December 13, 2007
The Chat Is On!
OK, let's get going. Anything you want to chat about over the next hour --- Mitchell report, Bud Selig, Don Fehr, anything -- is officially inbounds. And just as an...
Players named in Mitchell Report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERELIST OF PLAYERS: Information learned during the investigation conerning BALCO and information obtained as a result of Kirk Radomski's cooperation:Chad AllenMike BellGary Bennett Jr.Marvin BernardLarry BigbieRicky...
Marcus Scrimmages, LeBron is Coming
By FRED KERBERMarcus Williams was sweaty and happy and encouraged. A little sore but mainly encouraged after scrimmaging for a half hour this morning."He looked fine. It's good to have...
Falling Down
Even if the Rangers had won, last night's game was a disappointing performance. While Henrik Lundqvist has repeatedly proven that he can come up big for the club, we've now...
Scene
Kimberly Wyma wears high-waisted Stronghold jeans with suspenders, a vintage rock top and Urban Outfitters jeans."I mix old and new. I'm very inspired by menswear right now."Photo by Elizabeth Lippman...
seeking to make and repeat history
A repeat of history would be nice for the Jets, who on Sunday against the Patriots in Foxboro, Mass. are trying to become a footnote in the NFL record books.The...
Deal of the Day
Beside the fact that this model looks like she's taken a psych ward's worth of quaaludes, she looks pretty fantastic in this green get up.This Ella Moss Brighton Cashmere Dress...
Liveblogging the Globe Nominations: Ellen Page Shows How It's Done
Well, one last thought. The Golden Globes can be seen as an audition for the Oscars. Just recall how Eddie Murphy, a front runner for "Dreamgirls'' a year ago, badly...
A-Rod's deal done
Alex Rodriguez finalized his 10-year, $275 million contract with the Yankees today.
A-Rod finalizes deal
APAlex Rodriguez set another record for baseballâs highest contract, finalizing his $275 million, 10-year agreement with the Yankees today.A-Rod set the previous mark with his $252 million, 10-year deal with...
Liveblogging the Globe Nominations: The Morning's Big Winners
The people who lay out movie ads are working feverishly this morning on tomorrow's big spreads. "Atonement,'' which opened slightly under expectations (at least partly because of condescending, literary-minded reviews...
Starr Report
Z100 will release some tickets today, via ticketmaster.com, to tomorrow's hotly anticipated "Jingle Ball" concert - which "Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere is rumored to be co-hosting (nothing confirmed).Fallout Boy, "American...
Liveblogging the Globe Nominations: Penn, Crowe the Big Losers
The HPFA gave a spanking to Hollywood bad boys Russell Crowe and Sean Penn when it announced its nominations today. Penn's "Into the Wild,'' which led nominations for the rival...
Liveblogging the Globe Nominations: Turning the Volume Up to 7
The Golden Globes occasionally list six instead of seven nominees in a category, but this year's Best Picture list goes all the way up to seven. "American Gangster,'' "Atonement,'' "Michael...
Liveblogging the Globe Nominations: Nicholson, Kidman Cold-Shouldered
Golden Globe nominations are usually as interesting for the snubs as who actually gets nominated. This year, two of the HFPA's longtime favorites got left off the list. Apparently even...
Liveblogging the Globe Nominations: 'Atonement' Leads The Field
It would have been a surprise if "Atonement'' didn't grab seven nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, including acting nods for Keira Knightley and James McAvoy and a Best...
Mitchell Report to Name Yankees: Paper
It could be a long day in The Bronx as the much-anticipated Mitchell Report will name "several'' prominent Yankees today, according to a report on NorthJersey.com.The story also says that...
Yanks Named in Mitchell Report: Paper
It could be a long day in The Bronx as the much-anticipated Mitchell Report will name "several" prominent Yankees today, according to a report on NorthJersey.com.The story also says that...
GREAT WALL OF CHINA
Named one of the "New Seven Wonders of the World," China's Great Wall stands as the world's longest manmade structure. CONSTRUCTION on China's GreatWall began in the middle of the...
