November 13, 2002
AIRLINES SEE CLOUDY SKIES AHEAD, SAYS CONTINENTAL CHIEF BETHUNE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amAirlines won't see profits for at least another year and the continuing pain may put some airlines out of business, predicted Gordon Bethune, the CEO of Continental Airlines. "We've got...
EARLY CROSS-FIRE FOR ABC NEWS-CNN DEAL
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA deal between ABC News and CNN looks more like a long shot than ever - but that isn't keeping the cultures of the two news organizations from starting to...
SILVERSTEIN BUYS LIBERTY : WILL FUND A PART OF 7 WTC DEVELOPMENT WITH BONDS
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWORLD Trade Center leaseholder Larry A. Silverstein will be tapping into the Liberty Bond program to help fund the development of a new 1.7 million square-foot 7 World Trade Center....
MOM LENDS STAR POWER
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amDAVID Rattray, the editor-in-chief of the East Hampton Star, is going to have a hard time portraying himself as a self-made man. Rattray and his mom, Helen Rattray, successfully thwarted...
NOT CHICKEN FEED; EBBERS GOT $4M FROM FARM-SUBSIDY PROGRAM
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amBernie Ebbers, the former billionaire founder of WorldCom, not only raided his own company coffers, but also wheedled millions from Uncle Sam in farm subsidies - some possibly via a...
TYCO EX-CEO CAN GO HOME FOR XMAS
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski will be home for Christmas - but in one of his Colorado homes, and not his New Hampshire, Florida or Massachusetts ones. Over strenuous objections...
BLOOMBERG TAKING A HIT AMID FINANCIAL DATA INDUSTRY SLUMP
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWall Street's slump is costing Mayor Bloomberg a bundle, and also hurting his archrival billionaire family, the Thomsons. Wall Street trading desks are being hit by hundreds of firings and...
BANKERS BOUNCED; MORGAN STANLEY TO LET GO UP TO 250, OR 20%
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amAfter using scissors to make cuts earlier this year, Morgan Stanley & Co. is finally joining rivals in taking out the ax. The white-shoe firm is bracing for another round...
SEX AND LIES FILL WALL ST. TELL-ALL
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA female Smith Barney employee who complained of being frequently groped by a male broker was told her tormenter should be left alone because he was "going through a mid-life...
SPITZER'S SIDESTEP ; AG LIKELY TO LET BROKERS DEAL WITH CONFLICT ISSUE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer appears to be caving in to Wall Street as regulators discussed new proposals for a global settlement to clean up tainted research. The rock-jawed...
SEC CHAOS DEEPENS AS WEBSTER QUITS POST
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTurbulence at the Securites and Exchange Commission has triggered the resignations of three top leaders and fractured the remaining commissioners along party lines, leaving an important watchdog of Wall Street...
NOT CHICKEN FEED: EBBERS GOT $4M FROM FARM-SUBSIDY PROGRAM
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amBernie Ebbers, the former billionaire founder of WorldCom, not only raided his own company coffers, the maverick ex-CEO also wheedled millions from Uncle Sam in farm subsidies - some possibly...
HILFIGER PAYS BIG PRICE FOR WHITTLE ESTATE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amEdison Schools founder Chris Whittle has sold his sprawling East Hampton estate to fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger, The Post has learned. The embattled educator unloaded the 11-acre estate fronting Georgica...
DYLAN CONCERT POSITIVELY FOURTH RATE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amBOB DYLANAt Madison Square Garden. Performance tonight at 8. Tickets are $43 to $125. IT'S the kind of talk that Dylan fans don't like, but this master of song is...
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE: BAITZ TAKES ON SCHOENFELD
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amEVERYBODY in the theater who'll be attending Sunday night's fund-raiser for Bay Street Theater and Friends in Deed will have their eyes trained on one man: Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of...
STARR REPORT
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe other Leno gets honored Mavis Leno (Jay's wife) will be honored Nov. 20 at the Woman's Day "Women Who Inspire Us" luncheon at The Pierre Hotel. It's sponsored by...
