October 11, 2007
Maccabi is the home team tonight
By MARC BERMANLive blogging from the Garden, let me set the surreal scene. The Knicks are the road team tonight, by far. Each Maccabi Tel Aviv basket is greeted by...
Bargain Basement
Here's a message that just popped up in our inbox:"Limited Time Offer: Better than FREE Overnight Shipping!Promotion extended! For a limited time, Overnight Shipping is *negative* $5. That's right, we'll...
Nets, kinda, open in Philly Friday
By FRED KERBERSo where's D.C. and Kenny and P.J. and...?Okay we're back, presumably to stay now that the Yankees added the Indians to the Angels and Tigers on the list...
Wanna Go?
PUMA Shopping Events Exclusively for Women with Lucky MagazineWHAT: This fall, sportlifestyle brand PUMA and Lucky, the magazine about shopping and style, team up to host a national series of...
Fast Forward Your TV Experience
Since most sci-fi stories conceived anytime during the last 100 years seemed to allude to a technologically advanced 21st century, why not take advantage of the real thing to watch...
Right medicine for gridiron pains
This week, on a very special episode of the Fantasy Tracker - Travis Henry battles drug accusations, but denies violating the league policy. With a prolonged legal process in the...
Deal of the Day
This is a fall staple that I can get myself behind - a BCBG Chunky Jersey Sweater to muck about in during the weekends.Throw it over leggings, a turtleneck and...
Starr Report
This will, by the way, be the first 3D daytime telecast ever. In prime time, though, Cartoon Network will offer viewers a 3D sneak peek at the LucasArts video game,...
UPDATE: Slow, not steady
It seemed like a good idea at the time, of OzBus. The idea: taking the legendary Green Tortoise bus tours global. On tap was a 12 week bus odyssey from...
LET'S PLAY SPOUSE
WILL you office marry me?" It's the question that many co-workers don't have the chutzpah to say out loud. But in everything they do - those long, searching talks at...
GO FOR A HOME RUN
HOME-FURNISHING heaven hits Hudson Street tomorrow, when the second annual Domino Bazaar opens its doors to the public at 11 a.m. The 20,000-square-foot event space Skylight will be transformed into...
HAUTE LIST
EVER suffer from needle envy? Learning to knit has never been easier, or free-er. To celebrate the release of her recently published book, "Twinkle's Big City Knits," Wenlan Chia, the...
ROCK 'EM SOCK 'EM KID
ON most days, Kid Rock couldn't fit his ego into a room as small as the Fill more - but to celebrate the release of his latest album, he managed...
THE THREE FACES OF JOSIE
MOST men with any experience at all will tell you that women are complex, but "When the Messenger Is Hot" takes that to extremes. In Laura Eason's play, adapted from...
LITTLE MAGIC IN 'FLUTE'
WHEN East meets West, there's usually a divide. Witness the Khmer Arts Ensemble's production of "Pamina Devi: A Cambodian Magic Flute," which opened Tuesday at the Joyce. The gaudy glitter...
STARR REPORT
Different specs "Live with Regis & Kel ly's" annual Halloween show, always a talker - who can forget Michael Gelman as Britney Spears, or Regis Philbin as chrome- domed Howie...
IT'S 'MURDER'
SOLVE this crime and win a chance to escape: What do you get if you combine two writers from "The Shield," the best-selling books of author James Patterson, a hot-shot...
WHY JACK IS GOING TO JAIL
KIEFER Sutherland "fell on his sword" and made a plea deal with prosecutors this week in order to have some control over his jail sentence - and spare "24." As...
'RIGHT' STUFF
LOOK out, Drew, there goes another contestant. It's the No. 1 challenge facing Drew Carey as he assumes the role of host on "The Price is Right": Making sure the...
'CAVEMEN,' 'CANE' GOING SOUR
CBS' heavily-hyped nighttime soap, "Cane," is suddenly not so sweet. The show, which follows the twists and turns of a Cuban rum-manufacturing family in South Florida, slipped among 18- to...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A new moon on your birthday makes you determined to go your own way and do your own thing and anyone foolish enough to stand in your path is unlikely...
QUINN HINTS AT LIFTING TERM LIMITS
Council Speaker Christine Quinn said yesterday she will decide in the very near future whether terms limits on city officeholders should be eased. "Myself and my colleagues have to come...
LOTS MORE TO LOVE ABOUT NEW NYC AD
Move over, New York state and "I Love New York" - it's the city's turn to strut the world stage with an unprecedented $30 million global advertising campaign. Mayor Bloomberg...
