July 21, 2008
Rocked at the Rocky Mountain Revue
By FRED KERBERThere were some good individual performances, by all accounts. But as a team, the Nets left a lot to be desired.The Nets followed up their hit effort in...
Amy Poehler's new 'Office'
NBCâs super secretive spinoff of "The Office" starring "SNLâs" Amy Poehler isnât a spinoff after all, the network says.âAmyâs character will never appear inside the (Dunder Mifflin) office before appearing...
'Deal' or... new deal
Howie Mandel's hit NBC game show is going into syndication.Beginning September 8, fans of "Deal Or No Deal" can get their fix with five half hour shows a week. But...
BUSY DAY FOR BIG BLUE
The Giants signed second-round draft pick Terrell Thomas, a cornerback from USC. Veteran RT Shane Olivea passed his physical and signed. The Giants also added OL Jonathan Palmer of Auburn...
Matsui trying to avoid surgery
By GEORGE A. KING IIIHideki Matsui wants to avoid surgery, but if his left knee fills with fluid again, GM Brian Cashman said it will be impossible for the Yankees...
Dooling A Net
By FRED KERBERItâs official. Keyon Dooling is a Net. The Nets and Magic finalized their trade that brings the 28-year-old combo guard to New Jersey.The Nets surrender the $3.3 million...
No MRI exam for Wagner
From BRIAN COSTELLOMets closer Billy Wagner (pictured) did not undergo an MRI exam today, contrary to an earlier report. Wagner did meet with team orthopedist Dr. Seth Miller in Manhattan,...
SHOULDER INFLAMMATION FOR WAGNER
Mets closer Billy Wagner did not undergo an MRI exam today, contrary to a report. Wagner did meet with team orthopedist Dr. Seth Miller in Manhattan, who diagnosed inflammation in...
JETS PUT BAKER ON PUP LIST
The Jets today announced that unhappy tight end Chris Baker has been placed on the active/physically unable to perform list two days before the start of training camp. Baker, who...
Devils sign Fedor Fedorov
The Devils today signed center Fedor Fedorov to a new contract. As per club policy, no further terms were disclosed.Fedorov, 27, returns to North America for the first time since...
"Fresh start was the best thing'' for Shockey
By PAUL SCHWARTZAfter speaking several times with Jeremy Shockey, Giants co-owner John Mara came to the conclusion that trading the disgruntled tight end was best for both parties."I had a...
POSADA GOING BACK TO DISABLED LIST
The odds are pretty strong that Yankees catcher Jorge Posada may be finished for the season. And even if that isn't the case, it could be several weeks before Posada...
Giants confirm Shockey trade
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants minutes ago confirmed what by now is no secret, that they indeed have traded unhappy tight end Jeremy Shockey to the Saints. In exchange, the Giants...
Dane Richards out 4-6 weeks
By BRIAN LEWISRed Bulls midfielder Dane Richards will miss 4-6 weeks with a hip flexor strain suffered in Saturday's 2-2 tie with the Galaxy.The speedy winger has three assists in...
DeFelitta Blogs 'City Island'
I'm a fan of Raymond DeFelitta, who has directed such idiosyncratic flicks as "Two Family House'' and "'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris'' and blogs about old movies and...
Shockey traded to Saints
The Giants have traded disgruntled tight end Jeremy Shockey to the New Orleans Saints for a second-round and a fifth-round draft pick in 2009. Always outspoken, Shockey missed last year's...
GIANTS TRADE SHOCKEY TO SAINTS
The Giants have traded disgruntled tight end Jeremy Shockey to the New Orleans Saints for a second-round and a fifth-round draft pick in 2009. Always outspoken, Shockey missed last year's...
NETS' NACHBAR LEAVING FOR RUSSIA
The Nets say hello to Keyon Dooling and say goodbye to one of the true good guys in their locker room in recent years, Boki Nachbar. Nachbar, a 6-9, 28-year-old...
Comrade Boki
By FRED KERBERWhile the Nets prepare to say hello to Keyon Dooling, they can officially say goodbye to one of the true good guys in their locker room in recent...
ON DECK: TWINS AT YANKEES
With speedster Carlos Gomez manning the top of the Twins' lineup, Jose Molina will get another start behind the plate for the Yankees tonight (7:05, YES, WCBS). Molina had found...
