January 17, 2003
DELTA'S LOSS CANCELS OUT INCOME RISE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amDelta Airlines reported higher-than-expected revenues and a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss, but it doesn't matter. The nation's third-largest airline still expects to lose money this year, according to an amazingly frank...
UNIVERSAL TOLD TO SLASH $60M
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amBarry Diller has given Universal Music an order to cut costs, The Post has learned. Universal Music has been told to cut at least $60 million in expenses as part...
MAGELLAN ASSETS SKID
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amCall it the incredible shrinking fund. Fidelity Investments' Magellan fund, once the world's largest, shriveled to a 51/2-year low in terms of assets, ending 2002 with only $56.8 billion. The...
FEDERATED TO SLASH 1,900 JOBS, SHUT 11 STORES
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amBloomingdale's' and Macy's parent is in a bigger jam than Wall Street expected - and will have to fire 1,900 staffers. Federated Department Stores, the nation's biggest chain of traditional...
GODOFF GONE AT RANDOM
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amIn a move that shocked Bertelsmann's Random House imprint to its core, hard-charging president, publisher and editor-in-chief Ann Godoff was unceremoniously ousted yesterday after a nearly five-year run at the...
AOL TW PICKS DICK : PARSONS GETS CASE JOB, BUT HE'S NOT OUT OF WOODS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amAOL Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons got a vote of confidence from his board of directors yesterday. They named him chairman, to replace the ousted Steve Case - but that...
IT'S CHRISTMAS IN JANUARY ; HARD-WORKING US STAFFERS FINALLY GET A COOL YULE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amIT was Christmas in January for Bonnie Fuller and her beleaguered staff at Us Weekly on Jan. 8. Late last year, the mag's staff was up in arms when company...
IRAQ WARHEAD FIND DRIVES OIL PRICES TO 2-YEAR HIGH
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amOil prices surged higher, hitting a two-year high, after weapons inspectors in Iraq found empty warheads capable of carrying chemical weapons. The price of oil jumped to $33.66 per barrel,...
TROUBLED PUTNAM CUTS MORE JOBS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amPutnam Investments, the beleaguered mutual fund giant that posted annual losses for 70 percent of its funds last year - even after shutting one-sixth of them for bad performance -...
NEW BOSS REVIVED BALLANTINE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amWhile Random House was known as the flagship imprint, it was Gina Centrello and her stewardship of Ballantine group that was actually the stronger unit. Sources close to the situation...
STARR REPORT
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amAnna Nicole gets 'Dual' role on 'Cedric' Anna Nicole Smith will make an appearance on Fox's "Cedric the Entertainer Presents" next month during sweeps. Smith will play herself in a...
'PRODUCERS' IS BACK IN BLOOM ; CHEMISTRY'S RIGHT BETWEEN 2 LEADS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amTHE PRODUCERS St. James Theater, 246 W. 44th St., (212) 239-6200. BINGO! Apparently it's just a matter of the right chemistry.Nothing could go really wrong with Mel Brooks' "The Producers,"...
'GOD' IS IN THE DETAILS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amCITY OF GOD Mesmerizing.In Portuguese with English subtitles. Running time: 130 minutes. Rated R (strong, brutal violence, sexuality, drug content and language.) At the Angelika, Mercer and Houston streets. FIRST-TIME...
DOCU-PIC IS POSITIVELY '7TH STREET'
January 17, 2003 | 5:00am7th STREET There goes the neighborhood.Running time: 85 minutes. Not rated. At the Cinema Village, 12th Street, east of Fifth Avenue. GOODBYE, drug dealers; hello, real estate dealers.That about sums...
THE 'CAT' IS ALIVE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amP.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD STEVE Guttenberg, star of "Three Men and a Baby," makes a competent directing debut with "P.S. Your Cat is Dead," adapted from a 1975 play....
