November 26, 2006
Team Titanic II: Steph vs. Isiah
November 26, 2006 | 1:56pmBy MARC BERMANOf all the problems I figured the Knicks would have this season, I did not imagine it would be Stephon Marbury's disgruntlement with Isiah Thomas. Yes, in a...
HUNTING HARRY ; H'WOOD SCRAMBLING FOR NEW TEEN FRANCHISE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amHollywood's hunt for the holy grail is on - the quest for the next bankable Harry Potter-like film franchise: a hot teen/tween novel or series that can be transformed into...
AN ENTIRELY NEW VISTA SEEN ON PC PRICING
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: Is it worth purchasing a computer now with Windows XP? Or should I wait for the new Microsoft operating system, Vista? R.C.Dear R.C.: If you are more interested...
MORE $$ FOR POSTERS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amIn a move that pressures YouTube to consider paying for user-generated content, rival viral video site Break.com is expected to announce tomorrow that it is doubling payments to certain video...
COMIC HIRO - HOW TV'S COOLEST SHOW JUMPED OFF THE PAGE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amTHE hit NBC drama "Heroes" has introduced characters with extraordinary abilities that have made the show the most popular new series of the season. But the real hero behind this...
THE IRAQ WAR COMES TO 'CSI MIAMI' - MURDERED RECRUITER SENDS CARUSO'S TEAM INTO MOTION
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amTHE war in Iraq comes to southern Florida this week when the murder of a Marine recruiter prompts an investigation that stretches from the United States to the Middle East...
DISCOVERY HEALTH REVIVES CARNIVAL SIDESHOW
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amP.T. BARNUM is alive and well and working at the Discovery Health Channel. This column is a delicate one to write because I don't want to seem insensitive to the...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amDRAMA Court 'House' DR. GREGORY HOUSE takes the unusual and possibly extreme step of taking a young patient's parents to court in order to get his course of treatment enforced....
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amGONE WITH THE WIND (1939) Sunday, 10 a.m.,TNT The sweeping saga about Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) still burns bright. Though 1939 was a year when...
LOVING SOUPY SALES WASN'T SO NUTS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amWE both knew that it was on Ch. 5, weekday afternoons. But then Jeff King, one of the DVD's producers, figured that the show had to have been on at...
OVERFED FIDOS - HELP YOUR PET AVOID HOLIDAY BLOAT
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amDID your dog overeat at Thanksgiving? With table scraps, especially super-rich turkey skin, everyone knows less is more. Feeding too many tasty morsels - especially to a pooch with a...
YOUNG STARS AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA youth movement is shaking up the ranks of the world's best players. The first-place tie achieved by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov at the recent Hoogoveen, Netherlands, international will likely move the...
LAZY UNDER THE COVERS - PUNK ROCK JOKESTERS COVER SONGS, GENRES
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amPUNK rock cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes isn't like most bands. The group rarely tours, isn't interested in entertaining and doesn't even try to write its own...
JUST SAY N.O. - DENZEL AND 'DEJA VU' GIVE BIG EASY SOUTHERN COMFORT
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amWHO knew Jerry Bruckheimer was such a good Samaritan? The Hollywood producer, best known for his skill at blowing up large objects onscreen, is one of the key people responsible...
FEAT CLAY - PICTURING THE LIFE OF THE MARVELOUS MOUTH
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amALI RAP Edited and designed by George Lois (three stars) Taschen, $24.99 HAD Cassius Clay been born in 1982 instead of 1942, there's no question that as Muhammad Ali he'd...
HOT SEAT - PHARRELL
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amONCE a nerd, always a N.E.R.D. He loves "Star Trek," "The Smurfs" and played the snare drum in his high school band. So how did Pharrell Williams go from being...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
November 26, 2006 | 5:00am1 Irony on ice Forget "WWJD," the real question is "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" The Olympic figure skater, immortalized in the "South Park" movie song, has created a line...
MIKE BID TO WIPE OUT 'BLOCK'HEADS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amMAYOR Bloomberg was so livid after a little-known state board blocked two major city projects that he ordered the city's top lawyer to review its legality. Sources said Corporation Counsel...
TWISTED BULLIES' WEB OF VIOLENCE; ONLINE BEATING VIDS A KID FAVE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe brutal handiwork of schoolyard bullies is becoming a popular form of online entertainment among Big Apple kids. Not-so-amateur videos posted on Internet sites like YouTube.com show teenage students being...
