October 26, 2006
New CBA Good For Fans
October 26, 2006 | 11:10pmBy JOEL SHERMANForget the details. The details are not that important. Not now they arenât. The key thing if you are a baseball fan is that the players and management...
New CBA Good For Fans
October 26, 2006 | 11:09pmBy JOEL SHERMANForget the details. The details are not that important. Not now they arenât. The key thing if you are a baseball fan is that the players and management...
AIR SUPPLY: Does Stewart finally matter?
October 26, 2006 | 12:06pmAttention New York travelers. If it so happens that you have never heard of Newburgh's Stewart Airport, don't worry. There hasn't been much reason to pay attention.Since, oh, forever, (well,...
BATTER UP FOR PAPER - TRIB DRAWS 4 BIDS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amTribune Co., the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher and owner of the Chicago Cubs, is expected to receive at least four bids tomorrow that will open the door for potential buyers...
HIGH-STAKES CASE - BOFA'S FINNERTY RULED OVER SHADY NYSE TRADERS: FEDS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Bank of America specialist David Finnerty was the corrupt "king" of the New York Stock Exchange floor, and bent its rules to line his pockets, federal prosecutors said yesterday....
AMI BLOWS DEADLINE FOR RESTATEMENT YET AGAIN
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amFor the third time, American Media has blown a deadline for restating its earnings, and David Pecker's tattered tabloid publisher now won't issue cleaned up financial numbers until early 2007,...
KING CARL TAKES CHAIRMAN'S POST AT IMCLONE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amCarl Icahn, king of the billionaire rebel investors, installed himself as chairman of embattled cancer-cure company ImClone Systems yesterday after booting out chief executive Joseph Fischer. King Carl has waged...
NIELSEN'S TIFF WITH FOX ENDS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amNews Corp. ended a dispute with Nielsen, the dominant provider of TV ratings, over the accuracy of its audience measurement under a new eight-year pact. The two battled after Nielsen...
PAULEY SUES TIMES FOR 'DUPING' HER INTO ADS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amVeteran newscaster Jane Pauley is suing the New York Times for fraud after the paper allegedly "duped" her into giving an interview for an advertising insert when she thought she...
WELCH'S WORLD - BEANTOWN'S SON MULLS BID TO SAVE AILING GLOBE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amJack Welch may finally have realized his teenage dream of being Boston's biggest hero - this time by rescuing the Boston Globe from the grip of the bungling New York...
TREASURY'S PAULSON PLAYS WITH THE PLUNGE PROTECTORS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amPAY attention! Someone - and I don't know who - wants us all to know that since July Henry Paulson, the new secretary of the U.S. Treasury, has spent a...
GIMME SHELTER
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amSTEINER GOES AFTER VINTAGE SHERRY APARTMENT PARTY animal and leveraged-buyout mogul Jeffrey Steiner is looking to move his Bacchanalia to Midtown. Sources say the CEO of industrial conglomerate Fairchild Corp....
TOWNHOUSE PARTY - LIVE LIKE ROYALTY IN THESE MODERN-DAY PALACES
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amTALK OF THE TOWN - CHANGE IS GOOD: WE TRACK THE EVOLUTION OF N.Y.C.'s TOWNHOUSES TEN years ago, the definition of a townhouse was clear. It was a multilevel stand-alone...
HIPSTER HANDBOOK - CHEAP BEER, INDIE ROCK, BROKERS - BILLYBURG BAR HOSTS REAL-ESTATE TALK
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amVINTAGE dresses, asymmetrical haircuts, chunky eyewear, The Shins - just your typical evening in Williamsburg. But instead of Bob Pollard 7-inches or why the new season of "Veronica Mars" sucks,...
SALES OF THE WEEK
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amCRYSTORAMA LIGHTING 95 Cantiague Rock Road, Westbury, L.I.; (516) 931-9090 Sale: Through Sunday. Open: Thu., Fri., 10 a.m.-7 p.m./ Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m./Sun., noon-5 p.m. Crystal chandeliers, which have adorned...
