March 28, 2003
GET ME OUT OF A PICKLE! VLASIC OWNER HICKS HOPES TO GET BUYER TO BITE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amHicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, the buyout firm run by Texas Rangers owner Thomas Hicks, is trying to get out of a pickle after losing its shirt on deals that...
SONY MUSIC SHUFFLES EXECS, CUTS STAFF 10%
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amSony Music is expected to announce today it is laying off roughly 1,000 people as part of new chief Andrew Lack's restructuring plan, sources said. The cuts are to include...
DOWNGRADES SIGNAL WEAKNESS IN REAL ESTATE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMore dark clouds gathered over the real estate industry yesterday when Merrill Lynch downgraded five of the nation's largest real estate groups. Merrill Lynch said it was worried that the...
AMR THREE DAYS FROM BANKRUPTCY
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amAmerican Airlines, the world's largest, is beginning a three-day countdown to file for bankruptcy over the collapse of the travel industry. Sources say that unless the carrier wins $4 billion...
DONALD DOUBLES UP VICTORIES WITH RATINGS OF PAGEANT, DEBT
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amDonald Trump is celebrating a double-header victory in the ratings game - both on Wall Street and on television. Just hours after his beauty pageant show on NBC, "Miss USA,"...
ECHOSTAR ASKS MAYOR TO MEDIATE YES FIGHT
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amSatellite TV provider EchoStar is asking Mayor Bloomberg to intervene in its dispute with the YES Network. In a letter sent to Bloomberg this week, EchoStar CEO Charles Ergen asked...
FOURTOU: A VUE DEAL BY SUMMER
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amVivendi chief Jean-Rene Fourtou told top executives in Hollywood yesterday he hopes to decide on the future of the media giant's vast entertainment assets by the summer, The Post has...
FOURTOU : VUE DEAL DONE SOON
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amVivendi chief Jean-Rene Fourtou told top executives in Hollywood yesterday he hopes to decide on the future of the media giant's vast entertainment assets by the summer, The Post has...
STARR REPORT
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amFriars fete Sedaka; Bloomy gets smoked Regis Philbin is reuniting with Kathie Lee Gifford. OK, so it's only for one night, but Philbin and Gifford will join the Friars Club...
GUESS WHO WON'T BE WATCHING
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amFORMER Mayor Giuliani has not seen and will not be tuning into the movie about his life. "We had nothing to do with it, and we had no plans to...
'GIRL' HAS SMARTS; BUT WOODWARD'S TOO BUSY TO HAVE A BOYFRIEND
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amCONSIDERING she's cracking the big time with a pop song called "Dumb Girls," Lucy Woodward is pretty bright. Currently on AOL's music streaming site (which boosted the careers of such...
IT'S A JUNGLE IN HERE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amBASIC Exasperating military thriller. Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (violence and language). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others. IN the clumsy military suspense thriller "Basic,"...
TEEN LOVE TALE 'VICTOR' VICTORIOUS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amRAISING VICTOR VARGAS Charming coming-of-age tale. Running time: 88 minutes. Rated R (strong language). At the Empire and the Sunshine. IT'S hotter than a match head on the Lower East...
BACK TO A BOY'S SAD LIFE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amSTEVIE Painful but compelling character study. Running time: 140 minutes. Not rated (language, sexual themes). At the Film Forum, Houston Street, between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street. 'STEVIE," the new...
EVERY WHICH WAY BUT MOOSE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amTHE GOOD OLD NAUGHTY DAYS Sex and the city (Paris). Running time: 67 minutes. Not rated (non-stop sex and nudity). At the Quad Cinema, 13th Street, between Fifth and Sixth...
DUBIOUS DANCE OF DEATH
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amASSASSINATION TANGO Hit-man saga misses the target. Running time: 114 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity). At the Angelika, the Beekman, the Chelsea, others. 'ASSASSINATION Tango," Robert Duvall's third feature as...
AN ALSO-RAN
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amHEAD OF STATE Rock in a hard place. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG-13 (mild profanity, some sexuality and drug references). At the E-Walk, the Chelsea, the Union Square, others....
RUDY IN THE RAW
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amRudy inthe raw Sunday at 8 on USA Network 1/2 AS many people feared it would, the unforgettable, heart-breaking video footage of the World Trade Center towers burning and collapsing...
HANK FOR THE MEMORIES ; DOWN A LONESOME ROAD
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amHANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY At the Little Shubert Theater, 422 W. 42nd St.; Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. MUSIC is a monster that devours its acolytes like a kid gobbles candy corn....
