February 22, 2001
EMBLAZE BLAZING FORWARD WITH CELL-PHONE VIDEOS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amCall for you. It's Madonna. Streaming video to a cell phone could be here by the end of the year - if Emblaze Systems lives up to its promises. The...
PORT AUTHORITY WEIGHS FINAL OFFERS FOR WTC
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amIt's breath-holding time today for the three real estate giants hoping to win control of the World Trade Center, as a Port Authority panel meets to weigh final offers, each...
SPOTTY OUTLOOK DIMS SUN 12% TO A YEARLY LOW
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amInvestors dumped tons of Sun yesterday - expecting more bad news from the company on a mid-quarter conference call on earnings today. Sun shares fell nearly 12 percent to a...
MAJOR LABELS RIP NAPSTER'S $1B PEACE OFFER
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amNapster's $1 billion peace offering is nothing but a publicity stunt, most of the major record labels said yesterday. As the music industry huddled together in Los Angeles for last...
WILL XFL GO X-RATED? - SEX SELLS - BUT SPONSORS AREN'T BUYING
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amThe XFL may have to resort to some down and dirty tactics if it wants to stay above water, ad industry execs said yesterday. But hitting too far below the...
NASDAQ AT 2-YR. LOW AS MARKETS PLUNGE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amA new price squeeze on consumers and sinking corporate profits sent Wall Street drifting into its worst losing session in months. The Nasdaq tumbled to its lowest close in nearly...
FBI 'SPY' IS THE SUBJECT OF QUICKIE BOOK
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amIt did not take long for a publisher to turn the life of accused FBI turncoat Robert Philip Hanssen into a quickie book. St. Martin's Press yesterday said it inked...
TECHNOLOGY WITH AN EYE FOR SAFETY
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amTODAY'S cars seem to have more computer power than a space shuttle, and much of that computerized intelligence is dedicated to making our vehicles safer to drive. Volvo has always...
STACEY SCREECH: 'CBS SMEARING ME!'
February 22, 2001 | 5:00am'SURVIVOR" contestant Stacey Stillman yesterday labeled CBS's $5 million countersuit a "smear campaign" aimed at shutting her up about alleged rigging on the hit reality series. Stillman - a San...
STALKED BY A WEIRDO: GIRL GETS BLIND DATE FROM HELL
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amBOY GETS GIRLManhattan Theatre Club's City Center Stage I, 131 W. 55th St.; (212) 581-1212. --------- 'BOY Gets Girl" is the first really unsettling modern thriller, pumping new blood and...
'GOTHAM' GOES WHERE YOU WON'T
February 22, 2001 | 5:00am"Gotham TV" ( ) Metro Channel at 9 p.m. on Sunday ----------- WHAT'S it like to say, oh, lay naked along with 100 other naked people in the street, at...
THARP'S TROUPE GLITTERS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amTWYLA THARPJoyce Theater, Eighth Avenue at 19th St. (212) 242-0800. Season ends Feb. 25. ----------- TWYLA Tharp is twirling again. Her almost brand new (it started last summer) company, Twyla...
THE STARR REPORT
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amGiff, in spadesKathie Lee Gifford will guest-star on a May sweeps episode of "Just Shoot Me" as a romance novelist who begins romancing weasely Finch (David Spade). In the episode,...
A LETTER TO MARK BURNETT, THE CREATOR OF 'SURVIVOR' - WHERE TO GO FROM HERE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amDear Mark, So now you've killed a pig. What are you going to do for an encore? Trap a kangaroo? Bring down an elephant? Bag a lion? Sacrifice a human?...
'FRIENDS' PREGNANT PAUSE?
February 22, 2001 | 5:00am'FRIENDS" writers are preparing to super-size Monica - if necessary. Writers of the hit comedy series are reportedly preparing for new storylines that will explain a pregnant Monica because the...
FIREWALL FRUSTRATION HITS SURFERS - UNINTENDED SITES ARE BLOCKED
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amI won't miss it Napster - I haven't had it for months.Last year, Post headquarters got wise and installed a big nasty firewall to keep out big nasty intruders. Trouble...
