January 14, 2004
ROC-KY BREAKUP - HIP-HOP'S JAY-Z, DAMON DASH PARTING WAYS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amHip-hop mogul Jay-Z is looking to form his own company - a move that would distance him from buddy Damon Dash and the pair's Roc-A-Fella Records label, The Post has...
DEPT. OF IRONY: MICROSOFT EXEC WHINES HP-APPLE DEAL 'UNFAIR'
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amTurnabout is not fair play - at least according to Microsoft. Responding to Hewlett-Packard's agreement to bundle Apple's iTunes music store on its computers, a Microsoft official called the move...
CARRIERS WELCOME $1B LOSS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amOnly the airline industry would consider a $1 billion loss good news. But that figure - the major airlines' expected cumulative loss for the fourth quarter - is only one-third...
ARISTA BOMBSHELL: REID AXED DESPITE 31 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amArista Records chief executive Antonio "L.A." Reid got the boot yesterday, though he garnered more Grammy nominations than any other individual label chief last year. Reid's exit comes as Arista,...
SPITZER PUTTING HEAT ON REED
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is turning up pressure on the Big Board's directors - making clear that if he decides to take action against ousted Chairman Dick Grasso,...
ELLISON ROMANCES 4TH BRIDE, 35
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amHe's having trouble with hostile takeovers, but Larry Ellison managed a romantic one. The Oracle CEO - currently involved in an spurned courtship with business software rival PeopleSoft - married...
TD, E*TRADE CLOSE IN ON MERGER
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amToronto-Dominion Bank is in advanced talks to merge its TD Waterhouse unit with E*Trade Financial Group, a move that would create the second-largest U.S. discount brokerage after Charles Schwab &...
GERMAN FIRM TO PARTNER IN 42ND ST. PROPERTY
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amOWNERS of the block- long 111 Eighth Avenue, home to adman Donny Deutsch's company, among others, have a new partner, the acquisitive German giant Jamestown. The building, which formerly housed...
BRUCE FACES THE TROOPS ; N.Y. MAG'S NEW OWNER TELLS STAFF HE'S READY TO INVEST
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amAuthor Olivia Goldsmith (above left) is in a coma after surgery; Bruce Wasserstein (top right) met with Caroline Miller (bottom right) and the rest of the New York staff on...
SEC WIDENS ITS PROBE OF FUND FIRMS, BROKERAGES
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe mutual fund mess got messier yesterday when the SEC announced it was investigating several financial firms for not disclosing secret deals that could have hurt investors. SEC enforcement chief...
COCO PUFFS ALONG
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amCOCO PAZZO (two stars) 23 E. 74TH ST. AT MADISON AVENUE (212) 794-0205 COCO Pazzo wants us to pretend it's 1990 all over again. Mark Strausman, the chef when Pino...
BE A MENSCH & SEE THE JEWISH FILM FEST
January 14, 2004 | 5:00am'SHALOM, Ireland!" It sounds like a punch line, but it's a film - one of nearly three dozen documentaries, features and shorts from all over the world unspooling at the...
TOWN WASN'T READY FOR PARIS; 'SIMPLE LIFE' ENDS TONIGHT WITH CITY SLICKERS APOLOGIZING
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amWHEN Fox's reality hit "The Simple Life" wraps up in to night's season finale, devilish debutantes Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie will make amends and say goodbye to the townsfolk...
ON THE SIDE ; PRICEY BY ANY NAME
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amTHERE'S some confusion over the name of sushi master Masa Takayama's tiny but enormously expensive restaurant, scheduled to open in March at the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. Ever...
THREE'S COMPANY: IT'S ADULTS ONLY FOR STEAMY SEX THRILLER AT SUNDANCE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amTHE hottest ticket at this year's Sundance Film Festival is a steamy erotic thriller featuring full-frontal male and female nudity and a threesome that includes a brother and sister. The...
