March 23, 2007
No Help from the Opposition
Yesterday, of all the team for which losses would have helped the Rangers' playoff chances ... each of them won. This means the Blueshirts will have to do it themselves....
'The Host' With the Most
The South Korean horror-comedy blockbuster "The Host'' took four prizes when the first Asian Film Awards were handed out the other day in Hong Kong. It won for best film,...
THE 6TH QUESTION W/ RAY FERRARO
By PAT REICHARTEvery 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 is...
Knicks sign Kentucky's Morris (updated)
By MARC BERMANThe Knicks have signed 6-11 center Randolph Morris, who played for Kentucky just a week ago in the NCAA Tournament but was not eligible for the draft.Morris went...
Torre says Francona has to be smiling
By GEORGE KINGJoe Torre understands the comfort a top-notch closer provides a team. So when the Red Sox aborted the plan to turn closer Jonathan Papelbon into a starter Thursday,...
We Told You So
The 36th edition of the New Directors/New Films festival -- a leading showcase for emerging filmmakers -- is under way at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center's Walter...
CLOSER WARS
Plans changed when Mike Timlin was put on the disabled list but the Red Sox planned all along to bring Papelbon back to closer, even though they won't admit it....
Bet Your Button Dollar
Just look at these adorable button people. They need a home, and an adoption drive (sale) is going on at ace jewelry designer, Camille Hempel's store in Williamsburg.The buttons are...
An Appreciation
The news this week that Vilma Ebsen had died on March 12 at age 96, brought back memories of the only movie she made with her more famous brother, Buddy...
Deal of the Day
Continuing with the black theme of the week, pick up these basic Martin Slim Cuff Pants from Banana Republic.BR's trousers are always a good item on which to build a...
And the winner is...
Check out Lil Jon's Guinness Record-busting "Largest Diamond Pendant" -- a $500K, 7.5" x 6" x 1", 5.11 lb, 73 carat, 3756 round-cut diamond, 18K yellow-and-white gold monstrosity created by...
Day 42: The Papelbon Trickle Down
We have a regular joke among writers that nothing has changed in our city from the 1950s, that there are still three baseball teams here: the Mets, the Yankees and...
Downsizing
For your consideration: Leading Australian and UK kids and tween clothing label Pumpkin Patch announced that they've eliminated "large" and "extra large" sizes from its "Urban Angel" tween (age 8-14)...
Knicks "O'' a zero
By MARC BERMAN Isiah Thomas made a damning statement after last night's horrible loss to the Blazers. Thomas said teams have figured out how to defend the Knicks, who scored...
Risky business
We love love love this tidbit from British Vogue:"GIVE THE GIRL A BREAK: A member of staff at the Sanitation Department building where Naomi Campbell will complete her fifth and...
AIR SUPPLY: The skies are now open
New faces could join the crowd on Heathrow's tarmac from next year/ArpingstoneThe sentence "EU/US talks regarding the regulation of the transatlantic flight market have come to a close" may threaten...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM - "UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED"
This tireless fighter for the poor - especially children - made history in Congress and at the Democratic National Convention. Shirley Anita St. Hill was born in Brooklyn on Nov....
DON'T HESITATE, JUST (VAN) GOGH
IN case we needed a reason for a new show of Vincent van Gogh, try this: He was the father of the German Expressionist movement. OK, we'll bite - especially...
COUNTRY GETS IT WRITE
SOME of the artists slated to perform at the Country Music Association's Songwriter Series, which salutes the men of country music on Thursday at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St.; [212]...
'CURTAINS' NOT A DRAW
ANY show that gleefully trashes critics in what's virtually its opening number can't be all that bad. But "Curtains" - that title is another way to tempt fate - tries...
ALL THE SLAIN PRESIDENT'S THESPIANS
THERE'S nothing like an assassination to put a damper on a fun backstage comedy. Such is the case with "Our Leading Lady," Charles Busch's new play about a group of...
ARRR FOR REWRITE
AS "The Pirate Queen" sets sail, Broadway wonders: How seaworthy is she? Is she the QM2 - big, flashy, maybe a little bulky, but worth the price of an outside...
SPORTS EMMYS COURT TRAGEDY
SPORTS' greatest TV moment this year comes down to Barbaro's stunning breakdown in the Preakness vs. World Cup soccer. The Sports Emmy nominations were announced yesterday pitting NBC's coverage of...
