March 14, 2006
NUGGET DEAL NEVER CLOSE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Nugget coach George Karl denied the Knicks were ever close to obtaining either Earl Watson or Kenyon Martin at the trading deadline. The Knicks had several conversations with...
JETS TAKE GOOD LOOK AT KITNA
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe Jets put on their best recruiting faces yesterday, entertaining some key prospective free agents at Weeb Ewbank Hall as they try to retool their 4-12 team. Quarterback Jon Kitna...
METS MAY BE BIG BUYERS IN 2007
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The second baseman next year could be Anderson Hernandez. Mike Pelfrey and Brian Bannister might be in the rotation. Lastings Milledge might be one of the...
STEPHON CAN'T WIN THIS ONE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amAT A time when we wish they would just go away quietly, the Knicks continue to amaze with their inability to achieve some kind of unity and positive vibe before...
PLANINIC OF ATTACK - NETS' GUARD HOPES HE FITS INTO PLANS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amHOUSTON - All they wanted and needed was a chance. They got it and seem determined to make the most of it. At different stages of the season, rookie guard...
LAVAR 'DOESN'T FIT'
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWith no offer from the first two teams he visited, linebacker LaVar Arrington is preparing to make more trips as free agency rolls on and he searches for a new...
JAPAN PROTESTS TAG CALL
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWBC NOTES ANAHEIM - Japan is so upset with umpire Bob Davidson's reversal of a call on a tag-up in the eighth inning of its 4-3 loss to Team USA...
UNDER GUN, FRANKLY
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWAS that me who suggested Lawrence Frank may be in job jeopardy for burying the bench players assembled during the offseason by Rod Thorn and Ed Stefanski? Was that my...
FOG EYED IN CRASH THAT KILLED S.I. PARENTS & INJURED TEENS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amFog appeared to be a key factor in the Sunday-night plane crash that killed a tragedy-plagued Staten Island couple and critically injured their two children, officials said yesterday. The twin-engine...
GORDON PARKS - A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amLegendary photographer, filmmaker, author, composer and musician Gordon Parks did it all - extraordinarily well. Gordon Parks wore so many hats, it's hard to define him, except to say that...
SHOCKING PIX OF 'WRONG' HIT - 'MOB COP' JURY SEES SCENE OF INNOCENT MAN'S MURDER
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amChilling photos of one of the worst botched mob hits in history surfaced for the first time yesterday as the explosive trial of two alleged cops-turned-Mafia-hit men kicked off in...
JUDGE LAURA GUY ON TRIAL
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amAn attempted-murder trial got under way yesterday for an alleged cop shooter whose indictment had been tossed out by controversial Queens Judge Laura Blackburne. Blackburne, 68, has repeatedly triggered the...
DE'CLASS'IFIED - 20% SKIP OUT ON MANDATORY TUTORING
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amOne in five city public-school students who need extra help are not regularly attending new mandatory tutoring sessions, city Department of Education attendance figures show. During the first three weeks...
FIRE UNION OKS DEAL
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amAbout 2,500 FDNY officers tentatively agreed to a contract yesterday, accepting a 17 percent pay hike over a period of more than 50 months dating back to 2003. But the...
WHEN HAWKS RUN - RIGHTIES FOR IRAQ RETREAT
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amCAN the War on Terror be won? America's inability to secure a victory in Iraq against the insurgency suggests to many people of good will and good sense that it...
JUDGE BLASTS MOUSSAOUI ACCUSERS FOR 'COACHING'
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amA furious federal judge indicated yesterday she might throw out the death-penalty case against 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui after the prosecution revealed a government lawyer coached witnesses - in violation...
STARR REPORT
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amYeah, 'F.A.T. Chance' Oxygen is gearing up for the second season of "Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance." The show's first season was the top-rated series in Oxygen history - so you can...
FORD IN OVERDRIVE - WALL STREET TWOFER FOR HOT DEALMAKER
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amBill Ford, the 44-year-old dealmaker who has been in the middle of landmark moves at both the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange, has quickly emerged...
BOO! HISS! - SOUTH KOREA OVERPOWERS TEAM USA
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amS. Korea 7 - USA 3 ANAHEIM - Team USA did not learn its lesson. Once again the fate of Buck Martinez' club does not rest in its own hands....
JOE CAN'T WAIT TILL WBC'S OVER
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES BRADENTON, Fla. - Thanks to the World Baseball Classic, Joe Torre is missing four key members of his team. But he seemed grateful yesterday that none of them...
PRIDE OF MARCH - A-ROD CLUTCH HIT A GOOD OMEN FOR YANKS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amANAHEIM - All you heard from George Steinbrenner was that the World Baseball Classic was unfair to his Yankees because they would be losing four stars - Derek Jeter, Alex...
LUKOWICH ADJUSTS TO DEVS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amISLANDERS at DEVILS - Tonight 7:30 - FSN, FSN2; WFAN (660); WBBR (1130) Hitchhiking at 1 a.m. suddenly didn't seem such a rotten idea. New Devil Brad Lukowich needed a...
