April 8, 2003
CHECKING THE BULL'S VITALS: WAS WALL STREET LISTENING?
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amTO Wall Street, corporate and Washington fat cats: With the war in Iraq going well and the stock market responding as we all expected with a very nice rally, you...
'NOT GUILTY' PLEA IN KAZAKH BRIBERY
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amA retired Mobil Oil executive is set to go to trial on charges he pocketed a $2 million kickback from a Manhattan banker who allegedly bribed Kazakhstan's prime minister while...
WWE SMACKDOWN AS UPN, CBS GET AD SALES
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amWrestling czar Vince McMahon is caught in a headlock and is crying uncle. Squeezed by losses and a sharp drop in both TV fans and arena audiences, McMahon has agreed...
PROFIT TAKERS CASH IN ON WAR - EARLY RISE ON BAGHDAD NEWS REVERSES AS DOW ENDS AT 8,300
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amWall Street keeps marching in step with U.S. troops. Stocks opened to a roaring start on news of coalition gains in Baghdad fighting, but slipped when the broader picture of...
REDSTONE, KARMAZIN GET $16.5M BONUSES
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amJust weeks after patching up their feud, Viacom's two top executives, Sumner Redstone and Mel Karmazin, are reaping $33 million in bonuses. Redstone - the 79-year-old chairman who's honeymooning from...
CBRE'S POWER OF 3 - TIGHE TAPS DEALMAKERS FOR MERGED FIRM
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amCB Richard Ellis tri-state CEO Mary Ann Tighe has set up the chain of command for the giant shop she'll be running when CBRE swallows up her former company, Insignia/ESG,...
HEARST END REIGN OF VICTORIA
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amHearst magazines pulled the plug on 16-year-old Victoria magazine yesterday. "I'm still reeling," said Editor-in-Chief Peggy Kennedy, who declined further comment. She and executive editor Jason Kontos were busy trying...
BELLE OF THE BALL - HACHETTE IS LEADING SUITOR FOR SEVENTEEN
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amHachette Filipacchi Media U.S. has emerged as a leading contender for Primedia's Seventeen magazine, as the New York media concern nears the finish line of what has turned out to...
STARR REPORT
April 8, 2003 | 4:00am'Heaven'-sent: Collins tracks down new CD "7th Heaven" star Stephen Collins has added a new self-titled CD to his already busy resume, which includes several novels - and the upcoming...
THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESS - IT'S NOT HAWAII AND THE SURFING'S LOUSY, BUT THIS NORTH SHORE IS PLENTY INTERESTING - AND A LOT CLOSER TO HOME, WRITES DAVID LANDSEL
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amIT doesn't really matter which exit you take - the point is to get off the L.I.E. as soon as humanly possible, once you hit the Nassau County line. The...
MOM, WHAT BIG FEET YOU HAVE - HAIRSPRAY'S HARVEY KEEPS HIS DRESS ON FOR A SITCOM
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amBROADWAY star Harvey Fierstein is going to play a mama - again. ABC is developing a pilot in which Fierstein will play a strong-mother, a la "Roseanne," in a blue-collar,...
COSMO THINKS CABLE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amTV could become a whole lot more Cosmopolitan soon. Execs at Hearst Corp. are developing a new cable channel based on Cosmo, the magazine for young women, according to the...
ABSOLUTELY SMIRNOFF
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amAS LONG AS WE BOTH SHALL LAUGH [] American Airlines Theater, 277 W. 42nd St., (212) 719-9393. Sunday and Monday evenings through May 26. ------ YAKOV Smirnoff is a Cold...
STARS OF THE NORTH FORK
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amYOU don't have to go to the Hamptons to star gaze on the East End. The North Fork, though not exactly known for its after-dark hangouts, has its own scene:...
MUSIC WAITS IN 'WINGS'
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amWILLIAM Wellman's "Wings" (1927), first winner of the Best Picture Oscar, is getting a rare reprise - with the original musical score performed live. The World War I love story...
DAMN! YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR 'AMERICAN IDOL' MOVIE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amTHE release date for the highly anticipated "American Idol" movie has been moved from late April to June 13. "We had the earlier [April] date, but we decided to move...
