take an extra long whiff by Bloomie's today. Mixed with the usual stench of cab fumes and street meat is the light and fruity smell ofDKNY Delicious Night - $68...
Xbox 360 to give you free games
Provided you buy a new console, that is.In addition to reducing the price for the consoles across the board, a gift in and of itself, this holiday season Microsoft will...
Nicole: Time to Retire?
Is Nicole Kidman "Box Office Poison''? John Patterson of Britain's The Guardian has revivedthe label that was famously applied to Joan Crawford, Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo in...
Dongle-mania for PS3 GH3 users
The PS3 versus Xbox 360 debate continues. (And I don't just mean my raging internal debate as to whether or not I screwed up when I got a PS3 instead...
Starr Report
Anyway, the syndicated half-hour "Deal" will, like its prime-time cousin, be hosted by Howie Mandel (right) and will air here on Ch. 4.Last, but not least: * On tonight's "SNY...
New! Improved! In your face! In-game advertising!
Just what we need more of, right? In-game advertising!Sony's just announced the creation of a new in-game advertising business unit, headed by a lady named Darlene Kindler. She'll be responsible...
"Couple of weeks'' for Curry
By MARC BERMANCOLUMBIA, S.C. - The Knicks won't know for sure until their own doctors read the MRI tomorrow, but for now the club seems optimistic Eddy Curry could be...
New on Wii Shop today
It's fight night for this week's downloads.FATAL FURY (900 Wii Points): One of the longest-running series in the fighting-game genre, they say. Engage in street fights until you're good enough...
Impossible to Avoid: Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes and her âWe Own the Nightâ co-stars own the talk-show circuit this week. She pops up on Letterman on Wednesday and Regis on Friday. Regis and Kelly must...
FIRING LINES
As Jorinda Sullivan tells it, it wasn't chronic lateness that got her fi red. It wasn't talking back to the boss, or screwing up an important project. Nope, it was...
HAIR APPARENT
APPROPRIATELY enough, Ken Baldyga is bald. His bald spot started forming in the 1970s, while he was in college. Today, he wears his nickname - "Bald Eagle" - with pride....
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
ATHLETIC TRAINER What does an athletic trainer do all day? Athletic trainers work for professional, collegiate or high school teams, to prevent and treat injuries and help injured players rehabilitate....
DREAM JOB: LYNN JAWITZ
Lynn Jawitz lives in a striking home a 19th-century Upper East Side townhouse that she lovingly restored, winning an interior design award in the process. The designs she's best known...
GO TO GREG
IF you followed the case of the Gar-den of Iniquity, there was no surprise in the verdict - a slam-dunk victory for Anucha Browne Sanders and another blowout defeat for...
60 SECONDS WITH PAUL BABIAK
In "Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work," you say modern corporations are a breeding ground for psychopaths. Why is that? A lot apply for jobs in what we...
KISS THIS
Pucker up: After seasons of lip-gloss hegemony, bold new lipsticks make a strong comeback on pusses allover town. We present the best that makeup have to offer, grouped in four...
PULSE SALES
DOLCE & GABBANA 85 Spring St., between Broadway and Crosby streets; (212) 750-0055 Sale: Oct. 12-14. Fri., 9 a.m.-6 p.m./Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m./Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Fall merchandise is up...
SKIMPY COMIC MATERIAL
THERE'S something rather sweet about the eagerness of the current generation to embrace old-time burlesque. In "The Sensuous Woman," the new variety show hosted by comedienne Margaret Cho, the raunchiness...
HOW HIGH IS 'JUMP'? SADLY NOT VERY
WHEN exactly did it be come necessary to bring a passport to the Union Square Theatre? This handsome old venue has become the go-to place for international productions featuring a...
A SMALL 'ROMÉO' TO DIE FOR
IN legend David always slays Goliath. In real life it is not always so simple. On Saturday night I saw the warm-hearted but comparatively small-scaled Dicapo Opera present their new...
TAKE THREE
BRAVE Tiffany "New York" Pollard says the third time is the charm. She's in love - again. Tiffany returns this week for another crack at reality-TV love on "I Love...
'DOCKS' COMIC HIT
IT'S been almost two years since the last season of "The Boon docks" and if you watch tonight's second-season premiere, you'll understand why it took so long to produce 15...
