November 22, 2008
Paulie's Big Moment Arrives
Brooklyn's Paulie Malignaggi vs. Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas for first time in the biggest fight of his career.By GEORGE WILLISLAS VEGAS--Paulie Malignaggi knew this day would come, the day...
Press-room musings
By MARC BERMANJust arrived at the Garden press room after flying in from Milwaukee and I see a stack of the game-night programs for tonight's battle vs. the Wizards.I just...
BEATING TITANS IS ALL THAT MATTERS TO FAVRE
THE Jets are on the cusp of accomplishing something momentous, and yet a significant focus this week has been what Brett Favre's plans are for next year. This is preposterous....
OBAMA ECONOMIC PLAN AIMS FOR 2.5M NEW JOBS BY 2011
Let's make a New New Deal. Echoing FDR's stewardship following the Great Depression, President-elect Barack Obama today unveiled a bold "economic recovery plan" that he said would create 2.5 million...
PIRATE EXPERT: 'IT'S ANARCHY'
Over the past week, the West has been taken aback by rampant pirate activity off the coast of Africa - specifically, by the lo-fi capture of a gargantuan Saudi supertanker...
DRUGS, GUNS AND A COUPLE MORE WIVES
A visit to the remote coastal village of Eyl in Somalia, videotaped by a tourist in 2006 and posted on YouTube, notes that only two cars had visited the "lost...
Oscar Watch: Actors May Have Lots of Extra Time to Watch Screeners
Talks between the Screen Actors Guild and the majors collapsed early today and SAG will likely hold a strike authorization vote in 30 to 45 days, Variety reports. And we...
KING BLOOMBERG
When Mayor Bloomberg deployed his vast personal and political power to overturn the term limits law, he began to demystify the public relations image he had purchased at considerable expense....
Oscar Watch: Weinsteins Cut Jobs, But Apparently Not Trade Ads for 'The Reader'
The axe fell at the Weinstein Co., with 24 employees getting pink slipped and 200 very nervous people remaining. "Last year, amid speculation that the studio was running out of...
SNAPS: Aventura, FL
The winter winds are blowing here at the Fairmont Turnberry Isle pleasure palace (& Spa) in Aventura, Florida. Small mercies: You still don't need a jacket; a vast improvement over...
Box Office: 'Twilight' Could Do $70M While 'Bolt' Underwhelms
Catherine Hardwicke's ''Twilight'' took in a bloodthirsty $33 million on Friday including $7.5 million in midnight shows Thursday night, Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls is projecting. He predicts the weekend...
BX. BEEP EYED
WASHINGTON - Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión is in the running to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development. His name has been floated by critics unhappy with President-elect...
STOX SOAR AFTER TREASURY PICK
President-elect Barack Obama will tap New York Federal Reserve Bank head Tim Geithner as his powerful new treasury secretary to heal an ailing economy - and the stock market reacted...
GAMER IS IN PLAY FOR FCC
One of President-elect Barack Obama's top possible picks for the Federal Communications Commission is no mere techie but a "Tauren Shaman" healer. Kevin Werbach, a University of Pennsylvania business professor,...
O TEAM DRIVING THEM TO 'BANKRUPTCY'
Barack Obama's transition team is exploring a fast-track bankruptcy for the Big Three US automakers, sources say. The team is looking into a prepackaged bankruptcy, in which each of the...
HILL'S NOW THE SEC'Y OF WAIT!
WASHINGTON - The circus engulfing Hillary Rodham Clinton's possible nomination to be secretary of state went to a full three rings yesterday as her confidants began spreading word that it...
OSAMA'S NOT THE MAGIC TICKET
THE ISSUE:Barack Obama's promise to catch Osama bin Laden and stamp out al Qaeda. Ralph Peters says that instead of promising to kill Osama bin Laden and eliminate al Qaeda,...
NOT THAT INNOCENT: DUPRE'S PUBLICITY STUNT
THE ISSUE:Eliot Spitzer's former call girl Ashley Dupre's recent media tour. If Ashley Dupre were really sorry, her picture would not be on the front page of The Post, and...
LIMITS OF SUCCESS
OUR first president set the precedent of relinquishing power he could have had for life and returning to his farm. Two of our greatest presidents were struck down, Abraham Lincoln...
ANSWERING THE GOP'S HISPANIC DILEMMA
REPUBLICANS are worried that their failure to attract Hispanic voters in this year's election spells trouble, perhaps for decades. But what to do about it? Party moderates are pushing for...
OBAMA'S FUTILE WAR ON LOBBYISTS
Barack Obama promised the end of the era of lobbying as we know it during the campaign, but the National Marine Manufacturers Association didn't get the message. Nor did the...
