March 30, 2001
PINK SLIPS AT MERRILL - WALL STREET GIANT TO AX 150 INVESTMENT BANKERS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amAfter dragging its heels while its rivals announce staff cuts, Merrill Lynch is finally about to join the fray. The securities firm is planning to dismiss about 150 investment bankers,...
DURST PUTTING WHITE & CASE SPACE BACK ON THE MARKET
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe giant lease extension that law firm White & Case just signed at a Midtown office tower might be keeping the lawyers busier than ever - because the deal turned...
RAINBOW PLACES BIG BET ON WOMEN
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amCablevision is hoping women are the pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow. Rainbow Media Group - Cablevision's stable of cable networks that begins trading as a tracking...
CLEARANCE SALE AT BROOKS BROTHERS - MARKS & SPENCER MAY TAKE A BATH UNLOADING CLOTHIER
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amBrooks Brothers is on the block. Marks & Spencer PLC has put its venerable, and profitable, retailer up for sale - and may have to settle for less than half...
DOW JONES MAKES CUTS OF ITS OWN
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amDow Jones & Co. is wielding the ax - and this time its star dot-commers are running scared. The company that publishes the Wall Street Journal announced yesterday that it...
RETURN TO THE AGE OF THE PREPPY
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThere's a Bush in the White House, which means Yale, Kennebunkport and good old Republican traditionalism. The economy is uncertain, which means sticking to what works. And many people are...
THE TOWN CLUB GOES ON THE BLOCK FOR $27M
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amA venerable Manhattan club has been put up for sale. The Town Club, in the massive, neo-Georgian townhouse at 9 East 86th St., is on the market for $27 million....
WINDED OXYGEN FIRES 35, MAINLY WEB EMPLOYEES
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amTime for another nip and tuck for Geraldine Laybourne. The online arm of Oxygen, the "multimedia platform for women," said yesterday it is canning another 35 employees. Spokeswoman Laura Nelson...
VIACOM'S KARMAZIN RIPS DISNEY'S EISNER
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMickey Mouse and the Rugrats went at each other in Hollywood - in a rare public spat. The Rugrats' boss, Viacom COO Mel Karmazin, started the tiff when he told...
BRILL & INSIDE CLOSE TO DEAL - RUMORS OF MASS FIRINGS SWIRL AT INSIDE NEWSROOM
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amPowerful Media, owner of Inside magazine and a Web-based media news service, is close to hammering out a deal to merge with media entities controlled by Steve Brill. Rumors of...
BRILL, INSIDE ARE CLOSE TO INKING DEAL
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amPowerful Media, owner of Inside magazine and a media news Web site of the same name, is said to be close to hammering out a deal to sell itself to...
BATTLE OF THE BOSSES: CBS' KARMAZIN RIPS INTO DISNEY'S EISNER
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMickey Mouse and the Rugrats went at each other in Hollywood - in a rare public spat. The Rugrats' boss, Viacom COO Mel Karmazin, started the tiff when he told...
DOW JONES REPORTS LAYOFFS OF ITS OWN
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amDow Jones & Co. is wielding the ax - and this time its star dot-commers are running scared. The company that publishes the Wall Street Journal announced yesterday that it...
POETRY WEEKEND A BATTLE OF WORDS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amIF YOU thought poetry was for wimps, you haven't seen the World Heavyweight Championship Bout: seven rounds of bare-knuckle wordplay and no-holds-barred improvisation. You probably haven't heard Edgar Allan Poe's...
THE GINUWINE ARTICLE - R&B ARTIST FACES TRAGEDY AND COMES BACK SINING
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amCONVENTIONAL wisdom says what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger, and sexy D.C. R&B crooner Ginuwine concurs - although he's glad he has finished his studies at the Hard Knock...
A TOUCH OF THE POET
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amTHE INVENTION OF LOVE ()The Lyceum Theatre, 149 W. 45th St. (212) 239-6200. ------- HILARITY and intelligence - not always inevitably in that order - are back on Broadway, not...
