April 5, 2002
$1.2M BOOK DEAL FOR NASCAR BIG
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amVIACOM'S Simon & Schuster imprint is revvng the engines of NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon with a $1.2 million advance for his life story. Gordon's fourth Winston Cup championship, which led...
AN X-RATED MOVE ; GUCCIONE FORCED TO SELL $40M HOME
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amHe may not be sell enough Penthouses, but X-rated magazine titan Bob Guccione is selling his lavish mansion to help cover losses at his troubled media company. The 70-year-old founder...
NO TERROR INS. FOR U.S.
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amSeveral of the world's biggest insurers yesterday unveiled the first terrorist insurance since Sept. 11 - but they won't sell it in the U.S. because the risks are too high....
BITTER MEDICINE ; BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB PLUMMETS AFTER WARNING
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBristol-Myers Squibb lost a whopping $10.75 billion of market value yesterday as investors bailed out of the stock after management said sales and profits would be far lower than expected...
TWA FLIGHT 800 HANGAR IS SOLD
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amThe building where TWA Flight 800 was painstakingly reconstructed on Long Island has been sold to a New Jersey food company. Milvia Foods of Paterson, N.J., paid $5 million for...
TOUCHE & GO AT ANDERSEN: TAX BIZ GOES TO RIVAL AS LAYOFFS LOOM
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amCash-strapped Arthur Andersen inked a deal handing over the bulk of its U.S. tax practice to rival Deloitte & Touche and will let thousands of pink slips fly next week....
NEW AD CAMPAIGN UNLEASHES BARKING BILLBOARDS HERE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amIt's tough saying "no" to a dog. With that in mind, the power of the pooch is being tapped by corporate America to win the hearts and pocketbooks of consumers....
ENRON SUIT TARGETS JPM CHASE, OTHERS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amSeveral big Wall Street banks will be named defendants in a class action lawsuit as lawyers seek deeper pockets for the billions lost in the Enron collapse. Investment banks Merrill...
CLICHÉD 'HIGH CRIMES' MORE LIKE A MISDEMEANOR
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amHIGH CRIMES Charge the producers.Running time: 115 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate violence, profanity). At the Empire, the Ziegfeld, the Union Square, others. 'HIGH Crimes," a feeble excuse to reunite Ashley...
WHERE THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE SHOW
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amLUCKY BREAK The Half Monty.Running time: 109 minutes.Rated PG-13. At the Kips Bay,the Lincoln Square, the UnionSquare. FIVE years after the hugely successful "The Full Monty," director Peter Cattaneo finally...
IT JUST SEEMS THAT LONG
April 5, 2002 | 5:00am30 YEARS TO LIFE It's not a prison sentence.Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (language, sex). At the AMC 42nd Street, the Magic Johnson Theater and the Bay Plaza, The...
A TIRED BAG OF GAGS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amNATIONALLAMPOON'SVAN WILDER Zero stars You have been warned.Running time: 95 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity). At the Empire, the Cinema 1, the Kips Bay, others. UNWARY audiences who insist upon...
'BIG' TROUBLED TALE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBIG TROUBLE 1/2 Earthbound ensemble comedy. Running time: 84 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, double-entendres). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Loews Village, others. 'BIG Trouble" is a good-natured ensemble...
FRENCH DIPS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amLES DESTINEES 1/2 Elegant but shallow and overlong family saga.In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 180 minutes. Not rated (adult themes). At the Lincoln Plaza, Broadway and 63rd Street....
THE LAST HOURS OF BRYANT GUMBEL
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amInto The Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood, AMC, Dec. 4, 10:00 PM, 2 stars If I were to casually step up to you and say, for example, "Hey - Did...
NEW FILM KIDS ON TRIBECA BLOCKS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amTHE fledgling TriBeCa Film Festival yesterday announced movies by first-time filmmakers that will compete at the first downtown festival next month. The starrier among the 15 feature titles that will...
LIFE AFTER SEX ; CAREER AND TOILETS ROCK FOR GOO GOO FRONT MAN
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Goo Goo Dolls have come a long way since 1986, when they were known as the Sex Maggots - a cover band gigging around Buffalo. The trio hit the...
