February 18, 2005
NEW COFFEE OFFERS BOOSTS, NOT BOOZE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amAs Starbucks launched its new liqueur that could dull senses, rival JavaFit rolled out coffee blends to boost them - including clarity, workouts and sex. Starbucks' new 750 ml. bottle...
LBO KING LEE TO CASH IN 'YELLOW' BOOK BUSINESS FOR $1B
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThomas H. Lee Co. has approached several suitors about buying its San Diego-based yellow pages directory publishing portfolio company, TransWestern Publishing Co. LLC, for more than $1 billion, executives familiar...
INDIE PLAYER IN TALKS TO SELL FIRM TO BIG STUDIO
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThe independent Hollywood producer, Graham King - financier behind the Oscar contender "The Aviator" - is in talks with various movie studios to sell his highly succesful Initial Entertainment Group,...
HOT DEAL BOOSTS THE WPT
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThe World Poker Tour group shares hit a new high yesterday, pumped up by America's twin obsessions - video games and gambling. The company - already riding high on the...
WARNER CHAPPELL BOSS GONE AFTER 25 YEARS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amLes Bider, head of Warner Music Group's music publishing outfit Warner Chappell, is stepping down, the company announced yesterday. The company did not name a replacement, and Bider is expected...
POLO EXPANDING ITS MADISON AVE. HQ
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amPolo Ralph Lauren is creating a Midtown campus with a blockbuster deal for a new 186,000 square foot office at 625 Madison Ave. The fashion company is expanding its 200,000...
'AQUA-SITION' PAYBACK FOR SULLIVAN
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amDon't worry Scott Sullivan, Uncle Sam has your back. Federal prosecutors hurried to prop up the reputation of the former WorldCom chief financial officer yesterday by attempting to portray disgraced...
SCOTT DODGES A BULLET ON STAND
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amAfter two days of fierce cross-examination, Scott Sullivan refused to crack. The government's star witness to the $11 billion WorldCom fraud was peppered yesterday with questions on everything from why...
EDITOR CHANGES HIS COLORS - COOKE IS STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY AT DAILY NEWS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amMICHAEL Cooke, new editor in chief at the New York Daily News, is already putting his stamp on the paper - although it might not be in the way he...
METRO-SEXUALS - STAFFERS SAY SEXISM, RACISM RULE NEWS FIRM
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amCharges of racism and sexism at embattled free daily Metro led to heated internal "focus groups" for workers last week to air their grievances and complaints - and the scandal...
'SON' DOESN'T SHINE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amJAMIE Kennedy probably hasn't heard the maxim that comedians should avoid working with children and animals. He certainly didn't see "Dumb and Dumberer" or he'd also know not to follow...
'BIGGER THAN THE SKY' LAMER THAN THE TITLE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTHERE'S one funny running joke in "Bigger Than the Sky": the casting of Patty Duke - who famously played twins on her '60s TV show - as twin sisters who...
DOG & PUNY
February 18, 2005 | 5:00am'BECAUSE of Winn-Dixie" is a dog movie with a respected pedigree: Based on an award-winning children's novel, it has a respected director (Wayne Wang) and a cast including Oscar winner...
SHELL SHOCK IN IRAQ
February 18, 2005 | 5:00am'TURTLES Can Fly," by the brilliant Iranian Kurd director-writer Bahman Ghobadi, has been winning prizes left and right on the festival circuit. Now it arrives in New York, where it...
ALPHA MALE IN THE DELTA
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTAKE "About Schmidt," replace Jack Nicholson with a beer-bellied mine worker, set the story in a quaint German village and you have "Schultze Gets the Blues." Schultze (a lovable Horst...
SOUND & THE FUHRER
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amIT'S April 1945 in Berlin and the clueless Eva Braun throws a party to celebrate her boyfriend Adolf Hitler's 56th birthday. Though she quietly complains about the Fuhrer's vegetarianism and...
TRAILER TRASH - 'APPRENTICE' AIRSTREAM CHALLENGE DOOMS MIKE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA Boston real-estate developer who bragged that he and Donald Trump were exactly alike was fired by Trump last night on "The Apprentice." At the start of last night's episode,...
NO MISTAKING STARS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTHERE are heaps of ways to die in Denver, but growing old anonymously isn't going to be the fate of the hard-core outfit Planes Mistaken for Stars. At the Bowery...
