December 10, 2003
HOLLINGER IS SUED BY FIRED V.P.
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA former Hollinger official who was fired last month after the board of directors found that executives took some $32 million in illicit payments is suing the company, saying he...
DILLER AIR WAR HITS TURBULENCE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amBarry Diller's foray into online travel is hitting some turbulence. Internet booking site Expedia, one of the cornerstones of Diller's InterActiveCorp, is playing a high-stakes game of chicken with airlines...
HALF-NELSON PLAY ; PELTZ IN TALKS TO JOIN MORT FOR A HOLLINGER DEAL
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amNelson Peltz, the billionaire investor whose Triarc Holdings owns the Arby's Restaurant chain, is talking with Mort Zuckerman about a joint bid for Conrad Black's controlling stake in Hollinger International,...
WHO'S THE DUMMY NOW? PARIS SET TO RAKE IN $10M
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amParis Hilton is in line to inherit $28 million - but she won't even need it. The Hilton heiress, widely perceived as a spoiled floozy who never worked a day...
NYSE BIGS IN AIG PRICE PROBE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amNow NYSE regulatory chief Edward Kwalwasser is in the SEC's sights. The SEC is looking at the e-mail accounts of Kwalwasser and other top-level officials in the NYSE's market surveillance...
NASD SUSPENDS ANALYST FOR B OF A
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe National Association of Securities Dealers slammed a former Banc of America Securities telecommunications analyst for recommending stocks to the public while telling others to bet on their demise. Analyst...
DOW FED UP; FALLS 41
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amWall Street celebrated hitting the 10,000-mark in blue-chip stocks yesterday by dumping them. The Dow Jones industrial average moved into 10,000 territory in morning trading but after reaching 10,003.12, it...
RIAA HIRES FORMER G-MAN AS ITS ENFORCER
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA group of cult-like believers, holed up in secret locations, refusing to pay their fair share? Sounds like a job for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The Recording...
SALES ATOP E. 96TH ; SALES UNITS TOP E. 96TH ST. SITE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amTHE Related Cos. will try an entirely different concept with its new Carnegie Hill apartment building by putting "for sale" housing at the top of its rental units. "We are...
MONEYED MOGULS LEAD NY MAG BIDDING
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amAS the horses come thundering down the home stretch in the derby to buy New York magazine, it looks like "The Coalition" of assorted billionaires and multimillionaires is the team...
STC EXEC PLEADS GUILTY
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amNicole McDermott, a senior executive with Security Trust Corp., has become the latest financial pro to plead guilty in the widening mutual fund scandal. McDermott yesterday appeared in New York...
SONY PIX NOW TO PICK JUST ONE BOSS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amSony Pictures Entertainment is expected to scrap the triumvirate that has been running the studio for the past few months and instead vest the power in one person who will...
ONLINE SALES PROCESSOR PAYPAL HAS NEW MOTTO: PAY LESS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amPayPal wants a slice of the exploding online music market - and hopes to change the industry's shaky business model in the process. Most Internet music stores barely turn a...
STARR REPORT
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amJack's in the box Sharon Osbourne will be absent from her talk show indefinitely while she keeps a vigil by husband Ozzy Osbourne's bedside in a London hospital. Guest hosts,...
JANET TO GO BOWL-ING
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amIT is believed that Janet Jackson will headline the NFL's Super Bowl halftime show this year. Hip-hoppers Outkast may also be part of the AOL-sponsored, MTV-produced entertainment, according to reports....
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, MAYBE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amPOWER TRIP (three stars) CAN you imagine what would happen if only 10 percent of Con Ed's customers paid their bill? In Tblisia, capital of Georgia - the former Soviet...
SHOW SEALED WITH A MISS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amSEAL WHATEVER happened to the circus tradition that seals were entertaining? At the Hammerstein Ballroom Monday, British soulman Seal delivered a yawner of a concert that summed up why he...
GO FISH! TIM BURTON ODYSSEY IS SWIMSICAL & SATISFYING
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amBIG FISH ½ (three and one half stars) Great catch. Running time: 120 minutes. Rated PG-13 (a fight scene, some images of nudity and a suggestive reference.) At Loews Lincoln...
