January 21, 2007
Curry-Shaq in question
January 21, 2007 | 10:56pmBy MARC BERMANMIAMI - Usually when the Knicks visit the Heat, I look forward to enjoying a little of the sun, sand and eye candy of South Beach as much...
Cusack Goes To War, Weinstein Enlists
January 21, 2007 | 5:03pmJohn Cusack, one of the most thoughful and underrated actors in Hollywood for nearly a quarter-century, may finally get an Oscar nomination for "Grace Is Gone.'' With enormous skill and...
2008 Oscars Alert!
January 21, 2007 | 4:57pmThe audience and critics' favorite at this point seems to be "The Savages,'' in which Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney play self-absorbed siblings who are forced to care for...
Bag Man
January 21, 2007 | 4:55pmIndie icon (and former NYFD member) Steve Buscemi plays a gift-bag-obsessed paparazzo in the comedy "Delirious,'' so it was perhaps inevitable that the actor ended up loading up on freebies...
The Little Movie That Could
January 21, 2007 | 4:51pmThe big story here Sunday morning actually came out of Los Angeles, where the Producers Guild of America gave their best picture award to last year's Sundance favorite, "Little Miss...
COP OUT
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amMuncie, Indiana's police chief is still a believer. And so are many of Muncie's 67,000 citizens. But they may be the only ones. CBS's new reality romp, "Armed & Famous,"...
FESTERING ISSUES IN DUKE LACROSSE CASE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amOn one hand, "60 Minutes" lately has done an admirable and thorough job, devoting two full segments to the wishful-thinking American justice system that left three Duke lacrosse players indicted...
DON'T MISS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amCELEBRITY Casualties of fame It's a funny thing about fame. Once it finds you, you never know how it's going to treat you. And if fame suddenly leaves, like a...
REEL DEAL
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWALK THE LINE (2005) Monday, 8 p.m., MAX Reese Witherspoon nailed the Oscar and Joaquin Phoenix was also nominated for his performance in the biopic of the turbulent life of...
CSI: LIEV
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe first hint that CBS may be looking for a new star for the centerpiece for its "CSI" franchise came when acclaimed New York theater actor Liev Schreiber was hired...
NOBODY BEATS THE WIZ
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amSome detectives - from Sherlock Holmes to Adrian Monk - possess uncanny powers of deduction. But Harry Dresden just possesses uncanny powers. That's because he's a detective who also happens...
HIDE AND SEEK
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amIt was one of the most dramatic moments in a series that's consistently wowed viewers with its ability to intrigue, thrill and surprise - the moment when all the heroes...
LOST & FOUND
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWHY would a federal prosecutor with a passion for environmental justice give up a brilliant public career to go into private practice? For Manhattan attorney Stanley N. Alpert, it was...
THE CAT LADY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amCAT-food manufacturers, who spend millions of dollars trying to figure out what cats like to eat, have loaded their foods with sugar to make them more tasty. Turns out, they...
ADOPT ME
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amAt theHumane Society, Cito is known as the "big lover boy" and has already stolen many hearts. Yours is next. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the...
THE ICE MOVES COMETH ABROAD
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amCHESS INTERNATIONAL com petitions have been in terrupted by little things like declarations of war, but this month's London-Moscow consultation game may have been the first to be influenced by...
HOT SEAT
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amFOR a musician without any prior movie credits, Chicago rapper Common has quickly wandered into some high-falutin' company. In the action-comedy "Smokin' Aces," out Friday, he appears alongside the likes...
HOT LIST
January 21, 2007 | 10:00am1 Admitting the truth Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty (again) to misdemeanor assault for hitting her maid with a cellphone because of a lost pair of jeans. It's the second time...
THE GRAPES OF BATH
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amYet another wine shop has just opened in TriBeCa - but the bottles are full of hand lotion, body oils and exfoliator. That's because Delluva (from the Italian conjunction dell'uva,...
THIS WEEK'S DVD
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ILLUSIONIST 3 ½ STARS Fox, $29.99 If this evocative period thriller has any fault, it's that it's almost too classy. A combination of 1944's "Gaslight" and 1991's "Barton Fink,"...
GOD'S HOUSE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amFOR a political journalist, having your mother become the most politically powerful woman in U.S. history comes with a host of complications. For Alexandra Pelosi, whose documentary on the evangelical...
