December 6, 2007
No ban for Schoeneweis
December 6, 2007 | 10:28pmAPMets reliever Scott Schoeneweis will not be punished as a result of media reports that his name surfaced in a national drug investigation by the district attorney in Albany.ESPN.com had...
In playoffs, it's all relative
December 6, 2007 | 10:16pmFor most of you, this marks the first week of the fantasy holiday postseason. Hopefully, you still have some celebrating to do.With transactions locked in some leagues, and the waiver...
The Captain Speaks
December 6, 2007 | 9:54pmBy FRED KERBERHe was sick, he wouldn't disrespect the game, he is not unhappy.That in a nutshell was Jason Kidd's comeback today to all the reports that he staged a...
Scene
December 6, 2007 | 9:17pmAt the Russell Young show at Milk Gallery, Dianna Mesion wears a cool Moschino skirt, Martine Sitbon shoes, a vintage jacket and a chain-detailed bag by Bliss Lau."I'm eclectic. The...
Eva Longoria in Armani Exchange
December 6, 2007 | 7:48pmEva Longoria stepped out in the chilly December weather bundled up in this cozy animal-friendly faux-shearling coat -- $350 -- from Armani Exchange.
Sample Sales!
December 6, 2007 | 6:25pmBrave the cold, and head to these designer sales that start today:DEREK LAM 601 W. 26th St., suite 1750, between 11th and 12th avenues; (212) 929-1338Sale: Dec. 6, 7. 10...
Starr Report
December 6, 2007 | 4:08pm'Mind' man's trek."Mind of Mencia" host Carlos Mencia just returned from a trip to Iraq, where he spent a week visiting with US soldiers and entertaining them. He was scheduled...
Our Smiths Point in Different Directions on 'Compass'
December 6, 2007 | 2:52pmWe celebrate diversity of opinion daily here at The Post. My esteemed colleague Kyle Smith grinches New Line Cinema's $180 million would-be blockbuster (opening at midnight) with 1.5 stars, predicts...
CHECKING IN: Le Meridien's cultural quest
December 6, 2007 | 11:17amThe view from up top at Le Meridien Sunny Isles in Miami(ish). The Le Meridien brand has had somewhat of a bumpy ride of late.Let's see. Saddled with debt. (They...
TODAY'S IMMIGRATION DEBATE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amOur series Immigration - The Story of America's People, concludes. THE debate generally focuses on illegal immigrants - people who enter the country without going through legal procedures. Their numbers...
AVOIDING A HI-DEF JAM
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTHE Chinese think it's the year of the pig, but we know the truth: It's the year of the flat-screen TV. Prices of high-definition, flat-panel TVs have dropped to practically...
PRICE KEY IN HD/BLU-RAY DUEL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amEARLY adopters are all atwitter about Blu-ray and HD DVD - high definition DVDs - and their players. With all the brouhaha raging about which format to align yourself with,...
BACKING WRONG HORSE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amFOR its current season at City Center, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre is presenting no fewer than three world premieres and one major new production. There can hardly be...
HAUTE LIST
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTHE Porter Grey girls might have pink and blue in their spring collection, but in the next few months they'll be rolling in green. Their spring line has been picked...
HASIDIC ARTIST MORE THAN A HOLIDAY TREAT
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIT was all rhythm and Jews on the first night of Hanukkah at Matisyahu's Festival of Lights concert at the Roseland Ballroom. Standing tall at 6-foot-3, Matisyahu wore his Talmudic...
CAREER IN CRIME
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIT was a classic Janice Soprano moment: "Tony, the veal with the mushrooms I had yesterday. Can you make it tonight, baby?" But this Tony's no Soprano - he works...
STARR REPORT
December 6, 2007 | 10:00am'Mind' man's trek "Mind of Mencia" host Car los Mencia just returned from a trip to Iraq, where he spent a week visiting with US soldiers and entertaining them. He...
'FUTCH' FETISH
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amMTV's cringe-inducing, bisexual dating show, "Shot at Love with Tila Tequila," has created an unlikely star - Dani Campbell, a lesbian firefighter from Florida. The 29-year-old has even created a...
PATS: BIGGEST CABLE SHOW EVER
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTHE New England Patriots stayed unbeaten Monday night - and also helped ESPN reap the biggest audience in cable history. The Patriots' heart-stopping 27-24 victory over Baltimore, giving them a...