TUNES FROM SPOON A MOVING EXPERIENCE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amTHERE are drinking bands, jam bands and sex bands (and, of course, lesbian Russian duos). Austin's Spoon, on the other hand, is a running band, with the kind of urgent,...
CELEBRITY CRUZ - LATINO DRAMATIST WINS A PULITZER
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amAND the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama goes to . . . Nilo Cruz. The 42-year-old Cuban-American playwright's "Anna in the Tropics" - a Latino variation on the Anna Karenina...
HOT LINEUP
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amSUMMER may seem far, far away, but the 2003 Central Park SummerStage benefit concerts are only weeks away. Heading up the wildly diverse lineup just announced, Wilco and Sonic Youth...
TOP DAVE GUY QUITS ...BUT THE CUE CARD GUY STAYS
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amDAVID Letterman's "Late Show" has shuffled its deck behindthe scenes. Leaving "Late Show" after eight years is director Jerry Foley, who snagged four Emmy nominations while working on Letterman's late-night...
SO STRUNG OUT
April 8, 2003 | 4:00am"Crank: Made In America" [] Tonight at 10 on HBO ----- QUICK: What does "crank" mean to you? If you guessed your husband, wife, boss or next door neighbor who...
LISA LISA BACK & BUFF
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amBefore J.Lo, there was Lisa Lisa. Next weekend, the voluptuous '80s pop star will be making a guest appearance in "The Donkey Show," where she'll be trading in her hit...
BLUE HEAVEN -VIAGRA PUT THE FUN IN SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amHUGH Hefner and Bob Dole swear by it. Even Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein isn't above reaching for it. Viagra - the little blue pill that could - celebrates five years...
I SPY, DO YOU?
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amEVEN the most near-sighted traveler can see for miles with the latest generation of optical equipment. Binoculars have gone high-tech with a slew of features, including night vision. Canon 8X25...
TENANT WARNED TO 'CUT' THE NOISE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amA 60-year-old Long Island woman has been charged with entering the apartment above her own and threatening to kill her upstairs neighbor - because he was playing his stereo too...
NYERS TO GOV: FIGHT FOR $ECURITY
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - New Yorkers want Gov. Pataki to battle harder for more federal homeland-security funding. A Marist College poll released yesterday found that by more than 2 to 1 -...
YANKS TAKEN BY STORM - SNOWBALLS REPLACE BASEBALLS ON WACKY OPENING DAY
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amOld Man Winter sucker-punched the Big Apple yesterday with a rare April snowstorm that turned the city into a slippery mess. At least 5 inches of snow, whipped by bone-chilling...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amStop in the name of the hump. That's what they could say in California now that a 6-year-old camel named Bert has been sworn in as a sheriff's deputy. Bert...
RUMMY HAILS TRAGIC DEVELOPER
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday paid tribute to New York real-estate magnate Tony Fisher and his wife, Anne, who perished last week in a plane crash in Massachusetts, for their...
VICTORY - IT'S NOT OVER, BUT WE'VE WON
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amTHE war is won. The war is not over, but the war is won. The shooting has not ended. It is still a dangerous time for the 125,000 coalition troops,...
CROWE'S B'DAY GIFT: A BRIDE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amHunky heartbreaker Russell Crowe finally took the plunge yesterday - walking down the aisle on his birthday with longtime sweetheart Danielle Spencer. The romantic sunset wedding at the Oscar-winner's 800-acre...
QAEDA THUGS SET TO STRIKE FROM MEXICO
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amMore than a dozen al Qaeda operatives are hiding out in Mexico - desperately looking for a way to sneak over the border and carry out terrorist attacks on the...
MIDEAST CAFES TO CITY: LET US OFF THE HOOKAH
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amMahmoud Rico has been serving hookahs at his East Village tobacco shop for more than a decade. But now that Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in bars, Rico says he...