FOXX NEWS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00am'THAT'S funny," Jamie Foxx says, when asked if he felt upstaged by Eddie Murphy's Golden Globe-winning performance in "Dreamgirls." "Because I haven't heard anybody ask Leonardo DiCaprio if he thought...
4 GREAT GADGETS THAT SET YOUR TV FREE!
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWANT to be a part of television history? If you've got a computer, it's easy. The digital world is taking television out of the living room and spreading it just...
REQUIRED READING
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amAFTER universal derision for his 2003 novel "Yellow Dog," Martin Amis decamped to Chile and produced his latest offering, "House of Meetings" (Knopf, $23). It's a slim volume, concerning two...
A SICK 'PLOT'
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTHE so-called "Great Negro Plot" of 1741 was not one of New York City's shinier moments. It began when somebody's silver went missing, followed by fires at the governor's mansion...
DOCTORS & DEATH
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amFINAL EXAM: A Young Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality 3 ½ STARS Pauline W. Chen Knopf, $23.95 DEATH is a subject few want to discuss, including Pauline W. Chen upon enrolling...
KNITWITS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amBELT & BOLERO Cashmere bell-sleeve cropped cardigan, $320, at Cynthia Rowley, 376 Bleecker St. Cashmere tunic with leather sash belt, $299, at Runway, 450 Broome St. lisli wool leggings with...
'GARDEN' VARIETY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amSince Natalie Portman affirmed their life-changing status in Zach Braff's 2004 cult hit "Garden State," the Shins have become one of indie rock's hottest bands. Their first two CDs sold...
NO SMALL FEATS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amDISAPPOINTED with "Dreamgirls"? Bored by "Borat"? Queasy over "The Queen"? Fret not. There are alternatives to all the Hollywood-hyped Oscar contenders clogging multiplexes. Here are five - all showing, not...
'VERA'-CITY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amVera Farmiga just faced one of her biggest fears in life - going on Letterman. "It was a last-minute thing. I'm glad it was last-minute, because if I had known,...
HUNG UP
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amIT finally feels like winter, so there's no more leaving home without your coat, hat, gloves and skinny jeans under your minidress to keep warm. That's right, according to 22-year-old...
O'HANLON, 24, AND RYAN, 24
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amOCT. 20 - Kristi Ryan and Brian O'Hanlon would both agree that true love stands the test of time. "We were high school sweethearts," says Ryan, an accountant. "Brian and...
CABRERA, 32, AND GOMEZ, 35
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 4 - Few things are more difficult than convincing a man to get out on the dance floor, but newlywed Elizabeth Cabrera knows that where there's a will, there's...
GREENBERG, 26, AND SMENTEK, 31
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amOCT. 21 - Some say that falling in love is all about the little things, and Stefanie Greenberg and Scott Smentek would agree. Though Smentek was living in Michigan when...
MAZAROSKI, 38, AND KELLY, 35
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 11 - Ever since Maryellyn Mazaroski met Sean Kelly at a West Village party in 2001, she's been under the impression that it takes one of New York's finest...
STENCE, 30, AND BODNAR, 31
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 9 - Ron Bodnar was truly bitten by the bug during his nuptials to Kristy Stence - though it was more of an influenza bug than the lovebug. After...
HEEEEEERE'S HILLARY!
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's endeavor to return to the Oval Office in her own right officially began yesterday - jump-started by the entry into the race by her fresh-faced, experience-light Senate...
MENENDEZ MENDACITY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amNew Jersey's ethically challenged Sen. Robert Menendez can breathe a sigh of relief: It looks like he made it right under the deadline for the Senate's new ethics rules. Or...
DESTROYED - NOT
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWELL, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist. But at least one story he told the AP just doesn't check out: The Sunni...
THE DEMS' THINKER
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amBARNEY Frank, the Massachusetts congressman who chairs the Financial Services Committee, says it might be useful to "make it a misdemeanor to use metaphors in the discussion of public policy,"...
PORCINE PUPPIES
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amIT'S enough to make you want to arf. Chubby Chihuahuas, but terball beagles, rotund Rottweilers - and Labradors needing liposuction: Our pooches are growing paunches at an alarming rate. Of...
GOVERNMENT VS. THE PEOPLE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: The rights of public officials to take property through eminent domain. What happened to Bart Didden is disgusting, but not surprising ("Court-OK'd Theft," PostOpinion, Jan. 14). We only...
