December 8, 2006
Under .500, but in the playoffs?
By ANDREW MARCHANDThe good news is the hardest working man in basketball, Berman, is off for the weekend, the bad news is he left me the keys.So let's take this...
Miami Vice
Since when is Dorothy Zbornak working as Laura Bushâs stylist?Sure she rocked some wonderful frocks when not kibitzing over cheesecake on wicker furniture, but her style star has waned since...
Inside a Park Avenue wardrobe...
Rich, thin, and indisputably well-dressed, Nan Kempner's wardrobe finally gets museum/archival recognition.December 12, 2006 - March 2007 Nan Kempner's wardrobe goes on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume...
Fix my plumbing...
...London's Coming!This weekend, some of London's hottest young labels -- like Emma Cook, Fred Perry, Tatty Devine, and Eley Kishimoto -- migrate to Paris for a shopping extravaganza. And my...
WEEK'S END REVIEW: Dec. 8
It's Friday! It's cold. Time to get out the mukluks. Or, book a plane ticket to Ethiopia (see below.) WHAT A COUP: Speaking of hot zones - you may want...
IT'S A BARGAIN!: Black is the new bargain
STA Travel wants students. Needs them. Bad. Well, that is if you're under 26 or a student. Whip out the credit card (what - don't you have like five of...
'CYBER-BET' BIG BAILED OUT
The alleged boss of a $3.3 billion online gambling ring shut down by cops last month remains in jail, but his suspected right-hand man and son-in-law posted $2.5 million bail...
IN RECKSON DEAL, ICAHN WINS FOR LOSING
Carl Icahn may have technically lost both of his last-minute bids for Reckson Associates, but the billionaire rebel investor could still reap about $8 million on his investment in the...
N.Y.C. FUND: GIANT'S STOCK IS IN LABOR DAZE
The New York City Employees Retirement System is demanding to know how much the retail giant Wal-Mart is being hurt financially by rampant criticism of its labor practices. NYCERS, which...
SIRIUS, XM SATELLITE SIGNALS PUT SHARES IN ORBIT
Talk about a possible link up between Sirius and XM sent shares in both satellite radio companies jumping for a time yesterday, fueled not by Wall Street gossip but by...
NEW AD-VERSITY - WAL-MART DROPS DRAFT AGENCY AMID SCANDAL RUMORS
A day after it fired its flashy advertising chief, Wal-Mart shocked Madison Avenue by dumping the agency she had chosen just two months ago to lead a $580 million campaign....
NEXT STOP, VEGAS - SEMINOLES MAY BUY INTO MECCA
The Seminole Indians are spending nearly $1 billion to expand their Florida casinos worldwide by buying the Hard Rock empire - but may have to double that amount just to...
H-P INSIDER SCORES TECH-TELL MEMOIR
TOM Perkins, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur, venture capitalist, yachtsman and one of the key figures in exposing the Hewlett-Packard boardroom spying scandal earlier this year, has just sold a memoir...
TWC FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST RIVAL DIRECTV
Time Warner Cable late yesterday filed a lawsuit against DirecTV claiming the rival satellite operator engaged in false advertising and deceptive business practices related to its promotion of the NFL...
SPYING COSTS H-P $14.5M
At about $1 million a pop, Hewlett-Packard is paying probably the highest price ever for spying on a reporter's personal records. The computer giant yesterday agreed to fork over $14.5...
GRIN AND JUICE - COUTURE EXECS GRAPPLING WITH GROWING PAINS
When Britney Spears wed soon-to-be ex-husband Kevin Federline just over two years ago, guests partied all night wearing Juicy Couture track suits. But like that doomed marriage, the public's love...
DIAMOND RECKLESS
LEFTY voodoo: the belief that anytime anyone in the world is hurting, America must be sticking a pin in a doll. "Blood Diamond" holds that the 1990s civil war in...
LIFE SWAPPING
COMPLAINING about the gooey and generic "The Holiday" is as useless as railing against fruitcake - this is a slick, throwaway chick flick designed to provide nothing more than mindless...
HIGH ENERGY, LOW 'FIDELITY'
COULD Nick Hornby's laddish English novel "High Fidelity" - or even the Stephen Frears movie based on it - be successfully transmogrified into a Broadway musical? The brave, if foolhardy,...
'MINORS' A MAJOR PAIN
A lot of crotches get abused in the kiddie comedy "Unaccompanied Minors." And as a viewer, I felt a lot like a crotch. Kids (including Tyler James Williams, the star...
