May 14, 2004
SHE SAYS HE DUNNE HER WRONG
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amVanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter has a new headache. Dominick Dunne, one of his most famed writers in the Vanity Fair stable, is being accused by a woman of paying...
DILLER HITS SERIOUS PAY DIRT WITH VUE DEAL
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amVivendi said yesterday it has bought out Barry Diller's personal stake in Vivendi Universal Entertainment for $275 million. The buyout was widely expected, and first reported in The Post last...
14 WALL ST. ON THE BLOCK
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe 1 million-square-foot Bankers Trust Building at 14 Wall St. is about to hit the downtown marketplace. Based on other downtown sales, the property could command $150 to $200 a...
TIFFANY TO LOSE LUSTER THIS YEAR
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTiffany & Co. said yesterday that the strong growth it experienced in the first quarter was unlikely to continue throughout the year, an admission that sent its stock down nearly...
CSFB TAPS NEW CHIEF FOR DEALS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amIn its continuing scramble to boost its business, Credit Suisse First Boston created the new post of chairman of investment banking and put Robert Murley, a little-known Chicago banker and...
BILL COMING DUE - WHOLESALE PRICE HIKES TO HIT CONSUMERS HARD
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amPrice tag shock is heading into stores by Memorial Day due to soaring wholesale prices, with dairy pricesjumping to their highest levels in 58 years. Retailers also are suffering a...
WWD SAYS SUSPECT STORY NEVER GOT INTO PRINT
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE whiff of a plagiarism scandal at Fairchild Publications has not exactly reached epic proportions. One questionable item was killed before publication, the company insisted. Several sources said that an...
STARR REPORT
May 14, 2004 | 4:00am'GMA' gets it goin' "Good Morning America" is cranking up its summer concert series at Bryant Park beginning May 21 (7-9 a.m./ Ch. 7).OutKast kicks off the series next Friday,...
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amSPRINGTIME IN A SMALL TOWN [ 1/2] (three and one-half stars) Stylish love triangle. In Mandarin, with English subtitles. Running time: 116 minutes. Not rated (mature subject matter). At the...
2 GUYS STARE AT 4 WALLS IN 1 MESS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE 24TH DAY [] (One star) Silly and stifling. Running time: 97 minutes. Rated R (language and sexual dialogue, brief violence). At the Village East, Second Avenue and 12th Street....
'SLIPPING' SLIDING AWAY
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA SLIPPING DOWN LIFE [ 1/2] (One and one-half stars) Small-town blues. Running time: 111 minutes. Rated R (language including sexual references). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets. -----...
'SPEED' SLOW GOING
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amWITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED [ 1/2] (One and one-half stars) ---PETER Gilbert's documentary about the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling ending legal school segregation is certainly timely as we approach...
FOXX HOLE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amBREAKIN' ALL THE RULES [] (two stars) Insipid comedy of errors. Running time: 85 minutes. Rated PG-13 (language, sexual themes). At the Empire, the Loews 84th, the Union Square, others....
LACKADAISICAL LUST IN WAR-TORN FRANCE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amSTRAYED [ 1/2] (two and one-half stars) On the run from the Nazis.In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 95 minutes. Not rated (violence, sex, nudity). At the Lincoln Plaza...
BRAZIL'S ATTICA
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amCARANDIRU [ 1/2] (three and one-half stars) Viva Babenco. In Portuguese, with English subTitles. Running time: 148 minutes. Rated R (brutal violence, profanity, sexuality). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer...
ESPRESSO BOAST
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amCOFFEE AND CIGARETTES [] (three stars) Smokin'. Running time: 96 minutes. Rated PG-13 (language). At Loews Lincoln Square, Broadway and 68th Street; and Sunshine Cinema, Houston Street, bet. First and...
TROJAN BORE: LESS-THAN-HEROIC PLAYERS ADRIFT IN THE WINDS OF WAR
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTROY ½ (one and one half stars) Clunky epic. Running time: 163 minutes. Rated R (violence, brief gore). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others. IT'S perhaps...
CARSON'S NEW JOB? - 'QUEER EYE' CHANNEL CAN'T HELP ITSELF
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amJUST because it's Bravo, does everyone have to look like Carson Kressley? The star of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" actually has nothing to do with this latest Bravo...
ALLERGY BLAMED FOR JIMMY'S BIG BLOW UP
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amBRAVE Jimmy Kimmel was back at work yesterday after a severe allergic reaction during his show Tuesday night sent him to a hospital. "I don't know what's happening, but my...
