January 15, 2004
STRAPPED MAIDENFORM SEEKS SUITOR
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe 80-year-old grand dame of the bra industry may soon be hooking up. Maidenform Inc. - whose labels include Maidenform, Oscar de la Renta and Lilyette lingerie - is shopping...
IS FLEET SPECIALISTS FLEECING BIG BOARD FLOOR BROKERS?
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHEY apparently don't call it Fleet for nothing. Just as the profits of its New York Stock Exchange specialist operation are dwindling because of investigations, decimalization and low trading volume,...
CLIVE'S 9 LIVES - DAVIS POISED TO GET KEY ROLE AT MUSIC GIANT BMG
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amMusic industry legend Clive Davis is not only back after his ouster from Arista Records four years ago - he's poised to take on a much bigger role at BMG,...
EVEN WITH EXTENSION, CONRAD STILL A DEADBEAT
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amConrad Black has no intention of making good on his pledge to begin paying back millions in fees to Hollinger International, The Post has learned. Black, the ousted head of...
WHITNEY'S ART TO HIT SOTHEBY'S
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amArt lovers who have a few extra million stuffed under the mattress may find some sweet temptations when Sotheby's auctions off $140 million worth of paintings from the John Hay...
TOWER MAY GO SOUR WITHOUT DEAL
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTower Records, a storied chain that has struggled to find a buyer, is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and needs a deal soon, analysts familiar with the situation say....
MONEY MANAGER SUED BY NASD OVER 'SCAM'
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amMoney management giant Waddell & Reed Financial was sued by the National Association of Securities Dealers for needlessly switching clients from one financial product to another - generating commissions for...
KB TOYS FOLLOWS FAO TO CHAP. 11
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amKB Toys yesterday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, becoming the second toy retailer to fall victim to the fierce price wars that marked the holiday shopping season. KB's filing,...
DE NIRO TO BRING HOLLYWOOD TO THE HUDSON LATER THIS YEAR
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amRobert De Niro is ready to give the Big Apple's movie industry a boost that Hollywood can't get yet. The hometown actor and his business partners are staging a gala...
SEC DEMANDS FUND COMPANIES COME CLEAN ON FEES
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe SEC yesterday proposed rules that will force mutual funds to come clean about hidden fees, hire independent directors and say how much managers are trading in their own funds....
JPM CHASE BUYING BANK ONE FOR $58B
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. announced yesterday it will buy Bank One for $58 billion - a blockbuster deal that alters the competitive landscape among the world's biggest banks. The...
JAMIE GETS SWEET REVENGE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amSuccess is the sweetest revenge - and nothing could be sweeter than the revenge Jamie Dimon just had on Citigroup. Once widely expected to succeed Sandy Weill as chief executive...
JPM CHASE BUYING BANK ONE FOR $60B
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amJ.P. Morgan Chase &Co. announced yesterday it will buy Bank One for $60 billion -a blockbuster deal that alters the competitive landscape among the world's biggest banks. The combination catapults...
BACK TO THE FUTURE - THE BUZZWORDS FOR 2004 ARE: 'CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC '
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHERE'S a renewed optimism for the state of the city, but along with that comes an underlying current of worry. "The financial institutions are reporting an upwards turn [in employment...
MOVIN ON UP - IT'S RISKY, IT'S EXCITING, IT'S EXPENSIVE - TAKING THE PLUNGE INTO A RETAIL SPACE OF YOUR OWN NEEDS PLENTY OF RESEARCH
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amEVER dream of pushing your cart into a storefront, turning your art into a gallery, or following in Rocco Despirito's footsteps into your own restaurant? Storefront leasing is more art...
IT TAKES A VISION - REVITALIZING A RUNDOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CAN REAP DIVIDENDS FOR ALL
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amLIVELY retail shops, safe streets, good lighting and a visionary proponent are some of what's needed to jump start a neighborhood. When Tony Goldman took up the cause of SoHo,...
THE CLASS OF 2004
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amSeveral exciting new projects are hotting up the commercial scene this year, with most having room for more tenants ADDRESS: 340 Madison Avenue DEVELOPER: Macklowe Properties SIZE SF: 700,000 square...
THE ONES WE LOOK UP TO: NEW YORK'S GOLDEN OLDIES ARE STILL ITS TRUSTED FAVORITES
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHE city prizes properties that for the most part were created more than 25 years ago. Each building still enjoys a favored following of tenants, owners and brokers as its...
