October 26, 2007
Kidd Likes This Bunch. A Lot
By FRED KERBERJason Kidd says these Nets represent the best team he has been on -- honest.Now Olympic teams don't count - this past summer's group was the best, Kidd...
LANDED IN LONDON
The last time I landed in London the top news story in the local newspapers was the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. Not exactly the best way to start...
Gossip Girl / Getting Glam
Gossip Girl Blake Lively (she of the Traveling Pants) turned up on Regis and Kelly on Wednesday sporting this pair of limited-edition pink jeweled "Diana" pumps from downtown boutique/label Te...
Giving the 'Devil' His Due
So why are you still sitting there? Get yourself immediately to a theater showing one of the year's best movies, Sidney Lumet's sublime "Before the Devil Knows You're There,'' which...
Stern using Knicks to deflect on Donaghy
By MARC BERMANDavid Stern's preseason national conference call yesterday featured as many questions about the Knicks as the referee scandal, which is shocking. Tim Donaghy's guilty plea is more damning...
Chloe Spills '24' Secrets
Our very own Don Kaplan gets the scoop from Mary Lynn Rajskub(Chloe O'Brien) about "24" during the World Wide Premiere of the season seven trailer in Times Square. You will...
You can't make this stuff up
MTV is attempting to pull itself out of the reality rat race on Mondays with âKayaâ (right), a fictional drama about a young womanâs angst when she signs with a...
Starr Report
Fox has ordered a full season of its freshman sitcom "Back to You," starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton. They star as bickering exes reunited as local news anchors. Cindy...
Oscar Watch: 'Juno' Delivers Early
Those of us who saw ''Juno'' at the Toronto International Film Festival can't stop loving and raving about it, and now Fox Searchlight is cleverly moving up the release date...
Deal of the Day
My editor Kelley will have a few choice words to say about these Side Saddle Oxfords from Kenneth Cole.But they're a solid option for those of us who cannot wear...
THE MOVING UNDERGROUND CITY
The world's most famous subway is 100 years old. Read on and see just how the wheels got turning. The first subway was the brainchild of Alfred Ely Beach. Beach...
CROOKLYN RULES TO RAP BY
AT the world premiere of his upcom ing concept album, "American Gangster," rap impresario Jay-Z embraced evolution - and revolution - to find meaning in thug life. The nine-song performance...
A BRONX CHEER FOR ALL THAT CHAZZ
HE saunters past his stoop and lamp post, past the signs for 187th Street and Belmont Avenue. We know we're in The Bronx because the guy with the sharp suit...
TUDOR'S 'LEAVES' A LASTING IMPRESSION
THE revival Wednesday night of Antony Tudor's last mas terpiece, "The Leaves Are Fading," was the most eagerly anticipated event of the company's current City Center season. Not seen since...
DECISION IS SPINAL
THE official word from Transylvania is that Roger Bart, the ailing star of "Young Frankenstein" who's been MIA all week, will return to the show Saturday night. But Deep Abby...
POST READERS LOVE 'DIRTY SEXY MONEY'
IT turns out that Post read ers love to get dirty with ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money." The new nighttime soap - which stars Donald Sutherland and Peter Krause - tops...
MARIA 'QUITS' OVER ANNA
FORMER NBC anchor Maria Shriver says she'll never return to TV news after watching the saturation coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's death. "It was then that I knew that the...
HALLOWED BE THY AIM
KEEN observers of "24" might have guessed that counter-terrorism agent Tony Almeida was not actually killed in Season 5. But they couldn't have guessed that the character, played by Carlos...
UNPREDICTABLE
WHO knew there was so much lost stuff in the world? Oh wait - I know! The History Channel, that's who. In fact, the channel's managed to find not just...
STARR REPORT
SITCOM'S HEATON UP Fox has ordered a full sea son of its freshman sitcom "Back to You," starring Kel sey Grammer and Patricia Heaton. They star as bicker ing exes...
SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD FILM, BUT ONLY IN THEORY
RON Livingston is an in gratiating screen pres ence who has appeared in relatively few movies since "Office Space," so I was disappointed his new vehicle, "Music Within," is off-key...
