March 30, 2004
WHITE HOUSE MAY SEE GREENSPAN AS LIABILITY FOR ELECTION
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWHO'S going to be the next one to hear the immortal words, "You're fired"? It just might be Alan Greenspan. Granted, I'm a bit early on this conjecture. The Federal...
WINNING THE POOH - JUDGE TOSSES OUT $700M SUIT VERSUS DISNEY
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amAfter a 13-year legal battle, a judge threw out a $700 million lawsuit against Walt Disney over the rights to the "Winnie the Pooh" profits. Disney's victory was based on...
JERRY, SUPERMAN SHILLING FOR AMEX
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe Man of Shtick is joining forces with the Man of Steel. Jerry Seinfeld and Superman are starring in a new film in which the very odd couple pal around...
TIME'S ALL YOU HITS WAL-MART IN AUGUST
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amTime Inc. is on a crash course to get the debut September issue of its new women's service magazine, All You, onto newsstands by August. The magazine will avoid celebrity...
YM CHOPS RATE BASE BY 25%
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amYM, the nation's second-largest teen magazine, said it was going to chop its paid circulation base from 2 million to 1.5 million - a 25 percent drop. It's the latest...
TIME WARNER TO LEASE 23% OF ITS NEW HQ OFFICE SPACE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amEVEN as it moves into its glamorous new digs at Columbus Circle, Time Warner is quietly planning to put a portion of its space in the gleaming twin-towered edifice up...
MAX CAP BOSS LOOKS TO SELL
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amAdam Hochfelder, the chief executive of real estate firm Max Capital Management, is in talks to sell the company to its president, Anthony Westreich. "Negotiations between Adam and Anthony are...
SEC FINALIZES $241M SPECIALIST SETTLEMENT
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe New York Stock Exchange's five specialist firms finalized a settlement with the Big Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission last night, agreeing to fork over $241 million. Of...
UK PAPER CHASE - HOT TELEGRAPH BIDS LIFT HOLLINGER VALUE TO $2.4B
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amNewspaper giant Hollinger International's prized asset, the London Daily Telegraph, could fetch an eye-popping $1.4 billion, The Post has learned. Hollinger's Chicago assets have been valued at some $1 billion,...
BLUES-RIBBON
March 30, 2004 | 5:00am* AEROSMITH "Honkin' on Bobo" ½ Columbia After making more than 20 albums that touched on just about every style from hip-hop to metal, with today's release, "Honkin' on Bobo,"...
10 P.M. NEWS SNAGS EMMY
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWPIX/Ch. 11 walked off with 11 local Emmys Sunday night - leading the way among all area stations at the 47th Annual New York Emmy Awards. Ch. 4 finished in...
RISING STELLASTARR*; DUES-PAYING PUNKS READY FOR CLOSE-UP
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amTWO years ago, the post- punk quartet Stellastarr* was doing what unsigned New York bands do - performing at small clubs like Pianos and the Luna Lounge, opening for bigger...
BREAKTHROUGH FOR BROOKLYN BANDS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amSTELLASTARR* isn't the only Brooklyn band on a tear. Here's the 411: * Ambulance Ltd.: This quartet sprinkles melodic pop of the '60s and soul pop of the '70s with...
PRIME-TIME SHOWDOWN ; A-ROD BRINGS RIVALRY TO TUBE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amALEX Rodriguez is paying off already. Fox will air the season's first matchup between the Yankees and archrival Boston Red Sox in prime-time, nationwide, on April 16 from Fenway Park....
TRADING GRADUATION FOR A 'DREAM JOB'
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amMIKE Hall, the newest "SportsCenter" anchor, is a college senior who might not graduate on time -now that he's won ESPN's "Dream Job" contest and a $95,000 contract. "Is there...
BOOBY TRAPPED - JANET'S NEW ALBUM SKIMPS ON SEX APPEAL
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amJanet Jackson is wimping out. She trades bold for boring so often on her new album, "Damita Jo," it seems as if she's running scared of puritanical football fans. What...
STARR REPORT
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amTale of two Murphs Now's a good time to be named Mary Murphy. If you're Ch. 11's Mary Murphy, you're sharing in 'PIX's success at Sunday's local Emmys. And, across...
