March 24, 2006
SPORTS CLUB GETS $25M
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe Reebok Club and six other upscale sports clubs are about to get a whole lot glitzier. Real estate developer Millennium Partners, which owns Reebok and five Sports Club/LA properties,...
BIRTHDAY SUIT - EX-HENNESSEE EXEC CLAIMS PREGNANCY LED TO FIRING
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA top executive at an influential New York hedge fund advisory sued the company Tuesday, claiming she was humiliated and dumped from her job because she was pregnant. Leeana Piscopo,...
INVESTORS EYEING FRENCH BUILDING
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA tasty terra cotta building that includes Morton's Steak House as a tenant is coming up for grabs. With Midtown office buildings desperately sought by investors, the Fred F. French...
KEY TIME EDITOR QUITS - MAGAZINE VETERAN ISOLDE MOTLEY WILL EDIT A BOOK
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amISOLDE Motley, a quiet behind-the-scenes power at Time Inc., told Media Ink yesterday that she plans to leave the company, probably around June. The exact date hasn't been finalized yet,...
BROTHERS IN DESPAIR
March 24, 2006 | 5:00am'LONESOME Jim" is one of those indie excursions to Loserville that lasts an hour and a half but feels longer than "Roots." Casey Affleck plays Jim, a 27-year-old, self-described "doubtful...
TRIBECA FEST GOING OUT OF THE 'HOOD
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amIF you're seeing a movie at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, the odds are good it won't actually be in TriBeCa. For the first time, the festival, which began five...
FLAVA'S SPITTING CUTIE GETS FIRED
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTHE runner-up on the VH1 series "Flavor of Love" - who made the all-time reality TV highlight reel when she spit in her rival's face - has lost her job....
IT'S LOCO MOTION FOR FANS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amMOTION City Soundtrack was banging on all cylinders for its frantic, manic, terrific Irving Plaza gig. Like their fans who bounced to the music Wednesday night, the aptly named quintet...
DADDY DEAREST, IN FRENCH
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amJEAN-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are 50-something Belgian brothers whose portraits ("La Promesse," etc.) of life's losers have made them critics' darlings. Their latest, "L'Enfant (The Child)," will do little to...
THAT'S NO LADY...
March 24, 2006 | 5:00am'THE Lady in Question Is Charles Busch" does a solid job of documenting the life and art of the drag grand dame, whose life has been almost as tumultuous as...
PAINT IT SLACK - STONES' STORY TOO HAZY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amYOU know you're in trouble when your girlfriend leaves you for the relative tranquility of life with Keith Richards. That's what happened to Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones guitarist who...
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amMARK Morris has a happy habit of coming up trumps when needed, and what better time than the 25th anniversary of his own dance company? At BAM Wednesday night came...
D'OH THE RIGHT THING - FILMING BEGINS FOR 'SIMPSONS' MOVIE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTHE movie version of "The Simpsons" is in full throttle. "Simpsons" cast member Harry Shearer, who provides the voices of Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns and Rev. Lovejoy, among others, says...
YOUNG MEN HIT THE ROWED
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTHE slo-mo opening, accompanied by sappy music, tells you everything you need to know about "Summer Storm," an uninspired gay coming-of-age import from Germany. Tobi and Achim, the cute stars...
BANK ON IT - SPIKE AND DENZEL TEAM UP FOR TAUT THRILLER 'INSIDE MAN'; SPIKE'S BACK, WE'RE THRILLED
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amSPIKE Lee gets his groove back with "Inside Man," a crackling, twisty thriller about a bank heist that shows he can make an expensive, mainstream movie that's every bit as...
ROCK AROUND THE 'CROCK'
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amLONG before he became a Sub Pop artist, Kelley Stoltz recorded "Crockodiles," his 2001 tribute to Echo & the Bunnymen's "Crocodiles." Stoltz recorded everything on an eight-track and played all...
RING THE ALARM - CRITICS RIP 'LORD' DEBUT IN TORONTO
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA horde of squat, swarthy creatures who live in darkness and shun the light are laying siege to the good people of "The Lord of the Rings" today. Inhabitants of...