'SNL' SHOWS OFF BEST DURING STRIKE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amNBC will air "Best Of" episodes of "Satur day Night Live," in prime time, as the writers' strike continues to affect regular programming. The 90-minute "SNL" specials, airing Saturdays from...
JENNA PHONES HOME
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTHERE'S nothing unusual about calling your dad - unless you're on a talk show and dad happens to be President George W. Bush. That's what happened on yesterday's "Ellen," when...
BALTIMORE BLUES
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIF you set your TV show in a newspaper news room, you're asking for trouble from nitpicky TV critics who also work at newspapers. We can't help it. Here's a...
NEW PROPS FOR 'OLD MEN'
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTHE neo-Western "No Country for Old Men" was cited as best picture and for best ensemble cast yesterday by the National Board of Review in the country's oldest film awards....
FILM HAS A PAPAL TRAIL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIS "The Golden Compass" anti-church? Is the pope Catholic? The film's villainous ruling cabal, the Magisterium, dresses its officials in churchy cassocks and operates from a headquarters clearly modeled after...
BROKEN 'COMPASS'
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amFIVE minutes before "The Golden Compass" started, I was wondering when it was going to start. Forty minutes into it, I was wondering exactly the same thing. "The Golden Compass,"...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amJust because you are another year older does not mean you have to give up on your dreams. On the contrary, you are also another year more experienced, so it...
COUNCIL PERK$ ARE A LULU, SAY WATCHDOGS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amGood-government organizations came out strongly yesterday against the City Council practice of stipends to lawmakers at the discretion of the council speaker. The advocates also want restrictions placed on the...
ARABIC PRINCIPAL LOSES RETURN BID
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe ousted principal of a controversial Arabic public school who made statements defending the use of the slogan "Intifada NYC" on T-shirts won't be getting her old job back, after...
MORE FAILED SCHOOLS ARE TAUGHT A LESSON
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTwo more schools - one in Queens and another in The Bronx - were added to the Department of Education's school-closure list yesterday for poor performance. Education officials cited declining...
NEAR-CRASHES DOUBLE AT LA G
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amOverworked air-traffic controllers, outdated technology and ineffective FAA leadership are putting passenger planes on a collision course with disaster - especially at La Guardia Airport, where runway near-misses have more...
GOOD OL' DAYS OF @#!$BALL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amPlayers were yelling something a whole lot nastier than "You're blind, ump!" at baseball games in the 1890s. And it's all there in writing, on a withered 1898 document called...
ROARRR! ANCIENT LION GETS RECORD $57M
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAn ancient sculpture of a mighty lioness that stands just 31/4 inches tall became queen of the auction jungle yesterday - fetching a record $57 million. Sotheby's had estimated that...
A WED-FELLA
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amOne way or another, his life as a free man is nearly over. Reputed Gambino capo George DeCicco, 78, and his longtime girlfriend, Gail Lombardozzi, 52, yesterday got a marriage...
ELIOT AXES HONCHO AMID 'CHAOS'
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - Gov. Spitzer fired a top aide last night because of what sources called ongoing "chaos" within his administration. Olivia Golden, the governor's $169,000-a-year state operations director, was ousted...
SPITZ VS. DA ON DOPP 'LIE'
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - Gov. Spitzer insisted yesterday that former top aide Darren Dopp signed a valid document on the Dirty Tricks Scandal - even as the Albany district attorney suggested that...
NYRA PROBE HEATS UP
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - The corruption-fighting State Investigations Commission has issued subpoenas as part of its widening probe into Gov. Spitzer's push to keep the troubled New York Racing Association operating the...
HELP ON THE WAY FOR PROPERTY OWNERS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe city will provide $2.8 million to launch the largest municipal program in the nation to advise property owners caught in the subprime mortgage crisis how not to lose their...
PARENTS BACK CHESS COACH
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIn the end, they're choosing principle over their principal. Parents of 10 of 13 members of the renowned PS 70 Bronx chess team have decided to forgo tomorrow's national championships...
B'KLYN BRIDGE ECO DE'LIGHT'
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe Brooklyn Bridge is going green. Ramping up his environmental agenda, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that the 100-watt mercury vapor lamps on the span will be replaced with 24-watt LEDs...
TELLTALE BLOOD IN FDNY SLAY
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amWhen cops arrived at the Staten Island home of a slain fire marshal, they saw blood on his wife's fingernails and found her freshly dried clothes in the dryer, law-enforcement...
