April 14, 2006
HAPPY RETURNS - HOME DEPOT'S VENDOR $$ JUMPED BEFORE AUDITS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amInternal Home Depot reports show that the amount of money one of its stores collected from vendors to cover the cost of damaged or defective merchandise rose sharply in the...
JUDGE TO RETAIL GIANT: DON'T ALTER DOCUMENTS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amHome Depot improperly deleted addresses and phone numbers of potential witnesses relating to a lawsuit brought by a former employee, Michael Davis, the presiding judge in the case ruled yesterday....
SEC CHARGES '80S IRANIAN ARMS FIGURE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission charged one of the key figures in the 1980s Iran Contra scandal with stock fraud yesterday. Legendary Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and several others...
JACKO: HELP! I NEED SOME $
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amSony effectively wrested control of the valuable Beatles song catalog from the indebted pop singer Michael Jackson. Sony, which has been in partnership with Jackson since 1997, now has an...
SKILLING LAYS BLAME ON THE GOVERNMENT
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amSeething and huffing, Jeff Skilling came out swinging yesterday to tell his side of the Enron scandal - and blamed his company's $68 billion collapse on the government's twisting of...
A REAL HACHETTE JOB - CORPORATE STAFF IS LAST TO FIND OUT ABOUT PAYROLL CUTS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amHACHETTE Filipacchi CEO Jack Kliger quietly embarked on a course to shave 5 percent off of the corporate payroll costs this year, but apparently many staffers have only begun to...
N.Y. TIMES LEADS NEWSPAPER $HORTFALLS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe New York Times is leading the widening slump in the nation's newspaper profits due to rising paper costs and shrinking advertising deals. The Times, Newsday parent Tribune Co., and...
WEINSTEIN SUES COLUMBIA OVER 'CROUCHING TIGER'
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe Weinstein Company sued Columbia Pictures yesterday in a dispute over the ownership of works by an author, whose books include "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon." The suit, filed in Los...
BEAUTY AND THE PRIEST - 'GOD OR THE GIRL': FOUR GUYS CHOOSE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amPERHAPS A&E is looking for repentance now that its positively sinful depiction of Italian-Americans seems to have passed into oblivion. And while A&E still celebrates the underside of life in...
TUCKER DUMPS TRADEMARK TIE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amTHIS is the last you'll see of Tucker Carlson with his trademark bow tie. "I'm not wearing a bow tie" anymore, the MSNBC host wrote in his blog yesterday. "This...
4GEDDABOUTIT
April 14, 2006 | 4:00am'SCARY Movie 4" isn't the worst installment of this series, which bottomed out with the unwatchable episode No. 2. Alas, there are relatively few laughs - unless you crave toilet...
ALL HEEL BREAKS LOOSE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00am'KINKY Boots," the latest in the very long line of British comedies descended from "The Full Monty," is an above-average entry in this niche genre, wherein groups of working-class people...
MIND GAMES HARD TO TAKE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amTHE prize for most sick-making movie I've ever seen goes to . . . that Driver's Ed film I saw when I was 16. The psychological thriller "Hard Candy" is...
FRIGID BEAUTY, CHILLING FEAR
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amTHE stunning adventure "Mountain Patrol: Kekexili" is like a John Ford western set, not in the master's beloved Monument Valley, but in remotest China. It's a land of rugged, 3-mile-high,...
WHEN A HOOKER IS THE BAIT
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA Paris businessman (Gérard Depardieu) calls his wife, Catherine (Fanny Ardant), from Zurich to tell her he missed the last flight. When he returns the next morning, she checks his...
MILD, NOT WILD
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amAT the start of Disney's latest CGI animation extravaganza, Benny the Squirrel (Jim Belushi) says, "Stealing is such a strong word. I prefer liberating." Let's just say "The Wild" liberates...
'IDOL' STRIKES BAD CHORD WITH QUEEN
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amQUEEN guitarist Brian May is unhappy with the way the band's appearance on "American Idol" turned out. In his online diary yesterday, he complained bitterly that editing unfairly made it...
