October 12, 2008

If Only It Counted

By FRED KERBERThe Nets are 2-0 in pre-season.They ended their European trek with a second close win over the Heat, this one by 94-92 today before a sellout crowd that...

QUINN: I SUPPORT BLOOMBERG PLAN

In a complete about-face, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn today embraced legislation to extend term limits for city officials and all but endorsed Mayor Bloomberg for a third term, citing...

Miss at your own risk: McCain on Letterman

Highlights for the week of Oct. 13Christian Slater alertIf you're a Christian Slater fan, you can double your Monday dosage of the latest one-time movie star-turned-TV star. In addition to...

TEACHER CRISIS

In the editorial about New York's incompetent teachers, you state that Chancellor Joel Klein can't fire "lousy" teachers ("Kids Lose Again . . . ," PostScript, Oct. 5). Why? Isn't...

HE HAS A BEEF

Thank you for promoting another silly book "The Get-Your-Man-To-Marry-You Plan: Buying the Cow in the Age of Free Milk" designed to exploit the fears of women desperate to be married...

FEMME FEY-TAL

Does anyone at Saturday Night Live realize that the show only entertains half of the American people with its constant dogging of Sarah Palin ("Nailin' Palin," Oct. 1)? When does...

ICE PRESIDENT

Tiffany & Co. it ain't - but accessories addicted Sarah Palin is sticking to her pins. Giant, sparkly, spangly pins. From her jewel-encrusted flag-and-star-of-service pin combo she sported at the...

WRONG FOR THE RIGHT

John McCain blew it. Barack Obama will win the election, and there may be nothing that McCain can do to stop it. This isn't just what liberals are saying. It's...

DID MCCAIN REALLY WANT IT?

Presidential candidates who've choked in the clutch often turn out to be plagued by their own doubts - prey, perhaps, to a political law of natural selection. For John McCain,...

DEMOCRATS GO ALL IN

WASHINGTON - With Election Day still 23 days away, Congressional Democrats already are measuring the drapes on Capitol Hill. Despite record low approval ratings, and negative voter reaction to the...

ONE PARTY WASN'T ALWAYS A PROBLEM

For the first time since 1993, a new presidential term may open with the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate in the hands of the Democrats. Although pundits...

PULPED FICTION

It lies in the graveyard of history now, its tombstone beginning to grow crusty and weedy. You can still make out the words, barely. "THE NOVEL: 1605-2001." But who killed...

BLOG WATCH

Friends like these "Why in the world was Barack Obama still communicating on the phone or via e-mail with Bill Ayers up until 2005 - when in 2001 Ayers gave...

FABERGE'S EGGS

For Czar Alexander III, the Faberge Eggs were a token of love and affection, presented to his wife each Easter. At his death, son Nicolas II continued the tradition, bestowing...

STALIN'S CHILDREN

Winston Churchill used to describe Russia as a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." At a time when Russia is reasserting itself on the international stage, "Stalin's Children"...

BESTSELLER: THE SHACK

This low-budget phenomenon shows no signs of stopping - its paperback release hitting No. 1 (again) on Amazon.com. Self-published by Oregon writer Young (he originally printed 15 copies for his...

NEW YORK FOR SALE

Tom Angotti, a Hunter College Professor of Planning, says that, for progressive planners, the guiding principle is not the old real estate saw of "location, location, location," but rather dislocation,...

HOW TO HAVE STYLE

Never before in American culture has the matter of personal style - how to get it, cultivate it, maintain it - seemed so deathly important. One of the most successful...

REQUIRED READING

Milk The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages by Anne Mendelson (Knopf) Ask this author: "Got milk?" and the answer might surprise you. "I never drink milk," Mendelson tells...

IN MY LIBRARY: KEN RUSSELL

If you went to the movies in the late '60s and '70s, you know Ken Russell's work. There was no escaping it: "Women in Love," "The Rainbow," "The Devils," "The...

PA DOUBLE TALK

Chris Ward, the Port Authority's executive director, dropped a mini-bombshell last week: The 9/11 memorial won't be fully open to the public until well after the 10th anniversary of the...

SUBWAY WARNING SIGNALS

Can't they at least make the trains run on time? Apparently not. And the Transit Authority's own data suggests just why not. First, the number of delayed trains is up...