WHITES WON'T CHANGE STRIPES
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amTHE White Stripes, a dynamic garage-rock duo from Detroit, put out its third album, "White Blood Cells," just under a year ago on the very-indie label Sympathy for the Record...
SHACK ATTACK: ANOTHER TRIP TO THE SOUTH POLE - SINGING AND CUTTING OFF TOES
April 5, 2002 | 5:00am"Shackleton" Sunday and Monday nights at 8 on A&E 1/2 IF English polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton were alive today, he'd be a very happy man. That's because - aside...
STARR REPORT
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amSacked again - Bill Maher's conquests "Politically Incorrect" host Bill Maher, 45, has a thing for young girls - and he's not shy about letting you know about it. The...
OUT OF THE GARAGE AND ON THE AIR
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amLITTLE Steven Van Zandt is about to tune into another channel - as a radio deejay delivering garage rock to the masses. The one-time member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street...
WOODY GOING TO CANNES FOR 1ST TIME
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amWOODY Allen, who recently made his inaugural appearance at the Academy Awards, will show up for the first time at this year's Cannes Film Festival next month. "Hollywood Ending," his...
WHO MIGHT GET A 'LET'S TALK' CALL FROM CBS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amSO now for the big question: Who will replace Bryant Gumbel on "The Early Show"? The leading candidates, according to sources, are CBS Sports personality Jim Nantz and "Hollywood Squares"...
'EARLY' EXIT 'SURPRISE, BUT NOT A SHOCK' ; THE LAST HOURS OF BRYANT GUMBEL
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBRYANT Gumbel astonished colleagues and the TV industry yesterday when he announced he was quitting "The Early Show." His contract ends next month. Gumbel, who has co-hosted the show since...
FELD BRINGS 'LINCOLN' TO LIFE WITH FANFARE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amELIOT FELD'SBALLET TECHAt the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th St.; (212) 242-0800. Season runs through May 5. SPRING has definitely sprung as the daffodils swing and sway in...
AYES ON THE PRIZE ; 'TOP DOG/UNDERDOG' IS THE ONE TO OUTRUN FOR A PULITZER
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amTIME to start handicapping this year's theater prizes and awards.First up, the Pulitzer, which will be doled out Monday. The smart money is onSuzan-Lori Parks' "Top Dog/Underdog," which opens Sunday...
'UNDERPANTS' TOPS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amTHE UNDERPANTS At the Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th St.; (212) 677-4210, Ext. 2. Through April 28. STEVE Martin has brought it off this time - he's written a...
NETHER REGIONS IN SPOTLIGHT
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amJUST where is the theater getting its themes these days? Both Broadway and off- seem to be hitting below the belt. In a town that already boasts "The Vagina Monologues,"...
'GRADUATE' FAILS: BROADWAY STAGING NOWHERE NEAR AS SEDUCTIVE AS FILM CLASSIC
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amTHE GRADUATE ½ At the Plymouth Theatre, 236 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. WHEN was the last time you saw a successful play made from a movie? Not a musical,...
SAMARITAN FOILS CENTRAL PK. RAPIST
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amA man tried to rape a Central Park jogger yesterday, but ran off when a passer-by saw what was happening and screamed. The incident occurred at 7:45 a.m. as the...
NO JOKE: JAY JABS DAVE IN LATE-NIGHT SQUAWK SHOW
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amJay Leno is ripping David Letterman in their decade-long feud over late-night supremacy. "You'd think after all this time, it would be, 'Oh, well, he's successful, I'm successful, everybody is...
HEAT'S ON RUDY'S L.I. MONSIGNOR PAL
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amA top official in Long Island's Catholic diocese - a longtime pal of Rudy Giuliani - is under fire for not alerting police or parishioners about a priest accused in...
VINEGRAD: GAG COP'S ATTORNEY
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amDefense lawyer Ronald Fischetti should be gagged for calling perjury charges against ex-cop Charles Schwarz "a vindictive prosecution," U.S. Attorney Alan Vinegrad said in court papers yesterday. Vinegrad renewed his...
