February 28, 2000
INTERNET-ONLY RECORDING READY TO ROCK
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe music industry gets a little more digital tomorrow with the release of the first significant new album for Web users only. The Black Crowes and Led Zeppelin founder Jimmy...
HOW GREENSPAN CAN STOP A CRASH
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amNOW that Alan Greenspan has gotten the stock market to stop going up, can he keep it from continuing to go down? That's the problem with the game that the...
JIVE COULD BE JUMPIN' ; WARNER, EMI LURING LABEL FROM BMG DEAL
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe long-standing deal between Jive Records and BMG is in trouble. Zomba Group's Jive Records -- home to such hotshot young acts as the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and *NSYNC...
MIAMI MICE! MORE THAN WE'D REALLY WANT TO KNOW
February 28, 2000 | 5:00am"Grapevine" Premiere tonight, 9:30 on WCBS/Ch.2.( Moves to regular time slot 8:30 March 6.) IF you love nothing better than listening to your friend who goes on for hours with...
THE PARENTS OF TRAGIC JONBENET FACE TWO HOURS OF TOUGH GRILLING FROM BARBARA WALTERS: RAMSEYS 'VERY BELIEVABLE'
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amJon and Patsy Ramsey, parents of the slain JonBenet (inset), came across as genuine in their interview with Barbara Walters.IN their first ever no-holds-barred interview, JonBenet Ramsey's parents answered two...
GET REAL: IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amFANS of reality TV shows shouldn't worry -- the genre is here to stay. That's the word from producer Bruce Nash, who is probably responsible for more hours of reality...
THE STARR REPORT
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amGLAAD smells trouble MTV, under pressure from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has yanked a video by The Bloodhound Gang that featured a scene of gay-bashing. The video,...
GETTING HER KICKS: ROCKETTE ALSO HOOPS IT UP
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amHOW do you get from Radio City Music Hall to Madison Square Garden?Just ask Jaime Windrow, a Rockette who also became a Knicks City Dancer, a move both camps are...
FINAL ANSWER? COULD BE $20M FOR REGIS
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amRegis Philbin, who gives away millions of dollars for a living, is about to collect some of the loot for himself. The host of ABC's runaway hit "Who Wants to...
MOM CHARGED WITH STABBING NEWBORN
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amA Bronx mother was charged yesterday with using a pair of scissors to stab her newborn son to death in her sister's apartment. Jasmin Chavez "just said that she didn't...
LOUIMA COPS' FATE WILL SOON BE IN HANDS OF THE JURY
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe fate of the three cops charged in the Abner Louima conspiracy trial could be settled as early as this week, as closing arguments begin today and the case is...
TRAGIC STOWAWAY FALLS FROM SKY ABOVE L.I.
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amA man who apparently stowed away in the wheel well of a jet plunged to the ground on Long Island as the aircraft approached JFK Airport, authorities said. The victim...
GOP RIVALS TIED UP HERE
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Sen. John McCain holds a slim lead over Texas Gov. George W. Bush with just nine days to go to New York's GOP primary, a new Post tracking...
BRADLEY BIDS TO REBOUND
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amBill Bradley struggled yesterday to revive his Democratic presidential campaign, insisting front-runner Al Gore's funny-money baggage would cost the vice president the election in November. "Al Gore cannot be the...
BILL'S PASTOR: VERDICT PROVES 'RACIAL DIVIDE'
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- President Clinton's pastor yesterday cited the acquittal of the four New York cops who gunned down Amadou Diallo as fresh proof that race remains America's fault line. Two...
VERDICT WON'T HELP RUDY -- OR HILL
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amANALYSISWhile strategists for Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mayor Giuliani each believe the Amadou Diallo verdict can be exploited to help their campaigns, the case will likely end up being just...
MOM FINGERS BEAU WITH HER DYING WORDS
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amDetectives are hunting for a Bronx man suspected of stabbing his girlfriend to death in the apartment they shared while her five young kids slept nearby, The Post has learned....
DA SEES VICTORY, OF SORTS, IN DEFEAT
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amBronx District Attorney Robert Johnson yesterday defended his prosecution of the four cops who shot Amadou Diallo, saying the trial sent a strong message to police on the street. "I...
