December 3, 2004
KELLY GRAY MAY LOSE JOB AS FACE OF ST. JOHN KNITS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amSt. John Knits has hired a New York advertising agency to conduct a full-scale review of its marketing, The Post has learned. The move could signal a reduced role for...
CONDÉ BUNCH HAS LUNCH - ANNUAL EVENT'S SEATING PLAN HOLDS CLUES TO RANK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amTHE tree at Rockefeller Center is lit - and the Condé Nast elite have gathered to give thanks at the annual holiday luncheon thrown by their boss, Chairman S.I. Newhouse...
NAPSTER FOUNDER GOES LEGIT
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amShawn Fanning, once the scourge of the music industry for popularizing illegal filesharing, is going legit. The founder of Napster - the popular file-sharing software that allowed consumers to download...
FALLING OIL, ROBUST ORDERS LIFT ECONOMY
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amOil took its biggest two-day dive in 14 years - drawing cheers from investors already relieved by reports of booming factory orders. The steep 13 percent fall in crude prices...
DISCOUNTERS SLASH PRICES AFTER SLOW START TO HOLIDAY
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe holiday shopping season is off to a rocky start, with dozens of retailers reporting monthly sales figures yesterday that fell below analyst expectations. The sluggish results raise the possibility...
SCANDAL WIDENS - REELING NEWSDAY FIRES 7 MORE CIRC EXECS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amNewsday fired seven more employees in its circulation department, bringing the total to 14 since the paper disclosed in June that it had massively inflated its figures. And the paper...
NYSE IS PUSHED TO GO PUBLIC
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA small but active group of New York Stock Exchange members are pressing management of the Big Board once again to take the exchange public. The members, who advanced the...
LITVACK STICKS TO HIS GUNS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amWalt Disney Co.'s former general counsel stuck by his testimony that Michael Ovitz's lavish gift-giving didn't constitute grounds for pulling his $140 million severance package. Sanford Litvack, who testified for...
BRUCE WINS MORE TIME FOR LAZARD IPO
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe power struggle over the future of Lazard LLC may finally be coming to a head. After months of haggling, Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein is on the verge of winning...
FANNING GOES LEGIT WITH MUSIC SITE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amShawn Fanning, once the scourge of the music industry for popularizing illegal filesharing, is going legit. The founder of Napster - the popular file-sharing software that allowed consumers to download...
STARR REPORT
December 3, 2004 | 5:00am'McEnroe' cancelled CNBC is finally canning "McEnroe" - and will re place John McEnroe's low- rated talker with "The Big Deal with Donnie Deutsch," which will air weeknights at 10...
DANCE PICK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amHISPANIC RETURN: Tina Ramirez's 34-year-old Ballet Hispan ico has kept itself young and fresh in large part by forever embracing the new. The major novelty of its current season at...
KIDS' PICK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amCOAT DRIVE:98.7 KISS FM's annual Kids' Coat Drive will be broadcast live today from the Virgin Mega Store, from 6 a.m. to midnight. Listeners can drop off their new, clean...
MUSIC PICK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amAIKEN FOR AN IDOL: He may have lost the "American Idol" tal ent contest to Ruben What's-His-Name, but in the days since the loss, Clay Aiken has proved to be...
INDIE MUSIC PICK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amSALTY SHAKERS: You've never seen a more wild- eyed, hyper frontman than the skinny, stage-pounding Col. J.D. Wilkes of Th' Legendary Shack Shakers. This Nashville-based group grinds together blues, rockabilly,...
UNSPECIFIC 'OVERTURES' - JAPANESE STAGING MISFIRES IN LATEST SONDHEIM REVIVAL
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amPACIFIC OVERTURES ½ (two and one half stars)At the Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St.; (212) 239-6200. THERE are so many layers of style, idiom and...
NOW IT'S BLING TIME FOR HITLER
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amTHE ARYAN COUPLE (one star)Running time: 118 minutes. Rated PG- 13 (moderate violence). At the Empire, 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. 'THE Aryan Couple," a hokey soap opera set against...
FILM PICK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00am"DAMNED" GOOD IDEA:The Brooklyn Academy of Music has an early Christmas gift for film lovers: a retrospective tribute to Luchino Visconti (1906-1976), the Milan aristocrat who became one of Italy's...
