April 27, 2005
HOT LEGAL HAND HITS 'PC' COLE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe high-powered lawyer who helped Wall Street broker Laura Zubulake win $29.3 million earlier this month from her old boss UBS is now focusing his legal arsenal on another discrimination...
MARTHA STEWART'S (AD) SLIP IS SHOWING
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amIn her first financial report since her prison release, Martha Stewart suffered a $19.2 million company loss - and also got a public rebuke from the prosecutor who jailed her....
25 BROAD ST. MAY HIT CONDO JACKPOT
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amRENTERS at 25 Broad St. may soon hit the condo jackpot. Downtown pioneers Bruce and Julie Menin of Crescent Heights, who are responsible for converting 25 Broad to The Exchange...
MELANIA FITS THE AFLAC BILL
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAflac's business - selling supplemental health insurance - isn't exactly sexy. But the company, which became a household name thanks to its amusing quacking duck icon, doesn't see any reason...
CHUCK STEPS BACK
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amCablevision founder Chuck Dolan is turning down the heat on his efforts to gain even more control of the Long Island-based cable giant. Having lost his bid to keep funding...
TURNER OPENS VIDEO 'GAMETAP'
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amTurner Broadcasting is betting tens of millions of dollars that video game lovers will spend $150 a year, or more, to access hundreds of top titles right from their PC....
AIG MAY OWE STATE BIG $$
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amState regulators are probing AIG to see if the embattled insurer brazenly shorted a workers' compensation fund by tens of millions of dollars. The fund, which is used to pay...
IT'S TURNSTILE JUSTICE; NEW TRUE CRIME TITLE TO RETAIL AT WAL-MART CHECKOUTS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amJUSTICE Magazine, the new true-crime title, that debuts on the longest day of the year (June 21) will be sold in Wal-Mart stores nationwide. It's something of a coup for...
NYSE SITDOWN; LANGONE'S POSSE WANTS TO MEET WITH THAIN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe head of the New York Stock Exchange agreed yesterday to discuss his plan to go public with some Wall Streeters who oppose it. John Thain said he will meet...
CHEERS, JEERS FOR DON'S 'APPRENTICE'
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amIt was a good news/bad news day for Donald Trump. The billionaire star of "The Apprentice" was chosen by the American Business Awards to receive the first lifetime achievement award....
'O.C.'FEELS[[B+]]THEFORCE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Empire sells out - again. "Star Wars" creator George Lucas will appear as himself on the May 12 episode of Fox's teen drama, "The O.C." During the episode, Lucas...
'SNL' GOES HIGH-DEF
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amLIVE from New York, it's high-def Saturday night. "Saturday Night Live" is the latest NBC late-night show to undergo a high-definition revamp. Studio 8H, where the long-running sketch comedy show...
DARING TALE OF CAT KILLING GETS UNDER YOUR SKIN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amCASUISTRY: THE ART OF KILLING A CAT (three stars) Cat fight.Running time: 88 minutes. Not rated (gory images). At the Two Boots Pioneer, Avenue A and Third Street, East Village....
STILL A-CHANGIN'
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amBOB DYLANMore shows tomorrow, Friday and Saturday at the Beacon. CHALK it up to fingers stiffened over more years than Bob Dylan wants to remember, but rather than play his...
'DESIRE' REVIVAL WON'T LEAVE YOU WANTING
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (three stars)Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St. between Eighth Avenue and Broadway; (212) 644-9401. CONTROVERSY will doubtlessly swirl around Edward Hall's striking staging of Tennessee Williams'...
ADULT SWIM SWAMPS MTV
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amWATCH out MTV, teens want their Adult Swim. Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block - a collection of cartoon shows for grownups that airs after 11 p.m. - is drawing more...
'IDOL' THREAT ; PAULA WARNS ABC THAT SHE'LL SUE OVER 'PRIMETIME' EXPOSÉ
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amEMBATTLED "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul is threatening to sue ABC News over an upcoming "Primetime Live" report about "American Idol" that promises to be "explosive." Pitbull lawyer to the...
TRY THE WAYS OF ALL FLESH
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amHEY, carnivore. How red-blooded are you, really? Find out by perusing the "Field Guide to Meat: How to Identify, Select and Prepare Virtually Every Meat, Poultry and Game Cut" (Quirk...