DAN RATHER'S FINAL HOUR
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amWHILE some others who were involved in last year's "memogate" scandal at CBS News were either dismissed or asked to resign, anchorman Dan Rather is getting a one-hour, prime-time send-off....
OUR 'IDOL' BOYZ - "AI4' FINALS RULED BY FIVE NYERS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00am'AMERICAN Idol" is down to the final 24 singers - and five rockin' New Yorkers are in the mix. All five finalists from the Big Apple have a new rule...
IN A DEJÀ STEW - 'HURLYBURY' MAY SKIP BROADWAY REVIVAL RACE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTHE producers of the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of "Hurlyburly" are getting cold feet about making the leap to Broad way. They fear - correctly, it seems to me - that...
DO THE FUNNY 'CHICKEN,' KIDS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amYOU don't have to be a 30-year-old guy to laugh your pants off at "Robot Chicken." But it will help. The newest entrée to plop itself down onto Cartoon Network's...
HELL & BACK - 'CONSTANTINE' OPUS IS REEVES' HOLY ERROR
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amCONSTANTINE (two stars) Far from heaven. Running time: 122 minutes. Rated R (violence, demonic images). At the Ziegfeld, the E- Walk, the Orpheum, others. THERE'S a lot of smoke and...
EVIL PIMP SOLD TEEN HOOKER: DA
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA 15-year-old prostitute was handed around like merchandise - kicked from a wholesaler pimp to a retailer madam - before being peddled to johns at a secret chain of Manhattan...
BX. PRIEST'S HOLY MESSAGE FOR WOMAN FOUND DEAD
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx priest who administered last rites to a woman whose body was found next to a Dumpster in Riverdale yesterday asked for "God's blessings for all who will grieve...
CELL DOOR SWINGS ON BAT SLAYER
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA 27-year-old Brooklyn man was slammed with 23 ½ years to life in prison yesterday for a racially charged baseball-bat attack that left a Russian construction worker dead on a...
SHIITES TAKING POWER
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Iraq's powerful Shiite political conglomerate officially won a majority of seats in the new National Assembly yesterday, assuring that the bloc will control the selection of the country's...
PIONEER SAILOR DECKED RACISM
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amWhen James Graham enlisted in the Navy in 1942, it was still a segregated branch where blacks were restricted to serving only as stewards or cooks. But by the time...
GRISLY FIND IN SUBWAY - BAG OF BODY PARTS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA transit worker made a grisly discovery in a Brooklyn subway tunnel yesterday - a plastic bag stuffed with human body parts. Cops identified the victim as 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amCustomers who purchased shoes made by a company named Goosebumps complained that with every step, it sounded as if they were passing wind. Turns out a chemical in the insole...
PHONY SAVIORS DRIVEN BY $ELF-INN-TEREST
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amEVEN by New York standards, the union-driven "Save The Plaza" propaganda campaign has a lot of chutzpah. It's the unions more than anyone or anything that make it impossible for...
LA LIZ LAUNCHES JEWELRY BIZ
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amLa Liz is going from movie star to jewelry star. Elizabeth Taylor will hawk a new line of jewelry that includes pieces beginning in the $3,000 range and one-of-a-kind couture...
BUSH TAPS SPY CZAR - NEGROPONTE WILL LEAVE IRAQ POST, SET INTEL BUDGETS FOR 15 AGENCIES
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday tapped career diplomat John Negroponte as the nation's first intelligence czar, giving him unprecedented power over spy activities and making him the White House's chief...
AMAZIN' RUSH FOR TICKETS - 1M BUY SEASON ]]PLANS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amMets fans who just "gotta believe" are finding it a whole lot easier to believe in this year's superstar-packed team - and are showing it by buying tickets in droves....
COP: JACKO HAD ME HOLD KID AT RANCH
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - A cop who worked for Michael Jackson will testify that he saw written proof the singer kept his young accuser and the boy's family locked up at...
SMART INTEL PICK - OUTSIDER AS INTELLIGENCE CZAR
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amPRESIDENT Bush just made a very promising choice for our first national intelligence director: Ambassador John Negroponte. Thinking creatively, Bush picked someone who has had to rely upon intelligence, rather...