'IDOL' STEPS ON 'DANCING' TOES
'AMERICAN Idol" seems to be out to trip up "Dancing with the Stars" - intentionally extending next Tuesday's show by seven minutes to compete head-to-head with the ABC talent contest....
WILD BLUE YONDER
HOW do you describe something beyond description? When it comes to Discovery's "Planet Earth," words such as "extraordinary," "breathtaking" and "epic" just won't cut it. Certainly, this series is all...
STARR REPORT
Star(ring) Dick Wolf Dick Wolf, who's accomplished just about everything else in TV, adds yet another line to his resume March 29 when the "Law & Order" creator is awarded...
NO REGIS PUTS HURT ON 'LIVE'
'LIVE with Regis & Kelly" just isn't the same show without Regis. Ratings for "Live" here in New York are down about 6 percent since Reege announced last week that...
IT'S A SHELL GAME
I just Googled "Leonardo Raphael Donatello Michelangelo." The first three entries that popped up all referred to the 23-year-old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle franchise. (No. 4 referred to the 500-year-old...
IRANIAN FILM IS SOMETHING TO MULLAH OVER
FINALLY, some fun news from Iran: "Offside," an exuberant comedy by one of the nation's leading filmmakers, Jafar Panahi ("The White Balloon"). The subject is soccer, but the focus is...
COLOR ME KUBRICK
FANS of John Malkovich and Stanley Kubrick will want to check out the slight but amusing "Color Me Kubrick," which gives the great actor a plum role as a gay...
SNIPER RASH
I shot the sheriff, and the deputy. And pretty much every body else. My name is "Shooter," and my name don't lie. Our shooter is a retired Marine sniper, Mark...
BUGS IN THE BUNNY
ROBERT Shaye's "The Last Mimzy" is an unexpectedly disarming, extremely well-cast little variation on "E.T." - with an environmental message - in which two youngsters help a cute emissary from...
VENGEANCE IS MINE, SAYETH THE NANNY
YOU suspect from the very start of "The Page Turner" that something terrible is going to happen. It's the menacing music, the gliding camera and the blank stare on the...
'EYES' SHUT FOR CRITICS
THE horror flick "The Hills Have Eyes II," which opens today, did not have advance screenings for critics, which usually means a film is a dud. Kyle Smith's review will...
DIFF'RENT STROKES
'BROTHERS don't swim," is how Bernie Mac states the case in "Pride," which may be the first black swimming movie I've ever been to. Yet we've all seen "Pride" before....
DEATH IS IN THE FORECAST
IT'S déjà vu all over again for Aussie actor Guy Pearce, returning to motel rooms in the American Southwest to sort out metaphysical issues in the thriller "First Snow," to...
HARD REIGN
GIVE Adam Sandler credit for using his clout to make Hollywood's first mainstream movie about the fallout from 9/11, "Reign Over Me." Outfitted in a graying Bob Dylan wig, the...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * THE INDIGO GIRLS harmonize tonight at 9 in Borgata's Music Box. Tickets: $49.50; theborgata.com, (609) 677-1000. * He's not unusual: TOM JONES performs tonight at 9, tomorrow...
PREVIEWS
"THE ACCOMPLICES": An activist fights to rescue European Jews from the Nazis, only to be blocked by the Roosevelt administration. Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd St., between Ninth and 10th...
CABARET
CARLYLE HOTEL: Through March 31: Jane Monheit. 35 E. 76th St., at Madison Avenue; (212) 744-1600. FEINSTEIN'S: Today and tomorrow: Diahann Carroll. 540 Park Ave., at 61st Street; (212) 339-4095.
FILM PICK
The 1988 "Corba Verde,'' the third and final teaming of German director Werner Herzog and wacko actor Klaus Kinski (pictured), is finally getting a theatrical release in New York, screening...
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: Bill Burr. 1626 Broadway, between 49th and 50th streets; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: Through Sunday: Allan Havey, Louie CK, Dave Attell, Robert Kelly, Colin Quinn. 117 MacDougal...
BROADWAY
"THE COAST OF UTOPIA": Four stars Tom Stoppard's thrilling trilogy of 19th-century Russian activists and thinkers, together with their lovers and friends, makes up one of the truly epic theater...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": Three stars John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue; (212) 239-6200. "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST": Two and a half stars Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205...
