January 20, 2007
Knicks amidst Colt-mania
By MARC BERMANINDIANAPOLIS - The Knicks-Pacers game tonight at Conseco Field House feels like an afterthought here in Indy where Isiah Thomas' club has arrived amidst Colt-mania.It was clear the...
Raw Deal Reversed
In my Thursday piece about shocking films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, I recalled the sad story of "Raw Deal,'' a graphic documentary about a fraternity house rape case...
DOA
"Weapons,'' the first competition film I've seen, opens with the protagonist, played by Nick Cannon, getting half his head blown off. It's another one of those films that plays the...
CRAMMIN’ & JAMMIN’
It's the bane of every college-bound teenager's life - and next Saturday, the dreaded SATs return. If you've spent the last few months plugged into an iPod instead of the...
WIZARD OF ODDS
HARRY Dresden is one helluva private eye. Literally. As in wizard. You see, Harry (Paul Blackthorne) is perhaps the one and only private eye in the known universe who can...
CHELSEA FLOCK’S ANSWERED PRAYER
Worshippers at the Guardian Angel Church, which has sat in its Chelsea location since the Depression, were overjoyed yesterday after hearing their parish survived the cut. "We're elated. We're happy,"...
HOUSE OF HORROR
A house fire in upstate Fishkill yielded a horrifying discovery yesterday - the bodies of two adults and three children who had been slain before the blaze was set, authorities...
B’KLYN FIRE KILLS HOMELESS DUO
Two homeless men who neighbors said had been burning leaves in a desperate bid to stay warm died in a garage fire yesterday in Brooklyn. The blaze started at the...
RAPIST WALKS OUT ON JUDGE
A three-time felon accused of masterminding the savage robbery and gang rape of a college student in 2005 blew his top yesterday after a Brooklyn jury convicted him on each...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan* A man was struck and killed by a subway train yesterday in Midtown, authorities said. The 25-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, apparently jumped onto the...
NANCY FLOUNDERS AFTER SAMOAN WAGE FLUKE
THE ISSUE: Speaker Nancy Pelosi's minimum-wage hike that exempts American Samoans. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's lack of an explanation as to why American Samoa was the only entity...
NBC COMEBACK
NBC Universal proved that its fortunes are improving, reporting its first increase in quarterly profit in a year on the strength of ratings gains at its flagship network. NBC, which...
NYSE PROS GET 6 MONTHS
Two former executives of New York Stock Exchange specialist firms convicted last summer of front-running customers were sentenced yesterday to up to six months in prison. Michael Hayward and Michael...
PAST INTERFERENCE
INDIANAPOLIS - Peyton Manning knows what his critics say. He can't win the big one. He can't lead a team to a title. The Colts quarterback is 5-6 in the...
EXPERTS’ PICKS
Brian BaldingerFox analyst; former Cowboys, Colts and Chiefs offensive lineman "They have had enough pain and disappointment in the playoffs the last few years. They are back home where they...
BRODEUR, DEVS ON ROLL
With wins in nine of their past 12 games, the Devils are now firmly in control of the Atlantic Division, 11 points in front of the Rangers. And with the...
KNICKS STUNG BY RALLY SNAP
There was more Knicks progress last night and more Knicks heartache at the same time. Last year, two years ago, three years ago, four years ago, the Knicks would have...
GARDEN GETS GIDDY, FOR A FEW FLEETING SECONDS
THEY had been waiting for a game like this for so long, wading through an impossible bog of bad basketball, and now they were on their feet, all 19,763 of...
OLD STORY: CLIFF PLAYS HERO ROLE
Cliff Robinson was waiting for Vince Carter to pass. The pass never came, so Robinson headed toward the basket with the Nets down one, and he did what any 40-year-old...
WINNING FORM
This afternoon's game against the Atlanta Thrashers is far from a must-win for the Rangers. But today's result could have a great effect on the team's mindset entering the NHL...
MAN MUGGED IN CENTRAL PK.
A man was robbed by a gang of thugs last night as he was strolling through Central Park, police said. The 41-year-old victim was walking along a path near the...
HOME INVADER RAPISTS
An Upper East Side woman was raped and robbed by three men who burst into her apartment, authorities said. The woman, described as Asian in her 30s, first got a...
FUEL SPILL SHUTS DOWN BQE
A tractor-trailer carrying nearly 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel overturned on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway last night, causing it to spring a leak that forced a partial closing on the highway...
