April 16, 2004
EMPIRE STATE GETS HEARTLAND
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amHeartland Brewery plans to create a flagship location in the heart of the city. The brewery and pub-style restaurant, which had been at Times Square, has leased the southwest corner...
MEL ON WARPATH - IT'S VIACOM VS. FCC OVER IMMINENT $1.5M FINE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Federal Communications Commission is expected to fine Infinity Broadcasting roughly $1.5 million as early as next week for airing material from the Howard Stern radio show that the commission...
UNIVERSAL MUSIC BOOSTS PRICES FOR CDS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amUniversal Music is tweaking its prices for compact discs after retailers failed to embrace a program that radically reduced the wholesale prices shops paid for CDs. The new plan slightly...
DELTA MAY SOON BE RUNNING ON EMPTY
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amDelta Air Lines, which is hemorrhaging money and executives, may be forced into bankruptcy protection, analysts warned yesterday. On Wednesday, the airline announced that it had lost $383 million in...
EXECS IN SURVEY SAY THEY'D DUMP TRUMP
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amYou're hired? They'll take the cab, thanks. Given the chance to be the real-life "Apprentice," 33 percent of those surveyed by executive compensation and benefits firm Clark Consulting said they...
BURGER KING PITCH STARS FUNKY CHICKEN
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amHow do advertisers reach today's jaded young audience? Burger King hopes a lingerie-clad, psychologically-dominated chicken does the trick. To promote its new line of chicken sandwiches, the fast-food chain launched...
THAIN TOUTS NYSE'S $50M YEAR, TRADE TALKS WITH SEC
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange made about $50 million in 2003, a year spent mostly fending off the scandal of former boss Dick Grasso's fat pay deal. The 2003 results,...
FEDS LEVEL CHARGES IN 2 INVESTOR SCAMS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors in Manhattan have leveled charges in two separate scams that ripped off investors of more than $3 million, officials said yesterday. U.S. Attorney David Kelley said Artour Arakelian...
SLAP IN THE FACE - NEWSDAY BLASTS BRESLIN OVER DICEY INTERVIEW
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amNewsday issued a rebuke to Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Jimmy Breslin yesterday for relying on his memory of a 1992 interview in a story on a right-wing reverend's view on homosexuality....
NEW STORE MODEL BLOOMS IN SOHO
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amCréme de la Mer, an ultra-luxurious face cream that costs $110 for a 1-ounce tube, and dresses from hip designer Derek Lam are just some of the items that will...
BIG BOARD ROLLS OUT NEW ADS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amAfter months of silence, the NYSE next month will launch a television campaign touting its new management, new corporate governance structure and recently announced technology improvements, exchange sources told The...
STAR MAG TAPS CABLE EXEC FOR NEW PUSH
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amSTAR magazine has turned to cable TV to help shore up its beleaguered ranks. The mag has hired Eric Spinato from the Fox News Channel. Spinato is known as a...
NEUHARTH RIPS EDITORS OVER KELLEY
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amIn a column he has written for today's edition of USA Today, founder Al Neuharth rips the newspaper's current regime for its handling of the Jack Kelley fiasco. Kelley, a...
'IDOL': WATCH OUT, 'DARN,' YOU'RE NEXT
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTUESDAY'S taping of "American Idol" had to be stopped when "Kill Bill" director Quentin Tarantino used the "F-word" - well, sort of. According to an insider who attended the taping...
LOVE SLAVE - MY NEW BOYFRIEND IS 'SPARTACUS' HOTTIE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amDESPITE THEIR GOOD LOOKS, BOTH MEN HAPPEN TO BE FANTASTIC IN THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTS. (NO PUN INTENDED, I SWEAR!) *"Spartacus" [] (three stars) Sunday night at 8 on USA Network...
WAIL WATCHING AT RUBEN'S SLOW SET
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amRUBEN STUDDARD AT "American Idol" Ruben Studdard's Beacon Theater performance, it wasn't just his blubber that made you want to shout, "Thar he blows." In concert on Wednesday, the rotund...