ARIEL SON 'INDICTED'
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's attorney general ended a three-year investigation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday - but will indict his son on charges of accepting improper campaign contributions. Chief prosecutor...
WOMAN HURT IN KITCHEN FIRE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA woman was critically burned yesterday morning when a fast-moving kitchen fire blazed through her Brooklyn apartment, authorities said. The blaze started on the third-floor of 363 Jefferson Ave. at...
POLS BLAST THE MAYOR FOR SCHOOL DISREPAIR
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amBusted windows, broken fire alarms and decrepit toilets at hundreds of city schools will not be repaired this year because of cuts to education funding, city lawmakers charged yesterday. Standing...
KISSINGER ID'D AS 'DEEP THROAT'
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The infamous Watergate tipster known as "Deep Throat" is none other than Henry Kissinger, according to a new report yesterday. Former top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, who died...
HEVESI TAKES AIM AT 'SHADOW GOVERNMENT'
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - Top New York Democrats yesterday released a proposal designed to rein in a system of hundreds of public authorities they say serve as "shadow governments." Led by Comptroller...
'REVENGE TICKET' RAP FOR CAB BOSS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA taxi dispatcher was arrested yesterday for assigning 13 summonses totaling $1,200 to two taxi drivers who were not responsible for the violations, officials said. The summonses - for illegal...
HILL'S BILL WOULD GIVE EX-CONS THE VOTE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - With one eye on her 2008 White House campaign, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday introduced a wide-ranging election-reform bill that would boost turnout among Democratic voters - and...
IMMIGRANTS BOOST VOTE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amVoter turnout in New York City got a big boost in the last presidential election from immigrants, according to a study released yesterday. Foreign-born New Yorkers accounted for 97 percent...
STATE BIZ BOSS: WE'LL PLAY FAIR ON W. SIDE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThe state's economic-development chief yesterday pledged to work with any developer chosen by the MTA to build over the West Side rail yards, even if the Jets' plan for a...
PARENTHOOD 101 - GROW UP, NEWSWEEK
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTHERE are certainly more restful ways to live one's life than being the parent of an infant. You just seemed to have more time - time to eat, time to...
'STARVE' BABY A HOMICIDE CASE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThe death of a 7-month-old baby in The Bronx late last year has been ruled a homicide, police said yesterday. Victor Pagan died from dehydration and malnourishment, the medical examiner...
ALL THAT JAZZ UP FOR AUCTION
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amCue the trumpets and strike up the band! A treasure trove of historic jazz items will go on the auction block this weekend. More than 450 historic pieces, including Benny...
CINDY SEEKS PET LAW IN MEMORY OF JAZZY
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amCindy Adams, The Post's longtime gossip columnist, made an impassioned plea yesterday for a strong law regulating boarding kennels in the five boroughs. Adams told the City Council's Health Committee...
DNA HELPS CONVICT 1995 RAPIST
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA rapist could spend up to 50 years behind bars after his conviction yesterday, thanks to DNA evidence linking him to the 10-year-old crime. Sean Sprosta, 32, sat stoically as...
'CRACK'-DOWN - 55 DRUG-GANG SUSPECTS NAILED AT QUEENS HOUSING PROJECT
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amFifty-five reputed gang members have been charged with turning the city's largest housing project into a sophisticated open-air market for crack cocaine during the last two years, officials said yesterday....
ED. DEPT. FILLS 7% MORE 'ELITE' HS SEATS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amNearly 350 more students than last year have been accepted to the city's seven elite specialized high schools - after reports that seats at one of them would go unused...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amSTATEN ISLAND * A Tottenville HS student has been busted for possessing drugs at the school, authorities said yesterday. The 16-year-old was arrested at 10:16 a.m. Wednesday, after a fellow...
STUDENT-SEX TEACH FREED IN PLEA DEAL
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA former Westchester teacher, whose conviction for having sex with underage students was overturned after she served three years behind bars, is now free. Marci Stein, 33, pleaded guilty Wednesday...
GOP BIGS CAUGHT IN 'FILM'FLAM
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - State Republican officials yesterday had egg on their faces after peddling a photo they erroneously said proved that convicted terrorist supporter Lynne Stewart was a Democratic Party activist....
