October 20, 2007
Houston, There's a Problem
By FRED KERBERThere's just no room.The Nets wanted Allan Houston and by all indications Houston - and probably even more so now - wanted the Nets. But Houston waited for...
Knicks Cut Allan Houston
By MARC BERMANThe comeback of Allan Houston lasted one week and one game. The Knicksannounced today that they will waive the former All-Star shooting guard.In a press release handed out...
Stop blaming George for Torre quitting
By MARC BERMANWatching the one-hour press conference on the tube, you couldn't help but crack a smile when Joe Torre mentioned how he had just "lost'' his job.Turning down a...
Early Box Office: Too Many Movies, Too Few Moviegoers
Overall, the numbers for even popcorn pictures are more dismal than anticipated here yesterday. "30 Days Of Night'' opened on the lower end of expectations and Mase predicts its weekend...
MAY THE HORSE BE WITH YOU
A horse is a horse, of course - but Lipizzaner stallions are in a category all their own. And when they trot into the arena of Madison Square Garden tomorrow...
ART'S DE LA CARTE
SURE, Gustav Klimt is an artistic genius - but have you tried his pastry? After you visit the Neue Galerie's newly opened Klimt exhibit, stop down-stairs at Café Sabarsky, the...
NOVELIST HAWKS SKATING TALE, AND KIDS GET ON BOARD
TONY Hawk once starred on a library poster in which he held up a copy of his favorite book: Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity." At the time, Hornby had never heard...
JUST KIDDING
FAMILY-friendly music gets goosed this week, thanks to "It's a Bam Bam Diddly!," a bouncy new album from the Dan Zanes sideman known as Father Goose. With it, singer/rapper Goose...
WHAT'S UP
TODAY SEOUL TRAIN: No orchestra required for "pansori," or Korean folk opera - just a lone drummer and solo singer who make beautiful music together. So it goes at "Tuning...
A SON'S ANGUISH
DRUGS can destroy your family - even if you were a golden child with a giant gift who became a heartthrob with 3 million albums sold. In the case of...
TYLO SON'S POOL DEATH
THE son of "Bold and the Beautiful" star Hunter Tylo died Thursday night in Henderson, Nev. after drowning in the family's pool. Michael Tylo Jr., 19, was pronounced dead at...
MORE 'NIGHTMARES' FOR GORDO
COWERING restaurateurs will stay in Gordon Ramsay's sights - now that "Kitchen Nightmares" has been picked up for another 10 episodes. And the freshman Fox series - in which "Chef-from-Hell"...
DEADLY DECEIT
A Queens psychiatrist was charged with brazenly lying on his driver's license about having blackouts and then getting behind the wheel of a car that killed three people - but...
ALL THIS CAN BE YOURS FOR JUST . . .
A Westchester estate bought 15 years ago for less than $7 million is up for sale at $95 million - the highest listing price ever for a property in New...
FLIP-FLOPPY EXPERT NOW FOR ALIEN IDS
Gov. Spitzer touted support yesterday from terror expert Richard Clarke for his plan to issue illegal immigrants driver's licenses - but critics promptly revealed the former federal official had raised...
BUTT TAXES GO UP IN SMOKE
The city hauled in $123 million in cigarette taxes last year - but lost about $40 million to tax-evading smokers, according to a study released yesterday. Using data culled from...
MTA: IT'S WESTWARD HO(LD ON A $EC) FOR NO. 7 TRAIN
The MTA and the city are moving ahead with a planned extension of the No. 7 subway line to the Javits Convention Center, but much of the original project may...
'GIDDYUP!' AND GO TO CENTRAL PK.
New Yorkers can now get back in the saddle in Central Park, after a six-month absence of horseback riding in Manhattan. The city Parks and Recreation Department has teamed up...
DOC $HOCK AT AGE 'BIAS'
A top doctor has filed a $60 million suit against Montefiore Medical Center, charging hospital administrators discriminated against him because of his age by cutting his once-$275,000 bonus to $100,000,...
EMT TRANSFERRED AFTER SOME 'FRISKY BUSINESS'
A Staten Island EMT was reassigned after a city inspector allegedly caught him fooling around with a woman in the back of an emergency bus, The Post has learned. The...
IONA STAPH SCARE
An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant staph infection has been confirmed among members of an athletic team at Iona College, the Westchester County health commissioner said yesterday. One student athlete was hospitalized,...
FIANCÉ PLAYS THE ORGAN-IST FOR LOVE
A Queens bride-to-be was rescued by her fiancé, who, against all odds, proved to be a match as a life-saving kidney donor. Tye Johnson, 31, gave Jarena Bates, 23, the...
