December 13, 2002
SEC PLANS TO GO AFTER ACCOUNTANTS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to sue more accounting companies for the roles they played in carrying out fraud at big companies. And that's just the first wave...
GENDARMES RAID EX-VIVENDI CHIEF'S HOMES AND OFFICES
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amJust as Jean-Marie Messier is about to get booted from his posh New York digs, some unwanted visitors showed up yesterday at his homes in France. French authorities raided the...
IT'S OFFICIAL: BUSH NAMES FRIEDMAN
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Goldman Sachs co-chairman Stephen Friedman was officially tapped by President George W. Bush to be his chief economic adviser. The move, by Bush, ends a week of speculation about...
TWO-HAND OUCH FOOTBALL: INJURED FEW SAYING POPULAR TOY NEEDS WARNING LABELS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn architect is suing Hasbro claiming that its popular howling football toy shattered his drawing hand and should carry warning labels. Daniel Ryan, 28, said small, hard plastic devices on...
TRADEMARK LAWSUIT PITS SEVEN VS. 7
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amSeven is proving to be an unlucky number for two jeans makers. Seven jeans, arguably the hottest jeans brands with the fashion flock, is being challenged by a similarly named...
SHOPPING NIGHTMARE : RETAILERS FEAR TRANSIT STRIKE WOULD RUIN HOLIDAYS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe pending transit strike couldn't happen at a worse time for retailers. With the holiday shopping season gearing up for its final week, retailers are counting on every last penny...
HERE'S A HARD STOCKING STUFFER TO PASS UP
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amYou can buy stock now in the world's first public offering of a legal brothel at just 30 cents a share - making them at least a novel Christmas gift....
GOLDMAN TRADERS REVERSE COURSE, WILL STAY IN GOTHAM
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amGoldman Sachs has backed off its threat to pack up its trading desks and move them to across the Hudson to Jersey City. A beaming Mayor Bloomberg yesterday told a...
BOUTIQUE HOTEL TO CHECK IN UPTOWN
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWhile the hotel industry continues to climb out from its economic depths, the owners of SoHo's trendy 60 Thompson hotel are creating a chain of upscale boutique inns. Brothers Jason,...
NASDAQ CEO ON ROPES: BOARD LOOKS TO OUST SIMMONS AFTER TWO YEARS AT HELM
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amNasdaq Chairman and Chief Executive Hardwick "Wick" Simmons will be asked to leave the helm of the struggling tech-focused stock market after barely two years, sources told The Post. The...
SEC PLANS MORE ACCOUNT-ABILITY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWatch out accountants: the SEC has you in its sights! The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to sue more accounting companies for the roles they played in carrying out...
STARR REPORT
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amBoyle 'Exonerated' in off-Broadway run "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Peter Boyle will return to the stage after 20 years when he joins the cast of the off-Broadway production of "The...
WITH 'FRIENDS' LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS MUSIC?
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIMAGINARY FRIENDSThe Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 243 W. 47th St. (212) 239-6200. NORA Ephron's "Im- aginary Friends," which courageously opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre last night, is an imaginary play....
CHEERS FOR CHAYA AT ALVIN AILEY GALA
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATERAt City Center, 130 W. 55th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues; (212) 581-1212. Season runs through Jan. 4. MAZAZUMI CHAYA - Alvin Ailey's associate artistic...
BAKER'S DOZEN ; SINGER BRINGS THAT LITTLE BIT EXTRA TO A COMEBACK GIG
December 13, 2002 | 5:00am"What am I going to do with my hair? I got mommy hair. I got to find a happy medium between mommy hair and [Aretha-like] queen hair."Anita Baker "I've always...
TUG OF LOVE STORY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amEVELYN 1/2 Heartwarming, sentimental blarney.Running time: 94 minutes, Rated PG (nothing offensive). At Empire 25, Lincoln Square, Union Square. Despite its treacly sentimentality, predictability and gutless evasiveness about the power...
'SCHMIDT' HITS THE JACKPOT
December 13, 2002 | 5:00am"About Schmidt" opens today at the Lincoln Square and the Union Square. The 119-minute film is rated R for profanity and brief nudity. Here are excerpts from Lou Lumenick's three-star...
ONE 'HOT' FLICK
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amTHE HOT CHICK A surprise hit. Running time: 101 minutes. Rated PG-13 (crude sexual humor, profanity, drug references). At the Empire, the Union Square, the Kips Bay, others. 'THE Hot...