WORKING ON A ROAD GANG - TONY HOPEFULS WOO THEATER OWNERS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTONY Award electioneering was in full tilt this week as the producers of this year's nominated musicals wined and dined an influential block of Tony voters: the road presenters. These...
BELLE OF THE BALL[[BD-
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN'S Ollabelle is named after Ola Belle Reed - the North Carolina singer/ songwriter and mean banjo player whose song, "High on a Mountain," is a bluegrass standard. Finding recordings...
DIRTY DANCING ON AIRS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amJC CHASEZ IF JC Chasez weren't the consummate pro, he might have walked off the stage at the Roseland Ballroom Wednesday when he realized he was performing for a measly...
GROUP DEMANDS ROSIE APOLOGIZE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE dust hasn't settled yet on Rosie O'Donnell's rant on "The View" Wednesday. O'Donnell got into a argument with co-host Star Jones over what she called the unfairness of Martha...
'LOSER' WINS $1M
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amLOVABLY scruffy "Survivor" contestant Rupert Boneham is now $1 million richer - thanks to his legion of fans. Boneham, the big, burly, bearded dad from Indiana, scored the dough on...
DOING IT WRITE - A DECENT ENOUGH 'FRASIER' FINALE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amANOTHER day, another finale. First "Friends," now "Frasier." But in TV, old sitcoms never die, they just fade into endless syndication until someone comes up with the All New Reunion...
SCHUMER RIPS WARDEN HIRE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday asked the Bush administration to explain why a civilian contractor was tapped to help run Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison even though he had...
B'KLYN GRANNY FATALLY STABBED
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn grandmother was found stabbed to death in her apartment last night, police said. Alice Wise, 65, was discovered lying on the floor next to the kitchen of her...
BROOKLYN HIT-RUN ROAD RAGE SLAYING
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA 26-year-old Brooklyn man was killed last night by a motorist who intentionally mowed him down after the two got into an argument over a woman, cops said. The man...
PERVERT IN DRUG STORE OUTRAGE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA convicted sex offender was busted for molesting a 6-year-old boy who wandered away from his grandmother in a Bronx pharmacy yesterday, authorities said. Registered sex offender Vererio Franceschini, 35,...
BEATLE DOC LOSES $5.5 MIL LAWSUIT
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe doctor accused of forcing a dying George Harrison to autograph his son's guitar was hit yesterday with a $5.5 million malpractice verdict. A Staten Island Supreme Court jury awarded...
REV. AL TO MARCH ON NIELSEN
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTired of fruitless behind-the-scenes appeals to Nielsen asking for a delay in its New York launch of a controversial ratings-measuring system, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday he'll lead a...
E. END PERV ON PROWL - HAMPTONS 'RAPE' LINK
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amPolice are investigating a possible link between an attempted rape at a popular Southampton beach Tuesday morning and a recent string of disturbing flashing incidents in the area. A 28-year-old...
'MOM WOULD NOT COMMIT SUICIDE'
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTaking the stand in her dead mother's defense yesterday, a bereaved daughter said her mom categorically denied suicidal thoughts, hallucinations and delusions - allegations brought against the deceased woman by...
223G ELEX FINE FOR FERRER ERROR
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amFormer Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer yesterday was fined $223,194 for campaign-finance violations during the 2001 mayor's race. The massive fine - the second-largest such penalty in city history -...
HAPPY PAIRS AREN'T LOVE'S FOOLS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amHere's the key to a long and happy marriage - don't expect too much. That's the word from psychologists who say it's better to aim low when you begin life...
RUMSFELD IN BOLD VISIT TO ABUSE JAIL
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison yesterday and promised troops that he and the overall military mission in Iraq will...
APPLE WINS $2.5B BUDGET BRAWL
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The state's top court yesterday handed the city a $2.5 billion victory in Mayor Bloomberg's budget-bailout battle with Gov. Pataki. "The Court of Appeals has ruled in favor...
KERRY TALKS TO NICK'S DAD
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry told reporters yesterday he spoke with the father of Nicholas Berg, the contractor who was beheaded in Iraq by Islamic terrorists. Asked about the conversation, Kerry...
FIREMAN SET BLAZES: L.I. COPS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA firebug who has allegedly been setting blazes in a Long Island community is also a volunteer firefighter, police said yesterday. Michael Meyer was arrested Wednesday night and charged with...
