October 16, 2007
Waiver wire
A quick look at some names to scoop for while surfing the wires this week: Derek Anderson, QB, Browns - Chances are someone snagged him last week, but check to...
Whatâs a Day Without Health Issues?
By FRED KERBERJason Kidd, back. Josh Boone, ankle. Darrell Armstrong, foot. Jason Collins, wrist.As least they have their parking spaces.Most are keeping the stiff upper lip and smiley face that...
MATTINGLY: TORRE REPORT 'LAUGHABLE'
October 16, 2007 -- TAMPA -- Yankees bench coach Don Mattingly exclusively told the Post today it was "laughable" he would confide to a member of the Steinbrenner family that...
Scene
Isabel Ibsen, a singer/songwriter, rocks her floral eBay sweater vest and faux fur coat from Brazil, with eBay fringe boots and Cheap Monday jeans. "I wear whatever I feel like....
"Right Wing Hate Machineâ Attack
An attorney for Air America radio personality Randi Rhodes (left) is disputing on on-air report by a colleague that the liberal talk show host was attacked on a Manhattan street....
NBA needs Celts-Knicks to matter again
By MARC BERMANIt was finally just about basketball today at Knicks camp and the new-look Celtics and the battle for the Atlantic Division. From here on in, fans are a...
"GH III" soundtrack album
The game's not even out yet, but that's not stoping Activision from releasing the "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Companion Pack." It's basically a soundtrack CD with songs from...
Table Tennis - Wii!
Hard as it is to believe, Rockstar's Table Tennis game for the Xbox 360 was not only fun, it actually made sense to have on the console. Now, they've launched...
It's all about gaming, Dunny
Bunnies aren't my thing. Never wanted one, unless it was Bunnicula. Don't spend any time looking at photos of them on sites like Cute Overload. BUT, I can't get enough...
Deal of the Day
I might like this classic houndstooth jacket better with a chunky toggle button, but it's nice enough as is, if you can't sew on a new button.And it's only $49.99...
Starr Report
* * *Prohibition (W. 84th) is suddenly a Monday-night hot spot for "All My Children" stars including Alicia Minshew, Walt Willey, Bobbie Eakes and Thorsten Kaye. They're gathering to watch...
pennington or clemens?
The anti-Chad Pennington e-mails and irate sports radio phone callers have been coming in at such a high rate that Jets fans' rage might actually be reaching the level it...
ROME - THE ETERNAL CITY
Rome is one of the oldest cities in civilization. It began as a small Italian village in 625 B.C. Rome went through three distinct periods: * SRoman Kingdom - 753...
KELLY'S GREEN BUT STILL GREAT
KELLY Clarkson - the test-tube pop star who's managed to shed the stigma of "American Idol" and spit in the collective eye of her record-company handlers with the release of...
FOREVER YOUNG
AFTER all the albums that have fragmented Neil Young's audience between hawks 'n' doves or rockers 'n' strummers, cranky Grandpa Granola's latest, "Chrome Dreams II" (Reprise), attempts to be everything...
ROCK AROUND THE BLOCKS
TODAY marks the start to the 27th CMJ music marathon, the annual confab in which a slew of up-and-coming bands and herds of wide-eyed college kids, desperate music industry professionals...
MPFREE
Our highly subjective CMJ picks below are available for download at nypost.com/mpfree. TODAY U.K.'s Voxtrot plays shimmering bash and pop at Bowery Ballroom. TOMORROW Triple threat: Brilliant art-damaged L.A. duo...
CAN'T 'XANADU' IT ENOUGH
BRANDON Purves has seen the Broadway musical "Xanadu" 85 times. (A similar though lesser achievement, he's seen the film 500 times.) He still cries when the cast sings "Suspended in...
CITY CAN HANDEL IT WELL
IF you want to know why Rome declined and fell, there's an object lesson for you in Handel's comic opera "Agrippina," which New York City Opera revived on Sunday. This...