SAUSAGE SPOT MIGHT BE THE MISSING LINK
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amMANDLER'S, THE ORIGINAL SAUSAGE CO. (two stars) 26 E. 17TH ST. (BETWEEN BROADWAY AND FIFTH AVENUE) (212) 255-8999 IT started with a sausage and a dream. The payoff is Mandler's,...
FEAST IS EAST ; NOW THAT'S ITALIAN!; NOW THAT'S ITALIAN!
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amIS the East Village the new Little Italy? You'd think so, the way Italian eateries have been proliferating here and in the neighboring Lower East Side. In Vino, Cantinella, La...
MEREDITH'S DOG DIES
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amMEREDITH Vieira tear fully mourned the death of her family's beloved pooch, Willy, on "The View" yesterday. Willy, a scruffy mutt who was hit by a car - twice! -...
KELSEY TO THE MAX; HE JUST MIGHT BE A 'PRODUCER'
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amTHAT'S our Max!Kelsey Grammer, in an interview yesterday with TV Guide online, said he was talking to the producers of "The Producers" about replacing Nathan Lane in the role of...
NEW RECORD ON 'JEOPARDY'
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amQUEENS native Tom Walsh became the first seven-time champion last night in the history of the modern version of "Jeopardy!" With $184,000 in prize money, Walsh will go for an...
A SECRET AMONG 'FRIENDS'; WILL SHOOT KEY PARTS OF FINAL EPISODE WITH NO STUDIO AUDIENCE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amBURBANK, Calif. - Key por tions of the final "Friends" episode will be shot without a studio audience to make it less likely anyone will divulge the ending to NBC's...
STARR REPORT
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amAshleigh's future Don't count Ashleigh Banfield out at NBC just yet. It's been reported - and widely assumed - that Banfield, whose NBC contract expires in a few days, is...
COURT TV DEFENDS MARTHA: DUNNE: FEDS HAVE NO CASE VS. DOMESTIC DIVA
January 14, 2004 | 5:00am"Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege and Justice: Martha Stewart" Tonight at 10 on Court TV *** (three stars) HERE'S the dilemma: Dominick Dunne has a show about corruption and power called...
YOU GO, DIVA! VERONICA VILLARROEL'S RISE FROM POVERTY TO OPERATIC EMINENCE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S a rags to riches tale that sounds like it could only happen in a novel or a movie. Soprano Veronica Villarroel, dubbed "the accidental diva" in an upcoming documentary,...
FLYING HIRAM: RISING POLITICAL STAR FIGHT FOR IMMIGRANTS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amWHEN Hiram Monserrate was elected to the City Council in 2001, he was one of a number of freshman lawmakers who swept into City Hall because term limits had made...
GETTIN' TIGHT WITH TONY G: NFL'S HOTTEST TIGHT END LETS LOOSE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amJUST because his team lost to the Colts during last Sunday's playoffs doesn't mean red-hot tight end Tony Gonzalez is standing still. Most likely, the six-foot-four, 248-pound hunk licked his...
LET'S ROLL: A CIGAR LOVER'S GUIDE TO THE CITY'S HOTTEST TABAQUERÍAS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amRIGHT in our backyards, and nestled in various neighborhoods throughout the city, are a variety of cigar shops maintaining the old practices of smoke rolling - some dating back to...
JAY BUENO! 'TORQUE ' STAR REVVING UP TO CONQUER HOLLYWOOD
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amWITH his boyish good looks,Jay Hernandez can make women swoon,but that 's not his only talent.He can also fight fires,ride motorcycles and even do a little bit of rock climbing....
FIRETRUCK HITS PEDESTRIAN
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA firetruck struck and seriously injured a 48-year-old woman as she crossed a Washington Heights street last night. The unidentified woman was in guarded condition at Harlem Hospital, said a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amCan't get enough caffeine? Try a coffee-flavored steak. Rippe's restaurant in Seattle is now serving $29 filet mignon steaks dusted with ground Starbucks dark espresso blend. It has its fans,...