CHARMING SET PIECE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amDESERTED STATION ½ (three and one half stars) Teacher for a day.In Farsi, with English subtitles. Running time: 88 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Quad, 13th Street, between...
'HOUSE' BEAUTIFUL
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amHOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (four stars) One of the year's best.In Mandarin with English subtitles. Running time: 119 minutes. Rated PG-13 (stylized martial arts violence, sexuality). At the Lincoln Plaza,...
GIVE 'EM TWO ON THE AISLE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S just the ticket for someone who'd like to see a Broadway show. The prepaid Broadway Gift Card, launched yesterday, comes in three denominations - $225, $195 and $155. That's...
FOUR PLAY - STARS SHINE IN 'CLOSER' ENCOUNTERS OF THE KINKY KIND
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amCLOSER (three stars) Mixed couples. Running time: 103 minutes. Rated R (graphic sexual dialogue, sex, nudity). At the Lincoln Square, the Empire, the Battery Park City, others. 'CLOSER," an impeccably...
TRUMP DOWN TO FOUR
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amVENTURE capitalist Ivana got the boot on last night's "Apprentice" - leaving only four remaining candidates on the NBC reality show. The teams, Mosaic and Apex, were charged with making...
SANTA'S SURFIN'
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amYOU know it's the season to be holly and jolly when Los Strait jackets surf into town with their "X-Mas Pageant." The four members of Los Straitjackets don Mexican wrestling...
NICKELED & DIMED ; VANESSA SHORT-CHANGED
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amVANESSA Williams, one of Broadway's - one of the world's - great beauties, is playing the legend ary Palace Theater this weekend. You hadn't heard that? Well, you're not alone....
IT AIN'T ME, BABE: DYLAN TELLS '60 MINUTES': 'I'M NO PROPHET OR SAVIOR'
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amBOB Dylan has a mes sage for his awestruck fans: I'm no prophet. "They call [me] that all the time - 'You're the prophet, you're the savior,' " says Dylan...
THE LONG WAY TO 'HEAVEN'
December 3, 2004 | 5:00am"THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN" Sunday night at 8 on ABC/Ch. 7 * * ½ (Two and one half stars) WHEN Mitch Albom, who is consistently voted the...
NOLTE SUED OVER RAPE IN HOME
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA 15-year-old girl is suing actor Nick Nolte, claiming he allowed her to be raped in his Malibu home. The suit, filed yesterday, says that Nicholas Woodring, who's also named...
DANNY DINNER DEFENSE - TED'S DIGESTED FOOD BOOSTS SLAY ALIBI: DOC
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA forensic pathologist testified yesterday that Danny Pelosi could not have killed Ted Ammon because the mogul died three or four hours after he ate dinner - before Pelosi could...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA penny for the thoughts of Utah motor-vehicle officials - 8,200 of them, actually. Grant Petersen withdrew that many copper coins from his bank and delivered them in a bucket...
A NEW REVOLUTION; UKRAINE & W'S DEMOCRACY DRIVE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amWE'VE learned from bitter experience about the Law of Unintended Consequences - how government action that's meant to help people can end up making things worse. That was the case...
TRAGIC FIRE DAD: 'LOVE YOUR KIDS' ; BX. MAN'S STIRRING EULOGY
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA heartbroken father who lost two of his young children in a Bronx fire wants all New Yorkers to do him a favor: "Spend time with your children." Sam Sanclemente...
6TH AVE. SUBWAY RUMBLES BACK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amSubway service was back on track yesterday along the Sixth Avenue line after a derailment and a series of fires delayed service for nearly a day, as probers inspected a...
BUMBLING HIT MAN WOULD BE FIRST ON 'FIRING' LINE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amIF JOHN Gotti were alive, he'd mimic Donald Trump: "You're fired!" Instead, he must have been somersaulting in his grave the way the planned hit on his tormenter Salvatore "Sammy...
LIBRARY HOSTAGE DRAMA
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA spurned lothario held a female co-worker at gunpoint inside a Brooklyn library after the woman refused to go out on a second date with him, police sources said yesterday....
