March 7, 2007
Do we really need another Pokemon-type franchise?
Apparently, the answer is "yes."Disney's got a new game coming out for the Nintendo DS on Tuesday. It's called "Spectrobes." In the action/RPG hybrid game, players have to save the...
BAD LIDS
Before we move onto hats, got to thinking about Mets youngster Mike Pelfrey. Should he start the season in the majors? I think Pelfrey is different than Phil Hughes even...
Wang and Cano will sign contracts
By GEORGE KING Chien-Ming Wang and Robinson Cano will avoid having their contracts renewed by signing the one-year deals sent to them last week.Even though the Yankees certainly have the...
Deal of the Day
First place jokes aside, this blue ribbon wool cardigan is so delicato it will swing from winter to spring quite nicely when/if the time comes.Throw it over any old plain...
DAY 26: Dice-K's Big Day
How unusual was the scene inside Roger Dean Stadium on Tuesday? Well, it was so crowded for Daisuke Matsuzakaâs debut against major league hitters, with hundreds of standing-room only viewers...
The free-throw that haunts
By MARC BERMANIsiah Thomas went on another one of his free-throw rants last night after the heartbreaking Seattle loss. Thomas wasn't singling out Stephon Marbury for missing the final one...
MISSOURI THE SHOW ME STATE
Missouri joined the Union on Aug. 10, 1821, becoming the nation's 24th state. It covers 68,898 miles and the capital is Jefferson City. THE first Europeans to explore the territory...
CLAIBORNE IS BORN AGAIN
YO' momma's Liz Claiborne - those '80s and '90s-era pastel plastic logo purses, outlet-bought sunglasses and pink crocheted sweaters - is ancient history. Last night at the Museum of Modern...
RON-NUTS
IN the more than 40 years that she has been famous, Ronnie Spector has been known as many things: the teenage protégée of her future husband, mad genius Phil Spector;...
SOMETHING'S FISHY
HUNDREDS of group- sales ticket agents were treated to a sneak peek last week of "The Little Mer maid," the latest stage musical from Disney. It was a fairly impressive...
OUTTA JERSEY
A Garden State town council whacked "The Sopranos" Monday night, barring the Cosa Nostra drama from filming in suburban Bloomfield, N.J. Local lawmakers hit the wildly popular HBO series due...
PLAYERS CLUB
FORMER NYPD cop Sonny Grosso, of "French Connection" fame, ought to know a good crime story when he hears one. And he does. In fact, I'm still watching that old...
'DEPARTED' CREW MOVING TO AC
OSCAR-winning direc tor Martin Scorsese and Mark Wahlberg are teaming up again for a new HBO drama about Atlantic City. The show will be based on Nelson Johnson's book "Boardwalk...
MICK JAGGER SITCOM LICKED
'THE Knights of Pros perity" sleeps with the fishes. ABC has yanked the once promising comedy, originally called "Let's Rob Mick Jagger," which stars Donal Logue as the leader of...
STARR REPORT
'El Tigre' roars What is it about Nickel odeon? It seems that nearly every one of its cartoon launches sets some sort of re cord. Case in point: "El Tigre:...
MMMBOPPING SINCE 1997
BUNDLED up in seven layers of pants and six shirts, the Hanson fan who has been camped out on the sidewalk since Sunday at 10:32 p.m. explains it like this....
SHOCK AND PAW
NO, "Exterminating Angels" is not a sequel to Luis BuÑuel's 1962 surrealist comedy "The Exterminating Angel." Far from it. While BuÑuel was able to rouse libido with just the suggestion...
POUR DINER'S LIST OF WOE
PERUSING the wine list at Amalia, a new "art-inspired" restaurant on West 55th Street, I came across a 2004 Cabernet Franc from Napa blurbed into incoherence: "The wonderful calligraphy icon...
RAW DEALS
GRAB your chopsticks. The first Japanese Restaurant Week is on through Saturday, with restaurants all over the city offering special and discounted meals. Restaurant Nippon has tora-fugu (Japanese puffer fish)...
