April 27, 2001
DEATH HOUSE FINDS A BUYER
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amONE of Manhattan's more bizarre crime scenes is going to contract. Sources say a buyer has been found for Irene Silverman's 12,500-square- foot house following two major price cuts. After...
BOTTEGA SET TO DROP LINE OF CLOTHING
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amLuxury leather goods house Bottega Veneta may be discontinuing its ready-to-wear collection. Gucci's Tom Ford is considering pulling the plug on Bottega's ready-to-wear line, based on its high cost and...
WEBVAN CUTS JOBS, NAMES NEW CEO
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amVirtually out-of-business virtual grocer WebVan revealed plans to save the company yesterday - which included slashing 835 jobs. The housewives' Kozmo also named former COO Robert Swan as its new...
IMF: SLOW U.S. GROWTH WILL HURT OTHERS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amA gloomy report by the International Monetary Fund predicted yesterday that the economic malaise that has swept the U.S. will spread throughout the world this year, and conditions could get...
S&W DRAWS DOWN ON MAGNUM HOT SAUCE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amSales-wrecked Smith & Wesson is hoping to make ends meet by selling golf putters, teddy bears and hot sauce under its legendary brand name. With handgun sales down by half...
NASDAQ TO SELL ITSELF ; BATTERED EXCHANGE OFFERS SHARES
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amYou wanna piece of me? Investors who lost billions in the recent tech market crash will now be able to own a piece of the market that set them up...
PRUDENTIAL PULLS OUT OF WINDY CITY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amIt's a helluva town - unless you're Prudential Securities. Pru began a new chapter in its exodus out of Chicago yesterday, jettisoning four of five institutional equity sales trader positions...
LARRY BAGS WTC ; SILVERSTEIN $3.21B BID WINS TOWERS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amLarry Silverstein, who told The Post he "lusted" after the World Trade Center, can take his $3.21 billion baby home with him. Climaxing weeks of tense negotiations with the Port...
J.LO DEBUTS LINE; WILL LICENSE FRAGRANCE AND COSMETICS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amNot only will you be able to buy J.Lo by Jennifer Lopez clothes soon - you'll be able to buy her perfume and make-up, too. Andy Hilfiger disclosed the new...
TIME INC.'S BUYOUT PLAN SLOWED BY SNAGS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe Time Inc. buyout packages for those 50 years old and above have been delayed by several weeks and now will not be offered until late May, several inside sources...
THE STARR REPORT
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amGiff's riff has whiff of wishful thinkingKathie Lee Gifford might think of herself as a possible replacement for Rosie O'Donnell - but apparently she seems to be the only one...
BATTY TRUTH ABOUT BASEBALL; GREAT YANKEE RIVALRY MADE CRYSTAL CLEAR
April 27, 2001 | 4:00am"61*" HBO on Saturday at 9 BASEBALL to me is a game where the most exciting thing that can happen is nothing - no hits, no runs, no nothing. When...
'DRIVEN' DESERVES TO CRASH AND BURN
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amDRIVEN Comically corny and crude speedway drama.Running time: 117 minutes. Rated PG-13 (car crashes). At the 42d Street E Walk, the Ziegfeld, the Union Square, others. EVEN by the standards...
A 'NIGHT' TO FORGET
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amONE NIGHT AT McCOOL'SHalf a star Unfunny, unsexy dark comedy.Running Time: 93 minutes. Rated R (violence, sex, language). At the AMC Empire 25, the Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others....
'TOM' IS A TALE FOR KIDS ; MUSICAL'S PLEASANT BUT UNEXCEPTIONAL
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER 1/2The Minskoff Theatre, 200 West 45th Street. (212) 307-4100. IT always sounds strangely disparaging to say that a show seems a good one for children,...
HEALING POWER ; JIM WHITE'S BEEN HIT, BUT HIS METER'S STILL RUNNING
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE great Jim White's way is a twisted path, if you take the stories from this former Pentecostal Christian as gospel.With his bluesy, alt-country twang, this 34-year-old Florida boy sings...
LOVE MISSED BY A 'MILE'
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amG LOVE NOT every musician is a performer. Take Garrett Dutton, professionally know as G Love, the main ingredient in the band Special Sauce, which played the Roseland Ballroom Thursday....
