April 21, 2006
A FRIEND IN NEED - FEDS PROBE $20K SKILLING LOANED TO 'PAL'
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Tsk, tsk, tsk! Shame on you, Jeff Skilling. The blockbuster assertion in the latest leg of the Enron marathon is that Skilling, the company's very rich former chief...
THE INDIAN GIVER - MALONE PLOTS SWAPPING TW SHARES FOR BRAVES
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amCable industry pioneer John Malone will do almost anything to avoid paying taxes - even, it turns out, owning a Major League Baseball team. Malone, who has little interest in...
BAIN GAINS $10B WITH BUYOUT FUND
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amGiant investment firm Bain Capital has collected a whopping $10 billion in less than three months for its new buyout fund - the latest sign that investor appetite for private...
DIGITAL DOLLARS - DOWNLOADS SOARING
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSales of digital music continue to soar, even as the bulk of the music industry's revenue still comes from selling compact discs. Two of the four major music companies reported...
REELING BAWAG FOR SALE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMorgan Stanley has been hired to find a buyer for Bawag Bank, the troubled Austrian outfit that hid trading losses of nearly $1.25 billion in various accounts at bankrupt and...
WEB AD BOOM FUELS GOOGLE STOCK EXPLOSION
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSearch engine giant Google reported blowout results for the first quarter, topping investor expectations and sending the high-flying stock up in late trading. The "exceptional" quarter put Google firmly back...
MARTS GETTING CLOSER TO 6-YR. RECORD
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amStrong profit promises propelled stocks out of stagnation to the highest level seen on Wall Street in 6 years. Blue chips soared to their 11th-highest close ever as General Motors...
NEW TOWER OF POWER - HEARST BIGWIGS LAY CLAIM TO THEIR DREAM ADDRESS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amAFTER three long years, Hearst staffers can finally go home again. Yesterday, some 2,000 employees were given their long awaited assignments in the new 46-story headquarters, where a striking glass...
VENDORS HIT HOME DEPOT ON RETURNS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A handful of vendors were so concerned about the way Home Depot collected payments to cover the cost of damaged or defective merchandise they requested a change in...
VENDORS HIT HOME DEPOT ON RETURNS: WITNESS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ahandful of vendors were so concerned about the way Home Depot collected payments to cover the cost of dam- aged or defective merchandise they requested a change in...
MARTS GET CLOSER TO RECORD DIGITAL DOLLARS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amStrong profit promises propelled stocks out of stagnation to the highest level seen on Wall Street in 6 1 /2 years. Blue chips soared to their 11th-highest close ever as...
REFCO-SCARRED BAWAG GOES ON THE BLOCK
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMorgan Stanley has been hired to find a buyer for Bawag Bank, the troubled Austrian outfit that hid trading losses of nearly $1.25 billion in various accounts at bankrupt and...
ACE: NO FASHION VICTIM
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE fashion police say the way an "American Idol" contestant looks on TV is partly responsible for him or her getting booted off the show. So maybe Ace Young, who...
SEXY CAST, DULL FILM - DON'T STAND FOR IT
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSTANDING STILL [*] (One star)AN attractive cast plays a group of sex-obsessed former college pals and lovers gathered for a wedding in Matthew Cole Weiss' relentlessly shallow "Standing Still." It's...
AMERICAN IDLE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00am'AMERICAN Idol" and President Bush have few reasons to worry about Paul Weitz's "American Dreamz," a cartoonish, unfocused and mostly unfunny satire that doesn't come within a hundred miles of...
SAVE YOUR BRECHT
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amYOU have all these stars - Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Jim Dale, Ana Gasteyer - and a classic Bertolt Brecht play with incredible music by Kurt Weill. So you'd think...
ART OF THE STEAL REVEALED
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amFIFTEEN years ago, a Boston museum was ransacked of 13 paintings, including Vermeer's "The Concert," one of the most valuable stolen canvases in the world. The documentary "Stolen" delves into...