THE BIG TEASE - PIN-UP BIOPIC WON'T TIE AUDIENCES DOWN, OR WHIP THEM UP
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amTHE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE (two stars) Thin-skinned. Running time: 90 minutes. Rated R (nudity, sexual references, profanity). At the Lincoln Plaza, the Chelsea, the Loews Village, others. Disappointingly skin-deep and...
A BAND FOR ALL SEASONS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Gris Gris, named after a voodoo spell, make it worth going out. That's because the Oakland, Calif., folk-garage-psychedelic rock act's shows are wildly unpredictable and thrilling in a jazz...
ADDED SEASONING - OFFSTAGE DUO HELP ACTOR HIT THE HIGH VALLI
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amAS Frankie Valli in the smash musical "Jersey Boys," John Lloyd Young regularly blows the roof off the August Wilson Theatre singing such Four Seasons classics as "Sherry," "Big Girls...
STARR REPORT
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amMorning story Ch. 2's new morning news lineup kicks off Monday - but whether Shon Gables remains with the station has yet to be determined. Gables was displaced from her...
'SOUTH PARK' DUMPS ON NET
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amTHE creators of "South Park" are trying to make Comedy Central executives sweat, ratcheting up the 'toon's political incorrectness this week in what appears to be an effort to get...
'CSI' DO - HORATIO'S WEDDING A FIRST FOR FRANCHISE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amMAYBE they will throw bullets or DNA samples instead of rice at the first-ever "CSI" wedding next month. The big day unfolds on the May 8 episode of "CSI: Miami"...
EURO-LOSERS - RESISTING CHANGE AGAIN
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amFROM bleeding hearts to an archist thugs, Western foes of globalization insist it cheats the developing world's poor. Utterly wrong. Thanks to globalization, hundreds of millions of human beings have...
FASO FIRM'S 'RAUNCH' TIES
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amRepublican gubernatorial hopeful John Faso, a conservative who's brought public pressure on music giants over explicit albums, is a partner in the law firm that has represented raunchy hip-hopper R....
DEPRESSION SCREENING
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCity health officials are beginning a major push to have more New Yorkers screened for depression, especially residents of Harlem, the South Bronx and Central Brooklyn. Those three communities have...
PRO-ALIEN BOYCOTT URGED
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amActivists gathered on the steps of City Hall yesterday to urge participation in next month's "boycott" for immigrant rights. In the wake of the coordinated nationwide marches on behalf of...
QNS. BRUTE BUSTED IN DOG DEATH BY DRANO
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens man faces up to four years in jail after brutally beating and poisoning his ex-girlfriend's 11-pound dog to death, authorities said. Cops were first called to George Moran's...
YANKS' $1M LOB(BY) PITCH
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yankee organization has spent more than $1 million lobbying for its new ballpark, a watchdog group said yesterday. The data came primarily from the state's lobbying commission and was...
DONALD APPLAUDS MISS IRAQ
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amMiss Universe contest owner Donald Trump yesterday praised the bravery of the newly crowned Miss Iraq, who has been forced into hiding amid death threats. "She is very proud to...
BRUNO CALLS GOV'S VETOES A REAL 'PAIN'
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno stepped up his "war" on Gov. Pataki's budget vetoes yesterday, accusing the governor of "unconscionable" cuts and promising to mobilize public opinion against...
'FINEST' LIVE UP TO THE NAME
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThey're called New York's Finest, and a poll released yesterday shows the slogan is for real, with the NYPD recording sky-high grades from the residents they protect. A total of...
N.J. SLAY A 'B'DAY GIFT'
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA depraved New Jersey man who was fixated on doing "something special" to celebrate his 26th birthday whipped out a gun and in cold blood, fatally shot a stranger in...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A 2-month old boy died early yesterday after his parents found him unconscious in their Longwood apartment, police said. Cops responded to a call of an infant...
