December 20, 2002
BUSH SCALING DOWN PLANS FOR TAX CUT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe big gift Americans are expecting from President George W. Bush next year may not be everything they hoped for. Yes, tax cuts are still coming. But the elimination of...
FIXER-UPPER 90 WEST ST. TO BE SOLD
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe landmarked building at 90 West Street that was extensively damaged on Sept. 11 is in contract to be sold for just over $10 million and converted to residential use....
PUBLIC NOT INVITED; BARS, CLUBS TO GET AROUND BUTT BAN BY GOING PRIVATE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amDespite the ban on smoking in bars, new loopholes are emerging that may let customers light up all they want in clubs and night spots. Even small neighborhood pubs could...
FOR STORES, THE SEASON OF CHOPPING
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amAs the most critical part of the Christmas shopping season begins, retailers are quaking in their boots - and slashing prices. The news so far has been bad for retailers....
AFFLECK IS 'SEXIEST' SELLER : PEOPLE ISSUE'S NEWSSTAND SALES HIT FIVE-YEAR RECORD
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amSOME scoffed when Ben Affleck - the newest honey of Jennifer Lopez - was named the Sexiest Man Alive for 2002 by People. But now that the results are in,...
GUCCI FALTERS AS FORD'S YSL BAGS REBOUND
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amTom Ford is doing a great job with Yves Saint Laurent and with several other Gucci Group brands - but he appears to be taking his eye off the ball...
FEDS GO AFTER WIFE OF ENRON'S FASTOW
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amFeds are turning up the heat on tough-minded Andrew Fastow by preparing to charge the former Enron chief financial officer's wife. A federal grand jury reportedly has heard testimony about...
HIGH-PRICED TALENT HITS WARNER BROS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amHigh-priced celebrities are the latest headache for AOL Time Warner. Apart from its accounting troubles and a weak online future at its AOL division, the company is feeling a pinch...
WAR TALK LIFTS GOLD, OIL, BUT ROCKS STOX
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amAmericans appear to be losing confidence in the economic recovery, and with the nation on the verge of war, some key signs are pointing to continued weakness. Gold, considered a...
D.A. EYES AUDITORS ; PWC PROBE IS NEXT TYCO TASK FOR MORGENTHAU
December 20, 2002 | 5:00am>With ex-execs already targeted, going after the company's auditor is the next logical step, a source said. PricewaterhouseCoopers appears to be next up on Robert Morgenthau's Tyco to-do list. The...
VERIZON CUTS DEAL WITH CABLEVISION
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amAfter months of talks, Verizon Wireless finally clinched a deal yesterday with Cablevison Systems Corp. to buy the cable operator's wireless assets for $750 million in cash. Verizon, the nation's...
CONFLICT RESOLUTION; SPITZER IS ON VERGE OF BROKER SETTLEMENT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is expected to announce today grondbreaking reforms and fines to resolve probes over conflicts of interest that have tarnished investment banks' reputations and crushed...
GRUBMAN LIKELY TO TAKE DRUBBING IN SETTLEMENT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amFormer star telecom analyst Jack Grubman is likely to be slammed with multiple charges from regulators after global settlement talks conclude possibly as early as today. Wall Street's top banks...
DUMB DESK SET
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amTWO WEEKS NOTICE 1/2 Give it the pink slip.Running time: 101 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sex-related humor). At the Empire, the Kips Bay, the Union Square, others. 'TWO Weeks Notice," the...
BRUTAL COP THRILLER WITH A LIOTTA EXCITEMENT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amNARC Exciting but brutal.Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (extreme violence, gore, profanity, drugs). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Loews Village. A lurid police thriller, "Narc" is directed...
FILL UP BEFORE YOU GO TO 'DINNER AT EIGHT'
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amDINNER AT EIGHTVivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, 150 W. 65th St., (212) 787-6868. AH, the good old days, when a playwright could cheerfully submit a script with a cast...
NOBODY GETS AWAY SCOT-FREE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amMORVERN CALLAR 1/2 A black Christmas.Running time: 97 minutes. Unrated(adult situations). At the Cinema Village,12th Street, between Fifth Avenue andUniversity Place. LYNN Ramsay impressed quite a few people with her...
