March 19, 2003
FEDS GO GAGA FOR GAGOSIAN IN STRUGGLE OVER PAINTINGS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amFast-moving gallery owner Larry Gagosian, who is under investigation for his dealings with tax cheat Sam Waksal, is now locked in a tug-of-war with the IRS over three fine paintings....
LEGAL EAGLES STAY IN MIDTOWN AERIE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amANOTHER major law firm has reconfirmed its home port. Despite cruising the best buildings in the Grand Central area for a new home, Blank Rome Tenzer Greenblatt has now renewed...
LIZ MAKES JUICY DEAL FOR $50M
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe belly-baring celebrity sweatwear maker Juicy Couture is being bought by fashion giant Liz Claiborne for teen mass selling. Claiborne Inc., the maker of Sigrid Olsen and Ellen Tracy clothing,...
BUSINESS WEEK PRIMPS BEFORE UNVEILING SECRET FACE-LIFT
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amBUSINESS Week is working on a top-secret overhaul of the McGraw-Hill flagship, which could give the weekly magazine a dramatic new look, according to reliable industry sources. The overhaul follows...
TED TURNED DOWN AS BAGHDAD BAIT
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amTed Turner says he tried to go to Baghdad to cover the war live for CNN but wasn't allowed. Turner, the largest shareholder of CNN parent AOL Time Warner, volunteered...
OIL LOSS HITS UN COFFERS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe United Nations is losing its only cash cow with the shutdown of Iraq's oil fields - profits of more than $300 million a year. The UN has been taking...
EAST BEATS WEST
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amBRASSERIE 360 SUSHI MENU BRASSERIE MENU 200 E. 60TH ST., AT THIRD AVENUE (212) 688-8688 HERE'S the drill for new Brasserie 360: Do an immediate 180 from the plodding brasserie...
BETTER BED THAN DEAD
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amJAPON 1/2 Death wish. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Running time: 122 minutes. Not rated (nudity, gerontophilic sex, animal cruelty). At Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. Through...
STARR REPORT
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amSwitching Geres: Travolta weighs in John Travolta starring in the Oscar- nominated movie "Chicago"? Hey - it could've happened. In fact, "Chicago" isn't the only movie that Travolta passed on...
AT PIE, GIVE PIZZA A CHANCE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amPIE 124 FOURTH AVE. (BETWEEN 12TH & 13TH STREETS) (212) 475-4977 WITH all the pizza variations around, you'd think there was no way a newcomer could stand out, no matter...
BROWN:OFFTHE AIR.
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amMAGAZINE queen Tina Brown's TV debut was abruptly cancelled yesterday due to the prospect of war. CNBC delayed the launch of her new show, "Topic A with Tina Brown," within...
7TH-INNING KVETCH ; CHEFS IN LEFT FIELD
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWHEN you're hot, you're hot - but when you're not, you're a big- name chef wondering where your three-star reviews have gone. Since last Aug. 1, neither The Post nor...
FINE CAST AND DIRECTOR ADD POLISH TO 'JOKE'
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amPOLISH JOKE At the Manhattan Theatre Club, 131 W. 55th St. Through April 20. Call CityTix (212) 581-1212. ONE of the zaniest playwrights around has also become one of the...
WE NEED HOLLYWOOD BEHAVING BADLY
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amAFTER much angsting, Hollywood is no longer in a quandary about whether to Oscar or not to Oscar. They worried for a while that their revered awards show might appear...
REGIS SEEING MORE WOMEN
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amSUDDENLY another talk-show host has come down with eye problems. Regis Philbin complained on "Live with Regis & Kelly" Monday, and again yesterday, about "seeing double" - while his pal,...
LOOK FOR THE U.S. LABEL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWHILE The Post has been suggesting alternatives for those who wish to boycott French-made products, many local French restaurants are already offering alternatives. Top eateries including Daniel, Jean Georges, Lespinasse...
WHAT'S BEHIND THE BIG FELLA'S BEARD?
