March 20, 2003
NEW YORKER LEADS NAT'L MAG PICKS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe New Yorker and its editor-in-chief David Remnick once again dominated the nominations for the National Magazine Awards, with nine. That's two short of the all-time record 11 the weekly...
FEDS' MASTERPIECE: GAGOSIAN, CRONIES HIT WITH $26.5M TAX BILL
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amGallery guru Larry "Go Go" Gagosian was tripped up yesterday when the feds slapped him and his former partners with a lawsuit seeking an eye-popping $26.5 million in back taxes....
DILLER BOWS OUT: BARRY BOLTS AS VIVENDI HIRES SOLLY FOR ASSET SALE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amBarry Diller threw Hollywood into a bigger guessing game yesterday by abruptly stepping down as a caretaker CEO of Vivendi Universal Entertainment. The surprise move came as the entertainment group's...
BARON BAILS ON SOTHEBY'S
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amInvestor Ron Baron, the largest shareholder of Sotheby's, is throwing in the towel on his $450 million investment with a big loss. Baron unloaded about 40 percent of his holdings...
TENNIS DEATH SITE SLATED FOR WRECKING BALL
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amTHE Southampton oceanfront estate where tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis lost his life will meet with a wrecking ball this weekend. The 17-room, Norman Jaffe-designed contemporary mansion, once owned by Martin...
HOOP DE-DO ; GUEST STARS ROMP IN 'WHAT I WROTE'
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amHE'S battled evil in "Schindler's List," "Star Wars" and "The Crucible" - but Liam Neeson has never seemed braver than last week on Broadway. In a hoop skirt and blond...
SAY NO TO 'O'
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amO JERUSALEM At the Flea Theater, 41 White St. Through April 19. Call (212) 226-2407. POLITICAL tracts dressed up as plays never work. Case in point: Flea Theater's production of...
BUNDY GOT AWAY WITH MORE THAN MURDER
March 20, 2003 | 5:00am"Ann Rule Presents The Stranger Beside Me" Friday at 8 p.m. on USA I have a confession to make - which is appropriate since this is a true-crime movie review....
AW-SCARS: BARBARA WALTERS SAYS THIS ISN'T THE RIGHT TIME TO BE TALKING ABOUT LISA MARIE. SO SHE PULLED THE PLUG ON HER ANNUAL OSCAR CELEB SPECIAL.
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amBARBARA Walters has scuttled her annual Oscar- night celebrity interview special because war is on the horizon. "If the war was next week, we could have run it," Walters told...
'EYE AM GOING TO BE OKAY': REGIS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amREGIS Philbin, who was complaining on the air this week about "seeing double," told viewers yesterday that his condition is due to a weak eye muscle. "It's a temporary weakness...
STILL ON TOP
March 20, 2003 | 5:00am50 Cent and Norah Jones retained their titles as rap king and jazzy queen of the sales charts. The Queens rapper took the No. 1 spot again with "Get Rich...
'Q' IS FOR QUITE THE WONDERFUL SHOW
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amBD+>AVENUE Q At the Vineyard Theatre, 108 E. 15th St. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. 'AVENUE Q' is something new! The look and feel of the Muppets meet the wit and...
STARR REPORT
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amOld 'Rosie' crew prepares new show So who says you can't go home again - especially if your old "home" was "The Rosie O'Donnell Show"? Janette Barber and Christina Deyo,...
'WONDER'-FUL SINGER 'IDOL'-ED
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amAND then there were 10. Charles Grigsby, the soft-spoken Ohio native with a Stevie Wonder voice - and a favorite of judge Paula Abdul - last night became the second...
OSCARS' RED SCARE: ROLLED-UP CARPET WILL FLATTEN FASHION'S BIG NIGHT
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amFASHION'S biggest night is beginning to fizzle. Designers, stylists, photographers and stars are scrambling to respond to the Academy's decision Tuesday night to roll back the red carpet for the...
MUST-SEE AWARDS: SHOW MAY HOLD A FEW SURPRISES
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWHAT promised three months ago to be the dullest Oscar night since the "Titanic" sweep in '98 has suddenly morphed into must-see TV - with three surprisingly tight, high-profile races...
ODDS ON FAVORITES: WHO'LL BRING HOME OSCAR GOLD? MATCH YOUR PICKS AGAINST THE POST CRITICS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amBEST PICTURE LOU: Will Win: "Chicago" Should Win: "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" MEGAN: Will Win: "Chicago" Should Win: "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" LOU:...