TESTING TASTE OF LAUGHTER
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amTOMCATS () Raunchy, exuberantly juvenile low comedy. Running Time: 95 minutes. Rated R (obscene language). The 42d Street E Walk, the Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others. --------- GROSS-OUT comedies...
BACH TO BACH BEEFCAKE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amEMMANUEL Pahud. Vadim Repin. They're hardly household names. But the flutist and fiddler will quicken pulses here with their killer technique, sexy charisma and model good looks when they play...
EVERY CLICHÉ IN THE DATE BOOK
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amSOMEONE LIKE YOU () Bland, predictable, sitcom-esque romantic comedy about Manhattan single life. Running time: 94 minutes. Rated PG-13 (nothing disturbing). At the Union Square, the Murray Hill and the...
CRIME PAYS: 'NEVER LET HER GO' JUST AND NEVER LET HER GO
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amCrime Sunday at 9 p.m. on WCBS/Ch. 2 THERE is a God! I know this because CBS has finally figured out that Sunday nights belong to true crime. This Sunday...
MALKMUS FANS IN FOR 'GOOD-TIME MUSIC'
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amTEN years ago, Stephen Malkmus, the former lead singer of Pavement, said guys shouldn't play in rock bands when they hit their mid-30s. But the indie rocker has had a...
PINTER-PACKED REVIVALS. AMEN.
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amIT'LL be Pinter vs. Pinter next season on Broadway.Producers Scott Rudin and Robert Fox recently announced plans to bring the acclaimed London revival of Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker," starring Michael...
CBS GIVES TIMES SQUARE A NEW EYE-IN-THE-SKY
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amCBS has slapped a huge eye-in-the-sky into Times Square, joining arch-rivals ABC and NBC in the ability to beam programming directly into New York's most famous neighborhood. The Eye Network's...
A SPY PIC MADE TO MEASURE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amTHE TAILOR OF PANAMA () Stylishly cut spy satire with droll performances by Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush. Running time: 109 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity, violence). At the Empire,...
BABES IN BOND-LAND
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amSPY KIDS ( 1/2) Pint-sized James Bonds - fun for everyone. Running time: 86 minutes. Rated PG (mild violence). At the E Walk, the Union Square, the Cinema 1, others....
KUCHA'S COUP: JERRI BOOTED ON 'SURVIVOR'
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amKnow-it-all actress Jerri Manthey, the "Survivor" whom castaway viewers love to hate, was booted off the CBS reality show last night in a surprise vote. "Checkmate. You guys got me,"...
MEOOWW! FUR FLIES OVER MTV CAT-APULT
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amPETA is in a cat-fight with MTV over a cat-spaying video that's too hot for the network to air. The frank and edgy video is set to hip-hop music and...
NEW YORK POST: FROM MARCH 30, 1909
March 30, 2001 | 5:00am"Several thousand feet of steel and masonry, stretching from Manhattan Island to Long Island - with an intermediate support on Blackwell's Island - became part and parcel of Greater New...
DON'T HOLD THE PHONE! STATE 'CAR' BAN LOOMS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - New York drivers might soon be banned from chatting on hand-held car phones statewide. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver weighed in yesterday in favor of the ban - a...
RAILING JUDGE SENTENCES SUBWAY FANATIC
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amA subway-obsessed serial thief and impostor was sentenced to up to five years in prison yesterday in a bizarre court hearing at which a judge accused his lawyers of making...
INSURANCE 'RI$KY' BIZ FOR MORE DRIVERS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The number of New Yorkers forced into an expensive state insurance plan by a jump in no-fault claims and a slowing economy has skyrocketed, The Post has learned....
P.A. WON'T GO E-Z ON TOLL-LANE SPEEDERS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amSpeedy Pass, it's not. Drivers who repeatedly speed through E-ZPass toll booths at Port Authority bridges and tunnels could lose their electronic tags for up to a year, under a...
