January 22, 2008
Oh, no! Eli on SI cover
If the Giants believe in jinxes, they could be in trouble come Super Bowl Sunday.Sports Illustrated has put suddenly Super QB Eli Manning on the cover of its upcoming edition,...
Report: Brady has high ankle sprain
The Boston Herald reports Tom Brady has a mild high ankle sprain that is not expected to pose a problem for the NFLâs MVP moving forward toward the Super Bowl...
Heath Ledger (1979-2008)
I was in the security line at Salt Lake City International Airport when I got the news that Heath Ledger was found dead today in his Lower Manhattan apartment of...
LeBron's shoe will drop
APLeBron James loves the Yankees â from head to toe.The Cavaliersâ All-Star forward, who angered some Cleveland fans by wearing a Yankees baseball cap in the Indiansâ home ballpark while...
Dodgers move Mattingly
APDon Mattingly wonât be alongside Joe Torre in the Dodgersâ dugout every game this year.Mattingly will be moved from hitting coach for the Dodgers to major league special assignment coach...
Stepping Up While Patiently Waiting For Help
By FRED KERBERHere's the nutshell version of today's stuff:Vince Carter says the Big Three must do more but so does everybody else to turn around the Nets who figure to...
Bracing for ticket crush
APThe crush of ticket requests is sure to blitz Big Blue as they prepare for the Super Bowl showdown in the Arizona desert with the undefeated Patriots.In addition to family...
Fassel fave for Skins' job
APJim Fassel has become a top candidate for the Redskins coaching job after a third interview with owner Dan Snyder.The former Giants coach met with Snyder on Monday, according to...
HEATH LEDGER DEAD
Actor Heath Ledger was found dead today in a Broome Street apartment, apparently from a drug overdose. Ledger was well known for his role in "Brokeback Mountain," and he stars...
New "Alone in the Dark" trailer
Ta-da! Very atmospheric.
Congress subpoenas Knoblauch
By BRIAN COSTELLOChuck Knoblauch might not want to answer his door for a few days.The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed the former Yankees second baseman today after he...
Mara's Memory Inspires Eli
Eli Manning keeps a picture in his locker. It's not of his older brother Peyton or his father Archie.It's of Wellington Mara, the late Giants owner.READ GEORGE WILLIS
Canseco sequel March 31
APJose Cansecoâs sequel on steroids, entitled âVindicated,â will be released March 31.Canseco is working with Pablo Fenjves, the ghost writer of âIf I Did It,â in which O.J. Simpson gave...
Free game for you
Seriously, they're just giving it away. This week's XBLA game is going to be freeee...for a limited time, of course. You'll be able to get your dinero-less copy of "Undertow"...
Sundance: Not So Live From Park City
In case you missed it elsewhere on the Post's sprawling website, here's a video I taped over the weekend at the Eccles Center.
Scene
At the Project NYC fashion trade show, Maggie Rugh wears a cute denim dress by Cassidy, a wide waist belt, hat from Grace hats and a pink Banana Republic turtleneck....
Vote or Die
For the XBLA Awards, of course.To honor those talented folks behind the more than 112 XBLA games, Microsoft is going to give out awards for the top XBLA games of...
Endy gets two-year deal
APOutfielder Endy Chavez agreed today to a $3.85 million, two-year contract with the Mets. Chavez, who made $1,725,000 last year, gets $1.8 million this season and $2.05 million in 2009....
Sundance: 'Henry,' 'Hamlet' Break the Ice
After several days of draught, the Sundance Film Festival yesterday recorded its first major sale, with Focus Features buying âHamlet 2ââ in the wee hours after a bidding war with...
AMY WINEHOUSE SEEN IN DRUG VIDEO
Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse is seen in a newly released video allegedly doing a variety of drugs in her London apartment. The video, first released by British tab The...
ESCAPES: Naples, Fla.
Make this the winter you hit the white sandy beaches of Naples, Fla. Not much more than an hour from Miami and a world away, we think that Naples never...
Liveblogging the Oscar Noms: Academy Not Wild About 'Wild'
There was little love shown today for "Into the Wild,'' which was snubbed for Best Picture while Sean Penn failed to get nods as director or sceenwriter, and Eddie Vedder's...
