November 2, 2007
Yankees Exercise Abreu's 16M Option
Bobby Abreu's $16 million option for next season was exercised today by the Yankees.The 33-year-old right fielder overcame a slow start to hit .283 with 16 homers and 101 RBIs...
Tribeca Goes on a Diet
The Tribeca Film Festival will reduce the number of features showing in 2008 to between 120 and 130 from the 160 it offered this year. "We realize our audience is...
ABREU IS BACK
The Yankees re-signed Bobby Abreu today, something that had to be done. Abreu will make $16 million.That's the price of hitting today. In some ways, though, Abreu is an underrated...
Not Quite Yankees-Sawx
By FRED KERBEROkay, it isn't Yankees-Red Sox, Ali-Frazier or even Bruno Sammartino vs. Classy Freddie Blassie. And while the players might not agree, the boss believes the Nets-Raptors is a...
On sale now!
Nordstrom's half-yearly sale doesn't start till November 7th, but you can pre-order everything you want now.I'm thinking about:Milly Sleeveless Roll Neck ShiftWas: $345Now: $199See by Chloe Jersey DressWas: $395Now: $229Vince...
Deal of the Day
If you don't get your hands on the Cavalli for H&M ruffle front blouse, pick up this Georgette Ruffle Dress from Isaac Mizrahi for Target.He always does a stellar job...
Update: Deep in the Heart
As for Jonathan, he is putting the finishing touching on two new films, including a music documentary ("All Tomorrow's Parties'') that could premiere at Sundance or SWSX next year. "It's...
Starr Report
Matt Lauer (right) leaves tomorrow for his part of the "Today" show's two-day global telecast - which begins Monday with Lauer in Greenland, Ann Curry in Antarctica and Al Roker...
'3:10' Pulls Into Anthology
I liked James Mangold's recent remake of "3:10 to Yuma'' with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale and awarded it three stars. Lionsgate is giving the first successful western in years...
Oscar Watch: The Parent Trap
In "Martian Child,'' he's cast as a widowed sci-fi writer who adopts an abused youngster who claims he's from Mars and wears a Kabuki-like mask of sunscreen while carrying a...
Box Office: Big Apple Bonanza
Even the more conservative predictions by Gitesh Pandya at Box Office Guru are impressive after six weeks in the box-office wilderness. Pointing to one of the fall season's few successes,...
THE LATE, GREAT PENN STATION
New York's old Penn Station was one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. Here's a brief history of its life and untimely death. Before airplanes became the preferred...
REUNITED SONICS RETURN TO GARAGE
THE Sonics, a '60s psy chedelic band that helped define the ga rage rock genre, have quite a legend to live up to. So when Jon Weiss, founder of Cavestomp,...
KLINE NOSE HOW TO ACT
SOME actors were born to play Cyrano - which is why Ed mond Rostand's creaky melo drama, "Cyrano de Bergerac," has kept a toehold in the classic repertory for 110...
BOSS OF PICKET LINE
TOM Short, the much-feared union leader many people think may be able to save Broadway from a crippling strike, rescued the theater industry once before. On Sept. 12, 2001, Phil...
MISFITS AND FALSE STARTS
WANNA feel old? Take the elevator at the Roundabout's 46th Street theater down to what seems like the bowels of the Earth, and watch "Speech & Debate." With its opening...
MONSTROUSLY BAD
'FRANKENSTEIN" - the off-Broadway musical that opened last night and has nothing to do with Mel Brooks - is a serious take on the Mary Shelley classic, and it would...
STARR REPORT
'Today's' world newsMatt Lauer leaves tomor row for his part of the "Today" show's two-day global telecast - which be gins Monday with Lauer in Greenland, Ann Curry in Antarctica...
MOMMY DEADEST
IT took eight years, but "Family Guy" has finally made it to 100 episodes. Usually, it takes roughly four seasons for a TV series to make it to that milestone....
CNN OUT OF HOLY LAND
THE largest cable system in Israel has dropped CNN. HOT yanked CNN off the air early yesterday in a dispute over how much CNN was charging to carry the news...