BREWING EDIBLE GOODIES
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amPETE Slosberg has his priorities."I exceeded my goals in beer, one of the five major food groups," says the creator of Pete's Wicked Ale (inset). "I felt compelled to accomplish...
SECOND CECI TO RISE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTHE French patisserie CeCi Cela has signed a lease at 166 Chambers St. for its second location. The landlord's representative, Bruce Sinder of Sinvin Realty, said CeCi Cela took a...
STILL SINGIN'
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amHERE'S the latest weather forecast: Lots of "Singin' in the Rain." To mark the 50th anniversary of the classic about Hollywood's transition from silents to talkies, it is being re-released...
CHOCOLATE SWIRL ; DESIGNERS COOK UP CONFECTIONERY COUTURE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTALK about looking good enough eat. When models slink down the runway at this year's Chocolate Show, they'll be wearing designs fashioned from - what else? - chocolate. Popularity has...
SALLY'S ENQUIRING MIND WANTS $200M
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amSALLY Jessy Raphael is demanding $200 million from The National Enquirer for running an "outrageously false" story saying she flipped out after her show was cancelled. Raphael's libel suit, filed...
TO EXPERIENCE TRUE INDIA, GOA HERE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amGOA 308 E. SIXTH ST. (BETWEEN FIRST & SECOND AVENUES) (212) 979-8787 I was starting to wonder about my tardy dining pal when she walked in red-faced: She'd been waiting...
DEAD MAN TALKING: 'SOPRANOS' HEADLESS BUDDY: I WAS HIRED TO BE WHACKED BY TONY;
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amRALPH Cifaretto was doomed from the start. That's the word from the actor who played the volatile mob captain who was choked and beaten to death by an enraged Tony...
A LIGHT TOUCHÉ
November 13, 2002 | 5:00am'DIE Another Day" features another Bond Girl whose name should ring a bell. Madonna, who also sings the film's techno-tinged theme song, dons bondage-black fencing gear and troweled-on eye liner...
KISS AND COMPLAIN TIME
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amSHARPEN your claws, ladies - we're about to hear all about "The Bachelor" star Aaron Buerge. All of the women who've been spurned by Buerge the past six weeks will...
SHE'S A BOND BOMBSHELL ; HALLE OFFERS HIGH-JINX
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amSHE'S got the gams and the guns: In short, the latest Bond Girl is more than just a very pretty face.As the dazzling but deadly U.S. secret agent Jinx in...
RECAP & GOWN
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWHAT to wear for that third trip down the aisle?Modern Bride editor Antonia van der Meer says anything goes - and that goes double if you're J. Lo. While a...
CASH-STARVED SENIORS: CITY EYES CUTTING MEALS AND CLOSING 10 CENTERS
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amSeniors will feel the sting of the city's fiscal crisis if 10 of their centers are shut under a plan to reduce the city's $6 billion budget gap. Sources say...
PTA MOMS: WE WERE ROBBED OF 13G IN 'CANDY' MONEY
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTwo Queens PTA moms told cops they were robbed of $13,000 in proceeds from a fund-raising candy sale as they were about to deposit the cash at the bank, authorities...
KIBBUTZ KILLER IS KIN TO SIRHAN
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - The gunman who killed five members of a kibbutz - slaying a mother and her two young sons as the boys cowered under bed covers - is a...
THE CITY VS. DANCING
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Slipper Room, a small lounge on Orchard Street, is a den of criminal activity, says the city Department of Consumer Affairs. The crime: Dancing. After its inspectors visited in...
SPIDER-MAN CREATOR SPINS LEGAL WEB
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amSpider-Man's latest amazing adventure features his elderly creator taking on a friend-turned-foe who allegedly cheats him out of more than $10 million, court papers say. Stan Lee, the cartoonist who...
FIREMEN'S 9/11 STRESS STUDIED
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe union representing city firefighters announced yesterday that it has launched a massive study of nearly half its members to examine their mental health and the factors that cause excessive...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTwo teens who allegedly posed as cops to pull over a motorist chose the wrong guy - the local police chief. "It was sight to behold . . . They...
EXECUTE TEENS? WE NEED THE OPTION
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amLast month, four justices spoke out bitterly on the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear yet another appeal from death-row inmate Kevin Stanford, who had killed at age 17. "The...
