April 2, 2003
L.A. TIMES FIRES FOTOG WHO DOCTORED PICTURE OF IRAQIS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe Los Angeles Times yesterday fired a photographer who digitally altered a widely distributed photo of Iraqis fleeing the besieged city of Basra to make it appear the crowd of...
STAFFER WON'T WORK ON BLOOMIE FARM NO MORE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amA hard rain appears to be falling on tantrum-prone Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief Matthew Winkler. His Bob Dylan-loving stock team senior editor Nick Hays resigned yesterday with a letter to Winkler that...
ALLEN'S CABLE BILL MAY CLIMB ABOUT $300M
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amBillionaire Paul Allen is ready to stake a whopping $300 million to keep his shaky Charter Communications plugged in. It's the latest costly headache for the Microsoft co-founder in his...
TIME MOVES TWO EDITORS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amAnother round of shakeups has rocked Time Inc. Barbara O'Dair was ousted as the managing editor of Teen People late yesterday. She is being replaced by Amy Du Bois Barnett,...
WEISEL PULLS OUT OF WALL ST. SETTLEMENT
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThomas Weisel Partners late yesterday dropped out of the long awaited agreement among 12 Wall Street firms and federal and state regulators to curb tainted research practices. In December 2002,...
PHOTOGRAPHER SEEING DOUBLE? BASRA IMAGE RAISES EYEBROWS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amA widely distributed Los Angeles Times photo of Iraqis fleeing the besieged city of Basra appears to have been manipulated to make it appear the crowd of civilians was larger...
SHOCK WAVE FELT AT PEOPLE SPINOFFS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amAnother round of shakeups has rocked Time Inc. Barbara O'Dair was ousted as the managing editor of Teen People late yesterday. She is being replaced by Amy Du Bois Barnett,...
TIME INC. COMES HOME TO NEW SHELTER LAUNCH
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWHEN the war finally ends, there may be a flood of new magazines headed to newsstands in early 2004. Time Inc. has put Kate Betts' Haven title on the back...
SPITZER GETS SAVE AFTER BLOOMIE ERROR
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amFor more than a year Eliot Spitzer watched the feud between YES and Cablevision from the sidelines. That changed last Friday when the New York Attorney General - at the...
READY FOR COURT:CABLEVISION TO FEND OFF NEW SUITS, ON YES' TAB
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amYES is gearing up to wage possible legal fights - bankrolled by Cablevision - against other cable and satellite companies that may seek better terms from the network, The Post...
SBC DROPS OUT OF BIDDING ON DIRECTV
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amSBC dropped out of the hunt for satellite television provider DirecTV yesterday, paving the way for News Corp. to make a bid for the company. SBC, the nation's No. 2...
BRUNO MAGLI'S MADISON MOVE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amBRUNO Magli is next in the line of chi-chi shops that have traded Fifth Avenue stores for new spaces on Madison Avenue. "We have found, as with the Bruno Magli...
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amFELLINI: I'M A BORN LIAR FEDERICO Fellini's father wanted him to be a doctor and his mother hoped he'd become a cardinal, we're told at the start of this loving...
ROOTING FOR 66
April 2, 2003 | 5:00am66 ½ 241 CHURCH ST. AT LEONARD STREET (212) 925-0202 JEAN-GEORGES Vongerichten's 66 is a Chinese paradox: wonderful and disappointing. Its bold and often brilliant Vongerichten-izing of Cantonese, Szechuan and...
STARR REPORT
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amNorville's 'Restless'; Smith WINS It's going to be a busy week for "Inside Edition" anchor Deborah Norville. Norville, based in New York, will fly out to L.A. on Friday to...
A LAST LOVE, À LA MOREAU
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amCET AMOUR LA 1/2 L'amour fou.In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 98 minutes. Not rated (mature subject matter). At the Quad and the Lincoln Plaza. JEANNE Moreau - who...
TOBACCO BUTTS IN ON MENU
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amONE restaurant has found a clever way of getting around the smoking ban.Serafina is unveiling a tobacco-infused lunch menu at its 38 E. 58th St. location. Chef Sandro Fioriti's recipes...
