October 25, 2008
HUDSON IN SAD RETURN
The city of Chicago has remained a safe haven for Jennifer Hudson throughout her climb to stardom - but her return to the Windy City Friday was a journey of...
'I WAS VIOLATED'
Pale and teary-eyed, the Brooklyn man who accuses cops of sodomizing him with a radio antenna met with the Rev. Al Sharpton today and insisted he's telling the truth about...
Juve Wins Turin Derby
Juve coach Claudio Ranieri was given a lifeline Saturday after striker Amauri bagged his third goal in a week to give Juventus a 1-0 win over Torino in a hotly-contested...
Oscar Watch: Angelina vs. KST
Also assured a place on the ballot, I think, is Kristin Scott Thomas, who underplays beautifully as a woman released from prison after serving 15 years for killing her 6-year-old...
NY JOCKEY MIGLIORE CAPTURES FIRST CUP WIN
In one of the great days of his life, New York's jockey Richard Migliore smashed all the jinxes and roared to a tote-busting triumph in the Turf Sprint on Desert...
Downsizing IMAX: Does Size Matter?
In today's Post, I pay a visit to the new IMAX screen at the Empire on 42nd Street -- which is five stories shorter and more than 40 feet less...
HOW 'DIRTY' HARRY WON IN '48
For the past sixty years, whenever a presidential candidate is down in the polls days before Election Day, Harry Truman's victory in 1948 inevitable comes up. Of all the comebacks,...
MCCAIN'S (LONG) ROAD TO ELECTORAL WIN
With nine days to go until the election, John McCain's electoral map is in tatters. According to Pollster.com, Obama presently holds leads of five or more points in 23 states...
THE TRUMAN SHOW
The most reliable surveys put McCain five to seven points behind Obama as we enter the last week of this interminable campaign. But in a race that will be famous...
Beckham Will Return to MLS in 2009
David Beckham will be back with the Los Angeles Galaxy for the start of the 2009 Major League Soccer season.He confirmed on his Web site on Friday that he's in...
Miss at your own risk: Political action
Highlights for the week of Oct. 27"MST3K"If you know what that acronym means, you'll be pleased, and possibly distressed, to learn that the 20th anniversary box set of the cult...
BAM STAFFERS PULL THEIR BOGUS OHIO BALLOTS
Thirteen campaign workers for Barack Obama yesterday yanked their voter registrations and ballots in Ohio after being warned by a prosecutor that temporary residents can't vote in the battleground state....
ELWAY BIDS FOR GOP LAST-SEC COMEBACK
DENVER - Underdog John McCain got a big boost yesterday in the critical swing state of Colorado from Hall of Fame Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway, who became a legend...
MAC-HACK GAL'S UNBELIEVA-BULL
A campaign volunteer for John McCain who claimed a knife-wielding thug robbed her and carved the letter "B" into her cheek to punish her for backing the Republican candidate admitted...
DEMS' UN-FAIRNESS DOCTRINE
THE ISSUE: Whether a Pres. Obama would restore the Fairness Doctrine and muzzle the media. Government has no business imposing a "fairness doctrine" in order to spoon-feed American citizens just...
THE OTHER RECOVERY PLAN: R&R FOR DICK CHENEY
THE ISSUE: Vice President Dick Cheney's hospitalization for an irregular heartbeat. I agree that Vice President Dick Cheney has served his country with distinction ("Wishing Cheney Well," Editorial, Oct. 20)....
BARACK'S JOBS BALONEY
DESPITE all the facile comparisons between the current economic situation and the conditions that preceded the Great Depression, the most recent figures show GDP continuing to grow, with unemployment at...
BATTLING FOR CHANGE
A REAL referendum on hope and change is taking place in Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district. If the change agent in the race were a Democrat and the status quo defender...
PLANS TO PLUNDER THE UNIVERSITIES
"Because that's where the money is."- Willie Sutton, when asked in 1934 why he robbed banks WASHINGTON is having a Willie Sutton Moment. Such moments occur when government, finding its...
CHINA'S SHOCK & NOW 'AWW!'
Some good news is lifting spirits in China's earthquake-ravaged Sichuan Province after twin panda cubs were delivered at a research center there. The two fluffy pandas will be named at...
HAWKING TIME'S UP
The laws of physics have finally caught up with legendary scientist Steven Hawking. He's about to reach the point in space-time at which he must retire from his prestigious university...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 167; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 0214; Lucky Sum: 7 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 214; Lucky Sum: 7 / Evening Win- 4 Fri.:...