BATTLE OVER THE BOOTY
LONDON - Armed men from different Somali factions are descending on the country's pirate coast, raising fears that a battle is looming over millions of dollars in ransom cash being...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 753; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 1034; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Nos. Fri: 072;Lucky Sum: 9 Evening Win- 4 Fri: 3202; Lucky...
SPACE ODDITY LAUNCHES $UIT
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Eccentric Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer space and spent $21 million to make it happen. Now...
NO AUTO IN$URANCE
Nearly half of Americans would prefer that the Big Three automakers go out of business rather than rescue the sputtering companies with taxpayer dollars, a new poll shows. The loss...
SHE'S LIKE A VIRGIN AGAIN
Madonna lives in a material world - and her estranged hubby, Guy Ritchie, reportedly won't be taking any of it away with him as the ill-fated power couple ended their...
JACKO'S ASSETS ARE 'FROZEN'
Michael Jackson's career is already in a deep freeze - and now he's getting sued over ice cream. Among the charges filed against the newly Muslim pop weirdo in a...
TEEN ODS LIVE ON WEBCAM
A 19-year-old college student killed himself in front of a live Internet audience - while many of the dozens or more onlookers he invited to watch his death cracked jokes...
STARBUCKS TEA-TOTALS GRAN: SUIT
All she wanted was to drown her sorrows in a nice cup of tea. Now, after a catastrophic series of events that she says involved third-degree burns, skin grafts, a...
PUPPY CAM CUTIES LOGGING OFF TO GO HOME
They called it Puppy Cam love - but it couldn't last. Six adorable baby Shiba Inu pooches - whose tail-wagging, live, streamed images became a surprise Internet sensation watched by...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens A man was clinging to life after cops found him severely injured on a South Ozone Park street early yesterday. Police said the unidentified man managed to flag down...
SUBWAY HEROES REALLY ROCK, MAN
Here's another reason to love that old time rock n' roll. A trio of subway musicians who perform hits from the '50s and '60s dropped their instruments and rushed to...
'BLACK WIDOW' IN '90 SLAY RAP
On an October day in 1990, a millionaire real-estate developer was shot three times in the back as he carried a bag of groceries to his mistress's Upper East Side...
NOT AS MANY FOLKS LIKE MIKE NOW: POLL
The brutal term-limits battle and the collapsing economy have driven Mayor Bloomberg's approval rating below 60 percent for the first time in three years, according to a poll released yesterday....
BAG BUM IN CAN OVER $19M HILFIGER RIP-OFF
A crooked CFO was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison yesterday for stealing more than $19 million from the company that makes handbags for Tommy Hilfiger. Martin Bodner, 60,...
DEALER'S ART OF THE 'STEAL'
A Manhattan art dealer was busted in Florida yesterday for peddling bogus paintings he claimed were the works of famed artists including Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder and Marc Chagall, authorities...
METS MAY PAY FOR CITI SLUMP
The Mets better not get too attached to the name Citi Field. Team officials are said to be increasingly nervous as struggling Citigroup's stock continues to plummet - and potentially...
HATE ROOTS NOT SKIN DEEP
"They have tried to make this about race, but it is a lot more complicated than that." To 15-year-old Michael McCarthy, a sophomore at Patchogue-Medford HS and schoolmate of the...
LONG ARMS OF LAW CATCH B'KLYN MAN
Federal agents found a cache of weapons - including an assault weapon and guns shaped like a pen and a flashlight - in a Brooklyn home yesterday, law enforcement sources...
SHARDS MAY CUT LILLO'S CASE
Just days before opening arguments, Lillo Brancato's defense lawyers said they were shocked to learn about possibly incriminating evidence against the "Sopranos" actor accused of killing a Bronx cop. Brancato's...
NICE POP, BUT THERE'S A BOTTOM STILL OUT THERE
Even a powerful relief rally - like the one boosted by Tim Geithner's likely role as future Treasury secretary - may not be enough to pull stocks away from the...
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
The Weinstein Co. is laying off about 11 percent of its workforce as the sickly economic environment further invades Tinseltown, The Post has learned. Two sources close to the situation...
ADIOS, TIME'S SI LATINO
Time Inc. yesterday folded SI Latino, the Spanish-language spin-off of Sports Illustrated, the second time this week the magazine giant has pulled the plug on one of its titles. "I...
MILLERCOORS HOPS INTO ADS
Beer behemoth MillerCoors has joined the ranks of big marketers that want an ad agency of their own. A joint venture between the nation's second-and third-largest beer companies, MillerCoors tapped...
NOW, CITI REGROUPS
After a weeklong campaign extolling the virtues of Citigroup's multi-pronged banking model, CEO Vikram Pandit might be forced to take drastic measures to restore confidence in the embattled franchise -...
A DIPLOMATIC TEST FOR TEHRAN
The West hasn't been able to get Iran to stop pursuing nukes or sponsoring terrorism, but maybe it'll have more luck with an issue of seemingly smaller consequence to Tehran:...
