May 2, 2003
ESPN STICKS IT TO CUSTOMERS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amESPN is sticking it to its customers. Again. The Walt Disney-owned sports cable network is asking cable and satellite operators to swallow a 20 percent rate increase, setting off the...
SEC RIPS PURCELL - DONALDSON BLASTS EXEC OVER FLIPPANT REMARK
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amFor Morgan Stanley CEO Phil Purcell, "sorry" is suddenly not the hardest word. Purcell sent a letter to SEC Chairman William Donaldson yesterday apologizing for flippant remarks he made to...
NBC COPY-WRIGHT - JEFF ZUCKER PREPPING FOR NETWORK'S TOP JOB
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amNBC is grooming its entertainment chief, Jeff Zucker, to be the heir apparent to Chairman Bob Wright, The Post has learned. Plans at the network are in the early stages...
GQ JUGGLE SENDS ELLROY, QUEENAN AND RAFFERTY PACKING
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amINSURGENT GQ Editor- in-Chief Jim Nelson, who is taking over the magazine after Art Cooper's 20-year run, appears to be blowing out many of his former boss' star writers with...
TRADERS DOWN UNDER BID UP BROTHEL ASSETS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amHollywood madam Heidi Fleiss and a troupe of half-naked hookers swept the staid chambers of the Sydney stock exchange yesterday to launch the world's first publicly traded brothel. Shares of...
MARTHA: EVERYONE SHOULD BE LIVING IN THREE ROOMS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amWhile waiting for the shoe to drop in her long-delayed insider trading case, Martha Stewart's wigging out a bit. In a rambling interview with Wired magazine, the domestic diva says...
OL' DIRTY BASTARD CHANGES HIS TUNE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amBad-boy rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard, who has once again changed his name - this time to Dirt McGirt - will soon be spinning the tunes again now that he is...
THATAWAY, JOSÉ LIMON
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amJOSÉ LIMON DANCE COMPANY Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave. at 19th Street. Call (212) 242-0800. Through May 11. ---- ONE of America's greatest dance troupes, the José Limon Dance Company,...
TOP-OF-THE-LINE ACTING DRIVES THIS 'CAR'
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amBLUE CAR [] A compelling character study. Running time: 96 minutes. Rated R (sexual content and language.) At the Angelika and the Lincoln Square. ------- ALARM bells should start clanging...
OH, RICKY YOU'RE SO ...DULL - SO IS A TACKY 3-HOUR RETURN TO 'I LOVE LUCY' AND CLUB BABALU
May 2, 2003 | 4:00am"Lucy" [ 1/2] Sunday at 8 p.m. on Ch. 2 ------- ALTHOUGH nobody loves a good exposé more than me, I'll always turn off the tube when say, the "E!...
A ROSE IS A ROSE - HOW CAN YOU MISS WITH 'GYPSY'?
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amGYPSY [] Shubert Theatre, 225 W. 44th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. (212) 239-6200. ----- THINGS ain't what they used to be, and frankly, when you've been hanging around...
AX LIZZIE BOREDOM
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amTHE LIZZIE MCGUIRE MOVIE [] Bubble gum for 'tweens. Running time: 90 minutes. Rated PG (mild thematic elements). At the E-Walk, the Loews 84th Street, the Village East, others. ------...
AMBITIOUS 'DANCER' TRIPS OVER OWN FEATS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amTHE DANCER UPSTAIRS [ 1/2] An ambitious political thriller. Running time: 124 minutes. Rated R (strong violence, language). At the AMC Empire, the Sunshine Cinema, the First and 62nd Cinemas....
HE'S GAME
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amOWNING MAHOWNY [ 1/2] The man who broke the bank. Running time: 104 minutes. Rated R (profanity). At the Empire, the First and 62nd, Loews Village, others. ---- PHILIP Seymour...
TWIN ENGINE - MTV VID KIDS GO FROM BAD TIMES TO GOOD CHARLOTTE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amTODAY, Good Charlotte is one of the fastest-rising stars of the punk-pop scene. Twins Benji and Joel Madden host a daily MTV video show called "All Things Rock," and they're...
'GREEK' IMAGE DIDN'T GET BETA
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA DREAM deal between a small Yonkers-based Internet retailer and MTV has turned into a big, fat Greek headache for the online store. The store, Greek 101.com - which supplies...
IS THAT YOU, BILLY RAY CYRUS?
