January 23, 2004
MCGRAW HEIR IS HERBAL HIPSTER
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amFor Robert P. McGraw, the choice was simple - publish or perishable. A few years ago, the McGraw-Hill executive, grandson of one of the company's founders, was suffering the classic...
BLACK AMBUSHED - HOLLINGER TRIES ASSET SALE TO BLOCK BARCLAY DEAL
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amHollinger International and its investment bank, Lazard, began a formal auction process for its major properties yesterday - a move to block ousted CEO Conrad Black from selling his controlling...
COLUMNIST QUITS AMID SEC PROBE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe chief commentator for CBS MarketWatch has resigned because of an ongoing investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into his trading activities. Thom Calandra, 47, helped found MarketWatch.com, the...
MORGAN STANLEY TO BID ADIEU TO COVERING LVMH
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amMorgan Stanley said yesterday it will temporarily stop publishing research reports on LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, following last week's ruling by a French court that found the bank's coverage...
MICROSOFT TO EASE UP ON RIVALS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amMicrosoft is expected to reach out to competitors today in response to criticisms from its antitrust suit foes. The move centers around a licensing program, the Microsoft Communications Protocol Program,...
EX-COMPUTER ASSOC. EXEC PLEADS GUILTY TO COVER-UP
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amA former vice president of software giant Computer Associates revealed that he and other top executives tried to cover up faulty accounting practices, as he pleaded guilty yesterday to lying...
WHOPPER A FLOPPER: Y&R FIRED
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amBurger King also grills ad agencies. Just nine months after winning the burger chain's $390 million ad account, giant agency Young and Rubicam was fired and replaced by a smaller...
SPITZER'S FUNDS PROBE HITS CONSECO
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has sent subpoenas to a handful of insurance companies, including Conseco Inc., as part of his investigation into mutual fund trading practices, The Post...
G+J USA TURNS PAGE ON ITS CEO
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amIt ain't over till the fat lady sings - and yesterday she sang for Gruner + Jahr USA CEO Dan Brewster. In a late-morning meeting with Gruner + Jahr International...
RED-FACED MAXIM PUBLISHER NEEDS PAPER SHREDDER
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amBE careful what you leave behind when you switch jobs! In late November, Dennis Publishing went to war with Fortune Managing Editor Rik Kirkland after he ran a hard-hitting story...
STUPOR-NATURAL - IT'S SHLOCK THERAPY FOR ASHTON KUTCHER IN LAUGHABLE 'THRILLER'
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amTHE BUTTERFLY EFFECT [ 1/2] (one and one-half stars) Dude, where's my "Mystic River"? Running time: 113 minutes. Rated R (violence, sex, profanity, drugs). At the Empire, the Union Square,...
A 'TAD' TEDIOUS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amWIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON! [] (two stars) A second-rate date. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexual content, some drug references and language). At the E-Walk, Loews Lincoln...
WOBBLY COMEDY LAYS IT ON WITH A TROWEL
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amMADE-UP [ 1/2] (one and one-half stars) Overstuffed and unfocused. Running time: 96 minutes. Not rated (sex, language). At the Angelika, corner of Houston and Mercer streets. ---- EVA Amurri,...
EX-HEIGHT-ING
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amTOUCHING THE VOID [ 1/2] (three and one-half stars) Gripping true tale of survival. Running time: 106 minutes. Not rated (language). At the Sunshine, Houston St. between First and Second...
GET READY TO DIG MUSICAL MASSACRE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amWITH the brilliant Anton Newcombe as frontman, anything can happen at a Brian Jonestown Massacre show. Newcombe might storm off onto Avenue A (as he did one Brownies night), or...
HAPPY HERITAGE!
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amNEW YORK CITY BALLETAt New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 870-5570. Season runs through Feb. 29. ---- PETER Martins' New York City Ballet is celebrating the centennial of founder...
BACON SIZZLES, REDFORD ACTS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amTHE Sundance Film Festival doesn't end until Sunday, but the cream of this year's very solid crop of indie flicks seemed to turn up in the first few days of...
