October 18, 2008
Bobby Abreu hoping to be back
October 18, 2008 | 11:55pmBy BRIAN LEWISI'm at the Red Bulls tilt tonight and Bobby Abreu was here, wearing a team jersey and taking part in the ceremonial first kick before the game. The...
'SARAH PALIN'
October 18, 2008 | 11:54pmIn a campaign where Sarah Palin's encouragement of wolf hunting receives more press attention than Barack Obama's fictitious promise of a "net spending cut," the need for more balanced coverage...
Bobby Abreu at the Red Bull tilt
October 18, 2008 | 11:53pmBy BRIAN LEWISI'm at the Red Bulls tilt tonight and Bobby Abreu was here, taking part in the ceremonial first kick before the game and getting a team jersey from...
Statement from RBNY's suspended Jeff Parke
October 18, 2008 | 11:19pmBy BRIAN LEWISAfter Jeff Parke and Jon Conway were suspended for performance-enhancing drugs, the first such suspension in MLS history, neither had been available to the media. But Parke _...
Red Bull Starting XI for tonight
October 18, 2008 | 10:35pmBy BRIAN LEWISIn the Red Bulls' must-win game tonight against Columbus (7:30 p.m., MSG2), Juan Carlos Osorio handed rookies Mac Kandji and Matthew Mbuta starts. For Mbuta, it is the...
WHEELCHAIR BOUND WOMAN KILLED IN FIRE ON ROOSEVELT ISLAND
October 18, 2008 | 6:54pmA 64-year-old wheelchair bound woman was killed in a swift-spreading apartment fire on Roosevelt Island today. Fire officials are probing the deadly 5:27 a.m. blaze on the 11th floor at...
Status Quo on Two Bigs
October 18, 2008 | 6:24pmBy FRED KERBERNothing new on Josh Boone or Stromile Swift. Both visited the hospital Friday - Boone after experiencing "chest discomfort," Swift after taking a nasty fall that left him...
Reno a good option for Stallion
October 18, 2008 | 3:45pmBy MARC BERMANDanilo Gallinari had an interesting remark in my story today on Mike D'Antoni saying the D-League is a definite option for the rookie 6-10 forward next month. He...
Maradona Looks to Coach Argentina
October 18, 2008 | 2:14pmDiego Maradona said on Friday he would like to coach Argentina following the surprise resignation of Alfio Basile the previous day."I would be really delighted, who wouldn't, to coach the...
Box Office: W's Numbers Finally Go Up
October 18, 2008 | 1:39pmOliver Stone's "W.'' opened on the high side of expectations and Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls is projecting a $12.9 million weekend -- comparable to the opening of "Primary Colors''...
PREZ POLLS APART
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amThe latest polls show Barack Obama still leading John McCain - but in some the advantage is as little as 4 points. The Gallup daily tracking poll had Obama ahead...
GET READY FOR A POWELL PLAY
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amColin Powell is set to give an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" tomorrow - raising the possibility that the man who has served three Republican presidents will endorse Barack...
BAM ON GUARD VS. 'SCREW-UP'
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amFront-running Barack Obama warned his supporters not to get overconfident, saying, "Don't underestimate our ability to screw things up," as John McCain yesterday blasted him as a socialist who would...
BUTTON DOWN: PRO-O TEACHERS KO'D
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amThe Department of Education has the right to bar teachers from wearing political campaign buttons in school, a Manhattan federal judge ruled yesterday. The ruling by Justice Lewis Kaplan came...
O'S PLUMBER: JOE'S A JOKE!
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amCHICAGO - Flush that, "Joe the Plumber"! Barack Obama's own toilet and sink repairman came to his client's defense yesterday - saying newly famous plumber Joe Wurzelbacher needs a reality...
WAITING FOR THE MAVERICK TO MAKE HIS BIG MOVE
October 18, 2008 | 7:15am* John McCain's debate performance, although long in coming, might have the needed effect to derail the Obama express ("McAttack," Oct. 16). It was well worth watching the debate to...
BANKING BONANZA
October 18, 2008 | 7:15am'THERE'S nothing so permanent," Milton Friedman famously said, "as a temporary government program." Let's hope that the partial nationalization of America's banking system isn't equally "temporary." In a dramatic meeting...
