April 8, 2004
AGENCIES INVESTIGATING EARLY LEAK OF JOBS DATA
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amTWO regulatory agencies apparently are looking into whether some traders got a little too lucky ahead of last Friday's employment report. Sources of mine on trading floors called me immediately...
HELP! JOBS STUCK BACK IN U.K. FOR APPLE BATTLE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amYesterday, Apple Computer's troubles were so far away. But then a British judge ruled the company would face a patent suit brought by the Beatles record label, Apple Corps, in...
GROUP SAYS GOOGLE'S NOT KOSHER
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amJewish activists are trying to unseat an anti-Semitic site that has taken top placement on Google during the eight days of Passover. Type "Jew" into the search engine, and the...
EDITOR GETS LUCKY WITH HOME MAG
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amConde Nast has tapped a cranky gardener to be the new editor in chief of a still unamed home shopping magazine. Deborah Needleman, currently an editor at large at House...
SCANDAL-TARRED BOSS OF BUNDESBANK QUITS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amGermany's central banker temporarily stepped down from his post as the country's regulators investigated why Dresdner Bank picked up a $9,336 hotel bill he ran up over a New Year's...
FALSE NOTE AT EMI - LABEL HIRED EXECS TO FAKE SALES TOTALS: FORMER VP
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amA former executive at EMI has testified under oath in a deposition that the U.K. music giant has hired marketing consultants to artificially inflate record sales figures, The Post has...
-IBM BUYS CALL CENTER IN INDIA (M)-IBM OUTFOXES ON OUTSOURCING (S, LCF)
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe next time an American company outsources jobs, it may argue that they aren't going to Bangalore - they're going to Armonk. IBM announced yesterday it was purchasing Daksh, India's...
YAHOO!: PROFITS UP, SPLIT SOON
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amGoogle? We don't need no stinkin' Google! Yahoo!, in an announcement bound to steal some thunder from its rival's much-anticipated IPO, said yesterday that it had doubled its first-quarter profit...
SECURITY FIRMS GET BOOST FROM RAMBO WORK IN IRAQ
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amReal-life Rambo warriors - earning upwards of $3,000 a day and carrying battle flags of private corporations - are waging their own war against Iraqi assassins and oil company saboteurs....
BRESLIN DIDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT ON QUOTES, LOBBYIST ALLEGES
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amNewsday columnist Jimmy Breslin has come under attack from the head of a right-wing lobbying group who accuses the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist of making up quotes in a column that...
CA EXECS TO PLEAD GUILTY IN PROBE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThree former financial executives from Computer Associates are expected to plead guilty today in Brooklyn federal court to charges related to a federal criminal probe of the Islandia, L.I.-based software...
GOOCH KEEPS BOTH HOUSE, PENTHOUSE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amPenthouse founder Bob Guccione appears to have won his touch-and-go battle to keep his job and live in his once-opulent mansion. A deal was worked out on the eve of...
STARR REPORT
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amHoward breach "Substantial" new fines leveled against K-Rock's Howard Stern could be announced as early as today, reports Post radio scribe John Mainelli who says the new fines, part-and-parcel of...
SECRETS OF 'APPRENTICE'
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amHERE'S something that Donald Trump never tells viewers on "The Apprentice": When someone got fired, they didn't get to go home until the show's six-week film schedule was complete. Those...
NOVEL LOOK AT PRES. BUSH A CLASS ACT
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amMRS. FARNSWORTHAt the Flea Theater, 41 White St. Through May 8. Call Theatermania, (212) 352-3101. ---- JUST like the campaigns themselves, political play writing - even in a comic vein...
BLONDIE'S ROOTS SHOWING
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amBLONDIE IN a mad dash for an early-spring taste of summer, Blondie, one of New York's best-loved rock bands, played a free outdoor concert in City Hall Park Tuesday. The...
ROUND TWO - OMAROSA AND EREKA FACE OFF
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amWELL, there they go again. Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth and Ereka Vetrini, who traded insults on "The Apprentice," resume their bickering on today's "Oprah." Both contestants, "fired" by Donald Trump on the...
