February 4, 2005
VERIZON MAY RIP MCI FROM QWEST'S GRASP
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amWall Street investors think Verizon might begin a bidding war to snatch the bruised MCI phone group from the grasp of rival Qwest Communications. Qwest is said to be offering...
GRILLING EBBERS - PROSECUTORS HUNT FOR DIRT ON BERNIE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe government is trying to air some of Bernard Ebbers' dirty laundry. Weeks after the former WorldCom CEO's legal eagles scored a major courtroom victory in winning the right to...
FUTURE SHOCK - PHONE MERGERS HIT MADISON AVE. BOTTOM LINE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA flurry of telecom mergers has ad executives and media companies fretting that consolidation will curb ad spending for one of the industry's biggest categories. Reports that Qwest is near...
KING OF HEARTS - TRUMP TRIES SWEET-TALKING WARY INVESTORS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amDonald Trump is giving his investors a St. Valentine's Day message - love me or leave me. His proposition is in a 200-page document outlining how his profitable but bankrupt...
REMNICK'S CAPITOL 'LETTER' - REVIVED NEW YORKER FILLS LEMANN'S SHOES IN D.C.
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amTHE New Yorker, on the brink of celebrating its 80th anniversary and profits last year believed to have topped $10 million, is reopening an office in Washington, D.C. And for...
STARR REPORT
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amGood news on the sets of "Extra" and "Access Hollywood" - and, thankfully, it's got nothing to do with (aargh!) ratings, which always elicits squawking ("Why did you mention them...
'SWIMMING' BIOPIC HARD TO LAP UP
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amEVEN with terrific performances by Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis - two of the best actors in the world - the inspirational sports biopic "Swimming Upstream" treads water. These two...
'HOUSEWIVES' SPINOFF
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amTHE "Desperate Housewives" of Wisteria Lane are desperate for a spinoff - and might get one. "The network [ABC] has saved an area [on the schedule] for me when I'm...
B'KLYN OH 'BOY'
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amHOW do you handle success - the kind that makes you a mini-celebrity in the neighborhood you have, at least physically, left long ago? As Donald Margulies suggests in his...
FAKING THE BAND ON 'LOST'
February 4, 2005 | 5:00am'LOST" has gotten so popular, the fictional rock band on the show, Drive Shaft, is threatening to become a real band - and may even put out an album. "We've...
ONE FIRED, ONE QUITS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amLAST night's "Apprentice" episode featured the show's first-ever "double-whammy" - with two contestants leaving the NBC reality show. Verna, the Magna team member who freaked out last week - and...
MUSIC OVERTAKES STEPS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amOOH la la! Montreal's La La La Human Steps dance company, founded in 1980 by Edouard Lock, came to the Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday...
FALSE 'IDOL' - COMEDIAN FOOLS ALL AS NANNY RAPPER
February 4, 2005 | 5:00am'AMERICAN Idol," you've been punk'd. A comedian who's appeared on "Trading Spaces" and Comedy Central fooled the series' producers and host into believing he was a rapping nanny. The episode...
IN NEED OF SOME TLC - 'R U THE GIRL' SCOURING CITY FOR NEW VOICE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amTLC, the all-female music group that's experienced exhilirating highs and shattering lows, is looking for a new colleague - with UPN cameras in tow. Producers for the upcoming reality show,...
HOME ALONE IN TOKYO FOR FOUR
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amTHE shocking, real-life story of four young children abandoned by their mother in Tokyo gets a fictionalized retelling by well-regarded director-writer Hirokazu Kore-eda in "Nobody Knows." Twelve-year-old Akira (a wonderful...
'NOMI' THAT TUNE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amWACKY. Mysterious. Cartoonlike. And, ultimately, tragic. That's how performance artist Klaus Nomi is remembered in "The Nomi Song," a reverential documentary chronicling the "freak among freaks" who had his brief,...
PATHS OF 'RORY'
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJAMES McAvoy - a charismatic young Irish actor in the mold of the pre-"Alexander" Colin Far rell - helps the sugar go down in "Rory O'Shea Was Here," a comic...
DON'T SAVE THIS 'DATE' - ... A CLICHÉ-FILLED STINKER THAT'S MESSING WITH THE TALENTED DEBRA; DEBRA'S 'DATE' A MESS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amIT'S rarely a good sign when a major studio release runs an hour and a half or less, and that goes double for the woeful romantic comedy "The Wedding Date,"...