ERASERHEAD IN THE CLOUDS
SO you had no idea what was happening in David Lynch's "Inland Empire." Take comfort in the fact that, judging from the documentary "Lynch," the filmmaker was just as puzzled...
WON'T WAKE UP
ANTHONY Hopkins proves he has the mind of a young man with "Slipstream," his first film as a writer- director. Unfortunately, that young man is a first-year film student who...
RAILS & TIES
HALFWAY through the absurd drama "," I was thinking: Oh no. After a train runs over a suicidal woman who intentionally parked her car on the tracks, I thought, please...
LOW-MILEAGE CARTER FILM RUNS OUT OF GAS
THERE isn't enough re vealing material in the tedious documentary "Jimmy Carter Man From Plains" to sustain an 800-word magazine profile, let alone a two-hour film. "The Silence of the...
DAD OR ALIVE
'DAN in Real Life" is the anti-Ben Stiller comedy: There's humiliation aplenty but no mugging, no abuse to the crotch region, no straining to be outrageous. One character says she's...
SIMMERING ROMANCE
DEBUT filmmaker Alejandro Monteverde's "Bella," which understandably won the audience award at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, is a disarming indie romance set in a fairy-tale version of the Big...
EL SID
THE graphic opening scene of "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" is a grabber: a flabby, sweaty Philip Seymour Hoffman pumping away at a very sleek and very nude Marisa...
MR UNTOUCHABLE
LONGTIME New Yorkers will remember Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, the ruthless 1970s New York drug kingpin so feared that when the feds put him on trial, the names of the jurors...
HOT PICKS
PRIVATE PARTY The Seaport gets spooky today and tomorrow when grown-up boys and ghouls set sail for the Haunted Ghost Ship at 6, 7, 8 and 9 p.m. Visitors walk...
FILM
BAM ROSE CINEMA: "New French Films" runs through Sunday, with screenings of Emmanuelle Cuau's "Very Well, Thank You" (2007), Laurent Achard's "Demented" (2006), Maria de Medeiros' "Je t'aime . ....
BROADWAY
"GREASE": * The latest and lamest revival stars the winners of a TV reality show whose lack of chemistry is such that, if they were hydrogen and oxygen, they'd be...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": *** John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO":**** Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "A CHORUS LINE":** ½ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. 236 W....
OFF-BROADWAY
A FEMININE ENDING:** ½ Darkly comic play about a young woman coping with her parents' breakup has a dark wit. Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St.; (212) 279-4200. Closes Nov....
POP, ROCK, FOLK
THE BLACK CROWES: This veteran band's gritty, blues-y, Southern-flavored, rock 'n' roll is sure to hit the spot Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the United Palace Theatre, 4140 Broadway; (212)...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND:Tonight and tomorrow: Phoebe Snow. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE:Through Sunday: David Sanborn. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Through Sunday: Steve Turre. 33...
CLASSICAL
TODAY: The Metropolitan Opera's new Adrian Noble's production of Verdi's "Macbeth" starts at 8 p.m. at the Metropolitan Opera House; (212) 362-6000 TOMORROW: Itzhak Perlman performs Mozart's "Quartet for Viola,"...
CABARET
CAFÉ CARLYLE: Tonight and tomorrow: Eartha Kitt. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. METROPOLITAN ROOM: Tonight: Adi Braun. 34 W. 22nd St.; (212) 206-0440. OAK ROOM: Tuesdays through Saturdays through...
DANCE
JOYCE SOHO: Philadelphia's Ash Contemporary Dance company performs a trio of performances tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at 155 Mercer St.; (212) 431-9233. 14th STREET THEATRE: Neville Dance Theatre's...
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: Jeff Garlin. 1626 Broadway; (212)757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: Tonight and tomorrow: Dave Attell, Keith Robinson, Todd Lynn, Gregg Rogell and others. 117 MacDougal St.; (212) 254-3480. COMIX: Wednesday:...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
PARK AVENUE SOUTH AUTUMN FAIR: Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Park Avenue South between 17th and 23rd streets. SEVENTH AVENUE CARNIVAL: Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * STEVIE WONDER performs in the Boragta's Event Center tomorrow at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets: $65-$150; theborgata.com, (609) 677-1000. * SMOKEY ROBINSON heats up...
