May 3, 2001
ICAHN EYES NEXT MOVE - HE'S TRYING TO HOOK UP VISX & MAKE A PROFIT
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amADVANTAGE, Icahn. When this column last looked at Carl Icahn and his battle for puny Visx, the corporate mega-raider had threatened a hostile takeover bid of $32 a share. He...
MADDEN DROPS CEO TITLE AS TRIAL NEARS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amOn the eve of his trial for securities fraud and money laundering, Steve Madden has stepped down as chief executive of Steven Madden Ltd. Despite the change, the company has...
EDISON TO BUY POST PLANT
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe New York Post will soon say good-bye for good to 210 South St., site of its pressroom since 1970 and a repository of more than a half-century of New...
MAIDENFORM NEAR DEAL ON NEW $UPPORT
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTroubled bra maker Maidenform Worldwide may have just saved itself from going bust - again. New York-based Maidenform, which emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection less than two years ago,...
REPORT: MSDW TRADED IPO SHARES FOR FAVORS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMorgan Stanley Dean Witter reportedly let money managers in on hot IPOs in return for promises that the firms would buy shares at a much higher price later to boost...
PINK SLIPS AT CSFB - QUATTRONE'S GROUP LIKELY TO BEAR BRUNT
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amCredit Suisse First Boston, one of the Wall Street firms that benefited most from the boom in underwriting initial public offerings for high-tech companies, is bracing itself for another round...
NYER BAGS RECORD 5 ELLIES
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHE New Yorker and Editor-in-Chief David Remnick dominated the National Magazine Awards, snagging a record five Ellies at the annual soiree sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Remnick's...
KOPLOVITZ & HER WORKING WOMEN PUT OUT OF WORK
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amStaff at Working Woman Network can now spend more time with their families. An assistant to CEO Kay Koplovitz confirmed yesterday that the network of Web sites has shuttered. The...
'42ND STREET' PAVED IN GOLD - THIS OLD CHARMER COMES BACK A STAR
May 3, 2001 | 4:00am42ND STREET [ 1/2]The Ford Center for the PerformingArts, 213 W. 42nd St. (212) 307-4100 ---------- SURPRISE, surprise! Happy surprise! Every right and proper Broadway season needs what it calls...
ABT'S OPENER ON THE MONEY
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amAMERICAN BALLET THEATERMetropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center. (212) 362-6000. Season runs through June 23. ---------- IN recent years, the American Ballet Theater has established a pattern in introducing its annual...
BOY, BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amBADLY DRAWN BOY BRIT-ROCK wonder kid Damon Gough, professionally know as Badly Drawn Boy, is a fascinating performer. At his Irving Plaza debut Tuesday night, he divided the house into...
REGIS' TURN TO LAUGH - 'TOO NICE' HOST BIDS NASTY ANNE 'GOODBYE'
May 3, 2001 | 4:00am'WHO Wants to Be a Millionaire" host Regis Philbin fired back at "Weakest Link" host Anne Robinson yesterday - gloating at "Link's" ratings drop. On "Live with Regis & Kelly,"...
'WING' CREATOR PLEADS NOT GUILTY
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amBURBANK, Calif. - A "very embarrassed" Aaron Sorkin - creator of NBC's monster hit show "The West Wing" - pleaded not guilty to drug possession yesterday, and appeared headed for...
GIVING IT THAT OLD COLLEGE TRY, AGAIN
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amCOLLEGE reunion season is just a few weeks away, and even though my friend Jenny wants to make a good impression at her 10th, she's still bringing me.But no sooner...
KENYA SEE A 'SURVIVOR 3'? - TRIP TO AFRICA'S THE HOT TIP
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amWILL the next edition of TV's hottest reality show be called "Survivor: The African Savannah"? Sources say "yes" and claim host Jeff Probst recently paid a visit to Nairobi, the...
OFFICE SNOOPS - BIG BROTHER BOSSES HAVE WORKERS WIRED
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amBE afraid. Be very afraid. More importantly, beware.Eighty percent of the major U.S. companies monitor employees by checking their e-mail, Internet use, telephone calls or by using videotape surveillance, according...
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PHOTO?
May 3, 2001 | 4:00am'Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek has shaved off his trademark mustache. After 20 years, the mustache came off during a lunch break while taping one of the final "Jeopardy!" episodes of...
