November 18, 2003
LARRY TISCH, FAMILY MAN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amI once asked Larry Tisch if he felt vindicated after the stock market bubble popped. The answer I expected was yes. After all, Tisch caught a lot of grief in...
TIME WARNER CENTER HOPES FOR MAGIC MIX
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amMEET New York's newest restaurateurs: Kenneth Himmel, Stephen Ross and William Mack. It turns out that the Related Cos. and Apollo Real Estate Advisors honchos are 50 percent partners -...
BLACK DAYS AHEAD FOR OUSTED CONRAD
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amConrad Black's problems may be just beginning. As dramatic as yesterday's announcement was that Black was stepping down as CEO of Hollinger International, the investigation into the financial scandal is...
PUBLISHER'S JET-SETTING WIFE SPENT $3M SPIFFING UP PLANE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amConrad Black's wife, Barbara Amiel - better known as Lady Black - spent more than $3 million to redecorate the interior of one of Hollinger's corporate jets, The Post has...
T.H. LEE GETS INTO BED WITH SIMMONS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amCash-flush Thomas H. Lee Partners will be stuffing some money into its mattresses. The Boston-based buyout firm said yesterday it would buy Simmons Co., the nation's second-biggest bedding manufacturer behind...
PRICEY ASSETS LOOK LIKE TOUGH SELL
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amNow that Hollinger is officially in play, the list of potential suitors is long - but finding a buyer willing to pay $2 billion or more for the company could...
TAILOR-MADE CEO - ARONSSON TO TAKE THE REINS AT DONNA KARAN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amJeffry Aronsson, a former corporate lawyer who built Oscar de la Renta into a sizeable business, is poised to take the reins of Donna Karan at a critical juncture for...
KPMG AUDITORS MAY LAND ON HOLLINGER FRONT LINES
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amThe Hollinger International scandal may be the first test for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the group created in the aftermath of accounting debacles like Enron. If investigators discover...
STILL IN CONTROL, MOGUL'S VERY MUCH IN THE BLACK
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amJust hours after Conrad Black said he's quitting his media company, its stock surged to earn him a $62.2 million windfall. The 59-year-old mogul will still control the shaky Hollinger...
TOYS 'R' US CUTS STORES, FACES LOSS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amToys 'R' Us reported a wider third quarter loss, lowered its earnings guidance for the year and said it would close its Kids 'R' Us and Imaginarium stores to help...
ASSETS MAY BE A TOUGH SELL
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amNow that Hollinger is officially in play, the list of potential suitors is long - but finding a buyer willing to pay $2 billion or more for the company could...
BLINK: DON'T MISS IT
November 18, 2003 | 5:00am* BLINK-182 "Blink-182" [] Geffen Forget what you think you know about SoCal pop punks Blink-182. On the band's self-titled new disc, the trio known for raunch 'n' roll rock...
BRITNEY'S IN THE OH! 'ZONE'
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amTHIS is an abridged review of Britney Spears' "In the Zone," which appeared in The Post last week. The album is available in stores today.* BRITNEY SPEARS "In the Zone"...
PARADISUS FOUND
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amWHO would have guessed that Puerto Rico has yet to be introduced to the concept of the all-inclusive vacation? For better or worse, that wait's over. On Dec. 20, Sol...
'QUEER EYE' MAKEOVERS TO TARGET STRAIGHT GALS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amNOW NBC will be turning a "Queer Eye" to straight women. "Gal Pals," a syndicated show set to launch next fall, will feature five gay men making over straight women,...
TV NEW CELL-ING POINT
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amYOU can watch the news while riding a bus, thanks to a new service that turns some cell phones into mini-TVs. For $9.99 a month, Sprint customers who have one...
FROM SHTETL, THEY SHOW METTLE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amTHE LADY NEXT DOOR At the Jewish Community Center, 334 Amsterdam Ave. Through Jan. 4. Tele-charge, (212) 239-6200. ----- THE Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, one of the city's most remarkable cultural...
