March 22, 2005
UNLUCKY '13' - NEWS' BUNGLE DOES A NUMBER ON BRAND LOYALTY
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Daily News' botched numbers-game contest has given the brand a black eye and succeeded in ticking off some of the paper's most loyal readers - the polar opposite of...
A MAYFLOWER PLAN FLOATED
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amTHE former Mayflower Hotel site will bloom with at least 250 luxury apartments and four levels of stores by 2007, sources said, bringing life to the barren block and ridding...
BARRY'S SEARCH - ASK JEEVES BUY COULD BRING SYNERGY TO IAC
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amBarry Diller's InterActiveCorp is seeking to become the newest player in the booming online search market with the $2 billion purchase of Ask Jeeves. But analysts said the acquisition could...
TAHARI, KELLWOOD AGREE TO END TALKS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amAfter a brief flirtation, the Kellwood Group and Tahari A.S.L. have decided to go their separate ways, The Post has learned. Kellwood, which makes clothes under the Sag Harbor, Koret,...
SUNGARD SHARES POP 24%
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amShares of SunGard Data Systems jumped 24 percent after the company confirmed that it was negotiating a possible sale. SunGard, which provides software and processing services to top financial companies,...
VORNADO BACKS KMART
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amVornado Realty Trust said yesterday that it would support Kmart Holdings Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sears Roebuck & Co., putting to rest speculation that it intended to spoil the combination...
WRONG-WAY GREENSPAN STRIKES AGAIN
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amSAY what you want about Alan Greenspan (and I will in a second), but the guy is really good at one thing: apologizing. Or rather, he's good at appearing to...
LAZARD IPO SET AT $1.8B
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amBruce Wasserstein moved a step closer to keeping his job at Lazard LLC and getting rid of the pesky founding family in the process. The privately-held investment bank said in...
SEC AGREES TO FINE FOR AOL
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Securities & Exchange Commission yesterday approved Time Warner's proposal to pay $300 million to settle a dispute over its subsidiary's handling of advertising revenue and the number of its...
TAHARI, KELLWOOD PART WAYS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amAfter a brief flirtation, the Kellwood Group and Tahari A.S.L. have decided to go their separate ways, The Post has learned. Kellwood, which makes clothes under the Sag Harbor, Koret,...
BRUCE GETS BACKING FOR $1.8B LAZARD IPO
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amBruce Wasserstein moved a step closer to keeping his job at Lazard LLC and getting rid of the pesky founding family in the process. The privately-held investment bank said in...
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amBACKSTREET'S back. Ten years since the boy band hit big and five since they went MIA, The Backstreet Boys played the first of a two-show engagement at tiny Irving Plaza...
WALTER BIDS WIFE FAREWELL
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amDAN Rather stepped above the fray to attend yesterday's funeral for Betsy Cronkite, the wife of CBS News legend Walter Cronkite, who died March 15 at age 89. Rather and...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN - GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amEXTREME MAKEOVER THINK nothing new ever happens in the Napa Valley? Think again. As spring comes to the rarified region, the Valley's top hotels are all in a state of...
STARR REPORT
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amInspirational Allison Of all the inspirational stories featured on "Starting Over," perhaps none has had the emotional resonance surrounding Allison and her battle with breast cancer - the same disease...
DOUBLE UP - A-DORA-BLE BROTHER AND SISTER FOR 'EXPLORER'
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amT'S twins! After weeks of build up, the insanely popular star of kids show "Dora the Explorer" became a big sister yesterday to, not one, but two siblings - a...
ADVENTURES OF A BLOND BOMBSHELL
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amNot to sound like a Geico commercial but ... I just found out that Farrah Fawcett's life isn't all that exciting, but the good news is that Farrah Fawcett is...
'AFFAIR' TO REMEMBER
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amONLY "A Current Affair" could go from cold-blooded murder to hot-blooded underwear in one half-hour. That's how the famed Fox tabloid show made its return last night on Ch. 5...