CABLE BIGGIES ALL OVER THE GLOBES
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amIN the same year that cable TV claimed to have more viewers than the broadcast network, cable scored big in the Golden Globe nominations yesterday. Predictably, HBO's "Six Feet Under"...
'HIGHWAY' HEAVEN
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amHANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAYAt the Manhattan Ensemble Theater, 55 Mercer St. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. 'HANK Williams: Lost Highway" is the best example of a musician's bio put on a stage...
SAFARI, SO GOOD
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amTHE WILD THORNBERRYS MOVIE Jolly good show.Running time: 85 minutes. Rated PG (adventure peril). At the Empire, the New York Twin, the Battery Park City, others. 'THE Wild Thornberrys Movie,"...
STARR REPORT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amLive 'Ade' for Montana's birthday girl "Sopranos" character Adriana (known to her pals as "Ade") has, thus far, resisted the urge to sing to the FBI - but her real-life...
MIRACLE SHOW A RAY OF INSPIRATION
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amWKTU's MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET WITH its all-star lineup, including bare-belly hostess Britney Spears and performers such as Ashanti, Shaggy, Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan - not to mention the incredibly...
THE DALY SHOW: MTV'S GLASS STUDIO GUY JUST WANTS A REGULAR GAL
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amMTV is the axis of pop culture and Carson Daly is at the center of MTV.Good-looking and personable, the 29-year-old has gone from the "guy who introduced videos" on MTV's...
NO PLACE FOR 'HOME'
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amGONE HOMEAt the Manhattan Theatre Club, 131 W. 55th St. Call CityTix, (212) 581-1212. IT'S a fairly banal plot - a young man returns home after 10 years away to...
ABC GOES FOR MORE PLASTIC SURGERY
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amABC is getting ready to take a bigger chunk out of the plastic surgery business. Production sources say the network has ordered an additional six episodes of "Extreme Makeover," the...
TV OR NOT TV? STRUGGLING SHOWS LOOK TO TUBE FOR HELP
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amNEVER mind the follow spot - it's the 30-second spot that Broadway's concentrating on these days.Three new shows that opened to mixed reviews - "Hollywood Arms," "Man of La Mancha"...
'PROVIDENCE' ENDS WITH A BRIDE AND DADDY (NOT HERS) WITH A GUN
December 20, 2002 | 5:00am"Providence" Tonight at 8 on Ch. 4 ON the verge of her marriage to Owen the lawyer, Sydney the doctor meets her long-dead mother in a 1920's speakeasy in Chicago....
'SURVIVOR' PORN GUY NAILS $1M VICTORY BY ONE VOTE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amPORN-star-turned-car-salesman Brian Heidik last night edged put restaurant owner Clay Jordan in the "Survivor: Thailand" finale, pocketing the $1 million grand prize. Heidik, 34, of Quartz Hill, Calif., won 4-3...
'GANGS' NOT ALL HERE: AMBITIOUS SCORSESE MISSES MARK IN HISTORY
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amGANGS OF NEW YORK ½ Flawed, violent epic. Running time: 165 minutes. Rated R (intense violence, language). At Kips Bay, Battery Park, Village VII, Lincoln Square, others. MARTIN Scorsese's hugely...
'SURVIVOR' PORN PAIR ARE KAPUT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe porn star wife of "Survivor: Thailand" finalist Brian Heidik could beat the rap on spousal abuse charges if she completes a half-year of anger management counseling, authorities said yesterday....
ISRAEL BOOTS SETTLERS OUT OF HEBRON
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli police evicted about 200 Jewish settlers from a makeshift outpost on the spot of a Palestinian ambush near a holy shrine in Hebron yesterday. The settlers defied...
'RINGS' GOLDEN IN $26M DEBUT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00am"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" rang up $26 million in ticket sales on opening day - on its way to what experts say will likely be a...
'CRUISE' VIRUS HITS L.I. HOSPS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amA virus similar to the bug that has stricken cruise-ship passengers has sickened dozens of hospital patients on Long Island, forcing two facilities to quarantine the stricken wards. Authorities at...
