March 4, 2005
STREET EXEC IS SET FOR DEBUT II
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amNearly three years after leaving J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s executive suite, Geoffrey Boisi, is plotting a Wall Street comeback, The Post has learned. Boisi, the former top Goldman Sachs...
'COURT TV' UNVEILING NEW 'BARELY LEGAL' ADS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe ad shows a woman in a skintight catsuit - a la actress Catherine Zeta-Jones in the caper flick "Entrapment" - crawling through a laser-beam security system. But the most...
DON'T BLAME BERNIE - EBBERS A VICTIM, HIS LAWYER SAYS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amIn a four-hour closing argument, Bernie Ebbers' attorney painted the former WorldCom boss as a victim of an $11 billion fraud engineered by a scheming right-hand man. Defense lawyer Reid...
VOOM & GLOOM - FAMILY FEUD FUELS CABLEVISION BOARD BROUHAHA
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe family drama gripping Cablevision turned even nastier yesterday after the patriarch Chuck Dolan took control of the board of directors and gave himself more time to cut a deal...
PRESIDENT QUITS AT DOLCE & GABBANA
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amGabriella Forte, who became a force in high fashion working for Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein, has resigned from her latest post, as president of Dolce & Gabbana USA, The...
BUYOUT GIANT'S GOAL: NHL FOR $3.5B
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amAn investment group led by buyout giant Bain Capital has made a preliminary bid to buy the troubled National Hockey League for $3.5 billion. Bain and its partner, Boston-based sports...
FEDS FINGER FUND IN FLORIDA SCANDAL
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amFederal regulators have frozen assets of a hedge fund accused of using "brazen lies" to bilk hundreds of wealthy Palm Beach investors out of millions. Among victims were three professional...
GANG OF SIX BUCKING CHUCK
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amCablevision's independent directors lashed out at Chairman Chuck Dolan yesterday, accusing him of using unauthorized funds to continue operating Voom. In a letter that was sent to Dolan yesterday -...
BRINGING OUT THE HEAVY ARTILLERY
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amDOCUMENTARIANS, like reporters, can always coax someone into reciting the lines they're expected to say. The directors of this documentary about our troops in Baghdad tell us more about their...
GO AWAY, SHANE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amIF the once red-hot Vin Diesel's overhyped career wasn't finished off by last summer's megaflop "The Chronicles of Riddick," the alleged family comedy "The Pacifier" ought to do the trick....
ALOHA BLAMES SONG FOR 'IDOL' BOOT
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amALOHA Mischeaux, the talented "American Idol" wannabe dumped by viewers Wednesday night, didn't think the show would be her last. "Definitely," Mischeaux said, explaining that there were other singers that...
BETTER TAKE A HANKY TO 'FRANKIE'
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amFRANKIE Morrison, age 9, is deaf and doesn't speak, but he's far from dumb. He's a budding marine biologist growing up in Glasgow who pins a world map to the...
'JACKET' COULD USE TWIST
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amTHE characters in the tepid sci-fi thriller "The Jacket," starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley, are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of...
FUNNY BUSINESS - TRUMP FIRES SAD CLOWN AUDREY FOR SINKING MINI-GOLF COURSE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amGRUMBLING Trump-wannabe Audrey Evans lost control of her emotions and later lost her job on last night's edition of "The Apprentice." Evans, 22, flopped on the episode's challenge to build,...
'ROTTEN' TO THE FORE - NO BUTZ ABOUT HIT!
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amW.C. Fields had a rule: Never work with children or animals. Were he still alive, he'd probably add Norbert Leo Butz to the list. As he showed once more in...
DON'T BE 'COOL' - TRAVOLTA LOSES HIS 'COOL'
March 4, 2005 | 5:00am'I got suckered into doing the sequel," complains John Travolta's Chili Palmer in the utterly forgettable - and, yes, utterly uncool - "Be Cool," which amounts to little more than...
HEELS TO THE CHIEF; [[GEENA DAVIS TO PLAY FIRST FEMALE PREZ
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amGEENA Davis has nabbed the role of the first female president of the United States in a new ABC drama pilot, "Commander in Chief." The show, in the early stages...
