April 6, 2003
COLLEGE SPORTS FIND A HOME OFF-CAMPUS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amIf you can't get enough of college sports, you'll be able to stay up 24 hours, seven days a week glued to the new College Sports Television channel launching tomorrow....
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amOK Computer: Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood was annoyed at the online pirated MP3 tracks from the upcoming album "Hail to the Thief." But he's not mad at you. "I can...
STARR REPORT
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amGlimmer of hope for a worthwhile cause Tavern on the Green will be the setting this Tuesday when over 100 people, including newscasters from nearly every station in town, will...
DEBORAH GIBSON GRABS THE REMOTE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amActress, "Cabaret," composer I am an "American Idol" fan. I have watched both seasons religiously and was bummed out that rocker Patrick Lake didn't make the cut and, of course,...
ALPS ON THE WAY
April 6, 2003 | 5:00am'MESSIDOR" (1978) - a Swiss"Thelma and Louise" - tracks two young women as they trek across the country, ripping off people and making headlines. Directed by Alain Tanner, it's part...
YOU DON'T KNOW 'HIT'; 'PLATINUM' TAKES RACE AND SEX WHERE THEY DON'T BELONG
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amIT was just about the vilest thing I'd ever heard on a TV show. It was on a preview tape for a new drama series coming up on UPN called...
THE DINNER PARTY FROM HELL
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amThere's nothing like bad timing. Not only am I in a terse standoff about the war with my boyfriend - my parents are coming to town. We're all supposed to...
GIMME SHELTER
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amBeing a New York City police officer is not an easy job. But for Officer Nichole Meuse of the 44th Precinct in The Bronx, the toughest part is picking up...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER REBECCA TAYLOR PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amRebecca Taylor's feminine and girly clothes are so intricately detailed that each item is a precious investment. Fans of the designer from Down Under - including Cameron Diaz, Rosie Perez...
PULLING PUNCHES: EVEN MADONNA, THE ORIGINAL FEMALE PROVOCATEUR, MUST MELLOW WITH AGE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amHas Madonna lost her Midas touch - and her mind? On the heels of last year's bomb, "Swept Away" (a starring vehicle for the 44-year-old mother of two, directed by...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER . . . SEEING ONE OF THE NEW BROADWAY PLAYS?
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amThere are four important new productions up - or about to go up - on Broadway this month: "The Play What I Wrote," which boasts a different surprise guest star...
SARS SLEUTHS EYE 'SUPER SPREADERS'
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amDoctors tracking the rapid worldwide outbreak of SARS are investigating whether the pneumonia-like virus is being passed on by "super spreaders" - people who carry the infected germs but have...
BUG-A-BEAU: YANK ON LOVE TRIP SURVIVES KILLER VIRUS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amAlan Hoskin flew 6,000 miles to China for a blind date - but love wasn't the only thing in the air on Valentine's Day. The 38-year-old chauffeur from Meadow Vista,...
A COLD DAY IN HELL
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amTHE only man harder to find than Dick Cheney is Saddam Hussein - despite the fact that he's appeared in more bad videos than Osama bin Laden and Gary Busey...
BASELESS BALL
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amLET me be among the first to say "no" to YES. Not that I hate baseball, but really, why would I pay extra for a game in which the best...
COCKPIT CLUES IN MASS. CRASH
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amA cockpit voice recorder has been recovered from the scene of the fiery Massachusetts plane crash that killed New York real estate scion Anthony Fisher and wife Anne, authorities said...
KIN: DOC MADE OUR MOM 'GUINEA PIG'
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amA former SUNY Downstate heart surgeon with a $1.2 million-a-year state contract until last month has been sued for "negligent and careless" treatment in the death of a 70-year-old Brooklyn...
SOCKING SADDAM IN THE FORE!-HEAD
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe Butcher of Baghdad is also under heavy fire at a golf range in Wisconsin. Teed-off golfers are having a ball taking their best shots at whacking a giant Saddam...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amSuo-Shan Wang has been found guilty of practicing medicine without a license - after castrating a man on a dining room table. Wang, 29, of Oak Park, Mich., faces up...
STARVING NATION'S OIL BOUGHT FOOD FOR FIENDS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amIn Sarabadi, southeast of BaghdadTHOUSANDS of Iraqis are starving each day, but Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard has stockpiled so much food that it's piled to the rafters at an air...