GREAT 'THIEF' MAY NIX NOLTE'S TROUBLES
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTHE GOOD THIEF 1/2 A winning hand. Running time: 108 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, drug use). At the City Cinemas, Third Avenue at 60th Street. NICK Nolte's DWI arrest...
NO MIRACLE FROM PENN
April 2, 2003 | 5:00am'URBAN Cowboy" rides again, while even a miracle - or at least Arthur Penn - couldn't save "The Miracle Worker." Producers Fran and Barry Weissler risked everything on a young...
'ALIAS' STAR CAN'T HIDE HEARTACHE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00am'ALIAS" star Jennifer Garner and her actor husband, Scott Foley, are having their own private cold war. US Weekly reports that Garner and Foley, both 30, are putting their 21/2-year...
FROM THE MAN WHO DREAMED UP 'SURVIVOR'... THE DONALD DOES REALITY
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amNBC is building a reality show around Donald Trump."The Apprentice," executive-produced by "Survivor" mastermind Mark Burnett, will gather 20 candidates from all walks of life and place them inside Trump's...
FALLEN 'IDOL' COREY - 'I'M SORRY - BUT NOT GUILTY'
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amCOREY Clark, booted off"American Idol 2" late Monday, had his chance to apologize to viewers and fellow contestants on last night's live show. "A story came out . . ....
DAVE MAKES BIG RETURN
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amDAVID Letterman's return to "Late Show" Monday night after a four-week absence paid handsome dividends. Monday's "Late Show" notched a 5.3 metered-market rating - the show's second-highest rating of the...
BAD BOYS, BAD GIRLS: FOURTH FALLEN 'IDOL' LEAVES SHOW ONE FINALIST SHORT
April 2, 2003 | 5:00am'YOU have to watch the show." That was the message from Fox officials yesterday on how "American Idol 2" would address the ouster of contestant Corey Clark. Clark, 22, was...
BITE & SWITCH: NEW NAMES FOR TOUGH TIMES
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amLOOK out, P.Diddy. Celebrities aren't the only ones who can change their names: Star restaurants are doing it, too. Some have new chefs introducing new cuisines, or new menus. Some...
PETER ARNETT'S TREASON
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amIS Peter Arnett guilty of treason? This is a perfectly serious question. Arnett, who was fired by NBC and National Geographic on Monday, is a citizen of the United States....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amA 42-year-old mother of two has wed a 14-year-old boy in Alabama. Daina Sancho tied the knot with honor student Irwin Vincent O'Rourke III in Mobile, where 14 is the...
BAGHDAD BUTCHER; SADIST SADDAM GROWS DESPERATE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amJOHN Lee Anderson, a Peter Arnett understudy reporting from Baghdad, gave a radio interview recently in which he referred to allied airstrikes as "atrocities." He spoke reproachfully of the Iraqi...
D.A.'S PET PEEVE ; PROSECUTOR RIPS VEGANS FOR FEEDING TOT 'LIKE A GERBIL'
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTwo vegan parents treated their frail baby like a pet "gerbil" when they fed her "a diet whose ingredients looked like they were picked up off a horse farm," a...
HEAD-LOP KILLER TO USE 9/11 DEFENSE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens man who decapitated his Afghan filmmaking partner and put his head in a freezer will claim temporary insanity - caused by witnessing the attack on the World Trade...
'CAREER' PLAN FOR PSYCHO SUSPECT
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe accused sicko serial killer - who told cops the Twin Towers attacks sparked his shootings of four hard-working shopkeepers in Brooklyn and Queens - had trained to be a...
CRIME-SLASH PROGRAM REPRIEVED
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe NYPD will extend "Operation Impact," which has cut crime by nearly 40 percent, in targeted areas throughout the city, Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday. The program, launched last January,...
ROAD CLEAR FOR BAGHDAD SIEGE - * U.S. FORCES RING KARBALA; * TWIN ASSAULT ON THE GUARD
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. ground forces encircled the holy Shiite city of Karbala last night after opening a two-pronged assault on Republican Guard units to clear the path for the attack on Baghdad....