FREAK MISHAP KILLS CYCLIST, 65
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amA truck struck and killed a bicyclist, 65, who had been flung from his bike after hitting an open car door in Midtown yesterday. David Smith was on his way...
FUNERAL FOR HERO BX. GI
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe Bronx soldier who was killed in Iraq last week was laid to rest yesterday in an emotional funeral where he was hailed as a young man who wanted to...
SUBWAY GIRLS PUMMEL RIDER
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIt's every subway rider's fear: You're riding the train through a bad neighborhood and a group of thuggish teens singles you out for attack. A shocking video apparently showing just...
EX-YANK EXEC IN PERV BUST
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amA former marketing exec of both the US Olympic Committee and a joint New York Yankees-New Jersey Nets venture has been busted in Connecticut on child-porn charges, authorities said yesterday....
'JEHOVAH' HITS RENTAL HEIGHT$
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amA real-estate giant is planning to convert a famous Brooklyn Heights hotel last used by the Jehovah Witnesses into about 100 rental apartments, The Post has learned. Boston-based Taurus Investment...
'$200M KNOCKOFF' BUSTS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAt the height of the holiday shopping season, the feds busted 10 members of an international smuggling ring trying to sneak more than $200 million in designer knockoffs into the...
CRASH KILLS 2 TEEN PALS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amA Queens teen cruising around in a high-performance car that he recently got as a gift slammed into an overpass yesterday - killing two passengers and critically injuring himself and...
BIZ TENANTS MAY NEED A CARNEGIE U-HAUL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe curtain may soon be coming down on several businesses operating above Carnegie Hall. A Manhattan Civil Court judge has given the storied concert hall the green light to evict...
POKER SLAY BUST
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAfter being forced to free their first suspect in last month's fatal Flatiron District poker game shooting, cops have arrested another man in the killing. Cops busted Steven Perez, 21,...
JURY TOLD OF DAD'S ARSENAL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe black Long Island father charged with shooting one of five white teens who converged on his home to confront his son about a bogus rape threat was no stranger...
OFFICER IN MP3 MESS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAn NYPD detective will be charged today with lying on the witness stand about how he interrogated a teenage shooting suspect after the savvy 17-year-old captured the whole thing on...
SINATRA STAMP OF APPROVAL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe best is yet to come for fans of Ol' Blue Eyes. Frank Sinatra is getting his own postage stamp next spring, the Postal Service announced yesterday. The singer's "recordings,...
KIN OF COP VICTIM CRY 'JUSTICE'
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amFamily and friends of a drunken, unarmed man shot by a cop after a car crash earlier this year cried for justice yesterday as the officer left a Bronx courtroom,...
INVASION OF THE GIANT RATS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amGiant rodents are about to take over New Jersey! And even if the Garden State might not look any different, it has some officials worried about the ugly, 20-pound nutria...
MIKE TO PRESS CHINA ON RIGHTS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amChinese officials who'll be meeting with Mayor Bloomberg in Beijing and Shanghai next week had better be prepared to discuss his concerns about human rights and freedom of the press....
'DEAD MAN' IS A 'CON MAN'
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amWhen John Darwin strolled into a police station in London last weekend, it seemed a miracle he had survived after disappearing five years ago in a North Sea canoeing accident....
'ID THIEF' BRAT'S TRAIL OF BIZARRO TALL TALES
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe buxom brunette who made up half of the alleged rich-kid identity-theft duo is no stranger to lying, cheating or stealing, her acquaintances say. Jet-set jive-talker Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, who...
'LOST POUND PUPPY' BECOMES A BEAST
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe gunman who turned an Omaha mall into a living nightmare was a lonely young man with a troubled recent past, people who knew him said yesterday. Robert A. Hawkins,...
8 DEAD IN MALL MASSACRE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amJust days after being fired from a McDonald's, a teen gunman opened fire with a rifle on terrified Christmas shoppers at a packed mall in Nebraska yesterday, killing eight people...
MITT'S POLL WOE AMID 'FAITH' HEAL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAmericans are 20 percent less likely to vote for a Mormon for president than a black or female candidate, a new survey shows. And the bias is even higher among...
HILL FIRES E-MAULER
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amDES MOINES, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton fired an Iowa organizer yesterday who forwarded a smear e-mail claiming Barack Obama is secretly a radical Muslim determined to destroy the country...
