December 17, 2003
PITTMAN GOBBLES UP DAILYCANDY SHOPPING SITE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amMedia mogul Bob Pittman is satisfying his sweet tooth for daily candy. Pittman, the architect who helped build AOL and MTV into household names, has gobbled up DailyCandy, the trendy...
WALL ST.'S MULHEREN DIES AT 54
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amJohn Mulheren, one of Wall Street's most eccentric and talented traders, died Monday night of a heart attack. He was 54. Through his meteoric rise and his surrealistic struggles, Mulheren...
FAO SCHWARZ RESCUE IS GOING DOWN TO THE WIRE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amFAO Schwarz was hoping for a Christmas miracle today to avoid being closed forever - and converted into a posh designer's emporium. Representatives of the bankrupt toy empire were negotiating...
CALPERS SUES NYSE: GIANT PENSION FUND ALLEGES FRAUD, INVESTOR LOSSES
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amCalPERS, the largest pension fund in the United States, yesterday sued the New York Stock Exchange and seven of its trading firms for behavior it said resulted in massive investor...
ORBITZ HOPING THAT ITS IPO WILL TAKE OFF
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amOrbitz? Investors are hoping it simply gets off the ground. The online travel site wants to raise about $317 million today in a long-delayed initial public offering. But analysts wonder...
SPY KIDS TO NET $1M FOR MEMOIR OF HUMOR MAG
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amGRAYDON "Smokestack" Carter and Kurt Andersen have snagged a seven-figure deal to write about their glory days as the co-founders of Spy magazine. George Kalogerakis, who was the deputy editor...
MTV MAKES OFFER THEY CAN'T RE-FUSE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amMTV is taking notice of upstart rival music channel Fuse. Fuse, a 24-hour music video channel owned by Cablevision's Rainbow Media, has slowly been garnering buzz within the music industry...
9 GET AXED AT PUTNAM IN SCANDAL
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amNine more insiders at big mutual fund Putnam Investments were fired for secret trades that cheated small investors. The ouster of the unidentified employees brings to 15 the number of...
FBI, U.S. ATTORNEY TARGET HOLLINGER
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe FBI and U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago have launched an investigation into alleged financial shenanigans at ousted newspaper baron Conrad Black's Hollinger International, sources told The Post. The criminal...
APPLE WORKING 5TH AVE. LEASE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amTHE computer business that started in a garage may be landing in a basement - one of the most expensive basements in the universe. Apple Computer is negotiating a 21,000-square-...
WASSERSTEIN SCORES N.Y. MAG WITH $55M BID
December 17, 2003 | 5:00am"Bid 'em up" Bruce Wasserstein lived up to his name yesterday, swooping in to become the surprise winning bidder for New York magazine. The famed investment banker agreed to pay...
HOW I SPENT MY MILLION ; REALITY TV WINNERS SPLURGE ON FAST CARS AND WOMEN
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amYOU'VE just won a boatload of money on a TV reality show - so how are you going to spend your booty (after ponying up to Uncle Sam, of course)?...
HOLLYWOOD JAILBIRDS NOW ON DECK
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amHERE'S your first look at some of the "new" additions to the 52-card deck of celebrity mugshots amassed by Court TV's thesmokinggun.com. The deck of cards, which is not for...
ONE CHEER FOR THE NEW ROCCO'S
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amI don't know why I did it, but I did it. I went back to "The Restaurant" - at the producer's behest - to reprise my big, starring role on...
OPRAH TALKS TO SAWYER
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amOPRAH Winfrey says she identifies with the children she's helping in Africa because of their poverty. "I see myself in those children," Winfrey tells Diane Sawyer on tonight's "Primetime" (10...
MOD AMERICAN JAZZ; DJANGO PLAYING A WHOLE NEW RIFF
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amDJANGO ½ (two and one half stars) 480 LEXINGTON AVE. (AT 46TH STREET) (212) 871-6600 'THEY'VE had a lot of white wine," our waitress chuckled over a table full of...
