April 14, 2004
QUATTRONE JURORS UNNAMED - JUST BE-KOZ
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan federal judge selecting a jury for the retrial of banker Frank Quattrone yesterday took the unusual step of ordering the media not to print or broadcast the names...
VENDORS GO TO THE SOURCE OVER CLAIMS OF UNPAID BILLS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Source is a deadbeat mag. Four times in the last six weeks, the magazine has been sued in New York State Supreme Court by vendors who say they are...
GRIMES OUT AT CONDE'S GLAMOUR
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amNew Conde Nast CEO Charles Townsend made his first big move since taking over the top job yesterday when he handed walking papers to Glamour Publisher Suzanne Grimes. Townsend dipped...
DVD SCENE STEALER TRIMS OUT THE NAUGHTIEST BITS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA new DVD player redefines the acronym as "deletes violence and debauchery." The machine, which premiered at Wal-Mart stores this week, allows parents to skip scenes of sex and violence...
MESTEL GETS NOD TO RUN VIRGIN RECORDS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amFormer top Arista Records executive Larry Mestel has landed at EMI's Virgin Records, The Post has learned. Mestel took up his new post as chief operating officer at Virgin this...
CSFB LOSES YET ANOTHER TOP BANKER
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amAnother banker has flown the Credit Suisse First Boston coop. Tom Whayne, one of CSFB's top telecom bankers, has left the bank to become the head of media and telecom...
TIME FOR CHARGES ; SEC READY TO LAUNCH ACCOUNTING CASE VS. TW
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission is getting close to filing charges against Time Warner for improper accounting. The SEC is likely to launch the case with a Wells notice sometime...
COMPANY BLOGS AIM FOR NEWSPAPER END RUN
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amMicrosoft, always mindful of what's on the news on channels 4, 5 and 7, wants its customers to get the real story from Channel 9. Channel 9 is a new...
IMG ARRIVES AT CARNEGIE HALL
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amGLOBAL artist management firm IMG Artists just leased the entire fifth floor of the Carnegie Hall Tower, the office building that abuts the legendary concert hall. IMG - which represents...
ABC'S RATINGS STILL LAG BEHIND THE PACK
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amMichael Eisner can't seem to shake his troubles. This time, his ABC network yesterday hit the broadcast ratings cellar for the sixth straight week. Even the beleaguered network's highest rated...
FOOT LOCKER BUYS 350 STORES FROM FOOTSTAR
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amFoot Locker yesterday moved to increase its foothold in the athletic footwear industry with an agreement to buy 350 Footaction stores from bankrupt Footstar for $160 million in cash. With...
ROB AND LAURA NOW; CAST OF 'DICK VAN DYKE SHOW' REUNITES FOR NEW EPISODE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE gang's all here - nearly 40 years later! Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Carl Reiner and other stars of the original "Dick Van Dyke Show" have...
SQUARE MEALS TO BEWARE - RATING TIMES SQUARE'S BEST (BLUE FIN) AND WORST (THE REST)
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amIF you're a savvy New Yorker who assumes Times Square's tourist restaurants are simply awful, it only proves how naive you are. In fact, they are much, much worse. Even...
'PART' WITH PAINFUL PAST
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE TRICKY PART At the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway. Through May 30. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ONE needs only to hear Martin Moran reflect on his Catholic youth to realize how...
WHO IS THAT 'SWAN' WOMAN?
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amDON'T be shocked if you can't quite place the accent of Amanda Byram, who's hosting Fox's newest reality show, "The Swan." You're not alone. "It's funny, a lot of people...
ON THE SIDE - EATERY MISLEADS ON CHEF
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amSOME restaurateurs don't like to admit it when their talented chefs leave. But management at one eatery consistently refuses to tell its customers their cooks have flown the coop. "They're...
FINAL ROUND - THE BANKER AND THE CIGAR SALESMAN ON THEIR 'APPRENTICE' TITLE FIGHT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amONE'S a self-made entrepreneur who got his start selling pancakes to his grandmother's friends. The other's a Harvard M.B.A. who kissed Wall Street goodbye for the chance of a lifetime....
PUPPET PRIZE FIGHT; 'AVE. Q' WANTS AN AWARDS DO-OVER; CAROL ROSEGG
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amBROADWAY is about to be gripped by Spring (Awards) Fever - which means producers cooking up schemes to rack up as many accolades as they can. The producers of "Avenue...