'ARK' TRAVELS THROUGH TIME
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amRUSSIAN ARK From Russia, with love.In Russian, with English subtitles. Running time: 96 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Lincoln Plaza in Manhattan and the Cinema Arts Centre in...
UP TO ITS OLD 'TREKS'
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amSTAR TREK: NEMESIS 1/2 The Enterprise back in form.Running time: 112 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, adult themes). At the E-Walk, the 84th Street, the Magic Johnson, others. THERE has always...
ABC CHANGES BATTLE PLANS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amABC is seriously scaling back plans for a new military-reality show called "Profiles From the Frontline." The Pentagon-sanctioned series about U.S. troops fighting overseas was supposed to air by the...
RE: JOYCE - WITH A 'SLICE'
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amBALLET HISPANICOAt the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave. (212) 242-0800. Season runs through Dec. 15. OVER the years, Tina Ramirez's Ballet Hispanico has become a real force in New York...
SURVIVOR PORN PAIR TURN UGLY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amTHE wife of "Survivor: Thailand" contestant Brian Heidik has been busted by cops in L.A. for attacking her husband. Court TV's The Smoking Gun is reporting that Charmaine "C.C." Heidik...
YANKS, BUT NO THANKS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00am"Robbie the Reindeer inHooves of Fire" and "Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe" Tonight at 9p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on WCBS/Ch. 2 WHAT do you get if...
A BEAT WITH HEAT
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amDRUMLINE Pretty hard to resist.Running time: 118 minutes. Rated PG-13 (mild profanity). At the Empire, the Chelsea, the Village East, others. 'DRUMLINE" is the real deal, a toe-tapping, feel-good sleeper...
IDOL'S KELLY GETS A CHORUS OF SUPPORT
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amTHE producers of "American Idol" are standing behind winner Kelly Clarkson - who was caught up this week in accusations that she was not the fresh-faced amateur she portrayed herself...
YOU'LL FANCY NANCY: THIS GIRL DETECTIVE IS NEVER CLUELESS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWonderful World of Disney, Nancy Drew The second hardcover book I ever owned was Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the something or other. I was mesmerized by Nancy and...
HATE AT 1ST BITE: HOW 'VAMPIRES' GOT DRAINED OF ITS BLOOD
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA producer who bought an opera then decided he wanted a musical comedy. A temperamental star who wrote his own jokes - then cut all of his co-star's. A choreographer...
J.LO'S GOT IT 'MAID'
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amMAID IN MANHATTAN ½ Painless date movie. Running time: 105 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexual situations). At the E-Walk, the Union Square, the Harlem USA, others. WHEN it comes to romantic...
WEAPONS CHARADE - U.S. SLAMS IRAQ-REPORT 'HALF-TRUTHS'
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Iraq's weapons declaration doesn't appear to explain what happened to chemical and biological agents missing when inspectors were expelled from Iraq four years ago, U.S. officials said last...
CITY WARNS DOCS - HELP PATIENTS STOP SMOKING - OR EL$E
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe city Health Department is warning doctors they could face malpractice suits if they don't push patients to kick the smoking habit - stunning physicians around the city who've never...
DEMS' SELECTIVE OUTRAGE
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIT'S hard to miss the joy be neath Democrats' outrage over Senate GOP leader Trent Lott's self-made predicament. Still reeling from their midterm election debacle, they've been handed a winning...
NYPD HITS ROADBLOCK IN COURT
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - The state's top court yesterday ruled that New York City police cannot set up random roadblocks in high-crime areas in the hope of discovering general criminal conduct. The...
TOUSSAINT'S AN EASY RIDER IN SUV
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amAs millions of straphangers face the prospect of scrambling to get to work during a transit strike, the leader of the city's subway and bus workers won't have that problem...
2 ISRAELIS SLAIN NEAR HOLY TOMB
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Two Israelis were gunned down near Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs shrine yesterday, and seven Palestinians - including a terrorist - were killed in a series of confrontations...
ONCE-SICK NICK GOES SLICK AS HE DODGES JAIL FOR DUI
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amMALIBU, Calif. - A judge slapped Nick Nolte with three years' probation and three months of drug counseling yesterday after the actor was convicted of driving under the influence of...
BIG WHEEL WILL REV UP PAT'S DAY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA native New Yorker and Ford car executive was announced yesterday as the grand marshal of the 2003 St. Patrick's Day Parade. Leading the march up Fifth Avenue on March...