SPRING IT ON! - SEASON'S BEST NEW SPOTS FOR EATING, DRINKING & SHOPPING
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amNOW that spring is here, cherry blossoms aren't the only things ready to break out - so, too, are the new season's stores, nightclubs and restaurants. (Which, truth be told,...
CABARET CLASSIC SHORT DIES - CARLYLE CROONER WAS 80
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amBobby Short, the suave cabaret crooner and popular New York fixture whose audience included four presidents, died early yesterday at the age of 80 in Manhattan, his spokeswoman said. Short...
ROTTEN REPORT CARD - MORE THAN HALF OF CITY DISTRICTS CALLED SUBPAR
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe number of failing city school districts has risen to more than half of all districts for the first time since the state began tracking it three years ago, new...
BLOOMBERG BUCKS HEADED TO RUDY
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amCount Mayor Bloomberg among those writing checks to Rudy Giuliani's political action committee. Records show Bloomberg chipped in $5,000 to Solutions America, Giuliani's PAC, on Feb. 28. Giuliani aides said...
TEACH 'SLAVE' TALK - SEX RAP DETAILED
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA now-suspect Teacher of the Year at a prestigious city high school asked a stunned 15-year-old student to be his "little sex slave" to boost her grade and wanted her...
FERRER REELING AFTER COMMENTS ON DIALLO
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amFernando Ferrer's comment last week that the police shooting of Amadou Diallo wasn't a crime has hurt him with voters, especially African-Americans, a new poll yesterday found. The poll by...
MY LIFE'S OVER - DAD RAILS AT DRUGGIE DRIVER WHO KILLED 3
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Long Island man who killed two teen mothers and a child while on a heroin bender in his father's SUV said at his sentencing yesterday that he was no...
FATHER, SON FACE DEATH FOR SLAYS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA father and son from The Bronx will face the death penalty for allegedly executing three men while running a New York-to-Pittsburgh crack cocaine ring in the 1990s. Jury selection...
UN'MATCH'ED INEPTNESS - NEWS READERS ITCHIN' FOR $$
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amCrying "show me the money," thousands of conned contestants stormed the Daily News yesterday demanding millions of dollars in prize money after a contest mistake turned bonanzas into busts. The...
LIL' KIM SPURNS RAP PEACE TALKS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amRacy rapper Lil' Kim is in no mood to make peace with the rival rappers who testified at her perjury trial. Kim yesterday shot down a report that she would...
STUPID CLASS CLOWN - SHOOTS SELF IN SCHOOL
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn student sneaked a loaded gun into school in his backpack yesterday and then accidentally shot himself in the thigh when the weapon went off in an English class,...
JACKO'S ACHIN' BACKO - PAINED TO TEARS IN COURT
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amAn ashen Michael Jackson limped into court late, rumpled and in pain yesterday - with a doctor in surgical scrubs just a few steps behind - before taking a seat...
TAX DEPT.: WE'RE NOT HAVING REFUND YET
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - The state is delaying tax refunds to 1.3 million New Yorkers who got their tax returns in early to the state this year, The Post has learned. Because...
TERRI JUDGE STALLS WHILE MOM & DAD PLEAD FOR HER LIFE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Lawyers for the parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo pleaded with a federal judge yesterday to re-insert her feeding tube - while her husband's side argued she should be...
N.Y. KIN NEED 'WILL' TO GET SAY
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - New York is one of the few states that does not give family members the right to make medical decisions for incapacitated loved ones without a living will....
ISRAEL RETURNS 2ND CITY - EX-TERROR TOWN
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amMiddle East peace moved forward yesterday as Israel handed over to the Palestinians control of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, once a notorious launching pad for a wave of...
MASSACRE - STUDENT KILLS 5 AT SCHOOL; 6 DEAD IN SCHOOL MASSACRE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amAt least six people were killed and 14 injured at a remote Minnesota high school yesterday in a shooting spree chillingly reminiscent of the 1999 slaughter at Columbine HS in...
JETS DRAFT TEAM - ADD PARTNERS IN FINAL STADIUM BID
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Jets have put together a blockbuster deal - huddling with six of the city's biggest real estate developers - in a team effort to win their bid to turn...