BOAR ON THE FLOOR IN HIT-RUN
It was a boar's head-on collision. A 200-pound wild Russian boar was euthanized after suffering severe injuries this week when a car slammed into it on a Massachusetts highway, officials...
STAR'S NIGHTMARE
The mother and brother of Oscar-winning actress and "American Idol" star Jennifer Hudson were found shot to death yesterday in a house in Chicago. Last night cops were questioning 27-year-old...
DOUGH RAY ME: BETTOR $ITTING PRETTY
A year ago, when oddsmakers were offering 250-to-1 on such crazy long shots as Dennis Kucinich's being elected president, Dave Marger took them up on an equally bizarre bet on...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island A New Dorp department-store manager was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a clerk. On several occasions, most recently on Aug. 18, John Devivo, 57, grabbed the woman and...
TRAGIC BREAST GAL GETS $4.6M
A Bronx jury awarded $4.6 million to a woman with incurable breast cancer whose doctor failed to diagnose her ailment. The money is enough that Jossie Lopez, 44, can quit...
LEHMAN LOUT HAS $%@# NERVE
A former Lehman Brothers trader has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the manager who fired him for calling a female broker the "C"-word. Kai Kemnitz's suit says the canning...
HERO MA IN FELINE HEAVEN
Scarlett, the courageous mama cat who ran five times into a blazing Brooklyn garage in 1996 to rescue her kittens, has died of kidney failure. The selfless calico's fur eyes...
ISIAH IN BIZARRE 'SLEEP-PILL O.D.'
Former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas was hospitalized yesterday after overdosing on sleeping pills at his Westchester mansion, sources said. The troubled basketball great - whose failed years as Knicks coach...
INJURIES HINT COP SODOMY
The man who said cops sodomized him with a walkie-talkie antenna had injuries consistent with that type of assault, according to his hospital discharge papers. And law-enforcement sources said Michael...
NYC TRANSIT'S SNAILS ON RAILS
Two of every 10 of the city's subway trains run late, according to a new measure of on-time performance being adopted by the MTA. Trains on the numbered lines had...
REALLY SICKENING VOTE
Darlene Mealy - one of only two City Council members to switch sides in the tense term-limits vote - was under such intense pressure and threats that she vomited twice...
B'KLYN GRANNY KILLED IN HIT-RUN
A hit-run driver mowed down an Alzheimer's-afflicted Brooklyn grandma as she wandered through her neighborhood yesterday. Bridget Morrissey, 74, was crossing 75th Street at 14th Avenue in Bay Ridge at...
NY JUDGE OKS GAY DIVORCÉES
Gay couples still can't marry in New York - but at least they can get divorced. A Manhattan lesbian couple wed in Massachusetts got a court's blessing to seek a...
'SLAY' WISEGUY A HAM
All they needed was some popcorn. Jurors deliberating in the haunted-house murder case against a reputed Bonanno associate were fixated yesterday on a bizarre movie trailer that showed the defendant...
SUIT PUT HIM IN HALL OF SHAME
Isiah Thomas' career is filled with rough patches and dark moments - but none as dark as the humiliating days of the sexual-harassment case brought against him by Anucha Browne...
WIDOW: PAY 'NO MIND'
A Long Island woman says her husband's brain is missing. Mozelle Purifoy says she wasn't told until days after her husband's funeral in 2006 that his brain had been removed...
LAW TO LAY OFF 'LENO' BIZ
The garage that auctioned off the vintage vehicles of an elderly Macy's heir for bargain prices - with a 1931 Duesenberg landing in Jay Leno's possession - will not be...
TIMES SQ. STABBING
A horror movie came to life in Times Square last night when a man was stabbed in the neck after watching the gory flick, "Saw V," a police source said....
GOV'S AIDE O'BYRNE A QUITTER
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson's embattled, tax-scofflaw chief of staff and close friend Charles O'Byrne yesterday resigned under pressure, officials said. The move comes a week after The Post first reported...
'KING' OF THE COP-KILLERS
A junkie busted with "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato for allegedly murdering a cop bragged that he'd be crowned "king" in prison for taking out one of New York's Finest. "He...
'BED' TIME IN 9/11 PENSION FIGHT
The fiancée of a firefighter killed on 9/11, who is fighting for his pension, testified yesterday that she used to sneak into his folks' house to be with him, despite...
'NOTHING WORKS'
Despite trillions in safety-net cash hurled at the world's panicked economies, stock investors stampeded deeper into their losing global game of liquidation roulette. Shares tumbled perilously in markets from Asia...
HANDS: EMI LOSS WAS THEIR FAULT
Terra Firma boss Guy Hands and his lieutenants have a message for investors in troubled music giant EMI: Don't blame us for the financial mess. As Terra Firma reported a...