THE PRESIDENT'S MIDEAST SPEECH ; YASSER ARAFAT'S POLITICAL EPITAPH
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amNOBODY seems to have noticed it in the insta-coverage of George W. Bush's landmark speech yesterday on the Israel-Palestinian crisis, but the president just wrote Yasser Arafat's political epitaph. "As...
POOL TABLED AS POSH EATERY DOES DRY RUN
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amLike the Big Apple, the Four Seasons restaurant is experiencing a drought now that city inspectors have ordered its 1,600- gallon fountain drained in the landmark eatery's Pool Room. "We'll...
COPS COLLAR L.I. MAN IN PINCHED POOCH CASE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amA missing 8-pound Chihuahua called Chico has been reunited with his frantic Long Island mistress, thanks to some good old-fashioned dogged police work. But the mystery initially gave cops plenty...
CREWS SET TO REMOVE LAST DEBRIS FROM WTC
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amWorkers are set to begin clearing the last major debris from Ground Zero after installing a series of critical tiebacks in the wall behind the tangle of steel left from...
MOB-BUSTERS EYE 'CHIN' KIN - PROBE CONSPIRACY TO SHIELD 'CRAZY' BOSS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amAs Vincent "Chin" Gigante fights charges he faked being off the deep end, family members who have stuck by his "crazy act" may also get pinched for obstructing justice, prosecutors...
MIDEAST: BUSH TAKES CHARGE - SEEKS TO REIN IN ISREAL -- BUT RIPS ARAFAT 'BETRAYAL'
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday declared, "Enough is enough," and launched a major U.S. push for Mideast peace - calling on Israel to pull back and blasting Yasser Arafat in...
HIGH HOPES, LOW EXPECTATIONS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amLISTENING to President Bush deliver his heartfelt statement on the Middle East, I felt weathered and old. This is a president I have come to admire enormously, a man who...
L.I. BUDGET BIG IN DWI, RX BUST
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amNassau County's deputy budget director, Guy Courbois, has been charged with DWI and drug possession, police said yesterday. Courbois, 37, was on his way home to Laurel hollow at around...
COPS NAB NEW MOM HURLEY'S STALKER
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amWhile actress-model Liz Hurley was in a British hospital yesterday giving birth to a "happy and healthy" son, police were arresting a stalker outside her London home. The scruffy-looking suspect,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amCTRL-ALT-DEL didn't work. Neither did ESC. So the angry father used a sledgehammer on the computer he bought for his daughter. The Wisconsin man had returned five times to the...
SIGNED DOCUMENTS: YASSER OK'D BLOOD MONEY
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli officials yesterday displayed two documents they said show Yasser Arafat signing off on payments to terrorists. Arafat's signature, the date, and instructions for payment appear on the...
'GETAWAY GAL' HELD AS COP IS EULOGIZED
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amThe Bronx undercover cop who was stabbed to death defending his girlfriend during a fight with her ex-lover was remembered yesterday as a man who "lived life to the fullest,"...
2ND JAILED 'U.S. TALIBAN' COULD AID LINDH
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - American Taliban No. 1, meet American Taliban No. 2. Lawyers for American Taliban John Walker Lindh said yesterday they'd like to talk to American Taliban newcomer Yasser Esam...
THREE THUGS IN VICIOUS ATTACK ON IMMIGRANT
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amIn an apparently unprovoked assault, a hardworking Albanian immigrant was stabbed as he opened the front gate to his Queens home early yesterday, police said. Three men in dark clothes...
INCOME-ING! COUNCIL EYES TAX HIKE FOR SCHOOLS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amThe City Council is looking to raise income taxes - with the proceeds dedicated to schools, The Post has learned. "Everything is on the table, including a surcharge [on income]...
VICTIM SPARES ANTHRAX HOAXER JAIL
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amThe anthrax hoaxer who delivered white powder in a FedEx box decorated with a drawing of the devil dodged jail time yesterday because his victim showed him mercy, a judge...