JETS MUST AVOID LETDOWN VS. DESPERATE BENGALS

Laveranues Coles was chatting with his friend from the Giants, running back Brandon Jacobs when Jacobs asked Coles, "Who do you all play this week?"MATCHUP: JETS-BENGALS "We've got the Bengals,"...

FAVRE LEGEND BEGAN IN '92 AGAINST SAME TEAM

It really started for Brett Favre on Sept. 20, 1992. On that day, Favre, a second-year backup with the Packers, replaced an injured Don Majkowski and rallied Green Bay to...

BRETT CAN'T LOSE TO CINCY BACKUP

OVER and over, week after week, this is what Brett Favre has been telling New York: "I didn't come here to lose."MATCHUP: JETS-BENGALS He sure didn't come here to lose...

THIS DEVIL WIN A LATE ARRIVAL

PITTSBURGH - A left wing and a prayer - or more precisely, a Hail Mary - and the Devils are 2-0 for the first time since they won their last...

SABATHIA, BURNETT FIGURE IN BOMBERS' OFFSEASON PLANS

BRIAN Cashman shunned a trade last winter for Johan Santana essentially for this reason: He did not think it was the proper moment in an ongoing renovation process to invest...

A PLAX ATTACK

* I would like to congratulate Plaxico Burress for selfishly stepping into Jeremy Shockey's shoes as the Giants' team moron. His incoherent and fragmented rhetoric is typical of NFL players...

GONZALEZ INTERESTS BIG BLUE

The Giants, who head into this weekend with the NFL's No. 1-ranked offense, are interested in trading for Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez, according to reports. MATCHUP: GIANTS-BROWNS The Giants...

SORRY EXHIBITION MAY BOOST BROWNS

The Giants put such a pounding on the Browns in a nationally-televised "Monday Night Football" preseason game that it was fair to wonder if it was too much of a...

DiPIETRO SITS AGAIN BUT ISLES WIN 1ST

It was an impressive home opener and a fine first NHL win for new Islander coach Scott Gordon. But it came with a worrisome footnote. The Islanders soared to a...

BLUESHIRTS HOLD OFF PHILLY FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY

PHILADELPHIA - Glen Sather did not attend last night's game here against the Flyers. The Post has learned that the GM was instead working on a preseason schedule for next...

SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... SCOTT GOMEZ

Scott Gomez, the newly chosen associate captain entering his second season with the Rangers and former Stanley Cup champion with the Devils, sat down to chat with Post columnist Steve...

GIRARDI SHOULDN'T TRY TO BE THE NEXT JOE

LOS ANGELES - To be around Joe Torre again is a reminder of his impressive blend of self-confidence, serenity and stature. Torre exudes a comfort in his own skin and,...

LA LOOKS TO AVOID FALLING IN 3-0 SERIES HOLE

LOS ANGELES - Manny Ramirez knows what it's like to come back from a 3-0 deficit in a league championship series (sorry, Yankees fans), so he's not about to panic...

TAMPA'S DARLINGS

ST. PETERSBURG - Sometimes, you can feel how badly a city wants something, how desperately a band of sports fans yearns for a victory, for a statement, for a stand...

JAGUARS ON ROAD THE PLAY

Including the 1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year record in print stands at 354-295 (54.5 percent) against the spread. THE PICK Jaguars (+31/2) over BRONCOS: The Broncos stuffed the...

CINCY WILL GIVE JETS TOUGH TUSSLE

TODAY JETS (-51/2) over Bengals: Though Gang Green's scored but one rushing TD all year, any uncertainties vanished when Marvin Lewis announced that Ryan Fitzpatrickwould start at QB for Cincy,...

SPORTS SHORTS

NFL: Cowboys' Newman out a month Cowboys cornerback Terence Newman will be out at least another month after surgery for a sports hernia. That means Adam "Pacman" Jones will remain...

RAYS GET EVEN

ST. PETERSBURG - Josh Beckett and Scott Kazmir stunk on the hill. Excluding Hideki Okajima and Dan Wheeler, to a point, the hurlers who followed the starters weren't easier on...

IT'S TIME TO SHIP SEAHAWKS

GONE is RB Shaun Alexander. WR Deion Branch has a foot problem. The once dominant offensive line is a shell of its former self. And now Matt Hasselbeck's sore right...