THE RIGHT MAN FOR TREASURY
President-elect Barack Obama made a reassuring choice in tapping New York Fed President Timothy Geithner for what is - at the moment, anyway - the most vital post in his...
THE BOSS STEPS DOWN
George Steinbrenner officially relinquished control of the New York Yankees this week, ending a decades-long presence that's among the most successful - and colorful - the New York sports universe...
JETS READY TO STRUT SOUTH
Damien Woody knows what the Jets are up against tomorrow, going on the road to face a Tennessee team that is 10-0 and has one of the most feared defensive...
JETS HUNT FOR NEXT BIG WIN VS. TITANS
THE Giants ended the Patriots' perfect season in the Super Bowl. Now it's the Jets' turn to end the Titans' perfect season tomorrow in Nashville. The stakes aren't as high...
BRAZILIAN TEEN RIDING HIGH
WHAT are the odds of a little teenage girl apprentice from Brazil pulling into Aqueduct and riding the silks off one of the best male jockeys in the world? Take...
HOLIK IS TURNING THE PAGE
Bobby Holik couldn't skate and couldn't exercise, so the Devils center became a bookworm while recovering from surgery to repair his shattered pinkie. "You have to expose your mind to...
AILING DEVS PUT A HURT ON ISLES
From the plague's onset, the Devils insisted they wouldn't use their injuries as an excuse. Lately, they're acting as if they're irrelevant. "Who's in the lineup, who's not in here,...
MALIGNAGGI GUNS FOR HATTON UPSET
LAS VEGAS - Paulie Malignaggi knew this day would come, the day he would fight Ricky Hatton and finally beat the demons and doubters that have haunted him all his...
PROSPECTING
YANKEES The early returns on Ian Kennedy in Puerto Rico are mixed. Through his first three starts, Kennedy has a 3.55 ERA in 12 2/3 innings. The strikeouts (14) are...
YANKS COULD STILL CHASE BIG BATS
If the Yankees don't bag two of the top three free agent pitchers, they aren't going to deposit the money back into the Steinbrenner family vault or throw a financial...
RECEIVING WHIZ WARD GIVES GIANTS TIKI II
During three seasons spent watching far more than playing, Derrick Ward rarely took his eyes off Tiki Barber. Ward desperately wanted to develop into an all-around running back and knew...
NASSAU RIGHT UP STREIT'S ALLEY
You might think that going from the Canadiens and playing in front of hockey-mad fans in Montreal to playing for the Islanders and their . . . somewhat lacking fan...
RANGERS WAY OFF LAST YEAR'S PACE ON DRAWS
It's as if the Rangers have pulled a 180 in the faceoff circle from last year to this, because even though they are the same centers, the results on the...
RANGERS LOOK TO REBOUND
When the Rangers head north of the border this afternoon to take on the Ottawa Senators (3 p.m., MSG, WEPN), they will be hoping Henrik Lundqvist gets back on track....
END OF CAREER 'GROWS' NEAR FOR PATERNO
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - If today turns out to be the last time Joe Paterno coaches at Beaver Stadium, a 107,282-seat monument to the determination of one man's vision, than...
STORM'S MASON DONE FOR YEAR
In what is nothing short of a devastating blow, St. John's learned yesterday that senior Anthony Mason Jr., who was being counted on to have an All-Big East season, will...
WARRICK'S NOT DUNN
BIG WEEKS Warrick Dunn (RB, Buccaneers) It's hard to say what Detroit entity is struggling more - the auto industry or the Lions' defense. Jason Campbell (QB, Redskins) Only the...
BIG WIN GIVES JETS SOME JUICE IN VEGAS
HERE'S a look at how the ever-changing NFL spreads are faring so far this week, according to our favorite Vegas insiders:TITANS-JETS The Fishers are 5- to 51/2-point faves. "I've got...
SPORTS SHORTS
BLOTTER: Vick case In Richmond, Va., Michael Vick put family pets in rings with pit bulls and thought it was funny watching the trained killers injure or kill the helpless...
TRENDSETTERS
TITANS (-5) VS. JETS (1:00) Tennessee has covered six straight the week after allowing less than 15 points (14), seven straight in conference, nine of 10 on grass and nine...
BLUE DEVILS' 'D' STIFLES MICHIGAN
Michigan coach John Beilein reached into his hat last night searching for another rabbit, but pulled out a brick instead. To orchestrate a second straight upset in this 2K Sports...
AROUND THE LEAGUE
Pistons forward Walter Herrmann was released from a Boston hospital yesterday after suffering a mild concussion in a game against the Celtics. Herrmann, who spent Thursday night at the hospital,...
HOFSTRA REBOUNDS FROM DISAPPOINTING SEASON
CHARLES Jenkins answered the question without hesitation. The response was poignant and precise, delivered with passion, pride and purpose. Given the disappointment of a 12-18 season last year, just when...
