February 11, 2005
DISNEY TOME DESCRIBES EISNER'S 'NEMO'-PHOBIA
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWalt Disney Co. boss Michael Eisner disparaged Pixar's "Finding Nemo" before it became one of the most successful animated films of all time, according to a revealing new book. Eisner...
GOLDMAN CRACKS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amPieces of Goldman Sachs' soaring Jersey City tower are falling off. The falling pieces of the new 40-story building, located on the Hudson River waterfront, have required a quick fix...
GARDEN'S NHL $ TO SKATE OFF
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amMadison Square Garden is expected to see profits rocked should the NHL, as expected, cancel the entire season this weekend. In addition, the "World's Most Famous Arena" could see well...
Y&R LOSES JAGUAR BIZ
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amMadison Avenue ad agency Y&R was cut from Ford Motor's $100 million Jaguar account, a day after losing the Sony Electronics business. The WPP Group unit was axed in the...
WARNER SNARES RUBIN
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWarner Music Group has inked a deal with legendary producer Rick Rubin, The Post has learned. Warner Music's label Warner Bros. Records - headed by CEO Tom Whalley - reached...
GYM PUMPS A SALE - 24 HOUR FITNESS CHAIN SEEKS $1B BUYOUT
February 11, 2005 | 5:00am24 Hour Fitness Worldwide, the world's biggest privately owned and operated fitness-center chain, is all pumped up for a sale, The Post has learned. Private-equity firm McCown De Leeuw &...
WORLDCOM NIXED VERIZON DEAL IN COVER-UP
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWorldCom, which fraudulently pumped up its balance sheet to the tune of $10 million a day in the summer of 2001, called off merger talks with Verizon at the time...
BOOK'S A PITT STOP QUICKIE; WENNER IMPRINT'S BRAD-JEN OPUS TOOK 5 DAYS TO WRITE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amFIVE days: that's how long the long it took the writers to crank out a manuscript for a new book on the bust-up of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt. The...
CITY BOND INVESTORS CRY FOUL
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amInvestors are protesting some financial sleight of hand by City Hall and Merrill Lynch that yanked the rug from under some super-safe bonds. The move wiped out tens of millions...
MOUSE BOARD 'FAMILY' FEUD
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amDisney's board may be on the brink of an internal battle over the much-criticized purchase of the Fox Family Channel in light of revelations from a new book. Some directors...
GOLDMAN N.J. BLDG SHEDDING
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amPieces of Goldman Sachs' soaring Jersey City tower are falling off. The falling pieces of the new 40-story building, located on the Hudson River waterfront, have required a quick fix...
LESS VIOLENCE FOR 'PASSION'
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amMEL Gibson will release "The Passion Recut" on March 11 in theaters - a new version with about five minutes of the most violent footage trimmed from his controversial 2004...
BIGGEST LOSER; AN 'APPRENTICE' FIRST: NO WINNERS FOR A CHANGE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amBOSSY Kristen Kirchner was a washout following a challenge to create a commercial for a new body wash last night on "The Apprentice." It was a show without a winner,...
CHINESE DANCERS OFF 'THE WALL'
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amBEIJING MODERN DANCE COMPANYJoyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave. at 19th Street. Through Sunday. (212) 242-0800. PINK Floyd and Red China make strange, albeit color coordinated, bedfellows. Surely, Beijing is hardly...
'PREJUDICE' MORE SENSIBILITY THAN SENSE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amBRIDE & PREJUDICE ½ (two and a half stars) Undemanding fun.Running time: 110 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexuality). At the E-Walk, the Paris and the Union Square. JANE Austen purists and...
HEADLESS BUDDHA IN PLOTLESS YARN
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amONG-BAK: THE THAI WARRIORZero stars Martial-arts stinker.In Thai, with English subtitles. Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, drug use). At the Empire, the Union Square, others. HAVING root-canal...
BIRDMAN OUTSIDE ALCATRAZ
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amTHE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL (three stars) Sweet documentary about tweety birds.Running time: 85 minutes. Rated G. At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets. WHO knew birds led such...
PROBING LOOK AT SOME UNHOLY ALLIANCES
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amMY MOTHER'S SMILE ½ (two and a half stars) A test of faith.In Italian, with English subtitles. Running time: 102 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Cinema Village and...
