December 3, 2007
Phillips designated for assignment
The Yankees announced today that theyâve signed backup catcher Jose Molina to a two-year contract. To make room on the 40-man roster for Molina, the Bombers designated first baseman Andy...
Deal of the Day
If you're still on the hunt for a quality chunky cardigan, Vince is the label.They've churned out some really amazing knits this year, and this Cashmere Cocoon Sweater Coat is...
Ward likely out for season
APDerrick Ward, the Giantsâ leading rusher, suffered a broken leg Sunday against the Bears, and Tom Coughlin said today it looks like Ward is out for the season.Ward fractured his...
When Do Pitchers and Catchers Report?
By FRED KERBERWe loved Jason Kidd's assessment of where to start fixing the Nets."Sit down and close your eyes and pick anything you want. You can start anywhere. You can...
Scene
At the Russell Young show at Milk Gallery, Andrea Rajacic wears a French Connection dress, Zara shoes and a belt from the Middle East.Photo by Elizabeth Lippman ©11-27-07
Twins aren't happy
Andy Pettitte is on his way back to The Bronx.And the Twins reportedly are unhappy with Hank Steinbrenner's deadline on the Johan Santana trade talks.LIVE AT THE WINTER MEETINGS
Box Office: Will Smith Bags Another Monster Hit
Warner Bros. will be hauling in massive bucks with "I Am Legend,'' opening a week from Friday. It's full of "wow'' moments, beginning with Will Smith -- as a medical...
O'Malley gets into Hall
Former Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, who moved the team to Los Angeles in 1957, was today elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.And some people...
Making Strides
The last time the Rangers faced an opponent on a bad skid was early in the season when they lost to the 0-6 Thrashers, to the ire of Blueshirts fans....
Starr Report
Good sports: Mets ace Pedro Martinez (right) sits for an interview tonight (7 p.m.) on SNY's "SNY Spotlight," hosted by Kevin Burkhardt - who asks Pedro about the team's historic...
Pettite decides to return
Andy Pettitte has decided to return to the Yankees next season.Andy back for '08INSIDE THE WINTER MEETINGS
HAMMERINâ HANK
Got to hand it to Hank Steinbrenner, he is running the Yankees with a strong hand and is making sure other teams are not using the club just for leverage.Putting...
And Now, Without Further Ado -- My List of the Year's Best Movies!
No sense in keeping you in suspense: I've seen enough advance screenings to compile this alphabetical list of the 2007 releases I liked the most (I may or may not...
Oscar Watch: Mad Max
I don't do a lot of face to face interviews these days -- loitering around hotel lobbies has lost its allure -- but I couldn't resist the opportunity to meet...
SPLIT SHIFTS
ON Sunday evenings, when many 9-to-5ers are home resting up for the beginning of the work week, Brian Mulhern leaves his wife and daughter in Lawrence, Kan., and heads for...
GO TO GREG
Q.) I recently received my first annual salary raise, and it was a token 4 percent increase. My boss said I'm doing a good job and that this represents a...
60 SECONDS WITH
Between running restaurants such as Lever House and 44, publishing City magazine and marketing your E-boost energy supplement, you've got a lot of plates in the air. What's your advice...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
MODEL MAKERWhat does a model maker actually do all day? Model makers design to-scale models of new manufactured products before they are put on the market. They create models of...
HIRES AND LIARS
A resume is a modest document - a dry, page-long summary of achievements that, while failing to capture what writer Richard Price calls "the wonder of me," makes a serviceable...
TENDING BARS
CHRISTIAN Diez was born to be a bail-bond agent. His mother worked as an agent in Miami, and by the time he was 8, he knew he wanted to follow...
ALFRED WEGENER - FATHER OF THE CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY
WE really are one world, according to the findings of AlfredWegener, a guy who really knew his weather. Born on Nov. 1, 1880, in Germany, he received a Ph.D. in...
JINGLE BELL FROCK
PARTY girls of all shapes and sizes need pretty party dresses. With the holiday season in full swing, it's time to flex the plastic and score a couple of head-turners,...
'MOON' OVER MANHATTAN
It's OK to shoot for the "Moon" - only be quick about it. The new dress, by designer Roland Mouret, is out today exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman, and the store...