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amSTOP the presses, wake the kids, phone the neighbors - Billy Ray Cyrus has lost his mullet. You heard right. The erstwhile longhaired country music star, who plays transplanted-to-New York...
TONYS GO TO THE MOVIES - 'CHICAGO' TO FIGURE IN TELECAST
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amSCUTTLEBUTT on the Tony Award telecast is making the rounds. Here are a few tidbits: * Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker turned down an offer to host the show....
'X'-ELLENT ADVENTURE -SLAM-DUNK SEQUEL OUTSCORES ORIGINAL
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amX2 [] Twice as good as the original. Running time: 134 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sci-fi violence, sexuality, mild profanity). At the Empire, the Ziegfeld, the Union Square, others. --------- 'X2"...
HE'S MR. TEED OFF
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMR. T has no pity for the Best Buy chain of discount stores. The former "A Team" star claims the retailer stole his likeness and made him look like a...
STARR REPORT
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe other Stern slams 'trash boy' Bobby Earlier this week I wrote about "Anna Nicole Show" sidekick Howard K. Stern apparently offering to box estranged-from- the-show designer Bobby Trendy on...
THE OSBOURNES PARENTS OF THE YEAR? - THEY DON'T KNOW JACK
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amNOW that Jack Osbourne is in rehab, it's time for some of us to admit we might have gone overboard in our praise of Ozzy and Sharon's parenting skills a...
TRANSIT CASH SCANDAL WON'T DELAY FARE HIKE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe $2 bus and subway fare was back on track yesterday even though a judge could still roll back the 50-cent increase after it goes into effect in two days....
L.I. MAY HAVE STATE'S 45TH SARS CASE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAnother possible case of SARS has been reported in Nassau County. The new case was the third reported in the county, health officials said. "It is a 45-year-old man who...
UNDERCOVER KILL - NARCS GUN DOWN MURDERER
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amTwo undercover cops who witnessed a daytime street-corner murder in Bedford-Stuyvesant yesterday shot and killed the gunman when he took aim at them, police said. The two Brooklyn narcotics cops...
COPS SHOOT KID-ASSAULT SUSPECT
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA police officer shot a mother who appeared to be assaulting her son inside their Brooklyn apartment last night, cops said. Helen Augusta, 45, and her son Troy, 3, were...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAvid golfer Orval "Red" Redhair finally sunk a hole in one - at the age of 97. "I never expected it. I had given up," said Redhair, who has played...
DRIVE TEACH IN GIRL-FONDLE BUST
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA grandfather from Queens who runs a driving instruction school has been arrested for sexually abusing two female students during lessons in Queens and on Long Island. Genaro Figueroa, 65,...
SOOO-EEE! - SORRY DETAILS OF THE AXIS OF TAXES' FEEDING FRENZY
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amTHE budget actions being taken by the Sil ver-Bruno Axis of Taxes will cause massive fiscal problems, harming both New York's economy and taxpayers statewide. The findings, released yesterday by...
COKE BENCHED AT MANTLE'S
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amCoca-Cola has struck out at Mickey Mantle's. The famed sports bar on Central Park South yesterday yanked all Coke products from its menu and replaced them with Pepsi. The move...
JORDAN SALVAGES SOME MUSEUM 'LOOT'
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Dozens of priceless Iraqi artworks and archeological items that may be from the National Museum in Baghdad and Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces have been recently confiscated in Jordan...
'WEST WING' CREATOR IS TAKING WING
May 2, 2003 | 4:00am"The West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin is bolting the once-powerful NBC White House drama. Sorkin broke the news late yesterday to shocked "West Wing" staffers, then sent a statement to...
LEMRICK IN ASTHMA RELAPSE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAccused Crown Heights stabber Lemrick Nelson Jr. fell prey to a sudden asthma attack in court yesterday - eerily similar to one he suffered after allegedly knifing Hasidic scholar Yankel...
CASH FLAP WON'T DELAY FARE HIKE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe $2 bus and subway fare was back on track yesterday even though a judge could still roll back the 50-cent increase after it goes into effect in two days....
A 'SHOT' OF ZEEKY - PHOTO CATCHES CRIME AS COPS ID GUNMAN
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA 32-year-old ex-con - already wanted in a shooting and a rape in Brooklyn - was identified yesterday as a suspect in the shooting of aspiring rapper Freaky Zeeky and...
