October 27, 2008
EA Sports picks Lakers for NBA title; Knicks 13th, Nets 10th in the East
By BRIAN LEWISWith the NBA season starting tomorrow, the tech-savvy folks over at EA Sports _ the same people who bring you Madden _ did a videogame simulation of the...
Deal of the Day-Leelush
For an awesome punch of color this fall, don this Margarita Saplala Trapeze Top from Leelush.At only $29 down from $140, the shirt, covered in nautical bits will anchor any...
Bills won't have WR Reed
APBills WR Josh Reed is out indefinitely with injuries to his ankle and Achilles' tendon, leaving Buffalo minus one of its most reliable third-down receivers as it prepares to face...
Jets lose Chatman for the season
The Jets appear to have lost reserve running back Jesse Chatman for the season with a left knee injury."I would say with Jesse, it doesn't look real good,'' Eric Mangini...
'Mad' Jump
Sunday's "Mad Men" season finale snared 1.7 million viewers, up 30 percent from the AMC series' penultimate episode (1.4 million).It was also up 20 percent in households from the Season...
BARKLEY: KNICKS CAN MAKE PLAYOFFS
TNT's media luncheon with Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Turner president of sales David Levy turned up several interesting nuggets. Not surprisingly, a lot of attention was focused on the...
ATF STOPS PLOT TO KILL BARACK OBAMA
Two young neo-Nazi skinheads plotted to don white tuxes and top hats as they slaughtered Barack Obama - an attack they hoped would cap their killing of 88 black people...
ALASKA SEN. TED STEVENS FOUND GUILTY IN CORRUPTION TRIAL
The longest-serving senator in the history of the Republican Party was convicted today of corruption charges in a trial that tainted the 40-year career of the lifelong lawmaker. The verdict...
1 DEAD, 4 HURT IN FORT GREENE SHOOTING
A wild shooting that began in broad daylight in front of a trendy Brooklyn bakery ended tragically today when two gunmen opened fire in a beauty salon - killing their...
Sounds like Boone starts. At least today.
By FRED KERBERLawrence Frank won't announce his starting five for Wednesday but if you were to flip a coin for the center spot it would likely go, "Heads, Boone; tails,...
Mets top Yankees in prospects on BA level lists
The prevailing wisdom from all corners throughout the season was that the Yankees' farm system clearly outclassed the Mets' system. However, if you look down Baseball America's lists of the...
Cowboys may bench QB Johnson
ESPN.com reports the Cowboys are considering options at quarterback other than Brad Johnson, who has taken over in the absence of injured Tony Romo, for Sunday's game against the Giants.Former...
Labor Pains
Recent grad Tyler Flowers writes about his first year in the television business.When I accepted an internship to the "Late Show," I knew I was getting into something I had...
Vargas earns POTW honors in AFL
Jason Vargas has had an impressive beginning to the Arizona Fall League, and that continued with Pitcher of the Week honors for the AFL's third week.Vargas threw five shutout innings...
Ewing Jr. gets cut
The Knicks announced today that fan favorite Patrick Ewing Jr. will be the final cut from their roster. Team president Donnie Walsh decided to instead keep sharpshooting shooting guard Anthony...
(not as) GREAT EXPECTATIONS
By FRED KERBERTeam pres Rod Thorn says he's not lowering the bar. But he sounded a wee bit less optimistic today about the Nets landing in the playoffs than he...
Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women
Jon Haam slipped into "Mad Men" character on the eve of the AMC drama's much-anticipated season finale several times while hosting "Saturday Night Live."Promoting Jon Hamm's John Ham and delivering...
Dockery out with back injury
BY PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants came out of their pulsating 21-14 victory over the Steelers with one significant injury. Nickel back Kevin Dockery will be out at least two weeks with...
The End
He's reacting to Duck's claims that "good creative is important, but it can't be running the show" and Duck's (surprisingly prescient) thoughts about media as a profit center for agencies.While...
'HAUNTED HOUSE' SLAYER GETS LIFE IN MURDER TRIAL
A Bonanno associate who carried out a ghoulish mob murder at a "haunted" house on Staten Island is headed to the big house for the rest of his life after...
PHOTOS SHOW BONO WITH BIKINI-CLAD BABES
The curse of Facebook has now hit U2 lead singer Bono. Pictures of the 48-year-old rocker with his arm around two bikini-clad teenagers in St Tropez were posted on the...
Christmas Death Watch (Contains Spoilers)
"They're not all merry and bright, either,'' writes Pamela McClintock in Weekly Variety of the nine wide Christmas releases between Dec. 19 and Dec. 26 in a piece about the...