DEMS CURB COLBERT
STEPHEN Colbert's presidential campaign is over - before it really even started. Colbert was denied a place in the South Carolina presidential primary yesterday when Democratic party officials voted 13-3...
PLAYBOY'S 'OFFICE'
THE Playboy Chan nel has created a new comedy it describes as an X-rated cross between "The Office" and "Entourage." The show, "Canoga Park," is slated to debut on Nov....
SWANK-Y SHORTCUT
HILARY Swank got a short haircut again - but this time it was Oprah wielding the scissors. The Oscar-winning actress allowed Oprah to chop off nine inches of her locks...
THE PLIGHT STUFF
THE documentary "Dar fur Now" proves that - no matter how im portant the subject matter - following various people around with a camera doesn't necessarily make a film. Director...
'SUPERHEROES' & WEAKNESSES
IT'S not easy being a superhero, es pecially when you have to dress up as a comic book character, stand on Hollywood Boulevard and pose for snapshots with tourists, always...
FAT GIRLS
BIG-HEARTED and often quite funny if crudely made, "Fat Girls" cleverly subverts the clichés of high school comedies to serve an autobiographical story about an overweight gay teen in a...
A BROKEN SOLE
ADAPTED by Susan Charlotte from her three 9/11-themed one-act plays, and directed by Antony Marsellis, "A Broken Sole" is uneven, as are most multipart films. Best is the opener, set...
ORBITING THE SON
ONCE John Cusack was MTV; now he's CBS. Still, a guy's gotta make a living, and your arms are bound to get tired if you try to hold a boombox...
FIRESIDE TALKS AT STRUMMER SCHOOL
BRITISH filmmaker Ju lien Temple is nothing if not eclectic. He's directed documentaries, music videos and dramas involving, well, pretty much everything: the Sex Pistols, the Rolling Stones, French director...
MORE SHARKS, LESS BIO
CALL it the anti-"Jaws." While Steven Spielberg's thriller depicted sharks as humankind's enemy from the deep, "Sharkwater" makes the opposite point: The beasts are the hunted, not the hunters. In...
JERRY 'BEE' GOOD
'BEE Movie" takes us on a colorful journey populated with strangely funny little creatures ill adapted for life outside their insular colony - the Upper West Side. Jerry Seinfeld -...
HOT PICKS
BAM I AM Hipsters run amok at the Brooklyn Academy of Music tomorrow when indie rockers, alt-film buffs and budget-conscious alcoholics get as close to a 9-to-5 as they've ever...
BROADWAY
"A BRONX TALE": ** Chazz Palminteri re-stars in his own 1993 off-Broadway one-man show of growing up in The Bronx. Material worked better in De Niro's later movie. Walter Kerr...
OFF-BROADWAY
"BLACK WATCH": *** ½ A highly visceral and theatrical production from Scotland about the Black Watch military regiment in Iraq. St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water St.; Brooklyn, (718) 254-8779. Closes...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
ANNIE LENNOX: The former Eurythmic performs songs off her latest solo album, "Songs of Mass Destruction" tomorrow at 8 p.m. at United Palace Theater, Broadway at 175th Street; (212) 568-5260....
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Tuesday through Nov. 11: Tribute performances by various artists in the Django Reinhardt Festival. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Monday: "Our Father Who Art Blakey"...
CLASSICAL
TOMORROW: The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's "La Traviata" at 1:30 p.m. at the Metropolitan Opera House; (212) 362-6000. SUNDAY: New York City Opera performs Samuel Barber's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Vanessa" at...
CABARET
FEINSTEIN'S: Through tomorrow: Lynda Carter. 540 Park Ave. South (212) 339-4095. ROSE THEATRE: Monday: Barbara Brussell, Judy Butterfield, Barbara Carroll and others perform at the 18th Annual Cabaret Convention. Time...