KIN RIP HUCK SPIN ON KILLER
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - Rising in the polls, former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday faced harsh new criticism for his involvement in freeing an imprisoned rapist who quickly went on to rape...
DON'T LOOK NOW, BUT HERE COMES . . .
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amSARASOTA, Fla. - No pictures! Leona Helmsley's $12 million dog Trouble has been hiding out in a quiet Florida residential neighborhood where her current handlers tried to shield the reclusive...
DRUNK-DRIVING KIEFER OFF TO JAIL FOR 48 DAYS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amKiefer Sutherland's latest drama will last more than 24 hours. The star of the hit TV series "24" was sentenced yesterday to 48 days behind bars after pleading no contest...
'CLUB KILLER' NAILED IN GA.
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe man allegedly responsible for stabbing another man to death at Manhattan hot spot Duvet last month was busted on the lam in Georgia, police said yesterday. Anthony Taylor, 26,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amMANHATTAN A man was arrested for swiping $8,800 worth of chairs from an East Side commercial building, police sources said yesterday. Maurice Drewitt, 44, allegedly stole 16 office chairs in...
LOTTERY
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 569; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 1892; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 758; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 0213;...
HILLARY'S UGLY 'JOKE'
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIt's enough to make your head explode - Team Clinton's astonishing press release about Barack Obama's grade- school essays. Yep - grade school. Countering an Obama jibe about a certain...
LET GO, JUSTICE FREEDMAN
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amState Supreme Court Justice Helen Freedman made the right move Mon day when she withdrew her plan to have yet another panel review the city's shelter system - and agreed...
SAVE THE WORLD (WHILE YOU TAN)
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amWhen we last took note of Mayor Bloomberg's campaign to save the world from a carbon dioxide-induced fever, he'd just delivered a sermon on the subject in Seattle, Wash. Whereupon...
HARD-CORE HOMELESS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAS bitterly cold winds whip ped through the city Tues day night, a Department of Homeless Services outreach team arrived at a street encampment outside the old West-Park Presbyterian Church,...
THE DEVIL IN NY'S CONSTITUTION
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amASKED whether his browns tone residence is in Har lem, the Rev. Michael Faulkner says, well, that depends. "When something bad happens, the neighborhood is called Harlem. When something good...
MITT'S MISSION: BEAT THE BIGOTS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTWO weeks ago, it was set tled policy within Mitt Romney's campaign that his speech dealing with his Mormon faith would be delivered much later - if at all -...
SPEECH-GAG RULE FACES ACID TEST
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amFIVE years ago, members of Congress voted to protect themselves from criticism in the name of protecting us from their own corruption. For those of us who were disgusted by...
FORGET HUCK'S RELIGION: HE'S RIGHT MAN FOR JOB
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIt is sad that George Will has decided to look down his well-bred nose on Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas ("Horrible Huck," PostOpinion, Dec. 3). Will, after all,...
FDNY: PLAYING WITH FIRE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAs you wrote in "FDNY Test Mess," (Dec. 2), to diversify the FDNY ranks at the expense of standards is not worth it. The bottom line is that saving lives...
PEACOCK PURGE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amNBC boss Jeff Zucker is expected to make big cuts on the newsgathering and operational side of the company's news division, including eliminating an entire level of MSNBC's management team,...
FRAYED: COMCAST SLASHES OUTLOOK
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amCable stocks came under pressure yesterday as industry leader Comcast said it will add fewer subscribers this year than originally anticipated and sales will come in lower than expected. The...
AQR'S QUANT LOSES LUSTER
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amA giant Greenwich hedge fund continues to get clobbered as volatility whipsaws its computer-generated trading models. AQR Capital Management's flagship fund, the $4 billion AQR Absolute Return fund, dropped an...
THE 'BANKRUPT' PLAN FOR SUBPRIME RESCUE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAs the political tangle thickens over who'll help cash-strapped homeowners fight foreclosures, Congress is floating a new fix of its own - in old-fashioned bankruptcy courts. The House and Senate...
NEW MORGANS HOTEL CEO HAS SUITE DEAL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amEver wonder what kind of Manhattan apartment $30,000 a month might get you? Just ask Fred J. Kleisner, interim CEO of Morgans Hotel Group. Morgans - which hired Kleisner in...
