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September 14, 2007

Start your engines

"Halo 3" special edition console reminder

It'll be available on Sunday for $399.99. That's all.Go Spartans.

Series pick

Should be an interesting series this weekend obviously for multiple reasons -- the standings, the revenge factor, the MVP race, Pedro Martinez against the Phillies, etc.I'm in a miserable slump...

Zap! Zap! Zap!

For everyone who moaned and groaned and couldn't figure out why Nintendo wasn't reviving the NES Zapper gun for the Wii, sorry. I still don't have an answer for you....

Affleck-ted

Worse for Ben, the missing child in his movie, played by four-year-old Madeleine O'Brien (pictured above with her parents and Affleck) is a dead ringer for the other Madeleine. As...

Deal of the Day

When I think of value, I don't always think French Connection.Their prices have been creeping up lately while their style quotient has been on the downslide.Last spring they redeemed themselves....

Members Only

I award3.5 stars today to David Cronenberg's masterful Russian mafia flick "Eastern Promises,'' which to my mind is better than his overpraised "A History of Violence.'' But all the ladies...

LIVEBLOG: Bloated in Bangkok

The view from Jesters at The PeninsulaWe've all been there. (Well, maybe we haven't, but let's pretend.) You're in a great restaurant city and there's only one more meal in...

Will Foster Hit Box Office Target?

Jodie Foster stirs memories of Robert DeNiro and "Taxi Driver'' with the vigilante drama "The Brave One,'' the highest-profile of the three wide releases opening today. I give it three...

PEACE, LOVE & OUTSTANDING

AN eclectic mix of old and young pop and rock artists will brighten the World Trade Center area with free music at the Wall Street Rising "Music Downtown" series on...

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED

SORIN, the elderly bu reaucrat reaching the end of his life in Chekhov's "The Seagull," isn't usually a starring role - it's relegated instead to sturdy character actors content to...

STAGE IS SET FOR LOCKOUT

ONE week ago today, the League of American Theaters and Producers sent out a flurry of e-mails admon ishing the theater industry not to speak to the press about the...

THE NEW POWER THAT BE

A playwright once spoke of "a phoenix too frequent." Rubbish! Phoenixes can never be too frequent. And there is something phoenixlike about the 81-year-old Martha Graham Dance Company, just embarked...

EMMYS GUIDE

Best Actor, Comedy Ricky Gervais has no shot since almost no one - much less the people who vote for the Emmys - watched "Extras." Tony Shalhoub has already won...

'BODY' WORKS

FACT: If our bodies continued to grow at the same rate as they do during the first few months of life, by age 4, we would weigh 150 tons -...

VANESSA DUCKS LENO

VANESSA Hudgens, the "High School Musical" star who is caught up in a nude-photo scandal, canceled her appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" at the last minute last...

OPRAH'S O.J. SHOW BUST

AN anticipated showdown be tween Fred Goldman and Den ise Brown over the radioactive O.J. Simpson book on "Oprah" fizzled yesterday. The show had been billed for weeks as a...

JODIE, AIM, FIRE!

THE Central Park Jogger and Bernie Goetz meet "Death Wish" in post-9/11 New York in "The Brave One," an awkward concept put over by Jodie Foster's award-caliber performance and expert...

THE FULL MORTY

VIGGO Mortensen, playing a mysterious driver for a Russian mob boss in London, has an eye-popping nude fight sequence in "Eastern Promises," David Cronenberg's superior follow-up to the overpraised "A...

IT GOES NOWHERE, MAN

I saw a film today, oh boy. "Across the Uni verse" is an interesting failure, not a fascinat ing one. Its makers are going to be fixing a hole in...

SHOR 'NUFF, HE WAS VINTAGE N.Y.C.

THE wonderful documentary "Toots" is a time capsule of New York City in the 1950s, painting a vivid portrait of the city's most colorful and arguably best-known restaurateur (he preferred...

EXERCISE DEMON

'MR. Woodcock" blows the whistle on those tube-socked tyrants, those Bryl-creemed bullies and sweat-suited Stalins of our terrifying formative hours spent in gym class. Farley, a fat kid emeritus (Seann...

'SILK' WORMS ITS WAY INTO HEARTS

AS sensuous as its title, "Silk" is an exquisitely felt love story that unfolds as delicately as a blooming flower. And as slowly. Budding star Michael Pitt (no relation to...