DEAN DOMINATES N.Y. DEMS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA new poll shows Howard Dean with a healthy lead in the battle for New York's Democratic primary on March 2. The Marist College survey gave Dean 26 percent, a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amTHE BRONX * A drug suspect walking into a courtroom for a hearing was arrested in a revenge shooting of four people last year, authorities said yesterday. Ramon Mendez, 25,...
WANNA WIN? PLAY NICE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amIs Dale Ungerer the only person who actually reads "The Almanac of American Politics"? For more than three decades, Michael Barone's biennial tome has been the bible for political journalists...
NEW RULES OPEN UP MTA $ECRETS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe MTA will be required to make its finances "more transparent" to the public starting this year, under a series of new rules put in place by state Comptroller Alan...
TERRORISTS KILL ISRAELI IN AMBUSH
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amPalestinian gunmen shot dead an Israeli father of five and wounded two other men in an ambush on a West Bank road yesterday, authorities said. The victim, a resident of...
OLD COUPLE FIGHTS OFF YOUNG THUGS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA pair of elderly Bronx shopkeepers were recovering yesterday after being slashed with a boxcutter as they fended off would-be stickup thugs. Young Sang, 61, and her husband, Don Sang,...
GREENS FEAR 'WILLY' CORPSE IS KILLER
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amNorwegian health officials stopped the burial of "Free Willy" star Keiko over concerns the killer whale's corpse may be full of environmental toxins. Keiko, who died last month, lived off...
GRAY FEARED DEAD - KIN SUSPECT SUICIDE LEAP FROM S.I. FERRY
January 14, 2004 | 5:00am'I just wanted to say I love you.' - Spalding Gray's phone call to son, Theo, 5, at 9 p.m. Saturday. The family of missing movie monologist Spalding Gray is...
MAYOR HEAPS HONORSON SANIT 'SNOWMEN'
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg honored the city's Strongest yesterday for cleaning up a record amount of snow last winter. Sanitation workers cleared 55 3/4 inches of snow - including 24 ½ inches...
FERRY HERO SUES CITY FOR $10 MIL
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe heroic British tourist who saved a horribly injured passenger on the Staten Island Ferry that smashed into a pier has sued the city for $10 million because she suffers...
GEPHARDT SKEWERS HOWIE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amRep. Richard Gephardt ripped front-runner Howard Dean yesterday - calling his statements about the capture of Saddam Hussein "ludicrous" and questioning the ex-Vermont governor's ability to defeat President Bush. With...
IRAQIS HELP LEAD GIS TO TERROR BIGS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. troops have recently captured a handful of big-time al Qaeda terrorist suspects in northern Iraq, acting on tips from Iraqis who are increasingly emboldened to help coalition...
SITTING PRETTY - $5,000 TOILET DOES ALL THE 'HAND'IWORK FOR YOU
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amI tested the world's most expensive toilet yesterday, and my verdict is: What a way to go! At a jaw-dropping $5,000, the Neorest is a sleek, high-tech commode that automatically...
SUBWAY HERO: NO ONE HELPED
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA good Samaritan who was viciously slashed as he defended another subway rider from a razor-wielding robber said yesterday no other passengers came to his aid - not even the...
LATINO-RUSSIAN BRAWL HAS B'KLYN MAN NEAR DEATH
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man was fighting for his life last night after a rumble between rival ethnic groups at a grocery store early yesterday, police said. Valery Charnavus, 43, was undergoing...
HACKS SUFFER COURT SETBACK
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amTaxi drivers may lose their hack licenses for refusing to pick up a fare, state Appellate Division judges ruled yesterday. Some people say hacks' refusals to pick up and transport...
BANKS BOOST LOW-COST APTS.
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amFour banks have committed $40 million over the next five years to help build up to 10,000 units of affordable housing - the second stage of the city's ambitious plan...
TAX AMNESTY A $50M BONANZA
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe city's tax amnesty, which was expected to add $20 million to the coffers, has instead hauled in $50 million with more than a week left before it's over, officials...
