January 7, 2007
IN 2007, I ACCEPT TV'S ABSURDITIES
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amIt took a second - literally one second -- to be reminded that TV, in 2007, will be no less absurd than it was in 2006. This column twice before...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amDRAMA When they were good Back in 1999, we all thought "The Sopranos" would save television from itself. During that amazing and revelatory first season, the show stunned with its...
BAUER BACK WITH A VENGEANCE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFor all its "Perils of Pauline" moments, the "no, Mr. President, I'm a patriot!" speeches, the amnesia, the cougars, the "bomb/virus/assassination is going to happen today," "24" is, above all...
SOULFUL 'LINCOLN' HITS THE HEIGHTS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFinally, someone's making a family drama for television that actually stands for something. That someone is a producer/writer named Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, who is an executive producer (along with Kevin Hooks)...
NEW YEAR, NEW SEASON
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTV programmers have shuffled their lineups again for the new year, trying to save critical darlings such as "Friday Night Lights" and prevent ratings catastrophes elsewhere ("Lost" moves out of...
DAY BREAK
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amJust when it looked as if Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) was finally going to get a much-needed break after finally exposing President Logan (Gregory Itzin) as the mastermind behind the...
REEL DEAL
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amWEST SIDE STORY (1961) Monday, 8 p.m., TCM The dancingest, singingest movie about racial hatred and gang warfare, based on Broadway musical. Natalie Wood is Maria, the sheltered sister of...
ADOPT ME
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amIndy, a young male snowshoe Siamese kitty with a gentle and friendly purrsonality, loves belly rubs. Meet him and give him some from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the...
CHEATING SCANDALS ARE BOUND TO BOOM
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amChessCOMPETITIVE chess faces a serious chal lenge in 2007 and years to come from new technology - the technology of cheating. In 2006, there were cheating scandals involving devices like...
BULLY TACTICS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amON the day after Christmas, Queens City Council member Peter F. Vallone Jr. called for a citywide ban on pit bulls, explaining that the dogs pose a threat to public...
THE CAT LADY
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amAFTER the holiday season comes the flu season. I hope you haven't started your new year laid up in bed with a cold. But if you have, I know what's...
HOT SEAT
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amDAVID Lynch can be as inscrutable as he is brilliant. He refuses to offer commentary tracks for the DVDs of his films, such as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive," or...
UNHAPPY HOLIDAYS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amI cannot wait to celebrate "If the Coffee Shop Waitress Touches Your Palm When She Gives You Your Change, She Totally Wants It Day!" Of course that's not until May...
HOT LIST
January 7, 2007 | 10:00am1. Picture books Chic boutiques from Beverly Hills' Chateau Marmont to London's Comme des Garcons are stocking Malcolm Venville's "Lucha Loco," photographs of Mexico's masked wrestlers. See it at luchaloco.com2....
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amIDIOCRACY 3 STARS Fox, $27.98 SNAKES ON A PLANE 1 ½ STARS New Line, $28.98 Both of these films have something in common: They're seriously flawed messes that fail to...
BEHIND THESE WALLS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison T.J. Parsell 4 STARS Carroll and Graf, $24.95 This is a beautiful memoir detailing one man's experiences being a young,...
REQUIRED READING
January 7, 2007 | 10:00am"Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis" (Backbeat Books, $24.95) is a biography of the great man by his eldest son Gregory, writing with Les Sussman. Gregory...
JABBERJAW
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amWE live in an era in which stars go pantyless, call each other a "firecrotch" and have no qualms about hurling telephones at their underlings. No wonder gossip has become...
HERO BY NATURE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amIN a career spanning five decades, Peter Beard has captured the beauty and deterioration of Kenya, elevated the practice of journaling to an art form, discovered the model Iman and...
LIGHTS! ACTION! SHOW TUNES!
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amCAN we just go ahead and consolidate all the Broadway theaters into one giant multiplex already? These days, there's pretty much nothing on the stage that hasn't been adapted from...
