September 28, 2007
FIVE-THOUGHT FRIDAY: METS, METS AND MORE METS
By Joel ShermanBack with Five-Thought Friday:1. Of all the things that worry me about the Mets, right now – and that list could fill Shea Stadium – the one that...
Mets gotta play 'Cards' right
By Joel ShermanThe final weekend at Shea began with doom and gloom for the home team. It began with Met fans ready to switch their allegiance to the Diamondbacks, anything...
Mets gotta play 'Cards' right
By Joel ShermanThe final weekend at Shea began with doom and gloom for the home team. It began with Met fans ready to switch their allegiance to the Diamondbacks, anything...
Scene
Allison Morichelli wears a floral H&M dress, Darel bag, and silver Nike shoes. "My style changes. I used to dress more in Chanel, and the summers I like to do...
Scene
Fashion designer Cassandra Reilly wears a black and white dress with cool details by Wayf, vintage boots, and a head wrap she made, with a canvas grocery bag as a...
Chance to Make a Statement
You all talked about it at length in the previous conversation, and you couldn't be more right. Renney has an obligation to dress Mitch Fritz tonight and put him out...
Cliff-hanger Notes: 'Desperate'
"Desperate Housewives"Last we heard: Edie apparently commits suicide, Lynette is fighting cancer, Bree fakes a pregnancy, Susan and Mike get married, Gabby and the Mayor also get married and then...
Deal of the Day
I just spotted my colleague Rebecca in this vintage looking dress. "Surely it's from Lyell," I half asked."Nope, Libertine for Target," she said. I wasn't a fan of the collection,...
Final weekend
I was trying to think of something to write for the blog today, and I'm still trying. After last night's game, things pretty much speak for themselves -- the Mets...
MEMO TO ME:
Memo to me: Was I ever wrong about the NL East and the Mets and the Phighting Phils.In August I wrapped up the NL East in a nice little package...
Starr Report
Bonnie Hunt (right) is getting her own talk show, which will launch next fall courtesy of Telepictures ("The Ellen De Generes Show," "Extra," "The Tyra Banks Show").Hunt's yet-to-be-named show -...
The Missing Hope
MGM will release a seven-disc Bob Hope collection on Dec. 7 that notably includes the DVD debuts of "The Facts of Life,'' a suprisingly serious marital comedy with Lucille Ball...
Sibling Rivalry
A few days ago, Fox Searchlight moved "The Savages,'' a dark comedy about two self-absorbed siblings (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney) forced to confront their father's final days, up...
FIVE-THOUGHT FRIDAY: METS, METS AND MORE METS
Back with Five-Thought Friday:1. Of all the things that worry me about the Mets, right now – and that list could fill Shea Stadium – the one that concerns me...
The Other Anderson's Flick Debuts, To Considerably Better Notices
Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood'' may be the flick to beat for the Best Picture Oscar, if the Buzz coming out of Austin, Texas is to be trusted....
For Wes, Less is More
Speaking of gratituous full frontal nudity, the NC-17 acrobatics in Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution'' aren't enough to keep this limp World War II spy thriller, which didn't make the cut...
Between The Rock and a Hard Place
This weekend features the first real battle for No. 1 at the box office in a while, pitting Dwayne ("The Rock'') Johnson against Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx. Most prognosticators, like Gitesh...
THE ADVENTURES OF HENRY HUDSON
Just what does one have to do to get a river named after him? Henry Hudson knew. Read on to see how this famous navigator earned the honor. Henry Hudson...
VAN GOGH PEN AND INK
VINCENT, we hardly knew you. The starving artist, the tortured genius - sure. But your letters reveal some one more complicated: someone earthy, funny, frank and sometimes even bitchy. In...
EXTOLLIN' ON BOLAN
THE hardest-working singers and song writers in New York will bang a gong in Central Park tomorrow to mark what would have been Marc Bolan's 60th birthday - as well...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S GREEDY DRAMA
THE elderly head of a Southern family tries to rein in the conflicting greedy desires of her rapacious brood, all angling for the inheritance they feel entitled to. No, it's...
