November 17, 2008
Red Bulls set it off in Nevada Smith's
By BRIAN LEWISThis was the sights and sounds at legendary soccer pub Nevada Smith's in Manhattan when the Red Bulls closed out their 1-0 win in the Western Conference final....
Crikey! Mixed Early Reviews For 'Australia' From Down Under
It's already Tuesday in Australia and Baz Luhrmann's $130 million "Australia'' will be premiering there in a few hours. It's already been shown to local critics, and the first couple...
Jets-Broncos moved to 4:15
The Jets' Week 13 game against the Broncos on Nov. 30 has been changed from 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., the NFL announced today.The originally scheduled Chicago Bears at Minnesota...
FIRST YANKEE STADIUM GAME APRIL 3
The Yankees announced today they will play the first exhibition games at the new Yankee Stadium against the Chicago Cubs on Friday, April 3 at 7:05 p.m. and Saturday, April...
Wright, Delgado in MVP top 10
Albert Pujols beat out Ryan Howard for the NL MVP award this afternoon, with the Mets' David Wright and Carlos Delgadoplacing seventh and ninth, respectively in the balloting. Howard would...
BROOKE, TIME TO PUT 'LIPSTICK' DOWN
Memo to Brooke Shields: Pssst, even if they don't specifically use the word "canceled," your show "Lipstick Jungle" -- it's canceled. Shields was among the cast members of the troubled...
All LeBron, all the time
By FRED KERBERThe Nets will start with Bobby Simmons against LeBron James tomorrow.Then use everyone and everything, including, but not limited to, Vince Carter, Sean Williams, Jarvis Hayes (who isn't...
WRIGHT 7TH, DELGADO 9TH IN MVP VOTING
Mets third baseman David Wright was seventh and first baseman Carlos Delgado was ninth in NL Most Valuable Player voting announced today, behind winner Albert Pujols of the Cardinals. Pujols...
Jacobs has MRI on knee
BY PAUL SCHWARTZBrandon Jacobs today had a precautionary MRI of his knee to determine if there is any real injury after he ran extremely well in Sunday's 30-10 victory over...
O GETS '60 MINUTES' BEST RATINGS IN DECADE
The President-elect has given "60 Minutes" a huge victory. Barack Obama's sit-down interview with Steve Kroft on last night's "60 Minutes" nailed the show its best overnight ratings in nearly...
LIRR OFFICIAL BUSTED FOR CORRUPTION
The gravy train of disability benefits for healthy Long Island Rail Road retirees is running out of track. A suspended Long Island Rail Road official suspected of advising employees on...
BRIT-TREE LIGHTING
Britney Spears is set to include Rockefeller Center on her comeback trail. Spears, who's got a new album to promote, will appear on NBC's annual tree-lighting telecast Wednesday, Dec. 3,...
STEELERS CALL COST BETTORS $64 MILLION
Bettors lost an estimated $64 million when officials reversed an end-of-game touchdown by the Steelers in an 11-10 win over the Chargers on Sunday. A fumble return for a score...
Pulse Sales-11/17
NANETTE LEPORE225 W. 35th St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues; 212-594-0012Sale: Nov. 18-21. Tues.-Fri., 9 a.m.-7 p.m.Snag a sweater for $75.REBECCA MINKOFF33 W. 17th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues;...
MARK CUBAN CHARGED WITH INSIDER TRADING
Mark Cuban, outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The agency charged that Cuban dumped shares of Mamma.com after he...
TV GUIDE PLANS TO CUT 3 PERCENT OF ITS STAFF
TV Guide magazine, sold last month to Beverly Hills-based venture firm OpenGate Capital Partners, wasted no time in beginning layoffs today as the sale was finalized. Up to 33 people...
Starr Report: Dimming stars
NBC's "30 Rock" continues to tread water, as far as ratings - regardless of the back- to-back celebrity cameos the past two weeks. Oprah Winfrey's Nov. 6 visit didn't boost...
UFC MAKES VEGAS SPARKLE
UFC 91 rescues Las Vegas and its economic woes at least for one night.BY GEORGE WILLISLAS VEGAS--I'm not sure what was more remarkable Brock Lesnar winning the UFC heavyweight championship...
OCD Archives: 'Gatsby' Noir
Word that Baz Luhrmann is contemplating a fifth screen editon of "The Great Gatsby'' sent me searching for the noir-ish 1949 version starring Alan Ladd, which briefly popped up on...