FAMILY FEUD - BROWN SAYS MARBURY MAY HAVE TO GO
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe Larry Brown-Stephon Marbury season-long feud reached its boiling point - if not a breaking point - yesterday. Reacting to Marbury again challenging his authority and restrictive system, Brown, for...
WRIGHT ALL WRONG
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amPirates 9 - Yankees 8 BRADENTON - The 10th hit Jaret Wright gave up yesterday was definitely the hardest - although much of what Wright threw to Pittsburgh had been...
GIRL STABS HER KID SIS: COPS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amA New Jersey teen viciously stabbed her younger sister yesterday in their Perth Amboy home, cops said. The 14-year-old victim was flown to University Hospital in Newark in critical condition...
NEIGHBOR 'KILLS BARKING DOG'
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amA heartless Long Island man took aim from his bedroom window and fatally shot his neighbor's Jack Russell terrier because he hated the barking, police said yesterday. Jeffrey Schure, 52,...
MTA'S UNION POLLED - TWU EYES REVOTE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe transit union is polling bus and subway workers to gauge support for a revote on the contract that was rejected by seven votes in January, The Post has learned....
N.J. PLANE HORROR - FOG EYED IN CRASH THAT KILLED S.I. PARENTS & INJURED CHILDREN
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amFog appeared to be a key factor in the Sunday-night plane crash that killed a tragedy-plagued Staten Island couple and critically injured their two children, officials said yesterday. The twin-engine...
COP SAVED BY VEST - 'PSYCHO' OPENS FIRE WITH 'DIRTY HARRY' MAGNUM
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amA fearless cop was saved yesterday by his bulletproof vest when a dope-crazed psycho shot him and another officer at point-blank range with a .44 Magnum in an illegal Brooklyn...
BUSH FINGERS IRAN FOR IRAQ ROADSIDE BOMBS - THREATENS TO 'RALLY WORLD' AGAINST TEHRAN
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday blamed Iran for deadly roadside bombings of U.S. troops in Iraq, and vowed to "rally the world" against Iran's mullahs. "Some of the most powerful...
BREAKING GROUND - MEMORIAL GOING UP AS PROTEST GOES ON
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amUnder the watchful eyes of angry demonstrators, construction crews began the first phase of work yesterday on the long-awaited World Trade Center memorial - against the wishes of some of...
SHARPTON: KID RHYME NO CRIME
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton and other black leaders yesterday ripped school officials in the Westchester town of Peekskill who called a 7-year-old prodigy's poetry offensive. Parents of students at Peekskill...
RAT POISON IS THE REAL HAZARD IN FEDS' CASE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amAFTER some winters of discontent, defense attorney Bruce Cutler stepped on stage yesterday and sounded like a Shakespearean Richard Burton from Brooklyn. Prosecutor Mitra Hormozi started the government's case and...
GO TO EXTREMES - PUT DOWN THE ESPRESSO AND STEP AWAY FROM THE CAF? TABLE - IT'S TIME TO GET DOWN AND DIRTY, EUROPEAN STYLE. CHRIS BUNTING PICKS THE TOP ADVENTURES TO EMBARK ON THIS YEAR
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amSKY DIVING The Netherlands Death-liability waivers, anyone? Paracentrum, a sky diving company based on the island of Texel in the North Sea, offers inexperienced divers the chance to become experts....
PURE HEROIN CHIC - WHY EVERY GUY IN N.Y. WANTS TO LOOK LIKE ROCKER DOHERTY
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amHIS most frequent accessories include a porkpie hat, safety pins, a lit cigarette and open sores oozing from his nose and ears - yet for a certain segment of downtown...
JERSEY BOYS - TONY SHOCKER OPENS DOOR FOR 'SOPRANOS' CREW
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWHEN Tony Soprano got shot Sunday night, it opened up some spots. This season's "Sopranos" is suddenly not so much about the boss - but about the people around him....
NEIMAN ELEVATES INSIDER
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amContinuing a tradition of promoting from within, the Neiman Marcus Group yesterday named Ken Downing to the post of fashion director. In his new position, Downing, who has served as...
VISA STAR PLAYER IN NEW 'CSI' VIDEO GAME
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amPlenty of advertisers have put their products in video games, but Visa is pushing the envelope with a deal that gives its brand a starring role in the latest "CSI"...
BOFA GETS NEW LEASE; BOFA TAKING MORE SPACE ON SIXTH
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amINSATIABLE Bank of America just scooped up three more floors at Douglas Durst's 1133 Sixth Ave., across the road from where Durst's and BofA's joint-venture One Bryant Park is rising...
METS COULD BE BIG BUYERS IN 2007
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The second baseman next year could be Anderson Hernandez. Mike Pelfrey and Brian Bannister could be in the rotation. Lastings Milledge might be one of the...
ILLINI SET TO PAR-DEE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amHow many college basketball players can say they are responsible for a trend? Phil Ford gave us the four corners; Patrick Ewing the T-shirt under the jersey; Michael Jordan the...
