April 25, 2003
GO GO'S FERRARI COMES TO HARD STOP
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amIf being accused of failing to pay millions of dollars in back taxes wasn't enough, gallery guru Larry "Go Go" Gagosian has also had his silver Ferrari wrapped around a...
MERRILL CUTS BEGIN
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMerrill Lynch has taken out the ax yet again. Earlier this week, the nation's biggest brokerage firm began showing roughly 150 investment bankers the door as it looked to cut...
THE CARTY'S OVER - CEO FIRED AS AMERICAN TEETERS ON BANKRUPTCY
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amAmerican Airlines was prepared to land in bankruptcy court today after its chief was fired for fumbling his last-ditch financial bailout plan. The world's largest airline has been hammered into...
SEC MULLS GLOBAL DEAL WINDFALL
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThe SEC is considering ways to keep Wall Street firms from deducting the cost of their settlement of analyst conflict claims, or getting reimbursed by insurance companies, sources say. The...
SONY SHORTS OUT - STOCK PLUNGES AFTER LACKLUSTER EARNINGS REPORT
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amSony shares plummeted on disappointing earnings yesterday, despite a strong boost from hit films like "Spider-Man." The consumer electronics giant blamed lackluster television and personal computer sales for the shortfall,...
REVLON FACING A $48.7M LOSS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amRon Perelman is still shoveling cash into his Revlon empire - which posted its 18th straight quarterly loss yesterday. The maker of Almay and Ultima said first-quarter losses widened to...
CABIN PRESSURE: AMERICAN ON BRINK AS DIRECTOR WANTS CARTY OUT
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThe fate of the world's largest airline and the job of its embattled chief remained virtual hostages of a closed boardroom standoff last night. A bitter, all-day marathon among the...
HEARST SCOOPS UP SEVENTEEN FROM PRIMEDIA
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amHearst Corp. has added the queen of teen titles to its publishing empire. Yesterday Primedia Inc. said it agreed to sell Seventeen, the biggest U.S. teen monthy and one of...
BIDS ARE IN FOR AOL'S BOOK UNIT
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amAOL Time Warner rounded up final bids for its book publishing division auction, moving one step closer to a key cash-raising sale to help the beleaguered media giant pare down...
CITI TAKES BIG SPACE DOWNTOWN
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amCitigroup Chairman Sandy Weill is "restacking" his city employees into and out of several locations, real estate executives said. At the same time, the beleaguered financial services giant is formally...
PRETTY 'CITY,' NO STORY
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amCITY OF GHOSTS [] Head- scratching travelogue. Running time: 117 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, sex). At the Angelika, AMC Empire 25, and the CC Cinemas 1,2,3. ------ MATT Dillon...
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES FROM THIS 'FAMILY'
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amIT RUNS IN THE FAMILY [] Can you say "vanity project?" Running time: 109 minutes. Rated PG-13 (drug content, sexual material and language). At the AMC Empire, the Loews 34th...
SMELL OF SUCCESS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amPEOPLE I KNOW [] Almost as much fun as reading Page Six. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated R (violence, sex, profanity, drugs). At the Lincoln Square and the Angelika. ----...
RAIN OF TERROR
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amIDENTITY [] A cerebral whodunit. Running time: 90 minutes. Rated R (strong violence and language). At the E-Walk, Loews Lincoln Square, Battery Park City, others. ------ DROPPING tiny clues like...
CAPER FLICK BURNED BY THE USUAL SUSPECTS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amCONFIDENCE [ 1/2] For Ed Burns diehards only. Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, sex). At the Union Square, the Chelsea, the New York Twin, others. ----- BEWARE...
'WAR'
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amSNAP DECISIONS: Christian Frei's Oscar-nominated documentary "War Photographer," a stunning portrait of renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey as he visits the world's trouble spots, unreels tonight at 8:20 as part of...
RUINED! - ELOISE AUTHOR'S WORST FEARS FOR KID COME TRUE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00am"Eloise at the Plaza" [Absolutely no stars] Sunday at 7 on Ch. 7 ---- ABC and "The Wonderful World of Disney" have done the impossible. In their awful movie, "Eloise...
NO TEEN ANGELS IN THIS TERSE PIC
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMANIC [ 1/2] EXCELLENT performances redeem Jordan Melamed's gritty teenage version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Set as it is in a California mental hospital full of youthful...