BULL-Y FOR 'COWBOY'
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amURBAN COWBOY 1/2 At the Broadhurst Theatre, 235 W. 44th St.; (212) 239-6200 BOY gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back - all this and a whole lot...
OSCAR WINNER'S 'QUEEN' FOR DAY
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amVH1 is giving Queen Latifah the royal treatment this Sunday in a rush-rush documentary put together in less than a week. The film, "7 Days Left: Queen Latifah Goes To...
EAST MEETS WEST BUT IT'S ALL IN BROOKLYN
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. (718) 636-4100. Season runs through Sunday. THE Mark Morris Dance Group is now...
MONSTER'S BALL FROM MOLIERE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amDON JUAN At the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St., at Hudson Street. TeleCharge, (212) 239-6200. Through April 13. IN "Don Juan," one of his oddest, most perverse plays, Moliere...
CRUZ CANNES DO, IN FRENCH
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA new film from Spanish siren Penelope Cruz will open the Cannes Film Festival on May 14. Cruz plays a gypsy girl who dupes a handsome peasant into joining the...
MIKE TYSON'S IN KIMMEL'S CORNER
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMIKE Tyson is ready to take a bite out of Jimmy Kimmel. The unpredictable former heavyweight boxing champ has agreed to be the co-host on Kimmel's live late night show...
LUKE'S GOT THE CHARM
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amNo. 14's a charm - "Old School" actor Luke Wilson was the 14th sub for ailing David Letterman Wednesday on "Late Show." ADAM BUCKMAN rates how he did: Luke Wilson...
FUN TO 'THE CORE': THIS THRILL RIDE IS SCIENTIFICALLY SILLY - BUT IT'S JUST WHAT WE NEED
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amTHE CORE ½ Much-appreciated escapism. Running time: 135 minutes. Rated PG-13 (life/death situations, brief profanity). At the Astor Plaza, the Clearview First and 62nd St., the Battery Park City, others....
SADDAM FORCES KIDS INTO WAR - FIGHT OR YOUR PARENTS DIE, HE SAYS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA U.S. general accused Iraq yesterday of pressing children to fight invasion forces on pain of death to their families. "Iraqi regime forces are seizing children from their homes, telling...
MOM'S DEATH PUSHED 'TROUBLEMAKER' SUSPECT OVER THE EDGE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe 10-year-old accused of mercilessly beating a 3-year-old boy to death was known as a neighborhood troublemaker - who was virtually abandoned by his father after his mom died of...
PUZZLE OF 'DR. GERM' VID
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amIntelligence officials are puzzling over a top Iraqi biowar expert's TV appearance yesterday with Saddam Hussein. Dr. Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash showed up on Iraqi TV videotape of a meeting...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amYou could say that driving through Hebron, Conn., really stinks. At least it did the other day, when a truck loaded with chicken manure spilled along Route 316. The truck,...
KILLER WEEPS AT HIT-RUN FAMILY'S SORROW
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA teen who mowed down a Brooklyn man with a speeding Ferrari last year cried hysterically at his sentencing yesterday - not when he was slapped with a seven-to-21-year prison...
VEGAN DAD TOO DUMB: IQ DOC
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens man accused of nearly starving his baby girl to death with an odd diet has an IQ of just 78 - indicating "borderline intelligence," a psychologist testified yesterday....
MCCAIN KNOWS THE PAIN OF OUR POWS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amIT'S a title he doesn't relish, but it's a fact - he is the most famous prisoner of war in the country. "The first 24 hours is a shock to...
GRATEFUL BLAKE ENTERS PLEA
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake pleaded not guilty yesterday to the murder of his wife, saying he was just happy to be alive and "on the right side of...
ONLY 1 ROADBLOCK TO MTA BUS DEAL
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe MTA said yesterday it's close to a deal to take control of the seven city-subsidized bus lines, but again said it would do so only if it doesn't increase...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * A fight between two men on a Bed-Stuy street ended in the stabbing death of one of the men and the arrest of the other. According to police,...
PRESIDENT BUSH'S MAN AT THE UNITED NATIONS YESTERDAY WALKED OUT OF A DEBATE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amPresident Bush's man at the United Nations yesterday walked out of a debate, saying he'd "heard enough" after Saddam Hussein's ambassador accused America of trying to exterminate the Iraqi people....
GUTS AND GLORY; IT WAS A PROUD WEEK FOR OUR TROOPS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amBy the way, the Third U.S. Infantry Divison, the "Rock of the Marne," got their nickname in the First World War, when they stood fast as the French were running...