SOME LIGHT LAB WORK
HERE'S some hit-and-run gossip on four new musicals: * "Young Franken stein": Mel Brooks' $20 million Transylvanian import went back into rehearsals last week, pretty much unchanged from its Seattle...
A TWYLA 'DEUCE' COUP
THE basic concept of City Center's annual Fall for Dance Festival is blazingly simple: $10. Just 10 bucks a throw buys you a seat anywhere at this highly spiced grab...
PIP, PIP HURRAY
WE'VE had the Three Tenors, the Irish Tenors - and now we have "Three Mo' Tenors," in which a trio of African-American singers delivers a program encompassing, by their own...
JER-HOUSE 'ROCK'
JERRY Seinfeld's obsessions with cereal and Superman are already well-known, but now you can add Alec Baldwin to the list. "I'm obsessed with Alec Baldwin," the comedian said on the...
JINGLE ALL THE WAGE
OPRAH Winfrey is TV's top earner, followed by Jerry Sein feld - not bad for a guy whose show wrapped nearly 10 years ago. But Donald Trump? "The Apprentice" host,...
'CSI'S' SARA SIDLE SURVIVES
SARA lives. Lab tech Sara Sidle sur vived last season's cliffhanger ending of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," fans of the show learned last night in the premiere episode of the...
STARR REPORT
The Hunt is onBonnie Hunt is getting her own talk show, which will launch next fall courtesy of Telepictures ("The Ellen De Generes Show," "Extra," "The Tyra Banks Show"). Hunt's...
THIS SHOW BITES
JOEL Silver, who has produced some truly great things from "The Matrix" to "Veronica Mars," as well as some truly dopey ones like "Gothika," is veering into dopey land again...
THE KING-DUMB
HOLLYWOOD provides the Islamic world another reason to hate America with "The Kingdom," a xenophobic, overblown, revenge-driven action thriller that exports the "Rambo" mentality to the contemporary Middle East. The...
ROCK BOTTOM
THE first warning sign arrives with the opening credits of "The Game Plan": the main character is an Elvis fan. "I know! Let's make him an Elvis fan!" is both...
WAR, SEX ... ZZZZZ
BY the time I got to the sexu ally explicit scenes in "Lust, Caution" that earned Ang Lee's disappointing follow-up to "Brokeback Mountain" an NC-17 rating, 90 minutes had elapsed...
O SISTER, WHERE ART THOU?
A routine crime melodrama with art- house message-movie pretensions, "Trade" takes us inside the sordid international rackets of white slavery, forced heroin addiction and bicycle theft. A young Mexican hood...
REVENGE TOURISM IN N.Y.C.
ANY man who has ever been stung by a cheating wife will find a lot of himself in the title character of "Charlie," the impressive feature debut of indie director/writer...
EXTRA CREDIT FOR HISTORY LESSON
SOMEONE with A.C.E. after his name never had it so good. While most films are content to display the opening credits over boring shots of New York from a helicopter...
LIGHTS ON, NOBODY'S HOMO
A crude and cheerfully sophomoric teen sex comedy about a college student who pretends to be gay, "Freshman Orientation" premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival under the title "Home...
FEAST OF LOVE
MORGAN Freeman - who has devoted entirely too much of his screen career to selflessly helping white folks - is at it again in "Feast of Love," a diabetes-inducing adaptation...
BRUCE PERFORMS LIVE 'TODAY'
"The Boss" is back. Mobs of fans filled Rockefeller Center this morning to see Bruce Springsteen perform live with and the E Street Band on NBC's "Today" show. On the...
HOT PICKS
TRUNK SHOW The 11th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival features artists of all walks, but it's hard not to talk about the elephant in the room ... or the...
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 Monday. "AMERICAN SLIGO":...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
ASSEMBLY OF DUST AND JJ GREY & MORFO: Jazzy prog-rock meets roots-y R&B tonight and tomorrow at Highline Ballroom at 431 W. 16th St.; (212) 414-5994. Tickets are $22-25. BLOC...