HIGH ON FIDEL-ITY - OLIVER STONE FALLS ALL OVER CUBAN LEADER
April 14, 2004 | 4:00am"Looking for Fidel" Tonight at 8 on HBO * (one star) IF Cuba is so great, why doesn't Oliver Stone go and live there? He really seems to dig the...
MANIC METAL FOR MOSHING MAGGOTS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amSLIPKNOT BETWEEN grotesquely masked musicians and brooding fans, Slipknot created an ominous mood at their first New York gig in two years. Monday's show at the Roseland Ballroom found Des...
STARR REPORT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amCh.7 's Sam Champion broadcasts live today from Harlem to help promote free oral-cancer screenings taking place tomorrow aboard the Columbia University dental van at 125th St.and Nicholas Ave. and...
THE OTHER A-ROD - INVESTIGATING ADAM RODRIGUEZ, THE HOT STAR OF TV'S 'CSI: MIAMI'
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amEXAMINING dead bodies is a grim job, but few TV characters have looked as good doing it as Eric Delko on CSI: Miami. Played by New York-born Adam Rodriguez, Eric...
ELMHURST SO GOOD - HEAD OUT TO QUEENS TO SAMPLE SOME PRIMO LATINO CUISINE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA cultural resurgence and sprouting new developments have turned the formerly sleepy neighborhood of Elmhurst into more that just your average pit-stop. This family suburb, comprised of hardworking middle-class Latinos...
TOUCHED BY AN 'ANGEL' - HORSERACING LEGEND TAKES A STAR UNDER HIS WING
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amSUPERSTAR jockey John Velazquez and his Hall-of-Fame "coach" Angel Cordero Jr. are the Robin and Batman of thoroughbred racing. With Velazquez riding at racetracks like Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga,...
SO STRIKING - SARA VARGAS IS LIVING IN THE FAST LANE AS SHE BOWLS FOR COLOMBIA
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amAT the age of 27, Sara Vargas has developed impeccable footwork and a dynamite hook shot. If you're thinking the Colombian-born beauty is a basketball or soccer star, think again....
WORD PLAYERS - 30-YEAR-OLD NUYORICAN POETS CAFE IS STILL GOING STRONG
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amLAST month, the celebrated poet Pedro Pietri, who helped launch the Nuyorican Poets Café in the 1970s with his blistering mastery of the absurd, died on a plane traveling to...
WHAT THE POETS THINK
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amSome prominent poets talk about the life and death of the seminal poet Pedro Pietri. CARIDAD DE LA A.K.A. LA BRUJA Featured on Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam for HBO....
GRAND 'SLAMS' - SAMPLE THE CITY'S BEST POETRY HOTSPOTS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amApril is National Poetry Month. What better time to check out the city's best spoken-word venues? PAPOLETO FUNDRAISER A bevy of poets, musicians, activists and performers come together to raise...
THALIA'S DRIVE - NOTHING GETS IN THE WAY OF THE DIVA'S CROSSOVER QUEST
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amIF you don't know who Thalia is- rest assured that soon, you will. "I am an industry," the sexy Mexican singer/actress confidently declares. The leggy pop idol is not blowing...
ULTIMATE LUXURY DREAM CREAM - FAMILY-OWNED SKIN-CARE LINE AIMS TO PAMPER THE MASSES
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE story of the luxury skin-care line Natura-Bisse is in the details - specifically in the details of the hands of warehouse workers. While working as a plant manager for...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amDo politicians do any real work down in Tennessee? You might wonder after the state Legislature just acted on one its most pressing issues in months - deciding that dogs...
SHARON'S LESSONS FOR BUSH; A MIDEAST PLAN THAT WORKS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amABOUT a dozen years ago, Shimon Peres - then Israel's foreign minister - was in New York and had dinner with a former columnist for this paper. Peres, who knew...
BOOK-FAN KIDS HAVE CRYSTAL BALL
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amFunnyman Billy Crystal revealed his softer side yesterday, reading his new children's book to dozens of young students at an Upper West Side museum. Crystal read "I Already Know I...
EX-FED BOSS EYED FOR OIL-FOOD PROBE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker has emerged as the leading candidate to head the special U.N. commission set up to investigate the giant Iraq oil-for-food scandal,...