IT'S A PLUG FOR INDIE MUSICIANS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amINDIE musicians now have their own Oscars. The first annual Plug Awards fete, at Webster Hall (125 East 11th St.; [212] 353-1600) on Wednes day, "celebrates artists who live and...
SURF'S DOWN - IT LOOKS LIKE A WIPEOUT FOR 'GOOD VIBRATIONS'
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amCRITICS and theater insiders agree! "Good Vibrations" is the worst musical of the season, maybe even the worst musical of all time! It makes "Footloose" (once the gold standard of...
ROCK PICK
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThis year, ex-Phish frontman Trey Anastasio headlines the annual Tibet House Benefit concert. The show, set for Wednesday night at 7:30 at Carnegie Hall (57th Street at Seventh Avenue; [212]...
MARY'S HOT PICKS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe Creole Cowboys, armed with Cajun fiddles, accordions and guitars, bring Mardi Gras to the Hungarian House (213 E. 82nd St., at Second Avenue; [212] 685-7597, letszydeco.com; $20) on Sunday...
FILM PICK
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amMade for just $213, Jonathan Caouette's "Tarnation" is a landmark documentary, a mind-blowing autobiographical collage of home movies, film clips, photographs, answeringmachine recordings, staged scenes and vividly written title cards...
PAM-A-LOT - NEW PHOTO SHOW MAKES THE MOST OF HER, UM, BEST ASSETS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amWHEN Pamela Anderson calls my cellphone for an interview, I ask her to call back on a land line. "Oh, well, actually, could you call me back instead?" she asks,...
HOSP FACES SUIT IN QNS. KIN SLAY
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe family of a Queens man charged with murdering his father after his dad overclipped his fingernails plans to sue a psychiatric hospital for negligence, it was reported last night....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA Texas woman has been charged with causing her hubby's death by giving him a sherry enema. Prosecutors say Tammy Jean Warner, 42, of Lake Jackson, pumped two bottles of...
JURY NAILS BROOKLYN STRANGLER
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man was convicted yesterday of murdering his ex-girlfriend in front of the couple's two children and then giving one of them $10 to keep quite about what she...
WISEGUY'S NEW MOUTHPIECE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amReputed Gambino soldier Michael Yannotti has a new lawyer. Yannotti hired James Kousouros after federal Judge Shira Scheindlin disqualified Joseph Corozzo amid accusations that he's the "house counsel" to the...
'JESUS TATTOO' RAPIST
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amPolice in Brooklyn are looking for a rapist who sports a tattoo of Jesus Christ crying blood-red tears on his left arm. LaMar Thomas, 20, is wanted in the rapes...
MILLER STAGES ENDORSEMENT FEST
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Gifford Miller will have his first mayoral campaign event today, when he accepts endorsements from about 15 elected officials at Brooklyn's Borough Hall today, officials said. Miller...
VERSACE ART ON THE BLOCK
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe heirs of slain designer Gianni Versace are auctioning off dozens of his paintings, including works by Andy Warhol and a "comic-book nude" by Roy Lichtenstein that once hung in...
FIRE WIDOW: I CALL HIS CELL TO HEAR HIM
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amFIRE widow Jeanette Meyran squeezed Eugene Stolowski's hand as he lay motionless in his hospital bed. Stolowski, horribly injured in the "Black Sunday" fire in The Bronx, opened his eyes....
CRASH COURSE - ED. DEPT. CITYWIDE COMPUTER MESS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amChronic malfunctions with the city Department of Education's computer system for processing student schedules and report cards have high schools scrambling to get kids on track for the spring semester...
BLAME CANADA FOR $30M CREDIT-CARD 'SCAM'
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amNew York feds and Canadian authorities indicted two telemarketing executives and a former Brooklyn banker for allegedly scamming 100,000 Americans with bad credit out of $30 million - by raiding...
CHAMBERS TURNS DOWN DRUG PLEA
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amHe pleaded guilty before, but Robert Chambers isn't ready to do it again. The "Preppy Killer" yesterday turned down an offer from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to plead guilty...