ON THE SIDE ; BOULUD'S TRUFFLING WITH US
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amTHANKS to the stratospheric price of truffles, Daniel Boulud's DB Burger Royale will now cost a whopping $59 at DB Bistro Moderne. The famed burger, stuffed with foie gras and...
HOLIDAY HELPINGS ; WHERE TO FEED YOUR TOURISTS THIS YEAR
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amBETWEEN Thanksgiving and New Year's, the question I hear from every friend and relative coming to town is: "Where should I take my kids/mother/crisis counselor for a great New York...
BUBBLY FOR ANY BUDGET
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amMAKE yourself a present and get out of the Champagne rut. Skip Veuve Cliquot and Mumm. In the last couple of years, New York has been flooded with Champagnes from...
SAX, LIES AND VIDEO: E! DIGS UP 'TRUE' SCOOP ON CLINTON
December 10, 2003 | 5:00am"Bill Clinton: The E! True Hollywood Story" Sunday at 8 p.m. on E! (three stars) HOW is it possible that a president of the United States ends up on E!'s...
MEA CULPRITS; HOW TO APOLOGIZE FOR B'WAY BACKBITING
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amTHEATER people have a lot to apologize for these days - and I'm not talking about the quality of their shows. Some say "I'm sorry" with dignity and find that...
OPRAH'S ON FLICK LEAVE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amOPRAH Winfrey is calling it quits - as a movie star. "I don't have any desire to return," Winfrey told Larry King last night in a rare live interview. The...
FANCY, TASTY & COSTLY: GIFT-GIVING FOOD FOR THOUGHT
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amForget the fruitcake. We've come a long way from that sweet brick of tradition no one ever really wanted anyway. Food gifts have become so sophisticated, it's hard to imagine...
HEY, THERE'S MORE TO U.S. BEER THAN BUD, AND THESE LATIN CERVEZAS GO .... BEYOND CORONA
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amLATIN America is a beer-brewing paradise. Now, thanks to free trade, New Yorkers can get a taste of the light, crisp lagers and dark beers that have been quenching thirsts...
ART ENTU CASA: BOUTIQUES MAKE AN ART OF BRINGING HOMELANDS HOME
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amHOME is where the heart is - so for many New York Latinos, it's knowing where the art is, so they can recreate the habitat of their homeland. "It's nice...
DIG THAT RAIL TUNNEL: STUDY
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe construction of a second rail tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey would relieve overcrowding on trains and help spur economic development along the West Side, a new report says....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amJuan Olivares, the mayor of tiny Arvin, Calif. - population 20,000 - wants a local sheriff's deputy fired for disrespectful behavior. Seems the deputy called him a name after stopping...
DOT'S ON PATROL FOR POTHOLES
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe city has launched an all-out assault on potholes in the hopes of filling thousands of craters that sprang up across the Big Apple after the weekend snowstorm, officials said...
READ PATAKI'S LIPS: NO NEW TAXES NEXT YEAR
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki vowed yesterday that, despite the state's looming $6 billion budget gap, he will "absolutely not" propose any new taxes in the budget plan he submits to...
BUSH OPPOSES TAIWAN VOTE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday he opposes any "unilateral decision" by Taiwan to declare itself independent of mainland China, and he tossed cold water on North Korea's latest nukes...
ARIEL'S BOLD MOVE ; TAKES HEAT AS HE TALKS OF SHIFTING SETTLERS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, longtime champion of Jewish settlers, said yesterday he may "move" some West Bank settlements for security reasons. But settler leaders warned of a...
LIBESKIND PLAYS TO THE PRESS: PARTNER
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amKey elements of Daniel Libeskind's Ground Zero plan - including the decision to model the Freedom Tower on the Statue of Liberty - were driven as much by questions of...
BUILDER CASTS A NET FOR BROOKLYN ARENA
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA bit of Bilbao comes to downtown Brooklyn today as architect Frank Gehry and developer Bruce Ratner unveil a controversial plan for a 20,000-seat arena to lure the New Jersey...