FACEBOOK FOUNDER TURNS OTHER CHEEK
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amFacebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a lengthy apology on the Web yesterday in an effort to make up with legions of members who say the social networking site's...
SWEET CARMEN-EL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTalk about a sweet deal. Chocolate maker Hershey's is pairing with Carmen Electra to whip up some excitement during Super Bowl XLII. The maker of Hershey's Kisses, Reese's and Kit...
FED CAN'T PASS THE BUCK
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTOMORROW'S employ ment report isn't likely to be nearly as strong as last month's - and that'll be a big relief to the Federal Reserve. Under normal circumstances the Fed,...
FUND INJECTS CAPITAL TO AID FORD MODELS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amFord Models, the iconic modeling and management agency whose roster has boasted leggy starlets from Cheryl Tiegs to Lindsay Lohan, has sold a stake in itself to hedge fund Stone...
WAMU CLOSING BROKER
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe brokerage unit of West Coast banking giant Washington Mutual appears to be on the verge of closing, according to a number of sources on Wall Street. WaMu Capital Corp.,...
INDUSTRY EYES $3M FOR ROVE MEMOIR
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amKarl Rove, the controversial and long-time senior adviser to President George W. Bush, is shopping a memoir in an auction that will kick off today and likely result in a...
SONY HUMBUG
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTis' the season in the music business - firing season. In what's become an annual bit of bah-humbug for the beleaguered recording industry since 2003. A number of labels are...
ROBERT CHAMBERS' GIRLFRIEND PLEADS GUILTY
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe girlfriend of Preppy Killer Robert Chambers, who was busted along with him for selling cocaine out of her Upper East Side apartment, plead guilty to a drug charge in...
DOCTOROFF RESIGNS AS DEPUTY MAYOR
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIn a stunning development, Mayor Bloomberg announced today that the architect of some of the city's most far-reaching projects was leaving the administration to become president of Bloomberg LP, the...
JUST SOLD!
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amManhattan CHELSEA $1,250,000 124 W. 24th St. One-bedroom, two-bath loft condo, 1,180 square feet, with birch walls, wood beams, cast-iron columns and washer/dryer; building features elevator and roof deck. Common...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amChelsea $899,000 Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 650 Maintenance: $875 Located on a stretch of 20th Street that TimeOut New York named the city's third most beautiful block, this...
WHAT MELTDOWN?
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIN 2007, America's sky didn't fall, but its roof definitely leaked. The big nationwide real-estate story was the swift and total collapse of the subprime market, which provided loans to...
HIS OWN SPIELBURB
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amSteven Spielberg is looking for some ET (as in extra territory) surrounding his East Hampton estate. Sources say that the Oscar-winning director and producer is negotiating to buy two properties...
BENIOFF & RUNNING
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAs a screenwriter, author and husband of a famous actress, David Benioff, 37, is used to operating behind the scenes. So it's no surprise that he credits his wife, Amanda...
VOLUME CONTROL
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe city is awash in noise - whether it's the neighbors pushing their stereo speakers to the limit, a recycling truck showing up at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, or...
ROCKLAND STARS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amA famous cartoonist's rambling farmhouse. A screen legend's weekend lair. A "Sopranos" star's suburban cottage. All in Rockland County, all for sale. Here are the details if you're interested in...
SUBURBAN TURF WAR
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amWhen I lived on the Upper West Side, I tried bitterly to get relief from a neighbor's teenagers who played basketball and partied in a shared courtyard until midnight. I...
SAFETY CAN BE DIFFERENT AS NIGHT & DAY
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amHow can I determine if the unfamiliar neighborhood I'm thinking of moving into is really as safe as the broker claims? Yours is a good question, because not only have...
DREAM HOMES
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amUpper West Side $3.295 million What happens when you make eight into seven? Well, if you're talking rooms, as in this "palatial" renovated corner co-op, the numbers add up just...
IF THIS WERE A SIT-OUT, JASON'S ACTIONS INEXCUSABLE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amSO maybe it turns out that there's more than enough room for two dysfunctional basketball families in Greater New York. Maybe it turns out there's more than enough discontent to...
SOURCES: 'ON-STRIKE' KIDD DECIDES TO SIT OUT
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amJason Kidd was "on strike," last night several team sources claimed, and he essentially called in sick, perhaps in an effort to force a trade from the Nets or get...
