October 4, 2008
Give Allan a spot if healthy
By MARC BERMANSARATOGA SPRINGS - Allan Houston made it through Camp Saratoga without breaking down. That's a start, but he's still got some ways to go.Playing it cautiously, Houston took...
RBNY lineup vs. Toronto
By BRIAN LEWISThis is the Red Bulls' First XI for tonight's game against Toronto_____________Angel_____Magee________________Rojas___________________________Richards___________Pietravallo____Stammler______________Goldthwaite__Cichero____Parke______Leitcch____________________Conway__________________
PALIN: OBAMA 'PALLING AROUND' WITH TERRORISTS
The McCain campaign shifted into attack mode today, with pit bull Sarah Palin telling a crowd of Colorado backers that Barack Obama is "palling around with terrorists." The swipe, a...
Keeping Manuel the right move
We've all heard of win-win situations. Well, The Mets' agreement Friday night with Jerry Manuel on a two-year contract (with a club option for a third) to return as manager...
Leaders Lazio Held By Lowly Lecce
Simone Inzaghi's goal with a minute left to play salvaged a 1-1 draw for Serie A leaders Lazio in Rome on Saturday to newly-promoted Lecce.Lecce striker Simone Tiribocchi had netted...
'THIS WAS PAYBACK'
There was a chorus of cheers as justice was served chilled to the Juice early yesterday. After a jury threw the book at O.J. Simpson, declaring him guilty of kidnapping...
Cassel will conquer
With one quarter of the season in the books, it's time to take inventory of what we know at this point.We know the Broncos and Saints can't stop anybody. We...
HOW BIN LADEN GOT AWAY
Taking cover behind a small earthen schoolhouse in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, a message crackles over a Delta Force unit radio: "Father is trying to break through the siege line." Adrenaline...
Czech them out
By BRETT CYRGALISThe Rangers opened the NHL season in fine fashion today when they beat the Lightning, 2-1, from the O2 Center in Prague, Czech Republic. After struggling to get...
2 YOUNG WOMEN KILLED BY CABS ON E 14TH STREET
Two young women who were hanging out at a pizzeria after a night of concert-going were killed by a taxi early yesterday as they tried to cross an East Village...
Bigs. Lots and lots of bigs.
By FRED KERBEROne of the Nets decided shortcomings last season was coming in short. Team president Rod Thorn insisted he would increase the team's overall size.So to a complement of...
MAC: SARAH'S A REAL KNOCKOUT
John McCain said yesterday running mate Sarah Palin kicked Joe Biden's butt in Thursday night's vice presidential debate - and even Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gave Palin a thumbs up....
NO DEBATING THIS: IT WAS A TV SMASH
Talk about must-see TV. An eye-popping 69.9 million viewers tuned in to see Sarah Palin and Joe Biden face off Thursday in what was the most watched vice-presidential debate in...
IS JOE HIDIN' FACIAL WORK?
Has Joe Biden had some work done? A top Manhattan plastic surgeon thinks so, after comparing some shots from Thursday night's debate with earlier photos of the Delaware senator. "Yes,...
THE COMPANY HE KEEPS: OBAMA'S SHADY PALS
THE ISSUE:Barack Obama's connection to ACORN and its role in the financial meltdown. I have read a lot of very good PostOpinion articles over the years, but Stanley Kurtz's "O's...
GORGING ON CREDIT
NO one wants to talk about who is most to blame for the financial crisis that now threatens the US economy, though there is plenty of blame to go around....
BARACK'S CHILL
Barack Obama has already brought change: He's ended the "chilling effect." Any restrictions on speech - real or imagined - were once inevitably deemed to have a "chilling effect" on...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 902; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 2139; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 244; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 5759;...
FOSSETT'S FINAL OCEAN DREAM
When he died in a plane crash last year, millionaire daredevil Steve Fossett was looking to the ocean's deepest depths for another world-record adventure. Fossett, whose plane was found this...
