August 21, 2007
Meadowlands Loses Continental
By JANET FRANKSTON LORINNEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority said Tuesday it is hunting for a new firm to put its name on the Meadowlands...
"Arrivederci'' Demetris
By MARC BERMANSo much for the excitement generated in summer league by the rookie out of Syracuse Demetris Nichols. Now there's a chance he won't be a Knick after preseason.During...
Series pick
I'm not a big Padres guy -- I think they've basically been the same type of team and quality of team for the last few years. But this series is...
Scene
Susanne Hertell wears a Walter burlap-texture pleated skirt with a Banana Republic belt, a Gap tank and Zara shoes, with an awesome reptile bag from Bali with Ferragamo sunglasses. "Style...
Eli Strikes Back at Tiki
Pot calling kettle black? Eli Manning said today that Tiki Barber was in no position to be questioning his leadership skills, after the recently retired baller said Manning lacked luster...
Scarlett Strikes Out
Kyle Smith will take a hatchet to "The Nanny Diaries'' on Friday, but I wasn't really surprised that Scarlett Johansson can't carry a movie. Her inept comic stylings in this...
Matt and Jen, Together Again?
He's a god on Broadway, but Matthew Broderick's movie career hasn't exactly been booming since he made "Election'' and "You Can Count on Me'' at the turn of the century....
Deal of the Day
San Fran based fashion line Talla's motto is "yes to happiness", and how can happiness be impeded in this Embridered Swiss Dot Sheer Georgette Blouse.With an electric cobalt color and...
Reverse Defection
My, how things have changed.Before the Iron Curtain fell, and in the uncertain political climate thereafter, many Russian hockey players craved to defect to the United States and the lucrative...
Memorial Service Held for Pollock
Jean Beliveau, Senator Frank Mahovlich and Scotty Bowman were among the mourners yesterday at a memorial service for Sam Pollock, the former general manager who built the Montreal Canadiens Stanley...
Eagle May Land in Sweden
The Canadian Press reports that 42-year-old Ed Belfour may continue his career overseas.Belfour is "very close" to signing a contract with second-division Leksand of the Swedish League, reports Swedish sports...
Blue Christmas for Blu-ray
Fugheddabout finding a Blu-ray player under the tree. Rival format HD DVD, which has been trailing in disc sales by a 2-1 margin has effectively dragged out the format war,...
The New York City Area Derby
Let's be realistic.In what the rest of the world calls football, there are local rivalries and when the teams that comprise those rivalries meet, it's called a Derby. One of...
New Signing
Yesterday, the Rangers signed goaltender Matt Zaba, according to TSN. Hockey's Future rates Zaba at 6.0 C, which marks him as a career backup goaltender.There have been rumors of moving...
CASH & CARRY
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MPFREE
Download these free songs through Friday at nypost.com:Ciara, "My Love" This heartfelt tune from R&B diva Ciara is all about how boys need to put as much effort into relationships...
ONE OF DA BOYZ
YOU may have seen the video for Ciara's propulsive "Like a Boy," where she dances with other women and dresses in a wife-beater and baggy pants. But the sexy "First...
SCORE ONE FOR HIP, HAPPENIN' WILLIAMSBURG
THE Lower East Side is so over. Exhibit A: "Williams burg! The Musical," a looser, comic "Rent," minus the melodrama, about Brooklyn's hipster hangout. The cast of characters is suitably...
STARR REPORT
Down on the Piers "America's Got Talent" judge Piers Morgan broke several ribs over the weekend after tumbling off his Segway - putting his appearance on tonight's two-hour season fi...
K-FED SPEARS 'TREE' ROLE
THE former Mr. Britney Spears is taking another stab at acting. Kevin Federline will be a guest star on the CW hit, "One Tree Hill," according to TMZ.com. Federline, 29,...
RYAN'S DOUBLE EMMY DUTY
ALL Ryan Seacrest, all the time. Seacrest, the ubiquitous "American Idol" host who's already all over the TV and radio map, has been named emcee of the "59th Primetime Emmy...
ALL 'STAR'
OH, goody, another talk show. We needed another one of these like we needed holes in our collective heads, but nevertheless, here came Star Jones yesterday with her own take...
'HEROES' SIGNS 'VERONICA MARS'
VERONICA Mars has landed on "Heroes." Kristin Bell, who starred in UPN's late, lamented cult hit "Veronica Mars," has joined the growing cast of NBC's hit show. Bell had been...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A Sun-Saturn aspect on your birthday means it's time to get serious about your place in the world. Do you feel you should be doing more? Do you feel you...
BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL'S UP
BREAST cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment are rapidly developing - with results to prove it. For the first time, breast cancer survival has im proved because of the benefits of...
