February 26, 2003
NEW JIMMY CHOO STORE PUMPS UP MADISON AVE.
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amINTERNATIONAL shoemeister Jimmy Choo has inked a deal to create a U.S. flagship store on Madison Avenue. Choo, whose glam footwear has been worn to the Oscars by the likes...
CNNFN TO OFFER LESS LIVE COVERAGE, CUT JOBS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amCNNfn is expected to announce several new programming changes and job cuts, The Post has learned. The changes, which will result in less live coverage and more taped feed, will...
FRAUD CHARGES FOR EX-QWESTERS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amFour former executives at telecom giant Qwest were indicted yesterday on fraud charges, fueling speculation that charges could eventually be brought against senior management. The four defendants named in the...
COMMISSION PAYMENTS FOR SALES FORCE GET DELAYED
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amBeleaguered telecom giant Qwest has delayed paying what could amount to millions of dollars in commission payments to its sales force, The Post has learned. This could suggest the company's...
PEARLMAN PROBED: HIS TALENT AGENCY FAILED TO DELIVER, HIRED CONS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe end of the boy-band craze may be the least of Lou Pearlman's worries. Pearlman, the music impresario known for discovering the pop bands N*SYNC and Backstreet Boys, is in...
WORLD WRESTLING TO CLOSE TIMES SQUARE EATERY
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amWorld Wrestling Entertainment said yesterday it is shuttering its Times Square restaurant. At the same time, the company reported that earnings in the third quarter plummeted, as revenue from both...
LAUDER TO SERVE UP NEW AGASSI SCENT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe tennis world's richest player, Andre Agassi, has landed a multimillion-dollar endorsement deal to launch a new fragrance for Estee Lauder. Estee Lauder - which will market the Agassi fragrance...
JONES-ING FOR THE GQ GIG : OTHER CONTENDERS: ZINCZENKO, HIRSCHORN AND ANDERSEN
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amMEN'S Health's David Zinczenko seems to have taken himself out of the derby for Art Cooper's job at GQ yesterday. But that has not stopped the handicappers from keeping his...
DEUTSCHE HEAD CHARGED IN $60M PAYOFF IN MERGER DEAL
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amGermany is wrestling with its worst business scandal in generations over allegations that Deutsche Bank brass lined pockets of pals to swing a merger deal. The giant bank's head, Josef...
STARR REPORT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amNBC-ya on the radio next month Post radio scribe John Mainelli reports that NBC News is linking up with Viacom/CBS' Westwood One to distribute hourly newscasts, sports, features and entertainment...
LOW BUDGET, HIGH CONTENT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amBOLIVIA 1/2 Trouble at a greasy spoon.In Spanish, with English subtitles. Running time: 75 minutes. Not rated (sex and violence). At the Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue,...
ABOUT PAYNE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amALEXANDER Payne, whose "About Schmidt" is up for two Oscars, is receiving a four-flick retrospective tomorrow through Saturday, courtesy of MoMA Film. Unreeling in addition to "Schmidt" are "Citizen Ruth"...
DESSERT STORM; OVALTINE & RICE KRISPIES? PLEASE - LET US EAT CAKE!
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amIN the midst of enjoying Jean-Georges Vongerichten's adventure in French- Chinese- Chinatown fusion at new 66 the other night, four of us wondered which corner of the globe to blame...
BARGAIN BITES; BEST CHEFS CATERING TO A BAD ECONOMY
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amDO you have more dining panache than cash? Take heart: Gotham is becoming a kinder and gentler culinary landscape for fund-strapped foodies. Famished bohos have long reveled in the countless...
TUSCAN CHEF HAS GOOD-COOKIN' MOM
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amCHEF Rocco DiSpirito's secret is out: it's his mother, Nicolina, who does the real cooking! At last night's opening of Tuscan - formerly Tuscan Steak - guests, including Martha Stewart,...
