October 14, 2007
Ups, Downs and Rumors
A win on Friday against the Capitals was a welcome event, but when facing the Ottawa Senators last night, for the second time already this season, the Rangers fell 3-1...
All That 'Jazz'
Warner Bros., which virually ignored the 75th anniversary of "The Jazz Singer,'' has more than made up for it five years later with a superb three-disc DVD that I write...
Kobe talk
By MARC BERMANThere were three different-sounding Kobe Bryant stories in the three tabloids today, but all came to the same conclusion: the Knicks have no shot at Kobe Bryant.I wrote...
'BAND' DOLL
John Rzeznik, lead singer of The Goo Goo Dolls, knows he's about to be crucified. "I'm sure music critics are going to slam me," says Rzeznik. "Whatever. I'm sick of...
'E:60'
Jeremy Schaap is certain ESPN's new magazine show will be a huge success. How does he know? "If my father was still around, he would have bumped me out of...
DEAD MAN WALKING
"CSI: Miami" has made its name on the way the show vividly documents the way people die. In a first for the durable top-10 hit, the show will bring back...
KANYE HEAR ME NOW?
Not that anyone should run short, but if one needs hard proof that the world has gone nuts - and that TV is there to help - we refer you...
HERE'S ONE JACKASS TV CAN LIVE WITHOUT
Once a jackass, always a jackass. A case in point: The TV personality known as Steve-O, who became famous on the old MTV series "Jackass" that celebrated behavior that used...
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: GAME SHOW Come on down After his long history with "The Price is Right," host Bob Barker was a hard to act to follow. When he retired earlier this...
CAUGHT ON TAPE
Another Hollywood family with a famous name is inviting you into their home for eight weeks through the miracle of reality television. They're the Kardashians, a clan whose notoriety stems...
REEL GOOD
THE ODD COUPLE (1968) Sunday, 2 p.m., TCM Neil Simon's hilarious blockbuster about Oscar Madison, a slob sportswriter (Walter Matthau) who saves finicky Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) from committing suicide...
'PRACTICE' MAKES PERFECT
JUST last week Kate Walsh, the star of the new ABC hit "Private Practice," tried to arrive quietly at a Hollywood party, but her mere presence caused such a stir,...
'BETTY' ROLE ADS UP FOR CHRISTOPHER GORHAM
Accountants aren't usually the most loveable or, even, likeable characters on TV. Not so for Christopher Gorham's Henry Grubstick, Betty Suarez's (America Ferrera) on-again, off-again love interest on ABC's "Ugly...
MY NEW YORK
The Dominican-born author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" grew up in Middlesex County, N.J., but now splits his time between Beantown and the Big Apple. This is...
'GLORY DAYS' AHEAD
Enough about me, let's talk about meZipper Factory Theatre, 336 W. 37th St.; (212) 352-3101 Supercilious celebs who've penned self-indulgent bios just may find themselves wishing they'd quietly kept diaries...
NEW RELEASES
A Mighty Heart Movie: 3 ½ STARS Extras: 1 STAR (Paramount, $29.99) The retelling of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by Islamic extremists is...
ALL THAT 'JAZZ'
EIGHTY years ago this month, Warner Bros. was a struggling, family-owned business on the verge of bankruptcy when it decided to gamble its future on sound movies. Tuesday, the same...
WHAT THEY'RE RENTING IN...THE BRONX
El Vacilón: The Movie (Lionsgate, $14.98) New York's favorite Spanish-language shock jocks go loco. The Bronx is Burning (ESPN, $39.95) Mr. October, Billy Martin and The Boss: The Yanks' amazing...
PLANET TERROR
Hot on the heels of Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof" comes the other half of the former double-feature known as "Grindhouse." And while "Planet Terror" was the weaker of the two...
Q&A
Oscar winner tackles her biggest challenge yet - being pregnant while promoting a new film. Were mankind finally able to travel to Mars and discover an In-N-Out Burger there, the...
WEB SLINGER
Bonaduce Bodyslams Fairplay Where to see it: Search "Bonaduce Fairplay" at YouTube If you didn't tune in to the broadcast of Fox's Reality Channel Really Awards, you missed Danny Bonaduce...
TOUCHY SUBJECTS
IN this year's edition of the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book, you'll find extravagances like a $2 million airplane and a $1,700 Gucci tote bag. But sandwiched in between them is...
GRAND CENTRO
Two weeks ago at the Digital Life consumer electronics show, Palm chief Ed Colligan wasn't having a Jerry McGuire-like breakdown when he declared that smart phones are simply too big...