NAME RHYMES WITH 'WANKA'
'SEX after two dates?" The author of the Internet sensation "Getting Laid in NYC" scoffs at the prospect. "That would be standard for New York. No. Sex right away." Meet...
HAUTE LIST
The brand-new 24-hour flagship of this drugstore emporium boasts innovative beauty-product displays that sit squarely at eye level for the average American woman - 5-foot-4. Good thing, too. Get a...
HISTORY'S YIDDISH CABARET OF SUNSHINE
SOME fascinating historical excavation has gone on with "Kleynkunst!" the latest production by the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene. Subtitled "Warsaw's Brave and Brilliant Yiddish Cabaret" (kleynkunst means "little art"), it celebrates...
STARR REPORT
Clicks for 'Jingle' tix Z100 will release some tick ets today, via ticketmas ter.com, to tomorrow's hotly anticipated "Jingle Ball" con cert - which "Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere is ru...
LOOK WHO'S COOL
IN a TV year that is sinking into the swamps, two stars are standing out - the undefeated New England Patriots and the seemingly endless presidential candidate debates. While ratings...
SALEISHA WINS 'MODEL'
SALEISHA Stowers, the newest "America's Next Top Model" champ, says she was "freaking out" going into last night's finale. "I was really ner vous and really had no clue who...
'GREY'S' EPISODE WITH NO CREATOR
'GREY'S Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes says one episode of the hit ABC drama was finished after the writers' strike - without her input. "They [ABC] shot it after we walked...
'RUNWAY' HIT BY DEADLY INFECTION
FOR the first time in the show's history, a "Project Runway" contestant had to leave for medical reasons. The contestant was Jack Mackenroth, 38, who happens to be HIV positive....
I AM BLOCKBUSTER
MANHATTAN, five years from now. The island is overrun by hordes of frighteningly malformed brain-damaged mouth-breathers (though unlike today's crowds they are not carrying maps and asking directions to Applebee's)....
GOING OUT
Naughty Navidad A bickering gay couple discovers the true meaning of the holidays in "Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo," a queer Latino play that interweaves "The Nutcracker" and "A Christmas...
MARC OF EXCELLENCE
Marc Anthony El Cantante (Sony) The more you listen to Marc's remake of "Aguanile," the more you may pine for the Hector Lavoe original. Still, this superb effort should be...
WILL POWER
Adopted Latino It makes perfect sense that the much-adored global superstar would launch this new profiles section in Tempo where each month we showcase connoisseurs of the culture trying to...
GOLDEN' LOBES'
Styled By OSCAR MONTES DE OCA Photos By Elizabeth Lippman There is another thing that has emerged from The Bronx as meteorically as Jennifer Lopez has - doorknocker earrings. And...
FELIZ NAVIDAD
THE 25 ULTIMATE LATIN INSPIRED GIFTS
CHRISTMAS 'SPIRITS'
Why serve boring egg nog at your holiday soiree when you can surprise your family and guests with a Latin American Christmas drink? There are plenty of grown-up brews to...
IT'S MUSIC TO OUR EARS
Calle 13 Residente o Visitante (Sony) Overhyped, yes, but still the most progressive group in all of reggaetón. The filthy, yet strangely poetic, duet with Mala Rodriguez is worth the...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Are you taking life too seriously? According to your birthday chart you are and you need to lighten up a bit over the coming 12 months. You may have many...
REV. UNDER AT-TAX
The IRS yesterday hit several employees and consultants of the Rev. Al Sharpton's civil-rights organization with subpoenas demanding a wide range of documents as part of an ongoing investigation, sources...
'SHAKEDOWN'
TRENTON, NJ - The creator of "The Sopranos" took the Fifth yesterday when he was asked - after a court appearance - how he thought his own legal saga would...
COLUMBIA SPARES CLUB
Swing can always be the thing at Harlem's famed Cotton Club - Columbia University said yesterday it won't seek to raze the club as part of its northward expansion. Columbia...