NOBLE DOG SHARES FAMILY'S HEARTACHE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amDAKOTA, a most beautiful dog, half-Lab, half-retriever, understands tragedy better than some humans. "We don't use the word 'daddy' around Dakota, otherwise she barks, howls, cries and gets depressed," Gerry...
CIA, PENTAGON PLANNING TO DIAL FOR DEFECTORS
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The CIA and Pentagon are assembling a list of cell-phone and fax numbers of Iraqi military leaders, as part of a massive, covert program to convince them to...
BLAKE TO LAWYER: GET LOST
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Accused killer Robert Blake blew off a chance to tell his story yesterday, dodging a civil lawyer who wants to depose him in a wrongful-death lawsuit. The...
SHOCKER IN L.I. BROTHER-SLAY
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA Long Island man coldly pumped 14 bullets from a rifle - stopping once to reload - into his brother after an argument while the brother sat on a living...
ABC PAYS 175G FOR FILM
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amABC News has paid at least $175,000 for the rights to a British documentary that includes a video diary made by Princess Di's former butler, Paul Burrell, sources said yesterday....
BOOZE LINKED TO BREAST CANCER
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA single alcoholic drink a day can increase a woman's chances of getting breast cancer by 6 percent, new research shows. But, in an odd twist, the same survey, conducted...
FEDS BARE POST-9/11 HACKER HELL
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA rogue British hacker broke into 93 military computer networks, shutting down the computers at the New Jersey weapons station that supplies the Atlantic fleet shortly after Sept. 11, 2001,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amMANHATTAN A gang of thugs beat a man to death in East Harlem, police said yesterday. The violence occurred Monday at around 10 p.m. on the corner of East 114th...
SCHOOLS OFFER BYE-BYE-OUT$
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein has proposed early "buyouts" of up to $5,000 to nearly 500 administrators to shrink the bureaucracy, cut spending - and avoid layoffs. Klein's office pitched the...
BA$H-ISRAEL NIGHT ; COLUMBIA DEBATES DIVESTMENT
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTONIGHT is the showdown. Columbia University calls the event at its Schapiro Center a forum on "socially responsible investing." In plain English, there's really just one item on the agenda:...
GAL GUILTY IN GOOD SAM SLAY
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe lone woman busted in last year's slaying of a good Samaritan who gave a group of strangers a lift from the Belt Parkway was found guilty of second-degree murder...
BIN LADEN SPEAKS: CHILLING 'TAPE' HAILS BALI, MOSCOW TERROR STRIKES
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials were last night studying a frightening new recording said to be of Osama bin Laden - the first possible proof he's still alive. In the...
LIZZIE MUST 'FESS UP
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA guilty plea spared her from the possibility of taking the witness stand, but Lizzie Grubman will still have to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the...
PHONE-GALL SUSPECT: I WANT MY PORN BACK
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA con man accused of pulling off a $3 million telephone scam while in jail hauled the government into court yesterday to get his phone privileges back - along with...
N.Y. BAN ON WINE ORDERS IS TOAST
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amNew York wine buffs will be able to order their favorite libations dropped directly at their doorstep from wineries across America, under a new federal court ruling. A Manhattan judge...
CHARITY MAY GO UP IN 'SMOKE'
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg's anti-smoking proposals could shutter after-school programs, increase quality-of-life crime, and hinder drug-treatment programs, opponents charged yesterday. The critics spoke out at the second hearing of the City Council's...
IRAQI VOTE A FARCE: POWELL
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell last night ridiculed the Iraqi parliament's rejection of the U.N. resolution on arms inspections. "The expression made by their national assembly is not...
A BIG DOSE OF ANXIETY
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Bush administration expressed alarm yesterday over Iraq's order of more than 1 million doses of a nerve-gas antidote - believing it's a signal Saddam Hussein is preparing...
W. HITS HOME RUN ON HOMELAND DEPT.
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush forced congressional Democrats to blink yesterday, winning a deal for a new Homeland Security Department that wipes away worker protections. The agreement came after Bush pressed...