HIDDEN MISSILES BANNED
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe two 15-foot-long missiles found hidden in a small Iraqi farming village on Monday were prohibited Al Samoud 2 rockets that had been tagged for destruction by U.N. weapons inspectors,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amBronx A man was arrested yesterday in the theft of more than $50,000 in checks from several businesses in Melrose, a police source said. Michael Looney, 45, was charged with...
$1B DOOMSDAY AX SET TO SLASH CITY SERVICES
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg revealed yesterday that he's preparing a doomsday scenario of $1 billion in additional service cuts - a whopping 18 percent at some agencies - if Albany doesn't come...
DERANGED BX. MAN KILLS EX AND FALLS TO HIS DEATH ON HIGHWAY
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amA jealous, deranged Bronx man stabbed to death the mother of his two small children yesterday before darting from the building and falling to his death from a highway overpass,...
MORE SECURITY AT SYNAGOGUES
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe NYPD will increase police protection around the city's synagogues during Passover later this month, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday said. Additional cops in police cars will be posted outside...
TOWN 'SAVES' CROWE NUPTIALS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe $240,000 chapel Russell Crowe built to hold his wedding ceremony won't have to be torn down before the nuptials - despite the fact he didn't get planning officials' permission...
'ID THIEF' TOO SICK FOR COURT
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe 300-pound help-desk worker, who was dubbed a "cash cow" after allegedly masterminding the biggest ID-theft racket in U.S. history, has fallen lame, his doctors claim. Instead of fronting up...
MULTIPLE WINS FOR MATH TEAM
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTop city high school students proved they're the best and brightest, dominating the New York State Mathematics League contest. The Department of Education's math teams finished first, second and third...
LAYOFF-WARY HOSP UNION: TIME TO RAISE TAXES
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Tens of thousands of chanting health-care workers marched on a snow-blown Capitol yesterday demanding higher taxes instead of Gov. Pataki's proposed state spending cuts. "This is an act...
MIDNIGHT RAIDERS RESCUE TEEN POW - JUBILANT W. VA. KIN CELEBRATE 'MIRACLE'
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. forces snatched a 19-year-old POW from her Iraqi captors last night in a daring midnight rescue that her overjoyed family called nothing short of "a miracle." Jessica Lynch -...
H'WAY TO SKYWAY - MARINES TURN SADDAM'S ROAD INTO AIRPORT
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amOn the road to Al Hillah MARINES gave the drive to Baghdad a major shot in the arm yesterday - creating a new military airport in one day. Not far...
JERSEY BARRIER TO WTC LAND-SWAP
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amNew Jersey officials want to put the brakes on talks between City Hall and the Port Authority over a Ground Zero land swap - concerned that they've been left in...
MAVERICK GERALDO HITS THE ROAD FOR KUWAIT
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amGeraldo Rivera is officially on his way out of Iraq. After a 24 hour stand-off with the Pentagon, Fox News Channel's maverick reporter volunteered to head to Kuwait in a...
HERO QNS. MARINE DIED 'DOING WHAT HE WANTED'
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amA gutsy Marine from Queens - who died when his tank plunged off a bridge in Iraq - died the way he would have wanted to: helping his beloved country...
WAR BOSS RAPS ARMCHAIR GENS. - JOINT CHIEFS BIG RAGES AT MEDIA'S 'HARMFUL' REPORTS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - An angry Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers yesterday blasted critics of the Iraq war plan, charging they are spreading "bogus" information that is "not helpful" at a...
POL URGES UNPAID COP OVERTIME
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amPowerful Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens suggested yesterday that New York's cops and firefighters should work overtime without pay as a wartime sacrifice. "I really feel strongly that we ought to...
ANXIOUS GIS CAN'T WAIT TO 'KICK ASS' AND GO HOME
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTHE men and women of the 54th Engineer Battalion had just set up camp in another bleak spot in the desert yesterday, and were expecting to be stuck there a...
FEARFUL ENFORCERS ; DON'T BLAME US FOR CIG CROWDS OUT FRONT: OWNERS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amBar and restaurant owners are asking Mayor Bloomberg for assurances they're not going to be targeted by police if their customers congregate outside to smoke. "We want an unequivocal public...