DANCE
JOYCE THEATER : Garth Fagan Dance presents a new program for the Joyce Tuesday through Nov. 11 at 175 Eighth Ave.; (212) 242-0800. LEHMAN CENTER: Whether ensemble or individual pieces,...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Delmer Daves' original 1957 production of "3:10 to Yuma" shows through Tuesday at 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181. BAM ROSE CINEMA: Essentially an Eastern bloc take on...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION BLOCK PARTY: Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Madison Avenue between 42nd and 57th streets. AUTUMN STREET FAIR: Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m....
PREVIEWS
"THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION": Hank Azaria stars in Aaron Sorkin's drama about the advent of television. Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. Opens Nov. 14. "ROCK 'N' ROLL":...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * THE POLICE are coming to the Boardwalk Hall Arena tomorrow at 8 p.m. Tickets: $50-$350; boardwalkhall.com, (609) 348-7000. * SARAH SILVERMAN plays Borgata's Music Box tomorrow at...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": *** John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO": **** Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "A CHORUS LINE": ** ½ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre....
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 train: No trains between 14th Street and South Ferry. Trains skip 28th, 23rd, and 18th streets in both directions. Downtown trains skip 66th, 59th, and 50th streets. Take 2...
WELFARE HITS ROCK BOTTOM
The city welfare rolls have dipped to a new 40-year low - falling even further than the historic numbers set months ago, new figures reveal. The welfare rolls hit 349,936...
MORTGAGE-SCAM SUIT TARS BIG BANK WAMU
A big real-estate appraisal firm let Washington Mutual push it into slapping bogus values on hundreds of thousands of homes - inflating their prices to rake in interest and fees...
'PERV' NIXES DEAL
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has backed out of a plea deal that would have sent him to prison for 18 months for frolicking with underage girls and left him a registered...
BRASSY BRONX EX-TEACHER A N.Y. ORIGINAL
Before she was the "broker to the stars" and moved in the same circles as Elton John and Madonna, Linda Adler was a humble schoolteacher from The Bronx. Then a...
SLAY SLEUTHS EYE AXED AIDE
Cops investigating the mysterious murder of big-time real-estate agent and punk-rock pioneer Linda Stein were looking to talk to a former assistant with whom she argued over a commission, law-enforcement...
MIKE IN THE 'NO'
For the first time, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday flatly came out against Gov. Spitzer's plan to allow legal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses - as Hillary Rodham Clinton took fire from...
WARNING SIGNS DA MISSED
The Brooklyn DA's Office ignored obvious "red flags" about their star witness in the murder trial of ex-FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio, a prominent criminal-defense lawyer said yesterday. Those warning signs...
MOLL RAT IS A TAPE WORM
In the bombshell tapes that single-handedly demolished the Brooklyn DA's murder case against former FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio, mob moll Linda Schiro sounds almost like the agent's biggest fan, calling...
G-MAN STICKS IT TO DA WITH TOAST AT MOB-LSLAY SITE
Ex-FBI Agent Lindley DeVecchio and wife Carolyn rub salt in the wounds of vanquished Brooklyn DA Joe Hynes last night - toasting the dismissal of mob murder charges against him...
DUES CHECKOFF OK WITH MTA
The MTA said yesterday that it conditionally supports the Transit Workers Union's right to automatically deduct dues from its members' paychecks. The TWU had that privilege until the transit strike...
NO BREAK FOR NEW MSG: MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg vowed yesterday that as long as he's running City Hall, Cablevision owner Jim Dolan won't keep his property-tax break for a relocated Madison Square Garden. "Not if I'm...
TIMES SQ. NUDE DUDE: PART 2
You could barely see him - and that was the problem. The latest streaker to traverse the Crossroads of the World had New Yorkers and tourists gaping at around 9:30...
PREZ TRIES TO KEEP MUKASEY AFLOAT
President Bush firmly defended his embattled nominee for attorney general yesterday, saying Michael Mukasey was being treated unfairly by Democrats in the controversy about the interrogation technique called waterboarding. "It's...
HOSP THROWS MET A CURVE
A Queens hospital pulled a bush-league move on former Mets player Ed Kranepool by using his photo and personal medical information in a direct mail fund-raising campaign, according to a...
'HAIRSPRAY' STIFFED ME: ACTOR SUIT
The popular musical "Hairspray" is about tolerance, but the show's producers aren't so sensitive, one of the show's former actors said. In a $1.5 million suit filed in Manhattan Supreme...