CBA LEAVES SOME SKATERS MIA

PHILADELPHIA- The NHLPA's failure to inform the league that it will not exercise its option to reopen the collective bargaining agreement after this season is the reason why 31 year-old...

HAVA HAS A PLAN TO HELP DISABLED VETS

SPORTING companies are joining forces to help wounded veterans with the hope that outdoors sports will help them back into society. Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA) is an organization that...

RAMIREZ A HERO? NOT BY A LONG SHOT

ONE of the sorriest truths about sports TV is that the sell must supersede the truth. Contrary to what TBS and Fox come-ons have portrayed, Manny Ramirez leading the Dodgers...

RUMBLE

Red right or big Blue? No voting consensus in Giants locker room As the presidential race revs up, political conversations in NFL locker rooms echo those in workplaces nationwide. Taxes....

HONDO A PHILLIE FANATIC

Hondo's stick-to-it-ive-ness with the Rays paid off last night when the plucky little upstarts upended the Sawx to increase the bankroll to 515 caulfields. Tonight, he expects the Phillies to...

NEW CELTICS 7-FOOTER COULD BE KEY TO REPEAT

ONE long look (28-minutes) Friday night at Celtics offseason signee Patrick O'Bryant is enough for me to state unequivocally: Don Nelson famously fouled up. No coherent coach could have possibly...

MADDON: RAYS WERE UPTIGHT IN FIRST GAME

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Joe Maddon's reputation as a different kind of manager was on display yesterday before Game 2 of the ALCS at Tropicana Field. Asked about Boston's David...

PHILLIES NOT LOOKING AHEAD

LOS ANGELES - Pardon the Phillies if they don't know quite how to act going into Game 3 of the NLCS here tonight. After all, the franchise - which last...

EVANS TOSSES 2 TDS IN HOLY CROSS WIN

Holy Cross head coach Tom Pugh had his team play the role of spoiler yesterday, when they traveled to The Bronx and added a sour note to Mario Valentini's 25th...

ISIAH'S REP MAY NOT BE TOTALLY SHOT

THE Knicks will be more respectable this season by having Donnie Walsh and Mike D'Antoni as frontmen and decision-makers, and not Isiah Thomas and owner James Dolan. Get MORE at...

SERIOUSLY, GARDEN HOOPS ONCE MATTERED IN THIS TOWN

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - This was like a scene from one of those old Smucker's ads, or one of those old commercials for Pepperidge Farm, where the wide-eyed kid asks...

NETS ROOKIE DOUGLAS-ROBERTS OFF TO ROARING START

Basketball I.Q. and confidence. Those are the two strongest traits Chris Douglas-Roberts brings to the court. But no one will argue if he keeps bringing 18 points a game, either....

TEBOW ON THE MARK AS GATORS ROLL

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - So Tim Tebow is a marked man, huh? And this is supposed to be news? Tebow became a marked man when he became the first sophomore ever...

THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS

----- WINNERS -----CARL ICAHN Billionaire investor snags $6.5B for ImClone; 13% more than Wall Street expected.CLIVE DAVIS Sony Music leans on icon to make hits in troubled times.GRAYDON CARTER Filches...

IT'S TAKE TWO ON FED RESCUE PLAN

The Bush administration is racing to rescue its rescue plan. As Wall Street suffered its worst week ever, toxic debt is no longer the top priority of the $700 billion...

7-YR.-OLD GETS AN ACORN VOTE

O'jahnae Smith is ready and registered to vote this November. There's only one problem: She's 7 years old. The Connecticut girl is 11 years too young - and nobody in...

TALIBAN TAKES A HIT

More than 100 Taliban fighters have been killed in ferocious battles in Southern Afghanistan, officials said early today. NATO warplanes and Afghan ground forces killed 65 of the fighters after...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 450; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 8132; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 466; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 1295;...

BON JOVI SUED FOR $400 BILLION

A Boston musician has slapped rocker Jon Bon Jovi with a $400 billion lawsuit, charging the Garden State idol ripped off his lyrics, according to published reports. Samuel Steele alleges...

GIVE BEAST A CHANCE

John Lennon didn't give peace a chance at home - where he callously abused and routinely tormented the women closest to him. The music legend was prone to unprovoked acts...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

MANHATTAN * An aspiring male model miraculously survived a shot to the back of the head early yesterday in a Harlem robbery when the bullet grazed him. Donald Carmichael, 23,...