GAWKING AT EXPECTIN' HAWKS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe eggs-citement is building in Central Park as Pale Male and Lola, the city's favorite lovebirds, prepare for the hatching of their new brood - due any time. Since last...
SCALDED BX. BABY'S MOM AND HER BEAU BUSTED
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx woman and her boyfriend scalded her toddler in a bathtub, then kept him home for six days before finally taking him to a hospital - leaving third-degree burns...
DEAD MAN ON N TRAIN
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA dead man was found on a Brooklyn subway train early yesterday, police said. The unidentified man was discovered sitting up aboard an N train at the Stillwell Avenue station...
CELL HELL OF E-BULLYING
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amBullies are moving from the schoolyard to cellphones, making no place safe for their victims, a new study says. "Advances in technology have provided new avenues through which adolescents can...
N.J. BUTT BAN OK'D
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA last-minute effort to stop a ban on smoking in New Jersey bars and restaurants was dismissed yesterday, leaving some businessmen fuming. Federal Judge Stanley Chesler ruled against a group...
HILL'S MOUNTAIN OF MONEY: $39M
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is raising a war chest fit for a president. She's raked in $39.4 million so far in a re-election race she leads by a...
EVIL ZAC MOCKS VICTIMS - 'MAKE MY DAY'
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - Al Qaeda monster Zacarias Moussaoui testified yesterday he has "no regret, no remorse," for the 9/11 atrocities, and added that the stories of the victims' pain and...
REBBE ROUSERS - RIOT ALERT WITH HASID LEADER, 91, NEAR DEATH
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe NYPD has prepared a massive mobilization in Brooklyn to brace for crushing throngs and potentially unruly crowds that will come to mourn the now gravely ill spiritual leader of...
'NURSING' PAIR BUSTED OVER MISSING MAN
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amTwo supervisors from a Bronx nursing home were busted yesterday for allegedly covering up the whereabouts of a missing patient, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office announced yesterday. An 82-year-old man...
RANDOM GUN SCANS TARGET SCHOOLKIDS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCity students have pop quizzes and pop tarts down pat. Now they'll be introduced to the pop scan. Citing a rise in weapons found at city schools, Mayor Bloomberg said...
BUSH RIPS REID ON IMMIGRATION
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday accused Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of "single-handedly thwarting" immigration reform - and Reid quickly fired back in a war of insults. "President Bush has...
FEMA WORKER IN 9/11 BUST
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee has been busted for looting nearly $1 million from funds earmarked for 9/11 disaster relief, authorities said yesterday. While working at FEMA's Applicant...
PETERSON MA LOSES $$ BID
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A judge sent the mom of murderer Scott Peterson away empty-handed yesterday, rejecting her $35,000 claim against the estate of her slain daughter-in-law, Laci Peterson. Jackie Peterson...
FARRELL FLICK HAS COMMON SCENTS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amWant a whiff of Colin Farrell? Head to Tokyo. That's where movie audiences will be treated to a new process that will add scents to the Irish hunk's latest movie,...
CONDI TEST FLAP
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe president of a small community college in Washington state apologized yesterday to students angry about a math test question that denigrated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The question asked...
WITH 2 GAY PARENTS YOU GET EGG ROLL
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Hundreds of gay and lesbian parents plan to line up tonight for tickets to Monday's annual Easter Egg roll at the White House - and President Bush's spokesman...
MOLLY'S BIG 'BREAK' - RESCUERS OK'D TO BUST WALLS FOR TRAPPED CAT
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amWalls may soon come tumbling down if Molly the still-meowing miracle cat doesn't find her way out from behind the basement wall of the Greenwich Village food shop where she's...
'HUSBAND-SHOOT' COP TRIED TO RUN ME OVER - LOVE RIVAL TELLS OF JEALOUS ROAD RAGE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe NYPD officer accused of shooting her "Casanova cop" husband nearly mowed down a Staten Island woman in a fit of romantic jealousy eight years ago, the outraged victim charged...
