November 5, 2008
Did You Watch?
Nearly 72 million people watched the returns from Tuesday's historic election -- up 13 million viewers from the 2004 election.This year's record ratings reflect those watching election returns on 14...
DAYTIME AFTER
EVEN Oprah doesn't know whose shoulder it was that she was crying on during Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night. The Queen of Daytime, who made her first public foray into...
NHL Plays Fair With Winter Classic
I've spent the past few days trying to figure out a way to be unhappy with the way the NHL is handling ticket sales for the Winter Classic at Wrigley...
Beltran, Wright win Gold Gloves
Carlos Beltran and David Wright (pictured) were named NL Gold Glove winners today based on a vote of big-league managers and coaches. It's the third Gold Glove for Beltran and...
Scene-Nolita
Vicky Mingot, who works in fashion sales, works a layered look in a Lilith skirt, vintage boots, and an embroidered coat.Mingot describes her look as "very voluminous. I'm into Vivienne...
Deanna Breaks Jesse's Heart
While "The Bachelor" has a bad track record for relationships lasting past the first commercial break, "The Bachelorette" seemed more, um, serious -- for a show about dating in front...
NEXT UP: WEEK 10
The Giants can't let up, while the Jets have to be worried about a letdown.NEXT UP (PHOTOS) Big Blue's brutal second-half schedule continues Sunday night with a trip to Philadelphia...
ELECTION NIGHT ON TV
Update: Election Ratings What's the difference between CNN and "Star Trek"? Not much, now that the cable network is "beaming in" its correspondents in hologram form. That's how newswoman Jessica...
Mariners interested in Bobby V
The Tacoma News Tribune reports that Mariners owner Hiroshi Yamauchi might push the team to hire former Mets skipper Bobby Valentine.Thenewstribune.com says "Yamauchi (from Japan) has at times made his...
Blackhawks would talk to Devils
The Calagry Herald reports the Chicago Blackhawks may be willing to trade Nikolai Khabibulin to the Devils, who are without Martin Brodeur for 3-4 months after elbow surgery."I haven't talked...
D'Antoni: Marbury issue will go away
By MARC BERMANMike D'Antoni said that our stories on Stephon Marbury's exile will soon become "tough to read'' because no one will care soon.D'Antoni still doesn't get it. The only...
THE NEW SEAN AVERY
Just give him the damn plans! Former NFLer Keyshawn Johnson will host an A&E show chronicling his quest to become an interior designer. Really. Johnson, known during his playing days...
GH: World Tour channels Risky Biz
Forgive me, I am slightly behind the times, for I only just saw this "Guitar Hero: World Tour" ad while watching a DVR'd episode of "Family Guy." Or was it...
Tyree placed on IR
BY PAUL SCHWARTZIt came as no surprise that David Tyree this morning was placed on season-ending injured reserve, as a hamstring injury incurred not long after he began practicing three...
Starr Report: Opening acts
Steve Tyrell, Burt Bacharach's longtime producer, kicks off his singing gig at Café Carlyle tonight, with expected guests including Joan Rivers, Joan Lunden, Tiki Barber, MSG's Jill Martin and MLB's...
3 UP: HOLLIDAY, VALENTINE, SWISHER
1. The belief at the GM Meetings is that there is absolutely no turning back: Matt Holliday will be traded by the Rockies. There is too much momentum and too...
SO MUCH FOR AMERIKKKA
If we live in such a racist country, as the friends and fellow travelers of Barack Obama argued vehemently throughout this campaign season, how did AmeriKKKa end up electing The...
SAVAGING SARAH
Her ticket lost, but Sarah Palin made an indelible mark on American politics in a very short time. But the reception to her debut also showed that the "politics of...
AN ELECTION FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS
Barack Obama's victory last night will be a permanent feature of American history books. The 2008 election represents the latest chapter in a story that began with Africans coming to...
A TAXING TIME FOR SMALL BIZ
A Barack Obama presidency won't be as bad as those who fear we've put a socialist in the White House are thinking - nor as much fun as those who...
MICHELLE TO BRING GLAMOUR AS 'MOM IN CHIEF'
Michelle Obama brings the skills of a corporate lawyer to the White House and a style not seen since the days of Jackie Kennedy, but she says as first lady,...
DEMS TIGHTEN THEIR DC GRIP
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's coattails had plenty of room for his colleagues last night, as Democrats solidified their Senate majority and were headed for a stranglehold of the House. "It's...
DEMS RULE IN ALBANY
In a historic triumph that set off a political earthquake in Albany, the Democrats last night won a majority in the state Senate for the first time in 40 years....
TODAY'S YOUTH HAVE THEIR OWN 1960S MOMENT
The millions of young people who helped propel a black man into the White House yesterday celebrated what some described as their "1960s moment." After hearing all their lives about...
