January 28, 2007
Creepy Times Five
January 28, 2007 | 1:24pmThe ickiest movie I've seen this year wasn't a little indie awash with body fluids at Sundance. It was produced by 20th-Century Fox in 1938 and had what was apparently...
Vanity Fair
January 28, 2007 | 1:01pmIn an excellent article on the 2006's lowest-grossing movies in Sunday's Post, my colleague Reed Tucker answers a question that's been bugging me for the last couple of years. Why...
TOURNEY SAVIORS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amCHESSTWO championships, two histories: When there was no big-bucks sponsorship for the world championship in 1998, world chess federation president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov began to lavishly bankroll it himself. He changed...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amDEAR DR. FOX: My dog eats a very healthy, varied diet and also gets a vitamin once a day. Yet, he likes to eat dirt. I've asked many people about...
WEIGHT WATCHER
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMOST of us know that diet pills aren't the healthiest way to get trim. Well, the same goes for your pet - so it's your job to treat and trim...
ADOPT ME
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amZiggy is the spunkiest Yorkshire terrier mix you'll ever meet. Just look how he poses for the camera! Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society...
HOT SEAT
January 28, 2007 | 10:00am'SIXTY is the new 40"? Not if you ask Diane Keaton, who doesn't particularly want to be 40 again, thank you very much. And nobody makes 60 (OK, 61) look...
REQUIRED READING
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amHannibal Lecter was last seen in print in 1999, at the opera with Clarice Starling in South America. Seven years later, in the fourth book concerning the celebrated cannibal, author...
WRITING FOR THE WORLD
January 28, 2007 | 10:00am'THE Curtain," a newly translated essay by Milan Kundera, charms and provokes as the Czechoslovak-born author and longtime French émigré explores the value of the novel. Kundera, best known in...
DEMON SEED
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amNEARLY 50 years have passed since the publication of Norman Mailer's debut novel, "The Naked and the Dead." In the decades that followed, he went on to write 35 more...
TARNISHED SILVERMAN
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amSOMETIMES we just can't see ourselves the way the rest of the world does. A case study in the affliction: comedian Sarah Silverman. She's the one who advised "When God...
CLEAN WINDOWS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amWarning: 95 percent of the world's computers are about to become obsolete. Microsoft is launching a new PC operating system on Tuesday, a little something called Windows Vista. Microsoft hasn't...
HOT LIST
January 28, 2007 | 10:00am1 New noses First Ashlee Simpson, then Cameron Diaz and now Jennifer Aniston, whose nose job corrected a long-ago deviated-septum surgery. Apparently, having a million-dollar career doesn't guarantee you'll feel...
SKI PATROL
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amBUILD AN OUTFIT "Rocco Edge" goggles, $69.99 at bulabula.com + Banana Republic chunky cable-knit scarf, $68, at Banana Republic + Calvin Klein cable-knit sweater, $69, at Lord & Taylor +...
SUPERNOVA IMPLODES
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amRock Star: Supernova, the latest spawn of reality guru Mark Burnett's Rock Star franchise, had all the earmarks of a true supergroup - members from Motley Crue, Metallica and Guns...
MORRICONE 101: A LISTENER'S GUIDE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA Fistful of Dollars (1964) Morricone used whistling, bells, flutes, guitars, mariachi horns and choirs as the backdrop to the first Clint Eastwood-starring spaghetti Western. The first three collaborations between...
MOVIE MOZART
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMention Ennio Morricone, and even the most amateur film buff will begin whistling the theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" - and say something about spaghetti Westerns....
NORAH JONES: "NOT TOO LATE"
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amFOR the follow-up to her multiplatinum, Grammy-grabbing "Come Away With Me" and the countrified "Feels Like Home," Norah Jones has traded saccharine head-in-the-clouds romance lyrics for songs grounded in reality....
TICKET FAILS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amAfter a three-year attendance slide and hundreds of stories about how cineplexes were going the way of the dodo, the box office rebounded big in 2006. Theaters racked up nearly...
DON'T MISS LIST
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMADE-FOR-TV War wounds A young World War II veteran who is haunted by his experience in combat is the subject of "The Valley of Light," a Hallmark movie airing on...
SOLDIER BOY
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amIf television ever had an equivalent of Lite-FM, it would be the ABC series "Brothers & Sisters." Like the soft songs of music heard on that radio station, the TV...