CITY HRA CLERK IN THEFT BUST
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA Human Resources Administration employee was arrested yesterday for electronically pilfering money from a public-assistance fund, then shifting the cash into the welfare accounts of four friends, authorities said. Richard...
L.I. GIRL'S PERV PAL NAILED - ARRESTED ACROSS MEX. LINE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThe New Jersey sex offender who ran off with a Long Island teen he charmed online was arrested by authorities in Texas yesterday after Mexican police nabbed him just over...
EX-CON SHOT DEAD
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens man trying to pull his life back together after a prison stint was mysteriously cut down by a single shot to the back of his head, his family...
TEEN'S SICKO - 'SOLD' HER TO MADAM
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA 15-year-old prostitute was handed around like merchandise - kicked from a wholesaler pimp to a retailer madam - before being peddled to johns at a secret chain of Manhattan...
WHORE-IBLE STATISTICS FOR ELIZABETH, N.J.
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amHot-blooded men looking for a good time don't have 42nd Street any more - but there's plenty of action in nearby Elizabeth, N.J. Elizabeth is the prostitution capital of America,...
REEL-LIFE EMTS RESCUE WOULD-BE JUMPER
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amCity EMTs staging a photo shoot in Long Island City found themselves dealing with an all-too-real emergency yesterday morning - and stopped a distraught woman from diving into the icy...
SOAKED & SOCKED - QUEENS MAIN BREAK RUINS HOMEOWNERS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amArmed with buckets, mops and insurance policies, residents of a Queens neighborhood yesterday battled back from a massive water-main break that turned their street into a 10-foot-deep river. At the...
BROKER JAILED IN CREDIT SCAM
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA former vice president of the Bangladesh Society of New York has been sentenced to 11/3 to four years in prison after admitting to playing a key role in a...
CYBER COP A 'PERV' - 2ND MOLEST BUST
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amAn NYPD detective who once patrolled cyberspace looking for kiddie-porn traders has been accused of being a child molester himself - and is facing charges of fondling two 11-year-old girls...
2-BIT WAR ON SUN. METERS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration yesterday came out against a move by city lawmakers to end Sunday parking-meter rules. David Woloch, a deputy commissioner at the Department of Transportation, said Sunday meter-feeder...
HOLY MESSAGE AFTER BRONX SLAY
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx priest, called on to administer last rites to a woman whose body was found next to a Dumpster in a Riverdale parking lot yesterday, asked for "God's blessings...
ZONGO JURY VISITS CRIME SCENE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amJurors in the Manhattan manslaughter trial of Police Officer Bryan Conroy walked in both the cop's and victim's footsteps yesterday during a one-hour tour of the Chelsea warehouse where Conroy...
MIKE MAIL BLITZ ON 'INDEPENDENTS' DAY
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amSpending big bucks to target key voters nearly nine months before Election Day, Mayor Bloomberg's campaign has quietly sent out a mass mailing aimed at political independents. "Keep New York...
$100M BIAS SUIT - GALS SLAP DRUG GIANT
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA dozen female employees have slapped pharmaceutical giant Novartis with a $100 million gender-discrimination suit for allegedly denying them promotions and paying them less than their male counterparts. Half of...
'GUN RUN' SHOCK - TEACH, COP WIFE BUSTED
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA pistol-toting Newark high-school teacher and his police-officer wife were busted yesterday on charges of running a gun-trafficking ring. The teacher's brother-in-law, a former military police officer, also was arrested....
CASINO GALS' FAT CHANCE - HOTEL'S WEIGHTRESS RULE: GAIN POUNDS, LOSE A JOB
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThe next Atlantic City weigh- in won't be for boxers - it'll be for cocktail waitresses. Starting next week, the cleavage-baring booze servers at the flashy Borgata Hotel Casino &...
BILL COSBY OFF HOOK IN PA. CASE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amBill Cosby will not face charges stemming from a woman's allegation he fondled her, a Pennsylvania prosecutor said yesterday. Authorities found "insufficient credible and admissible evidence" to charge the entertainer,...
DRUG KINGPIN DENIES SLAY 'RAP'
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amOne of the city's most notorious drug kingpins was in a federal courtroom yesterday and denied he had anything to do with the killing of an up-and-coming rapper in Queens....
