November 3, 2006
LIVEBLOG/ISTANBUL: I love the nightlife
November 3, 2006 | 3:28pm"I was playing this music in my restaurant in Washington, D.C. twenty years ago," said my new friend Sahir.It was midnight in Istanbul, and the thousands (well, seemingly) of clubbers...
SPITZER HITS GRASSO WITH $112M BILL
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amEliot Spitzer has finally handed the tab to Dick Grasso - and he wants exactly $112.2 million from the former Big Board boss. The two year-old legal battle over Grasso's...
MICROSOFT LOOKING PAST WINDOWS TO VISTA LAUNCH
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amMicrosoft is gearing up for a massive ad campaign for Vista, its new operating system, in what is shaping up to be its biggest marketing push since the Windows 95...
CRUISE CONTROL - HOMELESS TOM TAKING OVER UA
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amTom Cruise - the couch-hopping action hero kicked off the Paramount lot by Sumner Redstone in August - is following in the legendary footsteps of Charlie Chaplin and taking the...
TIME FOR SUITORS TO PUT UP OR BAIL
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amTIME Inc's auction for the 18 magazines it's looking to sell, is heating up. About eight to 10 suitors have made it into the second round, but the real field...
THE DONALD TRUMPS CORCORAN IN COURT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amDonald Trump is gloating after a judge threw out a $1.3 million lawsuit brought against him by former friend and real estate queen Barbara Corcoran. The decision in the New...
PAPER SHREDDER - TAX PENALTIES HINDER TRIBUNE BREAKUP
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amInvestors dumped shares of Tribune Co. again yesterday on heightened concerns that a sale of the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher is looking less likely. Tribune's stock dropped a little over...
STUFF FUNNY SHOCKING IS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amBORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN [****] (Four stars) At least twice as funny as all of Hollywood's comedies this year combined, this brilliant...
ANIMATED BRIT WIT WITH A FRENCH DISS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amTHE slugs sing, the frogs are Frogs and the jokes are thoroughly, dementedly English. Welcome to "Flushed Away," an American kid cartoon destined to flummox American kids. How this thing...
FILM IS A LOST CLAUS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00am'THE Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause," with Martin Short as Jack Frost, means we're getting a turkey and a ham for the holidays. As for Tim Allen as Scott...
PRINCESS CRUZ
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amPEDRO Almodóvar's irresistible comic melodrama "Volver" is the best thing to happen to Penelope Cruz since she broke up with Tom Cruise. Cruz, who has struggled unsuccessfully with English dialogue...
ROOTS OF A FLOWER FAMILY
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amCOMMUNE [***] (Three stars) ONCE upon a time - 1968, to be exact - a loosely knit group of people seeking an alternative lifestyle founded the Black Bear Ranch in...
'I WANT TO COME BACK TO 'IDOL'
November 3, 2006 | 5:00am'AMERICAN Idol" finalist Kellie Pickler, she of the thick Southern drawl, isn't sure if she'll make a return visit to the show next season. "I would love to be asked...
'GARDENS' WILTS WHEN DROWNED IN MUSIC
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amAT the end of "Grey Gardens," Christine Ebersole looks hunched and haunted, gazing at a bleak future. It's a wondrous moment, almost an epiphany - but one enshrined in a...
THE FINAL MEAT TREAT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amCMJ is still in full effect, but if you're a working stiff you may not have been able to enjoy any daytime shows - or beer. Here's one tomorrow where...
JACK GOES EAST - NEW '24' SEASON STARTS ON MYSTERY TARMAC
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amYES, that is Jack Bauer - and it looks like our intrepid CTU agent is in a heap of trouble. As usual. This first-look image of Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) from...
POOP ON A DECK - 'PIRATE QUEEN' SAILING FOR DRY DOCK
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amAHOY there, mateys! Is there anyone on this ship who can fix me show? "The Pirate Queen," a $15 million musical from the creators of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon,"...
BILLY'S HOT PICK
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amAND you thought the Jay-Z/Beatles "Gray Album" mash-up was something. Try mixing American jazz with traditional Mongolian music. It's what veteran trombonist Roswell Rudd did - and the results are...