COLBERT PIC NEARS $25G
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amIT most definitely is not a Pi casso or a Warhol, but some one has agreed to pay more than $24,300 for a portrait of Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert....
LANE'S WORLD
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amAS the curtain falls, Nathan Lane is slumped in a shabby armchair in a cluttered office. Only the Gothic arches of his eyebrows provide any solace for his collapsed features....
LIEV IS FALLING INTO ROLE ON 'CSI'
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amTONY Award winner Liev Schreiber is joining the cast of "CSI" as a regular character, according to reports. The actor will fill in for 'CSI" star William Peterson, who is...
HOLLOW POINT
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amTHE only thing that's shocking about "Death of a President" is how boring it is. This is the would-be "controversial" mock documentary that takes actual footage of President Bush and...
SERIES SCORES
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amTHE New York-less World Series has been big - but not that big - in the ratings so far. Game three of the series between Detroit and St. Louis drew...
SHAME MADE HER KICK BUTTS - HID BAD HABIT FOR YEARS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amELLEN DeGeneres says that she was so "ashamed" of her smoking habit that she decided to quit - on national TV. She had kept her bad habit a secret for...
A PRETTY PENNY - DOES A $20 DRYER BEAT ONE FOR $275? OUR BEAUTY BATTLE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amFOR less than $50, you can fill your bathroom with all the beauty tools you need - nail file, eyelash curler, hairbrush and a hair dryer. Or you can spend...
PERFECT LIE - WE ALL LIE, BUT HERE'S WHO TO BE THE BEST
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amI did not have sex with that woman. I did not scuff that ball. I love Katie. Everyone lies. In fact, we all hear, on average, 200 lies and exaggerations...
BORAT'S NOT ALL, FOLKS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amA week before his much-hyped "Borat" hits theaters, an earlier effort by British comic genius Sacha Baron Cohen is quietly making its New York City debut. "Ali G Indahouse" (2002),...
SQUAB RULE - GETTING TO KNOW N.Y.C.'S OFFICIAL BIRD
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amIF the world of birds were a junior high school cafeteria, the eagle would be the popular jock at the head table - and the pigeon the much-mocked geek sitting...
GREY'S APOLOGY: ACTOR 'REGRETS' FIGHT
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amHOT-tempered "Grey's Anatomy" doc Isaiah Washington believes he's found the cure for the show's on-set ills: An apology. Washington, 43 - who plays Dr. Preston Burke on the ABC hospital...
'BONEHEAD' CALL - DAVE AND O'REILLY MIX IT UP AGAIN
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amCALL it Bill & Dave's Excellent Animosity. Even though we all thought that it shouldn't/ couldn't/wouldn't happen again after the last ugly bout, tough guy Bill O'Reilly is stepping back...
UNCLEARED 'NET TUTORS AIDED KIDS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThousands of struggling city students unwittingly relied on online tutors based in India who were neither fingerprinted nor subjected to criminal background checks, probers charged. Schools Special Investigator Richard Condon...
DON HIT MOB RIVAL TO STOP COUP: FEDS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amColombo crime-family boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico orchestrated the killing of his second-in-command to prevent the underboss from taking control of the family, prosecutors charged yesterday. Persico and current Colombo...
CARA-VAMPED - GYPSY 'SWINDLES' GRAMPS FOR 208G
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe Gypsy woman came to the door last September, wearing a nurse's uniform. "Can I take your blood pressure?" she allegedly asked, claiming to work for a hospital "outreach" program...
MAYOR IN GUN GLOAT
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The National Rifle Association is "really worried" about Hizzoner's fight against illegal guns, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. Speaking at Chicago police headquarters the day before officials from 22...
NEW LIFE FOR CONEY I. FAVES
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amSome beloved Coney Island boardwalk mainstays - facing the bulldozer because of a proposed $1.5 billion renovation project - are getting a reprieve, The Post has learned. Thor Equities -...