A WHOLE NEW GAME
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amRONALD Reagan's most important contribution to the American political dialogue was his ability to move the tax issue from an economic-populist issue into a populist, blue-collar one. Under George W....
IMF BOSS IN SEX SCANDAL
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amThe global economy may be cooling down these days, but things are white hot at the International Monetary Fund. The financial watchdog's French chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being probed for...
GUY'S PA RIPS 'BEASTLY' MADONNA
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amSHOCKING true fact: Tina Fey is Jack Donaghy in real life! You think Fey likes playing Sarah Palin or hawking American Express? Nah! Remember last season's premiere episode, when Jack...
POLS PUNK'D IN 'UZBEK' PRANK
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amA handful of city and state officials jumped at the chance to meet with Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, a dictator so brutal that he reportedly boils his detractors to death....
LOTTERY
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 144; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 9025; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 728; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 6862;...
O.J. MAY LOSE 60G RING NEXT
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amA Los Angeles judge yesterday ordered Alfred Beardsley, one of two sports-memorabilia dealers O.J. Simpson was convicted of robbing, to produce the football great's Hall of Fame ring, believed to...
ASTROS GET WHIFF OF OUTER STEAK
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amWhere's the beef? In outer space. It turns out the final frontier smells a lot like steak, according to a British chemist who was hired by NASA. The chemist, Steven...
YALE CHANGES ITS 'COURSE'
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amJoe Six-pack, meet Yale University. Video lectures and materials for 15 courses at the Ivy League institution are now available to anyone with Internet access - free. "The idea was...
ECONOMIC BOOMS & 'BUSTS'
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amWho needs Alan Greenspan when you've got Hugh Hefner? An enterprising academic who took it upon himself to study 40 years of Playboy-magazine pictorials found that bigger, more robust bunnies...
FERRELL TO BEAT BUSHES
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amGeorge W. Bush will get a third term as president next year when he moves from the White House to the Great White Way. In a one-man show titled "You're...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amManhattan * Police are searching for the Upper West Side bank robber pictured above. The suspect, Anthony Yates, passed a demand note to a teller at the Commerce branch at...
MOM GUILTY
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amA Brooklyn jury yesterday spared Nixzmary Brown's mother a possible life sentence, acquitting her of murder, but convicted her of first-degree manslaughter in the 7-year-old girl's death at the hands...
RAGE KNOWS NO 'LIMIT' AS POLS TRADE INSULTS
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amCity Hall turned into a war zone yesterday as elected officials got nasty with each other during the second and final public hearing on extending term limits. One of the...
PRICE PUMP$ US UP
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amHit the road if you want some good economic news - gasoline prices are dropping all over. You can buy a gallon of regular for less than $3 at some...
VINO VITO GUILTY
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amEmbattled Staten Island Congressman Vito Fossella was convicted yesterday of driving under the influence after a Virginia cop said the politician couldn't recite the alphabet or even stand on one...
ADAM DWI 'DEAL'
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amManhattan prosecutors yesterday offered a no-jail deal to state Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV if he pleads guilty to being impaired by alcohol while driving on the Henry Hudson Parkway...
'TAPE' WORM COOK IN THE SOUP AGAIN
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amThe penal code may have finally caught up with Peter Cook. Supermodel Christie Brinkley's cheating hubby may have committed a felony and could face prison time if the amorous architect...
GOV GUY: MY GREAT DEPRESSION LED TO TAX WOE
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amAlbany - Gov. Paterson's top aide has paid more than $200,000 in back taxes after failing to file his income taxes for five years - claiming he was suffering from...
HERO COP'S LAST ORDER
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amIn one of his last acts of heroism, the Bronx cop slain trying to stop a "Sopranos" actor from burglarizing a home ordered the intruders to freeze, his landlord testified...
IJERK BUSTED IN IPHONE THEFT
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amA Queens high-school senior whose iPhone was snatched from his locker got it back after he spotted it for sale on Craigslist, and the alleged seller was arrested. The 16-year-old...
KID-DOC PERV RAP
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amA pediatrician with a history of molestation accusations was indicted yesterday for sexually abusing a boy patient in his Washington Heights office, authorities said. Cops say a co-worker last month...