SEX SUIT NEW INDIGESTION FOR CIPRIANIS
There's more trouble on the menu for the Ciprianis - the restaurant clan has been served a sexual-harassment lawsuit from a waitress. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Lastenia...
BX. TRAILER COKE BUST
Two Bronx men selling cocaine out of a trailer in a parking lot were busted yesterday with 10 kilos of the drug, police sources said. Jerry Ortiz and Louis Vigniero...
TOT-KILLER TEEN JAILED
A judge yesterday sentenced a teen to five to 15 years for fatally beating his girlfriend's 4-year-old son. After hearing from the child's family, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle...
SLAIN DENTIST RIPPED WIFE
The orthodontist gunned down in Queens on Sunday had called his wife "irrational, unstable and violently inclined," a child psychologist testified yesterday before advising the court not to return the...
SCHOOL REPORT CARDS
Education officials will rate more than 1,200 city public schools for the first time next week in language students and parents alike can understand: A, B, C, D and F....
HERO RELIVES STEAM BLAST
He can barely zip his jacket without pain, and putting on his socks is a struggle, but the man badly burned in last summer's Midtown steam-pipe explosion says he's thrilled...
DISS SET OFF UNION SQ. GUN MELEE
A bloody gang fight that erupted in gunfire in Union Square Park on Halloween night was triggered by a show of "disrespect," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday. Five teens...
JUDGE TOSSES OUT CASE AGAINST LONGSHOREMEN
A Brooklyn federal judge threw out a civil racketeering case against the International Longshoremen's Association yesterday, claiming the government's complaint failed to show enough evidence of a conspiracy. The feds...
'DROWN' DOC $CAM BUST
A doctor whose wife mysteriously drowned in the East River four years ago was indicted in an insurance scam yesterday - and prosecutors indicated they were leaning on him to...
HEROES FUR SURE
He gave her the paws of life. Toby didn't hesitate when Debbie Parkhurst choked on a piece of apple and couldn't breathe - the golden retriever did a doggy version...
H'WARD BEACH BRAWL
A Halloween donnybrook broke out in Howard Beach, Queens, where the lines of hate were again drawn in black and white. A group of white teens in the infamous neighborhood...
RESULTS MIXED FOR MOONVES
CBS boss Les Moonves, who reluctantly signed a new contract last month that more closely ties his pay to the media company's stock performance, probably still has some jitters about...
PSST - ASK YOUR KID ABOUT S-E-X
Is your teenager a virgin? That depends on your teen's definition of "is" - as well as a few other words that parents might want to run past their kids....
'RACIST' DOG EYES HIS PUP
Duane Chapman, the embattled star of "Dog the Bounty Hunter," believes his racist rant was sold to The National Enquirer by his estranged son as a blatant betrayal - one...
KRISTIN BARES HER COLD FEET
On the ABC show "Pushing Daisies," Kristin Chenoweth plays a woman suffering from unrequited love. In real life, the 39-year-old actress tells this week's Page Six Magazine, she has "been...
CLINTON DONOR FACES CHINA GRILL
The feds are eyeing a Chinatown donor to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign to see if she was "coerced" into being a front for someone else's contribution. Hsiao Yen...
FINAL BOUNCE
Swiss Miss Martina Hingis yesterday hung up her tennis shoes for the final time - after revealing she tested positive for cocaine at Wimbledon this past summer. In announcing her...
IMUS DIALS UP A DEAL
It's official: Don Imus is coming back to the airwaves. Radio's lone cowboy sealed a deal to host a morning talk show on Citadel Broadcasting's flagship station WABC, unseating the...
THE HORROR OF 'WATERBOARD'
Waterboarding is a centuries-old interrogation technique. The subject, his back down, is bound to a board and water is poured over his face to make him feel as if he's...
W.'S 'PINK' ALERT OVER PEACENIKS
WASHINGTON - In a scathing attack, President Bush yesterday trashed Democrats for dancing to the tune of left-wing bloggers and gonzo anti-war protesters. "When it comes to funding our troops,...
