December 2, 2007
DVD Extra: Two Dozens Fords Under Your Tree
December 2, 2007 | 12:57pmThere is a lavish coffee table book filled with rare stills; it has a complete filmography and a lengthy, informative essay by Ford biographer Joseph McBride. Plus there's a new...
NBC SHILLS, EVEN ON THANKSGIVING
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe most significant development in television over the last 25 years isn't technological. It's nothing gained. It's something lost, perhaps forever. TV has lost its conscience; it has no shame....
'TIN MAN'
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amEvery remake of a classic story risks the charge of sacrilege. So "Tin Man," Scifi's six-hour remake of "The Wizard of Oz," attempts to camouflage shameless irreverence behind some snappy...
DON'T MISS LIST
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amCATEGORY: DRAMA Hard-boiled dames Now that scripted TV dramas are offering reruns for most of December, leave it to TNT to give us original episodes of "The Closer" and "Saving...
MERCHANT OF VENOM
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amDon Rickles had no objections to his old friend John Landis producing a documentary about the comedian's life. But Rickles, 81, balked at Landis' desire to film his live nightclub...
REEL GOOD
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amDAVID COPPERFIELD (1935) Monday, 10 p.m., TCM A fantastic golden oldie version of the Charles Dickens classic about a boy's (Freddie Bartholomew) harsh life and his ability to overcome all...
'SECRET' THRILL
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amStraight men and skinny women everywhere can celebrate Christmas early: the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is back. Strutting down the runway are models Alessandra Ambrosio, Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima and...
ENJOY THIS FUN 'WALK AROUND STATEN ISLAND'
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amFor TV tour guides David Hartman and Barry Lewis, Staten Island is last, but definitely not least. It is the final borough out of five to get the "walk around"...
BIG-BUCKS TOURNEYS TO BAN QUICK DRAWS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amFOR most people who play chess, a game is decided when one of the players makes a game-losing blunder. The easiest way for you to improve is simply to cut...
BRIDGE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00am"I'M no result merchant," a player at the club told me in the lounge, displaying today's deal. "My partner went down at 3NT, but I thought he acquitted himself very...
MY NEW YORK
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amEric Bogosian "The 'cityness'comes pouring into me when I walk across the Brooklyn Bridge." Eric Bogosian's career has been as varied as the city he loves. A TriBeCa native and...
BUY ELTON'S GNOMES
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amAn offer you can't refuse MON 3 FILM Paris Theatre, 4 W. 58th St.; (212) 688-3800 Francis Ford Coppola has emerged from the vineyard with his first film in 10...
NOT ENOUGH TIME TO SAVE '24'
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amTO say that season six of "24" went awry is to say that Kiefer Sutherland may have a drinking problem. Once one TV's best series, the invigorating plot of "24"...
JOHN FORD AT FOX
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amOrson Welles once famously said: "I learned filmmaking by studying the Old Masters - and by that I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford." Ford's position as one...
NEW RELEASES
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amSuperbad (Two-disc edition) Movie: **** Extras: **** (Sony, $34.95) Not only does Judd Apatow know how to make us laugh, he's also one of the few filmmakers who consistently comes...
EASY READER
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amCrumpler Tony Blair Squirrel $80; crumpler.com Laptop bags tend to be boring black nylon with no flair whatsoever. It's a problem addressed adroitly by Crumpler's special edition of it's "Squirrel"...
WEB SLINGER
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amSensual Seduction dailymotion.com (search title) If you didn't watch "TRL" on Wednesday - What, you actually work during the day? - then you missed the astounding debut of Snoop Dogg's...
THE GLAD GOTH
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amAmy Lee's milky white complexion, pleading vocals and songs that beg listeners to "save me from the nothing I've become" made the Evanescence singer pop's poster child for Gothic angst....
BLAKE LEWIS 'BREAKS'
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amBlake Lewis may have finished behind "American Idol" champ Jordin Sparks back in May, but he was recently named the most popular artist on AOL on the strength of his...
RUFUS GETS GARLAND RIGHT
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amTRIBUTE albums can be frightening things, as they often feature artists performing songs by icons they've always wished to be, but whose heights they will clearly never reach. When a...
THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amIs "The Golden Compass" a sinister piece of anti-religious propaganda, designed to convert impressionable young viewers into atheist heathens? This movie should be so lucky. Call it trilogy fatigue, or...
