March 1, 2002
CASHING IN ON MARTHA'S GOOD NAME
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amKmart doesn't seem to pay to play. Though the bankrupt retailer still owes Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) some $13 million, it's touting her garden and outdoor line to the...
STYLISH TARGET OUTSELLS KMART
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amIt's survival of the fittest. And Target has come out on top. The chic mass market retailer has overtaken Kmart as the No. 2 discount retailer by sales, behind only...
RICH MAN, POOR MAN: GATES STILL TOPS FORBES LIST
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amFeeling a pinch in the pocketbook? Things aren't so good for the world's billionaires either, according to those who track the world's elite and their wealth. The net worth of...
US WEAKLY AWASH IN RED INK
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amJUST how weak financially is Jann Wenner's US Weekly? It all depends on who you ask. Even before he hired new Editor-in-Chief Bonnie Fuller for a reputed seven figure package,...
MEDI-HUT'S EXECS SUED OVER LOSSES
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amAngry investors slapped troubled condom maker Medi-Hut with a class-action lawsuit yesterday, alleging the firm's top managers violated securities laws and caused shareholder losses. The suit accuses the company of...
RECOVERY AT LAST: REVISED GDP SHOWS FASTER GROWTH IN QTR.
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amA raft of good economic news cheered Wall Street looking for signs of recovery. Although stock markets ended lower, analysts are more certain than ever the worst is over. The...
STARR REPORT
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amErnie and Dana in photo finish Ch. 2's Dana Tyler and Ernie Anastos were seen have promotional photos taken together yesterday in the Ch. 2 studios. Anastos and Tyler currently...
GUESS WHO'S BECOMING DINNER
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amTROUBLE EVERY DAY Bloody lust in Paris.In English and French, with English subtitles. Running time: 100 minutes. Not rated (nudity, violent, sex, cannibalism). At the Quad, 13th Street, between Fifth...
GET '40' WINKS INSTEAD
March 1, 2002 | 5:00am40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTSZero stars Don't waste even one night on this.Running time: 95 minutes. Rated R(sex, nudity, profanity, stupidity). At theEmpire, the Lincoln Square, the UnionSquare, others. EASILY...
NO 'KAHN' VIEW THIS DULL PIC
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amESTHER KAHNHalf a star Tedious French drama.Running time: 145 minutes. Unrated (nudity, language). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets. HOW do you inject life into a film whose central...
RAFFI'S RIFFING
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amIF you scratch your noggin when you hear the name Raffi, you probably don't have a shortie in the house.This toddler-troubadour is The Beatles and Stones wrapped into one mild-mannered...
MONDAY NIGHT MADDENESS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amTHE oddly pathetic thing about John Madden yesterday fulfilling his longtime ambition to be on "Monday Night Football" is that if he hadn't been a greedy guy - or had...
'BOY' ROMANCING THE STONED
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amBORSTAL BOY 1/2 Formulaic biopic.Running time: 91 minutes. Not rated (violence, profanity). At the Quad and the 62nd & Broadway. IMAGINE how Brendan Behan, notorious for drunkenly heckling performances of...
GRAMMY TUNEUP ; FIVE WAYS TO FIX THE SHOW
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWHILE you can count this year's Grammys among the very best in the event's 44-year history, for everything it has gained in its transformation to super-slick, the show could still...
SACK DANCE ON DENNIS; BIG JOHN DEAL TOOK SIX HOURS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amTHE great Dennis Miller experiment on "Monday Night Football" is over. After two seasons of infuriating fans with his obscure literary references and action-stopping commentary, the wise-cracking comic was booted...
GRAMMY RATINGS WHAMMY
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amRATINGS for the Grammy Awards show were no hit. The awards, which aired on CBS on Wednesday night, averaged 19 million viewers - down 29 percent from last year and...
TAYLOR WEAVES OLD & NEW WORKS AT GALA
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amPAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANYAt City Center, 131 W. 55th St.; (212) 581-1212. Through March 10. THE Paul Taylor Dance Company, which returned to City Center Tuesday for its all too...
A PENNY CHANGE
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amGRAVEL-voiced reporter Penny Crone starts her new job today on Ch. 2 - nearly two months after leaving her longtime home at Ch. 5. Crone, one of the city's most...
SOON, THE CENTER THAT NEVER SLEEPS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amSLEEP while you can, Lincoln Center staffers: Your new boss is a workaholic - and he's going to expect you to keep up. Reynold Levy, the 57-year-old lawyer confirmed yesterday...