TOUGH NUT CRACKS - 'ODDFATHER' 'FESSES UP TO 30-YR. ACT
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amVincent "Chin" Gigante has admitted he's crazy like a fox. In a bizarre end to a legendary 30-year saga, the Genovese boss boldly dropped his "Oddfather" act yesterday - showing...
L.I. MAN FREE AS COURT TOSSES TORTOLA SLAY RAP
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amA British court yesterday quashed the conviction of a Long Island man jailed for life in the killing of a Connecticut woman in the British Virgin Islands three years ago,...
RYDER'S NEW ROLE: THE GOOD GIRL
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A judge gave sticky-fingered actress Winona Ryder rave reviews yesterday for finishing court-ordered community service and continuing her therapy. Ryder carried a large white handbag, wore...
IF 'CHIN' ISN'T CRAZY, HIS SHRINKS SHOULD BE COMMITTED
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amI HAVE a confession to make: I've committed the same crime as Vinny "Chin" Gigante - I've lied to a doctor. You know how it happens, you tell the doc...
BLOOM WARNED - IGNORED DOCTORS' BLOOD-CLOT WORRIES
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNBC News correspondent David Bloom learned he might have a potentially life-threatening health condition just days before he died covering the war in Iraq - but ignored doctors' warnings to...
COLIN POWELL YESTERDAY SAID THAT A TEAM OF AMERICAN ADVISERS WILL BE SENT TO IRAQ THIS WEEK TO BEGIN PLANNING A POSTWAR GOVERNMENT
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amSecretary of State Colin Powell yesterday said that a team of American advisers will be sent to Iraq this week to begin planning a postwar government there. Speaking to reporters...
GOP BILL WOULD BAR SALE OF CRIME MEMORABILIA
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Republicans will announce legislation today to end the "ghoulish" practice of buying and selling crime-scene memorabilia. The bill introduced by Assemblyman Patrick Manning (R-Dutchess) builds on the...
PROOF POSITIVE - EVIDENCE OF SADDAM'S EVIL LEAVES LEFTIES MUM
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amYESTERDAY, our Marines crossed the waters of Babylon, swimming their combat vehicles through river currents to press deeper into Baghdad - and taking the Iraqis utterly by surprise. The Army's...
NRA WHISTLEBLOWER STIRS UP GUN TRIAL
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amA former gun-industry insider yesterday accused handgun makers of turning a blind eye to street violence, during his first testimony as a whistleblower. "A large segment of the industry held...
DJ COPS PLEA IN RAP ON A RIVAL
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amA temporary truce was called yesterday in New York's hip-hop radio war, with DJ Funkmaster Flex 'fessing up in court to harassing rival Big Steph Lova last September. Funkmaster Flex...
RUMMY HAILS N.Y.'S TRAGIC PROPERTY BIG
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday paid tribute to New York real estate magnate Tony Fisher and his wife, Anne, who perished last week in a plane crash in Massachusetts, for...
REBUILDING CREW - BUSH, BLAIR MEET TO PLOT CONQUERED NATION'S FUTURE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush met in Northern Ireland last night with his most loyal war ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to map out a future for Iraq and decide...
PESSIMISM AS BUDGET TALKS STALL
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday said budget talks are going nowhere while Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver all but killed a proposal to install video slot machines in New York City....
MIKE TO AX 3,400
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg put municipal unions on no tice yesterday that he plans to pink-slip at least 3,400 city employees in the biggest layoffs since 1991 as part of his plan...
THE CITY WILL STILL HAVE PLENTY OF FLOWER POWER THIS SPRING
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amThe city will still have plenty of flower power this spring, despite yesterday's surprise snowstorm, horticultural experts say. And although millions of spring buds at botanical gardens, parks and residential...
MARINES OF MERCY SAVE INJURED VILLAGERS
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amWith the 1st Marine Division on the eastern outskirts of BaghdadTHE villagers came running, waving their arms and shouting for help early yesterday when they spotted the group of U.S....
JACKO $NUBS AUCTION HOUSE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amMichael Jackson is telling Sotheby's to "beat it" in court papers filed yesterday, claiming he won't pay for $1.3 million worth of 19th-century paintings he bought at auction because they...