MAKING LIGHT OF 'SHADOWS' - FAMED DRACU-SOAP 'DARK SHADOWS' UPDATED FOR MAX FRIGHT
April 8, 2004 | 4:00am'DARK Shadows" - one of TV's oldest and weirdest cult classic series - is nearly ready to rise from the grave. The gothic soap opera - about a family of...
'FRIENDS' PROM FLASHBACK WINS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAOL users have voted "The One with The Prom Video" as their all-time favorite episode of "Friends." The episode airs tonight on NBC, which had asked AOL users to vote...
'IDOL' TELLS CAMILLE TO HIT THE 'YELLOW BRICK ROAD'
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amTHE sun set for Hawaiian Camille Velasco on last night's edition of "American Idol." Velasco, 18, was the latest pop-star wannabe to be voted off the show by millions of...
BLOCK PARTY: BACK TO BEDFORD
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amIN 1930, with Prohibition in full swing, Rian James wrote in his nudgenudge, wink-wink guide, "Dining in New York," "Chumley's is located on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village. From here...
STILL HOUSE OF USHER
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amHALF of the discs in Billboard's Top 10 are making their debut, but Usher's "Confessions" held onto its No. 1 status. His latest effort sold another 486,000 copies, bringing the...
SPRINGTIME FOR HIPSTER - HOT LIST: PREPPY CHIC, CRAZY SHADES AND ROOFTOP BARS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS spring, inside-out T-shirts are going the way of metrosexuals and Louis Vuitton Murakami bags. In this year: real men dressed in preppy clothes, vacationing in Mexico City and text-messaging...
HIT PARADE - KILLER COMEDY SHOOTS FOR FUNNY BONE, HITS A NERVE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAS lyrics go, this one's a killer: "Hey, pal - feelin' blue * /Don't know what to do * . . ./You wanna shoot a president * /C'mon and shoot...
WHERE THE FIGHTING ISN'T - IRAQ'S KURDS KEEP ON BUILDING THE FUTURE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amSULEIMANIYE, IRAQ AS violence in Iraq dominates the news, imagine a Middle Eastern country in which the government works in simple offices and spends its money on education, a state...
TIGGER TROUBLE AS L.I. BIG CAT GOES MISSING
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amHere, Kitty. Long Island cops mobilized last night to search for an escaped big cat named Tigger. But is Tigger a tiger, an ocelot or a much tamer serval cat?...
FIREMAN BUSTED IN DWI CRASH
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAn off-duty firefighter was busted yesterday for driving while intoxicated in a Queens crash. Ahmed Morsi, assigned to Engine Co. 326 in Oakland Gardens, was charged with DWI after the...
TIMES SQUARE: CRITICS MYTH AGAIN
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amTIMES Square, 100 years old today, is better than it's been in at least 50 years. Yet, rather than celebrate the blinding, cacophonous magnificence of the new "Crossroads of the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amVoting in West Virginia this year may be an eye-popping experience if aspiring politician Ken Hechler has anything to do with it. Hechler, who's running for secretary of state, has...
COP HIT BY CAR, BREAKS LEGS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amA rookie cop was hospitalized last night with two broken legs after getting hit by a car in Harlem, police said. The officer, whose name was withheld, and a sergeant...
GUNMAN DIES IN STRUGGLE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amA man shot a female employee at a Harlem hotel last night and then died after a fight with her co-worker, cops said. The unidentified man walked into the Dawn...
TW BUILDER FACING FINES
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe latest round of debris falling from the Time Warner Center could bring fines of up to $10,000, officials said yesterday as they allowed construction to resume. According to the...
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY SCANDAL: WHO OWNS THE LADY?
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amCongress and the U.S. Interior Department say they're finally going to take a close look at the private foundation that since 1981 has been raising money and playing a key...
OLSEN GIRLS IN TWIN KILLING
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amLike, we prefer Mary-Kate and Ashley - "The Olsen Twins" is so yesterday. The TV titans, now students at NYU running a multimillion-dollar company, are asking the media to only...
HOOP KIN IN JAIL - STAR A NO-SHOW FOR BRO
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe only court the older brother of city high-school hoops star Sebastian Telfair will be visiting is the kind with a judge and jury. Sylvester Telfair, 23, failed to make...