DUBYA'S FORWARD MARCH - A LANDMARK PUSH FOR FREEDOM
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amTHE quality I most admire about President Bush is that he isn't afraid to lead. Buoyed by election triumphs - first at home, then in Iraq - he made his...
ABOUT THAT HUG ...
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amPRESIDENT Bush spoke at great length about Social Security reform on Wednesday - but all anybody wants to talk about is The Hug. The president sent a clear message to...
DON'T SNIP MY DOGGY - NEUTER SUIT VS. CITY
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amIf it ain't broke - don't "fix" it. That's what one Brooklyn man is crying in a legal dogfight with the city's Center for Animal Care and Control waged to...
MOB-DIG SOURCE UNEARTHED: DON
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe mysterious tipster who sparked the FBI's massive dig for bodies at a Queens Mafia burial ground last fall was none other than Godfather-turncoat Joseph Massino. The Bonanno boss approached...
ISRAEL TO FREE 900 PRISONERS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel yesterday approved the release of 900 Palestinian prisoners and other goodwill measures designed to keep the Mideast peace momentum moving. The two-phase release of 500 and then...
SHAMELESS PELOSI TARS GENEROSA
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amGenerosa Ammon "married me to keep my mouth shut" about her murdering millionaire Ted Ammon, convicted killer Danny Pelosi claims on a TV show airing tomorrow. Pelosi says there's proof...
TV'S IN TOILET, & MARTHA IS THE PERFECT 'POTTY' HOSTESS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amSHHHH. What's that flushing noise? That's the sound of the popular culture getting dragged into the icky, wet bowels of the sewer, and taking along with it the quaint concepts...
CUPID'S STUPID 'TRIVIAL' PICKS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amOpposites may attract - but it's the trivial similarities that lead to love. That's according to the Harvard Health Letter, which, in a scientific salute to Valentine's Day, says that...
GOV COMES CLEAN - STAFF ADMITS MAID 'AIDE' DID FOOD RUNS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - The Pataki administration admitted yesterday that Libby Pataki's state Republican-paid aide did, "on occasion," transport food from the governor's mansion in Albany to the Patakis' private home in...
JACKO: CHARGES ARE 'SCIENCE FICTION'
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson belittled the prosecution's child-molestation case against him, slamming it as pure "science fiction," in an interview set to air tomorrow. The embattled King of Pop...
PSYCH-OUT BY TOT-KILLER
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens man accused of hanging his 2-year-old son from a motel shower rod has been systematically thwarting examinations by a DA-approved psychologist, prosecutors charged yesterday. Juan Batista, 28, faces...
B'KLYN BRAVO! - GLIMMERING CLASSICAL THEATER TO BE LATEST JEWEL
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amPlans for a striking new theater in Brooklyn were unveiled yesterday. Mayor Bloomberg took the wraps off the modernistic design for a new, 299-seat classical theater that will go up...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amSTATEN ISLAND * Police are investigating the disappearance of a teenager missing from his Mariners Harbor house for more than a week. Arkaglv Tashman (above), 17, was last seen leaving...
DONALD TAKES FRIENDLY DIG AT DIVA
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe Donald wants Martha Stewart to be a ratings smash on "The Apprentice" - but not quite as successful as he is. "If she does well, a lot of people...
JUDGE AXES DI LOVER'S SUIT VS. FOX
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge has tossed a lawsuit by James Hewitt - the kiss-and-tell cad who tried selling his love letters from the late Princess Diana for millions of dollars -...
GOV NOT TWISTING ARMS: MTA BOSS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amMTA chairman Peter Kalikow yesterday defended his handling of a proposed sale of the transit agency's West Side rail yard and insisted he has never been pressured by either Gov....
IRAQ INVITE FOR 'HUG' MOM
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Iraqi voter who embraced the mother of a fallen Marine during President Bush's State of the Union Address is inviting the mom to democratic Baghdad to see...
SLICK U.N. BIG COULD FACE RAP - VOLCKER REPORT: OIL-FOR-FOOD BOSS MADE SIDE DEALS WITH BAGHDAD AND POCKETED 160G
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA senior U.N. official could face criminal prosecution after it was revealed yesterday he solicited oil deals from Iraq while pocketing a mysterious $160,000 that he claimed he got from...
