December 15, 2004
TRUMP'S SCRAWL IS SCRIPT OF MANY SECRETS: EXPERT
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amDonald Trump has a secret life. No, it's not a mistress or an alias identity. It's his handwriting, says a leading analyst of penmanship. "Although Trump tends to be straightforward...
EA'S NFL DEAL TRIPS TAKE-TWO
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amShares of New York-based video game maker Take-Two Interactive Software were sacked yesterday, 24 hours after the NFL announced an exclusive deal with its rival, Electronic Arts. Getting locked out...
NASDAQ TO OFFER $100M IN SHARES
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe Nasdaq is jumping into the gold rush to sell shares of itself to the public, getting a head start over its rival, the New York Stock Exchange. The Nasdaq...
WENNER'S EARLY DAZE - ROLLING STONE FOUNDER WILL COOPERATE ON NEWEST BIO
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amROLLING Stone founder Jann Wenner is finally going to tell his life story. Robert Sam Anson and more recently Robert Draper have written about the storied magazine and its founder,...
A NEW 'DADDY' FOR HISPANIC MARKET
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amPedro Martinez may not stay with the World Champion Boston Red Sox, but signing with the Mets will put him in place to win big with advertisers looking to reach...
VORNADO HITS SOHO ; FIRM SNAGS 2 BUILDINGS, THEN MORTGAGES THEM FOR $24M
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHE end of year is creat ing a flurry of buys, sells, comings and goings, along with lots of puzzles. Vornado Realty Trust is tapping into the SoHo market with...
NEWS BUYOUTS ; EDITORIAL IS TARGETED FOR 'SUBSTANTIAL CUTS'
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe ax man cometh to the Daily News. Mort Zuckerman, the owner of the Daily News, plans to reveal a major buyout program to the beleaguered newsroom - perhaps as...
IS THAT VERIZON ON SPRINT'S HORIZON?
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amAs Sprint Corp. prepares to unveil its $35 billion merger deal with Nextel Communications, the real question is whether Verizon Communications is going to jump into the fray or sit...
CALL THEM JOHNNY ANGEL
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amSANTA SMOKES WHO says you need a big crew and tons of money to make an enjoyable movie? Certainly not Till Schauder (a k a Terror Till), the co-writer, co-director,...
TRASH U.; 'BACHELOR' HITS HIGHER ED
December 15, 2004 | 5:00am"Big Man On Campus(aka BMOC)" Tonight at 9 on WB (one star) BMOC may stand for Big Man On Campus at every other college in the world, but after seeing...
GOLDENCRUEL- 'HOUSEWIVES' BOND OVER EVA'S SNUB
December 15, 2004 | 5:00am'DESPERATE Housewives" star Eva Longoria thinks she knows why she was snubbed for a Golden Globe nomination by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. "I didn't go to the Hollywood Foreign...
LORD OF THE RING - CLINT CONNECTS WITH GLOVE STORY
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amMILLION DOLLAR BABY The year's best. Running time: 132 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, disturbing images, profanity). At the Lincoln Square and the Angelika. CLINT Eastwood scores a knockout as an...
FCC:NINE OLYGRIPES
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amJUST nine complaints of indecency to the FCC have sparked the federal investigation into NBC's telecast of the 2004 Summer Olympics. A commission official confirmed yesterday that an investigation of...
ON THE SIDE; HAMPTONS EATERY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amONE of Southampton's most popular restaurants has suddenly shuttered. After 15 years at its location, Basilico, the upscale pasta and pizza eatery at 10 Windmill Lane, is mysteriously quiet, and...
THREE NEW MTVS FOR ASIAN-U.S. TEENS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amMTV is turning into a melting pot - starting three new channels specifically for young Indian, Korean and Chinese ethnic populations in the U.S. "These young [viewers] are of a...
FANGS FOR NOTHING, FRANK; 'DRACULA' COMPOSER DUMPS CAST FOR RECORDING
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHE bad guy in "Dracula" these days is not its blood-sucking title character but its penny-pinching composer, Frank Wildhorn. The cast of the show would like to drive a stake...