STATE SENATE GOPERS GET 500G BOOST FROM MIKE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amAn eye-popping $500,000 contribution to state Senate Republicans just a couple of weeks before the hotly contested general election has come from their top sugar daddy - Mayor Bloomberg, The...
STRIKING BEAUTY NAOMI TAKES NEW SHOT - ARRESTED FOR ATTACK IN BRITAIN
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amManic mannequin Naomi Campbell has been arrested again for an alleged assault, it was reported yesterday. British network Sky News and The Sun of London reported that Campbell attacked her...
PICKY MADONNA - REVEALS TO OPRAH WHY SHE CHOSE DAVID OVER OTHERS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amMadonna said she "became transfixed" by bright-eyed, 13-month-old David Banda - her soon-to-be-adopted son - the minute she saw film footage of him in the arms of a young, HIV-positive...
MTA PAPER WAR - SUBWAY FREEBIES CAUSE FIRES, FLOOD
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amFrom fires to floods, the MTA says the thousands of free newspapers distributed in the subways each day cause many of the problems that plague the system. In February, officials...
TRASH MAN KILLED HIS PREGNANT EX
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amIt took a Manhattan jury only 90 minutes yesterday to convict a garbage-truck driver of the Laci Peterson-style murder of his pregnant ex-mistress. Roscoe Glinton, 42, faces 25 years to...
DEFIANT HEVESI'S DRIVER DEFENSE - BUT SAYS SORRY FOR NOT PAYING TAXPAYERS BACK
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amState Comptroller Alan Hevesi last night defiantly defended the way he used state workers to chauffeur his wife for more than three years, insisting in a bruising debate with GOP...
SHADES OF GAY IN N.J. NUPS RULING
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amGays and lesbians in New Jersey moved one step closer to the altar yesterday after the state's highest court ruled they are entitled to the same rights and privileges as...
DRIVER BUSTED WITH 122 SUSPENSIONS & 11G IN TIX
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amA Connecticut motorist who was pulled over by MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers yesterday at a Bronx toll plaza was found to be driving with 122 suspensions on his license...
BLUSTER DOESN'T MAKE HIS CASE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Scandal-plagued and increasingly desperate Alan Hevesi failed in his first debate last night to make the case that would halt the growing call for him to resign or...
COMPLAINTS VS. CABBIES ON THE RISE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amJust because cabbies are getting more dough for their go doesn't mean you'll have an easier time getting them to take you to Canarsie or stop yakking on their cellphones....
GOV MULLS MOVE TO BOOT HIM
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki dropped a bomb on scandal-scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi late yesterday, saying he'll make up his mind by tomorrow on whether to ask the state Senate...
CUOMO INVADES PIRRO'S HOME TURF
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Andrew Cuomo yesterday went into Jeanine Pirro's home county of Westchester to pick up endorsements for state attorney general from police organizations that ripped Pirro for being under...
HAIL $TORM OVER 'SLOW-TAXI' HIKE - RATE FOR SITTING IN TRAFFIC DOUBLES
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amA New York minute just got a lot more expensive. That's because the Taxi and Limousine Commission yesterday doubled the cost of being stuck in traffic in a cab. Riders...
HEVESI IN ANGRY DEFENSE - 'VULNERABLE' WIFE NEEDED DRIVER
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amState Comptroller Alan Hevesi last night defiantly defended using state workers to chauffeur his wife for more than three years, insisting in his first debate with GOP challenger Christopher Callaghan...
PHOTOS NAIL QNS. STAB SUSPECT
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amA suspect wanted for stabbing a Chinese-food deliveryman during an apparent botched robbery in Queens surrendered yesterday after security-camera photos of him were made public, cops said. David Moore, 22,...
$ICK HOSP'S PREZ QUITS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe head of struggling Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn is stepping down amid worries that its financial woes could trigger bankruptcy or force the state to shut it down, The...
