May 18, 2003
RISKY BIZ: TRADERS ARE BACK IN STYLE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amWall Street thrives on excess. In the 1980s it was junk bonds. In the 1990s it was dot-com stocks. Today it's trading. And that means more unpredictability with earnings. Proprietary...
SAINT OR SINNER? BILLIONAIRE GIVES SPITZER MILLION$ OF REASONS TO PERSUE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amTo the religious right, billionaire Philip Anschutz is a man of their liking. As the biggest owner of movies screens in America, he's vowed to keep sex and violence off...
BULL'S EYE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amSALLIE'S ROYAL WISH Fairytales are few and far between on Wall Street these days. One - Sallie Krawcheck's meteoric rise to fame (and fortune) as the CEO of Smith Barney...
DEADLIER THAN THE MALE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amNot since Linda Hamilton's muscle-bound hellcat Sarah Connor unleashed a can of whup-ass on Arnie in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," has any woman decimated her foes as awesomely, as sexily,...
FOOD FOR THOUGHT DURING MAY SWEEPS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amSWEEPS month? You call this a sweeps month? How is it then, that of all the shocking exclusives that go reported on local TV newscasts every May, the most shocking...
HELLO: ARE YOU OF ANY USE TO ME?
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThere's an old saying that Brits work so they can socialize, while New Yorkers socialize to get work. And it's true, people in this city are no strangers to handing...
STARR REPORT
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThank goodness for second chances All of this week and the early part of next week (Monday through Wednesday) are "Zero Dollar" days on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"...
IN THE EYE OF THE PET-OWNER
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amBeing a painter or photographer in New York means having an endless supply of artistic inspiration, from skyscrapers to straphangers. But some visual artists find the richest resources right under...
IN THE SHADE: GET MYSTERIOUS WITH SUMMER'S OVERSIZE SUNGLASSES
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amWatch out. This summer's hottest sunglasses are ultra-glam, with big, square frames that wrap around the face. "The style came from the 1950s, but it's more updated," says Tim Fabozzi,...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER...THE WASHINGTON SQUARE ART EXHIBIT
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe 72-year-old Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit opens next weekend, May 24-25, and continues the following weekend. Art will be on display on University Place between Bleecker and East 12th...
NEED-TO KNOW
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amRight now, engagement rings are all about antiques: asscher, rose and cushion-cut diamonds. The difference between the three cuts is discreet. A cushion cut is the squarest of all, a...
5 WEDDINGS AND A WARDROBE: LET THE WEDDING HOPPING BEGIN! HERE'S A LOOK FOR EVERY OCCASION
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amSummer is supposed to be about relaxing. Try telling that to someone staring at a pile of un-R.S.V.P'd, ecru-embossed invitations. It's wedding seasons - and they're all taking place before...
SHOUTING STARS! AN UNLIKELY SUNDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY TURNS SIX
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amUsually, practice makes perfect, but Pedro Mena and Steven Pestana had never deejayed before they opened the doors to Shout! - their now-weekly Sunday night rock party at the East...
HELP FOR NEW FILMMAKERS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amMeet the Ebert and Roeper of public-access TV. They're Trevor Bayack and Jessie Huber, hosts of the popular half-hour show "Indieworld." Each week, they air short flicks submitted by viewers,...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amAre you gonna finish that beer? The Web site for Brit rag News of the World has uploaded photos of Jack Osbourne's "final sex and drug binge" that landed the...
WEDDING BELLES: BUSTIERS, BELTS, MINIS - THESE AREN'T YOUR GRANDMOTHERS' WEDDING DRESSES
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amJudi Nathan in a hot strapless number. Pamela Anderson in a butt-hugging white minidress. J.Lo working a plunging neckline. This summer's most anticipated weddings will likely involve many fashion firsts...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN COSTUMER SHAWN DUDLEY PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amAs the costume designer for "Guiding Light," 36-year-old Shawn Dudley dresses 35 people a day - and sometimes, up to 250 people a week. "I try to tell a story,...
IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThis summer there's a little something for everyone - well, maybe a little more than something if you're keen on special effects, car chases and gross-out comedies. A look at...
WHEN REESE MET ARNIE: BATTLE OF SEXES HITS MULTIPLEX
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amLook for fireworks the night of July 2 - and we're not just talking about the ones for Independence Day. By scheduling warm and fuzzy chick flicks to open on...