POLS FINALLY COME TO RESCUE
In the most sweeping government intervention of the free market since the Great Depression, President Bush yesterday signed into law a $700 billion, pork-filled rescue package aimed at averting a...
CUT! BIG FAT TAX BREAK FOR MOVIE SHOOTS
Hollywood studio fat cats yesterday got a substantial tax slash, thanks to perks included in the $700 billion rescue package. The newly inked deal gives film and TV-show makers -...
TRANNY-OP RE$ULTS CUT BOTH WAYS
Considering a sex change? In these tough economic times, it might be wise to hold onto your goods. Men who become women suffer a 33 percent pay cut, while women...
A BIG BABA 'I DO-EY' FOR HOWIE, BETH
Shock jock Howard Stern and long-time squeeze Beth Ostrosky walked down the aisle last night in a star-studded gala at the swank Le Cirque. Donald Trump, Barbara Walters, Billy Joel,...
'SUICIDE' LADY GETS HER HOME
After a desperate 90-year-old Ohio woman attempted to kill herself as authorities tried to evict her from her foreclosed home, troubled mortgage lender Fannie Mae forgave the delinquent loan -...
JURY SACKS O.J. ON ALL 12 COUNTS
O.J. Simpson's luck has finally run out! After deliberating nearly 13 unlucky hours, a Las Vegas jury found the Juice guilty late last night of all charges related to a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A man was found shot to death in a Chinatown building early yesterday, police said. Police responded to a call of a fight in a stairwell of a building...
'HANDI' ADVICE FROM THE PARKING-FLAP POL
Before her husband acknowledged having a handicapped-parking permit he didn't need, a Westchester state senator had been warning constituents not to put their cars in the specially labeled spots because...
EX: 'BUCK' UP AND PAY UP!
Thank you for stalling. Author Christopher Buckley has been dragging his heels in his child-support clash with the mother of his love child, the woman's lawyer said yesterday. Irinasa Woelfle...
PRIEST-SLAY MYSTERY AT THE BEACH
Police were investigating yesterday the mysterious death of a Brazilian priest who was found strangled on the sands of Brighton Beach, authorities said. José Ricardo Ferreira de Souza, 31, was...
RING ACTED A-LOAN TO ROB $200M
The head of a brazen family of fraudsters took advantage of sloppy subprime mortgage lenders to pull off a mindblowing scheme that reeled in more than $200 million in fraudulent...
B'KLYN 'QAEDA'
Authorities busting a suspected ID thief in Brooklyn stumbled upon a possible terrorist nest full of al Qaeda news clippings, chemical manuals and weapons literature, sources told The Post yesterday....
GOV WANTS POLS TO SLICE $2B MORE FROM BUDGET
ALBANY - Chastising legislative leaders for failing to grasp the severity of the state's fiscal crisis, Gov. Paterson yesterday said he would recall lawmakers next month to slash another $2...
LEHMAN STAFF GETS THE SHAFT IN SEVERANCE
While fat cats at the bankrupted Lehman Brothers made multimillion-dollar salaries driving the company into the ground, lower-level employees have been told their severance packages have just been yanked. Ann...
NYERS' TERM SUPPORT IS LIMITED TO BLOOMY
New Yorkers are willing to extend term limits for Mayor Bloomberg - but not for the City Council, according to a poll released yesterday. A Quinnipiac University poll of 1,316...
A SHOCK 'MARKET' CRASH
Three people were injured when this out-of-control SUV smashed into a Coney Island supermarket yesterday. A female driver lost control of her Ford Explorer in the parking lot of the...
SUICIDE COP WAS FACING NO RAP: D.A.
The heartbroken cop who took his life for fear he'd be arrested for the deadly Tasering of a mentally ill man would likely not have faced charges, authorities said yesterday....
BANDITS PREY ON APT. GALS
Cops are hunting for a pair of conniving thugs who have held up at least four women who were trying to rent out their Brooklyn apartments. The suspects scoped out...