U.S. JEW HATERS
Nearly 35 million American adults - 15 percent - hold views consistent with making them anti-Semitic, according to a survey released yesterday. The Anti-Defamation League survey, conducted from between Oct....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The Bronx Police were searching yesterday for a 15-year-old girl who disappeared from her Soundview apartment. Samaris Rodriguez was last seen at her Bruckner Boulevard residence at about 9:50 p.m....
EDWARDS STEPS ON THE GAS
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic rivals are clawing to take advantage of her stumble this week over whether she supports Gov. Spitzer's plan to give illegal immigrants driver's licenses....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 795; Lucky Sum: 21 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 3836; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 087; Lucky Sum: 15; Evening Win-4 Thu.: 4552; Lucky...
PAUL W. TIBBETS, 1915-2007
To the very end, retired Gen. Paul Tibbets refused to apologize for his brief brush with history - as pilot of the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay, which...
DR. BUTTINSKY CLAMS UP
City Health Czar Thomas Frieden has never been slow to offer advice to New Yorkers. Yet now that people actually want to hear from him on an issue - the...
SUBPRIME CHICANERY
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has uncovered what he says is the dirty little secret of the sub prime mortgage market: active collusion between lenders and appraisers to vastly inflate...
BEHIND HILLARY'S DOUBLETALK
EVERY time she approaches a microphone, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton labors under the necessity of fudging on her program - offering, instead, an artificial personality and a variety of poll-tested...
TO SLAY 'SUPERBUG'
IN the war between pathogenic bacteria and humans, the microbes seem to be winning: They're evolving resistance to our antibiotics faster than we're evolving new ways to attack them. Our...
DEATH PENALTY'S DEADLY VACATION
THE Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively halted U.S. executions via lethal injection until it can rule on a challenge to the constitutionality of a particu lar execution "cocktail." This is...
TORTURE TRICKS
WOULD someone be fit to be attorney general of the United States if he had once said, "I think there are probably very few people in this room or in...
SLOWING DOWN DEMS: HILL WON'T CHOOSE LANE
THE ISSUE: Sen. Clinton's refusal to commit to a position on granting driver's licenses to illegals. This week's debate spelled trouble for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as her continual refusal...
DIVIDEND DRAMA DRIVES CITIGROUP DOWN
Citigroup's world was rocked yesterday after a raft of Wall Street analysts recommended dumping the financial colossus' stock amid doubts about the bank's short-term prospects, including the possibility that Citi...
SECOND THOUGHTS
Wall Street sees a chillier than expected winter coming. A day after jumping more than 137 points on the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates a quarter point, stocks...
NEWS' TOP AD MAN RIDES OFF INTO THE SUNSET
GUY "Doc" Holliday has checked out of the not-so-OK-corral at the Daily News. Holliday, who as executive vice president and associate publisher held the top ad sales job at the...
TICKING TOM BOMB
The initial negative reception to "Lions for Lambs" - the first movie to come out under Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's resurrected United Artists label - could harm parent studio...
TIME WARNER SPIN-OFF IN '08
Look for Time Warner to spin off the remainder of its stake in its Time Warner Cable unit next year, company insiders said yesterday. While a transaction - long anticipated...
SCREEN TEST
Top officials of the Writers Guild of America will vote today on whether to approve a walkout by Hollywood's TV and film scribes. The vote comes after bargainers for the...
CAYNE'S UP IN SMOKE OVER HIGH FINANCE
Jimmy Cayne's reputation is taking a hit over reports he's inhaling pot at the age of 73. After the Wall Street Journal dropped the bombshell claim that the Bear Stearns...
BULLY BOOTS BOARD
Darwin Deason, the babe-toting, multimillionaire boss of Affiliated Computer Services, yesterday booted five of the company's independent board members after blaming them for the failure of a $6.2 billion, management-led...
SUISSE MORTGAGE MESS HAS WIDENED
Credit Suisse's earnings release yesterday is shedding some light on what battered bond professionals are calling the next big problem in the credit market: commercial mortgages. In its report of...
