April 8, 2005
BID FOR PAXSON - THE FIRM IN TALKS TO BUY TROUBLED NETWORK
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amHollywood talent agency The Firm has been negotiating to purchase the troubled Paxson Communications, home of the family-friendly PAX television network, The Post has learned. The Firm is backed by...
ICAHN MOVES ON BLOCKBUSTER'S BOARD
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amBillionaire Carl Icahn - the largest shareholder of video chain Blockbuster - is on the warpath against its chief John Antioco for taking a $51.6 million paycheck at the money-losing...
AD FIRMS JOIN TO CHASE DEAL
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amIn a surprising move, rival ad powers WPP Group and Havas have teamed up to go after a big chunk of business in Europe. WPP's GroupM ad-buying firm and Havas'...
BRONX BOMBERS ARE WORTH A LEAGUE-LEADING $950M
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThose Bronx Bombers are George Steinbrenner's billion-dollar babies. The Yankees franchise - powered by strong ticket sales, a resurgence in baseball's popularity and a successful majority-owned TV network - rose...
RIVALS AIM AT PHIL'S TROOPS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amMorgan Stanley lost one of its top investment bankers as Wall Street rivals target the embittered rank-and-file at the strife-ridden financial giant. One major defector yesterday in the turmoil over...
SIDES SPLIT BETTING-RULE POT
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThe U.S. is heading for a showdown today over online casino gambling. Tom Ramsey, who runs Matchbook.com, an online casino in Antigua, said a partial victory yesterday over the U.S....
$80M PONIED FOR POLO SPOT
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amAn Irish consortium is paying close to $80 million for the Rhinelander Mansion where Polo Ralph Lauren has its shop. Located at 867 Madison Ave. on the southeast corner of...
PUBLISHER GOES OFF RADAR - ZUCKERMAN BRINGS IN EXEC TO 'HELP' LINDA SEPP
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amRUMORS were swirling that Radar magazine - which is slated for May 24 - is going into the final weeks before its launch with an absentee publisher. The Maer Roshan-edited...
MIDTOWN LOT GOES ON BLOCK
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA 42nd Street development site that Gov. George Pataki envisions as a convention hotel gateway to an expanded Javits Center is going on the block. Landowner Larry A. Silverstein is...
CSFB STEALS MORGAN EXEC
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amMorgan Stanley lost one of its top investment bankers as Wall Street rivals target the embittered rank-and-file at the strife-ridden financial giant. One major defector yesterday in the turmoil over...
BETTING JUST GOT BETTER IN THE U.S.
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThe U.S. is heading for a showdown today over online casino gambling. Tom Ramsey, who runs Matchbook.com, an online casino based in the Caribbean nation of Antigua, said a partial...
STARR REPORT
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amSunday sniping Francis Ford Coppola is hopping mad at Paramount for turning his "Godfather" into a violent video game. Coppola, appearing on AMC's "Sunday Morning ShootOut" this Sunday (11 a.m.),...
WHINE AND CHEESE; NANNY FINDS YOUNG HUNK, BUT FEW LAUGHS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00am"Living With Fran" Tonight at 8:30 on The WB/Ch. 11 (one star) WHAT do you get if you combine a smarmy premise like the "hilarious" discomfort caused when the 20-something,...
HIGH AND DRY; SEA-SALVAGE ACTION YARN TAKES A DIVE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amSAHARA (two stars) Sand trap.Running time: 124 minutes Rated PG-13 (action violence) At the Ziegfeld, the Empire, the Lincoln Square, others. THE director of the desert adventure "Sahara" began shaping...
GET READY TO LOSE YOUR LUNCH
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA HOLE IN MY HEART (three stars) Distasteful winner.In Swedish, with English subtitles. Running time: 98 minutes. Not rated (perversity galore). At the Cinema Village, 12th Street, east of Fifth...
BART NOT VOLGA
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amWHO knew Homer Simpson spoke Russian. A Moscow court spent several days watching episodes of "The Simpsons" before rejecting claims the show is "morally degenerate" and could lead kids to...
A STUDY IN THE POLITICS OF RAGE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amTHE FRIEND ½ (three and a half stars) Taut 9/11 mystery.Running time: 105 minutes. Unrated (profanity, sexual situations). At the Village East, Second Avenue and 12th Street. A chilling, tense...