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY; 77% SAY OLYMPICS GOOD FOR CITY
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThree-quarters of New Yorkers say the Big Apple would be a big winner if the city lands the 2012 Olympics, according to a poll released yesterday. The Marist College survey...
TIBETANS HUNGER FOR FREEDOM
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amI WENT looking for an- other traitorous wacko like "Hanoi Jane" Fonda. Instead, I found Richard Gere - and the words I had been planning to write melted away in...
HELP ON WAY FOR DESIGNER OF 9/11 MEMORIAL
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amEfforts to build a Ground Zero memorial were bolstered yesterday with the appointment of a second team of architects to help designer Michael Arad complete the $350 million project. The...
OH, DEER, LAMENTS L.I. HIT-RUN DEFENDANT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island woman charged with manslaughter for running over a migrant worker in the Hamptons and fleeing the scene, arrived for the start of her trial yesterday insisting she...
ISRAEL FOILS TERRORISTS' AIDS-BOMB PASSOVER PLOT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amIsraeli security foiled a plan by Palestinian terrorists to detonate an AIDS bomb - a powerful explosive charge contaminated with HIV-tainted blood, authorities said yesterday. The diabolical plot during Passover...
NEW DELAY IN JAYSON TRIAL
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe manslaughter trial of ex-NBA star Jayson Williams was postponed yet again yesterday after a prosecutor's sister-in-law died. Lawyers had been set yesterday to hear a judge's decision on a...
1 IN 4 U.S. TEENS THINK THEY'RE FAT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amTwenty-five percent of American teenagers believe they are fat - with girls twice more likely than boys to complain about being overweight. That's the alarming conclusion of a new Gallup...
HEAD-CHOP HUSBAND PLEADS GUILTY
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amAn Ecuadoran immigrant kitchen worker pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to strangling and decapitating his unfaithful wife. The brutal murder caused a sensation last May, when the wife's headless body...
PARK AVE. MYSTERY; REAL-ESTATE MOGUL SEARCHES FOR MISSING WIFE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan real-estate mogul is desperately searching for clues on the whereabouts of his wife, who disappeared without a trace Friday evening after leaving their Park Avenue apartment. "I'm looking...
VANISHED L.I. MAN CALLS HOME
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amDavid Saur, the Mercantile Exchange broker who vanished mysteriously from a Long Island Rail Road station last week, has phoned his wife to say he has not been kidnapped -...
BUSHES' 227G TAX PAYMENT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush and wife Laura paid $227,490 in federal income taxes last year on adjusted gross income of $822,126 - a federal tax rate of 28 percent, according to returns...
BOYS, 10 & 12, RAPE GIRL, 11
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amEaster Sunday was a holiday of horror for an 11-year-old girl who was pulled onto a Bronx rooftop and raped by two boys - ages 10 and 12, authorities said....
BLOOMBERG DEFIANT ON SNAPPLE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe city is pressing ahead with Mayor Bloomberg's plan to make Snapple its official beverage - despite a recent audit by the city comptroller accusing him "corporate cronyism," it was...
KLEIN TELLS ALBANY: PAY UP OR I'LL SUE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein delivered an ultimatum to state lawmakers yesterday: Agree to give city schools billions of dollars in additional aid or "I'll see you in court." "This is...
WE NEEDED MORE FUNDS: EX-CIA BIG
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The chief of the CIA counterterrorism center on Sept. 11, 2001, testified yesterday that his overworked team of agents was consumed with stopping Osama bin Laden - but...
COUNCIL CREEP; REPORT BARES SEX INSULTS & ANTI-SEMITISM
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amCity Councilman Allan Jennings repeatedly spoke in an inappropriate and sexually charged way to a council lawyer, degraded women and made anti-Semitic remarks, according to an explosive report. A veteran...
KILLER CHOOSES SUICIDE; FACED EXTRADITION
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe bizarre case of a New Jersey man who fled the United States after killing his lover - spurring his shamed parents to kill themselves - has ended with his...
SMALL FRY LED TO RAP DRUG BUST
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe Westchester sting that netted $10 million in cocaine, $800,000 in cash and the rap artist's tour bus that carted the haul began as a minor gang arrest that snowballed...
SLAY WIFE WEEPS AT 911 CALL
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens woman on trial for stabbing her abusive husband to death broke down in tears yesterday as prosecutors played a dramatic 911 call she made admitting to the slaying....