UP & COMING ATTRACTIONS: MARK YOUR CALENDARS: THE INSIDE SCOOP ON ALL THE SEASON'S RELEASES, FROM ANGELS TO THAT BIG GREEN GUY
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amHERE'S an opinionated, week-by-week rundown of the higher-profile movies scheduled through the end of August. Opening dates are highly subject to change. MAY 23 "BRUCE ALMIGHTY": Jim Carrey tries to...
MIND FRAMES: BRAINY FILMS OUTSMART THE BLOCK BUSTERS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amSummer's the time when Hollywood trots out high-concept flicks that don't require much thought. Viewers who like to think, however, aren't forgotten: A healthy selection of alternative flicks are on...
ARNIE MUSCLES INTO FEST; 'TERMINATOR' HYPES NEW ACTION SEQUEL
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amTHE "Terminator" juggernaut is bulldozing all in front of it at this year's Cannes Film Festival - but star Arnold Schwarzenegger feels no pity for the smaller films pushed to...
"INSIDER' BANK JOB TAKE AT $10 MIL
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amA Chinatown bank employee accused by federal investigators of stealing $1 million from customer accounts may have embezzled 10 times that amount, The Post has learned. The woman is on...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amA Florida teen fed a neighbor's cat to an alligator just because he wanted to see what the gator would do. Andrew Castor, 14, of Cape Coral, was busted on...
ANOTHER CARD DEALS HIMSELF OUT
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amA cousin of Saddam Hussein, a Republican Guard general who was No. 10 on the coalition's most-wanted list, was bagged in Baghdad yesterday, the U.S. military said. Gen. Kamal Mustafa...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn Cops have busted a suspect in the April 4 murder of a man during a barbershop holdup in Williamsburg, police said yesterday. The suspect, Edward Pickney, 27, of 112th...
LAWYERS FLICK 'CIGAR' RAP
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amLawyers for the embattled Brooklyn judge busted on misconduct charges say accusations that he took $1,000 and a box of cigars from a lawyer are, at most, ethical violations -...
BOMB KILLS COUPLE AS TALKS START
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amA Palestinian suicide bomber killed an Israeli couple yesterday, just a few hours before Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart sat down for the highest-level talks between the...
BOMB TRIO NABBED; MOROCCO CARNAGE TOLL AT 41
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThree Moroccans have been arrested, including one of the kamikaze attackers, in the Friday night bombings that killed 41 and injured 100 in Casablanca, the Moroccan government said. The attacks...
FUROR IN COP-SCARE DEATH
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amOutrage from neighbors and friends intensified yesterday over the botched police drug raid that ended in the death of a beloved East Harlem church volunteer. A group of 40 people...
KNICKS GREAT DEBUSSCHERE MOURNED AS 'LEADER'
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amHe might have been one of the greatest players to don a blue and orange jersey, but mourners could only remember the "generosity" and "humility" of Knick legend Dave DeBusschere...
$QUEEZE TAKES ITS TOLL ON MOTORISTS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amIf you're planning to use MTA bridges or tunnels today, be prepared to dig deeper at the tollbooths - the tolls jumped early this morning. Drivers will have to shell...
YES, I KILLED HER ; L.I. HUBBY ADMITS HONDURAN-WIFE SLAY
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island man has confessed to killing his mail-order Honduran wife - sawing her into pieces and stuffing the remains into a suitcase after she tried to escape his...
BROOKLYN BODEGA BRAWL TURNS DEADLY
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amA 26-year-old Brooklyn man was shot and killed yesterday after getting into a fight with a masked gunman at a grocery store, police said. Ally Hopsin was shot once in...
NELSON ATTY. LAYS BLAME
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amShocking post-trial comments by a juror in the Crown Heights case shows the jury convicted Lemrick Nelson Jr. because members didn't understand the law, a defense lawyer said yesterday. "It's...
MISMANAGING DIVERSITY
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amHAVE you ever heard of George Streator? Most likely not, though he was the first black reporter at The New York Times, having been hired in 1945. He would leave...
2 NABBED IN DEAF-MUTE RAPE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amPolice arrested two men yesterday for the gang rape of a deaf-mute woman in an abandoned Brooklyn building on Wednesday. The 21-year-old victim, whose name is being withheld by cops,...