ONE GOOD 'REASON'
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amKIRA'S REASON1/2DIVINE INTERVENTION STINE Stengarde gives an arresting performance as a mentally unstable woman in the Danish director Ole Christian Madsen's "Kira's Reason," the 21st feature made under the Dogma...
'NATIONAL SECURITY' IS NO JOKE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amNATIONAL SECURITY January dreck.Running time: 91 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, language, sexual humor, racism). At the E-Walk, the 84th Street, the Kips Bay, others. 'NATIONAL Security" isn't as offensive as...
A LEAP OF FAITH
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amKANGAROO JACK 1/2 Go walkabout, mate.Running time: 88 minutes. Rated PG (mildly vulgar humor). At the Empire, the Union Square, the Sutton. 'KANGAROO Jack" - a dumb, by-the-numbers children's movie...
REAL COWBOYS DON'T CRY
January 17, 2003 | 5:00am"Monte Walsh" Tomorrow night, Saturday night and Sunday night at 8 on TNT THE 1890s cowboys of "Monte Walsh" - led by a tall-in-the-saddle Tom Selleck - are very upset...
FREE AS ARIE ; SINGER SHAKES OFF LAST YEAR'S GRAMMY GLOOM
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amINDIA.ARIE got skunked last year - and it hurt.Nominated for a whopping seven Grammy Awards for her debut album, "Acoustic Soul," the 27-year-old singer went home empty-handed. This year, she...
LENO'S LAUGHING LADY WALKS TO WORK AT FOX
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amANGELA Ramos, the wacky correspondent for the "Jaywalking" segments on NBC's "Tonight Show," has been hired by Ch. 5. Ramos will be a fulltime member of the "Good Day New...
PRODUCERS TOAST 'WEDDING'; DIRECTORS HONOR SCORSESE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00am'MY Big Fat Greek Wedding" got a big fat Oscar push yesterday from the Producers Guild of America, which named the indie sleeper, which has grossed more than $230 million,...
'OUR' BOOMTOWN ; NEWMAN PACKS THE HOUSE AND THE BANK
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA few months ago, I smugly predicted that the Westport Country Playhouse's revival of "Our Town," starring Paul Newman, would never make a dime on Broadway. It's hard to believe,...
A WILD 'THING'
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA GUY THING Predictable but painless Running time: 101 minutes. Rated PG-13 (much sexual innuendo, moderate profanity). At the Empire, the Kips Bay, the Union Square, others. 'A Guy Thing,"...
CITY: METS OWE $3M IN TAXES
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe New York Mets owe the city up to $3.4 million in back rent for Shea Stadium, according to an audit to be released next week by the City Comptroller,...
GROUND ZERO REBUILD EXEC TO STEP DOWN
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe president of the agency charged with overseeing reconstruction at Ground Zero will step down at the end of next month, sources said yesterday. Lou Tomson had been expected to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amBROOKLYN This is a police sketch of the screwdriver-wielding thug who raped and robbed a 66-year-old woman Monday. The attack took place around 6 p.m. when the woman returned to...
BUSH AND RACE; THE SON BREAKS FREE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amGEORGE Bush's forthright and unequivocal statement on Wednesday against counting by race in university admissions came as a surprise. We had been told that there was a battle in the...
COPS NAB 22 ON DRUG BLOCK
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amLong Island cops - spurred by neighborhood complaints - raided a block that had become an open-air drug market and busted 22 people, including 16 for selling or possessing drugs....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amWant to stop an invasion? Send in the rats. Indian troops dispatched to clear 1 million land mines planted along their country's 2,000-mile border with Pakistan a year ago have...
ISRAEL NABS 4 SUSPECTED BOMBERS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel yesterday arrested four Palestinians preparing to carry out bombing attacks inside Israel, officials said. The suspects, members of Islamic Jihad, were among 22 seized in security sweeps...
SCHOOL FOR PARENTS ; KLEIN SET TO LAUNCH 'ACADEMY'
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA "Parent Academy" is being created to help parents better understand education issues, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein announced yesterday. "Through this academy, parent coordinators will provide school-based workshops to parents...