POWER PLAYING
DOGS get outside daily, but most cats stay indoors. And too often, these homebody pets are not given adequate opportunity for exercise, which results in bored, fat, unhealthy felines. Happily,...
THE CAT LADY
WE'RE having our bathrooms renovated, and it's stressing everyone out. All five of us (two humans and three cats) are camped out in my home office, which is the only...
ADOPT ME
Cornelia is a sweet-natured cat whose beauty definitely comes before age. Her calm and quiet personality makes her a perfect pal. Meet her from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at...
GARRY'S HEIRS GET NASTY EARLY
CHESS Since 2000, when Vladimir Kramnik won a world championship match and Vishy Anand won a rival world chess championship tournament, both men have quietly viewed themselves as the true...
ROCK OF LOVE
IN the recently released "Clapton: The Autobiography," rock legend Eric Clapton recalls his relationship with Pattie Boyd, the woman who inspired "Layla" before she left George Harrison to be with...
CLASSICAL GAS
The classical guitar has a bad reputation in the rock world. It's for folkies who want to sing like Peter, Paul and Mary. Or world music guys like Jorge Seu...
JIMMY EAT WORLD
BACK when emo was still an underground buzzword, Jimmy Eat World was happy to be playing 1,000-seat theaters. Then in 2001, the Arizona-based group took the punk- inflected, heart-on-its-sleeve genre...
OUTSIDEMAN
JOAQUIN Phoenix may own the night, but he also owns the fall. During the season when studios roll out their prestige, award-bait pictures, the actor has a pair of high-profile...
30 DAYS OF NIGHT
Blame it on Buffy. Not to mention Anne Rice, Bram Stoker and "The Lost Boys." Over the years, pop culture has softened and polished the mythological vampire into a dashing...
'COMPASS' POINTS
TWO sci-fi pics are vying for title of coolest trailer of the week: "Jumper" and "The Golden Compass." The former, directed by Doug Liman, due out in February and starring...
'A CLOCKWORK ORANGE,' WARHOL STYLE
NO Cine File reader worth his or her popcorn will admit never having seen Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), adapted from the Anthony Burgess novel of the same name....
PROOF POSITIVE
You'll absolutely luvka this subtle vodka Forget the corny name, which supposedly springs from distiller Mark Holmes' fondness for traditional Polish hospitality. U'Luvka makes for a fine tipple. Utterly clean...
MAKING THE SCENE...
205 Club 205 Chrystie St.; (212) 477-6688 In the vein of music-driven venues like APT, Cielo and Studio B, this 330-person capacity, bilevel boite is more about art and DJs...
MEAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY
Primehouse 381 Park Ave. South, (212) 824-2600; brguestrestaurants.com Restaurateurs have thought of gimmick after gimmick to sell a sexy slab of beef in this town; they'll sell it by the...
CIVELIA, 27, AND LAUTER, 28
AUG. 4 - After meeting through mutual friends in 2003, Jason Lauter and Jessie Civelia became inseparable. A year later, knowing it was time to take the next step, Lauter,...
RUSSO, 27, AND LARA, 29
AUG. 3 - In December 2005, Victor Lara made certain that Jodi Russo would have a merry Christmas. "Victor came into my classroom dressed up like Santa Claus and proposed...
ANDERSON, 26, AND SPRINGER, 26
JULY 28 - Samuel Anderson and Susan Springer had a perfect ceremony at the Metropolitan Building in their home borough of Queens, but when it came time to take the...
MORLEY, 40, AND BESTERCY, 38
JUNE 9 - On Feb. 28, 2006, Traci Morely met Stephen Bestercy through her waitress. "At my usual Tuesday dinner date with my dad at Momma Santini's Pizza Restaurant, the...
STEALING SHELTER
Homeless advocates predictably are crying foul, but the Bloomberg administration has taken an important step toward closing a loophole that has allowed homeless-services recipients to game the system at considerable...
LOOSE LIPS ON TEAM BUSH
Who was hurt more by the leak to news agencies of a secretly intercepted Osama bin Laden video - al Qaeda, or those who have quietly been tracking the terrorists'...
OK, COMPUTER
Radiohead's redhead wraith Thom Yorke has for years been on the short list I carry around inside my head of Celebrities Most Likely to Die Prematurely. (Others include Michael Jackson...
DUMB 'BELS
In the last decade, Al Gore has won the triple crown: an Oscar, a Nobel Peace Prize, and (this is disputed) Florida. Now, winning an Oscar is hard - you...