KIN FIGHT ON IN 9/11 TOXIC WAR
The parents of fallen NYPD Detective James Zadroga emerged from a meeting with the city's medical examiner yesterday in disagreement with his ruling that their son's death did not stem...
BIG GUN IN DIVORCE
The Brooklyn "War of the Roses" wife who has lived for more than a year with a court-ordered wall dividing the home she's forced to share with her estranged husband...
DEADLY L.I. WRONG-WAY SMASHUP
A boozed-up motorist cruised the wrong way for miles on Long Island's Southern State Parkway yesterday before crashing his Lexus into an oncoming SUV, killing a man in a fiery...
'STEAL' BRUSH BROKE
The world-renowned Salander-O'Reilly Galleries could soon file for bankruptcy as dozens of wealthy clients line up to sue the gallery on charges of secretly selling their art and stealing the...
SUBWAY RUSH-HOUR STICKUPS
A brazen gunman robbed two women during yesterday's morning rush hour inside two subway stations near City Hall, authorities said. The first holdup took place at 9:30 a.m. at the...
SEED OF DOUBT OVER 'ROID-COP 'SPERM' PIC
The head of the Captains Endowment Association said embattled NYPD Deputy Chief Michael Marino is not the man in a Super Sperm costume pictured in yesterday's Post - a claim...
SUIT SOCKS CITY BOSS IN KISSER
The city employee nicknamed the Lipstick Bandit for allegedly kissing, groping and harassing her female underlings has been making her mark for years - and once even bared her breasts...
STING & A DISS MADE JOE QUIT
It was a multimillion-dollar "insult." Joe Torre said yesterday he decided to end his legendary 12-year reign as Yankee skipper because George Steinbrenner offered him a contract that amounted to...
HILL'S CASH EYED AS CHINESE-LAUNDERED
Hillary Clinton's campaign has been raising huge piles of money in Chinatown, but some of it has come from donors who can't be located or who were improperly repaid for...
COP-A-FEEL
Oddball illusionist David Copperfield is being eyed on allegations he raped a woman in the Bahamas - a crime that spurred an FBI probe and a raid of his Las...
HARLEM NIGHTS
He plays mean-faced killer Frank Lucas in "American Gangster," but superstar Denzel Washington is all smiles last night at the movie's premiere at Harlem's Apollo Theater with wife Pauletta. Co-star...
VICK A DOG WITHOUT A HOME
Embattled former NFL superstar Michael Vick is practically homeless. Vick's Georgia mansion went on the market earlier this week for $4.5 million. His real-estate agent, Tony Funari, said there were...
MITT & RUDY'S HOLY SNIT
The fight for the conservative religious vote turned into a holy war yesterday between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, each saying the other is the GOP version of Hillary Clinton....
FRED'S SENATE VOTES OFTEN LIBERAL
Fred Thompson insists he's the most consistently conservative Republican in the race for president, yet he often championed the cause of liberal trial lawyers by voting against tort reform, his...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN An East New York woman was shot to death in her home early yesterday. Beverly Wallace, 32, was shot twice in her New Lots Avenue apartment near Riverdale Avenue...
ONCE-GREAT SKIPPER HAS LOST IT
QUIT whining about Joe Torre, already. And start worrying about the Yankees. The man called the greatest manager in baseball history has choked. Admit it. He's lost his fire, along...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 813; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 5570; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 434; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win- 4 Fri.:...
GAMING GROUND ZERO
Neither Dr. Charles Hirsch, the city's chief medical examiner, nor the fam ily of James Zadroga was talking publicly yesterday about why the M.E. is convinced "beyond certainty of doubt"...
LICENSE TO CONFUSE
Gov. Spitzer, in a deep hole over his plan to give drivers' licenses to ille gal immigrants, won't stop digging. He spoke at NYU's Center for Law and Security yesterday...
TURKEY'S IRAQ THREAT
"History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen." - Enoch Pow ell, British Politician (1967) THIS week, the Turkish par liament gave the central government the...
BAY STATE TEA LEAVES
A SURPRISINGLY poor showing by the vic torious Democratic candidate in Tuesday's special congressional election for Massa chusetts's 5th District left House members of both parties wondering whether the public...
CELEBRITY TRASH
'I PAID off a poker debt with sexual favors, and I fell in love," former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson told Ellen DeGeneres of her new beau earlier this month. "It's...
MAYOR MIKE'S MISSION: WHERE'S THE BEEF?
It's good to see that Mayor Bloomberg's overbearing manner and overrated abilities are finally catching up with him ("The Nanny Diaries," Steve Cuozzo, PostScript, Oct. 14). Running the Big Apple...
HEARTLESS ABOUT HORSES
Steve Dunleavy, carriage-driver crony, likes to call anyone who cares about, or has compassion for, animals wackos, extremists, idiots and fools. "All Horse Feathers" (Oct. 15) is yet another charming...