PLAN POINTS TO LATE JAN. ATTACK
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon is making plans to dramatically accelerate the U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf to have forces poised to invade Iraq by the end of January,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amAn enraged dad trashed a Texas strip club because he thought his 18-year-old daughter worked there. Lee Wayne Lawrence wore camouflage gear and carried gunpowder when he stormed the Maximus...
'CHICAGO' BLOWS THEM ALL AWAY: GRABS 8 NODS AS 'HOURS,' 'GANGS,' 'GREEK' ALSO SCORE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00am"Chicago" got a jump on its rivals yesterday in the race to win an Oscar, as the film version of the Broadway smash topped Golden Globe nominations with eight bids,...
JUSTICE BITES BACK: 12 YEARS OR DRUGGIE DOG-TOSSER
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amHeartless terrier tosser John Jefferson was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday on a slew of charges including hurling his ex-gal pal's dog 23 floors to its death. Jefferson,...
PREZ GOES ATOP HILL: HE'D BEAT HER IN '04 NEW YORK MATCHUP
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - President Bush would beat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in a face-off in heavily Democratic New York state, a startling new poll showed yesterday. In a race for the...
THE 'FISHER' ZING: WHY DENZEL GOT DISSED
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amSO WHY did the Golden Globes - while resoundingly confirming the Oscar front-runner status of "Chicago" - snub Denzel Washington's directing debut, "Antwone Fisher"? A classic triumph-over-adversity tale, "Antwone" has...
MTA COVERS ITS CASH TRACKS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amWITH the transit fare hike looming over the taxpayers' heads, the MTA keeps shooting itself in the foot. After the city comptroller vowed an audit of MTA finances, Chairman Peter...
MARIO PATAKI?
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY GOV. Pataki's refusal to rule out tax hikes to close the state's massive looming deficit may mark the start of the final stage of his remarkable transformation into a...
3RD TIME'S A CHARM: PATAKI ON A POLL ROLL
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki holds a strong 58 percent job approval rating, although the overall picture for the newly re-elected governor is mixed, a new poll showed yesterday. The Quinnipiac...
DESIGNS TO BLIGHT THE CITY
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amIT was not acceptable - oh, no, not acceptable at all - for the designers who formulated the first Ground Zero rebuilding plans to place a bunch of buildings around...
DESIGN RATES 'HIGH': POST'S PAGE 1 TOWERS STAND TALL IN INTERNET POLL OF READERS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amBritish architect Norman Foster's bold twin towers - which would be the world's tallest - emerged yesterday as a slim favorite in a Post Web poll on the new World...
SADDAM CAUGHT IN HIS BIG LIES: INVASION LOOMS AS U.S. DECLARES HE'S IN VIOLATION
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The United States yesterday marched closer toward war with Iraq, declaring Saddam Hussein in "material breach" of the U.N. resolution requiring him to disarm. "Saddam Hussein has so...
DAVE'S HOLIDAY J.LO JOKE HAS 'EM ROLLING IN 'AISLE'
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amHere's the hilarious photo everyone's talking about - late-night funnyman David Letterman with his new "bride," Jennifer Lopez. And if you believe that one, Dave has a bridge to sell...
BLOOMBERG OPEN TO VOUCHERS AFTER SCHOOL SYSTEM IS FIXED
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday that he'd be "happy" to consider the use of school vouchers - but only after city schools have improved dramatically. "I have certainly never been opposed...
RULING REKINDLES RACIAL TENSIONS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amIT TOOK no more than 10 seconds for a judge to rewrite 13 years of history. It took half that time for history to begin repeating itself. Suddenly, it felt...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amMANHATTAN A city cop was arrested on perjury charges yesterday, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said. On March 12, Michael Hernandez - an NYPD sergeant formerly assigned to the Manhattan...
'FATHER MIKE' FIGHTS A FIRE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amA New York Waterway ferry named for the beloved FDNY chaplain who died as he gave last rites to World Trade Center victims helped the Bravest extinguish a car fire...
DRUG BUSTS SMASH GANGS OF N.Y.
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amTwenty-nine suspects from six gangs were arrested yesterday as part of an undercover NYPD initiative that broke a criminal stranglehold on the University Heights section of The Bronx, police said....
MAY PAIN GNAW AWAY AT THIS HEARTLESS CREATURE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amMY mother, during the 86 years of her sainted life, had eight dachshund dogs - and they were all called Otto. As a pathological dog lover, she'd call all her...