PASSION OF THE SLICE - OH, MAYA! MEL'S MASOCHISTIC MESS; GIBSON SPARES US NO SACRIFICE
IF anyone still has any doubts that Mad Mel Gibson is off his rocker, you might want to check out his well-made but gratuitously violent "Apocalypto" - which makes "The...
HELP ME WANDA, YEAH
LET'S have a party. Wanda Jackson is a hoot, live. The rocka billy queen and pioneering female rock 'n' roller brings her guitar and ever-jumpin' voice to the city, singing...
JAY GOES EASY ON MEL
BURBANK, Calif. - A fidgety Mel Gibson laughed his way through a softball interview with Jay Leno last night - making fun of his battle with the bottle, but never...
MARY'S HOT PICK
TAKE a "Sleigh Ride" with Ronnie Spector at her annual Christmas party, which returns to B.B. King's Blues Club this weekend (9 p.m. tomorrow; 8 p.m. on Sunday). The legendary...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * Have a KENNY ROGERS Christmas tonight and Saturday night at 9 in the Trump Taj Mahal's Mark G. Etess Arena. Tickets: $25-$60; trumptaj.com, (609) 449-5150. * Celebrate...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - THE ONE-STOP SHOP
Right now, you're probably running around buying gifts for family and friends. Imagine what it would have been like 150 years ago - before New York introduced the country to...
ROSIE NOT LEAVING 'VIEW'
ROSIE O'Donnell isn't going anywhere, she told the audience of "The View" yesterday. Despite reports in Mort Zuckerman's Daily Bulk that she is being offered a serious role on the...
STARR REPORT
Russ never sleeps (Part 2) It's not like "The Early Show" to make a lot of noise, but it's been a busy week over there. First came the news of...
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND - FLAV'S GIRL READY TO STEP OUT
THIS New York is no candied apple. New York, the sassy, self-worshipping girl from "Flavor of Love," is about to launch her own "Bachelorette"style show - and this time she's...
DON'T CALL HER 'UGLY' REBECCA
REBECCA Romijn is joining the cast of ABC's "Ugly Betty" as a series regular. She'll make her first appearance on the series sometime early next year. On the show, Romijn...
WASHED AWAY - STRUGGLING TO MAKE SENSE OF TRAGEDY
THIS grim story is no fairy tale. It really happened - right in the middle of the holidays too, specifically the day after Christmas 2004. That was when an undersea...
OCEAN HUNT AFTER ARSON
Rescuers searched the waters off Robert Moses State Park yesterday for a missing Long Island man wanted for questioning in a possible arson at his home, police said. Nobody was...
TEEN IN ELEVATOR TRAGEDY
Police made a grisly discovery early yesterday when they found the body of an 18-year-old man at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a Brooklyn housing project, authorities said....
FAKE COP GUILTY OF SEX KIDNAP
A twisted Long Island fiend who liked to dress up as a cop pleaded guilty yesterday to kidnapping a young medical student off an East Village street, then sexually torturing...
NUKE SCAN FOR U.S. CARGO
WASHINGTON - U.S.-bound cargo at six overseas ports will be screened for nuclear and radiological material in an expanded effort to prevent terrorist bombs from entering American waters, federal officials...
COURT SLAPS SANTE
Killer grifter Sante Kimes couldn't con a state appeals-court panel - it upheld her murder conviction and 120-year prison sentence. The Appellate Division yesterday affirmed Kimes' conviction for the 1998...
DISTURBING GREEN PEACE
THIS wasn't supposed to happen at the Union Square Greenmarket - a place so blooming in earthly delights, it has long seemed exempt from intrusion by urban evil. Besides bringing...
COP FUNERALS: THE TRAGIC DRUMBEATS GO ON
EVER been to a cop funeral? Well unless you are a cop or a firefighter or a mayor or a politician looking for face time, chances are that, like most...
HILL WHACKS BARACK: POLL
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton trounces potential rival Sen. Barack Obama nearly two to one in the multi-candidate Democratic field, two polls released yesterday show. Clinton takes 33 percent of the...
I ADORE A GAL WITHOUT SPELLCHECK OR PANTIES
DEER Linsay, It is my oppinion that you are the coollest, smartist and most bootiful . . . I mean you are butiful . . . - crap! - you...