CLINTON IN CAMOUFLAGE: CAN'T HIDE VIEWS OF WAR
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: Sen. Clinton's trip to Iraq and her questioning of our mission there. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could have a made a real contribution and shown an example in...
ONE AMERICA
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amONE NATION, ONE STANDARD: AN EX-LIBERAL ON HOW HISPANICS CAN SUCCEED JUST LIKE OTHER IMMIGRANT GROUPSBY HERMAN BADILLOSENTINEL, 240 PAGES, $23.95 FOR decades, New York's Herman Badillo has been one...
THE RIGHT WAY OF POLICING
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTHE GREAT AMERICAN CRIME DECLINEBY FRANKLIN E. ZIMRING OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 272 PAGES, $29.95 VIRTUALLY everyone was caught off guard by New York City's stunning crime declines of the 1990s....
MIDWIFE OF MODERNISM
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTHE GIRL WITH THE GALLERY: EDITH GREGOR HALPERT AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN ART MARKETBY LINDSAY POLLOCKPUBLIC AFFAIRS, 464 PAGES, $36 EDITH Halpert made history. The most brilliant art...
NEW KERNEL IN TOWN EYES POPCORN WAR
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amPop goes the Big Apple. New Yorkers, always eager to get in on a good food fight, should get ready for the popcorn wars. Garrett Popcorn Shops, a mainstay of...
CONTRACT HIT$
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amIf any more money from Sirius Satellite Radio comes Howard Stern's way, he should take it. So should Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, the major sports leagues and any other content...
LOOK TO 529S TO SAVE FOR KIDS' COLLEGE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amDear John: What's the best way to set up an education fund for my children? F.B.Dear F.B.: That depends, of course, on whether your "children" are young or whether they...
SUFFER NO BAD BROKER
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amIF your investment is heading south fast, or you can't figure out why your broker bought or sold certain things, never hesitate to ask questions, advises Elisse Walter, senior vice...
BEST BIOTECH BETS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amLindsay Lohan and biotech companies have something in common these days: They both like drugs. Unfortunately for Lindsay, rehab was her fate. But for the biotech investor, there's a big,...
TRIB: WE STILL NEED MORE TIME
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTribune Co. might be going back to the drawing board. After receiving three less-than-overwhelming offers for the Chicago-based media giant, the independent special committee of Tribune's board of directors said...
SPEAK UP ON GOVERNANCE - YOUR MAJOR FUNDS WON'T
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amFD->ED up with runaway CEO compensation? Angry that some of the biggest losers in your investment portfolio (think Home Depot, Pfizer and GM) have some of the worst track records...
THE LYNCH PIN
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWhat's a 12,000-job bloodbath if it helps bail out the Big Apple and keeps Wall Street awash with billions in bonuses? Merrill Lynch chief Stan O'Neal, who's been trying to...
CINGULAR'S TEXT MESSAGE: PARENTS LEARN, WE EARN
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe country's No. 1 cellphone carrier is trying to make parents a lot more hip. Cingular Wireless will push for a coast-to-coast mommy-and-daddy makeover by teaching them how to text...
WHIRLWIND TOURNEW EMI CHIEF HOPS CONTINENTS TO HIT BASES
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amERIC Nicoli has had a busy first week as CEO of EMI. The 49-year-old relinquished his executive chairman role to take direct responsibility for EMI's management in the wake of...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWINNERSBRETT YORMARK Nets' CEO puts together $400M naming-rights deal for Brooklyn arena, the richest such pact in the U.S. STAN O'NEAL Years after laying off 12,000 employees, CEO guides Merrill...
DRIVER'S 'LIE'CENSE PROBE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe state DMV is reviewing the security of its Web site, after a Post exposé revealed hordes of underage kids were using the online system to easily obtain fraudulent IDs....
MIKE ASKS JUDGE TO HALT WTC PAYMENTS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amMayor Bloomberg is calling for an emergency halt to a judge's orders that the city start paying sick World Trade Center workers, The Post has learned. Lawyers for the city...
NETS FANS MUST JUMP THROUGH $4,500 HOOP
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amPremium Nets season-ticket holders might have to shell out $4,500 - just for the right to buy tickets to games at the team's planned Brooklyn arena, the Post has learned....