BOOZE THE REAL MIDLIFE CRISIS: STUDY
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA shockingly high number of 35-year-old Americans routinely abuse alcohol and use illegal drugs, a new study reveals. More than 32 percent of men reported drinking heavily - five drinks...
MURDEROUS MARRIAGE - NEWLYWED ON TRIAL IN WIFE'S HIT SLAY
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amIt was a wedding shrouded in secrecy that ended a month later in murder. Queens prosecutors say Billy Cooper, 30, with the help of triggerman Lenwood "Smoke" Evans, 26, bumped...
FUND BOOSTS ARSON VICTIMS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amSurvivors of the Bronx fire that killed a GI's wife and mother-in-law accepted a $5,000 check yesterday from a local health-care facility, as community leaders appealed for more contributions to...
KIDS BREATHE EASIER AS ASTHMA PLUMMETS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amAsthma among children in the Big Apple is at the lowest level in a decade, officials said yesterday. Kids hospitalized for the disease reached a low of 6.02 per 1,000...
TYCO CHIEF IS A LIAR: FUND BOSS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA noted stock jockey told Tyco embezzlement trial jurors yesterday he bought around $50 million in the company's stock because the CEO lied to him about the firm's health. It...
JAYSON GAME PLAN; BEGINS KEY PUSH TO PICK SLAY JURY
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amJury selection began in the manslaughter trial of former basketball star Jayson Williams yesterday - and defense-team members said they were confident of acquittal if they are able to get...
WISEGUY GUILTY IN 2 SLAY ATTEMPTS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA reputed mobster pleaded guilty yesterday to the attempted murder of rival gangsters in a deadly mob war between members of the Genovese and Luchese crime families, federal prosecutors said....
L.I. DAD SUSPECTED IN MORE HOLDUPS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amLong Island cops are looking into whether a dad accused of five bank holdups also robbed up to five more - in a spree that may have started because he...
NO MORE $$ FOR CITY SCHOOLS IN '04: BRUNO
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said yesterday the state doesn't need to give city schools any more money this year to comply with a court ruling - sparking...
TEMP STOLE $1.5M FROM IRS: FEDS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA Brooklyn office temp's checking account got a $1.5 million boost from the IRS after he doctored his tax forms to reflect $9 million in earnings - but jitters about...
HIP-HOP MOGUL DASH RAPED ME - EX-MODEL'S SHOCKING $15M SUIT
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA LEGGY former model says she was horribly raped by powerhouse rap mogul Damon Dash in a 15-second, forced-sex encounter on New Year's Day, 2003, a blockbuster $15 million new...
FIRE MARSHALS PUT HEAT ON CITY OVER 'UNPROBED' ARSONS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amCity fire marshals were so understaffed last year that they couldn't investigate 1,861 non-deadly fires they were asked to probe - and around 46 percent of those were likely arson,...
THE BUBBA FACTOR CLINTON STEERING PEOPLE CLARK'S WAY
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amWesley Clark's campaign yesterday played the Clinton card and claimed to have "an edge" in getting help from Bill Clinton - while a top Democratic fund-raiser revealed the former president...
N.J. TEEN'S MAUI HOTEL DEATH FALL
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA New Jersey teenager attending a cheerleading conference in Hawaii was killed in a fall from the ninth-floor balcony of a hotel room in Hawaii, police said yesterday. The body...
LAWYERS WANT JACKO WRAPO
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's lawyers have asked a judge to keep potentially embarrassing documents in his child molestation investigation under wraps, according to court papers made public yesterday. The...
FOLKS SAY HE'S LUCKY TO BE TRIED IN THEIR TOWN
January 14, 2004 | 5:00am'THEY'D hang him over in Hunterdon County." Art Dreher, 27, didn't hold back when he described what he thought would have happened to ex-New Jersey Nets star Jayson Williams, whose...
HERO MOM BAGS THUGS IN QUEENS PARK ATTACK
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA mother of nine who works for the Parks Department foiled a brutal robbery in a Queens park yesterday, helping to collar two muggers beating their victim, cops said. "This...