A DOUBLE WALLOP OF SNOW DUE
Two storms have New York in their crosshairs, threatening to swaddle the city in winter white. "Are you ready for some messy weather?" teased Henry Margusity, a senior meteorologist with...
SCHOOL BIG IN 'TEST TAMPER'
A former Staten Island school administrator ordered teachers to change scores on state Regents exams to enable students to graduate - and even hiked some of the test scores herself...
LONG ISLAND RAIL ROADED
Here's what you might not be getting with your fare hike on the Long Island Rail Road: More cars on the trains, more ticket machines, weekend discounts, an automated lost-and-found...
SAME OLD $TORY FOR HEVESI PAL
ALBANY - Even with a new comptroller in office, the top political consultant to disgraced ex-Comptroller Alan Hevesi took in a hefty fee from a fund doing up to $100...
SPITZ PAL: FLAK OVER PAY 'SEXIST'
ALBANY - The husband of a top state housing official who's due to receive a $46,000 raise yesterday blasted as sexist critics who charge her salary boost is only because...
GRIM BLAME GAME
The boss of a window washer who is clinging to life after a 47-story plunge from a Manhattan high-rise blamed a supervisor yesterday for signing off on the job despite...
PARA-BUS TALKS
Drivers for van companies serving the disabled and the elderly returned to the bargaining table for most of the day yesterday, before talks aimed at ending the three day old...
DEUTSCHE BANK STILL IN STRIFE
Nearly five months after the inferno at the former Deutsche Bank building killed two firefighters, the FDNY's safety recommendations haven't been followed and work cannot resume, officials said yesterday. Fire...
LI SON TELLS OF TERRIFYING . . .
A young Long Island man - who faltered badly during cross-examination in the trial of his black father for allegedly killing a white teen - undid some of the damage...
GREEN APPLE BLOSSOMING
It may be hard to believe - with 260,000 cars and trucks crowding into Manhattan every weekday - but New York is the second-greenest city in America, an environmental advocacy...
BX. BUST IN GRANNY BASHINGS
A bandit accused of viciously mugging four elderly women in The Bronx was nabbed yesterday by two cops who recognized him from a police sketch released earlier in the week,...
WOMAN BARES SUIT VS. SCORES
What's a nice, chaste, demure, Scores cocktail waitress doing in an X-rated lawsuit like this? Looking for payback, that's what. Francis Vargas, a glamorous but principled former strip-joint cocktail waitress,...
BIANCA GETS BOOT FROM APT.
What a drag it is getting mold. First Bianca Jagger's fungus-infested Park Avenue apartment made her sick, then it made her sue (and fight a countersuit) - and finally, a...
TRAIN TRACK HEROES
A woman was seconds away from being run over by a subway train after a stranger shoved her onto the tracks at the Union Square station - but was saved...
MUSLIM SUBWAY HERO IS HONORED
It's turning into a very happy Hanukkah for the Muslim good Samaritan who is credited with saving a Brooklyn college student from a gang of alleged Jew-bashing goons. A stunned...
VICIOUS 'KILLER' TAUNTS
The youngest daughter of murdered real-estate agent to the stars Linda Stein convulsed in tears again and again at a Manhattan courthouse yesterday. But it wasn't the gruesome new autopsy...
BLOOMY BLASTS IMMIGRATION CRITICS IN CHINA SPEECH
Anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States is imposing "staggering damage" to the entire nation, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday in China. "We live in a much more international world," the mayor...
TRUMP IS HOT TO SCOTS
The Donald has trumped his opponents - he won't have to scotch plans to build "the world's finest golf course" across the pond. A Scottish town yesterday endorsed the mega-developer's...
PELOSI'S BLOOMERS COST 16G
WASHINGTON - Taxpayers have footed the bill for more than $16,000 in flowers sent from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi since she took power in January, it was revealed yesterday. "I...