KID COURAGEOUS; SICS POLICE ON INVASION THUGS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA plucky, barefooted 8-year-old Bronx boy in his pajamas escaped the clutches of two shotgun-wielding thugs who were holding his terrified family hostage and called the cops, relieved relatives said...
FED ADMITS WTC-SITE CAR THEFT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Secret Service office technician has confessed to swiping five government cars recovered at Ground Zero to give to family members, court papers unsealed yesterday reveal. William Bennette, 52, told...
CHARTER SCHOOL FOR ROCKAWAYS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration plans to open a new charter school in the Rockaways next fall as part of a sweeping educational overhaul in the area. The Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter...
ANOTHER JUROR NO. 4 SPARKS COURTROOM CHAOS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe Curse of Juror No. 4 has struck again at Manhattan Supreme Court. Just 12 days after a controversy over Juror No. 4 led to the Tyco mistrial, there's an...
DRUG MULE ASKS $5M FOR HOSPITAL CUT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA convicted drug mule claims doctors jumped the gun in his $5 million suit against a Queens hospital for forcibly operating on him after he swallowed 51 heroin-filled condoms. William...
ROAD-RAGE 'KILLER' OWNS UP: COPS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amAn enraged road warrior admitted he knifed another driver to death after a hair-raising dash through The Bronx and into Harlem, saying he lost it after his rival cut him...
LAUGHING DRIVER KILLS GRANDMA
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amShortly after backing into and killing an 86-year-old Brooklyn granny yesterday, a tow-truck driver laughed, joked - and urinated in the parking lot where the woman died. The victim, Angela...
SPIES IN BLUNDERLAND
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI and CIA repeatedly bungled opportunities to foil the 9/11 attacks, in some cases because agents felt they couldn't share secrets with each other, a new scathing...
9/11 KIN PRAISE CONDI
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA group of 9/11 families has released an open letter thanking National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for her testimony to the commission probing the attacks and saying it should end...
ASHCROFT HITS BACK AT PANEL - SAYS ONE MEMBER HINDERED FBI EFFORT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amAttorney General John Ashcroft turned the tables on the 9/11 commission yesterday, blaming legal restrictions, including a memo written by one of commission's own members, for barring investigators from sharing...
SEIZED TIGER FELINE 'SAD' IN SANCTUARY
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amBaaaad kitty. Seems like Ming, the famous Harlem tiger, is having a hard time adjusting to life outside the projects. He has not been playing nicely with the other large...
GAY GARCONS SERVE UP BITTER SEX-HARASS DISH
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amHarassment was on the menu at the fancy Manhattan eatery Town, according to two gay waiters who charged yesterday they were abused by other staffers, including a saucy sommelier who...
KERRY GOES FOR $$ RECORD HERE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amDemocrats are privately predicting that John Kerry could hit a new $5 million record at a Sheraton New York fund-raiser tonight - way above the old Big Apple record of...
LAUGHING DRIVER KILLS WOMAN, 86
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThis truck hit Angela Greco (below, left). Driver Joseph Polemeni joked afterward.Benny J. Stumbo A tow-truck driver accidentally backed into and killed an 86-year-old Brooklyn grandma yesterday - and then...
B'VUE'S DEADLY HISTORY; SLAIN DOC'S BRO TALKS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amBellevue's bosses had no incentive to improve security after they won a 1996 Civil Court battle over a pregnant doctor's savage rape and murder by a homeless man who freely...
TEEN HITS JACKO WITH SEX CLAIM
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Cops here are investigating Michael Jackson on a new child-molestation allegation after a teenager came forward with a repressed-memory claim against the embattled singer, sources said yesterday....
JFK JR. ITEMS STOLEN
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man has been busted for looting extremely personal items that once belonged to the late John F. Kennedy Jr. - including a 1963 Father's Day card he'd made...
HOSTAGE BODIES FOUND; LIKELY U.S. CIVILIANS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Four mutilated bodies believed to be missing civilian employees of an American military contractor were found by U.S. forces yesterday, as the Iraq hostage drama took a grim...
BUSH HANGS TOUGH; FACING DOWN THE PRESS CORPS DOUBTERS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE purpose of last night's presidential press conference was to show purpose, and rarely has a president seemed quite so purposeful as George W. Bush did last night. The purpose...