2 COPS BEATEN
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTwo rookie cops - just weeks out of the Police Academy - were beaten up in Chelsea early yesterday, one critically, as a fender bender turned violent, police said. The...
NEW YORK PARTY COLLEAGUES RALLY BEHIND HER
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amMost New York Democrats greeted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's announcement with delight yesterday, eager to lavish praise on their great shining presidential hope. "I think the entire congressional delegation has...
MYSTERY DEATH OF B'KLYN NAVY MAN
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe military is investigating the mysterious death of a Brooklyn-born Navy man who was found shot in the head in what has been deemed a "non-combat-related incident" at a base...
DRAGGED COP'S 2ND CLOSE CALL
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amA police sergeant dragged 20 feet by a suspected drug buyer's SUV Thursday in Jamaica, Queens, came within a yard of being hit by a second car, the 17-year NYPD...
PARISHIONERS FIGHT MERGE PLAN
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amParishioners of 101-year-old Our Lady of Esperanza in Washington Heights are vowing to fight the New York Archdiocese if it tries to merge the parish with a neighboring church under...
BUS RAMS IPOD JOGGER
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amA Brooklyn jogger was critically injured yesterday when she was struck by a tour bus in Boerum Hill. Pamela Oribe, 46, was listening to her iPod when she was struck...
IN HARM'S 'SWAY' IN FLATIRON
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWorkers at a Flatiron District office building have become unwilling movers and shakers. Employees at 102 Madison Ave. are all shook up over the construction next door of a 55-story...
'YOU ARE MISSED'
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amRelatives yesterday tacked a heartbreaking message on the fence circling the fire-ravaged Dutchess County home where three adored children and their parents were killed before the house was torched. "We...
FIRETRUCK CRASH ID MYSTERY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe driver of an FDNY fire engine that collided with a car at a Bronx intersection drove off without stopping - and later identified himself as another firefighter who swore...
THEY MAKE IT WORK
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amFrench-English translator Stephanie Kantorski is on vacation this week thanks to the generous scheduling of her new boss, Stephanie Kantorski. Real-estate-financing expert Treacy Sayres complains she rarely gets holidays off...
DEMS OK WITH CHUCK RIP
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amSen. Charles Schumer, whose new book criticizes his party for losing touch with the middle class, isn't alone in that belief, fellow Democrats said yesterday. Until this year, when the...
ILL CLERK'S BRO-ING PAIN
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amA cancer-stricken legal clerk showed no brotherly love when he ripped off millions of dollars from his sibling's high-profile law firm, a Nassau County prosecutor said yesterday. Anthony Galasso, who...
HOMELESS-SUIT TWIST
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amRoger Greenlee, the homeless man being sued for $1 million, left home 30 years ago after an ugly dispute with his dad over money. Now, his forgiving family - including...
EMS IN BIG $$ BUNGLE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amMore than 300 retired and disabled EMS workers - and the families of medics who have died - are being denied thousands of dollars in retroactive pay because the Fire...
PLAN UPENDS BALANCE OF BUCKS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amA plan to overhaul the city's school-funding system calls for a dollar amount to be placed on every child's head - a formula that could beef up lower-performing districts at...
IT PAYS TO BE TERRIBLE TEACH
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amA flawed tenure system that grants teachers almost automatic lifetime protection - whether deserved or not - has allowed hundreds of terrible teachers to keep working throughout the city. Principals...
'DEADBEAT' REV. AL SUED
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe landlord of the Harlem building where the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network was based is suing the group for $40,000 in back rent, court records say. But Sharpton...
$UIT OVER 'LOST' HISTORY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amRare copies of three Revolutionary War-era documents that formed the basis for the Constitution have vanished and are presumed lost or stolen after they were mailed to the lawyer for...
FOES' FIRST BLOWS SHOW FIGHTIN' STYLE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWith a razor-sharp edge, Hillary Rodham Clinton opened her White House bid with a partisan pounding of President Bush - in sharp contrast to archrival Barack Obama's softer campaign-opening pledge...
NOW COMES DEM FRONT-RUNNERS' WAR-CHEST WAR
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amHillary Clinton leads the Democratic field with millions in the bank, but Barack Obama promises to be close on her heels, making plays for some of her major donors. Clinton...
HILL'S BID HER-STORIC: FEMINISTS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amI am woman, watch me run. A successful Hillary Clinton campaign would not just be a win for her, but for women everywhere, feminist leaders said yesterday. "We are thrilled...