ON THE SIDE: BOULUD A TRUFFLE MAKER
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWANT to super-size that burger order? Last week we reported that Daniel Boulud was reintroducing his db Burger Royale for $59 at db bistro moderne. Now, his spokeswoman says, those...
DEEP IN THE HEART OF UPTOWN
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amPEARSON'S TEXAS BARBECUE (two stars) 170 E. 81ST ST. (BETWEEN THIRD & LEXINGTON); (212) 288-2700 THE Upper East Side is smokin' now that Brit hairstylist-turned-pitmaster Robert Pearson left retirement to...
MARCHING ORDERS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amTHERE'S no place like home for the holidays, but that doesn't mean all your goodies must be homemade. Urban cooks seldom have the luxury of time to prepare blowout holiday...
RESTAURANT PLAY TIME
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amCRAYONING on place mats will distract them for only so long. Enter PlayDine. The brainchild of Dan Lowenstein (father of two boys), it provides on-site child care at an restaurant...
BOWIE STILL IN FASHION
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amDAVID BOWIE THERE are no gimmes in New York City. Even the great concert showman David Bowie had to work to win the audience at Madison Square Garden. For the...
IN LIKE CLINT AT CRITICS'
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amCLINT Eastwood's "Mystic River" and the immigrant saga "In America" nabbed seven nominations apiece yesterday in the Critics' Choice Awards. The Los Angeles-based Broadcast Film Critics Association nominated Eastwood for...
FOX NEWS CAPTURES RATINGS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amFOX News Channel was the most watched cable news outlet during Sunday's coverage of the U.S. Army's capture of Saddam Hussein. More than 2.9 million viewers were tuned to FNC...
WATCH A PLAYWRIGHT EAT HIS HEART OUT
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amDINNER WITH DEMONS At the Second Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St., (212) 246-4422. Through Jan. 18. 'DINNER With Demons" has playwright Jonathan Reynolds cooking a meal and reminiscing about...
STARR REPORT
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amKip in at 10 on 11 Local connections . . . Ch. 11 has officially tapped Kip Lewis as its new weekend sports anchor, effective Jan. 5 (The Post's Phil...
AGHDASH...WHO? MEET SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO, RENEE'S OSCAR COMPETITION
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amIT doesn't trip lightly off the tongue, but Oscar pundits are fast learning how to pronounce Shohreh Aghdashloo's name. The 51-year-old Iranian actress has burst on the scene like a...
HOME AIDE HELD IN GRANNY SLAY
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA former home attendant has been charged in the killing of an 85-year-old East Harlem grandmother, sources said yesterday. Kaysha Gongora, 22, of Brooklyn, was charged with second-degree murder and...
HAIL THE RAIL: DIRECT JFK TRAIN SERVICE BEGINS TODAY
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amJFK-bound travelers can finally take the train to the plane. The AirTrain - the first direct rail link to a city airport - opens today in what is being billed...
FIRING AWAY AT DAD; DAUGHTER IN COURT TO BLAST BRAVEST WHO LEFT FAMILY FOR 9/11 WIDOW
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA New York City firefighter - one of at least eight who have left their families for 9/11 widows - squared off with his teenage daughter in an emotional exchange...
TAKE BACK THE SKY; WE NEED THE FREEDOM TOWER, FAST
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amTHIS Friday, the world will get to see the first large building ever designed by two architects and a governor: the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero. And, short of an...
NEW LAW TO TAKE SLICE OUT OF SPAM
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday signed the first federal law aimed at stopping millions of unwanted e-mail ads that promise everything from lower interest rates to trimmer tummies and better...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amStop peeing on our highways! That's the urgent message from officials in Adams County, Wash., who've taken out newspaper ads that fume, "OK, one last time: This is not a...
FERRY VICTIM DEAD
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA woman who suffered massive injuries in the Staten Island Ferry crash died yesterday after spending the last two months in a drug-induced coma. Debra Castro, 39, became the 11th...
CHUCK PUSHES $5B DOWNTOWN-JFK TRAIN
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amMuch of the $5 billion remaining from the federal government's $20 billion post-9/11 package for New York City should be used to build a rail link from Kennedy Airport to...