KING 'KUNG'
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amKUNG FU HUSTLE ½ (three and a half stars) Don't miss it.Running time: 99 minutes. Rated R (strong stylized action and violence). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square and the...
LONG & LONELY 'WINTER'
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amWINTER SOLSTICE (three stars) Broken-hearted boys.Running time: 90 minutes. Rated R (profanity). At the Clearview First and 62nd and the Angelika. 'WINTER Solstice" is a well-built machine that dunks you...
THREE DON'T SEE 'EROS' OF THEIR WAYS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amEROS (one star) Three strikes.In English, Mandarin and Italian, with English subtitles. Running time: 108 minutes. Rated R (sexuality, including full-frontal nudity). At the Sunshine, Houston Street and Second Avenue....
FOUL BALL: BUSH-LEAGUER WON'T KNOCK YOUR SOX OFF
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amFEVER PITCH (two stars) More of a double than a home run. Running time: 98 minutes. Rated PG-13 (crude and sexual humor). At the Empire, the Loews 84th and Broadway,...
'POND' FLOATS; CREAKY PLAY IS SAVED BY JONES & CO.
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amON GOLDEN POND ½ (two and a half stars)Cort Theatre, 138 W. 48th St. (212) 239-6200. A voice is a terrible thing to waste - particularly when it's the voice...
'ANATOMY' TOO GOOD TO MOVE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amTWO of ABC's best dramas are battling it out for TV's most desirable time period - the 10-11 hour following megahit "Desperate Housewives" on Sunday nights. Producer David E. Kelley's...
'SUENO' ADDS TO GRAHAM WEIGHT
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amMARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANYCity Center, 55th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues; (212) 581-1212. Season runs through April 17. HOW to add to an icon? It's a little like offering...
AN EXPLOSION THAT'S GOOD
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Blues Explosion rehearsed early this week at drummer Russell Simins' junk-filled studio in Chelsea. The three members - frontman Jon Spencer, guitarist Judah Bauer and Simins - had a...
LEFT MAROONED
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amMAROON 5 IN their first New York City show after being crowned Best New Art ist at the Grammys, the guys from Maroon 5 found themselves stranded on Radio City...
MTV KICKS INTO OVERDRIVE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amNOW that MTV largely devotes its prime viewing hours to original programming such as "The Osbournes" and "The Real World," the station is giving music yet another niche outlet. On...
BOB SQUAD - FIRST NEW 'SPONGE' IN 1 ½ YRS.
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Krusty Krab is reopening for business. The fourth season of Nickelodeon 's "SpongeBob SquarePants " premieres Friday, May 6 - the first time in a year-- and-a-half that new...
PUSSY: I DIDN'T WALLOP 'CRAZY' GIRL
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThespian thug Vincent Pastore, who played "Big Pussy" on the "The Sopranos," claims he never laid a hand on his petite actress girlfriend - who police say sustained devastating injuries...
L.I. WORK DUO ELECTROCUTED
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amTwo Long Island construction workers were electrocuted last night when their scaffolding struck a high-voltage wire, Nassau County cops said. The men, whose names were withheld pending notification of relatives,...
WOMAN KILLED IN MAD. AVE. HIT-RUN
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver last night as she tried to cross an Upper East Side street, police said. The woman was walking across Madison Avenue at...
LANCE GIVES APPLE BID A PEDAL-PUSH
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amLance Armstrong is back on track behind the city's bid to land the 2012 Olympics, and to prove it, he took his bicycle on a spin around Central Park yesterday....
VATICAN CITY NOW ONE BIG CAMPGROUND
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amROME - Vatican City has transformed into Tent City. And Rome has become a vast, unwashed slumber party, as a dizzying number of pilgrims in mourning - more than a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amAn Indiana man who went to bail his brother-in-law out of jail was locked up himself after he handed cops a wad of cash that reeked of marijuana. "I noticed...
ELEVATOR ORDEAL HAS EERIE ECHO
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThe nightmarish tale of a Chinese-food deliveryman being stuck in an elevator - unnoticed for 3½ days - stunned New Yorkers, but for one man, it struck closer to the...
KIN: MOM LEFT BABY AND FLED
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA young mother abandoned her infant daughter in the stairwell of a Manhattan apartment building Wednesday night because her new boyfriend had told her he didn't want the baby around,...