DEVIL PUTS HUCK IN A SORRY STATE
Mike Huckabee apologized to GOP rival Mitt Romney yesterday - after saying, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" The humbled Huckabee - an ordained Baptist minister...
HYPOCRISY 101: CLINTON CAMP USES COLLEGE TACTIC IT RIPPED
After hitting Barack Obama's campaign hard for his bid to get thousands of out-of-state college kids at Iowa colleges to vote for him, Hillary Rodham Clinton's team launched its own...
HILL GOES UP IN SMOKE
As two new polls showed Hillary Rodham Clinton losing ground in New Hampshire, a top campaign aide yesterday blasted rival Sen. Barack Obama's past drug use. The attack from Clinton's...
AMERICA SAYS: ENCORE! CONSUMERS LIKE TO BE RE-ENTERTAINED: SURVEY
Familiarity breeds . . . big ratings and big box office. Nielsen, the nation's top arbiter of what the nation sees and does, yesterday released its lists of consumer "favorites,"...
CASHING IN ON ADDICTION TO SEQUELS
If your New Year's resolution last year was to stop obsessing about "American Idol" and Harry Potter, you failed. The TV program and latest installment of the boy-wizard series, along...
ETHNIC STRAINS REIGN
It's not easy being black. A new national poll shows serious tensions among nonwhite ethnic groups - with African-Americans getting the short end of the stick more often than not....
NYPD BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Three students were stabbed yesterday during a violent confrontation just a block from their Chelsea high school, police said. The Humanities HS students, whose names and ages were not...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 059; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 7314; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 957; Lucky Sum: 21; Evening Win-4 Wed.: 7374; Lucky...
ELIOT PLAYS WITH OTHERS
How nice to see Gov. Spitzer standing shoulder to shoulder with state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli yester day to announce some reforms to New York's pension-fund management. What a difference a...
SYMPHONY FOR THE DEVIL
Sadly, the New York Philharmonic has chosen to perform in North Korea next year. Even if this comes with the blessing - or encouragement - of those cock-eyed optimists in...
SEMPER, SEMPER FI
FORT SAM HOUSTON, SAN ANTONIO THE best way to capture the spirit of the severely wounded Marines who pass through the Center for the In trepid is just to tell...
SHOAH REFUGEE PULLS FOR VETS
EVA Balcazar, nee Rosenthal, left her home in Berlin-Dahlem at age 8, a week after Kristallnacht, the Germany-wide assault on Jews in 1938. Ninety percent of her relatives perished in...
GOP MUDDLE
YESTERDAY'S Republican debate - the last one be fore voters go to the polls Jan. 3 for the Iowa Caucuses - resembled a train wreck on more than one occasion....
HILLARY'S BUNGLED SMEAR
DAVID Axelrod, the sea soned Chicago Democratic political operative who is chief strategist for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, was taken by surprise in the last minute of CBS's "Face...
ALL FAT & NO BEEF: 'BAM'S OPRAH 'OMENTUM'
THE ISSUE: Oprah Winfrey's three-state campaign tour with Sen. Barak Obama. Your "OMENTUM" cover (Dec. 10) gave me quite a chuckle. An "omentum" is a layer of fat that surrounds...
TOASTING THE TAVERN
Though Cindy Adams contends that I don't "want it anymore," my family has had the honor of owning and operating Tavern on the Green for more than 30 years, and...
SEE SALLIE SINK
Billionaire J. Christopher Flowers officially rang the death knell yesterday on the $25 billion takeover of Sallie Mae, the nation's biggest student loan lender and one of the biggest leveraged...
FED'S MAR$HALL PLAN FIZZLES
In a wave of early morning ecstasy, Wall Street traders pounced wildly on Uncle Sam's surprise rescue move yesterday, driving up stocks more than 271 points in just minutes. Fueling...
NEWS CORP., DOW JONES VOTES IN
News Corp. is set to acquire Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., as an early proxy tally shows shareholders representing a majority are in favor of the deal....