SMALL CHANGES AHEAD
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amMichael by Michael Kors coin purse with studded leather trim, $58, similar styles at michaelkors.com
WINTER SCHEDULE: NIGHT-BY-NIGHT
January 7, 2007 | 10:00am7 P.M./ 7:30 P.M. CBS: 60 Minutes ABC: America's Funniest Home Videos CW: Local programming/ Reba: Locked and Loaded 8 P.M./8:30 P.M. NBC: Grease: You're the One I Want FOX:...
TIMB BANDIT
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amWE'RE pretty forgiving here in America (you're welcome, Miss USA), but there are certain transgressions from which you never really recover. Bankrupting Enron, for instance. Or killing your neighbors and...
HOODS IN THE BOYZ: THE REAL 'ALPHA DOG'
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amALPHA Dog" nearly got neutered. Justin Timberlake fans have a federal judge to thank for a chance to watch their heartthrob walk around shirtless and smoke ganja. The long-delayed crime...
WILDER'S 'HOLE' IN ONE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amSURE, Billy Wilder directed fluffy comedies such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment." But he also helmed dark mov ies like "The Lost Weekend," "Sunset Blvd." and "Double...
STRANGERS IN STRANGE LAND
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amWHEN Sudan descended into its brutal second civil war from 1983 to 2005, the conflict killed 2 million people. It also orphaned more than 25,000 boys, who fled the slaughter...
GRAND 'STAND'
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amHE made sushi sexy at Bond Street. He practically coined Meatpacking as a district with APT. And he deemed the communal table the place to sit at Republic. Yet Jonathan...
GRIGOLI, 30, AND SALVATORE, 25
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amOCT. 27 - Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks, but in 2004 Josephine Salvatore was thankful for a special reason. "What are you doing on the floor, Ant?" Salvatore...
SILVERMAN, 36, AND ASHTON, 36
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 18 - Unlike most newlyweds, Keir Ashton and Stefanie Silverman believe their wedding went off without a hitch. "Everything actually went really well," says Silverman. "Since Keir is British,...
ROSENBERG, 33 AND BROWER, 31
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amOCT. 8 - If the only thing that goes awry on your wedding day is having the wrong song played for your first dance, you're pretty lucky. "It was supposed...
MARINO, 31, AND MENDELSOHN, 24
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 5 - People say that, when they're in love, they want the world to share in their happiness. When John Marino proposed to Jana Mendelsohn on Nov. 19, 2004,...
SESLOWSKY, 31, AND GREEN, 36
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 4 - For newlyweds Jill Green and Alan Seslowsky, their special day went especially well. "I have to say that our wedding went off without a hitch!" says the...
AIRLINE IN-SECURITY
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amLost in the holiday shuffle was this announcement from the Transpor tation Security Administration: In the wake of the six imams kicked off a U.S. Airways flight for acting like...
DEATH-PENALTY DECEPTION
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amThe nine men now on death row in New Jersey's prisons will soon be spared if, as expected, the state's Legislature enacts a ban on capital punishment - a proposal...
THE PERILS OF A SURGE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amAS the president contemplates a "surge" of U.S. troops into Baghdad, a Vietnam analogy is pertinent. A surge might merely intensify a policy that is akin to Defense Secretary Robert...
HANGING HYSTERIA
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amI DIDN'T support the Iraq war and I oppose the death penalty - but the nonstop outrage and criticism of the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein is puzzling. Somehow,...
THE EMPIRE STATE EXODUS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: New York's high cost of living and its effect on the business climate. As an economic refugee, I do miss living on Long Island, but see no way...
IRAQ'S BURNING ISSUE: HOW TO PUT OUT THE FIRE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: New strategies in Iraq, including changes in military leadership. John Podhoretz writes, "When a building is on fire, you don't stand around talking about how best to rebuild...
HAMMER TIME
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amInvestors, retail watchers and home-improvement specialists believe Home Depot, with its current management team, couldn't smash the malaise of the Robert Nardelli-era if it used a wrench off its shelves....