PREVIEWS
"CYRANO DE BERGERAC": Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner star in Edmond Rostand's 1897 romance. Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 W. 46th St.; (212) 239-6200. Opens Thursday. "THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION": Hank Azaria...
'FARE CUT' IS WAY TO $$ TRAIN
Rather than raising the fare, the MTA could solve all its financial woes by lowering it. If the bus and subway fare was cut from $2 to $1.50, and the...
'SMARTEST' MODEL GROPED ME: GAL
A male model currently starring on a VH1 reality show was busted yesterday for a sex attack in which he allegedly groped a 19-year-old actress during a fashion party at...
DOORMAN'S KILLER JAILED
A Manhattan judge sentenced a jealous beau to 15 years in jail yesterday for killing an Upper East Side doorman he suspected of trying to romance his girlfriend. Steven Figueroa,...
JURY HANDS COP-PUSH GAL $1.3M
A jury yesterday awarded $1.35 million to a legally blind woman whom cops allegedly pushed down a flight of stairs during an eviction from her Bronx home in 2003. It...
ITALIANS DROP SLAY RAP VS. GI FROM MANHATTAN
The 2 1/2-year ordeal for Manhattan soldier Mario Lozano ended yesterday when Italian prosecutors dropped attempted-murder charges against him for accidentally killing an Italian agent in Iraq. Lozano, of New...
SUPERBUG STRIKES IN CITY
A 12-year-old basketball star at a Brooklyn middle school has died after being infected with a drug-resistant superbug, the first known death of a Big Apple schoolkid from the bug....
SUIT HITS EMANU-EL OVER 'BIAS VS. UNHIP'
Temple Emanu-El - the world's largest Jewish house of worship and the chicest synagogue in Manhattan - has been slapped with a $32 million lawsuit by two middle-aged former employees...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 2 3 No. 1 trains aren't running between 34th Street and South Ferry. Take the 2 or 3 between Chambers and 34th streets, or a free shuttle bus between...
9/11 HERO 'KILLED BY DRUGS'
A retired NYPD detective, whose death after working on the smoldering pile at Ground Zero made him a national symbol of the sacrifices of first responders, actually died as a...
OP-BOTCH 'DOC' BUSTED
A phony dentist was arrested after he botched a surgery on an elderly woman and then left her to die outside his Brighton Beach office, authorities said yesterday. Villimin Colleti,...
ID 'SQUEAL' OF PROTEST
ALBANY - Two county clerks, including a Democrat appointed by Gov. Spitzer, warned yesterday that under the governor's new plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, they intend to...
THIEF'S TUNNEL GETAWAY STALLS SUBWAY 2 HOURS
Subway service on the East Side was disrupted for nearly two hours yesterday after an above-ground thief turned tunnel rat to make his getaway. The thug robbed a street-cart food...
SMALL GAL AGAIN GALLS A 'GOLIATH'
Don't mess with petite female Long Island clerks. For the second time in a week, a cashier has foiled a robbery, cops said. This time, a 5-foot-1 100-pounder fought back...
VID SHOWS COKE SALES & SQUALOR
Robert Chambers said he doesn't know why he's been arrested. Well, here's why. These photographs show the Preppy Killer and his girlfriend selling mounds of cocaine to undercover officers, prosecutors...
THE 'BURY' BRAVEST
Three of New York's Bravest got a "Ghostbusters" gig yesterday after a creepy cave-in at a Queens cemetery gave a construction worker the fright of his life - and nearly...
TOT-KILLER COPS PLEA
A Bronx man has pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter by violently shaking her and dropping her on her head. Paul Tejada-Jimenez, 30, entered the plea to first-degree...
SCARPA HID BY KILLING: WITNESS
Fellow Colombo mobsters might have suspected Gregory "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa was a rat sooner - but he killed so often that it threw them off, the mob family's former...