POWERS PRIMARY FALL GUY IN GOP BLAME GAME
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amTHE long knives of political infighting are being unsheathed as New York's Republican establishment nervously eyes disaster in next week's presidential primary. GOP insiders said it appeared that Gov. Pataki...
FEARS FOR O'CONNOR AS HE MISSES MASS
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor's health woes worsened yesterday, forcing him to skip Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Doctors are concerned about the 80-year-old cardinal's continued weakness and failing eyesight, said O'Connor's...
VOTER-BILL BATTLE IS LOOMING
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe City Council today is setting itself on a collision course with Mayor Giuliani over an effort to register thousands of new city voters in time for this fall's Senate...
DEFENDANTS STILL HAVE DEBT TO THE PEOPLE OF N.Y.
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amI ACCEPT that the killing of Amadou Diallo was a tragic mistake without criminal intent. I accept the jury's verdict as a good-faith effort. If I had been on the...
W.'S SLICK MOVE MAY TRIP HIM UP IN VIRGINIA
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amIF GEORGE W. Bush faces an uncomfortably close race in Virginia tomorrow, he has only his own campaign to blame for demanding a primary instead of more easily controlled caucuses....
OFFICERS, NEIGHBORS TRY TO RETURN TO NORMAL
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe cops acquitted in the slaying of Amadou Diallo eased back into family life yesterday, desperate to escape the public fury that has dogged them for more than a year....
JURORS: STATE MADE NO CASE VS. COPS: PROSECUTION'S TIMID TONE STUNNED US, PANELISTS SAY
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- The four white cops who killed Amadou Diallo were acquitted because prosecutors had no case, jurors told the Post yesterday. "They presented very little we could go on,"...
WEEKEND BLUES HAVE WALL ST. IN IN A SWEAT
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amWall Street gurus spent the weekend wondering if they would get a manic Monday or a miracle Monday after the stock market downturn that left the Dow and the S&P...
KEY TESTS DON'T WORK THE SAME FOR BOTH SEXES
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amTests for diagnosing heart disease are much more effective in men than in women. The most common is the treadmill stress test, in which an electrocardiogram (EKG) is performed during...
HEY, REV. AL, FOREWOMAN HAS A MESSAGE FOR YOU
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Rev. Al Sharpton won't know until he opens his mail, but a young lady called Arlene Taylor has given him the pink slip. Taylor, who is African-American, was the...
FORGIVE ME, FATHER, FOR I HAVE GOOFED: BUSH ; BOB JONES A MISTAKE, HE WRITES O'CONNOR
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amIn a stunning apology, George W. Bush has written John Cardinal O'Connor to admit that his visit to anti-Catholic Bob Jones University caused "needless offense." Bush made his mea culpa...
FEDS PLAN TO MEET WITH DIALLO KIN IN RIGHTS PROBE
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amHigh-ranking Justice Department officials plan to sit down with Amadou Diallo's parents this week to discuss the ongoing civil-rights probe into the four cops who killed him. Both sides had...
TUNNEL WOULD LINK DUBLIN AND LONDON
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amA 60-mile-long undersea tunnel that would connect London and Dublin is under consideration. Government ministers in both Britain and Ireland are looking into the construction of a rail tunnel that...
CZECHS MAY MAKE ALBRIGHT PREZ: MAG
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amSecretary of State Madeleine Albright may be Czech-ing out a new job - as president of the Czech Republic. Albright, who was born in Prague and came to the United...
WHAT A DIFFERENCE 9 YEARS CAN MAKE
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amBRONX District Attorney Robert Johnson should be applauded as a man of restraint and wisdom, not condemned as an incompetent, a coward or worse. By refusing to turn the awful...
BUTTS RIPS RUDY OVER RACIAL DIVIDE ; SAYS MAYOR'S FAILED TO UNITE COPS, COMMUNITY
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amA prominent Harlem minister slammed Mayor Giuliani yesterday for fostering an "atmosphere of division," as demonstrators jammed Manhattan streets for a second day of protests over the Amadou Diallo verdict....