PULSE SALES
DEREK LAM 601 W. 26th St., suite 1750, between 11th and 12th avenues; (212) 929-1338 Sale: Dec. 6, 7. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Crinkle chiffon dress, $600 (reg. $1,850), Lurex-dot blouse,...
RAISING THE BARD
AN almost tearfully thankful air envel ops the stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater, when, to ward the end of Mark Lamos' emotionally charged production of "Cymbeline," the King declaims:...
ALL BALD UP, AND PLENTY OF PLACES TO GO
EVEN by Broadway standards, Michael Cerveris has had it sweet - a Tony, a tour with Pete Townshend, a backstage visit from Johnny Depp. But when all's said and sung,...
STARR REPORT
Pedro aces itGood sports: Mets ace Pedro Martinez sits for an interview tonight (7 p.m.) on SNY's "SNY Spotlight," hosted by Kevin Burkhardt - who asks Pedro about the team's...
POLKA PONZI PUZZLE
HOW could I resist watching a show with a title like "Mystery of the Polka King"? I was drawn to it like a dancer in a dirndl to an accordion....
OPRAH'S BIG NIGHT
WHY bother thinking anymore? Oprah Winfrey is here to do it for you. Is it a coincidence that this coming weekend she hits the campaign trail in support of Barack...
'DESPERATE' FANS WON'T GET ANSWERS SOON
HOLD on tight fans of "Desperate House wives," because you could be left hanging for a long time. Smacked by a tornado that left destruction and death (yes, but who?)...
TAKING IT TO THE MAX
LEGENDARY actor Max von Sydow laughs when I ask him about a report that he literally phoned in the year's most emotionally devastating scene in "The Diving Bell and the...
IMUS GAL A BLACK TEXAS NY 'JEW'
The black sidekick joining shock jock Don Imus on his return to the airwaves today is an Oxford-educated Texas cowgirl whose career has ranged from broadcast journalism to stand-up comedy,...
OUTRAGE OVER 9/11 CORONER
First responders who die from Ground Zero-related illnesses should get the same line-of-duty benefits as those who died on 9/11, a Brooklyn state senator said yesterday. Eric Adams, a Democrat,...
CAB COS. SEE RED ON GREEN
The taxi industry is uneasy being green. Mayor Bloomberg has mandated that all yellow taxis be hybrids within the next few years, but some in the industry vow to fight...
IN-DOG-NITO IN FLORIDA
It's more money, more problems for Leona Helmsley's $12 million dog, Trouble. The poor little rich bitch has been wintering in Florida after being targeted by death threats up North,...
CHESS KIDS ROOKED
For months, the kids at PS 70 in The Bronx have practiced mornings, afternoons and weekends for this week's National Scholastic chess championship in Houston. The only problem is, they...
TRUMP JR. WINS BACK HIS CONDO THRONE
Donald Trump Jr., you're (re)hired! After getting the boot from the condo board of his Trump Place apartment building last year, the eldest son of The Donald has been reinstated....
MAZEL TOV TO NEW OLD SHUL
The once-decaying Eldridge Street Synagogue yesterday celebrated a stunning restoration that spanned two decades and cost $20 million. A klezmer band, hundreds of congregants and city leaders, including state Assembly...
NJ WOES FOR REALTY 'ROB' GAL
One of two female open-house bandits is set for a court appearance today that could send her across the river to answer theft charges in New Jersey, her lawyer said...
NEW YEAR'S POTTY
Hap-pee New Year! New York's long-awaited public toilets will be ready for business at the start of 2008, and Madison Square Park gets the first, New York magazine reports. The...
PLASTIC-BAG 'TAX CREDIT'
Two city lawmakers are calling for tax credits for grocers to encourage them to conserve plastic bags. Several city proposals are on the table to reduce the use of plastic...
EMPIRE STATE 'BURGLAR' BUST
An office burglar was recently nabbed at the Empire State Building - after slipping past security at least eight times, authorities said yesterday. Marcin Malolepszy, 21, signed in under a...
RETRO SUBWAY OFFERS SOME 'LOCAL' HISTORY
It's deja-V all over again. The Nostalgia Train yesterday began shuttling straphangers along a portion of the V line - and back to a long-ago era when subway cars sported...