THE STARR REPORT
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMay moves: Keenan 'Cashin' In' Post business reporter Allyson Lieberman reports a number of changes at CNN and Fox News Channel. Tim O'Brien has joined CNN Business and CNNfn to...
THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS...
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHE finale of "Survivor 2" doesn't mean the show is over - not by a long shot. After tonight's $1 million grand-prize winner is named, it will be only the...
LEVY'S LITTLE SECRET - ROLLING IN DOUGH ON LIVINGSTON STREET
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amHarold O. Levy wants to bolster the Board of Ed budget by leasing space for wireless telephone towers on top of his schools, and now everybody's all worried about microwaves...
SOTHEBY'S BIG BIDDER-LY FACES SCAM TRIAL ALONE - CHRISTIE'S 'PARTNER' HOLED UP IN BRITAIN
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amSotheby's auction-house tycoon Alfred Taubman, indicted yesterday along with the former head of Christie's in a multimillion-dollar price-fixing scheme, probably will have to face the music alone. That's because his...
LAZIO LANDS TOP JOB AT THINK TANK
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Six months after losing to Hillary Clinton, former Rep. Rick Lazio yesterday landed a high-paying job in the private sector. Lazio has been named president and chief executive...
ROD: MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LIKE OWNING A DOG
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amSkirt-chasing rocker Rod Stewart says a marriage license should be more like a dog license - renewable every year. "I think the vows should be changed, because they've been in...
SACKED 'ANNIE' A MILLIONAIRE AS MACY'S SETTLES
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe girl who won a Macy's contest to play "Annie" on Broadway -only to be dumped two weeks before the show opened - is getting a multimillion-dollar settlement from the...
NEW YORK POST: FROM MAY 3, 1919
May 3, 2001 | 4:00am"The 'Panorama of Victory,' displaying the varied activities of the United States Army during the last two years of the war, started from 110th Street and Fifth Avenue at 1:30...
MYSTERY AS HOFSTRA STUDENT VANISHES
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amA dean's-list student from Long Island's Hofstra University has vanished without a trace, creating a "nightmare" for his family and baffling friends, school officials and cops for more than a...
SLIWA BUSTED AT SUDAN PROTEST
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe fight for freedom in Sudan hit the streets of New York yesterday as a pair of radio hosts and two human-rights advocates were arrested protesting slavery in the African...
ANDY HITS GOV WITH $$ RAP THAT GOP USED ON MARIO
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Former U.S. Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo is threatening to sue Gov. Pataki for allegedly spending public money on his campaign - the same charges Cuomo's father faced when...
LAURA JOINS BEAUTIFUL 'PEOPLE'
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amNow you can call her the first beauty. Laura Bush became the first first lady to win a place on People magazine's list of "the 50 Most Beautiful People in...
BX. POLICEWOMAN'S DEATH MAY BE SUICIDE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx police officer may have killed herself with her cop boyfriend's gun after sending her two kids off to school yesterday morning, authorities said. Officer Tammi Terrel, 30, a...
YOU WANT COPS' RECORDS, MARK? READ THIS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amDESPITE the fact that I believe in Mark Green's liberal politics like I believe that saltwater can be turned into Guinness, he is a gentleman. And that is why I...
TV AD BLITZ BOOSTS HEVESI IN NEW POLL
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral wannabe Alan Hevesi has ridden a TV ad blitz into a tie for second place with Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, according to a new poll released yesterday. The...
RUDY MAKES PLAY TO HAVE JETS LAND AT 'HOME'
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday vowed he will "work on" luring the Jets back to New York - a move that would prevent the team from possibly fleeing to the West Coast....
HOUSE'S OK COULD MEAN BETTER DAYS FOR 401(K)S
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The GOP-controlled House voted overwhelmingly yesterday for broad changes to let workers add thousands more dollars each year to their retirement plans. Employees would be able to put...
$16M DRUG RING SMASHED: COPS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amThree of the Big Apple's baddest apples - immigrant brothers with a taste for the high life - were busted for smuggling tons of pot and coke into the city...
EX-SLAVE WONDERS: WHY DO SO FEW CARE?
