October 30, 2003
HEDGING HIS BETS - FORMER LIPPER HOLDINGS BIG CHARGED WITH FRAUD
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amAn investment executive who worked for former New York Deputy Mayor Ken Lipper was busted yesterday on charges he inflated the value of two hedge funds by more than $350...
'RED' LIGHT STALLS AOL TEEN SITE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amIn AOL's game of subscriber roulette, the toughest bet is the one it's placing on Red. Hoping to plug the drain of subscribers, AOL has introduced a number of demographically...
BUNNY BOOTY ON THE BLOCK IN PLAYBOY AUCTION
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amPlayboy is auctioning off more than $1 million worth of rare manuscripts and sexy artworks from its archives - including Hugh Hefner's little black books. At 77, the magazine's founder...
HOTEL WILL BE TURNED INTO CO-OPS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amAn architect whose wife is an heir to the Campbell Soup fortune is close to purchasing the InterContinental Hotel on Central Park South. The developer, Stephen Glascock, would turn the...
EMBARRASSED SEC: LET OUR TIPSTERS DISH
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission's top crime buster is telling staffers to pay special attention to whistleblowers and other tipsters. The SEC is still red-faced over its Boston office's bungling...
STRONG MEDICINE - MUTUAL FUND CHIEF CHEATED OWN INVESTORS: GOV'T.
October 30, 2003 | 5:00am"If you want proof that there are two sets of rules - one for the powerful and one for the small guy - this is it." -Eliot Spitzer The founder...
SPITZER RIPS SEC FOR DROPPING THE BALL
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer took a swipe at the SEC yesterday, accusing the federal regulator of failing to detect egregious problems in the massive $7 trillion mutual fund...
NYSE PLAN GETS MIXED REVIEWS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amCritics charged yesterday that John Reed's plan to overhaul the New York Stock Exchange board of directors doesn't go far enough - while floor members applauded the proposal. "You have...
LET'S GHOUL AROUND: 31 GREAT HALLOWEEN HAUNTS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amTHE human race has come a long way since pagans dressed as monsters to hide from the spirits thought to walk the earth on All Hallow's Eve. Then again, maybe...
LOCO LINEUP BY WKTU
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amRICKY MARTIN, MARC ANTHONY, DONNA SUMMER IT was difficult to tell if WKTU's musical variety show at Madison Square Garden's Theater suffered from an identity crisis or if the concert...
FORMER CH. 5 REPORTER LANDS ON 'IE'
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amFORMER Ch. 5 reporter Diane McInerney has landed at "Inside Edition." McInerney, a Bronx native who was raised in Queens, was a fan favorite during her tenure at Ch. 5....
FORMER KID STAR TO GET NBC BREAK
October 30, 2003 | 5:00am'HOME Alone" kid Macaulay Culkin is coming to a TV screen near you - with his very own NBC sitcom. Culkin, whose recent big-screen effort, "Party Monster," tanked at the...
P.I. LIKES IKE - TOM WILL TRY TO FILL BOOTS OF EX-PREZ
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amA&E has landed Tom Selleck in a magnum-sized movie role - a new biopic about General-turned-President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The film, tentatively titled "Eisenhower: Thunder in June,"is slated to air...
HAMILL, BERGEN GIVE 'LESSONS' IN HOW TO ACT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amSIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS [] (two stars) The Belasco Theatre, 111 W. 44th St. Call (212) 239-6200. ---- AN older woman. A younger man. Dancing cheek-to-cheek - well,...
NO FIDDLING AROUND - YOU'LL NEED GUN-TOTING GUARDS TO PLAY THIS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amMOST world leaders don't get the protection Nicolo Paganini's violin does. In Genoa, the fiddle is kept under lock and key in a City Hall vault and - on the...
'VIEW' SMOKEOUT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00am'THE View" and "All My Children" had to evacuate their ABC headquarters on W. 66th St. yesterday when a fire alarm went off. Actress Portia de Rossi was being interviewed...