CHAIN REACTION
Cops now believe that a close pal of the rapper Fabolous was fatally stabbed trying to rob another man of a chain as part of a posse of poachers who...
HARLEM SHOWDOWN
The owner of Harlem's legendary Cotton Club has vowed to fight Columbia University, which wants to take over his hot spot to make way for its campus expansion. "The Cotton...
BRIDE IS DEAD BROKE
A murdered Long Island millionaire may have gotten the last laugh on his much-younger bride accused in his slaying - he left her virtually penniless. Sources said that even as...
EVEN OTB'S ODDS: POL
In an attempt to keep the city's Off-Track Betting Corp. from being shuttered, City Councilman David Weprin will introduce a resolution tomorrow calling on state lawmakers to negotiate a deal...
JUST PLANE FROZEN
It's going to be a bumpy ride today, with plummeting temperatures and powerful 50-mph gusts expected to cause air-traffic delays as a winter storm blasts across the northeast. The 25-mph...
PROMOTION FOR ACCUSED ABUSE COP
A police captain once charged with beating his then-high-ranking cop wife has been promoted. Shaun Roberts, 40, was one of six cops named deputy inspectors Friday by Commissioner Ray Kelly....
PRINCIPAL A DRAG
A Bronx principal raised more than just eyebrows with his pre-Halloween school get-up - he also raised his hemline. Students and parents at PS/MS 4 in Crotona Park alternately reported...
KICKED MAN SEEKS $2M FROM NYPD
A Brooklyn jury will decide this week whether to award $2 million to a Bedford-Stuyvesant man cops allegedly shoved down a flight of stairs while he was handcuffed. Clinton Browne,...
COME ON OUT!
City officials for the first time are specifically targeting gay and lesbian travelers, to help meet Mayor Bloomberg's goal of drawing 50 million visitors to the Big Apple by 2015,...
HIP HOTEL ON RISE IN B'KLYN
Here's the latest vision for a hip new boutique hotel coming soon to Downtown Brooklyn. Long Island City-based V3 Hotel is planning to break ground Dec. 11 on the $60...
$OME 'ENCHANTED' EVENINGS AT THE MOVIES
Moviegoers made the magic last, keeping the charmer "Enchanted" the weekend's top box-office draw, studio estimates showed yesterday. The Disney tale, which had the second-best Thanksgiving-weekend opening ever, pulled in...
CLINTON'S HOSTAGE ROLE
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton volunteered to personally negotiate with the crackpot who took over one of her New Hampshire campaign offices, she revealed yesterday. Clinton offered to speak directly to...
HILL GOES ON BARACK ATTACK
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton unleashed a blistering attack on Barack Obama's courage and character yesterday, accusing him of obscuring his position on health care and wielding a...
TWO MORE MEN CLAIM CRAIG SEX
Two men claiming to have had sex with Sen. Larry Craig went public about their alleged liaisons with the Idaho Republican, who has insisted since he was busted in a...
GUILT GRIPS SLAIN GRIDDER'S SISTER
Sean Taylor's half-sister believes she may have unwittingly told her brother's alleged killers that the NFL star would be an easy robbery target, a pal told The Post. Sasha Johnson,...
HEIGL KNOCKS 'KNOCKED'
"Grey's Anatomy" doc Katherine Heigl had a huge hit with the movie "Knocked Up," but the Emmy-winning actress now knocks the movie as "a little sexist," Vanity Fair reports. "It...
MAN SLAIN IN DRINK TIFF
An argument over a stolen drink at a popular Columbia University hangout early yesterday escalated into gunfire that killed a young father of three and wounded his older brother, authorities...
RED CROSS MAMA
The hot-blooded, married Southern belle at the heart of the American Red Cross sex scandal is pregnant - and shocked neighbors in her close-knit Gulf Coast town are dying to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan The body of a homeless woman was found in Washington Square Park early yesterday, police said. The unidentified woman, in her 40s, was discovered just before 2 a.m. at...
NEW BID TO SHUSH GRUMP OF THE LIRR
FREE John Clifford! Along the Nassau- to-Penn Station corridor, Clifford is hailed and ridiculed as the Long Island Rail Road Enforcer - a guy known to scream at, curse, dump...