OFF BROADWAY
"ALTAR BOYZ": Three stars This musical spoof of Christian-pop boy bands manages to be funny and entertaining despite its one-joke premise. New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St., between Eighth...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
The following listings are subject to change. It's best to call ahead before going to any event. LUCINDA WILLIAMS: The Grammy-winning singer will perform at Radio City Music Hall today...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Today and tomorrow: Final Four. Sunday: Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band. 315 W. 44th St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Latin Side...
CLASSICAL
TODAY: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, 8 p.m. Bass-baritone Gerald Finley and pianist Julius Drake at Zankel Hall, 7:30 p.m. Seventh Annual Mizzou on Tour in New York...
DANCE
92nd STREET Y: Tomorrow and Sunday, ZviDance presents the world premiere of the company's tribute to Gertrud Kraus of Israel. Tickets are $20. Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street; (212) 415-5500....
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Through Sunday, Lionel Rogosin's "On the Bowery" (1956), a candid-camera look at New York's skid row. 32 Second Ave., at Second Street; (212) 505-5181. BAM ROSE CINEMAS:...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
MORE MARATHON: More magazine hosts its fourth annual marathon Sunday in Central Park. The full 26.2-mile race is open to female runners 40 and up, but women under 40 can...
MARY'S HOT PICK
In hip New York circles, Rob Schwimmer (pictured) is well known for his keyboard work in the musically high-minded but hilariously lowbrow and always maniacal Polygraph Lounge with Bang on...
ROASTED 'PORK' POLS OK DISCLOSURE DEAL
ALBANY - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders yesterday agreed to a new process to ensure that community organizations that get state pork-barrel funds disclose any ties to the...
CHECK IT OUT! B'KLYN LIBRARY EYES NETFLIX
In what would be a first in the United States, the Brooklyn Public Library hopes to team up with Netflix to deliver DVDs and videos to anyone in the borough...
CITY COMMISH SLAMS RISE IN PARK GRAFFITI
Graffiti damage in city parks has increased exponentially, forcing Parks Department workers to spend more time cleaning and even staking out the offenders, officials said yesterday. "We don't tolerate graffiti,...
REOPEN 9/11 FUND: N.Y. POLS
A federal law that would reopen the Sept. 11 victims compensation fund to aid thousands of people sickened from breathing Ground Zero dust was proposed yesterday by New York lawmakers....
HEROES AND 'HEROIN' AT BRONX BLAZE
He couldn't shake his rescuers' hands - because his were cuffed. A pair of Bronx cops pulled an unconscious man from a burning SUV, only to arrest him when they...
B'KLYN MARINE GUN RAP
A Brooklyn Marine reservist was busted yesterday for dealing an arsenal of guns that had been stolen from a Department of Homeland Security facility, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The 17...
SCHOOLS PUSH TO HALT GANGS
Declaring gang activity in public schools rampant and on the rise, state and city officials yesterday pushed legislation that would stiffen penalties for members who recruit or conduct business in...
FOXY HUNT WARRANTED FOR RAPPER
The Foxy hunt is on. A warrant was issued yesterday for bad-girl rapper Foxy Brown, according to the Web site TMZ.com. The action was taken after Brown failed to appear...
SPERM-BOTCH 'DYNO' FRIGHT
The doctor who ran the Park Avenue fertility clinic that mixed up a sperm sample - causing a black baby to be born to a white dad and a Hispanic...
MAN GRILLED ON CUFF KID
A 26-year old man was being questioned early today in the case of the 13-year-old Staten Island boy who was found stripped to his underwear and handcuffed to a tree,...
'I LOVE THE STEPKIDS VERY MUCH'
Judith Nathan Giuliani yesterday said she and her husband "love all our kids very much" in her first comments since stepson Andrew declared he has a "problem" with her. But...
RUDY JUDI'S BOMBSHELL
Rudy Giuliani's wife, Judith, made a shocking revelation yesterday that stunned even those close to the White House hopeful - he isn't her second husband, but her third. "Something I...
NAOMI'S BAG MAN IN EXILE
Trash-can temptress Naomi Campbell has gotten her Sanitation-cop "bag man" carted off to Brooklyn. The Department of Sanitation lieutenant who landed in hot water for acting as Campbell's bag-carrying valet...