HAMPTONS INDIANS IN CASINO BET
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island Indian tribe is expected to start construction on a controversial casino in the Hamptons as soon as next week - after signing a deal to have the...
GOV RIPS 'JOB KILLERS' - SEES 100,000 GOING DOWN A $13B HOLE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Saying New York faced a "defining point in its history," Gov. Pataki issued a report yesterday showing that the runaway Legislature's spendthrift budget will kill 100,000 jobs and...
BLOOMY HIGH ON HOUSING GROWTH
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg delivered an unusual "update" yesterday on his administration's plan to build and preserve 65,000 apartments. The plan was announced little more than four months ago. But the mayor,...
CUNY BREEDS TERROR-LOVING FUTURE LAWYERS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amI HAVE seen the future lawyers of this city. Lynne Stewart, the lawyer charged with helping a jailed terrorist smuggle jihad orders to flunkies, schlepped out to Queens yesterday to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A teenage boy and an elderly man were arrested yesterday in connection with Wednesday's shooting of a youth on a Claremont street, police said. The 15-year-old suspect...
STATE EYES 45TH SARS CASE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAnother possible case of SARS has been reported in Nassau County. The new case was the third reported in the county, health officials said. "It is a 45-year-old man who...
TOUCHDOWN EARNS HIGH-FIVES FROM FELLOW FLIERS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The landing wasn't perfect, but ex-fighter pilots gave high marks to the Navy pilot who landed the S-3B Viking jet on a cruising carrier 30 miles off the...
'MADONNA' MOBSTER MAY SQUEAL AGAIN
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amChris Paciello, the Miami club king-turned-mob informant, could soon be hauled into court to publicly detail his most horrific crime. More than two years ago, Paciello pleaded guilty to plotting...
TEMPLE-TORCHER GETS 15 YRS.
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA Yonkers man who wanted to send a message to "the f---ing rich Jews of Riverdale" was sentenced to five to 15 years behind bars yesterday for tossing two homemade...
HOPES FOR 'BUDDY' MATCH FADE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA young boy in Illinois probably is not the child who disappeared as a 4-year-old from North Carolina in October 2000, according to law-enforcement sources. Initial results of DNA tests...
WITNESS FINGERS COP-SLAY SUSPECTS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA key witness in a Manhattan cop-murder case told jurors yesterday he had "no doubt" the two defendants in the courtroom were in on the crime - handing prosecutors a...
SRO STRANGLER STRIKES ON UPPER W. SIDE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan woman was found strangled in an Upper West Side SRO yesterday with her hands bound and a sweater wrapped around her neck, police sources said. The woman, in...
MIKE COZIES UP TO SHELLY AND BRUNO
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg is lining up behind legislative leaders in Albany who are in the middle of a monumental budget war with Gov. Pataki. Bloomberg plans to travel to Albany today...
B'KLYN JUDGE OUSTED OVER SUBLET SCAM
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amthe state Court of Appeals threw a Brooklyn judge off the bench yesterday, rejecting an appeal of his ouster for improperly subletting a rent-controlled apartment, mismanaging an escrow account and...
GIS WIN BUSH'S VICTORY KUDOS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amStanding on the homeward-bound aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, President Bush last night said thank you to the troops who brought victory over Saddam Hussein, telling them they fought for...
MOB GAL FOUGHT 'OUTING': RAT
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amWhen the girlfriend of DeCavalcante boss John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato confided to a mobster that he was leading a secret gay life, she begged him not to tell anyone, jurors...
CRASH NIGHTMARE - N.J. COP, 5 OTHERS DIE IN HEAD-ON COLLISION
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAn off-duty New Jersey cop driving a Mercedes sports car crashed into a vehicle carrying five immigrant restaurant workers, killing them and himself in a disastrous collision early yesterday. Officer...
SKY CHIEF BUSH HITS THE DECK - PILOTS WAR JET EN ROUTE TO CARRIER
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In a page ripped right out of Hollywood, President Bush took control of a Navy Viking jet yesterday on his way to a landing aboard a moving aircraft...
'PSYCHO KILLER' BARES ETHNIC TARGETS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe suspected psycho killer told police he got "bad vibes" not only from the Middle Eastern men in Brooklyn and Queens he targeted - but also from Italians, Puerto Ricans...
MARY JO TO JOEY: GET YOUR BUTT OUT
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amHey, Joey Buttafuoco - you're outta here! That's the word from Joey's long-suffering wife, Mary Jo, who after surviving a shot in the head from her hubby's teen lover, Amy...