EMBEZZLER PONIES UP
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amA would-be harness-racing mogul was looking pretty sulky yesterday after learning she had to sell her last four horses to help pay back the $2 million she embezzled as bookkeeper...
'CATES' OF HELL
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amActress Phoebe Cates' mom invested $5 million with accused fraudster Alberto Vilar on his promise of huge returns - but got nothing more than ignored phone calls and a "run-around,"...
PRICE DROP IS HEATING-OIL BUYERS' BAD 'LOCK'
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amHeating-oil prices are plunging - but that's cold comfort to those who thought the soaring cost of crude last summer made it wise to lock in the price of their...
SUMNER BUMMER GROWS
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amThe credit squeeze continues to tighten on media titan Sumner Redstone and National Amusements, the holding company for his controlling interests in Viacom and CBS. Privately held National Amusements yesterday...
THE PEACOCK PLUCKS $500M
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amThe Peacock is preparing for a painful 2009. NBC Universal head honcho Jeff Zucker is looking to slice $500 million in expenses, or 3 percent of the company's overall budget,...
BAD MARKETS, GOOD BARGAINS
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amSmart-money names are building shopping lists of stock bargains as the frantic trading that's been driving markets in circles shows signs of wearing down ahead of a long winter recession....
BYE-BYE, BOATIE: ICAHN SETS SALE FOR HIS YACHT
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amIn choppy financial seas, even billionaires are unloading their prized but pricey toys. Despite making a mint on his ImClone holdings, hedge-fund billionaire Carl Icahn is selling his beloved yacht,...
RETAILER MERVYN'S THROWS IN TOWEL
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amCalifornia-based retailer Mervyn's, which filed for Chapter 11 in late July, said it will liquidate its stores amid the worsening economic crisis. While the 59-year-old chain blamed an "extremely challenging...
THE AG'S WELCOME PROBES
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amState Attorney General Andrew Cuomo found a target so deserving this week that he was able to produce an agreement within 24 hours of launching a probe. On Wednesday, Cuomo...
VOTE-THEFT, ACORN-STYLE
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amNow they're making a federal case out of ACORN. After weeks of reports of wide spread fraud, the FBI has opened an investigation into the far-left "community organizer" group's nationwide...
EXTRA DAY COULD CURE JET LAG
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amAs they did when they went to San Diego earlier this season, the Jets were set yesterday to fly out early for their West Coast game in Oakland. The advantage...
JETS QUIET, BUT CALVIN DOWNPLAYS INJURY
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amYesterday morning Eric Mangini wasn't making any promises about Calvin Pace, not saying whether his linebacker's ailing foot would allow him to play tomorrow. "I'm not sure," the head coach...
TURF SPRINT FOR BREEDERS' CUP PAGES
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amThree-year-olds & up. Purse: $1 million. Distance: 6 1/2 furlongs (Turf). Post time: 1:50 p.m. Bets: WPS, exatca, trifecta, superfecta, Pick 3, Pick 4, Daily Double. ANALYSIS: After a quarter...
LOSS OF ROLSTON A WORRY FOR DEVS
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amWASHINGTON - Hoping for the best, the Devils are more realistically bracing for the worst on Brian Rolston's sprained right ankle. "It depends how quickly he heals. It could be...
HOPKINS, PAVLIK TAKE OUT THE TRASH
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amATLANTIC CITY - Bernard Hopkins head-butted Kelly Pavlik yesterday, and their light heavyweight bout was still 24 hours away. It's good to see the Executioner isn't mellowing in his old...
YANKS PLAN TO PURSUE BIG-NAME PITCHERS
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Yankees brass finished two days of meetings yesterday in Tampa and charted a plan of attack that isn't a surprise to anybody who has been paying...
GIANTS COUNTING ON BACKUP 'BACKERS
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amWhere have all the linebackers gone? Three of 'em will be out there on the field for the Giants tomorrow against the 49ers, but not the usual trio. Antonio Pierce...
O'HARA: OFFENSE WAS NEVER BROWN-TRODDEN
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amConsidering that they lost by 21 points and were shut out in the second half, it is convenient to suggest the Giants struggled mightily on offense in their 35-14 loss...