FIELD TRIP TO TEACH'S SEX TRIAL
Eight students from an Upper East Side Montessori School took a cringe-inspiring field trip yesterday morning. The four girls and four boys went to Manhattan Supreme Court to visit their...
RAPE-SLAY FURY
The grieving family of a slain Brooklyn rape victim blasted the DA yesterday for describing as an "honest mistake" his office's botched handling of a rape case - even though...
KIN SEEK TO EXHUME BODY
Whodunit to Houdini? Descendants of Harry Houdini think he may have been poisoned by devotees of a psychic he exposed as a fraud - and they want the master magician's...
FIRE ISLAND COPS SUE 'SEX' CHIEF
Five former Fire Island cops say they were fired for complaining that their station house was run like a frat house - with piÑa coladas flowing freely and their horny...
12 YRS. FOR DWI KILLER OF PRIEST
A three-time drunken driver who fatally mowed down a beloved Long Island priest in a hit-and-run was slapped with four to 12 years behind bars yesterday after losing a sweet...
CYBERDATA COURT RULING
ALBANY - The state's highest court yesterday declared that people can seek to recover the financial value of electronic data taken from them. Ruling in the case of an insurance...
STERN SUES BURKLE, NEWS
A former Page Six freelancer who was cleared of trying to extort supermarket magnate Ron Burkle sued him and the Daily News yesterday for allegedly conspiring to libel him. "I've...
DREAMS BANGLA-DA$HED
An unlicensed Queens real-estate broker has a new home - behind bars - after allegedly scamming $600,000 from her Bangladeshi countrymen, authorities said yesterday. "Instead of helping her victims achieve...
CHLORINE BOMBS PUT CITY ON ALERT
NYPD counterterrorist experts are analyzing the chlorine bomb attacks in Iraq and stepping up their scrutiny of stockpiles of the gas in the Big Apple following deadly blasts by insurgents...
BULLETS WHIZ BY DELI KID
A 11-year-old boy who wants to be a detective when he grows up described yesterday how he kept his cool as he narrowly escaped death during a Far Rockaway deli...
THIEVES DO A 'NUMBER' ON 60 AUTOS
Members of an auto-theft ring heisted 60 luxury cars, mostly in Queens and Brooklyn, and tried to hide their handiwork by altering the cars' vehicle identification numbers, authorities said yesterday....
GARSON TRAITOR A LIVE 'WIRE'
Forget divorce law. Maybe Paul Siminovsky should have been a secret agent. In a matter of hours after he was arrested and questioned by Brooklyn DA investigators in 2002, Siminovsky,...
FEDS BOOST VACCINE FOR GALS' CANCER
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed a panel's controversial recommendation that a cervical-cancer vaccine be routinely given to females 11 to 26, the drug's manufacturer said...
DEAR DIARIES: ANNA LOGS FETCH 500G ONLINE
Two handwritten Anna Nicole Smith diaries, including one in which she reportedly says, "I hate sex," were sold on eBay for more than $500,000 last night. A 1992 diary, featuring...
DESSERT-ED JELL-O GAL INHERITS JIGGLE-IONS
An adopted woman who once thought her birth mom might be "a bag lady" stands to inherit millions - because her natural great-grandfather started Jell-O, a New York court ruled....
DUKE CASE GOING AHEAD
North Carolina authorities denied reports yesterday that they would be dropping the remaining charges against three Duke lacrosse players originally indicted for rape. The state Attorney General's Office quickly denied...
33 YEARS FOR DRUG KINGPIN
A drug smuggler with ties to Colombian terrorists was sentenced yesterday to more than 33 years behind bars for threatening to kill federal agents and conspiring to import tons of...
OBAMA BRAGGART CAUGHT IN OWN WEB
WASHINGTON - The computer whiz who made the withering, anti-Hillary Clinton ad sweeping the Internet recently bragged about designing key parts of Sen. Barack Obama's Web site - flatly contradicting...
BILL'S JUST SPINNING HIS WHEELS
Call it a Tour de Farce. Bill Clinton failed to put a new spin on campaigning last night, making a much-hyped visit to an Upper West Side cycling gym without...
MADONNA FOR 'PREZ' GORE
Now they can make a documentary called "An Inconvenient Truth or Dare" - Madonna has jumped on the Al Gore presidential bandwagon. The Material Girl told a German newspaper that...