CASINO BEAT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amNEW JERSEY * Babs is back! BARBRA STREISAND performs Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Boardwalk Hall Arena. Tickets: $100-$1800; boardwalkhall.com, (609) 348-7000. * The soul-ish sounds of MICHAEL BOLTON...
ET TU BOOTY? - WOMEN FEEL BETRAYED AS J.LO LOSES THE JUNK; BUTTRAYED
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amYEARS ago, when J.Lo's curvaceous body first sashayed onto the national stage, America sat up and took notice. Oh brave new bum! Now this was a booty to write home...
APE SPIT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00am"Nature: Chimpanzees, An Unnatural History" Sunday night at 8 on PBS (four stars) THIS show should come with a warning: Watching it can break your heart! Centering on the thousands...
MR. EKO NO PAIN IN THE NECK-O - EXPLAINS 'DIFFICULT' TAG
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amAdewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the soft-spoken British actor whose character, the hulking Mr. Eko, was killed off "Lost" this week, does not understand why there are rumors circulating that he may have...
STARR REPORT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amShooting stars Let's applaud Samantha Harris for telling it like it is in the December issue of FHM. The "Dancing with the Stars" co-host, who also covers the red carpet...
SAMURAI SLAYING TRIAL TWIST
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe lawyer for a Long Island teenager accused of butchering his stepdad with a samurai sword suggested yesterday his client's mother may have been responsible for the horrific slaying. In...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN (lcf) * A man was shot in a housing project in the Upper West Side last night, police sources said. The 18-year-old victim was in the courtyard of the...
2 STABBED IN SUBWAY TEEN BRAWL
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amTwo teenagers were stabbed and a 14-year-old arrested in a knife and bottle fight that spilled into a Queens subway station yesterday. The fight broke out just before 9 a.m....
CELEB DUO 'BUGGED' AT BUILDING
November 3, 2006 | 5:00am"Boogie Nights" director Paul Thomas Anderson and his "Saturday Night Live" star girlfriend have had enough of buggy nights in their $13,500-a-month SoHo apartment. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme...
MINORITY REPORT: FDNY RECRUITING ADDS COLOR
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amAfter an intensive, $2.4 million recruitment campaign, city officials have received more than 22,000 applications to take the firefighter examination, and 7,850 are minority applicants. "Never, ever have we had...
GALA HONORS COP KILLER
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amSupporters of fugitive cop killer Joanne Chesimard planned a Midtown bash in the escapee's honor last night, angering cops still seeking to bring her to justice. Chesimard, convicted of killing...
CHOOSING CHAOS? - THE IRAQI PEOPLE DIDN'T
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amSO, we are told, all is lost in Iraq. My colleague Ralph Peters has thrown in the towel, declared the war a failure, and has laid the blame at the...
STREET-WISE BLOOMY ATTAINS SIGNAL VICTORY
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe city's Department of Transportation finally saw the light yesterday and began a test of street-crossing signals equipped with countdown clocks, after years of pleas by advocates, including Mayor Bloomberg....
YEE-HA! W. LASSOES UP ANTI-TERROR VOTES
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Touting the war on terror, President Bush swooped into the Republican stronghold of Montana yesterday to rally the party faithful behind embattled Sen. Conrad Burns - one of...
VOMIT-BABY MOM GETS PROBATION
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA teenage mother will serve no more than five years' probation after pleading guilty yesterday to criminally negligent homicide for letting her 4-month-old daughter drown in a bucket of cleaning...
COLLEGE FAILS DINING HALL 101
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amSUNY Maritime College's dining hall has been shut down for lacking a food permit and flunking inspection, red-faced officials said yesterday. The Bronx school is having meals delivered from nearby...
YOU MURDERED OUR GIRL - KENDRA KIN AT KILLER'S SENTENCING
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amKendra Webdale had golden, sweet-smelling hair, a love of running at dawn, and an unyielding rule that Christmas isn't Christmas without cookie-cutter cookies topped with icing and sprinkles. "You killed...
GIRLS' BITE OUT A FAT RISK - WOMEN MORE LIKELY TO GORGE AT EATERIES
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA message to women on diets: Stay home! A new study finds that gals eating out tend to pile more onto the plate - 200 to 300 extra calories a...
GENIUS GIS' JOY AT LAST LAUGH - INSIDE UNIT THAT OUTWITTED KERRY
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe Minnesota soldiers in Iraq who issued a hilariously misspelled smackdown to Sen. John Kerry were psyched yesterday as their witty response to his bungled "joke" about their education hit...