REFORM EFFORT NEVER HAD A CHANCE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amTHE proud mother fixed her gaze on a crack in the sidewalk, her face clouded with equal parts anger and shame. Her daughter, at age 8, is unable to read,...
MISCHIEVOUS DONNA DROPS IN ON MAYORAL EVENT
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amCity First Lady Donna Hanover stunned mayoral aides yesterday when she showed up unannounced at a Gracie Mansion event - missing her first public run-in with her estranged husband by...
MOM'S IN TEARS AS DOCS 'TREAT' HER CAPTIVE SON
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amFEELING powerless, the mother wept quietly inside the Brooklyn courtroom yesterday. She wants her son back. She lost him first to schizophrenia. Now, a state hospital is holding him captive,...
BABS IS BOILING - DIVA'S DIGS TAKE DIVE AS BOARD BALKS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amPeople who need co-op boards aren't the luckiest people in the world. Barbra Streisand has been singing that tune for the past three years - while the nine-member board at...
EGAN TO PAROCHIALS: PUT UP OR SHUT DOWN
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amEdward Cardinal Egan has given three struggling city Catholic elementary schools less than four weeks to develop a plan to increase enrollment and income or face being closed at the...
LAWSUIT LINKING IBM TO NAZIS IS DROPPED
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amA class-action lawsuit claiming that IBM aided the Nazis in identifying and cataloguing Holocaust victims was dropped yesterday, State Department officials and lawyers involved in the case said. A historian...
HASIDS RAN $4.5M FRAUD MILL: FEDS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amA pillar of an upstate Hasidic community headed a "full-service fraud factory," using phony identities to steal $4.5 million in tax refunds, business loans and life-insurance payoffs, prosecutors say. Mordechai...
'PARDON' OUR SURPRISE, HILL - SHE BACKS BILL VS. CLEMENCY LOBBYING
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - in a stunning move - yesterday jumped aboard an effort to outlaw the secret lobbying for pardons that marred her husband's exit from...
BIRTH MOM AND SON BRIDGE 21-YEAR GULF IN QUEENS BABY SWIPE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe biological mom at the center of a heartbreaking kidnapping case has told the son taken from her 21 years ago that she loves him and wants them to be...
PEDOPHILE NABBED IN WEB SCAM
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amA convicted pedophile who teaches at a Brooklyn yeshiva posed on the Web as the head of a modeling agency - allegedly scamming dozens of teenage and pre-teen girls into...
DAILY NEWS STAFFER EYED IN SLAYINGS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amA Daily News copy editor and a city employee who were formerly roommates have emerged as suspects in the slayings of a pair of Queens prostitutes whose bodies were found...
VALLONE'S BUDGET PLAN UNDER FIRE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Peter Vallone yesterday got hit by a one-two fiscal punch, with both Mayor Giuliani and Comptroller Alan Hevesi blasting his plan to revise next year's budget using...
BUSH TELLS ARAFAT: 'STOP THE VIOLENCE'
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amPresident Bush sent a loud and clear signal to Yasser Arafat yesterday to "stop the violence" - even as the Palestinian leader vowed the uprising against Israel will continue. Bush...
COURT TOSSES CONVICTION OF PORN STAR'S BEAU
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amA federal appeals court yesterday threw out the conviction of a Wall Street CEO who allegedly gave insider-trading tips to his porn star girlfriend, after finding he was "denied a...
BRONX TEACHERS PROTEST FIRST - THEN RUSH OFF TO WORK
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amYesterday's unprecedented voting by parents on the volatile proposal to have a private firm run their children's schools made for some unusual scenes around the city. Here's a sample: Teachers...
MARRIAGE PENALTY MAY BE ON ROCKS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's push for "long-lasting" tax cuts got a momentum boost yesterday as the House voted nearly 2-1 to cut the marriage penalty - with 64 Democrats joining...