PROFITS HANG-UP
Reeling Sprint Nextel Corp. reported a 77 percent drop in third quarter net income yesterday - just weeks after booting Chief Executive Gary Forsee for failing to keep pace with...
JUDGE GIVES DEVECCHIO A PARTING SHOT
The Brooklyn judge who dismissed the case against former FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio yesterday still managed to hand the former G-man and the Bureau a rebuke, criticizing the tactics and...
A FOND FAREWELL TO LINDA STEIN
An overflow crowd jammed into Riverside Memorial Chapel today to bid a sad farewell to Linda Stein, the legendary real estate broker and punk rock pioneer who was bludgeoned to...
TWO COPS ACCUSED OF DESERTING EGG-TOSSING TEEN ON STATEN ISLAND
A pair of Staten Island lawmen was arrested today for a shocking allegation of rogue justice by a 14-year-old boy who said the cops picked him up as a suspect...
A GAME OF PICK 'EM
Here comes Super Bowl XLI- ½ Sunday in Indianapolis, a preview of the AFC Championship game, a compelling matchup of good (Tony Dungy) versus evil (Bill Belichick), and mostly Peyton...
SYSTEMIC SIMPLETONS RUINING TV
THE difference between bad TV 26 years ago, when this column began, and bad TV today is that bad used to be mostly accidental. Today, it's mostly a matter of...
EAST SIDE STORY
I WANTED to put off the NBA preview until early January - by which time I figured Next Town Brown would be coaching both the Cavaliers and 76ers, and Laker-for-life...
BATTLE OF UNBEATENS IN WALES
IT'S a battle of unbeatens that will be witnessed by 40,000-to-50,000 screaming fans eager to see a long-awaited and much-hyped matchup. No, it's not Patriots versus Colts, but Joe Calzaghe...
VIEW TO A KELL
ERIC Mangini made the switch to Kellen Clemens, a few weeks too late to save the Jets' season or suit many of their fans. But don't expect to see a...
BRONCS CHEERS IN MOTOR CITY
Adding to his stuffed trophy case, The Wildcat captured first place over more than 50 foes in the 2006-07 edition of Playbook's long-running Wise Guys contest with an overall record...
DREAM GAME
If Colts coach Tony Dungy is curious why the Patriots are playing with a chip on their shoulders, he need not look any further than Eric Mangini. The Jets' coach...
MARATHON TRIALS STRESS U.S. DEPTH, SPEED
The seeds were sown seven years ago for tomorrow's Olympic marathon trials - both for holding the race in New York, and for the American distance-running revival that it will...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...KENNY SMITH
THE NBA season is starting up again, and The Post's Justin Terranova caught up with Kenny Smith, TNT's studio analyst and a part-time color analyst for MSG. He discussed the...
TRENDSETTERS
SAINTS (-3) VS. JAGUARS, 1 P.M. New Orleans has dropped just one of six in Week 9, and is 5-2-1 in its last eight November games. Jacksonville has dropped four...
THE ODD COUPLE
TAKE THAT, YOU MISERABLE SPREAD! Take an 8-5 beating by The Odd Couple (Dick Klayman & Peter Tocco) and get ready for more, because the fun has only just begun....
MISS CHARLEEN
SUNDAY: Redskins, Chiefs, Cards, Panthers, Falcons, Saints, Broncos, Bills, Chargers, Browns, Patriots, Raiders, Eagles. MONDAY: Steelers. BEST BETS: Redskins, Chiefs, Eagles.
O/U RICO!
Rico went 5-8 (2-1 on Best Bets) last week, bringing the season record to 55-60-1 (12-11-1). The selections for Week 9: OVER: Redskins / Jets; Falcons / Niners; Saints /...
IRS: NYRA OWES $1.6B
The bankrupt New York Racing Association, whose franchise expires Dec. 31, has another fine mess on its hands: The Internal Revenue Service claims NYRA owes $1.6 billion (with a "B")...
CORNELIO RIDES FIVE WINNERS
Cornelio Velasquez booted home five winners on card when pick 6 pool reached nearly $1 million; $734,837 was bet yesterday chasing three-day carryover of $243,011. Short prices won first three...