TRIBUTE A BIT SPACEY ; BUT KEVIN DOES A DARNED GOOD DARIN
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amBOBBY DARIN may be dead, but Kevin Spacey isn't letting him rest in peace. Last night in the Rose Theater at the new Jazz at Lincoln Center complex, the Oscar-winning...
RUSH HOUR REMEDIES - ONLY GOT YOUR LUNCH HOUR, OR THE TRIP HOME TO SHOP? EVEN IF YOU'VE LEFT IT TILL YOU'RE HEADING OUT OF TOWN, WE'VE GOT YOU COVERED
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amPORT AUTHORITY Eighth Avenue at 42nd Street Just because you bought gifts at a bus depot, doesn't mean they have to look like it. Visit the second-level Jay's Hallmark store...
CERTIFIABLY GOOD - THESE GIFT CERTIFICATES FOR FUN ARE JUST A CALL OR A MOUSE CLICK AWAY
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amAll roads might lead to Rome (above) with a travel certificate for the go-getter in your life. Viator.com, a website that features sightseeing tours and theme park attractions anywhere in...
IT'S WONDERFUL TOWN - CELEBRATE THE CITY YOU LIVE IN WITH THESE NEW YORK THEMED GIFTS - PERFECT FOR OUT OF TOWN FRIENDS AND FAMILY
December 15, 2004 | 5:00am* Hello Kitty, the little Japanese cat with no mouth, is as quintessentially New York as the fashionistas and hipsters who wear her logo everywhere. Hello Kitty New York range...
GET YOUR GAME ON - GIFTS FOR SPORTS FANS - PLAYERS AND COUCH COACHES
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amSTARK TRUTH MSG Network recently held a poll asking Knicks fans who they felt was the greatest shooting guard in Knick history. Hall of Famer Earl Monroe came in first....
HERE COMES SANTA PAWS - STOCKING STUFFERS FOR THE REST OF US
December 15, 2004 | 5:00am* PetSmart has a whole heap of plush toys your dog will drool over - literally. Some are so soft and fuzzy they are good enough to be people toys,...
A TRIP DOWN MEMORABILIA LANE
December 15, 2004 | 5:00am* Lord of the Rings collectibles are beautiful works of art in themselves. The One Ring ($295) is available in a 10-karat solid gold edition, intricately laser engraved in Elvish...
BOXING CLEVER - DVD BOXED SETS MAKE GREAT GIFTS FOR BOTH THE AFICIONADO AND THE FAN
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amSEINFELD GIFT SET Columbia, $119.95 Not that there's anything wrong with an eight-disc set that includes 41 episodes from the first three seasons, loads of commentary, outtakes and bloopers, an...
MUSIC MAVENS WILL FIND SOMETHING TO LOVE WITH COLLECTIONS FROM NIRVANA TO DEAN MARTIN
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amSWINGING WITH THE BING! THE LOST RADIO PERFORMANCES Shout! Factory, $50 Features 57 remastered recordings from Crosby's radio show, which aired from 1942 to 1954. The three-disc set includes duets...
GO FISHBAR
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amLure Fishbar ½ (two and one half stars) 142 Mercer St. (212) 431-7676 'EAT it all at once," the cheerful waitress at Lure Fishbar suggests of raw, cubed yellowfin tuna...
JOY TO THE WHIRLED - DECK THE KITCHEN WITH THIS YEAR'S SPACE-AGE GADGETS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amGift-giver's Rule No. 1: Remember, it's not for you. But it couldn't hurt to buy something you wouldn't mind having yourself, could it? These state-of-the-art kitchen gadgets punch up Santa's...
STARR REPORT
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amMatt's all, folks You can scratch Matt Lauer out of the "Who'll re place Dan Rather?" sweep stakes. The "Today" show co- host told last night's "Access Hollywood" that he...
CARJACK DRAMA IN QNS.
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA 33-year-old man was busted for trying to carjack a vehicle yesterday after he and a cohort crashed another stolen car, police said. Cops were in hot pursuit of the...
PATAKI 'THINKING' ABOUT RUNNING FOR FOURTH TERM
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki, who just fired his top political advisers and is sinking in the polls, said yesterday he's "thinking" about running for a fourth term. Pataki said: "Certainly,...