GRIFFIN DENIES CITADEL IS FAILING
Normally secretive hedge-fund mogul Ken Griffin stepped into the spotlight yesterday in a bid to quell rumors that his Chicago-based Citadel Investment Group is on the brink of collapse. Griffin's...
REVENUE OUTLOOK FOR YOUTUBE STAYS FUZZY
Chad Hurley is the man who wanted a site to post home videos on the Internet and, with his friend Steve Chen, set up YouTube and became a billionaire. The...
LIZ SEES RED, SALES SLIDE
Liz Claiborne warned this year's profits will miss earlier forecasts, blaming a steep falloff in consumer spending that began last month in the throes of the Wall Street crisis. The...
THREE STRIKES, YOU'RE OUT!
It was three strikes and you're out for two Manhattan-based magazines yesterday, as Radar and 02138 called it quits and dumped 35 publishing people onto the bread line. Radar Editor-in-Chief...
A FEW BAD APPLES?
The folks over at ACORN - Barack Obama's favorite "community organizers" - now admit that more than 30 percent of the 1.3 million voter-registration forms they submitted this year were...
HE HAD TO GO
Gov. Paterson did himself - and New York - a huge favor yesterday by pressuring his compromised chief of staff, Charles O'Byrne, to resign. Actually, Paterson had no choice. Not...
PATERSON NAVIGATING ROUGH SEAS IN WOBBLY SHIP
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson's bold decision to listen to critics and force out scandal-shrouded chief of staff Charles O'Byrne was warmly welcomed by state government insiders last night as proof...
COLES IMPROVING, MAY START FOR JETS
It looks like Laveranues Coles is going to be physically - and mentally - able to play tomorrow afternoon when the Jets face the Chiefs at Giants Stadium. "If he's...
ZENYATTA ROLLS IN LADIES'
ARCADIA, Calif. - In the 25th year of the Breeders' Cup, the new BC braintrust decided to roll the dice, and they made their point. "Filly Friday" was a smashing...
BIG FAVORITE MUST OVERCOME SYNTHETIC TRACK
ARCADIA, Calif. - Five races down and nine to go. That's the scorecard before the most unpredictable Breeders' Cup ever rolls to its climax late this afternoon when the greatest...
BETTOR'S GUIDE TO THE 2008 BREEDERS' CUP
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DEVS LOSE GAME ... MAYBE CAPTAIN
The Devils can only hope they didn't lose another key forward for today while they were losing so much else last night. Captain Jamie Langenbrunner said he'll try to play...
LARRY STAYS TRUE TO DEVS
It used to be the ambitious, upstart Devils who would mine the legendary Canadiens legacy: Jacques Lemaire, Stephane Richer, Claude Lemieux, Lyle Odelein. That river is running the other way,...
SILVA NO LONGER STERLING
ANDERSON Silva, considered by many the best pound-for-pound mixed martial artist in the world, begins a countdown toward retirement tonight when he defends his UFC middleweight title at UFC 90...
PRIMA DONNA WRS PLAGUE JINTS, STEELERS
There's always something with NFL receivers. Not all of them, mind you, but the quiet professionalism of veterans like the Giants' Amani Toomer seems to be the exception when it...
TRENT BACK IN THE HUNT
Scott Gordon's newly implemented forechecking system hasn't yielded many goals for the Islanders yet, but apparently it has helped the goal-scoring touch of at least one player. "Sometimes it's tough...
PRUCHA'S BLUESHIRTS SAGA STILL A MYSTERY
This was the 2005 training camp, the one immediately following the lockout and cancelled 2004-05 NHL season. The Rangers, you remember, had loaded up on veterans from the Czech Republic...
RENNEY KO'D BEFORE BLUESHIRTS WIN AGAIN
COLUMBUS - They were down a goal and down a head coach, the latter the potentially far more serious matter. With the Rangers trailing the Blue Jackets 1-0 approximately eight...
DESPITE QUIET BATS, PHILS IN DRIVER'S SEAT
PHILADELPHIA - The Phillies sure aren't acting like a team with the upper hand. Philadelphia arrived home yesterday having salvaged a split of the first two games of the World...
KNOWSHON, BULLDOGS IN FOR LONG DAY AT LSU
Georgia at LSU 3:30, CBSLine: LSU -2O/U: 48 If you believe that all games that aren't won and lost because of turnovers are won and lost up front, then the...
RAYS' OWNER HAS BROOKLYN IN BLOOD
PHILADELPHIA - I should own a major league team. Look, I understand why I never reached the NBA. Sure, I was the captain of the sixth-grade team at P.S. 272...