RIGHT TOUCH IN ASYLUM
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amHOUSE OF FOOLS [] In Russian, with English subtitles. Running time: 104 minutes. Not rated (wartime violence). At the Quad, 13th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. ------ TWO of...
THEY REALLY SLIPPED US A 'MICKEY'
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amRETURNING MICKEY STERN [1/2] Running time: 93 minutes. Rated PG-13 (some sexual references). At AMC Empire 25, 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. ----- 'RETURNING Mickey Stern," the debut...
THAT '70S PICTURE SHOW
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE [] Running time: 108 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Quad, 13th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. --- THE decade under discussion in...
STARR REPORT
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amGive Leeza some 'Extra' credit Leeza Gibbons has left "Extra" - and might not be returning. Gibbons (right), who's been anchoring "Extra" exclusively during sweeps periods lately, wants to devote...
ODD MIX, DANCED WITH JOIE D'AVIV
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amINBAL PINTO DANCE COMPANYJoyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave. at 19th Street, (212) 242-0800. Season runs through April 27. ----- WEIRD might be the first word to come to mind. Daffy...
FAVORED 'YEAR' - MUSICAL HITS ALL THE RIGHT NOTES
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMY FAVORITE YEAR At the 14th Street YMHA, 344 E. 14th St., west of First Avenue, through May 4. Call (212) 206-1515. ---- IT'S happened! Musicals Tonight, the downtown Encores!,...
MAKING THE RULES - TONY BIGS PUT EVERY SHOW IN ITS PLACE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amCHITA Rivera's turn in "Nine" is not a leading performance, there are no star parts in "Take Me Out" and "The Play What I Wrote" is not a play. Those...
BRITISH BOMBSHELLS - ENGLAND'S RED-HOT ATOMIC KITTEN SET TO EXPLODE IN U.S.
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amATOMIC Kitten, a trio of Liverpool beauties, crossed the Atlantic this week with a self-titled album, hoping to do what few Brit acts have done since the early '90s -...
BELCHING MADONNA'S 'WILL' STINT WAS HARDLY GRACEFUL
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMADONNA burps! And proves she'll do just about anything for attention, including going on a dumb show like "Will & Grace." Madonna was the show's big guest star last night...
'L&O' PUTS DEADLY TWIST IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS SCANDAL
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amNEXT Wednesday's episode of "Law & Order" will strike a teeth-grinding chord for one New Yorker - stock analyst Jack Grubman. The episode, called "Kid Pro Quo," revolves around the...
THE 'REAL' THING - SPRING BREAK REALITY FLICK MORE THAN JUST DRUNK COLLEGE KIDS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amTHE REAL CANCUN [ ½] Party hearty. Running time: 90 minutes. Rated R (strong sexuality/nudity, language and partying). At E-Walk, Orpheum, Kips Bay, others. ----- THE big surprise about "The...
ISRAELI RESEARCHERS HIT BY MISGUIDED BACKLASH
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amFOR Dr. Andy Marks, the moment of truth arrived after he learned that two colleagues were expelled from the board of an academic journal - because they are Israeli. The...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA Florida woman has been charged with stabbing her 19-year-old son in the butt - because he wouldn't get up for work. Sara Hazeltine, 45, of North Port, was charged...
EMPIRE STATE BUSH - WAR WIN PUTS HIM ON TOP IN N.Y.: POLL
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - President Bush would narrowly beat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - and clobber other top national Democrats - in a race for president among heavily Democratic New York voters,...
TAX FRAUD IS A BIG PROBLEM AMONG MTA EMPLOYEES
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amTax fraud is a big problem among MTA employees, state officials said yesterday in announcing the arrests of 10 low-level workers for allegedly cheating on their returns to the total...
CHEERED GIS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS OF PEACEKEEPING
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amBAGHDAD - The Scouts of the 4th Battalion/64th Armored Regiment headed off in their Humvees yesterday on a "presence patrol." Their destination: the New Market district of Baghdad, one of...
GOP MOUTHS, GOP FEET
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amIF you want to count the myriad ways in which the ascension of George W. Bush has saved the Republican Party from its own worst tendencies, you need look no...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amTHE BRONX Cops yesterday arrested a man who allegedly shot and wounded his brother in Highbridge two years ago. According to police, in November 2001, Garnett Coghiel, 43, of Houston,...