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amONE DAY in 1986, as Francis Bok stood in a market in southern Sudan, trying to sell his family's eggs and beans, a Muslim militia backed by his country's government...
WHAT A KICK! SOCCER TEAM PAYS 195G FOR 12-YEAR-OLD
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amA premier pro soccer team is shelling out up to $195,000 to snare the sport's hottest new prospect - a 12-year-old boy. Millions of soccer fans were stunned by yesterday's...
NIKI SPEAKS, BUT IS STILL IN DANGER
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amA bruised and battered Niki Taylor spoke yesterday for the first time since the car crash that nearly killed her. The hazel-eyed supermodel - sedated with painkillers - smiled weakly,...
O'NEAL FIGHTS 'LOVE STORY' LEUKEMIA
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amRyan O'Neal, who earned an Oscar nomination for playing a heartsick husband whose young wife dies of leukemia in the 1970 tear-jerker "Love Story," is now battling the same disease....
STERN: I'LL BE ON 'LINK' - SAYS HE'LL JUST RIP QUIZ QUEEN
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amHow's this for a royal rumble: the King of All Media vs. the Queen of Mean. Shock jock Howard Stern ripped NBC quiz-show host Anne Robinson on his program yesterday,...
KIMES PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO L.A. SLAY CHARGE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Convicted killer Kenneth Kimes pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that he and his mother, Sante, killed a Los Angeles man three years ago. A judge ordered...
REFLECTIONS OF OURSELVES? - DOLPHINS STUN SCIENTISTS BY 'RECOGNIZING' THEMSELVES IN MIRRORS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amDO my flippers look fat? That's a question dolphins Presley and Tab could be pondering right now at the New York Aquarium - after scientists found the pair can recognize...
LIABILITY INSURERS DUMP GATIEN CLUB
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amPeter Gatien has operated his troubled Tunnel nightclub without insurance for a month - to the outrage of city officials who say they can't do anything about it. The Tunnel's...
BULKY 'BANDIT' BAFFLES HOLTZMAN
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amEx-Brooklyn District Attorney Liz Holtzman failed to pick a suspect in her January mugging out of a lineup yesterday because he was a changed man. "He gained a lot of...
PAROCHIALS NEED VOUCHERS: ED. BOARD HEAD
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe pending closings of local Catholic schools is another example of why New York City should have a voucher system, says the head of the Board of Education. Ninfa Segarra...
PENTAGON CUTS, THEN UNCUTS TIES TO CHINESE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon zigzagged yesterday over tense military relations with China, issuing one drastic order and then revoking it just hours later. Red-faced Rear Adm. Craig Quigley admitted a...
BUSH'S PLAN PITS MOSCOW VS. BEIJING
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amPRESIDENT BUSH now seems to be engaged in a new kind of international triangulation as he seeks to balance off Russia against China - and keep them from uniting against...
AXED LOTTO GAL: I WAS 'OUT-NUMBERED'
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amJust days after making her on-air debut, a new lottery announcer's number is already up. Aspiring actress Reny Monk flubbed her second live broadcast and was abruptly fired Friday after...
FORBES EYES A SENATE RUN VS. TORRICELLI
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amBillionaire Steve Forbes yesterday opened the door - but only a crack - to challenging embattled Sen. Robert Torricelli and giving New Jersey the chance to be the only state...
HIV TEACHER CHARGED IN BOY'S RAPE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx elementary-school teacher who says he has HIV was charged yesterday with sodomizing a 9-year-old student in what a cop called one of the most horrifying child-sex cases he's...
TWIN GIRLS FOR JULIO & GAL PAL
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTo all the girls he's ever loved, Julio Iglesias has just added two more. The Spanish singer and girlfriend Miranda Rijnsburger became the parents of twins, Victoria and Cristina, at...
EBAY HALTS AUCTION OF DIALLO DOOR
May 3, 2001 | 4:00ameBay has slammed shut a "ghoulish" auction of Amadou Diallo memorabilia, pulling from sale a piece of wood said to come from the door to Diallo's apartment building. Diallo's mother,...
DEMS: CURB CAR-POLICY RATES
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Democrats yesterday called for a two-year freeze on auto-insurance premiums, followed by a mandatory cut in rates. The proposals were part of a long-awaited package of bills...