STARR REPORT
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amChef sparks 'Park' It's been a good week for two veteran cable shows in two different genres. "South Park" kicked off its 10th season Wednesday with all eyes on its...
CHICKEN SCRATCH - LEVITTOWN'S LOTHARIO READY FOR POST-'IDOL' CELEBRITY TREATMENT
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amLEVITTOWN high-schooler Kevin Covais, who was booted off "American Idol" Wednesday, says he doesn't mind being called "Chicken Little" - in fact, he says, he revels in it. "I'm loving...
SAVED BY THE BELLE - KID BY DAY, ROCK STAR BY NIGHT
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amIF you came of age during the "Saved by the Bell" era (which lasted slightly longer than the Paleolithic era), then you know that a show geared to 'tweens -...
MARY'S HOT PICK
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amSHE'LL tell you something good. R&B pop diva Chaka Khan brings her supersized vocals to the Lehman Center for Performing Arts tonight (8 p.m.; Tickets, $30 to $45; 250 Bedford...
LATIN KING LINK IN HOOPS SLAY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amPolice on Long Island have revealed that Latin King gang members were at the scene of the murder of an innocent college basketball star last year, and detectives need the...
CHENEY'S FOX ALERT FOR HOTELS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney wants all his TVs tuned only to Fox News Channel, his coffee must be decaf, his soda Diet Sprite - and he likes the...
'JR.' ATT'Y & SLIWA TO AIR DIFFERENCES
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amCurtis Sliwa's radio talk show will have a new co-host for three days next week - the attorney who last year successfully defended Sliwa's arch nemesis, John "Junior" Gotti. Beginning...
MOM FROM HELL 'ADMITS' '90 TOT SLAY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe mother of a 4-year-old whose body was discovered in a wooded Long Island area 10 years ago admitted to years of sickening abuse and eventually killing the child, prosecutors...
BAD FORM IN 28G TAX 'SCAM'
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amAn Upper West Side man used bogus W-2 tax forms to rake in $28,459 in "rapid refunds," an indictment charged yesterday. Myles Rappaport, 63, faces up to seven years in...
BEING TAXED OUT OF N.Y.
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - The high cost of New York taxes is damaging the ability of business across the state to thrive in an increasingly competitive national climate, a new survey released...
WELD'S 'D' WORD FOR ELIOT: DUKAKIS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amRepublican gubernatorial hopeful William Weld lashed out at front-runner Eliot Spitzer yesterday, tagging him as a modern-day Mike Dukakis (left) who likes big government. "Like my predecessor in Massachusetts, Gov....
ASSAULT RAP FOR SENATOR
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - State Sen. Ada Smith, a Queens Democrat repeatedly accused of criminal and violent behavior in the past, was charged with third-degree criminal assault yesterday after an aide accused...
WHAT A BUST FOR SCORES 'STABBER' - OWNER KNIFES EX-WORKER: COPS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe owner of the Scores strip-club empire traded boobs for a blade early yesterday - repeatedly slashing a former employee as a brawny accomplice held the victim down, police sources...
KID-ABUSE COMPSTAT
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe city will launch a child-welfare database-tracking system modeled on the NYPD's successful CompStat program, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday. Starting next month, New Yorkers can keep an eye on the...
BUSH: DEBATE, DON'T CRUCIFY, MY ALIEN BILL
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amPresident Bush urged Congress to have a "civil debate" on immigration laws, a day after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said a Republican bill would "criminalize" Jesus. "When we discuss this...
'MOB' MA FINGERS COPS - SAYS THEY LOOK LIKE DUO THERE ON DAY SON VANISHED
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe heartbroken mother of a murdered mobster testified yesterday that two detectives staking out her home on the day her son vanished looked like the accused Mafia cops. Trembling nervously...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTHE BRONX * A federal fingerprint database implemented after 9/11 has identified a man who died last year after a decade in a coma following a vicious attack near Yankee...
$20M STOX SCAM - MOBSTERS STOKED BROKERAGE 'BOILER ROOMS': FEDS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA gaggle of gangsters orchestrated a staggering $20 million boiler-room scheme by seizing control of brokerage houses around the city and terrorizing employees - including one stock promoter who was...