GALS FOCUS OF PROBE ON SLAIN FED
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Police probing the brutal murder of Bronx-born federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna are looking into two relationships he had with women, as they seek to solve the mystery of...
SUICIDE KIN RIP RX MESS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amCarlos Ramirez was pushed off the George Washington Bridge by bureaucrats, his outraged family claims. Ramirez, 33, went mad weeks before his Dec. 2 death after he stopped taking the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amManhattan Police yesterday attributed a fifth bank heist to a man wanted for a Manhattan robbery spree that began last month. The latest robbery took place on Monday, when the...
TOTAL WHACK JOB ; CANNIBAL'S HIDEOUS CASTRATION ATTEMPTS CAUGHT ON VIDEO
December 10, 2003 | 5:00am"Slice the thing off now." After placing his penis on a kitchen table, computer expert Bernd-Jergen Brandes issued that unthinkable command to German cannibal Armin Meiwes. A home video made...
OZZY'LL TAKE 2 MONTHS TO HEAL: DOCS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amIt will take tattooed, toilet-tongued rocker Ozzy Osbourne at least two months to recover from the injuries he suffered Monday when he crashed his all-terrain vehicle while tooling around his...
JERSEY BEARS ARE DROPPING LIKE FLIES
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amNew Jersey hunters slogged through a foot of snow to bag three dozen more bears yesterday on the second day of the bruin bonanza. The Department of Environmental Protection said...
BAD SNOOZE FOR CONFESSED COP SLAYER
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge was asleep at the wheel when she overturned a guilty verdict against an admitted cop-killer because of allegations the jurist presiding over his case had dozed off...
BRONX HOOP STAR'S BROTHER SLAIN
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA college basketball star's dreams of making it to the NBA and getting his family out of a bad Bronx neighborhood were shattered yesterday when his brother was shot dead...
NYU JUMPER 'HIGH' ; FRESHMAN'S DEATH DIVE RULED AN ACCIDENT
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA New York University freshman was under the influence of hallucinogenic "magic mushrooms" and marijuana when he took a swan dive inside the school's library - and his death was...
COUNCIL AIDE IN 'ILLEGAL PAY' FLAP
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA top aide to City Council member Eva Moskowitz has sent out an e-mail that says the legislator wants to hire workers for $400 a week "under the table," The...
MOVE RILES RANGEL
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday Howard Dean has weak support in the black community and charged that former Vice President Al Gore "polarized" the campaign by dropping into...
TREE-$AVE BEETLE BATTLE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe federal government plans to inject $23 million into New York City this summer to inoculate some of the city's most beautiful trees, saving millions from death by beetle. Not...
AL'S HAUL OF SHAME ; 200G NO HELP TO TAWANA 'DA' HE DEFAMED
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amSTEVE PAGONES returned from his honeymoon yesterday in Aruba with his lovely wife Julia and got a surprise that didn't count as a wedding gift: Al Sharpton landed $200,000 in...
TEACHERS' FURY AT B'KLYN SWASTIKAS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amTeachers at a Brooklyn school are horrified that bigots who drew swastikas on the walls outside their classrooms twice this month are still on the loose. "I'm shocked and dismayed....
MAN SLAIN BY PAL IN BX.: COPS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA Bronx man was fatally shot in the head at point-blank range in his apartment following an argument with a pal, cops said yesterday. Family members who were woken up...
SHELTER SPURS NASTY 'NAZI' TALK
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amTHEY'VE been slammed as goombahs and wiseguys before, but this is the first time residents of Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood have been trashed as neo-Nazis. And some of them are...
JUDGE BLASTS COLLEAGUE'S ACCUSER
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge is offering a colleague who's the target of an FBI investigation some words of praise - and is accusing the man who blew the whistle on her...
LAWYER'S POT SHOT AT BURN VICTIM
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA defense lawyer aiming to discredit the man who identified his client as one of three men who burned him alive and left him for dead got the victim to...