WINNER WOMEN
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amNECESSARY TARGETSAt the Variety Arts Theatre, 110 Third Ave. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. EVE Ensler had insight. She came to see that silence was gloom, sadness, darkness. And so she...
ROSIE'S COMEDY CLUB CONFESSION... OK! I'M GAY
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amSAY farewell to the Queen of Nice. If Rosie O'Donnell's performance earlier this week at a private cancer fundraiser is any indication, the future Rosie - who will soon be...
DELBERT WON'T HARP ON LENNON CONNECTION
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amNEW Yorkers will have a chance to see a Grammy winner tonight.Harmonica master Delbert McClinton, whose album "Nothing Personal" was named Best Contemporary Blues Album Wednesday night, brings his roadhouse...
NOT SO SWEET ; PRODUCERS HOPE DARKER VISION SPELLS 'SUCCESS'
March 1, 2002 | 5:00am'WE got our b - - - s back."That's how one producer of "Sweet Smell of Success" sums up the changes made to the new $10 million musical since its...
WHY 'SONGS IN A MINOR' HIT RIGHT NOTES AT AWARDS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amNEW Yorker Alicia Keys is the proud owner of five Grammy trophies because her music has the winning combination of critical and commercial success. "She hits all the right Grammy-voter...
BATTLE SCARS: 'SOLDIERS' REDUCES VALOR TO PHONY MOVIE HEROICS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWE WERE SOLDIERS ½ Often stirring, but crude and cliché-ridden. Running time: 138 minutes. Rated R (gruesomely realistic violence). At the Ziegfeld, the Kips Bay, the 84th Street, others. IT'S...
EASY AS ABC: LETTERMAN MAY JUMP
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amAfter 20 years on late-night TV, David Letterman may be getting set to write the "Top 10 Reasons I Left CBS for ABC." ABC is trying to lure the CBS...
BRIDGE TOLLS SHOULD GO UP IN SMOKE: POLL
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - City voters overwhelmingly oppose putting tolls on the East River bridges, but they're ready to dramatically hike taxes on cigarettes, a new poll yesterday showed. Seventy-four percent of...
PROSECUTOR'S 2ND SETBACK
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amOutgoing Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Alan Vinegrad is not having a very good year. Just last month, his hard-won convictions of two men in the race-riot killing of Yankel Rosenbaum were...
GOOD SAM'S MURDERER COPS A PLEA
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe mother of a good Samaritan killed last year while helping stranded motorists in Brooklyn was consoled yesterday when one man, dodging the death penalty, admitted he killed her boy....
GITMO GOON A TURBAN LEGEND AS PALS STAGE HUNGER STRIKE
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amTensions simmered near the boiling point at Camp X-Ray yesterday as Taliban and al Qaeda captives staged a hunger strike to protest the stripping of a detainee's turban during a...
STUNNER FOR LOUIMA COPS: RETRIAL FOR SCHWARZ; BRUDER & WIESE FREE
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThree cops in the Abner Louima torture case were astonished to see their convictions tossed yesterday by an appeals court - and the jubilant officers say they're now eyeing a...
ISRAELI RAIDS LEAVE 13 DEAD: ASSAULT TROOPS, TANKS, HELICOPTERS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces, in a major shift in military strategy, shot their way into two Palestinian refugee camps yesterday in an attack that left 13 people dead. The massive...
BUZZ CUT: 2 TEXAS PILOTS SENT PACKING
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe two military jet pilots who buzzed lower Manhattan last week have been shipped back to their home base in Texas, officials said yesterday. The unnamed pilots, from the 147th...
'CURSED' MOM STRUGGLES TO KEEP THE FAITH
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amDARNELLA Kingsberry says she's surrounded by "demons." "Sometimes, I just feel like it's a curse," the Brooklyn mother of six said. "Everything is caving in - I'm losing my kids...
MCCALL SCHOOLS FIX HAS $8B PRICE TAG
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amGubernatorial candidate Carl McCall yesterday unveiled an $8 billion plan for improving the state's schools - but didn't say how he'd pay for it. McCall, the state's comptroller, also said...
JUSTICE GETS ANOTHER BEATING ON THE BENCH
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amIT was torture all over again, though nothing like what Abner Louima endured the first time around. Only a fool or a hyperbole addict would try to equate a judicial...
AMMON'S PALS OFFER 25G REWARD
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe friends of murdered millionaire Ted Ammon are offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed him to death in his...
BOOK HIM! AUTHOR KERIK IN A FINE MESS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was hit with a $2,500 fine by the city ethics board yesterday for enlisting three NYPD cops to probe his mother's murder. Kerik admitted he...