OUR COBRAS SHOW FANGS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amFrom a Marine helicopter base HIS Cobra gunship was barely 100 feet above the adobe houses of a small Iraqi town when Maj. John Davis heard someone cry out: "AA...
$PRINGING A LEAK - JUDGE HITS IVANA OVER 'BOGUS' BIZ EXPENSES
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA federal judge has taken Ivana Trump to task over her business dealings, saying the Czech fashionista spent her firm's corporate cash on personal playthings such as her luxury motor...
JUDGE RIPS RUDY - FUMES AT FIRING OF BLACKFACE PARADERS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA federal judge lashed out at the Giuliani administration's sacking of a cop and two firefighters who wore blackface on a racist parade float in Queens, saying they were "pilloried,"...
MISSILE THAT HIT CIVILIANS NOT OURS: U.S.
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. military officials said yesterday they believe the missile that ripped apart a Baghdad neighborhood, killing 15 civilians, was not fired by coalition forces because the crater it left did...
BAIL BREAK FOR IBM 'SCAM' SON
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island judge reduced accused teen cyberscammer Loren Anderson's $100,000 bail so he could get out of jail and return home to North Carolina with his parents - who...
EVEN EGAN MUST NOW HAVE PERV CHECKUP
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe Archdiocese of New York has begun making criminal background checks on all employees who work with children and other vulnerable people - starting with Edward Cardinal Egan, officials said...
'PREDATOR' RAPE ORDEAL OF VICTIM, 77
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA paroled rapist and burglar was caught on Long Island - after allegedly robbing and raping the same 77-year-old woman in three separate incidents over four days. Victor Santos, 38,...
COPS HUNT DRIVER IN FATAL HIT-RUN OF 'GREAT GIRL'
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amCops yesterday were hunting for the hit-and-run driver who killed a beloved Brooklyn supermarket cashier as she was leaving work. After being mowed down, Cynthia Amaya, 22, was struck by...
TANKS MAKE TRAGIC BLUNDER - 'FRIENDLY FIRE' WOUNDS 30 MARINES
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amDuring an intense and confusing battle in the dark, U.S. Marines mistakenly fired on one of their own units near Nasiriyah, injuring 30 comrades - three critically, according a reporter...
'COUNT' ON FIGHT OVER HOMELESS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe 1,000 volunteers who went looking for homeless people during an overnight count last month in Manhattan found only 594, officials reported yesterday. The Department of Homeless Services released the...
LANDMARK WILL BEAR PAT'S NAME
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWhen the James Farley Post Office Building metamorphoses into a majestic train station to replace Pennsylvania Station, it will be named in honor of the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan....
EERIE GHOST TOWN GREETS TROOPS AMID THE GRISLY DEBRIS OF BATTLE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWith the 54th Engineers in Al Kifl 80 miles from Baghdad THINGS are strangely still, here in Al Kifl, a town on the east bank of the Euphrates taken yesterday...
LEONA $OCKED FOR LEGAL FEES
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amLeona Helmsley has to pay Charles Bell's lawyers over $600,000 in fees and costs, a Manhattan judge ruled yesterday - more than what the so-called "Queen of Mean" was ordered...
SARS STRIKES 2 MORE IN CITY
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe number of suspected cases of a mystery respiratory disease in New York City has increased by two - to six - as a U.S. health official yesterday advised Americans...
9/11 LANDFILL COPS SUE FOR $56M
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA group of police officers has filed suit against the city, charging they suffered "serious and permanent injury" from sifting through World Trade Center debris at the Fresh Kills landfill....
COPS TURNED DEAF EAR IN SMART CASE: SUSPECT'S KIDS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe children of accused kidnapper Wanda Barzee - wife of religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell - say Salt Lake City police ignored them when they tried to tell cops their...
SUMMER SCHOOL MAY BE NEXT IN LINE FOR CUT
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein has proposed scrapping summer school, except for the kids most "at risk" and those who would not be promoted without it. Summer school for the approximately...
BRITS BUST COLUMN OF FOE'S TANKS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amBritish forces battling to take Basra destroyed a column of Iraqi tanks trying to leave the city yesterday and seized control of the local radio and TV stations. Royal Scots...
BUSH: 'HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES'
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Standing side by side, President Bush and top ally British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday vowed that the war against Saddam Hussein will go on for "however long...