BRAD-TASTIC PINCH HITTER: ADAM BUCKMAN'S REPORT CARD ON DAVID ON DAVID LETTERMAN'S FILL-INS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amI'm beginning to think Dave's job isn't all that hard. Maybe it would be for you or me, but for showbiz veterans who are already accustomed to performing before live...
JUST WHAT'S EATING WALTER?
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWALTER Cronkite - who was said to have tipped the balance of public opinion on the Vietnam war with a single commentary - is back. This week, in a speech...
IT'S ABOUT TIME: SAD WTC MEMORIES SPUR ANGRY RESOLVE ON BIG APPLE STREETS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amMost New Yorkers - with 9/11 still on their minds - said last night they're glad America is finally moving against tyrants and terrorists. "It's about time," said Irving Levine,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amTwo-year-old Matthew Anthony must have been born with Superman's genes. His mom accidentally drove over him four times with a 4,600-pound van - and he lived. Dianne Anthony, of Germantown,...
4 INDICTED IN MEDICAID 'POT' $CAM
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe owners of a Brooklyn pharmacy and clinic have been indicted for allegedly stealing more than $2.3 million in Medicaid money by billing for expensive drugs never given to patients,...
THE WAR THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amTHIS present war will not last long, but its effects will echo for decades. And they will be positive effects - for Iraq, for the Middle East, for the world...
9/11 BANK BREAKS MOLD
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe toxic mold that was considered a serious environmental threat in the damaged Deutsche Bank building has been removed, city officials said this week - potentially clearing the way for...
AIRBUS BLAMES FLT. 587 AIRLINE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amAircraft manufacturer Airbus has launched a legal claim against American Airlines, blaming it for "improper" flight operations that triggered the crash of Flight 587 in Queens. "American Airlines failed to...
PEACE COMES TO 'SOPRANOS'
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amTony Soprano's behind-the-scenes salary battle with HBO has gone from a full-blown Mafia war to a loving Sunday dinner. HBO filed an application yesterday to drop its $100 million lawsuit...
L.I. VICTIM: POST IDS OF VID VOYEURS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - The Long Island woman secretly taped by her landlord told state leaders yesterday that any video voyeurism law should require that these Peeping Toms register as sex offenders....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 20, 2003 | 5:00am* Queens A man tried to rob a Jamaica bakery at gunpoint after he believed he was overcharged for a slice of cheesecake, a police source said yesterday. Anthony Patterson,...
MONICA GETS REAL WITH FAT TV DEAL
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe world's most famous intern is the new face of reality TV. Monica Lewinsky has agreed to host a new show for Fox called "Mr. Personality," slated to start airing...
EXTORTION 'WISEGUY' WON'T GIVE UP FAMILY
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe "Tony Soprano of Long Island" admitted he shook down two restaurateurs who'd turned to him to settle a business dispute - but the reputed wiseguy stood his ground when...
HOW CONDUCTOR UNCOUPLED MENAGE A TRAIN TRIO
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amNaughty nurse Dennis Greene smiled "like a Cheshire cat" when a conductor ordered him and his brother and sister-in-law to stop their kinky capers on an LIRR train, a court...
ED BOSS 'BLESSES' PATRIOTIC SONG
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE State Education Commissioner Richard Mills has ruled it's OK for schools to encourage kids to sing "God Bless America" to bolster patriotism - particularly in times of war and...
DOC: KID LIKE A FAMINE VICTIM
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens couple's 16-month-old baby had no teeth and was so severely malnourished she "most likely would have died" if not for medical treatment that she received after being taken...
BEWARE THIS MAN ; COPS RELEASE NEW PIC OF PSYCHO KILLER
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amPolice yesterday released a new photograph of the so-called "Thrill Killer" who has executed four people during recent robberies in Brooklyn and Queens. The photo was shot by a security...
SLAIN CROOK'S KIN SUING CITY
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe parents of a big-time auto thief who was shot dead by Brooklyn cops earlier this year filed a $100 million notice of claim against the city yesterday for a...
HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AMID U.N.'S MORAL RUBBLE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amIRAQ'S chief weapons enabler, the ineffectual Hans Blix, shut his eyes, sank in his chair and appeared to fall asleep. He made me jealous. On the brink of war, it...