ROBBER SLASHES COMMUTER'S THROAT
A Long Island Rail Road commuter was slashed in the neck by a mugger during a robbery Wednesday night, police said. Nassau cops said the 46-year-old victim got off a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN * A thug was arrested for stabbing a man with a metal nail file at an East Flatbush construction site, authorities said yesterday. Robert Jones, 47, allegedly grabbed the...
SHOCK AND FEAR IN UNION 'SCARE' - TEEN'S SLAY 'HARD TO BELIEVE'
Shocked merchants and residents in the upscale Union Square neighborhood were reeling yesterday over the deadly daylight rumble among some 50 high-school students that left a teenager fatally stabbed and...
GAL BUSTED IN HORROR DOG DEATH
Police on Long Island busted a woman for animal cruelty after they discovered that she had failed to take her injured dog for treatment after it was hit by a...
MIKE'S 2ND SHOT - SUES 12 MORE 'ILLEGAL GUN' DEALERS
Stepping up his crackdown on illegal guns, Mayor Bloomberg fired a second round yesterday at out-of-state dealers who he claims are responsible for a disproportionate share of the illegal weapons...
RESERVOIR-BRIBE RAP
A Westchester man was charged with bribery yesterday after he allegedly offered a city inspector $1,000 to ignore problems with his restaurant's septic tank, suspected of polluting the New Croton...
'CROOK' TAKES ONE IN ARM
Cops shot a career criminal in the arm early yesterday morning after he fired at them in a Brooklyn housing project, authorities said. Two officers encountered Richard Davenport, 30, near...
PAINT VANDAL IN THE CAN
A graffiti tagger who plastered his moniker, "Kiko," all over Astoria and Long Island City was sentenced yesterday to six months in jail. Oliver "Kiko" Siandre, 28, of Manhattan, pleaded...
SOUR ENDING FOR B'KLYN SWEET SPOT
The iconic Revere Sugar Refinery - whose domed rooftop has defined Brooklyn's Red Hook waterfront for a century - could be demolished as early as today by a developer hoping...
THE PRODUCERS - CITY PROVIDES BODEGAS CHEAP FRUIT, VEGGIES
Trans fats are out - and fruits and veggies are in. The city's health czar announced a plan yesterday that supplies discounted carrots and apples to 60 bodegas in the...
'DUMB THUG' SHOOTS SELF
What goes around comes around, a Brooklyn man learned yesterday when he shot a man in the leg during a dispute - but then shot himself in the foot during...
'MOB COP' SUIT VS. NYPD SHOT DOWN
A Manhattan judge has thrown out a lawsuit that charged the NYPD caused the death of two carting-company owners by allowing "mob cops" Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa to run...
DEBT BURYING N.Y.: COMPTROLLER
It's not quite time to hit the panic button, but the city's growing mountain of debt - $6,801 for every man, woman and child - needs to be "carefully monitored,"...
50-BULLET WITNESS ARRESTED
A cooperating witness in the police shooting that killed a Queens groom was arrested following a scrape in a Midtown store - just hours after he left a protest against...
SHOW-'TOON SHREK - MOVIE TALE GETS GREEN LIGHT FOR B'WAY
Broadway producers are dreaming of green - Shrek, the lovable ogre of the big screen, is lumbering onto the stage. DreamWorks Animation has put "Shrek: The Musical" on the fast...
TERROR-RAP JAZZMAN STAYS SOLO
A judge denied a request by a terrorism suspect and jazz musician to be released into the general prison population - citing evidence of his mastery in the martial arts...
POST'S CHIMP WIMPS MAKE D.C. GO APE
WASHINGTON - The front page of yesterday's New York Post, depicting the two chairmen of the Iraq Study Group as chimps under the headline "Surrender Monkeys," was the talk of...
WISEGUY IS LIT INTO FOR CIG LAW
They say Joe Clams, a Genovese guy, started complaining. Then a Bonanno soldier nicknamed P.J. allegedly started throwing punches. Before you knew it, Joe Clams lay under a Little Italy...
DE-GRADING HS POLICY MAY BE ILLEGAL
A policy at Lafayette HS in Brooklyn that has resulted in grade reductions for hundreds of students may be illegal if it is applied to special-education students, advocates warned yesterday....
S.I. SOLDIER DIES A HERO - & BRO SAYS: WE'VE GOT TO STAY
The brother of a hero New York soldier killed in Iraq on the same day a blue-ribbon commission recommended bringing U.S. troops home said yesterday that pulling out would send...