SONGSMITH NOT CARRIED 'AWAY'
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amJESSE HARRIS HE sports a smile that's too big for his face, but the grin fits Jesse Harris, who just took home the Song of the Year Grammy for "Don't...
KELLY THREE-PEATS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amKELLY Ripa has given birth to her third child, a boy named Joaquin. The baby (no middle name yet) arrived at 9:31 a.m. Monday via planned C- section - right...
MIDDLE EAST 78TH ST.
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amPYRAMIDA 1/2 401 E. 78TH ST. (BETWEEN FIRST & YORK AVENUES) (212) 472-5855 Bit of the Middle East on East 78th Street ACROSS the street at Sushi of Gari, fish...
SO NOT THE GREEK MOVIE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00am"My Big Fat Greek Life" Sunday night at 8 on WCBS/Ch. 2 Rates: ½ a piece of feta TWENTY-three million people tuned in Monday night to see "My Big Fat...
ALT-COUNTRY GALS (AS IN AUSTRALIA & CANADA)
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amFOR an antidote to the Grammys' pop overload, rootsy female singer/ songwriters Kasey Chambers and Kathleen Edwards are here this week. The two sing as if they were raised in...
VIRTUAL LEGALITY ; MUSICIANS, PRODUCERS MILES APART
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amBROADWAY played variations on "The Pajama Game" yesterday, as theater producers and union musicians sniped at each other during dueling press conferences. The producers branded the musicians liars for accusing...
FOUR-STARS & STRIPES FOR FIGHTING HEROES
February 26, 2003 | 5:00am"Profiles from the Front Line" Tonight at 8 on ABC/Ch. 7 WHY do we fight? Because we were attacked - it's as simple as that, say the soldiers seen in...
GOING ONCE; GOING TWICE; GONE-AHUE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amPHIL Donahue's try at a comeback died yesterday when MSNBC canceled his talk show after seven low-rated months. Insiders say Donahue was told shortly before a staff meeting that the...
WITCHES' BROUHAHA: KIDMAN AND CRUISE MAY SOON CAST COMPETING SPELLS AT THE BOX OFFICE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amNICOLE Kidman, who triumphed over Tom Cruise in the p.r. battle during their divorce, may next use her hex appeal against her ex at the box office - the former...
BLIZZARD COST BRIDGES $3.6M
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe MTA's seven bridges and two tunnels lost $3.6 million last week because of the blizzard that pelted the city, officials said yesterday. "It's a big piece of change to...
RATINGS COULD NEVER COOK SOMEONE'S GOOSE IN THE U.S.
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe suicide of superchef Bernard Loiseau, who was distraught over losing a few points in the GaultMillau guide, makes you want to tell the fossilized French food establishment: get a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amA San Francisco man convicted of swiping people's mail will have to wear a what amounts to a "scarlet letter," telling the world he's a thief, a court ruled yesterday....
FEDS: FEMA WORKER STOLE 11G
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amA FEMA worker from Georgia used the Sept. 11 attacks to claim more than $11,000 worth of fraudulent travel vouchers, the feds charge. While her bosses thought she was in...
I WAS HOMELESS - BUT I DIDN'T 'COUNT'
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amTHE city didn't look in the nooks and crannies. It didn't search in the rat-infested, garbage-strewn, closed-off, "do not trespass" underbelly of the city. The city conducted a "scientific" head...
ABUSIVE DAD SENT TO THE DOGHOUSE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amA cruel dad who made his kid sleep in a doghouse is getting his just deserts - he now has to spend 30 nights in the same doghouse himself. Curtis...
COUNCIL RACE TOO CLOSE TO CALL
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amA City Council candidate who angered Mayor Bloomberg was deadlocked with the candidate Hizzoner endorsed in a special election last night. Vincent Gentile earned the mayor's ire by using a...
MTA BIGS MISS BUS TO HEARINGS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amWhen straphangers speak, not all the MTA board members are there to listen. Three members of the 23-member body that will vote next week on whether to raise bus and...