CROTCH-ETY TOM HANKS SHEDS HIS SAINTLY IMAGE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amWhat happened? When did low become the only way to go? Recently, during NBC's Golden Globe Awards telecast, Tom Hanks, beloved Tom Hanks, the saint of Hollywood, introduced Warren Beatty...
REEL GOOD
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amFREAKS (1932) Monday, 9:30 p.m., TCM If you haven't seen this cult classic you must. An un-PC, yet bizarrely brilliant tale of the macabre relationship between a circus dwarf (Harry...
'GREASE' FIRE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe Broadway actors may scorn NBC's"Grease: You're The One That I Want" as an endeavor that's beneath them, but they may have missed the opportunity of a lifetime. So says...
UGLY GETS PRETTY
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amWhen ABC announced that ex-supermodel Rebecca Romijn would become a series regular on ABC's "Ugly Betty," everyone assumed Romijn would be playing mysterious masked woman Fey Sommers. Sommers was the...
'SILVERMAN' STUCK ON COMEDY POOP DECK
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amSarah Silverman's new show is like a trip to the bathroom. And just to allay any confusion about the meaning of that statement, it is not a compliment. It's too...
'TOP DESIGN' GOES UNDERGROUND
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amFOR ten days, New Yorkersrushing through Grand Central to grab the Times Square shuttle can relax in Jonathan Adler's highlydesigned subway haven. To promote Bravo's "Top Design," the network, Adler...
THE VILLAIN
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amADONI Maropis, the actor who plays this season's supervillain on "24" is drawing on some real-life experience to play the role: His own father was seriously wounded in a terrorist...
GOOD BEEF!
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amTALL, with long brown hair and a killer body (that she's just whittled down by 50 pounds on a diet of steak and steamed vegetables), Suzanne Strassburger is the woman...
ROSA, 33, AND KACHUBA, 29
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amOCT. 20 - Some shopping is best done in bulk - and with family in tow. Kristina Kachuba, a national editor at Fox News, jokes, "We probably paid off the...
TAING, 26, AND LEARY, 23
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amDEC. 2 - On the morning of June 22, 2006, fate interceded for Theresa Leary and Yong Taing, who were both on their way to work. "I'm originally from Montana,...
ZAHN, 29, AND ST. LAURENT, 29
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amDEC. 9 - Meeting your significant other's parents has been the stuff of Hollywood lore, but Angela St. Laurent didn't even have time to feel nervous. "We met on a...
CANTON, 34, AND BURCHYNS, 32
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amOCT. 28 - For David Canton and Heather Burchyns, the only thing that came between them and their perfect wedding was the weather. "The news kept saying to stay in...
LOMBARD, 63, AND MONTGOMERY, 54
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amDEC. 21 - For Nancy Montgomery, the most special moment of her wedding day was when her father, Robert, gave her away. "My father is 84 years old, and it...
MEDICARE $$-CUT STORM
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amPresident Bush's plan to cut almost $1 billion off Medicaid in New York state would "cripple" the city's 11 public hospitals, elected officials and health providers charged yesterday. "The consequences...
FAKE-BADGE ALERT AT CITY'S TERROR TARGETS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amHundreds of bogus badges have been turning up at some of the city's top terrorist targets, The Post has learned. Authorities have confiscated 243 fake police badges and some 21,000...
$477 MIL '06 INJURY PAYOUTS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe city shelled out $477 million last year in personal-injury lawsuits encompassing everything from horrifying crashes on ill-kept roads to nightmarish malpractice at city hospitals. Four of the 10 biggest...
FORECLOSURES SOARING
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe number of New Yorkers forced into foreclosure is skyrocketing, especially in Nassau County, where foreclosures have jumped a stunning 82 percent in the past year. According to foreclosure tracking...
VAN HALEN DUE TO ROCK N.Y.
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amNew York Van Halen fans - get ready to jump! The '80s band is reportedly hitting the road this summer for the first time in 20 years with original lead...
LEAKY BLDG. GOES TO POT
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amFirefighters looking for a water leak stumbled on a massive hydroponic pot operation - 270 marijuana plants growing on two floors of a Bronx building. "It was elaborate, with rubber...