KERIK'S LAST-MINUTE SCRAMBLE TO FILE NANNY PAPERS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Former NYPD top cop Bernard Kerik didn't file any paperwork or pay any taxes for his family's Mexican nanny until shortly before he was tapped to be President...
SHE FEASTED AS ; A BOY DIED ; GUILTY IN DOLLAR-BILL TORTURE
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA heartless Brooklyn woman who scarfed down a bowl of spaghetti while her boyfriend tortured a 13-year-old boy to death was convicted yesterday of aiding in the savage slaying. "[Clarine...
FEDS WANTED ME AS PAID FINK: SHEIK
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA Yemeni sheik set to go on trial for allegedly financing terrorists claimed in a bizarre outburst yesterday that the feds offered to make him a millionaire if he would...
MASS TEACHER SICK-OUT CLOSES CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amCatholic high schools shut their doors early yesterday after teachers staged a massive sick-out to protest stalled contract talks with the Archdiocese of New York. The sick-out at five high...
CITY COPS TO DROP FANCY CRIME-BUSTING FLOP: SOURCES
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly is pulling the plug on a 9-year-old, much-ballyhooed experiment that failed in its primary goal: cutting crime, The Post has learned. The commissioner decided to dump...
WORMS CURE BOWEL HOWL
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amScientists say a diet of pig whipworms can help stop inflammatory bowel disease. University of Iowa researchers had test subjects with a mild form of Crohn's disease, a potentially disabling...
WHOLE LOTTO TROUBLE; I WISH WE HADN'T WON, SAYS WIFE
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe mortified wife of the biggest lottery jackpot winner in U.S. history says her drunken, rowdy husband's $314 million Christmas Day win two years ago has become a nightmare. "I...
FINES PUT LANDLORDS IN HOT WATER
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amLandlords who fail to provide heat and hot water to tenants will soon be hit with fines starting at $500 a day. A City Council committee yesterday unanimously approved a...
SECOND HUBBIES CHUBBIES
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amCan guys stay in shape when they get remarried? Fat chance! New research shows that men tend to do less exercise and put on weight after the walk up the...
TYCO LINK IN U.N. SCANDAL - SEC DEMANDS DETAILS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Tyco International - the controversial conglomerate whose former CEO became a poster boy for corporate greed - has been linked to the U.N. oil-for-food investigation. The Securities and...
MOB SCENE MARS GREAT HARLEM HS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA school known as the Stuyvesant of Harlem has been ruined by severe overcrowding, say outraged parents. They have complained to schools boss Joel Klein about conditions at A. Philip...
BOWLING SHOOTING MAY BE PAYBACK
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amDetectives are probing whether the shooting of a 17-year-old youth inside a Queens bowling alley yesterday was revenge for the victim's participation in another shooting last April, sources said. Donnell...
TUBBY TYRANT FIT TO BE TRIED - JAILED SADDAM PLAYS PRISON 'WEIGHTING' GAME
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein is healthy and even gaining weight at a once-secret U.S. military base near Baghdad International Airport, a top Iraqi official disclosed yesterday. "I visited Camp Cropper. He is...
WINTER'S FIRST BITE HITS CITY - BITTER WIND AND TEMPS NEAR FREEZE
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amFreezy does it! Bitter cold has blown into the Big Apple this week, and today's temperatures will hover in the low 30s, just above freezing. Northwest winds of 10 to...
BAN JUICED PLAYERS: FANS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amBaseball players who use steroids should be banned from the game just like Pete Rose, according to a new poll of fans. Sixty-one percent say baseball should boot players who...
ANNA MARRIES HER LATIN LOVER
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amRussian tennis beauty Anna Kournikova has finally tied the knot with Spanish pop heartthrob Enrique Iglesias, it was reported yesterday. "Enrique is great. Everything is awesome. We are married," the...
TOW WAY, MAN; LOCKED-IN DRIVER FIGHTS NYPD HAULER
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA squabble between an NYPD ticket agent and a disgruntled motorist turned into a full-blown spectacle in Brooklyn yesterday when the driver locked himself inside his car while it was...