SUSHI CARRIED DEADLY DOSAGE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe former KGB spy killed by radioactive poison probably ingested the deadly dose after it was sprayed on his sushi in a busy London restaurant, police and security sources said...
LAWYER DRAWING NEW FIRE; KILLER: HE CHEATED ME
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA convicted murderer said yesterday he was cheated by his lawyer - the disbarred Westchester attorney who was wounded in a mysterious roadside ambush that left his wife dead. Elio...
GUYS BOOST BUYS; MEN PUSH BLACK FRIDAY SALES UP 10%
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amBlack Friday got a testosterone boost, with sales to males pumping business up 10 percent over last year, according to retail experts who forecast a booming holiday shopping season. The...
GROOM DIES IN NYPD BARRAGE; * 50 SHOTS FIRED AT QNS. PARTIERS* KIN DEMAND ANSWERS FROM NYPD
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens bachelor party turned into a bloodbath early yesterday when five cops opened fire at a car with about 50 shots - killing the groom-to-be, wounding two friends and...
SUBWAY SICKOS PICK ON ONE-THIRD OF GALS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe city's subways are infested with vermin - the two-legged kind, according to a new survey that reports one-third of female straphangers have been groped or flashed. Of the 331...
AL: IT'S LIKE N.J. CASE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton likened yesterday's bachelor-party incident with a 1998 New Jersey police shooting that ignited a furor over racial profiling. "I remember fighting the case of the New...
MY 'KILLER' JOHN; HOOKER CLUE IN ATL. CITY SLAYS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amAs Atlantic City cops hunt for the "Black Horse Strangler" yesterday, one working girl revealed she might have spent a night with the killer. "He was talking crazy s--- to...
THE 'EURABIA' MYTH; MUSLIMS TAKE OVER EUROPE? SORRY, THERE'S NO CHANCE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA RASH of pop prophets tell us that Muslims in Europe are reproducing so fast and European societies are so weak and listless that, before you know it, the continent...
'KRAMER' WITH JESSE ON RADIO
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amMichael Richards is scheduled to go on Rev. Jesse Jackson's syndicated Radio show to discuss the racist rant he spewed at a Los Angeles comedy club, the civil-rights leader said...
FDNY TO MAKE SURE THE BEAT GOES ON
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe city is changing the way it saves lives. By the end of the year, every member of the Fire Department will be trained in a new form of CPR...
SNEAKERS WITH SEEKERS; HIGH-TECH 'TRACK' SHOES LOCATE WEARERS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amYou can run, but you can't hide - especially with a new sneaker that comes with a tracking device. The first-ever apparel with GPS gadgetry, the Compass Global GPS sneaker...
HORRIFYING END TO A COUPLE'S LOVE STORY
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amThey were high-school sweethearts - proud parents on the verge of solidifying their relationship in marriage. Now the groom is dead at the hands of police, and his mother is...
MOVIE 'COURT'US INTERRUPTUS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA financial feud between an indy film's producer and its pornographer moneyman could sideline former Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's directing debut - if you don't count his 2005 sex...
GROOM DIES IN NYPD BARRAGE; * 50 SHOTS FIRED AT QNS. PARTIERS * KIN DEMAND ANSWERS FROM NYPD
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens bachelor party turned into a bloodbath early yesterday when five cops opened fire on a car with 50 shots - killing the groom-to-be, wounding two of his friends...
MAN KILLED BY SPEEDSTER: COPS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA pedestrian crossing a street in Brooklyn's East New York was struck and killed by an unlicensed speeding motorist last night, police sources said. Jose Sanchez, 31, was heading north...
CITY COP GOES BALLISTIC UPSTATE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amAn off-duty city cop erupted in a rage at his upstate home - firing several shots from his handgun, according to a published report. His wife was in the house,...
GROOM DIES IN NYPD BARRAGE; * 50 SHOTS FIRED AT QNS. PARTIERS * KIN DEMAND ANSWERS FROM COPS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens bachelor party turned into a bloodbath early yesterday when five cops opened fire on a car with 50 shots - killing the groom-to-be, wounding his two friends and...
B'KLYN MAN SHOOTS GAL PAL, SELF
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man opened fire on the mother of his two children, then turned the gun on himself following a fight in the family's home, cops said. The woman was...