BABY-BUGGY - 'XMAS SLAY' MA PREGNANT AGAIN
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe Long Island woman charged with killing her baby on Christmas Day 2001 - and suspected of dumping the body of another one eight months earlier - is pregnant again,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police yesterday released surveillance photos of two burglars who broke into a Chinatown bank and rifled safe deposit boxes. One of the men (above) and his partner forced...
KERRY IN E-STORM
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry's campaign has hired a top strategist from MoveOn.org, the supposedly independent Bush-bashing group that the president's team has accused of illegally helping the Democrat. Zach Exley...
FANS ARE GETTING GRAND-$LAMMED
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amWhen you take 'em out to the ballgame and buy 'em some peanuts and Cracker Jack this year, you'll pay - a lot. And the surprise is that, despite A-Rod's...
AN 'L' OF A RIDE - ON TRACK FOR 'DRIVERLESS' SUBWAYS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe L train is about to take a giant leap into the future. Next year, straphangers who ride the once-maligned line will board computer-operated trains that can roll down the...
SADDAM'S CAR LOT$ - OIL SLICKSTER SOLD 37,000 VEHICLES IN U.N. SCAM
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein skimmed millions of dollars from the scandal-scarred U.N. oil-for-food program by buying and reselling 37,000 cars and trucks - right under the noses of U.N. bureaucrats,...
CONDI WON'T SAY 'SORRY'
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Condoleezza Rice is not expected to apologize today for failing to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks when she makes her long-awaited public appearance before the federal commission investigating...
THIS ISN'T A MISPRINT: NO SHOOTINGS IN BX.
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amFor the first time in more than a decade, a week passed without a single shooting in The Bronx, Mayor Bloomberg proudly announced yesterday as he touted crime reduction in...
JOHN KERRY SAID YESTERDAY HE'S SCALING BACK SOME OF THE CAMPAIGN PROMISES ...
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said yesterday he's scaling back some of the campaign promises he made in the primary season because he realizes there's not enough money...
INSPECTORS EYE TIGHTROPE TERROR
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amState investigators visited the circus yesterday to determine whether proper safety precautions were in place earlier this week when high-wire daredevil Ernando Amaya lost his balance and plunged 30 feet...
COPS GET MAKE ON FATAL-CHASE CARS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amPolice yesterday said they have basic descriptions of two cars that were involved in the "fatal insult" high-speed chase on Staten Island on Sunday night that left a teen dead....
HAVE A SEAT - STADIUM CHAIRS SELLING FOR $1,500
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amNeed three seats together, Yankee fans - cost you $1,500. No, not for today's home opener at Yankee Stadium against the White Sox, but an actual row of three seats...
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS DOWN 6,000
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amEnrollment at local Catholic elementary schools dropped by nearly 6,000 students this year, church officials reported yesterday. There are 3,500 fewer students in Brooklyn Diocesan schools - a decline of...
U.S. SET TO BEEF UP FORCE IN IRAQ
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. military is likely to put additional forces on the ground in Iraq to suppress an outbreak of anti-American violence, Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday....
POL WANTS CIG-VOTE REDO
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amCity officials aren't listening to bar owners who say business is down because of the smoking ban, according to a City Council member who voted for the measure. "I always...
-GAY POL WANTS TO KILL MARRIAGE (M, S)-WIPE OUT MARRIAGE: LEGISLATOR (LCF)
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The same-sex marriage controversy took a new and dramatic turn yesterday as one of the state Legislature's few openly gay members proposed abolishing marriage altogether in New York....
GARBAGE SYSTEM IS TRASHED
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAngry Brooklyn and Bronx residents gathered yesterday at the site of a closed sanitation facility - saying they're tired of having Manhattan garbage shipped to their boroughs. "The outer boroughs...
EX-SANIT AGENT IN BRIBE BUST
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amA former sanitation inspector who resigned after being accused of taking payoffs to not issue summonses was collared yesterday for donning her old uniform - minus her badge - to...
COUPE WHOOP - 150G HIP-HOPPY BENTLEY IS SHOW'S STAR CAR
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amBling-bling will collide with vroom-vroom this week at the New York Auto Show. As the car convention starts today at the Javits Center, some of the biggest buzz is being...