MEDIEVAL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN

MY weekends are normally quiet and include watching a few movies, brunching on pancakes at Cowgirl on Hudson Street, and maybe perusing film books and magazines at St. Mark's Bookshop...

THE RAPE OF EUROPA

THE documentary "The Rape of Europa" chronicles one of the lesser known atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler and his goons: The systematic attempt to destroy all European art and architecture...

DOUGLAS NUTS SO FUNNY

MICHAEL Douglas puts on his crazy hat for "King of California," a caper comedy that forgot to put in the laughs. Douglas' Charlie, with Jerry Garcia hair, a mad-prophet beard...

FATHER'S GRIEF DIGS UP WAR'S SKELETONS

TOMMY Lee Jones is at the top of his game as a grieving fa ther determined to uncover the disturbing truth behind his soldier son's death in Paul Haggis' "In...

DIRECTOR HAGGIS HAS AN "ELAH" GOOD SHOT AT OSCAR

Paul Haggis could turn your grocery list into an Oscar nomination. Since hitting it big with the screenplay for "Million Dollar Baby" in 2004, the writer has become among Hollywood's...

HOT PICKS

BROADWAY ON BROADWAY Imagine seeing Broadway's biggest shows all at the same time. The 16th annual Broadway on Broadway concert is the next best thing. Hosted by "Hairspray" star Lance...

BROADWAY

"A CHORUS LINE": 2 ½ STARS A clean carbon copy of a great original. Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CURTAINS": 2 STARS Tony-winning David Hyde Pierce...

LONG-RUNNING

"AVENUE Q": 3 STARS John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO": 4 STARS Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "THE COLOR PURPLE": 3 STARS Broadway...

OFF-BROADWAY

"ABSINTHE": 3 ½ STARS The sequel to last year's hit European-style burlesque show, performed in a vintage traveling tent at the South Street Seaport, (800) 276-2392. Closes Oct. 1. "ANGRY...

POP, ROCK, FOLK

THE FAB FAUX: Members of the Max Weinberg Seven and CBS Orchestra (among others) perform The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Club Heart Band," tomorrow on strings, sitar, bass harmonica and...

JAZZ

BIRDLAND: Today and tomorrow: Pharoah Sanders Quartet. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Ron Carter Trio and a Christian McBride Situation. 131 W. Third St.; (212)...

CLASSICAL

TODAY: String quartet Brooklyn Rider and pipa player Wu Man perform Brahms, Schulhoff and other works. Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn; (718) 624-2083. TOMORROW: New York City Opera's new season...

CABARET

BIRDLAND: Monday: Donna Lynne Champlin, Lynn Wintersteller, and Michael Winther perform a concert version of "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick." 315 W. 44th St., (212) 581-3080. CARNEGIE CLUB: Tuesday. Eartha...

DANCE

THE GUGGENHEIM: The Boston Ballet previews "Works & Process" and other dances in the museum's lower-level theater space, followed by a discussion with Lincoln Center's art director and festival director...

FILM

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: After 20 years of Hollywood exile, "communist sympathizer" Abraham Polonsky returned to make the Western classic "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" (1969). It screens tomorrow at...

COMEDY

CAROLINES: Today and Tomorrow: Robert Schimmel. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMIX: Today and Tomorrow: J.B. Smoove. 353 W. 14th St., (212) 524-2500. COMEDY CELLAR: Today and Tomorrow: Jim Norton, Dan...

MUSEUMS

AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM. 45 W. 53rd St.; (212) 265-1040. AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Central Park West at 79th Street; (212) 769-5000. BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS: 1040 Grand...

FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...

FINANCIAL COMMUNITY DAY FESTIVAL SERIES: Today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., a street fair on Maiden Lane from Water to South streets. THE GREAT IRISH FESTIVAL: Tomorrow from 11...

PREVIEWS

AMERICAN SLIGO: A once great professional wrestler struggles with the impending end of his career in this dark comedy. Rattlestick Theatre, 224 Waverly Place; (212) 868-4444. Opens Sept. 24.FLAGS: A...

CASINO BEAT

NEW JERSEY - MANDY MOORE and PAULA COLE perform tonight at 8:30 p.m. in the Borgata's Music Box. Tickets: $35. Macy Gray takes to the stage with the Brand New...