3 TEACHERS IN SEPARATE BUSTS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThree New York City teachers were arrested yesterday, one for fondling a student in The Bronx, and two for assaulting students in Brooklyn schools, police said. John Soto, 45, of...
'SHOCKING' KID SLAY - BOY, 10, HELD IN SEX ATTACK ON TODDLER, 3
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA 10-year-old New Jersey boy wielding a baseball bat beat and sexually assaulted a 3-year-old boy he lured out of a library - then dumped the dying toddler in a...
DOUBLE TROUBLE COMING, SADDAM: 120,000 MORE TROOPS ON WAY -- BAGHDAD EXPECTS ATTACK IN DAYS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWith two days of sandstorms finally over, allied warplanes flew 1,500 sorties against targets in north and south Iraq yesterday, while coalition troops resumed their march north to Baghdad. The...
'OH, MY GOD, I'M GOING TO DIE' - WOUNDED GI SURVIVED IRAQI MISSILE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amAs Sgt. Charles Horgan watched an Iraqi missile speeding toward his Humvee, he saw his life flash before his eyes. "It was just like in the movies. I thought 'Oh,...
SENATE DEMS' 'BLOCK' PARTY
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Texas Judge Priscilla Owen yesterday won Senate Judiciary Committee approval for an Appeals Court seat - setting the stage for Democrats to decide whether to go for an...
COUNT ON A FIGHT : ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS RIP CITY STATS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe 1,000 volunteers who went looking for homeless people during an overnight count last month in Manhattan found only 594, officials reported yesterday. The Department of Homeless Services released the...
COPS BLEW US OFF: KIDS OF SMART 'ABDUCTOR' TRIED TO WARN OF STEPDAD
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe children of accused kidnapper Wanda Barzee - wife of religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell - say Salt Lake City police ignored them when they tried to tell cops their...
'SHOCKING' KID SLAY: BOY, 10, HELD IN SEX ATTACK ON TODDLER, 3
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA 10-year-old New Jersey boy wielding a baseball bat beat and sexually assaulted a 3-year-old boy he lured out of a library - then dumped the dying toddler in a...
'A SHOCKING CASE': BOY, 10, CHARGED IN SEX-SLAY OF TODDLER, 3
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA 10-year-old New Jersey boy used a baseball bat to fatally beat a 3-year-old boy he dragged out of a library and sexually assaulted before dumping his body in a...
EVEN KILLER WEEPS AT SORROW OF HIT-RUN VICTIM'S FAMILY
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA teen who mowed down a Brooklyn man with a speeding Ferrari last year cried hysterically at his sentencing yesterday - not when he was slapped with a seven-to-21-year prison...
ONLY THE BRAINS ARE DEAD AT THIS 'DIE-IN'
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amSOME things, I guess, are not worth dying for. As dozens of protesters plopped themselves down in the middle of Fifth Avenue, pretending to be dead, I noticed a small...
FLOCKING DOVES: PEACENIKS STIR UP ROCK CENTER CHAOS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amAnti-war protesters rushed through barricades and a wall of cops to stage a "die-in" that blocked morning traffic on Fifth Avenue yesterday. Their bodies slumped in imitation of death -...
SGT. MOM AT WAR WITH SCHOOLS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island Army reservist called on to serve in Iraq says the only battle she's fought so far has been with Uniondale schools - which she said won't let...
MINES HALT BRIT FOOD SHIP
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A British relief ship headed for southern Iraq with 312 tons of food and water had to be turned back yesterday after mines were discovered in a key...
'APOLOGIST' BLIX BLASTED
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. military officials yesterday took issue with Hans Blix's claim that there's no evidence Iraq has used illegal weapons in the war. "So far we have not identified...
UNDERWATER MINES HALT BRIT FOOD SHIP
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A British relief ship headed for southern Iraq with 312 tons of food and water had to be turned back yesterday after mines were discovered in a key...
U.S. UNLEASHES THE ENEMY ELITE: 'HUNDREDS' OF FOES LIE DEAD NEAR BAGHDAD
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. infantry troops supported by bombers yesterday killed "several hundred" Iraqi paramilitary and elite Republican Guard troops on the outer approaches to Baghdad - in what could be...
BRITS CRUSH IRAQI TANKS BUGGING OUT OF BASRA
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amBritish forces battling to take Basra destroyed a column of Iraqi tanks trying to leave the city yesterday and seized control of the local radio and TV stations. Royal Scots...
KURDS THE WORD AS U.S. GEARS UP IN NORTH
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amFierce Kurdish fighters joined the war's new northern front yesterday as U.S. planes began delivering troops, tanks and equipment onto an airstrip seized the day before by paratroopers. The Kurdish...