Liveblogging the Oscar noms: Simpsons snubbed
To everyone's surprise, Sony's "Surf's Up'' will compete for Best Animated Picture against "Ratatouille'' (a prohibitive favorite with three other nods) and the French-Iranian "Persepolis.'' The "Surf's Up'' slot was...
Liveblogging the Oscar noms: Saluting the Flops
Box-office failure didn't stop the actors branch from nominating Tommy Lee Jones as Best Actor for "In the Valley of Elah'' or Cate Blanchett as Best Actress for "Elizabeth: The...
Liveblogging the Oscars: 'The Savages' Surprises
Blogging from Sundance a year ago, I predicted Oscar nominations for Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Savages,'' a quote that Fox Searchlight ran in many ads. So...
Liveblogging the Oscar noms: The Big Surprises
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the morning is the inclusion of Jason Reitman as Best Director for "Juno,'' which was widely considered an accomplishment mainly by Ellen Page and Diablo...
Liveblogging the Oscar Noms: 'No Country,' 'Blood' Leading
"No Country for Old Men'' and "There Will Be Blood'' each grabbed eight nominations, including Best Picture "Atonement,'' the former Oscar front runner, was just behind with seven. But it's...
LIVEBLOG: Palazzo Las Vegas
We here in Travel will have neither truck nor trade with those who hate Las Vegas. Because people who hate Vegas just aren't fun. Or something. Every now and then,...
BRAD BLANTON'S RADICAL HONESTY
STADTMILLER: Are people picking up on this movement now more than ever? BLANTON: Yeah, there's some big thing going on across the whole world. I don't know what it is,...
AMSTERDAM
Today's page looks at Amsterdam, one of the most well-planned cities in northern Europe. It is the capital of the Netherlands and the most popular, with 750,000 residents and nearly...
THE TRUTH FAIRY
I'VE been insulting people all day long. "Don't you feel like you're wasting your life?" I ask 19-year-old busker Susannah Berard on the subway. "Don't you feel the whole hippie-chick...
BEST BEDINGFIELD
IT'S a girl's prerogative to change her mind, her look and even the songs on her sophomore album. Just ask Natasha Bedingfield. This red-hot blond pop star said her 2004...
BLIND, WITH A VISION
GROWING up in the Jim Crow South and singing gospel from 1939, Jimmy Carter saw plenty of things most people would rather forget. But Carter, one of the two original...
MPFREE
DOWNLOAD these free MP3s through Friday at nypost.com: * Blind Boys of Alabama, "Free at Last" Martin Luther King Jr. referred to this "old Negro spiritual" in his historic "I...
HUMOR JUSTIFIES THE SCENES
NICCOLO Machiavelli wrote more than that legendary political treatise "The Prince." His rollicking sex comedy, "The Mandrake," now playing at the Pearl Theatre, shows that the 16th-century writer famed for...
AVOID THE SCAMS BY KNOWING THEM
'THE Real Hustle" aims to let you in on some of the nastiest scams around - most of which are tied in some manner to identity theft. Among the top...
'HUSTLE' AND FLOW
EXPOSING the hustle while working the hustle isn't ex actly a new concept to reality TV, but "The Real Hustle," TruTV's new show, is still an entertaining way to spend...
SHOWS THEY'RE GLAAD ABOUT
THE biggest gay organization in the country loves "Ugly Betty" and "Desperate Housewives." The two dramas were among several yesterday that snagged nominations for this year's GLAAD Media Awards. Special...
HAZEY DAZE
WITH much of the na tion in a deep freeze, relations between Hollywood producers and striking writers might be ready for a thaw. The two sides are reportedly trying to...
ETCH-A-STRETCH
THE venerable Etch-a- Sketch toy is going 21st century. The low-tech drawing game that has entertained generations of kids - long before video games ever existed - is now a...
'NEW YORK AND I TO WED IN VEGAS'
NEW York could be heading down the aisle - in Vegas. Tiffany Pollard, the star of the hit VH1 reality show "I Love New York," could marry the winner of...