HURRICANES WREAK HAVOC
Hurricane season began on June 1 and continues though Nov. 30. Weather experts watch storm formations over the Atlantic Ocean. Many tropical depressions will form and a few will turn...
Nat says Spelling killed Peach Pit dream
Joe E Tata says his dream of becoming a restaurant mogul was squashed by his former boss, Aaron Spelling.âWe were going to open a string of Peach Pit restaurants (after...
'Price is Right': too easy?
Donât be surprised if it gets a bit more difficult to break the bank on "The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular."âWhen we did the first four shows, we gave...
LIVEBLOG: We're not curing cancer, here
"I'm surprised to see so many people here this morning. After all, it's early and we're drunkards," laughs Todd Thrasher, general manager of Restaurant Eve in Alexandria, VA. So goes...
Peach Pit gets a face lift
Nat is back to work at The Peach Pit â but in the new spinoff of 90210, heâll be serving up cappuccinos and lattes.âItâs a cool coffeehouse now where a...
'Cold Case' cop goes cruisin'
When her hit CBS series âCold Caseâ shut down production during the Hollywood writers strike, star Kathryn Morris took a family road trip â in her dressing room.âIâve got a...
GIRARDI'S INTERESTING CHOICES
FROM JOEL SHERMANI sense Joe Girardi is going to manage in a way more familiar to the National League and certainly not familiar with recent Yankee history. Besides Alex Rodriguez,...
3 UP: Girardi, Red Sox and Angels
1. I sense Joe Girardi is going to manage in a way more familiar to the National League and certainly not familiar with recent Yankee history. Besides Alex Rodriguez, Derek...
PULSE SALES
SOPHIA EUGENE AND CHRISTOPHER DEANE 37 Cornelia St., between Bleecker and Fourth streets; (212) 488-2124 Sale: July 24-31. Mon.-Sun., noon-8 p.m. Snag a Christopher Deane butterfly print dress for $100.BIRD...
IVAN THE HEROIC: TAKING THE RIGHT SHOT
* As a retired law-enforcement officer, I can empathize with Detective Ivan Davison ("Three Cheers!" July 17). How you feel about police conduct largely depends on which side of the...
TELLING SILENCES
HOW bold it is of Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg to join forces in pressing for the 9/11 memorial to be finished by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack....
O'S HEALTH RX: COVER ILLEGALS
DEMOCRATS' single most important domes tic proposal - universal health insurance - may blow up in Barack Obama's face when voters are exposed to the deadly details. Obama has said,...
NYC'S ROAD BACK
THIS summer brings the quiet sunset ting of the Municipal Assistance Corp., which was created to moni tor city finances in 1978 and steer the city away from bankruptcy. No...
TEST GIANT ETS FAILS UK EXAM
American exam giant Educational Testing Services is about to lose a $311 million contract for botching a national middle-school assessment in England, according to reports yesterday. ETS Europe - a...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 007; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 5289; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Nos. Sun: 515; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 8342;...
OPENING 'KNIGHT' RECORD
Not even billionaire Bruce Wayne would call this chump change. "The Dark Knight" had the biggest opening weekend in movie history, grossing $155.3 million in 72 hours. The latest installment...
OBAMA WARNS OF AFGHAN CRISIS
Barack Obama yesterday warned that conditions in Afghanistan are so "precarious and urgent" that troops should be redeployed from Iraq, where he arrived today to meet with top US military...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND * Four gun-toting men posing as cops made off with money and jewelry after barging into a New Springville home while a woman was baby sitting two sleeping...
SUMMER'S HOT SCHOOL READING LIST
Forget the beach. it's time to hit the books. There are only six weeks left until school kicks off, so if you don't want your child to spend Labor Day...
CITY E-GNORED 54,000 PARKING-TICKET MAILS
Perplexed motorists who sent e-mail inquiries about their parking tickets to the Finance Department as far back as four years ago didn't get any responses until last month, The Post...
SILVER BULLET: GUARANTEE OR NO PROP-TAX CAP
ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was the odd man out yesterday as Gov. Paterson pressed for a cap on soaring property taxes in his first post-session powwow with legislative...
RIVALS WOOING APPLE CORP$
Barack Obama and John McCain are competing fiercely to win the hearts - and wallets - of New York's rich and famous. A Post analysis shows that 17 percent of...