PROJECT POST! HOPEFUL TV DESIGNERS TURN CITY'S BEST READ INTO INSTANT FASHION
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amGOING out tonight and haven't got a thing to wear? With a copy of The Post and a handful of staples, you too can fashion a party dress just like...
SEASON'S EATINGS - COOKS GET THE GREEN LIGHT ON SPRING
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amIN a city where you can find strawberries during a blizzard, it's easy to forget there's something called a growing season. But after a long winter of potatoes and cabbage,...
ON THE SIDE - WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PERIGORD
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amGEORGES Briguet, whose Le Perigord restaurant has survived many of its traditional French contemporaries, has officially signed a lease to keep his eatery open for another 20 years at 405...
NO SPAIN, NO GAIN AT BARNA
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amBarna (one star) 365 Park Avenue South (Giraffe Hotel) (212) 532-8300 BARNA raises questions beyond the power of a reviewer, Zagat or Confucius to answer: What makes a place hot?...
YA GOTTI WONDER - VICTORIA'S SECRET: SHE'S A BUSY GIRL
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAt the risk of being rubbed out, I bring you news today of the strange goings-on surrounding Victoria Gotti's eagerly-awaited stage debut in the Off Broadway musical "We're Still Hot."...
STARR REPORT
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amPeter Jennings, who's battling lung cancer, hasn't physically been in the trenches with his colleagues at ABC News - but he has been intimately involved in the day- to-day running...
COP SAVES GIRL FROM PERV
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAn off-duty cop rescued a 13-year-old girl who was being dragged into a wooded area of a Queens park by a paroled sex offender yesterday, police said. While searching for...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amDavid Carpenter had plans to take a physical next week to be a Florida Highway Patrol trooper. Notice we said had. His hopes were dashed when he was tailed by...
GAL GAVE HUSBAND OD: COPS - KILLED BY PAIN PILLS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amLong Island police say they've charged a licensed nurse practitioner with criminally negligent homicide for mistakenly administering a lethal dose of methadone to her husband as a painkiller - when...
FIRE CAPT. GUILTY OF TRUCK SLAY
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA volunteer Long Island fire captain was found guilty yesterday of slamming his pickup truck into a prominent Eatons Neck lawyer and speeding off - leaving the attorney to die...
QUEEN BEE-MAIL - KIM'S FANS WRITE JUDGE FOR MERCY
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amRacy "Queen Bee" rapper-turned-felon Lil' Kim has launched an e-mail campaign for her fans to urge a judge to grant her leniency during her upcoming sentencing. While Kim wants her...
A DIRTY FRAME - MEXICO'S CRISIS & AMERICA'S DUTY
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHE United Kingdom is our crucial military ally. Australia, with its feisty love of liberty and strategic location, grows more important to us every day. Canada treasures the role of...
DUO NABBED FOR BOOTLEG DVDS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amTwo Bronx men were nabbed unloading a van of thousands of counterfeit DVDs and CDs in front of a Manhattan building, police sources said yesterday. Mamadou Diallo and Ousame Sow...
N.Y. RIGHT-WING BLUE-STATE BLUES
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amIS it time for conser vative Republicans to throw in the towel for the foreseeable future in New York state? News that former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld is giving serious...
ZARQAWI THE NEW OSAMA - LAPTOP BARES THREAT
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Information seized from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's laptop computer revealed the Jordanian master terrorist has been expanding his jihad network outside Iraq and is emerging as al Qaeda's preeminent...
LAST SYRIAN TROOPS FINALLY PULL OUT OF LEBANON
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amSyria pulled its last soldiers and intelligence agents out of Lebanon yesterday - just beating President Bush's deadline to end its 29-year military presence there. Lebanese civilians danced with joy...
N.Y.'S JUNKET JUNKIE - REP. HINCHEY GRABBED 161G IN TRAVEL GIFTS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey is New York's king of comped travel - racking up a stunning $161,393 tab footed by special-interest groups, the fifth most of any federal...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amSTATEN ISLAND * A Long Island man has been arrested in the stabbing death of a teenager during a fight outside a Port Richmond saloon, authorities said yesterday. Daniel Mujovic,...
MESSINGER BACKS CROCKER SNYDER
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amFormer Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger will endorse former Judge Leslie Crocker Snyder for Manhattan district attorney today. Messinger, who won the Democratic nomination for mayor in 1997 and lost...