ROOTING FOR THE ENEMY
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA MAN has his head cut off by al Qaeda in Iraq, and The New York Times aggressively markets the idea - on its front page yesterday - that his...
BRUTAL TOLL IN GAZA
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel pulled out of Gaza City yesterday after the biggest offensive there in years, but vowed to return if necessary to fight terrorism. Eleven Israelis and 27 Palestinians...
DADS, DON'T LET YOUR GIRLS BE INTERNS: DA
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The Albany County district attorney - reacting to the intern sex scandal at the state Capitol - issued an extraordinary warning yesterday about the program. EP "Any father...
GIFFIE AIDE IS CLEAN IN HARASS PROBE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe lawyer who leveled sexual harassment charges against City Councilman Allan Jennings didn't inform Council Speaker Gifford Miller and his aides about the allegations in May 2002 as she has...
THIS DODDERING, DISHEVELED DIVA'S TOTALLY OFF HER ROCKER
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amAT least this time she wore a bra. The silk-wrapped tsunami that is Courtney Love teetered out of the criminal courtroom yesterday like a geisha on stilts. The woman, whose...
BIKER BOPS KOCH - SLAMS EX-MAYOR OVER BODYGUARD'S CAB-DOOR BUMP
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amIf only Ed Koch had asked, How are you doin'? The unlucky cyclist who was unintentionally injured when the former mayor's bodyguard flung open a taxi door onto oncoming traffic...
DISGRACED VELELLA'S 80G PENSION PARACHUTE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - State Sen. Guy Velella - who is expected to resign his seat as soon as today and plead guilty on corruption charges - could still bank as much...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A Bronx cop has been arrested for beating and choking his girlfriend in their Unionport home, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Abraham Nuñez, assigned to the 40th Precinct...
BX. MAN EXECUTED IN HAIL OF BULLETS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA 26-year-old man was shot once in the head and seven times in the body sitting in a BMW parked on a Bronx street last night, police said. José Montalvo,...
B'KLYN FIEND KILLS AND RAPES
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA fiend went on a rampage in a Brooklyn building last night, killing a grandmother in her apartment and sexually assaulting another woman in the building, law enforcement sources said....
JEN'S SKIRTING THE BRAD ISSUE - KEEPING HER 'TROY' BOY IN LEATHER LEAVES ME PANTING
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amJENNIFER ANISTON is the most selfish woman on earth. No, it's not just enough to be married to Brad "Achilles" Pitt. Or to watch him walking around naked all day....
BONANNO 'JUROR' PAL HAD A MAFIA FATHER
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn federal judge will decide whether a New York woman with tangential links to organized crime can become a juror at the racketeering trial of reputed Bonanno crime family...
KLEIN SQUEEZES 'LEMON-PASSING'
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein has urged principals to stop the practice called "passing the lemon" - giving incompetent teachers satisfactory ratings if they agree to transfer to another school. "We...
MANHOLE FIRE RUFFLES FEATHERS - BROOKLYN RESIDENTS, PETS FLEE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA fire in a Con Ed manhole forced people and pets in more than a dozen buildings to evacuate their homes near the corner of 18th Avenue and 71st Street...
RAINBOW ROOM TO TEST ITS METAL
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge has given Rockefeller Center the go-ahead to force patrons of the super-ritzy Rainbow Room to go through metal detectors. In a decision made public yesterday, Justice Debra...
REV. AL OVER AND 'DUN' WITH
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amWith his aborted presidential campaign already more than $500,000 in the red, the Rev. Al Sharpton took another hit in the wallet yesterday when the Federal Election Commission ordered him...
COURT HOLDS LION CUB BY THE TAIL
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amAn Ohio court yesterday delayed the return of The Post's lion cub, which was purchased last year as part of an exposé of the horrific trade in exotic cats. Three...
DR. MIKE WILL SEE YOU - CITY OFFERING $100 AND FREE CHECKUPS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amDr. Bloomberg will pay you $100 just for saying, "Ahh." The city Department of Heath plans to knock on thousands of New Yorkers' doors next month offering free physical examinations...
KID-PORN SHOCK - CITY BOSS BUSTED IN COMPUTER CHECK
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA veteran city employee, described as a "nice person" by colleagues, was arrested yesterday for allegedly downloading more than 250 images of child pornography on his office computer. David Conlon,...
DRUG-DEALER WRINKLE IN TRASH SLAY
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amPolice investigating the shooting death of a Bronx garbage worker want to talk to a reputed drug dealer linked to the operators of the carting company that employed the slain...