THERE'S NO EDEN FOR THISNOIRISH 'ADAM'
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amYOUNG ADAM [] (three stars) McGregor's best since "Trainspotting." Running time: 98 minutes. Rated NC-17 (explicit sex, profanity). At the Lincoln Plaza, the Sunshine, the Chelsea, the First and 62nd....
DARLING DUO - BUT THIS MOVIE'S A MUSICAL MISFIT
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amCONNIE AND CARLA [] (two stars) Some like it tepid. Running time: 98 minutes. Rated PG-13 (thematic elements, sexual humor and drug references). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the...
OOD EATING AT THE THEATER
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amIT was the best one-hour meal I've ever spent three hours eating. Food Network star Tyler Florence's dinner at "Chef's Theater," anchored by marvelously moist roast poussin, was a simple...
MEAL TICKET - PLAY LEAVES YOU HUNGRY
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amCHEF'STHEATER At the Supper Club, 240 W. 47th St.; (212) 239-6200. ----- 'CHEF'S Theater" is nothing like your father's suburban dinner theater. It bears little resemblance to those warmed-over chamber...
A 'LUCKY' STAR - MELISSA TALKS ABOUT THE NEW MRS. ETHERIDGE (BOTH OF THEM)
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE aren't many blues-rockers who write like Springsteen and sing like Joplin. But there aren't many superstars like Melissa Etheridge. Yet she's so normal, she could be the gay rock...
FINE CAST FOR 'WOUNDED'
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amSIXTEEN WOUNDED [ 1/2] (two and one-half stars)At the Walter Kerr Theater, 219 W. 48th St; (212) 239-6200. ---- A Jew, a Palestinian and a baker's shop . . ....
PUNISHMENT
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE PUNISHER [] (two stars) Unpleasant, ultra-violent vigilante film. Running time: 125 minutes. Rated R (extreme violence, language). At the E-Walk, the Astor Plaza, the Union Square 14. ----- LIKE...
ANTI-'IDOL' - 'SUPERSTAR' LOOKS FOR WORST SINGERS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00am"THESE PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED ABOUT THEIR LACK OF TALENT, AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS SHOW SO WRONG - AND SO GOOD." --- 'BACHELOR" creator Mike Fleiss is teaming with The...
STARR REPORT
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBD+>A story of courage Ch. 4's Jane Hanson interviews Holocaust survivors Rene Slotkin and his twin sister, Irene Hizme, tomorrow for the documentary "Rene & I: From Auschwitz to America."...
THRILLER 'BILL' - TARANTINO PUMPS UP THE VOLUME IN STYLISH FINALE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amKILL BILL: VOL. 2 * * * ½ (three and one half stars) A cut above. Running time: 137 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, drugs). At the Empire, Loews 34th...
GET YOUR KICKS AT 66 N. SIXTH
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE French Kicks headline a cool triple bill of Brooklyn bands at Williamsburg's Northsix (66 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn; [718] 599-5103) on Thursday. The band's upcoming sophomore effort, "The Trial...
TROUBLED 'DREAMS' - 'PHANTOM' EDGING 'BOMBAY' AT THE BOX OFFICE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amANDREW Lloyd Webber has two shows running on Broadway right now. One is much-hyped and brand-new, the other is in its 17th year. But if you rifle through the box-office...
'JOEY'S' NEW PAL
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amLONE 'Friend' Joey Tribbiani has got a sexy, new neighbor. Ashley Scott has been cast to play Allison, Joey's neighbor when he ditches New York and moves to Los Angeles...
JPL GETS THE BOOT ON 'IDOL'
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBABY-FACED John Peter Lewis was booted off "American Idol" last night - leaving only seven remaining finalists battling for the crown. "It's been great," said Lewis, referred to by everyone...
'JOEY'S' NEW NEIGHBOR
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amLONE 'Friend' Joey Tribbiani has got a sexy, new neighbor. Ashley Scott has been cast to play Allison, Joey' s neighbor when he ditches New York and moves to Los...