MONKEY BUSINESS OVER NAME
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA 68-year-old corporate-securities lawyer has applied to change his middle name from Howard to Harpo to honor a family legend and show up his two brothers, according to court papers....
UNHOLY MESS; HEAT ON TOP HARLEM REV. FOR APT. HORRORS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amIt's the building from hell - with a man of God at the helm. Furious residents of a six-story Harlem apartment building plagued by mice, roaches, flooding and continually broken...
FLAP OVER MEDAL FOR 9/11 RETIREE HEROES
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA bill awarding Medals of Valor to three retired firefighters who died in the World Trade Center attacks should be vetoed by Gov. Pataki because it breaks with Fire Department...
SUING OVER RELIGIOUS PRINCIPAL; TEACH RIPS 'BIAS' SCHOOL
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amA Jewish art teacher claims her principal's Christian prayer groups and the staff's anti-Semitic slurs turned her job at a Brooklyn public school into a living hell - and now...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Police are investigating the shooting death of a man in a Washington Heights building. Ramon Antonio Moya, 21, was discovered by cops responding to a call for a...
MY 'KILLER' JOHN - HOOKER CLUE IN ATL. CITY SLAYS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amAs Atlantic City cops hunt for the "Black Horse Strangler," one working girl yesterday revealed she might have spent a night with the killer. "He was talking crazy s-- to...
GIVEN LEE WAY ; DAVID PROVING HE CAN BE FORCE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amDavid Lee has been the Knicks' rock for their first 14 games. Coming off the bench, Lee has energized the Knicks all season with his grit, his offensive rebounding and...
SHOWIN' TENACIOUS D
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amWHILE all eyes will be on quarterback Chad Pennington today to see whether he can break out of a funk that has him playing below expectations, the true measure of...
HALL OF FAME IN A FOG WITH SHERO SNUB
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The Hockey Hall of Fame may or may not have kept Herb Brooks out for 26 years because he was America's Coach, but then what is the explanation...
DISCREET CAT SMOKES CIGAR
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amAfter winning his first five starts by a combined 343/4 lengths against often-suspect competition, it was time for Discreet Cat to step up and prove just how good he really...
YOUNG ADAPTS TO LIFE IN PROS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES NASHVILLE - This afternoon at LP Field, the Giants will get a glimpse at one of the NFL's most intriguing rookie quarterbacks when they get their first look...
HOBSON GETTIN' IT DONE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amJET NOTES Victor Hobson has no interest in being a one-game wonder. The linebacker enters today's game against the Texans coming off a 10-tackle performance last week against the Bears,...
POINT GUARD IS 'NOTHING' BUT TROUBLE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amDING dong, the wicked witch is dead, lying under Stephon Marbury's house, Jim Dolan taking out an $18 million contract to smash it down on Larry Brown. Dolan paid it...
REAL 'GO' GETTER
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amFIRST RACE: It took Go Fernando Go 16 races to break maiden, which he finally did last out by 7½ lengths at Meadowlands in second start off year's layoff. Back...
LEGREE, FT. HAM ADVANCE TO FINAL
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amPSAL SEMISFt. Hamilton 41Pt. Richmond 12 There was never any question regarding Jeffrey Legree's ability at quarterback, but with a relentless running game and a staunch defense, there haven't been...
TELL IT LIKE IT IS; MADDEN RIGHT ON CLASSY LT, BUT WHAT ABOUT LOUTS?
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amLATE last Sunday night, we awoke in time to hear NBC's John Madden, after LaDainian Tomlinson scored to clinch the Chargers' win over the Broncos, praise Tomlinson as "a real...
USC STAKES CLAIM; TROJANS RIP ND; MAKE CASE FOR TITLE SHOT
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amUSC 44Notre Dame 24 LOS ANGELES - Hanging behind the Southern Cal bench in the Coliseum was a seemingly out-of-place sign: Beat Michigan. By the end of the night it...
FRYE OUT 3-6 WEEKS; LEE TO START
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amDavid Lee had been the Knicks' rock this season - emerging as a candidate for Sixth Man of the Year. But now he'll be pressed into starting duty with Channing...
ISIAH 'SATISFIED' WITH CURRY TRADE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Bulls coach Scott Skiles didn't exactly seem too awed by Eddy Curry, his former player, before last night's showdown. In giving a detailed scouting report, Skiles complimented parts...