TAKING 'SUPER' GAMBLE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amNBC won't fold on Super Bowl Sunday. The network is gambling that viewers will tune in to "The World Series of Poker" for two hours, instead of the barrage of...
MIRREN TO REPRISE 'PRIME SUSPECT' ROLE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amMYSTERY fans can rest easy. Helen Mirren has reprised the role that made her a star super-sleuth in the U.K. hit "Prime Suspect." Mirren is back in "Prime Suspect: The...
JESSICA CANCELS TV TALKS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amJESSICA Lynch has cancelled some personal appearances, including a spot on last night's "Larry King Live," because of the flu. "Right now she's at home in bed, but hopefully she'll...
FROM 'RUGRATS' TO MALL RATS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amFORGET the diapers and the baby talk - the Rugrats are "All Grown Up" in a new series of adventures launching on Nickelodeon. Angelica, Tommy, Chuckie, Phil & Lil, Susie...
'NAKED' TRUTH: THE BEATLES LAST DISC, STRIPPED TO ITS BARE ESSENTIALS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amTHE BEATLES"Let It Be . . . Naked" Capitol (four stars) Tripping through time and across the musical universe, The Beatles are back - again - with "Let It Be...
DIXIE CHICK BLABS ON
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amOLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL [ 1/2] Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St.; (212) 239-6200 ---- ELLEN Burstyn opened at the Longacre Theatre last night in her one-woman play,...
STARR REPORT
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amShe's Hepp at 4 Karen Hepp will be joining Ch. 4 early next month to co- anchor "Today in New York" with David Ushery. Hepp comes to Ch. 4 from...
BACK IN DUTCH - HATED REAGAN-CBS MOVIE SUDDENLY FINDS EARLY AIRDATE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00am"THE Reagans" are back. The controversial made-for-TV movie that CBS canceled two weeks ago will now air on Showtime Nov. 30. The announcement came as a big surprise because officials...
JUST WEIGHT AND SEE: DAVID LANDSEL GETS HEALTHY IN LAGUNA BEACH
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amTHE treadmills in the fitness center at the Spa Montage in Laguna Beach stare out at the ocean. The treadmills at my gym in Brooklyn face the wall. So when...
HELP, I'M MELTING: STIR THE POT ON YOUR NEXT VISIT TO SOCAL, WRITES DAVID LANDSEL
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amIT should be noted that if all one really wanted to do was see the world in as little time as possible, Queens' Roosevelt Avenue is just a few stops...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amSTATEN ISLAND * A 65-year-old man was hospitalized with chest pains yesterday after he chased two teens who stole his golf cart at the South Shore Country Club, police said....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amWhen Mark Hogg of Louisville, Ky., swallowed 94 live worms in 30 seconds to set a record three years ago, he probably thought nobody would be crazy enough to try...
STEM-CELL PARALYSIS HOPE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amDoctors say they have successfully restored feeling to the limbs of paralyzed patients after treating them with stem cells. The encouraging news came from the University of San Paulo in...
CONSPIRACY KNOLL-IT-ALLS TOP JFK POLL
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amNearly 40 years after President Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets in Dallas, a wide majority of Americans still believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. A...
NOT THE SAME RUSH - HONESTY, ANGER MARK RETURN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amRUSH Limbaugh made an unforgettable return to the airwaves yesterday - painful, funny, awkward, emotional and occasionally very raw. Limbaugh sought to assure his listeners that no efforts had been...
CHENEY DOLLAR DRIVE HITS UPSTATE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amLIVERPOOL, N.Y. - Vice President Dick Cheney swept through upstate New York yesterday, raking in $700,000 in donations for his and President Bush's re-election effort. Loyal Republicans paid $1,000 a...
GIS DESTROY THUG LEADER'S HOME
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - American forces yesterday blew up a summer palace owned by the leader of the Ba'athist terrorist attacks, as part of a massive new offensive against the insurgents in...
DEAN JUMPS TO BIGGEST N.H. LEAD YET
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Howard Dean jumped out to his largest lead yet in New Hampshire and launched an attack on Dick Gephardt over Iraq in a new TV ad in closely...