COUNCIL'S TERM-LIMIT FIX NIXED
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn judge yesterday dropped a political A-bomb on the City Council by overturning the law it passed last year revising term limits. If upheld, the ruling by state Supreme...
BREAKTHROUGH IN 'DEATH FLU' PROBE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amAt least six of the early victims of the mysterious flu-like disease that has set off a global alert appear to have caught it from a sick doctor in a...
KILLERS CAVE IN ; 3 CONFESS TO ROLES IN COP GUN-BUY SLAYINGS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThree of the men arrested in the Staten Island execution-style murder of two undercover detectives last week have quietly pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and are cooperating with authorities, law-enforcement...
CITY TO TRIM TA SUBSIDY
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe cash-strapped city plans to reduce its annual capital subsidy to the Transit Authority by a whopping 30 percent, a fiscal watchdog group said yesterday. The city's Independent Budget Office...
WHITE HOUSE READIES NATION FOR DURATION
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON The White House yesterday braced America for the unknown and said a war against Iraq will be as short as possible but lives will be lost. As the hours...
MIKE'S $ECURITY PUSH: PLEADS HIS CASE TO BUSH
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - While trying to reassure New Yorkers that they are safe on the eve of war, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday met with President Bush to push for more homeland-security funding...
JETS BLAST BORDER ARTILLERY
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. warplanes pounded Iraqi artillery and missile positions near the Kuwait border yesterday to clear the way for tens of thousands of U.S. troops to launch an invasion...
COPS GET GAS GEAR: MASKS, DETECTORS ISSUED TO NYPD AS THREATS LOOM
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe NYPD yesterday began distributing gas masks and other protective gear to thousands of cops to help safeguard them in the event of a chemical or biological attack in the...
COKE-GUN PLOT NETS MAN 14 YRS.
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amA Manhattan lawyer who plotted to supply a Colombian paramilitary outfit with AK-47s in exchange for cocaine, was whacked with a 14-year prison sentence yesterday. Richard Canton, 48, planned to...
CONN. KIDS FRENCH-FRY WEASEL FLAG
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amCall it a French roast. Students at a Connecticut high school burned a replica of the French flag to protest the refusal of America's oldest ally to support the U.S....
JAYSON TAPE AIRS; 911 CALL REVEALS SCENE OF CHAOS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amNew Jersey prosecutors yesterday released a tape of the 911 call made from Jayson Williams' mansion after the ex-NBA star allegedly shot a limo driver to death - featuring Williams'...
U.S. LAUNCHES FREEDOM WAR: MISSILES TARGET IRAQI LEADERS - BOMBS EXPLODE IN BAGHDAD - ALLIES TAKE OVER IRAQI RADIO
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amAmerican forces began taking down Saddam Hussein's despotic regime last night, as a months-long buildup ended with a massive assault on Iraq. "The opening stages of the disarmament of the...
W WARNS OF THE WORST
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amTHE president of the United States last night prepared the American people for the very real possibility that allied air strikes will lead to civilian casualties among Iraq's suffering peoples,...
ANATOMY OF BUSH'S FINAL ATTACK CALL
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush made the final decision to bomb Baghdad between 6:30 and 7 p.m. as he met for the third time yesterday with his war Cabinet and got...
WORLD WAR OF WORDS: REACTIONS OF GLOBAL LEADERS MIXED
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe world chose up sides early today as America began its war with Iraq. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, putting a security alliance with the United States ahead of public...
ATTACK ON BIN LADEN: U.S. 'WHITE DEVILS' BLITZ AFGHANISTAN TARGETS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amAs bombs dropped on Baghdad in the first wave of the war last night, Afghanistan saw the simultaneous launch of "Operation Valiant Strike" - the biggest assault operation in over...
CAMS SCAN CITY TRAIN TUNNELS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE Surveillance cameras have been installed in "sensitive places" in the subway system - including tunnels that run under the East River - in a bid to foil a possible...
BUSH SEIZED CHANCE FOR SURPRISE STRIKE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush tried to surprise the world with a strike that would win the war in one day. The lightning attack on "targets of opportunity" was aimed at...
U.S. LAUNCHES FREEDOM WAR: MISSILES TARGET IRAQI LEADERS - BOMBS EXPLODE IN BAGHDAD - ALLIES SEIZE ENEMY RADIO
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe United States launched its war against Saddam Hussein last night, with cruise missiles and airstrikes directly targeting the despot and his leadership in Baghdad. The months-long U.S. and British...