SO, WOULD YOU BUY A HOT DOG FROM THIS MAN? - MIKE GOES COMMERCIAL TO BOOST BIG APPLE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amHe handed out fliers for a Broadway show, loaded up on gifts, and even put on an apron and sold hot dogs. Mayor Bloomberg was a man of many parts...
BEACH SCREECH - HAMPTONS WAR OVER BILLIONAIRE'S DUNE 'ATTACK'
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThere's a sandstorm swirling in the Hamptons over billionaire Ira Rennert's bulldozing of hundreds of feet of natural dune and beach grass in front of his 29-bedroom seaside megamansion in...
TRIBE IN SHADY HAMPTONS CASINO DEAL
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island Indian tribe is expected to start construction on a controversial casino in the Hamptons as soon as next week - after signing a deal to have the...
RALLY TARGETS BENCH $TENCH
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAngry protesters picketed a Brooklyn Democratic dinner last night, demanding reforms to the system for selecting judges. The group of 40 people from the Coalition for an Independent Brooklyn Judiciary...
CITY PUFFERS UP IN $MOKE AGAIN
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThere's more bad news for the city's beleaguered smokers - the price of cigarettes is going up again, The Post has learned. A technical change in the sales-tax formula included...
RAP-LABEL 'DRUG-$$' SHOCKER
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMurder Inc., one of the nation's largest hip-hop record labels, is a money-laundering outfit created by a convicted Queens drug trafficker suspected in the shooting of rap star 50 Cent,...
FEDS BOOST AID TO CITY SCHOOLS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe Bush administration announced yesterday that New York City schools will get a 19 percent increase in federal poverty funding to serve poor students over the next year. Funding under...
N.Y. EYES 45TH CASE OF SARS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAnother possible case of SARS has been reported in Nassau County. The new case was the third reported in the county, health officials said. "It is a 45-year-old man who...
JUDGE CANNED FOR SUBLET SCAM
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe state Court of Appeals threw a Brooklyn judge off the bench yesterday, rejecting an appeal of his ouster for improperly subletting a rent-controlled apartment, mismanaging an escrow account and...
PREPPY SEX KIDS' DEAL BEATS JAIL
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amFour Queens prep-school athletes accused of forcing an underage classmate to have sex with them at a house party are negotiating a plea deal that will spare them any jail...
COPS SHOT EX-CON IN BACK
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAn ex-con gunned down by cops Wednesday after he failed to obey their command to drop his weapon was shot in the back, the Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday. Floyd...
THE BUSH REVOLUTION
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amLAST night, President Bush gave a speech about war and liberty that will be remembered for its emotionally overwhelming effect, delivered as it was before 2,000 cheering servicemen and women...
CITY PRINCIPALS UNION HAS A WAY TO CUT $50 MILLION FROM MAYOR BLOOMBERG'S BUDGET
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe city principals union has a way to cut $50 million from Mayor Bloomberg's budget - eliminate a new program to hire a parent coordinator for each of the city's...
PREPPY SEX KIDS DEAL TO SKIP JAIL
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amFour Queens prep-school athletes accused of forcing an underage classmate to have sex with them at a house party are negotiating a plea deal that will spare them any jail...
BX. TEMPLE-TORCHER GETS 15 YRS.
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA Yonkers man who wanted to send a message to "the f---ing rich Jews of Riverdale" was sentenced to five to 15 years behind bars yesterday for tossing two homemade...
HOPE FADES THAT ILLINOIS BOY IS MISSING 'BUDDY'
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA young boy in Illinois probably is not the child who disappeared as a 4-year-old from North Carolina in October 2000, according to law-enforcement sources. Initial results of DNA tests...
NETS GET IT DONE - BOOT BUCKS BEHIND KIDD, K-MART
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 6: Nets 113 - Bucks 101 MILWAUKEE - The Nets were all business beforehand. They felt it. They sensed it. And then they proved it. "It was just being...
JASON & PLAYMATES HAVE BRIGHT FUTURE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - The message was delivered with crystal clarity every time Kenyon Martin melted the Milwaukee defense, every time Richard Jefferson scraped his head against the Bradley Center ceiling. Every...
KENYON OK WITH US SNUB
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Kenyon Martin was bothered. Not by an Olympic snub. But by a sub-par Game 5. "I told you I wasn't going to have two games like that. I...