CORNERED KOJO HITS BACK AGAINST 'GOP WITCH HUNT'
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The son of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan unleashed a bitter counterattack on investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program last night, calling probes of the scandal a "witch...
PERV DOC SUSPENDED BY STATE
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - A lecherous Queens doctor, accused of fondling patients, has been hit by the state with a $10,000 fine and a four- month license suspension, The Post has learned....
ABBAS PEACE BID - CALLS FOR END TO INTIFADA
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amByline: URI DAN Mideast Correspondent JERUSALEM - In a stunning declaration, the Palestinian leader virtually certain to succeed Yasser Arafat said yesterday that the 4-year-old armed uprising against Israel was...
COPS NAB FDR-TOSS ROCK-HEADS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA pair of mischievous Manhattan teens said they were as dumb as the rocks they threw from an East Side overpass, after cops busted them yesterday for causing a scary...
SUBWAY HORROR DEATH - TRACK MAN BEHEADED
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA transit worker was decapitated yesterday after a train slammed into him as he made his way along a stretch of track in Brooklyn, officials said. The worker, Harold Dozier,...
DRIVE-BY KILLER GETS 25 TO LIFE
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA Sikh man convicted last month a coldblooded drive-by shooting in Queens loudly proclaimed his innocence yesterday in court as a judge sent him away for 25 years to life....
CON ED SAFETY ZAPPED; CITED IN 2 CREW DEATHS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00am"Serious" lapses in safety procedures contributed to the deaths of two Con Ed workers in a manhole explosion last summer, federal investigators have charged. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
TEACHERS' PLEA OVER HS BRAWL
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amSpurred by a brawl at their Midtown school, teachers at Norman Thomas HS are demanding that it be declared an "impact school" to garner better police protection. The teachers said...
JUSTICE DELAYED - FAKE ROYAL'S PLEA ON HOLD
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amCall it "The Princess and the Plea" - almost. Fake princess Antoinette Millard is on the brink of copping a no-jail deal in a wacky insurance scam in which she...
BUSH HONORS DEFENSE TRIO
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday awarded America's highest civilian honor to three key players from his Iraq team: ex-CIA chief George Tenet, former Iraq chief L. Paul Bremer and Gen....
KEEPING KOSHER ALIVE - LATE GREAT RATNER'S CENTENNIAL
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThis wasn't a 100th anniversary party, it was a wake. Ratner's, the venerable Lower East Side kosher restaurant that served mayors, governors, Borscht Belt comics and gangsters during its heyday,...
FUR FLIES IN WAR OVER CITY APARTMENT PETS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA bill to let tenants replace dead pets - even if they live in buildings that prohibit animals - is being held up in the City Council as landlords lobby...
2 LOUIMA COPS FIGHT FOR BADGES
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amTwo ex-cops acquitted in the horrific Abner Louima brutality case made their last appearance in front of an NYPD judge yesterday in their bids to get their jobs back. Thomas...
-LOVE-HATE AFFAIR: HOW JUDY GOT 'BERNED' (M)-BAD BERNIE'S LIVID MISTRESS: 'HE'S INSANE & MANIACAL' (S, LCF)
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amWHEN titian-haired publishing titan Judith Regan took up with former top cop Bernard Kerik, she thought she'd met her match. And vice versa. But the illicit relationship came tumbling down,...
WIFE DIDN'T DESERVE JOHN'S STIR CRAZINESS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amJOHN GOTTI's wife, Victoria, had a sparkle in her eyes to match her glittering gown. "I've loved John Gotti for a lifetime and I'll keep on loving him for another...
COLUMBIA HAPPY WITH FESTIVAL BID
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amColumbia is 6-1 this season and no longer the doormat of the Ivy League. The progress the Lions have made under second-year head coach Joe Jones could continue when they...
$UIT RIPS STAR
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe best things in Star Jones' life are free, but a Manhattan gardener says she can give that to the birds and bees - he wants money. In papers filed...
SCHOOL FAT CATS' $$ VICTORY
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA battle between school districts over a tract of Westchester County mansions ended this week when a judge ruled the millionaire mansion-dwellers can send their kids to the tony public...
BOSS CHARGED IN HARD-HAT FATAL FALL
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe feds have hit a construction-company owner with criminal charges for the death of a worker who plunged 35 feet when a balcony on a job site collapsed in May....