LONG ISLANDER LEFT HIGH AND DRY

Ed Dauria and his wife bought their three-bedroom Sayville, L.I., home in 1991 for $159,000 and paid a monthly mortgage of about $2,200. When the couple decided to get divorced,...

HITTING MIKE HEAD-ON

A Brooklyn sculptor has found a new use for the parking and sanitation tickets he's received -he's turned them into protest art. Using the tickets, along with foam and wire,...

STEPHON'S HOOP SKIRT TO TESTIFY

The former Knick intern whose sordid sex encounter with hoops star Stephon Marbury was laid bare in federal court this week has agreed to take one for the team. Lawyers...

VERY E-Z CASE

Who's watching the watchers? Five cops in the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau were busted last week for showing up late to work and leaving early - the kind of infractions...

SAFE! FAME FOR MR. MET

Thanks, Post readers! You did it - and Mr. Met yesterday was named a member of the 2007 Mascot of Hall of Fame. "Mr. Met is in," the Hall of...

BAYONNE POOL HAUL

A floating swimming pool that this summer drew big crowds to a former industrial pier off Brooklyn Heights set sail across New York Harbor yesterday to a winter home in...

BOOZE EYED IN DEADLY BQE WRECK

A driver was killed and his four passengers badly injured early yesterday in a horrific crash off the BQE that may have been alcohol-fueled, police said. Javier Diaz, 22, of...

WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE

1 train: No trains between 14th Street and South Ferry. Take the 2 or 3 between 14th St. and Chambers. Free shuttle buses between Chambers and South Ferry. 2, 3:...

ELIOT AIDE YIELDS ON E-MAILS

In a sharp turnaround, a lawyer for an aide to Gov. Spitzer tarnished in Albany's dirty-tricks scandal said yesterday he won't contest a subpoena seeking months worth of e-mails. "I...

PROPERTY-TAX PAYERS BOTH $WEET & $OUR

Nassau and Westchester County homeowners were sitting on both sides of the suburban fence yesterday, split over whether they were getting a fair bang for the buck even though they're...

FILM ASKS IF PAINTER AIN'T HER

Six-year-old Marla Olmstead is a pint-sized Picasso, an international phenom worth her weight in gold. But is she for real? A new documentary, "My Kid Could Paint That," will reopen...

'VOODOO SLAY' RAP IN B'KLYN

His fears of a voodoo hex quelled after he allegedly bashed his ex-girlfriend's mom to death, a Brooklyn man yesterday faced a higher power - a judge. Joseph Cazeau, 48,...

ASTROLAND DOOMED AT CONEY IS.

Looks as if there's no room for Astroland in the new Coney Island. City officials confirmed yesterday they've ended a desperate search for a new site for the iconic amusement...

RAZE THE LORD

A Long Island man who had a beef with God because his prayers for money, a job and a girlfriend went unanswered went on a rampage by vandalizing three churches...

DEUTSCHE STANDPIPE FIX

The faulty standpipe in the former Deutsche Bank building that led to the death of two firefighters three weeks ago has finally been repaired, officials announced yesterday. The standpipe, which...

$350 MIL SUITS IN PIPELINE

A man and woman severely burned in a tow truck swallowed by the ground during the massive Midtown steam-pipe explosion have notified the city they plan to file lawsuits totaling...

B'KLYN POL EYES FOSSELLA SEAT

Brooklyn Councilman Domenic Recchia will challenge Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella next year, The Post has learned. Recchia, a term-limited Democrat who has made Coney Island's revitalization a signature issue,...

ARREST IN TV CHEF'S 'GAY BASH'

Nassau County cops arrested an Oregon man and are seeking his alleged accomplices in a vicious gay-bias attack on a former "Top Chef" reality-TV show contestant on Long Island. Matthew...

'PSYCHO' EXECUTES B'KLYN DAD

A wild-eyed gunman known to neighbors as "Psycho" chased a Brooklyn father of four up a quiet street yesterday and shot him dead on the steps of a brownstone, cops...

9/11 VICTIM ID'D 6 YRS. LATER

The remains of a Qantas Airlines employee who died on 9/11 in the first plane to hit the World Trade Center have been identified through DNA tests, the city medical...

SLEEK KIOSKS ARE HOT NEWS

The sleek newsstand of the "future" has arrived on Manhattan streets. Two of the stands - on West 71st Street and on West 125th Street - are open for business...