MARTHA OUT TO KO CHARGES
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amEmbattled domestic diva Martha Stewart goes to court today in a bid to have two of the most serious federal charges against her dismissed before her Jan. 12 trial. Stewart...
MAN BEHIND GOLDEN MIKE HASN'T LOST PASSION
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amI would guess that not since Franklin Delano Roosevelt talked about the "date that will live in infamy," or the Duke of Windsor gave up a throne for a tart,...
AL PACINO DOESN'T KNOW ZIP
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA dazed-looking, disheveled Al Pacino flubbed his lines in Manhattan Family Court yesterday, forgetting his ZIP code and giving the wrong number of another address to the magistrate who is...
TISCH'S 'AMERICAN DREAM' LIFE CELEBRATED
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA Who's Who of New York society turned out yesterday to bid a final farewell to business magnate Larry Tisch, remembering the Loews chairman and former CBS chief as "the...
NEWS CORP. PREZ HONORED
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amNews Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin was honored yesterday by the Center for Communication, which hosts seminars for students interested in becoming media professionals. At a ceremony...
ENGLAND ON GUARD AMID VISIT BY BUSH
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amLONDON - Britain is mounting "unprecedented" security for President Bush, with 14,000 police on guard - triple what was planned - as he flies here tonight for a state visit...
N.Y.'S CONN. 'POWER' PLAY
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A new energy bill moving through Congress would let New York permanently feed electricity off Connecticut, leaving on a switch that was flipped in last summer's big blackout....
MALL-MASSAGE MADAM BUSTED: COPS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens madam who ran a dozen massage parlors on Long Island has been busted for running a prostitution ring, cops said yesterday. Yun Suk Kim, 53, of 240-32 66th...
OFF-DUTY COP SHOOTS ARMED BANDIT
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAn off-duty NYPD cop returning to her Long Island home just after midnight yesterday came face to face with two ski-masked burglars - one of whom pointed a gun at...
MOLEST VICTIM IDS RAPE SUSPECT
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA Bronx rapist who preyed on women leaving the subway was socked with new charges after a third victim came forward at the moment he was being arrested, police sources...
POL'S 120G 'COOKED-BOOK' BU$T
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA former city health department executive was busted yesterday on charges he embezzled $120,000, mainly by submitting bogus invoices sfrom a purported catering company. Department bean counters issued 40 different...
SHARON: I'LL MEET QUREIA
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amROME - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday he expects to meet his Palestinian counterpart "in the next few days" to revive the U.S.-backed peace "road map." Sharon's meeting...
HEARINGS PROVIDE DISTURBING LESSON ON LABOR'S IRON GRIP
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amIN RACE-CONSCIOUS New York, nothing is as volatile, and powerful, as "minority rights." Except: labor. Particularly in the schools, protecting union jobs (and the rules that govern them) is Priority...
CLICHÉ-FREE SCHWARZENEGGER PUTS IN SOLID DEBUT PERFORMANCE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAT LEAST he didn't say, "Hasta la vista, Gray Davis." Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to have put the movie clichés behind him now that he's been elected and sworn in as...
FIRE GUTS B'KLYN TEMPLE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA fire ripped through a small Brooklyn synagogue yesterday, gutting the front of the building and injuring more than a dozen firefighters. While the fire is not believed to be...
TEENS NAILED IN MOSQUE ATTACK
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amTwo Queens teenagers have been charged with punching two Pakistani brothers outside a mosque in Corona, authorities said yesterday. "I'm going to get you, Taliban," one of the teens shouted...
ARNIE'S H'WOOD ENDING NEW GOV TAKES OATH OF OFFICE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO, Calif. - Hollywood muscleman-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took the oath of office yesterday, vowing he'll muster every ounce of personal strength to pump up and lead California. Wife Maria Shriver...
HOT LOVER SAYS DADDY'S COLD AS ICE-T
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amRapper and actor Ice-T does not want to visit or even look at the 2-year-old boy he fathered, but he wants to use the child as a tax deduction, the...