ELIOT AIDE LAWYERS UP
ALBANY - A top aide to Gov. Spitzer has hired an experienced criminal lawyer - who once defended President Bill Clinton - in connection with the explosive dirty-tricks scandal. Richard...
'SCANDAL' REPORTER OFF HOOK
ALBANY - A subpoena for an Albany Times-Union reporter used by the Spitzer administration to distribute suspect information in the dirty-tricks scandal has been put on hold, a spokesman for...
BABY FOR TRAGIC HERO'S SIS
Death, then life. On the day that hero firefighter Joseph Graffagnino would have celebrated his 34th birthday, his anguished parents picked out a spot for his burial yesterday - and...
INFERNO EYED AS 'HOMICIDE'
Authorities yesterday said they are eyeing charges of criminally negligent homicide against the contractors responsible for a faulty water standpipe that contributed to the deaths of two firefighters in a...
COP GUILTY OF BEATING MISTRESS
A Manhattan jury took just three hours to convict a brutish police captain of beating his cop mistress black and NYPD blue on a Greenwich Village street last fall. Capt....
MED-WORKER 'ROBBER' HELD
Cops yesterday arrested a Manhattan medical worker who allegedly robbed a bank, then darted into a hospital and stripped down to his scrubs to blend in. Robert Britt, a 50-year-old...
BONES FOUND IN SEX FIEND'S BASEMENT
A city inspector yesterday discovered a chamber of horrors - including animal bones and preserved organs - in the basement of a Bronx apartment building owned by a convicted sex...
RALLYING CRY
Dozens of supporters of the controversial Arabic-themed public school slated to open in Brooklyn next month rallied last night to support its recently resigned principal. Organizers of the protest at...
DEATH (& TAXES) FOR NOTORIOUS QUEEN OF MEAN, 87
In the end, she could evade neither death nor taxes. "Queen of Mean" hotel magnate Leona Helmsley permanently checked out yesterday. Helmsley - whose ruthless reign over a real-estate empire...
VIOLENT IMPULSES
TOP-selling mystery writers Ian Rankin and Val McDermid are at each other's throats. Rankin, who pens the Inspector Rebus series, started it by suggesting women authors are more bloodthirsty in...
COLLEGES FEATURING BEST AND BLIGHTEST
Students at NYU gripe the most over financial aid, while those across the river at Queens College are considered some of the nation's biggest teetotalers. Yet neither is among the...
A GENEROUS 'ESTATE' OF MIND
The lawyer who oversaw drastic changes to Brooke Astor's will said the grand dame funneled much of her vast estate to her son to give him "recognition" and, "most of...
BRIDE DAD GUILTY IN TORTURE
An enraged Pakistani dad went too far in the manic search for his runaway-bride daughter, torturing a relative of her teenage illicit groom with a hammer and nunchuks to try...
HEAT'S ON HOME-AIDE PROVIDERS
ALBANY - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office has issued dozens of subpoenas as part of an ongoing investigation into widespread Medicaid fraud in the home health-care industry, and yesterday sought...
OBAMA HITS BIG APPLE
Sen. Barack Obama will be in New York City tomorrow for a fund-raiser, a meeting with supporters and an event in Brooklyn. Bryant Park Hotel doorman Gregory Smith, who donated...
COPS HUNT FOR GRAMERCY PERV
Police yesterday said this man is the thieving pervert who sexually abused and robbed a woman in the lobby of her Gramercy Park apartment building. The sicko pushed the 20-year-old...
PHARMINGDALE
Long Islanders are popping the painkiller codeine at a greater rate than other Americans, a new investigation has revealed. An Associated Press study of statistics from the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
BABE ON BOARD
Aloha, Jennifer! With no beau in sight, Jennifer Aniston has a firm grip on fun while paddling in Hawaii. The actress joined fellow "Friend" Courteney Cox Arquette, Courteney's hubby, David...
VICK TAKES DOG POUNDING
NFL superstar Michael Vick has agreed to plead guilty to federal dogfighting charges and take full responsibility for the reprehensible and inhumane crimes that may end his illustrious career. Vick's...
SURGE WORKING, BUT TOO LATE: HILL
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton told a veterans group yesterday that President Bush's troop surge is working - but that it is still time to bring U.S. troops home from...
RUDY RIPS 'CAPITAL' OFFENSES
Rudy Giuliani blasted the federal government as a failure because "there's no accountability for actually making things better" - and vowed to be Mr. Fix-It if elected to the White...
'GIRL' TROUBLE
"Obama Girl" isn't scoring in Barack's house. The video of a sultry model in barely-there clothes singing about her "crush" on the Illinois senator is wildly popular with YouTube viewers,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Four thugs were caught after they attacked and robbed two men on a Greenwich Village street, authorities said yesterday. Anthony NuÑez, 16, James Tucker, 27, Akeem Osondairo, 17, and...