POP IN THE GOWANUS CANAL ZONE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMELOMANE creates lush, expansive pop music, and the Brooklyn act's release party tonight for its third album, "Glaciers," should be a night to remember (not only for the guest musician...
16 SCANDALS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amABOUT three-quarters of the way through "Somersault," Joe, a good-looking farm boy, tells Heidi, the blond nymphet he has been sleeping with, that she has emotional problems and needs help....
PLENTY OF BANG IN METAL DOCUMENTARY
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWHAT is the appeal of heavy metal? "Hanging out with guys and doing dumb s - - t," says one practitioner. "It's just that simple." That fist-pumping spirit animates the...
HAVING A BALL IN INNER MONGOLIA
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMONGOLIAN PING PONG [***] (Three stars) MOVIES don't come any more charming than "Mongolian Ping Pong." Director Ning Hao sets the laid-back comedy in the remote plains of China-governed Inner...
STALE TO THE CHIEF - LAME AGENT THRILLER DOES A DIS-SERVICE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE SENTINEL Stick with "24." Running time: 105 minutes. Rated PG-13 (action violence, mild sex scene). At the Empire, the 84th Street, the Kips Bay, others. (two stars) 'THE Sentinel...
JULIA AND TONY - ROBERTS WON'T WIN BUT MIGHT SCHMOOZE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN Denzel Washington got rapped by the critics in "Julius Caesar" last year, he withdrew from the Broadway playing field. His handlers told him it was unlikely he would be...
BRUCE A TRUE FOLK HERO - CONCERT TUNES BORN IN U.S.A.
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Boss is back - so far back that his gig at the Asbury Park Convention Hall last night could have been an old-time barn dance. With just a few...
FILM PICK
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amFans of Hou Hsiao-hsien, considered by many the world's greatest living filmmaker, will be in heaven this weekend when two of the Taiwanese auteur's flicks unreel at BAM Rose Cinemas...
MARY'S HOT PICK
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSAX man Frank Morgan 's tale of heroin addiction isn 't unlike the woeful sagas of other artists;for three decades, Morgan struggled with drugs and landed in jail several times.But...
SINGIN' REIGN IN THE - LINDA HAILS 'ELIZABETH' AS FLAWLESS JEWEL
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amDespite the fact that there have been countless movies, TV shows, miniseries and documentaries about Queen Elizabeth I - Britain's first-ever female ruler - there's always room at the top...
STARR REPORT
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe son also rises Tyler X. Chang, the baby son of Ch. 2's Ti-Hua Chang, was chosen recently as the national storefront model for Baby Gap and Kid Gap stores...
TOUSSAINT SETS UP VIGILS AT JAILHOUSE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amRoger Toussaint wants all 34,000 transit workers to go to jail with him. The Transport Workers Union boss has planned daily vigils by workers outside the Manhattan House of Detention...
PARK PERKS UP B'KLYN
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amTwenty-three acres of dilapidated and polluted waterfront in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn will be transformed into a new park thanks to the largest grant ever awarded by the...
WAR STORIES OF N.Y. HEROES - 'FIGHTING 69TH' DOCUMENTARY
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amAfter a year of patrolling dusty streets, searching darkened rooms for enemy weapons and helping train the new Iraqi fighting force, New York's own "Fighting 69th" Infantry Regiment finally returned...
FINE COLLECTORS BUSTED IN SCAMS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amTwo city employees were arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing payments for summonses and property taxes that were meant for the city's coffers. Annie Staton, 46, of Brooklyn, and Raka Arora,...
MIKE: JUST DO THE DEAL, LARRY
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amNegotiations over the Ground Zero site are over and developer Larry Silverstein should immediately accept the latest offer from the Port Authority, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "You just can't negotiate...