LETHAL LESSONS ; SMART SLAVES FACED DANGER
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amSlavery meant something more than the cruelty of wanton whippings, wrenching families apart and the other horrors of mass exploitation based solely on skin color. Slavery also meant a policy...
BLAIR & THE PERILS OF 'PEACE'
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amFOR giving the world an example of what JFK would have called a profile in courage, British Prime Minister Tony Blair could end up losing his job. Any other political...
EARTHQUAKE; TOPPLING SADDAM TO TACKLE TERROR
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThese are tectonic times. 9/11 was an earthquake; Afghanistan, an aftershock. The geopolitical plates shift, and presently comes another temblor: The dispossession of Saddam Hussein at the hands of the...
'BIG FAT GREEK' TV RATINGS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amBreak out the Windex - "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" has spawned a big fat TV hit! "My Big Fat Greek Life," a new sitcom adapted from the Oscar-nominated blockbuster...
ANGUISH OF 140G MUGGING VICTIM
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amAn elderly man robbed of $140,000 on a Midtown street said New Yorkers passed him by as he was victimized, and now fears for his life. Oh Sik Kwon, who...
ZETA, BE COOL TO OUR $CHOOL
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amCatherine Zeta-Jones' catty boast that $1.5 million is peanuts to her is being put to the test - a group of schoolgirls has asked her to donate to their charity...
RECIPE FOR DISASTER: CRITICS DRIVE FRENCH CHEF TO SUICIDE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amOne of the great chefs of Europe has killed himself after his three-star eatery - known for its frog's legs in parsley and artichoke ragout - was downgraded by a...
SENATOR: BUSH WOULD ASSASSINATE SADDAM
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush is ready to revoke the presidential order barring assassinations and quickly order a hit on Saddam Hussein if there's "a clear shot" to get him, a...
GRAND JURY FOR CARDINAL LAW
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amBernard Cardinal Law, who resigned in disgrace as Boston's top Catholic leader, yesterday testified before a grand jury that is weighing criminal charges against him and other church officials for...
NURSE: BLAKE TOO CALM
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE LOS ANGELES - A nurse who rushed to the aid of Robert Blake's dying wife said the actor was evasive and oddly nonchalant as his spouse slowly died from...
COPS PROBE CURIOUS RAP SHOOTING
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe brother of bad-boy rap mogul Irv Gotti was shot in the leg outside his Midtown record company headquarters in what cops believe may have been a self-inflicted mishap. Christopher...
STREET CENSUS EXPECTED IN WEEKS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amCity officials said yesterday it will take a few weeks to tally the results from the city's first homeless head count. "We want to get it right, rather than get...
CITY COUNCIL TO CONDEMN A U.S. ATTACK ON IRAQ
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe City Council last night was putting the brakes on a contentious vote set for today to condemn a U.S. attack on Iraq, sources told The Post. "It doesn't look...
UNDERCOVER SEX ED: BOY'S TALE OF GROUP SLEEPOVERS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe married New Jersey teacher accused of having a 15-month affair with one of her students shared her bed with the teen during group sleepovers at her home, according to...
KLEIN'S ALARM ON CLASSROOM CUTS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Schools Chancellor Joel Klein strongly warned yesterday that Gov. Pataki's proposed reductions to school aid would force deep cuts to important classroom programs while increasing class size. "The...
IRAQ: OOPS! WE HAVE A BIO BOMB
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Iraq yesterday claimed it suddenly found a biogerm bomb. U.N. weapons inspectors hailed that as "cooperation," but President Bush said Saddam Hussein is just trying "to fool the...
CITY DRIVERS NOT FILLING UP
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amNew Yorkers are finding a way to deal with the pain of paying $2 a gallon for regular gas by filling their tanks with less of it. "[People] are just...
12-YEAR-OLD ADMITS 'RAPE' ALL A LIE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens junior-high-school teacher, jailed this week for allegedly raping a 12-year-old special-ed student, was freed yesterday after his young accuser admitted she lied, authorities said. Prosecutors dismissed all charges,...