PORN STAR'S TRYST TANGLE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amPorn star Ron Jeremy got caught with his pants down and arrested after a 20-year-old woman claimed he assaulted her in a Michigan striptease club. Ypsilanti police Sgt. John Minzey...
DRAGNET IN SLAY HORROR
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amPolice yesterday released this photo of a man sought in connection with the rape and murder of Ramona Moore, whose decomposed body was found wrapped in a blanket behind a...
WOULD-BE PA COP SHOT DEAD IN QNS.
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens neighborhood was filled with the cries of a distraught mother yesterday, just minutes after her 22-year-old son was brutally gunned down in the street. William Bernard was shot...
4 ATTACKS ROCK ISRAEL; AT LEAST 14 DIE IN 12 HOURS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amA bomber disguised as a religious Jew wearing a yarmulke blew himself up on a Jerusalem bus early today, killing seven passengers and injuring 20 others, officials said. The deadly...
TUG-OF-LOVE TEMPEST ; 'CONFLICT' PROBE OF CUSTODY EXPERTS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amA group of highly paid experts, whose testimony has helped decide hundreds of child-custody cases in the city, is under investigation over whether they disclosed to the court and clients...
SECURITY TURBULENCE AT SMALL N.Y. AIRPORTS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amSecurity at an airfield near the city has slipped, despite renewed fears of al Qaeda-backed terrorism, The Post has learned. A recent NYPD bulletin warned cops of "al Qaeda's continued...
CHAMP AN OLD HAND
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amNew York's Robert Varkonyi knows the cards are stacked against him repeating as world poker champion - but he's faced long odds before. The amateur card shark, who shocked the...
WHEN IT RAINES ...; JUDGING JAYSON - AND HOWELL
May 18, 2003 | 4:00am'I HAVE a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the...
ELUSIVE EX-CON INDICTED IN ASSAULT
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amAn ex-convict who allegedly attacked a sports marketing agent at the ritzy Four Seasons Hotel last year - and kept drinking at a bar there after the incident - will...
FIREWORKS OVER MACY'S JULY 4 SHOW
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe fuse has been lit on what could be a fiery wrangle over this year's Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display. The Grucci family, who run New York's best-known pyrotechnics...
BLAIR'S BATTLE WITH THE BOTTLE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amAlcohol, like the truth, had an on-again, off-again relationship with former New York Times scribe Jayson Blair, The Post has learned. Those who know the 27-year-old admitted plagiarist have expressed...
MEGA-BROKER'S BIG CO-OP FEUD
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amIn the heady days of May 1998, David Pullman - the Wharton-graduated financier who created so-called "Bowie Bonds," a financial-debt issue that raised $55 million based on David Bowie's future...
REAL TRUTH BEHIND SCOUNDREL SCRIBE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amBLAIRSVILLE, Bklyn - As a journalist I am appalled and disgusted by the accusations being hurled at New York Times reporter Jayson Blair. I am here to report that I...
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR LIES
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amWhile we're on the subject of calumny, may I point out a real calumner (or is that columnist?) if I ever saw one? I'm speaking of course of Mike Bloomberg....
FEMS THE BREAKS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amLast week was most definitely not a good week for women. Take poor Leona Helmsley - her own poll showed that she's the least popular dame in the city, with...
REALITY TV BITES ; DINERS DIALING FOR A TASTE AT STARDOM
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amReality TV wannabes, man your telephones. The Post has obtained the special reservations number for Rocco's, the restaurant cum reality TV set where the entire staff and every diner will...
DODGING THE AX ; OLD LAWS KEEPING CITY PENSIONS SAFE FROM CUTS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe city's employee pension funds are being spared the pain of the Big Apple's budget crisis by state laws introduced during economic boom times, The Post has found. While other...
INSIDER 'CLUB' GETS DIBS ON SPLITSVILLE $POILS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amCritics of New York's scarred matrimonial courts say the Soft Split probe will only scratch the surface of a troubled system. Fee gouging, shoddy work and an insider's mentality have...
RAPE-RAP COP'S OLD HEROICS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe NYPD cop accused of raping a female police recruit from Virginia during a drunken cop party in a D.C. hotel room once helped rescue a mother and her five...
RANGERS LOOK TO RE-DO ERIC'S DEAL
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amERIC Lindros' future on Broadway has been called into even more question with the information gained by Slap Shots that Glen Sather late last month asked No. 88's agent, Carl...
