December 16, 2006
Crunch time
December 16, 2006 | 11:18pmMost fantasy leagues are into the second week of the playoffs. Hopefully your team is still alive. The blockbuster fantasy matchup pits offensive juggernauts Cincinnati and Indianapolis on Monday night.But...
Birds and the 'Boys
December 16, 2006 | 8:48pmIt's nice of the NFL to fill in the Saturday gap on the schedule to give us some football once the college season concludes.It would be even nicer if most...
OVER-STOCKS UP ON SHARES
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amOverstock.com, an Internet retailer that once waged a legal battle against short sellers, yesterday raised $39.5 million in a stock offering that could ultimately get the company burned by the...
BONU$ BABY BUZZ; ASIA LEADS GOLDMAN
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amAll the hoopla about giant-sized bonuses at Goldman Sachs has fueled rampant rumors inside the Wall Street powerhouse about who was lucky enough to get $100 million checks this year....
STOCK SCAM LOSSES MAY EXCEED $100M
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe victims of a rogue Long Island financial adviser accused of pilfering more than $100 million went to court yesterday trying to prevent lenders from foreclosing on loans they say...
GUESS WHO I AM - TEST YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION ON 'IDENTITY'
December 16, 2006 | 5:00am"Identity" Monday at 9 p.m. on Ch. 4 (two and a half stars) NBC's new five-night-run game show, "Identity," beginning Monday and ending Friday is sort of like the devil...
O HOLY NIGHT (MOLY!) - GENERATION X-MAS: HOLIDAY CHEER GETS A 21ST CENTURY TWIST
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amYULE logs, nog, oh no the mistletoe! Anybody else out there bitten by a humbug? It could be the unseasonable weather - who needs her heart warmed when she's already...
ANIMAL CHARM - HOW THEY DO THOSE GREAT TRICKS ON FILM
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S an old showbiz rule: Never share the stage with children or animals . . . especially very cute, limber animals, some of which may not exist in nature. Out...
EX-NEWSDAY PERV JAILED
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amFormer Newsday publisher Robert Johnson was sentenced to 15 months behind bars yesterday for perusing kiddie porn on his work computer and then trying to destroy the evidence when he...
WORKERS SUE OVER RACIST 'NOOSE JOKE'
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amA group of African-American cable-installation technicians are suing their employer and Cablevision, saying a white manager displayed a noose at their Long Island warehouse and joked about hanging some of...
CLUMSY GAMERS, WII-JOICE; NINTENDO GADGET FIX
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amWii, the people, have spoken. Nintendo yesterday announced it would replace the straps attached to its Wii Remote after reports that the motion-sensitive controller had broken furniture and injured several...
ICING ON THE CAKE IN B'KLYN
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amCall 'em the Brooklyn Blueshirts. The Rangers want to put a minor-league hockey team in the 2,300-seat arena at the new Aviator Sports Complex at Floyd Bennett Field, Madison Square...
LEAVE A MARK ON WTC
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amHere's your chance to put your name in the new Freedom Tower. One of the first massive 30-ton beams for the 1,776-foot tower will be displayed in Battery Park City...
NO-KERRY ZONE; SENATOR'S IRAQ TOUR TO DODGE GIS WHO SHOT DOWN HIS 'JOKE'
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry is in Iraq on a fence-mending trip, but he's steering clear of the National Guardsmen who mocked his "botched joke" about American troops with a...
NFL SHUTS OUT RUTGERS FANS
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amRutgers fans may not get their Scarlet Knights take on Kansas State in the Texas Bowl after all. The NFL Network has turned down Time Warner and Cablevision offers to...
EX-COP BUSTED FOR 'HARBOR'ING DRUG THUGS
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amA retired NYPD cop who operates a popular city marina in upper Manhattan has been arrested on charges he turned the family-oriented facility on the Hudson into a drug-dealing bazaar,...
SPITZER'S PA BOSS TO EYE 'FREEDOM' REDO
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe incoming head of the Port Authority said yesterday the Spitzer administration wants to take a "fresh look" at the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site. Tony Shorris,...
KALIKOW GETS BUM'S RUSH
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amPeter Kalikow says he won't step down until spring, but Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer yesterday rendered the MTA chairman as powerless as a subway train without the third rail. Spitzer will...
THERE SHE GOES, MESS USA ; TRUMP EVICTS SCANDAL BABE
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amHard-partying Miss USA Tara Conner was booted out of her ritzy Trump Place apartment and fled the Big Apple to her tiny Kentucky home town with her reputation in shambles,...
'SHOP FOR JUSTICE'; FIFTH AVE. BELL MARCH TODAY
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton and community leaders plan to stage a silent march down Fifth Avenue today "to shop for justice," in the police-shooting incident that killed Sean Bell and...