AIDING REAL 'MCCOYS'
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amEmmy-winning actor Sam Waterston, who plays Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy on the hit NBC series "Law & Order," yesterday joined a campaign by real lawmakers to boost funding for...
VISITOR IS STARTLED BY LOUD 'GONG'
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Protocol was shattered as a protester from New York interrupted the formal White House arrival ceremony for Chinese President Hu Jintao with a shouted plea to President Bush...
CHERTOFF VOWS ALIEN CRACKDOWN
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A day after the feds rounded up some 1,200 illegal immigrants in 26 states, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed yesterday to "break the back" of companies that...
TRAM'S FATE UP IN THE AIR
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Roosevelt Island Tram remained lifeless yesterday, as state inspectors probed its inner workings to find out what made it grind to a high-flying halt. The Department of Labor was...
TRANS-SISTER BEAT MA: BRO
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amIt was brother versus brother-turned-sister in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday, where a man accused his transsexual sibling of repeatedly abusing their octogenarian heiress mom. "My mother was living in fear,"...
QNS. MAN HAD GUN CACHE: DA
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amA rap-star wannabe from Queens could be doing more than studio time - the lyricist is facing up to seven years in prison for stockpiling semiautomatic guns and ammo. Michael...
KID-BEATER EX-GIANT: I'M GUILTY - 'HAMMER' HIT SON, 12, WITH CORD
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amRetired New York Giant Keith "The Hammer" Hamilton admitted beating his 12-year-old son with an electric cord for poor school performance but avoided prison time with a plea deal. The...
HAWKS' EGGS-PIRATION DATE - PALE MALE & LOLA HATCH TIME PASSES
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amPale Male, the city's reigning raptor, has lost his shot at fatherhood for the second year in a row after his eggs failed to hatch this month, bird experts said...
GOON SQUAD - HAMAS TAPS MOST-WANTED KILLER TO HEAD ITS TERRORIST 'SECURITY FORCE'
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Hamas-led Palestinian government yesterday named a wanted terrorist - high on Israel's hit list - to head a new security force recruited from the ranks of fellow...
'DWI' CRASH HURTS CYCLIST
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn bicyclist was fighting for his life after a drunken driver slammed into him, authorities said yesterday. Arthur Williams, 45, was peddling south on West 20th Street in Coney...
PLAYGROUNDS POSE DANGER TO CITY KIDS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMany New York City playgrounds - including five in Central Park - pose hazards to the children who run, romp and swing there, according to the results of a statewide...
CABBY BACKS ALIBI FOR DUKE KID - PICKED UP NJER 'BEFORE RAPE'
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe cabdriver who picked up a Duke University lacrosse player accused of raping a stripper at a drunken house party came forward yesterday and said his passenger acted calmly and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Masked gunmen stormed a Canal Street jewelry store yesterday and made off with bags of watches, jewels and thousands of dollars in cash, police sources said. The two...
MARILYN STUNNER - 'DEATH' DOC'S DELAY
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMarilyn Monroe's doctor admits he waited half an hour before calling cops after finding the blond bombshell dead. In documents and audio tapes unearthed by the CBS-TV weekly news magazine...
GUILTY PLEA IN MEDIC'S SLAY
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amA gun-toting unemployed man yesterday admitted in Queens Supreme Court that he shot a paramedic, ending the life of a man who'd dedicated his working hours to saving others. Anthony...
FARE DEAL FOR SHOPAHOLICS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe half-price holiday discounts on buses and subways last year gave straphangers the urge to shop, MTA officials said yesterday. Lowering bus and subway fares to $1 on weekends from...
A FINE PROTEST - WILL WENYI WANG'S WORDS WORK?
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE sight yesterday morning of Chinese Prime Minister Hu Jintao being upbraided by a pro-democracy protestor at the White House at the outset of his state visit was both shocking...
'ZERO' PROGRESS ON WTC SITE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWAY TO go, guys - you just managed to set back Ground Zero another year. Lost in the excitement over the Port Authority's supposed "breakthrough" offer to Larry Silverstein was...