R.I. INFERNO RAP ; 3 CHARGED IN FATAL GREAT WHITE CONCERT
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe owners of a Rhode Island nightclub where 100 people died in a fire last winter and the manager of the heavy metal band whose show started the blaze were...
MIKE HAILS NEW SCHOOL FOR WASH. HTS.
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA new 440-seat school for kindergarten through eighth grade is being built to relieve overcrowding in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday. The project is part of a...
JILTED JOE: AL BLINDSIDED ME TEAM LIEBERMAN SLAMS DISLOYAL EX-RUNNING MATE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA stunned Sen. Joe Lieberman yesterday said he was blindsided by former running mate Al Gore's decision to jilt him and undermine his 2004 campaign by endorsing Democratic front-runner Howard...
LAST 3 IN 'FLUSHING 5' GANG RAPE PLEAD GUILTY
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amLowering their heads and fighting back tears, the final three members of the "Flushing 5" pleaded guilty yesterday to gang-raping a Queens mom in a shantytown hut in Flushing Meadows...
SHOT COP FUMES OVER NOT-GUILTY VERDICT
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA jury yesterday acquitted a man accused of shooting a rookie cop in the arm and hand on a Flatbush street last year, prompting outrage from the officer and a...
FIRST SHOT IN DEMS' CIVIL WAR
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amAL GORE made it crys tal clear yesterday that one of his prime goals in endorsing Howard Dean for president is to kiss Bill Clinton's Democratic Party goodbye. "We need...
EAR-TO-EAR GWYN ; BABY DOC'S NEWS THRILLS NEWLYWEDS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amShakespeare in love has got nothing on Gwyneth and Chris. Lovestruck Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin were the picture of pure, sweet bliss after a visit to the obstetrician's office...
RUSSIAN ROULETTE: PAPER SOLD TO UKRAINIAN REPORTEDLY BANNED FROM U.S. UKRAINIAN REPORTEDLY BARRED FROM U.S. BUYS NEWSPAPER
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA new owner of America's oldest Russian-language newspaper is a Ukrainian oligarch and ex-convict who is reportedly barred from entering the United States for alleged ties to organized crime, The...
SHELTER KIDS HELD IN RAPE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA pair of teens accused of raping an East Village woman in her apartment building's stairwell were arrested yesterday at a nearby shelter where they were staying, cops said. Christopher...
MAYOR GETS VID MAKER TO BACK OFF
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe makers of the video game Grand Theft Auto said yesterday they would remove the phrase "Kill the Haitians," which is given as an instruction to players. Mayor Bloomberg sent...
DEADLY WAR FOR BOOTLEG SMOKES
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amTwo people have been murdered and two others shot in separate acts of violence tied to a surge in cigarette bootlegging that has rocked the Big Apple in the aftermath...
JILTED JOE: AL BLINDSIDED ME ; TEAM LIEBERMAN SLAMS DISLOYAL EX-RUNNING MATE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amJilted Sen. Joe Lieberman yesterday said he got blindsided by former running mate Al Gore's decision to dump him and undermine his 2004 campaign by endorsing Democratic front-runner Howard Dean...
TEARS FOR B'KLYN SLAY-TRAP VICTIM
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amHer "death trap" murder was borne of hate - but love was the theme of a tearful memorial service last night for Sonja Lynette Rock-Farrier, slain last week, allegedly by...
COP KILLER GETS BAD SNOOZE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge was asleep at the wheel when she overturned a guilty verdict against an admitted cop-killer because of allegations the jurist presiding over his case had dozed off...
PET-PEEVED CLERK KILLS BANDITS: COPS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA pet-shop worker whose store has been robbed several times turned the tables on a pack of armed crooks last night - grabbing control of an attacker's gun and shooting...
PET SHOP SHOOTOUT ; WORKER BLOWS AWAY TWO ARMED BANDITS IN B'KLYN
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA pet-shop worker whose store has been robbed several times turned the tables on a pack of armed crooks last night - grabbing control of an attacker's gun and shooting...
SUICIDE KIN IN RAGE AT RX MESS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amCarlos Ramirez was pushed off the George Washington Bridge by bureaucrats, his outraged family claims - and they are desperately searching for the "killer." Ramirez, 33, went mad weeks before...