IT LOOKS LIKE NO BIG DEAL
PARK CITY, Utah - An expected gold rush has so far failed to materialize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. For the first time in years, the fest's first weekend...
SKIN-DEEP BEAUTY SURFACES AFTER PEEL
BOTOX and skin plump ers have enjoyed a place on the "hot" list for the past few years, so the focus on facial rejuvenation has definitely shifted from the operating...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Dungy sticks with Colts The Colts said Tony Dungy will remain as their head coach through at least the 2008 season before turning over the coaching to hand-picked successor...
'GO-GO' SINGS WINNING 'SONG'
Twelve years ago, Jim Ryerson trained one of the best ever, a big gray colt named Unbridled Song who romped in the Florida Derby and Wood Memorial, and ran a...
NYRA GETS EXTENSION
The New York Racing Association, which received a three-week extension to continue racing at Aqueduct when its franchise expired Dec. 31, yesterday reached an agreement with the state and the...
CURLIN HORSE OF YEAR
The winners of the 2007 Eclipse Awards for outstanding performance in thoroughbred racing were announced last night at the annual Eclipse Awards dinner in Beverly Hills. Curlin, who did not...
SULLYING MLK'S MEMORY
NICE to see Quentin Richardson and Paul Pierce celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy by getting ejected from yesterday's Knicks' loss to the Celtics and then challenging each other to...
'NOT THIS YEAR'
To fully understand the level of euphoria behind the Patriots' AFC Championship game victory over the Chargers on Sunday you must turn the clock back to last January in Indianapolis....
DEVS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
PHILADELPHIA - Five weeks remain to complete the construction of a contender. Don't be surprised if Lou Lamoriello joins the Kings' auction of Rob Blake or perhaps grabs Brad Stuart...
COUGHLIN NOT YET READY TO GIVE PAT ANSWERS
Tom Coughlin was positively jubilant yesterday as he recounted the Giants' captivating 23-20 overtime victory over the Packers in the NFC Championship game. But Coughlin grew far more restrained when...
CAN YOU SAY UPSET?
THE first reaction, for those who do not bleed Big Blue blood, for those who do not drink blue-tinted Kool-Aid, is a good, loud scoffing. The Giants? You think the...
COOL UNDER FIRE
QUARTERBACKS A No cold-hand Eli here, as Manning (21 of 40, 254 yards) overcame the frigid condi tions with hot passing and gorgeous throws. No turnovers again and so calm...
REFLECT & REFRESH
Tired and refreshed all at once, finally thawed and still flush with victory, Eli Manning yesterday - unbeknownst to him - delivered the State of the Giants address, needing barely...
RING FOR ELI WOULD BE MANNINGS' GREATEST PEY DAY
THE call came amid the Giants celebration of an improbable trip to the Super Bowl. No one heard the cell phone ring. "Congratulations bro," was left on Eli Manning's voicemail...
BEATA-BILL
THE Giants have played The Perfect Game in a Super Bowl once, and now they will have to do it again. Only this time, Bill Belichick is the enemy. Which...
LAWRENCE LEGEND
Lawrence Tynes wasn't at Giants Stadium yesterday, owing to what Tom Coughlin said was "flu-like or something, because his stomach was off." One can only imagine what would have been...
TOOMER STILL FEELS PAIN OF '01 SUPER LOSS
Amani Toomer still gets queasy reminiscing about the Giants' last appearance in the Super Bowl. He probably should. "I remember after the game we ran inside and I saw [Ravens...
BAHR ON CLOUD 9 AFTER FIELD GOAL
Lawrence Tynes is the second No. 9 to kick the Giants into a Super Bowl. The first was home in Pittsburgh on Sunday, rooting like heck for his former team....
KNICKS, CELTS GET GET DOWN & DIRTY
If there is any genuine dislike between the Knicks and Celtics, any of the hatred the two cities feel for each other simmering in the players' hearts, it was embodied...
BOSTON BEATDOWN
FACE it, Boston doesn't just luv New York. Boston owns New York. The Celtics hammered the Knicks, 109-93, yesterday at the Garden, again exposing the soft underbelly of the Knicks'...