THIS ALMOSTKILLED ME: ROSIE ; SHE 'PLANNED FUNERAL' DURING INFECTION AGONY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amDOCTORS considered amputating an "out of it" Rosie O'Donnell's infected hand earlier this month, O'Donnell revealed on "The View" yesterday. "Friday at midnight they said if in the morning [the...
'GOLDEN BOWL' MAKES JAMES ACCESSIBLE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE GOLDEN BOWL Surprisingly gripping tale of love, money and adultery adapted from the Henry James novel.Running time: 130 minutes. Rated R (sexual content). At the Paris, 59th Street and...
HAMLET WHO? THAT IS THE QUESTION
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE TRAGEDY OF HAMLETBAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. Tonight, tomorrow and May 1 to 5 at 7:30; April 29 and May 6 at 3 p.m. Sold out, but $20...
'BOY' NEVER QUITE GROWS UP
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amONCE A MAN, TWICE A BOYIrish Arts Center, 553 W. 51st St. Through May 13. Call Smarttix at (212) 206-1515. AUTOBIOGRAPHY is not so easy as it might seem."How Green...
QUEEN ANNE FEARED LOSER WAS BUTTHEAD
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amGAME-show Queen of Mean Anne Robinson may want to buy a helmet. The white-hot host of "Weakest Link" says she was afraid a disgruntled contestant was going to headbutt her...
A LYTLE BIT OF THE FUTURE'S HERE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S fitting when the cell phone of Jason Lytle, the haunting voice behind Grandaddy, goes in and out as he and his bandmates navigate traffic in lower Manhattan. After all,...
STROMAN'S THE QUEEN OF B'WAY: WITH 'PRODUCERS' & 2 OTHER HITS, DIRECTOR CAN WRITE HER OWN TICKET
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amIF there was ever any doubt, the opening of "The Producers" last week made it official: Susan Stroman can take her place alongside Gower Champion, Jerome Robbins, Michael Bennett, Bob...
POTHOLED ROAD LEADS TO 'TOWN'
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTOWN & COUNTRY1/2An unfinished, incoherent mess scattered with genuinely funny scenes.Running time: 104 minutes. Rated R (sexual activity, vulgar language) At Empire 25, Lincoln Square and others. NO recent major...
GET THE WOODEN STAKE!
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE FORSAKEN½ Toothless bloodsuckers will bore you to death.Running time: 89 minutes. Rated R (strong violence, gore, profanity, sexuality). At the E Walk, the Murray Hill, the Union Square, others....
SEXY 'SURVIVOR' IS EX-Y 'SURVIVOR'
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amSURVIVOR sexpot Elisabeth Filarksi became the latest casualty of the tribal council last night on "Survivor: The Australian Outback." Filarski, 23, a footwear designer from Boston, was the 13th player...
SUSPECT NABBED IN QNS. SLAY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amCops caught up with suspected killer Derrick Harris yesterday - right at the Queens building where he allegedly murdered a tenant-patrol leader last year. Harris, 32, eluded justice for a...
NOW HEAR THIS: GIRL WINS FIGHT TO 'SIGN'
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amA 12-year-old hearing-impaired girl has won her right to use sign language on her New Jersey school bus. Danica Lesko's plight became the topic of national news shows last month...
BALDWINS IN BRAWL GAME WITH HECKLER
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks weren't in a fighting mood last night - but brawling Baldwin brothers Alec and Billy were ready to pick up the slack. During the Knicks' disappointing 94-74 drubbing...
NEW YORK POST: FROM APRIL 27, 1977
April 27, 2001 | 4:00am"Our disco-daffy town," read the headline on Earl Wilson's column about the opening of Studio 54. The legendary columnist wrote: "I used to go to Studio 54 on West 54th...
DENISE: PARDON ME, BUT I NEVER SLEPT WITH BILL
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amPardongate player Denise Rich admits her big bucks bought access to former President Bill Clinton - but shoots down talk she was his money honey. "No, I never had a...
SPITZER HOPES BID TO BOOT HALE WILL SAVE HER 'HOUSE'
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amNOW is the time to clean house at Hale House. And, The Post has learned, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has set his sights on removing Lorraine Hale as the president...
LOADED BRA A CRIME 'BUST'-ER
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThere's a revolutionary new brassiere on the market and it comes in size 38 - caliber, not cup size. The bra features a built-in holster that can hold a .38-caliber...
GREEN'S WAR ON THE NYPD
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amAT last, the mayoral race has become an eeny-weeny teeny-tiny bit interesting. When Public Advocate Mark Green formally entered the contest this week, he was immediately - and refreshingly -...