TWO MUCH
TRY one "Bachelor" - get one free. Until tonight, none of the women on the latest edition of the famed dating series knew that "Bachelor" Brad Womack has an identical-twin...
FOX EYES BUCK FOR LATE NIGHT
JOE Buck, Fox's No. 1 sports announcer, is quietly being tested out as a late-night TV host. According to a report in today's edition of Broadcasting & Cable magazine, Fox...
MONTEL GETS HITCHED
TALK-show host Montel Williams married his longtime girlfriend in Bermuda over the weekend. Williams, 51, has been married twice before. It's the first time for Tara Fowler, 36, a former...
STARR REPORT
'Deal' takes a fall The heart-stopping news that "Deal or No Deal" will air in syndication starting next fall actually arrived here last Friday. But it was ap pended with...
PORT PAL QUINN GOT 17G IN PIER SUPPORT
Council Speaker Christine Quinn pocketed $17,500 in campaign donations traced to the operator of Brooklyn's only working dock, records show - just three months before she jumped on board its...
NYC'S DIRTY BIRDS
When it comes to being dirty, New York girls are cleaning up. Big Apple babes have among the naughtiest tastes of women in the country, according to a new survey....
LOOKS LIKE 'TAPS' FOR THE METROCARD
Pick a card, any card - just not a MetroCard. Subway and bus riders may one day pay for their rides with the same tap-and-go cards they use to buy...
MTA WON'T TREAT ALL RIDERS FARE-LY
Not all riders are treated equally under the two fare-hike proposals under consideration by the MTA. This week, the agency will outline the fine print for the increases, which are...
NIXZMARY BROTHER BOOSTS MA
Nixzmary Brown's older brother - the only witness to the little girl's savage beating death last year - has told investigators that their mother tried to stop their stepfather during...
PIT BULL MAULED MY DOG
The back-and-forth bickering was one thing - but a Queens woman said she hit the breaking point and filed suit against her neighbor after the woman's pit bull bit her...
TAXI NIGHTMARE
A TV helicopter pilot was struck and killed by a yellow cab last night when the driver lost control and jumped a curb outside a Midtown restaurant. Paul Smith, 60,...
THAT'S THREE!
Two black women who worked as security supervisors at Madison Square Garden are set to hit their former employer with a discrimination lawsuit, claiming they were denied advancement while young...
COLUMBUS CLOSINGS
Today is Columbus Day, so: * Alternate-side parking rules are suspended. * Federal, state and city offices, courts and schools are closed. * Post offices are closed, except for the...
HORROR AS BUS KILLS WOMAN IN CONEY ISLAND
A charter bus fatally struck an unidentified 60-year-old woman in Coney Island yesterday morning, horrified witnesses and police said. The woman was crossing West Avenue at Ocean Parkway just before...
THE HUMBLEST OF N.Y.'S FINEST
Hero cop Greg Chin yesterday said he did what any of New York's Finest would have done when he fired the shot that ended a bloody rampage on Second Avenue....
ROOT, ROOT FOR THE HOME TEAMS
Talk about a double-header. As if one heart-stopping New York sports event wasn't enough, uber-fan Art Pinkus decided to take in two - in the same day, in different states....
METS KID HAVING A BAWL WITH NEWFOUND FAME
Millions of fans want to erase the memories, but there's no way Peter Szuchy will ever forget this Mets season. The 6-year-old was snapped crying on the front page of...
HUBBY'S BITTER FAREWELL
If only one person had helped, Carol Anne Gotbaum would be alive today. Those were the bitter words of her husband, Noah, as he bade farewell yesterday to his wife...
LEAKY STOVE BLAST
A gas leak from a faulty kitchen stove - which produced a stench that neighbors complained about days earlier - caused a devastating explosion in a Harlem apartment that left...
FAKE COP FONDLES L.I. WOMAN
A man impersonating a police officer fondled a woman during a bogus frisking early yesterday, the second case of a bogus cop in three days on Long Island. Nassau County...
FINEST TAP MA OF HERO
The mother of slain hero cop Russel Timoshenko is taking a job that will help make the city safer, just as her son did. Tatyana Timoshenko, whose son was shot...
VAGRANT-TORCHING ARREST
A man who had heartlessly taunted a vagrant was charged yesterday with setting him on fire as he slept in front of an East Harlem church. Witnesses to Friday's sadistic...
