April 28, 2006
GOLDSTEIN READY FOR WARWICK PROXY FIGHT
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amRebel shareholder Lawrence Goldstein won a heated legal battle yesterday against Larchmont-based phone company Warwick Valley that allows him to wage a proxy fight against the company at its annual...
ABN AMRO MULLS BIDS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amUBS AG and London's Man Group are the final bidders for Dutch bank ABN Amro's futures and commodities trading business, The Post has learned. The unit will likely go for...
XM FACES PROBE, SHARES SINK
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amXM Satellite Radio's shares sank yesterday after the company reported a wider-than-expected loss and said that federal regulators were probing the company's marketing practices. XM, which is home to exclusive...
FASHION FREEDOM GIVES SHOE BIZ A KICK
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amAmerican women have developed a shoe fetish to make Carrie Bradshaw - the stiletto-obsessed star of "Sex and the City" - proud. Sales of women's footwear are growing at rates...
NYSE DITCHES DINING CLUB; COST CUTS AND $ LOSS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe end of lunch today is the end for the New York Stock Exchange's Luncheon Club. The venerable Big Board institution announced it is shutting down after nearly 108 of...
BEN ERASES BEIJING BLIP
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amHe's earned his bones in his first test, becoming Ben "Beat 'em Back" Bernanke by quickly blocking Wall Street's latest sell-off panic, - this time over China's overnight cutback crisis....
MANHATTAN RETAIL RENTS SOARING
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amWho woulda thunk that the Deuce would see retail rents rise 85 percent over the last year to an average of $290 a foot? Retailers gotta love Manhattan because according...
WEB FRAUD HUNT - WALL ST. WATCHING AD SCAMS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amCompeting cybersleuths looking to profit from helping advertisers uncover so-called click fraud are fueling a debate about the extent of the online ad scams. The problem is a growing concern...
STRIP CLUB STOCK-INGS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amFor one day at least, analysts can do business in topless clubs without worry - the publicly traded Rick's Cabaret International is holding its earnings conference and annual meeting at...
EDITOR OUT OF SHAPE - MEREDITH CLOSE TO NAMING A NEW BOSS FOR FITNESS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amTHE search for a new editor in chief at Fitness is over - sort of. Denise Brodey, the executive editor of Shape is getting the job, our sources say. Ah,...
GROUP UPS UNIVISION STAKE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA group controlled by Carlos Slim Domit, son of the Mexican billionaire , disclosed that he has purchased another $102 million worth of Univision stock just as Mexican broadcaster Grupo...
PLOT AND POLITICS LOST IN EGO CITY
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amSOMETIMES there's a fine line between a labor of love and a vanity project, and "The Lost City," Andy Garcia's heartfelt - but hackneyed and interminable - love letter to...
SPELLING ERROR
April 28, 2006 | 4:00am'AKEELAH and the Bee" is so warm and well-meaning that you may find yourself wanting to like it more than you really do. This uplifting but unimaginative spelling-bee drama stars...
IT'S ACROBATTY
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amIF "Stick It" were a gymnast, it would be Mary Lou Rotten. Rarely is a sports movie so inept that it can't even make its central figure likable. But Haley,...
FLICKS FIND GIRLS MORE ICE THAN NICE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN she was in eighth grade, tough-as-nails actress Missy Peregrym would wake up every morning and mentally prepare herself - for a catfight. "I dated this guy, and then this...
MARRIED TO BARBARIC CUSTOM
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA girl is taken away from her parents forever. Her head is shaved and she is forced to live in poverty in a house with a group of old hags....
BRIDE & GLOOM TALE IS WEDDED TO CLICHÉ
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amWERE you, by any chance, a teenager-plus during the mid- to late '80s? Did you live in New Jersey - better yet, within 10 miles of Ridgefield, N.J.? If so,...
ACHIEVING A DARK VICTORY
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amARMY OF SHADOWS [***] (Three stars)'ARMY of Shadows," Jean-Pierre Melville's taut tale of intrigue and daring among French resistance fighters during World War II, made in 1969, is at last...
LIKE A WELL-OILED MACHINE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amTHE halls they're playing keep getting smaller, and the band didn't even sell out the Beacon Theatre for its one-night stand Wednesday, but Train remains the little musical engine that...