ART OF THE DEAL - GUGGENHEIM EYES JETS SITE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe Guggenheim Museum has expressed interest in building a Frank Gehry-designed outpost on Manhattan's far West Side as part of the redevelopment that would include a new Jets stadium and...
JESSICA SUES CONCERT PROMOTER
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amBlond hottie Jessica Simpson is suing a production company that she says canceled a concert she was supposed to perform at the Grand Prix of Puerto Rico, and stiffed her...
CHOCOHOLIC MOMS HAVE HAPPIER KIDS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amHere's some sweet news for moms-to-be - eating chocolate through pregnancy is good for both mothers and their babies. A Finnish study asked 300 pregnant women to rate their stress...
QNS. FIREMAN NAILED IN DWI CRASH
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAn off-duty firefighter was busted yesterday for driving while intoxicated after he crashed his car into another vehicle in Queens - just months after he was charged with assaulting his...
ICE-CREAM SUSPECT FREED
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amOne of two suspects in the beating of two Bronx ice-cream truck drivers was sprung yesterday as her lawyer contended she acted in self-defense. Librada Veron, 49, was released on...
GIS BLOW AWAY MOSQUE MASK - * BOMBS KILL 40 THUGS IN HOLY SITE * MARINES RETAKE MORE OF FALLUJAH
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amU.S. troops battling on two fronts in the fiercest fighting in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein fired rockets and dropped two 500-pound bombs on a mosque compound yesterday,...
MIKE BLOWS OFF HIS WINDY CITY CRITICS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg defended his policy of ending social promotion for failing third-graders - dismissing new studies that found that Chicago's stricter promotional policy failed to help kids who were left...
DEM'S WEASEL-FRIENDLY 'PLAN' IS NO PLAN AT ALL
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amSO FAR, Democrat John Kerry has no plan for Iraq - except to complain that it's all President Bush's fault. Kerry is so eager to blame Bush that he even...
BIG POLICE ESCORT FOR HOOKER RING
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amOne of the city's biggest escort operations was busted yesterday for allegedly making millions by dispatching dozens of hookers daily around the city and suburbs. A group of city and...
CRIME IS LATEST 'TREND' - W'BURG HIPSTERS TARGETS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe sprucing up of working-class Williamsburg into a hipster haven of artsy storefronts, funky bars and skyrocketing rents may be attracting one more thing - crime, residents say. The brutal...
CAT 'BURGLAR' - CANCER KITTY MADE HER ROB BANKS: COPS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amFor love of a cat, Catherine Kaczanowski launched a criminal career. The reclusive 44-year- old Brooklyn woman decided to rob a bank after she learned Smoochie, the stray cat she...
PROSECUTORS ROAST MARTHA'S RETRY SUIT
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors yesterday accused disgraced domestic diva Martha Stewart of trying to save her own skin by seeking to "humiliate and embarrass" one of the jurors who convicted her of...
L.I. CAR-TORCHER MAY FACE SLAY RAP
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amA co-worker of a missing Hamptons woman has confessed to setting her car on fire hours before she was reported missing - and may face murder charges, officials said. Prosecutors...
BOMBERS A BETTER BARGAIN THAN METS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amWhen you take 'em out to the ballgame and buy 'em some peanuts and Cracker Jack this year, you'll pay - a lot. And the surprise is that despite A-Rod's...
-JUROR 4 'FIDDLE' FADDLE - SHE PLAYED US: PANELIST (M)-'SHE PLAYED THEM LIKE A FIDDLE': PANELIST (S, LCF)
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amA Tyco juror yesterday said Ruth Jordan played the panel "like a fiddle" during deliberations, since she now says she intended to hold out for an acquittal. In remarks published...
CRIME IS LATEST W'BURG 'TREND'
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe sprucing up of working-class Williamsburg into a hipster haven of artsy storefronts, funky bars and skyrocketing rentals may be attracting something else, residents say - crime. The brutal rape...
MISTRYING TIMES - TYCO JUROR 4 TOLD ]]JUDGE: I'M 'SCARED'
April 8, 2004 | 4:00am"I'm alarmed." Those were the first words out of juror Ruth Jordan's mouth in the conversation that convinced Justice Michael Obus to declare a mistrial in the 6-month-old Tyco case,...