STARR REPORT
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amTriumph of the spirit A bevy of A-listers - and yes, that includes a certain poop-loving, cigar-chomping canine - will gather Monday at The Beacon Theatre to raise funds for...
CLEM IN TIME
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amCLEM Snide isn't a person, it's a group formed in 1991 and named after a character in William Burroughs' "Cities of the Red Night." The name's the same, but just...
MARY'S HOT PICK
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amTenor sax player Ravi Coltrane, the son of Alice and John Coltrane, styles his modernized classic sound after the late Joe Henderson, as well as his famous father. His latest...
HALLE KNOWS HOW TO HEAT UP A SCREEN
March 4, 2005 | 5:00am"Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God" Sunday night at 9 on ABC/Ch. 7 (three stars) What do you get when Oprah Winfrey produces a movie starring Halle Berry...
SICKOS STARVE DOG AND TORTURE KITTEN
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amAnimal-welfare officials are searching for a Brooklyn fiend who threw a kitten in a trash compactor and severed its spine, and another heartless criminal who starved a young dog in...
DON'T GET COCKY - PLENTY OF WORK REMAINS IN MIDEAST
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amFOR three years, this column has shot down the pessimists who warned we were bound to fail in the Middle East. Now those of us who see our confidence vindicated...
DRUG GRAMPS WILL GO FREE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amAn ailing 81-year-old man was resentenced yesterday to time served after spending more than nine years in prison under the harsh Rockefeller drug laws. Saul Sultan, a World War II...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amA man who recently had undergone radiation treatment for a medical condition walked past a fire engine and set off its nuclear-alert detector. The alarm prompted police to close down...
PERV'S ACT FLOPS - PREPPY RAPIST LOSES PAROLE BID - AND HIS COOL
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amSUFFIELD, Conn. - A parole board yesterday denied an early release for Connecticut's "preppy rapist" after his victims gave impassioned speeches to keep him behind bars. Alex Kelly put on...
51% OF APPLE FOR GAY NUPS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amJust over half of New York City residents support legalizing gay marriage, a new poll has found. Fifty-one percent support a law to allow same-sex marriages, according to a Quinnipiac...
DOCUMENTS SHOW RICH IS SLICK LIAR
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - New documents reveal that billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich was involved in major oil trades in the U.N. oil-for-food program, contradicting statements he made to a congressional panel...
'PUNCHY' POL'S ARRESTING NOTION ON INMATE RIGHTS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - Just days after his arrest for allegedly punching a traffic agent in the face, a Brooklyn state senator introduced a bill to protect inmates' voting rights, The Post...
'GATES' WERE GOLDEN - $254M BOOST FOR CITY
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe Big Apple rode a gravy train through "The Gates." The city's economy got an estimated $254 million boost during the exhibit's 16-day run, as 4 million people flooded Central...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * Police yesterday were searching for this man (above) who held up a Boerum Hill bank. The unidentified man walked into the Washington Mutual branch at 9:19 a.m. last...
W'CHESTER BUS STRIKE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amBee Line Bus workers went on strike yesterday, leaving nearly 55,000 Westchester and Bronx commuters scrambling to find other ways to get to work. Some 500 drivers and mechanics walked...
NEW FAKE-COP RAP FOR 'KILLER'
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe cop impersonator accused of gunning down a Long Island bank manager two months ago landed in more hot water yesterday in Queens, where he was charged in a similar...
BROOKLYN WIFE GUILTY IN 'HUBBY LOVER' STAB
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amA jilted Brooklyn wife admitted yesterday that she tried to kill the woman she suspected of having an affair with her husband. Ella Feyer, who posed as a pizza delivery...
VICIOUS SOUTH BX. CRACK RING SMASHED
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe NYPD and FBI yesterday smashed a murderous army of drug pushers who peddled huge quantities of crack cocaine out of a South Bronx housing project - ruthlessly shooting, stabbing...
BOMB ROCKS HOLY SHRINE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Terrorists set off a car bomb near Israeli soldiers guarding a West Bank settlement yesterday, in another threat to the month-old Palestinian-Israeli truce. The explosion took place outside...