LAUGHS OFF '80S PLOT BLOCKBUSTER
A day after evidence in the blockbuster trial of ex-FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio showed that the bosses of New York's five Mafia families held a close vote on whether to...
COP SHOOTS BX. 'THIEF'
An off-duty Bronx cop shot a man yesterday after he stole her boyfriend's motorcycle outside their Co-op City home, police said. The officer, Tisje Golden, 36, pulled up to her...
NEW AID FOR CITY'S BATTERED
It's going to be much easier for the city's annual 3,000 victims of domestic violence to secure permanent housing under a new policy announced yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg. Acting on...
FUR FLIES AT JFK
Kennedy Airport is finally doing something about overcrowding - it's booting the more than 100 feral cats cluttering its runways. Despite protests from animal activists, the Port Authority has begun...
COP-SHOOTER GETS 16 YRS.
The Brooklyn man who fired at a carload of undercover cops because he thought they flashed him a dirty look was sentenced to 16 years in prison yesterday. José Rivera,...
CITY PAYS $6M OVER PAR: AUDIT
The Parks Department reimbursed a developer on a long-stalled project nearly $6 million more than it should have, while failing to impose $6.2 million in fines, city Comptroller Bill Thompson...
ROAD SLAY SPARKS CALL FOR NEW LAW
New York needs a law requiring a cop to file a report whenever he fires his gun, a police-reform group said yesterday. "A police officer has an ethical and moral...
VICIOUS SPIRITS
Apparently, the walking dead like a good nosh as much as the next New Yorker. A group of Internet librarians compiled a list of the 10 most haunted spots around...
B'KLYN JAIL CAPT. GUILTY IN BEATING
A captain at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn was convicted yesterday of conspiring to beat up a prisoner in 2002 and then trying to cover up the attack....
TERRORROCKETS.COM
Palestinian terrorists are boasting that they've been able to pound an Israeli town with rockets and target military sites - thanks to satellite images from Google. Members of the Al...
RANGEL'S $1 TRILLION GRAPPLE WITH GOP
WASHINGTON - Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel yesterday unveiled a massive new tax bill that the powerhouse lawmaker has dubbed the "mother of all tax reforms" - but Republicans immediately panned...
MOST NBA REFS COMMIT FOUL BY BETTING
Air ball! NBA Commissioner David Stern said yesterday that more than half of the league's 56 referees have confessed to breaking its rules by betting in casinos - but that...
DADDY'S $10M 'BAD' MITZVAH
The former CEO of the leading supplier of body armor to U.S. soldiers in Iraq was charged yesterday with looting the company to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that included a...
SPREADING RAPIDLY
The deadly superbug that claimed the life of a Brooklyn seventh-grader is the same bacterium that has sickened more than a dozen local students in just the past few weeks...
BUSH'S EMBRACE
President Bush yesterday embraced victims of Southern California's massive wildfires, telling a couple who lost their home: "Our hearts are right here." The president took a helicopter tour through smoke-filled...
BRUSHBACK PITCH
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton mocked GOP rival Rudy Giuliani last night for his newfound status as a Red Sox rooter, telling a crowd of thousands at a 60th-birthday bash that...
TYCO TYCOONS TRY, TRY AGAIN
The argument that you can't steal money if you earned it didn't work in 2005, when a jury convicted two executives of looting Tyco out of $600 million. Yet lawyers...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A man was found shot dead in a car in East New York early yesterday, police said. Elliot Douglas, 66, was discovered inside his daughter's vehicle, parked on Sheffield...
IN OTHER NEWS: WHAT IF HE'D BEEN WHACKED
IMAGINE New York without Rudy Giuliani. Back in the '80s, the city's top crime families took a vote - and narrowly nixed whacking the federal prosecutor. Had the vote gone...
WHY RUDY'S RIDING HIGH
WASHINGTON - We all know Rudy Giuliani has significant political talent, vision to rule the free world, and the unbridled passion to conquer all, but he's also blessed with the...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 524; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 7949; Lucky Sum: 29 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 768; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 4104;...