A SCHOOL-BUS STOP FOR 40,000 CITY KIDS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amAs many as 40,000 city students will lose school-bus service next month and be forced to rely on public transportation, as the Department of Education pushes ahead with a controversial...
MCCAIN ENDORSES CALLAGHAN
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Little-known until the chauffeurgate scandal, Republican comptroller candidate Christopher Callaghan hit the big time yesterday with an endorsement from Arizona Sen. John McCain. "Like all Americans, the people...
TOT'S SITTER INNOCENT IN TUB DEATH
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday acquitted a deaf baby sitter in the horrific scalding death of a 1-year-old girl she was bathing. Jamilatu Williams, 24, stared straight ahead at the court-appointed...
6TH MAN CHARGED IN 'RACE ATTACK'
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn grand jury has indicted a sixth white man in the racial attack of four black youths in Gerritsen Beach in June, The Post has learned. The indictment against...
MORE CAMS AT PROJECTS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amMore closed-circuit television cameras will be installed at city public housing projects, with many in operation by the end of next year, officials said yesterday. "We should have a total...
YANK FAN'S $LAP 'HIT'
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA 22-year-old Bronx Bomber fan got a walk yesterday - getting away by paying a $250 fine after running onto the field at Yankee Stadium during a game this past...
THOMPSON PAID CITY 44G IN CAR JACK
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amCity Comptroller William Thompson reimbursed the city more than $44,000 for nonbusiness use of his car and driver over five years, aides said yesterday - 13 times the sum that...
'ALLIE BOY' JURY STUCK
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amJurors deliberating the fate of Colombo acting boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico are deadlocked, a Brooklyn federal judge announced yesterday. Judge Sterling Johnson received a note from three jurors who...
FIX IS FOR CHUBBY CHIX IN STIX - NOT US
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amFORGET trans fats, all you disgusting porkers. Medical researchers have done it again. A new study has determined that those love handles, thunder thighs and cottage-cheese cheeks some of you...
ROGUES ROUNDED UP - 900 APPLE THUGS NABBED IN STING
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amNearly 900 rapists, gang members and murderers were picked up in New York in the past few days as part of a nationwide, multi-agency sting that netted close to 11,000...
GROUND ZERO'S 'ANGEL' NUN DIES - AUTOPSY WILL EYE 9/11 DUST
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amAn Episcopal nun who spent five months blessing remains at the World Trade Center died this week and has been granted her dying wish - to be autopsied to prove...
HOLY HILL PREACHES TO CONVERTED
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amSounding like a preacher, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday talked up faith and family to a group of clergy members at a breakfast meeting in Manhattan. Clinton told of growing...
RAT GOTTI: I BRIBED TOP POLS - FERRER & BX. DEM DENY JUNIOR CLAIM OF 200G PAYOFFS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amIn a bombshell rat session with the FBI, John "Junior" Gotti claimed he once shelled out $200,000 in bribes to former mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer and other politicians in connection...
LONG I. PILOTS' FATAL ORDERS - BRAZIL CONTROLLERS GAVE THEM ALTITUDE: REPORT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amBrazilian air-traffic controllers told the Long Island pilots of an executive jet to fly at the same altitude as a Boeing 737 before the planes collided in the country's worst...
NOTE-WORTHY TELLERS BOUNCE BUMBLING BANK BANDIT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA bungling bandit - on parole for robbing three Brooklyn banks in 2004 - was up to his old tricks again, The Post has learned. Ronald Crudup, 27, was busted...
SON IS 'DEAD' AGAIN - KIN DENIED HIS SPERM
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA sperm bank can destroy a dead man's semen samples that his parents had hoped to use for a grandchild, a Manhattan judge has ruled. Mary and Antonio Speranza had...
BIDDER END FOR JEWELER
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island jeweler who abruptly shut his doors two weeks ago has turned over his merchandise to an auction house, sources said yesterday. Angry suppliers and customers of jeweler...
INDIE-FILM STAR 'SUICIDE' STUNNER - HUBBY FINDS GAL, 40, HANGED IN VILLAGE APT.