NEW ABUSE PROBERS

New York's efforts to end child abuse got a big boost last week when 340 "child-protective specialists" completed the Administration for Children's Services training. The caseworkers' ranks will be augmented...

WEDDING DAZE

Planning a wedding is hard. Planning a wedding during an economic panic when the bride and groom both work in finance is nearly impossible. Gallery: Times Are Tough All OverBuck-Shots...

'90 WIDOW MAY SOON FACE RAP

A wealthy widow long suspected of ordering the murder of her millionaire husband 18 years ago is one step closer to being charged after prosecutors subpoenaed her divorce attorney, The...

'HIGH' RISE TYCOON

Inside of a decade, multimillionaire Eric Hadar went from a small-time Realtor snapping up tiny, rundown Big Apple buildings to a superstar ty coon who shocked the in dustry in...

HARDEST LESSON

Bronx native Katherine Tejada was on the fast track to the journalism career she always dreamed of. Gallery: Times Are Tough All Over The 20-year-old Bronx resident - editor-in-chief of...

THE MAKESHIFT MOM

When little Julia Madrid was born seven months ago, her mom Randi Zuckerwise Madrid decided to do something special - make her homemade baby food. Gallery: Times Are Tough All...

FIRE FUMES KILL FIVE IN FAMILY

Thick smoke from a kitchen fire killed five members of a family yesterday after it blocked the only escape route from their Chelsea apartment. The only survivor - a 10-year-old...

TOUR DE FUMES

Big Apple tour buses are brazenly swerving around city laws requiring greener emissions, a new report shows. The 11 sightseeing companies were supposed to retrofit their vehicles - including duck...

GAL, 20, KILLED IN CROSSFIRE

A college graduate who dreamed of becoming a nurse was gunned down in a drive-by shooting as she walked with friends to a Long Island party, police said yesterday. Danielle...

MDS' PLEA TO MEDICARE: PAY! STAT!

Some New York City doctors say they are facing their own financial meltdown, squeezed by a months-long delay in Medicare reimbursements. One Manhattan psychiatrist said he hadn't been paid for...

'CHEATER' SPITS OUT LAWYERS

A war profiteer who allegedly looted his body-armor company to fund a posh lifestyle has gone through a Who's Who of pricey defense lawyers - suing some, firing some, and...

BOOT FOR LEWD ONLINE PRIEST

St. John's University suspended a priest from his job there yesterday - a day after his arrest for allegedly e-mailing homemade masturbation videos to someone he thought was a teenage...

HORRIFIC B'KLYN BLAZE

Two young men were fighting for their lives early this morning after a raging fire tore through a Brooklyn brownstone, officials said. Firefighters found the burned victims - one of...

GOODBYE, KITTIES

Aziza and Alberto Chevez wanted nothing more than to have their baby girl, Athena, grow up in a happy home surrounded by love. So with a combined income of $40,000,...

COLD SLICE

Paul DiAgostino and Gino Vitali bought a 50-year-old Brooklyn pizzeria earlier this year and decided to breathe some new life into the Carroll Gardens landmark by plowing several hundred thousand...

S#!TS AND GOOGLES

Forgot to use the bathroom before you left the bar? Now you can find the nearest pit stop on your cellphone. The aptly, if somewhat disgustingly, named Diaroogle.com is a...

BUCK-SHOTS IN BROOKLYN

It's a case of guns for butter, triggered by the fiscal crisis. Cash-strapped good Samaritans yesterday answered the Brooklyn DA's call to swap revolvers and rifles for $200 apiece at...

JAM-PACKED QNS. HS IS CITY KIDS' TOP PICK

A severely overcrowded Queens high school took top honors in the city's annual popularity contest. Despite being at almost double its 2,600-seat capacity, Francis Lewis HS in Flushing received 12,602...

SHIV-SMUGGLE JAIL GUARD AXED

A Rikers Island guard was fired last week on a charge of smuggling a scalpel to an accused killer and reputed gang leader, The Post has learned. Carlos Merwin, 27,...

HISTORIC RITES FOR 1ST ELLIS IS. IMMIGRANT

Two hundred people gathered at Calvary Cemetery in Queens yesterday to give Annie Moore - the first immigrant to set foot on Ellis Island - a proper burial, 84 years...

