November 11, 2006
Just do it: Bench Frye
November 11, 2006 | 5:58pmBy MARC BERMANSAN ANTONIO â For six regular-season straight games and for six straight preseason games, David Lee has badly outplayed Channing Frye in every phase.It will be interesting to...
TIVO OFFERS TO AID NIELSEN
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amTiVo, whose service allows TV viewers to skip past ads, is jumping into the controversy over Nielsen's plan to measure commercial viewing. In a letter sent yesterday to network researchers...
EARLY WHISPERS START ON MERRILL'S MOVING PLAN
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amMerrill Lynch, one of Downtown's biggest employers, is pondering a number of possible relocations including a move out of town, sources told The Post. But with a lease on 3.7...
ONE-STOP COP ; SEC BOSS SUPPORTS ONE REGULATOR FOR WALL STREET
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amBOCA RATON, Fla. - Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said yesterday that he supports creating a single self-regulator for Wall Street firms and expects to see it emerge...
BALLADS RAPPED IN ROCK
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amMAT KEARNEY MAT Kearney is from Nashville, but he doesn't twang. At a sold-out Bowery Ballroom gig Thursday, this handsome young singer/songwriter (embraced as a Jesus rocker early on) has...
SLAYER NO PLAYER
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amTHE RETURN (two stars) Buffy gets gritty.Running time: 85 minutes. Rated PG- 13 (violence, terror). At the E-Walk, the Orpheum, the 84th Street, others. IN the psychological thriller "The Return,"...
RUTGERS ROCKSESPN'S WORLD
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amRUTGERS' stunning victory over Louisville Thursday night was a huge ratings success for ESPN. The Scarlet Knights last-second win, highlighted by a Jeremy Ito field goal with seconds left, averaged...
MY BUNNY VALENTINE - 'GREG'S' HARE-RAISING LAUGHS
November 11, 2006 | 5:00am"Greg The Bunny:The Film Parodies" Tonight at 9 on IFC (three stars) IN 2002 Fox was smart enough to pick up "Greg The Bunny," which had been the funniest public...
SNEAKS: A PEEK
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amIF you have a tent and a sleeping bag, we suggest pitching it and kickin' it outside 476 Broome St. today - the LeBron James pop-up shop is opening in...
ONE RING, MANY THRILLS - BIG APPLE'S BACK IN TOWN
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amGALLOPING around the ring at a dizzying clip, a pure white horse came close to nipping at my daughter's nose. "Whoa!" shrieked 7-year-old Eliza, as she scrunched safely in her...
MUSEUM HAS VET ITS MATCH ; BAND OF BROTHERS FIGHT MET FOR DISABLED VENDOR
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amStreet vendors are taking up arms against the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Veterans Day in a war over a Vietnam vet's right to sell scarves and sunglasses at the...
NO LAUGHING MATTER ; GAL-BASHING COMICS AT WOMEN'S BENEFIT
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amTHE comedy show was supposed to raise money for homeless women. This is not funny. But one comedian starring in the event Wednesday night thought it would be a riot...
'I THOUGHT I DIED' AS LIDLE'S PLANE HIT; APT. DWELLER LEAVES HOSP 1 MONTH LATER
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amIt was just an ordinary afternoon for Ilana Benhuri - doing paperwork and baking an apple pie. And then a plane flew into her living room. The 50-year-old mother of...
HILL: DON'T ASK ABOUT '08 (YET)
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton let the term "2008" inch back into conversation yesterday, saying she wouldn't think about "other things" beyond the Democrats' victory until the upcoming holidays. "The upcoming...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Police are asking for the public's assistance in finding a mother who fled a Wards Island drug-rehab center with her infant last month. Jessica Nelson (above), 25, and...
MADONNA'S GRAPEST HIT
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amLike a vintage being drunk for the very first time, the Material Girl's father is putting out a limited-edition Madonna wine. Made by Ciccone VineYards in Michigan, the wine will...
YONKERS IS HOT TO TROT
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amYonkers Raceway, which recently opened its Empire City casino with 2,400 video lottery terminals, is set to hold live pari-mutuel racing next Friday evening for the first time since June...
SNACK-HAPPY BRITNEY
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amHo, ho, ho! Britney Spears was in a jolly mood yesterday morning - hitting an Upper West Side CVS at 5 a.m. after another late-night recording session, decked out in...
BLOOMY GIVING SOLDIERS A $ALUTE
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amIn a Veterans Day about-face, Mayor Bloomberg has decided to give city workers who served in the military a break on the debts they owe. Hundred of city workers who...
CANCER RISK TWICE AS BAD FOR FIREMEN
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amNew York's Bravest are fighting more than just fires, according to a new study of 110,000 of firefighters worldwide that found they face up to twice the risk of dying...