'RECIPE FOR OUR DEFEAT' - MCCAIN LASHES IRAQ REPORT
WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain yesterday slammed the report by the Iraq Study Group, warning the recommendations would lead the United States to a historic failure and endanger thousands of...
'LET'S EDUCATE' STAR NEEDS WORK ON LOHANWRITING
Not since St. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians or Martin Luther King Jr. sent his letter from a Birmingham jail has a missive gripped the public like Lindsay Lohan's loopy...
CASKET-TRUCK HORROR - HITS AND KILLS BOY IN B'KLYN
A Brooklyn boy was struck and killed - by a truck carrying caskets - as he crossed a street with his baby sitter after school yesterday, two days before his...
RED ALERT FOR POOR LAURA - 3 OTHERS IN HER FROCK
Oh, Laura! The first lady experienced every woman's worst nightmare when she turned up at a White House gala this week wearing the same outfit as not one, but three...
RIVAL GANGS RUMBLED AFTER GIRLS GOT DISSED
A rude remark about two teenage girls likely sparked the deadly rumble between students from two rival high schools who rampaged through the Greenmarket at Union Square Park, cops said...
RAIL SHOT AT PROSPERITY - HIGH LINE PLAN A $174M BOOST
The future of the far West Side could get a big boost from an aging rail trestle that has already lifted the fortunes - and the property values - of...
FOUR CHARGED IN QUEENS SLAY
Four men were charged yesterday with murdering a Queens man and assaulting four others in Corona, authorities said. Luis Romero, 24, Felix Ceca, 23, Victor Gonzalez, 21, and Gregorio Ocult,...
BUSH: I'M NO QUITTER - BLAIR BACKS 'NOBLE MISSION'
WASHINGTON - A defiant President Bush yesterday warned the way to lose in Iraq is "just to quit," and insisted U.S. forces will stay in the fledgling democracy until the...
N.Y. TAKES $2B HIT IN GOP SPITE
WASHINGTON - Seething Republican lawmakers killed a $2 billion development project for New York as payback against Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer - the chief architect of their stunning electoral defeat,...
GOPERS SPITE APPLE - CUT $2B RAIL FUNDING
WASHINGTON - Seething Republican lawmakers killed a $2 billion rail project for New York as payback against Sen. Charles Schumer - the chief architect of their stunning electoral defeat, according...
MOB IN AN ASH KICKIN' - CIG BAN IGNITES BRAWL
They say "Joe Clams," a Genovese guy, started complaining. Then a Bonanno soldier nicknamed "P.J." allegedly started throwing punches. Before you know it, Joe Clams lay cold and bleeding under...
E. COLI 'RUNS' IN NYC
Six New York City residents are exhibiting signs of E. coli food poisoning after eating at local Taco Bells, the Department of Health said yesterday. The cases are as yet...
RED ALERT FOR POOR LAURA - THREE OTHERS IN HER FROCK
Someone call the fashion police! First Lady Laura Bush experienced every woman's worst nightmare when she turned up at a White House gala wearing the exact same $8,500 outfit as...
'MOB COP' SUIT TOSSED
A Manhattan judge has thrown out a lawsuit that charged the NYPD caused the death of two carting-company owners by allowing "mob cops" Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa to run...
'STALKER' STABBED IN STAR-TRAINER HOME
A man stalking the estranged wife of trainer-to-the-stars Gunnar Peterson was stabbed by a security guard after breaking into Peterson's Beverly Hills mansion, it was reported last night. Beverly Hills...
RADIO DJ SHOT - POWER 105.1 MAN HIT 13 TIMES
A late-night DJ for hip-hop station Power 105.1 was gravely wounded in a hail of bullets yesterday in what may have been a robbery, police sources said. DJ Carl Blaze,...
BROOKLYN RABBI IN PERV BUST
A rabbi was arrested yesterday for allegedly molesting students at his Brooklyn yeshiva, police said. Joel Kolko, 60, was busted at his home in Midwood after an 8-year-old male student...
DEBT BURYING NYC: THOMPSON
It's not quite time to hit the panic button, but the city's growing mountain of debt - $6,801 for every man, woman and child - needs to be "carefully monitored,"...
QUEEN MARY'S RETURN - BLIGE GREAT WITH 8 GRAMMY NODS
She promised "no more drama," but comeback queen Mary J. Blige provided plenty of it yesterday - nabbing eight Grammy nominations, the most of any artist. For the born-and-raised New...