WEINER ADDS TO SPITZER'S 'IDENTITY' CRISIS ON LICENSES
ALBANY - Rep. Anthony Weiner, a Queens Democrat eyeing a run for mayor, said yesterday Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses has "legitimate problems."...
DEMS TRY SNEAK AT-TAX ON BRUNO
ALBANY - The Dirty Tricks Scandal took a new twist yesterday as one of Gov. Spitzer's top Democratic allies was caught secretly plotting to sic the IRS on Senate Majority...
SCORES STRIPS TIPS FROM WORKERS: LAWSUIT
Diamonds aren't a stripper's best friend. The Scores jiggle joints have been smacked with a federal lawsuit for skimping on tips paid in "Diamond Dollars" - phony cash that patrons...
STALK BUST ENDS UMA'S NIGHTMARE
An obsessed creep has been busted for ter rorizing sexy screen star Uma Thurman with a cam paign of stalking that included camping outside her house, invad ing a movie...
TRANS-FAT TICKETERS LEAVE NO MARGARINE FOR ERROR
Margarine was the main culprit for the cluster of Big Apple eateries that were the first to be hit with fines for violating the city's new ban on trans fats,...
DIAPER DASH: NYC BABIES RACE IN CRAWLING CONTEST
It was gone, baby gone! Adorable ankle-biters went chubby-cheek to chubby-cheek today in New York's Fastest Crawler diaper derby at Union Square's Babies "R" Us store. The winner, 10-month-old Stefan...
BROADWAY'S SHOWS GO ON
The Great White Way will not go black tonight - theater producers and stagehands have decided to back up from the brink. The League of American Theatres and Producers had...
SLEUTHS SEEK TO QUIZ RIVAL IN 'SMEAR'
The black Teachers College professor targeted with a hangman's noose filed a defamation suit against another professor at the school earlier this year, The Post has learned. Madonna Constantine filed...
'I WON'T BE SILENCED'
A day after a hangman's noose was found dangling from her office door, a black Columbia University professor spoke out yesterday, vowing that she would not be silenced by the...
HIGH TAXES GIVE N.Y. 3RD WORST BIZ MISERY
ALBANY - New York's punishing taxes give it the third worst business climate of any state, a new report says. The Tax Foundation's annual report says that the Empire State...
MTA'S TERROR 101
The MTA is teaching transit workers to think like terrorists. As part of a new $25 million emergency response training program that started yesterday, conductors, train operators and station agents...
CITY FOREC'LOW'SURES
While the nation's housing market continues to get battered, Big Apple homeowners continue to hold their own as Big Apple foreclosures grew at a much slower rate than the rest...
HOMELESS RULE SWITCH
The Bloomberg administration is changing rules governing emergency shelter for homeless families - a move officials said is aimed at closing a loophole some have used to get beds when...
IN BED WITH DEAD LOVER
A sicko Chinatown artist strangled his new girlfriend - and then slept beside her rotting corpse for two nights, investigators said yesterday. After the killing, Michael Lenahan, 29, wrote an...
FIANC? 'KILLED OUR GIRL'
The parents of slain police officer Sonia Garcia are in agony: The man they believe killed their daughter still walks the streets. "Everyone knows who the killer is, and I...
PLEA DEAL OK WITH SHOT COP
A Brooklyn cop wounded in an early-morning shootout said yesterday he was at peace with a plea deal that will put the gunman away for 16 years - but hopes...
GENOVESE THUG-CREW BUST: COPS
A violent robbery ring with ties to the Genovese crime family was busted for a string of shakedown schemes and two home invasions in New York and New Jersey. The...
CIPRIANIS COOK UP DEAL
Talk about molto dolce. The father-and-son bosses of the Cipriani luxury restaurant and catering chain got an extra-sweet deal when they were sentenced in Manhattan yesterday for hiding $40 million...
SCHOOL-COP CLASS STRUGGLE
A fracas at a Manhattan high school has deepened a simmering rift between principals and school safety officers. Tuesday's incident at East Side Community HS occurred when Principal Mark Federman...
FRAUD CAREER A LEGAL BRIEF
Practicing law for one of the city's top insurance litigation firms, Brian Valery did quite well for himself. He pulled in $155,000 a year. He won at least one multimillion-dollar...
DAD: WE'LL GET CULPRITS
The father of a firefighter killed in the Deutsche Bank blaze near Ground Zero says investigators have not yet found who's responsible for his son's death, but he's confident they'll...