DESIGNER DRESSES THUG IN TIGHT COLLAR
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe petite, dapper designer - his arms loaded with gift bags from swanky benefits - must have looked like an easy mark to the two street thugs on Central Park...
FDNY WIDOW: TOXIC JOB IS 'LEGAL SUICIDE'
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amFDNY widow Portia Johnson describes cancer as the kryptonite that killed her Superman husband. The Brooklyn woman lost Vanclive Johnson to non-Hodgkin lymphoma when he was just 42 years of...
RU GUYS FOR REAL; WIN PUTS RUTGERS IN FRENZY
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amRutgers University football fans partied past dawn yesterday, painting the town red as they celebrated a last-second victory over Louisville that kept their Scarlet Knights unbeaten and in the hunt...
MEDAL METTLE CHOKES UP W.; HONOR FOR NYER WHO DIVED ON IRAQ GRENADE
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amPresident Bush welled up with tears on the eve of Veterans Day yesterday, dabbing his eye after announcing he will award America's highest military distinction to a heroic New York...
CAR KILLS CYCLIST
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amA 60-year-old Queens bicyclist was killed when he was struck by a car, police said yesterday. Frank Simpson was riding his bike along Linden Boulevard near 175th Street in St....
CNN'S 'GAY' SLASH; CUTS GOPER 'OUTING'
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Comedian Bill Maher's malicious snipe on the "Larry King Show" that Republican Party boss Ken Mehlman is gay was pulled from CNN when it aired in later time...
METS BANK ON CITI - $20M STADIUM RIGHTS
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amShea goodbye. Citigroup Inc. will put its name on the Mets' new stadium in a deal reportedly worth $20 million a year, sources close to the negotiations said yesterday. "CitiField"...
YAO AMAZ-MING; ROCKETS CENTER ABUSES CURRY
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amRockets 103Knicks 94 HOUSTON - Eddy Curry was emasculated last night. Curry, whose "manliness" quotient sank to negative figures, made Rockets' 7-foot-5 center Yao Ming look 8 feet tall. Yao...
UNBEARABLE HEAT; NETS BLOW 17-POINT LEAD; JEFFERSON HURT
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amHeat 113Nets 106 The evening was already going bad for the Nets. Then it got worse. And if at all possible in the world of comparatives and grammar, it got...
CARTER GETS CUT BY CAMERA
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES Vince Carter was cutting to the basket looking for a lob from Jason Kidd when Shaquille O'Neal got in the way. Carter was ridden out of bounds and...
SHOOTING WILL RISE WITH EDDIE IN HOUSE
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES The Nets entered last night's game against the Heat shooting 28 percent on 3-pointers - and that's only because they were hot in their previous game. "Good shooting"...
'SENORITA' PULLS OFF UPSET
November 11, 2006 | 5:00am2ND RACE - Day Spa set pace, pressed inside by Crispy Cat, tracked outside by 2-1 JP's Afleet, Eibar Coa up. Turning for home, Jealous Queen went to the front,...
SCARLET FEVER ; RUTGERS CONTINUES TO WRITE STUNNING STORY
November 11, 2006 | 5:00am"Unreal," said Rutgers athletic director Bob Mulcahy. "Unreal." "I always believed that with hard work we get this done," continued the giddy AD. "But I never thought about what it...
GAELS HANG UPSET HOPES ON MARA
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amH.S. FOOTBALL Sean Mara has been on the sidelines at Giants Stadium more times than he can remember, but recently the grandson of the late Giants owner Wellington Mara was...
STORMING IN; ST. JOHN'S EYES OFFENSIVE IMPROVEMENT
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amOffense is sexy. Offense is what draws oohs and aahs. Offense is what shows up in the boxscore. Offense defines a player: "He's a shooter. He's a slasher. He's a...
PROVOKE ARTIST; MILLER RALLIED PACERS TO MSG MIRACLE
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe Pacers, down 70-58 in Game 5 of the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals at Madison Square Garden, looked finished when Reggie Miller scored 25 fourth-quarter points, including five 3-pointers, to...
WLAD'S TIME; KLITSCHKO TAKES GARDEN STAGE
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amIs Wladimir Klitschko the chosen one? Sure seems that way if you follow the marketing of tonight's heavyweight championship fight at the Garden. The commercials, the ads, the billboards, almost...
DEVILS FACE ROSTER BIND
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amThat accelerated incubator of CBA effects known as the Devils is nearing another of the situations that will further reveal the cold, cutthroat nature of My NHL. The offense-strapped Devils...
GARY A GONER ; YANKS DEAL SHEFF TO TIGERS FOR TRIO
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe Yankees received three pitching prospects 23 or under for Gary Sheffield yesterday. They also should have sent the Tigers a case of Excedrin for the migraine Sheffield will surely...