'KILLER' FIRE MOM - KID AND BEAU DIED IN '110G INSURANCE' BLAZE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens woman set her apartment on fire - killing her boyfriend and child - so she could collect $110,000 from life-insurance policies that kicked in just an hour and...
DOGGED HUNT FOR CENTRAL PK. FIEND
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amCops yesterday released a sketch of the man who sexually assaulted a woman walking her dog in Central Park. The woman, who fought off the hulking sex fiend with the...
GASP! HOW COULD THEY; BOOT HER?
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amLaToya London's ouster on "American Idol" has the show's millions of fans asking: What's up with that? Their jaws dropped when "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest announced Wednesday that viewers had...
FIREFIGHTER IN GUN BUST
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA city firefighter was busted yesterday after detectives found banned assault weapons inside his Queens home, police said. Jimmy Reilly, 36, a nearly 13-year FDNY veteran, turned himself in after...
B'KLYN BRAWLER BUSTED IN HS MELEE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA fight between two students at Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay HS ended with the arrest of one of the teens - who punched and kicked a cop assigned to the violence-plagued...
FLIP-FLOP KERRY BACKS $25B FOR TROOPS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry yesterday said he'll back President Bush's call for $25 billion in extra funds to support U.S. troops in Iraq, after taking lots of heat for voting...
CITY SUMMER SCHOOL $LASH
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration is dramatically reducing the size of the city's summer-school session by inviting fewer students who will attend classes at fewer sites. The estimated summer-school budget will be...
JUDGE THROWS BOOK AT AN EVIL ROMANCE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amCareer predator Ravon Romance has spent almost half of his 41 years in prison, yet still found time to rob or rape at least five women - in the latest...
9/11 SUSPECT GOT BERG'S E-MAIL PASSWORD
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amNick Berg, the young American beheaded by terrorists in Iraq, had an earlier encounter with a Muslim fanatic - he inadvertently provided accused 9/11 al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui with...
'GOD #%*ED ME FOR COMMITTING TOO MANY ADULTERIES' - LOVE HOSTS A POTTY TALK
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amRocker Courtney Love rolled into a lower Manhattan courthouse like a hurricane yesterday - wowing a 10-camera-deep crowd of media with a frenetic, disjointed monologue about sex, drugs and money...
SCHUMER SLAMS DEATH WARDEN'S HIRING
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday asked the Bush administration to explain why a civilian contractor was tapped to help run Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison even though he had...
ENGINE DOWNED NEWS COPTER: PROBE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amEngine damage was found in the wreckage of the WNBC/Channel 4 news helicopter that crashed in Brooklyn last week, National Transportation Safety Board investigators said yesterday. It's unclear whether the...
VAN KILLS WOMAN NEAR TIMES SQ.
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Westchester woman was fatally struck by a van near Times Square yesterday. Dale Weinberg, 55, of Eastchester, was in a crosswalk at 49th Street and Broadway at 1:20 p.m....
BRONX SOCCER 'TERROR' GANG
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amFive members of a Bronx gang of violent Mexican soccer enthusiasts have been charged with terrorism and other offenses under an anti-terror law that went into effect a week after...
'DRAG'-NET FOR TRANNY TIME BANDIT
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThis robbery was a real drag. A man dressed in a head-to-toe green burqa and carrying a purse robbed a swanky Swiss watch store in Manhattan at gunpoint yesterday. The...
SCRAP MAKEUP TEST: EVA
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe City Council's education chief urged Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to toss out the results of Wednesday's makeup reading exam for 2,400 students because they were given conflicting information on...
CLASS SIZES TAKING A DIP
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amClass sizes dropped in eight out of 10 grades in the current school year, the Department of Education said yesterday. Fourth-grade classes had an average of 24.5 students, one fewer...
GIFFIE, AIDE CLEAN ON JENNINGS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amOutside investigators have cleared City Council Speaker Gifford Miller and a top aide of charges they ignored for four months allegations of sexual harassment against Queens City Councilman Allan Jennings....
SICK ROMPS AT PORNY PRISON - 'VOYEUR SEX BY CANDLELIGHT': MP
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amIraq's feared Abu Ghraib jail was one big sex romp - sometimes by candlelight with an audience watching, U.S. troops said yesterday. Sex and alcohol were commonplace, and soldiers frequently...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe California city of Garden Grove has conjured up the ghost of Joe McCarthy by declaring itself a "no communist" zone. The unusual resolution was passed by the city because...
