March 20, 1999
LOOK OUT NBC & CBS! BERTELSMANN SHOPPING FOR BROADCAST NETWORK
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amAdd Bertelsmann to the list of companies interested in acquiring a U.S. broadcast network. Company Chairman Thomas Middelhoff said he would be interested in buying a network if he could...
'KING' RULES WITH KIDS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amFAMILY FILM GUIDE RECOMMENDED ''THE KING AND I'' (G): It's hard to understand why Warner Bros. would revive ''The King and I'' as an animated film. This musical about a...
IRISH AIRS & GRACES
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amMUSIC REVIEW T HE music of the Chieftains is a study in contrasts. It's almost as close to classical as it is to traditional folk music; it soothes the mind...
AN OSCAR WHO'S GOING WITH WHOM
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S prom night in Hollywood. And while, by now, many of the actresses know what they're wearing, not all have decided the hot question - namely who's bringing whom to...
AUDIT GUNNING FOR CANDIDATE GREEN?
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amCOMPTROLLER Alan Hevesi has dispatched auditors to scrutinize the finances of Public Advocate Mark Green - one of his leading rivals for mayor in 2001. ''We're legally obliged to do...
POLL: MOST PEOPLE THINK BOXING'S FIXED
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Most Americans think professional boxing is rigged - but they don't want Evander Holyfield to give up his disputed heavyweight crown, a Post poll shows. Instead, the preferred...
CASE WOULD HAUNT 'SEN. RUDY' AT CITY POLLS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amANALYSIS Suddenly, Mayor Giuliani has to worry about his numbers in New York City. Before the explosive Amadou Diallo case, Giuliani could justifiably view himself as the candidate to beat...
CITY FANS ST. JOHN'S FAME; HOMETOWN HEROES STAR IN NCAAS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00am"Erick [Barkley] is representing the school ... He's making a name for himself, and that makes us proud."OMAR COOK, JUNIOR AT CHRIST THE KING Go St. John's! That's what hoop...
SHY JANITOR CLEANS UP WITH RECORD $45M LOTTO
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amSCHENECTADY - A toothless bachelor who works as a janitor and has no phone at home has become the biggest single winner of a Lotto game, state officials revealed yesterday....
CLUB KING GETS 90 DAYS IN TAX SCAM
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amControversial club king Peter Gatien was sentenced to 90 days in jail and five years probation yesterday for cheating the taxman out of more than $1 million. Gatien, 46, who...
FIERY RESCUE MAKES DARING DELI MAN TWO TIMES A HERO; HAD SAVED HIS 7 KIDS FROM INFERNO LAST YEAR
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amManhattan deli worker Abdul Saleh doesn't just make heroes - he is one. The 27-year-old immigrant helped rescue a woman and her baby from a burning building yesterday, just three...
PREZ'S SECRET PAYOFF TO SAVVY KHADAFY
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe Clinton administration made a secret pledge not to "undermine" Moammar Khadafy in order to convince him to hand over the suspected bombers of Pan Am Flight 103, The Post...
BUSH TAKES STOCK IN 80G SPEECH ; FOR A COOL $14M WINDFALL
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amCall him the man with the silver tongue. Former President George Bush made out like a bandit when he agreed to take shares of stock in payment of an $80,000...
2 BODIES FOUND IN YOSEMITE GALS' CAR
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amAuthorities searching for three women who vanished in Yosemite National Park a month ago found two bodies in the sightseers' burned-out car yesterday. The FBI said it hadn't identified the...
LIBYA SET TO HAND OVER PAN AM 103 TERROR SUSPECTS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00am"The only way that I will know that we have succeeded is that I see these two guys in [custody].BERT AMMERMAN, BROTHER OF VICTIM Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy agreed yesterday...
SCHOOL BOARD, CREW CLASH ON SUPE'S FIRING
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amQueens School Board 29 is challenging Chancellor Rudy Crew over the dismissal of the district superintendent for allegedly covering up a gun incident at PS 181 last year. Crew yesterday...
BRANSON NAMES NEXT LOFTY GOAL
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amBritish billionaire Richard Branson, whose dreams of becoming the first globe-circling balloonist are about to be deflated, floated a new idea yesterday - a 'round-the-world balloon race. The Virgin empire...
JERSEY TEEN KILLER: HOW I STRANGLED 11-YEAR-OLD
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amDefying his parents' wishes, a New Jersey teen pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering Eddie Werner, telling a shocked courtroom he strangled the 11-year- old boy for 40 minutes. As Eddie's...