CLASSICAL
TODAY AND TOMORROW: New York Philharmonic presents Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto followed by his "Manfred Symphony" at 2 p.m. today and 8 p.m. tomorrow at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center;...
DANCE
THE CITY CENTER: Fall for Dance festival featuring Ballet Hispanico, Lyon Opera Ballet and others continues through Oct. 6 every day but Monday at 130 56th St.; (212) 581-1212. For...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Today and tomorrow: Pat Martino Quartet. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Monday: George Cables Project with Roy Hargrove. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB...
CABARET
CAFÉ CARLYLE: Tuesday: Eartha Kitt. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. CARNEGIE CLUB: Saturday: Steve Maglio. 156 W. 56th St.; (212) 957-9676. FEINSTEIN'S: Today and Tomorrow: Ashford & Simpson. 540...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Albert Serra's "Quixotic/Honor de Cavalleria" is a stylized experimental film in the spirit of Don Quixote running nightly at 7 and 9:15 through Sunday, with 2:30 and...
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: David Alan Grier. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: Today and tomorrow: Jim Norton, Keith Robinson, Sherrod Small and Colin Quinn. COMIX: Today and tomorrow: David Brenner....
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
N.Y.C. POLICE MUSEUM FESTIVAL: Today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., a street fair on Old Slip between Water and South streets. BROADWAY AUTUMN FAIR: Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * JENNIFER LOPEZ and hubby MARC ANTHONY are together onstage tonight and tomorrow night at 8 in the Trump Taj Mahal's Mark G. Etess Arena. Tickets: $96-$176; trumptaj.com,...
PREVIEWS
"FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: RUDE AWAKENING:" All Broadway's fair game for this long-running parody as it gears up for its 25th season. New targets include "Spring Awakening" and "Curtains." 47th Street Theatre,...
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:...
PLANNING EMERGENCY 'CENTRAL'
Housing in Central Park? It's not out of the question if disaster strikes and the city finds itself desperate to find homes for thousands of displaced residents, Mayor Bloomberg said...
HIZZONER DESIGNATES A STAND-IN
It's official. When Mayor Bloomberg is in Europe for the next four days, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff will act as his stand-in. The mayor told reporters yesterday that he had...
STEAMED ROLLER
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer yesterday ripped Mayor Bloomberg for openly questioning the governor's new policy allowing illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses. "He is wrong at every level - dead...
HAUL OF AN ART THIEF
He was just a mover - a paunchy schlub from Fresh Meadows, Queens, who loaded moving trucks for a living. But 38-year-old Nahom Kohen still knew a good piece of...
SAX-CRIME VICTIM
A waiter at an Upper West Side restaurant is singing the blues after being busted for scamming famed saxophonist David Sanborn out of $15,000 in bogus credit-card charges, The Post...
CHILLING RANTS OF PARANOID CAMPUS GUNMAN
A Cornell graduate student was thunderstruck at the bombastic claim: St. John's rifleman Omesh Hiraman once insisted he was beaten by cops after he insulted an officer's wife. Hiraman, who...
COLLEGES GETTING MESSAGE
The scare at St. John's was a wakeup call for local colleges that have been slow to in stall text-messaging emer gency systems in the wake of April's mass-murder rampage...
BABY, YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR
A Long Island man has been charged with stealing his 2-year-old son's identity to buy a Cadillac. Christopher Hendrickson, 24, of East Islip, used his son Chris' Social Security number...
POL: SAVE 'EXPELLED' CUPCAKES
ALBANY - A Bronx Assemblyman wants to save the cupcake from expulsion from school birthday parties. Michael Benjamin, a Democrat, is drafting legislation that would make the cupcake the official...
QNS. SENATOR IN DWI BUST
ALBANY - A Queens state senator was busted early yesterday for allegedly driving drunk. Sen. John Sabini is accused of failing to signal for a turn in downtown Albany and...
AFTER-SCHOOL SEX SPECIALS
Teens at a Lower East Side high school were getting their sex education outside the classroom after being targeted by pimps who lured them to a nearby brothel and enticed...