'WATERFRONT' PRIEST HONORED
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe late Rev. John Corridan - whose one-man crusade against brutal, mobbed-up longshoreman bosses was immortalized in the 1954 movie "On the Waterfront" - was honored yesterday by the Waterfront...
CUOMO HITS PIRRO'S TURF
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Andrew Cuomo yesterday went into Jeanine Pirro's home county of Westchester to pick up endorsements for state attorney general from police organizations that ripped Pirro for being under...
LET'S FIGHT LIKE WE MEAN IT - & START BY KILLING OFF THIS LOWLIFE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amIT WAS wrenching to listen to President Bush's news conference yesterday. He's struggling to do the right thing. But he's getting terrible advice. He's still counting on a political solution...
STEPMOM WELCOMED BOY 'KILLER'
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe Washington Heights mother fatally stabbed by her stepson had been the one to urge her husband to bring the boy to live with them eight years ago, relatives said...
TRUCK KILLS PEDESTRIAN IN MIDTOWN
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amA truck ran over and killed a staffer from the Algonquin Hotel yesterday in front of horrified Midtown strollers. Pedro Rodriguez, 54, seemed to get dizzy, before he stumbled and...
ONE BOOB CELEBRITY INTERVIEWS ANOTHER
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amSHE'S never giving that kid back. Speaking in a weird half-British accent, Madonna told a burbling Oprah Winfrey that the child she manipulated away from his dirt poor African dad...
LEAVE 'LULUS' ALONE: QUINN
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn, gearing up for member pay hikes, yesterday defended the bonuses she gets to dole out to colleagues, saying those who take on additional responsibilities ought...
'GHOST' HAUNTS MURDERER -GAL PAL'S WORDS PUT KILLER COP IN JAIL FOR LIFE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amA federal immigration agent, coldly gunned down by her cop boyfriend, spoke from beyond the grave yesterday, her words of fear and anguish - written shortly before her violent death...
8 HURT IN QUEENS SCHOOL STAMPEDE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amAn all-out stampede erupted after lunch in a Queens middle school yesterday, sending two students to the hospital with serious injuries, authorities said. One of the students who landed in...
HAIL $TORM OVER 'SLOW-TAXI' HIKE - FARE DOUBLES TO 40ó MIN. FOR SITTING IN TRAFFIC
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amA New York minute just got a lot more expensive. The Taxi and Limousine Commission doubled the cost of sitting in traffic in a cab yesterday - hiking the average...
BUSH CUTS IN ON DEM 'DANCE' - JEERS 'END ZONE' JIG & TOUTS GOP
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday flagged Democrats for premature "dancing in the end zone," and predicted the front-running party would fumble away their chances of congressional control by Election Day....
BLACKOUT THE SAME 'OLD' STORY
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amParts of the Con Edison electricity network serving Queens are so decrepit, miles of its underground cables are protected by decades-old wooden ducts, it was revealed yesterday. More than seven...
POLS TRY TO OUT-'FOX' EACH OTHER
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Michael J. Fox's jarring new TV ad for stem-cell research has touched off a firestorm in Washington, with charges of exploitation and pandering. "I think it's sad," Sen....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police are hunting a note-passing bandit who has robbed at least six banks on the Upper East Side and in Queens. The latest stick-up occurred at 2:15 p.m....
REPUBLICAN $$ DAYS UPSTATE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican campaign officials are leaning on donors to pour cash into four competitive New York House races. The upstate districts were among 33 races on a "final push"...
STREET-LIGHT CRACKDOWN
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration has revamped the bidding rules on city street-lighting contracts in the wake of the bribery indictment of labor leader and Queens Assembyman Brian McLaughlin, officials said yesterday....
'HATE' GETS REDEFINED IN GAY SLAY
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amBrooklyn prosecutors have secured indictments against three of the four men suspected in the death of a gay man earlier this month - using a new expanded definition of the...
NO KIDDING - THEY'RE TWINS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amGet these kids a black and white cookie. In a case of ebony and ivory living together in perfect harmony, twins born in Australia have shocked doctors - because one...