DR. BUSH OUT TO CURE LEGAL MALPRACTICE ILLS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said he plans to rein in the costs of medical-malpractice lawsuits to keep doctors working and insurance affordable. Picking a battle with trial lawyers, Bush...
FALL GUY PUSHES FOR SCAFFOLD LAWS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amStill healing from a broken pelvis, wrist and a massive head wound, Fernando Ramirez urged the City Council yesterday to require safety training for scaffold builders. Ramirez, 31, fell more...
LOBBYING LOOT HITS RECORD: CITY
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe last year of the Giuliani administration was a boom time for lobbyists, who raked in a record $20 million - an astonishing 40 percent increase from the previous year....
MAYOR LIFE OF THE PARTY WITH 500G DONATION
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg donated an eye-popping $500,000 to the state Republican Party just a month before Gov. Pataki was re-elected to a third term, The Post has learned. State campaign records...
MIKE'S AX WILL SPARE THE FINEST
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThere won't be any layoffs at the NYPD to meet the latest round of budget cuts, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. He and Commissioner Ray Kelly suggested last week that pink...
ALARM OVER BLACK MATERNITY DEATHS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amMothers who die shortly after childbirth in New York state are disproportionately black women - who are dying at a rate four times higher than the national average, officials reported...
MTA IS DEBT WRONG ; INFLATES GAP IN BID FOR HIKE: STUDY
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe MTA's real budget gap is just one-third of the $2.8 billion the agency publicly touts when making its case for raising bus and subway fares to as much as...
CEMETERY LOCKOUT'S A CRYING SHAME
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA FRUSTRATED Pat Sarti stood at the gates of St. Raymond's cemetery like a mother desperate to visit her jailed son. "This is like a hostage situation - I compare...
MAYOR MIKE'S HACKER TRIAL
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg has been subpoenaed to testify at the Manhattan trial of two men accused of hacking into his media empire's computer system from former Soviet state Kazakhstan and attempting...
GLAM BURGER ; FOR $50, IT BETTER BE GOOD
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amDB Bistro Moderne Burger * * * (three stars) LET'S get one thing straight: If I want a real hamburger, I'll pass up this winter's circus of luxury burgers for...
BURYING HIS CRIME ; DA LETS 9/11 CASKET THIEF COP A PLEA
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA ghoulish crook who stole coffins meant for 9/11 victims was sentenced yesterday to only 15 days community service. Felix Velazquez, 55, received the wrist slap - he'll see no...
BLIX DROPS HIS SWEDE EXTERIOR
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix warned Iraq yesterday that the situation is getting "very tense and very dangerous" and said it must cooperate to avoid war. The...
TWO TAPPED FOR ED. POSTS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe highly regarded superintendent of School District 13 in Brooklyn was named yesterday to a new position overseeing all non-academic services in the Department of Education. Dr. Lester Young Jr.,...
B'KLYN RAPPER IN TRAFFIC JAM
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amRapper "Fabolous" was released yesterday after a night in a Manhattan precinct house for hanging an illegal left turn with a suspended drivers license. The 25-year-old Brooklyn rapper, whose real...
'NAZI' VANDAL STRIKES
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amVandals working in the dead of night spray-painted red swastikas on more than 25 parked cars in a largely Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn - just blocks from a Roman Catholic...
GRAVE PROBLEM ; BODIES PILE UP AS DIGGERS STRIKE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amGravediggers at St. Raymond's Cemetery in The Bronx, one of the busiest burial grounds in the city, have gone on strike - forcing area funeral homes to store bodies. St....
TOO RICH FOR YOUR TASTE? TRY MCD'S
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amChef Daniel Boulud's new $50 burger may have ravenous truffle-lovers raving, but Gus Mendez would rather have Mickey D's - and $45. The tourist from Philly was chomping down on...