NO JOKING, ANOTHER SOAKING
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amGet your galoshes ready - heavy rain is due to swamp the metro area today. The region is on a storm watch, and two inches of rain are expected to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe Crime Stoppers program has awarded its millionth dollar, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and New York City Police Foundation President Pamela Delaney said yesterday. Since the program was launched in...
SCHUMER COY ON GOV. RACE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amSen. Chuck Schumer yesterday said he hasn't thought about taking on Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 Democratic gubernatorial primary, but didn't rule it out. With Gov. Pataki possibly...
GIS DRAINING A COLD BA'ATH ; FOLLOW-UP RAID SNATCHES 79 OF SADDAM'S LOSERS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces continued to round up key leaders of the Ba'ath Party underground yesterday, arresting 79 terrorists in a raid prompted by intelligence from a prized new informant...
REV. AL LANDS BUSHEL OF LOCAL ENDORSEMENTS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton's presidential campaign came to City Hall yesterday - where he picked up nearly a dozen endorsements, criticized his Democratic competitors and predicted he might be the...
MIKE AIMS FOR 'GUN COURTS' IN QNS., BX.
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe success of Brooklyn's Gun Court - where only felony firearms-possession cases are tried - will be expanded to Queens and The Bronx next month, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. The...
VATICAN'S SYMPATHY WITH THE DEVIL
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe Vatican fired a double-barreled shot at the United States and its allies yesterday - with the pope blasting the invasion of Iraq and a top cardinal ripping the military...
WOMAN NABBED IN GRANNY SLAY
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA former home attendant has been charged in the brutal torture-killing and robbery of a beloved 85-year-old East Harlem granny, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Kaysha Gongora, 22, of East 34th...
DAD'S DEATH WISH; SAYS EXECUTE KILLER OF SON, 11, AND EX
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe father of a slain Long Island boy said he wants his son's killer to die for the coldblooded murder of the child and his mother. "I want the death...
GAZA WARNING FROM SHARON
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has told some of his ministers he will abandon the Gaza Strip - removing thousands of Jews - and divide the West Bank...
CUBICLE CUPIDS TABOO OFF WORKPLACE ROMANCES
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amGot your eye on that cute co-worker? Now's the time to act. This holiday season more singles than ever are considering hooking up with someone they work with, according to...
RESCUED DOGS FACING DOOM
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amTime is running out for 12 pit bulls rescued from a Bronx fight-monger: they'll be killed if they don't find homes in the next two weeks. Sixteen scarred dogs were...
GROUND ZERO RESOLUTION IS IN-SPIRED
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amSize does matter - at least when it comes to architects, their big egos and tall buildings. Gov. Pataki had to step in last week to break an impasse on...
MTA ELEVATOR OP SAVES MAN'S LIFE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amAn MTA elevator operator saved the life of a 20-year-old man who was brutally stabbed in an upper Manhattan station, authorities said yesterday. The heroic action came just hours after...
WRONGED MAN MERITS APOLOGY
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amTHIS Christmas story features heroes: There's the loving mama who stood by her son, Alberto Ramos, after this entire city declared him a sicko baby rapist. The other white knight...
SHOT PIZZA DELIVERYMAN DIES OF WOUNDS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe hard-working pizza deliveryman shot on Sunday night after making a delivery in Brooklyn has died of his wounds. The Medical Examiner's Office said Valeriy Pazdnikov, a 55-year-old Russian native,...
NURSE CLUES MISSED
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe nurse who said he killed up to 40 patients under his care was hired at his latest job - where he's said to have killed at least two patients...
WHEELS IN MOTION FOR TAXI-FARE HIKE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA taxi fare hike could be one step closer to reality. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance said yesterday that the Taxi and Limousine Commission has given their proposal the...
WEATHER THROWS A DRENCH INTO HOLIDAY SHOPPING PLANS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amGet your galoshes ready - the crazy weather's not over yet. Still more torrential rain is due to bucket down on the city and surrounding areas today, causing a nightmare...