SHEIK ALLY KILLED IN ROADSIDE BOMBING

A charismatic Sunni sheik who led the battle to drive al Qaeda from Iraq's restive Anbar province was killed by a roadside bomb yesterday - 10 days after he met...

EDWARDS' MISERY MONEY

WASHINGTON - Presidential candidate John Edwards has invested a big chunk of his personal fortune in a hedge fund tied to subprime lenders foreclosing on the homes of dozens of...

NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT: PREZ

WASHINGTON - Assuring the American people that victory in Iraq is within reach - and raising the specter of another 9/11 if the U.S. fails - President Bush last night...

GOP'S FULL-PAGE RAGE AT TIMES

WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and other Republicans and conservatives demanded yesterday that The New York Times run a full-page ad responding to the one it ran attacking Gen....

HSU HEEL AGREES TO FACE RAP

Scandal-tainted Democratic moneyman Norman Hsu declined yesterday to fight extradition from Colorado to California to face the music on a guilty plea over a Ponzi scheme. Bail was set at...

HILL REVISITS HEALTH CARE

Hillary Clinton will try to correct the biggest public-policy failure of her life when she unveils her health-care plan in Iowa on Monday. As first lady, Clinton led President Bill...

PARTY ANIMALS

Portuguese cops reportedly have a smoking gun in the case of missing girl Madeleine McCann - body-fluid samples that prove she died of an overdose of sleeping pills. The cops...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

Queens The NYPD is searching for a thief who since last month has robbed a bank in Queens and two in Brooklyn. Between Aug. 11 and Sept. 6, the unidentified...

CLINTON BLOWS HER BIG CHANCE

WASHINGTON - Either The New York Times is so desperate for ads these days that it's offering fire-sale prices, or it has thrown in with one of the most rabid...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 250; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 0513; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 173; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 2175;...

TREAT RUDY THE SAME

The New York Times denies that poli tics was behind the hefty discount that MoveOn.org got from the paper when it placed that despicable full-page ad Monday attacking Gen. David...

THE KOREA PARALLEL

President Bush last night told the nation that he will order a modest reduction in U.S. combat strength in Iraq, but he revealed no dramatic changes in overall policy -...

A CHANCE TO WIN BACK SUPPORTERS HE LOST

PRESIDENT BUSH aimed his speech on Iraq last night at a little-discussed constituency: Americans who once supported the Iraq war but now oppose it because they have lost faith in...

THE ENEMY'S LOSING

AS some politicians and pundits try to prove that America has lost the war in Iraq, a key question remains unasked: How is the enemy doing? The facts on the...

THE RISKS OF RUNNING AWAY

LAST night, the president laid out for the American people his vision for the future of our commitment to the security and stability of Iraq. His proposal to reduce our...

THOMPSON'S GATEKEEPERS

ALMOST immediately after the launch of Fred Thompson's long anticipated presidential candidacy, important neutral Republicans decreed privately that it had crashed and burned on takeoff. Many of these critics had...

LET'S NOT 'MOVE ON'

THE Democrats don't want to talk about it. They simply cannot, as a party, bring themselves to unequivocally condemn the shameless MoveOn.org slime ad published at a special, military-bashers discount...

ALL HAIL THE CHIEF - PETRAEUS, NOT HILL

THE ISSUE: Sen. Hillary Clinton's failure to criticize MoveOn's attack on Gen. David Petraeus. How can anyone expect Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to rebuke the MoveOn.org ad or agree with...

CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS? DOW CLIMBS 133

Wall Street shrugged off news of oil hitting an all-time high and sent stocks soaring on the notion they're now undervalued. The rebound lifted beleaguered investment banks after a Bernstein...

BREATHING ROOM

Battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. said it secured $12 billion of additional debt financing yesterday as it continues to struggle funding new home loans amid the global credit crunch....

GREENSPAN: IT'S NOT MY FAULT

Alan Greenspan says don't blame him for the latest market turmoil. The former Federal Reserve chairman said critics who have argued recently that he helped bring on the crisis in...

DOLANS EYE SALE OF UNITS

Cablevision System's controlling Dolan family said it would consider selling or shutting down businesses in order to reduce the leverage involved in taking the cable operator private. According to a...