DESPERATE MANHUNT AS JEWEL THIEF KILLS AGAIN - HUBBY AND WIFE HIS LATEST VICTIMS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA coldblooded killer who gunned down a Connecticut couple while robbing their jewelry store is the same man behind a string of heists, including one on Long Island that ended...
LUNG LADY LOSES SUIT
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA pathologist and a surgeon were both cleared yesterday in the case of a woman who said she had half a lung wrongly removed. A Queens jury found the New...
MIKE RIPS SOC. SEC. PLAN - HE WARNS BUSH: DON'T 'SPECULATE' WITH RETIRE FUND
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday trashed President Bush's Social Security proposal as too speculative, as Bush hit the road on a barnstorming tour to promote it. "I never thought that privatizing Social...
180G HOUSING-SUBSIDY 'SCAM'
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA mother and daughter from Queens were charged yesterday with cheating the Housing Authority and the Social Security system out of $180,000 in a 20-year scam. Officials said Juana Lopez,...
LET'S MAKE HOOPEE - FANS CAN SCORE AT KNICKS SINGLES NIGHT
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe Knicks haven't done such a good job as shotmakers this season - so they're trying their hand as matchmakers. Dead last in their division, the Knicks are pulling out...
SILENCED MIKE 'SNUBS' BX. BEEP
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA scheduling conflict prevented Mayor Bloomberg from attending Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion's State of the Borough speech yesterday. At least, that's what mayoral aides say - but sources in...
PROBERS PLANE STUMPED - FAULTY GIZMO BLAMED
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amSafety probers want to know more about the final minutes aboard the corporate jet that plowed across a highway and into a Teterboro, N.J., warehouse, but were hindered yesterday by...
FAMED CHILDS ON THE BLOCK
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe owner of one of Brooklyn's most famous buildings is taking offers to turn the long-neglected historic structure into a spa, arcade or theater, among other ideas, The Post has...
RICE VICE BUST - $21M 'BET RING' WAS PUDDING ON THE RITZ
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe high-living owner of a quirky Little Italy rice-pudding shop - who apparently prefers long green to long grain - was busted yesterday for allegedly running a $21 million-a-year sports...
SENATE OKS GONZALES AS AG
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Alberto Gonzales handily won confirmation yesterday as the nation's first Latino attorney general - despite opposition from New York Sens. Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Gonzales became...
TA'S STALLING RISKS MORE FIRES: POLS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amSignal rooms like the one destroyed by the Chambers Street blaze that crippled A and C service remain vulnerable because the Transit Authority has failed to fireproof them, lawmakers charged...
SADDAM KILLED 'HUG' DAD
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Iraqi woman who embraced the mother of a fallen Marine during President Bush's State of the Union Address said yesterday her father was slain by a Saddam...
STYLISHLY EARLY ON RUNWAY - FASHION WEEK HEAD START
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amDESIGNER Nicole Miller delivered an early-bird special last night, when she previewed her signature Fall 2005 collection 14 hours before the curtain officially rose on Olympus Fashion Week this morning....
SCHOOL BOSS IS BUSTED - 'HIT OFFICER' IN BX. HS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx principal and a school aide wound up in a "perp walk" yesterday after clashing with a safety officer who was trying to arrest a student. Cops slapped the...
DEADLY LESSON AGAINST TALKING BACK TO MUGGERS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amNicole duFresne might be alive today if she hadn't challenged an armed mugger - saying "What are you going to do, shoot us?" - a national crime-prevention group said yesterday....
BLAZING TRIBUTE - NICOLE MOURNERS' STREET CEREMONY AT MURDER SCENE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA flaming silhouette of Nicole duFresne burned brightly on the Lower East Side corner where she died as friends said a poignant goodbye to the aspiring actress yesterday. A week...
DREAM CAR BECOMES FLAMING DEATH TRAP
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA retired auto mechanic burned to death in front of his Queens home early yesterday as he sat idly in the beloved luxury car that illness and old age made...
PHONY COP RAPED GIRL: POLICE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn security guard pretending to be a cop was arrested yesterday for repeatedly raping a girl he met in an online chat room, police said. When Harry Mercado, 23,...
KILLER CAR FIRE - OLD MAN DIES PARKED IN DRIVEWAY
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amA retired auto mechanic burned to death in front of his Queens home early yesterday, sitting idly in the beloved luxury car that illness and old age made him unfit...