CLOSING THE GAP IN OHIO
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama has slashed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead by more than half in Ohio, according to a poll released yesterday. Clinton leads Obama, 32-22 percent, among...
'SHRINKING' IS GROWING
Nearly 10 million Americans are hitting the couch every year in a bid to cure maladies ranging from depression to insomnia and spending $8.9 billion for therapy - a 40...
LINDSAY SURE CAN DRIVE 'EM WILD
Lindsay Lohan tries in vain to steer her getaway car out of a swarm of paparazzi that had descended on her and her friend during a day out in Beverly...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BrooklynThis man held up three banks in Brooklyn Heights with fake bombs, authorities said. He walked into the banks with boxes and told tellers they contained explosives. He took cash...
SPONTANEOUS GAL TURNS INTO A SLICK STEPFORD WIFE
WHO has taken over Judi Giuliani's body? Judith Nathan Giuliani was my favorite of Rudy's three wives. Not so long ago, Judi was a sweet, spontaneous, borderline zany gal prone...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 809; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 6766; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 393; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 4299;...
NYU'S RED LOVE-IN
It's hardly surprising that New York University would want to celebrate its Tamiment Library's acquisition of the archives of the U.S. Communist Party. No doubt, this huge cache - 12,000...
LAW & DISORDER: SVU
A question lingers following the horrific throat-slashing murder of Nata sha Ramen - allegedly by Hemant Megnath, the man accused of raping her two years ago: Has Brooklyn District Attorney...
WHY WALTER REED WENT WRONG
THUS far, recriminations, fin ger-pointing and scalp-mongering are Washington's response to the substandard care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. But in many respects, Walter Reed is a classic example...
DUKE: WHO WON'T PAY
IT seems that the trumped-up charges against three young men who played for the la crosse team at Duke University will be dismissed either today or sometime next week. That...
'MEDICAL' MJ FOR TEENS
IT seemed like a good idea at the time, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, which allowed Californians to use marijuana with a doctor's permission to alleviate pain. Golden State...
HOW TO SELL ANTI-SEMITES
THE past few years have seen a concerted international PR campaign to promote Dubai as a tolerant new Mecca of Middle East moderation and amazing economic growth. And it's working....
FREE EGYPT'S BLOGGER
ABDUL Kareem Nabil Sol iman is is someone Secretary of State Condo leezza Rice would enjoy meeting during her trip to Egypt this weekend. But she won't get the chance...
IN A NYPD MINUTE: THINK FAST, THINK SMART
THE ISSUE: The arraignment of three NYPD officers in conjunction with the Sean Bell case. Your editorial, "Criminalizing Tragedy," (PostOpinion, March 20) correctly proclaims all three officers in the Sean...
IT'S OURTUBE
As News Corp. and NBC Universal prepare for the summertime launch of Big Media's long-anticipated video site, other major media companies are expected to jump into the mix. CBS, Time...
NEW VENTURE IS BACKED BY BIG AD BUCKS
While YouTube's audience is growing fast, it hasn't had as much luck enticing advertisers. A rival venture from News Corp. and NBC Universal could prove more amenable to traditional brands...
GIVE WOMEN THE BIZ
FORBES is working on the launch of a new women's business magazine. One source said it is seen as a flanking maneuver to try to protect the franchise from the...
EDITOR'S ON OUTS IN L.A.
Never do favors for your girlfriend at the office - especially if you're a newspaper's editorial page editor overseeing its public conscience. Andres Martinez, the Los Angeles Times' editorial page...
VERTRUE'S CEO FALLS IN LOVE WITH $800M LBO PARTNERS
Internet marketing company Vertrue, operator of the matchmaking site Lavalife, moved to take itself off the market yesterday via an $800 million leveraged buyout led by CEO Gary Johnson and...
BLACKSTONE IPO
The "New King of Wall Street" is finally going public. Private equity powerhouse Blackstone Group, run by billionaire dealmaker Stephen Schwarzman filed yesterday afternoon to raise as much as $4...
CONRAD'S DEFENSE PLANS TO BURN PARIS
CHICAGO - Dethroned media baron Conrad Black wasn't the only one raking in big bucks as the head of Chicago newspaper company Hollinger International. Lawyers for Canadian-born Black told the...