BUSH READY TO SEND MORE GIS - 'WE WILL FINISH THE WORK OF THE FALLEN'
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush last night said U.S. forces will stay in Iraq as long as needed, and he's ready to increase troop strength if needed because America must "finish the work...
TUNNEL IS ESCAPE FOR THIEF: COPS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA homeless man robbed an Upper West Side bank yesterday and then ran seven blocks through one of the busiest subway tunnels in Manhattan, dodging trains and the third rail,...
TUB LEAK POINTS TO GRISLY HARLEM SLAYS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amTwo men were found shot dead in a Harlem building last night, a police source said. The bodies of the men, in their late 20s or early 30s, were discovered...
BODY DUMPED NEAR 'BX. CAFÉ'
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA grisly discovery was made on a street corner in The Bronx early this morning - a dead body stuffed inside a plastic garbage bag, cops said. The body was...
EX-OFFICER SHOOTS MAN IN DINER SPAT: COPS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA retired cop shot a man in the face yesterday while trying to break up a fight outside a Queens diner, authorities said - but a witness' account sharply contradicts...
OH, DEER, LAMENTS L.I. HIT-AND-RUN WOMAN
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island woman, charged with manslaughter for running over a migrant worker in the Hamptons and fleeing the scene, arrived for the start of her trial yesterday insisting she...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** A 53-year-old man (above) was busted yesterday after making a failed attempt to rob a Chelsea bank, cops said. Ross Martinez, of 92nd Street in Queens, walked into...
LIL' KIM LYING RAP; WILL SURRENDER IN '01 SHOOTOUT PROBE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amRap star Lil' Kim is expected to turn herself in - as soon as today - to answer charges that she lied to authorities investigating a 2001 shootout in Greenwich...
MANHOLE COVER BLOWS IN B'KLYN
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amAbout 125 people had to be evacuated for several hours last night after a Con Ed manhole explosion in Brooklyn. Nobody was hurt in the explosion on 43rd Street in...
100G VIOLIN LEFT BEHIND IN SALOON
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA rare Italian violin vanished from a Manhattan bar early yesterday after its owner accidentally left the $100,000 instrument behind. Odin Rathnam, 38, the concertmaster of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra...
DA ASKS TOT-KILLER TO WARN OTHERS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man admitted yesterday that he violently shook his girlfriend's 3-year-old son to death - and he is mulling the DA's request that he make an educational videotape explaining...
CAGED BEAST - HARLEM TIGER 'NOT HAPPY' IN OHIO ZOO
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amBaaaad kitty. Seems like Ming, the famous Harlem tiger, is having a hard time adjusting to life outside the projects. He has not been playing nicely with the other large...
TOT'S KILLER MAY MAKE WARNING TAPE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man admitted yesterday that he violently shook his girlfriend's 3-year-old son to death - and he is mulling the DA's request that he make an educational videotape explaining...
COUNCILMAN CREEP - REPORT BARES SEX INSULTS & ANTI-SEMITISM
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amCity Councilman Allan Jennings repeatedly spoke in an inappropriate and sexually charged way to a council lawyer, degraded women and made anti-Semitic remarks, according to an explosive report. A veteran...
CRYSTAL HAS A BALL
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amFunnyman Billy Crystal revealed his softer side yesterday, reading his new children's book to dozens of young students at an Upper West Side museum. Crystal read "I Already Know I...
BUSHES' 227G TAX BILL - $68,000 TO CHARITY
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush and wife Laura paid $227,490 in federal income taxes last year on adjusted gross income of $822,126 - a federal tax rate of 28 percent, according to returns...
ISRAEL FOILS AIDS TERROR-BOMB PLOT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amIsraeli security foiled a plan by Palestinian terrorists to detonate an "AIDS bomb" - a powerful explosive charge contaminated with HIV-tainted blood, authorities said yesterday. The diabolical plot during Passover...
TRAGIC FIND IN HOSTAGE HUNT - 4 BODIES AT ATTACK SITE MAY BE AMERICANS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The mutilated bodies of four missing civilian employees of an American military contractor were believed to have been found by U.S. forces yesterday, as the Iraq hostage drama...
9/11 HOT WHEELS - FED WORKER STOLE CARS AT WTC SITE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Secret Service office technician has confessed to swiping five government cars recovered at Ground Zero to give to family members, court papers unsealed yesterday reveal. William Bennette, 52, told...