'DECEPTIVE' H&R TO PAY $2.7M
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amH&R Block has been ordered to repay $2.7 million to tens of thousands of low-income New Yorkers for misleading customers. As part of a settlement reached with the city Department...
SCAMBULANCE CROOK HEADS TO PRISON FOR $57M RIP-OFF
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn ambulance company owner who masterminded a $57 million fraud scheme was sentenced to serve 6 ½ years behind bars yesterday and ordered to fork over all the money...
SCHOOLS BOSS: WALKOUT WILL ABORT SPORTS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amAll school sporting events, field trips and after-school programs will be canceled next week if there's a transit strike, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said yesterday. And Klein told parents of...
SLY TO PUT 'ROCKY' IN RING AGAIN
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amHollywood heavyweights MGM and Sylvester Stallone are hoping the sixth round of the "Rocky" saga delivers a box-office knockout. MGM sid yesterday it has signed Stallone to write a "Rocky...
RELATIVES OF 9/11 VICTIMS YESTERDAY LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN TO CREATE A VENDOR-FREE ZONE
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amRelatives of 9/11 victims yesterday launched a campaign to create a vendor-free zone around Ground Zero. The Rev. Bill Minson, who helped with recovery efforts after 9/11, spoke on behalf...
MIKE'S RX NO MAGIC, BUT IT'S A HEALTHY PLACE TO START
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amFIRST, do no harm. Dr. Bloomberg, in prescribing a cure for all that supposedly ails downtown, might have had the Hippocratic law in mind yesterday in his "Vision for 21st...
LOTT'S LAME EXCUSES; JUSTICE THOMAS WEIGHS IN
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amPRESIDENT Bush made Trent Lott's peril clear yesterday: "Any suggestion that a segregated past was acceptable or positive is offensive, and it is wrong. Recent comments by Sen. Lott do...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA Wisconsin couple shelled out $557,000 for their dream house - only to find out it was impregnated with toxic mold and must be torn down immediately. Brian and Kaare...
KOCH WALKED THE WALK AND TALKED THE TALK
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amHE marched across that bridge like MacArthur and he spoke like Churchill. "We will win! We will win!" he shouted on that April Fool's Day 1980. Shouts from the crowd:...
DOWNTOWN'S GREEN ACRES - BLOOMBERG'S $10B PLAN ADDS RIVER PARKS, TREES, AIRPORT HUB
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg offered a sweeping vision yesterday for a transformed lower Manhattan, complete with new neighborhoods, vast green spaces, a transit hub with direct airport connections - and a $10.6...
THE INTERNET'S FIRST SCALP
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE'S nothing more exciting than watching a new medium mature before your eyes. That's what's been happening over the past week in the so-called blogosphere - the cyberworld of personal...
CARDINAL LAW MAY RESIGN AT TODAY'S POPE VISIT
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amBernard Cardinal Law is expected to meet with the pope in the Vatican today amid reports he'll offer to resign as head of the Archdiocese of Boston. Law is said...
JAY SLAY SUSPECT HELD IN STICKUP
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn ex-con wanted for questioning in the sensational murder of rapper Jam Master Jay has been nabbed in an armed holdup on Long Island, The Post has learned. Sources identified...
DAILY SUBPOENAED - B'KLYN BISHOP CALLED IN BOSTON SCANDAL
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amBrooklyn Bishop Thomas Daily has been subpoenaed to testify at a Massachusetts grand jury investigating the cover-up of sexual abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. "He...
DESIGNER-KNOCKOFF RING BUSTED 'FAUX' POSSESSION
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amTen workers were arrested when cops smashed a Manhattan counterfeiting ring that trafficked in a variety of phony designer merchandise destined for holiday shoppers, police said yesterday. The items included...
PICK 6 SCAMMER VOWS GIFT HORSE
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amOne of three former frat boys busted for trying to swindle $3 million from the Breeders' Cup said he hoped the real winners would now be able to cash in...
STAIN OF GUILT NAILED QNS. BANK BANDIT: DA
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amSuspected stick-up artist Andre Rogers was literally caught red-handed. After a Nov. 21, 2001 robbery at a Greenpoint Savings Bank in Flushing, Queens, Rogers was found a block away, his...