ATV TRAGEDY IN QUEENS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amA 21-year-old man was clinging to life last night after slamming his all-terrain vehicle into a car in Queens, cops said. The man was driving the unregistered ATV north on...
BIG SPENDER BACKS DOWN
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said yesterday he's scaling back some of the campaign promises he made in the primary season because he realizes there's not enough money...
THE DAMN YANKEES 'ON TRIAL'
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAs if Tyco and Jayson Williams were not providing enough legal drama, a New Jersey jury yesterday ruled on the fate of yet another high-profile defendant - the New York...
MIKE CATCHES JOE D
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Joe DiMaggio has company, and Carlton Fisk is officially on alert. After one of the most brilliant nights of his brilliant career, Mike Piazza caught one...
PIAZZA'S IN 'GREAT COMPANY'
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amATLANTA - The father would tell the son about the greatest player he ever saw. The fact that player was Italian, Joe DiMaggio, made it that much more special for...
IT WAS TWO GOOD TO BE TRUE - BRAVES SCORE 11 OFF METS IN FOURTH INNING
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amBraves 18 - Mets 10 ATLANTA - It all looked so good, so promising for the Mets. They won the season opener, Kaz Matsui was playing like Barry Bonds and...
ISLES NEED ONE FROM THE ROAD
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amISLANDER NOTES TAMPA - The Islanders weren't road warriors during the regular season. But if this group is going to win its first playoff series together, success behind enemy lines...
LION HEART TO FACE EIGHT
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAn extremely competitive field of nine Kentucky Derby hopefuls was entered yesterday for Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, a make-or-break prep for the May 1 Run...
PRIMEAU A BIG DEAL TO GOMEZ
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amDEVIL NOTES PHILADELPHIA - It will be the biggest challenge Scott Gomez has faced, in more ways than one. The Devils' top offensive center should see a lot of 6-foot-5...
TIGER'S TIME - WOODS A DIFFERENT PLAYER AT AUGUSTA
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Go ahead. Bet against Tiger Woods this week. Believe the haters and the amateur psychologists who insist he's mired in a colossal slump and has little chance of...
RED STORM DECISION ON HOLD
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amUnderstanding the immense importance of the decision he faces, St. John's president Father Donald J. Harrington left yesterday for a long weekend during which he will ponder who is the...
AUGUSTA'S HOOTIE A REAL MEDIA BLOWHARD
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTES AUGUSTA - Augusta National tournament chairman Hootie Johnson conducted his annual pre-Masters press conference yesterday, but there was a lot less in the way of fireworks a year...
OPENER KAZ GOOD AS IT CAN GET - METS MARVEL AT MATSUI'S DEBUT
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amATLANTA - Players were supposed to be stretching on the field at 5:10 yesterday afternoon, and Kaz Matsui was running late. So when he reached the field at 5:11 and...
KIDD, K-MART BOTH OK AFTER TESTING SORE KNEES
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amJason Kidd, Kenyon Martin, Lawrence Frank and a good part of the state of New Jersey breathed a big sigh of relief yesterday. Both Kidd and Martin said they didn't...
ERICKSON STARTS OVER TONIGHT
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Just like every pitcher this week, tonight is the first start of the season for Scott Erickson. The difference is it's also Erickson's first start since...
MATTIACE: NO SECOND THOUGHTS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Mike Weir has walked around Augusta National a privileged man this week, a big man on campus. That's what Masters champions are around here. They're treated like royalty,...
PLAYING FAST & LOOSE - COURSE ALTERATIONS MEAN TOUGHER TOURNEY
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Will Nicholson, chairman of the Masters competition committee, wore the sinister grin of someone setting up an ambush when he was asked yesterday about the firm and fast...
DON'T EXPECT TO SEE STEVENS ON THE ICE IN THESE PLAYOFFS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - These are the Devils, so you can't really know what's going on with Scott Stevens, mysteriously silent - or is that silenced? - and out of sight but...
BOMBER BATS ARE BIG BUST FOR BROWN
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Kevin Brown is honoring his reputation. So far, the Yankee lineup is not. On two continents in just more than one week, Brown has displaced Mike Mussina...