SCRIBE'S DOW BOW-OUT

NEW York Times Business Editor Larry Ingrassia has told people that he is no longer pursuing a deal to write about the $5 billion takeover of Dow Jones by Rupert...

SUMMER HEATS UP

The eight films that The Weinstein Co. released from June to August, which include "Sicko" and "The Nanny Diaries" starring Scarlett Johansson, and smash hits "1408" and "Halloween," are projected...

READY FOR A CLOSE-UP

Although a record $31 million box office take for "Halloween" over Labor Day weekend solidified The Weinstein Company's status as the summer's highest-grossing independent studio, the company is still battling...

HEIST AT ATMS

Banks are protecting bottom lines by hiking ATM fees to $3 per withdrawal and reaping new billions from a rise in bounced checks. Bank of America is the latest to...

GOLDMAN FUND CLIPPED 22.5%

Goldman Sachs' flagship Global Alpha hedge fund fell 22.5 percent in August after multi-billion dollar bets on currency and stocks turned sour, according to a letter sent to investors. As...

SUBPRIME CONTAGION FELT BY MUNI BONDS

The fallout from the global credit crunch hit the traditionally safe municipal bond market last month and has caused losses at several well-respected fixed-income funds. Duration Capital Management, 1861 Capital...

COWBOYS LASSO TOP SPOT AT $1.5B

The Dallas Cowboys are No. 1 - at least in terms of worth. The five-time Super Bowl champions overtook the Washington Redskins as the most valuable franchise, according to Forbes'...

O.J. SIMPSON INVESTIGATED FOR LAS VEGAS ROBBERY: REPORT

Metro police confirmed early Friday morning that O.J. Simpson is being investigated for robbery at the Palace Station Casino, My Fox Las Vegas reported. The incident happened late Thursday night....

GOLDMAN: O.J. THINKS HE CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING

Fred Goldman weighed in on today's robbery allegations against O.J. Simpson, who many believe murdered his son, Ron, and Nicole Simpson Brown in 1994. "I guess we found out this...

MISSING BRIT GIRL MAY HAVE BEEN THROWN OVERBOARD

Portuguese cops think that that the body of missing British tot Madeleine McCann may have been thrown off a yacht and left it the sea in a sack weight down...

COMMISH: TIME TO PAY THE BILL

ROGER Goodell hit the Patriots where they will hurt the most. Bill Belichick got caught having video assistant Matt Estrella videotape the Jets' signals, putting the best one the commissioner...

GRACIE PROUD AS PITBULLS GO FOR IFL CROWN

RENZO Gracie wasn't sure this team concept was going to work. The mixed martial arts he had learned from his father Robson Gracie, grandfather Carlos Gracie and brothers Ralph and...

BUYING BIG BLUE

WHO says you can't get a bargain in the Big Apple? The Giants-Packers line moved from Giants -2½ to pick after Big Blue got decimated with injuries Monday night in...

FINE MESS, BILL!

He's been known around these parts as Belichicken for bailing out as the Jets' head coach in 2000 and as Belichick Arnold for turning up as the Patriots head coach...

HUSKERS, HUSKIES FACING HUGE TESTS

We're not going to get into annoying TV mode and start declaring a theme for each weekend, but tomorrow presents a couple of programs with opportunities they have been itching...

MLB, ALBANY D.A. HAVE 'ROID CHAT

George Mitchell sent his investigators upstate yesterday to chat with Albany County prosecutors about baseball players who have turned up in their probe of illegal steroid sales through the Internet....

NASCAR STARS REV UP FOR NEXTEL CUP PLAYOFFS

Before the Nextel Cup season started in February Jimmie Johnson said he "saw no reason why he couldn't repeat" as champion. Yesterday in Manhattan during a whirlwind promotional tour for...

5 QUESTIONS FOR...LOU HOLTZ

AS Michigan prepares to meet Notre Dame this Saturday - with both teams sitting at an unlikely 0-2-NYP TV Sports' Justin Terranova chatted with Lou Holtz, the former Irish coach...

TRENDSETTERS

TITANS (+7) VS. COLTS, 1 P.M. Tennessee has covered eight of nine overall, 10 of 11 as an underdog, four straight in division, four straight as a home underdog, and...

HONDO RACKING UP WINS BUT...

Hondo roared out of the blocks last week, going 9-5-2 in Week 1 to latch on to third place in the BG standings. Then there was his 3-0 el perfecto...