APPLE'S SCHOOLKIDS GET SARS WARNING
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration yesterday urged parents and students to take precautions to avoid getting infected with the mysterious and deadly respiratory disease from Asia known as SARS. Schools Chancellor Joel...
TWO JOURNALISTS SLAIN, TWO OTHERS ABDUCTED
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amTwo foreign journalists were killed in a missile attack outside Baghdad yesterday, while another pair was kidnapped by armed Iraqis at a checkpoint. Julio Anguita Parrado, a New York-based writer...
"CHEMICAL ALI" KILLED IN HIS VILLA
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Gen. Ali Hassan al-Majid, the man known as "Chemical Ali" and one of Saddam Hussein's most vicious henchmen, was killed during an airstrike on his villa, military commanders...
FRANKS TURNS UP HEAT ON ENEMY'S GENERALS
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - War chief Gen. Tommy Franks has intensified efforts to convince Iraqi military commanders to surrender, and has personally written letters to several generals urging them to stop fighting...
GAS WARHEADS 'READY TO FIRE' - SEIZED CHEM STASHES MAY BE SMOKING GUN
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. experts will study samples of suspected nerve gas found in 20 newly discovered Iraqi missile warheads that may be the "smoking gun" of Saddam Hussein's long-denied illegal arms cache,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Cops are hunting for a man who sexually assaulted a young women and a teenager at knifepoint and attempted to assault another teen. On Feb. 10, a 14-year-old...
BAGHDAD RIVER RATS SCURRY - YANKS DRIVE HALF-NAKED TROOPS INTO TIGRIS
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amFired-up U.S. troops bagged enough of Baghdad to begin flaunting it in the dying regime's face yesterday, blowing up a huge downtown statue of Saddam and forcing Iraqi soldiers to...
BUNKER BOMBS TARGET SADDAM - BUTCHER AND EVIL SONS MAY HAVE DIED PLOTTING ESCAPE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. forces tipped off that Saddam Hussein and his sons were huddled in a bunker beneath a tony Baghdad restaurant plotting their escape bombed the site into oblivion yesterday, military...
FIRE HITS NEW AOL BUILDING
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amA spectacular four-alarm fire raged out of control early today at the AOL Time Warner building under construction at Columbus Circle. The blaze broke out at 12:37 a.m. and quickly...
FEDS EARMARK $16M FOR SARS RESEARCH
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amThe battle against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome received a $16 million boost yesterday when Sen. Hillary Clinton announced the securing of federal funds for SARS research. The funds are part...
NEIGHBOR URGED TO 'CUT' NOISE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amA 60-year-old Long Island woman has been charged with entering the apartment above her own and threatening to kill her upstairs neighbor - because he was playing his stereo too...
L.I. MAN TO GO FREE IN TORTOLA SLAY
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amA British court yesterday quashed the conviction of a Long Island man jailed for life in the killing a woman in the British Virgin Islands three years ago, and also...
NYERS TO GOV: GET US A BIGGER SECURITY $HARE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - New Yorkers want Gov. Pataki to fight harder for more federal homeland security funding. A Marist College poll released yesterday found that by more than 2-1 - 61-29...
TWO JOURNALISTS SLAIN, TWO ABDUCTED
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amTwo foreign journalists were killed in a missile attack outside Baghdad yesterday, while another pair was kidnapped by armed Iraqis at a checkpoint. Julio Anguita Parrado, the New York-based writer...
'CHEM ALI' CONFIRMED DEAD BY AN ALLIED KO
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Gen. Ali Hassan al-Majid, one of Saddam Hussein's most vicious henchmen, known as "Chemical Ali," was killed during an airstrike on his villa, military commanders confirmed yesterday. Defense...
BUNKER BOMBS TARGET SADDAM - COULD BE THE LAST LUNCH FOR BUTCHER AND HIS EVIL SONS
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. forces - tipped off that Saddam Hussein and his sons were huddled in a bunker beneath a tony Baghdad restaurant plotting their escape - bombed the site into oblivion...
CITY, GOV PLAY NICE IN FED-$$ GRAB
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg last night appeared to end their battle over federal homeland security dollars, announcing a compromise plan. The deal allows Pataki to claim for...