RANGERS 'SO' GOOD
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amThe spirit was willing but the sticks weren't working. Twenty-five minutes of desperate dominance that followed 40 minutes of middling play had yielded nothing. And so it was Rangers 0,...
DRUG BANS LEAVE BULLS SHORT
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amThursday proved one of the worst days in Red Bulls history. Goalkeeper Jon Conway and defender Jeff Parke were suspended 10 games each for performance-enhancing drugs, and a DC United...
HONDO CATCHING RAYS
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amHondo's first foray into the wonderful world of ice hockey was poultry in motion last night as the Ducks goosed the Sharks to elevate the earnings to 505 malzones. Tonight,...
BANGED-UP BECKETT MUST COME UP BIG TO FORCE GAME 7
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Don't be surprised if Josh Beckett walks to the mound tonight with hunched shoulders. It won't be due to a right oblique muscle problem - but...
SPORTS SHORTS
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amNFL: More work on Brady's knee Tom Brady has undergone a second procedure in 10 days on his injured left knee, according to a published report. The Boston Globe reported...
TIME WAS JUST RIGHT FOR FENWAY MIRACLE
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - There are times when baseball commands you to attention, demands that you remember that the gods are in the details, and in the numbers, and in...
MADDON: RAYS NOT FOCUSED ON GAME 5 COLLAPSE
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Across the six-month regular season and into the playoffs, people waited for the Rays to collapse. After flushing a 7-0 lead in the seventh inning of...
GALLINARI MAY START SEASON IN D-LEAGUE
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amBOSTON - When rookie Danilo Gallinari arrived in the U.S. for the first time in June, he envisioned playing under the bright lights of Broadway as a Knick. Gallinari may...
BOONE TO GET CHEST CHECKED
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amNothing serious was found initially, but the Nets are not taking any chances with Josh Boone, who experienced what the team called "chest discomfort" at practice yesterday. Boone was examined...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amEven the most hardened robber can show remorse. Cops in England say a repentant burglar sent flowers and an apology note to his 91-year-old victim after nearly startling her to...
PATERNO EYES 1ST WIN VS. MICHIGAN IN 12 YEARS
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. - In 1996, a Democrat was the president. "Braveheart" won the Academy Award for best picture. Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was arrested. Dolly the sheep became the first...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
October 18, 2008 | 7:15amGEORGIA TECH at CLEMSONNoon ESPNLine: Georgia Tech by 2. Angle: In the spirit of the upcoming election: Straight Talk. Unless your last name is Buffett or Gates, this has been...
FRIGHT'S RIGHT
October 18, 2008 | 5:11amFEAR is fun. Horror is hilarious. Even panic is pleasing. Welcome to Halloween. No other holiday celebrates bad dreams quite like it, and those bad dreams have inspired "Nightmare," one...
WHAT'S UP?
October 18, 2008 | 5:11amTODAY PROJECT TRICK-OR-TREAT: Let an actual artist help you design your own disguise at this Halloween Harvest Festival, complete with live music from the comic punk band Peelander-Z, face-painting and...
ART SCARE
October 18, 2008 | 5:11amEVEN more terrifying than Halloween in a haunted house? The prospect of living year-round in a city with no haunted houses - or any kind of art at all, for...
COOL IT!
October 18, 2008 | 5:11amTHE ice caps are melting, the ice caps are melting! Seriously. And if you don't yet believe we're in hot water, check out "Climate Change," the exhibit that opens today...
DAVE SAVORS HIS BIG MAC
October 18, 2008 | 5:11amJohn McCain's mea culpa visit to "Late Show" Thursday night snared big numbers for David Letterman. "Late Show" averaged 6.5 million viewers, its biggest audience in three years and almost...
MOTHER'S DAY
October 18, 2008 | 5:11amTHE best part of "Rita Rocks," Lifetime's new (first-ever) sitcom about a soccer mom who forms a rock band, is when they let Rita actually rock. Unfortunately, when Rita isn't...
UPDATE: Hotel Occupancy 101
October 18, 2008 | 1:46amOne of the things that makes New York charming is that problems are always worse when they hit here, which I suppose makes us like every backwater around the world....