ABUSE UP FOR ACS CHILDREN
Reports of abuse and neglect of children in city care grew by 12 percent last year, as parents, advocates and investigators keep closer watch on the municipal government's long-troubled child-welfare...
KIDVILLE PRESCHOOL IS GOING 'PUBLIC'
A childless billionaire investor is taking a successful Manhattan preschool concept public. Dr. Phillip Frost, a 70-year-old Florida-based dermatologist-turned-investor - who was named America's 204th-richest man by Forbes last year...
FUNERAL FOR SLAIN LAWYER
The Brooklyn divorce lawyer who was slain in bed with his wife in their Marine Park home was eulogized yesterday as a larger-than-life personality. When Mark Schwartz "entered a room,...
PATRIOT'S STARS BARRED
A small American flag that's been on an apartment door since 9/11 has sparked a big battle in Brooklyn between a patriotic lawyer and his persnickety co-op board. Vincent Romano,...
DRIVER WANTS CITY BU$-TED
A school-bus driver who was attacked by students has filed a $10 million notice of claim against the city, saying he had warned officials that troublemakers were going to hurt...
GUN-SEIZURE LAWSUIT
An outspoken Long Island gun owner's home was raided by Nassau County detectives, who seized two dozen weapons he lawfully owns just one day after Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's office made...
3 MORE YEARS OF SUNSHINE FOR BOWERY BUMS
One of the Bowery's last flophouses just got a new lease on life. The Sunshine Hotel, which has been featured in several documentaries for its mix of bleak conditions and...
FUN-IN-SUN PERIL TO CITY KIDS
The hot summer in the city means even hotter temps at area playgrounds - where scorching heat left play mats under jungle gyms hitting 167 degrees last week in Manhattan...
TRAIN-ING DAY FOR JIHADISTS
Allah board! An Islamic group plans to blitz 1,000 subway cars with advertisements this September in a campaign being promoted by a Brooklyn imam whom federal officials have linked to...
ADVICE FROM A 'VEND'
For a little fun, how about trying a Donald Trump comb-over? That's one of the ideas being pitched by the "Funulator," a square, gumball-machine-like box placed on various city corners...
GIRL, 9, LEFT FOR DEAD IN HIT-RUN
A heartless hit-and-run driver left a 9-year-old Brooklyn girl fighting for her life, cops said yesterday. Nacirema Brown was hit at 8:47 p.m. Saturday as she was crossing west on...
MAC GIVES NY SILENT TREATMENT
John McCain rounded off his weekend trip to New York yesterday, taking in a Yankee game and holding a closed-door meeting with Schools Chancellor Joel Klein - all the while...
TRIATHLETE DIES IN RACE
A 32-year-old triathlete from Argentina died yesterday after he was pulled unconscious from the Hudson River during the annual endurance race. Estaban Neiva had completed about two-thirds of the 0.93-mile...
'CABJACKER' BUSTED IN BX.
A Bronx car thief tried outrunning the law yesterday but ended up where he started - only wearing cuffs the second time around. Officers were called at about 8:45 p.m....
THE NAKED CITY
Welcome to Nude York City. Some folks are stripping down to escape the scorching summer temperatures - but others aren't waiting 'til they hit the area's clothing-optional beaches. The au...
GET 'SMART METERS': POL
All homes should be equipped with devices that provide digital, real-time data to utility customers, City Councilman Eric Gioia said yesterday. The Queens Democrat wants the "smart meters" in place...
POWER OUTAGE SOCKS B'KLYN
Con Ed was unplugged by yesterday's torrid heat, leaving about 2,000 of its Brooklyn customers without juice in its largest power failure of the summer so far. Areas affected included...
CRIME SURGE HITS WEALTHY APPLE NABES
Burglars are movin' on up - but not just to the East Side. The city's latest crime statistics show skyrocketing increases - some higher than 25 percent - in some...
HOT 'GRINDERS'
It's the death of a dirty dream for a Bronx flesh peddler who tried to combine his love for "$5 foot-longs" and feather boas into a "Subway-style" sandwich shop and...
BOUND, BEATEN, BURNED
A Brooklyn woman was held captive for two weeks by a jealous boyfriend who tied her to a baby crib in his apartment, beat her with an electric cord and...