MEDIA DEALS HIT RECORD LAST YEAR
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amA record number of transactions led to the most lucrative year in media deal-making since 2000, according to a report to be released tomorrow by boutique investment bank DeSilva &...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amWINNERSRICHARD CLARK Merck CEO sees company shares post a solid week on the strength, in part, on reports that it wants to sell its generic drug division.ANN SHOKET Hearst stays...
UPSCALE AFTER-SCHOOL HOOPS SCORES WITH NYC PARENTS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amBig Apple parents, always on the prowl for new and better ways to help separate their kids from the pack, have found a new addiction: a designer after-school basketball program...
STUPID PAPER TRICKS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amSEEMS every one had a little fun at the redesigned Wall Street Journal's expense last week. Even sardonic funnyman David Letterman, more at home poking fun at rail-thin models, had...
LOOK WHO'S BACK: MIZRAHI PLOTS RETURN TO COUTURE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFashion trends are recycled, so why not fashion designers? Isaac Mizrahi, the bandana-wearing darling designer of the early '90s, who last made headlines with a 2006 breast grope of a...
FORCE SEC'S HAND
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amHERE'S a New Year's resolution for Congress: Don't waste one penny of taxpayer money to launch an investigation into Robert Nardelli and his $210 million golden goodbye from Home Depot....
CONRAD'S SNOOTY WORDS TO HAUNT HIM
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amDisgraced and dethroned newspaper baron Conrad Black, facing a long prison stretch when he goes on trial in March on charges he looted millions from shareholders, is vowing to take...
E-MORTGAGES OFFER A LEG UP
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amDear John: I am a retired senior who wants to buy property and build a home. I want to rent out the home I currently own.. I will be seeking...
EARLY BIRD TAX BENEFIT
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amSURE, you have 98 days to make that 2006 tax year con tribution to your tax-deductible IRA. But why wait? Making your IRA contribution early, like in the first few...
SEVEN FOR '07
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amHere's a New Year's resolution for you: Don't make any. Just commit to things that will improve all aspects of your life. Stuck? Here are seven suggestions on how to...
CIRCUS VS. CIVICS IN WEST SIDE PIER WAR
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amIt's playgrounds versus performance arts in the battle for the future of Pier 40. Two vastly different proposals for the West Side pier - located just north of West Houston...
SPITZER'S UNFINISHED 'CABINET'
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - In the time between his election and first week in office, Gov. Spitzer has only managed to appoint a handful of commissioners in the sprawling state government, leaving...
72 DEGREES
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amIt's the winter of our total content. Temperatures hit a record-smashing 72 degrees in Central Park yesterday, as thousands filled beaches, boardwalks and parks from Midtown to Coney Island. The...
PRO THUGS MADE ME ROB BANK: GIRL
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amThe teenage girl who robbed a bank in Queens Friday claims she did the dirty deed only after two pro bank robbers took her ID and threatened to kill her...
KIN TO SUE IN GRAFFITI RAIL DEATH
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amThe devastated family of a teen hit by a train while spraying graffiti blamed the MTA and the city yesterday for the boy's death - and they are now planning...
PLANES BUMP ON JFK TARMAC
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amA China Air plane carrying 215 passengers clipped the tail of a parked Delta jetliner with its wing as it backed out of a gate at JFK Airport yesterday, a...
SWEEP VS. CLUB-KID 'FAKERS'
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amPolice are cracking down on teens using fake IDs to get into nightclubs, arresting 106 kids in Chelsea's clubland since August. A high-level police source said cops in the 10th...
VILLAGE SHOP A FLAGRANT FORGERY MILL
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amCops were stymied in their effort to bust a brazen body-piercing shop in the Village that peddles fake Delaware driver's licenses - but a Post reporter easily bought one there...
TEENAGE CARD TRICKS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amScores of teenage drinkers seeking fake IDs are going to a cheap, easy and reliable source - the state of New York. They log on to the state Department of...
MOM SUES OVER SCHOOL SEX MOLEST
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amA 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a middle-school classmate and later forced to re-enact the event in front of her classmates, a bombshell lawsuit alleges. The girl was then...
CAR KILLS QNS. WOMAN, 86
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amAn elderly woman was struck and killed by a car as she crossed a Queens intersection yesterday, police said. Eula Clairborne, 86, of Victoria Drive, was crossing Bedell Street when...