BROWNSVILLE MAN SHOT DEAD
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA 21-year-old man was shot dead on a Brooklyn street yesterday. Michael Jackson was hit by three bullets on the corner of Pitkin and Christopher avenues in Brownsville, police said....
PRINCIPAL NAILED IN EXAM SCAM
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE A state probe has found that the principal of a Brooklyn high school tampered with students' Regents tests last summer - resulting in 14 students who had actually flunked...
HOTEL COMES UP 'EMINEM-PTY'
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amEither rapper Eminem owes a posh resort near Los Angeles $7,000 or someone is posing as the bad-boy star of "8 Mile." Whatever the case, someone who either claimed to...
TEEN FATALLY STABBED
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn 18-year-old college freshman who grabbed a baseball bat and went looking for some people he had tangled with earlier in the day was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn...
INDICTED JAYSON DENIES CRIME LINKS
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA grand jury heard evidence suggesting ex-NBA star Jayson Williams had links to "organized crime" before it indicted him on charges of shotgunning a limo driver to death, it was...
INDEPENDENT BUDGET OFFICE REPORTS POSSIBLE $1B BUDGET GAP
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg's overly optimistic revenue projections - not tax shortfalls - could create a $1 billion budget gap this year, the Independent Budget Office reported yesterday. The IBO said tax...
'BETTOR' OFF WITHOUT $3M ; BREEDERS' CUP TRIO CHARGED - 2 POSITIVE FOR COKE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThree computer-whiz fraternity brothers - two of whom allegedly tested positive before court for cocaine use - were formally charged yesterday with using their expertise to exploit a security glitch...
JUDGE PUTS CORK IN N.Y.'S INTERSTATE WINE BAN
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amNew York wine buffs will be able to order their favorite libations from wineries nationwide, and have them delivered to their doors, under a new federal court ruling. A Manhattan...
'CRYING SO MUCH' ; TRAGIC KIN REUNITED IN GRIEF
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amIt rained yesterday at the memorial service for victims of American Airlines Flight 587, a drenching downpour that turned the ocean a slate gray. But for Juan Carlos Basquez, who...
NEW WARNING FROM 'OSAMA' ; CHILLING 'PROOF' THAT HE'S STILL ALIVE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials were last night studying a frightening new recording said to be of Osama bin Laden - the first possible proof he's still alive. In the...
LADY LIBERTY SUPERVISOR RIPS COPS IN 'RACE' FUROR
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe U.S. parks honcho who supervises the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island charged last night that she and her husband were viciously beaten by federal cops she oversees after...
SIDEWALK LAWSUITS COST CITY MILLION$
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe sidewalks really are paved with gold for New Yorkers collecting millions in slip-and-fall cases - including a Bronx woman who won $500,000 after stumbling on a barely noticeable hole,...
THE QUEEN 'MUM' ; SHE HAD 3 CHANCES TO STOP BURRELL TRIAL
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amQueen Elizabeth had the chance to stop the theft trial of Princess Diana's butler three times last year - but waited until Paul Burrell was about to testify before ending...
SCHOOL-BUS DRIVERS OK STRIKE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amCity school-bus drivers moved a step closer to walking off the job last night by voting to authorize a strike. Members of Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, who...
'SHARK' RACKET BUSTED ; COPS BRING DOWN 'THE GODMOTHER'
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn alleged mobster's mom helped out with the family business - by tracking the proceeds of a Bronx-based Mafia crew's gambling and loan-shark operation, prosecutors said yesterday. Margaret Frascone, the...
'SNIPER' SNAPSHOT ; PHOTO CAPTURES SUSPECT AS GUARDSMAN
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amPosing in combat fatigues and helmet, his rifle at the ready, John Allen Muhammad could pass for the average GI Joe, not the coldblooded Psycho Sniper he's accused of being....
'AVENGER' STABBED TO DEATH
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn 18-year-old college freshman who grabbed a baseball bat and went looking for some people he had tangled with earlier in the day was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn...
'SHARK' RACKET BUSTED
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTwo undercover detectives posing as truck hijackers infiltrated the inner sanctum of a Bronx-based Mafia crew, uncovering a $2.5 million gambling and loan-sharking operation. The NYPD's Organized Crime Control Bureau...