PLAYING POLITICS WITH GENOCIDE
In the midst of the First World War, the Young Turks who had taken over the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against their Armenian subjects. At least a million Armenians were...
SUNNIS JOINING THE CAUSE
Iraq for most Americans is now a toxic subject - best either ignored or largely evoked to blame someone for something in the past. Any visitor to Iraq can see...
THE NANNY DIARIES
The city that switched from "Nazi" to Nanny rule is wondering what comes next. Mayor Bloomberg's Mama Mike image shows serious signs of fraying, even if he's far from giving...
PRIVATE PRACTICES
I am on the faculty at Churchill School, and I am proud and thankful to work at an institution so clearly dedicated to the achievement of every student in attendance...
PIPE DOWN
You mention that the FDNY did not have a plan for the Deutsche Bank building, yet the plan is mentioned six times in "Saving Commissioner Scoppetta" (Editorial, Oct. 8). The...
CHIN UP
Kudos to Police Officer Gregory Chin, who showed bravery, composure and, most importantly, the professionalism and restraint in only using one bullet, not one clip, to disarm the felon ("Psycho...
RENT!
The plan to build below-market-rate housing is bold and might break the current logjam on affordable housing ("Teaching Housing on Tap for Bx.," Oct. 5). Other unions must now step...
BUTT OUT
It is incredible how the lawmakers who are attempting to enact smoking prohibitions within the confines of people's homes are some of the same folks who came from the generation...
HASSLE THE HOF
My compliments to The Post for exposing Hofstra University's invitation to Lynne Stewart, the disbarred felon and radical lawyer, to lecture on legal ethics ("Hofstra Hosts a Terror Fan," PostOpinion,...
ONE MAN TAKES A 'STAN
Legend has it that the road connecting Afghanistan to Uzbekistan leads the region in car accidents, as truckers emerging from burkaland catch their first glimpse of Uzbek women in miniskirts...
THEY ARE NOT A CROOK
While I was working my way through this extremely long book, its author was convicted on multiple fraud charges in a Chicago court. He is appealing, but seems likely to...
REQUIRED READING
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta (St. Martin's) As he's done before, in "Little Children," Perrotta writes with a pitch-perfect and satirical ear for suburbia and its undercurrents. Here, he...
IN MY LIBRARY
"Any writer, if you ask who influenced them, they're going to lie to you," says Walter Mosley, who this week released his 10th, and perhaps last, mystery with Los Angeles...
JEWS WITH SWORDS
In the short afterword for Michael Chabon's new novel, his second this year, the author admits that with most of his recent efforts he has "gone off in search of...
GIVE ME YOUR MURDERERS, YOUR HUDDLED CONS ...
America's immigration system is obviously broken, but to get a sense for just how dysfunctional it really is, scan the pages of Ames Holbrook's "The Deporter." This first-person account of...
AFTERTASTE
"When I taste something I haven't tasted in 20 years, I can't resist that connection to the past, to the conflict, to the identity that is mine . . ....
A 'GRAND' CHANCE FOR VID MAKERS
There's an extra $420 million up for grabs in the video game sector this holiday season and game producers Activision and Electronic Arts could grab a large chunk of the...
GRIN & BEAR IT
Over the last six months, Jimmy Cayne went from being the only billionaire head of a Wall Street bank to nearly being forced to go globe-trotting, hat in hand, seeking...
TAKE TRUMP'S THINK BIG QUIZ
How much money do you want to have in 5 years? a. $100,000 to $249,999; b. $250,000 to $499,999; c. $500,000 to $4,999,999; d. $5 million +. What is your...
OFFENSIVE MOTION
The National Football League has renewed its battle with Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and the nation's other cable companies over its NFL Network. The league, which is not happy that...
SAVE YOUR BIZ, GET A PRE-NUP
Always have a prenuptial agreement. I have seen people and businesses destroyed because there wasn't a pre-nup. I will be honest with you, if I did not have prenuptial agreements...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS CARL ICAHN Billionaire investor strikes oil again as BEA Systems, which he started buying into last month at about $12, gets $17 takeover bid.MADONNA The 49-year-old songbird leaves Warner...
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
If you thought the stock market's summer mood-swings were unnerving, with 200-plus and 300-plus dips in the Dow Jones industrial average, just imagine how you might react to a 3,200-point...
IT'S NOT DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN
THIS Friday will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, and, given a sleepy news cycle, expect a lot of anniversary coverage of that sunny autumn day...