'SWOON' AT SUNDANCE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amPARK CITY, Utah - There are many shocking films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, covering everything from child molestation to bestiality, but a screening of one particularly intense film...
I AM STILL TOO SCARED TO TELL MY MOM AND DAD, 'KIDNAP' CREEP ADMITS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amUNION, Mo. - The hulking pizza manager accused of snatching two boys in Missouri is so ashamed of his arrest, he can't face his own mom and dad. "I don't...
VICTIM'S FATHER SERVED TIME AS A PERV
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe man who fathered kidnapped teen Shawn Hornbeck was a convicted sex offender who did three years in a Missouri prison on drug and sodomy charges, The Post has learned....
THE BUBBA FACTOR IS HER BLESSING & HER CURSE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton has her biggest asset and greatest liability right by her side - hubby Bill Clinton. The former first couple experienced the soaring highs of his...
HILL'S 'CHAT' IS IN THE RING
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amShe's in! New York's Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joined the 2008 presidential sweepstakes yesterday, making history by becoming the first woman - and the first former first lady - with...
NYPD BLOTTER
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amMANHATTAN A city schoolteacher was collared for drunken driving after he got into an accident in Greenwich Village, police said yesterday. John Lockwood, 36, smashed up his car at West...
SEN. OBAMA, MEET THE DEM GOLIATH
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amYOU can almost hear Bill's voice whispering in Hillary's ear: "Time to change the story line." The story line of the past month in American politics has been the ascent...
THOMPSON TAKES JABS AT MIKE'S BIG PLANS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amCOMPTROLLER Bill Thompson, the pre sumptive front-run ner in the 2009 mayoral race, is distancing himself from key initiatives Mayor Bloomberg outlined in his State of the City speech last...
CANADIANS' VALUABLE LESSON LEARNED WELL
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amSO Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein have come up with another reorganization for New York City's public schools. First, it was supplanting the city's 32 community school districts with...
LOTTERY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Numbers Sat.: 628 Midday Win-4 Sat.: 8102 Evening Numbers Sat.: 065 Evening Win-4 Sat.: 3407 Pick-10 Sat.: 8, 10, 12, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 37, 44,...
PAU-ER BROKERS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amEARLIER this season, I revealed Boston had offered Memphis its choice of any combination of Celtics for Pau Gasol. Michael Heisley, a lame-duck owner at the time whose pending sale...
SUB TITLE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amCHICAGO - They are the Other Guys, playing in the Other Game. They are a couple of Don Rickles, warming up a crowd that wants only to know about Frank...
AIR FORCE ONE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Star wars tonight at the RCA Dome. Peyton Manning vs. Tom Brady - the greatest thrower against the greatest winner. Peyton Prolific vs. Tom Terrific. The football equivalent...
DIAMOND DOGS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amALL this talk of asterisks. How about an asterisk next to "St. Louis Car dinals, 2006 World Series Champs," one that notes the Cards had the 13th-best regular-season record in...
NEW YORLEANS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amCHICAGO - We can remember what this was like, this odd outpouring of affection and attention from so many varied and unexpected precincts. For that reason alone, there can be...
BRODEUR: DON'T SUPERSIZE ME
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amMARTIN Brodeur was talking about how Hen rik Lundqvist, "and maybe 85 percent of the goalies in the league," play so low to the ice. Then Brodeur laughed. "Let's see...
CALLS OF THE WILD
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTHE first turkey calls were crude devices that helped bring birds into range. Today, they not only have become more effective but are considered art. Call makers have combined beauty...
HAPPY SAINT-PATS!
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amTODAY Saints (+21/2) over BEARS; OVER 43 Both sides survived stiff challenges to get to this point - but New Orleans outfinished the superior opponent to get here. Bears made...
MANN-IFEST DESTINY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amINDIANAPOLIS - When the AFC playoff seedings and matchups were finalized, Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, like most fans, took a look and began making his predictions. "I, like probably most...
PATRIOTS - COLTS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The Colts have been the victim of huge heartbreak in the postseason when facing the Patriots. That heartbreak, however has always, come on the Patriots' home turf in...
MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR PEYTON & INDY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Now the Colts have the Patriots in an AFC Championship Game at their house. The Colts, too, have the Patriots' former all-time clutch kicker, Adam Vinatieri, on their...