'EROS' AND OTHER FILMS TO LOVE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amIn "The Kiss," popular Japanese actress Eiko Koike portrays a lonely office worker who marries a man on death row. A woman takes a bath with live eels. Another becomes...
MICHAEL CERA
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amMichael Cera is having a huge year - in everyone's eyes but his own. "It doesn't feel like a breakout year," he says shyly, fidgeting with a bottle of water....
THE KIDMAN CURSE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amIf ever a role was cut out for Nicole Kidman and her increasingly immobile face, it's this one: in "The Golden Compass," she plays the villain, Mrs. Coulter, whose icily...
GUY SHOOTS BLANKS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amYou'd think Guy Ritchie's first film to hit American theaters in five years would make a splash. But "Revolver," a flashy, gunplay-filled revenge epic set in the grimy British underworld,...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amSHE'S one of the most recognizable female faces in Hollywood and it seems like she's been around since the days when Steve Guttenberg was popular, but consider this: Keira Knightley...
WHAT'S NEW AND WHAT'S TASTY AROUND TOWN THIS WEEK
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amLebanon luxe Ilili 236 Fifth Ave., (212) 683-2929, ililinyc.com It's tough to find a cuisine that hasn't yet been tapped by this city's wealth of culinary talent, but Phillipe Massoud...
CLASSIC MALTS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amEVERY scotch drinker revels in rarity. Which is why Diageo's Classic Malts Selection has such appeal. Want to savor the last spirits produced by "ghost distillery" Brora? Its final batch...
MAKING THE SCENE...
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amWhile Fall Out Boys and 'NSYN Cers wind down their rookie seasons in the bar game, "Handsome" DIck Manitoba's punkrock dive has been a temple of scruffiness since 1999. When...
BONITO, 30, AND SALAZAR, 29
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amOCT. 20 - Julie Salazar and Anthony Bonito know about being in the right place at the right time. "Anthony was jogging on May 16, 2003, and when I heard...
COHEN, 29, AND ZACHARIUS, 28
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amOCT. 27 - For newlywed Cori Zacharius, the hora dance almost turned into a horror show. "On my way back down to the floor, I fell out of my chair...
COSENTINO, 46, AND VALERIO, 29
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amSEPT. 22 - After dating for two years, Sam Consentino took Roxana Valerio out for his birthday to a spot right next door to his office, where they first met...
DAVILA, 39, AND GONZALEZ, 36
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amSEPT. 2 - On July 11, 2005, while vacationing in Santorini, Greece, David Gonzalez proposed to Vilma Davila on the balcony of their hotel room as the sut was setting....
LOTTERY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 820; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 4015; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 532; Lucky Sum: 10; Evening Win-4 Sat.: 7360; Lucky...
KABUL'D TOGETHER
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amAt last, Hollywood has (sort of) made a pro-CIA, pro-war, anti-Soviet movie: "Charlie Wilson's War." It's all about how Democrats defeated the Soviet Empire. A better title for the movie...
NEW YORK GRITTY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amNew York is by far the wealthiest, largest and most powerful of American cities. But here's what it's not: the most beautiful. Despite New York's glorious water-bound setting, second only...
CNN'S VIRTUAL REALITY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amBy now you've probably heard that CNN made such a laughingstock of itself at the recent YouTube debate in Florida that it could only have been worse if host Anderson...
FEAR OF A BLUE PLANET
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amWith a milestone victory in the 2006 elections and a promising shot at the White House, Democrats are thinking big - a 2008 election that gives them a "mega-majority" to...
SHORT CELL-ING
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amDid Rich Lowry ever consider how much valuable research time, not to mention lives, has been lost over the last seven years of the Bush administration while the president has...
GASBAGS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00am"City Council Has Cool Idea" (Nov. 29) - concerning the introduction of legislation for New York City to reduce the amount of greenhouse-gas emissions - is laughable. This is another...
CENTRAL PARK ZOO
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amMayor Bloomberg needs to go one step further and look closely at the vehicles given to city employees ("Bloomy Gets Into Park Row," Nov. 27). I live in lower Manhattan,...
FAMILY FEUD
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amIf Andrea Peyser could stop pandering to the lowest denominator for just a moment, she would see that Brooke Astor brought all this on herself ("Disgusting 'Get Rich Quicker' Scheme,"...