ART DEALER EASELS OUT OF LAWSUIT
Prominent Manhattan art dealer Guy Wildenstein is no longer on the hook for allegations of dirty dealings in the $11 million sale of a painting by Paul Gaugin. A Manhattan...
SEX TRIAL DOWN TO THE BUZZER
It's all a big game for fired Knick executive Anucha Browne Sanders, whose lust for power and cash drove her to make up sexual-harassment charges against coach Isiah Thomas and...
9/11 GUIDE HAS 'ZERO' CREDIBILITY
The leader of a World Trade Center survivors group, whose claim to have escaped the upper floors of the Twin Towers on Sept. 11 appears to be fake, has ignored...
MIKE FIRM FLUNKS PREGNANCY TEST
A federal agency filed a bombshell lawsuit yesterday charging that Bloomberg LP, Mayor Bloomberg's worldwide infor- mation-services company, has systematically discriminated against women employees who become pregnant. The Equal Employment...
NEW YORK'S 'POOR' HEALTH
Low-income New Yorkers have more cases of hospitalization and death from severe diseases than their wealthier neighbors, an analysis of health trends in the Big Apple by City Comptroller Bill...
BUILDING BLOCKHEADS
Construction may resume as early as today on a luxury Williamsburg building whose neighbors have charged workers with drilling into walls of the L train tunnel. The city Department of...
BX. BEAU'S BID AT 'SLAY-SUICIDE' FAILS
A drunken, abusive Bronx teen yesterday beat up his ex-girlfriend, slit her wrists and - thinking she was dead - jumped from the roof of her building so they could...
REV. AL 'LAME' EXCU$E
Al Sharpton's National Action Network said yesterday that it gave cash to a key witness to the Sean Bell police shooting because he was too injured to work - yet...
I AM THE WALRUS
Brooklyn's biggest baby made its first public appearance yesterday. The as-yet-unnamed wrinkly male walrus has sprouted tiny whiskers, is almost 4 months old, currently tops 250 pounds and is 44...
NAN(O) SECONDS
Here's your chance to own a piece of Park Avenue princess Nan Kempner's haute-couture wardrobe. Christie's is auctioning off more than 6,000 items of clothing and accessories - including full...
FREEDOM MONKS RALLY HERE
Scores of demonstrators, including some 50 Buddhist monks, gathered outside the United Nations yesterday to demand the world body intervene to stop Myanmar's bloody crackdown on protesters seeking an end...
SHOCKING FOTOG-SLAY
These chilling photos show Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai lying on a street in Myanmar after being fatally shot by government security forces. Nagai, 50, who worked for the Japanese video...
CLINTON'S CAMP GETS MEATHEAD
WASHINGTON - The presidential battle for Hollywood bigwigs - and cash - heated up yesterday, as Hillary Rodham Clinton picked up the endorsement of liberal movie director Rob Reiner. Reiner,...
MATCHING $$ FOR EDWARDS
WASHINGTON - John Edwards, who has been running third among Democrats both in national polls and fund-raising, has decided his campaign will accept federal matching funds. The move marks a...
'ROCK STAR' OBAMA TRIUMPHS AT ARCH
Barack Obama came to the heart of Hillary Rodham Clinton's turf last night to show her up with veiled jabs and a massive display of rock-star-like support - and a...
GIRL, 12, DOGGEDLY TURNS PAIN INTO LITERARY GAIN
Shea Megale is a 12-year-old forced by a rare neurological illness to use a wheelchair - and a writer whose fanciful stories about a disabled girl and her hero dog...
POWER POINTS
Former President Bill Clinton praised Con Edison yesterday for joining a coalition of power companies pledging to spend at least $500 million annually to reduce global warming emissions by 30...
'HMM'IGRATION
The government yesterday unveiled its revamped naturalization test for immigrants, who may now find it easier - or possibly harder - to be become full-fledged U.S. citizens. U.S. Citizenship and...