SCHOOL-CELL COURT CASE PUT ON HOLD
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amA state court case over the constitutionality of the city ban on cellphones in public schools was put on hold yesterday in light of a new plan to allow students...
DA DRIVES HOME CASE VS. HEVESI
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - The Albany District Attorney's Office finished presenting its case against Alan Hevesi yesterday by recalling the state-paid driver who chauffeured the scandal-tainted comptroller's wife. Nicholas Acquafredda testified for...
RAPE CASE SPURS DROP IN APPLICATIONS: DEAN
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amWhoever said there was no such thing as bad press should talk to Duke University. Administrators at the North Carolina campus point to the media's coverage of its men's lacrosse...
BRONX POL DENIES 423G FRAUD RAP
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amState Sen. Efrain Gonzalez denied charges yesterday that he swindled taxpayers out of $423,000 in grant money earmarked for Bronx kids to fund a lavish lifestyle. "Not guilty, Your Honor,"...
FAMILIES OPTIMISTIC AS PRESSURE MOUNTS; HOLD OUT HOPE FOR CLIMBERS
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe wife a Brooklyn mountain climber missing on Oregon's Mount Hood clung to hope yesterday that her husband and his two comrades were still alive in a howling blizzard and...
NUT-ASHA'S DEAL; INDIE STAR BEATS APT.-TRASHING RAP
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amTroubled indie actress Natasha Lyonne is a fugitive no more. The "American Pie" actress surrendered to prosecutors yesterday and struck a deal to conclude a bizarre 2004 case in which...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** A man was knifed in the back on a Sunset Park street yesterday, cops said. The 20-year-old victim was stabbed at the corner of 39th Street and Ninth...
GAL RX A DOSE CALL; BREAST-CANCER IMPACT
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amDoctors are still prescribing hormone-replacement therapy - but in smaller doses and for shorter periods of time - because of fears that the hormones raise the risk of breast cancer....
QNS. TEACHER STRUCK BY CAR
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens teacher heading out on her lunch break was mowed down yesterday at a notoriously dangerous intersection in front of her school, horrifying many students who heard the crash....
JEB KOS JABS AFTER BOTCH; 34-MIN. ORDEAL SPURS EXECUTION HALT
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amFlorida abruptly halted all executions yesterday after it was revealed that a condemned killer took 34 minutes to die - because his executioner botched the lethal injection, officials said yesterday....
I'D 'BEAT THE HELL OUT OF' HILL: BUSH SR.
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amFormer President George H.W. Bush may be pals with Bill Clinton, but he waded into dangerous territory talking about his wife, saying he'd try "to beat the hell out of"...
1-YR. TRAIN $TALL ALL FOR NOTHING; ARBITRATOR HANDS TRANSIT UNION SAME CONTRACT IT GOT AFTER STRIKE
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amIt took a year and cost the city's economy as much as $1 billion, but the MTA and its workers finally have a new contract. Reached through binding arbitration, the...
MIKE & ELIOT LIGHT UP EMANU-EL
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe first candle was lit for Hanukkah last night as crowds flocked to the restored Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East Side for its rededication. Holding a candle together, Mayor...
DRIVER'S 'JOY' OF KILLING; YOKO LOCO BRAGGED
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe creepy chauffeur charged with concocting a deadly $2 million extortion plot against Yoko Ono allegedly boasted that he'd killed a man - and "enjoyed it." Koral "Koko" Karsan, 50,...
TOUSSAINT ROLLS TO A LEAD OVER TWU FOES
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amRoger Toussaint appeared last night to be on pace to win re-election as president of the Transport Workers Union - though many ballots still remained to be counted. Despite setbacks...
FDNY INDUCTS A 9/11 ANGEL
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe 9/11 hero with the red bandanna who dreamed of being a firefighter got his wish yesterday as the FDNY granted Welles Crowther honorary membership posthumously. "I feel a beautiful...
GRANDMA DIES AFTER GUN HORROR
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx grandmother died last night after a gun accidentally went off while her two grandsons were cleaning the weapon, according to police and witnesses. Lydia Santiago, 65, was in...
WHITE POWDER SCARE AT U.N.
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amA suspicious package containing white powder was found near CNN's office at U.N. headquarters yesterday, prompting officials to cordon off the area before tests showed the substance was harmless, authorities...
EX-NEWSDAY KID-PORN PERV GETS JAIL
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amBush honors 'Freedom' trio Former Newsday publisher Robert Johnson was sentenced to 15 months behind bars yesterday for perusing kiddie porn on his work computer and then trying to destroy...
BOYS OF SUMMER
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe calendar says December, but instead of throwing snowballs, kids were playing kickball in Central Park yesterday. The heat wave caused New Yorkers to trade their heavy coats for light...