JEWISH-SLAUGHTER APOLOGY DUE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amPoland's Catholic bishops will apologize this month for the mass murder carried out by gentiles in a Jewish town during World War II, a spokesman said yesterday. A recent book...
NAZI'S KIN DIED IN DEATH CAMP
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe wife of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels had a Jewish stepfather who died at the Buchenwald concentration camp, German TV reported yesterday. Magda Goebbels' stepfather, Richard Friedlaender, tried and...
NETWORKS IN 'DEATH' MATCH OVER MCVEIGH
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amSix network TV reporters will have to battle it out for just two available spots to witness Timothy McVeigh's May 16 execution. Network cameras won't be allowed in the execution...
CANDID CAMERAS CATCH 'TRASHY' SEX
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTalk about getting down in the dumps. Hidden video cameras, placed around illegal garbage dumps in Kentucky as part of a crackdown on litter bugs, are also catching lovers out...
NETWORKS IN MCVEIGH DEATH MATCH
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amSix network TV reporters will have to battle it out for just two available spots to witness Timothy McVeigh's May 16 execution. Network cameras won't be allowed in the execution...
COPS: HIV-POSITIVE TEACHER RAPED BOY, 9
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx public-school teacher, who says he's HIV-positive, was charged yesterday with sodomizing a 9-year-old student in what a cop called one of the most horrifying child rapes he's ever...
GET IT DONE OF GET LOST - CHOKE TAG SWITCHES TO KNICKS FOR GAME 5
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Vince Carter wore a purple headband around his neck as he took the floor last night at the Air Canada Centre and raised his right index finger to...
CAMBY: AGGRESSION'S THE KEY FOR ME
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - The way Marcus Camby sees it, it's all about being the aggressor. Camby struggled through another game last night in the Knicks 100-93 loss to the Raptors at...
VINCE'S MOM IRKS OAK
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - There was nothing to criticize about Vince Carter's game last night, nothing at all. So Charles Oakley aimed his sights in good-natured fashion at Carter's mom, Michelle. Told...
SEETHING PAYTON WANTS PIECE OF LIMA
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amIf you can't beat him, bean him. Jay Payton feels that's Jose Lima's modus operandi. Circumstantial evidence suggests Payton may have a case against the Astros right-hander. Lima's beaning of...
FEISTY CHILDS BACKS UP HIS WORDS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Chris Childs had a little advice for Vince Carter yesterday before they fought their battle of survival against the Knicks: bring it. Oh, and Carter brought it all...
KNICKS GIVE VIN A CLEAR RUNWAY
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Latrell Sprewell never got to see the wide-eyed look on Vince Carter's face when the Raptor flew in for a right-handed monster slam three minutes into last night's...
WHINING ABOUT WARNINGS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amIN the aftermath of an unsettling extra-inning loss to the Astros last night at Shea, Mets manager Bobby Valentine was grumbling about a rule that is meant to prevent bodily...
APPIER'S GETTING PICTURE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES In video study between his previous start in which Kevin Appier gave up five runs in five innings in St. Louis and last night, Appier noticed that he...
GARBAGE TIME FOR YANKS - FANS IN LF TRASH KNOBLAUCH AGAIN, NEARLY FORCE FORFEIT
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Having escaped serious injury during a three-night stay standing in the Metrodome's left field, where he was showered by bottles, coins, golf balls and hard objects inside hot-dog...
METS NEVER FELT SOLO - FIVE ASTRO HOMERS WRECK MET BULLPEN
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amListen to Mike Piazza, because he makes sense. Piazza doesn't like the new rules about hit-batsmen, which warn both teams after only one player is hit. He didn't like that...
IT'S ALL E-VIN - CARTER'S 32 ICE KNICKS, FORCE GAME 5 AT MSG
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - There was something different in the air last night - namely, Vince Carter. Three minutes into the game, the Raptor superstar - quiet through the first three games...
JUNK YARD DOG HOWLS!
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - As Jerome Williams arose from the bench in the first quarter last night, the Air Canada Centre erupted. "JYD, JYD," the overflow gathering roared as the Junk Yard...
MOOSE EXPECTS CAMDEN BOOS, CHEERS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Mike Mussina doesn't know exactly what to expect when he returns to Camden Yards with the Yankees tonight for the first game of a four-game series....