BULLY OF THE 8:02 TO PENN STATION
He's the self-appointed etiquette enforcer of the Long Island Rail Road - only he's more Charles Bronson than Emily Post. Chat too loudly or yap on your cellphone too long...
ARRESTS SOAR FOR YOUNG & RUTHLESS
More New York City kids are spending time in the clink. A staggering 52,571 kids between the ages of 13 and 18 were arrested in 2006 - a 20 percent...
DOGFIGHT CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
New York City is the underground capital of professional dogfighting - and home to one of the most notorious figures in that dark and violent world. Under the kennel name...
'HORMONE' GUY'S NEW SEX CLAIM
A junior trader suing one of the world's biggest hedge funds, claiming a boss forced him to take female hormones, also says he was the victim of a sexual assault...
BLOOMY AMASSES GAS
America's greenest mayor generates enough greenhouse gas to choke the Lincoln Tunnel. Mayor Bloomberg - who has advocated everything from ditching incandescent light bulbs to taxing Midtown commuters to clean...
THE PRISONERS OF JFK
American Airlines Flight 588 had just backed away from the terminal in Miami when Ray Alexander heard the engines suddenly power down. The captain's voice came over the intercom. "Word...
GRID RACE RAGE
The city's educational world was once again rocked by racial hatred yesterday, when a predominantly black high-school football team from Harlem showed up at a game in Staten Island to...
FOE-TO-FRIEND GANG-WAR EPIC
Denzel Washington strides across a crowded Harlem street, grabs a gun from his suit jacket and shoots a man point-blank in the face, splattering his "brains" across the pavement. "That's...
'CLEAN AIR' FARE IN BRONX
The Bronx is getting a little greener. Starting in the next two weeks, three state-of-the-art, 18-seat hybrid vans will pick up straphangers at the No. 2, 5 and 6 subway...
GALS: RIDE 'EM COWBOY!
Forget about sex in the city - today's single gals are heading to the hills to find love. Women on the prowl overwhelmingly believe cowboys are better in bed than...
REALTY SMOKE ALARM
Where there's smoke, there's ire. Apartment dwellers across the city are fuming over secondhand smoke seeping into their homes, sparking an increasingly popular movement to snuff out cigarettes in private...
STEWARDESS' GROPE GRIPE VS. NEWARK FEDS
A veteran flight attendant claims she was groped and poked by a female Transportation Security Administration security officer at a Newark Airport gate - and now she wants the feds...
WEINER FLUNKS 'NO CHILD' ACT
Rep. Anthony Weiner said yesterday that the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act has shortchanged New York City schools by $3.3 billion in federal aid over the last five years....
B'WAY $TAGE FRIGHT
From "A Chorus Line" to the picket line to . . . the bread line? Businesses around Broadway are bracing for heavy losses if the stagehands' union follows through on...
B'KLYN GANGSTER NABBED IN STRAY-SHOT DEATH
A gang-banging thug was busted yesterday in the stray-bullet slaying of a 16-year-old boy in what cops described as a testosterone-fueled display during a fight with a girlfriend who caught...
CONTRACTOR IN TRAGIC DEUTSCHE BOTCH: GIVE US $19M
The scandal-scarred subcontractor fired from the Deutsche Bank demolition job after two firefighters died in an August fire is demanding to be paid $19.6 million for the work, according a...
BULLET CAN'T STOP LUCKY B'KLYN KID
A 3-year-old girl miraculously avoided death last night when a stray bullet fired during a running gunbattle in a Brooklyn housing project grazed her head, cops said. Jayla Taylor was...
CLUBGOER STABBED IN CHELSEA
A 25-year-old man was stabbed in a clubland clash that spilled out onto a Chelsea street yesterday morning. Cops said a group of people attacked each other inside Fusion 215...
MED BIGS JAB STEROID DOC
An Upper East Side doctor caught writing steroid and growth-hormone prescriptions for patients of a Florida clinic linked to a baseball slugger has had her license suspended. Dr. Barbara Nichols...
CAB-VICTIM PALS BID AN L.I. FAREWELL
Friends and family packed a Long Island funeral home yesterday to mourn a gregarious and respected Emmy-winning helicopter pilot mowed down in a freak cab accident in Manhattan. The remains...
PROTESTERS RALLY 'ROUND THE 'FORT'
Neighborhood activists joined politicians yesterday to rally against the massive redevelopment of Downtown Brooklyn, which they claim is forcing out low-income residents and people of color. About 100 residents met...