STOPPING THE MULLAHS
In imposing the most far-reaching eco nomic sanctions against Iran since 1979, President Bush has shown that he still has an appetite for confronting Tehran's dangerous nuclear ambitions. But the...
...BUT HIGHLIGHTS A HORROR
Of course, there could be at least one unintended positive consequence in the Rangel tax plan: It could focus attention on New York's off-the-charts state and local tax burden. How...
CHARLIE SLAPS NEW YORK...
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel yesterday dropped a 500-page-plus bomb on New York - a $3.5 trillion tax bill. The Harlem Democrat calls it "the mother of...
A MAGINOT LINE IN THE SKY
AFTER the carnage of the First World War, France responded to the horrors of trench warfare by building the ultimate trenches - the infamous Maginot Line, a system of almost...
RANGEL'S 'REFORM'
HE billed it as "The Mother of All Tax Reforms." And it's certainly ambitious. But the long-awaited rewrite of federal tax policy, unveiled yesterday by House Ways and Means Committee...
THE HUCKABEE BOOMLET
ARKANSAS ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee is shaking up the Republican race. Think of the primary process as a tennis tournament. On the center court, in the semi-final, Rudy Giuliani is defeating...
'SHUT UP' 101
THE speech policeman's lot is not a happy one, as the University of Montana at Missoula is learning. Herewith a tale about the mess that institution has made by regulating...
DESERVED HONOR FOR NAVY SEAL
THE ISSUE: The Medal of Honor, posthumously awarded to the late Lt. Michael Murphy. The Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously to Navy Lt. Michael Murphy by his commander-in-chief in...
GOP'S VALUE VOTERS: ALL HAIL HUCKABEE?
THE ISSUE: Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's appeal to conservative voters. Rich Lowry's article, "Huckabee's Sweet Spot" (PostOpinion, Oct. 23) is very clever, but former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is the...
MERRILL MAY SACRIFICE BLOOMBERG STAKE
Merrill Lynch is facing another whopping setback of as much as $4.5 billion - on top of this week's $8.4 billion wipeout - that may force it to sell rich...
STILL FALLING
Ailing mortgage giant Countrywide Financial is set to report shockingly dismal third-quarter results today that could send the broader stock market down and raise fears that the global credit crunch...
MYSPACE LOVE$ FACEBOOK VALUE
If Facebook is worth $15 billion, then MySpace is worth $65 billion. That's the take of RBC Capital Markets analyst David Bank, who applied the $357 Microsoft ascribed to each...
SWELLING PORTFOLIO
JOANNE Lipman, the editor-in-chief of Condé Nast Portfolio, and David Carey, the magazine's president and publisher, were on the road in Boston yesterday. And although they were traveling together, it...
FBN EYES CNBC'S VIEWERS
Fox Business Network is fighting CNBC for viewers, but no one can say for sure whether the fledgling channel is making inroads. Nielsen won't be releasing figures for Fox Business,...
RED-INK RUMOR AT AIG
AIG's stock price was hit yesterday as the giant insurer became the focal point of investors' fear that a subprime contagion was again sweeping across the financial sector. At one...
INDIE WEB SITES MAY WIN WITH WRITERS' STRIKE
A Hollywood writers' strike would be a blow to the traditional TV and film business, but it could be just the thing for those looking to make shows pay on...
STOCK OFFERING AN EYE-POPPER
Two major investment banks recently pulled off one of Wall Street's most unusual equity offerings by selling stock for a corporate client at more than $31 below its previous close....
FRAYED CABLE
Dimming growth prospects at Comcast triggered a wave of anxiety on Wall Street yesterday as investors worried the cable giant would be buffeted by increased competition for TV and Internet...
HEDGE FUND BALANCE ACT
A New York mortgage hedge fund, teetering on the brink of collapse after its lender pulled its lines of credit, says it has come up with an innovative solution to...
ICE MULLS SHUTTING NYBOT FLOOR
The New York Board of Trade's corporate parent acknowledged yesterday that it was holding serious discussions with market participants about the future of the 118-year old trading floor. "Our management...