KNICKS KO'D
Forget about Boston's Big 3. It got so bad yesterday, the Knicks and Isiah Thomas were shown up by Celtics journeyman guard Eddie House and marginal center Kendrick Perkins. During...
SECURITY BOOTS FAN, RESTRAINS REPORTERS
While three reporters waited to speak with Giants receiver Plaxico Burress in the Garden rotunda at halftime, they witnessed a fan being ejected from the building for apparently hurling an...
NETS' SKID LOOKS FIT FOR KINGS
SACRAMENTO - The Nets came west bright-eyed, convinced they could reverse their ill-fated fortunes. They were so hopeful, so optimistic. Don't you just hate seeing all that hope and optimism...
NO TOM FOR TRADE
The Rangers have spent the first 49 games of the 2007-08 season in the same manner they spent much of the 2006-07 season - underachieving and flirting with missing the...
FIR SURE!
LOCATED in the northernmost part of New Hampshire, about 20 miles from the Canadian border, the sleepy village of Dixville Notch is known for two things. First, it is where...
BACK TO BASICS
WOLF CREEK | Pagosa Springs, Co. Here, sunscreen isn't just a bright idea - it's an order. The base is nearly two miles high, to say nothing of the summit....
POD ALMIGHTY
YOU have heard of hotels changing their name. You have probably not heard of a hotel changing its location. But Whitepod, a popular eco resort high in the Swiss Alps...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
This promises to be a roller-coaster year, the kind where you are up one day and down the next. The thing to remember is that although your emotions may be...
GOV LOW MAN ON TOTEM POLL
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's standing with New Yorkers has improved slightly since hitting rock bottom in December, but only 27 percent want him re-elected, a new poll yesterday showed. The...
RANDI THREATENS TO DIG IN
A battle over evaluating educators is threatening to sink an unusually buoyant collaborative streak between the teachers union and city officials. United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten promised a...
PROBE TO FERRET OUT DIRTY-DEALING NARCS
Investigators are poring over the thousands of arrests made by Brooklyn South narcotics cops over the past two years to see if more nimble-fingered narcs are stealing cash and coke...
DRILL & FILL 'SCAM'
ALBANY - Five New York City dentists - including one who claimed to have done 270 fillings in a single day - should be investigated for bilking the Medicaid system,...
GREAT SCOT, SAYS MOM
Perhaps no one got a greater kick out of the Giants' Lawrence Tynes' game-winning field goal than his mom in the Florida Panhandle. "I was over the moon. I was...
SCRAMBLE STARTS FOR SUPER TIX
Getting to the Super Bowl was tough the Giants, but it will be even harder for their fans. They paid as much as $10,000 for a ticket to the big...
FLOWERY TOM A POSY PATSIE
Tom Brady hasn't been brutally beaten down by the Giants yet - but at least the petal-pushing flower boy is limping. The cocky quarterback for the undefeated* New England Patriots...
10 SAVED FROM FIRE IN HARLEM
Firefighters yesterday rescued 10 people, including three kids, who'd fled a four-alarm blaze in Harlem but got trapped on a fire escape. There were two minor injuries to firefighters after...
PIPE-BOMB 'NAZI'
The Brooklyn ex-con arrested for stashing an arsenal of weapons in his posh apartment confessed to another crime yesterday - blanketing his neighborhood with swastikas last fall, police said. Ivaylo...
POLL: NY DUO IN FOR A SHOCK
ALBANY - A new poll shows Barack Obama beating Hillary Rodham Clinton among African-American New York Democrats - and Arizona's John McCain topping ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani in his own back...
D'AMATO DUMPS FRED FOR MCCAIN
Former US Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, Fred Thompson's top New York supporter, is set to switch sides as soon as today and endorse John McCain for president, The Post has learned....
MAN SLAIN IN TIMES SQ.
One man was killed and five others wounded early yesterday in a knife attack that erupted near Times Square 30 minutes after a dispute at a nightclub, authorities said. The...
GOV BUDGET IS $OARING
ALBANY - Despite a looming $4.4 billion deficit, Gov. Spitzer today is expected to propose a record 2008-09 state budget that raises spending by about 5 percent. Spitzer yesterday said...