'WORD' OF THE DAY - SMART DRAMA TRANSCENDS SEX
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWHEN "The L Word" first showed up on Showtime, it seemed - and I'll admit it - yet another cheap shot at wooing the gay crowd. After all, Bravo had...
JUNGLE FEVER - FROM MILE TO WILD, LISA KEYS TAKES ON THE BEST OF PUERTO RICO'S GREAT OUTDOORS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amGOOD old Puerto Rico. Sun. Beaches. Rum. Ever dependable, easily doable, it's the place we go to laze away the days while sipping frothy cocktails. Outdoor adventures? You must have...
SCRAPING BY - BARBARA HOFFMAN TANGLES WITH A PUERTO RICAN CORAL REEF
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amIN our family, it's not vacation unless we have a near-death experience to remember it by. Puerto Rico never disappoints. The weather's great, the people friendly - and we can...
BUDGET BLISS - JOHN CRUDELE FINDS THOSE RARE HOTELS WHERE SEXY AND AFFORDABLE MEET ON HIGH-FLYING BARBADOS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amJON BON JOVI and family recently stayed at the Fairmont Royal Pavilion on Barbados' west coast. There's some sort of Jersey connection, because it was also said to be Frank...
LAWYER BUSTED IN COURT SCUFFLE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amLawyer Neville Mitchell had a great excuse for being late to court yesterday - he'd been arrested. The man representing the suspect in the shooting of a St. John's football...
B'KLYN COLLEGE GIVES YOU MORE ED. FOR YOUR BREAD
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amCity University's Brooklyn College yesterday was named one of the country's "best value" campuses for providing the best academic bang for the buck. The prestigious Princeton Review survey ranked the...
TURKISH TURNING POINT; THE PLUSES OF WORKING WITH THE KURDS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amIf only Ankara could see it, Turks and Kurds are natural allies. THE Turkish Embassy in Washington may be the most successful example of diplomatic architecture in our time: It...
RADIO SHACK CLERK SLAIN
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amA clerk at a Long Island Radio Shack was killed last night in a robbery gone bad. Three bandits walked into the store at 4583 Sunrise Highway in Oakdale at...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amFor five years, Frances Jackson looked everywhere for her missing dog, Millie, who ran beneath a truck in 1999, then disappeared. Last week, the black Lab was finally returned home...
SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO'S SUCCESS STORY
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Beethoven Elementary School on Chicago's South Side has high standards - and it gets better results. In 1997, only 22 percent of its third-, sixth- and eighth-graders made...
BOATER'S SOS A HOAX
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amCoast Guard units and cops searched frantically for three missing teens in the ocean off Jones Beach yesterday before concluding that calls for help were a prank and launching another...
BOSTON COP RIPS KERRY IN BUSH AD
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Bush campaign is using one of John Kerry's own constituents against him - a Boston-area cop who says in a new radio ad that the Massachusetts senator...
THREE-FRONT ABORT BATTLE IN COURTS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amAbortion-rights advocates yesterday launched a three-pronged constitutional challenge to the new law banning partial-birth abortion, with trials beginning before federal judges in New York, California and Nebraska. At the same...
HAIL OF A FARE HIKE LOOMS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe city is expected to greenlight a 26 percent taxi-fare hike today that will raise rates for the first time in eight years. The initial cost of a trip would...
PLAYING HOOK-Y; TEACHER HANGS KID, 5, IN CLOSET AS PRANK: COPS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amA young music teacher was busted at a Brooklyn elementary school yesterday for allegedly pulling a practical joke on another instructor - hanging a 5-year-old boy on a closet hook...
LONE RANGER GRANNY IS STICKING TO HER GUNS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amYESTERDAY was yet another example of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. Six months after the beginning of the Tyco trial - which forever will be...
JAYSON'S TRIAL TEAM 'MISFIRES'
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amSOMERVILLE, N.J. - Jayson Williams' defense team yesterday committed a technical foul at the ex-NBA star's manslaughter trial by showing jurors evidence that a judge had barred them from seeing....