STARR REPORT
The Bell tolls NBC is expected to an nounce today that Jim Bell is leaving as executive producer of the "Today" show. Bell will stay with NBC, working on the...
THAT WAS THEN. AND THIS IS NOW!
'Guiding Light" is going MTV. The 70-year-old CBS soap opera is ditching its bulky cameras and primitive sets in favor of tiny hand-held cameras and a reality-show feel, à la...
COLBERT FOR PRESIDENT
MIGHT it be President Stephen Colbert? The host of Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" says he wants to run for president - and now he's even being offered airtime in his...
MILLS CAME LATE
DANCING with the Stars" producers had no intention of casting Heather Mills in last season's show - until they read a report linking Paul McCartney's soon-to-be ex to the ABC...
THEISMAN NOT OVER IT
FORMER NFL great Joe Theisman thinks his former bosses at "Monday Night Football" have turned the telecast into a new version of "The Tony Kornheiser Show." ESPN dumped Theisman this...
TROUBLE WITH JAY
IF Jay Leno is ticked off at the way NBC is pushing him out the door, then who can blame him. Never in the history of television has a major...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A Venus-Mars aspect on your birthday will bring new people into your life, some of whom will play vital roles in both your love life and your career. If you...
FACE FACTS AND SAVE YOUR SKIN
LINES, spots and bumps - oh my! Looking in the mirror can be truly frightening. Often, the only thing scarier is going to the dermatologist - and paying the bill....
THUMB'S THE WORD
BLACKBERRIES: These types of handheld devices are fun, compact, and help you work on the go. But sometimes they come with a price - and we're not talking about the...
POLL: PLAN UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED
ALBANY - An overwhelming 72 percent of New Yorkers - including 59 percent of Democrats - oppose Gov. Spitzer's plan to allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses, a new...
COUNCIL POLS' DOLLAR DRAMAS
A dozen members of the City Council are living on such tight budgets that they didn't list a single investment on their 2006 financial-disclosure forms, according to documents made available...
LICENSE TO GRILL
ALBANY - Senate Republicans roasted the state's motor-vehicles commissioner for nearly four hours yesterday during a hearing on Gov. Spitzer's controversial proposal to allow illegal aliens to get driver's licenses....
MIKE VOWS TO 'CHECK' TWU
The city will fight "as strongly as" possible an attempt by the transit union to get back the right it lost after the December 2005 strike to automatically deduct dues...
DEUTSCHE DEMOLITION DERBY
Six companies are vying for the contract to finish demolishing the former Deutsche Bank building, allaying fears that no company would want to touch the seemingly cursed project, The Post...
BRIDAL BLOOM & DOOM
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but hydrangeas of the wrong color allegedly stank up a Manhattan couple's wedding. Elana and David Glatt have filed a...
5 YRS. FOR S.I. POL'S GRANDSON
The troubled teenage grandson of Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro yesterday was slapped with a five-year prison term for intimidating a paperboy he'd previously assaulted. Steven Molinaro, 18, pleaded...
VICTIM'S GRAND '$AM' AUCTION
The Son of Sam's last victim is finally cashing in on New York's wild Summer of '77 - selling the spirit-lifting baseball jersey manager Billy Martin gave him after the...
MORTGAGE GUY IN 'ID THEFTS'
A Queens mortgage manager was nabbed yesterday for spearheading an ID-theft operation that bilked at least a dozen home buyers out of more than $1 million, cops said. Jacob Milton,...
MOB MIRTH AT MOLL'S SLAY
When mob moll Mary Bari walked into the Mafia-owned Occasions Bar in Bensonhurst on Sept. 24, 1984, she thought it was to interview for a job. Instead, she was the...
BID TO GET LADY JUDGE OFF CASE
A Manhattan lawyer who claims ladies' nights at Big Apple hot spots discriminate against men is demanding the judge hearing the case step aside on the grounds she's sexually biased....
NBA BET REF PAYS OFF 30G
Rogue NBA ref Tim Donaghy coughed up $30,000 as part of his guilty-plea deal with feds, court records show. The disgraced referee, who admitted he bet on NBA games he...