MICHIGAN CRIES 'UNCLE'
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amUNCLE NINO 1/2 (one and a half stars) A workaholic businessman literally wakes up and smells the flowers with the help of a relative from Italy in Bob Shalcross' "Uncle...
ORAL HISTORY
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amINSIDE DEEP THROAT (three stars) "Deep" impact.Running time: 90 minutes. Rated NC-17 (explicit oral sex). At the E-Walk, the Sunshine. A couple of years before Jenna Jameson was even born,...
WINNIE THE NEW
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amPOOH'S HEFFALUMP MOVIE ½ (two and a half stars) Don't pooh-pooh it.Running time: 63 minutes. Rated G. At the Lincoln Square, the Village East Cinemas, others. IS there still room...
UNHITCHED - STARS' SEXY SPARK CAN'T SAVE LIMP SCRIPT AND SILLY PLOT
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amHITCH (two stars) Gets by on good Will. Running time: 116 minutes. Rated PG-13 (strong sexual references). At the Orpheum, the Union Square, the Chelsea, others. 'HITCH," Will Smith's debut...
MOVIE MUSEUM GETTING $25M NEW LOOK
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amTHE Museum of the Moving Image yes terday unveiled plans for a $25 million renovation and expansion of its facilities in Astoria, Queens. The project is expected to be completed...
CALL IT 'KILL BILL' PETERSEN
February 11, 2005 | 5:00am'PULP Fiction" director Quentin Tarantino could be directing an upcoming episode of "CSI." CBS officials say it's all just "chatter" at this point, but "CSI" star George Eads, who plays...
SHEERAGONY; NOTH'S TALE OF TORTURE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amYOU'LL be happy to know that Det. Mike Logan, who was busted to the relative calm of Staten Island way back when, is back at his old precinct, "Law &...
PREDICT CHIEFS' SUCCESS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amBRITAIN'S Kaiser Chiefs are slamming through the rock universe with their first single "I Predict a Riot." The tune daringly recalls the late '70s early punk of the Clash's "White...
OUTRAGE OVERAUSTIN'S OUSTER
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amAdespised contestant's triumph over a fan favorite has triggered Internet outrage over Wednesday night's episode of "Project Runway." Wendy Pepper, the 40-year-old mom from Middleburg, Va., who has emerged as...
STARR REPORT
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amHe's a real card Bryan Berg, who creates things out of decks of cards, will move into "Good Morn ing America's" Times Square studios, beginning today, to build the New...
MIKE RAPS QNS. GOP
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg charged yesterday that Queens Republicans endorsing his chief GOP rival are upset because they couldn't land patronage jobs in his administration. "Look, I would like to have everybody's...
GAL: 3 OTHERS TO ACCUSE COS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amAt least three other people - in addition to the two women who have already come forward - are ready to say comedian Bill Cosby drugged and molested them, one...
MARINE FACES DEATH; NYER KILLED 2 IRAQIS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amA Manhattan Marine is facing a possible death sentence after shooting two Iraqis fleeing a suspected terror hideout in the Sunni Triangle. Second Lt. Ilario Pantano, 33, has been charged...
BANKER-SLAY NAB ; 'PHONY COP' PULL-OVER SUSPECT AN EX-JAILBIRD
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amAn ex-con who made a career of robbing people while impersonating cops has been charged with blowing away a Long Island bank manager after pulling him over with a phony...
GRAND THEFT IS QUITE A SPECTACLE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amSHOW BUZZ IT'S not as if those who attend the shows in the Bryant Park tents are hurting for freebies. There's free coffee and cocktails from Lotus, Atkins bars and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amIn the corniest story of the day, a 10-year-old boy in Pennsylvania has set a new national record for selling the most popcorn for the Cub Scouts - some 10...
TIMELY RETURN OF 'EYES ON THE PRIZE'
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe landmark documentary "Eyes on the Prize" won awards in the '80s and was celebrated as the most comprehensive retelling of the civil rights movement - and then it disappeared,...
WORST-EVER POLL HAS PATAKI LOOKING ROCKY
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - New York voters are turning an enormous thumbs-down on Gov. Pataki, giving him his lowest job-performance rating ever and saying he doesn't deserve re-election next year, according to...
'A'-TRAIN RETURN SET TO HIT 80%
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe number of Manhattan-bound A trains will increase to 80 percent of normal service starting Monday morning, as part of a plan to steadily increase service after last month's Chambers...