STRUGGLING FRYE SPRAINS LEFT ANKLE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES David Lee had been the Knicks' rock this season - emerging as a candidate for Sixth Man of the Year. Lee, though, may be pressed into starting duty...
YOUR WILDLIFE WISH MAY BE GRANTED
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amNEW York State is offering grants that will fund projects aimed at improving fish and wildlife habitat and public access for hunting, fishing, trapping and other fish and wildlife related...
STAR-BURIED - SEETHING STEPH WON'T SHOOT, GETS BENCHED
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amBulls 106Knicks 95 Stephon Marbury denied he pulled a Kobe in not looking to shoot, although it sure looked that way. But he didn't deny one thing - he's furious...
TRIPLE CROWN TO GLIDEMASTER
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amGlidemaster became the eighth trotting Triple Crown champion in history last night at Yonkers Raceway winning the $728,930 Yonkers Trot by 13/4 lengths in 1:55 4/5. Trained by Blair Burgess...
STRAKA OF GENIUS; OT GOAL GIVES RANGERS THIRD STRAIGHT WIN
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amOVERTIMERangers 2Penguins 1 PITTSBURGH - They are managing to get it done even if in the most unorthodox manner imaginable, even if only four of their players score essentially every...
STRAKA OF GENIUS ; OT GOAL GIVES RANGERS THIRD STRAIGHT WIN
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amOT / SUMMARY: P. 71Rangers 2Penguins 1 PITTSBURGH - They are managing to get it done even if in the most unorthodox manner imaginable, even if only four of their...
USC VICTORY CLEARS UP BCS BOWL PICTURE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Bowled over? Don't be. Southern Cal's 44-24 win over Notre Dame last night in the Coliseum brought the major bowl lineup into focus. If the Trojans (10-1)...
TIME FOR GIANTS TO EARN OR BURN - BIG BLUE MUST RECLAIM PLACE AMONG NFC ELITE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - For all those Tom Coughlin-isms that cause players to either nod in agreement or else roll their eyes in dismissal, one that usually rings true consists of three...
'BURY BAD!
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amDING dong the wicked witch is dead, lying under Stephon Marbury's house, a contract killing for which Jim Dolan was happy to pay $18 million to save the ego of...
EDDY OR NOT? KNICKS NEVER KNOW WHICH CURRY THEY'RE GOING TO GET
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amFRIDAY night, the Eddy Curry who can save Isiah Thomas's job dropped in suddenly after being missing for weeks. It would be nice if he was reliable enough to call...
PAY A-10-TION - JINTS, JETS WILL GO AS FAR AS QBS TAKE THEM
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amWE TRY to make things so complicated sometimes. Lord knows, football coaches do this better than anyone. You remember the old joke about asking a guy what time it is...
ALL OR NOTHING - TROJANS, IRISH IN ANOTHER HUGE BATTLE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - There is a clarity to late-November football that is crystallized when it's played under the Southern California sun, making it easy for everyone to see what is...
ALL THAT JAZZ - SLOAN, WILLIAMS HAVE UTAH FLYING HIGH
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amWHAT'S not to like about Deron Williams' game that now has plenty of give to it thanks to the textbook orchestra leader being sufficiently schooled in his rookie season by...
SEEING STARS - SPORTS ASTROLOGER LOOKS TO SKY FOR SCOUTING REPORTS
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amBASEBALL is entering the Age of Aquarius. Meet Andrea Mallis, sports astrologer. Like GMs, agents and assorted marketers, Mallis will be attending the winter meetings in Orlando the first week...
NETS' SUB PLOT - ROOKIES PLAYING WELL DESPITE 4-GAME SLIDE
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Marcus Williams was waiting for a breakout game. Hassan Adams was waiting to break into the rotation. Maybe the two Nets rookies achieved their goals in the...
PLAYOFF-HUNGRY JETS CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO ... LOOK AT HOU
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amTwo weeks ago, the Jets defeated the Patriots in an emotionally charged rivalry game in New England. Last week, they took on the big, bad Bears, possibly the NFL's best...
SEETHING STEPH WON'T SHOOT, GETS BENCHED
November 26, 2006 | 5:00amBulls 106 Knicks 95 Stephon Marbury pulled a Kobe, not looking to shoot, and got benched to start the second half last night - finishing the Knicks' 106-95 loss to...