RAIL SHOT AT PROSPERITY - HIGH LINE A $174M BOOST
The future of the far West Side could get a big boost from an aging rail trestle that has already lifted the fortunes - and the property values - of...
FAKE COP CAGED - ADMITS SEX KIDNAP IN E. VILLAGE
A twisted Long Island fiend who liked to dress up as a cop pleaded guilty yesterday to kidnapping a young medical student off an East Village street, then sexually torturing...
COLI HITS CITY - 6 TACO BELL CASES
Six New York city residents are exhibiting signs of E. coli food poisoning after eating at local Taco Bells, the Department of Health said yesterday. The cases are as yet...
ISLES WASTE QUICK START
Canadiens 4 - Islanders 2 The Islanders started last night's game against the Canadiens in impressive fashion, but ended with their second straight loss, a 4-2 setback at the Coliseum....
EARNING THOSE BOOS
FEW of us need reminding that not all boos, despite sounding roughly the same, mean the same. There's the quick, loud boo to demonstrate disapproval and surprise, the kind heard...
RAMS BANGIN' WITH THE BIG BOYS - FORDHAM SEES BENEFITS IN TOUGH SLATE
BRYANT Dunston knows the drill. His teammates do, too. Come November and December of every season at Fordham, the Rams hit the road and take on the power teams from...
PLENTY TO TALK ABOUT
LAVERANUES Coles is the perfect one to talk to, of course. He was here a year ago, when there was actually Super Bowl talk surrounding the Jets, when there were...
MOSS TOSS - WR COULD SPARK JINTS' OFFENSE
After his 10-yard receiver screen for a first down Sunday, Sinorice Moss heard the Giants crowd. "It felt good to be back on the field and hear the fans how...
FLICKS OF THE WEEK
GLORY ROAD (2006) Based on the true story of coach Don Haskins (played by Josh Lucas) and his role in breaking racial barriers in college basketball. In 1966, Haskins made...
EAGLES' O'BRIEN TO FLY THE COOP
If Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo wasn't familiar with the phrase, "There's no honor among thieves," he is now. DeFilippo will officially lose his football coach today, which wouldn't...
BAD ANSWER - IVERSON ON WAY OUT OF PHILLY
THE Allen Iverson Period in Philadelphia is rapidly dragging to an undignified conclusion. According to two agents whose clients play for the 76ers, Iverson went to team president Billy King...
STEVIE NICKED - KNEE WOES SHELVE FRANCIS
Everyone was worried about what the starting lineup would be when the Knicks get healthy. Instead, part of that numbers problem was resolved yesterday when another key player went down....
VILMA AND MCGAHEE TALK SMACK
JET NOTES Jets linebacker Jonathan Vilma was genuinely amused when he read the chirpy, tongue-in-cheek comments from former University of Miami teammate and current Bills running back Willis McGahee on...
SERB-ING UP SOME HARDCOURT MADNESS
NET NOTES Nenad Krstic is thankful the NBA in general and the Nets in particular don't sponsor "Rotgut Liquor and Automobile Flares Night." Yes, Krstic saw film of the outrageous...
LISTLESS NETS SEEKING ENERGY
Maybe the Nets are suffering from the psychological - and logical - malaise that can affect teams that have a rough time jump-starting themselves early in the season. It is...
LUNDQVIST RULES IN SHOOTOUT
SHOOTOUT: Rangers 3 - Penguins 2 When they gathered at the neutral zone last night for the mutual salute with the fans that follows victories at the Garden, the Rangers...
SPEED JUST CAN'T BE BEAT
Speed has always held up well over Aqueduct's inner dirt track, but this was special. Seemed like someone installed conveyor belt carrying front-runners along rail, as first eight winners all...
CHECK IT OUT: DEVILS OWN BEST HOME MARK
It's the best in the business, and the Devils are increasingly basing their game around their checking line. The strategy is not without reason, the results at home, where it...
JET PILOT IS IN COMMAND - AIR CHAD NON-STOP TO PLAYOFFS
In Chad they trust. With significant respect to the terrific job Eric Mangini has done as a rookie head coach, Chad Pennington has been the linchpin to the Jets' surge...
OPEN SCORE OR SORE?
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The World Boxing Council is capable of implementing policies that actually improve boxing, such as requiring periodic weigh-ins leading up to a fight. But the WBC...