WTC FRAUDS PUT OUT OF BUSINESS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amFederal authorities yesterday nailed two scam artists who ripped off almost $350,000 in World Trade Center relief funds by falsely claiming their businesses were damaged by the Sept. 11 attacks,...
FAMILIES REJOICE: JUDGE CLEARS CENTRAL PK. 5
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe families of five men who confessed to attacking the Central Park jogger broke out in cheers and applause in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday when a judge tossed their convictions...
CONN. YOUTH BURIED GIRLFRIEND'S BABY: COPS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe boyfriend of a Connecticut teen who secretly gave birth to a baby girl buried the child in his back yard, cops said yesterday. Cops are now trying to determine...
'BAGEL' MOB BOSS CREAMED IN COURT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe acting head of the Luchese crime family was arraigned in Manhattan yesterday on federal loan-sharking charges. For at least 10 years, Louis "Louie Crossbay" Daidone - who owns a...
UNION IS STICKING BY PRINCIPALS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe union representing school administrators yesterday proposed a series of proposals to improve conditions for principals and other supervisors, including providing more training, staffing and computers. The plan, submitted to...
MAYOR NIXES NYPD MOVE TO YANK RUDY'S BODYGUARDS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD planned to completely phase out Rudy Giuliani's police security detail - but Mayor Bloomberg intervened at the 11th hour so that several detectives will continue to protect him,...
CONSTRUCTION TOO TALL AN ORDER: EXPERTS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe new World Trade Center designs may be eye-catching and inventive - but no one is likely to build the super-tall towers many of them propose, developers, architects and real-estate...
'CLONE' CULT: BLESSED EVENT DUE SOON
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amA Canadian cult that has set up a human cloning company said yesterday it will birth the world's first human clone before the end of the month. The Raelians, a...
EDGY ALLIES BACK US VS. BUTCHER
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amU.S. allies criticized Iraq's arms declaration yesterday, but none went as far as America in labeling it a "material breach" of the U.N. resolution. Britain was the most fervent supporter...
ROCKLAND PAIR GUILTY IN $4M FRAUD
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amTwo Rockland County men were convicted yesterday of running a massive fraud scheme that netted $4 million - and of trying to scam millions more. Mordechai Samet and Chaim Hollender...
CITY DUCKS HANSOMS' UN-STABLE SITUATION
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe city says it won't be able to help a group of hansom cab drivers being booted out of their city-owned stable because it's being sold to developers. "There is...
LOTT FACES FRIST FIGHT: GOP SENATOR-SURGEON BIDS TO OUST HIM
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Embattled Sen. Trent Lott faced a new threat yesterday as popular Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee - a favorite of President Bush - began gathering support for a...
MIKE: FDNY MUST CUT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe city will have to lay off firefighters if it is prevented from cutting the size of firetruck crews from five members to four, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. The Uniformed...
MOB COP GUILTY: FACES 15 YEARS IN MURDER COVER-UP
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amA New York police detective was convicted yesterday of covering up his mobster cousin's role in the 1998 murder of a wheelchair-bound gangster in Brooklyn. Detective Michael Silvestri, 46, faces...
ACCOMPLICE GUILTY IN PIZZA-TEEN SLAY
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday found a man guilty of second-degree murder for his role in killing a pizza delivery boy. Samson Nylander - one of three people charged in the...
SECRET FLUNKERS: PARENTS IN DARK ABOUT FAILING SCHOOLS: POLL
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amA whopping 85 percent of city parents with kids in failing schools do not even know the institutions have been singled out by the state for low performance, according to...
STATE TROOPER KILLED IN REAR-END THRUWAY SMASH
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amA state trooper died in a fiery car wreck last night on the New York State Thruway in Yonkers, a police source said. Details of the crash were still sketchy...
$6.75M ORPHAN: HOSP MUST PAY GIRL FOR DAD'S DEATH
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amA jury yesterday awarded a 9-year- old girl up to $6.75 million because her father died after waiting 12 hours for treatment at Brooklyn Hospital Center. Richard McNeil, 45, died...
MURDER CONVICTION IN PIZZA SLAY
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday found a man guilty of second-degree murder for his role in killing a pizza delivery boy. Samson Nylander - one of three people charged in the...