TRAIN-STAB CONFESSION
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amA knife-wielding psycho confessed to cops he went berserk, punching and stabbing a pregnant New Jersey woman and her boyfriend on a Manhattan subway train, authorities said. Edward Murphy, 41,...
DOORMEN, MANAGERS TALK ON
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amApartment dwellers last night faced the prospect of hauling trash, sweeping floors and fetching their own packages as contract talks between building managers and workers were expected to continue right...
'PAN'-SEARED JULIA - GLUM DAY AFTER PLAYIS RAZZED
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe smile was gone when The Post caught up with "Pretty Woman" Julia Roberts yesterday. The usually bubbly star was visibly downcast as she walked along a Gramercy Park street...
GAMBINO BOSS HEADING TO JAIL - NINE YEARS FOR GEEZER GODFATHER
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amReputed Gambino head Arnold "Zeke" Squitieri copped a plea to racketeering charges stemming from a daring three-year probe by an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the crime family's ranks and...
'RESPECTFUL' W. HEARS A HU - LEADERS AIR U.S.-CHINA DISPUTES ON TRADE & RIGHTS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that he and Chinese President Hu Jintao are now able to openly discuss their disputes "with respect" - but there was no sign that...
PUBLIC HOU$E HIKE - RENTS MAY SOAR 40%
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amRents for 46,752 public-housing tenants could go up as much as 40 percent over the next two years under a plan unveiled yesterday by the Housing Authority to close a...
'SEX' EXCHANGE'S $32M SLAP - 'HARASSED' CLEANERS SUE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange was slammed yesterday with a $32 million sexual-harassment lawsuit by two cleaning women. The suit was joined by a male supervisor who claims the Big...
$1B BOMBERS - BOSS SETS RECORD FOR MOST VALUABLE TEAM
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amNow you can call them the Bronx Billionaires. The New York Yankees have become baseball's first billion-dollar franchise, according to Forbes magazine. The Bronx Bombers are worth $1.026 billion, the...
4-YEAR GOTTI OFFER - MAY TAKE FED DEAL
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe feds have made John "Junior" Gotti an offer he likely can't refuse. Gotti is secretly weighing whether to accept a new plea deal that would put him behind bars...
VIOLINIST: CABDRIVER TOOK ME FOR 10G RIDE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe actions of an allegedly thieving cabby struck a sour note with a renowned jazz violinist - who charged yesterday that the hack raced off with $10,000 worth of his...
ROCK 'N' ROLE: MICK EYES TV GIG
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMick Jagger may bring a bigger bang to the small screen. The Rolling Stones frontman is in negotiations with ABC to play a pivotal role in a comedy pilot about...
REAL 'MCCOY'
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amEmmy-winning actor Sam Waterston, who plays Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy on the hit NBC series "Law & Order," yesterday joined a campaign by real lawmakers to boost funding for...
SUOZZI ADDS CLINTON DUO
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amDemocratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Suozzi has hired two aides with ties to the Clintons in hope of rebooting his campaign, officials said yesterday. The Nassau County executive has added Paul...
KERRY ON: HE 'THINKS HARD' OF 2008 RUN
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Get ready for another Kerry-go-round. Democratic 2004 loser John Kerry yesterday said he's thinking "hard" about running for president again in 2008 and will decide by year's end....
WAIT AND SWITCH IN 'MOLE' TRIAL
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe state case against accused FBI mob mole Lindley DeVecchio will remain stalled for at least six weeks while the federal courts decide whether to take over the matter, a...
HUNDREDS BID FAREWELL TO SHOT TOT
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSome knew him. Others were strangers, their hearts full of sadness over the senseless killing of "our angel," the Bronx 2-year-old shot dead on his way to Easter Sunday dinner....
