September 25, 2007
Week 3 wrap-up
There were some surprise performances this weekend. Which ones make it worth your while to wade through the waivers? Let's take a look: WAIVERSJoey Harrington, QB, Falcons - Don't get...
Clemens To Miss Start Tonight
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Roger Clemens was scratched from his start for the New York Yankees on Tuesday night at Tampa Bay because of a lingering left hamstring injury.The announcement...
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Sibella Court wears an awesome Barbara Bui dress, Jamin Puech bag, and Barbara Bui shoes. "I wear three colors: white, beige/taupe, and navy. So I just chuck it together and...
Deal of the Day
It's back to the mall with the latest sale duds from delia's.And I'm quite stressed today, so it's a red alert to get my work done.Matching the mood is this...
NO ROCKET
AT THE TROP -- Roger Clemens was just scratched for the Tampa series. He just came out on the field and went through a light workout for about 15 minutes...
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Kirsten Lechner perfectly pairs her H&M dress with Gucci booties. "The look is classic but with a bit of sporty casual. The boots were a gift from my boyfriend. I...
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Susan Wong, a jewelry designer for Castaway, wears an H&M ruffled shirt dress with a Tory Burch bag, Dita sunglasses, and Nine West shoes. "I like to wear dresses. I...
Rudolph Returns To ‘SNL’ – Again
Maya Rudolph is driving the staff of "Saturday Night Live" nuts.Rudolph, will return to âSNLâ this season â but until last night had changed her mind about the decision several...
‘Iron Horse’ Derailed at NYFF
The New York Film Festival has just yanked one of its most-anticipated events, next Monday's nearly sold-out showing of a restored version of John Ford's "The Iron Horse'' (1924) at...
Starr Report
"HSM2" premiered in Australia last Saturday to a massive 55 share in its target demo (kids 2-15) and was the top-rated pay-cable broadcast in Australian TV history (314,000 viewers). It...
Cliff-hanger Notes: ‘House’
"House" Last we heard: Everybody walks out on poor Dr. House. His three assistants, Forman, Cameron quit and House fires Chase. So his crack medical team of super doctors appears...
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Erinn Einhauser, a student working for IMG, wears a Pucci dress, Alexis Bittar bracelets, shoes by Ash, and a necklace she made herself. She plans to sell under the name...
Throwdown at the Coliseum
It's safe to say there's still some bad blood between Chris Simon and Ryan Hollweg.Hollweg may have been gunning for the man who took a two-handed stick swing at the...
BRUCE & THE E STREET GRAND
MUSICAL styles flip fast, but Bruce Springsteen, who turned 58 on Sunday, didn't reinvent himself - or his sound - for his new album "Magic." The record - yes, vinyl...
PINNED DOWN BY EFFECTS
ADAM Rapp is one of the most original and idio syncratic theatrical voices around, but he's frustrating as hell. His edgy, dark comic plays can always be counted on to...
RUM PUNCH
WHAT do you get if you mix sugar and rum? A Mojito? Sure. "Cane"? Definitely. Tonight is the premiere of a very good, new serial family drama, "Cane," which has...
‘HEROES’ SPINOFF GETS SOME HIGH-POWERED HELP
THE highly anticipated "Heroes" spin-off is finally taking shape. The heat from the hit series is attracting some top names to the spin off, to be called "Heroes: Origins." The...
COLLUSION COURSE
ALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno slammed Albany District Attorney David Soares for giving Gov. Spitzer's senior staffers a chance to edit pieces of his controversial report on Albany's...
‘BIAS’ ON MENU
A top manager at the Tavern on the Green restaurant regularly served up vulgar insults to women and minority employees, according to a federal discrimination lawsuit. The civil complaint, filed...
COP ‘KILLER’ GETS BREAK
Bronx prosecutors said yesterday they won't use five of six incriminating statements "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato's cohort made while recuperating from gunshot wounds after allegedly killing an off-duty cop. Prosecutors...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Two brothers brutally beat a man with the leg of a wooden chair after accusing him of staring at their sister, authorities said yesterday. Heim Sankari, 20, and Natan...
MAD-MOUD’S WACKY WORLD
A QUICK peek at the world through the eyes of Iranian Pres ident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he spoke at Columbia University's World Monsters - oh, sorry - World Leaders Forum:...