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWHAT'S with James Gandolfini's bushy, black beard? Some fans are wondering if it's a protest of some kind against HBO -which "The Sopranos" star is fighting for a big salary...
BOHEME'S AWAY! FALLING SEAT SALES MAY MEAN PUCCINI IS FINI
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amIS "La Boheme" going La Bust? Despite critical hosannas, Hollywood- style hype and sexy marketing, Baz Luhrmann's souped-up staging of the great Puccini tearjerker is about as strong at the...
BATTLE STATIONS; HOW THE BIG-TIME SHOWS WILL CHANGE WHEN BOMBS DROP
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amTHE road to Baghdad will have go through Oprah's talk-show set. And what happens to "American Idol" when our troops set off for Iraq? A night of George M. Cohan...
SUPER STUPOR: CASTING CRISIS MAY DOOM TROUBLED FILM
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amSOMETHING'S killing "Superman" - and it isn't a load of kryptonite. On Monday, Brendan Fraser and soap star Matthew Bomer became the latest to flee the high-profile movie project faster...
FINDING YOUR PLACE IN THE SUN: AT THE NATIONAL COLLEGE FAIR, YOU CAN CHECK OUT YOUR COLLEGES OF INTEREST
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amSpring is just around the corner. Now is the perfect time to learn new skills, enhance your existing ones or prepare for a fresh start. The choices have never been...
MIKE NIXES RAPE-VICTIM 'PILL' BILL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg vetoed a bill yesterday that would require all city hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims, saying New York already does that. The mayor also vetoed a...
THEY DON'T HAVE FROGS LEGS OR CHAMPAGNE ON THEIR MENU, BUT AMERICA'S MARINES ARE BEING FED BY THE FRENCH
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - They don't have frogs legs or champagne on their menu, but America's Marines are being fed by the French. A Marine Corps spokesman yesterday said that despite France's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amA Massachusetts daredevil has left Chile in an attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean in a boat made of reeds. Peter Buck, 39, expects to complete the 11,000- mile journey...
WRONG LESSON - 'THE CAINE MUTINY'& BUSH'S CRITICS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amTwo heroes: Navy lawyer Barney Greenwald and Captain Queeg (Bogart) in "The Caine Mutiny."Columba Pictures WITH a full-scale war only days away, and a Republican in the White House, the...
$33M FOR KID-STRESS COUNSELING
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe city has gotten $33 million in federal funds to help counsel students about the Sept. 11 attacks and the pending war in Iraq, Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel...
THIEF-SHOOTER DODGES BULLET
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amA Navy vet who shot a career burglar prowling near his toddler's bedroom had the charge against him reduced yesterday. The Brooklyn DA's office cut the charge from gun possession...
EXPECT A HOMELAND ATTACK: TERROR EXPERT
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A top counterterrorism official said yesterday it's a "certainty terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks" against the United States or its allies. State Department counterterrorism director Cofer...
COLLEAGUES' GRIEF COMES OUT FROM UNDER COVER
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amON Friday, like any day, a lot of little boys and girls will be born - and one of the little boys will certainly be called Jay Andrew Frasse. "If...
PROTESTERS' RIGHT OF WAY
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amLooking to avoid the violent clashes that marred the city's last major peace rally, the NYPD permit for Saturday's anti-war protest along Broadway allows free access to the procession route,...
WITNESS ARRESTED IN BABY-STARVE TRIAL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe friend of a Queens man accused of nearly starving his baby girl to death could testify today that the child appeared to be in terrible condition and that the...
JOGGER 5 'OUTRAGE' - CLEARED SUSPECT SAYS VICTIM WAS WRONGED BY NYPD
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - One of the five men exonerated in the Central Park jogger rape case said yesterday he's not bitter - but the victim herself should be "outraged" at police....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * A man was arrested yesterday in connection with a gunpoint robbery at a Washington Heights apartment building earlier this month, a police source said. On March 8, Jose...