RECORDING LIFE'S THORNS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00am* KATY ROSE "Because I Can" [] (four stars) V2 Records ---- On her debut CD, "Because I Can," 16-year-old Katy Rose tells a story of rebellion, apathy and love...
BUDDING ROSE - JUST TRY TO FORGET SHE'S 16, BLOND AND FROM CALIFORNIA
January 23, 2004 | 5:00am"I went down so many dark paths because I grew up so fast. I was treated like an adult and I acted like an adult while all the adults around...
UP WITH CHUCK - PAT WANTS HIM BACK FOR 'WHEEL'
January 23, 2004 | 5:00am'WHEEL of Fortune" host Pat Sajak has invited Chuck Woolery - the host who preceeded him - back to the program for a spin. Sajak and co-star Vanna White issued...
'APPRENTICE' HOLLERS UNCLE IN 'IDOL' FIGHT
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amEX-"Apprentice" contestant Sam Solovey proposed to girlfriend live on yesterday's "Today" show - the morning after being "fired" by Donald Trump from the hit reality show. It was the beginning...
A 'BIG, FAT SLUT' BY ANY OTHER NAME
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amOXYGEN, the network for women, announced a new show yesterday that sounds like anything but a show for women. The title? "My Best Friend is a Big, Fat Slut." Talk...
STARR REPORT
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amKung-Fu collie Lassie is returning to prime time - in a new GE commer cial airing during Sunday's Golden Globes on NBC. The spot, shot in black-and- white to replicate...
BIG CHILL ON BROADWAY - TIX NIXED FOR WEAK SHOWS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S not just the arctic blasts of winter that are deep-sixing many Broadway shows. They're also being spritzed to death by "Hairspray." The once white-hot show has cooled off a...
NOW HE'S A HAS-BEN
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amTHEY'LL always have Wainscott. That's the small Hamptons village where Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez first went public with their love on July 21, 2002, just days after J.Lo announced...
GIRL RAPED IN SCHOOL
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amA 15-year-old Staten Island girl was raped by a fellow student inside a bathroom at New Dorp HS, police said yesterday. Angelo Romero, 20, allegedly pulled the unidentified victim into...
THE U.N. VS. IRAQI DEMOCRACY
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amTHE U.S. government is working toward a foolish mistake - involving the United Nations in the governing of Iraq. It's a "solution" that can only worsen the problems its meant...
TYSON TURNING A NEW LEAF AFTER LATEST BLOW
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amMIKE TYSON said yes terday, "I'm ready to change my life." Facing assault charges, Tyson was talking before getting on plane to Vegas. "I'm 37 going on 38, it's time....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amBetter late than never - that's Merle Beane's motto. He has finally graduated from Portland HS in Maine - 65 years after he should have. In 1939, Beane was months...
STAR-LOG MIRACLE - DOOMED ASTRONAUT'S DIARY SURVIVED
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Disintegrating pages of a diary that an Israeli astronaut wrote during the doomed Columbia space shuttle mission were miraculously found in Texas, it was disclosed yesterday. Ilan Ramon,...
MORTAR BARRAGE KILLS 2 GIS IN IRAQ
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a mortar attack in what appears to be a murderous new offensive on coalition targets by terrorist elements. In the ultra-tense town...
ROT, YOU ANIMALS - VICTIM'S BEAU RIPS RAPE GANG
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe boyfriend of a Queens mom savagely beaten and sexually tortured by five homeless immigrants in Flushing Meadow Park said he is tormented by his inability to stop the attack...
A STITCH IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN TIME
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amAn exhibit opening today displays the richness of African-American history, the struggle for freedom from slavery and a deep sense of spirituality - all told in quilts. Just in time...
ROSWELL: THE PREZ IS OUT THERE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amPresident Bush showed signs he's loosening up for campaign duty, stopping in at the "Nuthin' Fancy" diner and joking about yesterday's visit to Roswell, N.M., where UFO theorists believe the...