LEGAL FIGHT GETS HAIRY
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA high-class hairpiece company has flipped its wig over what it says are cheap "knockoffs." Brooklyn's renowned Shevy Wigs says in a trademark-infringement suit filed in Brooklyn federal court that...
WRIST-SLAP FOR DEATH DOPER - 3-MO. JAIL DEAL AFTER HIS DRUG KILLED COEDS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA Lower East Side man admitted yesterday that he supplied two beautiful and brainy coeds with part of a fatal cocaine-heroin mix - a confession made in exchange for a...
WHERE THE CELL YOU AT? - NEW PHONES WILL USE GPS TO HELP PARENTS TRACK KIDS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amHoney, I found the kids. A wireless provider has dialed up a high-tech way for parents to track their cellphone-toting children. Sprint yesterday unveiled its "Family Locator" - global-positioning-system technology...
$2M HAMPTONS CON GAL - REVLON LOOT WENT TO BUY A HOUSE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amAn assistant to a powerful Revlon exec swindled more than $2 million from him so she could buy a tony home in the Hamptons, a place on the social register...
'PIMP' MOM'S GUILTY - COPS TO LESSER RAP
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amA woman who allegedly pimped out her teenage daughters to a fat-cat lawyer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor child-endangerment charge yesterday. The mom was able to strike a deal that...
'HUBBY SHOOTER' COP TRIED TO RUN ME OVER - LOVE RIVAL TELLS OF JEALOUS ROAD RAGE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe NYPD officer accused of shooting her "Casanova cop" husband nearly mowed down a Staten Island woman in a fit of romantic jealousy eight years ago, the outraged victim charged...
BONDS 'LIES' PROBE - STEROID PERJURY EYED
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amEmbattled home-run king Barry Bonds could go to jail for perjury after denying to the feds three years ago that he never used steroids, it was reported yesterday. A federal...
'BLUES' CLUES
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCity health officials are beginning a major push to have more New Yorkers screened for depression, especially residents of Harlem, the South Bronx and Central Brooklyn. Those three communities have...
TAXI FUEL FEE EYED
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCabdrivers want their passengers to chip in for gas money. A $1.50 surcharge should be imposed whenever a gallon of gas costs more than $3, Fernando Mateo, president of the...
COP BUSTED IN TAX SCHEMES
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amAn NYPD Internal Affairs detective has been arrested by Long Island authorities who accuse him of lying on two years of income-tax returns and in a bankruptcy court filing. Leroy...
APPLE FAMILY SLAUGHTERED - CUZ ADMITS KILLING SIX KIN AT PA. HOUSE: COPS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThree were strangled. Three were bludgeoned to death. The six were members of a Big Apple family that hankered for the simple life - fleeing the hard edges of Brooklyn...
KERIK INVESTIGATION SINKS PAL
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCity Hall Bureau Chief The top spokesman for the city correction department has been ousted from his job after he was caught on tape talking to his former boss, ex-police...
CABDRIVERS WANT $1.50-A-RIDE FEE FOR FUEL COSTS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCabbies want passengers to chip in for gas money. A $1.50 surcharge should be imposed whenever a gallon of gas costs more than $3, Fernando Mateo, president of the New...
IRAN: WHAT W SHOULD DO
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amIT appears that, for the first time since the heady days of unity after 9/11, there is an overwhelming consensus in both political parties on a foreign-policy matter of pressing...
ILLEGALS' RALLIES ALIEN-ATE VOTERS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amIT LOOKS as if voters are starting to tilt toward get-tough Republicans on immigration - and those massive protest rallies by illegal aliens waving flags have backfired. Republicans are now...
COP BUSTED IN TAX FRAUD
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amAn NYPD Internal Affairs detective has been arrested by Long Island authorities who accuse him of lying on two years of income-tax returns and in a Bankruptcy Court filing. Leroy...
PENN. HOUSE OF HORRORS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amMembers of a Brooklyn family who left the Big Apple for the quiet,simple life of rural Pennsylvania were bludgeoned to death and strangled by a deranged relative,police said yesterday. Relatives...