HOWARD COULD MAKE HILL LOOK GOOD
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amHOWARD "The Scream" Dean may be a disaster for Democrats when he gets crowned their new party chair tomorrow, but some Hillary Clinton fans claim he'll be a real boon...
TOUR LEAVES EU SWEET ON CHER CONDI
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew home yesterday after her whirlwind charm offensive, leaving smiles in her wake - and Europeans talking about how good she is at...
'NET HER A TABLE ; V-DAY DINNER DIBS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amIf you think you've already missed the boat on Valentine's Day dinner reservations, you may still have a chance to get lucky. A Los Angeles company, www.withoutreservations.biz, is making the...
BID HURTS GAMES: BLOOMY
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amCablevision's 11th-hour plan to develop a West Side rail yard where the Jets want to build a new stadium is aimed at destroying the city's bid to host the 2012...
HEAT STILL ON KOFI'S SLICK KID
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The head of the investigation into the scandal-scarred U.N. oil-for-food program has informed Secretary-General Kofi Annan that his son remains a central focus of the probe, The Post...
POL PANEL NIXES BX. SUPERSTORE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amA backlash against "big box" superstores was unleashed yesterday when a City Council panel unanimously rejected an application from BJ's Wholesale Club to open in The Bronx, effectively killing a...
TAP WATER SAFE AFTER TANK DEATH
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amAn order to boil tap water was lifted in 17 New Jersey towns yesterday as authorities worked to unravel the mystery of a chemist found dead inside a water plant's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** Police yesterday arrested a Crown Heights man for knifing another man to death outside a Bedford-Stuyvesant nightclub in December. Rolando Williams, 20, had stabbed Kwame Fletcher in the...
NYPD A 'GATES' KEEPER ; COPS ON CURTAIN CALL
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWith hundreds of thousands of culture buffs expected to view the public art project "The Gates" in Central Park over the next two weeks, the NYPD has special plans to...
MIRACLE HEART-TRANSPLANT BABY GOES HOME TODAY
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amPlucky "Baby Jordan" - his tiny new heart beating beautifully just two weeks after a lifesaving transplant - is going home to Brooklyn today, hospital officials said. Jordan Trimarchi was...
LOVE GETS OFF AFTER PLEA DEALS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Rock bad girl Courtney Love wrapped up all the criminal complaints against her yesterday when prosecutors pleaded her down to two misdemeanors in separate drug and...
ABBAS AXES THREE AFTER HAMAS ATTACK
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired three of his security chiefs yesterday after they failed to prevent Gaza Strip terrorists from a massive rocket and mortar attack that severely...
PREZ SCORES A BIG W ; SENATE PASSES BILL CURBING CLASS-ACTIONS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday notched the first big victory of his second term, winning strong new limits on class-action lawsuits and dealing a setback to state Attorney General Eliot...
SKIRTS COME 'FULL' CIRCLE ; A NARROW FOCUS ON 'WIDE' LOOK
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amDesigners pumped up the volume at Bryant Park yesterday. And we're not talking about the ear-splitting music they used to amp up the atmosphere. We're talking about the increas ingly...
ICKY HEIR TO THE THRONE ACTS LIKE A MAN, FOR ONCE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amTHREE words for Prince Charles: Mazel tov, already. It's high time someone made a man of you. A mere 35 years from the dawn of the ickiest love story this...
COPS CURE 'NAGGING' HEADACHE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe gift was supposed to make police horses less stressed. It ended up giving the brass headaches. The NYPD is returning stress-busting supplements that were donated to its hard-working mounted...
NOW I KNOW - WHACK TARGET'S TRAUMA
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe target of a murder-for-hire scheme orchestrated by the washed-up gambling addict he had helped out told a Queens judge yesterday he didn't know terror until the sick plot was...
TRAITOR: TERROR LAWYER LYNNE GUILTY
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amFirebrand attorney Lynne Stewart (right, outside court) was found guilty yesterday of helping the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing spread terror messages to his jihadi warriors around...
MIKE COVET$ CLOSING CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amA day after the Brooklyn Diocese announced it would close 26 elementary schools, aides to Mayor Bloomberg said the city is considering buying or leasing the buildings. Mayoral spokesman Robert...