AMAZING WHIZ KID
Fifteen-year-old HS senior Jourdan Urbach is a nonstop dynamo. He's a violin virtuoso who at age 7 founded Children Helping Children, which has raised $1.3 million toward medical research and...
GIRL HIT BY CAR IN S.I.
A Staten Island preschooler was fighting for her life early today after she was struck by a motorist on a busy West New Brighton roadway, police said. The 4-year-old girl...
GRAVE OFFENSE
A Harlem man who faithfully served his country during the Vietnam War has become the victim of the ultimate identity theft - someone stole his grave. The shocking discovery came...
OUTRAGE OVER CITY ASBESTOS CONFUSION
Elise Kairys says she was walking her dog by a construction site on her block in Brooklyn in August when she was suddenly covered by a gust of demolition dust....
BLOOMBERG ON PARADE
After hobnobbing with British and French politicians during last weekend's trip to Europe, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday turned his attention to the home front, hoofing it through a Bronx Columbus Day...
CON ED 'PAPER' RIPPED
Con Ed charges the highest rates of any major U.S. electric utility, yet rotting paper wrapped around aging high-voltage wires is all that separates the city from its next blackout....
IT GIRL TO SNIT GIRL
NEW HAMPTON, Iowa - Surging in a new poll, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged small-town Iowa voters not to prejudge her based on what others say - then demonstrated her sharper...
THE ROCK IS SOLID AT BOX OFFICE
The Rock hasn't budged from his No. 1 spot at the box office. Disney's "The Game Plan," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, has now taken first place two weeks in...
'CIDE' HEIR'S SLIDE INTO DRUGS & SEX
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - In 2003, her life looked ideal to outsiders. Wendy Knowlton Cook had a young daughter; her father's horse, Funny Cide, had won the Kentucky Derby in...
NYPD DAILY BLOOTER
Manhattan A model featured in rap videos and on magazine covers with 50 Cent got a taste of the "Thug Life" when she was ripped off by a thief in...
DIRTY-TRICKS PROBE PANEL DOESN'T GIVE A WRIT
THE state Public Integrity Com mission, which pledged to con duct a thorough probe of the dirty-tricks scandal involving aides to Gov. Spitzer, has failed to use its power to...
PUBLIC PAYS FOR UPPER CLASS' PRIVATE ED.
PARENTS say it's harder to get into than Harvard. It's an elite, private Manhattan school that mainly takes kids of the rich, famous and well connected. Kevin Bacon and Kyra...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 943; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 4877; Lucky Sum: 26 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 910; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
SAVING COMMISSIONER SCOPPETTA
City agencies may be lawyering up and clamping down on public comments amid probes into the deadly Aug. 18 Deutsche Bank fire - but that's not stopping fire officials from...
THE MEANING OF 9/11
Hillary Clinton thinks she's come up with an ideal counterweight to offset Rudy Giuliani's post-9/11 popularity - but actually, she's only revealed yet again what 9/11 means most to her:...
QAEDA ON THE RUN
UNKNOWN gunmen murdered Muhammad Gul Aghasi - one of the key "theologians" of al Qaeda - at a mosque in northern Syria last month. Candidates for the fiery preacher's killing...
NEW YORK'S LOST ITALIAN HERITAGE
COLUMBUS Day allows New Yorkers to honor the city's renowned Italian heritage. But this year the city faces a plan that aims to go further: a drive to landmark Manhattan's...
LICENSE TO KILL
WHEN I got my first driver's license at 16, my parents told me that having a license is a privilege that I should take very seriously. It looks like young...
REID'S PHONY ATTACK - AND RUSH TO JUDGMENT
You are perpetrating Senate Majority Leader. Harry Reid's lie that Rush Limbaugh insulted the military by stating that his use of the term "phony soldiers" was referring to soldiers critical...
COURIC'S PATRIOTISM PROBLEM
Katie Couric keeps finding new ways to lower her ratings ("Couric's Curious 'Patriotism,' " Oct. 3). Jonah Goldberg underlines her complete lack of understanding of why journalists wear the American...
WII WOE: HOLIDAY SHORTAGES SEEN
Nintendo will be offering up nothing but disappointment to tens of thousands of kids this holiday season. The red-hot video game company, whose stock has more than doubled this year...