BEYOND BAGHDAD; THE CHALLENGES OF VICTORY
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amTWO task forces from the U.S. Army's Third Infantry Division just took their first tour of downtown Baghdad. The 3ID controls the city's international airport, while our airpower dominates the...
CHILLING CORPSE PILE FOUND IN FOE'S BASE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amBritish forces made a grisly discovery at a makeshift morgue yesterday when they found a stack of bodies - possibly numbering in the hundreds - at a barracks near Iraq's...
KLEIN'S HOOPS BLOOPER LED HIM TO REHAB
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amCalvin Klein's embarrassing moment at a Knicks game - trying to talk to Latrell Sprewell in the middle of a game - was actually a blessing, since the fashionista is...
HOW LEFT TURN PUT ARNETT ON THE ROAD TO SEDITION
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amBILL Kristol, who helps run the Washington political magazine Weekly Standard, said on Fox TV yesterday: "It surprised me that he hasn't joined The New York Times." The "he" Kristol...
MAYOR BETTING ON OTB 'CASINO'
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - New York City would get its first-ever modern casinos as part of a top-secret plan to provide Mayor Bloomberg with more than $400 million a year in badly...
CROWE: BEAUTIFUL WEDDING IN MIND
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amHe's got a lot to Crowe about. Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe will tie the knot tomorrow - his 39th birthday - with sexy singer-actress Danielle Spencer in a $400,000 domed...
OWE, NO: CREDIT JERKS ANNOY GIS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amWhile their credit is good overseas, some members of the American military are finding it plummeting here at home. Family members went ballistic over the way their sons and daughters...
'ELITE' FOES CUT AND RUN FROM HQ
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amGIs delivered another humiliating blow to Saddam Hussein's rotting regime when they captured the headquarters of the Republican Guard's Medina Division southwest of Baghdad yesterday. Two tank companies and an...
SUPPORT FOR WAR HITS 77% IN POLL
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amAn overwhelming majority of Americans support the war in Iraq, according to a new poll released yesterday. Seventy-seven percent support the war - and a majority of those said they...
WORKER'S HEALTH BESTS WEALTH
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amMaggie Kelly is an unwitting smoking-ban postergirl. A bartender at Arthur's in the West Village, Kelly used to smoke two packs of cigarettes a night. Now she wears a nicotine...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amManhattan Cops yesterday reported the disappearance of an elderly woman, who was last seen Friday at her Spanish Harlem apartment building, cops said. Marciana Rivera, 77, who lives at 1539...
FIREHOUSE FIRESTORM ; NABES TO MIKE: DON'T DARE SHUT 8 STATIONS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amNeighborhood residents and firefighters are urging Mayor Bloomberg to save eight firehouses from getting the ax - despite a panel's recent decision to support the move. "The panel's decision is...
PAIN IN BUTT FOR PUFFERS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe view from the sidewalk is not pretty. "I think it kind of stinks," said Christine Ristino, smoking with her boyfriend outside Cielo Friday night. "I had to check my...
ABSTAINERS BREATHE EASY
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amSara Wilcox and Susan Ruge, Columbia law students and non-smokers, noticed something many New Yorkers found last week: After a night out, their clothes didn't smell like smoke. "It's nice...
DIGGING AT SCHOOL FOR CHEM WEAPONS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. troops yesterday were digging up a suspected chemical weapons cache at a girls' school in central Iraq. After receiving information from a man who described himself as a former...
BAGHDAD NOW ON THE ROPES ; ALLIES ADVANCE IN STREET FIGHTING
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amAmerican forces have a near stranglehold on Baghdad and are choking what little life remains in Saddam Hussein's vile regime, officials said yesterday. Surgically striking inside the Iraqi capital, GIs...
'SADDAM' STARS AGAIN IN IRAQI 'SURVIVOR' SHOW
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amFor the third time in as many days, Iraqi state-run TV yesterday aired footage of Saddam Hussein - or a dead ringer - this time meeting with his two sons,...