HARLEM'S PROMISE
When Light Welterweight boxer Edgar Santana steps into the ring Saturday night to fight Colombian Dario Esalas, it will be more than a win or loss that's at stake. The...
GOV SPANKS BANKS: MIKE
Gov. Spitzer's budget proposals would blow an $860 million hole in the city's budget and impose huge tax increases on banks that could cause them to move workers out of...
AL RAISES (MC)CAIN OVER AIDE
Alfonse D'Amato lashed out at an aide with Sen. John McCain's campaign yesterday, saying it's untrue he's endorsing the Arizona maverick for president. D'Amato "has very high esteem for his...
CATHOLIC ACADEMY WILL CLOSE
St. Francis de Sales Academy yesterday announced it will permanently close in June, blaming sharply diminished enrollment and increased costs for a decision that stunned faculty, parents and students at...
HAMPTONS 'PERV'
A high-end Hamptons real-estate broker, set to be married next month to his pregnant girlfriend, was busted with a sickening stash of child pornography on his home computer, police said...
QUEENS BEAUTY SHOP OF HORRORS
A Queens beautician allegedly left her clients so disfigured, they were ashamed to leave their homes after she shot up their faces with bogus cosmetic injections, authorities said. Patricia Villegas,...
'EMBEZZLE' DOPE ALL 'VETTE
ALBANY - A mid-level state worker with a penchant for Corvettes, houses and women bilked the state out of $1.2 million to foot the bill for his lavish lifestyle, state...
LETTER RIP: HOSPS FEEL ELIOT HEAT
In an unusual, direct appeal to more than 1,000 hospital-board members, Gov. Spitzer sent out a stinging letter questioning their opposition to modest budget cuts as health-care executives rake in...
BRAVING COLD FOR RED-HOT $370M MEGA NUMBERS
Mega Millions madness hit a fever pitch across New York last night, with ticket sales at one point topping 57,000 per minute for the record $370 million jackpot. The winning...
LOSS IS HARD TO BEAR
The Bronx Zoo is mourning the death of a dear bear - a gorgeous grizzly who loved to ham it up for the crowds. Jughead, 13, died Friday shortly after...
'FASHIONABLE' GRAFFITI BUST
A graffiti "artist" and consultant to hip-hop fashion designer Mark Ecko was tagged with felony charges yesterday for allegedly spray-painting subway cars in Brooklyn. Alain Mariduena, 36, was hauled into...
STUY TOWN FLAP
Religious Jewish residents of Stuyvesant Town yesterday complained to the owners that a planned electronic key-card system would lock them out on the Sabbath and holy days. The new access...
POT PENALTY HARSHER FOR MINORITIES
Blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be burned by the system when it comes to simple marijuana arrests, a new study shows. Even though blacks and Hispanics each...
LOBBYISTS LOOKING AT A CITY $LAP
Hundreds of lobbyists and their clients face fines for failing to register with the city clerk in time under a tough new law that kicked in this year, The Post...
GRINCH STOLE MOMMY
A Christmastime trip to New York turned into a holiday horror for a Pennsylvania woman who was mistakenly arrested in front of her 3-year-old daughter, then separated from the little...
'TRAIN TO ARRAIGN' IN WIFE SLAY
He's making his midnight run. Retired NYPD cop John Galtieri - facing charges of murdering his wife in a Staten Island parking lot - is taking the overnight train from...
UNION SQ. STAB BUST
A 17-year-old high-school student was arrested yesterday for stabbing a teen during a fight in Union Square on Monday, police said. Luis Tolentino, a senior at Washington Irving HS, is...
'COLD'HEARTED MOM BUSTED
A Staten Island woman was charged with child endangerment yesterday for allegedly leaving two of her kids alone in their freezing apartment. Taisha Joseph, 30, was busted after she failed...
B'KLYN PARK A $16M MIRAGE
Planners of the long-delayed Brooklyn Bridge Park project have spent more than $16 million in taxpayer money in the last five years - more than it cost to build the...