ARIEL TURNS TO LABOR ; WANTS TO FORM NEW COALITION
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday he would press to create a new governing coalition with the Labor Party and ultra-Orthodox parties, and vowed to forge ahead...
PROP-TAX 'BLUNDER' COSTS CITY BILLION$
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe city has massively underassessed some large commercial buildings and other properties, resulting in the loss of billions of dollars a year in tax revenue, according to a study yesterday...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Two cops arrested a man who had led them on a car chase through East Harlem after he stabbed three people, police sources said yesterday. The officers were...
SOMETIMES THINGS JUST DON'T 'WORKOUT'
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amCouch potatoes rejoice - a new study suggests that some people do not benefit from exercise! "There is astounding variation in the response to exercise," Claude Bouchard, who led the...
PREZ PUMPED FOR IRAQ VOTE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said Iraq's elections must be held on Jan. 30 as planned, and predicted people will be "amazed" at the success of the vote. Bush just...
PERES: I'LL JOIN TO GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Shimon Peres, the leader of the Labor Party, said yesterday he is prepared to join Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new government in order to "work for peace"...
CITY CHEERS FED WELFARE $$ BREAK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amSome good news on the welfare front emerged yesterday from the city's Independent Budget Office: The office reported the number of residents on Supplemental Security Income, a state and federal...
BUSH IN BACKHAND DISS OF BELEAGUERED KOFI
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amPresident Bush withheld support for embattled U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday and demanded the world body produce a "full and fair" accounting of the Iraq oil-for-food scandal. The United States...
VOICE FROM THE GRAVE IN '93 RAPE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe vicious alleged rape happened almost 12 years ago - a 44-year-old mother of two was robbed and violated at knifepoint on the floor of her Garment District office. "He...
EBERSOLS' TRIBUTE TO TRAGIC TEDD[[U1;U1]]Y
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe 14-year-old son of NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol was a precocious prize-winning poet who equally loved the Boston Red Sox and discussing politics, his heartbroken family said yesterday. The...
SLAY PAPER TRAIL - DUMB THUG NAILED
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA Queens murder suspect has staked a claim as America's dumbest criminal - leaving parole papers with his name, address and scheduled appointment time at the crime scene, cops said....
MIKE: ALBANY MUST PICK UP SCHOOL TAB
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday ruled out raising taxes to help pay a multibillion-dollar court mandate to fund city schools, and held firm that Albany should shoulder the burden. "I don't think...
MIKE DEFENDS SMALLER FDNY CREWS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amEven though the Fire Department has begun cutting the number of five- firefighter trucks, services at the FDNY aren't being reduced, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "The FDNY isn't cutting any...
LIAR PLAYED ALL OF US FOR FOOLS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amHE LIED to us, which is no big deal; people lie to reporters every day. He lied to the Yankees, and gleefully grabbed $120 million of George Steinbrenner's money, which...
DUBYA'S TOP COP - KERIK TAPPED AS HOMELAND-SECURITY BOSS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Colorful, tough-talking former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik today will be tapped by President Bush as his new homeland-security secretary - with New Yorkers cheering all the way. Kerik,...
STARS' DAY TO DIE LAUGHING - MOURNCOMEDYGIANT
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amOne of the most important people on New York's comedy scene was remembered yesterday with a riot of laughter and a flood of tears. Only the most serious scholar of...
WTC BOMBING SUIT TO GET DAY IN COURT
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amVictims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing will finally get their day in court. A state appeals court yesterday denied the Port Authority's bid to throw out the over...
BULL'S LUXURY CORRAL; TRIAL HEARS OF TURNCOAT'S GOOD LIFE IN THE DESERT
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amIt's the Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous. Mob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano and his family lived luxuriously in Arizona, while former Gambino cronies like John Gotti and Peter...
GRISLY MOM-BRO MURDER
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA Westchester man savagely stabbed his mother 15 times, shot his brother in the face and hid their bloody bodies in the basement for nearly a week, cops said after...
9/11 GEM SITE PRECIOUS TO KIN
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe new NYPD Web page designed to help bereaved families recover WTC victims' jewelry could also bring them some peace of mind, authorities said yesterday. "It affects every family almost...