TROOPS PIERCE BELLY OF BEAST ; DARING BAGHDAD 'TEST RUN' 1,000 ENEMY FIGHTERS SLAIN
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amAfter a lightning two-week surge through Iraq, U.S. tanks smashed through Iraq's Republican Guard and into the heart of Baghdad yesterday in a test run against Saddam Hussein's stronghold -...
'KID' KELLY SCOOPS 'EM
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amWhen U.S. troops entered Baghdad early yesterday, there was only one U.S. television reporter broadcasting live from heart of the battle - and he later got a special message from...
BASRA WEAKENS ; BA'ATHS WANT TO SURRENDER, CLERIC REPORTS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amAfter two weeks of fierce fighting around the besieged city of Basra, Iraq's second-largest, British troops smelled victory yesterday as Saddam Hussein's loyalists hinted at surrender. The pan-Arab newspaper Asharq...
L.I. TEACHER IN KID-SEX BUST
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island English teacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a boy and girl he was ministering at a Catholic youth center. Mathew Maiello, 29, of Lynbrook,...
ARTIST HURT IN SOHO FIRE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amA SoHo building turned into a "towering inferno" last night that left one resident hospitalized with chest and face burns, fire officials said. "The flames were shooting out the window...
TALE OF TWO HEROIC PALS HAS HAPPY ENDING FOR ONE FAMILY
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amThey were assigned to the same Army unit, they roomed together before they were deployed and they were good friends - but fate dealt different cards to two soldiers ambushed...
BARGAINS RISE FOR SAVVY RENTERS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amThere are still rental bargains in some residential areas surrounding Ground Zero, according to realtors. And prices could be heading further south there thanks to a saturated citywide rental market...
ANXIOUS APPLE IRAQIS FEAR FOR LOVED ONES
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amSalam Al-Rawi sat fixated in front of a flats-creen television in the back of his East Village restaurant. Iraq's information minister was on camera again. "He calls American soldiers white...
TOURISTS STILL KEEP PURSE STRINGS TAUT
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amTourists are expected to make Ground Zero their prime destination in the city again this summer, but that may not make the coming months any brighter for struggling downtown businesses,...
'INSIDERS' PICKED 2 TO 'SURVIVE'
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amUnidentified CBS staffers who allegedly made a killing by wagering on "Survivor" finalists picked two hotties from the current show to be the last two contestants standing: a brunette swimsuit...
WHOM THE 'TOO SMART' MONEY PICKED TO 'SURVIVE'
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amUnidentified CBS staffers who allegedly made a killing by wagering on "Survivor" finalists picked two hotties from the current show to be the last two contestants standing: a brunette swimsuit...
TEACHER IN KID-ORGY BUST
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island English teacher has been arrested for allegedly having three-way sex with a boy and girl he was ministering at a Catholic youth center. Mathew Maiello, 29, of...
SUBWAY PLAN GETS '2ND' WIND
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amPlans for a Second Avenue subway are rolling forward, with two new stations in lower Manhattan and another way to get to Brooklyn on the drawing board, The Post has...
BRAVE POW JESSICA TOLD SAVIORS: 'I'M AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, TOO'
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amThey worked in the same company and were ambushed in Iraq, but fate had different outcomes for three female soldiers - one was rescued, one was killed and the other's...
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR THE FUTURE - CURRENT WORK AT THE WTC SITE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amTen months after the last steel column from the Twin Towers was hauled out of Ground Zero, the site is a full-time construction zone. The photo above, taken last week,...
BURK-ING UP WRONG TREE ; MARTHA'S METHODS MANGLE MESSAGE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amMARTHA Burk is one of those messengers whose methods eventually obscure and deface the message. A reputed social activist, she behaves like a vandal. Burk was doing fine. For a...
WITH WOODS, YOU GOTTA THREE-LIEVE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00am"I think every pursuit is fun. Every challenge is fun to me."TIGER WOODS AUGUSTA - Amid the backdrop of war, protests over war, and protests over country club membership policies,...
DECISION 'CLOSE' FOR D.J.
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - Derek Jeter and his agent, Casey Close, are certainly thrilled that Jeter's dislocated shoulder passed the first hurdle when Yankee doctors announced that they didn't believe Jeter...
TAURASI'S ALL ABOUT WINNING
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - So you want to know the story behind Connecticut point guard Diana Taurasi? The best player in women's college basketball? The one who's responsible for 17 points, six...