Oscar Watch: Backlash Building Against This Year's 'Forrest Gump'
Karina Longworth of Spout is whining about being under embargo after Variety's Anne Thompson published a laudatory "non-review'' by an anonymous insider. So Karina cutely decided to review the still...
FIRST LOOK: Celebrity Solstice
Major cruise lines like to talk about their upscale-ness a great deal; the word no longer means all that much as a result. (Just because you say it, doesn't mean...
O: WATCH YOUR BACK, BIN LADEN
Get Osama bin Laden! That's President-elect Barack Obama's mission, he said last night in his first interview since winning the White House. "It is a top priority for us to...
PATERSON: I'M STAYING RIGHT HERE
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson will not appoint himself New York's new senator if Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes Barack Obama's secretary of state, The Post has learned. Paterson told friends over...
PITT-IFUL POST COVER
I have to write about the shock I felt seeing the front page of Wednesday's Post ("Pitt Stop," Nov. 12). Brad Pitt? You have to be kidding! There should be...
BILL & HILL, PART 2: 'CHANGE' WE DON'T NEED
I thought that Barack Obama was supposed to be the candidate for "change" ("Hill Job!" Nov. 14). Selecting Hillary Clinton for secretary of state would not represent anything novel within...
NEW YORK NEEDS TO BITE THE BULLET
These are not budget cuts anyone wants to make. FORMER Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has called the current economic crisis a "once-in-a-century type of event." He's right. This economic crisis...
FOLLOW THE LEADER
SINCE John McCain's defeat, Republicans have been doing some intensive soul searching about the state of their party. I feel their pain. Not that long ago, Democrats were licking their...
UN MASQUERADE
THE Saudi king won much praise last week for convening talks at the United Nations ostensibly meant to promote peace and "religious tolerance." He even snagged a private audience with...
CRISIS LETS DEMS PUSH OLD AGENDAS
THE trouble with new financial crises is that they provide pretexts for implementing old social agendas. As the president-elect's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said recently, "never allow a...
THE SECRET BEATLE SONG
Paul McCartney says he wants to put out a 14-minute experimental track the Beatles recorded in 1967 but never released. The band played "Carnival of Light" just once for an...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 949; Lucky Sum: 22 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 8070; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 397; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
BIG-BUCKS PUBLIC-U PREXIES
The rising cost of college is definitely paying off for somebody - salaries for public university presidents climbed 7.6 percent in the last year, according to a new survey. Even...
SEX KITTEN SCARLETT ON LOHAN BEEF
Scarlett Johansson, squeezed into a super-sexy leopard-print leotard for the new issue of Allure, wants to know: What's Lindsay Lohan's beef with her? Johansson said she's totally baffled over why...
SEXUAL 'FANTASY'
A whopping 85 percent of men rate themselves as good or excellent in the sack - but somebody forgot to tell their female partners, according to a massive new survey....
FAT CATS ARE NOW SACHS AB$TAINERS
The year-end sacks of gold are going to be a lot lighter for the head honchos at Goldman Sachs. Caught in the global fiscal crisis and facing increased public scrutiny,...
AIR $ICK FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Airplane passengers are about to get scrooged even more this holiday season. Think the charges for baggage checks and snacks are bad? At United Airlines, fliers are now being charged...
LEYRITZ: TOSS BREATHALYZER
Former Yankee Jim Leyritz has yet to be tried for allegedly killing a young mom while driving drunk, but he's asking a judge to order a "bothersome" Breathalyzer device removed...
BABY BOOMERS' DRUG BOOM
Baby boomers are smoking pot and popping pills at an alarming rate, even as drug abuse among teens is decreasing, according to federal and local health data. Some 5 percent...
CALIF. BLAZES BACK OFF AS WINDS CALM
Mother Nature came to the aid of exhausted firefighters yesterday, calming fierce winds that had fanned flames during a nightmarish Southern California weekend. It remained hot and dry yesterday, but...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN * A knife-wielding motorist threatened to stab a cabby in the face in Greenwich Village, police sources said yesterday. Babacar Ndiaye, 47, repeatedly slammed his car into the back...
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN CRISIS
Enrollment at the city's Catholic schools is plummeting, continuing an alarming trend that has shuttered dozens of diocesan schools in recent years, new data show. In the Archdiocese of New...