HARLEM TAX SHOCK WILL EASE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amHarlem homeowners howling over whopping property-tax hikes can breathe easier - their levies won't rise nearly as much as they'd been told, the city finance commissioner said yesterday. More than...
FEMALE 'PIMPS' KEPT TEEN 'SEX SLAVE'
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amA gang of vicious wannabe women pimps kidnapped a teenage Brooklyn girl and forced her, over the course of more than 10 hours, to submit to rape and sexual abuse,...
DELIVERY KID'S KILLER CONFESSED: WITNESS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens teen on trial for killing a young Chinese-food deliveryman blabbed about the grisly slaying less than eight hours after he allegedly dumped the body in a park pond,...
40G BAIL FOR L.I. BIRDBRAIN
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amCiting the suspect's criminal history, a Long Island judge stunned an alleged serial parrot thief yesterday by setting his bail at a whopping $40,000. Michael Ricciardella, 39, was arrested Wednesday...
2 CITY BIGS BOOTED IN KID-JAIL STAT SCANDAL
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amAn employee at the city Department of Juvenile Justice abruptly resigned and a high-ranking official was demoted after investigators found they gave phony performance figures to the mayor's office, The...
PEDDLERS HAD 4 CORRUPT COPS IN BAG: DA
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amFour Manhattan cops "sold their badges" for tacky counterfeit bags and T-shirts by warning illegal peddlers to hide their merchandise when searches were planned and failing to lock them up,...
BEACH TOT WAS 'BEATEN TO DEATH'
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe mystery toddler whose body washed ashore in Queens may have been beaten to death before his body was stuffed into a duffel bag, weighted down and dumped into the...
MIKE: SPRING FOR STADIUM
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amBeginning work on the West Side stadium by spring isn't just good for the city's chances of landing the Olympics, it would also put to rest a thorny political issue...
APPLE'S PROPERTY-ROLL TAKE LOOKS 'REAL' GOOD
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe city's red-hot real-estate market has tax revenues surging faster than Mayor Bloomberg projected just two months ago, the Independent Budget Office reported yesterday. The IBO said the city would...
COMING FULL CIRCLE - FOSSETT FLIES 'ROUND WORLD
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amNeither a mystery fuel loss, nor turbulence, nor lack of sleep, nor ear-splitting noise could stop Steve Fossett from soaring into the record books yesterday. The millionaire adventurer became the...
JUDGE: B'KLYN DEM BIG MUST FACE EXTORT TRIAL
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe judge overseeing the case against embattled Brooklyn Democratic boss Clarence Norman decided yesterday the party leader will have to face trial on charges of coercion, conspiracy and extortion. Justice...
TRAGIC $5M BLUNDER - STATE MUST PAY FOR SPRINGING KILLER CON
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amNew York state must pay $5.5 million in damages to the victims of a career thug who went on a deadly rape spree in Long Island shortly after he was...
ROOM WITH A VIEW OF DEPRAVITY
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Step with me inside Michael Jackson's bachelor pad - a glorious universe populated by naked cherubs and SpongeBob SquarePants, by Spider-Man and Star Wars and Elizabeth...
BANK MOGUL SLAIN - SHOT AT HOME IN SWISS MYSTERY
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe rarefied world of investment banking was stunned yesterday by the mysterious murder of Swiss banker Edouard Stern, scion of one of Europe's richest families. The bullet-riddled body of the...
JACKO KIDDIE BOOZE BASH - TEEN TELLS OF SECRET LAIR
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe sister of Michael Jackson's accuser testified yesterday that the pop star led her two brothers down a flight of hidden stairs at Neverland ranch to a private wine cellar...
RIVAL RAPS KIM CAMP - TELLS OF POSSES' HOT 97 FACE-OFF
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amRapper Capone told Lil' Kim's perjury trial yesterday that moments before a hail of gunfire erupted, a man approached him in front of Hot 97 radio and asked him, "Do...