$TRIPPER-CASE ATT'Y SENTENCED
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amReal-estate lawyer Mitchell Rothken was sentenced to nine years for embezzling more than $1 million to support his stripper girlfriend - but he'll likely do only five months, his attorney...
BUSH BACK TO PLUGGING SOC SEC STOCK OPTION
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush waded back into the choppy political waters of Social Security reform yesterday, saying workers should be allowed to invest part of their government-managed retirement fund in...
A NIGHTMARE RETURNS ; THE LOUIMA CASE'S HORRORS JUST REACHED A NEW HIGH
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amTHE decision by a U.S. appeals court yesterday to overturn the convictions of three former New York police officers in the Abner Louima matter is disturbing, even bitterly ironic. It's...
DEM FUND-RAISING BIG HAD SECRET $TAKE IN LAZIO CAMPAIGN
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Senate candidate Rick Lazio was unwittingly using a fund-raising company for his failed 2000 campaign that was controlled by Democratic bigwig Terry McAuliffe, a Lazio adviser revealed yesterday. The...
CIA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO END SADDAM'S REIGN
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The CIA has begun covert operations aimed at toppling Saddam Hussein after being given the green light by President Bush earlier this month, administration officials said last night....
TENANT-SLAY LANDLORD: OLD LADY ENRAGED ME
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amHe's claiming self-defense, but that didn't stop millionaire landlord Louis Hubrecht from admitting to a prosecution shrink that he shot his rent-controlled tenant six times in the chest because she...
YIPES! I'VE BEEN BITTEN BY THE SHOPPING BUG
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amI GET it now. Call me un-American, a disgrace to my gender and to the city I call home. But I hate to shop. That is, I hated to shop....
LOUIMA CASE BOMBSHELL: HOPE AT LAST - COURT TOSSES SCHWARZ RAP
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amCHUCK SCHWARZ and his wife, Andra, yesterday emerged from five years in hell. "We've been drowning," Andra told me yesterday. "We've finally come to the surface and can breathe air...
MA DIES AS GANG FIRES AT HER SON
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amA beloved Queens mother of four died tragically in a hail of bullets meant for her son, family members and cops said yesterday. Rosa Green, 50, was sitting in the...
9/11 OVERTIME $OCKS THE CITY
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amOvertime spending by city agencies - especially the Police Department - went through the roof last year after the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, a new report...
CROWDS FLOCK TO REOPENED CENTURY 21
March 1, 2002 | 5:00am"I'll take it." That was what savvy New York shoppers said as they came out in droves to support the reopened Century 21 department store. So many shoppers turned up...
KELLY HOPES TO HARVEST IVY FOR NEW COPS-TO-BE
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD has set up a blue-ribbon panel to create a new campaign to improve the quality of police recruits by wooing Ivy Leaguers willing to forsake Wall Street millions...
HAIR FOUND AT MURDER SCENE MAY AID SKAKEL
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amHair found on a sheet used to wrap the corpse of a teen-ager - allegedly murdered by a Kennedy cousin in 1975 - may be linked to a man who...
BUSH FLACK BACKS OFF SMACK AT CLINTON
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's chief spokesman yesterday was forced to apologize after blaming Bill Clinton's bid to "shoot the moon" on achieving Mideast peace for sparking the violence there. White...
DASCHLE RIPS BUSH'S TERROR-WAR LEADERSHIP
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle touched off a firestorm yesterday - questioning President Bush's handling of the terror war and saying it lacks "a clear direction." Daschle, a...
DROPOUTS A 'SOAR' POINT: 1 IN 5 CITY KIDS QUITTING HIGH SCHOOL
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe city's high-school dropout rate has soared for the third consecutive year, with one of every five students now quitting before completing their senior year, The Post has learned. The...
FIGHTERS SCRAMBLE OVER JFK AMID 747 TERROR ALERT
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amU.S. and Canadian fighter jets scrambled yesterday to shadow an Air India Boeing 747 bound for New York, but fears of a terrorist onboard proved unfounded. A man and a...
SCHUMER CHUCKS WRENCH IN ELEX-REFORM TALKS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Senate approval of a landmark election-reform bill has stopped dead in its tracks over Sen. Chuck Schumer's insistence on easier voter-registration rules. The two-day standoff centers on Schumer's...
BIRD LOVERS: TOWER TRIBUTE A WINGED WORRY
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe New York City Audubon Society is worried that the "Tribute of Light" memorial to the World Trade Center victims will result in "many birds plunging to their deaths." "We're...