BIG MOOK TURNS STUD MCMUFFIN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe clown's getting down! Ronald McDonald is about to shed his image as a greasepainted goofball and get made over as the world's studliest hamburger icon. In the coming months,...
MAYOR GIVES PRESS BOSS BIG BOOST
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amEd Skyler, Mayor Bloomberg's longtime spokesman, was elevated yesterday to the post of communications director, assuming all the responsibilities of former communications czar Bill Cunningham, City Hall announced yesterday. Cunningham...
WYNN-ING HAND - SLOTS OF FUN WITH GOLF, SPAS, SHOWS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amWhen it comes to Vegas, Steve Wynn rules the landscape and to prove it he's built an eight-story mountain at his newest hotel-casino. The casino kingpin's shimmering 50-story Wynn Las...
BULLY BILL OF RIGHTS - POL: GIVE TEEN INMATES ED. BOOST
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA City Council member yesterday introduced a "bill of rights" for juvenile delinquents, in the wake of a class-action lawsuit claiming miscommunication between the city and state deprives the offenders...
WEINER PUTS NO STOCK IN FREDDY'S TAX PLAN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer's call to reinstate a stock-transfer tax to partly fund the $23 billion that a court ordered for Big Apple schools will hamstring the city's efforts to force state...
GOV, BRUNO SNIPE OVER SON'S DEAL
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno traded barbs yesterday over the propriety of Bruno's lobbyist son getting $4.4 million restored to the state budget on behalf...
MOM'S NIGHTMARE - WEEPS FOR 3 BOYS KILLED IN PASSOVER FIRE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00am'THREE beautiful children, my children, lovely children. No, No, my children!" Rachel Matyas managed to get the words out before uncontrollable tears overtook the horrendous moment of grief - her...
JESSICA BAGS A JAG
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amProsecuting criminals has taken a back seat to another mystery in the Westchester District Attorney's Office: Who's that in the picture with Assistant DA Tom Kenniff in Iraq? It's actress...
SUBWAY FIX-UPS DERAILED
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe MTA will put off 12 subway-station rehabs as part of a plan to cut $1 billion from its capital program because of inadequate state aid, officials said yesterday. The...
L.I. BODY ID'D AS FIRED THERAPIST
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA hospital worker whose body was found wrapped in a blanket on a Long Island street had been fired last year after 25 years as a post-op therapist, officials said...
TEEN MA KILLED BABY: COPS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan teen was arrested yesterday for causing the death of her newborn daughter - after she left the child in a closet overnight and stuffed her into a bag...
COUNCIL LAUNCHES BID TO $TRAFE JETS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amCity Council leaders said yesterday they have the votes to pass a law blocking Mayor Bloomberg from pumping $300 million into a West Side football stadium - but the city's...
GOP REBUFFS DEM DEAL ON FILIBUSTER
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday veered toward a brutal political showdown over President Bush's judicial nominees after GOP leaders rebuffed Democratic hopes for a compromise in the fight over the...
INFANT IS TAXI MA'S BEST RX
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA miracle baby and her gutsy mom spent some quality bonding time together yesterday, a day after a terrifying taxi ride almost killed them in Times Square. Officials at Bellevue...
CITY OFFERS JAIL DEAL TO 'BIAS' ATTACKERS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA group of teenage girls accused of a racially motivated attack on six Catholic schoolgirls have been offered a deal that could land them in jail for up to a...
FAT'S THE WAY THE COOKIE CRUMBLES: OREO TO SLIM DOWN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAfter 93 years, the beloved Oreo is going on a diet. Kraft is altering the recipe of its classic cream-sandwich cookie in coming months to make it healthier, the company...
GOPER: BEWARE SOC. SEC. $LASH
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Social Security benefits will be slashed by nearly 30 percent when people born in 1975 retire unless something is done, a top Senate Republican warned yesterday. U.S. Senate...
JACKO IN A 'BOYS TO BRAZIL' CAPER - PAID FOR ACCUSER & KIN TO FLEE: AGENT
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's travel agent yesterday testified that she was ordered to book a one-way flight to Brazil for his now-teen sex accuser and kin after a...
'I DIDN'T TURN OFF' ALL THE BURNERS: AIDE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA home-care attendant across the hall from a Brooklyn apartment where three boys died in a horrific Passover blaze told fire officials she was asked to come over and turn...