COPS, FIREMEN FIGHT OVER DYING MAN
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe latest round in the battle of the badges erupted under the Manhattan Bridge after a 54-year-old father of two took a fatal plunge off the span into the East...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amOuch, those bushes hurt! A 35-year-old man shopping for shrubs at a home-improvement center in Oklahoma went to pick one up - and was bitten by a rattlesnake hiding inside....
SICKFELLA IS STARING AT A DEATH SENTENCE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amHIS bounce, his buoyancy, even the trademark banter he often shared with me was long gone. Puffy and shuffling, Peter Gotti looked 20 years older than when I last saw...
BURNING DE$IRE - L.I. FIREMEN BUSTED IN BIG-BUCK RIP-OFFS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThree Long Island volunteer firefighters have been busted - one charged with stealing $90,000, another with taking $6,000, and a third with fraud after claiming he suffered a line-of-duty injury...
EX-COP'S DRUG WOES 'MUSHROOM'
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA former cop had "magic mushrooms" delivered to him by mail and turned his Brooklyn home into a greenhouse for dozens of pot plants, prosecutors in Brooklyn Supreme Court said...
ARIEL WON BEHIND-SCENES BATTLE WITH STATE DEPT.
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In the final hours before President Bush announced sweeping changes in U.S. policy on the Mideast, there was an intense behind-the-scenes struggle. Some U.S. officials were reluctant to...
NYERS FIND SPRING IN THEIR STEP
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amHot town, summer in the city! Even though it's only spring, that's the tune New Yorkers will sing today as Mother Nature finally gives Old Man Winter the boot and...
L.I. COPS SUED IN STUN-GUN SLAY
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe family of the Long Island mental patient who died in police custody are suing the cops, saying he was "tortured to death" by officers who allegedly used a stun...
COURTNEY GEARS UP FOR TRIAL
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A judge yesterday ordered rock bad girl Courtney Love to stand trial for allegedly possessing illegal painkillers - in a case her lawyer slammed as a...
BUST-OUT TESTIMONY IN UNION BRIBE TRIAL
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury heard a brief tale of bucks, beer and breasts yesterday when a Luchese mob snitch testified he handed off a $10,000 bribe to carpenters union brass over...
QUREIA: I'LL QUIT - PALESTINIAN PM SLAMS BUSH'S ISRAEL 'TILT'
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia was threatening to resign yesterday because he said President Bush had damaged the prospects for reaching a final peace agreement with Israel. Qureia...
DUBYA: TAX DAY A CUT ABOVE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday he believes tax day was a "little better" for most Americans because of his tax cuts. "Tax Day is something most people really don't...
MAN SHOOTS 'WRONG SEX' TEEN: COPS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was charged with attempted murder yesterday, after he shot a 14-year-old boy who gave him oral sex pretending to be a girl. Jamel Stevens, 20, of 23...
FDNY FIGHTS HATRED - 'GAY SENSITIVITY' PLAN
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA plan is in the works to make sure New York's Bravest are New York's Gay-Friendliest, too. Shamed by the New Year's Eve firehouse brawl allegedly sparked by a homophobic...
JAYSON SLAY TRIAL WILL GO ON
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amJayson Williams' manslaughter trial will continue after a judge yesterday denied a defense claim of prosecutorial misconduct. Defense attorney Joseph Hayden complained to Judge Edward Coleman that his ability to...
HERO HOSTAGE'S LAST MOMENTS - 'I'LL SHOW YOU HOW AN ITALIAN DIES,' HE TELLS THUGS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An Italian civilian defiantly confronted his killers just before his murder and demanded they look him in the eye "to show you how an Italian dies," it was...
SHOPS (P)AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe crackdown on the illegal sale of boxcutters and spray paint to minors is working, according to the results yesterday of a citywide sting operation. City officials sent teenagers into...
PLAN SINKS UNDER PIER PRESSURE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBrooklyn's dream of having the Queen Mary 2 dock at the foot of Atlantic Avenue looks sunk after new computer simulations showed that big cruise ships would repeatedly crash into...
SHINING-TIME STATION
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA new terminal grows in Brooklyn. A large glass pavilion will greet straphangers when they enter the renovated Atlantic Avenue Terminal in 2006, officials said. The street-level entry pavilion will...