CULTURE $HOCKER: MIKE IS CITY'S MYSTERY ANGEL
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amA mysterious benefactor has written an eye-popping $10 million check to help rescue New York cultural institutions battered by the economic downturn. But in a tale unique even to the...
'FATHER FRAUD' GETS 2 TO 6 IN INS SCAM
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amThe pastor of a now-defunct Brooklyn church got two to six years behind bars yesterday for scamming illegal immigrants out of an estimated $1 million by promising them legal status...
BLOOMY TAPS EMERGENCY BOSS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amThe deputy director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management got the top job yesterday. John Odermatt, a 20-year veteran of the NYPD who's been serving as OEM's first deputy...
ISRAEL HAILS BUSH SPEECH - BUT ARABS RIP 'UNJUSTIFIED' CRITICISM
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel welcomed President Bush's Mideast speech yesterday - but Palestinian and Arab reaction was wary and cool. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he was glad to see...
CONGRESS MAY JOIN YANKEE TV WAR
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amWith Yankee fans seething over the cable-TV blackout, Rep. Eliot Engel yesterday sent the baseball commish an ultimatum - do something, or else Congress will. The lawmaker sent a letter...
FEDS: DIRTY COUNCILMAN CAPTURED ON 100 TAPES
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBrooklyn City Councilman Angel Rodriguez is facing a flood of evidence that he shook down a developer for more than $1.5 million in payoffs - including a $50,000 cash bribe...
DAS: IT'S CARDINAL SPIN
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amDistrict attorneys yesterday accused Edward Cardinal Egan of creating a "smoke screen" with his move to give prosecutors the names of priests accused of molesting kids - saying the files...
THE PRESIDENT'S MIDEAST SPEECH: BUSH GETS IT - CNN DOESN'T
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amDESPITE all the headlines portending a Bosnia-like catastrophe in the Middle East, and the outcry from Europe's political leaders, Israel's incursion in the West Bank is a use of force...
CALL IT THE BILLION-DOLLAR BLACKOUT
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amCall it the billion-dollar blackout - that's how much Cablevision's value has dropped in a week. When trading closed last Thursday, Cablevision had a market value of $4.53 billion. By...
ST. PAT'S MYSTERY MAN ID'D
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amRelatives of a despondent man who shot himself after talking to a priest at the St. Patrick's Cathedral rectory helped cops identify him as a 24-year-old bank employee from Brooklyn....
ATTACK SHOCKS NYU - WOMAN STUDENT ESCAPES FIEND'S CLUTCHES
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amAn assailant dressed all in black brazenly attacked a 19-year-old coed in the main building of New York University yesterday, sending shockwaves of fear through the Greenwich Village campus. The...
SUICIDE JUMPER SHOCKS HOTEL
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amA relaxing round of martinis turned into a horrific death show with dozens of guests at a swanky Times Square hotel watching in shock as a man leaped to his...
PREZ WIELDS U.S. MIGHT IN RISKY GAMBLE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday made a bold but risky gamble as he sought to seize command of the Mideast peace process, putting his own prestige - and America's -...
SHOE HONCHO BROUGHT TO HEEL
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amMillionaire shoe sultan Steve Madden was kicking himself in court yesterday for his own "stupidity, arrogance and greed" as a federal judge slapped him with a 3 1/2-year prison sentence...
HIS 'INN'FAMY GROWS - DIVORCE JUDGE $LAMS 'LIZZIE' CLUB OWNER
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amThe co-owner of the infamous Conscience Point Inn is so unconscionable, he tried to get his wife deported after he cheated on her with a 17-year-old girl, the judge presiding...
TEEN NABBED IN ROOF RAPE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn teen was arrested and charged last night in the Saturday gunpoint rape of a woman on her Bronx rooftop. Police said they located Pablo Maldonado, 19, of Powell...
S.I. KID IN HIT-AND-RUN HORROR
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amA Staten Island dad said last night that jail isn't punishment enough for the hit-and-run maniac who critically injured his 10-year-old son. Anthony Graziano was crossing the street in front...