OPPONENTS SAY RUDY'S ALL WET ON WATERSHED
March 20, 1999 | 5:00am"Any weakening of our efforts to protect our watershed on behalf of . . . developers is a very dangerous idea."COMPTROLLER ALAN HEVESI Local leaders and environmentalists yesterday blasted Mayor...
LONG-TERM FLIGHTS OF FANCY CAN BE CHANCY
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amFlying around the world in a balloon is a lot harder than it looks. Wicked weather, equipment failures, fuel shortages, altitude sickness and exhaustion are just a few of the...
PREZ: TIME TO RISK U.S. LIVES TO STOP KOSOVO KILLINGS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton said yesterday he's now ready to risk the lives of U.S. troops over Kosovo because otherwise "there will be more massacres" of innocent villagers by Serb...
BILL 'WORKING HARD' TO SAVE HIS MARRIAGE
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton publicly declared yesterday that he and Hillary "love each other very much" and are "working hard" at saving their marriage. In a reminder of what's straining the executive...
INTERNET CEO IS A DARN SITE RICHER TODAY
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe Web site she founded has made her a millionaire, thanks to Wall Street.In just 24 hours, Candice Carpenter has become a millionaire - 80 times over. Carpenter, founder and...
GREEN WANTS SAFIR'S HEAD IN DIALL0 FUR0R
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amPublic Advocate Mark Green demanded the resignation of Police Commissioner Howard Safir yesterday - a day after federal authorities announced a probe of the Street Crime Unit that killed Amadou...
IT'S A FLIGHT TO THE FINISH TODAY ; BALLOON DUO EYE HISTORIC TOUCHDOWN
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amTwo globe-trotting balloonists nearing the end of their world-circling odyssey hope to sail into aviation history today. If nothing punctures their high hopes, Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard and British adventurer...
NEW STREET CRIME BIG TACKLES THE RACE ISSUE
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe newly promoted No. 2 cop in the controversial Street Crime Unit lives in the precinct where West African immigrant Amadou Diallo was shot down in a hail of gunfire...
FIREFIGHTER DROVE DRUNK IN FATAL S.I. CRASH: COPS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amA firefighter featured in a People magazine spread on working hunks was drunk when his car smashed into an elderly woman's vehicle on Staten Island yesterday, killing her, cops said....
BIG A'S GOTHAM DRAWS DOZEN
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amNew York takes its first serious step on the road to the May 1 Kentucky Derby tomorrow when a full field of 12 3-year-olds goes a mile in Aqueduct's Grade...
DEVILS COAST ALONG TOWARD ANOTHER FLOP
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO - They have lost once in nearly a month, they are chasing the NHL road victory record, amd they are challenging for their third straight conference title and 100-point...
AW, SHOOT, RAGGEDY NETS MAY YET FIND THE BASKET
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amObviously, the Nets' shooting is bad. How bad? Well, if the current .384 pace continues, it will be the NBA's worst team mark in four decades. Not since the 1958-59...
ALFORD GOES COACH K'S WAY ; EX-INDIANA STAR PATTERNS HIMSELF AFTER KRZYZEWSKI
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amThey both must be considered survivors, mainly because they both continue to have a love of basketball and a passion for coaching, despite both having played for the infamous Bob...
OWLS WING IT WITH SANCHEZ
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amPepe Sanchez, by most accounts in his homeland of Argentina, should have stuck with soccer. That is, after all, the sport in which the country's athletes become stars. Basketball players...
SCARLET KNIGHTS NOT RESTING ON LAURELS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amNCAA WOMEN NORMAL, Ill. - There are many similarities between the Rutgers and Texas Tech women's basketball teams. And while most of them involve up-tempo offenses and tenacious defenses, there...
GRYDER'S RETURN WILL BE ROSY
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amRACE-track accidents don't get any uglier than the three-horse spill in the third race at Aqueduct back on Feb. 6. Petey Bubba, on the lead in the stretch, snapped his...
KENTUCKY UNAFRAID OF WALLY
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - The slighted Kentucky Wildcats gathered around coach Tubby Smith before tipoff last night against Miami of Szczerbiak. They piled their hands on top of one another for...
A FOUR-GONE CONCLUSION?
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX - UConn coach Jim Calhoun sat at a podium deep in the bowels of America West Arena looking strangely relaxed. Only the occasional fidget of the hands and hungry...
DARRYL, BOSS ON SAME PAGE
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - A case of miscommunication between Darryl Strawberry and the Yankees resulted in George Steinbrenner feeling a need to inform Darryl he re-mains as big a part of...
ANDY MAY NOT BE READY TO GO FOR FOUR MORE WEEKS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amYANK NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Chances are very strong that the Yankees will be without a left-handed starter until April 17 in Detroit. While pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre isn't counting...