MUCK TELLS SENS IT'S CRUNCH TIME
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amSenators GM John Muckler, the former Rangers coach, laced into his team for being too soft against the Flyers during the second round. In this series, he has ripped into...
MOVE OVER, GUYS, HERE COMES ANNIKA
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amNothing in all of sports is a hotter topic. The golf world hasn't witnessed anything this since a young, untamed Tiger Woods burst onto the scene. Even Annika Sorenstam herself...
KEEP YOUR DISTANCE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amEntering this week, Annika Sorenstam is averaging 275.4 yards off the tee on the LPGA Tour. That would place her 159th on the PGA Tour in driving distance, but ahead...
PIMLICO AIN'T NO JEWEL: HOME OF PREAKNESS IS EMBARRASSING
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - As tens of thousands of revelers and bettors piled into rain-sodden Pimlico race course for the 128th Preakness yesterday, one big question hung over the festivities: How much...
NETS HAVE JINX COVERED
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Things were going so well, too. The Nets were playing like a dream, playing as well as any Nets team has ever played, running so smoothly and...
SORENSTAM WOULD MAKE HOGAN PROUD
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amFORT WORTH-This year's Colonial might be all about Annika Sorenstam becoming the first woman in 58 years to compete against men in a PGA Tour event, but it remains Ben...
COLLINS CENTERS ATTENTION ON WALLACE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES AUBURN HILLS - The Nets just want Jason Collins to limit Ben Wallace's rebounding. And while he's at it, Collins can restore order in Baghdad, stop that whole...
NETS MAKE OWN BREAKS ; PISTONS WANT SLOWER PACE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Pistons want to stop the Nets' transition game. Of course, any team playing the Nets wants to stop their transition game. The Nets have one simple...
ART FORCED TO GO WITH NEW LINEUP
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - In wake of Mike Piazza's injury, the Mets put out a Triple-A lineup yesterday against the Giants. It's a sure sign that Fred Wilpon's $120...
PISTONS FIGHT FOR RESPECT
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Pistons feel they've been disrespected all season, and not just from the mouth of Net Richard Jefferson. When asked earlier this season to name the East's...
COMEDY OF ERRORS HELPS RANGERS' CAUSE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amRobin Ventura is a former Gold Glove winner, and Joe Torre has praised Hideki Matsui for solidifying the best defensive outfield he's managed. But yesterday that airtight defense sprung a...
THIRD-PERIOD BLITZ BRINGS DEVS CLOSER
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 4Devils 5Senators 2 There was magic about this one, the stuff that teams going somewhere either possess or develop. The Devils discovered theirs yesterday, and now they're one victory...
PIAZZA'S PAIN HURTS METS: HOBBLED CATCHER MAY MISS MONTH WITH GROIN INJURY
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Mike Piazza said his right groin muscle "popped almost like a guitar string" and "almost window-shaded up" on Friday night, and a day later the injury looked...
FATE NOT ALWAYS IN STARS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amDEREK Jeter's regenerative effects upon the Yankees are as overrated as those of the sun. Yesterday, the sun came off the bench from the worst spring there ever was and...
YANKS FALL FLAT ; DEFENSE, BATS FAIL PETTITTE AS TEXAS BAGS ANOTHER WIN
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThree weeks ago, the Yankees were on pace to become one of the most dominant teams of all time. Today? "We're flat," Joe Torre said. "We're flat as a pancake."...
ANDERSON'S NOW READY FOR MAJORS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When Jason Anderson was with the Yankees at the start of the season, he admits he was a bit overwhelmed by the major-league aura. Not now. "I was...
TRIPLE THREAT ; FUNNY CIDE BREEZES IN PREAKNESS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Kentucky Derby Funny Cide added another chapter to his magical Cinderella story yesterday when the exploded under Jose Santos to win the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico by 93/4...
PIAZZA MAY MISS 6-8 WEEKS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00am"I actually had trouble breathing for about an hour or so. It just popped, plain and simple."MIKE PIAZZA SAN FRANCISCO - Mike Piazza said his right groin "popped almost like...
VALENZUELA LOSES 'SHINE' TO BAILEY
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amPREAKNESS NOTEBOOK BALTIMORE - After winning yesterday's Gallorette Handicap here, jockey Pat Valenzuela was asked about losing his original Preakness mount, Ten Cents A Shine, to Jerry Bailey, who bumped...