DOUBLE TROUBLE : COMING, SADDAM: *120,000 MORE TROOPS ON WAY : * BAGHDAD EXPECTS ATTACK IN DAYS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWith the sandstorms finally over, allied warplanes flew 600 sorties against Iraqi targets in the north and south yesterday, while coalition troops resumed their march north to Baghdad. The planes...
CATS SURVIVE BADGER ATTACK
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMIDWESTKentucky 63Wisconsin 57 MINNEAPOLIS - That sound you heard late in the first half was an entire Commonwealth gasping in horror. There was Kentucky's Keith Bogans, the best player on...
PITT STOPS HERE ; MARQUETTE EARNS SPOT IN ELITE 8
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMIDWESTMarquette 77Pittsburgh 74 MINNEAPOLIS - The final gasp was a heave, a prayer, and when it left Carl Krauser's hands the only sound you could hear inside the Metrodome was...
WATER TEMPS LEAVE ANGLERS COLD
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amDESPITE the great spring weather, water temperatures are still colder than normal and saltwater fishing has been slow to get on track. With the trout season opener just a days...
MADDEN INJURY WILL TEST DEVILS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - The Devils began a major experiment last night: trying to get along without John Madden. On a team with just enough of everything forward-related, every injury matters. The...
BUTLER'S BEST SHOT IS AT THE LINE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - David, as we know, fell Goliath with one perfect deadly shot, which is exactly what Butler has in its arsenal. The Bulldogs, player for player, are smaller, slower...
SHAW STEPPED UP & CALMED STORM
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMarcus Hatten was for most of the season the only constant for hopelessly inconsistent St. John's - until vital reserve Willie Shaw stepped up his game as well, and the...
BROADWAY FAT CATS TAKE A BREAK
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amIT IS an accepted sports adage that teams play the way they practice. Never has this been proven more true than by the Rangers, who approach games the way they...
SYRACUSE IS AT HOME IN ALBANY
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Syracuse freshman Carmelo Anthony pulled a veteran move when he saw the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee had placed the Orangemen in the East Region. "I cut my phone...
ONE AMAZIN' HERO ; BAYLOR READY TO BATTLE CANCER
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Too often in the world of sports the word hero is thrown about loosely. Understand this about the Mets' new bench coach, Don Baylor. He is...
DON TO BEGIN TREATMENT
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMET NOTES Before yesterday's game with the Orioles was rained out, Met bench coach Don Baylor told the team he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone...
ACHING ALLAN TO TRY TONIGHT
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES He's not feeling any better, but Allan Houston plans on suiting up tonight against the Nets. Houston strained his right hamstring in the first quarter of Wednesday's 101-95...
TIGER HANGS TOUGH
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH - Tiger Woods knew exactly where his round was headed yesterday. Woods was in danger of careening to a place he generally avoids better than anyone in...
COOLER, CALMER DALY GETS FAST START WITH 70
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amGOLF NOTES PONTE VEDRA BEACH - Look who's in contention for the Players Championship through one round - John Daly. A calmer, gentler, seemingly more-in-control Daly shot a 2-under 70...
RECENT RE-BERTH HAS ISLES TALKIN'
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amIslanders owner Charles Wang and GM Mike Milbury feel pretty good about their team right now. And why shouldn't they? The Islanders go into tonight's Coliseum game against the hated...
SCOTT RETREATS ON KNICK RIVALRY
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amByron Scott made all kinds of headlines at the beginning of the season when he said the Knicks and the Nets weren't rivals. Now, toward the end of the season,...
QUEENS RULES DOWN SOUTH; TWO LOCALS HEAT UP REGION
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amSAN ANTONIO - How odd. Tonight's UConn-Texas game could come down to a couple of guards from Queens. Though a long way from home both will need to come up...
CONE COMEBACK ALL BUT COMPLETE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - David Cone won't experience the Opening Day pageantry at Shea Stadium, but he may get the next best thing: an improbable return to the major leagues...
TERPS HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THEIR CORNER
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amSOUTH REGION NOTE BOOK SAN ANTONIO - Until they lose, the Terrapins have what the other 15 teams remaining in the NCAA Tournament want, and don't think Maryland is going...
FLU COULD BUG OPENER
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - Anti-Americanism is not the only menace the Yankees may face in their season-opening series in Toronto. Ontario was put under a provincial state of medical emergency due to...