SERIAL SEX FIEND CAGED
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amCareer predator Ravon Romance has spent almost half of his 41 years in prison, yet still found time to rob or rape at least five women - in the latest...
9/11 PANEL ASKS FOR MIKE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe 9/11 commission has invited Mayor Bloomberg to testify next Tuesday, The Post has learned. Bloomberg testified before the panel during preliminary hearings last year. He originally was scheduled to...
FIREMAN IN GUN BUST AT QNS. HOME
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amA city firefighter was busted yesterday after detectives found banned assault weapons inside his Queens home, police said. Jimmy Reilly, 36, a nearly 13-year FDNY veteran, turned himself in after...
KLEIN PUTS SQUEEZE ON 'LEMON-PASSING'
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein has urged principals to stop the practice called "passing the lemon" - giving incompetent teachers satisfactory ratings if they agree to transfer to another school. "We...
LOUIMA COPS BID FOR OLD JOBS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe two ex-cops acquitted in the notorious Abner Louima torture case were in Police Headquarters yesterday, seeking their old jobs back. Thomas Bruder and Thomas Wiese stood before a department...
LOUIMA COPS ASK JUDGE FOR OLD JOBS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe two ex-cops acquitted in the notorious Abner Louima torture case were in Police Headquarters yesterday seeking their old jobs back - their first visit to the building since they...
FLOYD RETURNS STRONG
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amPHOENIX - Cliff Floyd is back. And to hear him tell it, Jose Reyes is progressing in his return as well. After missing more than a month with a strained...
JUST VAN-TASTIC - WILSON'S 3-RUN HOMER LIFTS METS TO VICTORY
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amMets 7 - D'backs 4 PHOENIX - Vance Wilson's name is often that late-inning announcement that's so easy to disregard. He comes in as a defensive replacement. He's called on...
'SMART' MONEY - IT'LL BE HARD TO KEEP UP WITH 'JONES' AT PREAKNESS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amSaturday Preakness Stakes 5 p.m., Ch. 4 It is Smarty Jones' Triple Crown to lose. All he needs to do is stay healthy and strong, according to race caller Dave...
LEITER SHOULDER JUST NOT AL RIGHT
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - On Tuesday, Al Leiter looked fidgety and uncomfortable on the mound. In short, he looked like there was something wrong. Maybe there was. After feeling more...
A RAVE FOR THE FAVE - 'SMARTY' CLEAR CHOICE TO WIN 2ND JEWEL
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - If the Kentucky Derby is the "most exciting two minutes in sports," and the Belmont Stakes is the "Test of the Champion," what do you call tomorrow's $1...
FLUKE ON DECK
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amAS the marine waters of New York get warmer we begin to see more and more species that anglers can target for the coming weekend. Weakfish made a big showing...
JENNIE HOT FOR GOLD MEDAL
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe hottest pitcher on the planet will be in Central Park tomorrow, making members of the media look like fools if they have the temerity to step in the box...
QUANTRILL, GUILLEN TURN UP HEAT
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amJose Guillen wanted Paul Quantrill to attempt the anatomically impossible. Quantrill just wanted Guillen to shut his pie hole. A day after the two men had an eighth-inning staredown, Guillen...
JORGE'S HOPING TO PLAY THIS WEEKEND
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amNeither Jorge Posada nor Alfredo Amezaga slept much Wednesday night. But Posada, who suffered a fractured nose when Amezaga hit him with a throw, said he held no grudge against...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Thompson vs. Dr. Jack Ramsay (Who is a better NBA analyst?) When the 79-year-old Dr. Jack Ramsay, ESPN's lead NBA radio analyst, ends his pregame spiel, he enthusiastically wraps...
5 QUESTIONS FOR MIKE FRATELLO
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with TNT's NBA commentator, Mike Fratello. The 57-year-old Fratello grew up in Hackensack.Q: How badly do you want to get back into coaching?A:...
MINI 'MAX' - RATINGS LOW - BUT POTENTIAL'S HIGH
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe debut of I, Max -Max Kellerman's new talk show on Fox Sports Net - put up a zero rating in New York on Monday. But Tuesday's second show made...
WITHOUT A TRACY - T-MAC ORLAN-DONE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - For some reason, team executives expect Tracy McGrady to notify Magic management within the week of his plans regarding the escape clause in his contract. My source...