RUDY DUSTS OFF 'DECENCY' PANEL
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani is going to reconstitute an obscure city panel and give it a new mission: imposing "decency" standards on publicly funded museums. Deputy Mayor Tony Coles told The Post...
EDISON'S OUTLOOK DISMAL AFTER DAY OF NO-SHOW WOES
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amBarring a miraculous turnaround in voting today, Edison Schools Inc. will get trounced in its bid to take over five failing schools in Harlem, The Bronx and Brooklyn. To win,...
LOOPHOLE HUNT BEGINS AS POLITICAL-$$ REFORM NEARS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Lobbyists are seeking ways to exploit new loopholes in campaign-finance reform as the Senate moved closer to the first overhaul of the rules since the Watergate era. The...
FEDS CRACKED CYBERCODE TO 'NET HIM
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn couple developed an elaborate system of Internet message, code words and phone calls to communicate with fugitive James Kopp, officials said. But the FBI cracked the code, read...
FERRER HAS (ST)RAW POWER IN WACKY POLL
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amIn a circus-like event filled with lots of political theater and little probable impact, Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer last night narrowly won a hotly contested straw poll in the...
18 DEAD AS MOVIE MOGUL'S JET CRASHES IN COLO.
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amEighteen people died when a charter jet owned by a Hollywood mogul crashed into a hillside near the Aspen, Colo., airport last night, authorities said. There was no word on...
17 DEAD IN COLORADO JET CRASH
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amAt least 17 people died when a chartered jet crashed into a hillside near the Aspen, Colo., airport last night, authorities said. There was no word on who was aboard...
STATE BIDS TO SHUT QNS. ADULT HOME
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The state Health Department yesterday moved to shut down the Leben Home for Adults in Queens, charging it maintained dangerous, substandard conditions. The department accused Jacob Rubin, the...
VERSACE ITEMS ON AUCTION BLOCK HERE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amNew Yorkers will get an opportunity to claim a piece of contemporary history next week when Sotheby's puts up for auction hundreds of items of slain designer Gianni Versace. The...
DONNA MAKES SURPRISE ENTRANCE AT RUDY EVENT
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amCity First Lady Donna Hanover stunned mayoral aides yesterday when she showed up unannounced at a Gracie Mansion event - missing her first public run-in with her estranged husband by...
VALLONE SEES SLEAZE IN ATM FEES
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amGoing to an ATM in the city can be more expensive than borrowing money from a "shylock" on the street, City Council Speaker Peter Vallone charged yesterday. Vallone made the...
FEDS: HASIDS RAN $4.5M FRAUD MILL
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amA pillar of an upstate Hasidic community headed a "full-service fraud factory," using phony identities to steal $4.5 million in tax refunds, business loans and life-insurance payoffs, prosecutors say. Mordechai...
THE FINAL FOUR MATCHUPS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMARYLAND vs. DUKE *POINT GUARDS Duke's Jason Williams vs. Maryland's Steve Blake:Williams will be first pick of NBA draft if he comes out. Can singlehandedly take over games. Strong enough...
BASEBALL'S BEST & WORST
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amWith the help of scouts, managers and executives, The Post's annual look at the best and worst in the major leagues: FIVE BEST ALL-AROUND PLAYERS 1 Alex Rodriguez, Rangers -...
UNQUESTIONABLY UNETHICAL ; INTERVIEWERS AND SUBJECTS SHOULDN'T HAVE SAME AGENT
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amONE of the great, vastly under-told stories about the corrupted, duplicitous state of modern news media finds journalists and news subjects - athletes, coaches, entertainers, et. al. - sharing agents....
ST. JOE'S MARTELLI RUNS A FUNNY PROGRAM
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amPERHAPS the most disappointing aspect of Phil Martelli turning down Rutgers' come-on and remaining the basketball coach at St. Joe's is that local cable subscribers will be deprived of a...
L.I. WATERS LOADED WITH TROUT
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amIT looks as if Long Island is the place to be this weekend, whether you're looking for flounder in saltwater or trout in sweetwater. The trout season opens Sunday and...
