January 5, 2003
FORECAST 2003 : STORIES WE'D LIKE TO SEE IN THE NEW YEAR
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amWith the new year just under way, Bull's Eye offers up its annual prediction of business stories you're likely to see in the coming year - or, more precisely, the...
STARR REPORT
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amYork, squared: Duchess comes to ManhattanSarah Ferguson is blowing into town for a flurry of appearances to chat up her new book and her upcoming syndicated talk show ("Fergie"). First...
ROMERO'S 'DEAD' LIVE AGAIN
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amBOLT the doors, barricade the windows and get out the shotgun - those flesh-eating zombies are loose again. George A. Romero, whose repertory includes "Night of the Living Dead" (1968)...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ALICIA WITT
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amIt's not easy being teased by one of Hollywood's hunkiest stars.While shooting the the romantic comedy "Two Weeks Notice," Hugh Grant poked fun at Alicia Witt for not knowing how...
HE'S NO JFK JR.: AN UNKNOWN TAKES ON THE ROLE OF AMERICA'S FAVORITE SON. AT LEAST THEY GOT THE HAIR RIGHT.
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe poster reads: "America's Prince." That's all the ad for the TV biopic about John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (set to air next Sunday, Jan. 12, 8 p.m on TBS) needs...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amRyan Watch 2003: We thought we'd start the year off without any thoughts given to Ryan Adams and his nemesis - in name only - Bryan Adams. (If you missed...
DRUGSTORE COWBOY: HE DRANK, DID MORPHINE, DIVORCED THE SAM WOMAN TWICE AND DIED AT 29: IT'S HANK WILLIAMS, THE MUSICAL
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amA musical genius with a dark side lives fast, dies young: by now it may be a cliche, but American icon Hank Williams pioneered the tradition. Country music's first superstar...
LOUDMOUTH: THE POST'S NOTORIOUS ANDREA PEYSER GOES SOFT. REALLY.
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amIt was wicked fun to serve as inspiration for a kick-ass character - a columnist with an acid tongue, fabulous wardrobe, killer abs and absolute inability to commit to house...
SUBWAY-WORKER MEMORIALS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amTransit workers killed in two track accidents last November were remembered in memorial services yesterday. Signal maintainer Joy Antony's service was held at the Catholic church at Rockland Psychiatric Center...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amWomen in Taiwan have begun eating mouse testicles in a bid to get pregnant. The craze follows claims by several infertile couples that they got pregnant after munching on dishes...
SKAKEL DAD'S DEATH ANOTHER TRAGIC KENNEDY ENDING
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amRUSHTON Skakel, father of Michael, passed away Friday at the age of 79, leaving behind a life of heady mountaintops and devastating crevices. "Before the verdict came in, he hugged...
FEAR OVER AIR-GEAR THEFT
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amSeveral articles of clothing bearing the US Airways logo, plus airline ID badges, were stolen from a car Dec. 29, raising concerns over terrorism with the NYPD. A US Airways...
'JOGGER' EX-CON: JAIL 'HORRIFIC'
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe first of the Central Park 5 to speak publicly recalled prison life yesterday as a rough time when he had to keep looking over his shoulder. "It was rough...
HIP-HOP TOUR 'BUST' : FEDS EYE RAPPERS' ON-THE-ROAD CRIME LINK
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amMoney laundering and drug dealing on the road are at the heart of a federal probe into hot-rising rap label Murder Inc. - home to such stars as Ashanti and...
POLICE BLITZ CRIME ZONES TO PAVE WAY FOR ROOKIES
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amCops on overtime are flooding 21 crime hot spots before rookies take over the job at the end of the month, police sources told The Post. Besides the patrol cops,...
ROSS PALS: DWI BUST A WAKE-UP CALL
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amFriends of drink-driven diva Diana Ross hope the spectacle she caused when she was pulled over in Arizona - disoriented and unable to write out the alphabet - is just...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amMANHATTAN A 23-year-old man died after he was found unconscious and bleeding from the head in a Morningside Heights apartment building, police said yesterday. Corey Jack was discovered unconscious at...
BIG BLUE FAITHFUL: GIANTS GOING TO KICK NINERS' QUICHE-TERS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amIt's East vs. West. Springsteen vs. Bennett. Cheesecake vs. quiche. The Big Apple vs. the City by the Bay. Let's rumble! It's do-or-die on the gridiron today as the Giants...