UN-BEAR-ABLE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe great "religion of tolerance" has once again taken aim at women ("'Tolerance' in Khartoum," Editorial, Nov. 29). A Saudi gang-rape victim has been sentenced to be publicly flogged and...
PROPER VETTING
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amI must point out misinterpretations and factual errors in Michael Fumento's "CBS's Bogus Vet-Suicide Stats" (PostOpinion, Nov. 19). Our investigative unit collected official suicide data for veterans from all branches...
MESSAGE IN A BATTLE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe Lost Years Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East 2001-2006 by Charles Enderlin Other Press If you asked 100 people in Times Square, or Harvard Square for...
REQUIRED READING
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amBitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki (St. Martin's) The debut from Pakistan-born, London-raised novelist Farooki tracks the travails of three generations whose family ties are built on a web of lies...
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe First Campaign: Globalization, the Web and the Race for the White House by Garrett Graff Farrar, Straus and Giroux Those worried about the future can relax. A new generation...
MIDDLE AGE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amGeorge H.W. Bush by Timothy Naftali Times Books This is a well-timed book. When the 2008 race for the White House is between a field of Republicans of whom nearly...
IN MY LIBRARY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amStacy London Fashion expert Stacy London usually tells people their shoes don't go with that dress, to throw out that baggy sweatshirt, to tailor that suit. As host of TLC's...
ALPHABET SCOOP
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amPutnam Adult With "T is for Trespass," Sue Grafton is on the homestretch for mastering the alphabet as she has mastered her craft. Kinsey Millhone made her debut in 1982's...
THE HARDENED STATE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amNotorious New Jersey 100 True Tales of Murders and Mobsters, Scandals and Scoundrels by Jon Blackwell Rutgers Press There's a reason Tony Soprano lived in New Jersey. In "Notorious New...
DISCOVERING ONLINE SALES REVENUE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amDiscovery Communications' decision to follow the lead of entertainment company brethren Time Warner and Disney and get out of the brick-and-mortar retail business paid off on Cyber Monday. The home...
ANY OTHER LABEL
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amAOL, once one of the hottest brands and brightest stars in the Web constellation, is slowly but surely fading into the background. Executives, who quietly started executing a plan to...
GREEN AND GOLD
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amAFTER leading his team's re markable resurgence, Brett Favre is back in the sponsorship limelight. The Green Bay Packer is an old-timer by NFL standards. He first hit his peak...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amROBERT KOTICK Chairman and CEO of Activision saw shares spike after company announced robust sales of its latest "Guitar Hero" game.CARL ICAHN After trying for months, activist investor finally succeeded...
CITI MORTGAGES ITS OWN FUTURE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amIF you're like millions of Americans struggling to maintain a comfortable lifestyle, 2007 has been a tough year. With adjustable-rate mortgages taking off from those low tempting-teaser rates, and with...
WHO'S ON DECK
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amInvestors are applauding how quickly Citigroup patched up its tattered ledger with a $7.5 billion Arab bailout - but fears are still rampant on Wall Street that the banking giant...
EDDIE, THE CRYING TOWELS ARE IN HOUSEWARES
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amHedge fund whiz Edward Lampert, who has produced results unmatched by rivals - 20 percent annual returns in all but two years of a two decade plus career - last...
SEMI-RETIREE HIT BY ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amDear John: I think one of the major issues today that's not talked about is the alternative minimum tax. As someone on Social Security and semi-retired - making half my...
$OCIAL NETWORK
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amParents frustrated over the seemingly endless hours their kids spend on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites rejoice: there could be profits on the horizon. An enterprising Connecticut businessman...
BUYING PROTECTION
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amTis' the season to shop. Upper Eastsider Bryan Lemster, 26, shelled out $720 for a 24" Gateway LCD monitor at CompUSA, Californian Elizabeth Lipscomb, 27, couldn't resist a fur-lined brown...
FDNY TEST MESS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amMayor Bloomberg and Fire Commissioner Nick Scoppetta announced triumphantly last week that 38 percent of those passing the latest FDNY written recruiting exam were minorities, nearly three times the rate...
AN IMMIGRATION RED HERRING
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amA report on immigrants in New York from the Fiscal Policy Institute last week got a fair bit of media attention - though one wonders why. FPI's study concluded that...