3RD B'KLYN KID HIT BY STRAY SHOT IN FRIGHTENING OCT.
For the third time this month, a child has been hit by a stray bullet in a stunning burst of violence on the streets of Brooklyn. A 13-year-old boy was...
CHARGES LOOMING VS. DIDDY
Hip-hopper Sean "Diddy" Combs will be charged with assault after allegedly delivering a bloody rapping to a SoHo clubgoer over the weekend, police sources said last night. Cops were reinterviewing...
FIGHT TO BAR TERROR LAWYER
Students today plan to protest Hofstra University Law School's invitation to disbarred terror lawyer Lynne Stewart to speak at a legal-ethics conference. The invitation to Stewart, convicted of smuggling secret...
BUDDING BURNED-STEINS
Journalism students at Manhattan College have their first exposé: what they charge is a bait-and-switch scam at their Riverdale school. Many say they chose the Catholic school because of its...
11-YEAR-OLD B'KLYN GIRL MISSING
An 11-year-old Brooklyn girl vanished on her way to school last Friday, and her family is understandably sick with worry. "Her little brother keeps asking, 'When are we going to...
KNICKS DRAWING UP PLAY VS. VERDICT
Lawyers for Knick coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden signaled yesterday that they were gearing up to challenge a jury's $11.6 million award to a fired female executive -...
KIN REVENGE ON 'BODY $NATCHERS'
A Bronx man has sued the ghouls and firms implicated in a multimillion-dollar body-snatch ring, charging they pilfered tissue and bones from his mother's corpse, desecrating her body and marring...
'GOV. BLOOMY' KOS ELIOT: POLL
ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg would clobber Gov. Spitzer in a head-to-head battle for governor, as Spitzer's approval rating plunges to an all-time low in the wake of the Dirty Tricks...
BARROOM CRAWL
It's been more than six months since the walls fell in on Chumley's, and residents of the West Village are wondering when the beloved former speakeasy is going to reopen....
SUBWAY 'SURFER' KILLED
A homeless man who tried to climb atop a moving Manhattan subway car plunged to his death last night after losing his footing, authorities said. The 21-year-old man, who was...
'GREEN CARD' RING BUSTED
Cops have busted a Queens phony-green-card ring that preyed on Mexican immigrants - and which was detailed in a Post exposé last year. About 40 people were nailed over the...
SAD SALUTE TO CBGB'S HILLY
It was last call for Hilly Kristal last night as punk-rock royalty turned out to remember the legendary CBGB founder. Hundreds attended a memorial service for Kristal at Bowery Ballroom,...
NEW SCI CENTER
Officials broke ground yesterday on a $700 million science center near Bellevue Hospital that they hope will become a hub for research in coming years. Mayor Bloomberg and Assembly Speaker...
OVEN FIEND BURNED AT SENTENCING
A New Jersey man was sentenced to 20 years yesterday for attacking a love rival with a table leg - then stuffing him into a scorching oven, nearly killing him....
CREATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE A PRIORITY: RICE
It's time for a Palestinian state to be created, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared yesterday as she prodded Israeli and Palestinian officials toward a breakthrough at next month's Middle...
FRENCH KISS-OFF FOR THE 'KOZYS
French President Nicolas Sarkozy made more front-page news yesterday with a trivial scheduling announcement: His wife is breaking protocol by not accompanying him on a state visit to Morocco next...
QUINN SOUGHT HILLARY'S OK
Before pulling the plug on a hearing on a council resolution that supported a Senate initiative by Barack Obama, Speaker Christine Quinn's aides consulted with Sen. Hillary Rodham's Clinton's staff,...
FRED'S 'LIBERAL' DOSE
Fred Thompson dragged Mario Cuomo into the White House race yesterday - slamming Republican rival Rudy Giuliani for endorsing the "liberal Democratic" governor in his 1994 re-election contest with George...