LOVE AND REX
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amNEW ORLEANS - The Rex Grossman Fan Club, which lost more than a few charter members in Chicago this season as the Bears became the worst 14-3 team in football,...
BREES-Y DOES IT!
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amIncluding the 1997-2005 seasons in The Post, Cat's record in print stands at 309-249 (55.4 percent) against the spread. THE PICK Saints (+21/2) over BEARS: Yep, the postseason record of...
THIS SAINT ABOUT LOSING ANYMORE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amCHICAGO - One of these teams will be a sad-sack no longer. Officially, it's called the NFC Championship game but in reality it might as well be referred to as...
SAINTS - BEARS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe Bears haven't been to a Super Bowl in 21 years, which must seem like an eternity in Chicago but probably feels like a brief moment in time down in...
SCARY MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amIF YOU intend to commit a crime or two, but expect sympathy and support from the media in return, perhaps it's best to first be a member of the Chicago...
VAC'S WHACKS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amIt was probably after getting hit by a few of those LSU tacklers in the Sugar Bowl that Jeff Samardzija realized varsity ball is a little tougher than the JVs...
THE RUMBLE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amHe's still producing Marbury TV boss was H.S. hoops champ Rodney Henry , executive producer of Stephon Marbury's new TV show, won a New York State high school basketball championship...
OLD BRAWL GAME
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThough voted third behind the Knicks' 1970 NBA title and the Rangers' 1994 Stanley Cup, no event at "The World's Most Famous Arena" has ever staged grabbed the international attention...
NICHOLS IN 'CUSE CONTROL
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe way Syracuse swingman Demetris Nichols tells it, coach Jim Boeheim never has pulled him aside and given him the green light. But Nichols knows the grief he'd get from...
HUSKIES HAVE HOPE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amHARTFORD - The coaches at two storied programs - one in his first season, the other in his 21st - have been preaching, cajoling, and pleading with their players in...
REESE OF THEIR MINDS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00am* The best thing about the Giants keeping coach Tom Coughlin and hiring former player personnel director Jerry Reese as general manager is that the team is going to be...
SPORTS SHORTS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amNFL: Steelers coach search in flux The Steelers will wait until at least tomorrow to announce their new coach, and might interview Chicago defensive coordinator Ron Rivera that day for...
DEVS ENJOY VIEW FROM TOP
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThat should be that. The Devils' 13-point All-Star break lead should ensure their sixth Atlantic Division title in nine seasons. They parted yesterday at the Meadowlands almost celebrating, a happy,...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...CARL BANKS
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amThe Post's Steve Serby chatted with the two-time Giants Super Bowl-champion linebacker, who played under Bill Belichick when the coach was Big Blue's defensive coordinator: Q: One Bill Belichick recollection?...
WIN & WORRY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Isiah Thomas' heart could not take another last-second, heartbreaking defeat. So when Danny Granger's 3-point shot from the right wing went up at the buzzer, Thomas prayed -...
PACERS COACH A CURRY FAN
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Despite Eddy Curry's big mistake in the final seconds Friday - not boxing out the Nets' Cliff Robinson or jumping on the game-winning tap-in - Pacers coach Rick...
EVEN UP!
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amEver since beating Charlotte on Wednesday, the Nets started dangling the idea in front of themselves like a carrot - or a steak in front of a starving dog. Win...
RJ MUM ON ANKLE SURGERY
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amRichard Jefferson's nagging right ankle is going to be under the spotlight. Now the question is whether it will be under the knife. The small forward wouldn't commit to going...
POWER OUTAGE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amSo there were the Rangers early in the third period of a 1-1 game against the Thrashers with a 57-second five-on-three. There were the Rangers, still tied after failing to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amAn Iowa woman was denied unemployment benefits after being fired from her job for writing a journal at work that detailed her efforts to avoid work. "This typing thing seems...
SECOND CHANCES
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amWHO says all early-twentysomethings are bed-hopping heartbreakers? Last week's Meet Market daters, Carmen, a 23-year-old client account manager at a venture consulting firm, and Adam, a 23-year-old corporate recruiter, feel...
MEET MARKET
January 21, 2007 | 10:00amIN a city brimming with amazing and unusual places to go and things to do, asking a girl to dinner and movie may as well be one way to announce,...