PIMLICO SPECIAL ON TAP
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - A year after he dominated the Preakness Stakes by 9 3/4 lengths, Funny Cide returns to the scene of that tour-de-force in today's Grade 1, $500,000 Pimlico Special....
PRIME TIME TO GARBAGE TIME
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amTUESDAY WAS another one of those TV sports nights that was fully in the hands of the marketing strategists, the fabulous folks who have determined for all of us the...
PAIN TAKES TOLL ON RASHEED'S GAME
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - It's time for Rasheed Wallace to stop fighting with the referees and start fighting through the pain. Hampered by plantar fasciitis in his left foot, the 6-11...
HORSEMEN TAKE SHOTS AT TOPPLING 'SMARTY'
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amWith Kentucky Derby winner Smarty Jones likely to go off a big favorite in the Preakness, The Post asked some of the nation's top horsemen their opinions as to who...
BERN-ING QUESTIONS WILL LINGER
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amJOE TORRE chuckles. Of course he does. He is discussing Bernie Williams, a subject that never stays within the lines of convention. Williams is 35, and his body plays much...
UPSET NOT SO FAR-FETCHED - 'SMARTY' JUST NOT GETTING BETTER
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The 129th running of the Preakness tomorrow, like nearly all its predecessors, will be a great classic race dominated by favorites coming out of the Kentucky Derby with...
'SMARTY' JOCKEY FINED 1G
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Stewart Elliott, the jockey of Smarty Jones, was fined $1,000 yesterday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority for failing to note he pleaded guilty in 2001 to criminal...
FIRED UP FOR FLOYD
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amPHOENIX - The question hadn't even fully tumbled out of a reporter's mouth when Art Howe interrupted. Was there a concern that a returning Cliff Floyd could be perceived as...
SPECIALIST WILL WORK WITH JOSE
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - After bypassing well-known specialists like Mackie Shilstone and Ming Chew, the Mets have finally found someone to help mend Jose Reyes. Mark Lindsay, who has an...
GIAMBI KNEEDS A REST
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Jason Giambi exiting for Tony Clark isn't out of character - Joe Torre does it often for defense. But Clark replacing Giambi in the top of the seventh...
PUTTING 'MO' BACK IN MOTOWN
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amPISTON NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Chauncey Billups - sore back and all - believes the momentum is ready to change toward the Pistons with the 2-2 series back at the...
IT'S TIME TO GET FIRED UP
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Lawrence Frank has turned to history, the dictionary, tales of the circus, virtually anything imaginable to motivate the Nets. Tonight facing a Game 5 on the road in...
TARVER WINNING BATTLE OF WORDS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - While Antonio Tarver has talked and talked and talked, Roy Jones hardly has uttered a word. Jones skipped the first press conference to announce their rematch for...
TAKING CONTROL - GAME 5 WIN CRUCIAL FOR NETS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - During Game 1 here, the Nets scored all of 56 points, terrific if you're a football team, rotten if you play basketball. During Game 2 here, the...
CY'S THE LIMIT FOR CLEMENS
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - The handshake is as firm as ever. Roger Clemens still carries himself in that John Wayne kind of way. The man who was built for pinstripes is home...
IT'S AS EASY AS JON, TWO, THREE - UP-AND-DOWN LIEBER LIVES UP TO HIGH HOPES
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 7 - Angels 4 What, exactly, do the Yankees have in Jon Lieber? Is he the quick-working, strike-throwing freak who has pitched brilliantly twice at Yankee Stadium? Or is...
SHOULDER CONCERN FOR LEITER
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - On Tuesday, Al Leiter looked fidgety and uncomfortable on the mound. In short, he looked like there was something wrong. Maybe there was. After feeling more...
FLOYD'S FIRED UP
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amPHOENIX - Standing in front of his locker, surrounded by reporters, Cliff Floyd surveyed the scene. "It's definitely good to be back," he said. The Mets feel the same way....
ROCKET SOARING HIGHER
May 14, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - The handshake is as firm as ever and Roger Clemens still carries himself in that John Wayne kind of way. The man who was built for pinstripes is...
BETTOR'S GUIDE TO THE 129TH PREAKNESS STAKES
May 14, 2004 | 4:00am1. LION HEART Chestnut colt, by Tale of the Cat (Storm Cat), out of Satin Sunrise (Mr. Leader)Jockey: Mike Smith - Preakness Record: (7) 1 0 1Trainer: Patrick Biancone -...