POLITICIANS' BUCK-PASS COST 2 MEN THEIR LIVES
FIREFIGHTERS Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino, who perished in Saturday's fire at 130 Liberty St., were victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks as much as the 343 Bravest who died...
FALLEN STAR TURNS IT OVER ON DROWNS
IT WAS New Orleans, the Su perdome, Jan. 4, 2000, four days after America had waited for a Y2K meltdown that never came. There were 79,280 people inside, watching the...
I'M MOURNING WOMAN WORLD LOVED TO HATE
TROUBLE may be the only one left alive who will mourn Leona Helmsley. Except for me. She was cantankerous, hard to please and a convicted criminal who waltzed through New...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 583; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 1798; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 721; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win- 4 Mon.:...
TWO BASIC QUESTIONS
Of all the questions now demanding answers about Saturday's fatal Deutsche Bank building fire - and the list is very long indeed - the most important number just two: *...
DESERT SUNRISE
DAWN was a perfect metaphor for the Middle East: A band of rosy light promised magnificence to come - only to fade into a dusty, disappointing murk. But, for a...
FRANCE'S PRO-U.S. TURN ON IRAQ
ONE key promise that Nicolas Sarkozy had made during his presidential election campaign last spring was to "correct foreign-policy mistakes" made by his predecessor Jacques Chirac. Chief among these was...
'08 PROSPECTS: EDWARDS' HEDGES
FRANCOIS de La Rochefoucauld had a point when he said, in his frequently quoted formulation, that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. In the case of John...
THOMPSON'S WILY TIMING
WHILE Fred Thompson's minimalist strategy in the Republican presi dential sweepstakes seems to defy all the conventional wisdom so far it seems to be working. With the polls showing the...
POLITICIANS & PAPERS: THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE
Your editorial "What Did The T-U Know?" (PostOpinion, Aug. 18) puts the finger on the dirty secret of journalism that newspapers don't want the public to know: Partisan journalists always...
PUTTING REFS THROUGH HOOPS
Holy cow! NBA games have been crooked ("Ref Blowing the Whistle," Aug. 19)? No kidding! Bob Aaron Hicksville **** Not only should basketball referees be checked, but as should those...
CLEAR ON KIRKALDY
Thanks for your editorial on a woman long unrecognized for her contribution to the fight against segregation ("Irene Morgan Kirkaldy," Aug 18). As you made clear, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy was...
THORNBURG SOS
Troubled Thornburg Mortgage, long seen as one of the most conservative mortgage lenders in the industry, said yesterday it was forced to swallow a $930 million loss as it scrambled...
SEC SLAMS SENTINEL WITH CIVIL FRAUD CHARGE
The Securities and Exchange Commission says the stunning collapse of a money management firm that handled short-term, supposedly safe investments for Chicago's futures traders wasn't just a function of a...
LIKE A HOUSE OF CARDS
WHY aren't people fall ing behind on their credit-card bills? I'll warn you right now, I don't have an answer to that simple question. And that's because it really isn't...
KKR'S $500M DEAL
KKR Financial Holdings, the publicly traded unit of private-equity titan Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. that was hammered by investors last week, moved to shore up its financial situation yesterday...
TRADER'S RISE & FALL
One of Trader Monthly's latest "Top 30 under 30" traders has taken a big tumble. Zachary Michaelson - prominently featured on the cover as an up-and-comer - lost his job...
DISNEY RAKING IT IN WITH 'HIGH SCHOOL 2'
Tween entertainment consumers enjoyed a breakout year in 2006. Now, thanks to the ratings and music sales success around Disney's "High School Musical 2," the second season of "Hannah Montana,"...
'RUNWAY' TO START LICENSING
Aspiring designers will soon be able to cut their creations from "Project Runway"-branded patterns and stitch them together using fabrics and sewing machines also carrying the hit TV show's name....
ISS GOES UPPER DECK WITH TOPPS OFFER
Powerful proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services told stockholders to oppose Michael Eisner's $385 million deal for iconic baseball-card maker Topps yesterday - a move that could jeopardize the former...
BUILDING UP CREDIT
MAYBE it's wishful thinking, but the city's top leasing brokers are unanimously downplaying the effects of the credit crunch on the commercial market. Even as reports surface of property acquisitions...
GREEK DRAMA
A fugitive former hedge fund manager who helped swindle investors out of $78 million was busted yesterday on the Greek island of Crete after being on the lam for nearly...
SARATOGA SLAMS GATE ON STARTE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Reacting to a series of starting-gate mishaps at this meet - including three in which the stewards declared horses non-starters, forcing the New York Racing Association to...
DYLAN KNOCKS ON SEVEN'S DOOR
Pitching in the minor leagues is like painting on a blank canvas: With countless possibilities, the result is up to the one holding the brush. So far this season, 21-year-old...