PORN KINGS' $230M CREDIT-CARD 'SCAM'
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amFeds say Bruce Chew (left) and Richard Martino made millions off a porn-fraud scam, which they used to fund lavish lifestyles, including houses in Westchester (below). A mobbed-up smut tycoon...
A HERO'S GOODBYE - COMMISH HAILS 'PHENOMENAL' COP
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amA tidal wave of blue tears was shed at a Brooklyn church yesterday as a grateful city said goodbye to Detective Rodney Andrews, murdered with his partner in a gun...
PALESTINIANS CREATE NEW POST OF PM
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - The Palestinian legislature yesterday overwhelmingly approved a new post of prime minister to share major powers with Yasser Arafat. The lawmakers, meeting in Ramallah, paved the way for...
LIZA IN 'DISS REPAIR' SUIT
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens construction company has given Liza Minnelli and David Gest an anniversary present to forget - a $187,000 lawsuit. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, G&I Construction Corp....
HOUSING AGENCY ACTS ON RIP-OFFS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amIt took a scandal, but the Housing Development Corporation yesterday finally adopted rules to avert an embarrassing repeat of the alleged rip-off perpetrated by ex-president Russell Harding. The board of...
ABDUCTION SUSPECT'S INDECENT PROPOSAL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amIt was never meant to be - she was a shoe-shop saleswoman, but he was only into sandals. Julie Adkison said accused Elizabeth Smart kidnapper and polygamist Brian Mitchell proposed...
POL IS BREWING UP EXTRA TAX ON BEER
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - A Bronx state assemblyman wants beer drinkers to pony up an additional penny per 12-ounce brew. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, a Democrat, says increasing the beer tax would yield...
OPEN-WIDE CASE OF CREDIT-CARD SCAMMING
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amA credit-card scammer's root-canal surgery took a painful turn when the cops busted her as she sat in her dentist's chair, a Manhattan jury was told yesterday. Adiam Testamichael-Berhane, 28,...
U.N. IS ANTI-SEMITE CENTRAL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe Iraqi ambassador hissed the question at me as I approached. "Are you an Israelian Jew?" Muhammad Aldouri demanded. Guess I didn't pass his Semitic litmus test. Within moments, Aldouri...
HIDDEN PANIC IN GHOST TOWN BAGHDAD
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe Iraqi dinar plunged, food prices rose as much as 400 percent - and pregnant women asked for Caesarean sections to avoid giving birth during air raids. All across Baghdad...
SADDAM'S TROOPS GET CHEM SHELLS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The United States has intercepted Iraqi military radio transmissions confirming Republican Guard units are being equipped with artillery shells filled with VX and mustard gas, The Post has...
L.I. WISEGUY TO COP PLEA DEAL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amA reputed Luchese family member known as the "Tony Soprano of Long Island" will plead guilty today to shaking down two men who asked him to settle a business dispute...
CUT IN FUNDS TO FIGHT CRIB DEATHS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration is slashing funding to a program designed to reduce sky-high infant-mortality rates in minority communities. While the overall rate of crib deaths in the city dropped by...
BRUTAL BRUNO COMES OUT FIGHTING AT TEACHER MEET
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno had some advice yesterday for teachers fighting to restore education budget cuts: "Take a plane and go and fight" in Iraq. "You want...
'SPECIAL' SHAME - MORE N.Y. DISABLED KIDS SEGREGATED
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amNew York state segregates more of its mentally and physically disabled students in special classrooms than nearly any other state, new figures show. State Education officials said 7.4 percent of...
ALONE AND ON THE RUN, WEASELS DO A FAST ABOUT-FACE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - After months of trying to scuttle a U.S. attack on Iraq, the French government yesterday suddenly said it would consider helping American forces - if they were attacked...
A FINEST SHOW OF FORCE - EXTRA COPS, BOMB DOGS & GUARD HIT STREETS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amAs part of a massive plan to protect the city against possible terror attacks sparked by a war with Iraq, the NYPD has deployed extra cops and bomb-sniffing dogs, and...