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA talented and well-known independent-film actress, director and screenwriter apparently hanged herself in a Greenwich Village apartment, cops said yesterday. "Why? Why?" screamed the husband of Adrienne Shelly, 40, after...
U.N. CONDO 'BRIBE' MAN FREE ON BAIL
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amAn allegedly crooked U.N. official, accused of steering $50 million in contracts to a rich businessman in exchange for a deal on a swank Midtown condo, was freed on $900,000...
ANNA NICOLE DADDY TWIST
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA pal of Anna Nicole Smith claims that celebrity photographer Larry Birkhead is the real father of her baby and that the former Playboy model took a "high dose of...
WIFE'S 'POT' ROAST - BID TO 'SAVE' COP
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amCall it meatballs alla marijuana. An NYPD detective who tested positive for cannabis last year faced having his 22-year career go up in smoke - until his wife admitted she...
ANTI-GAY REV. IN GAY SCANDAL
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe leader of a 30 million-member evangelical group that vehemently opposes same-sex marriage quit yesterday - after being accused of paying a man for monthly trysts over the past three...
GAL SUES SALON OVER 'LIP & TEAR'
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Harlem mom's beauty treatment turned into a torture session when a salon stylist burned her with wax and then yanked off her skin, a lawsuit filed yesterday alleges. Mercy...
EMBEZZLE GAL DOUBLE TROUBLE
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens woman who pleaded guilty last week to embezzling more than $800,000 from the century-old Drake Business School faces sentencing today for targeting a prestigious Manhattan research center in...
ACQUITTAL IN BABY SCALD
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday acquitted a deaf baby sitter in the horrific scalding death of a 1-year-old girl she was bathing. Jamilatu Williams, 24, stared straight ahead at the court-appointed...
MOB JURY STUCK
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amJurors deliberating the fate of Colombo acting boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico are deadlocked, a Brooklyn federal judge announced yesterday. Judge Sterling Johnson received a note from three jurors who...
L.I. VICTIM ID'D AS QNS. WOMAN
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA young woman who was found shot to death last month in a heavily wooded area on Long Island was a resident of Queens, Nassau County cops said yesterday. The...
L.I. SLAY VICTIM ID'D AS QNS. WOMAN
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA young Queens woman found shot to death last month in a heavily wooded area on Long Island was an aspiring nurse who mysteriously left home in September, relatives and...
BUSTA 'BUST' FOR CAR PHONE
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amBusta Rhymes was given a summons last night for rapping on a cellphone - while driving right in front of the Midtown North Precinct station house. Rhymes, 34, whose real...
1 DEAD IN HORROR QNS. ACCIDENT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA person was killed and another was clinging to life after their car collided with a truck on the Long Island Expressway in Queens last night, authorities said. The driver...
BUCKET-BABY MOM GUILTY
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA teenage mother will serve no more than five years' probation after pleading guilty yesterday to criminally negligent homicide for letting her 4-month-old daughter drown in a bucket of cleaning...
THE GREAT FIRE OF 1835
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe firemen really had their hands full on Dec. 16, 1835, when a raging fire left the city's business district in ruins. Read about the most destructive fire in New...
WOMAN SUES SALON OVER 'LIP & TEAR' WAX JOB
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Harlem mother's beauty treatment turned into a torture session when a salon stylist burned her with wax and then yanked off her skin, a lawsuit filed yesterday alleges. Mercy...
LEB-SYRIA CRISIS LOOMS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Syria, which lost its stranglehold on neighboring Lebanon after an emotional democratic uprising last year, is trying to force its way back into power through Hezbollah. Hezbollah's leader,...
MAYBE MOM DID IT, SAMURAI-SLAY LAWYER SUGGESTS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe lawyer for a Long Island teenager accused of butchering his stepdad with a samurai sword suggested yesterday that his client's mother may have been responsible for the horrific slaying....
GARDEN PARTY IN NUEVA YORK - RED-HOT STARS COME OUT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amQue rica! The seventh annual Latin Grammy Awards were held for the first time in La Gran Manzana - the Big Apple - last night, filling Madison Square Garden with...
CUP RUNNETH OVER ; PLAYING FOR PRICES RIGHT WAY
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - The Breeders' Cup may be undergoing a shake-up second only to the New York Racing Association, and its TV ratings may be in the cellar, but after 22...