$WEET SPOT FOR HARLEM'S BIGS
* LOW RENT FOR GOV, DAD AT RANGEL TOWER * A-LISTER BARGAINS AMID EVICTION BIDS Rep. Charles Rangel isn't the only Harlem big shot with a sweetheart deal at the...
REPS. PUSH $TIMULATION
More than 204,000 families in the city have yet to apply for their federal stimulus checks, two congressmen said as they urged all New Yorkers to claim the rebates. Reps....
APPLE-A-DAY TALK
Industry concerns about Steve Jobs' health have not gone away more than a month after the Apple CEO appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annual developers' conference, fighting what insiders...
TREATS FOR GEEKS
For those of you too brainy to succumb to the lure of light beach reading, look no further than your favorite science magazine - that's sci, minus the fi. Popular...
POISON PILL REVIVAL STARS MICHAEL MILKEN
Watch out, Carl Icahn. The poison pill may be making a comeback. In perhaps the clearest sign yet that fears of corporate raiders are on the rise, education concern Nobel...
MIKE'S NOT-SO-GREAT IDEA
If you're wondering why Mayor Mike is suddenly pushing a broader official definition of poverty, here's one guess: He may fear that fewer and fewer New Yorkers these days are...
SUNSHINE FOR SHELLY
Cavalier. Outrageous. Disgraceful. Those are the exact words that pit- bull Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman used last week to describe the conduct of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in...
HEY, AT LEAST I DIDN'T KILL HIM
GUESS what, dis memberment fans? Tricia Walsh- Smith - the Park Avenue wife who blabbed about her husband's impotence on YouTube - finds out today what she gets in her...
GOV. IN HUSH-HUSH BID TO MAKE BRUNO HIS AIDE
GOV. PATERSON secretly offered newly retired Sen ate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno a highly paid post as a "special adviser" to his administration, sources close to Paterson have told The...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An Ohio air show was halted for about an hour yesterday to clear the way for a Northwest Airlines jet as it made an emergency landing at Dayton International Airport....
ON A ROLL
City workers are taking to the streets -- and it's not because of labor strikes. Whether it's due to skyrocketing gas prices, concern about the environment, the city's growing bike-friendliness...
ON THE JOB
If you put a suit and tie on Charles Garito, he would look like your average banker - and once he was one. Today, however, Garito, 58, reports to work...
COMPLAINT DEPTARTMENT
To toil in Cubicle Land is to suffer a million petty annoyances. That guy whose cellphone announces every call with a deafening blast of "Eye of the Tiger." The woman...
GO TO GREG
I'm helping a friend with his résumé, and I want to include something about his remarkable memory and ability to retain and recall information. Frankly, I'm not sure how to...
PEDAL PUSHERS
While bike commuting has taken a big jump in recent years, that's just the beginning to Mayor Bloomberg's Department of Transportation, which is looking to double the number of people...
'REAL WORLD' HOOK'D
THE new version of MTV's "Real World Brooklyn" is back on the streets looking for a home. The show is reportedly now close to a deal to take over a...
BARBARA'S BAD BLOOD
THE psychic didn't see it coming. The put-down by Barbara Walters, I mean. Yes, folks, another day, another blood feud brewing on "The View." The brouhaha began two weeks ago...
MADAM & EVE
IF there are two names that belong together like "wedding" and "chapel," it's "Nevada" and "Heidi Fleiss." Both are famously sordid, glitteringly soiled and bizarrely fascinating. And now Nevada -...
COMIC-IN-CHIEF
'SATURDAY Night Live" is starting early this fall to take full advantage of the comedic possibilities of the upcoming Presidential election. The Sept. 13 season debut, announced yesterday, is the...
REALITY TV'S NEW MEANIE
MEET Anne Slowey, Elle magazine's Fashion News Director - and primetime's next Queen of Mean. She is the star of a new reality show, "Stylista," set to debut this fall....
GREAT LENGTHS
BREAST or thigh? Depends on what you're craving. The long and short of it is simple - mini and maxi dresses are both warm-weather staples. So whether you've got gorgeous...
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
WHEN Jonathan Groff got cast in "Hair" last year, his mother had one question: "Do you have to take your clothes off again?" Since "Spring Awakening" had him dropping trou...