THE SON ALSO FALLS - GALA SHOCKER: 'SOPRANOS' KID TO TAKE TURN FOR WORSE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amLIKE father, like son. The actor who plays Anthony Soprano Jr. says his character goes bad this season on "The Sopranos" - which premiered before a mob of 3,000 fans...
STEWART MAKES THE EVENT GO 'ROUND
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amIN the end it was Jon Stewart who made the Grammys a classy event. Eminem was supposed to steal the show, but it all came off too pre-planned and pre-marketed,...
'WEIRD' IS THE WORD - YOUTH WILL BE SERVED? NOT ON THIS NIGHT!
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amTHE 43rd annual Grammy Awards will be remembered not for a flimsy dress or a bizarre speech, but as a night of upsets and strange, reactionary voting from the Recording...
TONY 'SOPRANOS' - GALA FOR GANGSTER SERIES PREMIERE AT RADIO CITY
February 22, 2001 | 5:00am'THE Sopranos" turned Sixth Avenue into a real mob scene last night. About 3,000 rabid fans turned up to see two new episodes from the white-hot HBO mob drama's new...
WERE HIS LUNCHES LETHAL? - SAYS ON-JOB MEALS CAUSED KIDNEY WOES
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn worker charged yesterday that he developed a potentially fatal kidney disease from chemicals his body absorbed because his former boss forced him to eat his lunch while working...
HEAVENLY DAY FOR EGAN - POPE MAKES HIM CARDINAL
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amROME - Choking back emotion, New York Archbishop Edward Egan knelt at the feet of Pope John Paul II yesterday and received his scarlet cardinal's biretta from the pontiff's trembling...
BOZOS' TERMS NEED LIMITS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amTHE City Council was actually doing something in the public interest yesterday - perfecting the campaign-finance law. But Lloyd Henry of Brooklyn didn't even bother to show up for the...
SKAKEL ARRAIGNED, VOWING NO PLEA DEAL
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amKennedy cousin Michael Skakel was arraigned yesterday as an adult for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley - when the two were only 15 years old - while his lawyer...
WENDY'S KILLER SAYS: I DESERVE LIFE IN JAIL
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amCraig Godineaux, one of the Wendy's massacre gunmen who killed five people and wounded two others, told the Queens judge who sentenced him to five consecutive life terms, "I do...
OLD GRUDGE PROBED IN SAILOR SLAY
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amAn on-leave sailor - fatally shot in the back outside his great-grandmother's home in Harlem - may have been killed by a teen with whom he'd had a run-in before,...
EXPERTS: STRONG CASE FOR DEATH PENALTY
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amSpying is a capital crime - and what FBI man Robert Hanssen allegedly did presents a very strong case for putting him to death, top criminal defense lawyers told The...
COUNCIL SNEAKS ONE PAST RUDY: WILL KEEP CAMPAIGN-FINANCE LAW AS IS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amThe City Council yesterday launched a major end-run around Mayor Giuliani in its messy battle over the city's campaign-finance system for this fall's elections. The council's Committee on Government Operations...
PARK-SLAY TEEN: IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS GOING FOR A WEAPON
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amA baby-faced 15-year-old told cops he blew away a man he and two pals were trying to rob in Central Park because it looked like the victim was going for...
RUDY WANTS TO INK METS' FARM CLUB LONG-TERM
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The Giuliani administration is pushing for a bill in the state Legislature that would allow the city to commit to the Mets' Coney Island farm team for 20...
GUI . . . , ER, GIULIANI HAS A SPELL OVER SCHOOLKIDS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amTeenagers rate Mayor Giuliani as one of history's greatest New Yorkers - just don't ask them to spell his name. One-third of the students who nominated Hizzoner as the Big...
TOT SEES B'KLYN DAD BRUTALLY SLAIN
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man was bludgeoned and shot to death before the eyes of his horrified 3-year-old son yesterday in what may have been a drug deal gone wrong, cops said....