THE ODD COUPLE

For starters, The Odd Couple (Dick Klayman & Peter Tocco) gave the spread a mild 8-6-2 beating. This, folks, is called just warming up. And the following is called winners...

MISS CHARLEEN

SUNDAY: Giants, Ravens, Steelers, Bengals, Colts, Panthers, Rams, Falcons, Bucs, Vikings, Dolphins, Cards, Broncos, Chiefs, Patriots. MONDAY: Eagles. BEST BETS: Giants, Rams, Vikings.

DAY MARRED BY UGLY SPILL

Two horses died and their jockeys went to hospital for precautionary X-rays after gruesome spill in fifth race. Unrestricted, royally bred Darley Stable 3-year-old colt by A.P. Indy out of...

SPORTS SHORTS

NFL: Cowboys most valuable franchise The Cowboys wrested the title of the NFL's most valuable franchise from the rival Redskins, knocking Washington off the top of the list for the...

HONDO'S GOING LOCAL

Hondo went with the Rockies last night, which caused his pile of dough to become less mountain ous as they took a fall in Philly to reduce the account to...

CONFIDENT DEVILS SET TO MAKE BELIEVERS

Despite the defections, the Devils defy their detractors. "We're going to surprise a lot of people," incumbent captain Patrik Elias predicted after the team reported for physicals yesterday and first...

ELI WON'T 'PACK' IT IN

HE doesn't have tattoos all over the place or bulging biceps like Jeremy Shockey does, and we don't see him chinstrap to chinstrap with snarling defenders the way Phil Simms...

JARED'S READY TO CARRY THE J-LOAD

Eli Manning didn't practice or take snaps or test his injured right shoulder yesterday, still listed as day to day and possibly a game-day decision for Sunday against the Packers....

SHOCKEY: INJURIES WON'T HURT OFFENSE

Jeremy Shockey said the loss of running back Brandon Jacobs - and perhaps Eli Manning - can't be an excuse to derail what he believes should still be a potent...

BIRD FOOD

There will be blood in the water Sunday at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium. Jet quarterback Kellen Clemens, barring a miracle Chad Pennington comeback from his right-ankle injury, will be making...

METS AIM TO FLUSH PHILS

The Mets' series against the Phillies this weekend matters for the two biggest reasons a series can matter - the standings and the emotions. But when the Mets take the...

WAGS NOT DOG HE WAS IN AUG.

Just over two weeks ago, Billy Wagner finished off the Mets' series at Philadelphia by finishing off his own team's embarrassment. Wagner blew an Aug. 30 save at Citizens Bank...

GO THE DISTANCE

Jaromir Jagr arrived at Rangers training camp yesterday with June on his mind. The Rangers' season ended on May 6, one full month before Anaheim skated away with the Stanley...

STREAK STOPS, NOW BOSOX

TORONTO - On the eve of a colossal series in Boston that will make or break their season, the Yankees needed Kyle Farnsworth last night. They needed him to make...

YANKS: DON'T COUNT US OUT

BOSTON - It's your prerogative if you want to dismiss this weekend, diminish this weekend, discount all that could well be in store for the Yankees and the Red Sox...

ROTATION DEBATE NO LONGER SWINGS IN BOSTON'S FAVOR

THIS was early in the season when the rotation was devastated, and the Yankees were starting every Tom, Dick and Karstens they could unearth. That was the storyline, the Yankees'...

TERRIBLE START STILL CASTS A SHADOW

TORONTO - The Yankees can run from their dreadful opening two months of the season. The Yankees can sprint from their dismal beginning to 2007. But the one thing the...

COLLISION COURSE

The Yankees invaded Fenway Park last August and won five straight - all but ending the Red Sox' playoff hopes. Now the Bosox have a chance for payback when these...

SUMMER OF '77

THE Yankees took a giant step toward the pennant last night by crushing the Red Sox at the Stadium in the opener of a vital threegame series. Ron Guidry, whose...

ROGER WILL GO

TORONTO - Following a 13-minute bullpen session yesterday, Roger Clemens is convinced his balky right elbow and the bothersome blister problem on his right foot won't keep him from starting...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

No good deed goes unpunished - or does it? A Florida waiter who was fired after saving a woman from an armed robber has been besieged with job offers. Juan...