FREE-RIDE 'BRIBE' FIRM HAS DEAL FOR 250G FINE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - A bribery-tainted prison company has agreed to pay a record $250,000 fine and not lobby in New York for seven years, under a tentative settlement with the state...
NO-SHOW WORKERS TO SHOW UP IN CUFFS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE As many as 40 mobsters and members of a union being probed for taking no-show jobs in the Ground Zero cleanup will be busted today for similar schemes at...
PROSECUTOR WRAPS UP GOTTI CASE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amReputed mob boss Peter Gotti called the shots in the Gambino family and raked in cash through a greedy crew of reputed wiseguys who schemed to shake down everyone from...
AX HONED FOR 3,300 TEACHERS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's office estimates that 3,300 uncertified teachers will get the boot this fall for failing to meet the state's deadline to obtain their classroom license, The...
'DWI' COP MISTRIAL: RAGE OVER LONE-JUROR HOLDOUT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island jury - hopelessly deadlocked by one woman who refused to convict - has triggered a mistrial in the case of a city police sergeant charged with killing...
THE TRUTH BEHIND CBS CHAT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amCBS News was forced to use Saddam Hussein's own personal camera crew to film Dan Rather's exclusive interview with the Iraqi dictator. The Iraqi crew used three different cameras Monday...
MIKE TO UNIONS: SLASH $600 MILLION - OR I WILL
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday warned city agency heads he may need to slash their budgets by up to 9.5 percent if unions don't cough up $600 million in savings. Uniformed agencies...
1993 VICTIMS RELIVING OWN WTC ANGUISH
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amTen years ago today, Linda Nash's "life as she knew it" ended with the explosion of a terrorist bomb under the World Trade Center. She now suffers from brain damage...
RIKERS GUARD IN DEADBEAT DECEPTION: DA
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amA Rikers security guard was sick of paying child support to his kids' three mothers - so he forged court orders to stop the payments, prosecutors charged yesterday. Todd Jefferson,...
ANTI-FLAG HOOPSTER BREAKS SILENCE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe home crowd cheered and flag-waving war vets jeered as the Manhattanville College women's hoops star who turns away from the American flag during the national anthem took to the...
AMERICA'S CUP POISON THREAT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amA cyanide-laced letter that threatens a terror attack at the America's Cup yachting regatta has been intercepted in New Zealand, it was reported today. Enough cyanide was in the letter...
BIG YAO'S TALL ORDER FOR SNACK
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amEverything about Yao Ming is big - especially his appetite. The 7-foot-5 Houston Rockets center yesterday had room service at the Dumont Plaza Hotel bring him a pre-game snack consisting...
VIDEO SHOWS SHUTTLE CREW'S FINAL MINUTES
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amAn eerie piece of heat-damaged videotape capturing some of the final moments of the Columbia's doomed astronauts has been recovered, NASA revealed yesterday. The digital tape, believed to have been...
GRAND JURY TACKLING R.I. CLUB BLAZE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe grand jury probing the nightclub inferno that killed 97 people in Rhode Island is convening today. Among those expected to testify are members of the band Great White, whose...
ALL EYES ON DAVE'S EYES
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amTalk about an eye sore Late Show" host David Letterman last night looked like a boxer who went 12 rounds with Mike Tyson - both his eyes were so puffy...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amManhattan Police yesterday released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with a token-booth robbery at an East Side subway station on Feb. 14. Brandishing a silver revolver, the...
COPS: SHOOTING OF RAP BIG'S BRO FISHY
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe brother of bad-boy rap mogul Irv Gotti was shot in the leg outside his Midtown record company headquarters in what cops believe may have been a self-inflicted mishap. In...
GRAND JURY HEARS LAW
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amBernard Cardinal Law, who resigned in disgrace as Boston's top Catholic leader, yesterday testified before a grand jury that is weighing criminal charges against him and other church officials for...