CITY BEGINS MAJOR 9/11 CANCER STUDY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe city Health Department has launched a sweeping study - the first of its kind - of cancers among 9/11 responders and thousands of others who lived or worked near...
MAINTENANCE FLEECE CO-OP COMMON CHARGES $OAR
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amWhile Manhattan has mainly dodged the national foreclosure crisis, it's on the verge of a different catastrophe - maintenance-fee defaults. Skyrocketing common charges are the last straw for condo and...
STICKING IT TO AUTOS' ALARMS VILLAGE VIGILANTE'S POSTER WAR ON NOISE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amBeware, West Villagers. There's a car-alarm crazy out there, and he wants silence. Harry Schroder is so sick and tired of the piercing car alarms that interrupt his midday piano...
$PERM WAIL BY DONOR
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amA sperm donor who sent gifts signed "Dad" to his biological son has been slapped with a child-support order, 18 years after helping his friend get pregnant. The Nassau County...
STONE-COLD HEIR
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amBrooke Astor's only son continues to neglect her care even after her death, family sources say. Even if he wanted to visit her final resting place at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery...
WINTER WHITE ON WAY TODAY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amIf you haven't broken out your winter coats, scarves and gloves yet, you might want to dig into the closet. The metropolitan area is expected to see its first snow...
COPS: BURGLARS KILL GRANDMA
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amA Long Island grandmother was murdered and her 20-year-old grandson stabbed yesterday in what police say was a home invasion. The body of the woman, whose identity is being withheld,...
UGLY PEOPLE ARE MODELS,TOO
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amDon't tell Gisele, but ugly is in. At least that's what a cattle call of characters with good personalities hoped for ye sterday when they turned out to audition for...
MY CRIME? JUST FITTING THE PROFILE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe following is Post reporter Leonardo Blair's account of being stopped and frisked by two cops. NYPD spokesman Chief Michael Collins contends the officers, patrolling an area that had seen...
HAWK'S WING & PRAYER
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amRed hawk down! A bird of prey tumbled off the roof of a Bronx housing project Tuesday - after what was suspected to be an attack by a person -...
THESE APTS. ARE A STEAL
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amOpen houses are an open invitation to theft - still. Security was surprisingly lax last week, as lone real-estate brokers showed $1 million-plus apartments without checking ID and let prospective...
'STAGED' NUPS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amForget making out in the back row - get married instead. To celebrate the release of the movie "Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding," couples tied the knot and renewed vows in...
TAKING WACKY OUT OF WEED
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amScientists have reportedly found a way to take the "high" out of marijuana while keeping its medical benefits. The find by University of London scientists could lead to the development...
BEARING HOPEFUL RUMOR
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe British schoolteacher imprisoned in Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear after the prophet Mohammed could receive a pardon and be home in days. That's welcome news...
'DEATH DEFYING' 'TIL DEATH
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amLegendary daredevil Evel Knievel sometimes missed his landing ramps in life, leaving him with shattered bones and torn flesh. But he barely missed one target with his death at 69...
HUMAN TIME BOMB A FEARED HUBBY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amROCHESTER, NH - He was in trouble even before the tense standoff in Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's office. Leeland Eisenberg, 46, is a native New Englander with numerous arrests and...
PANICKY CALLS IN HILL HQ
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe deranged ex-con who used a fake bomb to make hostages of a frightened trio of Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign workers in New Hampshire promised no one would be hurt...
BIZ PARTNER: 'NO ROLE' FOR GIULIANI
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe day-to-day operations of Rudy Giuliani's self-named consulting company have been formally turned over to one of the candidate's longtime advisers - and the former mayor hasn't been to his...
TRYST FUND 'SICKENS' EX-OFFICIAL
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amA former Giuliani administration official says he's "sick" over reports that his little-known agency was used to hide taxpayer money that funded police escorts during the ex-mayor's romantic rendezvous in...
CHUCK IN HOMELAND $LAP AT W.
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amPresident Bush's slashing of homeland-security funding - meaning millions of dollars less for New York - could make the city vulnerable to a terror attack, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday....
FOUR MURDER RAPS IN NFL SLAY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amFour suspects arrested for the home-invasion slaying of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor were charged yesterday with unpremeditated murder. Some of the men have already confessed to playing a role...
ON TV'S MOST POPULAR SHOW . . .