CASH QUEEN CLINTON
Hillary Rodham Clinton has amassed a stunning $50 million in her campaign war chest, blowing past her rivals and giving her gobs of cash to launch a TV ad blitz...
LIVE-'WIRE' POL
WASHINGTON - Rep. Vito Fossella yesterday called for an investigation into why efforts to rescue three kidnapped U.S. soldiers, including Queens GI Alex Jimenez, stalled for nearly 10 hours while...
IMUS BACK IN SADDLE
Don Imus is coming back to radio. The nation's No. 1 talk station, WABC Radio, will begin airing Imus starting the first week in December, sources close to the deal...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A man was found shot to death in his car on a Bayside street, police said. The 26-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was found inside...
DIRT BAG IS GRIME OF CENTURY
IF FBI rogue Lindley DeVecchio walks out of this one, he'll be walking a crooked mile for the rest of his life. "It was no secret in the '80s that...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 821; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 1079; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 093; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win- 4 Mon.:...
FREE-FALLING
The latest numbers are out on public support for Gov. Spitzer's executive order allowing illegal aliens to ob tain New York state drivers' licenses. Read 'em and weep, Eliot. In...
LAWYERING THE WAR
The old saying goes that "there are no atheists in foxholes." Would that the same could be said about lawyers. Hyperactive Justice Department attorneys last spring got involved in a...
REINING IN CONGRESS
"You're fixin' to see what they call a fiscal showdown in Washington. The Congress gets to propose, and if it doesn't meet needs as far as I'm concerned, I get...
THE CRITICS RELENT
TO the extent it can be said that news from an active war zone can be good, we're now into the third month of good news from Iraq. It's not...
BORDER COP BUNGLES
JULIE Myers, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Cus toms Enforcement agency (ICE), is set to deliver tonight's keynote address in Dearborn, Mich., to a group that honors lax...
KLEIN'S GAMBLE
SCHOOLS Chancellor Joel Klein has embraced a new ed-reform idea: "fair student funding," a formula for dividing up funds for the million-plus kids in the city's public schools. It's meant...
INDIAN BUTTS: TERROR'S TAKE
NEW York law imposes a sales and ex cise tax on each pack of cigarettes sold by a licensed retailer. And ille gal profits from cigarette smuggling are funding terrorism....
WHY GORE DESERVES HIS IG-NOBEL PRIZE
THE ISSUE: This year's Nobel peace Prize recipient, former Vice President Al Gore. Don't sell Al Gore short ("Sue 'Em, Al," Editorial, Oct. 13). Anyone who demagogues an issue with...
AOL LAYS OFF 2,000 IN FURTHER RESTRUCTURING
AOL said in an internal memo that it planned to lay off 2,000 employees, or about 20 percent of its work force, beginning today. About 1,200 U.S. employees will be...
CITI'S $1.56B LOSS
Chuck Prince can't seem to defuse the bomb of junk mortgages that's taking down Citigroup and bringing a piece of Wall Street with it. Despite efforts by the Citi chief...
CITI WAS ASLEEP AT THE DISCOUNT WINDOW
IT seemed curious in late August when the nation's four largest banks stepped up to the Federal Reserve's discount window and borrowed $500 million each. That's the method the Fed...
SALLIE, MAY I?
Shares of student lending giant Sallie Mae plummeted yesterday on heavy volume as hope of a renegotiated takeover deal with billionaire J. Christopher Flowers faded. Flowers and his partners at...
TAKING ACCOUNT OF THE SIV MESS
A little-noticed release from an accounting industry think tank helped set the wheels in motion for three major banks to join forces and attempt to minimize the damage from the...
VIDEO-SHARING WEB SITE GOES HIGH-DEF
User-generated videos are going high-def. Vimeo, a nascent video-sharing Web site owned by Barry Diller's IAC, is expected to announce this week that it will begin distributing videos with a...