SUNY $OAR POINT - SLAP AT 'STINGY' STATE AID
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amNew York state is severely shortchanging its public colleges and universities in aid compared to other states, a new study charges. According to researchers with the New York Public Interest...
BOXLEY'S BIZARRE BID FOR 'PERV PAY' KO'D
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - A judge has rejected former Assembly Chief Counsel Michael Boxley's demand that the state pay for his legal defense against civil charges he raped a young legislative aide....
GIANT 'LOBZILLA' DEAD AT 100
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amBubba, the 22-pound lobster who became a national celebrity, has died at the Pittsburgh Zoo. He was 100. "People used him as a publicity stunt, and it caused his death,"...
'SPRING'TIME FOR MARTHA - FELONIOUS DIVA HEADS HOME FROM JAIL TODAY
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amMartha Stewart is set to be a free woman today. The domestic diva yesterday prepared to leave the West Virginia lockup that she called home the past five months in...
DUBYA WANTS SYRIA TO GET OUT BY MAY
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that Syria must pull all of its troops out of Lebanon by May so that the now-occupied nation can have free elections. "I don't...
GANG OF FEMALE 'PIMPS' KEPT TEENAGE 'SEX SLAVE'
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amA gang of vicious wannabe women pimps kidnapped a teenage Brooklyn girl and forced her, over the course of more than 10 hours, to submit to rape and sexual abuse,...
TAKING 'SHOTS' AT KIM - FOE TELLS JURY OF HOT 97 FACE-OFF
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amRapper Capone told Lil' Kim's perjury trial yesterday that moments before a hail of gunfire erupted, a man approached him in front of the Hot 97 radio station and asked...
BUSH TO SYRIA: SCRAM - IT'S 'NON-NEGOTIABLE': GET OUT OF LEBANON
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush told the New York Post yesterday that Syria must pull all of its troops out of Lebanon by May so that the now-occupied nation can have...
THE CITY AND STATE HAVE SIGNED A DEAL WITH THE OWNER OF THE NEW JERSEY NETS ...
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe city and state have signed a deal with the owner of the New Jersey Nets to turn a Brooklyn rail yard into a glitzy new arena - but the...
EX-CON GRILLED IN COPT SLAYS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amA former upstairs neighbor reportedly was being questioned last night in the savage stabbing deaths of a Jersey City family of four. Detectives picked up the man yesterday after reviewing...
'FITTY' PAL BLADE BUST
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amEmbattled hip-hop superstar 50 Cent dodged violence-prone rivals yesterday - as a member of his posse was busted with a knife outside CBS's studios on Manhattan's wild West Side. The...
PROUD PREZ: 'CONDI RICE IS A REMARKABLE WOMAN'
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday sidestepped a question about whether superstar Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would make a good president - but praised her to the skies as "a...
HEARTY SALUTE TO SISKIND
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amColleagues, friends and relatives of retiring News Corp. group general counsel Arthur Siskind gathered at the Four Seasons restaurant in Midtown last night to pay tribute to him. "Arthur has...
MARTHA 'SPRING'TIME - HOME FROM PRISON IN STYLE & LUXURY
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amMartha Stewart is a free woman today. The leaner, buffer domestic diva, left the West Virginia lockup that she called home for the past five months in a two-vehicle motorcade...
LILIUOKALANI - HAWAII'S LAST QUEEN
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amQueen Liliuokalani was used to rubbing elbows with royalty, but she never lost touch with the people of her island paradise. THE young musician, Liliuokalani, who would become Hawaii's last...
GIANT 'LOBZILLA' IS DEAD
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amBubba (above), the 22-pound lobster who became a national celebrity, has died at the Pittsburgh Zoo. He was 100. "People used him as a publicity stunt, and it caused his...
RECORDS EXPOSE RICH AS SLICK LIAR
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - New documents reveal that billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich was involved in major oil trades in the U.N. oil-for-food program, contradicting statements he made to a congressional panel...
'ROCKY' TIME OVER FOR COKE GRAMPS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amAn ailing 81-year-old man was resentenced yesterday to time served after spending more than nine years in prison under the harsh Rockefeller drug laws. Saul Sultan, a World War II...