CELTICS REMATCH UP NEXT
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Some faces have changed, but the styles remain the same for the Nets and Celtics as they prepare for a rematch of their thrilling playoff series...
SUCCESS SHOULD SPUR KIDD TO STAY
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - All along, Jason Kidd has said that winning is the most important thing. Sustained success is the most important thing, more than money, more than fame, more than...
DROP A LINE, FISHING'S FINE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAS THE sun gets higher, so do the prospects for saltwater anglers as striped bass and flounder become more cooperative in New York's marine waters. Mackerel are slowly making their...
JASON TAKES STOCK-TON
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES MILWAUKEE - If Utah's Hall-of-Famer-in-waiting John Stockton indeed has played his last NBA game, he'll walk away with two records Jason Kidd feels are beyond challenge: the all-time...
SURPRISE: JEFFERSON LIKELY OLYMPIC PICK
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - All along, a Nets forward was discussed as a possibility for U.S. Olympic team consideration. Yes, Kenyon Martin was excited about the idea. Then word came this week...
SIX ENOUGH FOR NETS - LONG WEEKEND OFF INSPIRES JERSEY
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Nothing seemed more appealing to the Nets last night than the thought of a three-day weekend. But for the Bucks, the chance to win a Game 7 on...
YES, THAT'S WAY TO SHOW GAME
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amAFTER babies, puppies and packs of fresh Drake's Yodels, there's nothing more beautiful than live, we're-paying-attention sports television. Tuesday, YES's Yankees team of producer Steve Danz and director John Moore...
ACHING DAY VOWS HE'LL RIDE 'WANTED'
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK LOUISVILLE - Jockey Pat Day, who rides second-choice Ten Most Wanted in tomorrow's Kentucky Derby, took off his mounts the last three days here because of back spasms, but...
WILPONS ARE ON THEIR OWN
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amSTEVE PHILLIPS is going to be fired by the Mets soon. The only mystery now is the date. Like a man drowning in quicksand, holding an anvil, the end is...
BURNS INSISTS DEVILS DO THEIR HOMEWORK
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amDEVIL NOTES The Devils stand as the last perfect homers in these playoffs. Martin Brodeur says it was Pat Burns who made the Meadowlands so uninviting to their visitors. "We...
THE 'INSIDE SCOOP'
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amSome of New York's top horsemen were asked by The Post for their Derby pick. Here are their choices: Shug McGaughey, trainer of 1989 Derby runner-up Easy Goer: "I like...
KING KONG OF KENTUCKY - BUT 'EMPIRE' CAN BE SHOT DOWN BY 'ATS'
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Tomorrow's 129th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs is billed as "Empire Maker vs. the world." After winning two of the nation's premier Triple Crown preps,...
BLAZING A WINNING TRAIL
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amPHOENIX - Today's flip of the fedora goes to the Trail Blazers who've shown more intestinal fortitude than I would've thought allowed by law. After dropping the first three games...
METS LOSING MINDS - TEAM STILL BELIEVES IT'LL BE OK
May 2, 2003 | 4:00am10 INNINGS: Cardinals 6 - Mets 5 ST. LOUIS - The roof has caved in for the Mets, and they're asking if anyone else feels raindrops. They're swimming in sewage...
RICKEY REFUSES TO STOP RUNNING
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amPutting on a major league uniform is a dream to us, so we insist on dreamy endings. Seeming convinced overstayed welcomes will lead to tarnished memories, we look down on...
TAKING STOCKTON OF JASON
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES MILWAUKEE - If Utah's Hall-of-Famer-in-waiting John Stockton indeed has played his last NBA game, he'll walk away with two records Jason Kidd feels are beyond challenge: the all-time...
ROG TO JASON: GO GET 'EM!
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amEverybody is a hitting coach when a player goes as cold as Jason Giambi was going into last night's action. Including a future Hall-of-Fame pitcher. Giambi, who is in a...
KIDD'S PLAYMATES HAVE BRIGHT FUTURE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Sometimes, when the Nets are play ing at their best, when the fast break is cooking and the defense is smoking, when the principals are playing in perfect...
RICKEY NOT READY TO STOP RUNNING
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amPERHAPS because putting on a major league uniform is a dream, many of us believe they should be taken off for the final time immediately after a dreamy ending. Rickey...