BEN MUST BE REALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE ECONOMY
DON'T ever let them see you sweat! That's always good advice, especially if you happen to be monetary policymakers. But in the case of the Federal Reserve, the ring of...
JUST DON'T BANK ON IT
Banks are taking a new round of beatings over their bad bets on housing, with a handful of red-faced CEOs admitting that losses are continuing to surface. The share prices...
PORNOTUBE BEING SUED BY VIVID VIDEO
Just as Viacom is battling YouTube over copyright infringement, a major porn purveyor is suing an X-rated YouTube knockoff for ripping off its risqué material. Vivid Entertainment Group filed the...
SIRIUS ISSUES RAISED
Just as senior antitrust officials appear closer to approving the $4.7 billion Sirius-XM satellite radio merger, worries by a key congressional committee are threatening to delay the deal. House Judiciary...
SHAMROCK & BAIN BUY PUBLISHER
Roy Disney's Shamrock Capital Growth Fund has teamed up with Bain Capital Ventures to acquire the Publishing Group of America from Steve Rattner and Peter Ezersky's Quadrangle Group. Terms were...
E-MAIL SPAM CLIMBS TO 95% OF MESSAGES
Just as everyone always suspected, most of their e-mails are nothing but spam. Junk e-mail from ads for everything from discount pills to penny stocks now account for a whopping...
ZELL'S FASTBALL
Tribune Co., the newspaper owner being taken private by billionaire Sam Zell, plans to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team and Wrigley Field in the next six months to cut...
AMERICAN IDLE
For the second-straight year new albums from the top two contestants of "American Idol," are disappointing, despite the dominating ratings of the hit show. Blake Lewis, a pop crooner who...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan WEST VILLAGE $2,750,000 1 Morton Square Renovated three-bedroom, three-bath loft condo, 1,725 square feet, with 10-foot ceilings and river and city views; building features doorman, concierge, garage with valet,...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Gramercy Park $875,000 Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 750 Common charges: $1,130 This "condop" (a co-op with no board approval required) on Lexington Avenue is great for those who...
LATER, SLATER
Socialite Anne Slater coined the phrase, "A woman needs four animals in her life: a mink in the closet, a Jaguar in the garage, a tiger in bed and an...
LADIES CHOICE
The development team at 136 Baxter - the conversion of the Machinery Exchange building located at the corner of Hester and Baxter streets - consisted of six men and one...
YOUNG TURKS
GIVING new meaning to the words "getting away from it all" are two new resort and residence projects rising 575 miles southeast of Miami on the Turks and Caicos archipelago....
DREAM HOMES
Upper West Side$2.995 million Consider it traditional prewar updated for modern life. Just steps from Central Park on 96th Street, this classic seven occupies a sunny quadrant of a full-service...
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
No lumps of coal here: The perfect stocking stuffers, these Slatkin & Co. mini candles - in Spice, Tree and Winter fragrances - come in a jingle-bell-topped box ($8 each)....
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Astros deal 5 for Tejada SS Miguel Tejada was traded from the Orioles to the Astros for OF Luke Scott, Ps Matt Albers, Troy Patton and Dennis Sarfate, and...
ALL SYSTEMS GO WHEREVER THERE'S SNOW
SKI areas throughout the northeast got off to excellent starts thanks to Mother Nature putting us on an early track toward winter. Vermont's ski and ride season is off to...
NYRA CHIEF IS OPTIMISTIC
Vowing that racing would not stop under his watch, NYRA president Charles Hayward said he expected Aqueduct to be running on Jan. 1, the day after franchise expires, during an...
KNOWING THE GUILTY IS THE FIRST STEP
AT 2 o'clock this afternoon, the names will come pouring off the pages of the Mitchell Report. They will flood the Grand Hyatt Hotel and spill into the streets of...
PRACTICE FRACAS FIRES UP DEVS
The Devils are looking to heat up after two straight losses, but an incident at yesterday's practice might not be what they had in mind before their game at Boston...