METROSTARS HUNGER FOR MLS CROWN
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amFreddymania has been the biggest story in American soccer since the stirring 2002 World Cup run. But the MetroStars are far less concerned with 14-year-old prodigy Freddy Adu and far...
OFF TO GOOD START ; PITCHERS KEEP METS AFLOAT
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amMike Piazza is out. Cliff Floyd is out. Jose Reyes is out. Karim Garcia is out. And the Mets somehow have won three of their last four games. OK, that's...
YASHIN AT CORE OF ISLES' WOES
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amIf not for the enormity of his contract and, with it, such standing in the Islanders' organization, you could replace Alexei Yashin in the lineup with just about any of...
J.A.B. OUT TO HELP BOXERS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amTomorrow starts what could be boxing's big comeback. What will surely be a long, hard battle, the boxing union Joint Association for Boxers (J.A.B.) will debut tomorrow at the Hammerstein...
HAPPY HE'S HERE ; PLAYERS WARM TO ROBERTS' ATTITUDE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amIt's going to take new St. John's coach Norm Roberts months, if not years, before he wins over the toughest basketball critics in the world. It took 15 minutes to...
COULD BE A 'HOME' RUN
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amIT didn't take long for the sentiment to overwhelm him, for his already raspy voice to crack for good. Norm Roberts cried when he thought of his family. He cried...
STUDENTS JUST WANT A WINNER
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amNorm Roberts is the hometown boy who has made good, but he's not yet a household name at St. John's. Based on a sampling of the student body, St. John's...
THE SIXTH SENSE ; KNICKS MUST AVOID NETS IN PLAYOFFS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amLenny Wilkens had better coach to win tonight. He had better play Stephon Marbury more as he promised. He had better hope the Hornets stink again tonight in Washington like...
FINE-TUNING JOB STARTING TO CLICK FOR METS' LOOPER
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES New York, meet Braden Looper. In Monday's 10-6, home-opening win, the Braves loaded the bases with one out in the ninth and Andruw Jones at the plate. Enter...
NETS WON'T FEEL HEAT FOR FINALE
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Nets have read the insinuations, the statements, even some partial retractions. And they really have not responded to anything put out by the Knicks, whether from Knick...
EXPERIENCE COUNTS
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amCOACHES have been saying it forever in hockey, how the name on the front of the jersey is more important than the one on the back. Even that noted hockey...
SURA 'TRIPLE' NIXED
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Nets knew it was a sham but said nothing publicly - hey, they fouled the Pistons to avoid being part of a historic defensive run, don't forget....
COACHES: LOCAL TIES A BIG HELP
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amKen Fiedler coached Springfield Gardens to the PSAL championship 21 years ago, but he doesn't take much credit for it. "The reason we won that title is because of Norm...
VAZ RIGHT GUY FOR FENWAY
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amFIRST, there was that ridiculous Pretend Opener in Japan. Then the Yankees delivered a victory in their home opener at the Stadium. But now the Real Opener is set for...
ROBERTS ENTERS EYE OF THE STORM ; PICKED TO CLEAN UP MESS AT ST. JOHN'S
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe hard part has yet to come. The hard part wasn't yesterday, when Norm Roberts had to fight off tears as he spoke with deep gratitude about his family, who...
DEVILS UNDERSTAND THE PERILS OF 3-1
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amMartin Brodeur says he prefers the comeback the Devils have already started to the one they'd face if they don't keep it going. "A 1-3 comeback is tougher than 0-2,"...
A-ROD BUSY ON 'OFF' DAY
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Off day? Not for Alex Rodriguez. With his batting average at .172 after eight games and last night's Devil Rays-Yankees game rained out, A-Rod spent most of yesterday...
PHELPS SWIMS OFF WITH SULLIVAN AWARD
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amCompeting with the likes of basketball stars LeBron James and Diana Taurasi, not to mention speedskater Apolo Ohno, Michael Phelps had to be a longshot at capturing the coveted Sullivan...
CRYING UNCLE - SHEFF WANTS GOODEN TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH THE YANKEES
April 14, 2004 | 4:00amGary Sheffield has carved out a All-Star career with a violent swing and an attitude that no challenge is too big. Yet, when it comes to his New York experience,...