MOSCOW'S RITTER DOESN'T FRITTER
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amTHE third time might be the charm for Josh Ritter. Not that the Moscow, Idaho, native was a slacker before, but the singer/songwriter's third album, "The Animal Years," has been...
A TONY SLEEPER - PRAISE FOR 'DROWSY' RIVALS BUZZ ON 'BOYS'
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA few weeks ago, in my column about the spring crop of new Broadway musicals, I wrote, with the as surance of a pundit who's never wrong, that none of...
CHECK HER OUT - KELLIE SAYS SHE KNEW IT WAS TIME TO GO
April 28, 2006 | 4:00am'I deserved to get the boot this week," Kellie Pickler said yesterday, and she didn't mean the embossed kind made by Frye either. In a morning-after interview, Pickler - the...
STARR REPORT
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amAnd the winner is . . . Barbara Walters will announce Meredith Vieira's replacement on "The View" during tonight's Daytime Emmy Awards, airing live from L.A. (8-11 p.m./Ch. 7). Vieira,...
WORRIES ABOUT PAULA
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amWHATEVER may or may not be wrong with Paula Abdul, her increasingly strange behavior on "American Idol" is getting her a lot of attention. Scores of couch-potato psychologists, armed with...
SHERLOCK BONES - MAGNUM RETURNS AS JESSE STONE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amHOW do you get the girl? Say as little as possible. It sure works for Jesse Stone. He's the laconic sleuth played by Tom Selleck in "Jesse Stone: Death in...
MARY'S HOT PICK
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S rare one gets a voice-mail from actor Anthony Michael Hall,original brat-pack member and more recently of "The Dead Zone " ((season five begins in June!).But the actor is on...
FILM PICK
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amTo coincide with the release of Robert Altman 's "A Prairie Home Companion,'' the Museum of the Moving Image is hosting a six-week retrospective of films by the 81-year-old maverick.This...
IT'S A GAS - HAVE FUN, WILL TRAVEL; A BETTER 'VACATION'
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amRV (three stars) 35 laughs to the gallon. Running time: 98 minutes. Rated PG (mild crude humor). At the E-Walk, the 84th Street, the Orpheum, others. 'RV" stands for "Retread...
COURT: RUDY RIGHT TO FIRE BLACKFACE TRIO
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amAn appeals court has ruled that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani had every right to fire a cop and two firefighters for wearing blackface and mocking a lynching during a Queens...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amQUEENS * A motorcycle rider was arrested in Woodside after police found marijuana on him following a high-speed chase, authorities said yesterday. Jorel Peterson, 27, was riding a 2000 Kawasaki...
SMOKE 'OUT' AT RIKERS - GUARDS FACE CIG BAN
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amCorrection officers and others who work on Rikers Island would have to leave their cigarettes at the main entrance as part of a plan to contain the jail's black market...
FEDERAL 'FALCON' SWOOPS IN ON A THOUSAND SEX SICKOS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA weeklong federal dragnet dubbed Falcon II has nabbed more than 9,000 fugitives, including 1,102 violent sexual predators - many of whom had failed to register, so neighbors didn't know...
DOG GETS HIS DAY: 25G FOR PET KILLED BY COPS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe city has agreed to pay $25,000 to a Brooklyn family whose pet pit bull was gunned down in October 2003 by cops on a housing-project roof - the same...
HS KIDS GET 'CHEESY' HIGH
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amParent alert: If your teenager comes homes seeming euphoric but is soon sleepy and hungry, there's a chance the kid's on "cheese" - an introductory version of heroin. Police in...
CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH - CLINTON HYPES NEW [HEART] HOSP
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amFormer President Bill Clinton was back at New York-Presbyterian Hospital yesterday, but not as a patient. Looking fit and healthy, Clinton was there for the groundbreaking of a state-of-the-art $50...
TRAIN YOUR EYES HERE - SKYLIGHTS FOR NEW PENN STA.
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe sky's the limit. A stunning glass-enclosed main concourse is the big feature of the new plan to expand Penn Station to the General Post Office across the street on...
BRAUNSTEIN TEAM TO GET PIX
April 28, 2006 | 4:00am"Intimate" pictures and video connected to the "fake fire fiend" sex attack must be turned over to defense lawyers, a judge ordered yesterday - despite prosecutors' concerns that copies might...