HE WAS QUICK TO EXPLOIT 'FIRST IN-LAW' STATUS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's baby brother Hugh has never been shy about using his family ties. After the Clintons moved into the White House, the Florida lawyer wore sweaters...
MAG'S BOSS PUSHED FOR RELEASE OF DRUG CONS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In a new twist to Pardongate, Clinton pal and Rolling Stone magazine honcho Jann Wenner helped convince Bill Clinton to free over a dozen drug inmates just before...
LAURA BUSH'S CAPITAL IDEAS - NOW THAT THE RANCH IS DONE, SHE TACKLES AMERICA'S PROBLEMS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - AFTER a month in the shadows, Laura Bush is stepping out solo today. The new first lady will make her debut at a public school. After all, she's...
HAS O.J.'S CAREER BEEN PORN AGAIN?
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amA shocking tabloid report claims O.J. Simpson starred in a three-in-a-bed porn flick that could earn him millions - but the disgraced grid great insists it's not true. And Simpson's...
PROF. GORE BARS PRESS TO PROTECT CLASS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amAl Gore taught his second journalism class at Columbia University yesterday and said he decided to bar the press from covering his lectures to "protect the integrity of the classroom."...
TELEVANGELIST RIPS BUSH PLAN
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Televangelist Pat Robertson yesterday blasted President Bush's plan to funnel federal bucks to religious groups, warning it could result in Uncle Sam propping up fringe groups like Hare...
DON'T EXPECT DUBYA TO COZY UP TO RUSSIAN BEAR
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amRUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is a black belt in judo and President Bush also likes to see politics as judo - turning the other guy's energy back against him. Which...
ACCUSED SPY WON TRUST BY PLAYING THE PATRIOT'S ROLE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amFBI veteran Robert Hanssen hid his espionage for the Russians for 15 years by playing the role of patriot to the hilt and making friends in high places, colleagues said...
HOPE FOR CERVICAL-CANCER VACCINE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amThe first vaccine against a virus that causes cervical cancer has passed a crucial safety test. And scientists are hailing it as an important step in the fight against a...
EX-BIN LADEN BIG TELLS OF TERROR PLOT ON U.N.
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amOsama bin Laden's minions plotted to blow up a United Nations building in Somalia while the agency was trying to end a famine created by a civil war there, a...
JUDGE SETTLES FOOD FIGHT BETWEEN DUELING 'PATSY'S'
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amThe messy fight between two Italian restaurants named Patsy's ended yesterday when a Manhattan federal judge declared one joint's pasta sauce the real thing and the other a sloppy impostor....
PROSECUTOR: 'PUFFY' MADE 2ND BRIBE BID - QUOTED SAYING HE'D 'TAKE CARE' OF STAR WITNESS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs tried to buy the silence of a star witness who's poised to tell jurors that the hip-hop honcho opened fire at the Club New York, the prosecutor...
HILLARY'S BRO GOT PARDON $$: REPORT - GIVES BACK 400G FROM 'PILL' PUSHER, COKE DEALER
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In a new Pardongate shocker, Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother got nearly $400,000 for his role in lobbying Bill Clinton to pardon a miracle-cure peddler and free a convicted...
SLAY RAP FOR 5 IN BX. STAB DEATH
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amFive men, including a 15-year-old, were charged last night with stabbing a 20-year-old man to death on a Bronx street, police said. Terrence Ramos was murdered Tuesday night on Morris...
HIS EMINENCE GETS OVERTHROWN - OLD FOGEYS 'STEELY' THE SHOW
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amCreaky geezers Steely Dan provided one of the biggest upsets in Grammy history last night, beating out Mr. Controversy Eminem to scoop up the top award. The veteran jazz-rock duo...
MORTGAGE-BANK CLAMP-DOWN
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amA mortgage bank accused of cheating thousands of would-be home buyers has had its assets frozen, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced yesterday. Anvil Mortgage Bank Ltd. of Rockland County...