NO DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amEuropean nations that were split over the Iraq war united yesterday to forcefully reject Osama bin Laden's apparent offer of a "truce." "No dealings are possible with terrorists," French President...
BITTER BLOW FOR 'LOLLIPOP'
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amFans of the "Lollipop Building" have been licked. A Manhattan judge yesterday gave the go-ahead to the sale and redesign of the controversial nine-story building at 2 Columbus Circle that...
GOING, GOING, DON - LOVELORN GOTTI GETS 9 YRS.-PLUS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amPeter Gotti, the boss of one of the city's most powerful crime families, cut a pathetic figure when he showed up for sentencing on racketeering charges in Brooklyn federal court...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A 49-year-old man was gunned down on a Canarsie street last night, cops said. The man - whose name was being withheld pending family notification - was shot...
WHEELCHAIR MOM A FIRE HERO
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Good Samaritan, a cop and a team of firefighters came to the dramatic rescue of a family of four yesterday - but the real hero was a wheelchair-bound woman...
AILING QNS. HOSP CLOSING
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe cash-strapped St. Vincent Catholic medical group will close down a Queens hospital as part of an effort to bolster the struggling health network, The Post has learned. Executives at...
HOMELESS-SHELTER SYSTEM REVAMPED
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe mammoth Bellevue Men's Shelter - the entry point into the shelter system - will be closed and replaced by three smaller intake centers, officials said yesterday. They did not...
FIDDLE FOLLIES END ON A HIGH NOTE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amNo music was ever sweeter to Odin Rathnam than the reunion with his lost 18th-century violin at the 20th Precinct station house early yesterday. "I feel like a new man;...
PORN-STAR HIV SCARE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe porn industry was shaken to its sleazy core yesterday amid fears that HIV may be spreading among its stable of X-rated male and female performers. The scare came as...
SPITZER WON'T HELP CITY FIGHT GAY NUPS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg met with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer this week to seek his help defending a lawsuit challenging the city's refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses - but Bloomberg...
MIRACLE CRASH BABY - PA DIES, STRANGER RESCUES NEWBORN
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amHe was being a good guy when he offered to drive his boss to the airport early in the morning - but Patrick Schlagenhaft ended up being a good Samaritan...
DIALLO-SLAY COP IS DENIED GUN
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA police officer involved in the infamous shooting death of Amadou Diallo can't get his guns back, a Manhattan judge ruled yesterday. The city and the NYPD had decided to...
ALL OF JERSEY TOXIC - SHOCKING EPA REPORT
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amNew Jersey may want to change its name to New Dirt-sey - the feds say the entire state fails federal clean-air standards and desperately needs to improve its air quality....
SHOCKING SCHOOL 'CHEATING' PLAN
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amParents at an Upper East Side school charged yesterday that educators were prodding them to label their kids as "learning disabled" to get them more time to finish Tuesday's high-stakes...
PAYS TO BE GOV - PATAKIS BOOST INCOME 15%, TO 517G
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki and his wife, Libby, saw their income jump by nearly $70,000 last year as the governor returned to giving paid speeches and the first lady expanded...
TEEN'S DEATH PROBED - '86 'ACCIDENT' EYED
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn autopsy on an 18-year-old Bronx boy who died after spending virtually his entire life in a hospital bed has authorities taking another look at how he got the head...
DEEPER CIA LINK BY 9/11 PANELIST
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New questions surfaced yesterday about 9/11 commissioner Jamie Gorelick's potential conflicts of interest after it was revealed she was more deeply involved in anti-terror efforts than has previously...
ABUSED WIFE'S SLAY EXCUSE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens woman who endured more than a decade of spousal abuse - including a slashing and choking incident - testified yesterday she didn't mean to kill her husband when...
GOP PLAYS THE TERESA $$ CARD
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThere was new GOP pressure on Democrat John Kerry to release the tax returns of his mega-rich $525 million wife Teresa yesterday after it was learned that Kerry once said...
JUSTICE FOR SWINDLED GRANNY
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens home attendant who plundered more than $300,000 from an incapacitated 91-year-old woman was sentenced to five years probation yesterday. Bibi Khan, 48, who spent three years working as...