S.I. [LOVES] N.O.
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA contingent of New Orleans firefighters yesterday accepted more than $18,000 raised by smoke-eaters on Staten Island. "It's not often that you get to do something for someone else and...
COURT SLAPS STATE IN CITY $CHOOL-AID WAR
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA state appeals court panel yesterday directed the state to devise a plan to send up to $5.63 billion more to city schools each year - and gave Albany legislators...
DAUGHTER IS SPARED SEX SHAME
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amLouis Eppolito's wife breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when she learned that a tape of her husband making nasty sexual comments about their daughter would not be played in...
DUO GUILTY OF HUNTER-COED SLAY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTwo reputed members of the Bloods street gang were convicted yesterday of the sexual torture and murder of a Hunter College honors student. In separate Brooklyn Supreme Court trials, Kayson...
PANEL IN BIG BLOW TO ROGER
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA state board yesterday ordered the MTA and the Transport Workers Union to put their contract dispute in the hands of an independent arbitrator. TWU Local 100, meanwhile, is moving...
COWARD CAN'T BEAR TO LOOK AT VICTIM'S GRIEVING KIN
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTHE sunglasses hid Maureen St. Guillen's eyes, but nothing could hide her grief. It was etched permanently on her face as she walked yesterday into the vast chamber in Brooklyn...
TIME(PIECE) IS ON DA'S SIDE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA retired detective testified yesterday she found a watch at the scene of a mob rub-out that looked like one accused mob cop Stephen Caracappa wore on a videotape. Mary...
MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE - FIBERS, HAIRS & VAN WITNESS TIE BOUNCER TO IMETTE SLAY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amProsecutors yesterday laid out for the first time the overwhelming "CSI"-style case they've built against the thuggish ex-con bouncer charged in the murder of Imette St. Guillen - including a...
FIENDS GUILTY OF COED SLAY - FACE LIFE FOR RAPE & TORTURE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTwo reputed members of the notorious Bloods street gang were convicted yesterday for the horrific 2003 rape, torture and murder of 21-year-old Hunter College honors student Romona Moore. In verdicts...
B'WAY FAN'S 'SCAM' - SPENT 'LOOT' ON STARS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA starstruck accountant embezzled nearly a half-million dollars from a Midtown clothing company - then blew the money on Broadway charities, theater tickets and flowers for her favorite female stars....
POL PERV BOXLEY IN COMEBACK
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Disgraced former Assembly chief counsel Michael Boxley, who was accused of raping two women and pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct, got his law license back yesterday. The state...
MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE - * DA LAYS OUT IMETTE MURDER CASE * FIBERS, FUR, WITNESS LINK BOUNCER
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amProsecutors for the first time yesterday laid out the overwhelming case they have built against the thuggish ex-bouncer charged in the murder of Imette St. Guillen - including a powerful...
COP SUSPECTS NATALEE BOOZE-DRUG OD
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe top cop investigating Alabama beauty Natalee Holloway's disappearance during a senior class trip in Aruba claims the teen was not murdered but likely died from a lethal cocktail of...
POLICE PUT COLLAR ON 'DOG ABUSERS'
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTwo animal abusers were arrested yesterday in two separate cases for beating their dogs, authorities said. In the worst case, a Bronx man was collared for constantly beating his pooch...
I'M A SICKO, SAYS 'PHONY-FIRE SEX FIEND'
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amAccused sex fiend Peter Braunstein announced yesterday that he's crazy. The calm, alert-looking defendant made the proclamation through his lawyer in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he's hoping the insanity defense...
HORROR HITS HOME - 10 JERSEY TOURISTS KILLED IN CHILE MOUNTAIN BUS PLUNGE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA dozen American tourists - including 10 from a New Jersey retirement community - died when their tour bus veered off a dangerously steep and winding road and plunged down...
'MOB' MA TURNS UP HEAT - SAYS COPS LOOK LIKE DUO THERE ON DAY SON VANISHED
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe heartbroken mother of a murdered mobster testified yesterday that two detectives staking out her home on the day her son vanished looked like the accused Mafia cops. Trembling nervously...