ARIEL: I WON'T QUIT - VOWS TO STAY 'TIL '07 AMID SCANDAL
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon - facing a corruption investigation that could end his political career - told cheering supporters yesterday he would remain as Israel's prime minister "at least until...
HUB TAKES 'WING' - GLASS-CANOPY PLAN FOR WTC STATION
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe new Ground Zero transit hub will be a light-infused structure with two wing-like glass canopies stretching over a public plaza and a soaring roof that slides open to let...
DEAN PLEADS FOR 'ERR' SPACE - IOWA HOWL ONE OF MY MANY 'WARTS'
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amLEBANON, N.H. - Down-sliding Howard Dean yesterday tried apologizing to New Hampshire voters for his post-Iowa scream-fest, saying, "I've got plenty of warts" and "make a zillion mistakes." During two...
VICTIM'S GUN 'HOT'
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe victim of a wild weekend ambush in Chinatown was carrying a gun that was reported to have been stolen last year from a Union City police officer, cops said...
DA HITS SPECTOR ON SLAY EVIDENCE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amALHAMBRA, Calif. - Prosecutors yesterday angrily accused record producer Phil Spector and defense lawyers of withholding evidence in the murder of a B-movie queen at his mansion last year. Los...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amTHE BRONX * A trio of cops banged down the door of a Tremont man yesterday, rescuing him from an attack by a homeless man burglarizing his apartment, police said....
QNS. ARSON SUSPECT ON VIDEO
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amQueens detectives investigating an arson fire that claimed two lives are looking for a man caught on video near the scene. He was taped by a store's surveillance camera watching...
TEAM JAYSON HITS GABBY WITNESS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amSOMERVILLE, N.J. - Jayson Williams' lawyers were fuming yesterday after a prosecution witness in the ex-NBA star's upcoming manslaughter trial gave a second damning media interview. "I think it's fundamentally...
OTHER FERRY CAPTAINS ON BOARD FOR PROBE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn U.S. attorney has enlisted the help of Staten Island Ferry captains in a bid to determine whether supervisors enforced a rule requiring both captains be in the same...
ATT'Y BUSTED IN MED SWINDLE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amA Queens lawyer was busted yesterday on charges of defrauding 19 insurance companies out of $300,000 by filing claims for a phony medical practice, police said. Attorney Kergey Khaitov, 37,...
'WARRIOR' PM STRUGGLES VS. AMBUSH ON LEFT
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon, whose autobiography was titled "Warrior," fought military battles for nearly 60 years, but the impending struggle with his bitter political enemies may be his ultimate challenge....
SNUB BY GIFFIE IS DEMS' REVENGE: POL
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amOne veteran lawmaker was left on the sidelines when City Council Speaker Gifford Miller doled out committee chairmanships worth a total of $488,700 in added pay. Councilman Oliver Koppell, a...
KERRY BOOSTED BY FRITZ GRITS BLITZ
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amNASHUA, N.H. - Rising Democrat John Kerry yesterday picked up a deep-drawling supporter as he tried to look past next week's New Hampshire primary - where his New England style...
ANDY & RAP BIG DUE IN COURT
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - A state judge yesterday ordered hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and former federal Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo to appear in court Feb. 9 to prove they've complied with a...
SLAY-DOC BEAU BACK WITH LOVE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe landscaper lover of Michelle Nyce - the New Jersey woman police say was brutally killed last week by her jealous doctor husband - is back with his girlfriend and...
WTC HUB: A WINNER
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amSAY this for Santiago Calatrava's design for the new World Trade Center Transporta tion Hub unveiled yesterday: It does noth ing to clear up my confusion over what the "Wedge...
-HERE'S THE BUTCHER BOY - HOME FREE (M)-BUTCHER BOY OF CENTRAL PK. HOME FREE (S, LCF)
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amCentral Park slayer Christopher Vasquez emerged bright and early at 9 a.m. yesterday for his first full day of freedom. The convicted killer refused to speak and quickly jumped in...