DEAD TO RIGHTS: B'KLYN JURY EYES EXECUTION AFTER NAILING DRUG KILLER
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn drug boss who lived by the chilling motto "informers must die" is facing possible execution after federal jurors found him guilty of two capital murders yesterday in a...
HOLE LOT OF POTHOLE FILLING
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe city has launched an all-out assault on potholes in the hopes of filling thousands of craters that sprang up across the Big Apple after the weekend snowstorm, officials said...
HOOP STAR BRO SLAIN: FAMILY'S HOPES DIE WITH BRONX AMBUSH
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amA college basketball star's dreams of making it to the NBA and getting his family out of a bad Bronx neighborhood were shattered yesterday when his brother was shot dead...
BOTTOM LINE IS GOING CLASS-IC ROCK
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amNew York University plans on turning the legendary Bottom Line nightclub into a classy place. John Beckman, a spokesman for club landlord NYU, said yesterday the school wants to convert...
LIBESKIND PLAYING TO THE PRESS: PARTNER
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amKey elements of Daniel Libeskind's Ground Zero plan - including the decision to model the Freedom Tower on the Statue of Liberty - were driven as much by questions of...
SCOTT: ENDGAME PURE GARBAGE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES There is bad. There is atrocious. And then there were the final five minutes or so of last night's game for the Nets. "Awful," Byron Scott said. The...
WILDCATS SNUFF OUT LATE SURGE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amJIMMY V CLASSICArizona 91Texas 83 There is little doubt Arizona is one of the top teams in the country, but what may do the Wildcats in is a lack of...
MICK HITS LOTTERY 'TRIPLE'
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amJoe Nugent, a lifelong Yankee fan and host of a long-running sports show on Staten Island Cable, notes for us that on Monday, the day of the big Mickey Mantle...
RED STORM LOOK TO STOP BLEEDING
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThis is what happens when there's a chink in the armor. It's like a boxer who gets cut over an eye. Every future opponent is going to throw a couple...
TEXAS STAR HAS ROYAL NBA DREAM
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amRoyal Ivey gives a lot of credit to his fast start this season to his former Texas teammate, T.J. Ford. "Every day, he made me better," said Ivey, the former...
JOPPY'S FIGHTING FOR THE INFANT HE LOST
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amWHEN William Joppy climbs into the ring against Bernard Hopkins Saturday night in Atlantic City, his motivation is not only to win the undisputed middleweight championship but also win a...
GIANTS ASSISTANTS NEED HELP IF FASSEL'S FIRED
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amLIKE every year, Giants defensive line coach Denny Marcin this week will make sure there's a Christmas tree in the meeting room his guys occupy in the dankness of Giants...
CARTER FINDS HOME ON JETS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amLOST under the ominous cloud that's blanketed this bitterly disappointing Jets' season have been a select few positive revelations. If you haven't noticed Tyrone Carter, you either haven't been watching...
DON'T WORRY ABOUT FASSEL'S FUTURE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amJIM FASSEL can endure these final three weeks as the Giants head coach because he's confident the dark clouds that currently surround him won't be there very long. That's the...
RANGER AIDE: ALL SYSTEMS GO
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amRangers assistant coach Tom Renney honestly believes his players are on the verge of something special. "The guys are working really hard and have stuck with the new system," Renney...
JETS TURN TO RAMBO
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe Jets yesterday placed receiver and kick returner Jonathan Carter on injured reserve for the season because of his injured left knee and signed receiver Ken-Yon Rambo to the regular...
GRID WRITERS NOW LIKE IKE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amIke Hilliard today will be named the winner of the third annual George Young Good Guy Award by the Giants chapter of the Pro Football Writers of America. The award,...
DELIRIOUS GEORGE ON BAD-APPLE BINGE ; BOSS' TASTE FOR TROUBLEMAKERS MAY BURY YANKS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amWITH Gary Sheffield possibly slipping away, George Steinbrenner has ordered his personnel men to reach out to slugging, free-agent right fielders. And all we can say is there is one...