HANDICAPPERS ADJUST TO POLYTRACK
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Handicappers analyzing tomorrow's Breeders' Cup must deal with a variable they've never faced before: Horses that have raced or trained over the all-weather, artificial surfaces commonly known...
'GORGEOUS GEORGE' ; IRISH POWERHOUSE IS A CLASSIC THREAT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Known as the "Boy Wonder of Ballydoyle" back in 1997, when he won the first of his nine training titles in Ireland, Aidan O'Brien, now 37, isn't...
FORMER PRO ON SIDELINE
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amNOT long after he retired from the NFL, Stephen Boyd would get calls from other former pros and the conversation would inevitably lead to their post-football careers. "Most of the...
HOCKEY MOM (2004)
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Canadian indie about a former Olympic hopeful turned single mother (Jessalyn Gilsig) who gets tired of the chauvinist insults she is bombarded with when she plays hockey with her...
REVENGE NOT DISH NETS WANT TO HEAT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amPayback is a myth. When the Nets hit the court in Miami tonight, fantasies of exacting retribution will not be on their minds. Retaliation for humiliation in last spring's Eastern...
NO SPECIAL TO-DO FOR STRAHAN
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES If Michael Strahan breaks Lawrence Taylor's official Giants sack record on Sunday at the Meadowlands, the game will not be stopped. Instead, the Giants will make an announcement...
RIVERA HAS ONLY PRAISE FOR A-ROD
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amMariano Rivera doesn't disguise his signature cut fastball on the mound. Nor does he hide his feelings for Alex Rodriguez. Speaking last night at Mo's New York Grill in New...
JETER NABS GOLD GLOVE
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amDerek Jeter didn't add a fifth World Series ring for his thumb this October. But on the individual award circuit, the Yankees shortstop is cleaning up. With the Hank Aaron...
NYRA FILES BANKRUPTCY ; RACING CONTINUES AT AQUEDUCT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE, Ky. - The other shoe dropped yesterday on the financial soap opera involving the New York Racing Association when NYRA declared bankruptcy in federal court, citing the failure of...
KEY FIGHT FOR FLOYD
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr. is generally regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing today, a four-time world champion who is unbeaten in 36 fights. But when it...
BIG 'DRE AHEAD ; GIANTS WARY OF TEXANS' JOHNSON
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amName an NFL receiver with the last name of Johnson. Well, of course, there is Keyshawn and there is Chad. How about Andre? Who? While the talkative Johnsons, Keyshawn and...
BIG EAST SUCCESS PUTS CORK IN SEC'S WHINE
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amTHIS must be fallout from the Auburn Syndrome. That's where this Southeastern Conference whining that a one-loss SEC team is more deserving of playing for the national title than an...
METS EYE MOOSE; SOURCE: AMAZIN'S 'WOULD CONSIDER' MUSSINA
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amHow about a Mets-Yankees battle over Mike Mussina to take the chill out of the November air? Mussina has told friends the Mets would be a welcome option if the...
METS EYE MOOSE; SOURCE: AMAZIN'S 'WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER' HIM
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amHow about a Mets-Yankees battle over Mike Mussina to take the chill out of the November air? Mussina has told friends the Mets would be a welcome option if the...
WVU, LOUISVILLE DARE TO BE GREAT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - After last season's exhaustingly astounding three-overtime game between Louisville and West Virginia ended - four hours and two minutes, 849 yards in total offense and 90 points after...
YANKS, METS SET TO GO TO D-MAT
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amNot only is the market open for Daisuke Matsuzaka, but the marketing for D-Mat also has started. D-Mat - Matsuzaka's "American nickname," agent Scott Boras told The Post yesterday -...
CARDS LEAVE WVU BLACK AND BLUE
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amLouisville 44West Va. 34 LOUISVILLE - Under a coal-black Kentucky sky, in front of thousands of Louisville fans wearing "Blackout Thursday" T-shirts, against a team wearing black jerseys, and in...
BEST WESTERN; WEEKES PROPELS RANGERS TO 3-1 TRIP
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 3Sharks 1 SAN JOSE - They have won two straight for the first time since the opening two games of the season, they have won two straight without the...