NET LOSS A 'GAIN' - N.J. VOWS TO $CORE WITHOUT HOOPS TEAM
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amBrooklyn may get the Nets, but New Jersey claims it will keep the bucks. One day after the New Jersey Nets announced the team's sale to developer Bruce Ratner, state...
4 TEENS NAILED IN HS FIRE, ASSAULTS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amTwo high-school students have been arrested for assaulting and menacing their teachers and two others for setting a fire while classes were in session, police said yesterday. The most serious...
MARTHA'S PURSE-SUIT OF JUSTICE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe bag was back at the Martha Stewart trial yesterday - but government prosecutors are getting sick of hearing about Stewart's style-setting standards. The single-minded good-living guru thumbed her nose...
IRONIC LINK IN '79 SLAY
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amIn a small New Jersey town, a gruesome murder committed 25 years ago now links the lives of two former mayors. The bludgeoned body of elderly Rose Twells, the widow...
TRAIL OF HORROR - PAROLEE KILLS, RAPES, ROBS IN 3 BOROUGHS: COPS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amA baby-sitting Queens teenager stood up to a recently released ex-con in the midst of a daylong, three-borough crime rampage - and paid with his life when he was fatally...
SCALD GAL: GIVE HIM LIFE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amA beautiful 20-year-old woman, left permanently scarred after her spurned boyfriend allegedly threw scalding liquid in her face, wants him put away for life. "I want to see him in...
NASA 'LOSES' ITS SPIRIT ON MARS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amSpirit the space buggy needs to phone home. NASA's 5-foot-high roving robot on Mars has malfunctioned and stopped beaming data back to Earth, the space agency said yesterday. Just two...
J.LO BLOW FOR BEN - JENNIFER BOOTS PARTY-BOY BEAU
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amHere's the J.Lo-down on Bennifer - it's officially over. Sexy superstar songstress Jennifer Lopez dumped fiancé Ben Affleck when he returned to L.A. from the Sundance Film Festival in Utah...
UNREPENTANT MIKE HAS ATKINS' WIDOW FED UP
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amFor the second day, Mayor Bloomberg has refused to apologize to the upset widow of Dr. Robert Atkins for a blistering attack he made on the late diet guru -...
NAMATH TRIES TO TACKLE DRINKING PROBLEM
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amJoe Namath is undergoing alcohol-abuse counseling after appearing soused during a TV interview and telling the reporter he wanted to kiss her and "couldn't care less" about the Jets. "Well,...
CITY LETS HARLEM SCANDAL-CHOIR BOSS STAY ON
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration yesterday agreed to allow scandal-scarred Walter Turnbull to stay on artistic director at The Boys Choir of Harlem, despite a city investigation that recommended he be fired...
TOXIC TOTS - POLLUTION, SMOKE POISON OUT BABIES; AIR POLLUTION WREAKS HAVOC ON CITY BABIES
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amthat breath of polluted, smoky, New York City air you just took puts your unborn baby at risk for learning disabilities - and worse. An alarming new medical study of...
TRAIL OF HORROR - EX-CON KILLS, RAPES, ROBS IN 3 BOROUGHS: COPS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amA baby-sitting Queens teenager paid with his life when he stood up to a recently released ex-con in the midst of a daylong, three-borough crime rampage, police said yesterday. Terrance...
-FIRST LADY: JABS AT HUBBY STILL STING (M)-FIRST LADY: ATTACKS ON HUBBY HURT (S, LCF)
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - First Lady Laura Bush says it bothers her when the Democratic presidential candidates insult her husband, but she plans to stand by her man on the campaign trail...
KERRY'S NIGHT - EDWARDS, CLARK BOMB IN GRANITE STATE DEBATE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amWAVE goodbye to Sen. John Edwards and Gen. Wesley Clark, who blew themselves up in the Democratic debate last night in New Hampshire. Their performances were nothing short of disastrous....
NAMATH GETS BOOZE COUNSELING
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amJoe Namath is undergoing alcohol-abuse counseling after appearing soused during a TV interview and telling a reporter he wanted to kiss her and "couldn't care less" about the Jets. "Well,...