NOW HE IS A HOLY LANDLORD
A notorious Brooklyn landlord, whose shoddy track record includes owning the Greenpoint Terminal Market, which burned down under mysterious circumstances in 2006, now claims he's doing God's work through a...
IPHONE DOPES IN CELL
Two thieving truckers heisted 300 Hong Kong-bound iPhones they were transporting to Kennedy Airport, and then stuffed the empty boxes with shredded paper in a ruse that fooled New York...
KID-TAUNT TAPE LEGAL
An audio recording of a school-bus matron taunting a mute, autistic Staten Island boy as he banged his head can now be admitted as evidence in the woman's prosecution. The...
'SEX' MOM & 'POT' RAPS IN STORE
A former Rockland County prosecutor who is married to a police chief finds herself on the other side of the law today when she answers charges of having had sex...
CHURCH BANDIT HUNTED
A woman burglarized a Midtown church twice, authorities said last night. The woman, who was caught on surveillance cameras at St. Agnes Church on East 43rd Street, walked through the...
DARTH E-VADER
Hundreds of al Qaeda supporters and other kooks submitted questions to the group's No. 2 fiend after he promised to take part in an "online interview." But Ayman al-Zawahiri hasn't...
SIMON WENT BUGGY OVER BRIT SPY
It's easy to bug Simon Cowell with a lousy performance, but someone tried it the old-fashioned way - planting a listening device on the set of the prickly judge's English...
STRUM THING'S UP
Rock 'n' roll fantasy is now a billion-dollar business. Activision announced yesterday that its hit "Guitar Hero" video game series - which turns players into virtual rock stars - has...
FLAGGING DOWN 'TAXI OF TOMORROW'
The city has gone car shopping in Detroit - for taxi cabs, officials revealed yesterday. The Taxi and Limousine Commission sent reps to the Detroit Auto Show last Tuesday to...
PATS* FANS CHEAT THEIR HEARTS OUT
Asterisks don't go with Roman numerals. With New England all abuzz over its team's shot at football immortality, Giants fans gearing up for Super Bowl XLII know their boys in...
DR. PHIL'S HALF-BAKED 'SORRY' OVER BRITNEY BLAB
Dr. Phil apologized to his fans - but not to Britney Spears or her family - for blabbing about the pop wreck's mental break down. TV shrink Phil McGraw conceded...
NADER SET TO MAKE DEMS 'RRRALPH'
Not again!! Third-party gadfly candidate Ralph Nader, whom Democrats still blame for handing the White House to President Bush in 2000, is mulling another bid this year. "I'll decide in...
YANK A HIT FOR RUDY
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Yankee star Johnny Damon played political hardball yesterday by endorsing Rudy Giuliani for president. Damon, a Republican who lives in Florida, said going to bat for Giuliani...
BARACK VS. HILL: IT'S WAR
MYRTLE BEACH, SC - The bitter political feud between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama boiled over into full-blown personal attacks last night, as the rivals accused each other of...
'NORBIT' SO BAD, IT'S GOOD
Some actors are a triple threat - to their own careers. Case in point: Eddie Murphy and Lindsay Lohan, who yesterday topped the best of Hollywood's worst list by scoring...
HAIL KING'S TREASURE
Hundreds crowded Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta yesterday, joining millions across the nation and the world in celebrating the civil-rights leader and his legacy. "We would...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A group of thugs struck a man with a bottle and ripped off his pants and his money during a robbery in the West Village, police said. Four men...
THERE'S A METHOD TO CRAFTY BILL'S MADNESS
WHY is Bill Clinton courting such intense publicity, in evitably much of it negative? Is he crazy? Crazy like a fox. He has two goals and is achieving them both...
BYE-BYE, BERNIE
THIS time, the corpse was undeniably dead. In life, Virgilio Cintron never had it so good. Clean suit. Fresh flowers. Warm bed. But no pulse. During the time on this...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 942; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 6779; Lucky Sum: 29/ Evening Nos. Mon.: 986; Lucky Sum: 23; Evening Win-4 Mon.: 4205; Lucky Sum:...