EX-JOURNAL EDITOR'S NEW NEWS CAREER
The head of a new not-for-profit investigative news organization that will pitch stories to newspapers acknowledges it will be an uphill struggle - but is confident it'll be a winning...
SINGING FOR DEALS
Looking for its own American Idol, SonyBMG's Epic Records has signed a deal with interactive karaoke restaurant Spotlight Live that could transform dinner guests into the record label's next big...
PATH STATION DELAY COULD LAST UNTIL 2012
THE Port Authority's new, $2.2 billion-plus PATH terminal at Ground Zero won't be finished until 2012 at the earliest - at least a year later than the PA claims, and...
BATTLE STATIONS
The battle in business television has begun. Just hours after launching yesterday, Fox Business Network fired at its far more established rival with a pointed reference to CNBC's peacock logo....
GO FIGURE
$1.3 million Amount developer Kent Swig donated to help fund the construction of downtown's Imagination Playground $1,998 Price of the Blue Ridge Retreat Playset at Walmart.com (comes with three swings,...
GRAND TOTAL
More than $1,500 per square foot for new residential construction in Manhattan. Sputter. Gasp. Oh please, stop. There's a reason Manhattan real estate costs what it does: It's unbelievably expensive...
HOME INC.
If you've read the local papers, you probably know that music mogul Irv Gotti has had some rough times in his life. So it's little surprise that when it came...
PICKS & PERKS
AURA FIXATION Even if you only have $20,000 for a down payment, you can still afford a new one-bedroom in Manhattan. Condos in the 28-unit Aura development on East 109th...
ISLE BE THERE
A quick rule of thumb: When your property sits atop a stretch of land that none less than Oprah has declared to be one of the five places to see...
UP IN THE OLD HOTEL
AN American artist living in Paris gets a call from his brother in New York. Two apartments are up for sale at the legendary Hotel des Artistes on West 67th...
UPSIDE DOWNTOWN
Easily excitable Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is talking about the future of Downtown Brooklyn, and he's shrieking even louder than usual. "Nordstrom would be crazy not to open in...
HOOP ELITES MSG-BOUND
Many of the teams favored to get to the Final Four will make at least one appearance at The Garden this season. Connecticut, Duke, Georgetown, Kentucky, Marquette, Memphis, Pittsburgh, USC...
SNAKES MAKE SWITCH AT 2B
DENVER - For last night's Game 4, the Diamondbacks benched second baseman Augie Ojeda and gave Jeff Cirillo a shot. Ojeda was 2-for-12 with a pair of singles in the...
'WAKE'-UP CALL
CLEVELAND - At its best, Tim Wakefield's knuckleball does more dancing than a Lake Erie midge on a hot Jacobs Field night. The midges - those insects that bedeviled the...
HONDO BACK IN BLACK
Hondo, who doubled his pleasure with the Jaguars and Rockies Sunday, turned in a repeat performance last night as he hit with the Giants and Rockies (in the NLCS) to...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: La Russa trialTony La Russa's drunken-driving hearing was postponed until Dec. 3 in Palm Beach, Fla. The Cardinals manager was arrested March 22 and charged with drunken driving after...
TROUBLE IN LEBRON'S 'HOOD
AT WHAT point will LeBron James flex his all-mighty muscle and put pressure on Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert to resolve the contract gridlock with restricted free agents Anderson Varejao and...
IT'S A LANDSLIDE!
DENVER - There were police motorcycles that circled the warning track afterward, and fireworks that went up at Coors Field. Behind second base, the podium got set up, and soon...
FRANCONA TAKING A GAMBLE
CLEVELAND - We can argue from now until 8 o'clock tonight about whether Terry Francona is doing the right thing here. Every October, every time someone is down in a...
EASY AS JAKE
CLEVELAND - The Red Sox might want to grab a few of the white rally towels that were so prevalent at Jacobs Field last night and keep them stashed in...
TOOMER GRABS PAGE IN RECORD BOOK
ATLANTA - One week ago, Amani Toomer went an entire game without catching a single pass. This is not what he or the Giants are accustomed to. He did not...