KLEIN: UNION RULES CHEAT MINORITY KIDS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amChancellor Joel Klein lashed out yesterday at union work rules for teachers and principals - telling the City Council they most often hurt the worst-performing schools, which have large poor...
FAB FOUR-EVER - BEATLES DOMINATE BEST DISCS EVER MADE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAfter all these years, you still can't beat the Beatles - the Fab Four's classic "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has been named the best album of all time...
SUICIDAL FERRY-CRASH PILOT FINALLY MEETS WITH FEDS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amThe suicidal pilot of the Staten Island Ferry that slammed into a pier last month met with federal prosecutors for the first time yesterday while the boat's embattled captain continued...
RIKERS WARDEN SENTENCED FOR DALI THEFT
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA warden who swiped a valuable Salvador Dali sketch from a Rikers Island jail was sent back to Rikers yesterday - in handcuffs - after being sentenced to one to...
U.S. FEARS 'REPERCUSSIONS' IN YEMEN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAs two Yemenis accused of funneling millions of dollars to al Qaeda made their first appearance in Brooklyn federal court yesterday, the United States warned Americans in Yemen to beware...
WALL ST. 'SPECULATOR' PICKS THE WRONG POCKET
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA lottery winner had a run-in with a real loser yesterday. The unidentified winner had just collected his $2,500 windfall at the New York State Lottery's claims center at 1:30...
BAT-SLAY HORROR - COPS HUNT BOYFRIEND WHO WAS JEALOUS OF PLUMBER
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA 36-year-old mom was found dead with her head bashed in at her Queens home yesterday morning after violently arguing with her jealous live-in beau over the plumber, cops and...
EXECUTION SOUGHT IN TRIPLE SLAY
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amThe sister of one of three victims fatally shot over loud music in Sheepshead Bay earlier this year may get her wish after all - death for the suspect. Brooklyn...
'TWIN PIERS' DISS-IGNER FILES LAWSUIT
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA Ground Zero memorial designer who was disqualified as a finalist went to court yesterday to force officials to put his plan back in the running - but redevelopment officials...
DREADED TEACHER A PRIME EXAMPLE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA tenured Bronx high-school teacher, kept on the staff until earlier this month despite a 12-year record of sexual harassment complaints, is an example of how hard it is to...
COPS CLEARED - ACQUITTED IN SLAY OF HAMMER MAN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amCops who gunned down a hammer-wielding mentally ill man in 1999 were acting in self-defense, a federal jury found yesterday. The officers wiped tears of relief from their eyes as...
SUBWAY MYSTERY - IRAN DUO CAUGHT TAPING
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amTwo Iranian diplomats who arrived in New York recently to work at their country's U.N. mission are being investigated by the FBI after a transit cop caught them videotaping the...
NORMAN INDICTED IN JUDGE SCANDAL
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amBrooklyn Democratic boss Clarence Norman and his top lieutenant have been indicted on extortion and grand-larceny charges for allegedly pressuring two judges to hire favored consultants in exchange for the...
B'KLYN GUNMAN KILLS BOY & MAN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAn 8-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were shot dead in front of a Brooklyn apartment building early last night. Police said a man approached the two at 5:28 p.m....
LIZA HIT$ GEST BACK
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAccused punch-drunk diva Liza Minnelli is taking a very public swing at estranged hubby David Gest by slapping him with a lawsuit for at least $2 million for allegedly ripping...
DIAL-FOR-$$ CON GETS CELL TIME
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA prisoner who pulled off a $3 million telephone scam from his cell by pretending to work for big-shot entertainment execs was sent back to the slammer yesterday for more...
ARNIE'S H'WOOD ENDING - NEW GOV TAKES OATH OF OFFICE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO, Calif. - Hollywood muscleman-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took the oath of office yesterday, vowing he'll muster every ounce of personal strength to pump up and lead California. Schwarzenegger repeated the...
CITY BIG NABBED ON EMBEZZLE RAP
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA former city Health Department executive was busted yesterday on charges he embezzled $120,000, mainly by submitting bogus invoices from a purported catering company. Department bean counters issued 40 different...