SADDAM'S HOT AIR FILLS 'VICTORY' SPEECH
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amA defiant - and apparently still alive - Saddam Hussein took to the Iraqi airwaves in full military garb this morning, and predicted victory in a "holy war" against the...
BUM RAP: VAGRANT SUES CITY FOR $4M
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amA supposedly rich homeless man says a stay at a shelter has put him in the poorhouse. Cornell Curry claims in a $4 million lawsuit that he lost his shirt...
SMOKERS' ODDS LIST FOR CANCER
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amScientists have created a formula that lets smokers and ex-smokers predict their risk of contracting lung cancer. For a 68-year-old man who has smoked two packs a day since he...
ELIZABETH LIKELY WILL FACE KIDNAP SUSPECTS IN COURT
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amElizabeth Smart will likely have to testify against the couple arraigned yesterday for her kidnap and rape - but Salt Lake City prosecutors promised to protect the 15-year-old from suffering...
SMART LIKELY TO FACE 'KIDNAPPERS'
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amElizabeth Smart will likely have to testify against the couple arraigned yesterday for her kidnap and rape - but Salt Lake City prosecutors promised to protect the 15-year-old from suffering...
'TONY' TUNES UP: GANDOLFINI & HBO BOSS IN HARMONY
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amTony Soprano's behind-the-scenes salary battle with HBO has gone from a full-blown Mafia war to a loving Sunday dinner. HBO filed an application yesterday to drop its $100 million lawsuit...
A CONCRETE 'VENDETTA'
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens concrete company boss who admits he paid protection money to the mob now wants the city to pay him $150 million because it won't do business with him....
$-STRAPPED CITY CUTTING TA SUBSIDY
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe cash-strapped city plans to reduce its annual capital subsidy to the Transit Authority by a whopping 30 percent, a fiscal watchdog group said yesterday. The city's Independent Budget Office...
TRAIN PERVS UNCOUPLED: BRO-IN-LAW LEERS AT THE CONDUCTOR
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amNaughty nurse Dennis Greene smiled "like a Cheshire cat" when a conductor ordered him and his brother and sister-in-law to stop their kinky capers on an LIRR train, a court...
SECURITY 'EYES' SCAN SUBWAY TUNNELS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amSurveillance cameras have been installed in "sensitive places" in the subway system - including tunnels that run under the East River - in a bid to foil a possible terror...
COPS WARN OF CYANIDE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe latest NYPD terror alert warns cops to be on the lookout for possible cyanide attacks aboard airplanes, The Post has learned. A new alert issued by the NYPD's counter-terrorism...
JUDGE TOSSES COUNCIL'S BID TO DUCK TERM LIMITS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn judge yesterday dropped a political A-bomb on the City Council by overturning the law it passed last year revising term limits. If upheld, the ruling by state Supreme...
FOUR INDICTED IN $2.3M B'KLYN MEDICAID RIPOFF
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe owners of a Brooklyn pharmacy and clinic have been indicted for allegedly stealing more than $2.3 million in Medicaid money by billing for expensive drugs never given to patients,...
ED COMMISH GIVES SONG HIS BLESSING
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amState Education Commissioner Richard Mills has ruled that it's OK for schools to encourage kids to sing "God Bless America" to bolster patriotism - particularly in times of war and...
GAS MASKS COME OUT AS ISRAELIS DIG IN
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israelis were told to open their gas-mask kits yesterday even though Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suggested there was little chance of an Iraqi missile attack during the impending...
DESERT PATHS CONVERGE FOR 2 MARINE BUDDIES
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThey grew up worlds apart in the United States, but they're now bunkmates and best buddies at a remote Marine outpost in the Kuwaiti desert. Helicopter pilot Dan Feliciano is...
FIERY FRENCH LESSON: HS KIDS SUSPENDED FOR BURNING 'WEASEL FLAG'
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amCall it a French-fried flag - or, better yet, French roast. Students at a Connecticut high school burned a replica of the French flag to protest the refusal of America's...
MIKE IN D.C. FOR $ECURITY SIT-DOWN
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - While trying to reassure New Yorkers that they are safe on the eve of war, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday met with President Bush to push for more homeland-security funding...
BACKLASH HITS DIVIDER DASCHLE AFTER BUSH-BASHING
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amIT'S perhaps a sign of America's unity at zero hour that a true wave of anger has swept the country at Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle's brink-of-war charge that President...