TAXI FUEL FARE - DRIVERS EYE $1.50 FEE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCabdrivers want their passengers to chip in for gas money. A $1.50 surcharge should be imposed whenever a gallon of gas costs more than $3,Fernando Mateo,president of the New York...
SHE'S A SOPRANO TO DIE FOR
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amDon 't look at this picture too closely - or Tony Soprano may whack you! It 's sexy Jamie-Lynn Sigler - Meadow Soprano on the smash HBO mob series -...
9/11 TEARS 'MAKE MY DAY' - EVIL ZAC - VERMIN VOWS TO KILL AGAIN
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA,Va.- Al Qaeda monster Zacarias Moussaoui testified yesterday he has "no regret,no remorse,"for the 9/11 atrocities,and added that the stories of the victims 'pain and suffering that have unfolded in...
NEW FASHION 'BUG' - LIVE ROACH IS 'ICK'-CESSORY
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amBeauty, meet the beast. This season's creepiest fashion accessory is a live, bejeweled cockroach worn as jewelry - and what better place for roach couture than New York? "This really...
BROWN IN HOSPITAL - KNICKS COACH WHEELED OUT OF ARENA ON STRETCHER
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Knicks coach Larry Brown was wheeled out of Cleveland's Quickens Loans Arena on a stretcher by EMS workers late last night, with oxygen tubes coming out of his...
IT'S STRIPED BASS TIME
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amSALTWATER fishing will get an added shot in the arm with tomorrow's opening of the striped bass season in New York. It's still early spring, but stripers have been coming...
BOSS UNFAZED BY METS' START
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner is well aware of the hot start the crosstown Mets are off to. The Yankees owner does not fear the Amazin's, though, saying his team will be prepared...
FIGHT TO THE FINISH - NO TIME FOR NETS TO GET COMPLACENT
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amNETS at CELTICS - Tonight 7:30, Ch. 9; WBBR (1130) The Nets face a dilemma as the seemingly endless NBA season winds down: How do they maintain sharpness, sustain interest...
QUARTET OF GUARDS OFF TUNE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES CLEVELAND - Larry Brown said his quartet of combo guards - Stephon Marbury, Steve Francis, Nate Robinson and Jamal Crawford - sounds like a formidable group, but isn't...
DAMON: KILLER TO THRILLER
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amFor Yankees fans, Johnny Damon putting one into the right field seats used to be a painful experience. Yesterday, it was a joyful one. Damon smacked his first homer in...
PRATT SOLD ON GONZO
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amIt hasn't taken long for Bobby Gonzalez to make an impact at Seton Hall. It wasn't until the former Manhattan coach took over at the Big East school last week...
'STARBURY' AT IT AGAIN - INJURED KNICKS GUARD REKINDLES BROWN FEUD
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - With ominous and insubordinate remarks, Stephon Marbury restarted the feud with Larry Brown yesterday, lashing out again about his distaste for the Knicks coaches system this season and...
MAYWEATHER'S TRAINER BANNED
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amRoger Mayweather was fined $200,000 and suspended for at least one year for his role in sparking a near riot during the 10th round of the Floyd Mayweather-Zab Judah welterweight...
BOBBITT SIGNS WITH LADY VOLS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amShannon Bobbitt, who led Bergtraum to two straight PSAL and state Federation titles before becoming an All-American at Trinity Valley (Texas) Community college, signed with Tennessee yesterday. The dynamic 5-2...
POSADA SITS FOR RANDY AGAIN
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre doesn't feel he must pair Kelly Stinnett with Randy Johnson. That said, he sat Jorge Posada for the second straight Big Unit start. Last season, Posada...
BIG DAY FOR HILL, MATTIES
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amBig day for fans of trainer Greg Matties and jockey Channing Hill, who single-handedly guaranteed pick 6 carryover by teaming up to win with pair of huge longshots: Theresa's Decision,...