GOOD LUCK STICKS TO LUCKY CHAP
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amSteven Jacobs, the lucky chap who avoided a stray bullet when he bent over to pick up a dropped lip balm, just got luckier - for the free plug he...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** (lcf) A pedicab driver was being questioned by cops last night after he fought with a yellow cab driver near Rockefeller Center, police said. Cabby Jalloh Abubakarr, 27,...
DAD DIDDY TO PAY 21G IN SUPPORT
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThe ex-girlfriend of rap mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs will get thousands of dollars in child support owed her for their son - but not as much as she had...
OUT-OF-STATE GAY MARRIEDS GET CITY PERKS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThe city will recognize gay marriages legally performed in Massachusetts, Canada and elsewhere, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday. The election-year bombshell came in a letter, which was made public, from one...
ISRAEL FEARS JEWS' RALLY
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's security officials are bracing for a rally by Jewish militants on Jerusalem's Temple Mount Sunday - which they fear could turn into an attack on Muslims at...
HAIR'S MELISSA ; SHE'S ON THE GROW AFTER BOLDLY BALD PERFORMANCE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amHair ye, hair ye! Melissa Etheridge is bouncing back from her gutsy battle with breast cancer and lookin' good. The rocker's blond locks are growing in after being lost during...
SCHOOL 'CONFLICT' WORKER FINED 1G
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA former school custodian has been fined $1,000 for using government resources for a private tutoring service he ran on the side. Officials said Rivington Powery, custodian at PS 80-R...
SUBWAY IN SMOKY CHAOS; * 600 STRANDED IN TUNNELS * POWER BLAZE LATEST FOUL-UP
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amHundreds of terrified subway riders were trapped on four trains for nearly two hours yesterday after a transformer exploded and filled the tunnels with smoke, crippling the A, B, C...
RHUBARB OVER FOODIE'S RECIPE FOR THE PLEDGE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amFamed food critic Mimi Sheraton stirred the pot at Columbus HS in The Bronx Wednesday when she omitted the words "under God" while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance over the...
SNAIL'S PACE ANGERS GROUND ZERO VISITORS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amVisitors at Ground Zero yesterday - tourists and New Yorkers alike - said it's a shame that 3½ years after the 9/11 attacks, the hallowed grounds remain largely undeveloped. Roger...
DIGNITARIES COP LUXURIOUS DIGS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amU.S. VIPs attending Pope John Paul's funeral have scored some nice places to stay, even though many pilgrims are being forced to camp out. President Bush is staying at Villa...
A DODD-AWFUL DEED; CHUCK RIPS DEM'S '$NEAK ATTACK' ON PREZ COPTER
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A seething Sen. Charles Schumer charged yesterday that fellow Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd's brazen attempt to derail a big New York contract for the Marine One helicopter is...
B'KLYN SCHOOL FIGHT BECOMES NEAR-RIOT
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amFight fever gripped Brooklyn's Canarsie HS yesterday when a lunch-hour battle between two youths snowballed into a melee involving a dozen teens, officials said. Cops charged the main combatants, a...
UNEASY RIDERS VENT FURY
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amNot again! That's what angry, frustrated subway riders were saying after spending another day scrambling to get around the city when a transformer fire crippled service on four lines and...
FIRE PHONY'S DODGY CHARITY
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA former civilian FDNY official raised money for a questionable 9/11 charity with a smokescreen of lies and phony props, including a fake link to former mayor Rudy Giuliani, a...
ANGRY DAD 'ABDUCTS' DAUGHTER'S PAL
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThe son of a New Jersey mayor was accused yesterday of abducting a Staten Island teen at knifepont and taking him on a two-hour terror ride to force the youth...
2 UNLUCKY KIDS IN 'TERROR' NET
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amTwo New York girls were busted on immigration charges last month after stumbling onto the radar of federal agents investigating suicide-bomber recruiters, The Post has learned. The unidentified 16-year-old Muslim...
SLAY BEAU IS GUILTY
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA SUNY student who was worried his pregnant girlfriend would end his playboy ways by having his baby was convicted yesterday of murdering her. A Manhattan state Supreme Court jury...
'ILLEGAL ALIEN' RING BUSTED UP
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThe feds have busted four leaders of an international alien-smuggling ring whose operation stretched from the Caribbean to the United States, authorities said yesterday. A two-year undercover probe by agents...