SIGNS OF SHUTTLE WING PUNCTURE FOUND
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amProbers have found evidence that the top of the shuttle Columbia's left wing was punctured, creating a hole that allowed super-hot gases to destroy the spacecraft on re-entry. Previous theories...
N. KOREA-U.S. WAR OF WORDS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amNorth Korea charged yesterday the United States was using a spy plane to prepare a sneak attack on it - while the Bush administration said Pyongyang's new missile test was...
MT. ARTEST ERUPTS AGAIN
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amHow can we help the Nets? Ron Artest must have been wondering that last night. After scoring just eight points on 3-for-17 shooting in the Pacers' 83-78 loss to Washington,...
NOT A GOOD START ; BACSIK, MIDDLEBROOK STRUGGLE IN FIRST TEST
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - As Mike Piazza began working on his home run trot for Opening Day, Michael Bacsik gave an inquisitive shrug. Piazza reached out and crushed a low-and-away...
WE'LL KNOW IN APRIL IF METS ARE FOOLS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - I really came here intending to try. I really came to this Mets camp wanting to believe all the - well, is it propaganda or promotion?...
GIAMBI'S PLAYING ANSWER MAN FOR GODZILLA
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - If Hideki Matsui has questions, Jason Giambi has answers. "I told him there are no dumb questions," said Giambi, who went to dinner with Matsui at...
NOT A SOR SUBJECT ; YANKS WON'T OFFER ALFONSO LONG DEAL
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - Even though Alfonso Soriano is interested in a four- or five-year deal, the topic never surfaced yesterday in a discussion between his agent and the Yankees at Legends...
LUKE WANTS TO STAY A GIANT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe more you listen to Luke Petitgout, the more you realize he has a firm handle on what he could be thrust into on Friday, when the NFL's free-agency signing...
DUKE SPELLS DISASTER FOR DIMINISHED STORM
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe St. John's-Duke series was minted as one of the great out-of-conference matchups in recent years. But the Blue Devils' domination of the teams' last two meetings has raised questions...
SPREE HAD DREAM OF LA LA LANDING
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amLatrell Sprewell has said his hometown Milwaukee was one landing spot he wouldn't have minded had the Knicks pulled the trigger at last Thursday's trading deadline. For the first time,...
RED STORM RUNNING OUT OF EXCUSES
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amThe St. John's slide has been so sudden, so swift, it's almost incomprehensible. One month ago the Red Storm rallied from a 16-point deficit in the final 7:23 to pull...
JASON'S PINSTRIPES FINALLY A RELAXED FIT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - One year ago he was Hideki Matsui, Godzilla minus the interpreter. One year ago his every move was put under the microscope and he was the center of...
HOW TO HIT 'SANTA' JACKPOT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amIn New York, the Pick 6 carryover hits the 100G mark once in a blue moon. In southern California, it seems they have a hundred-grand pool at least once a...
METS SELLING NAME MET NOTES
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets are in serious discussions to sell naming rights to their spring training complex for as much as $4.5 million, The Post has learned. Dave...
NOSTALGIA NIGHT ; YAO'S BACK WHERE HE SAW FIRST GAME
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amIn his first time at fabled Madison Square Garden, Yao Ming admitted to getting a little nostalgic. "I feel like I'm back at the time I first saw an NBA...
BIG MAN STILL BIG DRAW AT GARDEN
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amALL these years later, Madison Square Garden understands the pulse of the game as well as it can be understood. All these years later, the buzz that electrified the surrounding...
SHARKS SWIM UNCHARTED WATERS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFSSheepshead 48Bergtraum 46 PSAL PLAYOFFSBoys & Girls 56Transit 51 Danny Pearson knew what most teams thought when they got ready to play Sheepshead Bay. "They saw us on their...
SO WHAT'S THE POINT? RANGERS GET ONE, NOT TWO
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 3Devils 3 They squandered one rousing comeback and required a second to earn one point when two were utterly imperative. But even in this nutshell of this setting Ranger...