CITY'S VID DEFENSE IN TICKET DEATH
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amSurveillance video captured the heart-attack death of Brooklyn resident Onofrio Avvinti after he got a parking ticket - and police say he didn't appear ill when officers wrote the summons....
4 ADDED TO 'VIOLENT' HS ROSTER
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday put four more high schools on his list of dangerous education facilities in need of massive overhaul. Joining the halls of shame are Theodore Roosevelt and Walton...
FRENCH WHINE: POST MEAN TO US
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe weasels are whining! France's ambassador to the United States accused The Post, Fox News and other News Corp. media of conducting a "racist campaign" against his homeland of wine...
BLOOMY READY TO 'STICK' PESTS WITH A $500 FINE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday helped New Yorkers with a sticky problem. Under a new law signed by Bloomberg, merchants who place pesky stickers and decals touting their services on people's homes...
AIR RAID FOR BOMBERS - POST'S PLANE SPEAKING TAUNTS FOES IN BOSTON
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe "Evil Empire" that is the Yankees is invading Boston for a fierce four-game series with the hated Red Sox beginning tonight - and The Post is joining the battle...
TEACHERS UNION WINS BATTLE FOR PAID LEAVE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTeachers are entitled to take prized paid sabbaticals again, after a labor judge ruled yesterday that the Bloomberg administration erred by "unilaterally" rejecting leave time to 600 veteran instructors last...
SAFETY SIGNS AT RUNAWAY-TRAIN SITE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amNew warning signs will go up at rail crossings along a stretch of track where a runaway locomotive went on two-mile path of destruction last month, hitting five vehicles and...
VID BACKS AGENT IN 'KILLER TICKET' ROW
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amIt wasn't until four minutes after a traffic agent wrote him a ticket and drove away that Brooklyn resident Onofrio Avvinti began suffering his fatal heart attack, surveillance video obtained...
BLOOMY SET TO 'STICK' PESTS WITH $500 FINE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday helped New Yorkers with a sticky problem. Under a new law signed by Bloomberg, merchants who place pesky stickers and decals touting their services on people's homes...
TEEN-SEX RAP FOR BX. HS GUARD
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx school safety agent was arrested on statutory-rape charges yesterday when it was discovered he had sex with an underage student on school grounds almost 18 months ago, cops...
TRUMP PICKS UP BILL - WINS CAR & 250G JOB AS KWAME GETS AX
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBill Rancic, Donald Trump says: "You're hired!" Trump chose Rancic, 32 - founder of an online cigar retailer-turned-real-estate developer from Chicago - over rival Kwame Jackson as the winner of...
BOY FATALLY CRUSHED IN COLLAPSE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA playful 6-year-old Queens boy was crushed to death last night when a steel structure his father was building in the back yard crashed down on his head, cops said....
HOW A BAD 'SIGN' SUDDENLY TURNED TO GOOD FORE!TUNE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amYOU'RE all fired! During the first hour of last night's two-hour "Apprentice" finale on NBC, I would not have been surprised to see Donald Trump turn thumbs down on both...
TRUMP PICKS UP BILL - WINNER RANCIC IN WAR OF WORDS WITH KWAME
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBill Rancic, Donald Trump says, "You're hired!" Trump chose Rancic, 32 - an online-cigar-retailer-turned-real-estate-developer from Chicago - over rival Kwame Jackson as the winner of "The Apprentice" on the reality...
FDNY CANS FALSE-ALARM SUSPECT
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA 19-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested yesterday after hefalsely reported a fire, then tossed unopened cans of food at the firefighters who showed up, fire officials said. Miguel Marrero called...
JAYSON TRIAL WILL GO ON
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amJayson Williams' manslaughter trial will continue after a judge yesterday denied a bid by the defense to have charges against the ex-NBA star dismissed for alleged prosecutorial misconduct. Testimony in...
FORMER COP'S DRUG PROBLEM 'MUSHROOMS'
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA former cop had "magic mushrooms" delivered to him by mail and turned his Brooklyn home into a greenhouse for dozens of pot plants, prosecutors told jurors in Brooklyn Supreme...