TORRE KEEPS ON WINNING DESPITE BOSS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amTHE 1,601 victories are im pressive enough, and the next win will move him into a tie for the 14th most wins in major league history, but what's really stunning...
MOOSE MR. PERFECT - SHUTS DOWN M'S, IMPROVES TO 6-0
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 2 - Mariners 1 Mike Mussina is not only the best starter on the Yankees right now, he is the best in baseball. Last night, Mussina smothered Seattle's bats,...
NETS GET IT DONE - KIDD, K-MART STOP BUCKS TO WIN SERIES
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 6: Nets 113 - Bucks 101 MILWAUKEE - The Nets sensed it beforehand. They had a business-like approach to Game 6 last night. Focus on the task at hand...
BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR RIVERA
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Feeling no ill effects from the groin injury that forced him to the DL until this past Wednesday, Mariano Rivera pitched for the second consecutive night and picked...
'DAMN'-ED IF THEY DO - BONILLA, LEYRITZ IN LINE FOR FOX GIG
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amEx-Yankee Jim Leyritz and ex-Met Bobby Bonilla are on the short list to be the new baseball analyst for Fox Sports Net's "Best Damn Sports Show Period," the program's executive...
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR JIM ROME
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with sports talk-show host Jim Rome. Rome's radio show is on in 200 markets, and soon will be heard on 1050 AM-ESPN Radio...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: CHARLES BARKLEY VS. GREG ANTHONY (WHO'S A BETTER NBA ANALYST?)
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amDiscovered by MSG, wisely picked up by ESPN, Greg Anthony owns aspirations to be another Matt Lauer, co-hosting his own morning show one day. We're not saying Anthony can't do...
JOE'S GREATEST MANAGING FEAT . . . KEEPING THE BOSS AT BAY
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amTHE 1,600 wins are impressive enough, the 15th most in major league history, but what's really Amazin' is that Joe Torre has won 706 of those games with George Steinbrenner...
SLUMPING GIAMBI BACK AT FIRST BASE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES With Jason Giambi's mind a little scrambled because of his .194 batting average, Joe Torre moved the lefty slugger back to first base for the first time in...
THE COMEBACK KID - TORRE SAYS MARIANO IS GOOD TO GO ON CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amJoe Torre is not scared to hear "Enter Sandman" played two days in a row. In fact, Torre said he is "comfortable" with Mariano Rivera pitching consecutive games. However, Torre...
BETTORS, MEET YOUR 'MAKER'
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - By any measure of comprehensive handicapping, Empire Maker, the short-priced favorite, is the soaring star of the 129th Kentucky Derby tomorrow. He's the near perfect contender. He is...
JINTS PSYCHED FOR VISHANTE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amA year ago, the Giants were excited to see Jeremy Shockey wearing team-issued blue and white practice gear, as he romped around the field at the rookie mini-camp at Giants...
DEWAYNE ERA UNDER WAY
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amHe will not be hard to find. He will be wearing No. 63, the number he wore at Kentucky. All eyes will be on him. All media will be around...
FLOYD SAYS HE LOAFED IN SEVENTH
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. LOUIS - Major leaguers rarely admit to dogging it, but Cliff Floyd confessed yesterday. Hampered by a bad left knee and right Achilles, Floyd jaked it to...
FOR HIS ERA, STEVENS IS 'D' BEST
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amTHE NHL'S Oscars, next month's trophy awards ceremony, should do what Hollywood has long done for its greats: Scott Stevens should receive an honorary-and-equal Norris Trophy for lifetime achievement. Ray...
BETTOR'S GUIDE TO THE 129TH KENTUCKY DERBY
May 2, 2003 | 4:00am129th running: distance: 1 1/4 miles All starters carry 126 pounds; total purse: $1,115,2000 Post time: 6:04 p.m.; TV Ch. 4, 5:00 p.m. Horses are listed in post position order...
DERBY DOASGE
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amOnly two of the 17 horses in this year's Kentucky Derby don't have the "right" dosage to win the mile-and-a-quarter race: Peace Rules and Lone Star Sky. Dosage is a...
BEATING THE ODDS - EMPIRE MAKER OUT TO BREAK FAVORITE JINX IN DERBY
May 2, 2003 | 4:00amSaturday, Kenutcky Derby, 5 p.m., NBC What about the Kentucky Derby jinx, you ask? It's garbage, Derby oddsmaker and NBC analyst Mike Battaglia said. There is no curse, just logic,...