ARNOLD ACCUSER WANTS MSNBC APOLOGY
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amA woman who accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping her is now threatening to sue MSNBC and possibly host Joe Scarborough. Lawyers for Rhonda Miller, a Hollywood stunt double who appeared...
MAGIC'S FALLEN ANGEL
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThis street artist walks up the sides of buildings faster than Spiderman. . . "Criss Angel: Supernatural" Tomorrow at 9 p.m. on SCI FI (four stars) CRISS Angel - part...
STARR REPORT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amYou gotta have Art So what took so long? The TV Academy has finally come to its senses and will induct "Honeymooners" star Art Carney into its Hall of Fame....
JURY DOESN'T BUY INTO SLAYER'S TWISTED YARNS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amHe had blamed the grotesque murders of three people on an imaginary pal, his girlfriend, hallucinations, his family and a gun that "just went off," but Steven Santos ran out...
TWO COPS WOUNDED - BROOKLYN GUNFIGHT LEAVES THUG DEAD, 2 OTHERS SHOT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amTwo cops were shot and a robbery suspect was killed in a wild gun battle on a Brooklyn street last night, police said. "We should all say a prayer tonight...
FEDS' FERRY PROBE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn U.S. attorney has launched a criminal probe into the actions of the crew members aboard the ill-fated Staten Island Ferry boat, officials said yesterday. U.S. Attorney Roslyn Mauskopf...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amMost people carve pumpkins on Halloween. Bruce Bradford is going to shoot one out of a cannon. Bradford will defend his title of World's Best Pumpkin Hurler by trying to...
KATHY BOUDIN'S LIES - NEW BOOK DEBUNKS THE CLAIMS THAT WON A COP-KILLER PAROLE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amTHE good news: The truth about Kathy Boudin's decades-long history of violent revolutionary history finally is emerging, thanks to a new book by her one-time college classmate and friend that...
BUSH IN MED-$$ PUSH FOR SENIORS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday pushed Congress to cut a deal and pass a Medicare bill that includes a prescription-drug benefit for seniors. "Prescription-drug coverage for our seniors is within...
HILL: BUSH BAD FOR DEMOCRACY
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In a harsh new attack on President Bush, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton charged yesterday the president is misleading Americans about the war in Iraq and "undermining" democracy at...
ETHICS PANEL HITS CUNY PROFESSOR WITH GIFT RAP
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - A CUNY professor yesterday was charged by the state Ethics Commission with illegally accepting lavish gifts from a vendor competing for a food-service contract. Steven Alden, chairman of...
KERRY BOOTS BACKER FOR 'ANTI-JEW' JAB AT JOE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry yesterday tossed an Arizona supporter overboard after an embarrassing report that he'd been attacking rival Sen. Joe Lieberman for being Jewish. State...
100 MORE CANNED SANIT MEN BEING RECALLED
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amIt looks like the Sanitation Department pink-slipped too many workers five months ago - and now it's bringing back a second batch of 100. Sources said Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty...
ON-THE-LAM L.I. KILLER SLAIN AT NIGHTCLUB
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amA killer who shot a young man to death just because the victim crashed a Long Island party was on the lam and living under a fake name when he...
LINCOLN TUNNEL RE-FUNNEL DUE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe traffic pattern into the Lincoln Tunnel to New Jersey during the evening rush will be changed starting next Thursday in an effort to ease congestion on city streets, officials...
MIKE'S PLAN ON HOUSING ONE-UPS GIFF
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg outmaneuvered City Council Speaker Gifford Miller yesterday by announcing a proposal to save 32,000 units of subsidized middle-class housing barely an hour before Miller held a press conference...
ONE-ARMED CAPO STARTS GAMBLE HITCH
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amOne-armed bandit Ronnie Trucchio came to Queens Supreme Court yesterday clad in a warm-up suit and carrying an overnight bag - ready to depart on a one-to-three year maximum-security vacation...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * A 26-year-old man was shot in the leg on an East Flatbush street yesterday, police said. A gunman opened fire around 3 a.m. at East 53rd Street and...