W. BANK ALL BUT SEIZED
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces poured into one of the last West Bank cities under Palestinian control yesterday as both sides exchanged charges about the three-day standoff at a Bethlehem church....
DAS: IT'S CARDINAL SPIN - SAY NEW PERV POLICY EXEMPTS SOME PRIESTS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amSome district attorneys yesterday accused Edward Cardinal Egan of creating a "smoke screen" with his move to give prosecutors the names of priests accused of molesting kids - saying the...
GOV DEFENDS ELECTION-YEAR TV ADS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amGov. Pataki yesterday defended his heavy presence in state public-service ads - saying he's helping protect uninsured New York families, rather than boosting his own political capital during an election...
MOB-BUSTERS EYE 'CHIN' KIN: PROBE CONSPIRACY TO SHIELD 'CRAZY' BOSS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amAs Vincent "Chin" Gigante fights charges he faked being off the deep end, family members who have stuck by his "crazy act" may also get pinched for obstructing justice, prosecutors...
MIDEAST: BUSH TAKES CHARGE; SEEKS TO REIN IN ISRAEL - BUT RIPS ARAFAT 'BETRAYAL'
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday declared, "Enough is enough," and launched a major U.S. push for Mideast peace - calling on Israel to pull back and blasting Yasser Arafat in...
ISRAELIS UPBEAT ON BUSH TALK, AS ARABS COMPLAIN
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel welcomed President Bush's Mideast speech yesterday - but Palestinian and Arab reaction was wary and cool. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he was glad to see...
MJ RETURN TOOK AIR OUT OF WIZ ; BAD OUTWEIGHS GOOD IN COMEBACK
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amALAS, it's 23 Skidoo. Again. Only this time there won't be a next time. No resurrection on this watch: Surely Michael Jordan has instructed esteemed members of his entourage to...
GOOD MOUND NEWS TEMPERED BY BAD
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - The Yankees received good and bad news from their minor-league complex yesterday. On the positive side, Ramiro Mendoza threw three impressive innings in an extended spring...
MUSSINA OPENS STRONG ; STOPS O'S WITH HRS BY VENTURA, JOHNSON
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amYankees 4Orioles 1 BALTIMORE - He doesn't have a World Series ring. Or a Cy Young. And he has never won 20 games. In the Yankees' rotation that houses Roger...
SILENT BATS POSE 'L' OF A PROBLEM
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amTRAILING by a run in the bottom of the ninth, the Mets had the meat of their batting order and payroll up to do what this club was re-designed to...
KEITH DOESN'T TAKE CRITICISM SITTING DOWN
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amThey were standing a mere 10 feet from each other, yet Nets coach Byron Scott and forward Keith Van Horn seemed miles apart. A day after being labeled inconsistent, Van...
OSGOOD POINTS WAY TO PLAYOFFS FOR ISLES
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBOSTON - The Islanders can clinch their first playoff berth since 1994 tomorrow night. For that to happen, they needed a point last night here against the Bruins, plus a...
CAME HOME FAVORED
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amCame Home was installed the heavy 6-5 favorite in a field of eight 3-year-old colts prepping for the May 4 Kentucky Derby tomorrow in the Grade 1, $750,000 Santa Anita...
JACKSON VISITS JETS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amWith both of their starting 2001 defensive tackles having signed with other teams, the Jets have intensified their search for replacements. That search is currently focused on Grady Jackson, a...
HOLIK PUTS LIMITS ; ON SUITORS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amATLANTA - Bobby Holik is an abject fan of Mark Messier as a player. Before the Rangers even start thinking that making Messier coach next season might help them land...
ESTES SHARP IN LOSS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amSpeaking to Bobby Valentine and Shawn Estes after the Mets' 3-2 loss to the Pirates yesterday at Shea you'd have thought the Mets won the game. The tenor of the...
FLOUNDER ACTION'S FINE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amPRIOR to the blast of cold weather, flounder fishing continued to show signs of health and prosperity and we were also hearing good news from the cod and blackfish anglers....