'LEGION' OF FEAR - HOSP CONFIRMS PATIENT'S WATER-BACTERIA DEATH
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amLegionnaires' disease was a primary cause of a patient's death last month at New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Washington Heights campus - and the deadly legionella bacteria has also been found at...
LAURA INGRAHAM HAS CANCER
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amFeisty radio gabber Laura Ingraham yesterday revealed she's fighting breast cancer, and insisted she'll beat it. "People have gone through much worse, and I know I'll obliterate this," Ingraham, 40,...
BLOOMY NAILS DOWN HARD HATS' SUPPORT
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amSaying he couldn't possibly have envisioned such a scenario four years ago, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday accepted the endorsement of the construction-trades coalition - the first of his re-election drive. "The...
ZONGO SHOCKER - SLAY COP'S BOSS WANTED HIM OUT
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amNearly a year before Officer Bryan Conroy shot and killed an unarmed immigrant in Chelsea, one of his supervisors insisted he lacked "maturity" and "experience" - and should not be...
DNA TIME BOMB - CITY RAPE SUSPECT FINALLY ARRESTED AFTER 32 YEARS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amFor 32 years at the Manhattan DA's cavernous case archives, a pair of semen-stained green panties has sat - vouchered, sealed in plastic and forgotten - inside a red paper...
FULANI GETS COLD FEET FOR TV
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAll of a sudden, Lenora Fulani is camera shy. The controversial Independence Party leader withdrew from a recent televised NY1 interview about an hour before she was to go on...
STASH 'BAGGED' AT MARKET
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amFirefighters found more than 200 vehicle airbags believed to be stolen in the back room of a Brooklyn supermarket, where newspaper clippings about Osama bin Laden and beheadings in Iraq...
CITY GETS ZIP FROM RICH LIST - NOWHERE IN TOP 10
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amHere's a rich one: New York City doesn't even crack the top 10 ZIP codes among the 25 most affluent areas in the United States. According to the latest survey...
ICE-CREAM KID CRITICAL IN HIT-RUN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA hit-and-run driver yesterday critically injured an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy as he crossed a street to get money for ice cream, witnesses said. The boy, who was identified only as...
BLOOMY WOOS 'TONIGHT' SHOW
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg last night lobbied TV joke-meister Conan O'Brien for a personal favor - to return the "Tonight" show to Manhattan. The long-running NBC show, now headlined by Jay Leno,...
HIGH-RISE BLAZE DRAMA - 3 HURT ON 2ND AVE.
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amThree residents of a Kips Bay apartment building were overcome by smoke when a fire broke out inside a 12th-floor apartment of the high-rise yesterday. They were in a hallway...
GAL GAVE HUBBY LETHAL OD: COPS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amLong Island police have charged a licensed nurse practitioner with criminally negligent homicide for mistakenly administering a lethal dose of methadone to her husband as a painkiller - when she...
ICE-CREAM KID CRITICAL IN BROOKLYN HIT-&-RUN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA hit-and-run driver yesterday critically injured a 7-year-old Brooklyn boy as he crossed the street to buy ice cream, witnesses said. The boy, identified by his family as Charles Santiago,...
SUICIDE PLUNGE AT HOTEL
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA woman plunged to her death last night from the roof of a 12-story Manhattan hotel in an apparent suicide, cops said. The unidentified blonde, described as being in her...
S.I.BICYCLIST HURT IN HIT-RUN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA hit-and-run driver critically injured a man riding a bicycle on busy Hylan Boulevard on Staten Island last night, cops said. The accident occurred at 8 p.m. at the intersection...
OFF-DUTY COP SAVES GIRL FROM PERV
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAn off-duty cop rescued a 13-year-old girl who was being dragged into a Queens park by a paroled child sex offender yesterday, police said. While searching for the pervert -...
TRUCK SLAMS S.I. BICYCLIST
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA truck driver critically injured a man riding a bicycle along Hylan Boulevard on Staten Island last night, cops said. The accident occurred at 8 p.m. at the intersection of...
NEWS HAS HISTORY OF $TIFFING READERS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe Daily Snooze claims it should be allowed to blow off the big-buck winners from its botched Scratch n' Stiff contest because it's gotten away with it twice before. The...