PUTTING THEIR FAITH AND LIVES ON LINE EVERY DAY
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amROME. WATCHING the St. Peter's Square ceremony elevating 44 new cardinals, I found it hard to reconcile the bright colors, the festive music, the warm sun and the cheers of...
HILLARY'S BRO GOT PARDON $$: REPORT - RETURNS 400G FROM 'PILL' PUSHER AND DRUG CON
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In a new Pardongate shocker, Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother got nearly $400,000 for his role in lobbying Bill Clinton to pardon a miracle-cure peddler and free a convicted...
HIS EMINEMINENCE COPS AN EARLY 'WIN' - GAYS' RALLY VS. RAP STAR IS A BIG FLOP
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amPotty-mouthed provocateur Eminem looked like a winner early last night, with a victory over his detractors before the Grammys even started. The "Rally Against Hate" organized by the Gay and...
HIS EMINEMINENCE GETS OVERTHROWN - OLD FOGEYS 'STEELY' THE SHOW
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amCreaky geezers Steely Dan provided one of the biggest upsets in Grammy history last night, beating out Mr. Controversy, Eminem, to scoop up the top award. The veteran jazz-rock duo...
STORM'S SHAW ISN'T SINKIN' EM FROM DEEP - ST. JOHN'S 3-POINT WHIZ HITS COLD SPELL
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amWillie Shaw wasn't as upset about his 0-for-5 shooting and zero points against Duke last Sunday as he was about the things that don't show up in a boxscore. "I've...
MATTINGLY NOT READY TO COACH
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Don Mattingly wants to be a big-league hitting coach. However, until his three sons are older, the former Yankee star is staying at his Indiana home....
OTB SALE STILL WIDE OPEN
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amA published report that the potential buyer of New York City Off-Track Betting has been whittled down to two bidders from the current four finalists is "total bull," according to...
NO PRESSURE FOR DEREK, YET
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - It may come in April, always the cruelest of baseball months. Or possibly in July, as the season melts into the middle of the schedule. Of course, the...
DOUBLE DUTY FOR MORE THAN READY
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amMore Than Ready, the former Todd Pletcher trainee who was retired after the Cigar Mile last year, will become a shuttle stallion for Vinery Farms. Currently standing his first year...
ON BRODEUR FRONT, IT'S PAD NEWS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amThe best goalie in the business has a dilemma. Martin Brodeur had already decided to make a significant change in leg pads, the largest part of his puck-stopping equipment, for...
CASHMAN'S PEEVED ABOUT SHEFF REPORT
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - The Yankees were livid over a story in a New Jersey newspaper that reported George Steinbrenner planned to meet Gary Sheffield Tuesday night in regards to trading for...
STILL JUST FAT CHANCE WELLS WILL BOOMERANG TO SHEA
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - The front office here thinks the chances of David Wells becoming a Met are slimmer than Rony Seikaly's wife. Like Seikaly's honey, Sports Illustrated...
COX & PHIFER LET GO AS JETS KICK OFF PURGE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amThe Jets began their purge yesterday, releasing five players who'd played major roles for them during the last few seasons. With the free-agency period looming March 2, the salary cap-strapped...
V, DARRYL BLAST OFF - MANAGER: HOW WAS I DISHONEST?
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - In January, Darryl Hamilton's agent, his brother John, informed the Mets that Darryl would rather play for another team than for Bobby Valentine's Mets. Yesterday, both...
DIPIETRO EYES OLYMPIC SPOT
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amRick DiPietro wasn't born when Team USA won hockey gold at the 1980 Olympics. But the rookie Islander goalie has seen plenty of highlights and heard enough stories from friend...
GARY STILL HAS AN EYE FOR THE AMAZIN'S
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Lenny Harris carried a message from pal Gary Sheffield into the clubhouse yesterday: Clear out a locker for him. He wants to play for the Mets....
SLUGGIN' IT OUT FOR SHEFF - BRAVES MAY BEAT METS TO LA MASHER
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets' front office is racking its brains trying to figure out how it can obtain Gary Sheffield. "I think we still have some things to...
TAKE ME OUT OF THE BAWL GAME!