BLACK FRIDAY II
In a fitting tribute to the 20th anniversary of the stock market crash of 1987, the bottom fell out of the Dow yesterday as corporate earnings continued to fall short...
STEVE MADDEN PUTS UP 'SALE' SIGN
New York shoe seller Steven Madden Ltd. put itself up for sale yesterday after receiving overtures from various suitors and coming under pressure from shareholders to do something to boost...
NOT '04-GOTTEN
BOSTON - There is light visible from the bottom of that hole in which the Red Sox sit. Don't look now, but here come the Indians with a shovel and...
A WET AND WILD DAY AT BELMONT
Track at Belmont was fast, harrowed for first two races, then sealed, sloppy as heavy rain fell throughout day; third race stayed on turf; seventh, ninth were switched to main...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Nets game canceled In Worchester, Mass, the NBA preseason game between the Nets and the Celtics was canceled after one half last night because of court conditions at the...
HONDO GOES SOUTH
It's just too darn tough to beat the opposition and the officials, so Louisville was unable to complete its assignment in East Hartford last night, causing Hondo to drop back...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
PENN STATE at INDIANALine: Penn State by 7 1/2. Angle: What to make of these Nittany Lions? Off the field there is turmoil, headed by the arrest of RB Austin...
BUCKING TRENDS
COLUMBUS, Ohio - They should be quaking in their cleats, these Ohio State Buckeyes, because no program in college football has a better feel for the volatility of this season....
UCONN NIPS LOUISVILLE
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Andre Dixon dragged defenders on a 5-yard touchdown run with 1:32 left and Connecticut overcame a late 10-point deficit to beat Louisville 21-17 last night, getting...
FRANCONA: JOE'S EXIT LIKE FICTION
BOSTON - Red Sox manager Terry Francona was glued to Joe Torre's farewell press conference yesterday, only removing himself from the TV because he had his own session to attend...
DEVS NEW HOME A DIAMOND ... IN ROUGH
The Rock is a gem. Absolutely. The setting is the issue, the crux of its creation being the $210 million the Devils received from Newark to use their fans as...
MOSS GROWS SLOWLY
There's genuine excitement around the Giants about the possible return of Steve Smith, the rookie receiver who missed the past four games with a fractured clavicle. Naturally, getting the polished...
BIG BLUE SET FOR DILFER
The Giants say they prepared all week to face either Alex Smith or Trent Dilfer at quarterback and the news that Dilfer will start tomorrow for the 49ers does not...
GOING HOME ON THE ROAD
Growing up in the same town just 45 miles from Cincinnati, Jets teammates Nick Mangold and Mike Nugent didn't have much choice in the matter when it came to picking...
CHANDLER HAS SHOT ON KNICKS
While rookie Demetris Nichols' failing battle for a Knicks roster spot has captured some fans' fancies, first-round pick Wilson Chandler has flown under the radar. No longer. Shockingly, Chandler has...
'O'-DIOUS WOES FOR RANGERS
BOSTON - Forty-two seconds remained in the third period in Atlanta on Thursday, the Rangers were trailing 5-3 after scoring three goals in 9:23, and Henrik Lundqvist had just reached...
JOE SAYS OFFER A 1-YEAR BLUNDER
Joe Torre surmised that Brian Cashman was in his corner Thursday at Legends Field when the Yankees made Torre an offer he easily refused. "There were probably a person or...
EMPIRE GETS A NEW FACE OF EVIL
FROM the moment Joe Torre was hired to run the Yankees, he always talked about how temporary the life of a baseball manager is, how transient it can be. From...
OUTSIDE THE LINES
JOE TORRE removed Johnny Damon from center field, Mike Mussina from the rotation and Jason Giambi from the every day lineup. Torre did all of that last season and not...
GAME 2 DECISION BUGS JOE
At Joe Torre's press conference yesterday at the Hilton Rye Town, the Yankees' former manager said he was sorry he had trainer Gene Monahan come to the mound to tend...
ONE TOUGH JOB
Gene Bartow can sympathize with the man who will sit in the Yankees manager's office next year. He knows the microscope that will focus on every move made by Joe...
NO TIMETABLE TO NAME NEXT JOE
Joe Girardi, Tony Pena and Don Mattingly have been informed they are on the list to replace Joe Torre. "I have told them I am interested in interviewing them," GM...
IT SHOULD BE THE DON OF A NEW DAY
I stopped at the Yankees Clubhouse Shop on 42nd Street yesterday - nice place, nice people - but there wasn't a Joe Torre jersey anywhere. There were all kinds of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
One Alabama family not only caught a thief red-handed, they got a day's work out of him. When the McKinnons found Tajuan Bullock in their Montgomery home, they held him...