'PALIN EFFECT' CUTS WRONG WAY FOR GOP
Republicans hoped Sarah Palin would let the party reclaim the middle, but exit polls yesterday suggested her presence was one the most divisive factors in the election. Nationwide, nearly half...
EVERY NATION JOINS IN CELEBRATION OF EARTH-SHAKING WIN
World markets surged, crowds cheered in plazas and pubs across Europe, and nations around the globe were riveted as US voters made Barack Obama their next president. Wall Street got...
BARACK'S WIN MAKES HISTORY
Barack Obama scored a barrier-shattering victory last night to become the first black president of the United States - capping a 22-month quest that tapped into a national hunger for...
AMERICA BASKS IN BAM'S GLORY
CHICAGO - A joyous crowd of 125,000 swarmed Chicago's Grant Park to bask in Barack Obama's historic win early this morning. On a balmy night in the Windy City, Election...
MCCAIN HONORS O'S 'GREAT ACHIEVEMENT'
PHOENIX, Ariz. - John McCain last night congratulated Barack Obama on becoming the nation's first African-American president. "The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly," McCain said in...
THE MONEY 'CHANGERS'
Barack Obama tapped into broad financial discontent and forged a diverse coalition of support - including Catholics, suburbanites and the young - to secure his historic presidential victory last night,...
STEPH & NONSENSE: CURSE OF THE KNICKS
THE ISSUE: The new Knicks coach's decision not to play controversial players in the season opener. Did I just witness Mike D'Antoni, with 55 seconds left in the third quarter...
PEYSER'S PET PEEVE
THE ISSUE: The second news story this fall about a murdered pet in the city. The lunatic who committed this horrific act probably felt that he, too, could beat the...
THE GOV & THE PIT
Steve Cuozzo's article, "Dave's Dubious Guide," (PostOpinion, Oct. 24) neglects to mention the leadership role Gov. Paterson has played in restoring accountability and transparency to the World Trade Center rebuilding....
'WE RISE AND FALL AS ONE NATION'
IF there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive...
NOW GOVERN
CONGRATULATIONS, Democrats: Barack Obama ran an amazing, landmark race. And the Democratic Party has broken with its historic tradition of snatching defeats from the jaws of victory. Expect the Democrats...
OBAMA: CONSERVATOR IN CHIEF
WHILE the Democrats and Barack Obama won big yesterday, even coming close to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, Obama will find their options substantially constrained by reality. Their handicap...
DEMS' EMPTY ALBANY WIN
STATE Democrats led by Gov. Paterson were celebrating their success last night in taking control of the Legislature's upper house for the first time since 1964 - but the achievement...
CASTAWAYS ATE DEAD SHIPMATES
Five starving castaways turned to cannibalism to survive a horrifying ordeal in the Caribbean. After being adrift for two weeks, they began eating the remains of the 28 other migrants...
OSAMA SON 'ASYLUM'
MADRID - A son of Osama bin Laden who grabbed headlines by marrying a British woman last year has flown to Spain and requested asylum, the Spanish government said yesterday....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 690; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 1665; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 528; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
CLUCKOLD'S 'SEXTORTION'
A billionaire BMW heiress who is the richest woman in Germany said she was blackmailed for millions by a larcenous Lothario who seduced her by saying he was a diplomat...
H'WOOD TIM IN BALLOT TANTRUM
Liberal poster-boy actor Tim Robbins threw a screaming hissy fit yesterday after he found he had been left off the voter rolls in Manhattan. Robbins started yelling when a worker...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
Manhattan Cops are hunting for the man pictured above who allegedly raped a woman in East Harlem on Halloween morning. The victim had just left her apartment at around 7...
CITY IS CUTTING CLA$$ FOR NYPD
The city is going to cut the work force by 3,000 - including some 500 layoffs - and cancel January's Police Academy class to deal with a two-year budget gap...
HEIMLICH HERO
A coolheaded Long Island fifth-grader calmly gave a choking classmate the Heimlich maneuver - which he learned from a poster in a Dunkin' Donuts shop - and may have saved...
HARLEM CHEERS NEW CHAMPION
It was the biggest spontaneous celebration to hit Harlem since Joe Louis beat Max Schmeling in 1938. Tens of thousands took to the storied streets of black America's spiritual capital...
MIDDLE-SCHOOL CZAR'S THRONE GOES UNFILLED
Less than a year after officials appointed a first-ever director to oversee the city's middle-school reforms, the high-paying slot has become - and stayed - vacant, The Post has learned....
MIKE TOES LINE
Mayor Bloomberg neither asked nor received special consideration at his polling station yesterday, waiting 40 minutes along with his Upper East Side neighbors to cast his ballot at PS 6....