PIZZA 'KILLER': IT WAS AN ACCIDENT
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn admitted killer tearfully told authorities he didn't mean to hurt anyone when he whipped out a loaded gun and pulled the trigger as his friends were robbing a pizza...
CITY SUFFERS 'SMACK' ATTACK AMID TERROR WAR
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Heroin shipments to New York are skyrocketing, partly because the Bush administration has shifted resources away from the drug war to the terror war, lawmakers and others charged...
CITY INFANT-DEATH RATE HITS NEW LOW
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amNew York's infant-mortality rate dropped last year to the lowest level in city history, the Health Department reported yesterday. Officials said 6.1 infant deaths were recorded for each 1,000 live...
BRONX SYNAGOGUE BOMBER CONVICTED
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA Yonkers man who allegedly told police he wanted to send a message to "the f- - -ing rich Jews from Riverdale" was convicted yesterday of committing a hate crime...
UNION SQUARE ART 'ATTACK'
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWhile cops try to find out who shut down the Union Square subway station Wednesday with a few dozen black boxes marked "FEAR," members of the city's art community hailed...
KLEIN SENDS PINK SLIPS FOR HOLIDAYS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amHundreds of Department of Education administrators and clerical workers have gotten pink slips from Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's office, sources said yesterday. Klein last month announced that he's eliminating 550...
WOMAN NABBED IN BROTHEL SLAY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA 45-year-old woman is being held in the murder of a Manhattan ad executive inside a Midtown brothel two months ago, police said. Carla Elechensen was charged late Wednesday with...
CUNY'S 'OPEN DOOR' CLOSED
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - The state Board of Regents yesterday slammed the door on CUNY's open-enrollment policy for good. After a three-year trial, the Regents decided to continue a strict admissions policy...
ON COURSE FOR COLLISION - MIKE $TRIKES BACK - TWU HOWLS, 'SHUT UP'
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe city edged closer to a transit strike yesterday as Mayor Bloomberg slammed the Transport Workers Union for already costing the city $5 million for contingency plans - and TWU...
CIGAR BASH SLIPS INTO LOOPHOLE
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIt looks like the "Big Smoke" won't be snuffed out by Mayor Bloomberg. The Big Smoke - an event hosted by Cigar Aficionado magazine that draws thousands to New York...
TWIN TRAGEDIES - WIFE HURT IN FIRE, HUBBY HIT BY CAR
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe bad luck of Friday the 13th came a day early for a tragic Manhattan family. Not only was Virginia Cowles hurt in an apartment fire yesterday, her husband, Michael...
STOGIE FANS ARE BREATHING EASIER
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amPatrons puffed a sigh of relief yesterday at a West Side cigar bar that will be one of the city's few safe smoking havens when a new ban on tobacco...
$10M FOR MAN HURT AS TEEN ON SCHOOL TRIP
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA young man who sued the manufacturers of an obstacle course on which he was blinded in one eye during a 1994 school field trip has been awarded $10 million....
DRIVER SAYS VIOLENT JET WAS DRUNK
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA limo driver who claims he was assaulted by a member of the New York Jets told police he was roughed up after he threw the drunken player out of...
KID-PORN RAP FOR DENTIST
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA Queens dentist who moonlights as a youth basketball coach was busted for toting child porn - homemade films that investigators are examining to see if they feature his underage...
BUSH TAKES A SWAT AT LOTT - SCOLDING FOR 'OFFENSIVE' SPEECH MAY SIGNAL GOP COUP
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush hung Senate Republican leader Trent Lott out to dry yesterday, blistering him for "offensive" remarks that sounded like an endorsement of segregation. The White House denied...
MIRACLE KID'S REBOUND FROM SNIPER BULLET WOWS 1ST LADY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - To look at young Iran Brown, robust and healthy as he chatted with First Lady Laura Bush yesterday, you'd never know he was the sniper victim whose fate...
'TERROR'-RADIO EGYPTIAN AT WTC HOTEL SUES FOR $20M
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn Egyptian man yesterday filed a $20 million lawsuit for being falsely charged with lying about having an aviation radio in his hotel room across the street from the World...
MAN ACCUSED OF RAPE BID WANTS $1M FOR 9/11 FIRE HERO'S PUSH
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn alleged attempted rapist has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the FDNY, charging he was seriously injured when a firefighter racing to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * A red-dye pack that exploded in a bank robber's hands caused a brief terrorist scare on a Midtown street, a police source said yesterday. The robbery occurred Wednesday...