BIG APPLE A BIG SPENDER TO LOBBY D.C.
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New Yorkers spent more than $1.1 billion to lobby Uncle Sam over the past seven years - more than companies and groups in any other state, a new...
ROYAL FAREWELL FOR PRINCE OF CHURCH
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amPope John Paul II will bring the world together one last time today as four kings, five queens, 70 presidents and a global television audience unite for his funeral. Rank-and-file...
HERPES GAL SUES NFL STAR QB
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA Georgia woman says Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick knowingly infected her with herpes. Sonya Elliot is suing Vick, 24, for negligence and battery for allegedly giving her the disease...
PARK RAPIST GETS 25 YRS.
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA career criminal pleaded guilty yesterday to raping an elderly woman and viciously beating a younger woman in Prospect Park. Bennie Hogan - whose rap sheet spans more than three...
CRACK THE WHIP ; FED-UP POLS WANT ACTION ON WTC NOW
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amLeading public officials yesterday demanded that Gov. Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg pick up the snail-like pace of rebuilding Ground Zero. "It has really got to move on. People have got...
BEAU: I BEAT HER, BUT DIDN'T TORTURE HER
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA wealthy aspiring soap-opera actor yesterday admitted to hitting and slapping his girlfriend, but denied torturing her. Taking the stand in his own defense against charges he kidnapped and assaulted...
CRASH MIRACLE; 'BORN-AGAIN' DRIVER SURVIVES FIERY DEATH COLLISION ON THE BELT
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA born-again Christian in an SUV - whose license plate read "I M SAVED" - miraculously survived a fiery collision yesterday that killed a retired firefighter who was going the...
HOME ALONE BUT NOT WITH M.J. - MAID CLAIMS SHE SPIED JACKO MOLESTING YOUNG MACAULAY IN NEVERLAND RANCH ROMP
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - A former Michael Jackson maid rocked the Pop King's child-sex trial yesterday by making the first public claim that Jacko groped child star Macaulay Culkin during...
HARLEM HOUSING HUBBUB
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amChanting, "Fight, fight, fight, housing is a right," residents of a Harlem building yesterday called on federal officials to scrap plans to auction the subsidized-housing site to real-estate developers. Tenants...
NO BOOT FOR 'FRIENDLY' JUDGE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge presided over an $80 million personal-injury lawsuit in which the plaintiff was a close friend - a fact the judge never mentioned to the defendant in the...
ROYAL ADIEU FOR CHURCH'S PRINCE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amPope John Paul II will bring the world together one last time today as four kings, five queens, 70 presidents and a global television audience unite for his funeral. Rank-and-file...
EX GRILLED IN MURDER
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens woman was found stabbed to death inside her apartment yesterday, and cops are questioning her ex-boyfriend, police said. A neighbor discovered the body of Stacy Sapir, 48, at...
HOME BUT NOT ALONE WITH M.J.; MAID CLAIMS SHE SPIED JACKO MOLESTING YOUNG MACAULAY IN NEVERLAND RANCH ROMP
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's former maid rocked his kiddie-sex trial yesterday - by making the first public claim that Jacko groped then-child star Macaulay Culkin during an early-1990s...
JUDGE TOOK PAL'S CASE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge presided over an $80 million personal-injury lawsuit in which the plaintiff was her close friend - a fact she never mentioned to the defendant in the six...
LIVERY CAB HITS MOM & TODDLER
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA livery cab in Brooklyn struck a 19-year-old woman and sent her 3-year-old son flying 20 feet last night - but miraculously neither was badly hurt, cops said. Mother and...
2 KIDS TANGLED IN 'TERROR' NET
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amTwo teenage New York girls are in prison as illegal aliens after stumbling into a federal probe of recruiters trying to sign up homicide bombers, The Post has learned. The...
KIN: MOM LEFT TOT AND FLED
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA young mother abandoned her infant daughter in the stairwell of a Manhattan apartment building because her new boyfriend had told her he didn't want the baby around, the woman's...
POWER LINE KILLS 2 L.I. WORKERS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amTwo Long Island construction workers were electrocuted last night when their scaffolding struck a high-voltage wire, Nassau County cops said. The men, whose names were withheld pending notification of relatives,...