DARE TO DREAM
JETS-GIANTS SUPER BOWL Drumroll please: Giants minus-6½ or -7. "The Giants are still a more popular team than the Jets and the perceived better team, so you've gotta add a...
SOONERS-RAIDERS WILL BE A SHOOTOUT
Texas Tech at Oklahoma 8:05 p.m., ABC LINE: Oklahoma -7 - O/U: 76 ANGLE: The Red Raiders have been almost unstoppable, but the Sooners have four huge advantages. Oklahoma was...
KNICKS OFFENSE SETTING THE LEAGUE PACE
The season was 1957-58, the coach was Vince Boryla, and the stars of the run-and-gun Knicks of yesteryear were Willie Naulls, Ken Sears, Richie Guerin and Carl Braun. That was...
MARBURY REFUSES TO PLAY IN LOSS
MILWAUKEE - A fuming coach Mike D'Antoni charged that Stephon Marbury refused to play last night when he needed him following yesterday's two blockbuster trades, called for his release and...
CRAWFORD, RANDOLPH DEALT TO FREE 2010 SALARY SPACE
MILWAUKEE - LeBron James steps foot inside the Garden Tuesday night and Knicks president Donnie Walsh yesterday took two giant steps toward making room on Broadway for the King of...
'BRON'S AGE NEARS
SO now we get to see if we really mean what we have said all along, that we are not a city driven by our most impatient impulses, that we...
CARTER HAS EYES ON BIG LEAGUES, BUT IS CONTENT WITH DUCKS
The first year Gary Carter managed, his Gulf Coast League team produced the best record in the league. The next season the Hall of Famer guided the St. Lucie Mets...
TEASE WAS KEY FOR ROOKIE TO FIND FORM
Kids can be cruel. No doubt about it. But they can also help mold one of the NBA's leading 3-point shooters. So in a sense, the Nets' Ryan Anderson wants...
CARTER'S LAST-SECOND HEROICS BOOST NETS
TORONTO - Certain tales simply defy logic. Bigfoot, alien abductions, talking rodents. But there now is something perhaps even more fantastic than all those. The Nets played in overtime here...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Police in Massachusetts are scratching their heads after repeatedly finding chunks of butcher-quality meat lying around a city square. Framingham police Lt. Paul Shastany says it's possible someone may be...
Starbury to Mike: Not tonight
By MARC BERMANMILWAUKEE - So the Knicks blow up their roster, put themselves in genuine position to sign LeBron James in two years and it all comes back to Starbury...
KICKING BRASS AND MAKING A NAME
YOU may not know the Stumblebum Brass Band by name, but if you live in New York City and keep a window open, you've probably heard their music. And word...
ROCK & ROLL IS HOME TO STAY
IT'S one for the money, two for the show, and $26 to go-go-go to the first-ever annex to Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum, opening soon in NYC....
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY DO-RE-ME: Kids get an earful when Randy Kaplan takes the stage with his rocked-out versions of Tin Pan Alley tunes, Broadway hits and the blues, part of the Just...
FIDDLING FOR A CAUSE
Once again, Jourdan Urbach puts his strings on the line, playing for a cause he believes in. At age 7, he founded Children Helping Children, a musical charity that's raised...
HELPING HANDS
Awheelchair shoots across the basketball court at Hunter College, its tiny, pink-clad occupant squealing with delight. "Rose, Rose!" yells 10-year-old Briana Burton. "Where were you?" Rose Labarre bends down to...
TYRA'S NEW HOME
TYRA Banks is taking her talk-show act to The CW. "The Tyra Banks Show," which currently airs in syndication (Ch. 9 here), will move to the network side for the...
WATERLOGGED
'Lost City Raiders' is a combination of the two worst movies in recent history SCI Fi proudly proclaims that their movie tonight is nothing less than " 'The DaVinci Code'...
NOT FIT TO PRINT
One thing is clear from this collection of Op-Ed art from The New York Times: Former Editorial Editor Howell Raines has a rather vivid imagination. Presented with a Nancy Stahl...
Can the RBNY's destiny (and defense) trump Crew dominance?
By BRIAN LEWISCARSON, Ca. _ The numbers tell the tale of disarray and disappointment. Eleven coaches, 200-plus players, one rebranding and zero championships. Not one. But the Red Bulls are...
Worry about the future later
By MARK CANNZZAROThe Jets are on the cusp of accomplishing something as momentous as they have in recent memory and yet a significant focus this week has been what Brett...
POLL: TAXPAYERS SET TO LET BIG 3 GO UNDER
Nearly half of Americans prefer that the Big Three automakers go out of business rather than rescue the sputtering car companies with taxpayer dollars, a new poll shows. The loss...