SPITZER DEEPER IN MUCK
Gov. Spitzer was more deeply involved in the Dirty Tricks Scandal than he has publicly admitted - having gone as far as consulting with former Communications Director Darren Dopp before...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 382; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 5737; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 976; Lucky Sum: 22; Evening Win-4 Sun.: 7142; Lucky...
'KOZY STEPS UP
French President Nicholas Sarkozy re cently got a good taste of what he faces as he tries to reform his country's anemic, statist economy and handle its troublesome immigrant population....
ELIOT'S NEXT BAD IDEA
Singed from the firestorm ignited by his plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens, Gov. Spitzer appears poised to pump up his poll ratings with a public-policy payoff: universal...
CLASS-SIZE CANARD
WHEN Gov. Spitzer pledged to infuse $7 bil lion more in state fund ing to public schools over the next four years, he called on school districts getting the largest...
THE GROUND ZERO HEALTH-CARE MYTH
CONSIDERING all the recent hype, New Yorkers can be forgiven for thinking public officials take sickened 9/11 heroes to the mountains to die, as Spartans did with unhealthy babies. The...
HORRIBLE HUCK
ARTHUR Balfour, the British statesman, once said that a ri val's clarity was a liability because he had nothing to say. As the presidential nomination contests approach a crescendo, some...
WILL MUSHARRAF
DIPLOMATS at the US embassy in Islamabad could hardly believe what President Bush said to anchor Charles Gibson on ABC "World News" Nov. 20. He described Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf...
FLUFF: THE FUTURE OF DEBATES
Hats off to those Republican candidates who were willing to venture into the treacherous territory of CNN ("Battling the Past," Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, Nov. 29). I didn't watch the whole...
TAG TEAM BILL & HILL: FLIP-FLOPPING INTO OFFICE
Clintonian ethics have always been about playing to the crowd and letting the community down. This is just the next installment of the Clintons' dog-patch politics ("Same Old Bill," Editorial,...
CRUSHING BEAR HUG FOR HEDGE HONCHO
The Bear Stearns portfolio manager who kicked off the deepening bond market crisis is trying to move on with his life and launch a hedge fund, but a worried Bear...
BLADE RUNNER
All the chatter about Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey getting fired - which was all anyone in Hollywood could talk about during the former talent agent's initial 18 months on...
VIVENDI PLAYS 'HERO' IN $18.9B ACTIVISION DEAL
Vivendi CEO Jean-Bernard Lévy is officially the world's biggest "Guitar Hero" fan. His company yesterday announced an $18.9 billion deal to acquire a majority stake in Activision, parent of the...
TELLING GOOD FROM B-ADS
Plenty of people believe there are a lot of bad ads on television, but proving it is another matter. A widespread system for rating and comparing all TV spots has...
IT'S ALL ABOUT TESTOSTERONE
As we at Media City have long believed, men are far more complex than they're portrayed, and that is reflected in this week's crop of men's magazines, which cover everything...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Crank Dat, Soulja Boy 2. Bartender, T-pain 3. Cyclone, Baby Bash 4. No One, Alicia Keys 5. So Small, Carrie Underwood 6. I Do, Lil' O...
TRANSCRIPT: IMUS RETURNS TO RADIO
Don Imus returned to airwaves after being fired for referring to the women's basketball team at Rutgers as "nappy-headed hos." This morning he talked about the incident, according to a...
ACCUSED TRIPLE MURDERER DONS ASIAN ACCENT DURING TESTIMONY
Accused triple-murderer Stephen Sakai made a bizarre spectacle of himself on the stand today as he testified in his own defense -- effecting a Charlie Chan-style Asian accent and claiming...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE: Pelini hiredBo Pelini, the defensive coordinator at LSU, was hired yesterday as Nebraska's football coach. It's the first head-coaching job for the 39-year-old Pelini, who spent three years at...
KING CURTIS REIGNS OVER PSAL
It didn't matter that his quarterback had lost two fumbles, thrown an interception and been a step slower than usual on a snowswept Midwood Field yesterday. With his team trailing...
IT'S BCS MADNESS
ALBERT Einstein once gave this definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." And you wonder why the Bowl Championship Series system...