VERSACE POP EYED - ART COLLECTION WILL FETCH UP TO $17M ON BLOCK
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe heirs of slain designer Gianni Versace are auctioning off dozens of his paintings, including works by Andy Warhol and a "comic-book nude" by Roy Lichtenstein that once hung in...
NJN: NO GUTS TV
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amI WAS alwaysunder the belief that public television was a staunch advocate of journalism. Well, that bubble has been burst thanks to the New Jersey Network. On Feb. 21, NJN...
RECALLING EAGLES' LAST RING
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Chuck Bednarik refused to let Jim Taylor get up at the Eagle 7-yard line, and Philadelphia coach Buck Shaw knew the gig was up. "Our coach told us...
ORMAN NOW MILES FROM TV YOUTH
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amOK, so Miles Orman, Marist College's 6-5 sophomore forward, is averaging just four points and 14 minutes. But he certainly knows how to play well with others. And he's presumably...
REDSKINS GET CREDIT FOR SCALPING FANS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amIF Paul Tagliabue served as a genuine commissioner instead of the NFL owners' CFO, he might've put in a call to Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, Monday, and it might've gone...
MAGNIFICENT 7 NAIL PICK 6 POT
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amTwo horses owned by Eclipse Award runner-up Michael Gill were disqualified and unplaced after testing positive for Fluphenazine in races at Saratoga: Clay's Rocket, first in second race Aug. 8,...
KENNEDY EYES CROWN FOR COACH
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJohnny Mathis stood on the sidelines yesterday, a cast on his left foot as he recovers from yet another surgery. "I've been through the mill," the Kennedy coach said before...
YATES MAY MISS SEASON
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amRighthander Tyler Yates had surgery on his right shoulder yesterday and could miss the entire season, depleting the Mets' already thin bullpen. Yates, 27, went 2-4 with a 6.36 ERA...
THE HEIR OF THE DOGS - THE EAGER, UNDERDOG EAGLES WILL WIN SUPER BOWL
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - In a lot of ways, this is the perfect city for the Philadelphia Eagles to end 44 years of fruitless football futility, which is precisely what is going...
FAST TIMES ARE BACK IN WANAMAKER MILE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amForget the BALCO scandal. Track & field's two biggest problems have been a lack of cash and no head-to-head rivalries. Lately, the Millrose Games suffered from both, to the point...
BITTER BIRDS PULL OUT THE RESPECT CARD
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Without disrespect, there is no Super Bowl. o Super Bowl hype, anyway. It is what breathes life into whichever fortunate team is installed as the underdog, providing instant...
JUDAH NEEDS TO BE SUPER AGAIN
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amHIS nickname is Super Judah, and that's what we thought Zabdiel Judah would be when he came out of Flatbush, looking like a young Sugar Ray Leonard. It seemed stardom...
THE PAUL GAME - MCCARTNEY PROMISES NO MALFUNCTIONS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - At last, the first promise of Super Bowl week. "I won't have a wardrobe malfunction," Paul McCartney said yesterday to a jam-packed press conference. "I don't have a...
MISSERE EARNS HIS SCHOLARSHIP
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amPhil Missere was expecting the worst from St. John's coach Norm Roberts after Tuesday's practice. "Early in practice I didn't get a rebound and coach stopped practice and said, 'You've...
THIS TIME, DHANI WILL HAVE HIS DAY
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Back in Super Bowl XXXV following the 2000 season, Dhani Jones made it to Tampa along with the Giants, but his travel itinerary and accommodations were not standard,...
SCALABRINE WAITS ON KNEE DECISION
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Nets forward Brian Scalabrine received a second opinion on his left knee yesterday. And it was the same as the first opinion: Wait and see. There has been...
CARTER'S STARRING FOR NETS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amVince Carter is an All-Star starter. Again. One of the most popular players ever in the fan balloting, Carter was voted in as an Eastern Conference starter for the fifth...
HOW PITI-PHIL! - DON'T BELIEVE NONSENSE ABOUT JAX'S RETURN TO L.A.
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amCLEAN air has a better chance of returning to Los Angeles than Phil Jackson. Yet, in the wicked wake of coach Rudy Tomjanovich's unexpected resignation one-tenth into his Lakers contract,...