BUST IN YONKERS DOC SLAY
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amA Bronx man was arrested in the murder of a doctor in his Yonkers home - a killing that may have been over real estate, police said. Samuel Saunders, 59,...
MUG THUGS SING ABOUT SPREE: DA
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTwo teen thugs were arraigned yesterday after investigators said they admitted in detail to a savage string of attacks in Queens in which one man was beaten into a coma...
'BABY NEW YEAR' RETAINS TITLE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amIt's victory for the Big Apple's embattled Baby New Year. Toys "R" Us did an about-face and announced they would award a Chinese-American infant - whose mom isn't a legal...
SECURITY FIRM 'CHEATED' GUARDS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amIt's payback time for 720 private security guards cheated out of more than $750,000 while putting in shifts at city offices. An investigation by city Comptroller Bill Thompson's office revealed...
NABBING THIEF UZI AS PIE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amCops yesterday nabbed an Uzi-toting bandit who held up the same Brooklyn Laundromat two days in a row last week, authorities said. Jesse Stuckey, 20, of Riverdale Avenue, brought the...
B'KLYN FIRE HERO SAVES MAN, 92
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amA courageous firefighter ran into a burning third-floor apartment in Brooklyn last night to rescue a 92-year-old man who had passed out at the kitchen table, the FDNY said. Lt....
EARLY TOILET
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amDiapers are so over for little Eden Schwartz. At just five weeks old, Eden was dangled over a toilet by her busy Manhattan mom, and - voila! She peed. Practically...
SONY UNIT NAILED FOR 'BIAS' AX
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amSony BMG, the star-studded music giant, discriminated against black employees by laying them off from a Manhattan sales office while keeping all the white employees, a federal agency has found....
MOLD LAWYER SUES BIANCA
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amBianca Jagger's apartment isn't the only thing with mold on it, according to her former lawyer. Jagger, who has been in a high-profile battle with the landlord of her Park...
PROBE OF '91 SLAY 'BLOODY' AWFUL: SUIT
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amThe NYPD botched a cold-case investigation of a brutal 1991 murder, failing to recognize that a "bloody" palm print at the scene was not blood at all, a man once...
CO-OP IN DISABILITY DISS: SUIT
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amA Fifth Avenue co-op board rejected a Connecticut tax attorney and his wife because he has Parkinson's disease, according to a lawsuit. Martin Albert and his wife of 30 years...
RESURRECTING DI 'SLAY' RUMORS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amPrincess Diana's death is to be the subject of a formal inquest conducted before the public in London's High Court starting tomorrow. Following the publication of a police investigation report,...
STAR GUIDE TO HEAVENLY BODY
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amIt's one week till the Golden Globes - and only six more 'til Oscar night. Which means that in private gyms all over Hollywood, the hottest stars are hot-footing it...
BROWN'S LAST CALL FOR 'LOVE'
January 7, 2007 | 10:00am"Godfather of Soul" James Brown left a heart-wrenching cellphone message to the woman who claims to be his widow, confessing his love and complaining of feeling sick and lonely as...
2-FRONT WAR ON BUSH
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amAs President Bush met yesterday with his top security advisers on a new military strategy for Iraq - including an expected troop increase - he took fire from members of...
PARIS' GAS PAINS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFresh from a date at her favorite hair salon, Paris Hilton does her helpless act behind the wheel of her brand-new Bentley after running out of gas in Beverly Hills...
CHEER SQUAD PUTS ADULTS IN FEAR FROM . . .
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amThey lived in a world where the only thing out of bounds was themselves. A hell-raising clique of cheerleaders for years wreaked havoc on a small Texas town during a...
NYPD BLOTTER
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTHE BRONX A gunman opened fire on a man standing on a Longwood street early yesterday, police sources said. The 26-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was shot on...
BANNER BUMMER FOR SHORTCHANGED TREASURY
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTHE new head of the city's marketing office has de termined taxpayers aren't getting a fair shake from a program that allows private companies to rent out banners on city-owned...