A TAXING PROBLEM: BEWARE - IF THE RENT DOESN'T GET YOU, THE REAL ESTATE TAXES MIGHT
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amBILLY Cohen, a principal with Newmark & Co. said: "I like to think that not doing business in New York, is not availing yourself of the cream of the crop...
GETTING OUT OF THE HOUSE: YES, YOU CAN MOVE YOUR OFFICE OUT OF YOUR HOME AND INTO A REAL SPACE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amIF your growing business is being slowly ousted from your apartment by your piles of clutter or growing children and their toys, help is at hand. There are several resources...
STARR REPORT
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amButt seriously . . . America will finally get a look at Det. Medavoy's bare rump on "NYPD Blue." Gordon Clapp, who plays Medavoy - and who lobbied strenuously for...
JENNIFER PLANS TWO LITTLE PITTS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amJENNIFER Aniston says she and husband Brad Pitt are ready to have kids - and more than one. "Definitely love to have two [children] - at least," Aniston tells Diane...
QUICHE AND TELL - HOSTS MAY NOT EAT MEAT, BUT THEY DO TAKE THE CAKE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00am"Dweezil & Lisa" [ ] (three stars) Tomorrow night at 10 on the Food Network ---- A heaping helping of cutie-pie is on the menu at the Food Network with...
CNBC SERVES UP MCENROE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amYES, they can be serious - CNBC is giving former tennis bad-boy John McEnroe his own prime-time talk show. McEnroe's as-yet-untitled show, scheduled to premiere in about three months, will...
TYRA'S MERRY 'MODELS' - HOST FINDS TAPE OF CONTESTANTS' ORGY
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHE surprise on the new season of "America's Next Top Model" isn't who's going to win - it's how four contestants thought they'd get away with a group sex scene....
PARIS GOES 'VEGAS'
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amPARIS Hilton is set to make another video appearance - this time fully-clothed on the NBC hit drama "Las Vegas." The hotel heiress will play the gold-digging fiancee of a...
'AVERAGE' ADAM SCORES - REGULAR GUY GETS HIS OWN DATING SHOW
January 15, 2004 | 5:00am'AVERAGE Joe" nice guy Adam Mesh won't finish last after all. Mesh, the good-natured finalist on the first edition of NBC's "Average Joe" who had his heart broken by former...
THE BIG 5-OPRAH - WHY AMERICA'S IN LOVE WITH THE BIRTHDAY GIRL; SHE'LL HAVE MANY HAPPY RETURNS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amUSUALLY, they're her cutthroat competition. But as the Queen of Daytime TV approaches her 50th birthday, on Jan. 29, Oprah's fellow hosts are taking off the gloves to applaud the...
PARKA METER - WINTER WARMTH'S RIDING ON THESE COAT TALES
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amBRRRRR-ING on the chill. With the mercury stuck in the teens - or below - for the next few days, it's time to stop procrastinating and make that critical fashion...
Correction Date: 05/07/2004
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amCorrection: A Jan. 15 article in The Post misidentified the mother of an 18-year-old woman killed in a head-on Brooklyn car crash. Kristian Roggio was the daughter of Donna Oliveri...
B'KLYN NET GAIN - TEAM'S MOVE TO N.Y. 'ALMOST 100% DEFINITE'
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA New York group has submitted the winning bid for the New Jersey Nets - bringing the team a giant step closer to moving to a new Brooklyn arena, sources...
BOYS CHOIR FOUNDER KEEPS JOB
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe board that oversees the famous Boys Choir of Harlem voted unanimously yesterday to keep its founder, Walter Turnbull, as president - despite allegations that he ignored reports a top...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA West Virginia firefighter torched his mom's mobile home - because he was upset over how messy it was, cops say. William Feimster, 25, of Martinsburg, complained that the home...
LESSON IN LAW - ARRESTS OF TEACHERS SKYROCKET 22%
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThere's reading, writing and rap sheets at the city Department of Education - the number of teachers arrested last year jumped 22 percent and the number of all school employees...
RUDY TOPS EVERYONE IN RACE FOR GOV: POLL
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - Sen. Charles Schumer would clobber Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in a Democratic primary for governor - but former Mayor Rudy Giuliani would beat them both in the general...