'MINISTER' PRAYS FOR A REPRISE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amUNDERCARD BALTIMORE - Will it be "deja vu all over again" in this year's Belmont Stakes after Best Minister, a 3-year-old colt trained by Kenny McPeek and ridden by Edgar...
ATROCIOUS ALFIE LEFT FEELIN' AWFUL
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amWhen Daniel Alfredsson made himself available to the media yesterday, it would have been more appropriate if he stood on a silver platter. Mark Messier followed up his guarantee before...
BETTER . . . AND SMARTER
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amTHE off-Broadway building that has become this cen tury's NHL Big Room was filled with noise, the kind that isn't generated by phony PA sounds or by celebrity likenesses on...
SEE YOU AT BELMONT ; NEW YORK WILL EMBRACE ITS HOMETOWN HERO
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Set the table, Jose, the banquet is about to begin. In three weeks, New York City is going to play host to one of the biggest horse races...
GIMME A BRAKE! TRACHSEL SNAPS SKID
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amMets 5Giants 1 SAN FRANCISCO - On a day when his own lineup was chock full of Triple-A reinforcements, Steve Trachsel was blissfully ignorant. "I didn't know the lineup until...
LOSING JOCKS GET LAST WORD
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Here's how the losing jockeys saw yesterday's 128th running of the Preakness Stakes, won by Funny Cide with Jose Santos aboard:Robby Albarado (Midway Road, 2nd): "He ran an...
DEVS MOVE CLOSER TO THE FINAL STEP ; HIT SENATORS WITH THIRD-PERIOD BLITZ
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amThere is magic in this, the intangible stuff that teams going somewhere must possess or develop. The first time they really needed it, the Devils yesterday discovered their Houdini touch,...
ART FORCED TO FIELD 'B' TEAM
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - In the wake of Mike Piazza's groin injury, the Mets put out a Triple-A lineup yesterday afternoon. It's a sure sign that Fred Wilpon's $120...
IT'S TWO 'FUNNY' ; CIDE RUNS AWAY WITH LAUGHER AT PIMLICO
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide added another chapter to his magical Cinderella story yesterday at Pimlico, exploding under jockey Jose Santos to win the 128th running of the...
CARLISLE'S FACING TOUGHEST TEST
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Give Pistons mastermind Rick Carlisle two rounds of applause for exterminating one-man teams with various snares that surgically removed the rock from the clutches of Tracy McGrady...
HEEL-ING PROCESS ; BIG BLUE'S HAMILTON, CARTER BATTLING BACK FROM ACHILLES' HELL
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amMore often than not, Tim Carter would glance to his side and see Keith Hamilton huffing and puffing, the two separated by eight years and nearly 100 pounds, yet linked...
ROCKET'S KING OF THE HILL: CLEMENS IS GAME'S BEST PITCHER...EVER
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amRoger Clemens is the greatest pitcher of all-time. If that did not annoy enough folks, then let me go a little further to assure that my mail in-box will be...
VID-GAME DUPE IS RIPOFF OF THE YEAR
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amYOU think it would make news if the salespersons at Bud Selig's car dealerships were trained to deceive customers into thinking that they'd purchased 2003 models when they actually bought...
THE PLACE TO BE IS . . . HERE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amTHIS could be the sum mer in which everyone stays close to home as a number of contributing factors could make the waters from Cape May to Montauk a very...
FINDING A CATCHER WHO WON'T RUIN YOU
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amWHILE grabbing a solid first baseman is simple, even at this time of the season, finding a productive catcher is like searching for facts in a Jayson Blair story. If...
THE MATCHUPS: NETS VS. PISTONS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amNothing will come easy for the Nets. The Pistons will slow it down. When they shoot, they'll send Ben Wallace to the offensive glass and four guys the other way...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amNETS DENIED GARDEN ACCESS The Nets are on their way to the NBA Finals again but they won't be on their way to a new home at the Garden. And...
LOTTERY IS THREE-HORSE RACE
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amIn some eyes, it's a three-man draft, which is not good for Scott Layden's Knicks. When the Knicks participate in their second straight lottery Thursday night in Secaucus, they will...
CARLISLE FACES TOUGH TEST
May 18, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Give Pistons mastermind Rick Carlisle two rounds of applause for exterminating one-man teams with various snares that surgically removed the rock from the clutches of Tracy McGrady...