REPORT: 10 VIOLATED NFL 'ROIDS POLICY
Roger Goodell's list of headaches just got a little longer. A TV station in Denver reported yesterday that between six and 10 NFL players violated the league's steroids policy. Among...
TRADE L.T.? IT'S NO LONGER A SILLY QUESTION
STOCKS on Wall Street aren't the only ones taking a nosedive. LaDainain Tomlinson's production has dropped as quick as our 401k. After peaking in 2006 with an average of nearly...
ROMO, WESTBROOK HAD BOOKS BUZZIN' THIS WEEK
ALWAYS remember this: Vegas knows all, hears all. With that in mind, let's take a look at what's been happening behind the scenes this week around the NFL.PLAY POST PICK...
HONDO WELCOMES MATT
Hondo, with a little help from Tim The Hockey Guru, found some puck luck last night in Columbus as he shot and scored with the Rangers to grow the bankroll...
AROUND THE LEAGUE
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will join children from the community in welcoming new Nets forward Yi Jianlian to the Chinatown YMCA Monday at 4:15 p.m., the 7-footer's first public visit...
SPORTS SHORTS
GRID: Boise St. rolls In San Jose, Kellen Moore threw two touchdown passes and Ian Johnson ran for two more scores to help 13th-ranked Boise State keep alive its bid...
UNSUNG RAY HAS BEEN PLAYOFF ACE
PHILADELPHIA - When the Rays opened the ALCS against the Red Sox, James Shields had the ridiculous nickname of "Big Game James." Scott Kazmir starts a three-year contract next year....
JOE PA, LIONS LOOK TO ROAR PAST BUCKS
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The reasons Penn State coach Joe Paterno has been limping for the last few months have been attributed to an injury to his right hip and knee....
ISIAH OD REPORT CATCHES TEAM BY SURPRISE
The Knicks have distanced themselves from Isiah Thomas - but just five days before their season opener vs. Miami, he was back in their faces yesterday. News that Thomas had...
JEFFRIES BATTLES BACK WITH HYPERBARIC HELP
After Knicks big man Jared Jeffries broke his left fibula during training camp at Saratoga Springs in early October, he promised he would get a hyperbaric chamber to speed his...
EWING JR. ROCKS THE GARDEN - AND MAYBE MAKES TEAM
Big Fella Jr. finally has arrived. Patrick Ewing Jr. took the court at the Garden for the first time as a Knick - and he just may have won a...
NETS' PRESEASON ENDS WITH VICTORY
They gave up 100 points plus again. They got murdered on 3-point shots again. But this time, the Nets won. And that would be a first without the Heat or...
NETS ROOKIE CENTER PROCLAIMS: DON'T DISS DISNEY
Nets center Brook Lopez admits he is getting anxious as the big day approaches. Opening Day for the NBA season, as a rookie, his very first? Oh yeah, that too....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
They should really issue a warning label. Last week we reported that a cop discovered the hard way that a Taser did nothing to stop a 400-pound wild boar, but...
How about Patrick
By MARC BERMANNever has the battle for the 15th man been this intriguing. Knicks brass was leaning toward cutting Patrick Ewing Jr. by Monday's deadline, but now have a lot...
READY TO... CRACK?
NEW Yorkers have perfected the art of dealing with stress. True, we may stiff the cabbie who took us the long way, but in general we're pros at keeping our...
BOO'S YOUR DADDY?
GOT mask? You don't have to wait till Friday to start trick-or-treating: The Halloween fun starts today. From mildly ghoulish to full-on frightening, here's where the action is all week...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY LITTLE BIG TOP: Alexander Calder did more with mobiles than anyone before or since him. And there's no better time than today - Free Family Day - to check...
'SIN'-SATIONAL
SURE I might be a real softie, but who among us can resist a real old-fashioned love story? Take "Sex and Lies in Sin City," an original Lifetime movie based...
SMALLER IMAX BIG SCREENS
TALK about downsizing. IMAX, which has long touted massive screens as tall as eight stories, is introducing a new generation of smaller auditoriums it says provide an equivalent viewing experience....
The Pre-Season Sked Ends
By FRED KERBERThe Nets were a Jamal Crawford left corner 3-point try away from a dismal collapse. But Bobby Simmons switched out, contested it and finally, the Nets had a...
Mets targeting Lowe, Fuentes
According to colleague Joel Sherman, the Mets are going to go after starter Derek Lowe (Dodgers) and closer Brian Fuentes (Rockies) when free agency starts. Lowe would be a solid...