BOO-HOO: CRAMER
Controversial CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer took to the airwaves yesterday to try and dig himself out of the public relations disaster he launched when a video clip of...
AMEX'S EX-CEO SLAPPED BY SEC
In a rare move against the chief executive of an exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against the American Stock Exchange and its former boss, Sal Sodano....
XM SUED BY MUSIC GROUPS
The National Music Publishers' Association, on behalf of Warner/Chappell, Sony/ATV, Universal, BMG, EMI and others, yesterday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against XM Satellite Radio, alleging that the company's XM+MP3...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
7 No trains between Times Square and Woodside-61st Street A Manhattan-bound trains run on the F line from Jay Street to West 4th D Downtown trains run on the A...
STRIPPER SLAYER GETS 25 TO LIFE
Personal trainer Paul Cortez was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Friday for the brutal murder of Catherine Woods, a dancer and aspiring actress from Ohio. "He...
HOYA HABITS DYING HARD
THERE is a whole generation of college basketball fan that has been forced to re-calibrate their brains these past couple of months, needing to medicate a long-developed swatch of muscle...
A KNEE-JERK REACTION
REGGIE Miller has it upside- down and inside-out on Bob Costas' HBO show. Miller says Shaun Livingston's seemingly ruinous knee injury should provoke players to stay in college and get...
TEAMS LEARNING NOTHING IS FREE
WITH conference tournaments then the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament predominated by games decided by dreadful foul shooting, it's an appropriate time to recall the team that shot...
TAKE DUCKS & COVER
EACH day during the NCAA tournament, hoop maven Tim Sullivan, the Post's two-time defending Saturday's Heroes champion, will offer his plays of the day: Oregon (-3) over UNLV: Not sure...
THE 'EYES HAVE IT
SAN ANTONIO - As the fleeting, frantic final seconds of last night's South Region semifinal between Ohio State and Tennessee expired, the Volunteers' Ramar Smith raced down-court, driving, needing a...
TAR HEELS AHEAD BY A FOOT
Tyler Hansbrough, of all people, is talking about pedicures. "A lot of people think like getting pedicures or things like that are kinda like considered feminine, but if you saw...
ALL STILL OK FOR KU UCLA
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Score one for the teacher. Ben Howland led his current team, UCLA, to a 64-55 victory over his former team, Pittsburgh, last night, sending the Bruins...
GEEK SHOW
Vanderbilt already was the odd duck of the Southeastern Conference, the distant relatives who showed up for the beach bash wearing a seersucker suit and bow tie, carrying a bottle...
DON'T CALL BULLDOGS 2007'S CINDERELLAS
ST. LOUIS - Florida is the definition of a powerhouse, reigning NCAA champion in both football and basketball. Butler is the definition of a Cinderella, a so-called mid-major that has...
TOUGH TIGERS
SAN ANTONIO - When he glanced around the cavernous Alamodome, Antonio Anderson was able to locate the small contingent of fans who made the trip from Memphis. He felt comforted...
KU LEAVES UPSTART SALUKIS FEELING ILL.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - For much of last night's West Regional game between Kansas and Southern Illinois, it was difficult to tell which program was the storied national power and...
KRUGERS HAVE UNLV ON THE FAMILY PLAN
ST. LOUIS - Lon Kruger enjoyed his year as a Knicks assistant coach, and his head-coaching stints with Kansas State, Illinois, Florida and the Hawks were fine, too. But this?...
PACKER: REPEAT-MINDED GATORS HAVE...
ollege basketball hasn't crowned a back-to-back champion since Duke won consecutive titles in 1991 and '92. The dry spell is longer than any in the NBA, NFL, NHL, college football...
COACHES EYE JOB AT IONA
And you thought the Kentucky job was hot. As Iona College and representatives for former coach Jeff Ruland continued to negotiate a buyout of the final two years of his...
STENSON (67) TAMES THE BLUE MONSTER
MIAMI - It might seem like a lifetime ago for Henrik Stenson, but it's been only six years since he nearly walked away from his promising professional golf career with...
MT. VERNON MIGHT HAVE RICE RECIPE
GLENS FALLS - Mount Vernon borders the northern edge of New York City, and as far as Bob Cimmino is concerned, they may as well take it away. "We consider...
SWEET DEAL FOR DARLING
Ron Darling is close to a three-year contract extension with SportsNet New York, NYP TV Sports has learned. The deal would keep Darling as a game analyst on Mets telecasts...