December 2, 2007 | 10:00am"Footloose" was right: Dancing is the devil's work. And you can file the ABC megahit "Dancing with the Stars" under Satan's Dept. of Homewrecking. The latest romance to implode from...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amBROOKLYN A man was shot in Brownsville early yesterday, police said. The 27-year-old victim took several bullets to the torso on St. Johns Place near Rochester Avenue at around 4...
RUDY'S EX IN 2ND $OAKING
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amRudy Giuliani'S breakup with Donna Hanover cost tax payers a lot more than his extramarital relationship with Judith Nathan, according to city documents. The documents show that the distraught Hanover...
ONE YEAR AND FAR TOO MANY MISTAKES
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amGOV. Spitzer: It was just over a year ago that I wrote you with 15 suggestions that, based on my three decades covering state government, I truly believed would help...
TWO BROTHERS SHOT IN COLUMBIA BAR BRAWL
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amAn argument over a stolen drink at a popular Columbia University hangout early yesterday escalated into gunfire that killed a young father of three and wounded his older brother, authorities...
THE SANTANA CAUSE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00am* Johan Santana is on the block and the Mets' only chance to acquire this regal talent is to part with some: Namely Jose Reyes. Every Mets fan would be...
GUN RIGHTS PUT TO SUPREME TEST
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amGUN owners and the firearms industry are most interested in the decision by the Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether the Second Amendment provides an individual right to keep...
FLOYD FINALLY A BIG TICKET
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amFLOYD Mayweather fi nally is feeling the love, which must be unusual for someone who has searched for acceptance and adoration his entire career. Once called "an ordinary attraction" by...
SPORTS SHORTS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amCOLLEGE HOOPS: Knight leaves at halftime Bobby Knight left the court at halftime of Texas Tech's loss to Centenary in Bossier City, La. and did not return because he felt...
TITLE SHOT FOR CURTIS, LEGRANDE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amDominick LeGrande and his father Timothy have what has become nearly a weekend ritual. After games, Timothy asks the Curtis quarterback how he did and how the team is doing....
THE RUMBLE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amTHAT OLD'BLACK MAGIC' STORY THAT HAD TO BE TOLD, FINALLY IS When Earl Monroe accepted Dan Klores' invitation to collaborate on a documentary about the abundance of great basketball players...
NHL IS WRONG TO FAVOR VARIETY OVER RIVALRIES
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amOTTAWA - If the attendance problem in Detroit is alleged to have been at least partially created by the schedule in which division opponents seem to come to town every...
BACKYARD BAWL
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amMORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez stood silently in front of a lone microphone, puffed his cheeks with a breath of air, and slowly exhaled. The only sound...
NAVY CRUISES AGAIN
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amFor over a century, Army-Navy has been more than a game. It has been a symbol, a three-hour respite for grunts and sailors everywhere. But after Navy's 38-3 rout of...
ESPN BOOTH BUMBLERS ALWAYS LAST TO KNOW
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amSEAN Taylor always will be remembered here as the protago nist in an episode that, more than most, exposed ESPN for the bad-faith, blowhard-driven, viewers-are-too-stupid-to-know-better enterprise it has become. Jan....
CATCHING FIRE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amALL the doomsayers who predicted Randy Moss would destroy the Patriots' locker room were dead wrong. He has turned out to be the perfect receiver for the perfect quarterback playing...
WIN-DY CITY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amTODAY Giants (-11/2) over BEARS: Big Blue remains ensconced in NFC wild-card comfort zone, while Chicagoans are scrapping to return to .500. But unless this is latest chapter in "Groundhog...
GO IGGLES IN BATTLE OF BIRDS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amIncluding the 1997-2006 seasons in The Post, Cat's 12-year record in print stands at 332-270 (55.1 percent) against the spread. THE PICK EAGLES (-3) over Seahawks: Both sides are coached...
MARTY RACKS UP RECORDS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amHe not only makes history, Martin Brodeur knows it, too. It's something of a rarity these days, but Brodeur always knows something about those he's passing, 70 years later. The...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThe Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Giants center about life in the trenches and his favorite things off the field. Q: Your best practical joke? A: I'm pretty proud...
GIANTVICTORY'SBEARNECESSITY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amCHICAGO - The bar for the playoffs in the NFC has dropped so low that the 7-4 Giants are sitting pretty even after their interception-laden 41-17 loss to the Vikings....