KURT'S NOT BACKING OFF
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe Knicks don't mind that Kurt Thomas is aggressive. They're not asking him to curb his rugged but effective style. But what nobody can figure out is why in the...
CORNER OFS BOOST YANKS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - During a four-run Blue Jay second inning yesterday, Toronto third base coach Brian Butterfield twice stopped runners coming from second on singles to right. The Blue Jays know...
BOMBER PEN CHASE GOES DOWN TO WIRE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amYankees 12Blue Jays 6 TAMPA - A lefty with a funky delivery and limited big league experience. Or a pellet-throwing neophyte right-hander who looks young enough to be picking up...
JORGE SUB UP IN AIR
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES Yankees 12 Blue Jays 6 TAMPA - While Joe Torre says he will decide on his final reliever today, the competition between John Flaherty and Chris Widger to...
TUBBY READY FOR NEXT STEP
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amHOW seriously could we take the Kentucky Wildcats in the midst of March Madness if persuasive hints weren't being dropped on all the right doorsteps that their coach is leaning...
PIANO MAN'S NEW TUNE ; DUKIET COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT MARQUETTE NOW
March 28, 2003 | 5:00am'WELL, Marquette fired me, so you know who I'm rooting for," Bob Dukiet said yesterday afternoon from his home in Boynton Beach, Fla. Not that he'd be glued to his...
DEVILS MOVE BACK INTO CENTURY CLUB
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 2Lightning 2 TAMPA - Out a year after being in five straight, the Devils have corrected that absence from the NHL's exclusive 100-point club. They realized what they had...
STORM MARCHING TO THE GARDEN
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amSt. John's 79UAB 71 All season Marcus Hatten has carried St. John's, shouldering arguably a heavier burden than any player in America. It was fitting that last night, with the...
PITT'S PROGRAM STEPS UP IN CLASS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS -There was no way to predict this, of course, no way to foretell all the prosperity that's emboldened the Pittsburgh Panthers these last two years. There was no great...
WILDCATS HANG TOUGH: KENTUCKY FIGHTS OFF SCARE FROM BADGERS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMIDWEST Kentucky 63 Wisconsin 57 MINNEAPOLIS - That sound you heard late in the first half was an entire Commonwealth gasping in horror. There was Kentucky's Keith Bogans, the best...
AUBURN: REVENGE IS SWEET
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amEAST REGION NOTE BOOK ALBANY - When Boston College and Seton Hall did not receive at-large berths to the NCAA Tournament, Auburn became the target of a lot of skeptics....
KENTUCKY FANS ARE TRUE BLUE
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMIDWEST NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Kentucky's players are used to a most user-friendly world around NCAA Tournament time. Where they travel, they are cheered on by the most mobile band of...
NO LONGER PITT-IFUL: PANTHERS PUTTING UP DUKE-LIKE NUMBERS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - There was no way to predict this, of course, no way to foretell all the prosperity that's emboldened the Pittsburgh Panthers these last two years. There was no...
SCOOP NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWFAN hit a new low in exploitive self-promotion yesterday when it produced and aired a promo in which Sid Rosenberg excitedly boasted that the station scooped its competition by "two...
HALE'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: BOB PAPA VS. VERNE LUNDQUIST
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amBob Papa vs. Verne Lundquist (Who's more underrated?) Speaking on background, other sportscasters mention Verne Lundquist as the most underrated voice in the business. Lundquist, currently working the NCAAs for...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JON MILLER
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN's Jon Miller. Sunday night, the 51-year-old Miller starts his 30th season in a baseball broadcast booth when the Angels face the...
COMIN' AT YA! BASEBALL'S BACK - AND MURPHY HAS SUNNY OUTLOOK FOR METS
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amThe sound of spring, Bob Murphy's voice, chirped through the phone line. The Mets' Hall-of-Fame play-by-play man's words could have sounded hokey if they weren't so genuine. "You are always...
SUZYN GETS SHUT OUT : YES CUTS PLAY-BY-PLAY ROLE TO ZERO
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amSuzyn Waldman won't do any play-by-play on YES this season, a network executive confirmed this week to NYP TV Sports. Last season, Waldman started the year slated to broadcast 30...
SHAKE-UP FOR REAL SIMPLE: TIME BOOTS TUHY, OFFERS EDITOR JOB TO GLAMOUR'S VAN OGTROP
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amA shake-up is about to hit critically acclaimed Real Simple that will boot the top editor, Managing Editor Carrie Tuhy, upstairs into a still-be-worked out magazine development job. A new...