The Isiah Interview
By MARC BERMANAs we await word on Patrick Ewing Jr.'s fate today, I would like to try to interpret - and put in context - where Isiah Thomas may have...
FBI: BODY IS JENNIFER HUDSON'S NEPHEW
Tears in her eyes, Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson today identified the body of her murdered 7-year-old nephew - who was found hours earlier inside the abandoned SUV where he had...
DOG DAY FOR HALLOWEEN
Pet owners dressed their furry friends in costumes for a Brooklyn parade that would tickle the funny bone. Click the video to view the animals dressed from hot dogs to...
3 UP: WORLD SERIES THOUGHTS
1. The Rays spent so much of this season belying their history, their collective age and their collective inexperience on the big stage. How strange that near the end of...
WOMEN COMPETE TO BE NEW YORK'S MISS BRAZIL
The competition was hot at SOBs in New York City on Sunday as dozens of girls vie for the title of Miss Brazil, New York 2008. Click the video to...
EATS: In Texas, best bacon ever
I've always said that when our moms and dads told us we were unique and special, they were lying. The internet proves this - any strange proclivity you thought gave...
GO TO GREG
I'm an undergraduate student still deciding on a major. This political season has inspired me to consider pursuing a career in politics. What advice do you have? To keep searching....
BABE MAGNET
Topher McGibbon's 18-month-old enterprise, Kid Car NY, has a loyal clientele and a lengthy waiting list. But when he started out, McGibbon literally couldn't give his services away. Kid Car...
WORRIED SICK
Three shots of vodka topped off with Red Bull isn't what most people think of when they hear the term Power Lunch, but that's what Al, a newly unemployed investment...
WEDGE ISSUES
It's late October in an election year, which means the poll numbers are flying. No, not from swing-state voter polls, but from surveys about the ups and downs of talking...
STRIKING BACK AT STRESS
IF you feel like some nut case who's pounding the pavement wondering a) why you've lost your job, b) if you'll lose your job, or c) when the proverbial ground...
JUSTIN'S AMAZING APPLE CHICKEN BREAST
Autumn means apples and today Chef Justin offers a delicious main course featuring our favorite fall fruit. AHHH Apples. This extremely versatile fruit can be featured in anything from main...
HELL-OWEEN
'FOR us," says one of the stars of 'Supernatural" in this week's episode, "everyday is Halloween." And there, in a nutshell, is the surprising appeal of the creepy CW horror...
RAMSAY MOVING TO DUBAI
FOUL-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay is going to move to Dubai, according to reports. Several newspapers in London said over the weekend that Ramsay plans to move his family - wife,...
OH BABY, BABY
JUST when you think a great thing can't get better, it does. The season finale last night of "Mad Men" was so good that it's going to haunt me for...
STARR REPORT
Rocky's roadRocky Carroll, who plays "NCIS" chief Leon Vance, says he realizes how fortunate he was to snare a full-time series role in this time of economic uncertainty and a...
'RUNWAY' COPYCAT CONFIRMED
IT'S official. Bravo is put ting together a knock-off of "Project Runway" to replace the hit series that jumped to Lifetime last summer. A live casting call for fashion designers...
COLD COMFORT
Baby, its cold outside--hit the NYC streets in these coats of many colors.PHOTOS: 35 Coats of Many Colors
IT'S TUDOR CITY & A FINE RETRO
AMERICAN Ballet The atre is devoting its current fall season at City Center to the great English choreographer, Antony Tudor, who was the architect of ABTs early success, and remained,...
BRETT THROWS 3 PICKS, SURVIVES CHIEFS SCARE
No disrespect intended, but the Jets stunk yesterday. Yes, even in a 28-24 comeback victory over the lowly Chiefs at Giants Stadium, they stunk. You know it. They know it....
FAVRE'S WIFE SPEAKS OUT
Brett Favre's wife, Deanna, has spoken out in defense of her husband on her family blog, upset about the public treatment of him since last week's flap regarding his conversation...
WASHINGTON IS GANG GREEN'S SPARK
Where would the Jets be without Leon Washington? Here's an answer: They'd be 3-4 instead of 4-3, because they wouldn't have beaten the Chiefs yesterday. Washington was at his versatile...
SOMEHOW, GANG GREEN PASSES TEST
ON interception No. 1, Jerricho Cotchery cut his route short and Brett Favre threw the ball off his back foot right to corner Brandon Flowers to set up a Chiefs...