KICKING ASH SINCE DEUTSCHE
Nearly three dozen people have been arrested for ignoring fire code-related criminal summonses over the past three months, authorities announced yesterday. The unprecedented sweep by fire marshals and the city's...
DEAD GIRL TELLS TALE ON CELL
The missing cellphone belonging to a woman who died of an overdose in the condo of a top New York hotel executive has been recovered - and her text messages...
PHOTO SHOP JOINS W. SIDE BID
The International Center of Photography, with a museum and school in Midtown, has joined a developer's bid to create a new complex of office towers, apartment buildings and parks over...
GAL PAL STANDS BY BENEFIELD
The young woman allegedly beaten by boyfriend Trent Benefield - a survivor of the Sean Bell police shooting - was in court yesterday, hoping a judge would remove the order...
CASTRATOR PLEA DEAL IN WORKS
A lawyer defending a young woman accused of killing her abusive stepfather and then castrating him is negotiating with prosecutors for a plea deal that could spare her a potential...
WOMAN, 70, IS KILLED BY MOTORCYCLE
An elderly woman was struck and killed by a motorcyclist last night as she crossed a Harlem street. The 70-year-old victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was crossing...
DEATH LEAP AFTER SLAY
A Bronx woman was found bludgeoned to death inside her apartment after her ex-boyfriend killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in what cops are investigating as...
LOT OF SMACKERS
A more than century-old porno photo, believed to be one of the first in the world, will go under the hammer in the Big Apple next week. The antique photograph...
'FELINE' GROOVY
This isn't your average game of cat and mouse. Four trained felines - including Maverick, an American shorthair who can play witha computer mouse and ring a bell on command...
ASTOR BUTLER BATTLE
Brooke Astor's butler, who was instrumental in having the socialite's son removed as her guardian, remains on staff at the grand dame's Westchester estate, even though there's no one around...
RUDY: MITT A LEGAL WEASEL
Rudy Giuliani's campaign yesterday suggested Republican rival Mitt Romney was a wimp for saying in Tuesday's debate he would want to consult with lawyers before deciding to go to war....
HILL OPENS BIG LEAD IN 3 CRUCIAL STATES
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is trouncing her Democratic rivals in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida, while seizing a lead over Rudy Giuliani in key swing states that could determine the...
MOW-DOWN JAG-STER JAILED
The boozed-up frat boy who ran down several people in his Jaguar after being booted from a Long Island country club bar for shoving a young woman was sentenced yesterday...
QUINN BURIES BARACK'S BILL
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is backing Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, ordered that a public hearing today on a proposed resolution be canceled because it supported a legislative...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A city schoolteacher was arrested after she was caught filling up her car with boxes of goods she allegedly pilfered from a food drive for the homeless in Fort...
A LESSON TO LEARN FROM HATE
CERTAINLY, they meant well, with their multicultural turnout and creative protest signs. But the chant that rose up yesterday from the demonstrators outside Columbia University's Teachers College sent entirely the...
GRIEF ADDS TO OUTRAGE
WHEN a God- loving man of 81 years is killed by absolute venal abandonment of decency, one wonders if the almighty had glanced away for a second. Today a Lutheran...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 865; Lucky Sum: 19 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 3935; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 384; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win- 4 Wed.:...
SPECIAL-ED RIP-OFF
Taxpayers should get set for a wallop if yesterday's ruling by the Supreme Court on special-ed in public schools becomes common practice. In a 4-4 decision (Justice Anthony Kennedy not...
HERE THEY GO AGAIN
What part of "No" does the New York City Council not understand? Yesterday, following a breakfast speech, Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced that a decision would be forthcoming soon on...
DEMS GET PERSONAL
Republicans acted far too hastily yester day in slamming Sen. Hillary Clin ton's plan to furnish every American with a brand-new 401(k) retirement plan. Just consider the context: Her announcement...
CODDLING KILLERS
THE fighting in Pakistan this week has been more in tense than any current op erations across the border in Afghanistan. President Musharraf is paying, with interest, for trying to...
WHEN LUXURY MEETS DEMOCRACY
ENOUGH, already, with compassion for society's middle and lower orders. There currently is a sympathy deficit regarding the very rich. Or so the rich might argue because they bear the...
TAX SLAYERS
BACK on their heels in a defensive posture all year while major ity Democrats in Congress offered liberal initiatives, reform-minded conservative Republicans this week introduce the most sweeping tax plan...