DA: PAIR FLEECED SCHOOLS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amA company that provided city preschools with speech and physical therapists bilked the Board of Ed out of more than a million dollars, Manhattan prosecutors charged yesterday. For four years,...
ARMY VETERAN: TRAGEDIES HAPPEN IN WARTIME
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amOn Feb. 25, 1969, the night that Bob Kerrey carried out a frightening massacre by mistake, Lt. Colonel David Hackworth was commanding a battalion of the Ninth Infantry Division, 20...
'HUMAN SHIELD' BLOCKS BOMBING ON VIEQUES
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amAbout 500 "human shield" protesters, including Robert Kennedy Jr., rushed to the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques to stop the U.S. Navy's scheduled bombing practice today after a judge...
ASSEMBLY TO PROBE SHOCK THERAPY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The head of the Assembly's Mental Health Committee, saying electroshock therapy is on the rise, announced a public hearing yesterday on the controversial treatment. "Historically, ECT [electroconvulsive therapy]...
COURT SHOOTS DOWN RULING VS. GUN FIRMS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Gun manufacturers dodged a bullet yesterday when the state's top court ruled they cannot be held liable for the shooting deaths and injuries of seven people. The state...
EGAN ATTACKER WAS ON LOOSE - POLICE RECAPTURE HIM
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amA tense week of round-the-clock police protection for Edward Cardinal Egan ended yesterday with the recapture of the mental patient who attacked him at St. Patrick's Cathedral, The Post has...
VERNIERO AVOIDS IMPEACH VOTE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amNew Jersey Supreme Court Justice Peter Verniero will not be impeached, but could face criminal charges alleging that he lied about racial profiling, the state Assembly speaker said yesterday. Speaker...
'SHY' GUY BUST-ED IN PANTY SCAM
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amCredit-card scheme.A kinky Long Island man - who says he's too "shy" to talk to women face-to-face - used stolen credit-card numbers to chat up undies-catalog operators and order men...
WHEN THE PROFILED BECOME THE PROFILERS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amOFFICER Richard Meadows considers himself a victim of profiling. His skin is black, but he wears a blue uniform. The profiler is a Bronx community that supports a mural to...
JOE & HILL EARN BOOS FOR CENSOR SENSIBILITY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amSENS. Joseph Lieberman and Hillary Rodham Clinton live in a fantasy land - one similar to the world we see on TV. In the World of Joe and Hillary, all...
CABLE NUDES NETWORK HAS TRUE 'BLUE' ANCHOR
April 27, 2001 | 4:00am"NYPD Blue" beauty-turned-CNN Headline News anchor Andrea Thompson has become a headline nude on a slew of Internet sites Fans of the busty blond actress, who played Detective Jill Kirkendall...
10G TORRICELLI DONORS PROBED FOR MOB LINKS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Robert Torricelli's legal-defense fund took $10,000 from two New Jersey contractors who are under investigation for suspected mob ties, The Post has learned. Federal records show Frank...
CHUCK: HIKES MAY BUMP PUMP COSTS TO $6 PER GALLON
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Gas prices could skyrocket to $5 or $6 a gallon at the pump in five years unless Americans "get our act together," Sen. Charles Schumer is warning. His...
RUDY'S STADIUM RUSH - FEARS SUCCESSOR WON'T PLAY BALL
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday said he'd like to finish up stadium negotiations with the Mets and the Yankees before his term ends - because he's worried the next mayor won't get...
A RANGEL SURPRISE ON 'ABORT' LEGISLATION
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The first abortion-related bill of the Bush administration won House approval yesterday, boosted by a surprising "yes" vote from pro-choice Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel. The measure, argued yesterday...
'NAM HERO CALLS KERREY A CRIMINAL
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe man credited with stopping the 1968 My Lai massacre says if Bob Kerrey ordered a Vietnamese blood bath, the former senator is a murderer who deserves to be behind...
BUSH PHONES SHARON IN NEW BID FOR PEACE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amIsrael celebrated 53 years of independence yesterday amid indications the United States was quietly trying to revive the Mideast peace process. President Bush telephoned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday to...
MANHATTAN'S MILLION-DOLLAR PADS A BARGAIN: SURVEY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amMillionaires who want to get a move on should love this - luxury two-bedroom apartments are a bargain in Manhattan compared with some other top cities, a new survey says....