E. SIDE WORKER'S FATAL FALL
A building maintenance worker plummeted 30 feet to his death yesterday as he repaired a ceiling at an East Side building, co-workers and authorities said. The unidentified 47-year- old East...
BARBER CUT DOWN
Two gunmen burst into a Queens barbershop last night, blasting the owner in the stomach after two men bravely tried to wrest the weapon from one of the would-be bandits,...
QNS. FIEND STARVED HIS DOG: COPS
A cold-hearted convicted rapist was arrested for starving his dog to death, dumping the carcass in the gutter and trying to hide it under garbage outside his Queens home, authorities...
GAWKER FIRES 19, CITES AD SLUMP
Gawker Media is under the gun and firing 19 people. In an e-mail to staffers, Gawker CEO Nick Denton said that in anticipation of a coming ad slump, he is...
WAMU EXEC'S 18 DAYS NET $7.5M
Cries of outrage began surfacing yesterday over a $7.5 million payday handed to a wealthy Brooklyn banker for his few weeks of work on failed Washington Mutual. Alan Fishman, 62,...
PETTERS PUT IN FETTERS BY FEDS
Feds slapped cuffs on high-flying Tom Petters yesterday for allegedly running his multi-billion dollar holding company of flopped brands as a virtual Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of as much...
IT'S BANK ROBBERY
Citigroup boss Vikram Pandit has been left standing at the altar. After Pandit struck what seemed like a good deal, to buy Wachovia's banking assets for about $2.16 billion with...
NEW YORK WITHOUT ITS GOLDEN GOOSE
It took an extra $110 billion worth of tax-break "sweeteners," but Congress yes terday approved the Bush administration's $700 billion economic-rescue plan. Not even the shock of a 777-point stock...
THE LIES BIDEN TOLD
For all the focus on Sarah Palin's graceful performance in Thursday's vice presidential showdown, a more significant spectacle was taking place behind the other rostrum. That's where Joe Biden, speaking...
ROLSTON CENTRAL FOR DEVS
The Devils think they found the No. 1 center they lacked, and in preseason, Brian Rolston has looked the part. He worked a textbook play, like the Canadiens of old...
RIVERA'S SURGERY TUESDAY
The Yankees believe it will be nothing more than a routine surgery. Still, it's Mariano Rivera having arthroscopic surgery on his right-shoulder Tuesday. Rivera will have a calcification problem on...
RESTED KIWANUKA READY FOR GIANT BREAK OUT
That is the elusive goal for Mathias Kiwanuka, who feels he just has been able to do that once in three games this season. Kiwanuka said he liked the way...
COUGHLIN HOLDING OFF ON KICKER DECISION
Two kickers are ready to go for tomorrow's game against the Seahawks, but coach Tom Coughlin said yesterday he'll dress only one for the game. That means either Lawrence Tynes...
DIPIETRO'S KNEE PASSES FIRST TEST
Whatever chances the Islanders have at success this season rest on the shoulders - and more important, the surgically repaired hips and knee - of Rick DiPietro. That's why yesterday...
PRUCHA SNUB MAY MAR RANGERS OPENER
THE team that left its identity behind this summer apparently is on the verge of leaving good sense and common decency behind as well. What would have been a routine...
RED BULLS FACE MUST-WIN VS. TORONTO
With three teams just a point behind the Red Bulls in the MLS wildcard race, and with a brutal three-game stretch looming to close the regular-season, tonight's tilt against last-place...
SPORTS SHORTS
HORSE RACING: Two jockeys injured Jockey John Velazquez was hospitalized for evaluation yesterday after a spill at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., that also injured fellow jockey Jamie Theriot. Track medical...
DREW'S HR IN NINTH GIVES BOSTON 2-0 SERIES LEAD
ANAHEIM - Be prepared Yankees fans: Red Sox Nation is looking at another busy October. The Red Sox escaped with a 7-5 victory last night on the strength of a...