SEX-TEACH A SLOW LEARNER - JAILED FOR WRITING TRYST TEEN AGAIN
April 28, 2006 | 4:00am"Sex education" teacher Pamela Rogers is taken back to jail in Tennessee for getting in touch with the same young boy who landed her in trouble in the first place....
HACK-UVA SAFETY RECORD FOR CABS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amEven though many New Yorkers say a Hail Mary whenever they hail a taxi, it turns out cabbies are actually the best drivers on the road. Despite their reputation for...
ALIEN-SCAM FIRMS FINED
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amForty-three companies that offer help to immigrants have been fined for false advertising and improper contracts, city officials said yesterday. "It is illegal to charge a fee for official government...
'BLITZ' HS HITS REDIAL - SEIZES CELLS A 2ND DAY
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amDial "D" for defiant . . . or dumb! A day after a surprise sweep of students at a Brooklyn high school netted 129 cellphones, crafty cops returned to the...
RAPPER'S 'SHOT' AT NEW FAME
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe show must go on - even if you're shot. So says rapper Brooklyn rapper Gravy, who has plenty of new material to put on his next CD. Gravy, whose...
ACHY, FAKE-Y OLDFELLA - FEDS BARE MED SCAMS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amReputed Gambino acting capo Greg DePalma was wheeled into court on a gurney by two EMTs yesterday - but a federal judge refused to delay his trial after prosecutors detailed...
NAOMI HIT WITH NEW JEANS 'BELT' RAP - SOCKED ME, TOO: 2ND MAID
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amDon't come between Naomi Campbell and her jeans - the hot-tempered supermodel allegedly attacked yet another maid in an angry dustup over her denim, it was revealed yesterday. The hell-catwalker...
BOUNCER'S 1ST 'VICTIM' A HERO - GOT AWAY & SNATCHED DNA EVIDENCE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amIt was the one that got away that did him in. When a Queens college student wriggled free last year from Imette St. Guillen's accused killer, Darryl Littlejohn, she took...
PARENTS CAN'T WAIT FOR POLS AS EVIL PERVS STALK OUR KIDS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amWE ARE surrounded. Even on a gorgeous day, when it seems no harm can come to the children of this city, they wait. Incurable sexual predators spill onto the streets...
'VAMPIRE' PERV BUST
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA child predator with a taste for the macabre was arrested for arranging kinky cemetery sex with a computer user he thought was a 13-year-old girl in a notorious, vampire-themed...
CELL OUT - TOUSSAINT GETS EARLY PASS TODAY
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amRoger and out - after less than five days in jail. Transit-union boss Roger Toussaint is expected to be released from a Manhattan jail cell this morning, getting more than...
MOLE'S NEW SLAY SHOCKER - 5TH 'RAP' ON FBI MAN IN 'MISS ISRAEL' TRIANGLE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amAccused FBI mob mole Lindley DeVecchio helped his mobster pal allegedly commit yet another murder - by handing him the address and photo of the victim days before the killing,...
BROTHEL BROTHERS GET 50 YEARS IN PRISON
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amTwo brothel-running brothers who smuggled their wives and other women into the country from Mexico and forced them to work as prostitutes were hit with 50-year sentences yesterday by a...
RAPPER'S SHOT AT NEW FAME
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amBrooklyn rapper Gravy was No. 1 one with a bullet Wednesday when he was shot in the buttocks by an unknown assailant outside radio station Hot 97, where he was...
FREEDOM TOWER FINALLY GETS GOING
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amHeavy equipment rolled into the World Trade Center site yesterday and broke ground for the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower nearly five years after the 9/11 terror attacks. "Today, we begin construction...
SMOKY AND BANDIT - DYE PACKS STIR PANIC
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA bank robber's booby-trapped booty exploded in Midtown yesterday, plunging a busy street into chaos as pedestrians fled from the noxious red cloud, officials said. The bizarre drama began with...
HACK-UVA SAFE TAXI RECORD
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amEven though many New Yorkers say a Hail Mary whenever they hail a taxi, it turns out cabbies are the best drivers on the road, according to a new report....