'P' IN PGA NOW MEANS 'PAYOFF' - APPEARANCE FEESTURN DORAL INTO MONEY GRAB
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amONE thing we could always admire about the U.S. PGA Tour is that, no matter how much money was out there, stealing was prohibited. Unlike pro golf throughout the rest...
VIEW TO A CHILL ; FLYBY, FANFARE SET STAGE FOR DAMP DRAW
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amYankees 2Pirates 2 TAMPA - It was the type of pageantry - and lineup - most major-league teams can't muster for a real Opening Day. Even with Randy Johnson, Gary...
TRYING TO IGNORE THE 'S' WORD
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - His face was a mask, betraying nothing. Jason Giambi was getting warm in the Yankees clubhouse yesterday afternoon, leaving the raw, soggy afternoon for a few minutes for...
GRENADINES SIMPLY DO NOT DISAPPOINT
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amBEQUIA, B.W.I. - Paradise found. Actually, the Grenadines were discovered way before this fun loving group landed here. We spent the week sailing from island to island diving, snorkeling, eating...
TROUBLED ELLIOTT RETURNS TO BIG A
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amJockey Stewart Elliott of Smarty Jones fame was out of jail and back riding at Aqueduct yesterday, but he's not out of the woods yet regarding his recent difficulties with...
IN SWEET ZONE- STARTING ROLE SUITS MIKE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amORLANDO - During a Knick scrimmage yesterday at the Magic's practice facility, Michael Sweetney barreled in for a breakaway layup when a new signee, 19-year-old Jackie Butler, pushed him from...
CASHMAN WAS BLIND TO 'ROID USE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Brian Cashman said yesterday he never felt compelled to confront Jason Giambi - or any other Yankee - about steroid use because he didn't have the evidence to...
LUZZI RIDES FOUR WINNERS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amAfleet Alex, one of last season's top 2-year-olds and prominent contender for this year's Kentucky Derby, will make first start of his Triple Crown campaign in tomorrow's six-furlong, $50,000 Mountain...
EUROPE ON MARTY'S MIND
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amWhile the NHL squawks that impending time-frame pressures from its own lockout are somehow the players' problems, the men who are The Game have some deadlines of their own that...
ROUGH ROAD AHEAD - NETS KNOW IT WON'T BE EASY MAKING IT BACK TO PLAYOFFS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amWith every game now carrying significant playoff implications, the Nets insist they can't look ahead. "I have just looked at Miami and, this week, as far as Orlando," said team...
LACY WANTS SHOT
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amJERMAIN Taylor isn't the only 2000 Olympian who wants a piece of Bernard Hopkins. Jeff Lacy, the current IBF super middleweight champ, would love nothing better than to challenge the...
CAPITOL OFFENSE ; ALL-STARS CALLED TO D.C. TO TESTIFY ON STEROIDS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amCongress has scheduled two separate hearings on steroids and the parade of witnesses could be an All-Star lineup. The House Government Reform Committee and the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade...
THE MARK OF 'ZO-RRO - NETS BETTER OFF WITHOUT HIM
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amIF Nets fans could get past their anger and be more appreciative, they would have given Alonzo Mourning a standing ovation last night when he returned to New Jersey as...
MANAGEMENT MATERIAL ; RANDOLPH HAS LOOK OF MAJOR-LEAGUE SKIPPER
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - All Willie Randolph could have at this time is the look. And he does. It might not sound like much - to look like a manager....
HUMBER-DINGER ; ROOKIE RIGHTY HOOKING METS WITH HIS STUFF
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Two things were impressive about the curveball that Philip Humber threw to Miguel Cairo during Tuesday's intrasquad game. The first was the pitch itself. Humber, the...
NUMBNESS IN HAND SIDELINES HEREDIA
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - During Wednesday's spring training opener, Willie Randolph noticed Felix Heredia blowing on his hand. "Why is he blowing on his hand?" Randolph remembered thinking....
MOURNING RIPS THORN IN RETURN ; MOURNING RETURNS TO RIP THORN
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES In yet another swell moment for the NBA this season, Alonzo Mourning last night claimed that he was so discouraged by the moves the Nets made that when...