FEEBLE FOES
WASHINGTON - We all know Rudy Giuliani has significant political talent, vision to rule the free world, and the unbridled passion to conquer all, but he's also blessed with the...
EXPLOSION ROCKS MEXICAN CONSULATE IN NYC
A pair of hollowed-out grenades was hurled at the Mexican Consulate in Midtown early this morning, shattering a window and evoking memories of a strikingly similar attack on a building...
NO BULL, SOX 'PEN SPECIAL
BOSTON - This is when you know things are going well, so well that you can sniff the champagne, so well that you can hear the parade musicians beginning to...
BIG SHOTS THINKING SMALL
FIRST things first. If Yankee president Randy Levine is so concerned with what's seen and heard on YES, he should be more concerned with Giuseppe Franco than with Mike Francesa...
NBA BETS ON COMMON SENSE
TIM Donaghy "may be" the first NBA referee to have influenced a point spread and shared inside info with a criminal element, but whistle blowers have been gambling in casinos...
MAYWEATHER STAYS IN STEP
YOU have to give Floyd Mayweather credit. In a sport struggling to maintain relevance, he is tough to ignore. Mayweather used to just talk a lot, always reminding us how...
CUPFUL OF PRICE PLAYS FOR BETTORS
OCEANPORT, N.J. - The Breeders' Cup always has been the best and toughest betting card of the season with bulging fields, good prices and spectacular upsets. This year, the battle...
ROYAL BLUE
THIS one's easy, so let's just say it in the Queen's English: The Giants are going to kick the Dolphins' bums all over Wembley Stadium. Miami has given up 231...
BUYING EAGLES AT MINNY MAUL
Adding to his stuffed trophy case, The Wildcat captured first place over more than 50 foes in the 2006-07 edition of Playbook's long-running Wise Guys contest with an overall record...
ROCKIE ROAD AWAITS THEM
BOSTON - The title is practically en route. Another banner's soon set to arrive. The Red Sox were far less dominating last night than they were in Game 1 of...
OKAJIMA STYMIES ROCKIES
BOSTON - Hideki Okajima remains magnificent in the postseason. The Red Sox's rookie left-handed reliever from Japan tossed 21/3 hitless and scoreless innings in Boston's 2-1 victory in Game 2...
RYAN GOES FOURTH
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Doug Flutie is no longer the only miracle maker in Boston College football history. And he may not be their only Heisman Trophy winner. After turning in...
WET AND WILD AT MONMOUTH
OCEANPORT, N.J. - As if handicapping the 24th Breeders' Cup World Championships today and tomorrow at Monmouth Park weren't hard enough, this year bettors must solve a puzzle they have...
TWO MORE STARTERS SCRATCHED
OCEANPORT, N.J. - The Breeders' Cup lost two starters yesterday when Attila's Storm pulled out of the Sprint and Dixie Chatter scratched from the Juvenile. "(Attila's Storm) has some filling...
CLASSY 'CLASSIC'
Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey gave a surprising response when asked who he thinks is the favorite in Saturday's $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Monmouth Park. "Let me...
BIG A OFFERS BC WAGERING
Aqueduct today will offer advanced wagering on all of tomorrow's Breeders' Cup card at Monmouth Park. Advanced wagering only will be available at all mutuel windows and SAM machines at...
NBDL SCHEDULES TRYOUTS
The National Basketball Developmental League is conducting two open tryouts for players whose dream is making it to the NBA. The first, conducted by the Knicks' farm team, the Tulsa...
TRENDSETTERS
RAMS (+3) VS. BROWNS, 1 P.M. St. Louis has covered nine of 11 as a home underdog and four of five as an underdog of three points or less. Cleveland...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...DESMOND HOWARD
ESPN college-football studio analyst and former Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard talks to The Post's Justin Terranova about one of the most unpredictable seasons in memory. Q: Is this the...
THE ODD COUPLE
So just what exactly did you expect from The Odd Couple (Dick Klayman & Peter Tocco) after an 8-3-2 beating of the spread? Something like a 5-9 weekend? Well, that's...