PEEPING QNS. ‘FIREBUG’ CAUGHT
An alleged serial firebug who set 18 rubbish fires in Queens over the last five months was arrested after the latest one yesterday when a firefighter spotted him lingering to...
INSTRUCTORS SAVE EMT’S LIFE
This is not a drill. A fresh-faced group of FDNY paramedic recruits had a terrifying taste of the real world when one of their classmates suffered a full-on heart attack...
DRAG COP: I’M OK
Well-wishers yesterday crowded around the hospital bed of a veteran cop dragged 30 feet by a drug suspect's car in Jamaica. "I'm OK," Sgt. John Pagnotta said from his bed...
COLOMBO CASE DOWN TO ‘WIRE’
Chris Colombo got "touchy-feely" with a wired-up gambler, striking fear in the man as he suspiciously groped for signs of a hidden recording device, an investigator testified yesterday. State Police...
OPRAH TEARS OVER BABY & BACK-STAB
She's a pillar of strength to millions of Americans, but Oprah Winfrey has revealed for the first time how she "cried and cried" on the dark day when a relative...
SHAWN DATED HS GAL
Shawn Hornbeck dated a girl from one of St. Louis's elite private schools for months while concealing his secret life as a kidnap victim, it was disclosed yesterday. The 15-year-old...
MERRILL, CITI IN DEEP TRIB
The two Wall Street giants running the auction for Tribune Co. also have emerged as sources of financing for the bid submitted by the founding Chandler family to snag the...
GET THE MANN
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - They ratcheted up their Patriot Games yesterday, and at the top of the list is getting in Peyton Manning's face. Harassing him. Hounding him. Hitting him. Flushing...
DUNGY’S COOL DEMEANOR HELPS KEEP COLTS CALM
AFC NOTES INDIANPOLIS - Tom Coughlin, are you listening? Members of the Colts have spent this week praising coach Tony Dungy and the calmness he projects on the sideline. Dungy,...
CURRY FEELS STAR STRUCK BY STEPHON
Knicks center Eddy Curry said he was touched by Stephon Marbury's All-Star endorsement this week. Curry, averaging 19.7 points, has a chance to be voted in by the coaches as...
IT’S A GARDEN OF GLORY FOR JASON
The Nets' record against the Knicks since Jason Kidd came to New Jersey is now 21-4, and his numbers are gaudy. But the Nets insist it's nothing special. "People say...
…MUSIC
WHAT do an old-time jug band from North Carolina, a rollicking 10-piece Gypsy-rock outfit from France, a Brazilian eclectic pop superstar and a '60s psychedelic garage-rock band fronted by an...
HITCHHIKE HORROR THUMB & THUMBER
'THE Hitcher" is the Jessica Simpson of psycho killer flicks - cheerfully in touch with its own brainlessness. The movie doesn't even attempt to do back story, plausibility or motive....
PARISHES TO PERISH
The Archdiocese of New York will shut down four city parishes and another six in the suburbs as part of a large-scale restructuring effort, it was announced yesterday - a...
18 WAIT IN WINGS FOR HEVESI JOB
ALBANY - A total of 18 people submitted applications by yesterday's deadline to succeed disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, the state Senate announced yesterday. On the list for the...
KELLY DRAWS A BEAD ON NEW COP ACADEMY
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly vowed yesterday that the NYPD would get a new police academy to more effectively train the department's 52,000 cops and civilians. "I feel fully confident it...
TEACHERS ARE WITH ME: MIKE
Despite protests from their union, Mayor Bloomberg claimed yesterday that teachers are on his side when it comes to tightening the rules on tenure. "How'd you like to be in...
SCHUMER A PARTY POOPER
WASHINGTON - In a revealing new book on politics, Sen. Charles Schumer comes out with guns blazing - not at President Bush, but at his own Democratic Party. Schumer, one...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Anti-American sentiment has taken on a whole new meaning in Britain after a cat owner blamed her feline's once-fatty figure on his lifestyle in the States. Willie shed 4 ½...
EDITORS’ PICK: FAILURE IN IRAQ
THE ISSUE: The mainstream media's influence on U.S. public opinion regarding the war. We are extremely fortunate to have Amir Taheri's view of the emerging, democratic Iraq ("Iraq: Why the...
NFL MATCHUPS GIVE CBS A BIG KICK
No matter what two teams advance to the Super Bowl after this weekend, CBS and the NFL will be winners. The best game to deliver big ratings on Feb. 4...
BOARDS OF EDUCATION
The paranoia associated with the Georgetown basketball program is 20 years in the past. With their drab gray uniforms, pressure defenses, foreboding centers such as Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning,...