'STUN'-GUNNED FROM THE AIR - MISSILE SHOWER ON IRAQ WILL BE BIGGEST IN HISTORY
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon is planning to open war against Iraq with the most devastating and technologically advanced display of air power in military history designed to quickly stun Iraqi...
'SEX' DUO ON WRONG TRACK: DA
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amNaughty nurse Dennis Greene's kinky threesome with his brother and sister-in-law on an LIRR train happened in the "wrong place" at the "wrong time," a prosecutor told a jury yesterday....
NOW PLAYING: DOWNTOWN CINEPLEX WAR
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe Village East movie theater wants to star in its own courtroom drama to prove that its downtown rivals are illegally ganging up with film studios to prevent it from...
JUDGE LAUDS & JAILS EX-POL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe Assembly's crooked former Democratic whip was sent off to three months in jail yesterday for taking $24,000 in bribes. In a proceeding that was part sentencing hearing, part love...
DOGGIE HORROR HOUSE RAIDED
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amAnimal-control officers say a Bronx home became a doggie dungeon for as many as 35 pooches who were forced to live in their own feces, cower in dingy crates and...
GOP'S DASH TO LASH DASCHLE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -The White House yesterday jabbed Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle for claiming America faces war because President Bush "failed miserably" at Diplomacy, and Republicans called it "disgusting. "[Daschle] is...
PREZ LAYS LOW AS HE PLANS STRATEGY
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush mulled war plans with his Pentagon chief and called leaders of Russia and China about Iraq, but stayed out of public view yesterday as he got...
N.Y. DOC EYED FOR MYSTERY ILLNESS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amAs scientists worldwide raced to find the cause of a mysterious deadly flu-like illness, city officials yesterday said a Singapore doctor suspected of becoming sick with the disease while visiting...
IRAQI SAILOR DEAD IN COASTAL CLASH
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amA clandestine Iraqi naval operation to mine the strategic Kuwaiti coastline led to Baghdad's first known casualty since President Bush issued his 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, it was reported...
BX. TEEN KILLED IN 'MISTAKEN ID'
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amA 15-year-old was shot and killed in front of his Bronx home yesterday in a possible case of mistaken identity. Kidan Johnson was gunned down shortly after 2:40 p.m. outside...
SEX RAP IN UTAH KIDNAP
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe fanatical drifters accused of abducting Utah girl Elizabeth Smart were charged with aggravated kidnapping and sexual assault yesterday. Brian Mitchell, 49, and his wife, Wanda Barzee, 57, began the...
YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE - COPS PLAN SECURITY CHECKPOINTS AT 96TH ST.
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Raymond Kelly yesterday announced that cop checkpoints will be set up at 96th Street on all southbound avenues in Manhattan if war breaks out - part of the...
OSCAR NIGHT'S RED CARPET A CASUALTY OF WAR
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThis year's Academy Awards show is probably a go - but definitely minus the stars' traditional red-carpet walk, officials said last night. Because of the nation's looming war with Iraq,...
SADDAM TO BUSH: YOU STEP DOWN - BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD REJECTS ULTIMATUM & BOASTS: IRAQ WILL CRUSH AMERICAN WAR MACHINE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amAs swarms of U.S. forces repositioned closer to Iraq's border, Saddam Hussein yesterday defiantly rejected President Bush's ultimatum to flee Iraq, and his foreign minister thumbed his nose at Bush,...
'CHEM ALI' GASSES UP EVIL TROOPS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's favorite fiendish henchman - "Chemical Ali" - is back in action, apparently arming his Republican Guard units with VX and mustard-gas shells, The Post has learned....
OPERATION ATLAS COPS TOOK A SHORT BREAK LAST NIGHT FROM FIGHTING TERRORISM
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amOperation Atlas cops took a short break last night from fighting terrorism - to deliver a baby right at their checkpoint. "It was a suspicious package I didn't mind," said...