BLOOMBERG DOOMS FIREHOUSES IN MAY
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amCiting the need to close the city's budget gap, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that he's accepted a commission's decision to shutter eight firehouses as early as May 23. The mayor...
UNIONS IGNORED MIKE'S PLEA, SO HE'LL AX 3,400
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg put municipal unions on notice yesterday that he plans to pink-slip at least 3,400 city employees in the biggest layoffs since 1991 as part of his plan to...
CARMELO MOPS UP IN FINALE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - Carmelo Anthony changed the face of college basketball this season. The culmination came last night when Anthony scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the...
ACCORSI: WE'VE MADE GIANT IMPROVEMENTS
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amPhase one of what the Giants hope will build toward a Super Bowl push is over. They identified specific areas for improvement and used the first stage of free agency...
WEEKLY AWARD TO KIDD
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES The Nets went back-to-back. Again. For the second time this season, the Nets earned consecutive Eastern Conference Player of the Week honors when Jason Kidd was named the...
BRODEUR IS DEVILS' HUGE EDGE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amThe Devils have some goalie. The Bruins will use some goalie. Therein lies the first difference between the two teams that finished 21 points apart. Martin Brodeur, the only goaltender...
SNOW GETS CHANCE TO BURY NAYSAYERS
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amThis is the chance Garth Snow has been waiting for. This first-round playoff series against the best team in hockey is the feisty goalie's opportunity to snuff out any of...
DUMB AND DUMBER - SPREWELL, HOUSTON: KNICKS STILL HAVE SHOT
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amIt's usually not a good sign when a player quotes a Jim Carrey movie to describe his team's playoff chances, but Allan Houston's description was strangely appropriate. "If it's a...
MAGI-GAL MATCHUP - TITLE GAME A BATTLE OF DYNASTIES
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amATLANTA - It's the game everybody wanted, expected and can't wait to get started. Connecticut and Tennessee. Two programs that have won six of the last eight NCAA women's basketball...
FOR POSTELL, IT'S PLAYOFFS OR MINUTES
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Lavor Postell hopes the Knicks make the playoffs, but he understands that the best way for him to get on the court before the end of the season...
WITHOUT WALLACE, NETS HAVE LANE TO EAST
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNo team wants to win through injury to an opponent. But reality says the Nets' chances of repeating as regular-season Eastern Conference champs advanced considerably with the misfortune of the...
RED-HOT BURNITZ SIMPLY SWINGING - NEW SEASON, NEW APPROACH PAYING OFF FOR METS' SLUGGER
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Mets fantasize about Vladimir Guerrero in right field next year - like just about everyone else in baseball. Jeromy Burnitz's hot start may not have squashed that...
TAURASI: I'LL RETURN AS SENIOR
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK ATLANTA - Diana Taurasi has earned every national Player of the Year award. She might win her second straight national title tonight. And she's been compared to Magic Johnson,...
MATSUI EAGER FOR STADIUM DEBUT
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amAs a paying customer for a 1999 Red Sox-Yankees playoff game when he sat behind home plate, Hideki Matsui knows what it's like to be a spectator when Yankee Stadium...
FOR SENIOR VOLS, 2ND PRIZE WOULD BE SMALL CONSOLATION
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amATLANTA - The last game of the season also is the last chance for a couple of Tennessee seniors. Kara Lawson and Gwen Jackson came to Knoxville in 1999 and...
BOMBERS STILL SEEKING RELIEF
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES With new faces and disabling injuries to Steve Karsay and Mariano Rivera, the Yankees' bullpen wasn't expected to be as good in April as it would be in...
KRAUSE CRASH LONG OVERDUE
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Who would've thought Jerry "Crumbs" Krause's regime would topple before Saddam Hussein's? In power since March of '85, the bellicose Bulls GM took a well-deserved, long-overdue hit yesterday...
GOOD NEWS FOR DEREK - YANKEE SHORTSTOP WON'T NEED SURGERY
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amDerek Jeter heard exactly what he expected from Dr. James Andrews, who told the All-Star shortstop his dislocated left shoulder will not require surgery. Jeter, who visited the renowned orthopedic...