REPORT: BOSOX WIN D-MAT BID
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe Mets and Yankees have both bid for Daisuke Matsuzaka, but an ESPN.com report yesterday indicated that the Red Sox have a seemingly strong chance of winning the sweepstakes. The...
PETTITTE LEANING TO RETIREMENT
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amAndy Pettitte isn't sure if he's going to pitch in 2007, but it doesn't look good at the moment. "If I had to make a decision right now, it'd probably...
NEWEST BOMBER STARRED IN BX.
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amFrank Colon always knew he would go to Humberto Sanchez's first major league game. "I didn't care where it was or how much it cost, I was going to be...
ISIAH NO FAN OF BOWEN TACTICS
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES HOUSTON - Spurs defensive whiz Bruce Bowen better watch himself tonight when the Knicks come to San Antonio for the rematch. Knicks coach Isiah Thomas may not have...
UNBEARABLE HEAT ; NETS BLOW 17-POINT LEAD; RJ, VINCE HURT
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amHeat 113Nets 106 The evening had gone bad for the Nets before it got worse. A 17-point lead against the world champion Heat disappeared in a blink - or several...
IT'S ACADEMIC ; ST. JOHN'S OPENS WITH WIN, LOSES RECRUIT
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amSt. John's 74N. Florida 53 After two years of damage control, rebuilding and sweating out the results of an NCAA investigation, this was supposed to be a breakthrough season at...
YAO AMAZ-MING ; ROCKETS CENTER ABUSES KNICKS
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amRockets 103Knicks 94 HOUSTON - Eddy Curry was emasculated last night. Curry, whose "manliness" quotient sank to the negative figures, made Rockets 7-5 center Yao Ming look 8 feet tall....
ROAD WARRIORS ; BLUESHIRT 'D' STIFLES THRASHERS
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 5Thrashers 2 ATLANTA - The road may be long for the Rangers, currently playing nine out of 11 games away from Madison Square Garden, but it doesn't wind. Initially...
BELICHICK FULL OF PRAISE FOR CHAD
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amBill Belichick stood before a group of reporters in Foxboro yesterday and said he'd just finished watching some cutup films of the Jets. "(Chad) Pennington working in the red area...
BIG BLUE D PUTS FOCUS ON TURNOVERS
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES They light up the screen as if they were in neon. When in a defensive meeting room the film shows the opponent committing turnover after turnover. The Giants...
GARY A GONER - YANKS DEAL SHEFF TO TIGERS FOR TRIO
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe Yankees received three pitching prospects 23 or under for Gary Sheffield yesterday. They should've asked for Detroit to throw in a bottle of Excedrin. In dealing Sheffield to the...
BEAT UP SHAQ LOOKS SHAKY EARLY
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES Shaquille O'Neal came back from a two-game absence caused by a bruised knee and looked shaky in the early going, shooting 3-of-11 in 17 minutes. Maybe there was...
MIX & MATCH-UPS - COACH IS FRANK ABOUT FLEXIBLE LINEUP
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amYou look at the Nets' roster and, with very few exceptions, you see players who handle more than one position. They have forwards who play guard, guards who play forward,...
CRUNCH TIME - PIERCE, URLACHER TO SEE WHO'S BIG DOG
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amThey will not meet up on the field even once, won't engage in helmet-to-helmet violence. When one is hunting for prey, the other will be on the sideline, resting for...
BUSTIN' BRUCE - ISIAH NO FAN OF BOWEN TACTICS
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Spurs defensive whiz Bruce Bowen better watch himself tonight when the Knicks come to San Antonio for the rematch. Knicks coach Isiah Thomas may not have much tolerance...
VAN GUNDY: KNICKS' BACKCOURT NEEDS TIME
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES HOUSTON - Jeff Van Gundy, the former popular Knicks coach, likened the Steve Francis-Stephon Marbury backcourt to the unorthodox shooting-guard pairing of Latrell SprewellAllan Houston back in the...
WINNING BETTS - RANGERS CENTER PLUGGING ALONG
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA - Who was that man cutting in off the wing, making like Henri Richard with a tie-breaking third-period goal for the Rangers in their win over the Panthers Wednesday...
WLAD'S TIME - KLITSCHKO TAKES GARDEN STAGE
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amIs Wladimir Klitschko the chosen one? Sure seems that way if you follow the marketing of tonight's heavyweight championship fight at the Garden. The commercials, the ads, the billboards, almost...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amMICHIGAN at INDIANA 3:30 p.m. ESPN Line: Michigan by 19. Angle: Michigan struggled last week to beat Ball State, leaving David Letterman happy and Wolverines fans worried their boys are...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 11, 2006 | 5:00amA small deer is facing death by jack-o'-lantern after getting its head stuck in a plastic pumpkin meant for Halloween candy. The animal has been spotted near a Michigan community...