STEVIE SILENT IN MEMPHIS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - Quentin Richardson and Eddy Curry were a dazzling outside-inside punch. David Lee was at his scrappy best. Stephon Marbury had his moments. Steve Francis? Let's just...
THOMAS TAKES THE FRAT HOUSE
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amTHANKS to NBA schedule maker Matt Winick, whom I've always suspected of being an ardent aficionado of gallows humor, an opening season, doubledose, "quirk of fate" took place Wednesday evening...
COACH WAS ALL SMILES AFTER UGLY WIN
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA - Isiah Thomas could not have been more thrilled to blow a 19point fourth-quarter lead in Wednesday night's triple-overtime 118-117 marathon win in Memphis. As the weary Knicks held...
TEXANS TOAST
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe Giants have won four games in a row by margins of 16, 13, 14 and 14 points, so even though the spread is inching into uncomfortable territory, it's certainly...
TRENDSETTERS - THE TOP PLAYS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amBENGALS (+3) AT RAVENS, 1 p.m. Cincinnati has lost just two of its last 15 road games and just one of its last 11 in November. Baltimore has dropped four...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe Post continues its profiles of each of the eight Breeders' Cup races to be run tomorrow at Churchill Downs. The Countdown spotlights potential nice-price winners as handicapped by reporter...
ESPN FINALLY READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL ... FOR AT LEAST ONE WEEK, ANYWAY
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amBETWEEN the end of last Monday's Giants-Cowboys telecast and the start of this Monday's Pats-Vikes, something happened up at ESPN, something important and, if it lasts, something good. Perhaps ESPN...
POWERLESS - RANGERS MISUSING JAGR IN POWER PLAY
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amSAN JOSE - Yes, it's true, the Rangers did score twice on the power play in Wednesday's 4-3 OT victory over the Ducks, and even got the winner when Jaromir...
ISLANDERS GIVE DEVILS HELL
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amISLANDERS 5 DEVILS 2 The Islanders are making a statement, at least in their own minds, but that's the first place it starts. And first place, even just a point...
DEVILS DECIDE TO RE-SIGN DOWD
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amFrom limbo to the lineup overnight, Jim Dowd didn't have much time to congratulate himself on finally signing with the Devils. The same day the NHL registered his contract, he...
PICK SIX CARRYOVER HITS 164G
November 3, 2006 | 5:00am2ND RACE - Favored Somethingaboutyou battled for the early lead with Maybe Its True but was able to put that one away on the far turn. She then faced a...
GREAT QB DEBATE IS ... 2 CLOSE TO CALL
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amIt's like picking between Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. Who would you rather have - Peyton Manning or Tom Brady? Would you rather have Manning, the highest-paid quarterback, and probably...
LOOKING FOR PAY DIRT - REYNOLDS HIRES PRIVATE EYE, MAY EXPOSE ESPN SKELETONS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amBefore former Baseball Tonight analyst Harold Reynolds' lawsuit against ESPN is all cleaned up, the circumstances may become a whole lot messier. During recent meetings with company employees, ESPN executives...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amTo: Isiah Thomas From: Andrew Marchand Re: MSG Censorship CC: Greg Anthony Dear Isiah: Don't further tarnish MSG Network's credibility. First, you sounded ridiculous saying that ESPN's Greg Anthony shouldn't...
5 QUESTIONS FOR CHARLES BARKLEY
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with TNT's Charles Barkley. Barkley, 43, was just inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Q: What's next for you, career-wise? A:...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amWhen a cop in Reno, Nev., pulled over an SUV that had been creeping along, weaving and stopping in the middle of moving traffic, he found a 7-year-old boy behind...
THE 6TH QUESTION W/ CHARLES BARKLEY
November 3, 2006 | 3:44amBy ANDREW MARCHANDEvery Friday in NYP TV Sports, our sports television pullout that appears in the middle of the print edition and online, we present "Five Questions for â¦" This...
Midseason All-Bust fantasy team
November 3, 2006 | 2:50amA few have suffered injuries costing them playing time. Some are aging veterans beyond their prime. Others are young studs flirting with one-season-wonder status. Some are sleepers that have yet...
Lee is the real deal
November 3, 2006 | 12:09amBy MARC BERMANDavid Lee gave Isiah Thomas the game ball following the wild season-opening win in Memphis last night. Now Thomas could soon give Lee the starting power forward job.It...