'OPRAH' LINKED TO STRESS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amResearchers have found a surprising link between anxiety levels and watching TV queen Oprah Winfrey. "Either watching Oprah leads to anxiety, or severely stressed Americans are drawn to Oprah," said...
IZZAT A FACT - EVIL SADDAM STOOGE LEADS GUERRILLAS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A ruthless former enforcer for Saddam Hussein has been identified as the leader of Iraq's underground responsible for daily terror attacks on U.S. troops, it was revealed last...
POLL: BUSH TOPS PREZ FIELD
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush still holds a lead over all the Democratic presidential contenders. The Quinnipiac University poll found Bush with a 4-percentage-point lead over retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who...
WYCLEF PAYS FOR BED-BOY FUNERAL
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn toddler who accidentally suffocated as he slept in a bed he was sharing with four siblings because his family couldn't afford to buy him his own crib got...
SNICKERS' TRICK-OR-TREAT FEAT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amIf you wake up with a sugar hangover Saturday morning, blame the Snickers. The peanut-stuffed candy bar is Halloween's most popular treat - dropped into about 1 in 5 kids'...
MINORITIES UP AT CUNY, CRITICS HAVE TO 'ADMIT'
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe enrollment of Hispanic students at the City University of New York skyrocketed this year - leading to an overall increase in minority enrollment despite tougher admission standards, new figures...
NERVY & PERVY - HEADMASTER ASKED GIRLS TO SEND PORN PIX: COPS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe prep-school headmaster who was arrested this week in a cybersex sting repeatedly asked his teenage chat-room playmates to send him porno photos of themselves, a law-enforcement source claimed yesterday....
JUDGE PUSHES WTC $$ TALKS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amA federal judge yesterday put in place an approach for resolving developer Larry Silverstein's $7 billion World Trade Center insurance dispute. Manhattan Judge Michael Mukasey insisted lawyers for Silverstein and...
HASIDIM CLASH IN BROOKLYN
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amA holy war between two feuding Brooklyn Hasidic groups erupted outside a religious school in Williamsburg yesterday as more than 150 students tried to storm the building, which had been...
MAYOR SEEKING AN AFTER-SCHOOL MEND
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday called for an overhaul of the city's hodgepodge of "out-of-school" programs. "The system of out-of-school programs have lacked accountability," Bloomberg said during a summit at Baruch College....
GEM-SLAY SUSPECT LEFT HIS NUMBER
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amAnthony Garcia left behind a calling card before he executed a Queens jewelry-store owner - a claim check with his cell-phone number on it, a detective testified yesterday. Fausto Rodriguez,...
BUBBA'S 'GENERAL' RETREAT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amWESLEY CLARK'S fiz zle from superstar wannabe to self-proclaimed "underdog" is raising new questions in the Democratic Party about former President Bill Clinton's star - and political smarts. Clinton helped...
KOBE'S COVER GIRL - CRITICS BASH TABLOID FOR 'REVEALING' ACCUSER
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amA supermarket tabloid is outing the 19-year-old woman who has accused NBA superstar Kobe Bryant of rape, splashing her name and a provocative photo on its front page - sparking...
EX-FIRST LADY 'HURT' BY TV MINISERIES
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amNancy Reagan is in anguish over CBS's upcoming miniseries, "The Reagans," says her close friend, TV titan Merv Griffin. "I talk to her quite often," Griffin said Tuesday on Keith...
SCREWDRIVER HEAD STAB A GORY GAY SLAY
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man who claims he plunged a screwdriver into the head of an off-duty city bus driver while fending off a gay advance has been arrested and charged with...
VIDEOTAPE MAY CLEAR CREEP
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe bombshell revelation of a videotaped confession could prove that cops arrested the wrong man in the 1996 murder of Long Island teenager Kristin Scarabelli, defense lawyers said yesterday. Michael...
RAIDERS BUST FOREIGN PERVS 'LOST' BY FEDS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amMore than 50 foreign nationals who escaped deportation after committing horrific child sex crimes were captured yesterday in a series of dawn raids in the New York area. But another...