ARAFAT MILITANTS CLAIM BOMB SLAY
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A militant group left in Yasser Arafat's control despite a shakeup in the Palestinian Authority claimed responsibility for yesterday's homicide bombing, which killed one Israeli and wounded 13....
TENANTS STARING AT DOUBLE-DIGIT HIKES
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA million tenants in rent-stabilized apartments are facing the largest rent hikes in seven years, following a double-digit spike in landlords' operating costs, officials said yesterday. The Rent Guidelines Board,...
GOV TO MOVE ON UP AT WTC
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amGov. Pataki yesterday pledged to move his Midtown offices to a 1,776- foot-tall tower envisioned for Ground Zero, as he laid out a fast-paced timeline for rebuilding designed to reassure...
PEACE PROCESS FOLLOWS A ROCKY 'ROAD MAP'
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - There may soon be a "road map" to Mideast peace - but yesterday's attack shows that the road is covered with land mines. The installation of the new...
CITY SET FOR SARS - HEALTH BIGS VOW QUARANTINE IF BUG SPREADS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amCity health officials are ready to take tough action in the event of a large-scale outbreak of SARS in New York. The city's Health Department said yesterday that if the...
HUBBY ON TRIAL IN WIFE-SLAY HORROR
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island meat merchant slaughtered his long-suffering wife "in cold blood" last year as she cooked a lavish Greek Easter dinner, prosecutors charged yesterday as the husband's murder trial...
BEAUTY & THE BEAST - EX SHOOTS MODEL & KILLS SELF
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA pretty young actress-model who hoped to conquer the Great White Way was shot in the face at her Chinatown apartment building by an ex-fiancé, who then blew himself away...
FEDS HUNTING BANK-PANIC BILK SUSPECT
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThe FBI expanded the search yesterday for the woman accused of a $1 million Chinatown bank embezzlement that prompted hundreds of panicked customers to demand their funds for a third...
AGE-OLD KID PROBLEM PLAGUES CITY SCHOOLS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThere's trouble brewing for Schools Chancellor Joel Klein: One in four students entering high school are overage because they flunked earlier grades or started school late, the most recent data...
BIG FISH IN U.S. NET - TOP SADDAM MOUTHPIECE AZIZ SURRENDERS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Tariq Aziz, one of the most recognizable and infamous figures from Saddam Hussein's regime, has surrendered to U.S. forces, Pentagon officials said last night. Military sources said Aziz,...
OUTBREAK COULD INFECT REELING U.S. ECONOMY
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amSARS could deliver a devastating blow to the already sputtering U.S. economy, experts predict. The Federal Reserve Bank, in this week's Beige Book, cited the potentially lethal Severe Acute Respiratory...
SCALES OF JUSTICE: GATORS MUST GO
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amSee ya later, alligators! That's the no-nonsense word from Connecticut officials who've told John Boyko of Shelton he can't keep Allie, Gertrude and Wally - three 6-foot-long gators he's kept...
CITY HAS WARY EYE ON 'PUFF' PARENTS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThe head of the city's child-welfare agency said yesterday he plans to give foster parents who smoke extra scrutiny before placing needy children in their homes. The latest development in...
A FINE MESS FOR 'POOR' WAKSAL
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge questioned yesterday whether disgraced entrepreneur Sam Waksal was trying to cry poor in a bid to avoid paying up to $3 million in fines. In documents sent...
MAY WEDDING FOR RUDY & JUDI
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amRudy Giuliani and Judith Nathan have finally set the date - they will be wed May 24 at Gracie Mansion, it was announced yesterday. Mayor Bloomberg has agreed to perform...
WORKERS PRE$$ED TO HOP ON CHUCK WAGON
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Employees at a private security company were routinely pressed to cough up thousands of dollars in contributions for Sen. Charles Schumer and other helpful lawmakers, a source said....
HEVESI: MTA'S KALIKOW SHOULD TAKE A HIKE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amState Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday called on MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow and Executive Director Katherine Lapp to step down - a day after saying a review by his office revealed...