AIR CANADA FLIES AGAIN - CARTER ON CLOUD 9 AFTER GAME 4 SOAR
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Okay, Raptors. Who was that guy in the purple No. 15 uniform last night and what did you do with Vince Carter? After all, Carter had struggled in...
DAVIS JUST KEEPS PLAYING THE GAME
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amRAPTOR NOTES TORONTO - The last thing Antonio Davis wanted to think about last night was the first thing he was asked about before the Raptors went out and staved...
KNICK TURNOVERS SET AN EARLY TONE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES TORONTO - On the Knicks' second possession of last night's 100-93 playoff loss to the Raptors, Latrell Sprewell lost control of his dribble in traffic. The Raptors flew...
LEAFS MAY TIGHTEN UP ON GOMEZ
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - The Young Devil who has the Leafs considering undoing what they've done so well offers this advice: Just try it. With the Devils seeking tonight to grab the...
BRYLIN UNLIKELY TO GO 4TH
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amSergei Brylin is believed to have not suffered any further structural damage to his right knee from the twist it received from an ice rut late in Game 3. Brylin...
TITO: WBA TITLE'S MINE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amFelix "Tito" Trinidad has made so many guarantees over the years it would be more of a surprise to see him not make good on one. Trinidad, though, said don't...
CUPS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CASH TO BRODEUR
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - He dived across his crease early in the second period to blocker the puck off Mats Sundin's stick as the Maple Leaf captain cut across from the right...
VELAZQUEZ HURT IN FALL
May 3, 2001 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Who says Mike Hushion doesn't win on turf? Hushion, who has a tremendous record with state-bred firsters overall, had first time starter Scented Garden set the pace...
PRINCE EYES ROYAL ENDING
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The owner of Derby favorite Point Given is a prince of a guy. Literally. Standing in the sun outside trainer Bob Baffert's barn at Churchill Downs yesterday morning...
LOBO'S KNEE NO LONGER A WORRY
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amEveryone on the New York Liberty, teammates, coaches, even the GM, had questions about Rebecca Lobo's left knee. Everyone except Lobo. Despite not having played for virtually two seasons after...
STILL THE SAY HEY KID - EVEN AT 70, WILLIE JUST AS A-MAYS-ING
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - Sit down and brace yourself. You are about to read a fact that will knock your cap off. Willie Mays turns 70 Sunday. He doesn't look it,...
WEBSITE WONDER HORSE - DOLLAR BILL HIGH-TECH TERROR
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Whether he wins Saturday's Kentucky Derby or not, Dollar Bill has the whole field beaten in the tech stakes - he's the only Derby runner with his own...
KUHNER'S GEM POWERS MOLLOY
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMolloy 3 - Xaverian 0 If you want to find out stats for Archbishop Molloy from last year, Phil Kuhner is your man. "I kept the [stat] book for every...
SHORT'S SEEKING GIANT PROMOTION
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amAt some point in time between now and the start of training camp in late July, the Giants may opt to sign a veteran linebacker to replace Ryan Phillips, a...
FAVORITE WINDS UP AN OUTSIDER; POINT GIVEN GETS POST 17
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - And the last shall be first. Point Given was the final name drawn yesterday to determine post positions for Saturday's 127th Kentucky Derby and landed on the far...
'TALK' SHOW NOT SO SWIFT
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Talk Is Money, a rank outsider despite the presence of Jerry Bailey in the saddle, was the only Derby horse to work yesterday morning. He breezed three furlongs...
MATHIS 'TRICK' WHACKS WIZARDS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMetros 4 - Wizards 1 Game by game, Clint Mathis' stature grows. He breathed life into the once-moribund MetroStars, emerged as America's most explosive player, and last night he was...
GET IT DONE OR GET LOST - CHOKE TAG SWITCHES TO KNICKS FOR GAME 5
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Vince Carter wore the purple headband around his neck as he took the floor last night at the Air Canada Centre and raised his right index finger to...
CALL VINCE 'MR. SOFTIE' - OAK'S RIGHT - CARTER'S GOTTA GET TOUGH
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - The stern-faced customs agent wanted to know what business brought the visitor to Canada. After noting that it was the business of basketball - the Knicks looking to...