NO EFFORT, NO ENTHUSIASM, NO MEANING
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amThrashers 3Islanders 2 And down the stretch they come, the ragged Islanders, who continue to make you wonder what exactly their water bottles are being spiked with. It was a...
LADY VOLS OUT FOR SWEET REVENGE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - Lose to a team by 21 points, and you have just one wish. "You want an opportunity to play them again," Tennessee guard Kara Lawson said. "The stakes...
RELAXED FLOYD GETS INTO SWING
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amCliff Floyd had to admit the truth: Deep down he'd been trying too hard to do too much, stressed and obsessed with impressing his new Met teammates and the demanding...
IVERSON FAILS TO ANSWER CALL
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Either Allen Iverson's left knee is throbbing even more acutely than his 16 straight misses against the Rockets attests, or he's grown dreadfully dull on an audience (exempting...
DIKEMBE DISTURBED OVER LACK OF PT
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amAfter sitting on the sidelines for much of the season recuperating from right wrist surgery, Dikembe Mutombo thought that once he was healthy enough to play again, his problems would...
STONE-COLD TOM JUST TOO MUCH FOR ICE 'SPOS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amYOU knew this was going to be Tom Glavine's Shea Day the moment you saw the over-dressed Expos. All that was missing on the field was cobalt-blue parkas. Glavine found...
HELLO, LARRY GOODBYE, MARK ; BLUESHIRTS SHOULD BRING IN ROBINSON AND DELETE MESS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amMONTREAL - Jim Dolan has changed his mind overnight. Glen Sather isn't the GM any more. I am. My first order of business? Guarantee that the 2003-2004 Rangers will make...
NOTHING LEFT FOR DEVILS TO ACCOMPLISH
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amFrom the Department of All Things Insignificant, the Devils travel to Buffalo this afternoon for their regular-season finale. Talk about your raw, undaunted excitement. With Friday's 2-1 win over the...
THIS TIME, THEY'RE GLAVINE A PARTY: OPENING JEERS TURN TO CHEERS IN WIN
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amMets 3Expos 1 Hell, also known as Shea Stadium, froze over yesterday. Tom Glavine - a Brave for 16 seasons - received a standing ovation. In the sixth, when he...
MO NOT WORRIED ABOUT HIP
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amMET NOTES First, Mo Vaughn was sick and missed a start. Then yesterday, he was forced to leave in the third inning with a left hip strain. "I should've stayed...
'ENDEAVOR' TAKES EXCELSIOR ; EX-CLAIMER WIRES FIELD AT BIG A
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amProving once again that he's "tough on the front end," jockey Chuckie Lopez gunned former claiming horse Classic Endeavor to the lead from post 1, hugged the rail all the...
SECOND OPINION'S AT HAND FOR DEREK
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - Derek Jeter and his agent, Casey Close, certainly are thrilled that Jeter's dislocated left shoulder passed the first hurdle when Yankee doctors announced they didn't believe Jeter...
FIASCO YEAR STUMPS ERIC ; 'I NEVER FOUND TOUCH'
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amCanadiens 5Rangers 4 MONTREAL - Bobby Holik suggested that the first post-elimination order of business for himself and his Ranger teammates should be to look in the mirror. And so,...
PERFECT THEY'RE NOT: YANKS DROP 1ST OF YEAR AS 'PEN TAKES POUNDING
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amDevil Rays 6 Yankees 5 "It was a bad day for me. I have to pitch down, and those last two balls were high balls."LOSER ANTONIO OSUNA (RIGHT) ST. PETERSBURG...
MO WANTS TO RETURN ON FRIDAY
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - His timetable likely won't jibe with the Yankees' plans, but Mariano Rivera wants to come off the disabled list this Friday, when the Yankees host...
THE AGONY OF DEFEAT: SEMIFINAL LOSS HITS WADE LIKE PUNCH IN NOSE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - In order to have it all, Dwyane Wade knew he had to do it all. Just as he had done against Kentucky, when he powered Marquette into...
CLIPS' JARIC SAYS VUJANIC SHOULD GIVE N.Y. A SHOT
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES LOS ANGELES - Clippers point guard Marko Jaric said his countryman Milos Vujanic could be making a mistake by deciding to play for a prestigious European team -...