FURY AS CITY HOLDS 75 HOMES VACANT - EAST SIDE UNITS DUE FOR REHAB
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe city's Housing Authority has kept more than six dozen low-priced apartments vacant - some for more than a decade - at a lower Manhattan complex, The Post has learned....
KILLERS TERRORIZED TRAGIC CABBY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amMotorcycle fiends terrorized livery driver Jose Gutierrez the night he was stabbed to death - chasing him across The Bronx, and then "burning rubber" as they circled around the helpless...
HERO FLIERS RESCUE ILL DOC FROM S. POLE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amDaring pilots braved frigid temperatures, high winds and darkness to airlift an Ohio doctor to Chile after he was stricken with a life-threatening infection at a South Pole research station....
JUDGE: ADOPTION ABDUCTION AN 'EVIL' ACT
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amKidnapping Matthew Propp when he was a child and hiding him from his biological parents for 22 years was an act akin to murder, an angry judge declared yesterday as...
HILLARY TELLS W. TO STUFF HIS LUNCH - SHE AND DEMS SAY NO TO PREZ INVITATION
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and most of New York's congressional delegation have other things to do Monday than attend the White House party being thrown by President Bush...
3RD PARDON GRILLING FOR RICH'S LAWYER
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amMarc Rich pardon lawyer Jack Quinn made a third appearance this week before a federal grand jury investigating President Bill Clinton's flurry of last-minute pardons, a new report says. Quinn,...
NEW SONG A SMASH HIT FOR CANCER KID
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amIt's been a bumpy road to recovery for Chantelle Lovett. But Grammy Award-winning songwriter Itaal Shur did his best yesterday to smooth the 9-year-old cancer patient's path to happiness. Shur,...
SHRINK'S 'GAS THERAPY' EYED IN WOMAN'S COMA
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amAuthorities seized equipment from the office of a Manhattan psychiatrist yesterday - after one of his patients wound up brain dead following a session, cops said. Leah Grove, 38, is...
FANS SAY CAMBY CAN BOUNCE BACK
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amKnick fans were ready to forgive and forget Marcus Camby's lackluster performance in last night's playoff game - they say he'll soon get past the distraction of Monday's hostage drama...
RUDY BACKS NYPD DECISION ON DIALLO - AL, DEMS RIP RULING CLEARING COPS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday he had "no reason to disagree" with a preliminary NYPD report concluding that the four cops who killed Amadou Diallo in a hail of gunfire need...
VERNIERO ESCAPES IMPEACH THREAT
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amNew Jersey Supreme Court Justice Peter Verniero will not be impeached, but could face criminal charges alleging that he lied about racial profiling, the state Assembly speaker said yesterday. Speaker...
BRIT ARMY A GAL'S BREAST FRIEND
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe British army is trying to make sure the morale of its troops will never go bust - by offering female soldiers free breast enlargements. The Ministry of Defense said...
BRITISH ARMY A WOMAN'S BREAST FRIEND
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe British army is trying to make sure the morale of its troops will never go bust - by offering female soldiers free breast enlargements. The Ministry of Defense said...
GEAR SEIZED FROM COMA WOMAN'S DOC
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amAuthorities seized equipment from the office of a Manhattan psychiatrist yesterday - after one of his patients wound up brain dead following a session, cops said. Leah Grove, 38, is...
BOMBER PONDERED RENO HIT
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amHomegrown terrorist Timothy McVeigh considered assassinating former Attorney General Janet Reno and other officials before deciding to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City instead. McVeigh, who is slated to...
BOMBERS' STARTERS KEEP DROPPING THE BALL
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amIN the good old days - three weeks ago - the Yankee four-peat formula was working ideally. The first five times either Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte or Mike Mussina went...
MARCUS LEAVES BROKEN HEART ON COURT
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amHIS head was down during the National Anthem. It was clear his thoughts were with his family. Marcus Camby showed last night how human he really is while the Knicks...
NERVOUS NELLIE CAN'T FINISH IT
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amJeff Nelson wanted it so badly. Probably too badly. The former Yankee reliever took the mound in the ninth inning with his current team, the Mariners, leading 7-2. Earlier this...
ANGRY RICE CAMPAIGNS FOR EXPANDED ROLE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks offense is the pits right now and Glen Rice believes he can fix it. Problem is, the coach isn't as confident and that has Rice fuming. All Rice...