WORLD OF LOVE - OUTPOURING OF EMOTION AS NATIONS MOURN
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amIn every corner of the world - from the biggest cities to a tiny, remote island - the faithful gathered to mourn John Paul II as he was laid to...
MAGIC 'SPELL' UNITES BUSH AND CHIRAC
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThanks to the Vatican's protocol and the French spelling of United States, President Bush and the first lady found themselves sharing VIP seats today with an unlikely couple: French President...
THE PRINCES AND PAUPERS OF THE WORLD FLOCK TOGETHER TO SHOW LOVE FOR THEIR GOOD SHEPHERD
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amVATICAN CITY - It was a funeral grand enough for a king. And good enough for a pauper. Under the open sky, on a terrace of a basilica filled with...
SCULPTOR RECALLS STRUGGLE TO CAPTURE POPE'S EXPRESSION
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amAS THE 12 pallbearers gently held aloft the simple coffin in the sun- kissed square, Mieczyslaw Partyka Karol said in almost a whisper: "I feel I know him intimately." Karol,...
FISH RAIN SUPREME
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amMOTHER NATURE has not been playing nice. She has been sending storms one weekend after another that have turned creeks into rivers and rivers into destructive walls of water. New...
CABLEVISION UP TO USUAL TRICKS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amDO YOU think that any one, at this point, needs reminding that the closest Cablevision comes to the truth is half way? Heck, Cablevision fibs like a five-year-old. Its latest...
MANNING WANTS SHOCK IN SYSTEM
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amIn keeping with his new role as the unquestioned starting quarterback from Day 1, Eli Manning has taken it upon himself to call Jeremy Shockey, the missing tight end who...
BOSS' 'BELLAMY' BIG
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA week after Nick Zito's entry of High Fly and Noble Causeway ran their way into the Kentucky Derby by finishing 1-2 in the Florida Derby, another highly regarded Zito...
DISABLED LIST STINT LIKELY FOR CAMERON
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - It's looking as if Mike Cameron may be headed to the disabled list. Cameron missed his third straight game yesterday due to left wrist tendinitis and...
BACK KOS FALDO
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - Nick Faldo, a two-time Masters winner, pulled out of this year's tournament with a pulled muscle in his back, which he described as a "niggling problem." "It's...
NEWARK ARENA HAS UNIQUE LOOK
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amA massive 60 by 90 video screen as well as cylindrical glass lobbies will be the major exterior features of the Devils' Newark Arena, which is scheduled to open September,...
JETER DECISION ON HOLD
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Brian Cashman will wait until Joe Torre talks to Derek Jeter today before knowing if the Yankee captain will start tonight against the Orioles at the Stadium. "I...
A.P. SLEW EARNS DIPLOMA
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amBesides Wood Memorial, tomorrow's 10-race card features two other stakes: Grade 1, $350,000 Carter Handicap and Grade 3, $150,000 Bay Shore, which lured unbeaten, California-based colt Lost in the Fog,...
NETS CUT TO CHASE - END-OF-SEASONSWEEP WON'TGUARANTEE 8THPLAYOFF SPOT
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThe Nets know that even if they win out and sweep their remaining games, they are assured of nothing without a little cooperation from the teams they're chasing for an...
WRIGHT OF SPRING ; JARET LIKES NEW START WITH YANKS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amJaret Wright shot his father a quizzical glance. Clyde, a former big-league pitcher, was telling reporters he always thought his son would pitch for the Yankees. Clyde didn't give a...
MERCER WANTS TO COME BACK, TOO
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES Richard Jefferson has said he'll be back for the final game or two if the Nets are still in the playoff hunt. He might not be alone. Ron...
STEPH KNEEDS TO REST, WILLIAMS SAYS
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Stephon Marbury's play this season has been affected by an annoying knee ailment, Herb Williams acknowledged yesterday for the first time. Marbury has periodically missed practices - but...
CAVALIER ATTITUDE ; NEW OWNER HAS TEAM IN FREE-FALL
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amHOW STUPID would it be to swap jockeys in the backstretch of a winnable race? Not nearly as dumb, I submit, as switching ownership, coaches and point guards (and back...