ANOTHER LESSON IN IDIOCY COURTESY OF THE P.C. PEDAGOGUES
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHE best thing you can say about the mind-bending little publication now insinuating itself on your kids' public-school bookshelves is that - this time - Heather has just one mommy....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * Police yesterday released the above photo of a gun-toting bandit who allegedly held up a grocery store in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The unidentified gunman was caught by a surveillance camera...
TEXTBOOK LUNACY - KIDS' TOME HITS 'HOME'
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amKids in some New York elementary schools are being taught that the typical American city home is the back seat of a car parked in front of an abandoned, graffiti-covered...
TAXI TAX - CITY WANTS EXTRA BUCK FOR RUSH-HOUR CABS; TAXIS EYE $1 HIKE FOR RIDES IN RUSH HOUR
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amRush-hour cab riders could get socked with a new $1 surcharge under a plan being considered by city officials. Taxis already charge an extra 50 cents for rides between 8...
$HAKE-UP IN MEDICAID EYED
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - A task force created by Gov. Pataki recommended yesterday a state takeover of the local share of long-term Medicaid care, a move the panel says would save cash-strapped...
KLEIN CAMPAIGNING FOR PARENT POWER
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration yesterday launched a massive publicity campaign to encourage parents to run for May elections to serve on 34 new district education councils across the city - the...
LACI JUDGE DENIES SCOTT BID TO AX TRIAL
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - A judge refused to throw out murder charges against accused wife-killer Scott Peterson, ruling yesterday that prosecutors had more than enough evidence to bring the Modesto, Calif.,...
DOCS TOOK INSURERS FOR RIDE: COPS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amSeven doctors and two lawyers were among 20 suspects arrested yesterday when cops smashed a million-dollar car- and medical-insurance scam that routinely staged accidents and collected on non-existent injuries. During...
MAN NABBED WITH BULLETS ON PLANE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - British cops busted a Sudanese man who carried five bullets aboard a D.C.-to-London flight yesterday and held him on possible terrorism charges. In a security breach that produced...
CITY KIDS SHOW INTEL-LIGENCE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amNineteen Stuyvesant HS seniors were honored yesterday at the school's Manhattan campus as semifinalists in the Intel Science Talent Search, the nation's oldest pre-college science competition. The 19 Stuyvesant students...
I'LL BE LATE FOR WORK: 'WIFE-KILLER'
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA Queens man accused of ordering his newlywed wife shot dead didn't even feign sadness when notified of her death. He was more concerned about getting to work on time,...
TERROR MOM KILLS 4 ISRAELIS - 'PARTS OF MY BODY CAN FLY ALL OVER'
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA 22-year-old Palestinian woman carried out what is believed to be the first homicide bombing by a mother when she blew herself up at a Gaza Strip checkpoint yesterday, killing...
PRICE TAG OF SORROW - COST OF WTC MEMORIAL WILL TOP $350M
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amIt will cost more than $350 million to build the "Reflecting Absence" memorial at Ground Zero, a top development official said yesterday. The preliminary estimate includes the cost of building...
APTS. ARE HIGH-RISER$
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe bull market in Manhattan apartments continues to charge ahead. The median price of a co-op or condo now stands at $580,000 - up from $575,000 in the last quarter,...
FERRY CRASH VICTIMS TO HIT CITY WITH $3B IN CLAIMS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe city faces a whopping $3 billion in damage claims from victims and those injured in the Staten Island Ferry disaster, officials said yesterday. The city Comptroller's Office said 172...
SUDDENLY, IT'S A HORSE RACE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amDES MOINES, Iowa - Suddenly, it's time to think the unthinkable - Howard Dean could actually lose the Iowa caucuses next Monday and blow the Democratic 2004 race wide open....
SCAFFOLD SCOFFLAW GETS 10 YEARS FOR 5 DEATHS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe families of five men who died in a scaffold collapse saw a small measure of justice yesterday in a Manhattan courtroom, when the deathtrap builder Philip Minucci was sentenced...
BLOOMBERG: TAX REBATE EVERY YEAR
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that he intends to mail a $400 property-tax rebate to small homeowners every year, not just this year. "It's going to be an annual thing," the...
ADD-ONS CAN'T SALVAGE THIS AWFUL DESIGN
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amIt still stinks. A frenzied week of sketching in a "forest" and adding color to computer images can't save "Reflecting Absence" from its obsessive morbidity. Nor can the last-minute scramble...