FIRE AND ICE ON L.I.
Firemen on Long Island yesterday battled freezing temperatures and heavy winds as they battled this towering blaze, which is being investigated as "suspicious." "The whole house was lit up. Fire...
SCHOOL SCI OF RELIEF
Acknowledging that science education in the city is lacking, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday announced plans for a new, standardized citywide curriculum. Under the plan, the Department of Education will spend $30...
OATMEAL LEFT ME IN SPOON SWOON: SUIT
A popular energy-food restaurant gave new meaning to the term steel-cut oatmeal, a former customer says. Dominick Loizzo, 28, claims in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that a trip to...
COP'S CLEVER RECALL NABS SERIAL MUGGER
An eagle-eyed cop busted a Midtown panhandler yesterday, then linked him to a sketch of a suspect wanted for eight knifepoint muggings across Manhattan, authorities said. Officer Darren Dauteuil, of...
JURY WILL HEAR NIXZMARY MA
Incriminating statements made by Nixzmary Brown's mom will be heard by the jury that eventually decides her fate in the 7-year-old's beating death, a Brooklyn judge ruled yesterday. Justice Priscilla...
KELLY SLAY 'TALE OF A SCHIZO'
The lumbering Rikers inmate who now admits he hatched a bizarre plot to have the city's top cop beheaded is mentally ill and was talking a lot of hot air,...
CHURCH LADY'S 400G 'RIP-OFF'
An ungodly Midtown church treasurer rendered unto herself $409,000 from her congregation's coffers, Manhattan prosecutors charged yesterday. Thelma Daniels Perkins, 59, probably embezzled even more than that, authorities said. But...
BX. 'SEX' TEACH FACES MUSIC
A beautiful blond music teacher has been busted for allegedly having a torrid affair with an underage special-ed student. Emily Streb, 23, was arraigned yesterday on third-degree rape and other...
ST. BRIGID'S END IS NEARER
The New York Archdiocese won a major victory in its efforts to demolish St. Brigid's Church after a judge dismissed a lawsuit by a parishioners group trying to save it....
SIBS $OAKED INVESTORS: FEDS
Two brothers who made a cool $2.5 million on their bottled-water company weren't good salesmen - they were just good liars, federal prosecutors charged yesterday. Lennox Parris, 37, and his...
'FREE' S.I. FERRY VERY PRICEY
There's no such thing as a free ferry ride. The cost of operating the Staten Island Ferry has doubled in the past five years to $83.8 million annually, according to...
IRAN 'DEFECTOR'
Iran's former deputy defense minister secretly defected to the United States last month and brought military secrets to the West, it was reported yesterday. Ali Reza Asghari was not abducted...
'PRESIDENT HILL' TAKES THE OATH
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton took the oath of office yesterday as the nation's 44th president - in a video clip played to a crowd of women backing her campaign...
MILLS' NEXT STEP
She may be locked in a nasty divorce battle with Paul McCartney, but Heather Mills is also locked into her new role as a contestant on ABC's "Dancing with the...
ATKINS IS BEST 'WEIGH'
The Atkins Diet is back - and this time with the beefy backing of American Medical Association researchers. The much-maligned, carb-cutting weight-loss plan gained grudging approval in yesterday's Journal of...
PROBE OF DUBIOUS VINTAGES
Federal investigators are looking to put a cork in counterfeit wine sales in a wide-scale probe that has seen subpoenas served on Christie's of London and other top auction houses...
CYBERSEX CRUSH & BURN
Astronut Lisa Nowak's romantic rival wrote of wanting to make passionate love to her spaceman crush, according to one of the saucy e-mails that allegedly led the flaky flier to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The Bronx* An off-duty court officer fired several rounds at a man who threatened his girlfriend with a gun in Soundview yesterday, police said. The officer, who was not identified,...
A PARDON IS CERTAIN
IN HIS last days as president, George W. Bush will pardon Scooter Libby - that is, if the convictions secured yesterday don't get overturned on appeal. For political reasons, Bush...