CYBER COP PERV BUST
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amAn NYPD detective who once patrolled cyberspace looking for kiddie-porn traders has been accused of being a child molester himself - and is charged with fondling two 11-year-old girls in...
CINDY SEEKS JAZZY PET LAW
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amCindy Adams, The Post's longtime gossip columnist, made an impassioned plea yesterday for a strong law regulating boarding kennels in the five boroughs. Adams told the City Council's Health Committee...
3 ON WHODUNIT LIST - 40 MORE LEFT TO BE GRILLED IN TANK-SLAY
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amInvestigators yesterday identified three suspects in the drowning murder of a New Jersey water-treatment chemist, with roughly 40 of the woman's co-workers left to be interviewed. A fellow employee shoved...
ALL THAT JAZZ - HORN OF PLENTY UP FOR AUCTION
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amCue the trumpets and strike up the band! A treasure trove of historic jazz items is about to be auctioned off. More than 450 artifacts, including Benny Goodman's clarinet and...
FDNY'S HARDY HERO - HEADS FOR REHAB TODAY
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amOne of the hero firefighters injured in the Fire Department's worst day since 9/11 will be released from St. Barnabas Hospital today. Jeffrey Cool of Rescue Co. 3 was one...
THE BRILLIANT LIFE AND TIMES OF OSSIE DAVIS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amOssie Davis recently passed away at the age of 87. Today's page pays tribute to his remarkable life as an actor and passionate civil-rights activist. Ossie Davis was a gifted...
TEEN'S SICKO 'PIMP' - 'SOLD' HER TO MADAM
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amA 15-year-old prostitute was handed around like merchandise - kicked from a wholesaler pimp to a retailer madam - before being peddled to johns at a secret chain of Manhattan...
3 LEFT IN WHODUNIT - COPS NARROW LIST OF PLANT SUSPECTS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amInvestigators have narrowed the list of suspects in the drowning murder of a New Jersey water-treatment chemist to three of her co-workers. A fellow employee shoved Geetha Angara, 43, into...
CABLE STILL CASHING IN ON NHL
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTOM owns all the tomatoes in town; he has a lock on them, a local monopoly. So Paul, who owns a string of produce stands, has to buy his tomatoes...
TIGERS LACK BITE - PRINCETON EYES SECOND-HALF SURGE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amSenior forward Andre Logan looks at the floor as he talks. He uses words not familiar around Princeton basketball, where often success seems to be a birthright. "Miserable," Logan, a...
PUCK DROPS HERE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amNHL COMMISSIONER Gary Bettman suggests anyone starting a new hockey league have deep pockets. He might have offered that same advice to his own owners. The aim of making every...
WON'T MEAN THING WITHOUT THAT RING
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - It began under overcast skies and must end beneath confetti. This is the burden the Yankees carry with them, even as they take their first baby-steps into a...
MASTER OF HIS DOMAIN
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Willie was funny. Willie was confident. Willie talked about how marrying his wife 30 years ago was the best thing that ever happened to him, encouragement...
HUNTERS & ANGLERS HAVE FRIENDS IN D.C.
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTHE national elections last November showed that hunters and anglers have a large voice in this country thanks in part to the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation. Since its beginning some 15...
'STROS UNSURE IF BELTRAN WILL THRIVE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amKISSIMMEE - Can the low-key Carlos Beltran handle the hustle and bustle of New York? Will he fit in perfectly as a cornerstone of "the new Mets" or grow to...
MILBURY SORRY FOR FANS, NOT 'WEALTHY' PLAYERS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThe Islanders have admitted all along they will lose less money this year with no hockey than they would have lost with their team on the ice, so their support...
FRANCO FINE - KNEW CHANGE WOULD COME
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amKISSIMMEE - Yesterday, John Franco entered the clubhouse of a new employer after playing 14 seasons with the Mets. He had been preparing for the moment since August, when Mets...
RAMIRO RENEWAL - RELIEVER RETURNS WITH ANOTHER TITLE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Having signed a minor-league contract with the Yankees, Ramiro Mendoza isn't going to rub the Red Sox World Series victory in the organization's face by wearing...
TAYLOR MAY FASHION HOPKINS' NEW LOOK
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - During a press conference this week at the Staples Center, undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins turned to Jermain Taylor, his young heir apparent, and said, "We've got...