YANKS WORTH MOST
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe Yankees' value grew by $88 million last year, making them - by far - the most valuable baseball team. The Yanks are now worth $635 million, according to a...
UCONN RELOADED, READY ; INJURIES CAN'T STOP LADY HUSKIES' REPEAT BID; CAN IRISH?
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Having lost Shea Ralph, the incumbent player of the year, and Svetlana Abrosimova, a two-time All-American, to season-ending injuries and gone 32-2 and back to a Final...
ELIAS 2ND TO NONE AT LW
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe NHL braintrust didn't even invite Patrik Elias to the World team for the All-Star Game. That injustice needs correction: Elias is the most deserving candidate to be the entire...
NEW NETS NOT JUST FLOATING
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe calendar and schedule, plus logic and common sense, say the season is over with nothing left to play for in New Jersey. But a handful of Nets, whose ranks...
MOURNING SICKNESS ; CURSED NETS, NOT HEAT, NEEDED MEDICAL EXCEPTION
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amALONZO MOURNING's decision to return to the court while his kidney illness is in remission obviously is a feel-good experience celebrated by all. Even should the experiment to burden his...
SW MISSOURI ST. DOING IT WITH STILES
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - America's Sweetheart will cut your heart out. With a smile and a kind word, of course. Jackie Stiles, the all-time leading scorer in NCAA women's history, has...
WOOD MEMORIAL IS TAKING SHAPE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe field for New York's premier Kentucky Derby prep, the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct April 14, is beginning to firm up, with runaway Florida Derby winner Monarchos...
TOCA HANGING AROUND - FOR NOW
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMET NOTES Mets 16 Orioles 4 PORT ST. LUCIE - One-by-one, they didn't want to be summoned by GM Steve Phillips. With the roster at 36 to start yesterday morning,...
SEEING THE LEIT; AL GETS OPENING DAY START
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - For Al Leiter, the picture is vivid, like a work of art. The details from the 11 years on his big-league resume have come into focus....
AND PARKER MAKES 5: FIELDS OF DREAMS COME TRUE FOR YANK
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - The deaf children Sandy Parker teaches at Presbyterian Ear Institute Oral School had departed already when her cell phone rang shortly after 3 p.m. in Albuquerque. She had...
ARIZONA'S OLSON HAS THAT EMPTY FEELING
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Lute Olson returned to his second home last night. But a part of the Arizona coach was missing. Olson was a sophomore at Augsburg College - which is...
BIG BENNY POURING IT ON FOR AMAZIN'S
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - Seventeen years covering baseball and not once had a ballplayer ever poured me a cup of coffee. A few along the way showed great restraint...
WELL-GUARDED SECRETS ; TERPS' BLAKE, MSU'S BELL GET LOST IN THE SHADOWS
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Maryland's Steve Blake and Michigan State's Charlie Bell are the "other" point guards in this stellar Final Four. Like Duke's Jason Williams, Blake is a sophomore, but whereas...
SHARK SAYS TERRAPINS LOOK LIKE NINJA TURTLES
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amFINAL FOUR NOTEBOOK MINNEAPOLIS - My boss' instructions were clear: Get a feel, from the coach's perspective, on this Final Four. It feels about 30 pounds. At least that what...
AND PARKER MAKES 5: CHRISTIAN JOINS BEST STAFF IN BASEBALL
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Christian Parker is a member of the best pitching rotation in baseball. Roger Clemens, Mike Mussina, Andy Pettitte and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez will be joined by Parker,...
MEMPHIS TAKES 3RD PLACE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMemphis, using a high-octane transition game, notched a convincing 86-71 win over Detroit in the NIT consolation game last night at the Garden. The Tigers, coached by John Calipari, used...