PELOSI IN SHOCK - KILLER WONDERS 'WHAT WENT WRONG'
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amDanny Pelosi can't believe he's a convicted murderer. "I don't know what went wrong. I'm innocent. I will appeal," he told The Post from Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead a...
BAILED FOOD BIGGIE ROASTS CUISINE DE CLINK
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe ex-president of the James Beard Foundation - indicted for allegedly cooking the books for up to $1 million - was sprung on bail yesterday and promptly dished out a...
BIRD BRAIN - HAWK FAN RIPS ZAHN'S KID, 7
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA hawk-hugging protester has been busted for terrifying the 7-year-old son of CNN anchor Paula Zahn (right) and stalking the celebrity mom, authorities said yesterday. "Bring back the nest! Bring...
TYSON TAKES B'KLYN BLOW
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThere is a picture in the office of Gleason's Gym of a young Mike Tyson standing over Vinny Ferguson, one of his early knockout victims. Tyson's biceps are bulging, his...
MTA $$ PANEL KEEPS HIKES ON FAST TRACK
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA fare and toll hike remains on track after a committee that oversees the MTA's budget yesterday recommended that the cash-strapped agency approve the increases. The MTA's finance committee recommended...
YANKS, D'BACKS RESUME BIG UNIT TALKS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThere was a time when the Diamondbacks would have greatly benefited from the Mets getting Pedro Martinez. A day when George Steinbrenner would have ordered his people to surrender the...
KOJO RIPS 'WITCH HUNT'
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The son of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan unleashed a bitter counterattack on investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program last night, calling probes of the scandal a "witch...
DESPERATE RUSH JOB - KERIK'S LAST-MINUTE SCRAMBLE TO FILE NANNY PAPERS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Former NYPD top cop Bernard Kerik didn't file any paperwork or pay any taxes for his family's Mexican nanny until shortly before he was tapped to be President...
'AVIATOR' TAKES OFF IN NEW YORK
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe stars "The Aviator" were flying high at last night's New York premiere. Twice the usual number of reporters and photographers crowded the red carpet at the Ziegfeld Theatre to...
RATNER'S REBORN FOR A DAY
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThis wasn't a 100th anniversary party, it was a wake. Ratner's, the venerable Lower East Side kosher restaurant that served mayors, governors, Borscht Belt comics and gangsters during its heyday,...
TYSON STOPS BY BROOKLYN
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThere is a picture in the office of Gleason's Gym of a young Mike Tyson standing over Vinny Ferguson, one of his early knockout victims. Tyson's biceps are bulging, his...
SECOND HUBBIES ARE MORE OFTEN CHUBBIES
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amCan guys stay in shape when they get remarried? Fat chance! New research shows that men tend to do less exercise and put on weight after walking up the aisle...
BETTMAN DESERVES AX
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amTORONTO - Gary Bettman wouldn't make it through the first round in the boardroom with Donald Trump if he applied for the position of apprentice presenting the same type of...
GRISLY SUBWAY DEATH
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA transit worker was decapitated yesterday by a train that slammed into him as he walked along tracks in Brooklyn, officials said. Harold Dozier, 54, was struck by a Manhattan-bound...
MACABRE SLAY EVIDENCE - PELOSI JURORS SAW STUN GUN, TED'S CASH CLIP, PANIC BUTTON
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amNo Tiffany money clip for multimillionaire Ted Ammon - the night he was killed he had a wad of nearly $1,000 held together by a metal binder clip, worth about...
HAWK-STALK BUST - PROTESTER TERRORIZED ZAHN & KIDS: COPS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amA hawk-hugging protester has been busted for terrifying the two young sons of CNN anchor Paula Zahn and stalking the celebrity mom and her hubby, authorities said yesterday. "Bring back...
GOTTI'S RANT; DIRTY DON EVEN RIPS MISSUS IN JAIL TAPE
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe Dapper Don was a rage in the cage - angrily trashing his wife, his brothers, his lawyer and mob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano in expletive, hate-filled tirades while...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** (s) An elderly, bedridden man was killed yesterday when a fire ripped through his Willamsburg apartment, authorities said. Arcadio Santiago, 69, was in a back bedroom when the...