STRIP-KING COP CLASH
A Manhattan strip-club owner who's suing the city for labeling him an Albanian mobster was packing a pistol and a knife when he was busted for allegedly berating a cop...
'WIFE-SLAY' BRO IS JAILED, TOO
A Long Island man who caused a fracas at a Nassau County courtroom when he was denied permission to see his murder-suspect brother could get all the visiting time he...
DYKSTRA GETS NAILED BY '$TIFFED' ATTORNEYS
Former Mets center fielder Lenny Dykstra dropped the ball when it came to paying his legal bills, so his lawyers are heading for the showers. And now the three-time All-Star,...
NY CHEERS AN AGENT OF CHANGE
New Yorkers cheered and cried last night as Barack Obama dramatically won the presidency, boosting their hopes for a change in America's fortunes. "Obama is going to change the world....
TW'S DEBT PENALTY
Fresh worries are emerging that Time Warner Cable may be loading up on too much debt to finance a one-time $9.25 billion dividend associated with its pending spin-off from parent...
OBAMA IS LEADING US
PEOPLE and Us Weekly found themselves in a race to become the first major newsweekly with a cover story on the winner of the presidential race. People, thanks to the...
VIACOM NEARS LEASE DECISION
VIACOM appears to be moving ever closer to firming up where it will call home. Just last week, sources close to the media giant confided that execs were in "advanced...
WALL STREET MAY NOT YIELD THE AX
A weary Wall Street is facing the prospect of passing out more pink slips to bankers and support staff before the year is up. Thus far, about 150,000 jobs have...
TV AD SALES EXECS SAY SCATTER MARKET IS SHOT
The market for scatter is in tatters. Demand for television ad time sold closer to the actual air date - what is known in the industry as the scatter market...
DROP IN NAKED SHORTS
Embattled SEC chief Chris Cox may be finally scoring a win in his crackdown on naked short selling. But he's still not getting much credit for it. The number of...
OBAMA'S VICTORY - AND HIS OPPORTUNITY
In the end, it wasn't close: In one of the most momentous election nights in American history, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois cruised to victory, becoming America's 44th president and...
RAGGEDY MAN'S SWEET OLD TUNE BETTER THAN EVER
THE last time he pressed his lips together to play that special song, Paul Hawthorne was a trombone player in a US Army band. His uniform was pressed. His shoes...
YOUR FLOCK HAS SPOKEN, BAM - MAKE IT WORK
CHICAGO - Here, at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and history, thousands upon thousands came out of their homes, walked for miles or drove for hours, determined to breathe the...
EMBARRASSING ROUT JUST WHAT AILING GOP NEEDS TO SAVE ITSELF
HAVING suffered their worst setbacks in decades last night, Republicans took solace knowing that from here things can only get better. Watching Barack Obama rack up state after state was...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Liberal poster-boy actor Tim Robbins threw a screaming hissy fit yesterday after he found he had been left off the voter rolls in Manhattan. Robbins started yelling when a worker...
THE SECRET SCHOOL
STORY SO FAR: Ida, voted in as teacher by classmates at their one-room school, is confronted with her first discipline problem. Written by Avi Illustrated by Brian Floca CHAPTER EIGHT...
JAZZED BY LITTLE BIG TOP
'PLAY On!" is the Big Apple Circus' most ambitious show to date, offering all the dazzling big-top staples - gorgeous galloping horses, heart-stopping aerialists and more clowns than you'll meet...
A 'LIFE' LESS ORDINARY
HOW exotic is "Life" co-star Sarah Shahi? Try great-great-granddaughter of a 19th-century Iranian Shah. PHOTOS: Sarah Shahi "My father wanted to create a little Tehran in Euless, Texas," said Shahi,...
'GREY'S' FIRES LESBIAN
'GREY'S Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes has denied reports that a character on the popular medical show was axed from the series because she was gay. Brooke Smith, who plays prickly...
HEAVY 'MEDAL'
DO you know there is only one class of soldier in the US mil itary that even generals must salute first? In case you didn't know (and I sure didn't),...
STARR REPORT
Opening actsSteve Tyrell, Burt Bacha rach's longtime producer, kicks off his singing gig at Café Carlyle tonight, with expected guests including Joan Rivers, Joan Lun den, Tiki Barber, MSG's Jill...
USHER UPS THE PANTY
BOUDOIR balladeer Usher flashed a smile at his female fans and then set up the ground rules of his Monday concert at Hammerstein Ballroom. "Ladies, I brought you here for...
DEEP DUTCH DOWNER
AN enterprising shrink could drum up a lot of new business by handing out business cards to folks seeing the Dutch downer "Stages." If viewers aren't depressed before the movie,...
CAMPAIGN FOR 'WEEKEND'
IT'S a crime that so few con temporary American play wrights bother to write about politics these days. There is, sadly, no Ameri can equivalent of Britain's David Hare, whose...