CLEAN-AIR KOOKS INVADING HOMES
DURING Prohibition, making and selling liquor was illegal, but drinking it wasn't. With tobacco, we're moving toward the opposite situation, where it'll be legal to make and sell cigarettes but...
DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION BY ELIOT'S DMV DOPINESS
THE ISSUE: Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licencses.Gov. Spitzer's ill-considered decision to give illegal aliens driver's licenses is another step toward anarchy ("Take a...
TRADING PLACES
One of the world's richest and most secretive hedge funds is telling its traders to swallow female hormones to trade better, a lawsuit claims. The bizarre twist on how to...
CHRYSLER, CERBERUS SETTLE SIX-HOUR WALKOUT
Chrysler reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers union yesterday after a tough negotiating stance taken by Cerberus Capital Management - the hedge fund giant that now owns...
MARKET SOS TO THE SEC
DID Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke give away any secrets to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson when the two had an hour-long lunch on Aug. 16? And did Paulson share what...
SUBPRIME SNUFFS UBS EXECS
The fallout from this summer's mortgage meltdown continued to wreak havoc inside Wall Street's corner offices with UBS showing two senior bond executives the door just a week after taking...
BEYONC? SINGS AND NOW RINGS SUPREME
It was only a matter of time before Beyoncé - who has albums, movies, concerts, perfume and a clothing line with her mom - got her own cellphone, too. Beyoncé's...
LIKE A VIRGIN
Madonna has inked an unprecedented $120 million deal with California concert promoter Live Nation in which she would abandon Warner Music Group in favor of life without a traditional record...
DEALING WITH NEEDY CLIENT
Soon after Sprint Nextel dropped 1,200 of its cellphone customers this summer for clogging up its customer-service lines with complaints, blogs filled up with messages bemoaning the company's decision. "This...
TIFFANY'S ADDS BLING APPEAL TO WALL ST.
Now Audrey Hepburn can have breakfast on Wall Street. Tiffany & Co. opened their second Manhattan store downtown yesterday to much fanfare. It's only the second to open in the...
DALLAS BUILDER'S AUDIT 'SOLUTION'
The audit committee of a Dallas-based construction company with big dreams about becoming a player in the New York real estate market is looking into the role that related-party contracts...
MARINA MAGIC
Atlantic City is getting its groove back - with MGM Mirage unveiling a new $5 billion super resort that will rival any of Las Vegas' glitzy palaces. MGM's new venture...
HOME CREDIT CRISIS TARGETED
As the free-falling housing recession picked up speed yesterday toward a 10-year low, President Bush and mortgage leaders unveiled a cushion they hope will soften landings for those facing homelessness....
BUYERS GO MAD
IN many ways, it's the story of the city. A neighborhood is born, loved and then, after the birth of another neighborhood, forgotten - New Yorkers are so eager to...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan GRAMERCY $630,000 201 E. 21st St. Renovated one-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 750 square feet, with windowed kitchen, marble bath, dining alcove and N/E exposures; Quaker Ridge building is pet-friendly and...
STAY-ROD?
Alex Rodriguez might not yet know his fate as a Yankee. But if there's a hint of his possible future as a pinstriper, it's on East 80th Street. According to...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
New Rochelle, N.Y. $649,000 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 ½ Square feet: 1,448 This "pristine" stucco home filled with "beautiful details" - including high ceilings and two fireplaces - also boasts...
RAISING THE ROOF
My upstairs neigh-bors have twin toddlers who are tromping around all day long. I'm no meanie, but they are always up early and making a huge racket. What can I...
ONCE UPON A TIME
THERE'S a very particular vibe to Vanessa Carlton's brick-walled, 2,600-square-foot Nolita loft, and Carlton has a distinct term for the warm, rustic space she's created. "I call it 'Lord of...
DREAM HOMES
Mill Neck, L.I. $2.499 million This custom-built beachfront home - with three bedrooms, two-plus bathrooms, a formal dining room and a living room with a working fireplace - offers "unobstructed"...
SPORTS SHORTS
TENNIS: Worries over match-fixing Concerned about gambling among their players, the world's major pro tennis associations have scheduled a meeting in London tomorrow to discuss ways to avoid match-fixing. The...
LIKE THAT FIGHTIN' SPIRIT
THEY'RE still a tough watch. They still need tremendous field position to score points. And they still get no respect from the oddsmakers. But - as hard as it may...
HONDO GOES TO AA
HondoNation props are owed to Anthony Affrunti, the Post's puny pony-picker (if the diet works), for nailing Chestertown Slew in the third at Keeneland yesterday. But don't get too carried...