BRODEUR SAVES THE DAY
The Devils last night found a new way to win this season, rediscovering triumph in the realm beyond regulation. Now only four points behind the conference leaders, it reminded these...
WARD LIKELY OUT FOR SEASON
CHICAGO - The best game of Derrick Ward's career turned into what likely was his final game of the season. Ward, the productive but injury-plagued running back, finally started in...
GIANTS STOP DEVIN
CHICAGO - The Giants kept their word yesterday afternoon and kept the ball away from Devin Hester in their 21-16 come-from-behind victory over the Bears at Soldier Field. Hester had...
GIANTS BEAR-LY AWAKEN IN TIME
CHICAGO - Eli Manning was leading the Giants to ruin. Then he led them to victory. A stunning, improbable victory the Giants needed almost as badly as Manning did. "It...
ELI FINALLY SHOWS SOME FOUR-TITUDE
CHICAGO - Until it became time to win the game, Eli Manning was losing the game again, maybe losing the faith of his team, maybe taking Tom Coughlin and the...
JONES SNAPS TD DROUGHT
MIAMI - Thomas Jones scored a touchdown yesterday. Why is that news? Because he had gone 225 carries and 20 receptions - 245 total touches on offense - without scoring...
ZERO-SUM GAIN FOR AWFUL 'PHINS
MIAMI - There was one mo ment, midway through the third quarter, that beautifully encapsulated precisely what a game between an 0-11 team and a 2-9 team should look like....
JETS SQUISH WINLESS FISH
MIAMI - With their best Eric Mangini poker faces - ones that showed precious little emotion and revealed even less about whatactually is on their minds - the Jets quietly...
HILL TOO HIGH FOR KNICKS
Grant Hill only can shake his head at the sad state of the Knicks. Rejuvenated in Phoenix after a nightmarish, injury-filled stint in Orlando, Hill took time out to sympathize...
STEPH'S LOSS BIGGER THAN HOOP GAME
A5-10 November finally had passed with Stephon Marbury back in the Knicks' starting lineup, coexisting with, if no longer loving, Isiah Thomas, coming off two good games out of three....
STEPH TRAGEDY
The Knicks' season turned tragic last night as a grieving Stephon Marbury was escorted out of the Garden by five security guards after learning his father, Donald Sr., died during...
HILL'S FOURTH-QUARTER SURGE SINKS KNICKS
Grant Hill only can shake his head at the sad state of the Knicks. Rejuvenated in Phoenix after a nightmarish, injury-filled stint in Orlando, Hill took time out to sympathize...
BIGGER ROLE COULD BE IN JAMES' FUTURE
With Eddy Curry turning into a November disappointment on both ends of the court, Knicks coach Isiah Thomas is - believe it or not - eyeing center Jerome James' return...
CALL 'EM THE NJ NOTS
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - No denying it. The Nets are getting better. Last night, they didn't fall behind by 10 points until :00.7 remained in the first half. Believe it....
KIDD NIXEDON NEW PACT
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Jason Kidd insisted last night he did not ask for a contract extension, though several sources confirmed the Net captain's camp sought an extra year but...
BLUESHIRTS HAVE ASSETS FOR BIG DEAL
So how about this: The Rangers' lineup tonight at the Garden against Carolina will include 10 players age 26 or younger, and there are another half-dozen apparent blue-chippers age 23...
DEADLINE DAY
Today is the day. Either the Twins will trade Johan Santana to the Yankees, or the Yanks are pledging to withdraw from the negotiations. Hank Steinbrenner told The Post last...
ALL ABOUT MONEY FOR YANKEES
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Yankees are at $400 million and counting this offseason, heading toward guaranteeing more than a half a billion dollars if they are able to secure the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It was better late than never for an 86-year-old Wisconsin woman who never got her Girl Scout Golden Eaglet Award - because she woke up with the mumps 69 years...
Marbury's father suffers heart attack during game
By MARC BERMANCan the Knicksâ season take any more grief?The death of Stephon Marburyâs father, Donald Sr., who suffered an apparent heart attack at the Garden while watching the Phoenix...
MMA Fighter Dies From Injuries
Mixed martial arts suffered its first death in a regulated event. Mixed martial arts has suffered its first death in a regulated event. Samuel Vasquez, 35, of Houston died Friday,...