SIGNS ARE BUTCHER'S DEAD: BUSH
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said there's evidence that Saddam Hussein may have been killed by the very first U.S. airstrikes of the Iraq war, and the man who gave...
$LICING UP JUDGE'S PIE - HE DEALT COURT AIDES IN: DA
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn divorce court was corrupt right down to the bailiff's badge, officials charged yesterday - as a Supreme Court justice, his court officer, a retired clerk, a lawyer and...
MIKE 'A DISASTER' IN JOB-APPROVAL POLL
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's approval rating has fallen to its lowest level since he took office, a new poll showed last night. The New York 1 News survey found that 59 percent...
'BROTHEL' GRAMPS, 75, GETS JAIL
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA 75-year-old Rockland County man admitted in court that he used his apartment as a den for prostitution and crack smoking in exchange for cash - and was sentenced to...
CITY SMOOTH OPERATORS IN POTHOLE BLITZ
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThe city will launch a pothole blitz today in the hopes of filling 12,000 craters over the next 10 days, officials said yesterday. The effort will try to combat the...
MIKE DEFENDS ZETA'S HONOR
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA bitter Michael Douglas has lashed out at his British fans - accusing them of not supporting wife Catherine Zeta-Jones during the couple's controversial wedding-photo case. The angry Hollywood star...
FOLIC ACID REDUCES CHILD CANCER RISK
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA child's chance of developing leukemia can be significantly cut by high levels of folic acid while in the womb, new research suggests. The studies show that a deficiency in...
BEAUTY & THE BEAST: EX SHOOTS MODEL & KILLS SELF
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA pretty young actress-model who hoped to conquer the Great White Way was shot in the face at her Chinatown apartment building yesterday by her ex-fiancé, who then blew himself...
PRESIDENT IS HOPING HE CAN SAY TANKS FOR A TAX CUT
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush scrambled atop a few mighty Abrams tanks yesterday at the Ohio plant that makes them as he tried to convert his wartime popularity into a push...
WE PAID 7G FOR NOTHING
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amTHE VICTIM'S STORY "Do we have to bribe the judge with more money?" That's what Esther Weitzner was recorded on tape asking her dad, Ezra Zifriani, according to sources probing...
PANEL PROBES PAY FOR PLAY ON BENCH
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes yesterday revealed that a grand jury is investigating whether judgeships are up for sale in the borough. Hynes said his office on April 7 "convened...
$LICING UP JUDGE'S PIT: HE DEALT COURT AIDES IN: DA
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn divorce court was corrupt right down to the baliff's badge, officials charged yesterday - as a supreme court judge, his court officer, a retired clerk, a lawyer and...
BELMONT BARN RULE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThe New York Racing Association announced yesterday it is instituting a new policy this year for the Belmont Stakes on June 7, requiring all entered horses to be stabled in...
JASON'S FINGER A SORE SPOT
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - Not wanting a minor problem to turn into a major one, Joe Torre kept Jason Giambi out of the starting lineup last night due to a...
H.S. HITTERS LIKE WOOD
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amTommy Pento has hit a pair of home runs this season - but the New Dorp senior, who is bound for Div. III Baruch, found the one he hit yesterday...
GREAT BIGHT-ING ACROSS N.Y. AREA
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amTHE New York Bight continues to provide the best saltwater action, with steady flounder fishing when the weather cooperates and, as an alternative, a surge of striped bass coming out...
MCGAHEE'S READY TO GET JOB DONE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amWillis McGahee won't be the best player from this year's NFL draft come training camp. And maybe he's pushed himself too far too fast these last three months following reconstructive...
EVOLVING TACTICS IS STAYING HOME
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amDERBY NOTEBOOK Cooler heads have prevailed. Evolving Tactics, who inexplicably became a surprise candidate for next Saturday's Kentucky Derby after breaking his maiden last Monday in Ireland, won't be coming...
JETS WEIGH PICK OF 2-SPORT STUD
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amHe goes 6-6, 245 pounds, and he has run the 40 as fast as 4.53, and he has this message today for the Jets: I CAN BE YOUR SHOCKEY. "Definitely;...
LIGHTNING RIVALRY LACKS ELECTRICITY
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amWHO can forget the year the Lightning came from 3-1 down to extend the Devils to seven games in the conference finals? Or how about the time the teams came...