UGLY GALS, POOR GUYS NOT ALLOWED
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA great personality and sense of humor won't get you very far at a new speed-dating event - where only perfect 10s and million-dollar bank accounts need apply. The "Natural...
FIRED AT FIT
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe top Fashion Institute of Technology accountant who moonlights as a horse handicapper has been fired on charges he stole more than $100,000 in school funds, The Post has learned....
HOBO & BRO IN SAD REUNION
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amHomeless man Roger Greenlee was reunited with long-lost relatives during a heart-wrenching meeting last week that left his Pennsylvania family with more questions than answers. After reading about his 64-year-old...
'SHOOT AND RUN' COP OUT
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amAn NYPD inspector who shot a Washington, D.C., robber and left without telling local cops has been quietly forced to retire after he was found guilty at a departmental trial...
PENSION FOR AWOL CITY FIREFIGHTER
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA firefighter who collected his FDNY paycheck while AWOL for nine weeks was granted a tax-free disability pension - but not until he paid the city double what he owed,...
MIKE RECRUITS GUN 'FIGHTERS'
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMayor Bloomberg's nationwide coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown by 31 cities - to 154. The group, founded last spring by Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, now...
DEATH FREEZE TRAP
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA Brooklyn woman helplessly watched her husband slowly freeze to death as they lay trapped in their car for 32 hours after sliding off an icy upstate road, police said...
LAST SALUTE FOR DAD
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe Ground Zero cop whose death last week stirred national sorrow was laid to rest yesterday in an emotional ceremony that saw two of his sisters pass out in grief....
BID TO HONOR 'OTHER HEROES'
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - Two state lawmakers today will announce legislation requiring the Ground Zero museum to recognize workers who died after 9/11 from illnesses linked to recovery and cleanup efforts. Assemblyman...
1ST STUDY FOR 9/11 TOXIC TOLL
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe state has launched the first study of deaths among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers - a grim toll that now exceeds 100, officials told The Post. With...
MTA PLANS IMPROVED 'DE-FENCE'
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe MTA is looking to improve security around its commuter railroad tracks following the recent death of a Queens teen, officials said yesterday. Ari Kraft, 13, of Forest Hills, was...
'CRUEL' TURN IN KIDD WAR
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amIf Net star Jason Kidd thinks he's going to get off easy by taking the most lurid claims of abuse out of his divorce filing, he has another think coming,...
WAR OF THE WILL
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amYou'd almost think there was a real war going on at the Brooklyn Bridge. More than 100 sailors and soldiers, and tons of military hardware, have been on hand near...
LANDMARK SPROUTING
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA one-time Queens landmark is moving from gas tanks to green space. An $11 million plan to turn the former site of the six-acre Elmhurst gas tanks into parkland is...
DUTCHESS 'KILLER' PAL OF VICTIM
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amOne of the men accused of massacring a family of five in Dutchess County was a longtime pal of the slain patriarch, friends and relatives said yesterday. Charles Gilleo Jr....
JOKE SET OFF BLOODBATH
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amIt started with a joke. The Chelsea nightclub shooting bloodbath that left one man dead, his brother paralyzed and two friends wounded last spring erupted with one victim's sarcastic crack...
PELLET-GUN 'MUGGER' CAUGHT
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA gun-toting mugger who targeted a half-dozen young women in Washington Heights - including a pregnant victim whose unborn baby he threatened - was arrested yesterday morning by two alert...
POLICE ACADEMY EYES BX.
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA former train depot in the South Bronx may be the site of the next Police Academy, say sources familiar with the plan. No deal's been signed on the old...
LOST LESSONS IN TEST-PREP CRAZE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amFor a month, third-graders at one Brooklyn elementary school had only two social-studies lessons. Their teacher said she was too busy teaching kids test-taking strategies. "The kids can't tell you...
BLAZE DRAMA
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amFirefighters pulled a pregnant woman off a second-floor landing of a burning Brooklyn house where she'd sought refuge from an all-hands fire early yesterday. When firefighters first arrived at the...
$1M WINNER: I WON'T QUIT JOB
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe Queens supermarket cashier who won $1 million may spend a little more time at the checkout counter before retiring to easy street. Peggie Wilkins told The Post yesterday she...
CONCRETE TUMBLES DOWN ON 2
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amTwo men suffered minor injuries last night when they were struck by falling rubble that rained down from the facade of a Brooklyn home, authorities said. The victims were passing...