HOW FEDS BROKE WALL OF SILENCE - THEN WENT DEAF
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amCRITICAL mass in the search for justice for Abner Louima came mid-trial, in a tense closed-door meeting at the Brooklyn federal courthouse between prosecutors and the attorney for Justin Volpe....
MONICA: I WAS TWO-TIMING BILL
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amMonica Lewinsky says she was still involved with another married man when she began an affair with then-President Bill Clinton. Appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live" last night, Lewinsky said...
QNS. BUSES ON ROAD AGAIN AS STRIKE ENDS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amBus service should be back to normal in Queens today as employees of three city-subsidized bus companies planned to return to work. Workers at Queens Surface Corp., Triboro Coach and...
NIXON WAS FIXIN' TO NUKE 'NAM
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Nixon was nixed when he suggested nuking Vietnam during the war in Southeast Asia, it was revealed yesterday. Henry Kissinger, his national security adviser, shot down the idea. Tricky...
ARMORED-TRUCK HEIST IN QUEENS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amA gang of armored-truck robbers made off with nearly $1 million yesterday in a brazen heist in Woodside, Queens, said police. The two suspects, described as black men, approached two...
BUY NOW FOR SOME REAL STEALS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amDon't just sit there - someone might snag your size Prada shoes or buy the last Fendi bag at the newly refurbished and re-opened Century 21. Even Mayor Bloomberg yesterday...
APPLE'S FBI CHIEF STEPS DOWN AFTER 30-YEAR CAREER
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe chief of New York's FBI office retired yesterday, six months after the attack on the World Trade Center sent him running for his life and shook the city and...
TALKS GOING NOWHERE FAST IN BUS STRIKE
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWorkers at three private Queens bus companies continued striking yesterday as the city dawdled about getting involved in contract negotiations, union officials said. More than 100,000 commuters were left seeking...
LEGAL RUMBLE IN HELLS ANGEL TRIAL
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amLawyers for the Hells Angel accused of murder in last weekend's Long Island biker brawl are demanding prosecutors hand over information they believe will prove their client didn't kill a...
NFL STAR CLAIMS S.I. FIRM THREW HIM FOR A LO$$
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amStar NFL quarterback Peyton Manning may be in one of the toughest scraps of his life - getting a Staten Island sports entrepreneur to pay $105,000 allegedly owed him. In...
DUBYA'S FLACK SMACKS BUBBA'S 'PEACE' FLOP
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday blamed former President Bill Clinton for the outbreak of Mideast violence, saying he tried to "shoot the moon" by pushing too hard for a...
BOOK HIM! AUTHOR KERIK IN FINE MESS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was hit with a $2,500 fine by the city ethics board yesterday for enlisting three NYPD cops to probe his mother's murder. Kerik admitted he...
KNICK SKID HITS 6
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amHeat 100 Knicks 86 MIAMI - The Heat fans were doing New York chants late in the fourth quarter last night, and nobody will argue. Because the Knicks continued to...
MAAC PARITY WILL CLEAR WAY FOR JASPERS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Fans looking to see a coronation instead of competition, who prefer conference tournaments to be a fait accompli, should avoid the MAAC Tourney this weekend. But if parity...
FED-UP GRIFF SEEING RED
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amSARASOTA -Ken Griffey Jr. was sick yesterday, sick and tired of getting blasted by ex-teammates, and just plain sick. Knocked out of baseball activity by a virus, Griffey stopped by...
SCOTT MAY MISS DATE WITH DOMI
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThe Devils' assurance is that Scott Niedermayer's latest head-bang isn't serious, but it's likely bad enough to idle the Olympic gold medalist tonight. At least this way, Tie Domi doesn't...
JETS HOLD ON TO MICKENS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWell, at least the Jets didn't dismantle their entire defense before today's start of free agency. Only about half of it. Sure, they cut another starter yesterday, releasing incumbent starting...
BACK TO BARGAIN RACK ; NEEDY GIANTS HAVE LITTLE BUYING POWER
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amThey went cut, cut, cut this past week, but despite all the cash they saved, the Giants head into today's start of the free-agency signing period with little money to...
EMRICK BACK ON THE AIR AFTER LOSS OF SICK POOCH
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amDevils' TV play-by-play man Mike Emrick, who sacrificed an opportunity to call NBC's Olympic hockey telecasts in order to tend to his sick pooch, returns to work tonight, calling the...
PARITY WILL CLEAR WAY FOR JASPERS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Fans looking to see a coronation instead of competition, who prefer conference tournaments to be a fait accompli, should avoid the MAAC tourney this weekend. But if parity...