PUMPED-UP '9/11' FIRE PLAN
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe FDNY yesterday released its first "Strategic Plan" - including new technologies, training programs and equipment to beef up its counterterrorism and firefighting efforts. Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said the cost...
KNIFE THUG GETS 120 YRS.
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amA serial knifepoint robber who spent more than a decade in prison for attacks on Queens women - only to be paroled and go on another rampage - was slammed...
'SOPRANOS' STAR NBC-BOUND
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amIf Drea De Matteo is going to NBC, are Adriana's days numbered? That's the question "Sopranos" fans are asking now that the sexy actress has won a starring role on...
WIRETAP A BLOW TO ARIEL
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Possible new evidence emerged yesterday against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a corruption scandal, after wiretaps disclosed him discussing a tourism project and saying, "The island is...
SPACE 'WORK' WILL COST TOURIST $20M
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amIt's not just a $20 million "joyride" - it's work too, millionaire and aspiring spaceman Gregory Olsen, said yesterday. The 58-year-old Brooklyn-born scientist and engineer, who made his fortune with...
VEAL YANKED IN HORMONE SCARE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating the illegal use of growth hormones in veal calves and ordered the affected animals removed from the nation's food chain. An inspector discovered...
BLOOMBERG LOOKS AT CHICAGO SCHOOLS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amBloomberg administration officials yesterday said they closely examined Chicago's experiment in curbing social promotion before crafting the mayor's stricter promotion policy. "As in Chicago, the goal of our third-grade promotion...
GOT MILK? YOU NEED 'MOO'LAH
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amIt's not just gas that's going up - the price of a gallon of milk in the city will rise by 30 cents this week. Industry officials say more hikes...
COUNCIL EYES CUTS IN TAXES AND FINES
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amFlush with added tax revenues, City Council leaders yesterday suggested cutting parking fines, as well as taxes on bars and restaurants, as part of a $1 billion reordering of priorities...
MAYOR: MY SMOKE BAN IS POPULAR
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg has a warning for anyone thinking about running against him in 2005: don't try to reverse the smoking ban. Several potential candidates for mayor have told The Post...
NYPD ON PASSOVER PATROL
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe NYPD will beef up its counter-terrorism efforts for Passover next week, giving special attention to synagogues and other sensitive locations, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday. "This is a...
TV'S RACIAL STATIC; RATINGS GIZMO HURTS MINORITIES: POLS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amFlanked by 20 mostly minority lawmakers, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller yesterday denounced plans by Nielsen Media to use a new electronic TV-ratings device that he charged undercounts minorities. Nielsen,...
SUCCESS IS COSTLY FOR METROCARD
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe growing popularity of MetroCard discounts has raised the prospect that their prices will go up next year, an MTA official said yesterday. Because so many people are using the...
B'KLYN $MART CHOICE - COLLEGE RANKS 3RD
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amCity University's Brooklyn College yesterday was named one of the "best value" campuses in the country for providing the most academic quality for the buck. The prestigious Princeton Review survey...
NEW YORK MARINE IN KUWAIT DIES
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amA 37-year-old Marine master sergeant from Manhattan died in Kuwait as the result of a non-combat-related incident, the Pentagon announced yesterday. Timothy Tomey died on Saturday at Camp Wolverine, where...
FAKE CIGARS GET ROLLED IN CUBA CASE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amCapitalism has its advantages, comrade. A federal judge in Manhattan yesterday said American trademark law protects Cuba's premium Cohiba brand of cigars and ordered a New York company to quit...
KERREY PUTS 9/11 HEAT ON CLINTON
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Former President Clinton will be on the hot seat over Osama bin Laden when he testifies before the 9/11 commission, panel member Bob Kerrey told The Post yesterday....
MAY DAY TARGET FOR KERRY VEEP
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry is looking to name a running mate early - by the end of May - to help raise money, build momentum and serve as an attack...
PLAYING HOOK-Y - TEACHER HANGS KID, 5, IN CLOSET AS PRANK: COPS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amA young music teacher was busted at a Brooklyn elementary school yesterday for allegedly pulling a practical joke on another instructor - hanging a 5-year-old boy on a closet hook...
BUSH SURGES PAST KERRY IN POLL
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A new poll shows President Bush has gained 12 points on Democrat John Kerry in the last three weeks - a sign the Bush campaign's ads are taking...