BUSH: KILL HIM SAYS SADDAM DESERVES 'THE ULTIMATE JUSTICE'
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that "disgusting tyrant" Saddam Hussein should receive "the ultimate justice" - the death penalty. "He is a torturer, a murderer, and they had rape...
P. DIDDY'LL BE 'RAISIN' HELL ON BROADWAY THIS SPRING
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amP. Diddy is B.Way- bound. Rap mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs will star in a revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" this spring on Broadway, The Post has learned....
'BRIBE' JUDGE: TOSS TAPES
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amJudge Gerald Garson yesterday asked the court to bar wiretaps and video surveillance tapes from his upcoming bribery trial. The request was included in a lengthy motion seeking a dismissal...
DEM FOES CLIP DEAN'S DOVE WINGS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Howard Dean was the punching bag for his Democratic rivals again yesterday as he continued to catch fire for his remarks about Iraq. Sens. John Kerry and Joe...
COPS GRILL CHURCH-HEIST SUSPECT
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amPolice were grilling a suspect last night in connection with Sunday's armed robbery of a Brooklyn church that netted more than $12,000 in donations. The 31-year-old suspect was expected to...
5TH-GRADER'S ATTACK SIDELINES TEACH
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe city's epidemic of school violence has infected elementary schools - where a veteran teacher learned this week that even a fifth-grade classroom can be a combat zone. Ian Kerr,...
2ND KID DIES IN 'STAR' HOUSE BLAZE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe badly burned 10-year-old niece of Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden died yesterday - two days after the little girl's 6-year-old brother perished in a blaze that swept their Queens apartment....
EX JAILED IN HORROR DUMPSTER MURDER
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amAn enraged father involved in a bitter custody dispute with his girlfriend over their young son beat her to death with a hammer - then set her body on fire...
PATAKI & BLOOMBERG IN HUSH-HUSH BERMUDA GETAWAY
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki spent at least part of last weekend vacationing in Bermuda with Mayor Bloomberg at Hizzoner's multimillion-dollar estate, The Post has learned. "It appeared to be an...
END-VIOLENCE INC.; CITY SEEKS BIDS FOR CONFLICT PROGRAMS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amSchool violence is so out of control that city officials have turned to private companies for help - and they said yesterday they're soliciting new bids for violence-reduction programs as...
DEATH JURY HEARS FROM TRAGIC KIN
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amFederal jurors who will decide whether a Brooklyn drug boss convicted of two capital murders should be put to death heard heartbreaking stories of loss from a stream of victims'...
JEWEL OF AN MTA $CANDAL ; WEALTHY PLUMBING CONTRACTOR SOAKED SUBWAYS FOR $10M: PROSECUTORS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA mob- connected central Jersey plumber gouged the MTA, overcharging by as much as $10 million with the help of three crooked MTA officials, prosecutors charged yesterday. Plundering plumber Alex...
GOP'S GARDEN PLANS ARE UNCONVENTIONAL
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amComing soon to a Manhattan stage: President Bush in the round! That's what planners for next year's Republican National Convention are considering to show off the president to the nation,...
SMILE! CAMERA THIEF CAUGHT BY PARTNER'S SNAPSHOT
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA thief at a Long Island Wal-Mart made shoplifting a Kodak moment when she mindlessly photographed her partner-in-crime with a demo camera - a perfect mug shot that police are...
PREZ BOOSTS FED BAN ON GAY UNIONS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amPresident Bush finally came out last night to say he'd back a constitutional ban on gay marriages. While Bush has already said he would support whatever is "legally necessary to...
TRAGEDY ROCKS BRAVEST; 1ST DEATH IN POST-9/11 FIRE CLASS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA city firefighter who joined the force a month after 9/11 died in a shower of flaming debris as he searched for victims inside a burning Manhattan building yesterday, officials...
EMINEM LAWSUIT RAPS THE SOURCE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amEminem is looking for quick justice from a Manhattan judge to silence his longtime rap rival Ray Benzino and hip-hop bible The Source magazine, which has been running a campaign...