'BRIBE' BLDGS. REA$$ESSED
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amMany property owners whose tax assessments were illegally tampered with by corrupt assessors could soon feel the financial pinch, while others have emerged unscathed, city officials said yesterday. In updating...
MAY-DECEMBER ROMANCE BEARS STRANGE FRUIT
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amPOOR little rich lady. The sad saga of Leona Helmsley's twilight years reads like a variation of an age-old classic. Chapter I: Boy meets rich, old lady. Chapter II: Old...
DOGGED NYPD SNIFFING OUT TERROR
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amAn elite team of heavily armed NYPD cops with a bomb-sniffing canine swept through Penn Station yesterday in an anti-terrorism operation designed to disrupt potential attacks. The sudden arrival of...
'VAMPIRE' SLAYER BARES SAD SEX LIFE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe Oregon lonely-heart who shot his girlfriend to death in a Times Square hotel after finding out she had scammed him told cops he'd been saving himself for her -...
SUBWAY RAPE FIEND WILL GET 20-YEAR TERM: JUDGE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens man can expect a 20-year prison stretch after pleading guilty yesterday to raping two women after they got off the subway, said the judge handling his case. Moussa...
TAX HIKE SLOWS CIG SALES
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Legal cigarette sales in New York appear to have slowed significantly since the state and city boosted taxes on tobacco, a report yesterday showed. The state's cigarette tax...
2 NABBED IN BRONX SMACK RING
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amTwo men have been busted for running a high-level heroin ring out of The Bronx in which they paid couriers to fly the drugs - which were quilted into jackets...
SCHOOL RETOOL WILL COST JOBS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday that radical restructuring of the school system will likely trigger another round of layoffs or early retirements. Under the restructuring, the Department of Education will shrink...
HIT MAN TELLS GRISLY TALE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA gangster wannabe yesterday told how he shot mob turncoat Michael "Cookie" D'Urso. "When I shot Mike, I remember seeing his hair part; that is how close I was," Anthony...
CANINE CARNAGE ; YONKERS POLICE RESCUE BRUTALIZED PIT BULLS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA raid on a squalid basement on the Yonkers waterfront allegedly used to train fighting dogs turned up 17 pit bulls - the youngest a 21/2-month old puppy that had...
BLOOMBERG BIDS TO EASE CITY'S SHELTER BURDEN
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg will ask a judge today to change a court order that requires the city to provide shelter to all homeless people. The mayor wants Justice Helen Freedman to...
BLAKE: DIE IN JAIL
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amBURBANK, Calif. - A bitter, combative Robert Blake said he fears dying in jail and being wheeled "out of here feet first with a tag on my toe," according to...
SUNY FACES $1,400 HIKE IN TUITION
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amState University trustees today will propose boosting tuition as much as $1,400 a year, an eye-popping 41 percent, the Post has learned. SUNY will ask the governor for permission to...
JUDGE BARS GOTTI BOAST
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amPeter Gotti allegedly bragged he was the "official" boss of the Gambinos more than a year before his brother John Gotti died of cancer, but jurors in his racketeering trial...
GAY IT AIN'T SO! SHOCK TALE OF LEONA'S BARBS - AND UNDIES
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amLeona Helmsley fired her chief of operations after learning he was homosexual - then vowed she'd pink-slip her hotel's gay general manager, her former bodyguard testified yesterday. And speaking of...
SAUDIS URGING IRAQ GENERALS TO STAGE COUP
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia is actively trying to pull off a coup in Iraq that would oust Saddam Hussein without a war, a former Saudi ambassador said yesterday. "The idea...
IRAQ'S CHEM ARMS FOUND BY U.N.
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.N. weapons inspectors yesterday reported the first hard evidence that Saddam Hussein is lying, as they found 12 empty chemical warheads - a discovery that U.S. officials called...
MOM BUSTED IN TOT ABUSE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA Bronx woman was arrested last night after her 11-month-old daughter was found with two broken legs and a broken arm, police said. Josephina Cruz, 23, told cops the infant...