RADIO CITY ROCKETTES NEED KICK IN THE BUTT
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThey're kicking and screaming. Big Apple Bomber boosters were up in arms yesterday after learning the world-famous Rockettes donned Red Sox apparel during a Wednesday performance in Boston. A group...
HERO HOSTAGE'S LAST MOMENTS - 'I'LL SHOW HOW AN ITALIAN DIES'
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An Italian civilian defiantly confronted his killers just before his murder and demanded they look him in the eye "to show you how an Italian dies," it was...
NO RAVES FOR SAVES
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS SEASON, we've got a completely different take on the save rule, which we used to ridicule as exceptionally silly and wildly misleading. Now . . . well, it's no...
TALK TO YOU LATER ...YANKS NIX IN-GAME MIKES
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amDon't expect to see Joe Torre interviewed during a game any time soon. A Yankee spokesman said the club would not participate in in-game interviews. With Kenny Albert working as...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amMatchup Classic: Phil Rizzuto vs. Ralph Kiner (Who was a better announcer?) As the story goes, Phil Rizzuto had a unique way of keeping score. He'd often use the symbol,...
5 QUESTIONS FOR STEVE KERR
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with TNT's NBA analyst, Steve Kerr. The 38-year-old Kerr played on five NBA championship teams, including last year's Spurs.Q: If you were a...
LOVE TO HATE YOU, BABY - YANKEES, RED SOX- AND THEIR FANS -ARE BEST OF ENEMIES
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amFriday, Yankees at Red Sox, 8 p.m., Fox You can feel that anger. It burns its way into your bones as you walk into Fenway Park. The hatred jumps out...
SCORE, OR GO HOME
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Fat Lady is clearing her throat as the Islanders stand on the brink of first-round elimination for the third straight spring, so it was awkwardly appropriate that players were...
MAYORGA HASN'T LOST HIS BRAVADO
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amRicardo Mayorga was the hottest thing in boxing before he stepped into the ring with Cory Spinks on Dec. 13 in Atlantic City. A fight with Shane Mosley was already...
SUPER WEEKEND IN THE WORKS
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE best saltwater action continues to be on both ends of Long Island, codfishing to the east and flounder fishing to the west, and with yesterday's opener we now have...
BRADWAY'S ENJOYING THIS OFFSEASON MORE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTerry Bradway, perhaps unknowingly, yesterday acknowledged for the first time what an awful offseason he and the Jets had last year. The Jets' general manager was speaking in advance of...
FENWAY FAITHFUL FROTHING
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Young Michael Marino ran around in enemy territory yesterday, proudly sporting a Yankees windbreaker in the Red Sox souvenir store. Although the team shop on Yawkey Way is...
STORM AIDE EVANS MOVES ON
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amIn a sure sign that a new era has dawned at St. John's, long-time director of basketball operations Alex Evans has left the program to pursue family business ventures. Evans,...
DEVS WERE BEATEN BEFORE SERIES
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThis impending dethroning, the one the Devils can avert only by repeating history, isn't Pat Burns' fault. Nor Martin Brodeur's. The Devils are on the brink of becoming ex-champs, down...
IT'S ABOUT TIME THEY'RE BACK
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The last time they encountered each other, Oct. 16 already had turned into Oct. 17. The huge Yankee Stadium clock just switched over from 12:15 a.m. to 12:16...
YANKEES LOOK ARMED & READY - BOSS: PITCHERS MUST STOP SOX
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amJoe Torre's managerial skills and Yankees arms. That's the exacta George Steinbrenner believes will carry the Yankees through the four-game series against the Red Sox this weekend at a rollicking...
GETTING RIGHT TO THE POINTS - FINALS ARE MARBURY'S MISSION
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe statistics are comparable, even tilted favorably toward the Knicks' Stephon Marbury. The playoff history is not close. The Nets' Jason Kidd has gone to two straight Finals. Marbury hasn't...
PACERS GOOD ENOUGH TO WEAR NBA CROWN
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE NBA is pleased to present the 2004 playoffs, where seven games can be stretch marked over three weekends and every one of the Sweet 16 comes complete with half-baked...