SCORE ONE FOR GOOD GUYS
IT'S about freaking time. Three long and frustrating years have passed since I walked with developer Bruce Ratner along Brooklyn's horrendously blighted Atlantic Yards - and we were greeted by...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 612; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 2669; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 684; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 1216;...
THE CASE OF THE MISSING TEACHERS
Memo to United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten: It's not all about you. Or your union. Weingarten wasn't exactly thrilled to hear that the Department of Education has contracted...
FREE SCOOTER LIBBY
Democrats and Bush-bashers in the media are chortling with glee, and special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has a high-level scalp on his belt. Scooter Libby's. Thus ends (pending appeals) a 38-month...
THE RIGHT GENERAL FOR BAGHDAD
THIS weekend's conference in Baghdad - more than 200 foreign diplomats from 70 nations, the largest such gathering in Iraq since the 1970s - will provide an early test for...
RUDY & THE RIGHT
QUESTION: How can the gun-controlling, abortion-supporting, gay-friendly Rudy Giuliani be 25 percentage points ahead of John McCain, his nearest GOP presidential competitor, in the latest Newsweek poll? Answer: Contrary to...
CLINTON'S SOUND BITE: TOO MUCH TO CHEW ON
THE ISSUE: Sen. Hillary Clinton's commemoration of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama. At least Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't use her usual code language, like "plantation" and "lynching"...
AL GORE'S 'SINS'
Taking a page from the bad old days of the Catholic Church, it appears that the church of liberalism is now selling its own version of "indulgences" to its gullible...
TIMES SCRIBE SENT 'NET PORN SUBJECT $
The New York Times suffered a fresh embarrassment yesterday after revealing investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald sent $2,000 to a teenage boy who became the focus of his article on sexual...
DARLING DOUBTS
Wall Street's love affair with Iconix Brand Group, a small but fast-growing fashion company, could leave some investors brokenhearted. Since transforming itself over the past three years from a manufacturer...
GOT IT COVERED
JANN Wenner solved at least one of his headaches in the art departments of Wenner Media. He's landed Chip Kidd, the noted book-cover designer, to do the magazine's three big...
DEFIANT BLACK: 'I WILL RETURN'
Disgraced media baron Conrad Black is confident he won't be spending any time behind bars. "I know I am innocent of the allegations against me, as does almost anyone who...
PBS GETS HISPANIC NETWORK
Long on the receiving end, PBS switched roles and doled out some cash of its own, taking a minority stake in V-me, a Spanish-language digital cable network. The deal with...
MARTS' REPRIEVE
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's soothing words about the effects of the mortgage market on the economy forced the bulls back into the arena yesterday, sending stocks up across the board....
EISNER BUYS TOPPS CARDS FOR $385M
Investors in Topps Co. are furious over the iconic baseball card company's decision to sell itself to Michael Eisner in a $385.4 million deal they claim is a steal for...
WEST SIDE MUSIC STORY
THE family that owns BB King Blues Club & Grill and the Blue Note New York has cut a deal for a live-music venue in the Meatpacking District. "It will...
BANK RIVALS GLOBAL-IZING
Wall Street chief Jamie Dimon is getting a great 51st birthday gift - a $1 billion expansion and a sweet get-even moment with his former shop, Citigroup. As Dimon yesterday...
ST. JOHN'S JOINS GARDEN PARTY
"The one thing St. John's needs is a go-to guy; someone who can and [will] carry them. Anthony Mason should be that guy. He's shown flashes of it. But you...
'CUSE, UCONN MAKE MORE MEMORIES
The names have changed, and some of the matchups seem like computer-date foul-ups (Providence vs. West Virginia?), but one thing has remained constant and precious about the Big East Conference...
FORDHAM AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
When Dereck Whittenburg was offered the Fordham job four years ago, his friends told him he'd be crazy to take over in Rose Hill, told him turning the woebegone Rams...