BUBBA: I DON'T FAVOR WES
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amFormer President Bill Clinton yesterday insisted he isn't favoring Gen. Wesley Clark over the rest of the Democrats running for the White House. Speaking at an event marking the completion...
GIRL ATTACKS ASST. PRINCIPAL
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA 15-year-old student was arrested at a Bronx school yesterday after she attacked an assistant principal for reprimanding her, police said. The assistant principal had scolded the girl for being...
BUSH STARTS SPACE-RACE COUNTDOWN
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday asked the country's best rocket scientists to come up with a new spacecraft that could ferry astronauts around the galaxy. Bush, in a major speech...
PARK SUSPECT IN NEW RAPE RAP
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe suspect in the vicious attempted rape of a woman in Prospect Park has been indicted in the rape of a senior citizen in the park just two weeks earlier...
MORE LIKE GLOBAL FREEZING
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amMother Nature is threatening to give Al Gore the cold shoulder today when he gives a speech on "global warming" at the Beacon Theater. Accuweather is predicting the temperature will...
UFT OFFERS HELP TO BAD TEACHERS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amWhat's the best way to get rid of incompetent teachers? Let the teachers union handle them. So says United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, who yesterday proposed giving the...
GASSED WOMAN, SON ON MEND
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA Bronx woman whose husband and daughter were killed by carbon monoxide fumes was recovering yesterday and her son was discharged from the hospital as a probe centered on how...
NETS FINDING WAY ON ROAD
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThere still remains a long - very long - way to go, but the Nets currently are doing something they have never, ever done as an NBA franchise. They're forging...
$100M DEATH SUIT - MICHAEL, 12, WENT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR A HEADACHE, BUT NEVER MADE IT BACK HOME
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe prominent New York family of a 12-year-old who died last year at a Westchester hospital yesterday filed notice they're suing for $100 million, charging he was given a fatal...
UNION HONCHO ON TAKE: FEDS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA powerful union official raked in "wads of cash" - and enjoyed free home improvements and a chauffeur service - thanks to a multimillion phantom-job scheme, federal prosecutors alleged yesterday....
GRAY'S KIN ROCKED BY FALSE REPORT
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA bogus radio report that the body of missing movie monologist Spalding Gray had been found in Pennsylvania had relatives of the manic-depressive performer reeling yesterday. "They did find a...
JUDGE SLAMS MEPHAM HAZERS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA Pennsylvania judge imposed strong penalties yesterday on two teens who sexually abused younger players at a high school football camp - sentencing one to a military-style boot camp and...
DIZZY DEAN'S FREE FALL - LEAD EVAPORATES IN IOWA DEAD HEAT
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amNew polls yesterday showed Howard Dean slipping in both Iowa and New Hampshire as rival Dick Gephardt accused Dean of using "manufactured anger" to play "cynical politics." The Iowa tracking...
FIRM HIT FOR HIRING D'AMATO
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amNewly released documents prove that a La Guardia Airport contractor broke Port Authority rules when it hired former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato as a lobbyist in a bidding dispute, a state...
ENRON PLEA-COPPERS - HUSBAND-WIFE EXECS TAKE FED DEAL TO TURN ON CRONIES
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA husband-wife team of Enron crooks whose crimes cost investors untold millions pleaded guilty yesterday in a deal that will force them to sing like canaries about their cronies and...
'MY BABY'S BROKEN' - TEEN'S CRASH DEATH DEVASTATES FOLKS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe parents of an 18- year-old woman killed in a head-on collision in Gerritsen Beach lashed out yesterday at the driver of the vehicle that plowed into their daughter's car....
PREPARE FOR SUB-0 TEMPS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amIt looks like a freeze-for-all! The Big Apple was getting ready last night for a fast-blowing snowstorm expected to dump up to five inches of white stuff on our streets...
JAYSON 'TERRIFIED' OF PRISON
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA former linebacker for the New York Giants could be among those standing in judgment of Jayson Williams - and the former New Jersey Net says he's "terrified" of going...
HAWAII DEATH FALL ACCIDENTAL
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTwo young men were freed yesterday in the mysterious death plunge of a popular New Jersey cheerleader in Hawaii. Detectives said there were no indications of foul play in the...
FERRY LAWSUITS TOTAL $3 BILLION
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe city faces a whopping $3 billion in damage claims from victims' families and those injured in the Staten Island Ferry disaster, officials said yesterday. The city Comptroller's Office said...