FDNY HIT-&-RUN SETTLED FOR 275G
The city is paying a man hurt in a hit-and-run with a firetruck $275,000, The Post has learned. A police accident report said the Engine Co. 96 truck ran a...
SI KIDS' HAPPY 'FEAT'
Two talented tweens from Staten Island are headed to Hollywood to show off their fancy footwork during the finals of "Dancing with the Stars" tomorrow night. Kirill Skipalskiy, 11, and...
MIKE THE KNIFE CUTS OWN STAFF
The head count in Mayor Bloomberg's office has swelled to the highest level of his seven-year tenure - prompting him to order a massive cut over the next 19 months,...
CEO IN LI CAR CRASH
The CEO of a Manhattan security-systems firm smashed his luxury Land Rover into a Lexus while trying to speed past it on a two-lane highway in East Hampton, police said...
BIOTECH PARK FLAT-LINES
The city's premier biotech project has fallen victim to the credit crunch, according to an industry report. Construction is already under way on the 310,000-square-foot first phase of the East...
COMMUTE-TAX KILLER SILVER WANTS IT BACK
A tax on commuters who work in the city would raise $713 million this year alone and help stave off the anticipated toll hike on four East River bridges, a...
BIGOT'S TWISTED PAST
The Long Island teen charged with fatally stabbing an Ecuadorian immigrant in a bias attack once bragged that he would have knifed a former pal to death if someone hadn't...
SOHO HEAVE-HO
A new City Council proposal is enough to give SoHo street vendors an art attack. The council last week began considering limiting the number of art vendors to two per...
LI 'KILLER' IN DEADLY DUI CRASH
A Long Island man already facing a murder trial for the fatal beating of a Chelsea clubgoer was accused of taking more lives yesterday - this time for drunkenly plowing...
ASTROLAND HOPE
The Bloomberg administration is in serious negotiations to buy 10.5 acres of real estate in Coney Island that once appeared unobtainable - a move that would save both Astroland Park...
KIN PLEA FOR 'MOP SLAY' SIS
The family of an 11-year-old girl allegedly slain by her Brooklyn mother with a mop handle wants the girl's 14-year-old sister sent back to Mexico rather than face an unpredictable...
ATT'Y IN BRONX DEM WAR IS A PARKING CHEATER
A well-known attorney involved in a battle for leadership of the Bronx Democratic Party used a bogus firefighter placard to park illegally, The Post has learned. Lawyer Stanley Schlein was...
O HATERS IN RACE ATTACK ON SI TEEN
An attack on an African immigrant on Staten Island was part of an Election Day hate spree launched by two teens upset over Barack Obama's victory, prosecutors said yesterday. Ralph...
GIRL DEAD IN PARTY SHOOTING
A mystery gunman opened fire on a group of revelers in The Bronx early yesterday, killing a teenage girl, after he and his friends were refused entry to a party,...
KIN HAIL DARING EX-COP
The ex-cop who took a bullet during a bizarre attempted robbery at The Waldorf-Astoria hotel is thanking his lucky stars he survived. "He's just happy to be alive," one buddy...
FEDS FORCE-FEED SELF-STARVING JFK 'PLOTTER'
A Trinidadian man charged with plotting to blow up JFK Airport is close to death's door after starving himself and refusing medical treatment - a situation that has left prison...
TV LAND TROUBLE
Ripples from the economic crisis have spread to television in the form of curtailed spending on new projects. Already tight-fisted from the migration of viewers and advertising dollars to other...
TODAY'S RUSH TO JUDGMENT ON THE 'R' WORD
Not since the Great Depression has the dismal science so lived up to its name. That appears the hard truth as economists line up to deliver the bad news on...
HOLIDAZE SURVIVAL
The holidays don't look to be too festive this year amid the financial meltdown. Even so, the show must go on. We turn to some lifestyle magazines for tips on...
WAITIN' ON MORGY
Hello, 2009! How much you want to bet that New Yorkers will see the New Year - or maybe Easter - before they see the results of the criminal probe...
A VERY TOUGH CALL
There are few regulations more commonsensical than the one that bars convicted felons from serving as a New York City police officer. But if ever there were to be an...
ROGER TOUSSAINT'S 'WORD'
Transport Workers Union President Roger Toussaint just climbed back on the gravy train. Just for promising to obey the law. The same law that the union broke three times before....