PUSHING PEOPLE ONTO WELFARE
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIT takes real strength to stay off welfare when society and even the government are pushing you to give up. Meet June (not her real name), 35. She had her...
$1M ACTION VS. 9/11 HEROES
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn alleged attempted rapist has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the FDNY, charging he was seriously injured when a firefighter racing to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11...
TOLD YOU SO: U.S.: QAEDA-IRAQ GAS REPORT NO SURPRISE
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday the possibility Saddam Hussein may give terrorists chemical and biological weapons "should come as no surprise to anybody." Rumsfeld, visiting a high-tech...
SNIPER'S MIRACLE SURVIVOR : HE'S PICTURE OF HEALTH IN VISIT WITH FIRST LADY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - To look at Iran Brown, robust and healthy as he chatted yesterday with First Lady Laura Bush, you'd never know he was the young sniper victim whose uncertain...
BUSH'S LOTT SWAT MAY SIGNAL GOP COUP
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush hung Senate Republican leader Trent Lott out to dry yesterday, blistering him for "offensive" remarks that sounded like an endorsement of segregation. The White House denied...
THE FAN'S CORNER
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amPudgie Walsh's team was ravaged by Sept. 11. The founder and personnel director of the FDNY football team lost 22 members of his squad and one member of the Brooklyn...
JETS COME BEAR-ING GIFTS ; GANG GREEN WILL PUT HURT ON CRIPPLED CHICAGO
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amDURING the Bears' two-month losing streak, Chicago did hang tough and scare some good teams. However, that was when they could lean on RB Anthony Thomas, who's now out for...
SURFCASTING TOURNEY ; HAS CAUGHT ON
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amSURF fishing is synonymous with Montauk, and it is as much a part of the history of the East End as the Lighthouse itself. So with all this tradition it...
STERN'S WARNING HAS NO NET WORTH
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIn 1991, NBA commissioner David Stern ran down to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington to deliver a message to the forces of legalized, government-sponsored gambling: Keep your stinkin'...
A WHOLE LOTTO GARBAGE ; TV SPOT PLAYS US FOR FOOLS AT HOLIDAY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amTHE new, seasonal commercial for the New York State Lottery is designed to be a real tear-jerker. It's a tear-jerker, alright, the kind that brings jerks to tears. A car...
DEVS ARE DESPERATE FOR DEAL
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - It's not as though the Devils don't need someone in return for Mike Danton. As the days turn into weeks, it seems more and more plausible that Lou...
ISLES ROAD WARRIORS AGAIN
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIf last year is history, the Islanders do seem to have carried over at least one positive into this season - their play on the road. After getting off to...
NY DRAFT SNUB NOT BIG DEAL FOR BUTLER
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amMIAMI - Unaware the Knicks had the Antonio McDyess deal in place, fans at the Garden chanted Caron Butler's name on Draft Night when Scott Layden came up at No....
MUTOMBO SLAPS CRITICS ON WRIST
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Four months and the critics be damned, Dikembe Mutombo insisted yesterday. The Nets center hopes for a late-February comeback from right wrist surgery, far sooner than anticipated. And...
MCDYESS NEWS CHEERS MATES ; BUT RETURN MIGHT COME TOO LATE
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amAllan Houston was glad to hear that Antonio McDyess is recovering from knee surgery faster than expected and looked forward to the prospect of getting the power forward back. But...
METS NEED GRIFFEY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - Three weeks ago I put a blueprint out there for the Yankees so they could find a way to land Bartolo Colon. That plan is in action, now...
RANGERS NEED ; VET IN NET
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIf Glen Sather had previously been blinded by the light of his prize teenage prospect Dan Blackburn, surely the GM can now see the urgency of bringing a capable veteran...
RILEY: KNICKS CAME KNOCKING WITH 'ZO OFFER
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amMIAMI - The Knicks are so desperate to get rid of the maximum contracts of either Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston they apparently would be willing to trade one of...
RJ FLOATS ON AIR AS JORDAN VISITS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amHe has gone against him several times but playing against Michael Jordan still is a thrill for Richard Jefferson. Hey, before Jefferson went off to college, one of the last...
WILL SAYS THERE'S WAY ; INJURED CB ALLEN WANTS TO GET BACK
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWill Allen intercepted a couple of passes during Giants practice yesterday, looking as if the torn muscle in his right shoulder was fully healed. Allen looked so good, head coach...