ROUNDUP OF IRAQI 'AGENTS' IN APPLE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amDozens of Iraqis and suspected Iraqi sympathizers will be detained in New York and at least four other U.S. cities this week, The Post has learned. Iraqi agents and sympathizers...
NYERS LEANING LEFT OF THE NATION: POLL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - New Yorkers oppose affirmative action, back the death penalty and want to keep abortions legal, a new poll yesterday showed. The Quinnipiac University Survey of 1,141 registered voters...
DOG-HORROR BEAST CAGED
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amAnimal control officers say a Bronx home became a doggie dungeon for as many as 35 pooches who were forced to live in their own feces, cower in dingy crates...
TRAIN-SEX TRIO ON WRONG TRACK: DA
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amNaughty nurse Dennis Greene's kinky threesome with his brother and sister-in-law on an LIRR train happened in the "wrong place" at the "wrong time," a prosecutor told the jury yesterday....
WITNESS TWIST IN STARVE TRIAL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe friend of a Queens man accused of nearly starving his baby girl to death could testify today that the child appeared to be in terrible condition, and that the...
OUSTED DEM GETS 3 MONTHS FOR GRAFT
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe state assembly's crooked former Democratic Whip was sent off to three months in jail yesterday for taking $24,000 in bribes. In a proceeding that was part sentencing hearing, part...
OSCAR TO CUT SHORT ITS RED CARPET
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe Academy Awards will do away with red-carpet arrivals by stars this year because of the looming war against Iraq, officials said last night. "The traditional splashy red-carpet arrivals line...
CHEMICAL ALI GIVING HIS TROOPS GAS SHELLS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's favorite fiendish henchman - the Kurd-killing "Chemical Ali" - is back in action, apparently arming his Republican Guard units with VX and mustard-gas shells, The Post...
SACRE BLEU! WEASELS FEED G.I.S
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - They don't have frogs legs or champagne on their menu - but America's Marines are being fed by the French. A Marine Corps spokesman yesterday said that despite...
SADDAM TO BUSH: YOU STEP DOWN : BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD REJECTS ULTIMATUM & BOASTS: IRAQ WILL CRUSH AMERICAN WAR MACHINE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amAs swarms of U.S. forces repositioned closer to Iraq's border, Saddam Hussein yesterday defiantly rejected President Bush's ultimatum to flee Iraq, and his foreign minister thumbed his nose at Bush,...
THORN: CAN'T FAULT THE COACH FOR COLLAPSE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - Byron Scott, one season removed from a trip to the NBA Finals and the second-winningest coach in Nets' history, is not worried about job security. And...
BOBBY V DISPLAYS SMARTS IN TV BOW
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amA common question asked of people who have spent time around former Met manager Bobby Valentine is this: Why do so many say he is so smart? In his debut...
HOU, BABY! KNICKS SLAP SPURS SILLY
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amKnicks 105 Spurs 97 SAN ANTONIO - The Knicks were teased much of the day into thinking Tim Duncan would miss last night's game. Duncan suited up with a sore...
POWER FAILURE ; DEVILS IN DARK WITH MAN ADVANTAGE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amMONTREAL - Without any further options, without hope the GM will trade for point help, Devils coach Pat Burns is contemplating breaking his own precepts. His power play back in...
BERGTRAUM ON A MISSION
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amEd Grezinsky never expected to be the head coach of one of the best girls basketball teams in the country. When he took the Bergtraum job 13 years ago, he...
JONES PLOTS NEXT PUNCH
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amRoy Jones, Jr. showed up on time for his press conference yesterday at Gallagher's Steakhouse, which was an oddity given his history of tardiness and no-shows for scheduled media sessions....
METS MUST FILL 4 HOLES ON MOUND
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - With a rare off day yesterday and opening day just 12 days away, the Mets are running out of time to answer their major roster questions....
RONDELL DEAL IN WORKS ; YANKS EYE PODS' TRAMMELL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amYankees 10Tigers 5 LAKELAND - Several sources told The Post yesterday that the Yankees and Padres are discussing a deal that would ship Rondell White to San Diego and bring...