BRAWLING WIFE PUTS BITE ON COP
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx husband and wife fought each other with knives last night - then the woman bit a police sergeant who helped break up the battle, cops said. Amazingly, the...
CAR THIEF FISHED OUT
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amAn alleged car thief tried to make a speedy getaway from cops after crashing his stolen ride on the Madison Avenue Bridge - with a headfirst jump into the chilly...
DOOR PRIZE: DEAL AVERTS APT. STRIKE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amYou can tip your doorman today - he'll still be on the job. Owners of residential buildings and the union representing 28,000 doormen, porters, elevator operators and superintendents hammered out...
AW, POOR MOB DAD - DAUGHTER TO JUDGE: KO VERDICT VS. DIRTY COP
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe daughter of one of the notorious mob cops is making a desperate,lastditch effort "from the bottom of my heart and soul " for the judge to overturn her father...
B'WAY IS MANE ST. - RUNAWAY HORSE IN TIMES SQ.
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amA bolting police horse took his star turn on the Great White Way yesterday when he trotted 15 blocks through the heart of Times Square before being collared by red-faced...
G-MAN WAIT & SWITCH - MAFIA CASE STALLED
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe state case against accused FBI mob mole Lindley DeVecchio will remain stalled for at least six weeks while the federal courts decide whether to take over the matter,a Brooklyn...
MICK'S ROCK & ROLE - IN TALKS FOR TV GIG
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMick Jagger may bring a bigger bang to the small screen. The Rolling Stones frontman is in negotiations with ABC to play a pivotal role in a comedy pilot about...
2 EAST SIDE FARM MARTS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amUpper East Siders won 't have to travel far to get fresh organic produce,after a pair of green markets were approved for 82nd Street. Community Board 8 gave votes of...
SEASON'S MEETINGS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amHere's a look at the Rangers-Devils meetings this season: Oct. 8: Devils 3 at Rangers 2 (OT) The Rangers take the game's first 11 shots, with Jason Ward giving them...
LB GRADE SOARS THANKS TO HAWK
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSecond in a series The presence of Ohio State's A.J. Hawk pulls the rating of this position up a half grade because there isn't an inside linebacker worthy of a...
RENNEY'S PLAN: ATTACK BRODEUR
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amRANGER NOTES The Stephane Matteau, Game 7, double-OT wraparound that ended the epochal 1994 Eastern Conference Finals banked in off Devils defenseman Slava Fetisov's skate, but still, when combined with...
DEVILS KNOW THEY'RE NOT CROWD FAVORITES
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Devils aren't underdogs against the Rangers, but Martin Brodeur says his team is not the favorite, either. Not with most fans, or the NHL itself, anyway. "These guys are...
ON THE TUBE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amAt least the first four games of the Nets' first-round playoff series vs. the Pacers will be televised live on Ch. 9 to avoid conflicts with Yankees telecasts on YES,...
BRUISED GIAMBI MAY SIT
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES After Jason Giambi received treatment for his bruised right forearm yesterday at Yankee Stadium, GM Brian Cashman didn't know if the first baseman would be in the lineup...
ROCKET REDUX? - ROGER MAY GET CALL IF YANKS STUMBLE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amFourteen games into the season, this is what we know about the Yankees: They are going to need pitching help. Aaron Small and Octavio Dotel will improve the bullpen when...
LOTS O' FLOUNDER ACTION
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE SUMMER-like temperatures gave the flounder fishing a boost and we are seeing more keeper stripers being caught, but this weekend it looks as if we are back to weather...
'TRAIN' ARRIVES TOO LATE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amJockeys' Guild has teamed up with group of racetrack operators (including NYRA, Churchill Downs and Magna) and other organizations to conduct campaign to raise $1 million by June 15 to...
COMMON SENSE - BOOZE AND SEX, NOT RACE OR CLASS, FUELED THE DUKE RAPE CASE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN my kids, two daughters, returned home on summer break following their first year at college, we didn't bother to try to impose a nighttime curfew. That would have been...