BAN JUICED-UP PLAYERS: FANS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amBaseball players who use steroids should be banned from the game just like Pete Rose, according to a new poll of fans. Sixty-one percent say baseball should boot players who...
EMBATTLED GOV EYES 4TH TERM
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki, who just fired his top political advisers and is sinking in the polls, said yesterday he's "thinking" about running for re-election to a fourth four-year term....
CLASSROOM EXTRA - LET'S GO TO SENEGAL
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amToday's page takes you to the West African country of Senegal through the eyes of a young immigrant. Take a look at a map of Africa. Located on the upper...
IT'S NO CONTEST UNTIL KIDD'S OK
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amDOCTORS' orders, 20 minutes are all Lawrence Frank gets. It was a reach to call the Nets an NBA team when Jason Kidd was out, so now the coach is...
KNICKS D-LIVER VICTORY
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amKnicks 87 Nets 79 All was going as planned for the Nets. Jason Kidd, with his limited minutes after knee surgery, started, as planned. He got the Nets going strong,...
GROIN PULL KOS BEST
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK-NET NOTEBOOK One point guard has come back. So another now has gone down. With the Nets working through the issue of spacing out Jason Kidd's minutes - he's supposed...
NO GOOD REASON TO GET EXCITED
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amRIVALRY? Only in Bruce Ratner's new ownership group over whether to pay Kenyon Martin. And the faction that won certainly became one Net fans hate. And on the Knicks' side...
CARRUMBA! AMAZIN'S COMING UP ACES
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amTHE signing of "Fragile" Pedro Martinez works wonders for the Mets on many levels. It really does. For all those whining about the risk of the four-year, $54 million deal,...
CRAWFORD'S SURE HE'S STAYING PUT
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amWhile New York is abuzz over the arrival of one temperamental, iconic diva (Pedro Martinez), Knicks GM Isiah Thomas is desperately trying to reel in one of his own in...
'MECHANIC' HAS ALL THE TOOLS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amNABA welterweight champion Chris "The Mechanic" Smith has earned his nickname over the past five years by patiently taking his opponents apart piece by piece. But when he faces David...
AARON FEELS LEFT OUT
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES Aaron Williams remains the good soldier for the Nets. Of late, he has been used about as much as ice-makers in the Arctic, playing a total of 19...
DON'T BAIL ON CHAD JUST YET
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amIT didn't take long. Almost as soon as Chad Pennington's 14th and final incompletion landed harmlessly on the chewed-up turf at Heinz Field Sunday evening, the Monday morning critics began...
PEDRO'S PACKING HIS BAGS FOR SHEA: AMAZIN' DEAL NOW HINGES ON PHYSICAL EXAM
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amYesterday the Mets were stone silent regarding Pedro Martinez. Fernando Cuza, Martinez' agent, preferred not to comment on the sensitive final details of the bombshell agreement between the two parties....
ALL FLUSHING NEEDS IS BELTRAN IN LINEUP
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amFOR this to truly make sense, for it to be anything other than naked pandering to those of us who live for the back page of the newspaper, then there...
NETS ARE BACK ON BOTTOM
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amFor the past three years, the world - or at least the Atlantic Division standings - were upside down from the situation entering last night. For three years, the Nets...
IT'S NOT ALL TIKI'S FAULT
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amWE interrupt the frenzied Eli Manning bashing to allow the Giants' best player this season to vent. Not at Manning, but at himself. "I deserve to be criticized, I should...
DT SET TO GIVE BLUE A HAND
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES This is a game made for a massive defensive tackle who gets paid to stop opposing running backs. That's why Norman Hand is so eager to come back...
INSURANCE MIGHT NOT COVER PEDRO
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amLast season, while Mo Vaughn was in parts unknown doing who-knows-what, the Mets were only paying 25 cents on the dollar of his $15 million salary. Insurance picked up the...
KNICKS, DOG TAKE BITE OUT OF NETS
December 15, 2004 | 5:00amThe shift was about as blatant as an elbow to the head ... or a forearm to the neck. Even without Jason Kidd on the floor, the Nets were taking...