MOB SCENE OVER GOTTI GAL
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThis is the woman who calls Gambino boss Peter Gotti her lover and has begged a judge to go easy on him at sentencing. Marjorie Alexander, a busty, high-haired divorcee...
CITY'S 'FRONTIERS' STILL HAVE ROOM TO GROW
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amPREDICTING real-estate prices is a tough job - even Donald Trump put his properties into bankruptcy once. But it's not tough to figure out that prices increase when neighborhoods bloom....
PRIMA DONNA; 'DWI' JUDGE GOT SPECIAL TREATMENT: COPS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amAfter she was busted on DWI charges, a black Manhattan judge was allowed to smoke, get fast food and have visits from her daughter, cops testified yesterday. Nevertheless, Supreme Court...
JURY'S TRYING TIMES ; TYCO JUDGE KEEPS THEM GOING
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe judge in the $600 million Tyco embezzlement trial allowed jury deliberations to continue yesterday, rejecting defense claims that the proceedings had been irreparably damaged by media coverage. Manhattan Supreme...
THE FUND'S OVER: FEC RULES REV. AL INELIGIBLE FOR FED $$
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Federal Election Commission yesterday delivered a blow to former Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton - issuing an initial ruling that he is not eligible for federal...
PAPERS' DECISION SPARKS DEBATE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThere's a hung jury among legal and media experts over The Post and Wall Street Journal's decision to name the gesticulating juror who's caused an uproar during deliberations on the...
BX. CHURCH ROBBED OF 'STATIONS'
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amMembers of a Bronx parish were reeling yesterday after the theft of treasured artifacts depicting the last hours of Jesus Christ, the church's pastor said. Monsignor John J. Farley, pastor...
'MOLEST' FIREFIGHTER SUSPENDED
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe firefighter accused of sodomizing an 11-year- old girl has been suspended without pay, and will face departmental charges, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said yesterday. Richard Vitale, 35, of Staten...
IT'S FUND-AMENTAL; SCHOOLS NEED $5.6B MORE: PANEL
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's education commission yesterday proposed boosting state, federal and local funding for schools by anywhere from $2.5 billion to $5.6 billion over the next five years. The...
SLAIN ATHLETE'S KIN UP REWARD
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe family of slain college football player Mark Fisher is raising the heat on the killers of the Fairfield University sophomore - upping the reward to $100,000. The family also...
SHOOTING SHOCK; QUEENS ACTOR IN 'MERCY SLAY' TWIST
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe actor who was shot Sunday in his family's Queens home may have tried to stop the mercy killing of his terminally ill mother by his father, authorities said yesterday....
DROWN HERO'S HORROR; COULDN'T SAVE MOM
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe heroic neighbor who plucked a drowning boy from a frigid New Jersey lake wept yesterday as he recalled saving the child - while being unable to help the youngster's...
WHITE HOUSE WORKS ON DEAL TO LET RICE TESTIFY
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWhite House officials reportedly are trying to work out a deal with the independent 9/11 commission that will permit National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to appear before the panel in...
MAY DATE TARGET FOR DEM MATE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry is looking to name a running mate early - by the end of May - to help raise money, build momentum and serve as an attack...
BRONX VENDOR BEATEN; ICE-CREAM WAR ERUPTS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amA Bronx woman was clinging to life last night after she and her husband were brutally bludgeoned in a long-simmering dispute over ice-cream truck routes, police said. Juana Marrero, her...
REV. AL LOSES MATCHING $$
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Federal Election Commission yesterday ruled that former Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton is not eligible for federal matching campaign funds. The decision was confirmed by an...
GOTTI & WIFE SPLIT; AFFAIR IS LAST STRAW
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amMob Don Juan Peter Gotti is in the midst of a bitter divorce battle with his wife of more than 42 years, after openly flaunting his hot affair with a...
LENO NOW A $27M MAN
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amLate-night king Jay Leno, who is already one of the nation's wealthiest entertainers, is about to become a lot richer. Leno, the host of NBC's top-rated "Tonight Show," has signed...