DESPITE LOSS, KIDD JOINS ELITE COMPANY
NET NOTES Jason Kidd is now even with Wilt Chamberlain on the all-time triple-double list, in third place with 78 behind only Magic Johnson (138) and Oscar Robertson (131). But...
SUNS BURN NETS IN 2-OT THRILLER
DOUBLE OT: Suns 161 - Nets 157 Had the 58 game-time minutes that translated in 2:48 of real-time, gut-wrenching action occurred in May or June, it immediately would have been...
METS GO FOR MORE MOTA; ZITO STILL POSSIBLE
LAKE BEUNA VISTA - By bringing back Guillermo Mota, the Mets have the potential to do several things: perhaps field a better bullpen than last season, provide insurance in case...
BUZZ SESSION IS OVER, BUT METS AREN'T DONE
LAKE BUENA VISTA - The Winter Meetings wrapped up yesterday, but the Mets still have room to maneuver. The four days in Orlando are over, and the Mets are still...
LIFTOFF DELAYED - TRADE COLLAPSE KEEPS ASTROS IN PETTITTE RACE
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - At 10 o'clock yesterday, the Astros believed they made a move that would have forced Andy Pettitte out of Houston. Less than an hour later,...
A GIANT 'W'
ENOUGH is enough. The Giants are going to win another football game some time, someplace. It might as well be Sunday in Carolina, where the Panthers may be in an...
TRENDSETTERS - THE TOP PLAYS
FALCONS (-3) at BUCS Atlanta has covered four of five on grass and six of eight against losing teams. Tampa Bay has dropped five straight as an underdog and is...
NETS FALL IN 2 OTS DESPITE KIDD TRIPLE
TWO OT SUNS 161 NETS 157 For a full 48 minutes, the Nets, whose recent history has seen inconsistency, disappointment and losing, went against the frightening explosiveness of the Suns,...
USEFUL GUIDE WILL FLOAT YOUR BOAT
THE weather may not be an indicator, but the boating season is just a few weeks off and you probably have some decisions to make. The New York Boat Show...
WARY OF RIP VAN WEINKE
GIANT NOTES Film study this week in the defensive meeting rooms has quickly taken a turn toward Chris Weinke, as the Giants are moving forward as if the veteran quarterback...
ELI MUST CURE COUGH - MEDIOCRE MANNING CAN RESCUE TUMBLING TOM
IN THE end, the final vote on the Tom Coughlin referendum will be cast by Eli Manning. If ever there was a time for Manning to stand up as the...
RANGERS PLAYING LINEUP ROULETTE
The two lineup changes the Rangers made for last night's game at the Garden against the Penguins might prove to be nothing more than temporary stop-gaps in a marathon 82-game...
ISLES LOOK TO BOUNCE BACK
The Islanders' stint atop the Atlantic Division was short-lived. After losing to Ottawa on Tuesday, the Isles held their lead only because of the inactivity of the rest of the...
2 SMART - JET OFFENSE 'HEADED' IN RIGHT DIRECTION
The Jets' offense is based on speed. But it's not how fast their legs move, but how quickly their brains work. "It is truly a thinking man's offense,'' CBS analyst...
BAD BLOOD IN BOOTH - CLYDE, GUS IN SHOUTING MATCH
If Gus Johnson and Walt Frazier were as feisty on the air as they apparently are off it, MSG Network might really have something. Last Friday in Detroit, sources said,...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
To: Bryant Gumbel From: Andrew Marchand Re: NFL Play-By-Play CC: Katie Couric Dear Bryant: Good for you. Unlike many of the top broadcasters, you were willing to try something new...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JAMAL MASHBURN
This week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN rookie NBA analyst Jamal Mashburn. After growing up next to Rucker Park in Harlem, Mashburn, 34, became an NBA All-Star....
DEMPS WILL NOT OFFER EXCUSES
He knows he must play better, but safety Will Demps does not believe he's alone in that regard. "I'm not saying I'm the only one," he said yesterday. "A lot...
TERMS LIMIT - METS FIND PRICE IS HIGH FOR STARTING PITCHERS
CONFIDENTIAL THE METS learned at this gathering that a trade for a 200-inning stalwart is going to be difficult, if not impossible, especially because they are averse to dealing Aaron...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Fishing is usually done from the bank of a river, not from the bank down the block. But that's where a resourceful thief in Bloomington, Ind., went to catch some...
THE 6TH QUESTION W/ JAMAL MASHBURN
By 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...