HERBIE WOULDN'T MIND A RANGER RETURN
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amA year after walking away from the job that was essentially his, Herb Brooks is back in the picture - or at least would very much like to be, sources...
CAN FTOREK TRICK WORK AGAIN?
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amDEVIL NOTES It worked wonders once. The Bruins are retreading that old Devil trick of firing Robbie Ftorek. The Devils fired Ftorek with eight games left in the 1999-2000 season,...
'NET REPORT: MLB VOIDED REYNOLDS DEAL
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Shane Reynolds and the Mets may have had two tentative contracts voided by the commissioner's office over the weekend, according to an internet report last night....
BOEHEIM FINALLY BURIES GHOST OF NEW ORLEANS
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - Even on the cusp of his greatest, grandest glory, Jim Boeheim had to wait a little bit longer, put in a few extra seconds of agony. But...
KING 'CUSE IS IN HOOP HEAVEN - ORANGEMEN HOLD OFF KANSAS TO GRAB FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amSyracuse 81 - Kansas 78 NEW ORLEANS - Sixteen years ago, Syracuse and coach Jim Boeheim left the Crescent City crestfallen. Today they awaken as conquering heroes - NCAA champs...
ROY ENDS GAME WITH FOUL (MOUTH)
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amAn upset Roy Williams swore on CBS' air during an interview after his Kansas team lost the national title to Syracuse. The swear came in response to a follow-up question...
MAC HAS HALF TO REMEMBER
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - No matter what else happens the rest of his career, the rest of his life, Gerry McNamara will always have the 17 first-half minutes he played against...
ORANGE BENCH COMES UP BIG
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - Jim Boeheim never gave up on Josh Pace and Billy Edelin. What amazes him is that those players never gave up on themselves. Edelin was one of...
... THEN COMMITS PERSONAL 'FOUL'
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amAn upset Roy Williams swore on CBS' air during an interview after his Kansas team lost the national title to Syracuse. The swear came in response to a follow-up question...
EVEN NOW, JIMMY V LEAVES 'EM LAUGHING
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - Roy Williams was talking the other day about his first trip to the NCAA Championship game, and it made perfect sense that Jim Valvano would play a...
FINALLY, BOEHEIM SHEDS SOME TEARS OF JOY
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - He finally gave in when his daughter, Elizabeth, buried her head in his chest, her sobs muffled by his sports coat. Even Jim Boeheim couldn't play the...
KING 'CUSE IS IN HOOP HEAVEN - ORANGEMEN HANG ON VS. KANSAS TO COP FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amSyracuse81Kansas78 NEW ORLEANS - Sixteen years ago the Orangemen left the Crescent City with crestfallen hearts. Today they awaken as conquering heroes - NCAA champs for the first time in...
HOOPLA HEAVEN ON FINAL NIGHT - NO EX-'CUSE FOR ORANGE NOT TO BE BACK NEXT YEAR
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amNEW ORLEANS - Let's assume that at the end of the day, Syracuse's Carmelo Anthony, the freshman phenom who has pulled a Pervis Ellison, leading his team to the National...
ALL SIGNS FOR WILLIAMS POINT TO TOBACCO ROAD
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amFINALS NOTEBOOK NEW ORELANS - Did Roy Williams coach his last game at Kansas last night? Sources close to the North Carolina program say he has. According to the source,...
ARBITER: CHAD IS A REDSKIN
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amForget the New York-New England "border war" of the Bill Parcells era. That was like Nerf football compared to the current hostilities between New York and Washington. The bad blood...
PEN PROBLEMS AREN'T AS DIRE AS THEY SEEM
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Forget about Armando Benitez for a moment, if you can. The Met closer's blowup eclipsed an early bright spot, short relief, which looks to be a...
THIS AMATEUR'S ONE FOR THE AGED
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The rain drops that were pelting the windows of the Augusta National clubhouse like errant Pinnacles from a beginner's practice range were plentiful enough to close down the...