CRYING SO MUCH' : TRAGIC KIN REUNITED IN GRIEF
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amIt rained yesterday at the memorial service for victims of American Airlines Flight 587, a drenching downpour that turned the ocean a slate gray. But for Juan Carlos Basquez, who...
WILD PURSE-SNATCH RIDE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amAn angry Long Island woman chased the man who snatched her purse, using her body to block his car - but he ran into her and sped off. The 33-year-old...
ZIMBABWE COPS KILL CONN. MAN
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA Connecticut man was shot and killed by police in Zimbabwe while trying to flee a checkpoint in a vehicle without a valid permit. Richard Gilman, a 54-year-old humanitarian worker...
BIG FIRMS SUED OVER APARTHEID
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amBank giants and a host of major corporations in the United States and overseas helped South Africa's racist regime carry out state-ordered torture, forced labor and genocide under apartheid, a...
SIDEWALK $HOCK : LAWSUIT OVER TINY FLAW COST CITY 500G
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe sidewalks really are paved with gold for New Yorkers collecting millions in slip-and-fall cases - including a Bronx woman who won $500,000 after stumbling on a barely noticeable hole,...
PROSECUTORS ADMIT SLAY-CASE MISTAKE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe Queens DA has asked a judge to toss out a murder conviction and order a new trial for a man accused of killing a club owner - after admitting...
SMOKE PLAN COULD SINK SCHOOL PROGRAMS, BOOST CRIME: CHARITY
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg's anti-smoking proposals could shutter after-school programs, increase quality-of-life crime, and hinder drug treatment programs, opponents charged yesterday. The critics spoke out at the second hearing of the City...
NYPD HARPOONS $2.5M LOAN-SHARK RACKET
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTwo undercover detectives posing as truck hijackers infiltrated the inner sanctum of a Bronx-based Mafia crew, uncovering a $2.5 million gambling and loan-sharking operation. The NYPD's Organized Crime Control Bureau...
SONS LAUD 'AUNTIE DI'
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTo butler Paul Burrell's teenage sons, Princes William and Harry were best friends and Princess Diana was "like an auntie." In a moving video diary filmed in the months before...
JUST SECOND FIDDLE ON TV
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amWhen it comes to television ratings, the butler didn't do it. Paul Burrell's first major television interview in Britain was trounced Sunday by the BBC series "Antiques Roadshow," according to...
MADISON SQ. GARBAGE: FED-UP CHANEY RIPS PUTRID KNICKSAFTER LATEST STINKER
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amJazz 108Knicks 87 The Spree-less portion of the schedule is now over, and it was a disaster. When Latrell Sprewell returns Saturday, the Knicks may not get any better -...
AMENDMENT EYES 'RIGHT FIGHT'
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE is a proposed constitutional amendment before the New York State legislature that would guarantee New Yorkers the right to hunt, trap and fish and silence efforts by animal rights...
TEJADA TAKES MVP
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amHe never let himself think about winning the AL MVP. So when Alfonso Soriano finished third yesterday in the race won by Oakland shortstop and fellow Dominican Miguel Tejada, the...
VENTURA KEEPING OPTIONS OPEN
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amOne of Robin Ventura's best attributes is patience. It's something the free agent third baseman is going to need as he waits to see where he plays next year. "There...
COTTRELL TACKLES JETS' PROBLEM
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amONLY a month ago, the Jets' defense was the laughingstock of the NFL. Opposing offenses were running as freely on them as golden retrievers in Central Park, scoring on them...
AN ARMSTEAD OF ONE GIANTS BRACING FOR JESSIE'S RETURN
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amNO HIGHLIGHT film. No video tribute. No special announcement that triggers a standing ovation. No orchestrated sentiment for nine years of blood and sweat, 144 games, 780 tackles, 96 consecutive...
AT AUGUSTA, ISSUE ISN'T WOMEN'S RIGHTS
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amIF you believe Hootie Johnson, Augusta National's membership policies are in line with the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts, the U.S. Constitution and the Civil Rights Act. If you believe...