JUDGE TELLS TUG-OF-LOVE PUP: STAY!
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA Long Island judge put a Chihuahua on a short leash yesterday, barring the cute canine at the center of a custody dispute from leaving town, at least for awhile....
TERRI JUDGE STALLS - NO RULING ON PARENTS' LAST-MINUTE LIFE PLEA
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Lawyers for the parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo pleaded with a federal judge yesterday to re-insert her feeding tube - while her husband's side argued she should be...
WILL ONLY WAY FOR N.Y. KIN TO HAVE SAY
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - New York is one of the few states that does not give family members the right to make medical decisions for incapacitated loved ones without a living will....
TOT-HANG DAD GETS 22 YEARS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens man who hanged his 2-year-old son from a motel shower rod after seeing the child's mother with another man will spend 22 years to life in prison after...
PAINFUL LESSON - GUN-SNEAK KID ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS SELF IN CLASS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn student sneaked a loaded gun into school in his backpack yesterday and then accidentally shot himself in the thigh when the weapon went off in an English class,...
MOB GUY GUILTY IN BANK HEISTS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA reputed Gambino associate was convicted yesterday of pulling a string of lucrative bank burglaries across the country by emptying night-deposit boxes. Edmund Boyle, 39, could get up to 16...
JETS GO FOR THE BOMB - CLUB LAUNCHES HAIL MARY WITH $720M BID
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Jets offered an astounding $720 million for the West Side rail yards yesterday in a blockbuster deal that has the football squad teaming up with six of the city's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * Blowtorch-toting thieves broke into a Harlem jewelry shop and made off with an estimated half-million dollars' worth of gems, police sources said yesterday. The burglary at United Jewelry...
GARDEN PLAN SACKED
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amIt will take weeks or months to sort out the actual dollar value of the West Side rail yard bids submitted to the MTA yesterday by the Jets and by...
FIREMAN 'HIT' MOONLIGHT COP
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amAn off-duty firefighter was arrested yesterday for slugging an off-duty cop in a crowded Manhattan movie theater, police said. Firefighter David Gonzalez, 25, of Staten Island, hit the police officer...
DAVE GETS SERIOUS - HOST STARTS SHOW BY THANKING COPS FOR FOILING KIDNAP
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amFunnyman David Letterman began his show on a serious note last night - talking about the alleged scheme to kidnap his toddler son from his Montana ranch. "Before we start,...
$1M CAN'T EVEN PAY 2 WINNERS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Daily News's offer to pay out $1 million to thousands of duped "Scratch and Match" players won't even cover the contest's two top "winners," a Bronx father-of-four and a...
UN'MATCH'ED INEPTNESS - 'WINNERS': NEWS OFFER PEANUTS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amCrying "Show us the money!" thousands of conned contestants angrily stormed the black-eyed Daily News yesterday demanding millions of dollars in prize money after a lame contest goof turned would-be...
INSTANT AMNESIA - EURO ELITES EXPLAIN AWAY MIDEAST GAINS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amI SPENT last week in Europe watching acrobats perform. There were no high-wires or circus tents - just left-wing intellectuals contorting themselves into bizarre shapes as they "explained" the changing...
ONE-TERM HILLARY? - SENATE AWFUL FOR WHITE HOUSE RUN
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA SENIOR official in the Bush administration says he doesn't think Hillary Clinton will run for reelection in New York in 2006. "You miss all those votes" if you try...
MAJORITY SAYS CONGRESS WRONG
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Seventy percent of Americans say Congress overstepped its bounds by intervening in the Terri Schiavo case, and 67 percent believe lawmakers were motivated more by politics than principle,...
JACOBI HOSP'S NEW ADDITION SET TO OPERATE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe $173 million Acute Care Pavilion is officially open at Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx. The city hospital system "has advanced light years from where it was just a...