WE EARN OUR 'LULUS,' QUINN SAYS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn, gearing up for member pay hikes, yesterday defended the bonuses she gets to dole out to colleagues, saying those who take on additional responsibilities ought...
$ICK HOSP'S PRESIDENT WILL RESIGN
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe head of struggling Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn is stepping down amid worries that its financial woes could trigger bankruptcy or force the state to shut it down, The...
'WATERFRONT' REV. HONORED
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe Rev. John Corridan - whose one-man crusade against brutal, mobbed-up longshoreman bosses was immortalized in the 1954 movie "On the Waterfront" - was honored yesterday by the Waterfront Commission...
BLACKOUT SHOCK OVER CON ED ANTIQUE SHOW
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amParts of the Con Ed electricity network serving Queens are so old, miles of its underground cables are protected by decades-old wooden ducts, it was revealed yesterday. More than seven...
8 INJURED IN QNS. SCHOOL STAMPEDE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amAn all-out stampede erupted after lunch in a Queens middle school yesterday, sending two students to the hospital with serious injuries, authorities said. One of the students who landed in...
COMPLAINTS AGAINST CRABBY CABBIES ALSO SOARING
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amJust because cabbies are getting more dough for their go doesn't mean you'll have an easier time getting them to take you to Canarsie or stop yakking on their cellphones....
CARDS MIGHT START WEAVER IN GAME 5
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK ST. LOUIS - After last night's rainout, the Cardinals are still pitching Jeff Suppan tonight in Game 4, while the Tigers will still go with Jeremy Bonderman....
MISSOURI SHOWS IT BELONGS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE aren't many Rodney Dangerfield teams out there. You know, schools that just don't get any respect. The reason is simple. There isn't a wealth of superior teams, the head-and-shoulders-above-all-else...
DEVILS NEED SOME MAGIC
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amPANTHERS at DEVILS - Tonight 7:30 - MSG; WFAN (660) The Devils are stressing matchups over magic, and not very successfully lately. Ominously, Claude Julien's best player, new captain Patrik...
'DYNASTY' DELIVERS AT BIG A
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amTrack was fast, turf good on opening day at Big A. Speed held up well, but look for track to even out in coming days. Roman Dynasty, never far back...
BOONE BONING UP ON NETS' PLAYBOOK
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amJosh Boone has been studying. A lot. The Nets rookie center-forward, sidelined after summer shoulder surgery, has been limited to watching practice, conditioning and walking through a few things. So...
PANTHERS ON PROWL IN BIG EAST JUNGLE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amFor all of their success during their recent resurgence, all their great regular seasons, the Pittsburgh Panthers have failed to realize their potential in the postseason. If they're to change...
BROWN RULING DUE $OON
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amNBA Commissioner David Stern said yesterday he'll render a decision on the Larry Brown vs. Knicks contract dispute "the second week of November." "It should be done after the NBA...
ISIAH TO CURRY: BE MORE 'MANLY'
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amIsiah Thomas called out Eddy Curry yesterday, begging him to become more "manly" on the court and establish a tough-guy reputation. The Knick coach implied in many ways that Curry,...
KNICKS SIGN CATO, WAIVE 3
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Showing absolutely no faith that center Jerome James' foot will ever heal, Isiah Thomas yesterday signed free agent 6-foot-11 center Kelvin Cato. Thomas entered camp thinking one of...
UCONN'S 7-3 FROSH DECLARED ELIGIBLE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amBIG EAST NOTEBOOK UConn center Hasheem Thabeet was declared eligible yesterday after the NCAA determined the 7-foot-3, 268-pound freshman from Tanzania had met some core curriculum requirements. He'd been educated...
LA RUSSA UNDECIDED ON GAME 5 STARTER
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK ST. LOUIS - The Cardinals are not positive who is starting Game 5 tomorrow. Their pitching plans remain in limbo since Game 4 was rained out last...