IT ENDS ITS STAY TWIST-IN' THE NIGHT AWAY
THE final program of Pilobolus' current season at the Joyce has the most interesting of the season's premieres. It's called "Darkness and Light," and it's the company's first collaboration with...
PETTITTE, YANKEES EARN STRAIGHT A'S
The Yankees received a huge boost from the GOP yesterday, and it had nothing to do with John McCain's inclusion in the Stadium crowd. Yankees Game Photo GalleryGallery: McCain &...
PITCHING, D GIVE BRONX RETRO LOOK
LONG after the Yankees' 2-1 win over the A's was complete yesterday, Joe Girardi was back on the field at Yankee Stadium, playing a little baseball with his family and...
DAMON: I'M READY TO RETURN
Johnny Damon couldn't talk his way into yesterday's lineup, even as he made it clear to manager Joe Girardi that he's ready for a return, as the DH. "There is...
GIAMBI HAS ACE'S NUMBER
All-Star Justin Duchscherer came into Yankee Stadium yesterday leading the majors in ERA. Jason Giambi, though, continued to clobber him. Giambi's go-ahead solo homer off Duchscherer in the sixth inning...
PADDY TAKES BITE OUT OF THE SHARK
SOUTHPORT, England - All week this looked like Greg Norman's British Open. Norman, with his stunning fountain-of-youth performance at age 53 as he positioned himself with a two-shot lead entering...
MICKELSON LEAVES BIRKDALE BEHIND
SOUTHPORT, England - Phil Mickelson left yet another British Open quietly and well out of contention yesterday, closing with a final-round, 1-over 71 to finish at 14-over. "I didn't play...
MORE NORMAN HEARTBREAK
SOUTHPORT, England - At the end of another brutal wind-battered day at Royal Birkdale yesterday, this British Open turned out to be just another in a long, tormenting line of...
BELMONT KOS CARD
The final day of racing of the Belmont Park spring/summer meet was cancelled due to complications arising from a fire on a transformer in the basement of the track Saturday...
KNICKS HAVE GALLINARI DOUBTS
The Knicks ended the Las Vegas summer-league yesterday the way they came in - unsure if 19-year-old rookie Danilo Gallinari will contribute this season. After suffering a back injury in...
FALSE ALARM NO BIG DEAL FOR WAGNER
CINCINNATI - The Mets have endured so many injuries this season, you always expect the worse when you see a trainer step on the field. But trainer Ray Ramirez's visit...
NO DECISION, BUT A JOB 'PEL' DONE
CINCINNATI - Mike Pelfrey entered yesterday's game with a 16-inning scoreless streak. Meet the Great American Ballpark, where scoreless streaks come to die. Pelfrey pitched well, but gave up three...
AMAZIN'LY, METS ARE BACK IN 1ST
CINCINNATI - This is a sign the Mets are a hot team: They stranded 14 runners, made two errors, gave up three home runs and still won yesterday's game. Mets...
MARCUS SEES JOB FIGHT
Marcus Williams will not go down without a fight. Williams, 22, the Nets' third-season point guard and backup to Devin Harris, knows his position became very tenuous when Keyon Dooling...
BOSTON-BAKED HONDO
Due to Manny being Manny - Delcahmen, that is - Hondo went belly up with the Bosawx yesterday and saw his ample collection of dead presidents tumble to 695 tartabulls....
BACK TO THE BEACH
It was the perfect summer day at the beach. The sun was shining, the waves were breaking, beach-lovers strolled along the boardwalk in Coney Island and the famous community once...
SPORTS SHORTS
TOUR DE FRANCE: Schleck in frontSimon Gerrans of Australia won yesterday's 15th stage of the Tour de France after escaping from the pack in a four-man breakaway, clocking the 113.7-mile...
NETS TUNING OUT ON THOSE WHO TUNE IN
SOMEDAY, someone who knows the answer will share it with us. He or she will explain why networks buy the rights to big sports events ("We got it!"), spend weeks...
Jorge Rojas, the Red Bulls' Mr. Red
El Zurdo was just right Saturday By BRIAN LEWISSince the day the club traded away Amado Guevara, the Red Bulls have lacked the dynamic central attacking midfielder that could spark...
MMA'd to Megadeth
Competing MMA shows on Saturday night state debate over true pound-for-pound king? BY GEORGE WILLISMixed martial arts has a full fledged controversy on its hands. Well, controversy might not be...