PFIZER RIPS MIKE'S CANADA BID
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amPharmaceutical giant Pfizer sent off a nasty message to Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, denouncing his call for the Food and Drug Administration to allow the city to buy prescription drugs from...
WITNESSES STONEWALL POLICE IN SLAY PROBE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amFrustrated investigators in the Mark Fisher murder case say at least four people crucial to the investigation are keeping mum on the advice of their lawyers, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly...
'SUICIDE' OF DEBT-RIDDEN MARSHAL
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amLarge real-estate debts may have driven a deputy U.S. marshal to steal money from the feds and then commit suicide this week after the theft was discovered, The Post has...
GOTTI WISEGUY IS SLAIN
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amA reputed John Gotti associate who was acquitted in a 1984 Queens murder was shot dead at the opening of a Florida delicatessen after threatening to kill the owner, The...
NFL-BABY MOBSTER FURIOUS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - A jailed mob boss was fuming after his wife was accused by a former associate of aborting the love child of a New York football player, his lawyer...
18 BUSTED IN FEDS' $1.6M COCAINE HAUL
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amFederal and local authorities said yesterday they busted 18 members of an international drug ring that "dumped poison into the streets of our cities," smuggling thousands of kilos of cocaine...
KOBE'S COVER GIRL - CRITICS BASH TABLOID FOR REVEALING ACCUSER
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amA supermarket tabloid is outing the 19-year-old woman who has accused NBA superstar Kobe Bryant of rape, splashing her name and a provocative photo on its front page - and...
FEDERAL FERRY PROBE - EYE CRIMINAL CASE AS KIN GATHER FOR MEMORIAL
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn U.S. attorney yesterday launched a criminal probe of crew members aboard the Staten Island ferryboat that crashed Oct. 15 - as friends and relatives of victims gathered near...
2 COPS WOUNDED - B'KLYN GUNFIGHT LEAVES 1 THUG DEAD, 1 SHOT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amTwo cops were wounded and a robbery suspect shot dead in a wild gun battle on a Brooklyn street last night, police sources said. A team of officers, some uniformed...
WYCLEF PAYS FOR BED TOT'S FUNERAL
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn toddler who accidentally suffocated as he slept in a bed he was sharing with four siblings because his family couldn't afford to buy him his own crib got...
SNICKERS' FEAT IN TRICK-OR-TREAT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amIf you wake up with a sugar hangover Saturday morning, blame the Snickers. The peanut-stuffed candy bar is Halloween's most popular treat - dropped into about 1 in 5 kids'...
EARTH BOMBARDED: SOLAR STORM'S PARTICLES ZAP RADIOS, CELL PHONES
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amHere comes the sun storm! A massive explosion of gas and a shock wave of charged particles from the sun was expected to wreak havoc on Earth beginning last night....
MIKE LIKES CHEAP CANADIAN MEDS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday that New Yorkers could save more than $600 million a year if they were allowed to buy prescription drugs from Canada. Bloomberg, joined by Illinois Gov....
GIFT RAP FOR CUNY PROF
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - A CUNY professor yesterday was charged by the state Ethics Commission with illegally accepting lavish gifts from a vendor competing for a food service contract. Steven Alden, chairman...
CHEWED-UP WINDOWSILL TAKEN FROM 'STARVE' HOUSE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amInvestigators who scoured a New Jersey house where four boys were allegedly starved left early yesterday carrying part of a windowsill, a witness said. Earlier this week officials said that...
THE KOZZZ CASE: SLEEPY FORMER JUROR: FAT-CAT CEO NOT GUILTY
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amFree Koz! And, prosecutors - stop boring the jurors! "I was trying hard not to fall asleep when the prosecution presented its case," said former Tyco juror Jessica Friedman Grant,...
2 PHANTOM TOTS AREN'T 9/11 VICTIMS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe only two children believed to have been killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11 may never have existed, authorities said yesterday. Edward Vanvelzer, 4, his brother, Barrett, 11...