NOT THE KING ; WEBBER A PHILLY FLOP SO FAR
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amYOU can lead a compulsive scoring point guard to a recognized reservoir of talent but you can't make him feed it or feed off it. As much as the two...
JINTS TELL IKE TO TAKE A HIKE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amOn the same day the Giants welcomed in a new linebacker, Antonio Pierce, as he begins his career in blue the team parted ways with Ike Hilliard, a tough-as- nails...
NIAGARA IN DRIVER'S SEAT AS MAAC ACTION TIPS OFF
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amBUFFALO - Manhattan's won the last two MAAC Tournaments, while Iona has earned a league-record six crowns, but even in this wildly-unpredictable league, the Jaspers and Gaels will be longshots...
BLAYLOCK THRILLED TO BE JETS' NO. 2
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amFor those Jets fans fretting and bemoaning the loss of LaMont Jordan to the Raiders, let Jordan's replacement, Derrick Blaylock, tell you what's in store. "They'll see. Once they see...
PENNY APOLOGIZES FOR ALTERCATION
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES ORLANDO - The Knicks put a positive spin on the ferocious shouting match between Penny Hardaway and Tim Thomas that occurred on the bench during a fourth-quarter timeout...
CASHMAN WAS BLIND TO 'ROIDS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Brian Cashman said yesterday he never felt compelled to confront Jason Giambi - or any other Yankee - about steroid use because he didn't have the evidence to...
NOT THE KING; WEBBER A PHILLY FLOP SO FAR
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amYOU can lead a compulsive scoring point guard to a recognized reservoir of talent but you can't make him feed it or feed off of it. As much as the...
CHUMP SHOOTING ; HEAT MAUL MISFIRING NETS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amHeat 106Nets 90 The Nets found the perfect formula for disaster last night. They took jump shots, lots of jump shots. They blended in a non-existent inside game. They added...
STEVENS STEPS UP FOR RICE
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amOVERTIME: Stevens 74 - H. Cross 66 Amostapha Stevens didn't get too discouraged as his senior year progressed and he didn't have much of an impact during Rice's impressive campaign....
THE MARK OF 'ZO-RRO - GOOD RIDDANCE: NETS BETTER OFF
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amIF Nets fans could have gotten past their feelings of abandonment they should have given Alonzo Mourning a standing ovation last night when he returned to the Meadowlands as a...
JETER FOLLOWS ORDER
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The bookends of Joe Torre's lineup are set for Opening Day. It's the rest of the batting order that needs figuring out. Derek Jeter batted first...
PUT UP YOUR DUKES! - BLUE DEVIL-TAR HEEL RIVALRY IS RAGIN' AGAIN
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amCBS' Billy Packer likes to tell you he doesn't socialize with coaches. No dinners. No business deals. Nothing. He does everything but scream, "I'm no Dick Vitale!" Packer says this...
5 QUESTIONS FOR RICK MAJERUS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThis week, with March Madness drawing near, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN's Rick Majerus. Majerus, 56, is in his first full year as a college-hoop analyst. Q:...
BLAYLOCK JOINING JETS AND CURTIS
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amFor those Jets fans fretting or bemoaning the loss of LaMont Jordan to the Raiders, let Jordan's replacement, Derrick Blaylock, tell you what's in store this coming season. "They'll see....
NOW BATTING FOR YES... LORENZ TAPPED FOR YANK STUDIO GIG
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amThe YES Network has decided on Bob Lorenz as its new Yankee pre- and postgame host. "I am honored," Lorenz, 41, said. Lorenz replaces Fred Hickman, who left YES for...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amTo: Bruce Ratner, Nets owner From: Andrew Marchand Re: Nets TV analyst CC: John Filippelli, YES president Dear Bruce, You have made it fairly clear that Kelly Tripucka won't return...
MOURNING RIPS THORN IN RETURN
March 4, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES In yet another swell moment for the NBA this season, Alonzo Mourning last night claimed that he was so discouraged by the moves the Nets made that when...