IN THE END, MING COMES UP SMALL
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amKnicks 102Rockets 95 He was brilliant - until the final two minutes. That's when Yao Ming got into trouble. Playing the Garden stage for the first time, Houston's 7-foot-6 rookie...
SKIDDING NETS SMELL UP COURT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amCavaliers 93Nets 90 CLEVELAND - The only thing missing was former coach Don Casey on the sidelines. This one stunk, pure and simple. The Nets unleashed a performance as bad...
KOVALEV DOMINATING IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amWHEN the Rangers reacquired Alex Kovalev just over two weeks ago, pretty much the first thing everyone wanted to talk about was the goal he scored in Game 6 of...
ISLANDERS COME UP EMPTY
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amLeafs 5Isles 2 TORONTO - On Michael Peca's first step on the ice during yesterday's morning skate here, where he sustained a severe knee injury on Darcy Tucker's infamous low...
SCOTT EXPECTS SHOOTING SPREE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES CLEVELAND - You've got to figure the Knicks will generally be ready tonight, but in particular, Latrell Sprewell could be soaring for tonight's game against the Nets in...
KNICKS COME UP BIG: SPREWELL'S STEAL CUTS DOWN YAO
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amKnicks 102 Rockets 95 Yao Ming proved last night he will be an All-Star for many years to come. But he still can't beat the Knicks. Yao established himself early...
GARDEN PROVES THAT SIZE DOES MATTER
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amACROSS the frantic final moments, instinct took over, so most of the 19,763 inside Madison Square Garden delighted in the Knicks' 11th-hour push, exploding with glee when Latrell Sprewell hit...
JERSEY PALS ACHE FOR TRAGIC TODD
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES CLEVELAND - While Nets who played with or coached Todd MacCulloch expressed sympathies that the Sixer center has been diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder that likely will...
TUNNEL TUSSLE HAS NETS AMPED
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amCLEVELAND -Those guys from across the river are invading New Jersey again in their usual blood-thirsty fashion. Surely, the fate of humanity hinges upon this Knick-Net game in the Meadowlands...
PECA TAKES RETURN LIGHTLY
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - The last time Michael Peca was on the ice here at Air Canada Centre, he had to be helped off it after Darcy Tucker ripped up his knee...
BARRETT TO THE RESCUE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amSeton Hall 62 Rutgers 52 PISCATAWAY - Coming into last night's game at Rutgers, Seton Hall knew there was far more at stake than just an in-state rivalry. And with...
SPREE MAY GO 1-ON-1 WITH SCOTT
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES It's Nets vs. Knicks tonight or, rather, Latrell Sprewell vs. Byron Scott. Sprewell said Scott's derogatory remarks last week came off as "immature." "He doesn't know me," Sprewell...
HALL SETS SIGHTS ON BIG DANCE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amPISCATAWAY - There is never a shortage of venom when Seton Hall faces Rutgers, but the Jersey foes played last night at the RAC with more than just in-state rivalry...
SCOTT TRIED TO PULL OFF GRIFFIN DEAL
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES As Knicks GM Scott Layden combed the NBA rosters for a young big man, he gave a call before the trading deadline to the Rockets. No, not for...
RETURN OF AILING OLEG KEY TO DEVILS' DEALS
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amIn more ways than one, Devils defenseman Oleg Tverdovsky feels like a victim. He also knows that by hurrying back from the post-concussion syndrome the Devils refuse to accept, he...
KOVALEV LOOKS BACK TO FUTURE
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amWHEN the Rangers reacquired Alex Kovalev just over two weeks ago, one of the first things everyone wanted to talk about was the goal he scored in Game 6 of...
REED: KNICKS NEED CENTER LIKE EWING
February 26, 2003 | 5:00amWillis Reed has diagnosed the Knicks' problem. Finding the cure is the tough part. "If [the Knicks] had a great center, they'd be a playoff team," Reed said. "But if...