CONVICTED LYNNE AN 'ETHICS' EXPERT
Lynne Stewart - the disbarred lawyer convicted of helping her terrorist client smuggle messages to his murderous followers - has been tapped to lecture law students on legal ethics at...
MORE BLACKS SAY JUICE DID IT: POLL
Almost twice as many African-Americans now believe O.J. Simpson is a coldblooded killer compared to a dozen years ago, shortly after he was acquitted of murder charges, according to a...
THOMAS: ANITA WHO? ABORTION WAS KEY
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says the real issue at his controversial confirmation hearing 16 years ago was abortion - not his private life or the sexual-harassment charges leveled against...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A Columbia University graduate student was arrested for brutally beating and raping his wife in Morningside Heights, authorities said yesterday. Between Sept. 19 and 23, the 25-year-old student, enrolled...
MORE ASKING IF RUDY HAS RIGHT STUFF
WASHINGTON - With Fred Thompson nipping at his heels in national polls, Rudy Giuliani is starting to wear out his welcome among the Republican Party's core conservative base. The latest...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 957; Lucky Sum: 21 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 0674; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 184; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win- 4 Thu.:...
CELL-VATION AT ST. JOHN'S
Kudos to St. John's University, which averted a potential tragedy - or at least a school-wide panic - on its Queens campus, thanks to a healthy measure of foresight and...
MAYBE THE TIMES CAN'T AD
The New York Times finally came clean this week, admitting that it gave MoveOn.org a steep discount for the group's disgusting ad denouncing Gen. David Petraeus - and the Federal...
MELLOW OUT, ELIOT
Anyone who still wonders whether Gov. Spitzer has the capacity to send the State Police after a despised po litical enemy need only witness the rhetorical tap dance he did...
TALK, CHARLIE, TALK
IF ever there was a time for Charles Maikish to come forward with what he knows about the botched 130 Liberty St. demolition project, it's now. Until a few weeks...
NEW YORK'S TESTS FLUNK
THE release this week of national test scores in reading and math was an embarrassment for the state Department of Education. Scores nationally and in many individual states showed modest...
SHOTS NOW FIGHT FUTURE FLU
IT'S flu-shot season again. The good news is that we've got plenty of vaccine this year; the bad news is that far too many Americans will skip their shots. One...
IT'S RUDY V. HILL
WEDNESDAY brought two key developments in the 2008 race for the White House. Together, they make it increasingly likely we're finally going to see that Hillary-vs.-Rudy match-up we were denied...
UNIVERSAL HEALTH SCARE: WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
THE ISSUE: The health-care reform initiatives of the 2008 presidential candidates. "The Price of 'Free' Care," (Editorial, Sept. 24) is precisely right - a great deal of deception is being...
VERIZON CAUGHT IN CENSORSHIP FLAP
Admitting it made a mistake, Verizon Wireless has opted not to block pro-choice text messages from an abortion rights group. The cellphone company blamed the ban - which made headlines...
HOME WRECK
Home prices are skidding at their fastest rate in 37 years as the housing recession scattered more industry leaders into retreat and possible bankruptcy. The big discount mortgage broker, Foxtons,...
NEW SITE UNITES LISTINGS
The elusive quest to consolidate New York City's residential real estate listings has begun with the opening of a Web portal by the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY)....
SI RIPS UP PORTFOLIO
CONDÉ Nast Chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr. sat down Wednesday with Portfolio Editor-in-Chief Joanne Lipman to take a very serious look at every page in the upcoming November issue of Portfolio,...
FALL FUELS FUND
A money management firm that specializes in subprime mortgage securities - and boasts that its returns are up this year - is launching a new fund designed to take advantage...
GOOGLE SCARES SENATE
U.S. lawmakers are worried Google's gobbling up too many companies. At a hearing yesterday to consider the Internet behemoth's planned $3.1 billion takeover of online advertising specialist DoubleClick, one senator...
NATIVE AMERICANS TAKE A WALK IN NIKE'S SHOES
Nike has invented a new sneaker designed for especially for the feet of Native Americans - no joke. The company said it fielded a few crank queries over its new...