MIKE & ELIOT SHINING LIGHTS AT EMANU-EL
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe first candle was lit for Hanukkah last night as crowds flocked to the restored Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East Side for its rededication. Holding a candle together, Mayor...
SCHOOL CELLPHONE BAN PUT ON HOLD
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amA state court case over the constitutionality of the city ban on cellphones in public schools was put on hold yesterday in light of a new plan to allow students...
'POLISH PRINCE' OF THE CITY; RANGERS' STEMKOWSKI WORKED OT
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amOn and on the Rangers and Blackhawks played into the third overtime at Madison Square Garden on April 28, 1971. At times it seemed like no one would win Game...
STRAHAN WOULD BE SURPRISING ADDITION
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES His teammates cannot dwell on a return this Sunday by Michael Strahan, who has missed five consecutive games with a mid-foot sprain. Based on his most productive week...
MORE WHIPLASH AT BIG A
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThere has been a rash of incidents lately with horses getting struck in the face by other riders' whips. It happened in the Nov. 25 Top Flight Handicap (the disqualification...
CENTER SWAP FITS FOR DEVILS
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amTrades are rare these days, but when the Red Wings and Devils meet at the Meadowlands this afternoon, New Jersey's Scott Gomez and Pavel Datsyuk of Detroit might keep an...
ON THIN ICE? RANGERS STREAKING, BUT NOT DOMINANT
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amTORONTO - The Rangers have won five straight games in which they've allowed a total of seven goals. They are 8-1-3 in their last 12 games. And they are not...
CLYDE: I'LL REACH OUT TO STEPH
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Walt Frazier told The Post he's trying to arrange a sit-down with Stephon Marbury to talk basketball and instill old-school values into Marbury's clouded mind. Frazier,...
SORE KNEE KOS STEVE 2 WEEKS
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amSteve Francis will miss at least another two weeks with right-knee tendinitis following a second opinion on his condition in Washington. Francis will re-evaluated. Francis, not with the team last...
TIGHT SQUEEZE; POSSIBLE MELKY DEAL MAY SPARK BERNIE RETURN
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amIf the Yankees trade Melky Cabrera for Pirates reliever Mike Gonzalez - a deal that is getting hot - there could be a spot for Bernie Williams on the 2007...
IN HOT PURSUIT; GLAV JOINS CAMPAIGN FOR ZITO
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amWhen the Mets pull out all the stops on a recruiting pitch, they usually get their man. Ask Tom Glavine. Ask Billy Wagner. Barry Zito might get the chance to...
RJ'S SORE SPOT; JEFFERSON REMAINS OUT WITH AILING ANKLE
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amTORONTO - The current Richard Jefferson health situation is cloudy at best. He may or may not play tonight. He may or may not be shut down. Basically, flip a...
JEFFERSON MAY SUIT UP TONIGHT
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES TORONTO - The Nets are hopeful. They even said there was a "chance" Richard Jefferson could play tonight. But the overriding feeling seemed more pessimistic as team president...
INDIANA MOANS ; CURRY OUTMUSCLED AS KNICKS SPUTTER
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amPacers 112Knicks 96 INDIANAPOLIS - This is what the Knicks look like when Eddy Curry reverts to his old enigmatic form - awful. With Isiah Thomas putting the hex on...
TAKING THE RAP; RAZZED CARTER, WOEFUL NETS FALL TO 9-13
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amRaptors 90Nets 78 TORONTO - The fans booed every time Vince Carter touched the ball. They oozed venom and broke out chants of: "Carter [stinks], Carter [stinks]." For one night,...
BUBBLE BRINGS THE NOISE
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amJET NOTES For most of the season, the Jets' indoor practice facility at Hofstra has gone unused. Where other coaches have used the bubble as an escape from the weather,...
ISIAH: EDDY DESERVES TO BE ALL-STAR
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Isiah Thomas believes if the season ended today, Eddy Curry should be selected by the coaches to play for the Eastern Conference in February's NBA All-Star Game in...
GET GARCIA! GIANTS' PLAYOFF LIVES RIDE ON KEEPING BIRD IN HAND
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amHe has done it to others, but he will not do it to us. Those are the marching orders of the Giants as they take aim at the playoffs and...
HASSAN A REAL PRACTICE D-MON
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES TORONTO - Antoine Wright was talking about Hassan Adams as a practice teammate. Yeah, the guy defends and does it well. "So well you want to lay a...
RHODES RAGE - 'WE CAN'T LOSE THIS GAME,' SAFETY SAYS
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amKerry Rhodes didn't mince words when he spoke in front of his locker yesterday. He knows the Jets, thanks in large part to last week's disaster against the Bills, now...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThis trucker had some heavy-metal road rage. Ohio cops busted Glenn Rogers Jr. for throwing iron ore at passing cars because he was angry they wouldn't turn off their high...