HOMELESS GAL-PAL SLAY
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA homeless man stabbed his girlfriend to death after he had a few drinks at a get-together at a Queens housing project, police said yesterday. Warren Johnson, 36, knifed his...
CLARIFICATION
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA story in last Sunday's Post reported that Mayor Bloomberg called for an emergency halt to a federal judge's orders to start paying sick World Trade Center recovery workers. In...
DIALLO COP A MARINE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe NYPD won't give Ken Boss back his gun, but the cop involved in the fatal Amadou Diallo shooting got one from the Marines - and used it to kill...
BUSH SLIPS TO NEW POLL LOW
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amPresident Bush's State of the Union address last week had zero impact on his dwindling standing with the American public. A Newsweek poll of 1,003 adults after Tuesday night's speech...
READY-TO-GO RUDY
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amRudy Giuliani moved closer to a White House run in New Hampshire yesterday, sounding more than ever like a candidate as he told Republicans he thinks he has the "vision...
HILLARY PALS WITH THE GALS IN IOWA VISIT
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amDES MOINES, Iowa - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton swooped into Iowa on her maiden campaign voyage this weekend on a mission to cozy up with caucusgoers and convince them she's...
DUKE PLAYER'S PAIN: LIFE IS ON HOLD
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amAs the Duke lacrosse team held its first practice of the 2007 season Friday, Collin Finnerty was 500 miles away, wishing he was there - and uncertain he ever will...
BOY GOT BAGGED
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amA Florida family is outraged over a teacher's use of a big, baggy "body sock" to calm their 4-year-old son after he went on a crying jag in class. Patrick...
NYPD BLOTTER
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMANHATTAN Cops are hunting a quintet of drugstore cowboys who robbed an Upper West Side pharmacy last month, authorities said. The bandits broke into a Duane Reade at Columbus Avenue...
BLOOMBERG BARRELS INTO SENATE RACE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMAYOR Bloomberg is about to drop a $250,000 bomb on a fiercely contested special election on Long Island that could shape the power structure of the state Senate. The Feb....
LOTTERY
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Numbers Sat.: 324 Midday Win-4 Sat.: 9943 Evening Numbers Sat.: 782 Evening Win-4 Sat.: 5379 Pick-10 Sat.: 7, 10, 12, 16, 20, 22, 26, 27, 32, 36,...
THE PBA VS. ROOKIE COPS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amWhat's to blame for the slow recruitment numbers at the NYPD? Uniformed-police staffing is 1,000 officers below the authorized 35,000 level. The department missed its recruitment target for the current...
BETRAYING AMERICA
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amWhat a bunch of hypocrites. Congressional Democrats, having just given their imprimatur to President Bush's new Iraq-theater commander, are about to declare that the officer shouldn't have the resources he...
NANCY'S NEW NO-NO
January 28, 2007 | 10:00am"The House of Representativesshall be composed of memberschosen every second year by thepeople of the several states . . . " - U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2"What's the Constitutionbetween...
STATE OF THE UNION: DIVIDED OVER IRAQ WAR
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: The State of the Union Address and America's role in the war in Iraq. Why should anyone pay attention to "It's Still the War" (Editorial, Jan 24) when...
CLASS FACTS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amTOUGH CHOICES OR TOUGH TIMES: THE REPORT OF THE NEW COMMISSION ON THE SKILLS OF THE AMERICAN WORKFORCEBY NATIONAL CENTER ON EDUCATION AND THE ECONOMYJOSSEY-BASS, 208 PAGES, $19.95 NOW that...
COURTING CONTROVERSY
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amCONFIRMATION WARS: PRESERVING INDEPENDENT COURTS IN ANGRY TIMESBY BENJAMIN WITTESROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD, 176 PAGES, $22.95 DEMOCRATS now paint Republicans as evil for appointing reactionary judges and for trying to kill...
THE LANGUAGE OF EMPIRE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amTHE STORY OF FRENCHBY JEAN-BENOIT NADEAU AND JULIE BARLOWST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 483 PAGES, $25.95 IN 2003's entertaining and provocative "Sixty Million French men Can't Be Wrong," Canadians Jean-Benoit Nadeau and...
JEANS PAIR COULD BE SPLITTING
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amTRUE Religion jeans, which sell for $150 a pair, are still hot at retail - but that may not be the case in the corner office. Word is that the...