JURY HEARS OF KID HORROR SLAY
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA 13-year-old Brooklyn boy was beaten to death with a baseball bat, ax, dresser drawers and cans of food by a woman and her boyfriend - all over a dollar,...
PUNK'S STRAY BULLET WOUNDS TOT IN BRONX
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA 4-year-old Bronx girl was hit in the arm and hip by a stray bullet yesterday while buying snacks at a deli across the street from her house, cops said....
JUROR KILLS TRIAL ; SLAY-CASE BREAKDOWN
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA mistrial was declared yesterday in a Manhattan love-triangle murder trial after the lone, pro-acquittal holdout suffered what her doctor called a "mental breakdown." The holdout suffered from anxiety, panic,...
TIRE-SLASH WIFE-SLAY TRIAL OPENS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amWarren Farrier blasted his estranged wife five times, then returned after hearing her cries of pain, put his gun to her head and finished the job, according to testimony at...
SCHOOL CRIME STAT OVERHAUL
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe state Education Department yesterday proposed a dramatically more detailed system of reporting crime in schools - breaking down different types of sex attacks and limiting the reporting of disruptive...
AX FOR FDNY'S SEX GUY ; STONEWALLED PROBE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA veteran firefighter, accused of having sex with a woman inside his Bronx firehouse, was notified yesterday that he has been fired. Firefighter Christian Waugh, 31, a nine-year veteran, was...
POLICE HUNT 'GIRLISH' L.I. BANK ROBBER
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amLong Island cops are looking for a petite robber who claimed to have a gun when she stuck up a bank, police said yesterday. But cops are not ruling out...
SLAY PAPER TRAIL ; DUMB THUG NAILED
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA Queens murder suspect has staked a claim as America's dumbest criminal - leaving parole papers with his name, address and scheduled appointment time at the crime scene, cops said....
'DINNER' DEFENSE; DIGESTED FOOD BOOSTS PELOSI ALIBI: DOC
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA forensic pathologist testified yesterday that Danny Pelosi could not have killed Ted Ammon because the mogul died three or four hours after eating dinner - before Pelosi could have...
UPSTATE GI DIES IN BAGHDAD
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amAn upstate soldier was killed in Baghdad when his Humvee rolled over, military officials said yesterday. Spc. David Fisher, 21, a member of the Army National Guard's 101st Calvary regiment...
STARS PAY TRIBUTE AND DIE LAUGHING
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amOne of the most important people on New York's comedy scene was remembered yesterday with a riot of laughter and a flood of tears. Only the most serious scholar of...
CAROLINE'S EERIE MOMENT
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amCaroline Kennedy Schlossberg found some very familiar faces while strolling in SoHo yesterday afternoon: side-by-side book jackets featuring the two most legendary women in her legendary father's life. The First...
EBERSOL FAMILY'S TRIBUTE TO TRAGIC TEDDY
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe 14-year-old son of NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol was a precocious prize-winning poet who equally loved the Boston Red Sox and discussing politics, his heartbroken family said yesterday. The...
ASSASSIN KILLS PARAPLEGIC; '93 GUNSHOT SURVIVOR HIT IN QNS. AMBUSH
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA would-be rapper - who became a paraplegic after a shooting 11 years ago - was shot to death in Queens yesterday as he sat in his car. Eric Simmons,...
S.I. COP INJURED AS A TERROR-FIGHTING GI
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA Staten Island cop who was injured in Iraq could have left the Army earlier this year, but gave up the privilege to other soldiers with kids so they could...
GIRL, 4, SHOT IN BX. DELI
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA 4-year-old Bronx girl was wounded by a stray bullet yesterday while buying snacks at a deli across the street from her home, police said. Jaydalin Garcia was inside the...
DUBYA'S TOP COP; KERIK TAPPED AS HOMELAND-SECURITY BOSS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Colorful, tough-talking former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik today will be tapped by President Bush as his new homeland-security secretary - with New Yorkers cheering all the way. Kerik,...
'KILLER' OF MOM, BRO HID BODIES IN HOUSE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amA Westchester man savagely stabbed his mother 15 times, shot his brother in the face and hid their bloody bodies in the basement for nearly a week, cops said after...