FINAL LOOK OF GROUND ZERO GREENERPLAN PUTS MUSEUM BELOW
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amHere is the long-awaited final design of the Ground Zero memorial called "Reflecting Absence" - a tranquil urban forest surrounding two cascading pools sunk into the footprints of the Twin...
3 KIDS BEAT STARBUCKS WORKER AS SCHOOLMATES CHEER
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThree middle-school kids beat up a Starbucks employee outside his Upper East Side store yesterday as a gang of their peers egged them on, witnesses said. The youngsters, who attend...
BREAKING 'TABOO' - RED-INK ROSIE PACKS IT IN ON TROUBLED MUSICAL
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amROSIE O'DONNELL has decided to put "Taboo" - the limping vanity production she tried to pass off as a Broadway musical - out of its misery. The novice theater producer...
HOW SITE WILL HONOR HEROES WITH CIVILIANS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe names of firefighters, cops and other rescue workers will be listed at random with the other victims of the World Trade Center attacks - but they will be marked...
THE BUBBA FACTOR - CLINTON STEERING PEOPLE CLARK'S WAY
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amWesley Clark's campaign yesterday played the Clinton card and claimed to have "an edge" in getting help from Bill Clinton - while a top Democratic fund-raiser revealed the former president...
FINAL LOOK OF GROUND ZERO - GREENER PLAN PUTS MUSEUM BELOW
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amHere is the long-awaited final design of the Ground Zero memorial called "Reflecting Absence" - a tranquil urban forest surrounding two cascading pools sunk into the footprints of the Twin...
FURY AT DESIGN LISTING HEROES WITH CIVILIANS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe controversy over how to list the names of rescue workers in the Ground Zero memorial heated up yesterday, with firefighters voicing disapproval of a plan to list all the...
HAWAII HORROR - MYSTERY OF N.J. GIRL'S FATAL PLUNGE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA New Jersey teenager's "once in a lifetime" chance to cheer at a major college football game in Hawaii turned to tragedy this week when she plummeted to her death...
FUMES KILL BX. GIRL, 9 & DAD
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amDespite doctors' valiant efforts to save them, a Bronx father and his young daughter died last night after carbon-monoxide fumes from a malfunctioning boiler seeped into their apartment, authorities said....
B'KLYN TEEN KILLED IN CRASH
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA car crash killed an 18-year-old Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn woman last night, police said. Kristen Roggio was a passenger in a Ford Focus that smashed into an '89 Oldsmobile near...
MOGUL 'MRS.' OUT: NIXED IN BID TO HIDE ASSETS BY USING ILLEGAL WIFE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amPALM BEACH, Fla. - A Palm Beach tycoon with a yacht named Octopussy and debts of more than $200 million cannot hide behind his wife when creditors come after him,...
NEW RULES TO OPEN UP MTA $ECRETS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe MTA will be required to make its finances "more transparent" to the public starting this year under a series of new rules put in place by state Comptroller Alan...
ETHNIC 'RUMBLE' LEAVES RUSSIAN MAN NEAR DEATH
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man was fighting for his life last night after a rumble between rival ethnic groups at a grocery store early yesterday, police said. Valery Charnavus, 43, was undergoing...
FUND BOSS: TYCO CHIEF LIED ON $20M PAYOUT
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amA noted stock jockey gave some of most damaging testimony yet at the $600 million Tyco embezzlement trial yesterday, telling jurors he bought around $50 million in company stock because...
SPORTS SHORTS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amBASEBALL: Pods ink Payton Jay Payton, a former Met, joined the Padres on the same day they decided not to trade for Pittsburgh catcher Jason Kendall, feeling they'd be hamstrung...
ISLES WANT CLIFF TO DIVE RIGHT IN MIX
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amCliff Ronning is not being billed as the missing link that puts the Islanders over the top. But there is a considerable amount of trust being placed on the slight...
HERE'S TICKET TO PICK 6 JACKPOT
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amWith a three-day carryover of $270,911 up for grabs, today's Pick 6 pool at the Big A figures to push $1 million, surely one of the biggest bonanzas we'll see...