STUMPED SPEECH - STEPH: KNICKS' SLIDE 'SHOCKING'
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO - Stephon Marbury has been miserable for days, as frustrated as anyone has ever seen him. And he's been on some losing teams in the past. But a Knicks...
FINALLY, GAY GETTING HELP FROM ABOVE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Broken arm, broken heart, and broken promises all led to Randall Gay's big break. "I've been thinking God's taken care of me," said the Patriots' starting left corner...
KRAFT LIVING A DREAM - PATS' OWNER ON CUSP OF THIRD TITLE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amST. AUGUSTINE - Bob Kraft had a dream that began in Section 217, Row 26, at seats 1 through 6 at Schaefer Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., back in the early...
FOUL SHOT AT ISIAH MISSES THE RIM
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amNOTHING cries of credibility quite like taking the readership to fantasyland one day, then "farce-feeding" more drivel the next! Nothing demonstrates the Daily Nuisance's desperation for attention (negative or otherwise)...
OWENS ACHY AFTER WORKOUT
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amSuper Bowl Confidential JACKSONVILLE - Terrell Owens yesterday morning admitted he was "a little bit sore" following several days of practice on his surgically-repaired right ankle but was not concerned....
ROLLING '7' ON PATS - BELICHICK'S GENIUS MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amCAN a professional handicapper, in good conscience, advise people to bet their hard-earned money against Bill Belichick and the Patriots on the NFL's biggest stage? At first this appeared an...
NHL TEETERS ON BRINK
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amLast ditch is where these final talks were taking the NHL. Barring an improbable last-minute capitulation by either side, it was all over but the screaming, the mutual blaming and...
ZEN MASTER SHOULD HAVE MANY OPTIONS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SACRAMENTO - In a battle between the Knicks and Lakers for Phil Jackson's services, the Knicks might win because of the obvious issues with Kobe Bryant and because...
BETTMAN'S JOB ON THE LINE
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amACCORDING to Chris Matthews on MSNBC, Abraham Lincoln once observed that it's never a good idea to try to convince a person whose job depends on not being convinced. If...
YANKS MAY BRING BACK MENDOZA
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amHaving already reacquired Mike Stanton this offseason, the Yankees are negotiating to sign another bullpen figure from their championship past in Ramiro Mendoza. Yankee GM Brian Cashman acknowledged discussions with...
FORCED FORFEIT PUSHES GOMPERS OUT OF PLAYOFFS
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amGompers coach Ned Jackson filed a protest before his basketball team played Morris on Tuesday because Jackson thought Morris was using an ineligible player. Gompers won the game anyway, which...
NHL HOPES STILL FLICKERING
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amLast Chance became New Day, keeping alive the faintest flicker of hope for an NHL season. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Players Assn. head Bob Goodenow will resume their last-ditch...
IRVIN'S WAITING BY PHONE - HALL MIGHT CALL EX-COWBOY GREAT
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amESPN's Michael Irvin is a lot of things. Loud. Opinionated. Nervous? That's what Irvin is today as he waits to find out his Hall of Fame fate, which will be...
5 QUESTIONS FOR HOWIE LONG
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with Fox Sports' football analyst Howie Long. The 45-year-old Long, an NFL Hall of Famer and member of the 1984 Super Bowl...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amTroy Aikman vs. Cris Collinsworth (Who is a better Super Bowl analyst?) Perhaps it's a quarterback thing, but Fox Sports' Troy Aikman has that Phil Simms quality on big games....
BIG BIRD - EAGLES CAN SOAR - IF T.O. DOES
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amSunday Super Bowl 6:30 p.m., Fox ESPN's Michael Irvin - sounding very much like a former All-Pro receiver - says all the hype surrounding the Eagles' Terrell Owens is well...
MET TIX SALES SOAR
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe signings of Carlos Beltran and Pedro Martinez have caused Met ticket package sales to rocket. Though single-game tickets don't go on sale until Feb. 27, sales for season tickets,...
PLAYING THROUGH PAIN - DESPITE LOSS OF GRANDMOTHER, BRADY BRACES FOR SUPER BOWL
February 4, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - A mere 48 hours separates Tom Brady from football immortality. And the scary thing is that Brady, just 27 years old and five years into a NFL career...