GEST HIRES LAWYER TO BURY LIZA
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amFirst there were the allegations about Liza Minnelli's alcohol-induced super strength. Then David Gest said he needed scores of Botox injections just to make it through the day. But now...
BRITS CURSE CHUCK NUPS ; COMMONERS IN SNIT OVER CAMILLA-WED PLANS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amPrince Charles got the royal finger from the British public and friends of Princess Diana after he revealed yesterday he'll wed longtime mistress Camilla Parker Bowles. Camilla, who met Charles...
LOCKIN' UP LYNNE ; JUSTICE FOR AN EVIL-DOER
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amYESTERDAY, a lawyer named Lynne Stewart was convicted for having fi nally followed through on her convictions. Having said for years that she believed violence was an appropriate way to...
GI 'KILLER' FIGHTS RETURN TO N.C.
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man yesterday began fighting extradition to North Carolina, where he's charged with killing a soldier and the GI's girlfriend during a fight that flared over the accused killer's...
GOP HIRED ANOTHER LIBBY AIDE PRE-MAID
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - Red-faced state GOP officials admitted yesterday that they had hired another personal assistant for Gov. Pataki's wife - four years earlier than a previously disclosed maid. Janine Robinson...
FDNY NOOSE SHOCK; BLACK BRAVEST TARGETED
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amA black firefighter has filed a complaint with the FDNY after he found a noose next to his bunker gear at his Brooklyn firehouse last month. Firefighter Lanaird Granger, of...
JACKO'S SEX ED: COREY
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Former child star Corey Feldman said Michael Jackson once gave him a crash course in sex ed. When he was a young teen, Feldman stopped by Jackson's...
STEWART: I'M A MARTYR
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amLynne Stewart blamed Osama bin Laden for her conviction. The always-defiant Stewart vowed yesterday to fight her conviction, charging the Bush administration made her a scapegoat for the 9/11 attacks...
DEATH WATCH FOR PLAYWRIGHT MILLER ; STAGE GREAT, 89, AILING WITH KIN
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amFAMILY and friends are gathering around the bedside of Arthur Miller, the 89-year-old giant of the American theater, who is battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition. "He is still...
DEFENDER OF 'LITTLE GUY' TURNS TO STOOGE FOR TERROR
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amSHE'S a grandmom, Mets fan, school reformer and lawyer who has represented radicals, revolutionaries, accused cop killers, mobsters and Hells Angels. And now, firebrand lawyer Lynne Stewart is a traitor....
FAKE COP NABBED IN BRUTAL BANKER SLAY: SOURCES
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amPolice believe they've arrested the cop-impersonator who shot and killed a Long Island bank manager during a motor vehicle stop last month, a source told The Post. The NYPD and...
POSH CRIME WAVE - CROOKS HIT GREENWICH
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amA group of high-tech thieves have made a killing in Greenwich the past two months, burglarizing 15 homes in the snooty Connecticut community and walking away with at least $750,000...
THE BITTER END; TEEN BURIES DADWHO KILLED MOM
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amNikolai Ivanov stood tall at his father's funeral yesterday and shed no tears for the parent who killed his pretty mother, shot her fiancé and then ended his own life...
FORGETFUL LOVERS CAN 'NET TABLES AT HOT SPOTS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWould-be Romeos who forgot to secure a Valentine's Day dinner reservation at a romantic New York restaurant can still get lucky - at least in getting a table. A new...
HS FIGHTER IS ALSO A BITER
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amA student at a Brooklyn high school took a page out of Mike Tyson's rulebook - she bit a dean who tried to break up a fight, police said. The...
UNION PEGS B'KLYN SCHOOL FOR CHARTER
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amIf the UFT gets its way, IS 292 in East New York will house a union-backed charter school with cream-of-the-crop teachers this fall. Union President Randi Weingarten yesterday said the...
BURGLARY SPREE RATTLES POSH GREENWICH
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amA group of high-tech thieves have made a killing in Greenwich over the past two months, burglarizing 15 homes in the snooty Connecticut community and walking away with at least...
'HIT' TARGET: I KNOW FEAR
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe target of a murder-for-hire scheme orchestrated by the gambling addict he had helped out told a Queens judge yesterday he didn't know terror until the sick plot was uncovered....
'SCREAM' DEAN: I'LL TALK 'TIL I'M RED IN THE STATES
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Howard Dean yesterday vowed to spend "disproportionate" time in Republican red states as the new Democratic chairman - and Republicans said they loved the idea. Dean also raised...