L.I. MAN CAUGHT IN SCRATCH-OFF SCAM: COPS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island crook cooked up a Lotto scratch-off scam with $11,000 in stolen instant Lotto tickets that netted him lots of free winners and cheated scores of customers out...
'TOXIC' TRAILER STOLEN IN B'KLYN
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amA trailer containing a volatile and explosive chemical was stolen from a Brooklyn trucking yard, police said yesterday. The trailer contains 10 cartons of sodium amalgam, which catches fire and...
CITY: LET US BAR SOME FROM SHELTERS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg will ask a judge today to change a 1981 court order that requires the city to provide shelter to all homeless people. The mayor wants the city to...
MIKE PLEDGES NOT TO THIN BLUE LINE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThere won't be any layoffs at the NYPD to meet the latest round of budget cuts, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. The mayor's statement comes after he and Police Commissioner Ray...
E-NORMOUS INTEREST IN WTC PLANS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amDevelopment officials have received thousands of e-mails from people around the world and close to home wanting to voice their opinions about the new design proposals for Ground Zero. The...
BLOOMBERG NAMES TWO TO SCHOOL POSTS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe highly regarded superintendent of School District 13 in Brooklyn was named yesterday to a new position overseeing all non-academic services in the Education Department. Dr. Lester Young Jr., a...
ISLES CHASE AWAY BLUES: KVASHA POTS WINNER IN ST. LOO
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIME Islanders 3 Blues 2 ST. LOUIS - The Islanders had a lot on the line last night, especially their pride. They had been crushed a night earlier by the...
NO STOPPING EAGLES, RAIDERS ; HISTORY MAKES GOOD POINT: FORGET ABOUT SPREAD
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amTHE picks that will be made later in this column will be OPINION, no better (if you judge by the pathetic 4-12 playoff record) and no worse (if you're willing...
CWD'S COSTLY TO TREAT
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amCHRONIC wasting disease has been costly in states where it has been found and as it slowly makes its way east, states here should be preparing for the costs. State...
DEVILS, 'CANES DO IT TWICE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amTwo of the preceding seven Eastern Conference champions failed to make it to the postseason in order to defend their title. Now, the Hurricanes appear in danger of joining the...
RAFER MADNESS GRIPS TORONTO
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amLOOKING at it with conventional hackneyed logic, the Nets, who make a habit of being Barney Rubbled at home by the West's kings and queens, tonight host the behemoths of...
CALL-UP CARRIES BRAND
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - The only person in the Islander organization who wouldn't mind seeing workhorse Adrian Aucoin miss more than a few games is Brandon Smith, who lost some sleep...
DON: NO DOUBT, KURT'S A STAR
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThree weeks from now, somebody will head to the NBA All-Star Game as the East's backup center. Don Chaney believes that somebody should be Kurt Thomas. "He's earned it," the...
RANGER DREAM LIVES
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amLook. The schedule ahead is brutal. Still four games remaining against the Flyers, the first of which comes Sunday at the Garden in maybe the first match this year that's...
IT'S SAME STORY, DIFFERENT ENDING ; STUPID CRACK DOESN'T COST SHAQ
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amWE WAITED a few days, to see if it would pan out the way we figured it would. And it did. Shaquille O'Neal and Fuzzy Zoeller have a lot in...
ROGERS HOBBLED & HOPING
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amHere's the bad news: The Nets won't have Rodney Rogers tonight, and possibly longer. But on the positive side, the injury involved Rogers' calf, not his knee. Rogers went down...
NO AIR TIME FOR LADY HUSKIES
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amUnless you live in Connecticut, you won't be able to see the UConn women's basketball team attempt to break a 20-year-old record of 54 straight wins. At noon tomorrow, the...
CHILDS' CHANCE TO SAVE BENCH
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amChris Childs' time has come. In an effort to lift "productivity" off the Nets' bench - and to protect leads that have evaporated with alarming regularity - Byron Scott said...