NASCAR IN S.I. PILEUP - DEBATE SPINS OUT OF CONTROL
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe first public meeting on the plan to bring a NASCAR track to Staten Island crashed and burned last night after the discussion turned into a raucous shouting match. The...
THOMPSON GUNNING FOR CITY'S AIDS FIRM
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe medical firm that provides nearly a half-billion dollars in services to people with AIDS is shortchanging those who need care and forcing them go far out of their neighborhoods,...
CITY WINS ROUND IN DIPLO TAX WAR
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe U.S. Court of Appeals has refused to toss out a lower-court ruling that lets New York City sue India and Mongolia for back taxes, it was reported yesterday. Officials...
EMPIRE ST. CHUTE & MISS - DAREDEVIL NABBED ON BRINK OF JUMP
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA daredevil used a fat suit to sneak a parachute up to the observation deck of the Empire State Building for a spectacular stunt jump yesterday - but authorities thwarted...
MAURY GAL IS PRESSING ANOTHER SUIT
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe blockbuster $100 million sex-harassment suit against Maury Povich isn't the only legal battle the TV host's former employee is now waging - she is also pursuing a big-bucks suit...
A NOTCH IN MIKE'S GUN BELT - WINS ROUND IN COURT
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg scored a major legal victory yesterday when a Brooklyn federal judge ruled that the city can use federal data tracing the history of illegal guns in its suit...
'VIEW' HAS A ROSIE OUTLOOK
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amRosie O'Donnell is returning to TV - as a co-host of ABC's "The View." O'Donnell will replace Meredith Vieira, who is departing ABC to co-anchor NBC's "Today" show with Matt...
TRAFFIC STOP GETS 'RAPIST'
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA rapist who terrorized women in several Queens neighborhoods for more than 10 years was busted yesterday after cops matched his fingerprints - taken during a traffic arrest - to...
3 ON GRILL IN QNS. CHASE-SLAY
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThree men suspected of wounding another man, then chasing him down and murdering him, were being questioned early today in Queens. Victim Joseph Forbes, 23 - who had a rap...
SPIES & LIES . . . AND PRIZES FOR WARTIME TREASON
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amIF a street-corner thug knowingly receives stolen goods for profit, he goes to jail. If a well-educated, privileged journalist profits from receiving classified information - stolen from our government -...
STRIP MONEY BRAWL - DUKE KIDS' CLAIM
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amSeveral Duke University lacrosse players who were at the party where a stripper says she was gang-raped say that partygoers got into a fight over money with the woman and...
W. GETS HIS NAILS DONE - 'BUILDS' KATRINA SUPPORT
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush put on a carpenter 's apron and pounded nails in New Orleans yesterday as he helped put up new housing in the city devastated by Hurricane...
DEFENSE TO GET PEEK AT BRAUNSTEIN 'SEX' PICS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00am"Intimate " pictures and video connected to the "fake fire fiend " sex attack must be turned over to defense lawyers,a judge ordered yesterday - despite prosecutors ' concerns that...
ROGER 'FREE' TODAY
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amRoger and out - after less than five days in jail. Transit union boss Roger Toussaint is expected to be released from a Manhattan jail cell this morning,getting more than...
CITY WINS ROUND IN DIPLOMATIC TAX WAR
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe U.S.Court of Appeals has refused to toss out a lower-court ruling allowing New York City to sue India and Mongolia for back taxes,it was reported yesterday. The city claims...
'BURBS BEAT CITY IN MO$T-HAVE FASHION ACCESSORIES
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amAre the city 's fashionistas losing out to the nation 's suburbs? It 's hard to buy,but New York ranks 15th on a list of the nation 's top metro...
MAURY GAL'S OTHER SUIT
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe blockbuster $100 million sex-harassment suit against Maury Povich 's show isn 't the only legal battle the TV host 's former employee is now waging - she is also...
DAVID'S STICKUP TRICK - MAGIC FOILS THUGS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amMaster illusionist David Copperfield tricked the dickens out of a couple of gun-wielding teens bent on robbery. The crafty conjurer and two aides were walking to their tour bus outside...
14ó ONE-DAY GAS HIKE IN N.J.
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Motorists on New Jersey 's biggest toll roads are getting socked on gas prices today. Prices at stations on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway will...