MAN HELD IN 12G B'KLYN CHURCH HEIST
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA 31-year-old day laborer was under arrest last night in connection with an armed robbery of a Brooklyn church that netted more than $12,000 in money meant for the hungry....
BUSH: KILL HIM ; SAYS SADDAM DESERVES 'THE ULTIMATE JUSTICE'
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that "disgusting tyrant" Saddam Hussein should receive "the ultimate justice" - the death penalty. "He is a torturer, a murderer, and they had rape...
'HE WAS TRYING TO STAB ME WITH HIS PEN'
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe city's epidemic of school violence has infected elementary schools - where a veteran teacher learned this week that even a fifth-grade classroom can be a combat zone. Ian Kerr,...
DEMS DAMN DEAN OVER SADDAM
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Howard Dean was the punching bag for his Democratic rivals again yesterday as he continued to catch fire for his remarks about Iraq. Sens. John Kerry and Joe...
METS MULL OPTIONS AS GUILLEN OKS ANGEL DEAL
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe Mets canceled a meeting with Brian Jordan's agent yesterday in order to chase other options in right field but had one killed when Jose Guillen agreed to a two-year...
BROOKLYN SCHOOLBOY HIT BY CAR
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amA 12-year-old Brooklyn boy was critically injured when he was hit by a car as he walked home from school yesterday, police said. Jorge Mora was struck as he was...
GRISLY NEW CLUE IN FED'S SLAY
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amBlood has been found on a toll ticket turned in from a car belonging to slain federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna as it exited the Pennsylvania Turnpike the night he was...
EMINEM SUIT RAPS THE SOURCE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amEminem is looking for quick justice from a Manhattan judge to silence his longtime rap rival Ray Benzino and hip-hop bible The Source magazine, which has been running a campaign...
SHOT PIZZA MAN DIES OF WOUNDS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThe hard-working pizza deliveryman shot on Sunday night after making a delivery in Brooklyn has died of his wounds. The Medical Examiner's Office said Valeriy Pazdnikov, a 55-year-old Russian native...
THE MOMENT MANKIND BEGAN TO SOAR
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amOne hundred years ago today, the Wright Brothers fired up the airplane they had fashioned from wood, wire and cloth and flew it for 12 seconds - an astounding fete...
VLAD WAS RIGHT FIT
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amGARY Sheffield gets his press conference today at Yankee Stadium and before he dons No. 11 for the cameras and says all the right things about joining the Yankees for...
HUNTER EARNS POWERFUL ROLE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amIn an effort to jump-start his sputtering power play that scored once in 15 chances, Islanders coach Steve Stirling deployed Trent Hunter on the extra-man unit last night against the...
OTHELLA BIDES HIS TIME
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amIf Kurt Thomas and Keith Van Horn are ticked off about their minutes, maybe they should look further down the Knicks bench at Othella Harrington. After sitting out seven of...
STOCK UP WITH THESE GIFTS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWhether it be a tough trip or just horrible racing luck, the last two weeks of the main track and first two weeks of action over the inner oval at...
BARROW REGRETS HIS REMARKS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Linebacker Micheal Barrow yesterday issued an apology sent out by the Giants for using the word "violated" to describe his feelings following Sunday night's 45-7 loss in New...
CALM DOWN, GEORGE ; BOMBERS STILL BETTER THAN BOSOX
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amYOU KNOW what the first reaction is going to be, of course, as misguided and wrong-headed as it is. Hell, you can already feel the seismic effects, even if you...
KEITH TAKES FIFTH ON PLAYING FOURTH KNICKS WINNING WITH VAN HORN ON BENCH
December 17, 2003 | 5:00am"If I'm playing great and the situation doesn't change, I'll speak to [Don] about it. It's two games. We won both games." KEITH VAN HORN Keith Van Horn can live...
PURINTON, BOUCHARD ITCH FROM SCRATCHES
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amDale Purinton wore a familiar smile upon entering the Rangers' locker room after yesterday's practice - even though he'll be a healthy scratch once again for tomorrow's game at the...