NOW IT'S DEVIL TIME - FROM 2ND ROUND ON, THEY'RE ON FIRM ICE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThe first series no longer is called the preliminary round, but postseason transformed into the real Stanley Cup playoffs last night. The Devils stopped sweating survival and started dreaming the...
SECRET'S OUT: LEBRON WON'T BE DRAFT DODGER
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThe worst-kept secret in sports is about to become a reality. After nearly a year's worth of "not if, but when" speculation, LeBron James will declare for the NBA Draft...
ANDREYCHUK'S AN OLD STORY
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThe Devils know they have to look out for that old man in a Tampa uniform, Dave Andreychuk. They know his 6-foot-4 frame will be waiting right smack in front...
IT'S TIME TO END FORDHAM FOLLIES
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amTRUST me, Fordham basketball fans, it would be great to write today with news that good days at Rose Hill are rising from the ashes of the Bob Hill era....
KOBE NO DREAM TEAM LOCK
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - One way or the other, Kobe Bryant's Olympic status will be resolved on Tuesday when USA's Basketball selection committee hooks up via conference call to certify the...
BRAND BERMAN & ESPN SHAMELESS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amA FEW years ago, when ESPN execs began to speak of ESPN more as a "brand" than a network, one could feel it coming. One could sense that ESPN's new...
SCOTT FED UP WITH WHINING
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Byron Scott needed only a few minutes to deliver a few messages that he hopes last a lifetime: Shut up. No finger-pointing. Scott addressed his Nets...
AMAZIN'S FOLLOW ALOMAR'S LEAD
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amSo THIS is the Roberto Alomar everyone was talking about all those years. This is the guy who could win a game a dozen different ways. The guy who could...
ASTACIO BRINGS HOPE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amAS grand entrances go, the return of The Mula to a team that doesn't get much for its moolah was about as understated as: "The Mets might have problems." No...
'BOMB SQUAD' SCORES - METS' MAKESHIFT LINEUP BACKS PEDRO
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMets7 - Astros 4 "The Mula" is alive and kicking. Pedro Astacio, who carried the Mets in the first half of last season, shined in his delayed 2003 debut last...
KIDD'S ON A MISSION
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - There was something different about the way he went about his business this time, even if you choose to judge Jason Kidd against the exacting standard he set...
GROIN PAIN PUTS PIAZZA ON BENCH
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets always err on the side of caution with injuries, especially involving Mike Piazza. Piazza was scratched from the lineup and didn't play in the 7-4 victory...
MERE MORTALS - HIGH-FLYING YANKS FINALLY FALL TO EARTH
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amAngels 6 - Yankees 2 ANAHEIM - Andy Pettitte was fortunate that the only things fractured last night were several Yankee winning streaks. Pettitte absorbed the loss in a 6-2...
YANKEES COULD BE BEST EVER
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amSTART spreading the news . . . the Yankees' 18-3 record is just the start of greatness for this once-in-a-lifetime team. You'll be telling your grandchildren about these pinstripers. Not...
AMAZIN'S CAN'T COUNT ON ASTACIO TO SAVE SEASON
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amANY white horse that Pedro Astacio rode in on to save the Mets last night was on lasix. For a team that started the evening 9-12, whose early bright spot...
ROCKET 3 FROM 300 - IF THINGS FALL RIGHT, RED SOX COULD BE VICTIM OF MILESTONE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Roger Clemens said he is concentrating only on his next start Wednesday at Yankee Stadium against the Mariners. With 297 victories, Clemens is taking it one game at...
A TALE OF TWO CENTERS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - To understand the difference in the attitudes, you first must understand the difference in the players. Aaron Williams barely stirred on the bench in Game 1 of these...
KIDD HUSTLE ACCIDENTALLY BREAKS T.J.'S COLLARBONE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES MILWAUKEE - It was a freak accident resulting from the unending hustle of Jason Kidd. When the Nets' All-Star guard dove into the courtside seats trying to save...
TAKING HIS BEST SHOT - GONZALEZ EAGER TO PROVE TO METS HE HAS RIGHT STUFF
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amWhile working out with fellow Mets Roberto Alomar and Rey Sanchez last winter in Puerto Rico, Raul Gonzalez couldn't help but get excited about this season. Gonzalez, who was acquired...