FATAL GLITCH IN 911 - MAN DIED AMID OUTAGE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amA heartbroken Queens man is blaming his father's death on Friday's failure of the New York City 911 emergency system. Jasper Grier, 76, died of a heart attack in his...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: MINNIE COX AND THE INDIANOLA AFFAIR
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amImagine the closing of a post office in Mississippi sparking a debate in the U.S. Senate. Minnie Cox had the country talking. Minnie Geddings was born in Lexington, Miss. in...
A BURY WISE PLAN - PARK-CEMETERY PACT
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amNeighbors wanted Martin's Field in Flushing to remain a park, even if hundreds of blacks and Native Americans were buried below the swing sets. Descendants wanted to be able to...
THE KID AND THE CORPSE - SITTER'S HORROR TALE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amA woman testified yesterday that she baby-sat her friend's son - while the dad secretly disposed of his girlfriend's corpse. Carla Jackson, 26, said her friend Marc Payne, 30, had...
SURPRISE! CROSBY'S A KEEPER
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TOKYO - Every once in a while the longshot comes in. "One hundred-to-one," outfielder Bubba Crosby said when asked what he thought his odds of making the Yankees...
SCOTT TAKES MAJOR STEP
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - If you're a golf fan and you were just introduced to Adam Scott this past weekend, you might as well become more acquainted with him....
LEITER SHARP IN TUNEUP
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amMET NOTES JUPITER, Fla. - It wasn't all negative with the Mets yesterday, as Al Leiter pitched his first game since being diagnosed with mild shoulder tendinitis. Leiter, who was...
A MUDDLE UP THE MIDDLE ; MATSUI JOINS REYES ON DP MIA
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. - It's simply impossible to deny how important Kaz Matsui and Jose Reyes are to the Mets' fortunes. They're the 1-2 hitters, the double-play combination and the primary...
WHY UCONN WON'T WIN THE CROWN
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amI'LL take my share of the heat. I'm one of the media types who did a triple-jump onto the Connecticut bandwagon last weekend, describing the Huskies as awesome and unstoppable...
DOUBY ROLLING AT RUTGERS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amNIT SEMIS Quincy Douby never met a shot he didn't like when he played at Grady. And while that style allowed him to average over 30 ppg as a senior,...
HARD TO BE AMAZIN' WHEN YOU'RE HURT
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. - By the time you read this, the Yankees will have already played a real game and Alex Rodriguez will be officially on his way to starting his...
MESS MUM ON RETURN
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amTomorrow night's Garden finale against the Sabres will be: A) The final game of Mark Messier's career; B) Messier's final game at the Garden; C) Messier's final game as a...
LADY HUSKIES GOING FOUR IT
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amHARTFORD - Don't blame Mark French. The Cal-Santa Barbara coach merely fell in line with so many sideline suits who have brought excited women's basketball teams to Connecticut and dragged...
SEETHING ON THE SIDELINE KENYON DISS-TURBED BY KNICKS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amThe quotes out of New York seemingly were rather benign - if the Nets are not healthy, the Knicks wouldn't mind seeing them in the playoffs. If the Nets are...
DEVS SIGN COLLEGE PHENOM PARISE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amIt was a day of ironies for the Devils, even as they chase the Atlantic Division lead tonight. They admitted that Scott Stevens still has not recovered from post-concussion syndrome,...
ISIAH SAYS DEKE WILL HELP 'D'
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Both Isiah Thomas and Lenny Wilkens acknowledged the Knicks have missed Dikembe Mutombo's defensive presence, and the plan is to use him when he makes his return Friday...
CROSBY'S A KEEPER ON YANKS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TOKYO - Every once in a while the longshot comes in. "One hundred-to-one," outfielder Bubba Crosby said when asked what he thought his odds of making the Yankees...
ST. JOHN'S COACH SEARCH DRAGGING ON
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWithin days after UTEP was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament, Texas A&M pounced on Miners' coach Billy Gillispie. UNLV wasted little time after the season replacing Charlie Spoonhour with Lon...
KIDD STILL TARGETING PLAYOFFS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES Jason Kidd went to the doctor again yesterday. And at this point, no news is good news. Actually, there was some good news as the Nets' All-Star point...