MIKE EXCLUDES GAY BIG WHO ENDORSED FREDDY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg is hosting a Gracie Mansion breakfast for gay groups today - but the head of the state's largest gay-rights organization isn't welcome, The Post has learned. Alan Van...
2 HARLEM KIDS SHOT
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA 13-year-old boy and girl were shot by a masked gunman last night in the playground of an East Harlem housing project. Neighbors of the girl identified her as the...
TWO KIDS SHOT IN HARLEM PLAYGROUND
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA 13-year-old boy and girl were shot by a masked gunman last night in the playground of an East Harlem housing project. Friends of the girl identified her as Steveasia...
'DAD' COP SAVES TOT
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA cop whose wife is pregnant dived into the icy waters off Staten Island yesterday and rescued a baby after a murder-suicide bid by the boy's drug-using dad. Hero officer...
FEDS GO FOR 'THE KILL' IN RAP MURDER
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amNotorious Queens drug kingpin Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and four cohorts should pay the ultimate price for murdering an aspiring rapper, prosecutors said yesterday. The Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office announced it...
COYOTE'S A CHOW HOUND
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe coyote that roamed Central Park this week was living like a pampered pooch yesterday (above) as he dined on huge plates of venison, chicken and dog food at a...
EDUCATORS IN HOUSING SCAM: CITY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amSeveral Education Department employees, including a principal and a teacher, are facing up to 15 years behind bars for lying on their public-housing applications in order to get reduced rent,...
PETER: I AM A REAL SICKO
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amAccused fire sex fiend Peter Braunstein announced he's crazy yesterday. The calm, alert-looking defendant made the proclamation through his lawyer in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he's hoping the insanity defense...
FEDS GO FOR THE KILL IN RAP SLAY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amNotorious Queens drug kingpin Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and four cohorts should pay the ultimate price for murdering an aspiring rapper, prosecutors said yesterday. The Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office announced it...
BAD FORM IN 28G TAX 'SCHEME'
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amAn Upper West Side man used bogusW-2 tax forms to rake in $28,459 in "rapid refunds," an indictment charged yesterday. Career tax scammer Myles Rappaport, 63, faces up to seven...
SLIWA & JR.'S MOUTHPIECE TO 'AIR' DIFFERENCES
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amCurtis Sliwa's radio talk show will have a new co-host for three days next week - the attorney who last year successfully defended Sliwa's arch nemesis, John "Junior" Gotti. Beginning...
DAD-TO-BE HERO COP SAVES BABY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amA cop whose wife is expecting dived into the icy waters off Staten Island yesterday and rescued a baby after a murder-suicide bid by the boy's drug-addict dad. Officer Brian...
BLOOMBERG'S STRANGE BEDFELLOW
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amDespite his second-term battles with the national GOP, Mayor Bloomberg is set to introduce a pro-gun-rights Republican congressman at a Manhattan breakfast next week. He'll help bring Rochester Rep. Tom...
CARTER'S TREY A BIG LIFT
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES It was only three points. It just felt like 12. The first half ended with Vince Carter taking a pass off Jason Kidd's penetration and nailing a 32-foot...
HOOK-'EM SHOT - TEXAS TREY BURIES MOUNTAINEERS AT BUZZER
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA REGIONAL: Texas 74 - West Va. 71 ATLANTA - In the small space of five seconds, West Virginia's season was turned upside down last night. That's all it took....
RAIDERS ON MISSION TO PROVE THEY'RE BEST - WILL BATTLE LINCOLN TONIGHT
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amSTATE HOOP FINALS GLENS FALLS - Shortly after Rice beat Christ the King for the CHSAA AA city title, Edgar Sosa emerged from the Raiders' locker room that didn't sound...
RANGERS' DEFENSE TURNING OFFENSIVE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amRANGERS at PANTHERS - Tonight - 7:30 MSG2; ESPN (1050) It's a disturbing trend. While most contending teams are tightening up defensively in anticipation of the stretch drive, the Rangers...
LAST-PLACE PENS NO PUSHOVERS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amISLES at PENS - Tonight - 7:30 FSN; WBBR (1130) By no means will tonight's game at Pittsburgh be a gimme for the Islanders, who continue to hang on to...