PECA'S AGENT: NOW OR NEVER
Tired of waiting for Glen Sather, Mike Peca's agent said the Rangers must decide today if they're going to sign the two-time Selke Trophy winner. "I'm going to force the...
MEET'S FIRST DQ OF WINNER IS SENSELESS
SPRINGS - Finally saw first winner disqualified at meet, and it was senseless. In fifth race at mile on turf, Savasana, 8-5 favorite dropping into claimer for John Kimmel in...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Myers to Chisox Reliever Mike Myers and the White Sox reached agreement on a contract yesterday, two weeks after the Yankees cut the submarining lefty. The 38-year-old Myers will...
HISTORY SAYS STREET SENSE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - The $1 million Travers Stakes, to be run Saturday for the 138th time at the Old Spa, has produced some memorable upsets. In 1930, Jim Dandy was...
NBA WON'T DENY REFS GAMBLED IN CASINOS
The NBA released a statement yesterday that did not deny last weekend's allegations that up to 20 referees gambled in casinos in violation of their contracts. However, the statement said...
K.C. A-OK WITH HONDO
Hondo suffered a minor correction last night, get ting burned with the Jays to fall back into the red with a debt of 15 hutchinsons. Tonight, Mr. Aitch will try...
CALHOUN OUT AT ST. JOHN'S
St. John's lost a probable starter when forward Qa'rran Calhoun announced yesterday he was transferring, although sources told The Post he is considering other options, including playing professionally in Europe....
KILLERGAME
Corey Williams' streetball career ended as soon it began. In the summer of 2000, Williams began playing in the New York City playground leagues and his name has not been...
DO NOT BE LIKE MIKE
THERE is no sympathy for the latest NFL devil, Michael Vick, after he decided to plead guilty to federal dogfighting conspiracy charges that imperil his career, nor should there be....
BEAMER CERTAINLY NOT BEAMIN'
Just down the hall from Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer's office is the entrance to Michael Vick Hallway. It is one of the gems of Tech's football facility, housing an...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
THE PAIN GAME
ALBANY - Out of action for two weeks. Three weeks. Maybe a month. The entire season. Tom Coughlin yesterday was swamped with injury information and speculation he wanted no part...
RISING HUSTON GETS A LEG UP
ALBANY - The way Josh Huston figures it, his performance went a long way in alerting those around him what he's all about. He believes he already knows he has...
JETS' DE COLEMAN 'STOUT' & DEVOUT
There's no doubt that one of the Jets' top offseason priorities was upgrading the defensive line. Enter David Bowens, Andre Wadsworth, Michael Haynes and Kenyon Coleman, who was signed away...
PEDRO'S GAME
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - It is a difficult balancing act for Pedro Martinez, a tenuous test of patience and persistence and fortitude, because he misses it all so much....
AMAZIN'S DEAL FOR OLD PRO CONINE
The Mets yesterday picked up a strong playoff performer and added punch to their bench, making a trade with the Reds for veteran first baseman/outfielder Jeff Conine. They gave up...
HEAT CHECK
Willie Randolph talked after Sunday's win in Washington about his pride of being with the Mets and how the team "did what we had to do and finished up with...
WISH UPON ANA-ROD
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Outside of saying his goal is to help the Yankees win a World Series and how much he loves New York, Alex Rodriguez refuses to commit to...
SCOUTS REWARD CASHMAN'S TRUST IN THEM
ANAHEIM, Calif. - When Brian Cashman gained control of the entire Yankees organization following the 2005 season, he understood it was important that he listen to those he trusted in...
THE DH DILEMMA
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Every afternoon Joe Torre gathers coaches Kevin Long, Don Mattingly and Rob Thomson in his office and goes through the options he has at designated hitter. Since...
YANKEES PEN LAYS EGG
ANAHEIM, Calif. - The Yankees survived a wild Phil Hughes, an ineffective Luis Vizcaino, Kyle Farnsworth and two singles given up by Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning last night...
ELI TAKES SWIPE AT TIKI AFTER LEADERSHIP QUIP
ALBANY -- Clearly determined to make a forceful point with more conviction than he has at any previous point in his Giants career, quarterback Eli Manning yesterday shot back at...
SLOW DOWN
EXACTLY which of the Sunday nights spent standing in baggage claim at the JetBlue terminal it was when I decided I'd had enough, I couldn't tell you. I don't know...
DRIVE LOCAL
IT IS amazing how much there is to see just a short drive from New York City - start exploring, and we all but guarantee you'll be wondering why you...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
No, it wasn't stuck under a desk. An English archaeology student has discovered a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum during a dig in Finland. The gum - made of birch-bark...
MAPS: The Bronx to the Catskills (or, follow the blue dots)
Driving over the Shawangunks isn't quite like climbing them, but it is still a thrill Today's print story about driving upstate was just the beginning -- tons to say about...