CARMELO & CO. ROLL INTO FINAL
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amSyracuse 95 Texas 84 NEW ORLEANS - Jim Boeheim will have a chance to exorcise his demons. The veteran Syracuse coach will get his third crack at a national championship...
AND NOW . . . THE SUPER FRESHMEN VERSUS THE SUPER VETS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The kids say they understand, but they can't, they don't, not really, not yet. They are freshmen, so the worst basketball trauma they've endured are five meaningless...
VS. BIG 12, SYRACUSE WAS ORANGE CRUSHER
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amFINAL FOUR NOTEBOOK NEW ORELANS - Syracuse's run to tomorrow night's national championship game has left the Big 12 Conference, considered to be the nation's best this year, battered. The...
HANGIN' BY A THREAD
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amClippers 109 Knicks 98 LOS ANGELES - The Knicks' three Achilles heels this season flared up last night - a symbolic convergence considering they nearly were mathematically eliminated from the...
JERSEY'S FINALLY TAKING SUBWAY TO OFFSHORE REEF
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amAFTER a two-year struggle, it appears that New Jersey is finally getting 250 subway cars that will be used to build ocean reefs off the Jersey shore. Originally, New Jersey...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER ROOM DOORS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amARMY'S REAL POINT MAN Turn on your TV for the latest briefing on the war in Iraq and you see the commanding presence of Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks. Brooks went...
IT'S MIDNIGHT FOR MARQUETTE: CINDERELLA'S SLIPPER CRACKS
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - It got uncomfortable after a while, it really did. Fairy tales aren't supposed to end this way. Glass slippers aren't supposed to get scuffed like a worn-out...
CARMELO ON 'CUSE CONTROL
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amSyracuse 95 Texas 84 NEW ORLEANS - Jim Boeheim will get a chance to exorcise his demons. The veteran Syracuse coach will get his third crack at a national championship...
NOTHING SHORT OF SPECTACULAR: YANKS' OFFENSIVE ONSLAUGHT EASES LOSS OF DEREK
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - Bulging biceps force their way out from under the uniform instead of beer boilers. The bases are run swiftly and smartly as opposed to lumbering legs that...
HANGIN' BY A THREAD: LOSS PUSHES KNICKS TO THE BRINK
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amClippers 109 Knicks 98 LOS ANGELES - The Knicks' two Achilles' heels this season flared painfully last night - which was symbolic considering they nearly were mathematically eliminated from the...
IT'S ALLAN'S TEAM NOW: HOUSTON HIGHLIGHT OF KNICK SEASON
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Call the season an utter failure if you want, with the Knicks facing potential mathematical playoff elimination yesterday. But that would do an injustice to the greatest...
MASTER OF CEREMONIES: CONTROVERSY CAN'T OVERSHADOW TIGER
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amAUGUSTA - Whose Masters is this anyway? Is it Martha Burk's? Hootie Johnson's? The Ku Klux Klan's? How about Tiger Woods'? What about Ernie Els, Davis Love III, Mike Weir,...
SAMPSON: 'CUSE, TEXAS HAD HOME EDGE
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORELANS - It's no coincidence that two of the four teams that advanced to the Final Four had huge home-court advantages in the regional semifinals and finals. Texas, the...
STARS SHINE IN SPOTLIGHT
April 6, 2003 | 5:00am"To go to the Final Four, you have to be good, you have to be lucky, sometimes you have to be in the right bracket. And more important than anything,...
MARQUETTE SEES ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amFINAL FOUR NOTEBOOK NEW ORELANS - Marquette coach Tom Crean didn't concede defeat until 2:02 was left in last night's 94-61 NCAA semifinal loss to Kansas. When he did, Crean...
FIASCO YEAR STUMPS ERIC: BUT RANCID RANGER ACCEPTS ALL BLAME
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amMONTREAL - Bobby Holik suggested that the first post-elimination order of business for himself and his Ranger teammates should be to look in the mirror. And so, the question was...
ALL-CHSAA 2003 FIRST TEAM
April 6, 2003 | 5:00amPLAYER OF THE YEAR Louie McCroskey, St. Raymond's, Forward Oliver Antigua remembers seeing a lanky, 6-foot McCroskey as a freshman. "He was so small," said Antigua, an assistant at the...