TOO MANY SKELETONS IN MY CABINET
This is not a trick question: How can I get a job with the Obama administration? Incoming President No. 44 has slapped a "Help Wanted" sign on Washington, triggering a...
HEY, MY HAND$ ARE CLEAN: GOV
A CLEARLY frustrated Gov. Paterson is making it clear that he won't be at fault if tomorrow's "emergency" session of the Legislature fails to adopt his plan to slash state...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A 64-year-old Kentucky woman who was banned from a community center for "dirty dancing" during Friday-night two-steps received a $275,000 settlement after suing the town. Residents of Marshall had complained...
DEVILS' OFFENSE IS 'D' PROBLEM
Devil "D" just doesn't do it these days. If their goaltending is only as good - or not - as their opponents, then they can't play to that former strength...
BLUE CHRISTMAS
I N the stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the markers of the holiday season arrive as dependably as waves hitting the shore: the tree in Rockefeller Center, the sidewalk evergreen...
CHEAP CHEER
Determined to celebrate the holidays but need to do it on the cheap? In these lean times, there's no need to hire Ralston-Purina as a caterer when a little planning...
60 SECONDS WITH SIR RICHARD BRANSON...
...founder of the Virgin Group and author of "Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur."What's something you know about achieving success that most workers don't? The average worker is...
GO TO GREG
I've been bullied at work by both my manager and a co-worker for the past two years. They send e-mails falsely accusing me of errors. They yell at me in...
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
I was home with my feverish 5-year-old when a colleague called to say she had terrible news. I imagined a plane hitting a mountain, or a grim subway accident killing...
SUGGESTIVE YET ORNATE
WHO knew Renaissance Italy was so . . . raunchy? And yet, in the very shadow of the Vatican, the same artists who were painting Madonnas were also drawing concupiscent...
LATEST OPRAH 'NEWS'
THE fight to replace Oprah Winfrey in 2011 - if she decides to take her show off Ch. 7 and put it on her own cable channel - has already...
STARR REPORT
Dimming stars NBC's "30 Rock" contin ues to tread water, as far as ratings - regardless of the back- to-back celebrity cameos the past two weeks. Oprah Winfrey's Nov. 6...
GIRLY MEN
'SATURDAY Night Live" is dead again - and it's all Tina Fey's fault, although Sarah Palin can accept some of the blame, as well. If last weekend's show - with...
SUPPOSES THERE'S NO MOSES
A new, two-hour edition of "Nova" begins with the pro vocative words, "God is dead," but the documentary is anything but an obituary for the Almighty. Nor does it seek...
BOND AMBITION
Glamour galore gets things shaken and stirred with our spy gal looks - double-oh my! Click here for photos Play the Sexy Spy Girls Pop Video Quiz
FOR CRYIN' & LAUGHIN' OUT LOUD
AMONG the topics touched on by "Sleep walk With Me" are a malignant tumor, the ending of a longtime romantic relationship and a sleep disorder that nearly results in death....
DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE IN JAPAN
THE question that springs to mind while watching "Shogun Macbeth," which sets the action in 12th-century feudal Japan, is: Can we still refer to it as "the Scottish Play"? First...
CURLIN HITS FINISH LINE
Curlin, America's 2007 Horse of the Year and a leading candidate for top honors again despite finishing fourth last out as the favorite in the Breeders' Cup Classic, will retire...
BIG BLUE BACKS GAIN 207 YARDS VS. TOP D
Don't look now, but the hard-charging Giants might actually be ready for a takeoff. "We're capable of doing anything," Brandon Jacobs said. "You might see one of us fly one...
GIANTS GROUND DOWN RAVENS' RUN DEFENSE
The Giants' old-school ground game gave Baltimore's NFL-leading rush defense a lesson in yesterday's 30-10 rout. From Brandon Jacobs getting the better of linebacker Ray Lewis on both of his...
EARTH, WIND & FIRE CLIMBING UP CHARTS
THEY defy you to stop them, and they couldn't care less if you were Ray Lewis or Dick Butkus. They are a throwback football team very much like the Vince...
ROSS' PAIR OF INTERCEPTIONS BIG FOR GIANTS
Aaron Ross was still angry with himself for dropping an easy interception last week, still disappointed for not making the big plays he knew he could this year. So when...