M’SOFT LOOKS TO FACEBOOK IF YAHOO! WON’T PLAY
Microsoft Corp. needs to do a deal - the question the software giant is currently contemplating is whether it should do one with Facebook or Yahoo!, The Post has learned....
JINTS PLAY ‘WHAT’S MY LINE?’
THERE'S something about Mathias Kiwanuka that makes you think he could be a Supreme Court justice once his playing career is done. He's an Alan Page type, more cerebral and...
CALL HIM STAR JONES
THERE is absolutely no chance that Bill Belichick will let complacency seep into his CIA compound, and he's masterfully using Spygate as a means to whip his players into a...
RADICAL RABBIS COZY UP TO KOOK
Before he dodged questions at Columbia University yesterday, Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with a group of old friends - about a dozen Israel-bashing rabbis. The rabbis, part of the...
LIKE THEM OR NOT, JOBA RULES WORK
THE Joba Rules are controversial. The Joba Rules are often confusing, even to the manager who must abide by them. The Joba Rules are too frequently treated like war plans...
B’WAY TO QUAIDS: NO SHOW
THE producers of "Lone Star Love" have pulled the plug on the $6.5 million show after clashing repeatedly with their star, Randy Quaid, and his wife and manager, Evi. "Lone...
SIMON SAYS HE’S TRYING TO MOVE ON FROM INCIDENT
Chris Simon has five games remaining on the 25-game suspension he received after the Mar. 8 stick-swinging incident at the Coliseum in which he took a baseball-bat-like swing that landed...
FIGHTIN’ FROM THE GET-GO
To Rick DiPietro, it was simply a matter of "the intensity being ratcheted up against the Rangers, no matter where or when we play them." To Al Montoya, it was...
TRUTH HURTS
A week ago, as the Jets evaluated their loss to the Ravens in Baltimore, Eric Mangini spoke about the truth. He spoke about the importance of each player, in his...
SUICIDE BEAU SO ‘UNFAIR’
The high-school sweetheart of an NYU freshman who jumped to his death was getting much-needed support from family and friends yesterday - even as she railed at her ex for...
NYC-TV JUST A CLICK AWAY
The award-winning shows produced by NYC-TV can now be called up on demand by anyone who can get to a computer, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday. The shows come with some...
NBC PRODUCER KILLED HIMSELF
The death of an Emmy-winning NBC producer who spiraled into a deep depression exacerbated by excessive drinking was ruled a suicide yesterday, authorities said. Eric Wishnie, 45, who worked with...
‘NINJA’ STRIKES AGAIN
The Ninja Burglar - or a copycat? That was the question puzzling cops yesterday after a Staten Island home owner reported that a man dressed in a black and wearing...
DEPORTING: AUTHORITY WILL AX 100
The Port Authority will cut its white-collar work force by about 100 jobs as the agency pushes ahead on a plan to slash $180 million in annual spending, officials said...
LOCAL ‘DA’ IS DOGGING SICKO VICK
Embattled football star Michael Vick, who pleaded guilty to federal charges last month, faces more legal trouble after the prosecutor in the rural Virginia county where his dogfighting took place...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 814; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 9182; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 641; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
SMELLS LIKE A COVERUP
As if there weren't already enough signs that Gov. Spitzer and his staff are try ing to cover up their roles in their Dirty Tricks campaign, yet another emerged yesterday:...
COLUMBIA’S LOSS
THE Iranian president's welcome to Columbia - following a self-serving whine by the university's president - reflected brainless activism, not academic freedom. It was the professoriate imitating Hollywood's embrace of...
FORMER NFL STAR SACKED BY FEDS
NFL defensive lineman Dwight "Sean" Jones was accused yesterday of blocking federal regulators from examining the business records of his investment advisory firm, Amaroq. Jones - who at one point...
BUYER CLAIMS BREACH
Athletic retailer Finish Line claimed yesterday that its merger partner, Genesco, has made it impossible to complete its $1.5 billion takeover of the rival shoe seller by denying it access...
HOUSE OF CARDS: KIDS RACK UP DEBIT DEBT
College students are becoming debit card junkies, squandering $3 in fees for each $1 they run up for coffee or snacks on their "bounce-proof" cards. One student spent $17 in...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Tiger rips drug cheatsTiger Woods yesterday said anyone who tests positive under golf's new drug policy should pay a steep price. "Given our reputation in our sport, how honorable...