VALENTINE RIPS METS FOR IGNORING RULES
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - With only 17 days left until the regular season starts, Bobby Valentine sent a very pointed message to his players yesterday, lashing into them during an...
CONE RATES MET, YANK 'MATES
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - The mighty Mets of a decade ago were a wild bunch, forever making headlines off the field and making enemies on it with a loud, "We're good, we...
KNICKS WELCOME BACK PATRICK
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amHis best player is returning today. But to Jeff Van Gundy, the Knicks require a reality check as much as they need Patrick Ewing. Saying his players are delusional in...
THIS MATCHUP'S A RUCKER REUNION
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amSOUTH NOTESKNOXVILLE - Ohio State forward Brian Brown of Brooklyn remembers a conversation he had with Ron Artest, Tyrone Grant and Erick Barkley of St. John's after the championship game...
VAN'S GANG AWAITS PIERCING CELTICS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00am.KNICK NOTES In the Celtics' 94-80 victory over the visiting Knicks on February 26, Boston's Paul Pierce showed he's not just another rookie. The former Kansas star destroyed the Knicks...
RELIEVED BONILLA OUT 10 TO 14 DAYS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Bobby Bonilla was scared he might have to miss the whole season, so when he found out he would only miss 10 days to...
BEUKEBOOM WILL MISS REST OF '99
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amTwo days after hosting a retirement dinner at the Garden for Pat LaFontaine, the Rangers last night staged a press conference for Jeff Beukeboom, who not unexpectedly announced that the...
'ZAGA INSISTS: WE CONN DO IT
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX - As far as Gonzaga is concerned, the prefix 10th-seed has been dropped from its name and the term "Cinderella" should never had been there at all. These Bulldogs...
FOLEY SENT TO SEATTLE
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amIn his debut as the Jets' starting quarterback in San Francisco last September, Glenn Foley's performance seemed to serve notice that the Jets had found their quarterback of the future....
OPPORTUNITY KNOXVILLE ; BUCKEYES ARE ST. JOHN'S FINAL OBSTACLE
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amKNOXVILLE - The St. John's players walked off the Garden court less than three weeks ago after having been thrashed by Connecticut in the Big East Conference Tournament championship game...
BLUE DEVILS BEAR DOWN ; COACH K'S CREW WINS 30TH STRAIGHT
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amEAST Duke 78 SW Mo. St. 61 You want upsets? Remember Weber State. You want dramatics? Look up Gonzaga. Those in New York who crave a local angle, enjoy St....
DUKE'S DEPTH LEAVES REST OF FIELD PLAYING FOR 2D PLACE
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amNO fluke is going to beat Duke. No team from West Lafayette or middle Connecticut or Eastern Queens is going to do to Duke what Villanova did to Georgetown, or...
'CATS TEAM UP FOR GAME OF WALLYBALL
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - The slighted Kentucky Wildcats gathered around coach Tubby Smith before tipoff last night against Miami of Szczerbiak. They piled their hands on top of one another for...
SPARTANS WIN UGLY
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amMIDWEST Mich. St. 54 Oklahoma 46 ST. LOUIS - It was hard to say what provided the bigger scare last night for top-seeded Michigan State: Mateen Cleaves, his mouth open,...
DEVILS CLOSE TO DEAL FOR OILERS' MIRONOV
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO - Sources told The Post last night that the Devils are about to acquire Oilers defenseman Boris Mironov, a deal that was first reported here a month ago. For...
PLAYOFF HOPES TAKE AN OVERTIME BEATING
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amSabres 3 Rangers 2 It was an excellent game of playoff-like intensity and goaltending, a duel between teams willing to skate and pay the price along the boards, in the...
OWLS SCORE TECHNICAL KO
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amTemple was well on its way to utterly outclassing Purdue in last night's NCAA East Regional at the Meadowlands when the chants began bellowing out from the stands like smoke...
HISTORY SAYS DUKE IS NO LOCK
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amEAST NOTES As it continues to appear there is no stopping Duke in this NCAA Tournament, it turns out that history is not on the side of the Blue Devils....
WALLYBALL HITS THE WALL AS KENTUCKY ROLLS ON
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amMIDWEST Kentucky 58 Miami (Oh.) 43 ST. LOUIS - In front of the largest crowd ever to witness an NCAA Tournament regional, Wally's World crashed to solemn earth. It was...
KEADY BOILS AT OFFICIALS
March 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe destruction of Purdue's NCAA Tournament run began last night with a rare, bizarre sequence that took less than one minute and included 10 Temple points without a single Boilermaker...