BULL'S LUXURY CORRAL - TRIAL HEARS OF TURNCOAT'S GOOD LIFE IN THE DESERT
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amIt's the Life of the Rich and Infamous. Mob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano and his family lived luxuriously in Arizona, while former Gambino cronies like John Gotti and Peter...
GIAMBI THE SHAME OF PROUD
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amSay it ain't so, Jason! Baseball was reeling and Yankees fans were screaming yesterday after it was revealed that slugger Jason Giambi lied about steroids - denying publicly that he'd...
GIAMBI THE SHAME OF PROUD: BARRY BONDS BOMBSHELL: I USED 'RX' FROM 'ROID FIRM
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amBaseball was reeling and Yankee fans were screaming yesterday after it was revealed that slugger Jason Giambi lied about steroids - denying publicly that he'd ever used performance-enhancing drugs even...
TY'S TREATMENT FAIR AND EQUAL
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amJEFF Blake, the Jets' 1992 sixth-round pick, didn't have much of a career here. Not that he got much of a shot. In three games, he completed four of nine...
THE FAN'S CORNER
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amTwo years ago, Mark Battaglia moved to Farmingdale, L.I., after spending a lifetime in Ozone Park. Anyone who has made a similar transition knows how the 41-year- old Battaglia feels...
JIMMY V COACHES REMEMBER VALVANO
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe four coaches in next Tuesday's Jimmy V Classic at the Garden yesterday shared their thoughts on the legendary N.C. State coach, who died in 1993 after a year-long battle...
NHL NEGOTIATIONS RESUME NEXT WEEK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amBack in the big-market big town after a tub-thumping, evangelical tour of Alberta that would have put Elmer Gantry to shame, Gary Bettman dined with the enemy last night at...
VAZ WALKS AWAY FROM SPILL
December 3, 2004 | 5:00am1ST RACE - Opening stanza of inner dirt track didn't take long to produce first spill of meet. Heading toward first turn, Suave Act, in tight along rail, clipped heels...
JETS GOTTA HAVE IT; WITH PENNINGTON BACK, GANG GREEN MUST WIN
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S hard to imagine that a team with an 8-3 record is playing a "must-win" game. But that's what Sunday's meeting with the Texans amounts to for the Jets. Games...
JASON'S LIKELY DONE AS YANKEE ; STEROID USE COULD VOID CONTRACT
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amOne way or another, Jason Giambi's career with the Yankees likely is over. A day after Giambi's grand jury testimony in the BALCO case, in which he admitted using steroids...
COMEBACK KIDD; RETURN OF JASON GIVES NETS HOPE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe Nets' season is about to begin. That little 3-12 burp (OK, so it's a loud belch) showing up in the standings? All Pre-K. Pre-Kidd. Jason Kidd is expected to...
SHOCK THERAPY ; JEREMY: MATES 'ARE MESSING UP'
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amAfter four straight losses, playing with a rookie quarterback who looked utterly overwhelmed last week and a defensive line that seems to be losing people by the day, Jeremy Shockey...
O'HARA TO RETURN AS MAN IN MIDDLE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Shaun O'Hara can't complete any passes for Eli Manning, but what the center can do is make the rookie more comfortable, perhaps allowing Manning the chance to make...
SWEETNEY, ARIZA GET NEEDED REST
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Lenny Wilkens' concerns about his two young Knicks, power forward Michael Sweetney and rookie Trevor Ariza, were wiped away by Wednesday's win over Memphis. Both youngsters have looked...
ARMSTRONG MAY RIDE TO RESCUE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES With Zoran Planinic expected out 6-to-8 weeks with a broken left hand, the Nets bring in some help. "We might do that. It's something we'll look at," team...
GET RID OF HIM!
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amJASON GIAMBI is baseball's smoking gun. He is the Pete Rose of Generation S: Generation Steroid. Instead of an "NY" on his pinstripes, embroider a scarlet "S." Giambi took his...
MARLINGS MIGHT LAND LEITER
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amAl Leiter might be leaving the Mets, but he might not be leaving their division. The Mets could be on the verge of seeing Leiter, their longtime lefty, sign with...
HOMECOMING KING ; GLENN'S BACK TO FACE JETS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThere'll be several good old reunions inside Giants Stadium Sunday when the Houston Texans come north in an attempt to try stunting the Jets' burgeoning playoff run. Texans starting cornerback...