KELLY'S A HERO FOR NHL UNION
GARY Bettman, who spent the lockout trying to break the NHLPA (and would have succeeded if not for the efforts of people such as Chris Chelios, Trent Klatt, Steve Larmer...
BLING YOUR PRAISES
This ring should be a big hit. A German artist has invented an accessory that publicizes how many mentions you get in a Google search - a ring that flashes...
TYCOON'S KILLER: MY 'FRAME-UP'
Ted Maher had landed his dream job. The ex-Green Beret had been hired as a personal nurse to an ailing billionaire philanthropist, given a plum $225,000 salary, put up in...
HEIR TIME FOR YANKEES
The Steinbrenner boys have taken the reins, Yankees brass has told The Post. Hank and Hal Steinbrenner will share leadership of father George's beloved Bronx Bombers in an arrangement to...
TORRE-ADORED: JOE'S A HOT PROPERTY
Cancel that Craigslist ad, Joe Torre. Even if you are fired from the Yankees - after George Steinbrenner leaves you twisting for a few days, or months - the business...
SHE'S WAY UP IN N.H.
New Hampshire voters are solidly behind Hillary Rodham Clinton, with 40 percent of Democrats likely to pick her in the Granite State's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, a new Marist Poll says....
MA OF SLAIN TOT IS MAD WITH GRIEF
She stares out her window onto Lexington Avenue, her face twisted in an uncomprehending grimace, her body rocking. "Don't make too much noise - she's sleeping," she warns friends who...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Cops are asking for the public's assistance in finding a Bedford-Stuyvesant teen who vanished six days ago. William Rodriguez, 18, was last seen leaving a friend's house at 8...
JUDGE ERUPTS AT SCHOOLS BIG OVER PENSION SCANDAL
THE executive director of the Board of Educa tion Retirement System offered "vague, inconsistent and unsupported" statements during a hearing into how a phony job ad ended up in a...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 432; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 1055; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 281; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...
INDIANS HALT SOX EXPRESS
BOSTON - The Indians can Trot back to Cleveland confident they are very much alive in this AL Championship Series. All it took was an Eric Gagne appearance for the...
DESPERATE SNAKES FACE ROCKIE ROAD
DENVER - On the grease board in the Rockies' clubhouse after their Game 2 victory over the Diamondbacks in the NLCS on Friday night, the words "NOT DONE" were written....
GET A NEW JOE
* I love Joe Torre. Apparently so do his players and Yankees fans. A kinder, more compassionate or decent human being could not be found. Is that is enough of...
BY JOE! WEDGE'S MOVES PAYING OFF
BOSTON - You've seen Eric Wedge manage before. You've seen him play hunches and come up rolling 7s. You've seen him show ridiculous amounts of faith in ballplayers who many...
THE RUMBLE
Go, George, go!Classy Giant enjoying coast-to-coast trek SIRIUS NFL Radio hosts Bruce Murray and Pat Kirwan spoke Friday with former Giants defensive end George Martin, who embarked on "A Journey...
FUZZY MEMORIES
"ANDREW, all you do is bounce the ball," Antonio Levane, pretending he was dribbling a ball, said with chagrin one day to his son. Who could blame the father for...
BC RATTLES IRISH
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - If you are a Notre Dame fan you'll laud this statement and if you're a Fighting Irish hater you'll rage against it. There are many truths...
PHIL 'ER UP!
TODAY Eagles (-3) over JETS: Philly hopes to have RB Brian Westbrook and TE L.J. Smith. Getting LT William Thomas back would be key, to avoid anything resembling the dozen-sack...
DOIN' THE TITAN UP IN TAMPA
Including the 1997-2006 seasons in The Post, Cat's 12-year record in print stands at 332-270 (55.1 percent) against the spread. THE PICK Titans (+3) over BUCS: Cat had Tampa rated...
NEW NRA SITE WILL KEEP YOU IN HUNT
THE National Rifle Association soon will be launching a Web site designed to protect the rights of those who hunt in this country. On Nov. 1, the site will open...
GLOVE CASE IS BALL OVER
Akadema has dismissed its patent infringement case against Louisville Slugger over the Flare glove. The case was in the discovery phase in United States District Court for the Southern District...
FORT AUTHORITY
Jeff Legree has had no shortage of accomplishments in two-plus seasons as the quarterback at Fort Hamilton. He led the Tigers to a PSAL title as a sophomore two years...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Reds hire Baker In Cincinnati, Dusty Baker was hired as manager of the Reds, agreeing to a three-year deal Saturday with a team coming off its seventh straight losing...