GIANTS 'HOME' IN ON PLAYOFF SPOT
Kareem McKenzie has a simple question when he considers Sunday night's game against the Redskins at Giants Stadium, or, more specifically, a question he considers before any home game. "What...
TAYLOR IN JINTS' MEMORIES
As Plaxico Burress began his scouting of the upcoming opponent, he noticed a glaring absence. The Giants on Sunday night face the Redskins at Giants Stadium, and Burress knows the...
MEN OF MANGINI
BILL Belichick has been waiting three long months to unleash his hounds of hell on Eric Mangini. This is his chance to punish, to torture, to humiliate his young pupil,...
TAPE THAT PATS!
"Spygate: The Prequel," it was not. Eric Mangini and the Jets took great pains yesterday to quell a potential videotaping controversy of their own, and the NFL backed them up...
KNICKS FEEL SONIC BOO-M
Isiah Thomas said on Tuesday he would "fight 'til I die" in attempting to turn around this Knick mess. It is too late. His Knicks are already dead. Emotionally, physically,...
DURANT'S 1ST GAME AT GARDEN DEBUT-IFUL
All du-rant from opponents about this Sonics rookie seems warranted. Kevin Durant took his act to the Garden for the first time as a professional last night and schooled the...
ONLY THING WORSE WOULD BE ZEKE WINNING
ISIAH Thomas vows to fight to his death. If the Garden were the Roman Colosseum, it would be thumbs down for him for sure. The Knicks lost their four straight,...
RADOMSKI IS 'ROID LINK TO METS
Kirk Radomski makes his living detailing cars on Long Island, but it's other kinds of details he has that put him in the headlines. The 37-year-old former Mets employee is...
NETS NOT DEALING
As poorly as the Nets are playing, as dysfunctional as they look on the court, team president Rod Thorn said there are no big trades brewing. With no immediate help...
TURNED OVER
WASHINGTON - The most disturbing aspect of the Rangers' season hasn't been the team's inability to score goals commensurate with its talent. It hasn't been their season-long futility on the...
MATSUI NO LONGER ON FRISCO'S RADAR
The only team to ask the Yankees about Hideki Matsui is no longer interested in importing the left fielder to San Francisco. And Andy Pettitte doesn't believe Johan Santana or...
THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE NAMES
After 624 days, hundreds of interviews and immense speculation, George Mitchell today will deliver his report, and we'll see whether it is a bombshell or just a bomb. With the...
CLEMENS TO BE NAMED IN ROID PROBE: REPORT
Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens will be named in the Mitchell Report in connection with performance enhancing drugs, ESPN The Magazine is reporting. A source close to Brian McNamee, who worked...
MITCHELL REPORT: MLB ALL-STARS USING STEROIDS
Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi steroids MLB Mitchell report
MCNAMEE QUESTIONED IN '01 SEXUAL BATTERY INCIDENT
A former New York City police officer who serves as a Yankee fitness coach has been questioned in connection with a sexual-battery incident that took place this month at a...
THE MAN BEHIND CLEMENS' FASTBALL
Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens got his nickname "the Rocket" because his fastball is as speedy as a missile, but there's also science behind his success. A relentless conditioning program has...
LO DUCA'S 'ROID USE IN QUESTION
Paul Lo Duca isn't accused of using use performance-enhancing drugs as a Met, but the Mitchell Report does connect his use to the team. According to the report, released with...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A little Christmas cheer has been popping up in a most unusual place - along the Garden State Parkway. Someone has been hanging Christmas ornaments in trees along a barren...
Even Garden fans have given up
By MARC BERMANIndifference is the absolute worst. And a loss like tonightâs vs. the rebuilding Sonics pushes the fan base closer to that point and the team closer to irrelevance....
Call in the right lineup
Welcome to the Fantasy Tracker radio matchmaker line.Today weâre helping coaches and players navigate through this weekâs fantasy playoff matchups. First up is Frank Gore in San Francisco. Go ahead...