EDWARDS' NY RETURN A HEARTBREAKER
Many Chiefs players admitted they wanted to win yesterday's game for Herm Edwards, to give him bragging rights over the Jets club he left after 2005, unwanted and unwelcome. What...
ZENYATTA MAY ECLIPSE CURLIN
ARCADIA, Calif. - For the 17th time in its 25-year history, the Eclipse Award for America's Horse of the Year will go to a horse that ran in the Breeders'...
CUP RUNNETH OVER WITH MEMORIES
ARCADIA, Calif. - De spite the uncertainties, profanities and controversies leading up to it, the 25th Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita turned out to be a knockout, a sports event...
ELI RALLIES 'EM TO VICTORY IN BRUTAL BATTLE
PITTSBURGH - At one point, when things were looking grim in a difficult and messy third quarter, Justin Tuck looked around and saw all those yellow towels swirling and heard...
JACOBS HAS A CHALLENGING DAY
PITTSBURGH - Steelers coach Mike Tomlin won a key replay challenge early in the second quarter of yesterday's 21-14 Giants victory on what first was ruled a 1-yard touchdown run...
'ZERO TOLERANCE' FOR LAX PLAX
PITTSBURGH - Good for Tom Coughlin. Good for Coughlin for tightening the noose around Plaxico Burress. Burress missed a Saturday treatment he said he wasn't aware he had to attend...
WEIGHT READY FOR RANGERS
Doug Weight was drafted by the Rangers and made his NHL debut with the team in 1991. Tonight, he'll face them as an Islander for the first time, when the...
SPORTS SHORTS
SOCCER: Red Bulls make playoffs The Red Bulls clinched the final wild-card spot for the MLS playoffs yesterday when D.C. United lost a 1-0 decision to the Columbus Crew. In...
HONDO: 10 ON TENN.
Meet the new Niner coach, same as the old Niner coach. Hondo's adherence to the New Coach Theory proved costly yesterday when San Fran flopped for Singletary the same way...
CHILLY LUMBER STINGING RAYS
PHILADELPHIA - Evan Longoria didn't want to talk about what every body is thinking: How tough will it be facing Cole Hamels tonight in a World Series elimination game. "He...
HOWARD'S TWO HOME RUNS PUT PHILLY ON BRINK OF TITLE
PHILADELPHIA - Who needs timely hits when you've got short fences and the long ball? Certainly not the Phillies, who are on the cusp of handing Philadelphia its first major...
CATCH THAT GAME? NO? NEITHER DID I
ALTHOUGH it's unlikely to make the official history of baseball, Bud Selig made history, Saturday, when he allowed a World Series game, one played between East Coast teams, to begin...
'DIRTY' CAP RAISES EYEBROWS
PHILADELPHIA - Joe Maddon was aware Phillies starter Joe Blanton was going to the brown stain on the bill of his cap last night throughout Game 4 of the World...
WILLIE: I DIDN'T REJECT NATS
PHILADELPHIA - Willie Randolph hopes he lands the managing gig in Milwaukee, but until then the former Mets manager says he hasn't rejected any job. "There are [stories] out there...
PHILS' BLANTON PROVES HE'S NO ORDINARY JOE
PHILADELPHIA - Game 4 of the World Series last year was overshadowed by Alex Rodriguez's egomania and greed. His request to opt out of his Yankees contract was made public...
NO RISP-Y BUSINESS WITH HOWARD
PHILADELPHIA - First, they pitched around him, because that is certainly a sensible thing to do when you consider that Ryan Howard hit 48 home runs and drove in 146...
ROCKIES LOOK TO TRADE THEIR STAR LEFT FIELDER
PHILADELPHIA - The World Series is not over and already a second star-level player is definitely obtainable in a trade. The Rockies have informed teams that left fielder Matt Holliday...
EWING'S FATE TO BE DECIDED TODAY
Heading into today's final cut day, Patrick Ewing Jr. hadn't heard much advice from his dad about the final 24 hours before the verdict. "He probably never had to go...
NETS' (B)ROOK READY TO CONTRIBUTE
The Nets' opening night starting lineup could include a little rookie flavoring. Though coach Lawrence Frank wasn't ready yesterday to reveal his plans for Wednesday's opener at Washington, it's a...
BARACK'S RED STORM
Barack Obama returns to Pennsylvania today after a rampage through GOP-leaning red states. Obama's push for battleground states that voted for President Bush continued yesterday with an appearance before more...
O RULES POLLS AS BELL TOLLS
WASHINGTON - With only nine days left before the election, several national-opinion polls released yesterday indicate that Barack Obama is at least 5 points and as many as 13 points...