HONDO EXCELLING IN ALL AREAS
Let's quickly sum up Hondo's wondrous week of handicapping excellence: BASEBALL - Wrapped up the season with 225 more lemongellos than when he started, including nailing all four games and...
SPORTS SHORTS
OBIT: Olympian John Woodruff, 92John Woodruff, who joined Jesse Owens as black Americans who won gold medals in the face of Adolf Hitler and his "master race" agenda at the...
ELIAS GETS THE POINT
This must be one deep Devils team, playing its six-time leading scorer on the third line. That's not it, of course. Brent Sutter would like to see Patrik Elias back...
RICK OF TIME
The Islanders locker room was locked moments after their throttling of the Lightning, and Rick DiPietro was forced to repeatedly slam into the door in a futile attempt to get...
COLES CALL
Jets receiver Laveranues Coles was held out of practice yesterday, his second consecutive missed session, because of the concussion he suffered against the Bills last week. As a result, his...
CAVALIER ATTITUDE
CLEVELAND - James Dolan came out of hiding yesterday and gave a pep talk to the Knicks at the team's Westchester campus at their final practice before the season opener....
ISIAH: STEPH CAN'T AFFORD ANOTHER NASTY NOVEMBER
CLEVELAND - Responding to Stephon Marbury's jarring remark that he will look for his shot more this season, Isiah Thomas warned the Knicks point guard he'd better not have as...
ANTOINE STARTING ON WRIGHT TRACK
Antoine Wright's timing couldn't have been better. There he was last week receiving word from the Nets that his option for next season wouldn't be picked up, and there he...
FOLLOW THE LEADER
It's humorous listening to all those people around the NHL trying to figure out whether Jaromir Jagr or Brendan Shanahan is the Rangers' true leader, as if it has to...
EARNIN' HIS PINSTRIPES
The best player in baseball is 32, plays third base, led the majors in homers and RBIs and is a free agent. And despite whispers throughout baseball that he wants...
ON DAY ONE, JUMPY JOE SHOWS SOME FIGHT
JOE Girardi called being named Yankee manager his "dream job" and insisted "this is where we (he and his family) wanted to be. This is where we wanted to end...
LOW-KEY FEEL TO GIRARDI'S ARRIVAL
THERE is no law that says the manager of the New York Yankees has to have an outsized personality, has to fill a room with charisma and charm, or just...
N.Y. TO L.A.: IT'S ALL JOE
Los Angeles has swiped a Brooklyn treasure for the second time in half a century. Fifty years after Walter O'Malley shifted the beloved Dodgers from Flatbush to Hollywood, Brooklyn son...
IT'S JOYOUS TIME FOR GIRARDI FAMILY
The day after officially being named Yankees manager, Joe Girardi spent the day trick-or-treating with his three kids near their home in Florida. As he and his wife Kim were...
MATSUI'S RIGHT KNEE NEEDS SOME 'CLEANUP'
The Yankees are batting .500 on avoiding offseason knee surgery on two key players. Derek Jeter's right knee won't be invaded by the knife, but Hideki Matsui's will require arthroscopic...
PAY-ROD
The Yankees were out of the Alex Rodriguez negotiations before they even began. According to a report on ESPN.com, confirmed by the Post tonight through industry sources, the Yankees were...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Love won't be in the air if Singapore Airlines has its way. It's warning passengers not to attempt a "Mile-high Club" tryst aboard its new Airbus A380, which contains 12...
Trade gauge
It always helps to know the trade value of the players on your roster. One can never tell for certain without putting out feelers in your individual leagues, but here's...
Tracking the Tracker
The Fantasy Tracker takes a beating in the office over its vast collection of teams. But like to think of it as thorough research. Here's a run-down of how the...
Quick Jabs: Boxing-MMA Notes
Juan Manuel Marquez and Ricky Juarez will meet Saturday night on Showtime for the super featherweight championship. Also John Duddy, Jaidon Codrington, the Teddy Dinner and UFC 78. There's an...