GIFFIE & DEMS STIFFED ME: POL
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amOne veteran lawmaker was left on the sidelines when City Council Speaker Gifford Miller doled out committee chairmanships worth a total of $488,700 in added pay. Councilman Oliver Koppell, a...
GEST'S NAGGIN' NOGGIN
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amPunchin'-drunk Liza Minnelli walloped her hubby so hard, she gave him a concussion - and a medical dictionary's worth of neurological conditions, her lawyer claimed yesterday. "The diagnosis is traumatic...
SHOCK-DEATH WOMAN'S LIFE REMEMBERED
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe woman electrocuted in a freak East Village accident last week was remembered last night as a person of "fire and spunk." Jodie Lane, a doctoral student in clinical psychology...
500 DEAD GIS ON YOUR HEADS - DEAN BLAMES HIS DEM FOES FOR IRAQ
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amGOFFSTOWN, N.H. - Howard Dean last night tried to save his sagging presidential campaign by blaming rivals for the deaths of 500 U.S. soldiers in Iraq, as the Dems tangled...
QUEENS 'HIT-RUN' SUV FOUND
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amInvestigators have found one of the hit-run vehicles that struck and killed a Queens mother on Sunday, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. A livery driver saw a black SUV believed to...
BIT TOO LATE FOR LOW-KEY HOWARD
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amGOFFSTOWN, N.H. - There were no tirades as Howard Dean toned himself down at last night's debate and even managed a few smiles - but it's probably too late. Dean's...
COP SHOOTS COP IN MISHAP
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amA Bronx housing cop was injured last night after he was shot accidentally in the stomach by another cop, police said. The officer was shot while in the locker room...
FRITZ IN GRITS BLITZ FOR KERRY
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amNASHUA, N.H. - Rising Democrat John Kerry yesterday picked up a deep-drawling supporter as he tried to look past next week's New Hampshire primary - where his New England style...
TOXIC TOTS - POLLUTION, SMOKE POISON OUR BABIES; AIR POLLUTION IS LINKED TO PRENATAL WOES
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe breath you just took puts your unborn baby at risk for learning disabilities - and worse. An alarming new medical study, the first of its kind, shows that air...
BOTTLED WATER FLAP
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amTHE bottled water that so many of us consume each day is affecting fishing streams in other parts of the country, according to a recent report. "Many fishermen aren't aware...
LOU RENEWS PUSH FOR DEVS TO MOVE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amLou Lamoriello was hinting, but not, he said, threatening. The Devils' president yesterday used the sale of the Nets to renew the seemingly-dead push for significant public funding for a...
BUCKLEY DEAD AT 78
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amDan Buckley won city basketball titles as both a player and a coach at La Salle Academy and made an impression on longtime Molloy coach Jack Curran. "Danny was a...
TJ NAMED SKIPPER OF S.I. YANKS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amFirst Don Mattingly, now Tommy John. The Yankees welcomed back another member of their family yesterday, naming John the new manager of the Staten Island Yankees. John, 60, served as...
ISLES BRACING FOR 'HURRICANE PETER'
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amRALEIGH - Last year Fox Sports Net was allowed to bring its cameras into Peter Laviolette's life as part of an all-access special. If a television crew were allowed to...
DAVIS WILL GET A SHOT OFF BENCH
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES MIAMI - The Nets are going to sign a shooter. Hubert Davis, who ranks second all-time in career 3-point shooting percentage, will sign a 10-day contract with the...
JOHNNIES LOOK FOR ANSWERS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amEven as the Red Storm celebrated the university's sixth NIT title last season in the Garden, thoughts of greater achievement danced in the players' heads. Next season, they said, St....
KING TELLS TELFAIR NOT TO GO PRO
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amLincoln 80 - Sheepshead Bay 52 Bernard King has been in town the past few days amidst the news that the Nets are coming to his hometown of Brooklyn. During...
BLAZING TYREE LEAVES PAINFUL PAST IN DUST
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amHe is the fastest quarter-miler on Earth, but no matter how fast or how far Tyree Washington ran, he couldn't outrun a past that included gangs and guilt and fatal...