RED BULL COACH TO STAY
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWith Red Bull undergoing massive front-office upheaval, beleaguered coach Mo Johnston demanded that Red Bull North America exec Marc De Grandpre let him know his fate upon the latter's expected...
SYKORA'S 'A' GAME - RANGER'S READY FOR FORMER MATES
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amIt streaked across the skies of 2000 and 2001 like a comet, did the Devils' "A Line" of Patrik Elias, Jason Arnott and Petr Sykora that was as perfect a...
VAN GUNDY: KNICKS CAN 'BOUNCE BACK'
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWhile Jeff Van Gundy will be a playoff analyst for TNT, he is not ready to throw dynamite on the Knicks. Van Gundy thinks that with Larry Brown coaching the...
TIMBERWOLVES EYE MARBURY
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor said he'd be intrigued by trading for Stephon Marbury if it didn't mean a big financial hit to the 'Wolves' future payroll. Marbury is...
CALHOUN, BOEHEIM: 'DON'T EVER GIVE UP'
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWhen he got the telephone call in 2003 that the biopsy showed cancer, Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun made three calls. The first was to his wife. The second was to...
O'NEAL A CHALLENGE FOR NETS' DEFENSE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amYes, it was team defense the Nets used to frustrate Jermaine O'Neal in the 2002 first-round series and for a couple ensuring regular seasons. But it was nice having Kenyon...
PELFREY POWER HITS ST. LUCIE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Mike Pelfrey is 3-for-3 this season. Pelfrey, the Mets' No. 1 draft pick from last year and the team's top pitching prospect, delivered his third...
BYRD'S BATTLING THE ODDS, KLITSCHKO
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amIt would seem the odds are stacked against Chris Byrd. He is fighting a man who beat him easily in their first meeting, and he'll be in a hostile setting...
JINTS FINALLY GET PHYSICAL FOR LAVAR
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amNot long into his annual pre-draft press briefing yesterday, Giants GM Ernie Accorsi, a former sportswriter, quickly surmised which direction the discussion was headed. "This is not going to be...
PIAZZA ENJOYS LIFE AS PADRE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Since finishing his Mets career last season, Mike Piazza said he has since returned to New York. For him, there really wasn't much debate. "It's in your...
XAVIER IS A MANHATTAN TRANSFER
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSophomore guard Jeff Xavier was released from his scholarship at Manhattan College and will transfer to Providence, The Post has learned. Xavier, a favorite of former coach Bobby Gonzalez, was...
FLOYD, BELTRAN TAKE FIELD
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Both of the Mets' ailing outfielders were back last night, as Cliff Floyd and Carlos Beltran returned to the lineup against the Padres. Floyd had...
KAZ OPENS WITH HR, AGAIN
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - The last two years, Kazuo Matsui had homered in his first at-bat of the year. Now he's done it three straight. The Mets' second baseman had been...
VELAZQUEZ INJURED IN NASTY SPILL
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amJockey John Velazquez, voted the Eclipse Award as the nation 's top rider the past two years,was rushed to the hospital in Lexington,Ky.,yesterday with a possible fracture of the shoulder...
STARBURY SWITCHES STANCE ON LARRY
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amIn a bizarre flip-flop, Stephon Marbury's bombshell announcement about his relationship with Larry Brown was that he "made me a better man" and claimed he'd like to spend more time...
STEPH'S EPIPHANY EASES TENSION
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amIn a bizarre flip-flop, Stephon Marbury said his bombshell announcement about his relationship with Larry Brown is he "made me a better man." Trying to smooth over 82 games of...
N.Y. TO REMAIN BROWNTOWN - BROWN, ISIAH, STEPH SEEK DO-OVER
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amLarry Brown said he'll be back. Isiah Thomas said he'll back. Even Stephon Marbury claimed he'll be back. Wonderful. One day after their 23-59 catastrophe ended, the three-headed monster that...