THIS TRIO HAS TO PITCH IN
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO - The caution ary tale was in the other dugout yesterday for the Yankees' final exhibition game, a pudgy-cheeked reminder not all top-of-the rotation arms translate seamlessly from one...
BAD-DREAM SEASON
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amTHE drive still feels like some thing out of a dream, and when Stephon Marbury pulls into his parking spot at Madison Square Garden, he still sometimes expects someone to...
INJURIES FOIL ISIAH'S GAME PLAN
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amIsiah Thomas yesterday reiterated what any sports fan knows: Injuries are part of the game. In Thomas' mind, though, physical problems have torpedoed what the Knicks' president built and refurbished...
START SPREADIN THE 'NEW' YANKS ; SEASON OPENS WITH CHANGES, QUESTIONS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO - Never has the New in New York Yankees been as profound as it was this morning when the Yankees opened the season against the Devil Rays in the...
EXEC IS FLAGRANTLY FOUL - RIP AT MUSSELMAN UNFAIR TO COACH
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWARRIOR President Robert Rowell, whoever this nameless, faceless, dubiously qualified phantom may be, was quoted last week contending his team has "underachieved." The locals identified this loco comment as Eric...
ALLAN ALL BUT DONE - HOBBLIN' HOUSTON ADMITS HE MAY BE OUT FOR YEAR
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amIsiah Thomas confirmed yesterday the Post's report that Allan Houston could be done until next training camp. The vibes coming from Houston that his bruised left knee won't be ready...
ST. JOHN'S COACHING SEARCH DRAGS ON
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amWithin days after UTEP was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament, Texas A&M pounced on Miners' coach Billy Gillispie. UNLV wasted little time after the season replacing Charlie Spoonhour with Lon...
THIS TRIO MUST PITCH IN
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO - The cautionary tale was in the other dugout yesterday for the Yankees' final exhibition game, a pudgy-cheeked reminder not all top-of-the rotation arms translate seamlessly from one locale...
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH SEINFELD AND SOMERS?
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amOn WFAN Thursday, it will be a show about nothing. Jerry Seinfeld will be guest hosting with Steve Somers from 5-to-7 p.m. Somers confirmed the news to The Post last...
ISIAH: HOU ALL BUT DONE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Isiah Thomas yesterday confirmed Allan Houston could be done until next training camp. The vibes from Houston that he may not be ready for the postseason grew yesterday,...
THE BEAT GOES ON - HURTIN' NETS MELT AT END
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amCeltics 84Nets 80 The quotes out of New York were seemingly benign - if the Nets are not healthy, the Knicks and everybody else wouldn't mind facing them in the...
LADY HUSKIES SOAR TO FOUR
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amUConn 66Penn St. 49 HARTFORD - They are not perfect this year. Even last night in the East Regional final, the Connecticut Huskies endured a 7:08 scoreless streak and watched...
THOMAS WON'T LET PAIN STOP HIS GAME
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amAfter missing the previous four games, Tim Thomas was asked yesterday morning how his strained right groin felt. Wasn't he still in pain? "It's more painful sitting and watching this,"...
STEPH'S WAITED FOR THIS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amNOBODY could hear the buzzer when it finally groaned after a long, uneasy instant, which was the best part. The people were roaring, and the players were screaming, and it...
KNICKS STAY ALIVE ; BAKER BURIES BLAZERS, BOOSTS PLAYOFF HOPES
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amKnicks 92 - Blazers 91 The Knicks got a big boost from a gutsy Tim Thomas, a little help from the referees and Portland coach Maurice Cheeks, and a late...
MORNING GORY IN JAPAN OPENER - YANKS' START A TOKYO STINKER
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amDevil Rays 8 - Yankees 3 TOKYO - Like sushi rotting in the sun, the Yankees stunk this morning at the Tokyo Dome. In any language, the odor drifting across...
BUMMER FOR BOSS
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO - It had not yet begun and we all knew already how it must end. The first game of the six-month schedule was still a few hours away and...
PACT DELAY DOESN'T WORRY JOE
March 30, 2004 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TOKYO - Don't read anything into Joe Torre's contract extension not getting done before Opening Day. "I never put a deadline on it," said Torre, who is expected...