BET THE DEAL'S DONE
Investors snapped up shares of Sallie Mae yesterday on hopes the student lender can reach a new deal with billionaire investor J. Christopher Flowers and his cohorts at Bank of...
ST. JOHN'S GUNMAN ARRAIGNED
The crazed gunman who terrorized the campus of St. John's University traveled all around the Big Apple in preparation for his bizarre appearance on campus wearing a mask and toting...
KEITH KEEPS ON PRESSURING 'EM
"PRESSURE the defense." On SNY, Keith Hernandez lately seems to be speaking in code. Psst, pressure the defense. Perhaps that's the result of that September, 2002 episode, when he had...
PETER GETS MCCLINE
SAM Peter thought he would be challenging for the WBC heavyweight championship a week from tomorrow at Madison Square Garden. Instead, he'll be defending the title - sort of. Peter...
JINTS GET EVEN
PLAXICO Burress' teammates call him "Game Day" because he usually shows up on Sunday (often in the end zone) after missing serious practice time due to injury. The Giants certainly...
'OVER' TIME FOR BEARS-LIONS
Adding to his stuffed trophy case, The Wildcat captured first place over more than 50 foes in the 2006-07 edition of Playbook's long-running Wise Guys Contest with an overall record...
IT'S BOTTOMS UP FOR SEPT. ANGLERS
THE fall run of stripers and blue fish is under way, offering great top-water action, especially for those who like light tackle. Bottom fishing for porgies has been terrific, with...
TRANFERS GET OK TO PLAY
Two football players who transferred from Sheepshead Bay to Boys & Girls will be allowed to play for at least the next two weeks after an independent board ruled them...
LANDESBERG SPURNS JOHNNIES
Sylven Landesberg stood at the podium during a press conference yesterday holding a copy of his speech that ended with "In September, 2008, I will attend . . ." leaving...
5 QUESTION FOR...JOE MICHELETTI
HOCKEY is back, and NYP TV Sports' Justin Terranova talked this week with MSG Ranger analyst Joe Micheletti for a preview of the NHL season. Q: With the additions of...
TRENDSETTERS
VIKINGS (+11/2) VS. PACKERS, 1 P.M. Minnesota has gone undefeated in its last seven September games (5-0-2), and has dropped just two of its last 12 in division. Green Bay...
HONDO KEEPS UP THE GOOD WORK
HONDO, who seems to do his best work in the dark, rallied with victories in the night games to gut out a 7-6-3 record in Week 3 and seize sole...
MISS CHARLEEN
SUNDAY: Jets, Eagles, Dolphins, Texans, Browns, Lions, Packers, Rams, Panthers, Seahawks, Cards, Chiefs, Broncos. MONDAY: Patriots. BEST BETS: Packers, Seahawks, Chiefs.
THE ODD COUPLE
Bouncing back like the Hall of Famers they are, The Odd Couple (Dick Klayman & Peter Tocco) shook off that horrendous 1-14-1 Week 2 with a resounding 5-8-3 Week 3....
O/U RICO!
Rico had another good week, going 11-5 (3-0 on Best Bets), to bring the season record to 28-20 (8-1). The selections for Week 4: OVER: Eagles / Giants; Jets /...
BIG DAY FOR FRANKEL, BEJARANO
Big weekend of Breeders' Cup preps at Belmont. Tomorrow, Flower Bowl and Kelso on turf, followed by four Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" stakes on Sunday: Jockey Club...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: McClung banned Brewers reliever Seth McClung was suspended for three games and Milwaukee manager Ned Yost for one after the commissioner's office concluded yesterday the pitcher intentionally hit the...
HONDO BAITS THE HOOK
Hondo bagged a beauty last night at Shea by the bay, zipping his way to victory with the Cards to give the earnings a hefty goose to 285 keanes. Tonight,...
BAD NEWS FOR DEVILS: EYE DAMAGE FOR WHITE
Devils defenseman Colin White did suffer damage to his right eye when struck by a puck last week, and specialists are still trying to determine its extent and the proper...