NETS SET SIGHTS ON POSTSEASON
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amLawrence Frank gave his Nets one of the most basic reminders of NBA life. "Teams after the break," Frank said, "they take it to another level. And we have to...
KNICK PLAYOFF PLAN
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amLET'S drink some Knicks Kool-Aid and imagine they can make a playoff push after the All-Star Break, beginning Tuesday in Detroit. With 29 games left, the Knicks need to go...
WHAT A BARGAIN! - ALL-STAR PERFECT STAGE FOR NEW CBA
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amDENVER - What better showcase than All-Star weekend for the NBA and the Players' Association to advertise there has been a meeting of the minds regarding a new Collective Bargaining...
'SPLITTERS WIN ONE FOR TELFAIR
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amSebastian Telfair returned yesterday to the Coney Island gym where he honed his skills before heading straight to the NBA. "It's small," Telfair said of his former homecourt. "The rims...
BAFFERT LANDS SORT IT OUT
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amWhirlaway winner Sort it Out has been sent to trainer Bob Baffert after a majority interest in the horse was sold to Stonerside Stable. Preferred Pals Stable will still own...
SOX IT TO ME! - RANDY'S READY: BRING ON BOSTON!
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - If the Red Sox want to attack Randy Johnson in the same manner they have been pounding Alex Rodriguez about not being a true Yankee, the Big Unit...
KNICKS UNLIKELY TO MAKE MOVE BEFORE DEADLINE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES No Knicks will be in Denver for All-Star Weekend, not even Isiah Thomas. Thomas overshadowed All-Star Sunday last February in L.A. when he pulled off the three-team blockbuster...
PIAZZA NOW BACKSEAT BACKSTOP - SURRENDERING THE SPOTLIGHT OK WITH MIKE
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - He's the longest-tenured Met now by more than a year and a half. And since May 22, 1998, Mike Piazza has not only been with the...
SOURCE: NHL WOULD NEGOTIATE HARD CAP
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amNHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said during Wednesday's press conference to cancel the season that his hard cap offer of $42.5 million was off the table and that any future deal...
KAZ HAVING ONLY SECOND THOUGHTS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Don't expect Kaz Matsui to get nostalgic about playing shortstop. "No," he said of missing his old position, "I don't think I have that...
BIG MOUTHS - SCHILL ON FEUD WITH ALEX: IT'S PERSONAL
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amFORT MYERS - Curt Schilling was wearing red sox yesterday. They were blood red, not red with blood. He was playing long toss with David Wells, who was wearing shorts,...
CANSECO, STEROIDS ON CURT'S MIND
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amFORT MYERS - Curt Schilling is never at a loss for words and yesterday he also weighed in on the steroids firestorm, Jose Canseco and the departure of Pedro Martinez...
BEANTOWN'S BIG MOUTHS - WELLS TAKES SHOT AT BOSS, TORRE, MEL AND WHO ELSE - A-ROD
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amFORT MYERS - David Wells further fueled The Rivalry yesterday when he clearly staked himself as a Red Sox by sniping at George Steinbrenner, Joe Torre and Mel Stottlemyre to...
5 QUESTIONS FOR 'SNAPPER' JONES
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ABC/ESPN's Steve "Snapper" Jones, who has been an NBA analyst for almost three decades. Q: Why do you and Bill Walton...
KENNY'S EXIT STRATEGY - SMITH EYES COACH OR GM JOB
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amWhile NBA analyst Kenny Smith is in talks to extend his TNT contract, he expects to be on an NBA floor or in the front office soon. "I think it...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amTo: Jim Durham, NBA play-by-player From: Andrew Marchand Re: NBA Finals on ABC CC: Al Michaels Dear Jim, Since ABC's Al Michaels doesn't appear to be long for the job...
'STAR' WARS - LEBRON'S TAKEN TORCH FROM JORDAN ... ALMOST
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amSunday NBA All-Star Game 8 p.m., TNT First things first. They are different. So when you compare the NBA icon of the past, Michael Jordan, to the NBA icon of...
HIGHS & LOWS
February 18, 2005 | 5:00amNEW YORK KNICKS The Knicks haven't enjoyed as many ups this season as downs. Here's a look at the best and worst of the season so far. GAME TO REMEMBER:...