GROUNDBREAKING - FREEDOM TOWER CONSTRUCTION IS FINALLY UNDER WAY
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amHeavy equipment rolled into the World Trade Center site yesterday and broke ground for the soaring 1,776-foot Freedom Tower nearly five years after the 9/11 terror attacks. "Today, we begin...
A.J. SINKS OLD MATES
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Jeff McInnis, Jacque Vaughn, Doug Overton, Robert Pack, Travis Best, Zoran Planinic, Anthony Goldwire, Chris Childs, Derrick Zimmerman, plus at times Lucious Harris, Kerry Kittles and Brandon Armstrong....
PIERCE 'NOSE' GIANTS' NEEDS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amAntonio Pierce offered his opinion, which of course made perfect sense, considering the depth of his football acumen. His Giants should go for a defensive tackle able to eat up...
MATT GETS JETS JUMPIN'
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amIf the Jets are on the clock tomorrow afternoon and USC quarterback Matt Leinart is on the board, the draftniks wearing Jets green will be buzzing - loudly. Jets fans...
ROBINSON GROWS INTO DRAFT PICK
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amTom Pugh has sent more than a dozen players to Division I colleges to play football, and he spent several years working in the Jets' pro personnel department, so the...
CLEMENS ROCKETS UP QB CHART
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amEighth in a series USC's Matt Leinart has gotten more publicity than any college quarterback since John Elway, who led the famous QB Class of '83. In a city of...
BAT TOSS GETS D-RAY PROSPECT SUSPENDED
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe Devil Rays had an even larger concern than how to stop the Yankees last night. The organization was dealing with the fallout from its top prospect, Delmon Young, throwing...
DEVILS REDISCOVERING THE OLD POISE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThey'd deserve to swagger, except they remember just how recently they were staggering. These Devils are still a work in progress, but this romp over the Rangers is topping off...
NO SOFT TOUCH
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It is stuff you've heard before, all with questionable merit. Don't swim for an hour after eating. A black cat crossing your path means bad luck. Vince Carter...
BLUESHIRTS: WE WON'T QUIT
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe Rangers huddled yesterday morning and held a meeting, the result being if any of them don't think they can somehow come back in the Battle of the Hudson against...
AT HELL'S GATE - TIME TO BE LOYAL TO RANGER CREST
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amBEGINNING with the first day of training camp, the Rangers have operated under an umbrella of mutual loyalty between Tom Renney and his players. This devotion was a necessary and...
KNICKS EYE K-MART
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe Knicks will again bid for Kenyon Martin now that he assuredly will be traded by the Nuggets this summer, but Larry Brown has also asked Isiah Thomas to target...
O'NEAL FINED 15G FOR BLASTING REFS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amNET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Already frustrated by the officiating that put him on the bench for huge chunks of the first two games, Jermaine O'Neal received another unfavorable call yesterday...
DEREK IS STILL IN DARK ABOUT ROGER RETURN
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES If Roger Clemens plans on pitching for the Yankees this summer, he hasn't informed the team captain. "I stay in touch with him, but he hasn't said anything,"...
'DEREK' ARRIVES AT CHURCHILL
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amBrother Derek, favorite for next Saturday's Kentucky Derby, shipped in to Churchill Downs yesterday afternoon after flight from L.A. Also arriving on van from Keeneland: undefeated Barbaro, likely second or...
DRIVEN TO SUCCEED - DE WILLIAMS ENJOYING RIDE TO NFL DRAFT
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThere isn't much that frightens N.C. State defensive end Mario Williams. Offensive tackles? Please. The guy stands 6-7, weighs 295 pounds, runs the 40 in 4.6, and did 35 bench-press...
JOHNSON: IT'S TOUGH BEING IN KIDD'S SHADOW
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Jeff McInnis, Jacque Vaughn, Doug Overton, Robert Pack, Travis Best, Zoran Planinic, Anthony Goldwire, Chris Childs, Derrick Zimmerman, plus, at times, Lucious Harris, Kerry Kittles and Brandon Armstrong....
GEE WIZ: LEBRON'S MORTAL
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amIT WAS Pat Riley, a decade or two ago, I believe, who minted the motto, "A playoff series doesn't begin until the home team loses a game." We haven't been...