SPORTS SHORTS
GRID: Panthers name Lewis secondary coach The Panthers hired former Giants defensive coordinator Tim Lewis as their new secondary coach yesterday. Lewis, who was fired by the Giants last week...
RANGERS REVELED IN CUP OF CHEER
The Rangers won the Stanley Cup again before the sun burned out. They became champions of the National Hockey League before the continents drifted back together. On June 14, 1994,...
COLUMBIA COED: JUST A MINUTE!
A Columbia University student who helped prevent the head of the anti-immigrant group the Minutemen from speaking there last fall defended her actions yesterday - after officials said seven students...
WHAT’S UP
TodayPERILOUS PINK: Think of it as a cautionary tale for the tutu-wearing set. "Pinkalicious, the Musical" tells the story of a little girl who develops a full-body blush after bingeing...
ARTY SMARTIES
WHAT do you get when you take some rambunctious preschoolers, add Stravinsky and throw in a little Picasso? A) A wall-rattling tantrum. B) A hit TV show. If you guessed...
COOPER RE-UPS AT CNN
ANDERSON Cooper has inked a deal to remain at CNN for the forseeable future. Cooper, rumored as a candidate for CBS' struggling "Early Show," signed a deal doubling his annual...
TEARS OVER ‘LOST’ SOUL OF E. VILLAGE
Antonia Fisher could only sit and weep - anguished that the only church she's known will be closed down by the archdiocese. "My heart is breaking," said the 61-year- old...
STUDENTS EYE ‘V’ LOOPHOLE
There may yet be room for dialogue on "The Vagina Monologues" at St. John's University. While an effort to bring the hit play to the Queens campus was crushed by...
QUEENS POL MOVES TO SNUFF PUFFING IN KID CARS
ALBANY - Smokers who light up with kids in their cars would face stiff fines and possible jail time under a bill moving through the state Assembly. The measure, sponsored...
1ST BOOK FOR FIRST DAUGHTER
First twin Jenna Bush is shopping a book aimed at the youth market telling about her experiences with underprivileged children in Central and South America. The blond-haired onetime party girl,...
‘OSAMA’ MUD FLIES AT OBAMA
The 2008 White House race turned dirty yesterday when a report charged that Sen. Barack Obama had been raised as a Muslim and that he concealed it - claims the...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Fri.: 678 Midday Win-4 Fri.: 0007 Evening Numbers Fri.: 672 Evening Win-4 Fri.: 3461 Pick-10 Fri.: 1, 11, 12, 17, 19, 35, 40, 41, 47, 53,...
PELOSI’S POISON TAX PUSH
After passing the first major federal tax hike in 12 years, House Democratic leaders were quick to assure voters that the $14 billion-plus in higher taxes would be borne solely...
BRUNO’S BRAZEN BEEF
One of the hottest political battles of the new Spitzer administration is being played out on Long Island, where voters will go to the polls Feb. 6 in a special...
LOWE, INTERPUBLIC SETTLE
Ad giant Interpublic and its former top adman, Sir Frank Lowe, have agreed to bury the hatchet. In a terse statement yesterday, Interpublic said it stopped arbitration proceedings against Lowe...
FIVE-STAR DAY FOR DOMINGUEZ
Big day for Ramon Dominguez, booting home five winners and stretching his lead in the jockey standings to 55-46 over Eibar Coa, who took the collar. In the ninth race,...
GROSS INJUSTICE
Just manage the game. Avoid the big mistake. Hold onto the ball. Don't do anything stupid or careless to blatantly lose the game. It certainly appears these are the marching...
CROC HUNTER’S FINAL DIVE
ON second thought, maybe this wasn't such a great idea. It might have seemed like it at the time - a TV special in which famed Australian croc hunter and...
‘Galaxies’ Cabal
This will be the last 'Galaxies' post for quite some time. It's getting a little SOE-hatin' heavy here. But... There are rumblings of SOE accusing groups of players of trying...
Mperia, Bitpass Shutting Down
This is not necessarily a gaming item, unless you count the number of Bitpop and video game-influenced bands that exist there, but news of Mperiaâs imminent Big Sleep is at...
Crackdown Goes Gold
Crackdown has gone gold according to Microsoft. Not to be harsh, but I think it's safe to assume that the game's presales have more than a little to do with...
Raph Koster’s Areae, Inc.
Raph Koster, an industry vet who created the massively successful Ultima Online and then served as creative director for Star Wars Galaxies at SOE before he left in early 2006,...