HALL DEFENSE GETS NO REST
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amSeton Hall coach Louis Orr has worked hard to erase the memory of last year's season-ending seven-game losing streak, and he has used some unexpected extra practice time to drill...
YANKS ARE MESSING UP
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIT is fine for the Yankees to resolve to cut payroll, because regardless of how much they slice they are still going to have a substantial payroll. It is certainly...
BARBER GOING TO HAWAII?
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Only 13 games into the season, Giants RB Tiki Barber has rushed for 1,043 yards, which is better than his career high of 1,006 in 2000. But what...
THE VOSBURGH IS SHORTENED TO 6½ FURLONGS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe New York Racing Association yesterday released its stakes schedule for 2003, featuring 180 black-type events - 125 of those graded stakes, including 41 Grade 1's - worth more than...
MET AIMS: REPLACE ALFONZO, DUMP REY
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe Mets would love to sign a third baseman and get rid of a shortstop. But the Expos' pending fire sale at the winter meetings in Nashville beginning today may...
GANGS OF NEW YORK; GREEN DEFENSE AND OFFENSE DUKE IT OUT IN TOE-TO-TOE BRAWL
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amWith the Jets' playoff hopes hanging in the balance as they prepare to play the Bears Sunday in Illinois, practice yesterday evolved into a day ripped right from the madcap...
IT'S YANKS VS. METS FOR ZEILE
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe Yankees have made an offer to Todd Zeile and started negotiations with the agent for Japanese slugger Hideki Matsui, The Post has learned. Interesting, the Mets have an interest...
URLACHER KNOWS WHAT'S COMING
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amJET NOTES Bears middle linebacker Brian Urlacher knows exactly what to expect from the Jets when they play each other Sunday in Champaign, Ill.: A heavy dose of Curtis Martin...
'NERVOUS' HAMMOND INKS 4.8M YANK DEAL
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIf Chris Hammond thought his nerves jangled when the Yankees showed an interest, wait until Joe Torre calls on Hammond to face Carlos Delgado in front of 50,000 Stadium denizens....
BIG MOUTH COSTLY FOR GRANT
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amHORACE Grant, released this week by Orlando, always speaks his mind, though, at times, it becomes muffled by mystery. As a principal beam of four championship winners, he is notorious...
ST. JOHN'S CUTTING FOOTBALL, 5 OTHERS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIn a stunning development that will send shock waves through the St. John's athletic community, the university announced last night the elimination of the Red Storm football team, the men's...
RANGER TRADE NETS DUNHAM
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThis was a desperate time that led to a desperate measure. This was the dramatic conclusion to one of the most stunning and heartbreaking days in the history of the...
RICHTER TOLD SEASON'S OVER
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amMike Richter was crying on the inside, that was clear to everyone involved with the poignant conference call last night in which the goaltender announced he had been advised by...
JACKETS GIVE DEVS CASE OF THE CHILLS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amJackets 4Devils 2 COLUMBUS - If he won't get them a scorer, Lou Lamoriello could at least spring for a Global Positioning System to help his Devils find the net....
HALL TUNES UP FOR FUTURE TESTS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amSeton Hall 67Monmouth 57 They played hard, they disposed of an outclassed foe, and they passed no tests. That will come starting tomorrow. Seton Hall played 40 minutes against outmatched...
ST. JOHN'S CUTTING FOOTBALL, OTHERS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amIn a shocking development that will send ripples through the St. John's athletic community, the university is expected to announce today the elimination of the football, men's and women's swim,...
SLEEPING GIANT: DON'T BE FOOLED BY LAKERS' SLOW START
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amYes, the Lakers are sputtering along these days, seemingly bored by the NBA's regular season after three straight NBA titles. But think of them as bears in hibernation. They're sleeping...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
December 13, 2002 | 5:00am'The Junction' Boys' vs. 'A Season on the Brink' In March, A Season on the Brink was far more a comedy than a classic. The depiction of Bobby Knight by...
5 QUESTIONS FOR STUART SCOTT
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand talked with ESPN's Stuart Scott. Last month in The Matchup, the 37-year-old Scott was deemed "More Annoying" than Brent Musburger. Q: What don't people...
HOWIE SWITCHING TO RADIO BOOTH? METS MAY RECAST BROADCAST LINEUPS
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe Mets, MSG Network and WFAN radio have had discussions that could move Howie Rose from the television booth to radio next season. If Rose rotates into the radio booth...