JINTS NEED EARFUL FROM FED-UP FANS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amBill Parcells won't allow any of his Cowboys to whip out cell phones, ala Joe (toot your own) Horn of the Saints, in celebration of a touchdown on Sunday at...
SEASON WON'T CHANGE IN NEW YORK MINUTE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWHAT did Kurt Thomas expect? That a guy who has averaged 14 points and eight rebounds on a team that has not made the playoffs since he became a starter...
SEEKING HIRE GROUND MINORITIES WARY OF NFL'S SINCERITY
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amEVEN though the NFL recently issued guidelines to ensure inclusion of minorities in the hiring of future head coaches, minority candidates remain leery over whether their qualifications will be taken...
CHREBET: RETURN NO SURE THING
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amThere was no tough-guy, "I'll-be-back" defiance in Wayne Chrebet's voice. The Jets' fallen receiver, still slowly recovering from the daunting effects of post-concussion syndrome, could not in any way guarantee...
MADDEN BACK, BUT DEVS AIL
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amRestrained by his bosses until last night, repeat Selke Trophy candidate John Madden returned to the Devil lineup when they visited Nassau Coliseum. Other Devil absentees won't be back as...
VINNY WANTS TO COME BACK
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amVinny Testaverde made it clear yesterday that he'd love to remain with the Jets next season as Chad Pennington's backup, but he will not remain as the No. 3 quarterback....
CHANEY TO KURT: BE TEAM PLAYER
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Knick coach Don Chaney pleaded yesterday for Kurt Thomas to think about the team and not his personal situation. Thomas has reacted badly to his demotion to backup...
SOUNDS ROSE-Y FOR METS
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWFAN yesterday officially tapped Howie Rose to replace broadcast legend Bob Murphy as the Mets' radio play-by-play man. While keeping his Islanders TV job, Rose, 49, will do nearly all...
YANKS NOT DISMISSING PALMEIRO
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES Despite having no place to play him, the Yankees haven't ruled out adding Rafael Palmeiro to their lineup even if the move makes Kenny Lofton a $6-million fourth...
HEY, BOSS: VLAD WAS RIGHT FIT
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amGARY Sheffield gets his press conference today at Yankee Stadium and before he dons No. 11 for the cameras and says all the right things about joining the Yankees for...
LOFTON: I'M A WINNER . . . JUST LIKE YANKEES
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amKenny Lofton has arrived in New York, but he says he's not quite in pinstripes. Lofton, who watched the Warriors dismantle the Knicks 104-86 from courtside seats last night at...
BOMBERS STILL TAKING LOOK AT PALMEIRO
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES Despite having no place to play him, the Yankees haven't ruled out adding Rafael Palmeiro to their lineup even if the move makes Kenny Lofton a $6-million fourth...
BRODEUR'S OFF NIGHT PROVES HE'S HUMAN
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWhen Martin Brodeur is flexing his right knee, it's more important to the Devils than even their first loss to the Islanders since April 1, 2002. Five pucks went past...
SCOTT TARGET OF KIDD TIRADE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amJason Kidd's postgame tirade four nights ago was directed toward the man he blamed for the Nets' 47-point loss to Memphis: Byron Scott. Sources have told The Post that Kidd...
GUARD WOES STAND OUT
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWHAT did Kurt Thomas expect? That a guy who has averaged 14 points and eight rebounds on a team that has not made the playoffs since he became a starter...
ISLES SEND BIG MESSAGE
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amIsles 5Devils 4 Islander goalie Garth Snow rose from the ice after making a spectacular save in the second period last night. Then he waved his catching glove - with...
LOUSY KNICKS SIMPLY OUTCLASSED; MCDYESS: WE WERE 'HIGH-SCHOOL TEAM'
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amWarriors 104Knicks The real Knicks showed up last night. And it was sickening. Absolutely sickening. In one of their most pathetic defensive stands in the Don Chaney reign, the Warriors...
NETS CRAVE NEW KARMA - INSTANTLY
December 17, 2003 | 5:00amImportant ... Have to win ... Must-have. Pick your cliche; chances are, one of the Nets used it to describe their game tonight against the visiting Jazz. In reaching the...