CAREY AT HOME AT ALL HALLOWS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amJohn Carey was the head basketball coach at All Hallows for 27 seasons before leaving four years ago to become an assistant at Fairfield University. Now, he's back on the...
SPORTS SHORTS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amSTEROIDS: Guillen facing ban According to ESPN.com, the Players Association is negotiating with MLB officials on a possible 10- to 15-day suspension for outfielder Jose Guillen for his reported involvement...
FORDHAM FIGHTS OFF HOFSTRA
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amDereck Whittenburg had accused his seniors of not showing up and lacking leadership. The Fordham coach made threats and promised changes. He was upset and disturbed that his players weren't...
MAYWEATHER'S FORECAST CALLS FOR MORE REIGN
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amLAS VEGAS - He'll make more money this year than any American athlete other than Tiger Woods. He's the recognized pound-for-pound king of boxing and the only boxer to win...
IN PLAYOFFS, IT'S ALL RELATIVE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amFOR MOST of you, this marks the first week of the fantasy holiday postseason. Hopefully, you still have some celebrating to do. With transactions locked in some leagues, and the...
NOT A BEANE OF TRUTH
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amNASHVILLE - A's GM Billy Beane was working out yesterday in the gym at the Opryland hotel when his assistant mentioned that a Web site had posted an item stating...
RALLY GOOD!
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amIt was the emotion of demotion. It spurred Patrik Elias and the Devils' rousing comeback for a share of the Atlantic lead. Shorn officially of his captaincy yesterday, and even...
EAGLES FEELIN' GOOD TO HAVE MCNABB BACK
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amUntil proven otherwise, the Eagles are Donovan McNabb's team. They will be again this Sunday against the Giants after backup AJ Feeley filled in at quarterback the past two games....
BLUE CROSS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amNowadays, the chore of detailing who is ready and who is not takes longer than ever for the Giants, as in Week 14 of the season this is the hardest...
'VERN OF EVENTS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTHERE might not be a more congenial, amusing, enjoyable place in the Jets locker room today than the far corner of the room where Laveranues Coles resides. This is quite...
KNICKS GIVE NETS MIGRAINE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amJason Kidd was "on strike" last night, several team sources claimed. He essentially called in sick, perhaps seeking to force a trade from the Nets or gain a contract extension....
TEAM WINS ONE FOR STEPH
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amStephon Marbury's crushed spirits were lifted just a bit last night, watching with his family as the inspired Knicks dismantled the Jason Kidd-less Nets 100-93 at The Meadowlands. During the...
ACE VENTURE A MET OBJECTIVE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amNASHVILLE - The Mets are shooting for a prime-age ace, and you have to understand something about the landscape when your quest is a No. 1 starter still in his...
STILL IN HUNT
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amNASHVILLE - The Mets are still interested in Johan Santana, and they believe they will remain in the derby. But they don't believe there has been a dramatic turn in...
IF PROTEST TRUE, JASON'S ACTIONS INEXCUSABLE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amSO maybe it turns out that there's more than enough room for two dysfunctional basketball families in Greater New York. Maybe it turns out there's more than enough discontent to...
RANGERS FIRED UP OVER LOSS
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amTheir 4-0 Garden loss to the Hurricanes on Monday may have kicked the Rangers back into a first-place frame of mind. "I think when you lace 'em up for the...
KID ROW
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amNASHVILLE - Hank Steinbrenner admits he wanted Johan Santana and said the door to a deal is never nailed shut. Nevertheless, Steinbrenner predicted with Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain and Ian...
HUGHES NEVER WORRIED
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amNASHVILLE - Phil Hughes knew Hank Steinbrenner included him in the offer to the Twins for Johan Santana. Yet, until his agents or Brian Cashman called, Hughes said he didn't...
WEEPING KNICK'S GOODBYE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amAll the Knicks and seemingly all of Coney Island descended upon Neptune Avenue yesterday for the funeral service of Brooklyn's basketball patriarch Donald Marbury - the father of Knick guard...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amA Florida man is accused of being not only a craven thief, but also a bad dad. Cops in Lehigh Acres say Tony Doden left his 3-month-old son home alone...
Tracking the Tracker
December 6, 2007 | 1:56amWith the regular season in the book in most leagues, here's a quick rundown of the Tracker's track record this season across 61 teams. Ended up with one undefeated squad...