CAN'T EXPLAIN RANDY'S EXIT - NO STRAIGHT ANSWERS AS UNIT DEPARTS AFTER FIVE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 9 - Royals 3 When three Royals rapped consecutive singles off Randy Johnson in the fifth inning, it was a tipoff something was amiss. After all, the Big Unit...
'STIFFNESS' MAY BE A RED FLAG
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amRANDY Johnson came out of the game yesterday after throwing five innings and 87 pitches to a catcher whose name is not important, not as long as The Big Unit...
CONSIDERING CARLISLE - PACERS COACH EASY TO MISUNDERSTAND
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCONSIDERING the pervasive Pacers conflict (players vs. coaches, players vs. players and assistant vs. assistant) that has been going on since early last season, it's bewildering Indiana's president of basketball...
BLUESHIRTS MAKE STAAL CALL
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe Rangers recalled defenseman Marc Staal from Sudbury (OHL) yesterday. Staal was the Rangers' first-round pick - the 12th overall - in last year's draft. In 57 games at Sudbury,...
THIS 9'S NICER - DEVILS STREAKING TOWARD 1ST PLACE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amDevils 4 - Flyers 1 The first one merely saved the Devils' season. They actually like this nine-game winning streak better, because it's putting them back where they once belonged....
HOU MULLS COMEBACK
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCavaliers 91 - Knicks 87 CLEVELAND - Retired former Knick Allan Houston joined the team here yesterday to help out Larry Brown, but he sounded more intrigued about playing again...
INJURED 'STARBURY' REKINDLES WAR OF WORDS
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - With ominous and insubordinate remarks, Stephon Marbury restarted the feud with Larry Brown yesterday, lashing out again about his distaste for the Knicks coach's system this season and...
BRAVE OLD WORLD - BUT MAYBE METS WILL FINALLY END HEX
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amEven now, when ex-Met GM Steve Phillips thinks back to October 2000, he's not sure there would have been a Subway Series if the Mets had faced their nemeses, the...
5 QUESTIONS FOR SCOTTIE PIPPEN
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ABC/ESPN NBA analyst Scottie Pippen. Pippen, 40, is in his second season at the network. Q: What is the one thing...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amTo: ESPN Executives From: Andrew Marchand Re: Matt Leinart CC: Vince Young Dear Execs: More Merril Hoge, please! On ESPN's NFL Draft special on Tuesday, Hoge said he wouldn't pick...
BUSINESS BOOM-ING AT MSG - ESIASON RE-UPS, EXPANDS WORKLOAD
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amAfter being pursued by SportsNet New York, Boomer Esiason will remain at MSG Network after signing a new three-deal that will more than double the number of shows he'll do...
STREAK ALIVE AFTER SWEEP - MARVELOUS METS WIN SIXTH STRAIGHT
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amMets 13 - Nationals 4 WASHINGTON - The Mets are 7-1. Yet they almost seem better than that. That's how superbly they are playing. The Mets have the best record...
VICTOR WAS NOT GREAT, BUT JUST GOOD ENOUGH
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In the bottom of the second inning yesterday against the Nationals, the Mets had a four-run lead. Victor Zambrano walked the leadoff hitter. Then in the bottom of...
LAZY DAZE - NO BUSTLE OVER LACK OF HUSTLE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amHELP us with this one. Outside of baseball, is there a sport or game in which a requisite and common sense/common cause fundamental has been diminished and in some cases...
WOODWARD'S BAT COMES UP BIG
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES WASHINGTON - In the Mets' 13-run outburst yesterday, Chris Woodward drove in more runs than anybody. Woodward hadn't been in the field this year before yesterday and had...
MATES SHARE BRIAN'S GOAL
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe record has stood longer than Brian Gionta stands tall. Scott Gomez was looking to give his linemate a boost. With distinctly un-Devil-like candor, admitting an un-Devil-like ambition, Gomez told...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 14, 2006 | 4:00amNo fun on campus! Sophomore Jeremiah Ransom was dressed in his best ninja get-up as he dashed across the University of Georgia campus during a student game of "pirate vs....