BANNISTER INJURY NOT SEVERE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Brian Bannister's MRI yesterday revealed what the Mets called a "Grade-1" hamstring strain, which is the least severe. According to Mets PR man Jay Horwitz, Bannister had the...
BOSS HAS RIGHT TO BE UNHAPPY: DAMON
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amJohnny Damon hasn't been around long enough to feel the wrath of a George Steinbrenner eruption, but he's been on the other side of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, so he...
PACE THE MUSIC - NETS OVERWHELMED BY O'NEAL, INDIANA
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amGAME 3: Pacers 107 - Nets 95 INDIANAPOLIS - The war of words between the Nets and Pacers resumed in full physical mode last night. And the game was tightly...
ROG HAS KEPT JETER IN DARK
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES If Roger Clemens has plans on pitching for the Yankees this summer, he hasn't informed the captain. "I stay in touch with him, but he hasn't said anything,"...
YANKS HOPING MATSUI ON RISE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amHideki Matsui showed signs of breaking out of his slump last night, hitting a game-winning RBI single. The hit broke a 10 at-bat hitless streak and - the Yankees hope...
CARTER GETS TIED UP IN A BIG 'BOW
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amNET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - The chippiness and physical play that had been building in the series erupted in the third quarter of Game 3 between the Nets and Pacers here...
JETER CAN KEEP BOMBERS FROM BEING THE BRAVES
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amTHIS tells you why Derek Jeter is Derek Jeter. After going 3-for-3 and raising his season batting average to .408, the Yankees captain said he was more impressed with a...
THEY'RE BECOMING THE BRAVES OF THE AL
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amSIZE up the Yankees season thus far and two words come to mind: Atlanta Braves. Yeah, the Braves. You know them. The team that consistently wins, 90 or more games,...
KEEPING THE RAYS AT BAY - CHACON, YANKEES BOUNCE BACK IN THE BRONX
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 4 - Devil Rays 1 Half full or half empty? When it comes to the recent splendid hurling by the Yankees' starters, there are people looking into both sides...
STILL NOT IN THE WRIGHT - JARET SEARCHING FOR HIS PINSTRIPED ROLE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amJaret Wright's first 13 months in pinstripes have not gone as he had hoped. He spent over half of his first Yankees' season on the disabled list. When he did...
EAST OF BURDEN - SOMETHING TO PROVE IN ATLANTA
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Pedro Martinez takes the stage tonight at Atlanta's Turner Field, he'll be the opening act in a three-day drama that could determine whether the Mets finally pull down the...
KEITH ISN'T ALL BAD, HONEST
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amNOBODY likes an I-told-you-so, but . . . I told you so! Right here, April 19, 2002: "In his growing gig as a Mets' TV announcer, Keith Hernandez has a...
KENTUCKY DERBY PROBABLE FIELD
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amHorse -- Trainer -- Jockey -- Odds 1. Brother Derek Dan Hendricks Alex Solis 3-1 2. Lawyer Ron Bob Holthus John McKee 4-1 3. Barbaro Michael Matz Edgar Prado 5-1...
NOTHIN' LIKE IT - EVEN IN MAY, YANKS-SOX A SPECIAL SHOW
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amEven with the hype everywhere, you can't allow yourself to hear it or feel it. You can't believe that a game against the Red Sox in May is any more...
SAM HAS 'EYE' ON WCBS - SHE MAY EXIT ABC/ESPN GIG
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amSam Ryan is negotiating to leave ABC/ESPN to become the evening weekend sports anchor for WCBS-2 in New York, NYP TV Sports has learned. While Ryan is still under contract...
5 QUESTIONS FOR BOB COSTAS
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with NBC's and HBO's Bob Costas. Costas, 54, hosts the season premiere of Costas Now at 10 p.m. Tuesday. Q: If you...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amTo: Mike Mayock From: Andrew Marchand Re: Mel Kiper Jr. Commercial CC: Draftniks Dear Mike: You are NFL Network's version of Mel Kiper Jr. If things go well enough, you...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA parrot named Pepo spent five days "under interrogation" in an Argentine prison - until he named his owner. Seems two neighbors claimed ownership - and a judge figured Pepo...