DANEYKO BECOMING A DEVIL FOR THE AGES
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amBRUINS at DEVILS - Tonight 7:30 - FSN2; WFAN (660) The all-time Devil becomes one permanently tonight. When the Devils hoist No. 3 to the Meadowlands ceiling before the Devils...
CABLEVISION, SNY AGREE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amCablevision yesterday reached an agreement to clear SportsNet New York, the Mets' new cable network, starting last night, mostly on Cablevision system's Ch. 60. SNY, owned by the Mets, Comcast...
ESPN HITS LOW FOR 'HIGHLIGHTS'
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amIN ONLY two minutes, during the Sunday night/Monday morning "SportsCenter," ESPN showed us what it has become, what it's now all about. First we were shown what was identified as...
COD BLESS US!
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amAS many anglers anxiously await the opening of the winter flounder and trout seasons on April 1k, there continues to be decent action on codfish off the East End. The...
HALL, ORR TO MEET AGAIN
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amSeton Hall coach Louis Orr and athletic director Joe Quinlan will meet a second time - as early as today - to discuss the future of the program and Orr's...
PICKS MAY BE DEALT
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The Knicks traded their own lottery pick, which could be No. 1 overall. However, if the season ended today, they still would have the 24th and 29th selections...
FRANCIS FEELIN' BROWN'S WRATH
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amGRIZZLIES at KNICKS - Tonight 7:30 - MSG; ESPN (1050) The Larry Brown-Stephon Marbury war is on hold. The Knicks coach is now going at it with Steve Francis. It's...
CHECKETTS GROUP BUYS BLUES
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe NHL today is expected to announce that the Blues have been purchased by Sports Capital Partners, a Manhattan-based investment group headed by ex-Garden president Dave Checketts, The Post has...
COULDA BEEN A 'CONTENDER'
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThe lightly raced and undefeated Strong Contender, rated ninth in Ed Fountaine's Derby Dozen and the probable favorite for tomorrow's Lane's End Stakes at Turfway, was excluded from the Lane's...
A-ROD ESCAPES BP INJURY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - One day after losing Jorge Posada to a broken nose suffered during a pregame catch, the Yankees dodged an injury to Alex Rodriguez during batting practice...
JASON NO KIDD ANYMORE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES Jason Kidd, who turned 33 yesterday, remembered back to when he entered the league - at age 21. Back then, 33 was ancient. "When I came in the...
MILLEDGE HAPPY WITH CAMP
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amMET NOTES JUPITER, Fla. - Among the position players left in Mets camp, there are a few backup catchers who are not going to make the team. Beyond that, the...
WITH DAD ON MIND, TIGER GUTS IT OUT - WOODS 7 BACK AFTER CALIF. TRIP
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH - There was a different kind of theatrical anticipation on the first tee as the 12:33 tee time approached and Tiger Woods was nowhere in sight. Sure,...
TWO'S COMPANY FOR TPC LEADERS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTPC NOTES PONTE VEDRA BEACH - Davis Love III and Jim Furyk would have mowed any comers down in a scramble yesterday. Sharing the lead of The Players Championship at...
WEED THE GARDEN
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amJAMES Dolan, Steve Mills, Isiah Thomas, Larry Brown, Stephon Marbury and every other overpaid underachiever (no need to get up, we know who you are) with much to say and...
A-ROD DODGES BP INJURY - AFTER STRUCK BY GROUNDER, HITS FIRST SPRING HR
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - One day after losing Jorge Posada to a broken nose suffered during a pregame catch, the Yankees dodged an injury to Alex Rodriguez during batting practice...
DREAM MATCHUP FOR MASON, WICHITA
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - There are two teams vying for one dream, but does either George Mason or Wichita State want to fill the role of Cinderella? "I don't think our guys...
TEXAS TREY BURIES MOUNTAINEERS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA REGIONAL: Texas 74 - WVU 71 ATLANTA - In the small space of five seconds, West Virginia's season was turned upside down last night. That's all it took. One...