FLYIN'OVER THE FALCS
ATLANTA - The goal was simple: Get out to a fast start, something that, at least offensively, the Giants found exceedingly difficult even during their winning streak. "We wanted to...
ELI IS MANN OF THE HOUR
ULTIMATELY,, it won't be Tom Coughlin turning into a player's coach that will save his job. It will be Eli Manning playing the way a franchise quarterback is supposed to...
COLES LOST FOCUS ON BIG MISS
Laveranues Coles, who was unable to haul in Chad Pennington's potential game-tying touchdown pass in fourth down late in Sunday's 16-9 loss to the Eagles, said yesterday that he hadn't...
BACKING CHAD
Much to the certain vexation of understandably anxious Jets fans, Eric Mangini continued to show his resolute support for Chad Pennington, and several Jets players reacted rather strongly in support...
RUN DOWN AT END
QUARTERBACKS D Chad Pennington (11-21, 128 yards, 1 INT) wasn't sharp and didn't take advan tage of the improved running game to com plement his performance, though some of his...
NOW WE'LL FIND OUT: MAN OR MANGENIUS ?
KELLEN Clemens should be the Jets' starting quarterback Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati. He won't be, which means the honeymoon period Eric Mangini has enjoyed as the Jets' new head coach...
ACE OF BRACE
Eddy Curry was back at full-contact practice yesterday, despite having just torn his labrum last week in Charleston. And despite sporting an odd-looking brace on his injured right shoulder, both...
SHANNY, RANGERS STRUGGLE
So far, Brendan Shanahan's season has been a microcosm of the Rangers'. Through five games, Shanahan has 32 shots on goal - including 13 against the defending Eastern Conference champion...
MATTINGLY MAY NOT WANT JOB
Don Mattingly may not be interested in becoming the Yankees' manager if Joe Torre is fired. The Yankees' bench coach and favorite to take over if Torre is axed told...
POSADA TO 'SEE WHAT HAPPENS'
Jorge Posada left Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon, perhaps for the last time as a Yankee. When asked if he expected to be back in The Bronx, Posada said, "Hopefully. We'll...
QUIET, FOR NOW
TAMPA - Joe Torre's future with the Yankees sits in the hands of George Steinbrenner and his sons Hank and Hal. The male branch of the Steinbrenner family likely will...
YANKS' NEW WORLD
IT turns out George Steinbrenner is more Queen Elizabeth these days than King George. He rules the Yankees kingdom still, but mainly now as a figurehead. Steinbrenner's court determined there...
A-ROD, AGENT MEET IN CALIFORNIA TO DISCUSS FUTURE
TAMPA - Alex Rodriguez and agent Scott Boras are huddling in Orange County, Calif., this week, and the question Yankees fans have about the AL MVP favorite is this: Are...
MATTINGLY: TORRE REPORT 'LAUGHABLE'
TAMPA -- Yankees bench coach Don Mattingly exclusively told the Post today it was "laughable" he would confide to a member of the Steinbrenner family that he wasn't ready to...
HOOKED ON ANEGADA
THE BONEFISH is one bad mama jama - with her sexy conical snout and sleek, torpedo-shaped bod, she claims shallow backwaters as her turf; a finned femme fatale with 'tude...
GO FASTER!
THINGS have been a little yin, a little yang so far for our free-spirited friends in the Caribbean. The bad news: Overall stays in the region this year are down,...
UNDER THE SEA
Montego Bay, Jamaica Shallow and low on the difficulty meter, the finger reefs here are great for first-timers. Further out, deeper canyons and coral caves are explored by more advanced...
NEWS + NOTES
GO TO TOWN Another mini-city debuts on The Strip in Las Vegas on Nov. 14. The 1.5-million-square-foot Town Square is an open-air shopping district, adding pizzazz to the dead zone...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A golden retriever in Virginia has adopted a daughter - a stray kitten. The hungry kitty, found in a concrete plant in Stephens City, refused to drink from a bottle,...