DON'T BUY INTO LAKERS' SOB STORY
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amIT'S a trick. The Lakers, who came to the Meadowlands last night posing as the Grizzlies, must think we were born 24 seconds ago. Just because they didn't get the...
METS' CLIFF DEAL FADING
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amIt's a longshot that Cliff Floyd will come to Flushing. In all likelihood, John Thomson won't be coming back there, either. An industry source told The Post it would be...
THE FAN'S CORNER
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amLenny LaMonica has sat on the Raiders bench, hung out in the Islanders locker room and rapped with numerous athletes when he was host of his own radio show. "I'm...
GIANTS PUT FAITH IN 'D' ; LINE CAN CONTROL COLTS INSIDE RCA DOME
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE is no team on the Giants' victims list that stands better than 6-8, but just because they haven't beaten anybody yet doesn't mean they can't. While it's not hard...
CHAMP RETURNS TO HUNTER ROOTS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amTHOMAS Vonn got his start in ski racing at Hunter Mountain. Now, the U.S. ski team member and national GS champ is returning to the Catskills to share what he...
EISLEY GETS DON'S POINT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe Knicks have gone from surefire contestants in the LeBron James lottery to just two games out of the eighth and final playoff spot; and one of the biggest reasons...
JIM WON'T BROADCAST FALC & SAINT RESULTS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Around 4:30 p.m. last Sunday, Giant coach Jim Fassel gave out the news of Falcons and Saints' losses as if they were winning lottery tickets. With a playoff...
CONTRERAS, CLEMENS NEXT ON YANKEES' LIST
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amManagua is the center of the baseball universe today, and the Yankees are a major player in the race for Cuban free-agent pitcher Jose Contreras. And the team believes Roger...
NEWARK'S POETIC INJUSTICE : FUTURE HOME OF NETS HONORS HATE-MONGER
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amIMAGINE the tempest if the NBA just created and unanimously approved a title of honor for a proud, living and active white racist. Imagine . . . The problem with...
RJ GETS CALL VS. KOBE ; KITTLES INJURY LEAVES NETS FEW OPTIONS AT TWO-GUARD
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThere has been an obvious trickle-down effect on the Nets from losing two starters to injury. The bench is stretched to the limit. Versatility is challenged. And so the Nets...
WATCH OUT! HERE COMES GODZILLA: THIS HIDEKI DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A FAT TOAD
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Yankees believe the difference between one Hideki and another will be as great as the difference between a fat toad and Godzilla. In Hideki Matsui, the Yankees think they...
BARBER GETS SNUBBED BUT WAITS ON DECK
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amTiki Barber is a multi-media personality so he is well practiced in saying the right thing. Yesterday, he said it didn't even bother him a little that he wasn't picked...
DON'T BUY LAKERS' SOB STORY
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amIT'S a trick. The 10-16 Lakers, who came to the Meadowlands last night trying to disguise themselves as the Memphis Grizzlies must think we were born 24 seconds ago. There...
GOAL DROUGHT PLAGUES DEVILS
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - He tries everything else, but Pat Burns resists reuniting Joe Nieuwendyk and Jamie Langenbrunner. The Devils' coach is looking stubborn as his team has hit the skids. Nieuwendyk,...
ABRAHAM & MAWAE GET INVITES TO HAWAII
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amJET NOTES "Surprise, surprise." That was John Abraham's reaction after practice yesterday upon hearing the news that he was voted onto the AFC Pro Bowl team for the second consecutive...
RONDELL MAKES CASE FOR ANOTHER CHANCE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amOn the day the Yankees signed Hideki Matsui, Rondell White said he wants a second chance to show his miserable season was a fluke. "I know [Matsui] is a good...
ZEN MASTER JACKSON CRAVES AGGRESSIVE BRYANT
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amHere's something you probably haven't heard lately: Phil Jackson wants Kobe Bryant to be more selfish with the basketball. Seemed like the Nets would win an Eastern Conference trophy before...
BOSS THINKING GLOBAL DOMINATION
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES George Steinbrenner is not only thinking World Series these days, he is thinking world domination. The Boss said yesterday the three-year, $21 million signing of Hideki Matsui, which...