TEEN KILLS 7 IN HS MASSACRE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amAt least eight people were killed and 14 injured yesterday at a remote Minnesota high school in a shooting spree chillingly reminiscent of the 1999 slaughter at Columbine HS in...
TOP LAWYER ADMITS TO BRIBES
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amAn ex-president of the Brooklyn Bar Association yesterday copped a last-minute guilty plea to charges he took nearly $11,000 in bribes in exchange for lowering the sale prices on foreclosed...
MORE COPS WON'T CUT OVERTIME: KELLY
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amHiring more cops won't necessarily make a dent in overtime costs, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly testified yesterday. The NYPD expects to spend about $260 million on overtime in 2006 -...
MOM SUES HOSP OVER BABY FALL
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx mom is suing Montefiore Hospital after her newborn son allegedly fell off the scale while being weighed - and suffered "severe and permanent" injuries. Jennifer Lleras is seeking...
GRANNY GETS PLAYED AGAIN IN DAILY DOUBLE WHAMMY
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amOOPS. The Daily News has turned Lillian Diamond into a chump - again. She didn't think it possible, but the sweet Brooklyn grandma has been screwed over by New York's...
JURY CHEWS OVER SNACK ATTACK CASE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA Manhattan jury is deciding the fate of father-and-son drywallers accused of shooting a fellow worker in the head at a Greenwich Street construction site in a fight over a...
DAD WHO HANGED TOT GETS 22 YRS.
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens man who hanged his 2-year-old son from a motel shower rod after seeing the child's mother with another man will spend 22 years to life in prison after...
'SCRATCH' TOWN HIGH IN CORN, 'ETHIC'
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amBlair, the Nebraska town where peeved Daily News readers are being told to send their Scratch n' Match claims, has a lot going for it - starting with its name....
KID-CRIME AGENCY PLAYS NUMBERS GAME WITH POLS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe Department of Juvenile Justice - under investigation for fudging statistics - is adding 200 counselors to meet what officials claim is a surge of kid criminals, it was disclosed...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amSchool coaches are supposed to hang out in gyms - not from the ceiling overlooking the girls locker room and showers. But Dan Madrill, a golf coach at Parrott Middle...
BOYFRIEND SOUGHT IN BRONX SLAY
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amThe police are searching for Eric Delts, a 200-pound wannabe rapper suspected of strangling a Bronx mom in a rage after she threatened to leave him. Delts is the father...
JUDGE TO PUP: SIT! STAY! - TUG-OF-WAR DOG GETS A 'FLEE COLLAR'
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA Long Island judge put a Chihuahua on a short leash yesterday, barring the cute canine at the center of a custody dispute from leaving town, at least for awhile....
HULK OFFICIALLY GOES HOLLYWOOD
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA smash-mouth legal fight has turned wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan into "Hollywood Hogan." The name change is the result of an ongoing court battle between Marvel Enterprises and World Wrestling...
MOB GUY GUILTY IN BANK BREAK-INS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amA reputed Gambino associate yesterday was convicted of a string of lucrative bank burglaries across the country by emptying night-deposit boxes. Edmund Boyle, 39, could face up to 16 years...
THE QUEEN WHO WAS KING
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amToday's Classroom Extra takes you to ancient Egypt and one of the most powerful rulers of all time - who just happened to be a woman. When we think of...
DAVE PLAYS IT SERIOUS IN KIDNAP THANK-YOU
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amFunnyman David Letterman began his show on a serious note last night - talking about the alleged scheme to kidnap his toddler son from his Montana ranch. "Before we start,...
WILLIAMS, COACH K HAVE EYES ON RING
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - The goal is the same for both coaches. Mike Krzyzewski of Duke and Roy Williams of North Carolina are in pursuit of the national championship. Both have No....
YATES' SPRING A YAWN
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - A year ago, Tyler Yates was wrapping up such a dominating spring that he vaulted into the No. 4 spot in the Mets rotation....
ATTACKING BIG MAC - STEROIDS PARENTS 'DISAPPOINTED' IN MCGWIRE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amAs Mark McGwire began his testimony last week before a congressional committee, Denise Garibaldi thought of her late son, Rob, who idolized the slugger. McGwire choked back tears as he...