HALL OF A DECISION: COOPERSTOWN CHOICE PORTENT FOR THE FUTURE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amEDDIE Murray was an Oriole, a Dodger, an Indian, an Angel, and, hate to remind you, a Met. Gary Carter, a star in Montreal, and a World Series hero in...
CARTER TO ENTER AS EXPO
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amGary Carter wasn't given a choice. Although most New Yorkers will always identify Carter for his five seasons with the Mets from 1985-89, the Hall of Fame will identify him...
GRUDEN: A PHILLY VETERAN
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amJON Gruden can vividly recall his days as an assistant with the Eagles when he practically lived in his office in the bowels of Veterans Stadium where the smells and...
MINAYA: EL DUQUE HAPPY TO BE EXPO
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amOmar Minaya has Orlando Hernandez's personal assurance that he is not offended by his new surroundings. "I spoke to him [Wednesday] night and he is happy to be an Expo,"...
NOW OR NEVER AT BLACK HOLE ; CAP HELL AWAITS AGING TEAM
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - Herman Edwards described the Raiders perfectly after his Jets were vanquished by the big, bad tenants of the Black Hole when he called them a team that "understands...
BROTHERLY ADVICE ; TIKI TELLS RONDE HOW TO BEAT EAGLES
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amHe would much rather be on that notorious rock-hard field at Veterans Stadium, getting pounded by the Eagles defense, than chilled but safe on the sideline. But on the side...
RICE: NO-RINGS MARIUCCI WAS 'EXPENDABLE'
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amCHAMPIONSHIP CONFIDENTIAL OAKLAND - Raiders' receiver Jerry Rice wasn't surprised when he heard the news of the firing of 49ers' head coach Steve Mariucci, for whom he played before signing...
PHILLY SET FOR VET'S SENDOFF
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amNFC NOTES Ever since 1971, the building known simply at the Vet has been a terrible place for visiting teams and on Sunday, the final football game will take place...
HALL OF A DECISION ; CARTER TO ENTER AS EXPO
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amGary Carter wasn't given a choice. Although most New Yorkers will always remember Carter for his five seasons with the Mets from 1985-89, he will wear an Expos cap on...
HALL OF A DECISION: COOPERSTOWN'S CHOICE POINTS TO FUTURE OF FAME
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amEDDIE Murray was an Oriole, a Dodger, an Indian, an Angel, and, hate to remind you, a Met. Gary Carter, a star in Montreal, and a World Series hero in...
SANTA'S PICK 6 HEADING TO N.Y.
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amPrompted by an article in Wednesday's Post, New York City OTB and the New York Racing Association will begin taking Pick 6 wagers on Santa Anita on a daily basis,...
ISLES CHASE AWAY BLUES ; KVASHA POTS WINNER IN ST. LOO
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIMEIslanders 3Blues 2 ST. LOUIS - The Islanders had a lot on the line last night, especially their pride, after being crushed a night earlier by the Devils in a...
5 QUESTIONS WITH MIKE GREENBERG
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand talked with ESPN's Mike Greenberg. The 35-year-old Greenberg grew up on Bleeker Street. He is co-host of "Mike and Mike in the Morning" on...
'MONDAY NIGHT' FALLS: MADDEN CAN'T HELP ABC'S LOW RATINGS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe ratings for ABC's "Monday Night Football" dropped for the eighth consecutive season, proving once again that viewers tune in for big games, not big names. John Madden, the most...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amJim Rome vs. Max Kellerman (talk show hosts) ESPN's Max Kellerman, host of "Around the Horn," is young, talented and confident, a trifecta that rubs some the wrong way, especially...
STEVIE WONDER: MCNAIR'S ONE TOUGH QB - AND HE'LL NEED TO BE
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amLast week, before the Titans' playoff game with the Steelers, CBS football analyst Dan Dierdorf spoke, lineman-to-lineman, with Tennessee's Kevin Carter. Carter startled Dierdorf. "You don't normally hear defensive guys...