WINDY DAY THE RIGHT TYNES FOR NEW KICKER
The Giants changed kickers yesterday, with Lawrence Tynes handling the full load for the first time all season. Tynes was the only kicker activated, with John Carney out of uniform...
ISLES LOOK TO D-LIVER
The Islanders are showing signs of life lately, and if they ever get their defense healthy, they would be in considerably better shape. And that appears to be happening, finally....
REDDEN VS. SENS PROMISES DRAMA
It will be an interesting night at the Garden tonight, with Wade Redden on display against the Ottawa team for which he played the first 11 years of his career...
FRIARS TO PLAY FOR TITLE
St. Anthony's will play for its eighth straight CHSFL AAA football title on Saturday after the second-seeded Friars overcame a slow start - they trailed 7-6 in the third quarter...
SPORTS SHORTS
NASCAR: Johnson wins 3rd Cup title Nothing could stop Jimmie Johnson's drive into the NASCAR record books. Not even a final, furious push by Carl Edwards. Edwards led a race-high...
BIZARRE FINISH JUS THE PITTS
The Steelers won't argue with the outcome of yesterday's 11-10 win over the Chargers, but countless numbers of bettors are sure to have a much different take on it. The...
ORANGE TO BEGIN SEARCH FOR NEW COACH
Now that Syracuse Athletic Director Darryl Gross has fired good-guy Greg Robinson, the onus of finding a football coach that can restore this once-proud program to prominence falls squarely on...
GIVE THESE TRASH ACTS THAT GOOD OL' COLLEGE CRY
HAIL, hail, the gangs are all here! Big-time college football continues to look more like prison gangs squaring off in the exercise yard. From helmet cage-to-cage trash-talking after every play,...
CUBAN: STEPH NOT UNWANTED
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban acknowledged Stephon Marbury will have plenty of suitors when the Knicks finally waive him, but stopped himself before putting his hat in the ring. "Absolutely," Cuban...
KNICKS BLOW LATE LEAD, FALL TO MAVERICKS IN OT
Coach Mike D'Antoni's Knicks, the league's highest-scoring team, rolled up points again last night with their usual fury. But when the Knicks needed just one more bucket to clinch victory...
HEARTACHE PROOF OF RISING EXPECTATIONS
ONE shot after another clanged off the rim, and the scoreboard kept getting away from the Knicks, along with the game, along with the night, and this is where the...
HARRIS GIVES NETS BOOST
Looking back, Devin Harris says, he left Vince Carter "on an island" in the first few games of the Nets' season. It was a team-wide thing, really. There was lots...
STORM ROLLING INTO BOSTON
If it weren't for bad luck, St. John's Norm Roberts would have no luck at all. Coming off a 73-63 season-opening win over LIU, the Red Storm should feel cautiously...
Blast from the past (ugh!)
By MARC BERMANThe Knicks were a Quentin Richardson lefty layup from evening the Jets at 7-3 at the 10-game mark..What a heartbreaker tonight, blowing that seven-point lead in the final...
NO BONUS THIS YEAR FOR GOLDMAN SACHS CEO BLANKFEIN
The year-end sacks of gold are going to be a lot lighter for the head honchos at Goldman Sachs. Caught in a fiscal crisis and facing increased public scrutiny, the...
LEYRITZ: TOSS 'BOTHERSOME' BREATHALYZER
Former Yankee Jim Leyritz has yet to be tried for allegedly killing a young mom while driving drunk, but he's asking a judge to order a "bothersome" Breathalyzer device removed...
CEO BUSTED IN HAMPTONS CAR CRASH
The speeding CEO of a Manhattan security-systems firm smashed his luxury Land Rover into a Lexus while trying to pass it on a two-lane highway in East Hampton, police said...
K-Rod signing story 'total BS'
Um, yeah ... about that Venezuelan newspaper report that Francisco Rodriguez was in New York today for a physical in advance of signing with the Mets. Not true at all,...
Serie A: Inter Maintain First Place; Roma Beats Lazio in Derby
Serie A leaders Inter Milan ended the weekend a point clear at the top of the standings after Zlatan Ibrahimovic's two goals on Saturday secured a 2-0 win at Palermo,...
GIANTS BETWEEN THE HASHMARKS
PLAY OF THE GAME What was a 20-0 Giants lead had been trimmed to 20-10 when late in the third quarter the Ravens were on the move, operating with the...