WOMAN STRUCK DOWN : KILLED BY POLICE CAR RACING TO SHOOTING
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amAn unmarked police car riding to a Brooklyn shooting struck and killed a woman heading to church as she crossed a busy street in Bushwick yesterday, cops said. Lucia Rodriguez,...
NYPD UNDER FIRE: SLAY COP ALSO SHOT TEEN IN '02
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amA cop involved in one of four fatal shootings of civilians in the first two days of the New Year gunned down a teen in Brooklyn just seven months earlier,...
FOLLOWER: I'VE GOT WOMB FOR THEIR CHILDREN
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amMarina Cocolios, a Montreal art student in her early 20s, isn't just any member of the Raelian movement, the group that recently claimed to have cloned a baby named Eve....
SLAIN TEEN'S KIN MOURN 'GOOD KID'
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amA teary-eyed stream of family and friends gathered in Brooklyn last night for the wake of a murdered teen - who was gunned down in a hail of bullets on...
VICTORIA GOTTI
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amHOLIDAY HANGOVER: The 12 days of Christmas are over, and that makes this week one of the most wonderful times of the year. Finally, I can get back to reality....
TV JOURNO PITCHED CLONE STORY
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe former ABC News reporter who offered to independently test the Raelians' cloning claims tried to pitch the story to several news organizations long before it first broke, it was...
IT'S SKY-HIGH HEAVEN FOR JETS: GANG GREEN DEVOTEES PARTYING LIKE IT'S 1969
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe Jets turned Giants Stadium into a giant slaughterhouse yesterday - as they ripped apart the hapless Colts in front of a rowdy sellout crowd that braved frigid temperatures to...
PATAKI SET TO DEBUT HIS $10B BUDGET-BALANCING ACT
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amGov. Pataki, who led the state during the crisis of 9/11, faces another rendezvous with destiny Wednesday when he presents his State of the State address to the Legislature. Pataki's...
PROBERS: HOW GUARDIAN LOOTED HIS AILING CLIENTS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe criminal probe of a lawyer charged with stealing millions from the infirm and dead has exposed long-standing cracks in the state courts that let the greedy exploit the needy,...
BEWARE 'MUSCLE' TACTICS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amEvery January, thousands of New Yorkers - heavy on the hips from holiday overeating - flock to sign up at their neighborhood gyms, emboldened by New Year's resolutions to get...
'COFFIN-CHASERS' DIGGING UP RIGHTFUL HEIRS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amDennis Langel has made a living for the past 30 years tracking down the lost heirs of dead New Yorkers. Langel, a forensic genealogist who lives in Long Island, trolls...
STATE OF OUR POLS : MIKE 'B'-GUILES FOES THEY GRADE HIM HIGH ON 1ST YEAR
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amIf there's one guy in town with a reason to be tough on Mayor Bloomberg, it's Mark Green. But the former public advocate, who narrowly lost City Hall to Bloomberg...
TRIAL'S A WAKE-UP FOR GOTTI
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amReputed mob boss Peter Gotti, whose racketeering trial starts tomorrow with jury selection, has some long days ahead. Security concerns and jailhouse procedures will mean each day of his trial...
THE AL QAEDA LINK TO PALESTINIAN TERROR GROUPS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM. ISRAEL recently supplied the Bush administration with evidence that elements of al Qaeda have joined Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. The evidence, which obviously can't be revealed, was...
LOCALS HIT BUSH ON AID TO SCHOOLS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amPresident Bush yesterday said he will boost education spending by $1 billion to help schools nationwide comply with the "No Child Left Behind Act" - but some local officials have...
SLAY COP ALSO SHOT TEEN IN '02
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amOne of the cops involved in the fatal shootings of four civilians in the first two days of the New Year gunned down a teen in Brooklyn just seven months...
FREED SPEECH
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe first of the Central Park 5 to speak publicly recalled prison life yesterday as a rough time when he had to keep looking over his shoulder. "It was rough...
TRIAL'S A WAKE-UP CALL FOR GOTTI CREW
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amReputed mob boss Peter Gotti, whose racketeering trial starts tomorrow with jury selection, has some long days ahead. Security concerns and jailhouse procedures will mean each day of his trial...
SLAY RAPS ON QNS. 'PSYCHO' SUSPECT
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe Queens DA unloaded a barrage of charges yesterday against the "psychopath" truck driver accused of stabbing to death his ex-girlfriend and her young daughter - and wounding the woman's...
STRAHAN, EX-MATE ON GRAGG-ARIOUS TERMS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - For five years, Scott Gragg and Michael Strahan went at each other in training camp and during practice sessions, with Strahan usually getting the better of the...