ACCORSI: WELL DIDN'T PUSH ME TO COUGHLIN
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThere's a strong perception circulating around the hiring of Tom Coughlin that the decision was made despite the protests of GM Ernie Accorsi, and that Accorsi's role with the Giants...
SIMON SAYS SORRY ; WITH SUSPENSION, RANGER 'LET MY TEAMMATES DOWN'
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amWhile admitting to full culpability for Sunday's first-period cross-checking incident for which he was suspended two games by NHL VP Colin Campbell, Chris Simon yesterday morning explained why he reacted...
IGOR BIDES TIME ON DEVS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThere was no rant, no complaint. It seemed clear the former Red Army superstar would have preferred otherwise, but Igor Larionov did not explode over being a healthy Devils scratch...
STORM, 'CANES BOTH FIGHTING FOR MARCH LIFE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amWhen the Big East expanded to 14 teams and decided that only 12 would play in the annual conference tournament in New York, commissioner Mike Tranghese was asked to discuss...
HURT BY CHANTS, CHANEY INSISTS HE'LL NEVER QUIT
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe boos and jeers finally cut through Don Chaney's facade, hurt him to the core. Calling the fans' "Fire Chaney" chants a "dagger" and his uncertain working conditions "horrible," the...
K-MART'S ALL-STAR IS ON THE RISE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amAdmittedly, a year ago Kenyon Martin's All-Star chances were slim. But this season, when he's averaging nearly a double-double, coming off Olympic qualifying competition and again playing for a division...
BASEBALL KRAUSE'S FIRST LOVE
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe Yankees' new special assistant in baseball operations owns six championship rings. With the Chicago Bulls. Jerry Krause, the former NBA GM, was officially hired yesterday by the Yankees to...
JEFF HAS SYMPATHY FOR OLD PAL
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES Richard Jefferson figures his friend and former University of Arizona teammate Gilbert Arenas was prepared for the troubles of the Wizards' season. "Well, he played with the Warriors...
ANGRY SIS JUMPS TO ROG DEFENSE ; SIBLING SAYS HER BROTHER'S NOT RAT
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amRoger Clemens is not a traitor or a Texas con man - but those who doubted his sincerity about retirement are loathsome, Clemens' sister told The Post yesterday. Janet Johnson...
JAX REUNITED WITH VAN GUNDY
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amFormer Knicks point guard Mark Jackson will be reunited with Jeff Van Gundy and Patrick Ewing in Houston, The Post has learned. Jackson, 38, will work out for the Rockets...
LETTERMAN, ISIAH HAVE GOOD LAUGH ABOUT DON
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amKnicks boss Isiah Thomas and David Letterman had a yuk-fest at Don Chaney's expense. With Chaney's job status day-to-day, if not minute-to-minute, Thomas joked with Letterman on The Late Show...
ACCORSI: WELL DIDN'T PUSH ME TO COUGH
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThere's a strong perception circulating around the hiring of Tom Coughlin that the decision was made despite protests from GM Ernie Accorsi, and that Accorsi's role with the Giants has...
PECA BECOMES GARDEN FANS' NO. 1 ENEMY
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe Rangers got a good look at Michael Peca last night, and the result could alter the infamous "Potvin [Stinks]" chant that echoes through the Garden to include the name...
NOTHING DOING FOR DEVS
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amSenators 4Devils 0 Surviving on shutouts, the reeling Devils were buried by one. Lou Lamoriello is already said to be beating the bushes to bring in a gunner. His troops...
PERSONAL PATSIES: RANGERS DOMINATE ISLES AGAIN
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amRangers 4 - Islanders 1 Four wins in four games this year. Six wins and two ties in the eight games since Mike Dunham came to Broadway. A record of...
DOC: VLAD TRULY AMAZIN'
January 14, 2004 | 5:00amMets fans are about to feel a little worse. The back specialist who recently evaluated Vladimir Guerrero said the rightfielder is in no pain, is in terrific shape and is...