LOTTERY
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Numbers Sat.: 863 Midday Win-4 Sat.: 9781 Evening Numbers Sat.: 388 Evening Win-4 Sat.: 8742 Pick-10 Sat.: 2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 22, 23, 24,...
PAYTON GREAT, BUT ERIC DESERVED COACH OF YEAR
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFOXBOROUGH - Congratulations are certainly in order for Saints head coach Sean Payton, who was awarded the NFL's Coach of the Year honor yesterday. Payton, who took over a 3-13...
COACHES ARE DOGS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTHE best part about Gus Alfieri's recently released book about Joe Lapchick isn't Lapchick's story, although it's an important retelling of one of the greatest New York basketball lives ever....
SIMPLY MAV-ELOUS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amDON'T try to stop me; I've officially decided the Dallas Mavericks have peaked. Either that or they're unswervingly on course to break the Lakers' NBA '71-72 record of 33 straight...
GET YOUR PLAX STRAIGHT
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amYOU know what we need from Fox, today? At some point, say late in the third quarter during Giants-Eagles, we could use two or three quick clips showing whether Plaxico...
KINGS OWNER IN ODD ARENA
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amSO Tim Leiweke, governor of the Los Angeles Kings, an organiza tion that boasts some of the most promising young players in hockey, including 19-year-old Anze Kopitar, 24-year-old Alexander Frolov,...
AUCTION'S A TREASURE FOR HUNTERS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTHE Hunting Heritage Trust and the online auction site GunBro ker.com are going to launch Treasures and Traditions, a weekly online auction to raise money to help preserve shooting sports....
CHIEFS D-STROYED
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis' 23-8 AFC wild-card domination of Kansas City yesterday was rife with subplots, from Colts coach Tony Dungy beating best friend and protege Herm Edwards to superstar Peyton...
FEET FIRST
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amGLENDALE, Ariz. - You would think this was the buildup for the U.S. Track & Field Championships and not the BCS Championship game. Not an interview goes by without coaches...
RUTGERS BEATS OHIO STATE IN BATTLE FOR JERSEY'S DAVIS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amGLENDALE, Ariz. - Ohio State might very well win its second national championship in five years tomorrow night when it faces Florida in the BCS Championship game. But yesterday the...
VAC'S WHACKS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amJudging by their pictures in The Post the past few days, I'd have to say Jessica Alba is off to a lot better start to 2007 than poor Britney is....
PINSTRIPES STAY GRAY
January 7, 2007 | 10:00am* I read the news in the papers and I think, hey, the Yankees are actually doing something smart! They're ridding themselves of Randy Johnson. Perhaps a youngster can finally...
THE RUMBLE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amNets' subway-hero hooplaSeason tickets & more for team's Superfan Wesley Autrey, who saved a teenager who fell on the subway tracks last week, turns out to be a huge Nets...
SPORTS SHORTS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amBOXING: Peter wins in unanimous decision In Hollywood, Fla., Samuel Peter beat James Toney for the second time in three months, getting a unanimous decision in a WBC heavyweight elimination...
JOCKEY, 71, CHALLENGES, FADES TO LAST
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amRocky Balboa may still be throwing punches in the twilight of his years, but he has nothing on Frank Amonte Sr. Yesterday at the Big A, Amonte, 71, became the...
AFTER ALL THE TWISTS AND TURNS, DEFIANT GIANTS ARE...
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amPHILADELPHIA - No apologies from the Giants for being here instead of where every other 8-8 team in the NFL is and should be, which is home watching. No "We're...
25-YEAR ITCH
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFOXBOROUGH - It has been easy to overlook just how remarkable a treat we have in store for us today because of all the sounds and all the furies that...
ON HIS OWN
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amPHILADELPHIA - His body of work does not inspire New York to believe he will deliver it a championship any time soon. There isn't a Giant fan who longs for...
APPLE SLICED, DICED
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTODAY EAGLES (-7; under 461/2) over Giants: Largely on the strength of Tiki Barber's premier statistical performance as a professional, Big Blue collectively pulled the emergency brake and refused to...