PLAX: I'LL PLAY THROUGH SPRAIN
After flying to North Carolina for a second opinion on his serious sprained right ankle, Plaxico Burress returned yesterday with the same prognosis. He's sore, and will be for weeks,...
BURRESS BECOMING BIG BLUE GO-TO GUY
YOU never truly have a right to call yourself a go-to guy if you are there for your quarterback and for your team some of the time. The go-to guy...
TIKI'S REVERSE
It's amazing what one good half of football can do. It can keep your season alive - and turn your harshest critic into a Big Blue believer again. Tiki Barber...
GIANTS' SPAGNUOLO EXCITED TO FACE MENTOR
Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, in his first season with Big Blue, spent the previous eight with Philadelphia. Sunday night, he will face his former team and his friendly mentor,...
JETS' 'D' FEELS IT'S CAPA-BILL
Four teams in the NFL have allowed more yards per game than the Jets, who are yielding 386 per contest. It is a significant source of embarrassment and aggravation, but...
PORTER'S CHATTER AGITATES BARNES
Further illustrating the hatred that exists between the Jets and Dolphins was an incident that occurred prior to last Sunday's game. Fullback Darian Barnes, who signed with the Jets in...
HEY, HOU! KNICKS NEED BALKMAN SUB
The ankle injury that will keep Renaldo Balkman out all of training camp and possibly the first two weeks of the regular season has opened the door for the Knicks...
SURREAL SEPTEMBER
It should have been an easy double play and a scoreless first inning for Pedro Martinez. But Luis Castillo botched the play. Soon enough, instead of having a problem-free opening...
BAD TEAM ON A BAD RUN ... BUT IT AIN'T OVER JUST YET
THIS time there were no biblical floodswells, no locusts, no blown three- or four- or five-run leads. That part of the Mets' soul had been pounded flat. Long gone is...
EAST LEAD GOES UP IN CHOKE
A COUNTDOWN had been ongoing these past few dreadful days for the Mets. Sure, they were being humiliated by the undermanned Nationals. But all would be well once Pedro Martinez...
PEDRO DOES ALL HE CAN
This was the start Mets fans had been waiting to see from Pedro Martinez all year: season on the line, team needing a boost, and their diminutive ace on the...
OLIVER IS BACK IN SPOTLIGHT
The Mets' fate now rests on Oliver Perez's left arm. Sound familiar? The season again hinges on the 26-year-old from Culiacan, Mexico, just as it did last year in Game...
PLAYOFF TIEBREAKERS DETERMINED
The Mets may be in a late-season swoon on the field, but at least they're batting .500 in tiebreaker scenarios. The Mets have won two coin tosses and lost two...
THORN: NETS' OUTLOOK NOT AS ROSY AS USUAL
Pick a topic, any topic. Now discuss. That was what team president Rod Thorn did yesterday in his annual pre-training camp State of the Nets Nation address. Thorn hit virtually...
STILL PITCHING
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - If Roger Clemens' balky left hamstring allows it, Joe Torre said yesterday that Clemens will be his Game 3 ALDS starter. As for Games 1 and...
JUST WIN, BABY YANKS!
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - If the Yankees go on to win their first World Series since 2000, they are going to need the Baby Yanks to shine in the spotlight....
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...
JOBA OUTGUNS TAMPA BAY RADAR IN BACK-TO-BACK
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Tropicana Field speed gun caused concern about Joba Chamberlain's velocity while the rookie pitched in consecutive games for the first time ever. Working the eighth...
A REASON TO BELIEVE
The final weekend at Shea began with doom and gloom for the home team. It began with Met fans ready to switch their allegiance to the Diamondbacks, anything but to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Sometimes, there just isn't time for a coffee break. David Harrah, a Charleston, W. Va., dad, discovered that when he thought he had time for a cup before rushing his...
LIVEBLOG: Someone left the sfogliatelle out in the rain
Pretty in the rain, even - that's Orbetello. Wet or no, everyone came out to play last night, and the Corso Italia positively glowed. Off to the little award-winning bakery...