CUBS LOOK LIKE LOU-SERS
LOS ANGELES - Dazed by back-to-back NLDS blowouts, the Cubs arrived here yesterday on the verge of elimination and fuzzy on explanations for their predicament. Fresh off a 10-3 loss...
HONDO'S A TECHIE
Hondo's October run of futility continued yesterday when those darn Chisox failed their assignment against the Rays, which lowered the total in the vault to 655 roseboros. Today, he'll vacate...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
RUTGERS at WEST VIRGINIANoon SNYLine: West Virginia by 131/2. Angle: What has become of the Scarlet Knights? The easy answer is that Ray Rice has gone to the NFL, but...
PATERNO DEFYING AGE AT PENN ST.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The old guy finally decided to call it quits, to walk away from the program he virtually built from the ground up. He'd been hearing the...
SCORCHING RAYS TAKE 2-0 SERIES LEAD
ST.PETERSBURG - If you listened carefully enough to the tinny cowbells resonating throughout Tropicana Field last night, you could almost discern the sound of Taps being played for the White...
PHILS COUNTING ON MOYER
MILWAUKEE - In 22 big-league seasons, Jamie Moyer has played with enough players to fill an Old Timers' Day roster From Nolan Ryan to Fernando Valenzuela to Terry Francona to...
INJURY, ILLNESS DECIMATE KNICKS' CENTERS
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Knicks center Eddy Curry returned to Saratoga Hospital yesterday to receive IV fluids, his situation growing increasingly alarming and his chance of playing in the first two...
ARRIVEDERCI, SARATOGA
SARATOGA SPRINGS - The Knicks are closing training camp at Skidmore college here today, but team president Donnie Walsh wouldn't commit to return to The Spa next October. That's because,...
METS FANS: K-ROD NOT IMMUNE TO GAGGING
ANAHEIM - This is the image that flashed through my head at around five past one this morning: die-hard Mets fans across the metropolitan area staying up late, watching the...
AMAZIN'S MAKE CORRECT MOVE
WE'VE all heard of win-win situations. The Mets' agreement last night with Jerry Manuel on a two-year contract (with a club option for a third) to return as manager was...
FINALLY HEALTHY, YI REWARDING NETS' FAITH
Yi Jianlian's shooting was off, as should have been expected, because he had been out for a week with a sprained left ankle. His defense was shaky, as should have...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Linus must be so mad that he missed it. A 450-pound pumpkin has disappeared from the front yard of a home in Flint, Mich. While police don't believe the culprit...
Cussin' Joe Kinnear
By BRIAN LEWISNewcastle has given Premier League fans years of unintentional comedy, but it's usually on the field or on the injury list. But interim manager Joe Kinnear raised the...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY PHYSICAL GRAFFITI: See how the sidewalks of New York inspired artists from Vito Acconci to Yoko Ono at the "Street Art, Street Life" exhibit. Today's "Family Affair" afternoon, with...
THAT'S (POLY) AMORY!
SEE you later, honey - I'm going to a singles mixer. Oh, don't worry, it's polyamorous. Most of us would be wise to duck after trying that line. Not so...
'MAD' TV
'MAD Men" has ruined TV. It's too good. At this time of year, we TV critics are expected to wade through a pile of DVDs showcasing all the new fall...
LAUGHLESS MOORE JAB FALLS FLAT
A Michael Moore-like film maker shares a portable toi let with JFK, Gen. George Patton and Bill O'Reilly (as himself) in "An American Carol," which surely has two of them...
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
IF brunch in this town were really about eggs, you'd be cracking them in your studio, not waiting on an insanely long line for a pricey omelet. No, brunch is...
NOW WE'RE COOKING
LETTING children play with their food may be the best way to raise healthy eaters, experts say - and their parents should play along with them. "We need to have...
Manuel contract is now official
The Mets just announced the agreement with Jerry Manuel (pictured) to return as manager for the next two seasons, with a club option for 2011. GM Omar Minaya is holding...