HONDO’S ‘DOGGIN’ IT
The Padres failed to bless Hondo with a victory last night as they were brought to their knees in Frisco, causing the earnings to plunge to 60 tem pletons. Tonight,...
DEVS SEE BIG HOLES ON ROSTER
PHILADELPHIA - Injuries create opportunities, and the Devils have plenty of both. There are more holes to plug on the Devils' roster than expected because of their training camp troubles....
GAME BALL TO IRAQ VET
After Plaxico Burress scored the game-winning touchdown Sunday night, he seemed ready to unleash an emphatic spike but instead ran to the Giants sideline and presented the ball to a...
PELFREY WALKIN’ ON THE WILD SIDE
Mike Pelfrey doesn't figure to play much of a role for the Mets once October rolls around, and he certainly didn't do anything to help them get to the postseason...
NAT THE WAY THEY WANTED
With the Phillies idle, there was nothing on the out-of-town scoreboard for the Mets to watch last night. Instead, they only had their own score to look at. Considering the...
DUQUE REMAINS MYSTERY
Orlando "El Duque'' Hernandez shed the protective boot off his achy right foot yesterday and spent some time throwing off flat ground before last night's game with Washington. If he...
STALE YANKS FALL FLAT
There wasn't going to be a "Yankees Gone Wild" video shot at the Stadium yesterday regardless of the outcome, but the Bombers have a chance of clinching the wild card...
SUMMER OF ’77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
LSTAR TREK FAMILY THING
Q:Go anywhere fun this summer? Steve Buscemi: I went on vacation to Sicily. We went back to the town where my grandfather was from and left when he was nine...
NEWS + NOTES
* HE'S NOT JUST A MALL ON LONG ISLAND A Walt Whitman bus tour? Now we've seen it all. Check it out - the "Walt Whitman & His Invincible City"...
MET’S PHOTO GALLERIES MAKE ENLARGEMENT
CHARDONNAY (or maybe champagne!) will be flowing tonight on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's second floor. Cause for celebration? The museum - an undisputed powerhouse in its holdings of art...
DEVIL’S DOG
TV is redefining the phrase "hell on earth." It's the "big box" megastore, this season's location of choice in which to place characters in order to illustrate their dead-end, routinized...
STARR REPORT
A global 'High' Some TV shows and movies just don't make sense in over seas markets - for whatever reason - but definitely not lost in translation is Disney Channel's...
‘WAR’ GOES BOOM
KEN Burns' new World War II series is shat tering PBS viewership records. Sunday night's premiere episode of "The War" snared 15.5 million viewers when it aired at 8 p.m....
SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK
HERE'S the good news: There's a cho lesterol test that can quickly identify the highest-risk candidates for heart attacks - even though they might not know they're in danger. With...
BLOODY KNOWS
THERE'S a way to find out whether you could have cancer or heart disease in the future - and it's not through a fortuneteller. All that's required is two tablespoons...
GOP SPLIT ON GOV’S DRIVE RULE
ALBANY - The state's top Republican leadership unexpectedly split yesterday on the controversial move by Democratic Gov. Spitzer to allow the granting of driver's licenses to illegal aliens. State GOP...
HIS BIG NIGHT OW!-T
A battered but still beautiful George Clooney and his hobbled gal pal, Sarah Larson, tough out their motorcycle-crash injuries to glam it up on the Upper East Side. Clooney, escorting...
A BAD RECEPTION ON TV
He's not just polluting the airwaves - Axis of Evil wacko Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is also messing with your TV reception. Or at least his host, the United Nations, is. Residents...
AIDS ED. GETS ELTON BOO$T
Pop legend Elton John will announce tonight a grant to support HIV-AIDS education in the city's public schools - to the tune of $300,000. The Elton John AIDS Foundation has...
INTERN TURNED ON
A former Knick intern took the stand in the sensational sexual-harassment trial that's rocking Madison Square Garden and copped to having sex in a truck with hoops star Stephon Marbury...