CLOUDS GATHER
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMaria Bartiromo climbed a long way from hatcheck girl at her father's Brooklyn restaurant to TV star - and married into one of New York's richest and most famous families....
GRAND SAVINGS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amConsumers fed up with paying the going rate offered by everything from utilities to credit card companies can fight back - and save themselves $1,000 a year, or more. And...
FACING FALLOUT OF SOFTENING REALTY
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amDear John: We sold our house last spring for a nice profit. Two months ago the buyers reneged and we were given their 10 percent escrow. How is this windfall...
BUSH'S BIG INSURANCE IDEA: PUNISH GOOD BEHAVIOR
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amYOU don't have to be Dr. Spock to know that the worst thing a parent can do is punish a child for good behavior. Yet that's exactly what encouraged this...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amWINNERSMEG WHITMAN EBay boss guides auction site to 24 percent rise in profits in fourth quarter.JONAS BONNIER Swedish media mogul to buy Time's 18 magazines for $225M cash. BRUCE WASSERSTEIN...
IN THE NICK OF TIME
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amFunny is money when it comes to children's entertainment, according to Albie Hecht. And he should know - the former president of film and television entertainment for Nickelodeon is responsible...
'SAY YEAH' SAYS 'NAH'
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amAfter Brooklyn-based indie rockers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah sold 300,000 copies worldwide of their eponymous 2005 debut CD, the major music labels were drooling for a chance to sign...
IT'S A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amTHE OFFSEASON really began during last season. Proactive teams that operated with prescience (or good fortune) have enjoyed considerable benefits. For example, by obtaining Bobby Abreu last July, the Yankees...
MAD ABOUT COLTS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMIAMI - It is impossible to believe that it's been 36 years since the blue horseshoe lasted all the way to the final week of the season. That time, it...
HIGH SCHOOL COACH HAS REX IN HIS HEAD
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amHE HAS become such an easy target. He's been mocked as Wrecks Gross man and Rex Glassman. He's on a list of the worst Super Bowl quarterbacks of all time:...
SUPER COACHES FUEL THE DREAM JACKIE STARTED
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMARCUS Ellison and Adam Frank lin don't aspire to be head coaches in a Super Bowl one day. But they'll be watching intently and with a certain amount of exhilaration...
UNTOLD TALES OF THE SUPER BOWL
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amTHEY are the Keepers of the Flame. Inside NFL Films' massive complex at One NFL Plaza in Mount Laurel, N.J., NFL history lives and breathes. Yes, they call it pro...
BUSH FLAK
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amREGGIE Bush is our Man of the Week. No fooling. His breakaway TD run act last Sunday - Bush gave a lesson in modern sports culture during the Saints-Bears NFC...
UNION READY FOR SHOOTOUT
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amPHILADELPHIA - This is the beginning of the end not only for Ted Saskin, but of the whole cozy relationship between the NHL puppet-masters on Sixth Avenue in New York...
ENVIRONMENT IS FIRST FOR NEXT DEC COMMISH
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amIT LOOKS as if New York's outdoorsmen and women may have an enemy in their camp. Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Lt. Gov. David Paterson last week announced the nomination of...
WANNA BET?
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amLike most of America, Robert Walker stared at the TV in February 2002 and watched as Adam Vinatieri's 48-yard field goal won the Patriots Super Bowl XXXVI. Unlike most of...
DENT VENTS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amBefore this season, the last time - the only time - the Bears made it to the Super Bowl, the feeling was quite different at Soldier Field as the home...
VAC'S WHACKS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amIt's not just that Serena Williams defied her army of skeptics by showing she really could win a Grand Slam in her spare time. It's that she did it while...
THE RUMBLE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMiami is Party City TV tattler's got 'em all covered Aubrey Aquino will be the busiest woman in Miami during Super Bowl Week as TV correspondent for "Deco Drive," assigned...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...MIKE DITKA
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amThe Post's Steve Serby caught up with the Hall of Fame tight end who went on to coach the Bears to a 46-10 victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl...
PRINCE FAR FROM '113'
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amEpiphanny Prince sat in an office at the RAC as the leading scorer for Rutgers in her freshman season wearing a black sweatshirt from Bergtraum with the school's Lady Blazers'...