CRASH COURSE - 47 KIDS OK AFTER QNS. FLIP
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA busload of sixth-graders from a Long Island school miraculously survived the wild ride of their lives yesterday after their vehicle flipped and landed on its side on a Belt...
MOURNING RISES TO THE OCCASION
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - Despite a potentially fatal kidney disorder, Alonzo Mourning kept hanging on to his career for games like last night's. With Shaquille O'Neal reduced to Kurt Thomas-like numbers, Mourning...
SHOCKEY REVERSES FIELD, WILL REPORT TO JINT CAMP
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amOn Monday, Jeremy Shockey told The Post's Steve Serby down in South Beach, Fla., that his no-show from the Giants' offseason workout program was not intended as a slap at...
BOATU.S. CAN COME IN HANDY
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMANY of you are already preparing your boats for the season ahead, but are you prepared for any problems that might occur once you're in the water. Smart skippers can...
EX-NFLER SAYS HE SAW 'ROID USE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA former NFL linebacker says he witnessed teammates doing steroids, saw vials in another player's refrigerator and asserted that the NFL Players' Association leader Gene Upshaw was "vehemently" against steroid...
KOBE'S KEY TO JAX PLANS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - Phil Jackson had lunch with his girlfriend, Lakers VP Jeanie Buss, Monday afternoon at the Laker offices. Then the Zen Master took off, not telling Buss where he...
TIME FOR RESTO THE STORY
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe first time Jeffrey Resto stepped into the ring with Michael Warrick, he was fighting to prove he belonged in the elite junior welterweight field. That's exactly what he did...
PHIL-LING THE VOID - ANDY LOOKS DANDY IN REPLACEMENT ROLE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAndy Phillips is the Yankees' brightest hitting prospect, and the most pleasant surprise of Sunday's face-saving win. First basemen Jason Giambi and Tino Martinez are the Bombers' coldest hitters, the...
GIAMBI FAN CLUB ; JASON'S MANY STRIKEOUTS NOT SCARING TORRE YET
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amJason Giambi and Joe Torre aren't concerned with the paltry batting average the Yankees' designated hitter hauled into last night's game against the Angels at Yankee Stadium. Instead of focusing...
MAKING OLD NEW AGAIN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amALMOST single-handedly -his right hand, to be exact- Pedro Martinez is transforming the Mets from drab to draw. Despite it being mid-week, windy and chilly, the Mets expected to attract...
METS TESTING YANKS' LEASE ON BASEBALL FANS IN CITY
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amIF, from up above, Casey Stengel was comparing the attendance numbers and the attention paid to the Yankees and Mets the last decade, he probably would have opined that everybody...
SUBWAY NEARLY DERAILS EAGLES
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAfter jumping out to an 11-0 lead in the second inning, Monroe head coach Mike Turo decided to give his little-used bench players a chance to get onto the field....
DAMON IS MIAMI'S GOOD HUMOR MAN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - As long as Miami point guard Damon Jones keeps making 3-pointers, he can be as much a classroom cut-up as he'd like. Jones embodies the free-spirited nature of...
CASTRO CATCHES ON WITH PEDRO - MARTINEZ STARTS,PIAZZA DOESN'T
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amFor the third time in the past four starts, Pedro Martinez took the mound with Ramon Castro - without Mike Piazza - behind the plate. Regardless of what anybody is...
NOW, IT'S THE NFL'S TURN ; CONGRESS WANTS TO DISCUSS STEROIDS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amRound 2 of Congress vs. steroids in sports takes place this morning on Capitol Hill. The House Government Reform Committee will hold its second hearing on the topic, this time...
OLD RJ NEEDED NOW
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - It wasn't until he was out there, completely engaged once again on a basketball court, that Richard Jefferson could fully appreciate everything he'd been missing these past four...
SHORTSTOPS A LOT ALIKE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amA few weeks ago, Willie Randolph compared Jose Reyes with Derek Jeter. But if Randolph really wanted to compare Reyes with a similar player, he didn't have to look outside...
DR. FRANK HARD AT WORK - SEEKS RX FOR NET WOES VS. HEAT
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - Lawrence Frank lives for coaching adjustments. So life was good since Sunday. For a day and a half, Frank worried, fretted, watched film, rewound tape, sought out his...