FRENCH RISE
ALLEGRETTI rekindles your love affair with the sweetest kind of Manhattan-French dining. Not terrine-grazing or brasserie hopping, but the thrill of herb-and-sun-drenched dishes from a Provencal-born chef, served by waiters...
BOURBON RENEWAL
READY for a drink? Yeah, we thought so. A small batch of bourbon bars has arrived on the scene just in time to take the edge off the chilly weather...
CHEMISTRY SIZZLING WITH FAVRE
IF the first half of the Jets' 2008 season has been anything, it's been a wild ride - an unpredictable ride. It hasn't looked great a lot of the time,...
BRODEUR OUT 3-4 MONTHS
The tendon went pop, and now the Devils can only hope the same thing didn't happen to their season at that moment. Martin Brodeur's pursuit of the all-time goaltending records...
PETTITTE WANTS TO RETURN TO BRONX
Andy Pettitte, who hasn't filed for free agency, wants to pitch for the Yankees next season. And according to Brian Cashman, the Yankees want the 36-year-old lefty back despite chasing...
PENA SHIFTS TO BENCH
DANA POINT, Calif. - The Yankees are set to finalize their coaching staff with the slight surprise that Tony Pena is going to become Joe Girardi's bench coach, The Post...
A.J. FREE; JUST ONE YANK TARGET
DANA POINT, Calif. - The Yankees' most intense focus is on free-agent pitching early in this offseason, and A.J. Burnett officially joined the ranks yesterday of those the Yanks will...
ELI'S GAME NEVER MISSING AT LINC
THERE is no better time to be a Giant or a Giants fan, rolling along with an NFC-best record of 7-1 and only days away from an exquisitely vicious event...
NOTHING TO LOSE FOR ISLES
A LITTLE perspective please, suggested Bill Guerin to teammates who should take their triumphs one shift at a time on behalf of a franchise happy to sell one ticket at...
BLUESHIRTS CALL LOSS 'UNACCEPTABLE'
The shine is off the Rangers' start, even if the record is a most impressive 10-4-1 that anyone in the organization would have taken if presented with that option before...
RANGERS RUE BRODEUR'S INJURY
Given that the Rangers are 12-1-1 against Martin Brodeur since the start of the 2007-08 season, one might have expected Tom Renney to have reacted negatively to the news that...
SPORTS SHORTS
POLITICS: Heath Shuler re-electedHeath Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat and a Heisman Trophy runner-up at Tennessee who played quarterback for the Redskins and Saints, won in his first bid for...
EX-COACH RETURNS TO MSG
Larry Brown will be back at the Garden tonight with the Bobcats, venturing to MSG for the first time since coaching the Knicks in 2005-06. Brown compiled a 23-59 record...
BENCH ROLE HAS MARBURY JOKING ABOUT BROWN
It's become such a disaster for Stephon Marbury the last season-plus that the Larry Brown Era seems like it was pleasant. "He's really tough on his point guards as we...
AMAZIN'S, MINAYA MIGHT HAVE PAIN IN BORAS
DANA POINT, Calif. - Life's a pitch for Omar Minaya. According to an individual familiar with the Mets GM's thinking, it's pitching, pitching and pitching that represent Minaya's priorities this...
METS & RAYS IN ARMS TALKS
DANA POINT, Calif. - The Mets and Tampa Bay have had preliminary discussions about the Rays' pitching depth, notably Nos. 4 and 5 starters Andy Sonnanstine and Edwin Jackson. The...
SCORCHING SUNS SHOOT DOWN NETS
The Nets were like John McCain the entire night. For every small win, there was a overwhelming and disheartening defeat. If the Nets closed it down inside, the Suns let...
ROBIN GETS BEST OF BROTHER BROOK
The last time the Lopez twins, Brook of the Nets and Robin of the Suns - both first-round picks out of Stanford last June - faced each other in a...
LET THE PLAYERS VOTE FOR BCS
IT was during the tense, tough-hitting Penn State-Ohio State game that I was reminded of why I despise the BCS system: The players have no say in the process. A...
MASE VOTES FOR CHANGE
Anthony Mason, Jr., knows the struggles African-Americans have faced in becoming part of the democratic process in this country. So now that the St. John's basketball star is old enough...
TOP 25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The Post's Top 25 College Football
BARACK OBAMA WINS THE PRESIDENCY
Barack Obama scored a barrier-breaking victory tonight to become the first black president of the United States - capping a 22-month quest that tapped into a national hunger for "hope"...
YANKEES SET TO FINALIZE STAFF
The Yankees are set to finalize their coaching staff with the slight surprise that Tony Pena is going to become Joe Girardi's bench coach, The Post has learned. The moves...