ELI'S ON THE CLOCK & IT'S TICKING FAST
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amCHICAGO - Eli Manning will never be what we thought he would be, what we expected him to be. If you are deemed a franchise quarterback around here, and you...
RETURNS ARE HESTER-SPECIAL CHALLENGE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amCHICAGO - The Bears aren't dumb. They know they have a rare gem in return ace Devin Hester, and they do some unusual things with their special teams packages to...
DUBIE, ISLES GET THRASHED
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amWade Dubielewicz could have changed his name to "Rusty" last night, but the Islanders' backup goalie deserves exoneration: His entire team was disjointed. Considering the Thrashers entered the Nassau Coliseum...
FIVE-GAME AUDITION FOR KELLEN
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amKELLEN Clemens has five games, including today's in Miami, to convince the Jets they don't have to draft Matt Ryan. Maybe a tighter deadline would work better for him. In...
BAD VS. WORSE, BUTWHO'S WHO?
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amMIAMI - Every year, it seems, when the Jets and Dolphins play each other either, there's something significant at stake or something memorable occurs. There was the "Midnight Miracle" Monday...
BAKER COULD SEE BIGGER ROLE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amMIAMI - With the Jets starting receiving corps banged up, tight end Chris Baker could be a big factor in today's game. Starting receiver Jerricho Cotchery didn't practice all week...
PICK-TURE IMPERFECT
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amALL week long, you have been able to audibly hear the hand wringing among Giants fans and the other football cognoscenti across town. Eli Manning? Once and for all, once...
EARL POWER
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amTHERE'S so much I'd forgotten I never knew about Earl Monroe, I'm sorry to admit. By this time, you would expect I had him down fairly cold -considering I first...
HERE COMES SUN
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amOn the eve of another Phoenix game, Stephon Marbury was not bolting yesterday, just boasting. Despite their nightmare November, Marbury said the Knicks are still on track for the playoffs....
METS SHOULD SEEK OUT ARMS DEALERS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amThis week in Nashville, the Mets should essentially have a one-track mind. All of their real needs deal with pitching. Thanks to the trade with the Nationals that brought catcher...
OLD TALE HAS NEW ENDING FOR NETS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amHalftime against the Sixers arrived, and the Nets, having shown no offense and even less defense, were only down 16 points. Hey, they fought back from 18 after watching Philadelphia...
ROOKIE MAKING HIS CASE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amWhenever Nets coach Lawrence Frank was about to yank Sean Williams last night, the rookie came up with another argument to stay in the game. "Right when you are probably...
HIGH 5 FOR RANGERS
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amOTTAWA - The goal-scorers scored, the power play continued its revival, and the goaltender played up to his usual standards. But the work from and poise displayed by the fourth...
NOT IAN CLOSE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amIf Phil Hughes, Melky Cabrera and a mid-level prospect aren't enough to seduce the Twins into sending Johan Santana to The Bronx, the Yankees aren't going any deeper into their...
MAKING ENDS 'MEET'
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amWith the free-agent market very thin after Aaron Rowand and Andruw Jones, the Winter Meetings in Nashville, which officially start tomorrow, could have an old-fashioned feel to them since trades...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amIf the War on Christmas gets you steamed, Yule be boiling over at this news: The forces of political correctness in Oregon state public schools issued a new official calendar...
ASPIRING POLITICO SEEKS FAST TALKER
December 2, 2007 | 10:00am'I want a guy who can maintain a positive attitude doing anything.' Be prepared to work your body and your mind. Whether it's for a night of sweaty dancing on...
FROM STRANGERS TO SHABBAT
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amRachel, a 26-year-old sales manager, was looking for a mensch to take home to Mom, so her record-setting pace to establish coupledom with her date, Benjamin, a 25-year-old online media...
MY 'SHOT AT LOVE' WITH SUPER PREPPY
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amAbout last night "NO, you can't see it, no way," I say, pulling away from Super Preppy on the cream couch at his house in East Hampton on a dazzling,...
WORST 5 HOLIDAY GIFTS FROM A SWEETHEART
December 2, 2007 | 10:00amAccording to revelers at Tuesday's star-studded Lydia Hearst for Puma party at 60 Thompson: "Bad boxers, like Banana Republic or something." - Scott "You've probably heard this one a lot,...