RED BULLS SNAP SKID
With the playoffs looming and his defense lacking, Red Bulls coach Bruce Arena finally shook up his lineup. His changes paid off with a 2-1 win over Kansas City last...
ARIZONA'S PLAYOFF PAST 'EXTRA' TOUGH
DENVER - Because of the Diamondbacks' history with extra innings in the playoffs, Friday's 11-inning Game 2 defeat probably was not that hard for them to take. Arizona has lost...
LOWELL HITS NEW HEIGHTS
BOSTON - Mike Lowell didn't have much to offer in his 2003 postseason for the Florida Marlins - he had sustained a broken hand a month earlier - but is...
HONDO'S THREE-FOR-ALL
Hondo was a BLOC - Big Loser On Campus - as he did the ol' double-draino yesterday with South Carolina and Wisconsin to cause the deficit to bal loon to...
ELIAS' LATE GOAL POWERS DEVILS
ATLANTA - The ugly victory was beautiful to the Devils, so desperate for one of any sort. Their old will to win resurfaced here last night. They refused to lose...
STATE OF GRIND
As Tom Coughlin studied his team during the week, he tried to dig beneath the surface, attempting to uncover the true feelings of the Giants about tomorrow night's game in...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Giants' first-round pick from the University of Texas who had two interceptions in last Sunday's victory over the Jets.Q: Describe the transformation that...
TWO WINGS & A PRAYER
The Jets have had trouble running the ball with any consistency. They've had trouble stopping the run. They've had issues putting pressure on opposing quarterbacks. Chad Pennington has thrown five...
MAYNARD: REAL TITANS NEVER QUIT
DON Maynard isn't the type to impose himself on the Jets even if his words of wisdom might do them some good today as they play what essentially is a...
SMITH CATCHING ON ALL OVER
With the Jets' offense struggling to get into the end zone (they've scored nine offensive touchdowns in five games), keep an eye on Brad Smith today against the Eagles. Smith...
COOLING ON KOBE
On Orlando's Disney World grounds last June for NBA's pre-draft camp, Isiah Thomas acted like an overjoyed kid ready to hop onto Space Mountain when he learned Kobe Bryant had...
NACHBAR NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE MONEY
There are bucks on the line this season, big bucks, as Bostjan Nachbar plays through the final season of his Nets contract. No big deal, he says. Last season, now...
BLUESHIRTS BLITZED
Last night's 3-1 loss at the Garden to Ottawa wasn't only an indication of how far the Rangers have to go in order to be on par with the elite...
YANKS SHOULD SAY 'C'MON BACK'
THIS assignment is to fix the Yankees, and the initial flaw is assuming the Yankees need major fixing. Overreacting to playoff losses is folly. There is no way to build...
PLEA BARGAINS
BOSTON - So the question is this: At the end of the day, how much influence do you really have? Do owners listen to you? Do players? Coaches? GMs? Newspaper...
Y'KNOW, SUZYN
WE REPEAT: The sports world has become satire-proof. Stuff you can't make up - wouldn't make up - breaks out every day. And what I don't want to address because...
TAMPA SIT-DOWN WILL REMAKE (OR BREAK) BOMBERS
Welcome to the most important week of George Steinbrenner's 34 years of owning the Yankees. Even if only Joe Torre's future was on the line this week in Tampa, Fla.,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
The rivalry between Pepsi and Coke turned violent in Indiana, Pa., when a Pepsi deliveryman allegedly punched his Coke counterpart in the face three times. The Coke driver suffered a...
MEET MARKET
Tiffany wants to learn how to drive race cars, but she also wants an assertive guy. Looks like there's going to be a fight over the driver's seat. "People are...
TOP 5 TIPS FOR GUYS SHOPPING FOR GIRLFRIENDS
Named by random guests at Shecky's "Girls Night Out" "Diamonds." - Nicole "Stick to the list I gave you." - Stacy "Don't look at the price tag - we're worth...
A MEMORABLE BLIND DATE
Taryn 2 HEARTS "It was definitely one of the better dates I've had." Mike 2 HEARTS "Taryn was cute. Her personality was big for me." So much for a blind...
ONE GOOD DATE CAN BE JUST WHAT IT TAKES
IT'S an e-mail chain I've forwarded to more girlfriends than I can count, one that started with the simple question: "How did you meet Super Preppy - a guy that...
Week 6 Start/Sit
Here's a quick glimpse of some of the players we like, and don't like, for your fantasy lineup this week. STARTDeShaun Foster, RB, Panthers at Cardinals - Remember Week 16...