LINC IS END OF THE LINE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amThe playoffs are always dripping with intrigue, but when it's a game pitting two teams from the same division, teams that delight in the other's misery, beware. Giants-Eagles in September...
SET FOR BIRD BLITZ
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amPHILADELPHIA - It sounds as if the Giants grew just a bit tired of hearing about all that fearsome defensive pressure the Eagles are going to throw at Eli Manning...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...BRANDON SHORT
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amThe Post's Steve Serby sat down with the starting right outside linebacker two days before the Giants' NFC wild-card showdown with the Eagles: Q: You have two older brothers in...
BEEN THERE DONE THAT
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amSEPT. 17, 2006 - Giants Stadium New England held off a late Jets rally and handed Eric Mangini his first loss. The Patriots took a 24-0 lead on TD runs...
BAD RECEPTION
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amThe Post's Andrew Marchand surveyed five commentators from four networks, and they all came to the same conclusion - that both the Jets and Giants will lose their wild-card games...
DEE-FENSE! DEE-FENSE!
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amINSIDE ZONE LEFT WHAT THE EAGLES NEED TO DO ON OFFENSE 1. Three weeks ago at the Meadowlands, the Eagles took the lead on this play when they beat the...
GANG GREEN COPYING THE BLUEPRINT FOR...
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFOXBOROUGH - In many ways, as today's AFC wild-card row filled with juicy intrigue between the Jets and Patriots unfolds at Gillette Stadium, the two teams will feel as if...
UPSET? GILLETTE IT BE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFOXBOROUGH - The 12-4 AFC East champion Patriots are the closest thing to an NFL dynasty we've seen in years, having won three Super Bowls and owning an astonishing 10-1...
PETE'S NO PATS FAN
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amFOXBOROUGH - For sure, there'll be one Boston-area native at Gillette Stadium today hoping to see the Jets bounce the Patriots from the playoffs: Jets left guard Pete Kendall, a...
NO MORE EXCUSES
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTHIS is the time for the Knicks to show they are worth car ing about, that this isn't another false alarm, that they have finally turned the corner in the...
REVEALING SOFT SPOT, WILLIE HANGIN' TOUGH
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amLONG after the crush ing final out, that moment in time when Adam Wainwright's backdoor curve ball froze Carlos Beltran with the bases loaded and kept the Mets from going...
TANGLED NETS
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amCLEVELAND - Late in the second quarter, the Nets were down 16 points. Getting killed on the offensive glass and going to the line and hurling 3-pointers near aimlessly will...
DOUBLE THE PAIN IN LOSING
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amCLEVELAND - What's worse than losing? Injuries and losing. So it couldn't get worse for the Nets as two starters, Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson, aggravated some nagging injuries last...
PAINFUL VICTORY
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amMONTREAL - The big scare overshadowed this fourth straight Rangers victory. That was captain and leading scorer Jaromir Jagr who left yesterday's game when it was still in doubt, and...
DEADLINE AT HAND FOR BIG UNIT DEAL
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amThe Randy Johnson trade is edging toward official completion before this afternoon's 5 p.m. deadline. Johnson and the Diamondbacks continued to make progress in their pursuit of a 2008 contract...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amA mother and son stole a snake from a pet store - but were caught when they returned to get books on how to take care of it. Sebrina Hill,...
THE ART OF WRITING IRRESISTIBLE EMAIL
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amWe met on a plane. She was reading a book and I commented how much I liked the author's work, which I had never read. We exchanged business cards. "Can...
DEAR POST MAN
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amDear Post Man: I am at a crossroads in my three-year-old marriage and I desperately need some good advice. I am 26 and my husband is 27. We dated only...
MEET MARKET
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amWITH some people, you have to bribe, beg and blackmail them into going on a blind date. With John? Not so much. "Meeting random people is fun," says the 31-year-old...
OPPOSITES ATTACK
January 7, 2007 | 10:00amTHE Meet Market has seen plenty of one-sided dates ("Oh, he's so dreamy!" "Dude, she was insane!"), but not many where the nose wrinkling was equal for both - and...