GLOOM & DOOM - WET CONDITIONS HAVE MANYTREADING WATER IN AUGUSTA
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The golf gods had to be grinning yesterday over the evil trick they played on those competing in the 2005 Masters. For three days, the weather here had...
ROUND ONE TO VIJAY
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - For some reason it's difficult to accept Vijay Singh as the best player in golf right now. Maybe it's because for so long Tiger Woods was the king...
KNICKS KNEED HEALTHY STEPHON: HERB
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Herb Williams acknowledged yesterday for the first time Stephon Marbury's knee pain affected his season. Marbury has periodically missed practices but never once sat out a game. The...
MASTER OF DISASTER
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Billy Casper said he wanted to make his way around Augusta National "one last time" as a Masters competitor and former champion. "This is it," the 73-year-old Casper...
RAIN IN THE GRASS ; WEATHER-SOAKED FIELD CAN'T FINISH FIRST ROUND
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - This couldn't have been what the powers at Augusta National had in mind for the opening round of the Masters yesterday. Not when the story of the day...
NICKLAUS STRUGGLES AFTER STRONG START
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - Jack Nicklaus' son Steve, who lost his 17-month-old son in a hot tub accident last month but talked his dad into playing the Masters this week,...
KIDD KICKS KNICKS - LEADS NETS' WINOVER 'BAD TEAM'
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amNets 110Knicks 98 First, Jason Kidd crushed the Knicks with his play last night. Then he killed them with his words. Asked if he gets excited and gets up to...
KNICK RALLY COMES TOO LATE . . . AGAIN
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amNot again. In what is becoming their new trend, the Knicks start to play hard only after being on the verge of humiliation. They are fooling nobody, not even the...
KIDD COMMENT MAY BE KNICKS 'BAD' MEDICINE
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amNothing has awoken the Knicks from their slumber since Jan. 1. Maybe Jason Kidd's kicking-a-dog-when-it's-down remark last night will do the trick. The Knicks had long boarded their bus headed...
SCALABRINE KEEPS ON GIVING
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES It was Christmas for Brian Scalabrine last night. "I'm more of a giver than a receiver. Christmas time, I like giving gifts rather than receiving them. Any time...
KIDD KICKS KNICKS - LEADS NETS' WIN OVER 'BAD TEAM'
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amNets 110 Knicks 98 First, Jason Kidd killed the Knicks with his play. Then he buried them with his words. After he recorded the 66th triple double of his career,...
ERNIE'S TIME - WADKINS LIKES ELS' CHANCES TO CAPTURE GREEN JACKET
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amToday's Fab Four of golf - Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els - have their fair share of green jackets. Woods has three, while Singh and Mickelson...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JOE MORGAN
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with Hall of Famer Joe Morgan. Morgan, 61, analyzed both Randy Johnson's and Pedro Martinez' New York debuts. Q: Given their ages,...
KAY NOT LAUGHING AT PRANK - THREATENS TO QUIT RADIO GIG, GETS PRODUCER RE-ASSIGNED
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amAfter an April Fool joke went awry, Michael Kay threatened to quit his 1050-ESPN radio program if his producer was not re-assigned, NYP TV Sports has learned. Last Friday, on...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amTo: Elliott Spitzer, N.Y. Attorney General, gubernatorial hopeful From: Andrew Marchand Re: Mets/Time-Warner CC: Jesse James Dear Mr. Attorney General: If you want to pick up some gubernatorial votes, then...
NO ALARM - BOMBERS KEEP FAITH IN RIVERA
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amMariano Rivera has rebounded from every crisis in his Hall of Fame career because of his mental toughness and a confidence level matched by nobody. Now, Rivera is faced with...
WILLIE'S UPHILL BATTLE GETS MORE DIFFICULT
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - The hot new slogan is "Next Year is Now." The cold reality is "Last Year Hasn't Ended." Willie Randolph is fast learning that changing pitchers or lineups is...
UP-AND-DOWN DEBUT FOR ISHII
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - If you want to know how Kaz Ishii pitched yesterday, it would probably depend on which inning you were watching. Take a look at the first or second...
SWEPT METS ARE LEFT SEEING RED - DISTURBING LOSS SEALS 0-3 START
April 8, 2005 | 4:00amREDS 6 METS 1 CINCINNATI - Nobody's panicking and everybody remains optimistic. But one of these days, it'd be nice to see the Mets actually win a game. Three games...