BAD BREAK HURTS TYLER
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amAfter a summer in which he matured on the court and was poised to emerge as one of the city's top basketball players, Cardozo's Cameron Tyler suffered a setback. The...
NO LIE: RICHTER A REAL WORRY
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amCALGARY - Other than undermining the organization's credibility on virtually any and every matter, the Rangers' refusal to admit that Mike Richter suffered a concussion a week ago last night...
KIDD MVP SNUB SPURS NETS VS. SAN ANTONIO
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amRemember when commissioner David Stern handed Shaquille O'Neal and the Lakers their third straight NBA championship trophy back on June 12 at the Meadowlands? Instead of gloating, O'Neal, a three-time...
GIANTS REACH OUT FOR MOORE HELP
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amHerman Moore paid the Giants a visit yesterday, scouting out the team as much as the team was scouting him out. "He was interviewing them as much as they were...
TAKING STOCK OF JOHN ; JAZZ' ALL-TIME GREAT PROVES POINT TO KNICKS
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amON THE rainy night for which the Knicks never saved, there were about a thousand empty seats and a to-be-expected 18,500 pairs of dry eyes at John Stockton's likely last...
PETR'S RETURN IS JUST DUCKY
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe disposable nature of the Devils hit home again last night. There was Petr Sykora, their steal of the 1995 draft, one of the players who would perpetuate the franchise's...
YANKS TRIMMING FAT
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTUCSON - George Steinbrenner can dismiss Yankee Stadium elevator operators, make a round of front-office firings of support staff and threaten to remove an employee dental plan. And ultimately, all...
SPREE'S RETURN SET FOR WEEKEND
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amAfter X-rays on Latrell Sprewell's injured hand came up negative yesterday and he was cleared to practice, he spent 20 minutes shooting before last night's 108-87 loss to Utah. Sprewell...
FROM BAD TO WORSE ; KNICKS HUMILIATED IN ROUT BY JAZZ
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amJazz 108Knicks 87 The Spree-less portion of the Knicks' schedule is now over, and it was a disaster. When Latrell Sprewell returns Saturday, the Knicks may not get any better,...
BATTLE LINES DRAWN
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amTUCSON - The Yankees and Mets could find themselves in a battle with each other and the Phillies to land free agents Tom Glavine and David Bell. On the first...
DEVILS' RALLY PLUCKS DUCKS
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amOVERTIMEDevils 3Ducks 2 The shocked silence on the bench, said hero-to-be Jamie Langenbrunner, told the Devils what they needed to hear. A demoralizing third-period short-hander had put the scoreless Devils...
MORTAL SENS PUNISH ISLES
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amSenators 5 Islanders 3 Where's Mike Milbury with his VCR when you need him? The Islanders were victims last night of a slow start and some video reviews against a...
THERE'S NOT STOCK ANSWER: JEERED KNICKS CAN'T MATCH UTAH'S ALL-TIME GREAT
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amON THE kind of rainy night for which Knicks' management never saved, there were 1,850 empty seats and 17,913 pairs of dry eyes at what likely was John Stockton's final...
DOLEAC, WILLIAMS JOIN FRAY
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Notwithstanding Antonio McDyess, Michael Doleac and rookie point guard Frank Williams were the new faces GM Scott Layden added over the summer who were going to make an...
SPREE AND CLEAR KNICKS PLANNING FOR LATRELL'S RETURN VS. SIXERS SATURDAY
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amLatrell Sprewell had X-rays on his broken right pinkie yesterday and was expected to be cleared for practice and ready for his season debut Saturday vs. Philadelphia. Supposedly, Sprewell's return...
FOR MANLOW, TIME IS NOW - FORWARD GETTING LOTS OF ICE FOR ISLES
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amAlexei Yashin makes more money than any player in the Islanders' organization. Eric Manlow makes a fraction of what Yashin pays in taxes, but that hasn't stopped Peter Laviolette from...
LACK OF POISE IS FINISHING KNICKS
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amA Knick team that once prided itself on mental toughness and resiliency has become the antithesis of both, a banged-up bunch that folds like wet tissue in the fourth quarter....