GREAT EIGHTH - FRANCO'S BLAST FROM PAST IGNITES METS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMets 7 - Padres 2 SAN DIEGO - He wasn't old last night. Julio Franco looked timeless. Franco, the 47-year-old Met grandfather who is the oldest player in the game,...
THE WILD, WILD WEST - CAN ANYBODY OUT THERE BEAT THE SPURS?
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amCan the Spurs and/or the Pistons be beaten four times throughout the playoffs, much less in a single series? If so, does that mean there's actually an opponent out there...
N.Y. TO REMAIN BROWNTOWN - LARRY, ISIAH, STEPH SEEK DO-OVER
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amLarry Brown said he'll be back. Stephon Marbury said he'll be back. Isiah Thomas said he'll be back. Wonderful. Coming off a 23-59 catastrophe, the three-headed monster that guided Team...
NADY IS A CHAMP - NEW MET BASKS IN S.D. RETURN
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Two new Padres, Mike Piazza and Mike Cameron, will have their ex-team in town for the next few days. But even though it's less trumpeted, there should...
BELTRAN UNABLE TO FINISH GAME
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Carlos Beltran came back to start last night's game. But he couldn't play all nine innings. He said he will undergo an MRI today, which...
TUNNEL VISION - RANGERS VS. DEVILS MATCHUP MADE IN HEAVEN
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amHot vs. cold isn't the only difference in Tunnel Series IV. Devils-Rangers is Old Time Hockey against My NHL. The Rangers are the flash squad, the group assembled to take...
JETS COULD PASS ON YOUNG PASSERS ON DRAFT DAY
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThere are indications that the Jets' interest in picking one of the top three quarterbacks in the NFL Draft is waning. The Jets started out strong in their private workout...
MSG CIRCUS NEEDS TO STOP
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE strange, endless, uncomfortable honeymoon ends now. Larry Brown has to understand that. If he is indeed committed to remaining the Knicks coach, if his health is indeed the non-issue...
PICKING UP THE PACERS - NETS LIKE CHANCES IN FIRST-ROUND BATTLE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Nets just hope to keep it respectable against the Pacers if you listen to Nets coach Lawrence Frank, who is as likely to provide Indiana with bulletinboard fodder as...
COOL AS ICE - DON'T EXPECT LUNDGVIST TO MELT IN PLAYOFFS SPOTLIGHT
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amBecause of where Henrik Lundqvist is from and where he has gone, the Stanley Cup playoffs won't make him sweat. The Rangers' rookie goaltender comes from Sweden - and he...
LUCAS WILL AUDIBLE FOR SNY - EX-JET QB NAMED GRID ANALYST
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amWhile SportsNet NY has spoken with both Vinny Testaverde and Wayne Chrebet, it has signed former Jet quarterback Ray Lucas to be an NFL analyst, NYP TV Sports has learned....
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amTo: SNY Execs From: Andrew Marchand Re: Three-man Booth CC: Jack Tripper Dear Execs: Three's Company! Keep Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling together. The three-man booth works. Cohen...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JALEN ROSE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with the Knicks' Jalen Rose. Rose, 33, will be a sideline reporter for TNT's NBA coverage. Q: When you look at the...
RICE'S DYNAMIC DUO BOWS OUT IN GARDEN
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amCurtis Kelly and Edgar Sosa will play together at the Garden tomorrow for the third time as teammates when they suit up for the Jordan All-American Classic Game. "I feel...
INDY CHASERS
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Pacers have beaten the Nets in eight of the last 12 regular-season meetings,including 2-1 this season.Here 's a recap of this season 's games: Pacers 101, Nets 91 Feb....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 21, 2006 | 4:00amHe's 76, but he's still playing doctor. Police in Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., busted a man who was going door-to-door offering free breast exams. At least two women accepted. A third...