GOP'S BIG NY CASH BASH

It's the last tango in New York City for John McCain and Sarah Palin. The Republican duo will headline a Tuesday-night fund-raiser at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Midtown that...

TROUBLE SHOOTER

Jeffrey Gendell has a message for anyone who lost money in his hedge fund: Good news! I'm letting you double down your bets. Despite a 65 percent year-to-date loss, Gendell's...

CREDIT LIMITS SLASHED

After consumers failed for years to curb their runaway spending, credit-card companies are taking matters into their own hands - unilaterally lowering credit limits for tens of thousands of Americans....

UNIQUE 'PANIC' ATTACK

WITH the stock mar ket down every day this month, much is being made of the comparisons between the Panic of 2008 and the Crash of 1987 - and no...

GRINCH STRIKES RETAIL!

Cue the Grinch - the news just keeps on getting worse and worse for retailers. The 20 percent slide in the Dow Jones industrial average this month - which erased...

WHAT A YEAR-LONG SLIDE

It may be hard to believe that $8.4 trillion in wealth has been wiped from mutual funds, retirement funds and investment portfolios in the last 12 months, but with the...

PECKER'S ZANY MAG RESCUED

THERE'S nothing like a good alien abduction story to get your mind off your finances. Enter Bat Boy LLC. The newly formed company plans to announce as soon as today...

FED BOARD STUCK INSIDE A BUBBLE

Dear John: Don't any of the clowns on the Federal Reserve Board go to the grocery store or pay utility bills? I don't think they are concerned about the economy,...

ACTIVISTS LIMIT 'THIRD TERM' OBJECTIONS

SOME of the loudest voices in the city are providing a not-so-obvious boost to Mayor Bloomberg by keeping mum on the term-limits controversy. Lillian Roberts, executive director of District Council...

LET OUR BATTERED CITY BLOOM AGAIN

OVER the past 15 years, I've often been called "the last of the three-term mayors." I hope that will not be the case for much longer. We are living through...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Here's a perfect stress reliever during hard economic times: hurling dinnerware against a wall. In San Diego, Sarah's Smash Shack is doing a booming business letting patrons dressed in protective...

KITTY LOVE IS BLIND

Everyone knows the story about the Three Blind Mice. Well, here's one about three blind cats. Veteran cat rescuer Debi Romano, of the nonprofit Save Kitty Foundation (savekitty.org), has three...

BOBBY STILL NO. 1

WHEN the world cham pionship match that begins this week is over, either Vishy Anand or Vladimir Kramnik will be hailed as the world's best player - and also compared...

Q&A WITH MARK WAHLBERG

THe displayed one kind of weaponry as Dirk Diggler in "Boogie Nights," but on Friday, Mark Wahlberg breaks out the traditional variety in the gun-fu actioner "Max Payne." In the...

AGENDA

This week: a reggae rave, bargain massages, Colbert's 'Office,' a Rattlestick revival and great pumpkins. Tosh-apalooza TODAY - Music B.B. King Blues Club, 237 W. 42 St.; 212-997-4144 Fans of...

BRIDGE

AS the game at the Mad Hatter's went on, Alice decided the Dormouse played the best game - aside from herself - but the Queen of Hearts talked the best...

BREED OF SOUND

A few weeks ago I asked you to tell me about the sounds your cats respond to. Your responses reminded me of how smart cats are. It's amazing how much...

'SCIENCE' EXPERIMENT

The title of TV on the Radio's newest CD, "Dear Science," represents a true (and rare) moment of actual irony in rock music. It was taken from an letter a...

'LITTLE HONEY' GETS HAPPY

THERE'S something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue on Lucinda Williams' latest album, "Little Honey," out Tuesday. There's even a song called "Plan to Marry" on the record. Still,...

AND BABY MAKES TWO

I got to see only one film at the Woodstock Film Festival last weekend, "Prince of Broadway," but it ended up taking the top prize at the ninth-annual gathering in...

MADGE VS. GUY

After their disastrous collaboration on "Swept Away," which had as much sexual heat as a Larry the Cable Guy flick, you'd have thought that Madonna and Guy Ritchie would have...