MIKE'S WRAP STAR - SLIMMER MAYOR JUST LOVES HIS SUBWAY FARE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amSure, he's the Big Apple's billionaire mayor - but when it's time for his lunchtime chow-down, Mike Bloomberg says he fills his belly with a regular guy's fast food. "I...
CIVILIAN COMPLAINTS AGAINST COPS RISE 21%
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe number of people who found New York's Finest not quite so fine rose by 21 percent last year. The Civilian Complaint Review Board said in a new report yesterday...
BX. GANG KILLER GETS LIFE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe head of a notorious Bronx street gang was sentenced yesterday to life in prison. Sean "Nut" Carr was convicted of gunning down Tony Morton in 1994 to maintain leadership...
GAL USED CITY JOB IN ID SCAM: FEDS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA Queens woman who had access to personal data through her job at the city Human Resources Administration has been charged with selling thousands of identities, prosecutors said yesterday. Veronica...
WIFE-ABUSE STUNNER - DEAN AIDED VT. COP WHO BEAT SPOUSE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amDemocrat Howard Dean last night faced a charge of intervening to help a wife abuser in a child-custody case, as polls showed his lead collapsing in both Iowa and New...
WITNESS TO PAL'S SLAY SPEAKS OUT A YEAR LATER
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amAlmost a year to the day after he watched in horror as his close friend was shot to death - and he was falsely charged with the crime - Forrest...
TEEN DIES IN S.I. COLLISION
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amA 15-year-old boy was killed late last night when he was thrown from a car in a smashup on Staten Island. The unidentified teen was riding in the front passenger...
NEW DEAN SHOCKER - DED VERMONT COP WHO ABUSED WIFE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amDemocrat Howard Dean last night faced a charge of intervening to help a wife abuser in a child-custody case, as polls showed his lead collapsing in both Iowa and New...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - NEW YORK'S CARIBBEAN SON
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amAlexander Hamilton started the paper you are now reading --- That face on the $10 bill is full of history. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton might have been born 1,300 miles...
BIG A CANCELS; PICK 6 JACKPOT REACHES 761G
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amWith snow and continued freezing temperatures in the forecast, Aqueduct has canceled today for both live racing and simulcasting. When and if racing resumes tomorrow, there will be a four-day...
GIANTS HIRE SWEATMAN FOR SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTom Coughlin yesterday brought back a familiar name when he dipped into the Giants' past to reel in Mike Sweatman as his new special teams coordinator. The hiring comes as...
ROG: I DIDN'T BETRAY BOSS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amRoger Clemens' arm may be in Houston, but he says his heart is still in The Bronx. "I have nothing but great things to say about the Yankees," Clemens told...
VINCENT TURNS CORNER - EAGLES DB COULD PLAY SUNDAY
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe news that cornerback Troy Vincent felt "very, very good" after yesterday's practice is very, very good news for the Eagles. Getting under way with full-scale preparations for Sunday's NFC...
THE PERFECT MEDICINE - RANGERS RIGHT RX FOR DEVILS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTheir fear is that if the Rangers aren't good for what ails the Devils, nothing will be. "I'm sure they're rubbing their hands right now, [figuring] it's a good time...
GARCIA FILLS METS' RIGHT FIELD VOID
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe Mets finally found a new right fielder, reaching a preliminary agreement with Karim Garcia on a one-year deal for $800,000 plus incentives. The news is unlikely to appease Mets...
IT'S HIS TOM OF YEAR - BRADY'S BUNCH LOVES PLAYOFFS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amFOXBORO - The second of the two NFL co-MVPs arrives at Gillette Stadium on Sunday when Peyton Manning leads the Colts against the Patriots in the AFC Championship game. Steve...
JASPERS PUT TRUST IN HOLMES
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amDave Holmes sat, watched and waited. Last season he looked on from the bench as Manhattan compiled a 23-7 record, won the MAAC championship and an invitation to the NCAA...
GETTING CAL WOULD COST STORM MORE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amIf St. John's has John Calipari on its list of coaching candidates, and sources told The Post it does, then the price tag for the Memphis coach just got a...
CHAOTIC START FOR ZEKE ERA
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHIS was the easy part for Isiah Thomas, acceding to the ruthless eruptions and sophisticated basketball minds of Knicks fans who'd nightly begged for the end of Don Chaney's blightful...