TIME WARMER
Time Warner Cable Chief Financial Officer John Martin is close to being promoted to CFO of parent Time Warner after Wayne Pace retires later this year, The Post has learned....
AUTOEROTIC HIGH
There are two basic types of readers of car magazines: dreamers and shoppers. And shoppers can dream a little, too - even if they can't possibly afford to make their...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Bartender, T-pain 2. Beautiful Girls, Sean Kingston 3. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie 4. Make Me Better, Fabolous 5. Shawty, PLIES 6. Bed, J. Holiday 7....
STUDY: KIDS WITH CELL PHONES MORE LIKELY TO GET BRAIN CANCER
Children who use cell phones for more than 10 years are twice as likely to get brain cancer, according to a report in the London Telegraph. People who have used...
FORGET WHAT YOU SEE, BELIEVE WHAT YOU'RE TOLD
WHEN did preposterous replace analysis? Friday's ALDS games made for an Open-All-Nite baloney and geez buffet, preposterous statements, one after another, served as indisputable facts. First, during TBS' Yanks-Indians Game...
ANGELS COULD USE A-ROD
ANAHEIM - The Red Sox were the big winners here yesterday behind the awesome home run power of their big guns David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez and Curt Schilling's usual...
SWEEP DAY FOR BOSOX
ANAHEIM - Seven players remain on the Red Sox from the 2004 championship team, and yesterday three of them showed they still have that October magic. Manny Ramirez and David...
MLB BACKS UMPS FOR GAME 2 CALL
In the aftermath of George Steinbrenner's criticism of umpire Bruce Froemming, Mike Port, who supervises umpiring for MLB, backed Froemming's decision to keep playing Game 2 of the AL Division...
VIKES STOP CHAMINADE
Now that St. Anthony's has proven to be at least somewhat vulnerable in the CHSFL, St. Joseph by the Sea proved yesterday that it has a chance to compete for...
DAAHER WINS JEROME
Powerful effort by Canadian-bred colt Daaher going mile in Grade 2, $150,000 Jerome Handicap for 3-year-olds. Fourth in Queen's Plate and third in Prince of Wales, first two legs of...
HONDO ZIPPING ALONG
Hondo balanced out his daily baseball loss (An gels in the ALDS) with a Steeler victory that left him holding steady with zero zernials in the account. Tonight, he's in...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE: LSU remains No. 1 LSU's Tigers, who rallied to beat Florida 28-24 Saturday, remained No. 1 in the Associated Press' college football poll yesterday, receiving all 65 first-place votes...
DEVILS' BACKLINE MUST ADJUST
KANATA, Ont. - Brent Sutter's Devils are off and running. Running around, sometimes, too. The dual-edged sword of attacking hockey leaves them vulnerable to counterattack at times, and Sutter's backline...
GIANT BEAT DOWN
The evidence was mounting yesterday that the Giants were going to do everything in their power to lose the Battle of New York. Eli Manning's quarterback rating at halftime was...
ROOKIE RESPONDS
MAYBE this is the game that ultimately saves Tom Coughlin, and buries the 1-4 Jets. The game when everyone remembers how the old-school head coach, true to principles forever loved...
BURRESS WASN'T TO BE DENIED
It started as an innocuous, quick-pass, a fortuitous blitz-beater that should have been nothing more than a first down. Plaxico Burress, bad right ankle and all, turned it into a...
JACOBS RECOVERS AFTER BIG FUMBLE
This is what's called a self-fulfilling prophesy. After missing the last three games with sprained knee ligaments, Brandon Jacobs finally returned yesterday, subbing for Derrick Ward on the Giants' second...
PENN'S PICKS SINK JETS
Sitting as still as a statue with a white towel draped over his head, Chad Pennington was a living portrait of utter dejection, slumped in a chair in front of...
DON'T BENCH CHAD
THERE are sure to be callers to the sports talks shows today demanding Kellen Clemens replace Chad Pennington as the Jets' starting quarterback. They'll say Pennington's three costly interceptions in...
DEFENSE FAILS GANG GREEN
Several Jets defensive players were seething after allowing 28 points to the Giants in the second half of yesterday's 35-24 loss. The Jets, who had leads of 17-7 at halftime...