MOOSE CAN'T BUST LOOSE ; M'S BATTER MUSSINA TO CAP YANK SWEEP
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amMike Mussina dresses in David Cone's old locker, he replaced Cone in the Yankees' rotation and he cost George Steinbrenner more money than Cone did. The Yankees knew they would...
GRUNFELD STILL KEEPS TABS ON KNICKS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amHE IS EMBROILED in his own playoff series, hoping the Bucks will put away the Magic Saturday in Orlando and advance to the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs....
GUESS YOU WERE WRONG, OAK; LENNY SHOWS CHARLES HE CAN READY RAPS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe sun rose in the East. The government did not call citizens telling them to forget about that paying taxes stuff. And Charles Oakley stood by claims he made about...
NO-SHOW KNICKS LET RAPS GET EVEN: CAMBY HAS EXCUSE, MATES DON'T IN GAME 2 DISGRACE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amRaptors 94 Knicks 74 Maybe Patrick Ewing knew something. Maybe "The Big Fella" realized this would be the last Knicks game at the Garden this season. On a surreal and...
EL DUQUE'S THOUGHTS WITH AILING DAD IN CUBA
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez takes the Yankee Stadium mound tonight, he will not only be wondering how his right elbow will react after eight days off, but...
YOU CAN'T DEFEND WILLIAMS ENOUGH
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amAlvin Williams just had outshot the opposing All-Star shooting guard badly. He emerged as the high-scorer for the team that had just won the first NBA playoff game ever for...
SPREWELL STILL OFF-TARGET
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amIf Latrell Sprewell doesn't find his playoff shooting magic, the Knicks will be having a short spring. Sprewell found nothing but iron in the first half, clanging his way to...
HOUSTON KNOWS HE MUST STEP UP
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amAllan Houston delivered a steal, a driving basket and a stepback 12-footer in the first four minutes of the game. On a night the Knicks desperately needed an offensive lift...
WARD MADE THE CALL
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amPoint guard Charlie Ward followed through on his promise and spoke by phone to Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein for 15 minutes on Wednesday night. They agreed to meet again with the...
LJ REMAINS IN LIMBO
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amPLAYOFF NOTEBOOK Larry Johnson did not dress last night and Jeff Van Gundy indicated it is highly improbable he'll be able to regain the health necessary to supplant Kurt Thomas...
VIN-SANITY MAKES WAY INTO PLAYOFFS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amAll along, Vince Carter insisted that he needed his teammates to step up and ease his burden on offense. His teammates insisted that they needed Carter to step up and...
SHOWOFF LEWIS GOT WHAT HE DESERVED ; STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE AT A PRICE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amHAS showboating become a natural function of winning and losing? Losing games to acts of network and commerce-preferred "attitude" is now just part of the game? Must be. Otherwise, all...
IT'S NO FLUKE: SIZE MATTERS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE nightmare is over. Fluke regulations have finally been set by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and for New York's recreational anglers it is bad news that is somewhat...
GRYDER TO RIDE 'SONG' IN DERBY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTrainer John Dowd's quest to find a rider for Songandaprayer in the Kentucky Derby a week from tomorrow ended yesterday with the announcement that Aaron Gryder will pilot the colt,...
THIS FIGURES TO GET UGLY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe lesson the Leafs appeared not to have learned is that it doesn't matter that Scott Stevens' hits were clean, that they were fully sportsmanlike or that they were part...
BOSS IS OUT OF EXCUSES FOR STALLING JOE, CASH
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Yankees reached an agreement with MSG Network this week that kept their dispute out of court. The Yankee mascot, who plays our mayor, hinted his budget will include cash...
NEW MET MARTIN DETAILS MINOR-LEAGUE MUGGING
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - If you watched yesterday's game, you might have noticed when reliever Tom Martin entered in the third, his left eye was as black and blue as the uniform...
HAMSTRUNG VENTURA NOT TICKETED FOR THE DL
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Robin Ventura's right hamstring again prevented him from starting yesterday. It was the third game he missed, but still the disabled list isn't a possibility for...
IT'S AN AMAZIN' MESS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amBrewers 12 Mets 8 MILWAUKEE - The Mets stink right now. They were lectured by manager Bobby Valentine after Tuesday night's game to stop feeling sorry for themselves and to...