ALL IN GOOD TIME
January 28, 2007 | 10:00am* Phil Mushnick may be right about the NFL pandering to TV money [Equal Time: "Time is money for the NFL," The Post and nypost.com, Jan. 22], but the starting...
MANAGING HIS MONEY
January 28, 2007 | 10:00am* Shouldn't Mets manager Willie Randolph be more of a man, and instead of pushing for a new contract, honor his word? Randolph's tactics seem particularly ungrateful when you consider...
KNIGHTS' TIME
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amEven the most optimistic, or inebriated, Rutgers basketball fan will tell you there is little chance of the Scarlet Knights qualifying for the Big East tournament this year. Until yesterday,...
IONA CAN'T GET ITS 'W'
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amAs Jeff Ruland watched his team's record drop to 0-20 yesterday, the towering Iona basketball coach gave a lesson in body language. Every possible expression of exasperation, frustration and bewilderment...
'BISHOP' BRINGS IT
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amComing off successive Grade 1 starts in Vosburgh, Breeders' Cup Sprint and DeFrancis Dash, Attila's Storm was hammered to 3-5 in 99th running of ungraded $65,000 Paumonok Handicap, but he...
SPORTS SHORTS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amRACING: Barbaro has right hind leg procedure In Philadelphia, a custom-made cast was removed and Barbaro underwent a procedure on his right hind leg yesterday, the same leg the Kentucky...
DEVILS SHRUG OFF RARE LOSS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - They may have beaten themselves, but the Devils didn't beat themselves up about it. It was, after all, the first time in more than a month they...
OLD-TIME WIN
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amLast night the Islanders donned their royal blue and orange road uniforms from their inaugural season of 1972-73, and Arron Asham went so far as to wear an Afro wig...
CRAW SPACE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amSome would look at Jamal Crawford's record-breaking 52-point destruction of Miami and say the guard was in the zone. Back in his Pistons days, Isiah Thomas would've said he's "in...
PASSING MUSTER
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amFORTY-SIX games in, and needing but five more wins in the final 37 to surpass Larry Brown's one-and-done construction blight, are the Knicks showing enough collective and individual improvement to...
KNICKS' CATO WANTS SON BACK
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amKnicks backup center Kelvin Cato is in a desperate legal scramble to get custody of his 6-year-old son after learning of horrifying reports this week that he was living in...
THERE'S A PULSE!
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amDENVER - No one-point loss this time. No gut-wrenching buzzer shot to break their hearts. This time, it was all about the Nets. Lots of Nets. But mainly Vince Carter....
POINT TO PLAYOFFS
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amPHILADELPHIA - The Rangers have identified their magic number as 92, that having nothing whatsoever to do with Michael Nylander and everything instead to do with the amount of points...
RANGERS' LINES PUT FOURTH EFFORT
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amPHILADELPHIA - With the lead on his stick early in the third period here yesterday, Adam Hall shot and did not score. Of course, Adam Hall did not score. He...
BERNIE CHILLIN' IN LIMBO
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amMost players, if their career were in doubt, they would be anxious. They would want constant updates. They would be on edge. Bernie Williams, of course, has never been like...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amAn upstate church is hosting an event during which members will discuss the impact of the pornography industry in America while chowing down on flapjacks. Give the Living Word Assembly...
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amDATING is generally hit-or-miss, so the more you have in common, the better your chances of a connection, right? Maybe not. As Luke, a 33-year-old software developer, and Evelyn, a...
MEET MARKET
January 28, 2007 | 10:00amFOR many men, their book of girls' phone numbers is a prized possession. However, if you're nearing 40 and your love life still resembles Matthew McConaughey's character in "Dazed and...
Super Columbine Massacre RPG! Creator On Attack Of The Show
January 28, 2007 | 8:03amMissed this before, for some strange reason.I went to school with Danny Ledonne so this is a bit of a treat. Plus, who doesn't love Kotaku's Brian Crecente?I am not,...
Second Life Panic
January 28, 2007 | 7:52amI am absolutely sick and tired of hearing about the glorified 3D chatroom that is Second Life. As such, this Gamasutra post made me very happy:"While it pains me to...
Sundance Winners
January 28, 2007 | 3:06am"Padre Nuestro,'' a drama about illegal immigrants in the U.S., took the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday. The audience award went to "Grace Is Gone,''...