SKIRTS COME 'FULL' CIRCLE; A NARROW FOCUS ON 'WIDE' LOOK
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amDesigners pumped up the volume at Bryant Park yesterday. And we're not talking about the ear-splitting music they used to amp up the atmosphere. We're talking about the increas ingly...
SAVING THE U.S. AIR FORCE - A CRYING NEED FOR SWEEPING REFORM[[
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWE need to save the United States Air Force - from itself. This critical component of our national security has become corrupt, wasteful and increasingly irrelevant. The problem doesn't lie...
MIDTOWN VENTS OVER MTA SHAFT
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amBuilding owners in Midtown were fuming yesterday over a Metropolitan Transit Authority plan to put an 11-story ventilation shaft on East 50th Street near St. Patrick's Cathedral, arguing it will...
WOULD-BE COP BUSTED
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amAn NYPD traffic-enforcement agent trying to become a cop was busted yesterday for lying to gain citizenship, police said. Mostofa Kamal, 37, who has worked for the NYPD for three...
ZONING PANEL SNUB DOOMS BX. SUPERSTORE
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amA backlash against "big box" superstores was unleashed yesterday when a City Council panel unanimously rejected an application from BJ's Wholesale Club to open in The Bronx, effectively killing a...
'GATES' KEEPERS - HUNDREDS OF EXTRA COPS WILL BE ON CURTAIN CALL FOR CENTRAL PK. ART SHOW
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWith hundreds of thousands of culture buffs expected to view the public art project "The Gates" in Central Park over the next two weeks, the NYPD has special plans to...
HEART BABY IS GOING HOME TO BROOKLYN
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amPlucky little "Baby Jordan" - his tiny new heart beating beautifully just two weeks after a lifesaving transplant operation - is going home to Brooklyn today, hospital officials said. Jordan...
TRAITOR - TERROR LAWYER LYNNE GUILTY
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amFirebrand attorney Lynne Stewart (right, outside court) was found guilty yesterday of helping the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing spread terror messages to his jihad warriors around...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - THE PLAGUE OF JIM CROW
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amFrom the 1850s to the early 1960s, "Jim Crow" laws ruled the South and devastated the lives of African-Americans. Here's a brief look at the ugliest period of American history....
EVEN DURING WINTER, COD RUNS ON EAST END
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amABOUT the only good fishing right now is off the East End for cod, and that is good news considering past winters when there was no cod at all. A...
MEMO TO CABLEVISION:; YOU CAN'T HIDE YOUR LYIN' GUYS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amIT'S not just that Cablevision has a practiced disregard for the truth; it's more a case of Cablevision sentencing the truth - even the most self-evident ones - to death....
STOKES: THAT'S NOT ALL FOLKS ; GIANTS' OFFENSIVE LINEMAN SAYS BACK WON'T STOP HIS COMEBACK
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWhispers that Barry Stokes might be finished playing football because of a nagging back problem are unfounded, and the veteran offensive lineman expects to return to the Giants next season....
DREAMING ON ; LAST-PLACE KNICKS AIM FOR ATLANTIC
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amAs absent-minded, outlandish or maniacal as it may seem, the last-place Knicks still have their sights firmly on winning the mediocre Atlantic Division. For as bad as they've been the...
STRAINED GROIN SIDELINES NAZR
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The news, as has been the case when it comes to Knick injuries this season, was not good. Nazr Mohammed, who could barely get back to the bench...
NETS STICK WITH THOMAS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe NBA is a bottom-line league, short on sentiment and big on business. But when the Nets gave 10-day contract signee Billy Thomas a seasonlong deal - no, make that...
HOW TO NAB CHEATS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amTHE news that New York, California and other states are finally testing for illegal "milkshakes" is a welcome step toward ensuring the integrity of thoroughbred racing. So are freezing urine...
SCALABRINE SCOPED, EYES 5-WEEK RETURN
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Forward Brian Scalabrine had arthroscopic surgery yesterday on his left knee, having loose cartilage removed but not needing reconstruction on his meniscus as was feared. That would have...
CARRYOVER BULGES TO 117G
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amStewart Elliott, making the most of leading rider Rafael Bejarano's suspension, won two more races to give him five in two days. Mike Luzzi also had double-bagger.FIRST RACE: Two-horse race...