ISLES' DEFENSE RILES MILBURY
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe Islanders' defense counts four players on the All-Star ballot - more than any other team in the league. That fact didn't impress GM Mike Milbury, however, who recently downgraded...
METS TALK TO UGIE ; MARLINS CLOSER WAITING FOR OFFER
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amEddie Guardado has signed. Tim Worrell has signed. Rod Beck and Tom Gordon have signed. Keith Foulke is getting ready to sign. None has signed with the Mets, meaning the...
LUCIOUS ON LOOKOUT FOR OLD SELF
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amHad he thrown up one or two more bricks on Saturday, Net guard Lucious Harris might've landed on the bench. Continuing his shaky start this season, Harris misfired on his...
MIRED IN THE SWAMP OLD HOMECOURT SWAGGER ELUDES NETS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amFor two years, the Nets had the look. They walked onto the court in the Meadowlands and they simply knew they would win. Only eight times in each of the...
AILIN' HOUSTON SITS
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The Knicks were without gimpy Allan Houston last night against the Lakers, meaning they had to find a way to make up, oh, about 53 points. The...
CHANEY, MUTOMBO STILL HAVE HARD TIME
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES LOS ANGELES - Don Chaney doesn't intend to demean Dikembe Mutombo's skills, but sometimes it comes off that way when the coach defends himself against criticism about the...
PLANINIC WANTS MORE PRACTICE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES The Nets have two days off before a road trip to Orlando and Phoenix. Then three days off, a game with Utah and another day off. Those free...
YANKS SHOPPING WITH SHEFF ON HOLD
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amGary Sheffield's business manager thinks his client still will end up with the Yankees. A friend of the slugger called Sheffield "an idiot" for even going back to George Steinbrenner...
ANDY HAS 3RD OPTION
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amAndy Pettitte almost certainly will wind up signing a multi-year contract with either the Yankees or Astros. But another longshot possibility has arisen - that the veteran lefty accepts the...
JARVIS GIVES SHAW BOOT
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amWillie Shaw's days as a college basketball player are over. St. John's released a statement just minutes prior to tipoff of last night's game against St. Francis that coach Mike...
STIRLING MAKES THE RIGHT MOVES
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amIslanders 5Lightning 2 If you screw up, blow an assignment or fall asleep in the defensive zone, it's become quite clear this season that Steve Stirling will not hesitate pulling...
RIVERS: I'M IN NO HURRY TO RETURN TO COACHING
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES LOS ANGELES - Doc Rivers, on hand with Al Michaels to broadcast a test run for ABC last night, said he's not sure he'll even coach next season,...
STORM HANG ON; SHAW DISMISSED
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amSt. John's 58St. Francis The former St. John's players stood in one corner of Alumni Hall last night and it was hard to determine if the looks on their faces...
FRIARS SEND A MESSAGE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amJIMMY V CLASSICProvidence 70Illinois 51 Before facing Illinois last night in the Jimmy V Classic, Providence coach Tim Welsh told his team this could be the kind of game that...
RICHARD'S OUTBURST POINTS WAY
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amRichard Jefferson shaves his own head, so before yesterday he had never visited the Weehawken barber shop where his brother Lovell works. "Today, I just wanted to get out of...
SWAMP KINGS AGAIN LIKE OLD TIMES AS NETS CRUISE
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amNets 101Sonics 88 Things felt right again for the Nets. Finally. For two years, they had ruled the Eastern Conference - and at home in their beloved Swamp, they were...
DOC NOT IN HURRY FOR NEW COACH GIG
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES LOS ANGELES - Doc Rivers, on hand with Al Michaels to broadcast a test run for ABC last night, said he's not sure he'll even coach next season,...
ROAD TO NOWHERE KNICKS 0-4 ON TRIP AS LAKERS PREVAIL
December 10, 2003 | 5:00amLakers 98Knicks 90 LOS ANGELES - The Knicks played just good enough to lose. As usual. Allan Houston scored 53 fewer points than he did in his last trip here...