TRAVEL BIG’S DIVORCE RULING ENDS HELLACIOUS COURT TRIP
Ending the most expensive - and, likely, the nastiest - divorce trial in Connecticut history, a judge has granted a former luxury travel-agency bigwig sole custody of his four young...
BRAZEN SEX ASSAULT ON TEACHER
A teacher entering her Gramercy Park Catholic elementary school was groped yesterday by a young man who tried to rip off her panties before fleeing when she started to scream,...
‘KILL JEWS’ WALL SCRAWL
Swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti were found scrawled across the walls of an apartment building and two synagogues in Brooklyn last night. The words "Kill Jews" along with a swastika...
SPECIAL-ED BUSING STILL A PROBLEM
Action by the Education Department to solve busing delays for special-ed students has been, well, delayed, Comptroller William Thompson said yesterday. In a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Thompson...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A man stunned an airline crew - and asked them for some shampoo - when they found him taking a sponge bath in the plane's toilet. An airline attendant aboard...
LESSON IN ABSURDITY
That was some show Iranian despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put on yes terday at Columbia University. We're not sure how students who heard him gained academically - but at least they...
SQUALID MISTAKE
COLUMBIA University Presi dent Lee Bollinger yester day made some cutting crit icisms while introducing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - but that doesn't make the school's decision to offer a...
LICENSING ILLEGALS: SPITZER’S SANCTUARY
Giving illegal aliens the right to a license makes no sense ("Gov Taking License With Alien-Driver ID," Sept. 22). Not only is it counterproductive to achieving some semblance of national...
TRUMP DUMPS PREMIERE, MOVES HIS MAG TO OCEAN DRIVE
Donald Trump is walking away from Premiere Publishing Group - and taking his eponymous magazine with him. The Donald is expected to announce tonight that his magazine will link up...
LESS EDGY, MORE HEDGE-Y
THE Meatpacking Dis trict has snazzy hotels, designer boutiques, glam restaurants, even a few surviving meat wholesalers - and soon, it will have its own hedge fund. Paul Tudor Jones'...
ON HEDGES AND HEALTH
A number of mortgage hedge funds are finding a way to survive - and some even to prosper - as the bond market gets rocked by one of the biggest...
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
The Giants do not want to portray what transpired Sunday at FedEx Field as a victory that saved their season, but there's no denying it saved their sanity. Heading in...
YANKEE ROOKIES HIT YELLOW-BRICK ROAD
The Yankees' rookies weren't off to see The Wizard yesterday, even if it appeared that way as they donned costumes to depart for their final regular-season road trip. As has...
‘FLEX’ FARES EYED
The MTA is proposing two new fare plans - and both would raise the cost of a single ride by a quarter, to $2.25. One of the ideas floated yesterday...
25,000 UNITED IN PROTEST
The welcome wagon that greeted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York rolled all over him yesterday - as up to 25,000 protestors turned out at the United Nations...
JETTIN’ IT DONE
QUARTERBACKS C+ Chad Pennington (15-22, 124 yards, 2 TDs, 112.7 rating) made his presence felt and was his usual efficient self. He was flawless in the two-minute offense.RUNNING BACKS B...
MANGINI HAS CHEER FOR CHAD
Eric Mangini on Sunday was quick to talk about Chad Pennington's presence being such a key to the Jets' success. Yesterday, he praised some of the things his quarterback did...
BAGHDAD – ANCIENT CITY IN TURMOIL
It seems that Baghdad is in the news every day as a result of the war in Iraq, but once upon a time, this ancient city was a leading world...
‘DIRTY’SECRETS REAL-LIFE ROLE MODELS FOR TRASHY, CLASSY NEW TV FAMILY
WELCOME, Darlings! There's a new power family in town, and they're two parts Kennedy, three parts Astor, and four parts sheer, soaptastic Carrington-esque fun. From faux stalkings on Gawker to...
EARLE’S NEW WORLD
ROOTS rocker Steve Earle, ex alcoholic and drug addict, lost five years as a homeless junkie, spent four months in jail and is a socialist. The Texas-raised singer, now 52,...
MPFREE
Download these free songs at nypost.com through Friday. Steve Earle, "Satellite Radio" The country singer celebrates N.Y.C. on his 12th album, "Washington Square Serenade." This song, a dash of hip-hop...
IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY
There have been times since your last birthday when you were a bit too hard on yourself, especially when your efforts fell short of what you thought you should be...
U. DA MAN! BOSS HITS IRAN PREZ WITH THE OL’ COLLEGE FRY
Columbia University's president yesterday blasted Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as "a petty and cruel dictator" - before the demented despot railed about 9/11 conspiracies, openly challenged the Holocaust, and bizarrely...
MIKE STILL ON THE RUN – BUT NOT RUNNING
Mayor Bloomberg's nonpresidential campaign tour will take him to another stop that's attracting many of the declared candidates, New Orleans, it was announced yesterday. He's slated to speak at the...
‘GAY-SLAYER’ HAD GAY PORN
A Brooklyn man facing hate crime charges for allegedly setting up the deadly robbery of a homosexual man had a load of gay porn on his own computer, an NYPD...
FAT POL TAKES FIT CHALLENGE
City Councilman Leroy Comrie - who aides say may weigh 350 pounds - is embarking on a crusade to decrease obesity in the city by shedding his own fat. "I...
B’KLYN FIRE BOY DIES A HERO
A heroic 12-year-old boy yesterday escaped the deadly flames gutting his family's home to call 911, then ran back to desperately try to save his trapped grandma and aunt -...
EATERIES HEAT UP FOR COLD SEASON
Restaurant owners will be allowed to install portable natural-gas heaters in their sidewalk cafes as the weather turns cold this year, city officials announced yesterday. "Together with the restaurant industry,...
BALL GIRL IN SLICK SWAP OF COUSINS
YOUR mother was wrong. Nice girls do finish last. Intern-On-Wheels Kathleen Decker slunk up to the witness stand in a black pantsuit so tight, I hoped and feared her ample...
WHAT LEE ASKED MAHMOUD
The following is excerpted from Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's remarks yesterday to Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. OVER the past two weeks, your gov ernment has released Haleh Esfandi ari...
MAHMOUD’S SAD ‘SCIENCE’
IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad updated his stan dard Holocaust denial for a rapt Columbia audience yesterday: The Holocaust is a myth, he said - just like physics. OK, he didn't...
UP & UP EVICTIONS
"Evictions Made (Too) Easy" (PostOpinion, Tom Elliott, Sept. 19) contained inaccuracies about the environmental review process and the role of an environmental consultant. It isn't our job to rule in...
STUCK IN NEUTRAL
In a throwback to an old era of labor strife, workers walked off their jobs at General Motors - setting up at a conflict that pits younger workers against their...
BACK TO ANCHOR
MSNBC General Manager Dan Abrams is leaving the executive suite to once again become a full-time, on-air personality. A lawyer by training, Abrams began his career with MSNBC as an...
MYSPACE SETS CELL USERS FREE
Mobile phone users can now access their MySpace pages on the go. News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media is launching a free, ad-supported version of its popular social networking site, specifically...
NO SMALL SUCCESS
THE make-believe Make Us Rich hedge fund is about $8 million ahead over the past month even though it bombed on an investment in bonds before the last employment report....
IT’S BS FOR FIRST ‘W’
QUARTERBACKS B Give him time and eventually he'll make the throws. That's the deal with Eli Man ning (21 of 36, 232 yards, 1 TD, 2 INTs). Very bad decision...
METS NEED ‘PEN TO WRITE HAPPY END
OVER? It's not over until the Nationals say it's over. The Mets nemeses for two games in Washington last week turned friend on Sunday, turned into nemeses again last night,...
KYLE GOES TO WINDUP … FOR NOW
The Yankees haven't clinched a playoff spot yet, but if they do, Kyle Farnsworth expects to be in the postseason. "I'm not worried about that," the embattled reliever said. "I...
INTO THE WILD
FORGET clean underwear. The secret to dying with dignity is in the how. Looking to pimp your obit? You have to go out with style points. Get eaten alive by...
LET’S GET PACIFIC
JUST call me Tiger. Like the cat." My surf instructor, Guillermo "Tigre" Cadena, grins widely before turning to survey the rolling waves lapping against a stunning, golden beach. "Look at...
RUDY RIPS INSULTING INVITATION
Rudy Giuliani yesterday called Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's blistering pre-speech insult of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad too little, too late. Bollinger may have laced into Ahmadinejad on several fronts,...