KARSAY SHELVED FOR OPENING DAY
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES LAKELAND - The Yankees will be without right-handed set-up man Steve Karsay when they open the season March 31 in Toronto. Bothered by a sore right shoulder since...
THE BOSS' BOMBERS ARE ALWAYS ON STAGE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amLAKELAND - The rules are different for the Yankees, and so are the stakes, and so are the perks, and so is this quaint little wonderland called spring training. Everywhere...
BURE STILL HOPING HE CAN HELP
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amPavel Bure summed up his entire season yesterday in one sentence. "Not once this year have I felt I could fly," murmured the Russian Rocket after yesterday's Rangers practice. And...
TIRED ISLES ON ROUGH ROAD: DIFFICULT PART OF SCHEDULEDETOURS PUSH TOWARD PLAYOFFS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - Don't look now, but Adrian Aucoin, the NHL's ice-time king who averages nearly 30 minutes a night, is tired. You see, Aucoin's sick and tired of this season's...
WAGNER BELIEVES IT CAN
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThere are dreamers from coast to coast today. From UNC-Wilmington to San Diego, coaches of potential NCAA Tournament Cinderellas are telling their players to believe. Believe in each other. Believe...
NCAA: WE'RE PLAYING ; NO PLAN TO POSTPONE GAMES IF WAR BEGINS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe NCAA will not postpone its basketball tournaments if a war with Iraq begins this week. After consultation with Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge, NCAA president Myles Brand decided that...
NEEDED: ACHILLES HEAL ; JASON'S INJURY HAS BYRON CONCERNED
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amBOSTON - Jason Kidd insists his tendinitis-wracked left Achilles is no problem, but the numbers and coach Byron Scott say otherwise. "I'm doing good. I feel good. Physically, I feel...
JETS EYING FUTURE, WILL LET COLES FLY AWAY
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amSay goodbye to Laveranues Coles. By 4 p.m. today Coles will be granted the wish he's been publicly expressing since the Redskins tendered him that massive free agent offer sheet:...
STORM: NIT TITLE OUR GRAND PRIZE
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amTeams have been known to make uninspired arrivals and quick exits in the National Invitation Tournament, their minds still clouded by the disappointment of not reaching the NCAA tourney. But...
LEBRON GETS HALL CALL
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amLeBron James has been asked by the Basketball Hall of Fame to donate his high-school uniform and a pair of sneakers for a display that will highlight his brilliant but...
MCDYESS AT HOME ON THE ROAD
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SAN ANTONIO - Antonio McDyess joked if the Knicks made the Finals, maybe he'd try to convince the Knicks to let him play in June. For now, he's...
BIG RALLY LEADS TO A CRUCIAL POINT
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amIsles 3Leafs 3 TORONTO - Physically, there was no response all night. Not against Darcy Tucker's slashing at Rick DiPietro on a cover-up. Not against Bryan McCabe, who looked like...
NETS' YOUTH SERVED ; JEFFERSON & K-MART LEAD ROUT OVER CELTS
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amNets 87Celtics 74 BOSTON - They have been to the NBA Finals, participated in All-Star Weekend events and have picked up the equivalent of a decade or two of NBA...
HABS GET MARTIN-IZED
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 1 Canadiens 0 MONTREAL - Greatness in goalies doesn't stop at stopping pucks. With these Devils, Martin Brodeur must also be a thief, stealing games. Above all, as the...
DYESS HAPPY TO BE A PART OF ROAD TRIP
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amSAN ANTONIO - Antonio McDyess joked that if the Knicks advanced deep into the playoffs and were still playing in late May and June, maybe he'll try to convince the...
'NEW' ALLAN HAS CHANEY ALL SMILES
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SAN ANTONIO - Don Chaney sees a new Allan Houston this season, one who is no longer just a jump shooter. The more Chaney talked yesterday before the...