THE SOX' SPECIAL K
JUPITER, Fla. - At the meeting places of event and game, and East and West, Daisuke Matsuzaka faced a major league opponent for the first time yesterday and in some...
GAMMONS RE-UPS AT ESPN
Baseball analyst Peter Gammons has signed a new contract with ESPN, the network said yesterday. The network and Gammons, who will turn 62 next month, announced a multi-year contract extension...
NIXON'S THE ONE IN BOYS' VICTORY
The term "distraction" is heard often in pro sports when players enter the final year of their contract and don't want to deal with negotiating a contract during the season....
HAYES MOVES ON
Using superior size and unwavering determination, Cardinal Hayes (16-9) willed its way to a 57-52 victory over Bishop Ford (19-4) last night at Holy Cross High School to advance to...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Artest 'slapped' by policeRon Artest slapped a woman's face and grabbed her repeatedly, causing visible injuries, according to a sheriff's report made public yesterday. The Sacramento star was arrested...
A DEVIL OF A TIME
PHILADELPHIA - Al Arbour used to run his Islanders into the ditch a month before the NHL playoffs, then watch them roar when he towed them out. That doesn't seem...
GIANTS KICK BACK, TRY TO KEEP FEELY
It sure appeared the Giants had little interest in pursuing incumbent place-kicker Jay Feely in free agency and were content to hand their job over to untried and untested Josh...
JETS GIVING JONES FOUR YEARS, $20M
One day after orchestrating their steal trade for prized running back Thomas Jones, the Jets beamed - and signed another two players. The Jets defended giving Jones, who'll be 29...
MISS STEPH
The Knicks got 40 points from Stephon Marbury last night. But they needed 41. Falling behind by 18 points to the Sonics, Marbury carried the Knicks back into the game,...
GARDEN PRINCE MISSES OUT ON MAGIC MOMENT
THIS was a night for which he'd been searching his entire adult life. This was the game. This was the moment. The last time Stephon Marbury had owned the Garden...
MARBURY'S TALK SHOW LANDS ABDUL-JABBAR
Add Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the gaudy guest list of Stephon Marbury's new TV talk show, "Stars on Stars," which debuts Friday at 4:30 p.m. on Fox SportsNet. Marbury told The...
CURRY FADING
After carrying the Knicks on his back for much of this season, Eddy Curry finally seems to be falling under the weight. Curry struggled again last night, scoring 15 points...
MOISES SEES METS IN PROMISED LAND
KISSIMMEE - Typically, Moises Alou says his spring trainings aren't very productive. "I usually have good Aprils, though," he said. If you have to pick a month to get going,...
DELGADO BATTLING STIFF NECK
KISSIMMEE - Carlos Delgado's mission will be to get new bedding. Because of a stiff neck, the first baseman wasn't able to make the trip here yesterday for the Mets'...
TEXAS FOLD 'EM
DALLAS - This was by far the toughest test for the Nets, who were trying to prove themselves and fight for their playoff lives after two defeats that would make...
VINCE REBOUNDS
DALLAS - Vince Carter couldn't put his previous game in the rear-view mirror fast enough and insisted it had no bearing on his approach last night. "I'm just going to...
RANGERS RETOOL FOR ISLES REMATCH
No, the promotion did not come to fruition, but just the fact Hugh Jessiman was included in the sentence when Tom Renney discussed potential Rangers recalls from Hartford for tomorrow...
HUGHES POTENTIAL
WINTER HAVEN - The shoulder tap is coming. It may be June or September or a year from now. But if there was ever a lock bet in sports, Philip...
ROCKET SIGNALS IN TAMPA
WINTER HAVEN - With Roger Clemens planning on visiting Legends Field soon to take in a Yankees game and Team Hendricks posted up outside the Yankees' clubhouse early yesterday morning,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An angry Alaskan moose took down a helicopter after biologists onboard shot her with a tranquilizer dart. Instead of lying down, the cow moose charged into the hovering whirlybird's tail...