GALLUP BRO' HEAVENLY INSPIRED
The Gallup brothers had a plan, a grand plan full of life and love and that magnificent journey from immortal teenagers to mature young men. Darren Douglas Gallup and Billy...
SNAKES, ROCKS SET (AND DON'T LAUGH!)
PHOENIX - It's the NL Worst no more. The National League teams out West, the subject of ridicule just two seasons ago, are young, talented and they work cheap, at...
FOR MANY ON SOX, TRIBE THESE ARE 'EX-' GAMES
BOSTON - Julio Lugo has one of Manny Ramirez's baseball cards hanging by his locker, only there's something out of place: The slugger is wearing a Cleveland Indians uniform. It's...
THE RIGHT MEDICINE FOR GRIDIRON PAINS
THIS week, on a very special episode of the Fantasy Tracker - Travis Henry battles drug accusations, but denies violating the league policy. With a prolonged legal process in the...
DEVILS SAYING 'SLOW LONG' TO MATVICHUK
SUNRISE, Fla. - New coaches usually mean new players, sooner or later, which means some old ones depart. Sooner came yesterday for Devils defenseman Richard Matvichuk. Lou Lamoriello said he...
BIRDS OF PRAY
Before anyone wants to get cute and go with "Team Turmoil" or "Club Chaos" to describe the rotten, troubled team they are analyzing, be careful. Go down that road only...
GIANTS CAN TACKLE BIG ADVANTAGE
A team heading into a game missing one starting offensive tackle can at least attempt to overcome the loss by fortifying that side of the line with extra help. A...
THIN BLUE LINES
Let's face it. If not for Florida netminder Tomas Vokoun's impersonation of an inanimate object in the third period of last Thursday's opener at the Garden, the Rangers would have...
CHAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS
When last we saw Chad Pennington, the Jets quarterback was standing at the podium in the postgame interview room following a 35-24 loss to the Giants. He looked absolutely shattered,...
JETS DEFENSE KNOWS THE DRILL
When Jets players arrive at Weeb Ewbank Hall each Wednesday to start preparation for the next opponent, they check a schedule to see what's on the agenda. When they arrived...
'HOU II' ERA BEGINS
Two years after his arthritic left knee forced him to limp away from the NBA, Allan Houston is back. The 36-year-old shooting guard yesterday re-signed with the Knicks. It is...
ZEKE: FANS WON'T HARASS ME
Embattled Knick president/coach Isiah Thomas calls the basketball court a sanctuary - and says he expects a warm welcome from the 16,000-plus at tonight's preseason home opener vs. Maccabi Tel...
BOONE HAS SHOT TO IMPRESS NETS
The Nets have a bevy of big men vying for a limited number of minutes on the court this season, and second-year power forward Josh Boone has an excellent opportunity...
BLUFF'S ENOUGH
IT is possible that no one involved in sports does their job better than Scott Boras. His characteristics are ideally suited to his work. He is egomaniacal, ambitious, ruthless, self-confident,...
CARDS HAVEN'T ASKED TO INTERVIEW OPPENHEIMER
The Cardinals have not received permission from the Yankees to interview Damon Oppenheimer for the general manager vacancy. According to talk in St. Louis, the head of the Yankees' amateur...
JOBA ROLE?
Joba Chamberlain's work coming out of the bullpen since being called up on Aug. 7 was one of the main reasons the Yankees reached the postseason, but he isn't sure...
YANKEES NEED TO KEEP JOE SAYS MO
The Yankees' all-time save leader attempted to rescue Joe Torre yesterday. After cleaning out his locker, Mariano Rivera rode the elevator from the Yankee Stadium basement to Brian Cashman's office...
TEAM WOULD BE WISE TO AVOID END OF RIV-ERA
EVERY now and again, it is worth remembering who the bedrock of this wondrous era really has been. And just how different the Yankees are going to look when they...
MARIANO'S CHOICE MAY MIRROR FATE OF MANAGER
Mariano Rivera arrived at Yankee Stadium yesterday wearing his best poker face. The 37-year-old closer showed up to pack his belongings and played coy when asked about his pending free...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Indiana strippers should never feel unappreciated ever again. The state appeals court upheld a worker's-compensation claim in favor of an exotic dancer who herniated a disc while swinging on a...
Isles Draw First Blood
The Rangers can look back on all their missed passes, and their 0-6 powerplay performance as reasons why they lost tonight. They were outplayed, and the end result of the...