SPORTS MARKET SPAWNING REGULAR RIOT
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amDID YOU get a load of all those young Maryland and Indiana dudes who rioted after Monday's NCAA Final? Did you get a good look at 'em? Talk about profiling,...
AIN'T NO SLOWIN' ROBBIE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amMET NOTES Understand this, Mets fans. Robbie Alomar is not going to back down. He's going to play his game, he's going to be aggressive even if it backfires on...
DOWN IN THE SLUMPS ; MET SLUMBER CO. CONTINUES EARLY SEASON SNOOZE VS. BUCS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amPirates 3Mets 2 The Mets needed only three games to reach their first crisis of the season. It's fitting that it comes as they head to Atlanta. After being beaten...
GIAMBI SET TO TASTE BIG APPLE ; MAKES PINSTRIPE DEBUT TODAY IN HOME OPENER
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - After 102 at-bats in Yannkee Stadium's left-handed batter's box dressed in road grays, Jason Giambi will dig in today after leaving the home team dugout, a cement bunker...
GIAMBI'S JUICED FOR TASTE OF BIG APPLE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - After 102 at-bats in Yannkee Stadium's left-handed batter's box dressed in road grays, Jason Giambi will dig in today after leaving the home team dugout, a cement bunker...
THIBODEAU HAS EYES FOR TOP JOB
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amPORTLAND - It's still perplexing why Knicks GM Scott Layden put the kibosh on assistant Tom Thibodeau's interview with Blazers coach Maurice Cheeks last summer. If Layden thought so highly...
BLUESHIRTS WIN; THEO IN JEOPARDY
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amRangers 4 Maple Leafs 2 TORONTO - This is what the Rangers would have you believe - that suddenly after their morning skate, and for no reason whatsoever other than...
ROBIN'S ONE OF THE POISE
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - Joe Torre senses Jason Giambi is trying to justify a $120 million contract and his elevated place in unfamiliar surroundings with every early-season at-bat, and the wise manager...
IT'S OFFICIAL: NO PLAYOFF
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBlazers 88Knicks 80 PORTLAND - The frustration of a Knick season gone terribly wrong spilled over late in the third quarter last night. Latrell Sprewell lost his cool and was...
YANKS NEED TO GET ON A RUN
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - Willie Randolph grimaced and shook in anger. The Yankee third base coach quickly recovered. Yet, the subtle spasm of disappointment 18 innings into the season said much about...
MOOSE OPENS SEASON WITH SOLID START: SHUTS DOWN O'S, BACKED BY VENTURA, JOHNSON HOMERS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amYankees 4 Orioles 1 BALTIMORE - He doesn't have a World Series ring or a Cy Young. And he has never won 20 games. In a Yankee rotation that houses...
BRUNSON: SPREE LOVES NEW YORK
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PORTLAND - Blazers guard Rick Brunson said his buddy Latrell Sprewell would be devastated if the Knicks traded him this summer. Brunson, who played three seasons for the...
NO EXCUSES THIS TIME: HILL'S '86-87 KNICKS GOT DECIMATED BY INJURIES
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amPORTLAND - With a healthy front line of Patrick Ewing, Bernard King, Bill Cartwright and Pat Cummings, former Knicks coach Bob Hill believes his 1986-87 team would've made the playoffs....
KID'S ALL RIGHT FOR BLUESHIRTS
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amTORONTO -There is virtually no carryover from one season to next, as those who recall last year's post-elimination Rangers' closing rush can certainly attest. But now, with the Blueshirts having...
KVASHA STICKS IT TO BOSTON IN OT
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amOVERTIME Islanders 2 Bruins 1 BOSTON - Enigmatic? Bite your tongue. Oleg Kvasha did it again for the Islanders last night, sliding the game-winning goal under Byron Dafoe with 1:31...
ST. ANTHONY'S STAR SAVORS GARDEN RETURN
April 5, 2002 | 5:00amElijah Ingram had only been on the Garden floor once before. "I don't want to talk about it," the St. Anthony's (Jersey City) star said. "It didn't go well." Two...