'MOGADISHU' PROFESSOR CUTS CLASS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amNearly a week after Columbia University professor Nicholas De Genova called for the mass slaughter of U.S. troops, the man who wants "a million Mogadishus" fears so much for his...
DEM EDWARDS PICKS UP $7.4M FOR PREZ RUN
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards yesterday said he raised about $7.4 million in the first three months of the year - an amount far greater than what most...
SCHMIDT CONFIRMED AS TOP TRUSTEE AT CUNY
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amGov. Pataki yesterday named Benno Schmidt as the new chairman of the City University's Board of Trustees. Schmidt - a trustee on the CUNY policy board since 1999 - is...
SADDAM A NO-SHOW - BUTCHER PULLS OUT OF PROMISED TV SPEECH
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Speculation that Saddam Hussein is dead or injured escalated yesterday after Iraqi state TV said he'd speak to the Iraqi people on television - but he was a...
TWIST IN MTA PROBE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amEmbattled MTA Security Director Louis Anemone and his top deputy were suspended yesterday after the agency's inspector general claimed the duo had "fabricated a confidential informant" in one of their...
TRAGIC HERO'S LAST LETTER
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWhen teen soldier Diego Rincon penned a painfully homesick letter to his beloved mom in February, it almost seemed he knew he was going to die. Rincon's stricken mom received...
FLAKY STORM SURPRISES CITY
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amMother Nature played an April Fool's Day joke yesterday - whipping up a wild half-hour snowstorm that swirled through the Big Apple at lunchtime. It began shortly after 11 a.m....
INNOCENT VAN VICTIMS SET UP BY SADDAM: IMAM
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. military officials yesterday insisted that the blood of the seven Iraqi women and children killed in a checkpoint shooting is on Saddam Hussein's hands - as a local religious...
GERALDO HITS THE ROAD
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amGeraldo Rivera is officially on his way out of Iraq. After a 24-hour standoff with the Pentagon, Fox News Channel's maverick reporter volunteered to head to Kuwait in a move...
ROAD CLEAR FOR BAGHDAD SIEGE - * U.S. FORCES RING KARBALA * GIS TAKE KEY TIGRIS BRIDGE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. ground forces advanced toward Baghdad's city gates today, after encircling the holy Shiite city of Karbala in a two-pronged assault on elite Republican Guard units. Army units attacked parts...
'THIS IS THE BIG BATTLE' - U.S. SURROUNDS KARBALA, STRIKES SADDAM'S GUARD
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In the most important battle of the war so far, U.S. troops today ringed Iraqi forces in the key city of Karbala, and this morning were rolling onward...
MAN KILLS EX AND FALLS TO HIS DEATH
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amA jealous, deranged Bronx man stabbed to death the mother of his two small children yesterday before darting from the building and falling to his death from a highway overpass,...
ENVOYS FLEE SARS: FREE FLIGHTS BACK FOR U.S. STAFFERS AT ASIAN EMBASSIES
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe United States is offering free flights home to some of its diplomats in parts of China because of the mysterious and deadly flu-like virus that has spread to three...
ENVOYS FLEE SARS : FREE FLIGHTS BACK FOR U.S. STAFFERS AT ASIAN EMBASSIES
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe United States is offering free flights home to some of its diplomats in parts of China because of the mysterious and deadly flu-like virus that has spread to three...
JAIL LOG EYED IN COP-CAR BOMB PROBE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amPolice investigating the mysterious cache of guns and bombs found in a policewoman's car are checking the prison communications of the convict who torched himself two years ago at a...
TAXI LICENSE HACK OF A LOT EASIER
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amGetting a yellow-taxi license just got easier. The Taxi and Limousine Commission unveiled a program yesterday that will allow new drivers to take a three-day, 24-hour training course to get...
CRIME-SLASH PROGRAM GETS REPRIEVE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe NYPD will extend the successful "Operation Impact" initiative that has reduced crime by nearly 40 percent in targeted high-crime areas throughout the city, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday....
QUIT, IGNORE LAW OR BRAVE THE CHILL
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amFour days into Mayor Bloomberg's cigarette ban, smokers in the city are already dividing up into three distinct types, barstaff say - the wannabe quitters, the rebels and the sidewalk...