'CIG' WIDOW'S $400 MIL SUIT
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amHarry Frankson had no idea he was risking his life when he started smoking at 14, but his cigarettes' maker did, a lawyer for his widow told a jury considering...
FIRE GUTS B'KLYN SYNAGOGUE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA fire ripped through a small Brooklyn synagogue yesterday, gutting the front of the building and injuring more than a dozen firefighters. While the fire is not believed to be...
FUROR AS FLT. 587 MEMORIAL IS REMOVED
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amCity workers yesterday dismantled a makeshift memorial to those who died on Flight 587 - angering some victims' relatives. Families knew the memorial, on a plywood fence, would come down,...
TRAGIC INNOCENT - B'KLYN BOY, 8, SLAIN IN CROSSFIRE BEFORE HORRIFIED DAD
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAn 8-year-old Brooklyn boy, walking with his stepdad and his younger brother and sister, was killed yesterday when a wayward bullet slammed into his chest. Little Daysean Hill died despite...
LOVER RAPS PAPA ICE-T
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amRapper and actor Ice-T does not want to visit or even look at the 2-year-old boy he fathered, but he wants to use the child as a tax deduction, the...
MARTHA OUT TO KO CHARGES IN COURT TODAY
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amEmbattled domestic diva Martha Stewart goes to court today in a bid to have two of the most serious federal charges against her dismissed before her Jan. 12 trial. Stewart...
COPS CLEARED: ACQUITTED IN SLAY OF HAMMER MAN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amCops who gunned down a hammer-wielding mentally ill man in 1999 were acting in self-defense, a federal jury found yesterday. The officers wiped tears of relief from their eyes as...
JULIA BLASTS 'BEASTLY' BREAKUP LIE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amJulia Roberts has come out swinging against the gossip that her marriage to cameraman Danny Moder is in trouble - calling the rumor mill "the evil beast." "I feel like...
ENGLAND ON GUARD: PROTESTERS AWAITING BUSH VISIT
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amLONDON - Britain is mounting "unprecedented" security for President Bush, with 14,000 police on guard - triple what was planned - as he flies here tonight for a state visit...
YEMENIS CAUGHT FUNNELING MILLIONS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAs two Yemenis accused of funneling millions of dollars to al Qaeda made their first appearance in Brooklyn federal court yesterday, the United States warned Americans in Yemen to beware...
GIS DESTROY HOME OF GUERRILLA LEADER
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - American forces yesterday blew up a summer palace owned by the leader of the Ba'athist terrorist attacks, as part of a massive new offensive against the insurgents in...
HEALTHY ROGERS SET TO GO
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amHis body seems trimmer. His ailments all look healed. His confidence appears as high as it has reached since he arrived in New Jersey. Finally, Rodney Rogers is convinced he's...
BCS PENALIZES USC FOR WIN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amIt's BCS madness, again. Even though Southern Cal beat Arizona 45-0 and Ohio State eked out a 16-13 overtime win against Purdue on Saturday, the BCS showed what a flawed...
DEFENSE RESTS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amJET REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: A Chad Pennington (11-of-14, 219 yards, 3 TDs, 158.3 rating) was magnificent. He simply didn't have enough plays. The Jets' weakness was 1-of-7 on third downs, which...
FROM BAD TO WORSE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amGiant Report Card QUARTERBACKS: C- At times, Kerry Collins (25 of 44, 268 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) looked as if he was just flinging the ball and hoping. His...
STEROID USERS ARE IDIOTS: STRAHAN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES If reports are true that four Raiders have tested positive for the new designer steroid called THG, then they deserve the punishment coming to them from the NFL,...
GO NORTHWEST, MARK - MESSIER MUST PLAY ALUMNI GAME
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amSAN JOSE - He is Mark Messier and I am not. Which is to acknowledge that he hardly needs me telling him what to do. Nevertheless, I am telling him:...
FASSEL PLEA: DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR ME
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amYES, he used the Q- word, and yes, he is sorry he did. The pressure here can make you crack, or at the very least make you say things you...