5 QUESTIONS FOR RAY FERRARO
This week, NYP TV Sports' Pat Reichart spoke with NBC hockey analyst Ray Ferraro. The 42-year-old Ferraro, who played for both the Islanders and Rangers during his 18-year career, spoke...
SPORTS SHORTS
BLOTTER: Artest pleads not guilty In Auburn, Calif., Kings forward Ron Artest pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from a domestic dispute with his wife earlier this month. A...
REPEAT PERFORMANCE BY BUSH
2ND RACE - According to stats in the DRF, Tom Bush is a low percentage trainer with firsters. But for the second time this month, he was able to win...
DEVILS' DIVE CONTINUES
TAMPA - Colin Campbell was wrong. The Devils are not interchangeable parts. Right now, they wish they were. Two tenets of Devils' hockey - effort and desire - are not...
ISLES CLOSING IN ON PLAYOFF SPOT
Charles Wang has married Rick DiPietro through sickness and health, until the Islanders got a new Coliseum or the death of the team causes owner and goalie to part. With...
TUIASOSOPO TO JOIN JETS
MIAMI - The Jets are expected to officially sign former Raiders' quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo within the next day or two. The two sides have reached an agreement in principle on...
BLAZE OF GORY
David Lee made a surprise return last night but Eddy Curry and the Knicks' once-vaunted inside-outside game disappeared. One day after Isiah Thomas boasted the Knicks would "accomplish their goal"...
NO CHANCE WITHOUT CURRY POWER
THE fat lady isn't singing yet, but she's off the couch and looking for her throat lozenges. The Knicks' playoffs hopes took a damaging if not fatal blow last night...
KNICKS COULD SEE CAVS IN PLAYOFFS
The Knicks have owned the Cavaliers, beating them in six of the last nine meetings. If the Knicks make the playoffs, they would love a seventh seed, avoid Detroit and...
ANOTHER STEP BACK FOR METS' SANCHEZ
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Behind one of the bullpen mounds, Duaner Sanchez bent over in pain. Soon he went back inside the Mets complex. Sanchez's first bullpen session of...
WILLIE: GREEN'S JOB SAFE - FOR NOW
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Willie Randolph said yesterday Shawn Green is the starting right fielder for the Mets, but there are no guarantees it will stay that way. "I'm...
TIE-BREAK & ENTER
ORLANDO - Every game is big. Yawn. Every game is important. Snooze. Every game has implications. Stretch, yawn, snooze. But some games are bigger than others. The Nets against the...
RANGERS LOOKING TO KEEP NYLANDER
Even as the Rangers posed for their 2006-07 team picture yesterday on their practice rink, Glen Sather was working on keeping Michael Nylander in the picture for at least the...
CARL'S A BUZZKILL
SARASOTA - Carl Pavano needs to show that he can stay on the mound. He did that yesterday as teammates ran off the field at Ed Smith Stadium because of...
DEAL OR NO DEAL
TAMPA - Alex Rodriguez had no reaction to Brian Cashman saying the Yankees won't renegotiate his contract and said the GM wasn't responding to a request by agent Scott Boras...
PETTITTE COMES ALONG . . . EVER SO SLOWLY
TAMPA - Andy Pettitte may have left the Yankees for three years but he has learned the team's cautious handling of injuries hasn't changed. Sidelined with back spasms, the lefty...
Magic Negroes, Netflix, Grade Inflation
I'm heading out to North Carolina, where the temperatures will hit the mid-80s for the weekend, so this will have to be quick. Adam Sandler's "Reign Over Me,'' one of...
Royalty is always in fashion ... somewhere
This isn't exactly, or obviously, a fashion-related post. But I'm guessing to win this reality show, you'll be judged on your style.NEW SERIES CASTING NOW:"American Princess" for WE - 12...
RED BULLS soccer
Space and time prevented us from giving you a story from media day Tuesday, but here are the highlights that came out of it. Wade through all the meet-and-greet, and...
Add one more Wright song
By MARK HALE"Better Man" by Pearl Jam should also be on the song candidates list.
Frocks on the rocks / Shaken not stirred
A flattering strapless frock that was meticulously constructed and exactingly proportioned. To me, this season, Steven's dress is new and fresh. The idea of well-tailored eveningwear in the face of...