ALIVE AGAIN: KIDD HAS REGAINED FOCUS ON WINNING
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - The universally accepted notion is Vince Carter was worn down in Toronto, where playing became as much fun as munching on a tire iron. He needed change. He...
YANKEES MAY CARRY 13 ARMS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Given their choice, the Yankees would prefer not to carry a dozen pitchers. However, there is a chance that they will have 13 chuckers on their roster when...
EX-JET SAMPLE DEAD: 'DIRTY' CORNERBACK WAS A STAR ON SUPE III CHAMPION SQUAD
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amJohnny Sample - who made a key interception for the Jets in their historic Super Bowl III victory, and later penned a provocative autobiography titled "Confessions of a Dirty Ballplayer"...
THIS NEW 'RING' COULD BE BETTER LEFT-HAND FIT
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Royce Ring's call-up to the majors was even sooner than he expected. "It's a little earlier than I thought it would be," Ring said yesterday. "I'm real happy....
METROS AWAIT HELP
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAs he continues trying to convince former French defender Laurent Blanc to join the MetroStars, coach Bob Bradley may yet receive some help from another source. Word is the winless...
KIDD: CARTER WAS MY RX - LAUDS VINCE AS REJUVENATING FORCE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES MIAMI - The universally accepted notion is that Vince Carter was worn down in Toronto, needed change and revitalization. He got it in New Jersey with Jason Kidd....
A-ROD GOES THE WHOLE 10 YARDS ; RODRIGUEZ SLAMS 3 HRS, TALLIES 10 RBIS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 12Angels 4 When Alex Rodriguez delivers the performance he did last night, it's easy to see why he earns the most money in baseball. A-Rod put on a power...
PHILLIPS FILLS THE VOID
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAndy Phillips is the Yankees' brightest hitting prospect, and the most pleasant surprise of Sunday's face-saving win. First basemen Jason Giambi and Tino Martinez are the Bombers' coldest hitters, the...
SEQUEL PALES TO ORIGINAL
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amIT wasn't the big game in town. Neither John Smoltz nor Pedro Martinez brought their "A" game, so they could not overshadow A-Rod. Willie Randolph said he was so locked...
NETS LACK FEAR FACTOR
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - This isn't the way it used to be around here, at this time of the year. Back then, the fear was palpable inside the arena, and the team...
SMOLTZ GETS HIS 1ST WIN
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amJohn Smoltz said he was in a hot shower when the Mets' two-run, ninth inning rally ended last night, with the home team a run short of tying the Braves...
METS, PEDRO FALL SHORT VS. SMOLTZ
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amBraves 4Mets 3 John Smoltz and Pedro Martinez squared off last night for the second time this season, and most people probably expected a repeat of the first encounter. In...
NETS ON THE ROPES
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - Maybe this could have turned out worse for the Nets. There could have been a 3 a.m. fire alarm in the team hotel. There could have been sharks...
PIAZZA SITS OUT ANOTHER PEDRO START (HMMM ...)
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES For the second straight time and third time in the last four starts, Pedro Martinez took the mound with Ramon Castro - and without Mike Piazza - behind...
CTK TABS WATSON
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amAllen Watson, who pitched Christ the King to the CHSAA championship in 1988, will be named the head coach ofthe school's baseball team today, The Post has learned. Watson will...
TRUE YANKEE OR NOT, A-ROD PUTS ON SHOW
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amSO the assignment for last night was baseball. Upon receiving it at the end of last week, I began counting. On my fingers, of course. Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday-Pedro. No, said the boss,...
BURNED AGAIN: HEAT PUT NETS IN 0-2 HOLE
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 2Heat 104Nets 87 MIAMI - The Nets have faced the Heat five times this season, including playoffs. The Heat are 5-0 and have outscored New Jersey by 99 points....
VINCE MERELY HUMAN - EDDIE JONES STIFLES CARTER & NETS
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - While the Nets were making their rush to the playoffs, no one seemed to have an answer for Vince Carter, who averaged 31.0 points in the last 19...
EX-JET SAMPLE DEAD - 'DIRTY' CORNERBACK WAS A STAR ON SUPE III CHAMPION SQUAD
April 27, 2005 | 4:00amJohnny Sample, former NFL cornerback and member of the Super Bowl III winning Jet team, died Monday night of a massive heart attack, the Jets said. He was 67. Sample,...