MISS CHARLEEN
SUNDAY: Giants, Jets, Browns, Bears, Panthers, Titans, Vikings, Bengals, Texans, Jaguars, Saints, Patriots. MONDAY: Broncos. BEST BETS: Browns, Titans, Texans.
O/U RICO!
Rico finally had a winning week, going 8-6 (1-2 on Best Bets) and bringing the season record to 50-52-1 (10-10-1). The selections for Week 8: OVER: Jets / Bills; Bears...
HONDO: STILL THE BEST BETTOR
Hondo did just enough last week to maintain his solo perch atop the Best Bet standings. Beyond that, he sees nothing noteworthy about the past. Giants over Dolphins: Even the...
HONDO ALL FOR NAUGHT
Boston became a broomtown for Hondo last night as he swept with Rudy's Red Sawx and BC to move into the black with a crisp 80 schiraldis in the account....
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: HGH users bewareGary Matthews Jr., Paul Byrd, Rick Ankiel and other major leaguers who have been linked to human growth hormone (HGH) in published reports face the prospect of...
NEW RACES KICK OFF CUP CARD
OCEANPORT, N.J. - After 23 years of packing all the excitement into a few dizzying hours on one afternoon, the Breeders' Cup World Championships becomes a two-day event at Monmouth...
GOAL REVERSAL
Foul practice made perfect. Well-schooled on shutouts by being blanked in two straight, the Rangers and their worst offense in the NHL made the Devils their turnabout victims last night....
JACOBS' LADDER
LONDON - As much as anyone, Brandon Jacobs is embracing the idea of bringing his sport to a new continent. "It will be interesting to see how people react to...
MADISON SQUARES OFF AGAINST FORMER TEAM
LONDON - For nine years, few played the cornerback position better than Sam Madison did for the Dolphins. Now in his second season with the Giants, Madison knew he'd face...
WEEKEND IN LONDON
The Giants' buses departed Giants Stadium yesterday at 4:45 p.m. and one hour later, it was wheels up for the team's 747 charter flight to London. Landing at Heathrow Airport...
READY TO FILL VILMA'S SHOES
Could it be that the David Harris era is about to begin for the Jets? Harris, the run-stuffing linebacker from Michigan whom the Jets traded up 16 spots to draft...
SAFETY FIRST FOR HARD-HITTING ELAM
Fans probably haven't heard of Abram Elam, but soon they might become very familiar with him. As of last Sunday, Elam is the Jets' starting safety alongside Kerry Rhodes. Elam...
COMMISH STERN, BUT PATIENT OVER KNICKS
Despite admitting outside pressures to discipline Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas and team owner James Dolan for being liable for sexual harassment, NBA commissioner David Stern said he will hold fire...
CURRY: KNICKS PLAYOFF-BOUND
Eddy Curry was asked about the Knicks' timeframe for making the playoffs, rather than merely hoping and planning for it. "We're at that point [now]," Curry said. "I feel like...
WILLIAMS POINTS TO NOVEMBER RETURN
Worrisome? Not really. Frustrating? Definitely. Marcus Williams was streaming toward his second NBA season. The Nets - and they really mean it this time - want to get Jason Kidd's...
YOUNGSTERS PAY DIVIDENDS FOR BLUESHIRTS
THE shirts are still blue even if more and more of the Rangers wearing them on the ice are green. Like last night, for instance. With 4:50 left in the...
BRIAN GAME
Brian Cashman is deciding a job, right now, and it is his as much as that of Yankees manager. His superiors, notably Hank and Hal Steinbrenner and team president Randy...
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
BOSTON - There is a brilliant skit from the old Monty Python show in which hide and seek is introduced into the Olympics. The seeker covers his eyes and counts...
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR
In a minor move - compared to selecting a new manager and negotiating multi-year deals with Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez - the Yankees have left their initial...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
There are many ways to win a woman's heart, but tossing corn at her house never works - even in Iowa. Daniel Eugene Wilson, 47, was arrested in Burlington for...
Nigel Dawes, Everyone
Nigel Dawes has been playing some of the best hockey the Rangers have had to offer. Tonight he was rewarded for his work with two goals to give his team...