NO PEDRO, BUT BOSOX ARE READY
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The company line is that Pedro Martinez is not ducking the Yankees. Martinez, who started last night against the Orioles on his normal four days' rest, was not...
MARBURY HOPES TO BRAKE NETS' OFFENSE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES The past two springs, each of the five Eastern teams that have lost a playoff series to the Nets - Pacers, Hornets, Celtics (twice), Bucks and Pistons -...
BOONE: I'LL WATCH
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn ocean of "what ifs" won't be floating inside Aaron Boone's head tonight as he watches the Yankees and Red Sox in the first game of the bitter rivalry since...
IT'S OCTOBER IN APRIL - YANKS-SOX INTENSE ALREADY
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - As a newspaperman to the bone who proudly works for this newspaper, which you might have noticed has a tendency to be a bit loud in our presentation,...
FRANK BUNKERS DOWN TO DO HIS HOMEWORK
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES This is a kid in the candy store stuff: Lawrence Frank preparing for the playoffs. And during this time, he'll even say howdy to the family. Barely. Frank...
NETS' STRATEGY IS KIDD'S PLAY
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amSome guys always stick out, Indiana coach Rick Carlisle said. Jason Kidd is one of those guys. "Me and my staff had a chance to coach the All-Star game this...
DOC WON'T BE THERE FOR SHEFF IN BOSTON
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES George Steinbrenner admitted Dwight Gooden might have helped his nephew, Gary Sheffield, relax for the past two games, but The Boss didn't dispatch Gooden to Boston with the...
CAMERON AIDS IN TRIBUTE TO JACKIE
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amMike Cameron said it wasn't until he got to high school that he began to appreciate the importance of Jackie Robinson's legacy. "Before then, I really only knew the name,"...
PLAYING CATCH-UP - AS PHILLIPS PULLS DOUBLE-DUTY, HIS BAT LAGS BEHIND
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amThere is always a lot of talk about how Mike Piazza is handling the shuttle between first and catcher. But what about Jason Phillips? Phillips is the other man in...
SHEA NOT BUZZ-WORTH
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE chilly wind was blowing in again last night at Shea. There was no buzz, just brrrr. Just another night in America's coldest ballpark. While the Yankees were getting ready...
PIAZZA'S POSITION IS CLEARLY MARKED
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES When the Mets entered the clubhouse last night, they were greeted by some added information. On the board that reveals the batting practice order, there were numbers next...
SOX OWNER: TEAMS BEST THEY'VE BEEN
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Red Sox owner John Henry put the hype into hyperdrive last night when he told The Post this weekend's showdown might truly be a matchup for the ages....
PEDRO PELTED BY O'S
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - According to the company line, Pedro Martinez isn't ducking the Yankees. Instead, Martinez was in duck-and-cover mode last night during a putrid pitching performance against Baltimore. Martinez displayed...
MAKING A BID FOR ATTENTION - CRAFTY PITCHING, CLUTCH HITTING LIFT METS PAST BRAVES
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amMets 4 - Braves 0 With New York's and baseball's attention focused on Boston this weekend, the Mets faced off with the Braves last night in what not long ago...
SPENCER FEELS SUPER AT SHEA
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amShane Spencer spent the early part of his career in New York, seemingly with an endless wait for a chance to play that never really came. Now, in the beginning...
BIG WIN CAN'T DENT SHEA CHILL
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA CHILLY wind was blowing in again last night at Shea Stadium. There was no buzz, just brrrr. Welcome to another night in America's coldest ballpark. While the Yankees were...
CAMERON HELPS HONOR ROBINSON
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Choosing to be cautious, Mike Cameron was a late scratch last night because of a strained left hamstring. "Hopefully, we nipped something in the bud," Art Howe said....
NOT EVEN BIG WIN CAN CUT SHEA CHILL
April 16, 2004 | 4:00amA CHILLY wind was blowing in again last night at Shea. There was no buzz, just brrrr. Welcome to another night in America's coldest ballpark. While the Yankees were getting...