TWO YOUNG 'VICTIMS' OF 9/11 NEVER EXISTED
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe only two children thought killed in the World Trade Center attack never existed - and a man who was reported to be their father is alive and well. It's...
HEIDI'S A HALLOWEEN HOTTIE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amMeet the world's sexiest space alien. "Halloween is one of my favorite holidays," gushed supermodel Heidi Klum yesterday as she was poured into the metallic, skintight costume she'll wear to...
SILENT WITNESSES: COPS STONEWALLED IN COLLEGE-GRID SLAY PROBE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amFrustrated investigators in the Mark Fisher murder case say at least four people crucial to the investigation are keeping mum on the advice of their lawyers, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly...
SORI SWAP FOR BELTRAN A LONGSHOT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amAt the very least, the Royals would strongly consider swapping Carlos Beltran for the Yankees' Alfonso Soriano. What makes that deal a longshot, though, is the looming presence of agent...
ALFONSO: KEEP ME IN BRONX
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amAfter Alfonso Soriano's awful postseason, more than a few Yankee fans were ready to run the inconsistent Yankee second baseman out of town. But despite the disappointment at the end...
HOU: BLAME MY KNEE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amAllan Houston knew his right knee wasn't healthy. He knew it would affect the way he shot. But he didn't see this coming. "It was definitely worse than I thought...
CARTER BURNS NETS WITH 39
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - One man does not a team make. Yeah, try telling that to the Nets after last night's season opener. For 2 ½ quarters, the Nets were the better...
GARDEN SINGS SAME OL' SONG
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amFOR once, the Knicks were going to let everyone leave the Garden feeling good, feeling hopeful, optimistic, and when was the last time that had happened exactly? Every seat was...
KNICKS CAN'T CLOSE THE DEAL IN OPENER - FAILURE IN FOURTH LEADS TO OT LOSS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIME: Magic 85 - Knicks 83 The Knicks are bigger, all right. Bigger chokers. The Garden fell in love with Keith Van Horn last night, but the fans then grew...
'ZO RUSTY IN DEBUT, AND DISAPPOINTED
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES TORONTO - This was progress for Alonzo Mourning. But stuff progress. He wanted a victory. Playing for the first time since the finale of the 2001-02 season because...
VAN HORN WINS OVER BOOBIRDS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Late in the third quarter, Magic coach Doc Rivers shouted at Donnell Harvey, "You've got to shut down Van Horn right now." The Magic were only able to...
MCDYESS: 'I FEEL GREAT'
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amDon Chaney might not be optimistic about how soon Antonio McDyess could return, but McDyess is. The Knicks head coach said Monday that McDyess was "not even close to being...
NORMAN DAUPLAISE DEAD
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amNorman Dauplaise, 63, a staple of New York harness racing, died Tuesday following a battle with cancer. Dauplaise came to race on the Yonkers-Roosevelt circuit in 1964 and became one...
KIPLAGAT RUNS HARD FOR KENYAN WOMEN
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amLornah Kiplagat always wears her emotions on her sleeve. When she's passionate about something, it shows. Yesterday, she spoke passionately about two things: the New York City Marathon and the...
VAN HORN SHOOTS FOR SECOND CHANCE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amKEITH VAN HORN isn't deaf: He can hear the boos. He can sense the scorn. He completely understands that Knicks fans are neither happy with the current state of their...
DOLEAC'S BEEN BIG SURPRISE
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES This summer, as the Knicks drafted three big men and sought any center with a pulse on the free-agent market, Michael Doleac's name rarely came up. He was...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amMICHIGAN at MICHIGAN STATE Ch. 7 Noon LINE: Michigan -4. ANGLE: You can hear Michigan fans now: "Oh no, not another big game against the those intellectually inferior, financially strapped...
BOSS EYEING SPOT FOR BOWDEN
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES George Steinbrenner doesn't need a GM because Brian Cashman isn't getting the ax. But The Boss is trying to find something for former Reds GM Jim Bowden to...
SETBACK FOR DIXON
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Wide receiver Ron Dixon, who has not played this season following knee surgery, practiced for the first time yesterday - but lasted just two plays before he "heard...