PALIN: I'M NO THREAD HEAD
Sarah Palin assured supporters yesterday she's not the kind of woman who spends $150,000 on clothes, declaring at a Florida campaign stop that she will soon be back to her...
JOE BIDEN'S WARNING: GAFFE - OR APT CLAIM?
* Joe Biden is starting his soon-to-be vice presidential job by brainwashing the American people with his foot-in-the-mouth gaffes and lack of historical knowledge ("Joe Biden's Fears," Editorial, Oct. 21)....
WHY MELTDOWN WON'T STOP NYC
NEW Yorkers worried about the long-term impact of the global financial crisis should cheer up: The city will emerge all the stronger. Clearly, the collapse of major investment banks headquartered...
HAWAII'S HARD HEALTH-CARE LESSON
HAWAII just had a vivid les son in health-care eco nomics, learning that if you offer people insurance for free - surprise, surprise - they'll quickly drop other coverage to...
BEYOND BLOOMBERG
STATE lawmakers must soon decide whether to reauthorize the law grant ing control of New York City's public-school system to the mayor. Last week's City Council vote to extend term...
DUBIOUS DONATIONS
Barack Obama has proved the greatest fund-raiser of all time by a long shot. His campaign has raised more than $600 million - $150 million in September alone. But the...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 282; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 4746; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 533; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 4693;...
ROCKY BIDDERS BELT IT OUT
Auctioneers are hoping someone out there likes Rocky Graziano. The championship belt the late boxer snared in the most storied fight of his legendary career will go on the block...
'SCHOOL' IS HEAD OF THE CLASS
It was a bizarre face-off at the box office over the weekend as two entirely different audiences - fans of teen stars and aficionados of slasher flicks - blasted ticket...
HUDSON: PRAY FOR JULIAN
A devastated Jennifer Hudson yesterday pleaded for help in finding her 7-year-old nephew, who disappeared after the brutal murders of the singer's mom and brother Friday. "Thank you for all...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
BROOKLYN * A North Carolina man was fatally shot in East Flatbush, police said yesterday. The 41-year-old victim, whose name was withheld, was shot once in the head on Kings...
COPS KILL GUN SIBS
Cops fatally shot two armed brothers yesterday after bullets started flying outside a Brooklyn nightclub, officials said. Two plainclothes narcotics officers parked near a club at Rutland Road and East...
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME FOR $2.2M BOSS
A charity set up by controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe has paid off handsomely for its largest beneficiary: the foundation's president. Michael Ward Stout, a Manhattan lawyer who heads the Robert...
SILVER BAILS OUT ON 'MILLIONAIRE'S TAX'
ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will abandon his controversial plan for a "millionaire's tax" to raise billions of dollars in new revenues because of the Wall Street collapse, The...
COOK $TIFFS SHUSH HUSSY
Her lawyers supposedly broke a confidentiality pact, and now the Long Island teen beauty who had a steamy affair with philanderer Peter Cook can forget about the last third of...
BIG KICK IN BRASS FOR NYPD
Talk about term limits! Half a dozen top NYPD commanders will be forced to retire soon because of Gov. Paterson's recent veto of a bill that would have allowed them...
RESCUE A BANKER BONUS
This Christmas will be less blue than expected for investment bankers - their year-end bonuses are getting a boost from the government's financial rescue, a new report says. Rank-and-file bankers...
LIEN & MEAN CHARGES FLY BETWEEN GOPER & DEM
On the heels of the tax scandal involving Gov. Paterson's top aide, Queens state Sen. Serphin Maltese's camp is raising questions about a tax lien under the same name as...
GAL TAKES A CRACK AT SUING OVER 'COINS DOWN BUTT'
A Staten Island woman is suing hip-hop designer Marc Ecko over an alleged degrading backroom taunt in which a store manager tossed coins down her pants while a co-worker cheered,...
BELOVED GRANDDAD SLAIN AT 81
An 81-year-old Lower East Side grandfather whose son is serving with the Air Force in Iraq was found stabbed to death in his ransacked apartment yesterday. Relatives discovered the body...
TESTS TO TOSS SUBPAR SUBS
No longer will a bachelor's degree, a background check and a pulse suffice for those looking for work as substitute teachers in the city's public schools. The Department of Education...
'SODOMY' COPS DEFIANT
Four cops involved in a chase that ended with a Brooklyn tattoo-parlor worker's claim that he was sodomized with a police radio antenna turned down unofficial offers to lay low...