'HASTA LA VISTA, BABY,' TAUNTS SURGING MACTERMINATOR
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A surging Sen. John McCain yesterday took his campaign to Virginia -- firm George W. Bush territory -- and vowed to wipe him out, quoting "Terminator" Arnold...
11 INJURED BY TURBULENCE ON BOSTON FLIGHT
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amA British Airways jet with 337 people on board hit turbulence over Boston last night, injuring 11 people, Port Authority police said. When Flight 179 from London landed at Kennedy...
I'M STAR-DAZED & CONFUSED BY SPACE EXHIBIT
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amHAVE you ever really considered the vast cosmos? The most I can tell you is that it's very vast -- so vast, in fact, that it's really far beyond your...
PIONEERING SLUGGER SENT RACISM OVER THE FENCES
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amJackie Robinson earned accolades for being the first black to break into modern major-league baseball, but Larry Doby blazed much the same trail during the same year -- and became...
UNHEALTHY SITUATION: THE SILENT STALKER OF WOMEN -A HEART ATTACK CAN OFTEN GO UNNOTICED
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amAT FIRST, Dorrie Rosen thought she had a bad case of the flu -- vomiting, high fever, shortness of breath and dull back pain. But Dorrie's doctor took one look...
REYNOLDS SORRY FOR TAKING PART
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE -- ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds apologized to the Mets yesterday for getting in full uniform, participating in drills, taking BP and eating out of...
ALL IS WELL WITH EL DUQUE
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA -- Considering that Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez is likely to be the Yankees' Opening Day starter, the news that he couldn't throw batting practice Saturday because of...
PRESSURE? NOT TO MORA ; VERSATILE MET JUST HAVING FUN
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- The gamblers were going to pay him. They were going to make it easy for him. All he had to do was swing and miss. Melvin...
JETER: I KNOW NOTHING
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- George Steinbrenner's indicating that Derek Jeter won't be signing a multi-year pact before the end of spring training came as news to the Yankees' best player. "Nobody has...
TOO GOOD TO BE DREW
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- There is always a next. Darryl Strawberry already is fading from memory, an empty locker representing all the power that might have been. The Yankees are moving along....
DEREK WON'T DESERT STRAW
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Unless you have traveled the same pothole-laced road Darryl Strawberry has, Derek Jeter believes you don't know what the fallen slugger is going through. "It's easy to pass...
KASHATREYA HOLDS ON IN 'HOLLIE'
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amKashatreya came off the pace and held off Say Florida Sandy in the stretch to win the $83,075 Hollie Hughes Handicap for New York-breds by a length yesterday. It was...
GOOD OLD DAYS HERE AGAIN FOR OREL
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amVERO BEACH, Fla. -- Wearing his fourth cap in four seasons, Orel Hershiser is back where he spent the first 12 years of his career, back with the Dodgers. After...
VAN HORN'S TURNING ON THE POWER
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amEven throughout his slumps, Nets forward Keith Van Horn has managed to get good position and quality shots. But it wasn't until he watched tapes of his struggles that he...
RAIN DELAYS HURT COAST CONTENDERS
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amWhen trainer D. Wayne Lukas shipped High Yield, winless in five straight starts, from Santa Anita to romp in the Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park, many Triple Crown watchers...
KAMENSKY NEEDS CHANCE TO SUCCEED
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amUNLESS Neil Smith comes away with Mark Messier from this week's GM's meetings in Palm Springs, John Muckler is left with the same few alternatives in the middle that he's...
BOARD HITS DOWD WITH 60-DAY BAN
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amTrainer John Dowd yesterday joined Juan Serey as the second New York conditioner to be slammed over the weekend with multiple 60-day suspensions by the State Racing and Wagering Board...
OSCAR EYES ODD COUPLE II
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amOscar kept his part of the bargain, even if it was, characteristically, a bit messy. Now it is up to Felix to tidy things up so the two can team...
DANEYKO MAY TAKE TIME OFF TO RECHARGE
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amThis time, the all-time Devil won't be insulted if he sits out. The Post has learned that the Devils are considering giving Ken Daneyko a 10-day vacation before the season...