HE'S TRULY GRAND; HURTIN' MARTIN NEEDS 95 YARDS TO REACH MONSTER MILESTONE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amNinety-five rushing yards from now, whether they come against the Patriots Sunday night or in next week's regular-season finale, Curtis Martin will trot to the Jets sideline carrying the historic...
PROBLEMS LOOM FOR JOHNSON
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amDON'T know Robert Johnson from Masters & Johnson, but as Pete Rose explained to me yesterday, "Anybody who makes gazillions off an operation called BET has to be pretty slick."...
TYLER'S RETURN
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amCARDOZO 80F. Lewis 62 Throughout this summer and fall, Cardozo guard Cameron Tyler showed signs he was developing into one of the top players in the PSAL. But a broken...
MATSUI JOINS CROWD IN YANKEE OUTFIELD
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amNo matter how they crunch the numbers, the Yankees can't fit six bodies into three positions. Yet, after landing Hideki "Godzilla" Matsui yesterday, Joe Torre has six outfielders considered regulars...
JETER'S EAGER TO MEET NEWEST YANK TEAMMATE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amEveryone is anxious to see how Hideki Matsui will do in Pinstripes. That includes Derek Jeter. Asked if he's excited about the Japanese outfielder's arrival in New York, Jeter sounded...
STORMY NIGHT FOR UNDER-THE-WEATHER KOBE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amAs he sipped hot tea in a cold locker room, Kobe Bryant looked like he wanted to call in sick. For a week. It wasn't the best 12 hours for...
NIEUWENDYK GETS A GOAL!
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amDevils 3Penguins 1 PITTSBURGH - This was the sort of clinical play - especially the deadly finish - Joe Nieuwendyk used to supply regularly. This time, it had been gone...
RANGERS CAN'T SEAL DEAL ; FALL DESPITE 42-SHOT BARRAGE
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amCanadiens 3Rangers 1 They played reasonably well but not well enough to win. At this juncture, farther below NHL break-even than everybody else in the East except for Atlanta and...
NAKAMURA ALMOST WRAPPED UP
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThe Mets were waiting for official word late last night that Norihiro Nakamura had accepted their two-year, $7 million deal as speculation increased the sides had agreed to terms. The...
SWAMPING THE LAKERS ; KIDD STARS AS NETS AVENGE SWEEP
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amNets 98Lakers 71 Sure, NOW the Nets beat the Lakers. And last night, they sure did beat them. Nothing in the Lakers' Finals sweep last June seemed this lopsided. "I...
'D' ON SHAQ, KOBE MAKES BYRON PROUD
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES They were going against one of the greatest two-man combos in history. So the Nets threw everything they had at Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. "We did a...
LEETCH IN DARK ABOUT HIS RETURN
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amHe has suffered fractures of each ankle as well as of his right forearm. He has endured nerve damage in the shoulder following a missed check that sent him flying...
VOTERS LACKING LOVE FOR KIDD AND MARTIN
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES The NBA's annual no-logic popularity contest, the All-Star voting, has its first set of results and shows Jason Kidd as fourth among guards and Toronto's oft-injured Vince Carter...
PEY DAY: GIANTS' FORTUNES REST ON STOPPING MANNING
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amSometimes it's a football analyst's job to tell you what's not going on. Let Cris Collinsworth, who will work Sunday's crucial Giants-Colts matchup for Fox, explain: "If you ask [Giant...
5 QUESTIONS FOR BRAD NESSLER
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand talked to 46-year-old Brad Nessler, ABC/ESPN's lead play-by-play man for the NBA. ABC begins its coverage Christmas Day and ends it for the year...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: GIANTS VS. JETS (ON THE RADIO)
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amGiant play-by-player Bob Papa provides calls that allow you to see with your ears. Can there be a higher compliment for a radio broadcaster? When necessary, he also criticizes the...
THORNE CAUGHT IN SQUEEZE PLAY: EX-METCASTER WITHOUT BASEBALL GIG ... FOR NOW
December 20, 2002 | 5:00amIn the musical-chair world of baseball broadcasting, ex-Metcaster Gary Thorne could be left without a seat. When MSG Network was about to hire Sean McDonough for the Mets, word leaked...