MO'S STREAK IN JEOPARDY
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES Quietly, a significant streak will likely end Sunday when the Jets play the Giants at the Meadowlands. Veteran Jet linebacker Mo Lewis, whose productivity this season has dropped...
ROWDY REMATCH - ISLES, PENS PROMISE TO COME OUT SWINGING
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The last time these teams met, there was an iron gate standing between them as hostilities from Saturday's Islander win over the Penguins spilled out into the hallway...
DEVS LOOK TO CANCEL HOME HEX
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amGrumping about his team's Red Jersey Jinx, Pat Burns warmed to the topic of rivalries, hoping one can end the other tonight. "There are not enough rivalries now," the Devils'...
BOSS' DAY: BULLY WORKER, MULL COLON
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amGeorge Steinbrenner arrived at the Yankees' minor-league complex in Tampa yesterday at 9 a.m. and fired the first low-level staffer who came in the door after him. When a rampaging...
NETS SCRAMBLE OPENING LINEUP
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - The season wasted no time in testing Nets' strengths. With the top reserve guard on the injured list and the starting power forward hampered by injury, the two-time...
POWERLESS RANGERS SEARCH FOR SOLUTION
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe Rangers are the only team in the NHL without a power-play goal. They understand it's a dubious honor, but exactly how should they remedy it? If it's a problem...
NO TIMETABLE SET FOR HARRIS' RETURN
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES TORONTO - It's nothing torn. But it's still nothing good for the Nets and Lucious Harris. Harris, normally the first guard off the Nets' bench, has a disc...
CHAD, JETS DESPERATE TO SAVE THEIR SEASON
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe Giants already sabotaged the first six games of the Jets' season with their preseason knockout of Chad Pennington. On Sunday, the Giants can do the Jets one better: They...
BIG BLUE FB FINN-ISHED BLEEDING GREEN
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amIt was a proud day for Jim Finn, watching his beloved Jets knock the hated Giants out of the playoff picture and, as always, he was right there to soak...
BIG EAST VENTS ANGER ON BC
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amOne of these days, Boston College might look back on 2003 as the year it put its athletic programs in a toilet and flushed them clear through to the Atlantic...
ESPN SUSPENDS ATLAS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe stormy, five-year relationship between ESPN and its lead boxing analyst, Teddy Atlas, has become a tempest. Atlas is currently serving the third week of an ESPN-imposed one-month suspension for...
ISLES LET PENS OFF THE HOOK
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amIslanders 4 - Penguins 4 PITTSBURGH - There were no fights, no boiling of the blood and there surely wasn't any electricity for the re-match between the Islanders and Penguins...
ALLAN'S OPENER A DUD
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amAllan Houston had a chance to be the hero last night. But as the buzzer sounded at the end of regulation, Houston badly missed a jumper, forcing the extra session....
VAN'S THE MAN BUT CAN'T SAVE 'EM
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amTHE irony, of course, is that by the end of the game, every single Knicks fan remaining in Madison Square Garden was thinking the same exact thing: if only we...
KNICKS CAN'T CLOSE THE DEAL IN OPENER: FAILURE IN FOURTH LEADS TO OT LOSS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIME Magic 85 Knicks 83 The Knicks are bigger, all right. Bigger chokers. The Garden fell in love with Keith Van Horn last night, but the fans then became sick...
NEW-LOOK KNICKS OPEN WITH DOUBTS - CHANEY: PLAYOFFS UNLIKELY WITHOUT MCDYESS
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amAcross preseason, Don Chaney always gave milquetoast qualifiers when talking about the Knicks' chances of making the playoffs. "If we stay healthy," became a familiar refrain. Before yesterday's season opener...
ATLAS SERVING ESPN SUSPENSION
October 30, 2003 | 5:00amThe stormy, five-year relationship between ESPN and its lead boxing analyst, Teddy Atlas, has become a full-blown tempest. Atlas is currently serving the third week of an ESPN-imposed one-month suspension...