TOOTOO HARD HIT GIVES MARTINEK A HEADS-UP
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - Radek Martinek learned a valuable lesson Saturday when he was knocked out of the 4-3 loss at Nashville by a high, hard hit from rookie smasher Jordin...
AT A COMPLETE LOSS - JILTED JIM BAFFLED BY BIG BLUE BREAKDOWN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAs the season moves from bad to worse, Jim Fassel is at a loss. He agreed yesterday that his attempts to motivate the Giants have failed, that he's confused by...
YES, HE'S A PRIMA DONNA ... GET HIM ANYWAY
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amSTEVE Phillips wasn't right about much as Met GM, which helps explain why he is not Met GM any more. But he was right about this - Alex Rodriguez is...
HARD-LUCK MCGRAW OUT FOR SEASON
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES Free safety Jon McGraw, who attempted to come back from a partially dislocated right shoulder in the team's 38-31 loss to the Colts Sunday, will not play again...
EDWARDS SEARCHING FOR SIMPLE SOLUTION
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amA day after the Jets' defense was treated by the Colts' offense with the kind of respect slumlords usually reserve for their tenants, Herman Edwards vowed that he was going...
LAYDEN MOVES GOOD FOR A LAUGH
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amWELCOME to the NBA where the catch-and-shoot is now a highlight. Are you aware Scott Layden never has fired a coach? Jerry Sloan outlasted the entire Layden clan in Utah,...
CLOCK MAY BE TICKING ON CHANEY
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amKnick owner James Dolan considers Don Chaney the second coming of Red Holzman. But even Dolan has a limit to his patience. So now that Magic coach Doc Rivers could...
BAKER WINNING WAR VS. BOTTLE
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amEach basket Vin Baker makes, each point he scores and each drive he takes, is a win for resilience. And sobriety. A recovering alcoholic who bottomed out last winter, he's...
RAIDER MESS IS MORE THAN JUST SILVER-AND-BLACK EYE FOR NFL
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amMAYBE Paul Tagliabue was right. Maybe "Playmakers," the ballyhooed ESPN drama, really is "a gross mischaracterization of our sport," which is the way he described it for CNN back in...
MCDYESS WON'T RUSH HIS RETURN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Antonio McDyess believes the chances of making his Knicks' debut this weekend are slim. Instead, Dice admitted next week's game on Thanksgiving Eve vs. Latrell Sprewell's Timberwolves could...
METS EYE 'SHEA-ROD' - AMAZIN'S ARE SET TO CHASE AL MVP
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amThe Mets have a second shot at Alex Rodriguez - and this time, they plan to take advantage of it. The Ranger shortstop, who captured the AL MVP award yesterday,...
TEAMS LINE UP TO PURSUE KAZ
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amHe is known as "Little" Matsui, yet his number of suitors is going to be far larger than "Big" Matsui, including both New York teams. Kazuo Matsui announced in Tokyo...
NO IGUCHI FOR METS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amThe Mets lost out on another option at second base yesterday with the news that Tadahito Iguchi will not be coming to the major leagues. According to a report in...
YANKEES MAY OPEN IN JAPAN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amThe Yankees are almost certain to open the 2004 season in Hideki Matsui's old home stadium, the Tokyo Dome, against the Devil Rays, a source confirmed to The Post. The...
VAN HORN SUPPLIES PASSION FOR KNICKS
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amAt halftime of last night's game against hated Boston, the Knicks were buried deeper than next year's crops, trailing by 16 at home and getting booed off the Garden floor...
KNICKS END CELTIC HEX . . . AT LAST
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amKnicks 89 - Celtics 86 It didn't go according to the usual script last night at the Garden. The Celtics' Paul Pierce did not hit a last-second 3-pointer to win...
DICE WON'T RUSH HIS RETURN
November 18, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Antonio McDyess believes the chances of making his Knicks' debut this weekend are slim. Instead, Dice admitted next week's game on Thanksgiving Eve vs. Latrell Sprewell's Timberwolves could...