VISITOR EWING SIDES WITH NEW YORK
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe ovation was loud and long, like so many he had heard on so many playoff nights over the years while toiling at the Garden. But this was the first...
DEVILS OPEN WITH WHIMPER
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amGame One Leafs 2 Devils 0 All those budding doubts from the first round burst full bloom last night, leaving the Devils disgusted and dejected. And one-quarter way towards dethroned....
CASUAL ATTITUDE DOOMS CHAMPS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE street fight never materialized in Game 1 of the Eastern semis last night at the Meadowlands. But then, why would it, when neither did the Devils. It's foolish to...
KNICKS & EW TAKE GAME 2 SITTING DOWN
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE BIG FELLA slipped into the building practically unnoticed. He took a courtside seat on the aisle, shook hands with Keith Richards, who was seated two spots down, and got...
HEAT LOSS COULD END RILES' REIGN
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amSUBJECT: If You Can't Stand The Heat, Join The Rest Of Us. For the fourth time in six seasons, the dramatically outplayed 0-2 Heat are facing premature first-round playoff elimination....
CAMBY, 'MATES LOOK LOST ON COURT
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amHIS head was down during the National Anthem. It was clear his thoughts were elsewhere. He was with the Knicks on the court at the Garden, but his mind was...
VINCE CLUELESS VS. KNICKS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Knicks are great at getting under another team's skin. And they've done just that with Vince Carter. Everywhere else in the basketball world, Carter is a superstar. Against the...
WILKENS CHOPS DOWN OAK: LENNY SAYS RAPS' PREPARATION NOT ISSUE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe sun rose in the East. The government did not call citizens telling them to forget about that paying taxes stuff. And Charles Oakley stood by claims he made while...
RICE LOOKING TO GIVE MORE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amGlen Rice made more of an impact defensively than offensively in Game 1's victory Sunday against Toronto. Still, Rice, who scored seven points, was key down the stretch, hitting a...
WILKENS ANSWERS READINESS QUESTION
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amThe sun rose in the East. The government did not call citizens telling them to forget about that paying taxes stuff. And Charles Oakley stood by claims he made while...
VAN GUNDY KEEPS GIMPY LJ ON BENCH
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Larry Johnson did not dress last night and Jeff Van Gundy indicated it is highly improbable he'll be able to regain the health necessary to supplant Kurt Thomas...
EWING'S IN HOUSE: PATRICK COURTSIDE AS MSG VOICES SUPPORT FOR CAMBY
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amAn old, familiar face graced celebrity row last night - Patrick Ewing. Does the Garden melodrama ever end? The day after Seattle GM Wally Walker said Ewing won't return to...
WILLIAMS HOPES TO BE LET LOOSE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amRAPTOR NOTES Jerome Williams, the Junk Yard Dog, was ready. And willing. The question at hand was whether he'd be able to break the Raptors' rotation and get into the...
DON'T GO AWAY, THE NBA WILL BE RIGHT BACK
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amAFTER a brief hiatus, the first round of the NBA East quarterfinal playoff series between the Knicks and Raptors resumed last night at Madison Square Garden. Well, perhaps brief isn't...
LESS SPRING IN HIS STEP: JETER SEES METHOD TO MARCH MADNESS
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amFile this away and bring it out next March when you are guaranteed to hear multiple big-league players whining about spring training being too long: Derek Jeter now understands the...
STEVENS ASSUMES LEADING ROLE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY have always been an ensemble company, these Devils, and if they're going to enjoy ultimate success again this spring, they'll do so again as a unit. That's reality at...
CUJO HOLDS LEAF HOPES
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Maple Leafs, who led the Eastern Conference Jan. 3, barely held on to make the playoffs by two points. But, having swept second-seeded Ottawa, they promised the second-round series...
GOTTA HAND IT TO CUJO
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amIF Curtis Joseph truly is playing with a wounded right hand, any shockwaves emanating from the elimination of the Devils will have to be preceded by shockwaves up the goalie's...
SECOND CHANCE EXCITES SUNDIN
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amMats Sundin needed just one point last night to match his entire output of last season's playoff series against the Devils. With Bobby Holik hounding him throughout the Eastern Conference...
LEAFS' THOMAS FINALLY HAS REASON TO SMILE
April 27, 2001 | 4:00amSteve Thomas needed this to happen. For himself as much as for Toronto. After experiencing the worst season of his 17-year NHL career, Thomas, the 37-year-old right wing, had a...