CITY HIT BY FLAKY STORM
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amMother Nature played an April Fool's Day joke yesterday - whipping up a wild half-hour snowstorm that swirled through the Big Apple at lunchtime. It began shortly after 11 a.m....
FALLEN HERO: 'GOD HAS A PATH FOR ME'
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWhen teen soldier Diego Rincon penned a painfully homesick letter to his beloved mom in February, it almost seemed he knew he was going to die. Rincon's stricken mom received...
TODAY'S BATTLE CRITICS ARE FIGHTING FOR YESTERDAY'S STRATEGIES
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amENOUGH, armchair generals. More than enough, armchair colonels. The White House yesterday forcefully told them all to shut up. For a week, the military Old Guard has been sniping at...
HIGHWAY TO SKYWAY : MARINES TURN SADDAM'S ROAD INTO THEIR OWN AIRPORT
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amOn the road to Al Hillah MARINES gave the drive to Baghdad a major shot in the arm yesterday - creating a new military airport in one day. Not far...
'THIS IS THE BIG BATTLE': U.S. SURROUNDS KARBALA, STRIKES SADDAM'S GUARD
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The most important battle of the Iraq war got under way last night when Army troops launched a massive two-pronged attack on Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard defending...
'MOGADISHU' PROF CUTS CLASS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amNearly a week after Columbia University professor Nicholas De Genova called for the mass slaughter of U.S. troops, the man who wants "a million Mogadishus" fears so much for his...
CLERIC: SLAIN CIVILIANS 'FORCED' INTO CAR
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. military officials yesterday insisted that the blood of the seven Iraqi women and children killed in a checkpoint shooting is on Saddam Hussein's hands - as a local religious...
MIDNIGHT RAIDERS RESCUE TEEN POW
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. forces snatched a 19-year-old POW from her Iraqi captors last night in a daring midnight rescue that her overjoyed family called nothing short of "a miracle." Jessica Lynch -...
LEITER LIKES SHANE'S COMEBACK
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amMET NOTES As the Mets continued to negotiate with Shane Reynolds' representatives yesterday, Al Leiter had two words for his bosses. "Why not?" Leiter said during an autograph session at...
GUTTY LEETCH CAN'T DO IT ALONE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTHE latest Ranger Frankenstein, developed at the unbudgeted cost of $80 million in the Cablevision laboratories, staggered to Uniondale last night daring the very people who have most hated and...
IT'S A HATT TRICK! MARCUS' LATE HEROICSPUT STORM IN FINAL
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amSt. John's 64Tex. Tech 63 St. John's thrilling, come-from-behind win over Texas Tech in the NIT semifinal at the Garden last night was a microcosm of the Red Storm's season....
STATE DEER TAKE HITS NEW HIGH
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTHE increased number of deer management permits combined with increased opportunities had the desired effect with hunters taking a record number of deer in New York State during the 2002...
PIAZZA CATCHES BREAK ; SUSPENSION CUT FROM 5 GAMES TO 4
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amStill smarting from a disgraceful Opening Day performance, the Mets received a moral victory yesterday when Mike Piazza's suspension was reduced from five games to four. Moral victories don't count...
ISLES TRYING TO HIDE FROM POSTSEASON PRESSURE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThe playoffs began last night for the Islanders. Actually, they began about 24 hours before the puck dropped for last night's monumental Coliseum date with the hated Rangers. That's when...
HUCKABY: I'M NOT A VILLAIN
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - Ken Huckaby spent a baseball lifetime trying to break camp with a big league club and when he finally not only made a 25-man roster, but actually started...
MRI TO DETERMINE JETER'S FATE ; SURGERY COULD MEAN FOUR-MONTH ABSENCE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - Nobody with a medical background has told Derek Jeter his dislocated shoulder will require surgery. However, until Jeter is placed in a Tampa MRI tube tomorrow, how long...
JOE TURNS TO NICK IN TWO HOLE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - While the main focus was on replacing Derek Jeter at short, Joe Torre needs a new No. 2 hitter with Jeter sidelined. Yesterday Torre batted the...