DARING BATTLE PLAN TO FOIL BUTCHER'S DEATHTRAP TACTICS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. military has elaborate plans to combine surgical airstrikes, daring commando raids, and lightning tank assaults to take control of Baghdad and thwart Saddam Hussein's plot to...
U.S. TROOPS ON THE DOORSTEP : READY TO INVADE ANY MINUTE AS JETS POUND MISSILE SITES
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. warplanes bombed targets in southern Iraq yesterday as ground troops advanced to the border - ready to invade at any moment. Jets from two aircraft carriers attacked several sites...
NEW YORKERS: IT'S ABOUT TIME: SAD WTC MEMORIES SPUR ANGRY RESOLVE ON BIG APPLE STREETS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amMost New Yorkers - with 9/11 still on their minds - said last night they're glad America is finally moving against tyrants and terrorists. "It's about time," said Irving Levine,...
RADIO RAIDERS BOOT BUTCHER OFF AIR
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Just minutes before the first bombs began falling on Baghdad last night, listeners to the Iraqi state radio were told in Arabic: "This is the day we have...
BUSH'S BATTLE PLAN AIMED AT SCORING FAST KO OF SADDAM
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush tried to surprise the world with a strike that would win the war in one day. The lightning attack on "targets of opportunity" was aimed at...
HOUSTON'S NOW KNICKS' GO-TO-GUY
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES NEW ORLEANS -It's real simple to Wade Houston, Allan's father and former Tennessee head coach. Allan Houston hasn't changed. The Knicks' needs have, as has the head coach....
CHAMPS INVADE WHITEFACE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amAMERICA'S best alpine racers, past and present, will go against each other Saturday in the Return of the Champions relay competition at Whiteface Mountain. Race time is 11 a.m. for...
IT'S OFFICIAL: COLES NO LONGER A JET
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe Jets' season opener against the Redskins in Washington will feature heightened, heated emotions because Laveranues Coles will be on the other side of the line of scrimmage, probably still...
FASSEL: DAYNE PROMISED HE'D SHOW
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amTwo weeks ago, Ron Dayne sat in Jim Fassel's office and made a promise, according to the head coach of the Giants. "He looked me in the eye and said,...
HE'S SON-SATIONAL! ; DAD BEAMS AS ALLAN TRIES TO SAVE KNICKS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - It's real simple to Wade Houston, Allan's father and former Tennessee head coach. Allan Houston hasn't changed. The Knicks' needs have. As Houston plunges through this potentially...
ANTI-WAR BOOS IRK ISLANDERS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amMONTREAL - The booing is going to shower the ice here well before the game begins. But as the Islanders face the Canadiens in what just may be the toughest...
DEVS' TVERDOVSKY 'EMBARRASSED' OVER SCRATCHES
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amIf Lou Lamoriello isn't punishing Oleg Tverdovsky for seeking a second medical opinion, he's receiving the same effect, anyway. "First of all, every time I sit out, it's very embarrassing...
BU'S WOLFF CAUGHT UP IN IRONIES
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amDon't tell Dennis Wolff about the irony of Mike Jarvis coaching against his former school. The Boston University coach has his own ironies to worry about. "I've got a few...
NO FANFARE FOR JASPERS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amEAST REGION The Colts didn't leave Baltimore this quietly. But unlike that sorry, former NFL franchise, the Manhattan Jaspers weren't running away from anyone or anything yesterday as they boarded...
BREY HAS IRISH EYES FOCUSED ON BADGERS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amMIDWEST NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - When Mike Brey took over as Notre Dame's basketball coach three years ago, the Irish were mired in a dismal 10-year period without an NCAA Tournament...
IT'S WILLARD'S WAY ; CRUSADERS' COACH BEARS HEAVY CROSS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amMIDWEST REGION INDIANAPOLIS - For the low-profile, high-seed schools like Holy Cross, this is the time of their lives. For Ralph Willard, a mastermind tactician and New York native who's...
MIDDLEBROOK FAILS TO HELP HIS CAUSE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - It sure looks as if the Mets will choose their final two starters by default. Jason Middlebrook, one of the front-runners for a spot...
DOLEAC CATCHES 2ND WIND
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES NEW ORLEANS - Michael Doleac had been so under-used the past two weeks, the Knick backup center admitted he got winded in the fourth quarter during his bang-up...