BIZ WHIZ KIDS
Are your investments smarter than a fifth-grader's? A classroom of 10-year-olds in Queens is showing that despite the tanking stock market, there's still moolah to be made. As of late...
NO FRIENDS LEFT TO PITY O'BYRNE
Tax avoider and "non-filer's syndrome" sufferer Charles O'Byrne, who just a week ago was one of the most powerful men in state government, had no allies at the end. The...
FAVRE JERSEY NO. 1
Brett Favre's best stat this season may be his jersey sales. Jet jerseys with the quarterback's name across the back top the list of best-selling NFL replica gear, league officials...
MIKE'S ADVICE TO NEXT PREZ
After months of warning New Yorkers about the nation's economic turmoil, Mayor Bloomberg has taken his message to the next president. In the Newsweek cover story that hits stands today,...
PARKING LAW NOT KOSHER
Orthodox Jewish residents of Williamsburg raised holy hell yesterday, slamming the city's Department of Transportation for switching parking rules during the Sabbath and then handing out more than 90 tickets....
NY ILLEGALS TOLD: EVERYONE COUNTS
New York City wants its estimated half-million illegal immigrants to fill out 2010 Census forms to reflect the Big Apple's true population and help it net millions more federal bucks....
PUSSY-WHIPPED
You can call her Puss-in-Boots - thigh-high, spike-heeled, leather S&M boots. A cat-loving Manhattan dominatrix who goes by the name of Goddess Haley is proving that sometimes abuse can be...
ISIAH HAD IT COMING: FOE
Payback's a bitch. A lifetime of treating people like trash may finally have caught up with ex-Knick coach Isiah Thomas, former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders said yesterday as she...
POL'S BASEBAWL
Rep. Anthony Weiner thinks Mayor Bloomberg and other officials should be booted from their free Met and Yankee seats - what with the economy striking out so many regular fans....
COKE $OARS, METH SURGES
Big Apple pushers have found a new way to boost profits. Faced with the skyrocketing price of cocaine, city drug dealers are increasingly turning to crystal meth to peddle in...
TEACHER'S GIG 'GOON'-LIGHTING
For years, Michael Rex churned out children's books before he cried, 'Uncle," giving up the unpredictable freelance life for a steady day job as a high-school art teacher. And then,...
MYSTERY OVER BABY'S DEATH
A 2-week-old infant was found mysteriously dead last night in his Brooklyn home, authorities said. Sources said his 22-year-old mom told workers in the emergency room at Kings County Hospital...
GIRL, 11, 'KILLED BY MOM'
Florencia Vazquez, 36, allegedly admitted she bashed the girl, Alejandra, so hard Thursday that the broomstick broke in two. She then did nothing as the girl lay in her bed,...
IT'S TURKEY TIME
With Thanksgiving only a month away, there's no time like the present to start thinking about what you're going to prepare. Here's a look at some of the magazines serving...
LESSON FOR LABELS IN FRONT LINE STAKE SALE
Warner Music Group's decision last week to sell its stake in Front Line Management to Ticketmaster is raising new questions about the future of record labels buying stakes in artist-management...
CITADEL TURMOIL
Efforts by Citadel Investment Group's Ken Griffin to morph his highflying hedge fund into a financial titan appear to be running into stiff headwinds. Thanks to the chaos on Wall...
BARNEY'S BIG MOUTH
Flap-jawed friends of Barack Obama are making the Democratic candidate's road to the White House rockier than it needs to be. Case in point: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who has...
TAXI TURMOIL
Can New York City afford Mayor Bloomberg's demand for a full fleet of hybrid taxis? The answer looks to be "no." The Bloomberg administration announced last winter that, starting Oct....
SHELLY'S EPIPHANY
Has Shelly Silver had an epiphany? Post Albany bureau chief Fredric U. Dicker reports today that the all- powerful Assembly speaker has deep-sixed his proposed "millionaire's tax" - the mainstay...
DAVE HONES AX FOR AIDES
THE resignation of Charles O'Byrne as secretary to Gov. Paterson is only the first step in a wider shakeup that is expected to claim at least two other top gubernatorial...
MY KABBALAH-LA LAND ADVENTURE
WHOEVER said money can't buy happiness never bought into kabbalah. I'm in the Kabbalah Centre on the East Side for a free introductory course - a $100 value! - with...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This dog is cat's best friend. Leo the terrier saved a litter of kittens when he refused to leave the four newborns even as smoke poured through their Melbourne, Australia,...
Inter Rides High; Roma in Freefall
Roma may have finished second in Serie A last season, but this year is a different story.The team slumped to their fifth defeat of the Serie A season on Sunday...