ESTES SHOWS HIS STUFF
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. - The anticipated Rob and Rey Show made its debut in the Mets' middle infield, without much acrobatic grandeur from either Roberto Alomar or Rey Ordonez. Auditions for...
ALOMAR'S GAME STILL HAS LA RUSSA IN AWE
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amCardinals 5Mets 2 JUPITER, Fla. - Roberto Alomar has provided Tony La Russa with a lot of bad losses over the years, but a lot of good memories. The St....
SHORT NOTICE OK FOR VALENTIN
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amMET NOTES JUPITER, Fla. - John Valentin wasn't told he'd be playing shortstop yesterday. But getting the call didn't faze the veteran one bit. Valentin finished the second half of...
AILING MOOSE MISSES START
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES SARASOTA - Add Mike Mussina to the list of high-profile Yankees with a medical problem at the beginning of the exhibition schedule. Slated to start yesterday's opener against...
ARE YOU READY TO ROCKLAND & ROLL AT EXPO?
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amSOME of the top sportsmen in their fields will host a series of seminars throughout this weekend at the World Fishing & Outdoor Exposition at the Rockland Community College Field...
'HITCH' MAKES PITCH ; FANS FOUR REDS IN SPRING OPENER
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amYankees 8Reds 3 SARASOTA - Under a perfect Florida sky and in front of a sold-out Ed Smith Stadium the Yankees opened their exhibition season yesterday and provided Joe Torre...
IVERSON: SIXERS BETTER THAN NETS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Allen Iverson has a simple message about the Nets and their position in the East: stuff the standings. "I know they've got the best record. I wouldn't say...
WHISTLE TOOTS ON ACADEMIC FRAUD ; DIV. 1 HOOP GRAD RATES A SCAM
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amESPN's "Outside the Lines" almost always delivers good investigative TV. Tonight's one-hour special at 8 o'clock, however, is exceptionally good, so much so that it should leave you good and...
BARKLEY AIRS SHOT AT CAMBY
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MIAMI - Charles Barkley, TNT commentator, bombarded the club he loves to hate again last night. Barkley, working last night's game, said the Knicks' "future is screwed," rehashed...
STAN: JEFF'S TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amMIAMI - Heat assistant Stan Van Gundy believes it was a natural response for Knick players to "relax" when his brother stepped down. In that respect, Stan believes Don Chaney...
SAME OL' KNICK STORY: NO HOPE, NO FUTURE
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWHAT'S especially sad about the Knicks is (past and present) management's failure to furnish the franchise with even one young player who has a chance to be remotely great. New...
KENNEDY'S GIRLS GAIN IN OVERTIME
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amOT / HS HOOPSKennedy 54Sheep. Bay 51 Glenn O'Neil has been in a lot of pressure situations in his career. A football standout at Kennedy High School in the 1980's,...
ARROMANCHES WIN RUN ENDS
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amAn irresistible force met an immovable object yesterday at Aqueduct, and the immovable object prevailed. The force was Arromanches, winner of 10 straight dating back to last May at Monmouth...
ISLES FACE LONG ROAD IN MARCH
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWhen Julius Caesar was told to "beware the ides of March," he ignored the warning and ended up with a knife in his back. The Islanders will try to avoid...
SENATORS KEEP RANGERS ON DOWNWARD SLIDE
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amSenators 3Rangers 0 The sky may not be falling, but the bottom sure seems to be dropping out on a Ranger season that continues to go from bad to worse....
SURGERY KO'S THE CAPTAIN
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amBrian Leetch was wearing the captain's "C" when he skated onto the Garden ice last night for the 1,000th game of his NHL and Ranger career. He will wear the...
OH, BROTHER, WHAT A JOB! STAN KNOWS JEFF'S ACT IS TOUGH ONE TO FOLLOW
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amMIAMI - Heat assistant Stan Van Gundy believes it was a natural response for the Knick players to "relax" when his brother stepped down as coach after being ridden so...
SPREWELL'S FED UP WITH BARKLEY'S LIP
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MIAMI - Latrell Sprewell said Charles Barkley's continuous TNT rips on the Knicks have crossed the line of fair reporting. Sprewell called it "personal." Barkley was let out...
ISLES WON'T REMAIN IDLE IN MARCH
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amWhen Julius Caesar was told to "beware the ides of March," he ignored the warning and ended up with a knife plunged in his back. The Islanders will try to...
MESS DONE FOR SEASON
March 1, 2002 | 5:00amBrian Leetch was wearing the captain's "C" when he skated onto the Garden ice last night for the 1,000th game of his NHL and Ranger career. He will wear the...