ANTONIO MAY BE LONG GONE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amRAPTOR NOTES TORONTO - It was the last thing Antonio Davis wanted to think about last night. But it was the first thing he was asked about before the Raptors...
TAKING IT LIKE 'A MAN' - CARTER SAYS HE'S GOT NO GRIPE WITH OAKLEY BARBS
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Hey, nothing personal, Vince. But when Oak has something to say, he says it. That was the response some of the Raptors gave to the on-going soap-opera criticism...
ON YOUR MARC ... - CAMBY WELCOMED BACK AS KNICKS LOOK TO ADVANCE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Jeff Van Gundy seemed more worried about Marcus Camby's stamina than his mental state going into last night's Game 4 match versus the Raptors, in which a Knick...
VINCE STEPS UP, SCORES LIKE 'A MAN'
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Okay, Raptors. Who was that guy in the purple No. 15 uniform last night and what did you do with Vince Carter? From the moment this guy in...
JUNK YARD DOG FEELIN' NASTY
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Jerome Williams wanted someone to say something nasty about him. His head turned like a Wimbledon spectator as media types scurried from Charles Oakley to Vince Carter to...
DAVIS JUST KEEPS ON PLAYING
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amRAPTOR NOTES TORONTO - It was the last thing Antonio Davis wanted to think about last night. But it was the first thing he was asked about before the Raptors...
IT'S ALL E-VIN - CARTER NETS 32 TO ICE KNICKS, FORCE GAME 5
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 4: Raptors 100 - Knicks 93 TORONTO - There was something different in the air last night - namely, Vince Carter. Three minutes into the game, the Raptor superstar...
SPREE SAYS OAK KNOCK WAS UNFAIR
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Latrell Sprewell is the kind of player who likes to take the burden of the team's success upon his shoulders. In other words, he's exactly the opposite of...
JAX TO RAPS: IT'S ALL GOOD
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Mark Jackson has lifted his game and trash-talking during this first-round series. His verbal bouts with Vince Carter and Antonio Davis have been surprising, considering he supposedly was...
SPREE SAYS OAK KNOCK IS UNFAIR
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES TORONTO - Latrell Sprewell is the kind of player who likes to take the burden of the team's success upon his shoulders. In other words, he's exactly the...
METS FIGHT BACK, SORT OF
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHIS wasn't Saturday in St. Louis where the Cardinals used the Mets for target practice and got away with it. This was Shea Stadium where the Mets aren't supposed to...
GARBAGE TIME FOR YANKS - FANS IN LF TRASH KNOBLAUCH AGAIN
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTwins 4 - Yankees 2 MINNEAPOLIS - Very charming team, these Twins. Repulsive fans. Of course, the actions of a few jerks don't paint a broad picture, but when the...
METS SURVIVE FALSE START
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Mets should have figured on a rocky start to their season when the ceremonial first pitch during their home opener suffered a glitch. Tiki Barber and Kerry Collins, stars...
LONGSHOT LUGO MAKING MOST OF CHANCE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amJulio Lugo is an American success story. The 25-year-old Dominican Republic native never owned a glove before he came to the United States, 12 years ago, but he's become Houston's...
V'S LINE (UP) OF THINKING - SHAKES THINGS UP WITH BATTING-ORDER BRAINWORK
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amThis is where Bobby Valentine excels compared to most, if not all, other managers. He thinks more. He thinks differently. But he almost always has a good reason for doing...
PAYTON HITS BREAKING POINT
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amJay Payton is so scorching hot right now, the only way to stop him is to get him ejected. That's exactly what Astros right-hander Jose Lima did in the sixth...
WILL HITS KEEP COMING? - YANKS HOPE BREAKOUT WILL LAST
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Did the 14 hits they collected off three Twins pitchers Tuesday night put the Yankees' lineup back in business after struggling for most of April? Or was Joe...
LEITER'S TAKING SLOW LANE
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES The good news about Al Leiter's elbow is he is scheduled to play catch for the first time tomorrow. The bad news is the Mets have no idea...
METRO 'D' NEEDS LIFT
May 3, 2001 | 4:00amThe Metrostars' Clint Mathis has emerged as one of the most lethal scorers in the MLS and has sparked one of the league's most potent offensive attacks. But with the...