CONSTANTINE STATES HIS CASE FOR ISLANDER JOB OVER PHONE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amFormer Penguin coach Kevin Constantine was interviewed on the telephone yesterday by Islander GM Mike Milbury about the Isles' coaching job. "It was a good conversation," Constantine said last night...
DOC CALLS IT QUITS: GOODEN RETIRING AFTER BID TO MAKE YANKS FALLS SHORT
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - That's all, Doc. The checkered career of Dwight "Doc" Gooden, one of the biggest names in New York's storied sports history, is over, The Post has learned. According...
'ZONA'S OLSON HAS AN EMPTY FEELING
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Lute Olson returned to his second home last night. But a part of the Arizona coach was missing. Olson was a sophomore at Augsburg College - which is...
PIAZZA MAKES BIG STRIDES BACK FROM KNEE INJURY
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Piazza missed two weeks of exhibition games because of a bruised left knee, but with one hit yesterday, he erased any lingering doubts about the...
DEREK DELAYED BY SPRING RAIN
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - After fighting a bum shoulder, a viral throat infection and an aching quadriceps, Derek Jeter's latest opponent is the weatherman. And there is nothing in trainer...
RANGERS WIN 'LA' TROPHY
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amRangers 6 Islanders 4 The potential seems limitless for Radek Dvorak, who exploded for a career-high four goals last night to lift the Rangers to a wild 6-4 victory against...
KLOUCEK SHOULDN'T HAVE TO 'PACK'
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe Rangers have made progress as an organization this year, bulking up significantly in the front office with the addition of veteran hockey personnel men such as Tom Renney, Gilles...
RED STORM'S CLARK ON LASALLE'S LIST
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amSt. John's associate head coach Kevin Clark has emerged as a finalist for the head coaching vacancy at LaSalle, sources told The Post last night. The source said that Lafayette...
TULSA BUZZES 'BAMA
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amNIT Championship Tulsa 79 Alabama 60 Tulsa has become a cradle of coaches, and it appears the Golden Hurricane have another good one in Buzz Peterson. Now the question is...
GRIZZLIES EAT KNICKS ALIVE: NOW 1-2 ON CRUCIAL WEST COAST SWING
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amGrizzlies 89 Knicks 68 VANCOUVER - If the Grizzlies played the Knicks here every night, maybe the franchise wouldn't be moving to Memphis. And if this is the Knicks' last-ever...
FANS RAIN ON HARRINGTON'S PARADE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES VANCOUVER - Othella Harrington is called the Rain Man in these parts and when he entered the game in the fourth quarter, the crowd rained vicious boos on...
NINJA TURTLES LOOK LIKE WINNERS TO TARK THE SHARK
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - I'm sure the founding fathers of Minneapolis had good intentions when they conjured up the skyway system here. After all, as one resident said, this has been a...
RICE FINALLY STEPPIN' OUT : THANKS TO IMPROVED FOOTING, KNICKS' SIXTH MAN HEATING UP
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amVANCOUVER - For two northern California nights, Glen Rice showed why the Knicks need him desperately once the playoffs roll around. His injury-plagued, roller-coaster ride-of-a-season hit its zenith with his...
BUM KNEE KEEPS STRICKLAND ON BENCH
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES VANCOUVER - Erick Strickland didn't get the chance to show his wares with the Knicks and last night didn't get a chance to show it against them. Strickland,...
TULSA ROCKS COACHING CRADLE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThere are some schools - read, Rutgers - that can't sell their collective souls to hire a good basketball coach. Then there are schools like Tulsa that produce an endless...
CALIPARI'S TEAM TAKES 3RD PLACE
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amNIT CONSOLATION GAME Memphis 86 Detroit 71 Memphis notched a convincing 86-71 win over Detroit in the NIT consolation game at the Garden last night. The Tigers, coached by ex-Nets...
KLOUCEK SHOULDN'T 'PACK'
March 30, 2001 | 5:00amThe Rangers have made progress as an organization this year, bulking up significantly in the front office with the addition of veteran hockey personnel men such as Tom Renney, Gilles...