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amPORT CHARLOTTE - The Mets discarded a chase of Alex Rodriguez because - they wanted us to believe - he would be a team unto himself. GM Steve Phillips used...
REEFER MADNESS - ANGRY OAK CLAIMS NBA IS GOING UP IN SMOKE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amNO player hears the heartbeat of the NBA more clearly than Charles Oakley. Over 16 seasons the no-nonsense Oakley has seen it all, and now more than ever he doesn't...
VAN GUNDY COMES TO HOUSTON'S DEFENSE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Allan Houston shot 3 of 14 against the Heat Tuesday night, blanketed by Miami guard Bruce Bowen. Yet Jeff Van Gundy gave the Knicks shooting...
LAYDEN: BLOCKBUSTER IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amKNICKS NOTES AUBURN HILLS - When the Knicks traded away Patrick Ewing Sept. 20th, everyone in the league was positive the Knicks would make another blockbuster deal before the trading...
REEFER MADNESS - OAKLEY CLAIMS NBA'S GOING UP IN SMOKE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amNO player hears the heartbeat of the NBA more clearly than Charles Oakley. Over 16 seasons the no-nonsense Toronto forward has seen it all. Now, more than ever, he does...
RESURGENT BEAVERS BACK IN TITLE TILT
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amCUNY SEMISCCNY 67 - York 62 Ralph Perez doesn't care so much about CCNY's storied past. He isn't being rude, just practical. "I've been told about all of it," said...
KNICKS CAN'T GET REVVED UP
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amPistons 90 - Knicks 85 DETROIT - For three quarters, the Knicks were as dead as GM Scott Layden's office phone lines late last night. A stirring fourth-quarter comeback against...
GREER HAS CAREER KNIGHT
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amRutgers 75 - Seton Hall 57 PISCATAWAY - It was the longest shot Jeff Greer had taken in his life, so far from the basket he couldn't even gauge the...
NETS GROUND AIR CANADA - MARBURY HOLDS HIS OWN IN SHOOTOUT WITH CARTER
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amNets 113 - Raptors 111 The night was decidedly young. So long before enough excitement for a week's worth of games riveted the Meadowlands gathering, before thoughts of "Milt Palacio"...
OMAR SHOULDN'T BE IN A RUSH FOR RICHES
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amIT WAS only minutes after the Red Storm had absorbed a 91-59 beating at the hands of powerful Duke at the Garden on Sunday afternoon that coach Mike Jarvis offered...
RU PLAYERS STEP UP BIG FOR BANNON
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amRutgers senior Jeff Greer and Scarlet Knights coach Kevin Bannon have been together for four years, after Bannon made the Cardinal Hayes grad his first recruit. And last night, after...
SHARIF & STORM GUN DOWN HOYAS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amThroughout his entire playing career, Sharif Fordham has had to prove himself. He wasn't a good enough shooter to play the two. He wasn't tall enough to play in the...
SPREE: NO NEED FOR DIKEMBE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - An unfazed Latrell Sprewell said he doesn't see top-seeded Sixers any better off if they do acquire center Dikembe Mutombo from Atlanta in a package for injured...
SPREE: NO NEED FOR MUTOMBO
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - An unfazed Latrell Sprewell said he doesn't see the top-seeded Sixers any better off if they acquire center Dikembe Mutombo from Atlanta in a package for injured...
RUTGERS STAR CALLS BANNON REPORTS FALSE
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amThey have been together for four years, Rutgers senior Jeff Greer and Scarlet Knight coach Kevin Bannon. Greer was Bannon's first recruit, and almost 120 games and four seasons later,...
CSI RELEASES THE HOUNDS IN SEMIFINALS
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amCUNY SEMIS CSI 59 - John Jay 55 Stanley Etheridge felt that he owed his teammates something. "I had missed an easy shot earlier in the game," the College of...
STEPH GIVES PROPS TO ACTION JACKSON
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amQuick word association. What comes to mind when you hear, "New York City point guard?" "They say New York point guards can't shoot, that we dominate the ball and be...