BELL TOLLING FOR BARROW
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - When Micheal Barrow's bell was rung, it tolled for the Giants. With the middle linebacker on the sidelines suffering cobwebs thicker than the ones around Ron Dixon's...
SCOTTY'S NOT THRASH TALKING
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amLIKE the Flames before them, the Thrashers weren't afraid to shoot the moon in searching for a coach. But, Slap Shots has learned, like Calgary, Atlanta was politely rejected by...
IT'S SHOW TIME IN GARDEN STATE
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amOUTDOOR enthusiasts and sailors will be heading to New Jersey this week for the double billing of the Annual Garden State Outdoor Sportsmen's Show and the Atlantic SAIL EXPO. The...
THE TIME FOR TALK IS OVER JINTS READY TO SILENCE NOISY NINERS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The journey to get this far was so exhausting and exhilarating that the Giants barely had time to consider where they fit into the playoffs. One moment...
RIVALRY ALWAYS BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN THESE TEAMS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - They were never a detested rival, the way the Landry Cowboys were, or a bitter rival, the way the Joe Gibbs Redskins were, or even a loathed...
FLAG PAINS 'CANES CONTROVERSIAL CALL PAVES WAY FOR OSU
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amTEMPE - For a few seconds, the Miami Hurricanes were euphoric. The 'Canes were leading Ohio State 24-17 in the first overtime of Friday night's Fiesta Bowl. The Buckeyes faced...
IT'S BOWL OR BUST MARIUCCI NOT FAZED BY EXPECTATIONS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The win-or-go-home stakes of today's 49ers-Giants playoff game also brings a quiet desperation for two nervous Niners - one looking to hold his job and the other...
NINERS LOOK FOR KICK-START
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - There are kicks and then there are big kicks. The 49ers have made plenty of the former and few of the latter in an up-and-down kicking season...
GREY COMET STREAKS TO COUNT FLEET WIN
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amCan a New York-bred win the Kentucky Derby? That's a prospect trainer Gary Contessa can afford to dream about after his steel-gray 3-year-old colt Grey Comet remained undefeated in four...
HATTEN & CO. HUMBLE HALL
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amSt. John's 74Seton Hall 66 At midcourt, Seton Hall guard Andre Barrett gave St. John's guard Marcus Hatten a half-hug as a sign of respect. The two appeared like a...
HAWKS PUT TERRY ON TRADING BLOCK
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amTEN days after replacing Lon Kruger with assistant coach Terry Stotts, the Hawks are trying to arrange a trade involving restricted free agent-to-be Jason Terry. According to sources, the Blazers...
CHANEY OF COMMAND: KNICKS' COACH HAS CONFIDENCE OF TEAM
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amIt's time to give Don Chaney his due. There are a number of reasons the Knicks have risen from the dead after a 1-8 start and into a playoff race...
PASSING THE TORCH JOE'S SUPER LEGACY IN GOOD HANDS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amTHE Jets' past - their glorious, championship past - fixed his blue eyes on the present and future from his home in Florida. He himself had a day like this...
PLAYOFF PROBLEMS CONTINUE TO PLAGUE MYSTIFIED MANNING
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThree playoff games, three playoff losses. You can start firing your Peyton Manning-can't-win-a-big-game salvos right about now. He's certainly ready for them. "It doesn't really matter what I have to...
MAYNARD LIKES JET LOOK
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amDON Maynard was at his home in El Paso rooting hard just like any other Jets fan when fullback Richie Anderson caught a short screen pass from quarterback Chad Pennington,...
WIN IS BITTERSWEET FOR HERM AS HE AND TONY MAKE HISTORY
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe mixed emotion was evident on Herman Edward's face when Tony Dungy's name was mentioned. Amid the euphoria of the Jets' 41-0 whipping of the Colts yesterday at the Meadowlands,...
GREEN 'D' SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThis is how the Jet defense was supposed to be. This is how the players and coaches knew they could play. "This," safety Sam Garnes said, "is what we envisioned...
GREEN MACHINE IS RUNNING WILD
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe Jets' nickname is perfectly appropriate, because they're flying. Who'll stop them is anybody's guess. But the Jets are moving on in the playoff tournament in dramatic fashion after yesterday's...
51-19 SHOTS EDGE DOESN'T MATTER
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amLeafs 2Devils 1 TORONTO - While the Devils were pounding their heads against the wall, losing despite an overwhelming 51-19 shot advantage, The Post has learned they have another significant...