TIGER NO MATCH FOR CLARKE: WOODS CAN'T FIND HIS OLD MAGIC TOUCH
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amCARLSBAD, Calif. -- Darren Clarke was well aware of how awesome Tiger Woods had played all week leading up to yesterday's final of the Andersen Consulting World Match Play Championships...
KNICKS STAGE RERUN OF LATE-LATE SHOW: RALLY TO WIN AS SIXERS MISS SHOT AT BUZZER
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks 89 76ers 88 Latrell Sprewell clutched the final rebound and the Garden buzzer sounded to seal another Knicks' comeback victory yesterday. Sprewell then spiked the ball hard against the...
DEVILS CLOSE IN ON MESSIER DEAL
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 3 Canadiens 0 The Devils should be a tough ticket at the Meadowlands the rest of the way, straight into June. The next time they play at home, sources...
SPARED FROM DEAL, WALLACE ON RISE
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amKnick GM Scott Layden went on national TV yesterday to rave about John Wallace, whom he could have dealt at Thursday's trading deadline for Maurice Taylor or Danny Fortson. Wallace...
KENNEDY SURVIVES SCARE
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amKennedy 55 Midwood 47 Up by 19 midway through the second quarter, Kennedy looked like a No. 1 seed ready to annihilate No. 16 seed Midwood yesterday. No one could...
ISLES PAY PRICE FOR DUMB PENALTIES
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amWant to know the main reason for the Islanders taking a three-game losing streak into tonight's home game against the Capitals? The Isles have allowed six goals in 20 penalty-killing...
NO WEIGH THIS SHOULD HAPPEN
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amTWELVE years ago, on the morning before Michael Spinks was to fight Mike Tyson, the promoters of the fight brought in Jackie Mason to provide some comic relief during that...
KNICKS STAGE RERUN OF LATE-LATE SHOW: 'JEFF TROOP' LOOKS FIT FOR FINALS
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amMARK down June 7. By then the Yankees will have the AL East sewn up as Red Sox fans repeat the mourning process. Bobby Valentine and Rickey Henderson will be...
BRICK-LAYING IVERSON NOT THE ANSWER
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amAllen Iverson wanted the final shot. Of course, Iverson would prefer to take every shot, but this being at the Garden and on NBC, the NBA's leading scorer particularly had...
BALKY ANKLE MAY SHELVE 'ZO TONIGHT VS. KNICKS
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The Knicks have gotten a lot of breaks in their last two victories and may get another one tonight in Miami. Alonzo Mourning may not play. The Heat...
SPORTSCASTERS SPEAKING NO EVIL
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amPANDERING by sportscasters -- the tacit or stated approval of wrong as right -- is one of the constants that continues to remove the sport from our sports. Yesterday was...
HUNDLEY PRIMED FOR AMAZIN' TURNAROUND
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amVERO BEACH, Fla. -- Rest assured, Todd Hundley is seeing the ball much better than when he batted .207 last season. At least he saw my pitch coming from the...
STORM STIRRING 'DANCE' FEVER
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amDURHAM, N.C. -- What was unthinkable less than a month ago suddenly is probable. It was Feb. 5, hours before St. John's was about to face Boston College at Alumni...
CHILDS TAKES OUT ANGER ON SIXERS
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amCHRIS Childs wanted to know why he was being asked to leave. Jeff Van Gundy replied, basically, that the backdoor had hit his point guard in the rear end on...
TIGER NO MATCH FOR CLARKE: HAPPY-GO-LUCKY IRISHMAN BAGS $1 MILLION PRIZE
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amCARLSBAD, Calif. -- Darren Clarke introduced himself to America yesterday. And, for the uninitiated, you'll embrace him as the everyman professional golfer. Clarke is 20 pounds overweight. He has a...
RAILSPLITTERS BURY BAYSIDE
February 28, 2000 | 5:00amNo. 2-seeded Lincoln (24-2) pulled away in the second quarter to beat Bayside, 95-58, yesterday at Lehman College. Led by Eric King, who had 23 points, 12 rebounds and four...