IT'S A NO-VIN SITUATION
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amIn Vin Baker's ninth game with the Knicks, the forward scored 16 points in 30 minutes against the Pistons on March 27 and thought that he had finally regained his...
CASHMAN IRKED BY '26TH MAN'
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - A clearly annoyed Brian Cashman planned to quell the Bob Alejo issue yesterday by talking to Jason Giambi about his personal trainer - whom Cashman...
YANKS HAPPILY HEAD FOR HOME - TOUGH WIN OVER D-RAYS FINALLY SHAKES OFF JET LAG
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 3 - Devil Rays 2 ST. PETERSBURG - Mentally and physically taxed, the Yankees are finally coming home today. And when they make their official appearance at hallowed Yankee...
PIAZZA FEELS RIGHT AT HOME
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amATLANTA - As Mike Piazza walked out of Turner Field late Tuesday night, he ran into a group of high school drummers who performed as part of the Opening Night...
LENNY'S PROUD OF HIS KNICKS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe Knicks were on the verge of clinching a playoff spot last night. And no matter how far they go - and it doesn't appear to be far - coach...
BULLS' CRAWFORD EYES JOB IN APPLE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amBulls combo guard Jamal Crawford, a restricted free agent this summer, said the Knicks are on his list as teams he'd consider joining. Isiah Thomas tried to trade for him...
CASHMAN, GIAMBI 'ON SAME PAGE'
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Brian Cashman addressed the Bob Alejo issue yesterday by talking to Jason Giambi about his personal trainer - whom Cashman derisively nicknamed "The 26th man" earlier in...
QUAD SHIFTS LOFTON TO DH
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Kenny Lofton was a last-minute scratch from center field yesterday due to a left quad injury, and Joe Torre is debating whether to sit him...
STARS IMPRESSED BY KAZ
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - The buzz was reverberating yesterday over Mets rookie Kaz Matsui's historic debut on Tuesday with fellow Japanese stars Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui among the impressed...
YANKS HAPPILY HEAD FOR HOME - FINALLY SHAKE OFF JET LAG IN WIN OVER DEVIL RAYS
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 3 - Devil Rays 2 ST. PETERSBURG - Mentally drained and physically taxed, the Yankees are finally home today. And when they make their inaugural 2004 appearance at hallowed...
MANNING'S THE PRIZE AS JINTS EYE TOP PICK
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amGiants GM Ernie Accorsi last night confirmed reports that he called the Chargers this week inquiring about trading up to the No. 1 spot in the upcoming NFL Draft, a...
IT WAS TWO GOOD TO BE TRUE - BRAVES' BIG INNING STOPS GOOD START
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amBraves 18 - Mets 10 ATLANTA - Win your season opener and take a six-run lead in game two and you're going to be feeling pretty good about yourself. Proceed...
PIAZZA CAN'T DO IT ALONE
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amSAME OLD METS. That's a bad thing. Same Old Mike Piazza. That's a good thing. On Piazza's greatest hitting night, the Mets' pitching staff produced an embarrassing record-setting meltdown, allowing...
DEKE DOES HIS PART
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThis has not been a season to remember for Dikembe Mutombo. He was cut by the Nets and has seen his minutes fluctuate greatly with the Knicks, and he barely...
KNICKS' WIN GETS THEM IN!
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amKnicks 96 - Bulls 82 Three days before Christmas, the Knicks became an NBA franchise again and last night at the Garden became the culmination of an Isiah Thomas-inspired turnaround....
DEVILS VS FLYERS: NEW JERSEY DEVILS (43-25-12-2,100 POINTS, 6TH SEED) VS. PHILADELPHIA FLYERS (40-21-15-6, 101 POINTS, 3RD SEED)
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amSo different, so equal. Flyers-Devils is now the best NHL rivalry below the border. It's going to be pretty, and it's bound to be ugly. The question of which cracks...
NEW YORK ISLANDERS (38-29-11-4, 91 POINTS, 8TH SEED) VS. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING (46-22-8-6, 106 POINTS, 1ST SEED)
April 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe war cry of the Lightning is "Safe is Death." The Islanders march to the "poised and patient" beat of Steve Stirling's drum. The Bolts take risks and play an...