BRUISING BARACK'S FEELINGS
Barack Obama apparently is feeling a bit put-upon these days, what with the one-two punch he's been taking of late from the Bill and Hillary Clinton political machine. Indeed, the...
KEEP RAHEEM ON ICE
A state Parole Board panel meets today with one last chance to keep notori ous cop-killer Shuaib Raheem behind bars. It's an opportunity the panel must take - no ifs,...
NEXT VICTIM: THE PATRIOTS
As rivalries go, it's not quite Boston- New York - but Foxborough-East Rutherford will do. Sunday night, the New York Giants spotted the Green Bay Packers home-ice advantage and won...
THE BILL FACTOR
IN full psychoanalytical mode, Bill Clinton once observed, "I was born at 16, and I'll al ways feel I'm 16." In this, he displayed unusually acute self-awareness. After two terms...
THE GREAT BLACK-HISPANIC SPLIT
FIERCE fighting over the minority vote may be the real surprise of the '08 Democratic race, with many blacks gravitating to Sen. Barack Obama and Hispanics to Sen. Hillary Clinton....
STIMULUS STUPIDITY
WITH the threat of reces sion looming, President Bush last week pro posed a huge "stimulus" package of almost $150 billion. Bush hopes to deliver $100 billion in tax cuts...
ELIOT STIFFS ETHICS IN STEM-CELL TIFF
NEW York's new Empire State Stem-Cell Board has opted to ig nore the advice of its own ethics committee. Those of us on the committee are left wondering if the...
ROMNEY'S MORMONISM: NOT A MATTER FOR DEBATE
The headline "The Mormon, the Merrier" (Jan. 16) is outrageous. Is it your intention to continue to use religion as a position in these elections? Grow up, Post. We are...
GOP'S SUBPRIME WANNABES
Michelle Malkin wants a president who will stick it to the greedy homeowners who are struggling to pay their mortgages ("I Need a Real Man for Prez," Jan. 18). From...
WORLD OF HURT
Wall Street is bracing for a tidal shock wave following a punishing stock rout that rampaged across the globe yesterday. Shares toppled like dominos, pushing down stocks as much as...
CHINA'S BANKS SINK ON SUBPRIME WOE
China's banks are likely to take a bath on the junk mortgage bets they bought from Wall Street, causing their shares to plunge in a panic sell-off yesterday. Analysts downgraded...
WHAT I'D DO WITH THAT $150B TAX REBATE
DEAR President Bush: My mom always told me to write thank you notes whenever someone gives me a gift. And since it looks as if you soon will be sending...
A SIXTH SENSE
Gossip mag publisher American Media found itself roiled again yesterday following the sudden ouster of Chief Financial Officer John Craven. Craven will be replaced by Dean Durbin, former CEO and...
SORRELL, WPP HIT TAKEOVER ROADBLOCK
WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell, long considered a consummate dealmaker, is being thwarted in his latest takeover attempt. Sorrell made an unsolicited bid for Canadian Web firm Nurun, seeking to...
BOO-HOO @ YAHOO!: 700 COULD BE AXED
As it fights back rival giants Google and Microsoft from stealing more of its online turf, Yahoo! is tightening its belt by laying off about 700 workers. Sources yesterday said...
MISSED TARGET
Down-on-its-luck discounter Target said its comparable sales this month will likely decline, as increasingly wallet-conscious shoppers shun its "cheap chic" fashions and housewares. The Minneapolis-based retailer, which suffered a blow...
MAKING A STATE-MENT
ONE of downtown's most interesting properties is about to hit the sale market: 17 State St., the 42-story, 570,000 square foot office tower with a unique curved glass façade overlooking...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
What a-wake! Mourners paying their last respects to an 81-year-old man in Chile were stunned when he woke up in his coffin. Feliberto Carrasco had been presumed dead when relatives...
And the Winner is....
By MARC BERMANEven four Giants defrosting on celebrity row today couldn't spark the Knicks over the Celtics. Those guys must be diehard Knicks fans to head to the Garden after...
Mara's Memory Inspires Eli
Eli Manning keeps a picture in his locker. It's not of his older brother Peyton or his father Archie. It's of Wellington Mara, the late Giants owner."He's still a part...