VIN EYES PLAYOFFS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amVince Carter's last playoff moment came on May 20, 2001, when he missed a game-winning shot at the buzzer against Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Carter created a significant...
KAZ WALKS TALL - ISHII: FREE PASSES WON'T STOP ME FROM WINNING
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - On his first day as a Met, Kaz Ishii tried to provide some assurance. Ishii, who's here to replace Steve Trachsel as the fifth starter, comes...
PLAYERS WATCH LEGAL SUPPLEMENTS AS WELL
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - In the new world of steroid testing, players are on their own when it comes to over-the-counter supplements and they should know what they are taking....
NO NAZ-TY BOY - MOHAMMED'S HAPPY TO SUIT UP FOR SPURS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amNazr Mohammed admits it was a "slap in the face" and that it stung a bit when Stephon Marbury and Isiah Thomas said the Knicks didn't lose much when they...
DURABLE KURT'S ON SHELF
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Already shorthanded in the paint and playing every night for their playoff lives, the Knicks were without their best inside player last night. Kurt Thomas, who missed just...
ST. RAY'S OLD COACH IS PROUD OF JULIUS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amGary DeCesare had seen Julius Hodge in late-game situations many times in the past, so there was no doubt in his mind what the North Carolina State star was going...
NEW LEFTY WILL GIVE WILD RIDE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Three questions Kaz Ishii was asked yesterday before the fourth was about his bases on balls. And it was the first answer he gave without waiting...
LEADER OF THE 'PACK - HARLEM'S HODGE MAKES FANS GO GA-GA AT N.C. ST.
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amCity ballers learn the first rule is to have your teammate's back. But Sunday night, after North Carolina State had dethroned Connecticut, 65-62, forward Gavin Grant of The Bronx figured...
YANKS BATTLING OL' FATHER TIME - BERNIE THE LATEST PINSTRIPER IN PAIN
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - The discomfort between Bernie Williams' shoulder blades isn't a headache for the Yankees because Joe Torre expects his center fielder, who missed last night's game with the Indians...
METROS FIND THEMSELVES AT CROSSROADS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amLess than two weeks before their opener, the MetroStars have a glut in their midfield, their newly acquired superstar sidelined along with two other regulars and a huge meeting next...
SPURS MAY SPUTTER
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amGREGG Popovich was talking about yesterday's firing of Paul Silas as Cavaliers coach when he described how "volatile" the NBA can be. One minute, all is well, the next minute...
PRESSURE HEAVY ON BROWN'S AGING ARM
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - The enemy isn't only the Red Sox. The enemy is also age and the injuries that come with time. There were several key reasons why the Yankees were...
'NOVA LOSES SUMPTER
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amIn the afterglow of an easier-than-expected victory over Florida in Nashville, there was no hint of a reality check filtering through the Villanova locker room. The great reward for winning...
SILAS HAD IT COMING - COACH EARNED PINK SLIP WITH CAVS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amWELL, at least when Don Nelson's coaching days in Dallas ended a few days ago his son (Donnie) got to remain a Maverick, which is more than can be said...
UMASS MAY SNAG GONZALEZ AFTER ALL
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amIn a surprising turn of events, Manhattan coach Bobby Gonzalez re-emerged yesterday as a candidate for the vacant head coaching job at Massachusetts. According to several sources close to the...
NO TIM TO LOSE - VICTORY-STARVED KNICKS TOP SPURS
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks 88 - Spurs 75 A win is a win. At this point of the season, the Knicks will take one no matter what team it's against, no matter who's...
BROWN'S FACING UP TO HEAVY PRESSURE
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Kevin Brown is not the talkative sort, but he remembers the pain. When I asked the right- hander last night to compare how his back feels now as...
ROSE COMES INTO BLOOM
March 22, 2005 | 5:00amIT might as well have been the first game of Malik Rose's NBA career. He was nervous and excited, his body and mind unable to relax the entire day. Though...