CURRY INJURES SHOULDER
CHARLESTON - The dark cloud that hovers over the Knicks widened yesterday when Eddy Curry suffered a right-shoulder injury that could force him to miss a bulk of preseason. Curry...
'A' GAME MISSING
The Rangers will be without Sean Avery for up to a month due to the Grade 2 left shoulder separation he sustained taking Chris Neil's fierce - and legal -...
IT'S ONE FOR THE SKIPPER
They started the night with Joe Torre nine innings away from George Steinbrenner foolishly opening the trap door under the manager's feet as if the past dozen years didn't matter....
DAY NO. 4,357 ON JOB JUST LIKE ANY OTHER
THE word was out in the Yankees clubhouse early. They knew. They'd heard. George Steinbrenner had re-emerged with a vengeance, the words between the quote marks attributed directly to him,...
THE TORRE STORY SHOULD CONTINUE, WIN OR LOSE
LOU Piniella, the man George Steinbrenner wanted last year at this time rather than Joe Torre, just guided his team out of the playoffs, losing three straight games to a...
SAVING THE DAY
THE Yankees' problem in the playoffs the past few years has not been the old manager, it has been the old pitchers. Joe Torre began last night under fire and...
JOHNNY ON THE SPOT
THE Cubs, Phillies and Angels are gone almost before you knew it, and probably before they could even believe it, waiting for the big hit that never came. Before you...
IT'S JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO
With George Steinbrenner's hearse ready to cart him away from the Yankees' managing job, Joe Torre sat calmly in his Yankee Stadium office yesterday before Game 3 of the ALDS...
MOOSE DEFENDS MANAGER DESPITE RECENT DEMOTION
Mike Mussina's vote doesn't count, but he'd like to think Joe Torre will still be managing the Yankees in 2008. If any Yankee should hold animosity toward the manager, it's...
MATTINGLY IN MIDDLE
Don Mattingly admits he is in a tricky position, faithful sidekick to Joe Torre and yet perhaps with the most to gain should the Yankees manager be fired. In a...
WHO'S NEXT?
With George Steinbrenner close to firing Joe Torre, here are a list of candidates who could succeed Torre and the odds of each being named: DON MATTINGLY (3-1): The Boss...
ROCKET RUNS OUT OF FUEL
The second inning opened with Kenny Lofton popping out. But for Roger Clemens, the turn didn't go real well for his hamstring. Clemens took the mound for the Yankees in...
WEDGE: JOE IS ONE OF THE GREATS
The problem for Joe Torre is that Eric Wedge doesn't write the checks. If that were the case, Torre's job would be as solid as Gibraltar. But it's George Steinbrenner,...
CHIEN UP AGAIN
Chien-Ming Wang, it's your turn to keep this Yankees season alive. Moments after the Yanks completed their 8-4 victory over the Indians in Game 3 of the ALDS last night,...
INDIANS' GAME 4 PICK FOR THE BYRD
The Indians will not alter their rotation for tonight's Game 4 of the ALDS - even if it means pitching a guy who gave up seven runs in two innings...
WESTBROOK COMES UP DRY
The stake to the Yankees' heart was in place. The Indians held a 3-0 lead and with it, the sledgehammer to complete the execution. But righty Jake Westbrook, in his...
A-ROD QUIETLY SNAPS HIS PLAYOFF SLUMP
Alex Rodriguez's first two hits of this AL Division Series may have seemed unsung, but they were important. He hit only a pair of singles last night in the Yankees'...
GOOD JOBA - DESPITE A FEW BUMPS
No bugs, three hits, no errors and a little bit of a scare. That was the final line on Joba Chamberlain last night in the Yankees' 8-4 victory over the...
BAT-SUI FINALLY APPEARS
Hideki Matsui not only erased the zeroes next to his name, but he also was in the middle of every important Yankees rally last night. Joe Torre was rewarded for...
FIRST SHOT FOR JASON
Joe Torre inserted Jason Giambi into his dead lineup last night for Game 3 of the ALDS against the Indians at Yankee Stadium. But instead of using Giambi for the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
What a bunch of mall rats. A group of eight artists built and furnished a secret apartment inside a Providence, R.I., shopping mall - and lived there for four years....
YANKEES STAY ALIVE
Dangerously close to getting swept, the New York Yankees woke up just in time to save their season and perhaps Joe Torre's job.Johnny Damon lofted a go-ahead, three-run homer in...