JORDAN KEEPS CURTIS FRESH
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amHow dangerous are the Jets? "We're real dangerous," Wayne Chrebet said. Why are they real dangerous? Chad Pennington, defense, special teams . . . and a rested Curtis Martin. Martin...
ISLES LET PENS PICK UP EXTRA POINT
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIMEPenguins 3Isles 2 PITTSBURGH - It really didn't get any simpler for the Islanders, who had been fighting tooth and nail to get back into this season and had a...
BARNABY'S HEART PUMPS RANGERS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 2Capitals 2 Matt Barnaby is a wanted man - wanted by the first-place Senators, who crave the winger's toughness and have been trying to get him in a trade...
NINE AND COUNTING: STREAKING NETSSURVIVE MAGIC
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amNets 88Magic 83 ORLANDO - The Nets insist all of this is a learning experience. They are learning ways to win, gaining insights with every game. Well, there are some...
VICK IS A PACKER SMACKER
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amGREEN BAY - Moments after Michael Vick and his Falcons made the impossible look easy - a snowy, 27-7 first-round NFC win over the Packers that handed Green Bay the...
NFL STIFFS FANS YET AGAIN PRIME-TIME GAMES HAVE TICKET-BUYERS STUCK IN THE COLD
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amLET THEM eat frozen cake! As the NFL's playoffs have increasingly become prime-time programming, it's worth noting that the league was once in the habit of smugly poking fun at...
FRAN'S THE MAN IN BOOTH
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amWHILE he doesn't go berserk at the sight of a slam-dunk, and while he's not yet a national TV regular, every time ex-Manhattan and ex-St. John's coach Fran Fraschilla calls...
MIAMI'S GREAT RUN GRINDS TO A HALT
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amTEMPE - Perhaps it is fitting that it took a gut-wrenching game to halt one of the great runs in college football history. Ohio State ended Miami's reign as national...
DUNHAM: WE HAVE BIG EDGE: GOALIE WANTS RANGERS TO USE THE BODY MORE
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amMike Dunham likes to talk about the Rangers' size. After the 2-1 win in Florida a week ago last night and then again after the New Year's Eve 2-0 victory...
TORRID ISLES ARE SETTING HIGHER GOALS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - If the Islanders do in fact win the Atlantic Division, the goal that has now replaced that measly short-term feat of getting themselves out of the giant hole...
AFTER SHUTOUT, SCHWAB SITS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - Even Pat Burns, who denies his system has anything to do with his team's offensive failings, missed all the scoring of Friday's first 58 minutes of the Devils'...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amVAN GUNDY'S FUTURE IS SO BRIGHT Now that Bill Parcells has landed in Dallas, let's peek at where the basketball version of the Tuna will land. That would be the...
KITTLES' GAME UP AND RUNNING
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES ORLANDO - Jason Kidd had joked that, after a month off, returning teammate Kerry Kittles was going to need an oxygen tank after his first few times up...
RJ GETS SHOW ON ROAD: JEFFERSON'S STAR NOW ON THE RISE IN SECOND TERM
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amORLANDO - Last year, when the participants for the NBA All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge were announced, there was a glaring omission: Net Richard Jefferson. Boston's Joe Johnson, who was so...
SPREE BEST WHEN GOING ON ATTACK
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES All season, Latrell Sprewell has passed well out of the double-team on drives, finding the open guy when he sensed his path was blocked. But until Friday night...
FALCS TRY TO FORGET FAVRE DEAL TO PACKERS
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amGREEN BAY - The fruits - or folly - of one of the most lopsided trades in sports history was on display in last night's first-round NFC playoff game between...
HOW SOD: TURF'S UP! NEW PLAYING SURFACE NEEDED AT THE SWAMP
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amUnless a slew of upsets ensue, yesterday's Jets-Colts playoff game was the last NFL contest on Meadowlands grass. And we don't just mean this season. The three-year experiment to play...
TASTE OF WINNING WHETS JET APPETITES
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amAFC WILD-CARD CONFIDENTIAL JET NOTES The Jets went into yesterday's AFC playoff game against the Colts chasing that euphoric feeling they basked in last Sunday after beating Green Bay and...
GETTING HERE NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE: PLAYOFF WIN WAS NEXT JET STEP IN HERM'S MASTER PLAN
January 5, 2003 | 5:00amThe Jets were faced yesterday with a chance to put a new and different stamp on their franchise with a playoff win over the Colts at Giants Stadium. A victory...