NHL END IN SIGHT ; 'POINTLESS' SESSION YIELDS NO PROGRESS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe way it stands, the NHL and its Players Association are finished trying to save this season. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is expected to announce by Monday that the 2004-05...
YANKEES LET BROWN OFF HOOK
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe Yankees have accepted Kevin Brown's donation to a charity and won't discipline Brown for breaking his left hand when he punched a Yankee Stadium clubhouse wall on Sept. 3....
ISIAH'S PLAYING HIS MASTER PLAN BY EAR
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amNOT surprisingly, Isiah Thomas finds it shrewder and safer to remain above the fray. Measuring the risk to reputation, perhaps ruination, the Knicks' president reiterated his reason for leading from...
TELFAIR ADMITS TECH BOOSTER OFFERED CASH
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amFormer Lincoln High standout and current Trail Blazer point guard Sebastian Telfair reversed course yesterday and admitted that he was indeed offered money by a Georgia Tech booster, according to...
GIAMBI: CANSECO BOOK IS 'DELUSIONAL'
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe only time Jason Giambi smiled yesterday was when asked about Jose Canseco's soon-to-be-released book that details steroid abuse in baseball. Giambi was grilled at Yankee Stadium about steroid use...
YANKS DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'LL SEE ; TORRE: GIAMBI NEEDS GOOD SPRING
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amJason Giambi said he has been working out twice a day in Las Vegas, and for the first time has swung a bat during the offseason. With his weight at...
RICHIE PARKER SETS SIGHTS ON COACHING
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amIt doesn't seem all that long ago to Richie Parker that he was on the court at Manhattan Center, leading the Rams to the PSAL finals at the Garden in...
XAVERIAN'S FIELDS GETS JORDAN NOD
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amLevance Fields hasn't had the picture-perfect senior year he wanted to, coming off a sparkling junior season in which he blossomed into one of the top point guards in the...
BOARD FALLS ON SWORD
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amIT'S a fool's errand to attempt to provide rational explanations for an irrational action, yet for the five months of the lockout that's what I've attempted to do here. And...
WILKENS NEEDED TIME TO DEAL WITH MOM'S DEATH
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks insiders said part of former coach Lenny Wilkens' willingness to reach a resignation agreement when he stepped down on Jan. 22 stemmed from needing to deal with his ailing...
BLAZERS ENJOY EPIPHANNY
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amGIRLSBergtraum 88Man. Ctr. 39 It's difficult to polish off the same opponent three times in the same season, unless you're Murry Bergtraum. The Blazers completed the hat trick by clobbering...
PICKERING TURNS INTO MR. BIG SHOT
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amBOYSFDA 51Man. Ctr. 50 Elson Pickering couldn't hold on to the ball all night, so when the opportunity came to win the game, he was determined not to let it...
NHL END IN SIGHT - LATEST SESSION TERMED POINTLESS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThe way it stands, the NHL and its Players Association are finished trying to save this season. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is expected to announce by Monday that the 2004-05...
5 QUESTIONS FOR STEVE YOUNG
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN's Steve Young, who was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday. Q: What was it like to...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amTo: Michael Kay From: Andrew Marchand Re: Inappropriate Content CC: John Rocker Dear Michael, Last week on your 1050-ESPN Radio show, you kept playing a jingle that joked that your...
TRIPUCKA COULD BE GONER - NETS MIGHT PULL PLUG ON ANALYST
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amWhile Marv Albert is on deck to replace Ian Eagle as the main TV voice of the Nets, analyst Kelly Tripucka could be the next one in trouble. Tripucka -...
DOG DAY AFTERNOON? HUSKIES FACE TEST VS. HEELS
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amSunday North Carolina at UConn 1 p.m., CBS ESPN's Jay Bilas earned his law degree from Duke, so it says something when he argues on behalf of North Carolina. According...
GIAMBI IMPLIES STEROID USE WITHOUT SAYING THE 'S' WORD
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amDo you accept Jason Giambi's apology? Do you still want him on the Yankees? Vote now and tell us your thoughts! Without uttering the word "steroid," Jason Giambi all but...
JASON CAN'T AVOID ISSUE FOREVER
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amDo you accept Jason Giambi's apology? Do you still want him on the Yankees? Vote now and tell us your thoughts! HE NEVER said the taboo word. Not once. Steroids...