WE'RE TALKING TO YOU

WOULD the real Robert De Niro please report to Hollywood, stat. The actor, who has carried some of America's greatest films, has spent more than a decade - you could...

FILM BYTES

Borat as Captain Jack's brother in "Pirates of the Caribbean 4"? Possibly maybe, says Cinema Blend, who heard it from their anonymous Hollywood "proven informant" and stressed the rumor should...

STONE THROWER

Something funny happens in Oliver Stone's "W." - besides the scene where the commander-in-chief clumsily chokes on a pretzel while watching a football game. Despite the director's well-known lefty leanings,...

BACK IN THE SADDLE

For Karen Allen, her first day filming "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" with Harrison Ford involved excitement, adventure and very painful elbows. "For our first scene,...

ASIAN INVASION

Boka 9 St. Marks Place; 212-228-2887 St. Marks Place is known for a lot of things: tattoo parlors, NYU cafes, trinket shops, among others. But when it comes to decent...

PROOF POSITIVE

The newest member of the green spirit club comes from the Piemonte region of Italy, and everything - from the 100 percent organic wheat used to create its velvety smooth...

MATA, 32, AND GROSS, 28

Sept 20 - There sure was a lot of wining and dining at Cynthia Mata and Adam Gross' wedding. Mata, an advertising director for a music magazine, and Gross, an...

CABREJA, 26, AND CONTRERAS, 24

Aug. 16 - The way to Willie Cabreja's heart is through his nose! On the night he and Elvira Contreras met, they were dancing together when Cabreja, an accountant in...

ANGERT, 27, AND SPITZER, 29

Sept. 6 - Not even a hurricane could stop Anna Angert and Justin Spitzer from tying the knot. The Manhattan duo planned an outdoor ceremony at the Estate at Florentine...

FELDMAN, 40, AND RUBERT, 29

Aug. 24 - Shanon Rubert and Peter Feldman knew there'd be rewards in working late. But this good? In 2003, the Upper East Siders - who at the time were...

WHAT'S THE SKINNY?

Jenny, a 31-year-old in the music biz, knew she'd be laughing over dinner at Bloomingdale Road with Clayton, a 32-year-old comedian. But while laughter was in the air, love was...

MEET MARKET

Looking for a Southern gentleman with a sense of humor? Matt, a 30-year-old television producer, just might tickle your fancy. This dog-loving jokester is up for all kinds of quirky...

ELECTION 2008'S DREAM TEAM

So far, it's Tina Fey in a landslide. It's a scenario you couldn't make up: A legendary sketch-comedy show, "Saturday Night Live," which has long been adept at drawing attention...

TAXI TVS DELIVER NOTHING BUT DRIVEL

With all the hardware we're already packing in our pockets and shoulder bags (cell phones, iPods etc.), it might seem inconvenient to start carrying a hammer. But I often wish...

BLUE-EYED TRIBUTE

Paul Newman made so many movies over 52 years that even a 24-hour marathon celebrating the recently deceased star, like the one on Turner Classic Movies today, is going to...

REEL GOOD

WILD MAN BLUES (1998) Monday, 1:35 p.m., IFC Life imitates art in this shocking look at the real life of Woody Allen. Like Alan Alda's pompous TV comedian, a man...

'RUNWAY' SHOWDOWN

After five seasons, "Project Runway's" Tim Gunn says he knows where this cutthroat competition is won or lost. It's not in the designers' workroom at Parsons. And it's not on...

PRIMETIME

Perhaps because it makes seasonal sense, Presidential elections are often attached to football terms, from "campaign kickoffs" to "political footballs." So here's one more. The New York Jets have played...

DON'T MISS LIST

CATEGORY: DRAMA Jekyll and Hyde Henry (Christian Slater) is a middle-class efficiency expert living a humdrum life in the suburbs with his wife, Angie (Madchen Amick), their two kids, a...

JOHN WILKES BOOTH READY FOR HIS CLOSEUP

The rise of American history as a source for TV programming, primarily boosted this year with the HBO miniseries "John Adams," continues with a new pivotal figure on the horizon:...

U.S. drills Cuba 6-1, on to next round of World Cup qualifying

By BRIAN LEWISSo how was that for a resounding World Cup qualifying win, the U.S. putting a 6-1 beating on Cuba? That win _ symbolically in the nation's capital, no...

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