HEAT'S ON THE NETS - STRUGGLING JERSEY IN NEED OF VICTORY TO END COLD SPELL
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amMIAMI - They have been down this road before, say the Nets. They have lost four straight games and five of six. There were a pair of late-game collapses before...
DON'T EXPECT STEPH'S CUZ TO SNUB NBA FAMILY
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amIN 1995, Stephon Marbury's senior year at Lincoln High School, he was acutely inclined to skip college and become the first 6-foot playmaker to apply for the NBA draft. The...
EXPECTATIONS BOWL OVER KAZ
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amApproximately 15 members of the Japanese media surrounded Kaz Matsui yesterday with boom microphones and TV cameras, covering his athletic escapade. What was Matsui doing that caused such a fuss?...
KNICKS: VAN'S 'D' NOT THE DIFFERENCE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - The Knicks were not about to bestow credit on Jeff Van Gundy - not Stephon Marbury, not Allan Houston, not even Lenny Wilkens. Van Gundy's defensive...
IT'S MORE OF WHAT BLUESHIRTS DON'T NEED
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amALEXEI Kovalev was a no-brainer. How could giving up Rico Fata, Mikael Samuelsson and nobody the Rangers were ever going to miss, for a 30-year-old star one season off 44...
LISTLESS RANGERS HAVE NO EXCUSES
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amFlyers 4 - Rangers 2 Glen Sather, who apparently believes that obtaining Jaromir Jagr will improve his team's inadequate goaltending and defensive play, was quick to cite injuries as an...
EL DUQUE AT '85 PERCENT'
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amBASEBALL NOTEBOOK El Duque is nearly all the way back. Orlando Hernandez worked out yesterday in Miami in front of representatives from approximately 20 teams, including the Mets and the...
METS PITCH DEALS TO SPENCER, REED
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThe Mets have made offers to a former Yankee and a former Met, submitting proposals late yesterday to both rightfielder Shane Spencer and right-hander Rick Reed. The terms of the...
RANGERS TRY TO GET JAGGY WITH IT - JAROMIR TALKS HEAT UP AGAIN WITH CAPITALS
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amDiscussions between the Rangers and Caps concerning Jaromir Jagr have intensified over the last 10 days to the point where a deal to bring the winger to Manhattan appears inevitable,...
STILL OUR TOWN - HOUSTON SAYS NETS' MOVE WON'T WIN THE, BIG APPLE
January 23, 2004 | 5:00am"It's hard to imagine a team being in Brooklyn," Houston said. "You think of the Knicks, you think, That's New York." - ALLAN HOUSTON ATLANTA - While Brooklynites Stephon Marbury...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JIM NANTZ
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with CBS' Jim Nantz. The 44-year-old Nantz will host the Super Bowl from Houston next week.Q: You played golf at the University of...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: MATCHUP BOWL I: HBO VS. ESPN (WHO HAS THE BEST NFL SHOW?)
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amThough advancing to Matchup Bowl I is an achievement, on par with the Packers' and Chiefs' appearance in the first Super Bowl, HBO's Inside the NFL and ESPN's NFL Countdown...
FLUTIE ON BENCH FOR CBS? - ANALYST GIG MAY AWAIT QB
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amWhen Doug Flutie, the Chargers' backup quarterback, retires, he could find a studio analyst job waiting for him at CBS. With Dan Marino leaving the NFL Today to take an...
THE BUZZ IS BACK - STEPH & LENNY SHOW THE TOAST OF BROADWAY
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amWith Stephon Marbury running the Knick offense and new coach Lenny Wilkens on the sidelines, there's electricity at the Garden once again. And Tuesday night, it really leaps out of...
RANGERS TRY TO GET JAGGY WITH IT - TALKS WITH CAPS COULD LAND JAROMIR AT GARDEN TODAY
January 23, 2004 | 5:00amNegotiations between the Rangers and Caps over Jaromir Jagr have intensified over the last 10 days to the point where a deal to bring the winger to Manhattan is imminent,...