ACHING FLOYD RIPPING THE BALL
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amGetting hurt is typically a convenient excuse to start playing badly. But not for Cliff Floyd. See if you can figure this one out. Since the leftfielder's ailing right Achilles...
ROD-DEMPTION SONG - AFTER 2 FT MISSES, ROGERS' 22-FOOTER GIVES NETS VICTORY
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Rodney Rogers went from hero to goat back to hero before he realized any of it was happening. Rogers, so instrumental in quelling a furious Bucks' rally in...
ROD-DEMPTION SONG - ROGERS' 18-FOOTER LEADS NETS TO 2-1 EDGE VS. BUCKS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - They couldn't possibly have made it more difficult. But the Nets still managed to get what they wanted - a 2-1 series lead - in the most improbable...
SCOTT: SHUT UP! - BYRON TELLS NETS TO QUIT GRIPING OVER PLAYING TIME
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Byron Scott needed only a few minutes to deliver a few messages that he hopes last a lifetime. Shut up. Accept your role. No finger-pointing. And produce or...
MADDEN-ING NIGHT FOR TOP TAMPA TRIO
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amEvery time Vincent Lecavalier looked up, there was John Madden. As expected, Devil coach Pat Burns matched lines against the Lightning last night, and in turn, the Devils gave Tampa...
DEVS BOLT TO LEAD - BRODEUR & CO. ZAP LIGHTNING IN ROUND 2 OPENER
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 1: Devils 3 - Lightning 0 They just keep going, Jamie Langenbrunner and John Madden, the same formula the Devils used to dispose of the Bruins in five games:...
THIS DEVIL WIN A REAL SNOOZER
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amSO there was Martin Brodeur following the easiest playoff shutout he - or any goaltender - will ever record, trying to explain his approach as last night's Game 1 against...
JOE EXPECTS RIVERA BACK NEXT WEEKEND
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Mariano Rivera threw so well and felt so great yesterday the Yankees were talking about giving him a back-to-back test today. However, last night Joe Torre said he...
SOJO RETURNING TO HELP INFIELDERS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Luis Sojo is very close to rejoining the Yankees organization. The popular former infielder who managed Norwich (Double-A) to the Eastern League title last summer will be a...
MARIANO 'PLEASED' WITH SHORT WORKOUT
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Mariano Rivera threw so well and felt so great yesterday the Yankees last night were deciding whether to have him pitch again today to see if his right...
JETER GETS BACK IN SWIM OF THINGS
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - Derek Jeter needed a bathing suit when he took the latest step in the rehab process yesterday in Tampa. "He swung a bat in the pool,"...
BRADWAY MUST PICK JETS UP
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThis weekend's draft begins the final stage of the NFL's offseason, which for the Jets has so far featured many more moments of angst, frustration, disillusionment, disappointment, disbelief and downright...
JINTS'LL DEAL UP FOR THE D-LINE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amOne day before the NFL Draft, the Giants' first-round strategy is coming into sharper focus. They are expecting to trade up out of their No. 25 spot and it is...
GIANTS GIVE REESE A CHANCE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amEvery team this weekend hopes to land a rising star, uncovering someone with enormous potential. The Giants may or may not succeed in that goal in the NFL Draft, but...
5 QUESTIONS FOR IAN EAGLE
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with the YES Network's Net play-by-player, Ian Eagle. The 34-year-old Eagle has broadcast Net games for nine years, while also calling football and...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: MEL KIPER JR. VS. CHRIS BERMAN
April 25, 2003 | 4:00am(Who's the TV star of the NFL draft?) Chris Berman's negatives - putting himself before an event, his poor play-by-play, and his incessant nicknames - drag down the good feelings...
THE MAYNE EVENT: ONE DAY, FOUR EVENTS - AND - KENNY HOPES TO TOUCH 'EM ALL
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amESPN cements itself as the center of American TV sports this Sunday when it becomes the first network to have events from all four major pro leagues on the same...
MATSUI VS. ICHIRO: HOW DO YOU SAY 'MUST WATCH' IN JAPANESE?
April 25, 2003 | 4:00amWhen Tuesday night's Yankee-Mariner game starts at 7 p.m. New York time, it will be 8 a.m. over in Japan - and for 4 million to 5 million Tokyo-area residents,...