PIAZZA'S OPENER NOT LOOKING GOOD
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amMets 14Cards 12 PORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Piazza indicated yesterday that he would likely be filing an appeal for his five-game suspension. The Met cornerstone really wants to appeal...
CH. 11'S HUNTER DIES
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amJim Hunter, longtime assistant director and co-producer of Ch. 11's Yankee telecasts, died Sunday, near his home in Hazlet, N.J. He was 72 and had been retired. For years -...
HE'S CONN-FIDENT ; CALHOUN'S CLUB READY FOR BYU
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amSOUTH REGION SPOKANE - Jim Calhoun was on a roll yesterday, taking his fast-talking act of one-liners on tour, with a snappy line for anything and everything. The UConn coach...
MISTAKE HAS BYU ON MISSION
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amSOUTH REGION NOTE BOOK SPOKANE - It was more slipup than slight, but that's not the way BYU's basketball team is viewing an embarrassing gaffe by the NCAA Selection Committee....
MIKE MESS SHOULD UNITE METS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Piazza hung his head, delivered vague words in a glum voice, shook his head a lot, shrugged. Piazza knows that at this point, Jerry Grote...
YANKES GET FUTURE STUD: LEFTY PITCHER KEY TO WHITE-TRAMMELL DEAL
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - The Yankees traded Rondell White to the Padres yesterday for several reasons. They like the way Bubba Trammell hits left-handed pitching and they lowered their competitive balance payroll...
IRISH EYES FOCUSED ON NEXT WEEKEND
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amMIDWEST REGION INDIANAPOLIS - When Mike Brey took over as Notre Dame's basketball coach three years ago, the Irish were mired in a dismal 10-year period without an NCAA Tournament...
JETS SIGN CONWAY TO REPLACE COLES
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amThe Jets lost a starting receiver then gained one yesterday. The team made it official and opted not to match the Redskins' offer sheet to Laveranues Coles. Later in the...
RANGERS FEEL URGENCY ; FOUR BEHIND ISLES AFTER ANOTHER
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 3 Sabres 0 There was Sandy McCarthy, throwing his upper body in front of a Buffalo shot from the point. There were Boris Mironov and Ronald Petrovicky, taking the...
MARLINS CASTING EYES AT STERLING
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The Rockies aren't the only team interested in Sterling Hitchcock. With A.J. Burnett slated to see Dr. James Andrews due to arm problems, the Marlins have...
NETS BUCK-LE UNDER ; NOW TRAIL SIXERS IN ATLANTIC RACE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amYou go up to Boston, and not just beat, but dominate, a challenger in your conference. You're supposed to come back and protect your homecourt against a team struggling to...
LATE STORM OUTBURST BASHES BU
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amSt. John's 62BU 57 It was ugly, uninspiring and considering the opponent, way too close. But for St. John's, it was also a win. Thanks to Willie Shaw. The Red...
LINDROS' FADE STILL A MYSTERY
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amSOMEBODY has stolen Eric Lindros' hands. His extraordinary promise robbed him of some of his youth, head trauma snatched from him too many springs. And now one of the best...
SAM CALLS ON MATES TO STEP UP
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES Either you have it, or you don't. Too many Bucks simply don't have it, said Sam Cassell. The former Net, now teamed with Gary Payton in Milwaukee, is...
THE BIG QUEASY: KNICKS STUNG BY HORNETS, DROP 3 GAMES OUT OF 8TH
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amHornets 101 Knicks 96 NEW ORLEANS - Their playoff stature grew in size after the stunning victory in San Antonio Tuesday. But that didn't mean the undersized Knicks grew any...
BRICKS TO BULL'S-EYES: NETS HOPE JEFFERSON'S SLUMP IS TRULY OVER
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amFor 17 games after the All-Star break, Richard Jefferson looked frighteningly ordinary. Less than ordinary, in fact. What else would you call 37.7-percent shooting and 12.7 ppg? Especially as it...
MATT STUCK IN IDLE ICE TIME DROPS - BUT HE'S NOT IN DOGHOUSE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWhen Matt Barnaby went to the penalty box after fighting Arron Asham 9:57 into the second period of Monday's Garden match against the Islanders, he moved the ESPN mini-cam that...
CASSELL BLISTERS BUCKS
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES Enough, says Sam Cassell. Either you have it, or you don't. And too many Bucks simply don't have it. The former Net, teamed with Gary Payton in Milwaukee,...