RJ FINDS PRACTICE IS MAKING PERFECT
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES Practice makes perfect. And it also makes confident. Look at Richard Jefferson. Ever since joining the Nets in 2001, Jefferson has been a near permanent pre-and post-practice fixture...
DON: TEAM WILL MAKE PLAYOFFS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES In the last hours of a bizarre (if not cruel) firing, Don Chaney kept his head up and his thoughts positive while admitting "It's very difficult" to ignore...
LENNY GETS STAMP OF APPROVAL
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amLenny Wilkens is a good fit for the Knicks and especially for Stephon Marbury because of his Hall of Fame credentials, the Wizards' Eddie Jordan, said last night. "I respect...
PLAYERS GLAD IT'S OVER
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amStephon Marbury said there was at least one silver lining in Don Chaney being relieved of his duties yesterday afternoon. "We don't have to hear 'Fire Chaney!' when we're playing,"...
WILKENS IS ODD CHOICE BY THOMAS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amIT was, said Isiah Thomas, a short list. Also, a short line for the services of Lenny Wilkens, who is 66 years old, who was fired at the end of...
KNICK STUNNER: DON OUT, LENNY IN - ISIAH TABS HALL OF FAMER WILKENS AS NEW COACH
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amNo, it's not Mike. New Knicks boss Isiah Thomas pulled off a stunner yesterday, finally dropping the ax on Don Chaney and hiring Lenny Wilkens, a Hall of Fame player...
CAL WOULD COST STORM MORE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amIf St. John's has John Calipari on its list of coaching candidates, and sources told The Post it does, then the price tag for the Memphis coach just got a...
ISLANDERS HOPING TO STOP SENS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amKANATA, Ont. - The Senators are the team that knocked the Islanders out of last spring's playoffs, took several runs at Alexei Yashin's head, and as recently as two weeks...
GRADY TAKES CONEY BATTLE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amHS HOOPS / OT: Grady 79 - Lincoln 74 Basil Leslie and Sebastian Telfair got in each other's faces after the third quarter yesterday, the culmination of a game's worth...
PLAYERS GLAD COACH IN PLACE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amStephon Marbury said there was at least one silver lining in Don Chaney being relieved of his duties yesterday afternoon. "We don't have to hear 'Fire Chaney!' when we're playing,"...
COACHES LAUD KNICK-LEN MARRIAGE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amLenny Wilkens is a good fit for the Knicks and especially for Stephon Marbury because of his Hall of Fame credentials, the Wizards' Eddie Jordan said last night. "I respect...
WELCOME TO 'AS THE KNICKS TURN' - ISIAH RING-LEADER OF GARDEN CIRCUS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHIS was the easy part for Isiah Thomas, acceding to the ruthless eruptions and sophisticated basketball minds of Knicks fans who nightly begged for the end of Don Chaney's blightful...
DESPITE SHABBY SHOVE, CHANEY EXITS WITH CLASS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES In the last hours of a bizarre (if not cruel) firing, Don Chaney kept his head up and his thoughts positive. Chaney, who presided over a morning shoot-around...
THOMAS' HOOK BIT TOO HASTY
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amSO, for a change, the Daily News was correct; Don Chaney was, indeed, replaced on the Knicks' sidelines by a former coach of the Cavaliers and Hawks who's represented by...
MONSTER SLAM HELPS MIAMI BURY STORM
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amMiami 70 - St. John's 64 There have been a lot of rim-rattling, mind-blowing dunks in the 42-year history of Alumni Hall. But never has an opposing player dropped a...
JASPERS PUMMEL PEACOCKS
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amManhattan 87 - >St. Peter's 60 The battle for first place in the MAAC between Manhattan College and St. Peter's wasn't much of a battle. It was more like a...
SHOOTING NETS WIN FOR HERB
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amKnicks 120 - Magic 110 The Herb Williams Era will be forgotten as early as today, a mere footnote in yesterday's hurricane of activity by Knicks president Isiah Thomas. Nevertheless,...
ROGERS FINALLY MAKES HIS MARK
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amNets 115 - Wizards 103 They have waited. And waited. And waited some more. Seemingly, presidents changed and territories were granted statehood. And still the Nets waited. Finally last night,...
WILKENS SEEMS AN ODD CHOICE
January 15, 2004 | 5:00amIT was, said Isiah Thomas, a short list. He didn't say it also was a short line for the services of Lenny Wilkens, who, coming off a firing in Toronto...