ROOKIE HONOR TO VILMA
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amJET NOTES On a day when Jet vet LB Sam Cowart sounded cryptic and ominous about his injured knee and dwindling playing status, rookie linebacker Jonathan Vilma, who's virtually swallowed...
STEPHON AWED BY HILL REBOUND
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amStephon Marbury believes his buddy Grant Hill should be the leading vote-getter for this February's All-Star Game - partly because of sentiment, partly because of stats, partly because he has...
BARGAIN BASEMENT ; BLAZERS, KNICKS ONE-TWO IN BATTLE FOR CARTER
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amAIDED and abetted by the Raptors' rookie coach, Sam Mitchell, Vince Carter has devalued himself to such a degree in the first 17 games of the season that Isiah Thomas'...
CHAD'S FEELING 'LITTLE BIT RUSTY'
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amChad Pennington took another positive step yesterday toward starting for the Jets Sunday against the Texans, taking 85 percent of the snaps at practice and working outside in the cold...
JASON SCANDAL IS TALK OF BASEBALL
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amJason Giambi was the hot topic around baseball yesterday. Oriole GM Jim Beattie said revelations the Yank slugger admitted to using steroids prove the worth of baseball's testing program. "I...
SHEFFIELD 'SAD' - YANKEE TEAMMATE FEELS FOR GIAMBI
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amLike Jason Giambi, the Yankees' Gary Sheffield testified in front of the BALCO grand jury last December. However, unlike Giambi, Sheffield didn't have to read his testimony in the San...
BUD HAS 'ROID RAGE - SELIG: I'M GONNAPUSH FOR TESTING
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe commissioner's office is ready to put up a steroid fight. Major League Baseball and the Yankees plan to argue that admitted steroid user Jason Giambi broke his Yankee contract...
HELPING HAND SOUGHT AFTER ZORAN SURGERY
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amWith Zoran Planinic expected out up to two months following surgery yesterday on his broken left hand, the Nets may again look at bringing in backcourt help. "We might do...
SURF ACTION'S GREAT - AND MORE'S AHEAD
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amTHE PLACE or places to be last weekend were the beaches around Montauk and East Hampton with the herring invasion taking hold and the bass feasting mightily. The surf action...
MARLINS MAY LAND LEITER
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amAl Leiter might be leaving the Mets, but he might not be leaving their division. The Mets could be on the verge of seeing Leiter, their longtime lefty, sign with...
STANTON DEALT FOR HEREDIA
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amOn the day Jason Giambi's steroid admission rocked the Yankees' universe, the Bombers found time to correct a mistake they made when they foolishly dumped Mike Stanton following the 2002...
NHL GMS HUDDLE ; AWAIT PLAYERS' MOVE
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amOnly Gary Bettman knows whether he in fact will be willing to in fact negotiate a CBA that does not contain absolute cost-certainty. Only Bettman knows whether hacks - we...
MARION AND MONTGOMERY IMPLICATED; BONDS NEXT?
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amAlthough BALCO founder Victor Conte fails to implicate Barry Bonds as a definite steroid user, Conte tells ABC's "20/20" in an interview airing tonight that track and field stars Marion...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JODY MCDONALD
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ex-WFAN radio host Jody McDonald - McDonald's first interview since he was fired from his FAN midday job three weeks ago....
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amHubie Brown vs. Bill Walton (Who should ABC hire as an analyst?) As a broadcaster, Hubie Brown has always illuminated NBA games instead of turning the spotlight on himself. Now,...
NBA BOOTHS IN SPIN CYCLE - LATEST TURN: PERDUE NEAR ESPN RADIO GIG
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amThe shuttle between NBA coaching and TV analysis continues to move at a dizzying pace. When all is said and done, former Bull Will Perdue could find himself as the...
EVERYBODY LOVES HERM - JET COACH HAS RIGHT TOUCH WITH GANG GREEN PLAYERS
December 3, 2004 | 5:00amSunday Texans at Jets 1 p.m., CBS It comes down to trust and steadiness. The Jets believe in what coach Herman Edwards says. He's stood in their cleats, and he...