ENDINGS IN MAYHEM - TIGERS TURN NO. 1 DUKE INTO BOO-HOO DEVILS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA REGIONAL: LSU 62 - Duke 54 ATLANTA - The crowd inside the Georgia Dome had officially been converted now, the small pocket of Duke fans muted and vanquished and...
VILLANOVA SIMPLY DOES IT WRIGHT WAY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Larry Brown would kill to coach these Villanova Wildcats, who are the anti-Knicks in every way. There is no mystery why Philadelphia has embraced them. They play basketball...
FOUL SHOTS - PITTSNOGLE EAGER TO MAKE 'EM THIS TIME
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA - Of all the West Virginia Mountaineers who wanted another chance at the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, only Kevin Pittsnogle had a little extra motivation to find...
SECOND THOUGHTS - HERNANDEZ LIKELY TO START FOR METS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. - The Mets are not asking much from their second baseman. Bat eighth, play well on defense, show the promise for growth. Kazuo Matsui again failed to ascend...
EAGER EAGLES HAVE DEJA-V.U. - BOSTON COLLEGE NO STRANGER TO 'CATS
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The divorce was as nasty a bit of backroom, boardroom backstabbing as any in the chronicles of corporate America. Just months after Miami president Donna Shalala looked her...
DROP DAD - JASON: PUTTING FATHER IN BOOK 'IS PATHETIC'
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTAMPA - Jason Giambi yesterday railed against the authors of "Game of Shadows" for dragging his father, John, into the book that hit stores yesterday and focuses mainly on Barry...
WOLF TRAP - NETS SLAM DOOR ON MINNESOTA
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amNets 86 - T'wolves 82 Once again, we learn some valuable life lessons watching the Nets. A game has two halves, and regardless of how lousy one is, salvation can...
SHOW STOPPER - COLLINS GETTING NOTICED FOR SHUTTING DOWN BIG FOES
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amJason Collins routinely watches Vince Carter, Richard Jefferson, even Jason Kidd rack up big point totals. For him, it doesn't happen. The entire season, he has produced two games with...
STEVIE FEELS BROWN'S BITE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amGRIZZLIES at KNICKS - Tonight - 7:30 - MSG; ESPN (1050) The Larry Brown-Stephon Marbury war is on hold. The Knicks coach is now getting it on with Steve Francis....
COLLINS IS A SHOW STOPPER
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES Nets defense-first forward Jason Collins has had two double-figure scoring games the entire season. But it wasn't always that way. "I scored 33 points in college," Collins said...
SWEET DREAMIN' - FANTASY WILL CONTINUE FOR EITHER MASON, WICHITA
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - There are two teams vying for one dream, but does either George Mason or Wichita State want to fill the role of Cinderella? "I don't think our guys...
GATORS, HOYAS THINK BIG
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - TiVo tonight's regional semifinal between Georgetown and Florida. Even if it's not a classic, it could be one of the last times we see a college game featuring...
UNDERDOGS KEEP IT IN PERSPECTIVE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Rarely does such a question elicit the honesty that Brandon Roy served up yesterday when asked if his Washington club could beat UConn if both teams perform at...
ENGUARD! - VILLANOVA VERSUS BC WILL BE BIG-TIME DUEL
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amIT IS a Sweet 16 showdown, but the teams are Final Four quality. "These teams are good enough to win the final game," CBS and ESPN analyst Jay Bilas said...
NFL NET HUDDLES WITH BRYANT - HE COULD DO SOME PLAY-BY-PLAY
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThinking very large and creatively, the NFL Network has had discussions with Bryant Gumbel about being the network's play-by-player on its new eight-game TV package next season, according to sources....
5 QUESTIONS FOR MARK JACKSON
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ABC's and YES' NBA analyst, Mark Jackson. Jackson, 40, recently was added to ABC's pregame show. Q: Do you think both...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amTo: Westwood One Execs From: Andrew Marchand Re: John Thompson CC: Phil Simms Dear Execs: You can't have John Thompson analyze Georgetown games on national radio when his son is...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 24, 2006 | 5:00amUndercover agents in Texas are going into bars to arrest drinkers - for being drunk. "There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they're intoxicated," said...