DATES WITH DESTINY ; PLAYOFF LIVES ON LINE FOR RANGERS, ISLANDERS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00am"There's no way around it. Either we win and stay in or we lose and we're out."RANGER MATTHEW BARNABY The Rangers have been walking a high wire for months, out...
GM: CHANEY'S NOT PROBLEM
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amDENVER - Perhaps taking into account the Knicks' frontcourt woes following Antonio McDyess' season-ending injury, Knicks GM Scott Layden yesterday absolved Don Chaney of all blame for the team being...
CAMBY MEETS KNICKS FIRST TIME AS NUGGET
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amDENVER - Here's a twist. Marcus Camby is healthy and the Knicks' big men are banged up. Camby actually has made it to tonight's game vs. the Knicks at Pepsi...
RODNEY'S REVIVAL IS LIFTING NETS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amThere were no motivational tantrums, no finger-pointing, not even a shouting session with the head coach. There were just a few words, the theme of a short meeting two weeks...
TOP DRAFT PICK NEAR DEAL
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES Nenad Krstic, the Nets' 2002 first-round draft pick, will sign with the team early this summer, his agent yesterday. Connecticut-based Marc Feingold told The Post he expects Krstic...
METROS FINISH UP MIDFIELD FACELIFT
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWith the MLS season rapidly approaching, the MetroStars' exhaustive effort to upgrade their midfield finally appears to have borne fruit. Yesterday they won a weighted lottery and selected left-sided midfielder...
NICE JOB, ENRIQUE . . . NOW SIT DOWN
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - There is no greater compliment that somebody in Enrique Wilson's role can receive around the Yankees than this - he performed like Luis Sojo. Sojo used to amaze...
NO-DEREK BOMBERS ROLL ON
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amYankees 10 Blue Jays 1 TORONTO - Life Without Derek, or LWD, is all right. Nobody is foolish enough to say the Yankees are the same team without Derek Jeter,...
NOT YOUR USUAL LOSS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - The last time the Yankees' faced an in jury crisis this dire - with Derek Jeter gone anywhere from a month until spring training 2004 - they were...
NO. 2 HOLE A PUZZLE FOR TORRE
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - While the main focus was on replacing Derek Jeter at short, Yankee manager Joe Torre also needs a new No. 2 hitter with Jeter sidelined. Yesterday,...
HOYAS SAVOR SWEETNEY TASTE OF VICTORY
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amGeorgetown 88Minnesota 74 Any success Georgetown has enjoyed this season has pretty much come courtesy of Mike Sweetney. The 6-foot-8 junior had almost single-handedly carried the Hoyas into last night's...
ISLES CAN'T DELIVER KNOCKOUT BLOW
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 2Islanders 2 The Islanders last night had a chance to clinch a playoff berth. They had a chance to bury their most hated rival and erase any threat coming...
LET THE RACE BEGIN ; DEVILS' LEAD OVER PHILLY CUT TO 1
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIMEMaple Leafs 3Devils 2 On the night when their fans booed the Canadian National Anthem, and Pat Burns gave Larry Robinson a verbal shot, the Devils didn't exactly cover themselves...
RANGERS STAY ALIVE ; 3RD-PERIOD RALLY TIES ISLANDERS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 2 Islanders 2 As they live and breathe, the Rangers live and breathe. If only barely. Which, you must understand, is far better than the alternative. "In a perfect...
GOMEZ GETS GOING : DEVILS NEED HIM FOR PLAYOFF PUSH
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWhat a year these differences made. It almost was exactly when Scott Gomez went out last season, Kevin Constantine's high-flying Devils following him in short order. Until his five-assist explosion...
NO GREATER THRILL FOR COLISEUM THAN BURYING BLUESHIRTS
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amA NEW Frankenstein, built for $80 million in the Cablevision laboratories, staggered to Long Island yesterday daring the people who hated and feared it for 31 years to drive a...
ENCHANTED BY APRIL: NIT STILL IMPORTANT TO GLOVER & STORM
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWhen Anthony Glover decided to attend St. John's five years ago, he envisioned playing into April - when all but four teams were still standing. "That's what I thought was...