CLASSIC FOES FOR BERNARDINI
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amMighty 3-year-old Bernardini will put his streak of six runaway victories on the line in a battle for Horse of the Year with a pair of older superstars, California's Lava...
HOFSTRA TOP CAA PICK
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amHofstra basketball coach Tom Pecora played it smart in the spring when the buzz began. "A lot of people are saying we could be ranked to start the year," he...
JAGR'S SHOULDER HURTING RANGERS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amPanthers 4 - Rangers 2 It was three minutes into the second period of last night's match at the Garden against the Panthers. The Rangers were on a five-on-three power...
JUDGMENT DAI - YANKS IN MIX FOR COVETED JAPANESE HURLER
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Daisuke Matsuzaka is about to add a big arm, a huge financial commitment and a giant mystery onto the major-league landscape. Matsuzaka, arguably Japan's best starter, is...
MINOR SHAKEUP FOR LEYLAND'S CREW
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Jim Leyland isn't desperate. Not being down one game after three World Series tilts. Yet the Tiger manager isn't waiting for his comatose lineup to start percolating...
IT'S THE WAIT OF THE WORLD - UNFAZED DETROIT LACKING BITE FROM BATS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Jim Leyland insisted yesterday that the Tigers weren't getting too alarmed because they've dropped two of the first three World Series games. "We're certainly not going to...
TAME TIGERS NOT TROUBLED - UNFAZED DETROIT LACKED BITE FROM BATS
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Jim Leyland insisted yesterday that the Tigers weren't making arrangements for the offseason because they were trailing 2-1 in the World Series. "We're certainly not going to...
A-ROD A-OK WITH JETER, JOE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Alex Rodriguez does not need to have a summit with Joe Torre. He is not in need of any additional support from Derek Jeter. All A-Rod needs,...
CARTHON AX CAME FROM TOP
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES Life is a bit turbulent in Cleveland with Browns management having forced out offensive coordinator Maurice Carthon, who was hand-picked by head coach Romeo Crennel, and replacing him...
DEREK: NO AIR TO BE CLEARED
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Derek Jeter cut short a European vacation with Michael Jordan to accept the Hank Aaron Award last night at Busch Stadium. While visiting London, Paris, Milan, Berlin...
RONDE IS BARBER BROS.' TOUCHDOWN MAKER
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES There is little the Barber brothers have not accomplished in the NFL, Tiki as a star running back for the Giants and Ronde as a ball-hawking cornerback for...
OZOLINSH SENT BACK TO BENCH
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe last time Sandis Ozolinsh was healthy and scratched from the lineup for a Rangers game at the Garden, he all but thanked Tom Renney for making the decision. That...
BATTERED AND BRUISED, AGING EDMONDS BATTLES ON
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - There are times when he couldn't look more done if he had an actual fork sticking out of his back, times when you not only wonder how...
MORE CIVIL THAN WAR - MANGINI-CRENNEL FRIENDSHIP WILL SURVIVE SUNDAY SKIRMISH
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amThey've come a long way. It's been only about five years since Eric Mangini, the apprentice, was hosting Romeo Crennel, the mentor, at his home in New England. For about...
UNIT 'BACK' UNDER KNIFE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Randy Johnson will undergo surgery today in L.A. to repair a herniated disk. The procedure will be done by Dr. Robert Watkins. Johnson, 43, is expected to...
THE REPLACEMENTS - KIWANUKA, EMMONS CAN EASE GIANTS' PAIN
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amMathias Kiwanuka says he doesn't feel the burden of replacing Osi Umenyiora. "I don't think I'm going to go in there and do the exact same things that Osi did....
TIKI TAKES ON ESPN 'IDIOTS'
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amTiki Barber called ESPN's Tom Jackson and Michael Irvin "idiots" for stating that news of his impending retirement would be a distraction to the Giants. "I will call them idiots...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 26, 2006 | 4:00amLittle Robert Moore is a real go-getter. When the 3-year-old from Antigo, Wis., was unable to fish a stuffed SpongeBob toy out of a vending machine using its plastic crane,...