ANOTHER DREARY DEFEAT
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amNuggets 108 - Knicks 96 With 33.7 seconds left, the Knicks on their way to a 108-96 blowout Garden loss to Nuggets, a group of fans began a brief chant...
TIME TO GIVE JAGR A REST
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amRANGERS at HURRICANES - Tonight 7:00 - MSG; ESPN (1050 AM)RALEIGH - If, as the cliché goes, tonight's match here against the Hurricanes were the seventh game of a playoff...
DAMON SITS WITH BUM SHOULDER
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWBC NOTES ANAHEIM - Johnny Damon has decided to shut down his throwing for a few days because of an aching left shoulder. After conferring with Brian Cashman on Sunday,...
DRAMATIC RESCUE ON STATEN IS.
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amHero emergency medical technician Wendi Ireland carries a precious package yesterday - a 6-month-old baby girl who'd been plucked from her family's burning apartment building on Staten Island. As Ireland...
'COP-KILLER' IS ANGLING FOR A DEAL
March 14, 2006 | 5:00am"Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr. wants to strike a deal with prosecutors, his lawyer said yesterday, leaving open the possibility that he may flip on his cop-killing cohort. "He's not...
BLOOMBERG WILL SPARE 'HATE SPEECH' IMAM
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg has decided not to fire the head Islamic chaplain of the city's jail system, despite the uproar over the cleric's speech claiming that terrorists inhabit the White House...
LET'S MAKE A DEAL - 'COP KILLER' FISHING
March 14, 2006 | 5:00am"Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr. wants to strike a deal with prosecutors, his lawyer said yesterday, leaving open the possibility that he may flip on his cop-killing cohort. "He's not...
GOTTI LEGAL WOE$ - LAWYERS LIEN ON HIM
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti claims his legal problems have left him so broke, he can't pay his lawyers and may need to go into debt to defend himself at his third...
BRO ADMITS DOUBLE-SLAY
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amA 23-year-old Westchester man with a history of mental problems pleaded guilty yesterday to killing his sister and a family handyman and stuffing their bodies in a car trunk. Gerald...
UFT CLEARS HURDLE FOR 2ND CHARTER SCHOOL
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe United Federation of Teachers received approval yesterday to open a second charter school in Brooklyn this fall that will eventually serve grades six through 12. State University of New...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amCounterfeiters in Germany are turning out pornographic euros featuring big-breasted nude women and hunky men. Incredibly, stores have been accepting the smutty notes - even though the bogus bill-makers playfully...
CAR-PERK POLS TAKE TAXPAYERS FOR A RIDE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Taxpayers are footing $1,000 monthly bills for New York City Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel and Gregory Meeks to tool around in luxury autos - two of the most...
SUSPECT IN STUPOR 'BOWL'
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amA 71-year-old Brooklyn man accused of heaving a bowling ball at cops from his 17th-story terrace took the stand yesterday, testifying that he was trying to put out an annoying...
THE SKIN YOU'RE IN - HOW TO MAKE ANY SKIN TYPE LOOK LUXURIOUS; GETTING THE SKIN-NY
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S not easy being beautiful. And it's not cheap, either. According to dermatologist Dr. Leslie Baumann, women spend an average of $200 a month on skin-care products. And if trial...
WHEEZE KIDS - OLD HANDS OUTNUMBER 'IDOL' TEEN SENSATIONS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amTHE year of the teenager on "American Idol" is a bust. Only three of the 12 finalists - who start the last leg of the competition tonight - are under...
MAD COW LIFTS PORK
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWall Street is putting lipstick on pigs again. A mad-cow scare here yesterday - following rising fears of bird flu at poultry farms globally - caused investors to dump shares...
NYMEX SELLS OFF PIECE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amAfter months of intense infighting, members of the New York Mercantile Exchange approved a deal yesterday to sell a slice of their market to private-equity firm General Atlantic. Under terms...
YOU GOT NAILED - E-MAIL PROBE NETS MESSY MERRILL A $2.5M FINE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday slammed Merrill Lynch with a $2.5 million fine and a rare cease-and-desist order for sloppy handling of critical e-mails. The Wall Street giant didn't...
INTERSCOPE RECORDS JOINT VENTURE A SCHUR THING
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amMusic industry veteran and budding fashion mogul Jordan Schur has inked a new joint venture record deal with Interscope Records. The label, called Suretone Records, will focus on rock acts...
ALL ABOUT THE O - BIG APPLE FOCUS ZOOMS IN ON OMAR
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - All winter, the people would approach Omar Minaya - Mets fans, Yankees fans, baseball fans, people of color and people with skin paler than fax paper,...
JOHNNY BE GONE - SHOULDER INJURY PUTS DAMON ON WBC BENCH
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amANAHEIM - As Team USA took batting practice before last night's game against South Korea, Johnny Damon was nowhere to be found in the outfield at Angel Stadium. That's because...
SIMPLY D-LIGHTFUL - GRITTY NETS REPEL YAO, ROCKETS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amNets 90 - Rockets 77 HOUSTON - Vince Carter got his 29 points. Jason Kidd supplied his customary direction and his 73rd career triple-double. Richard Jefferson hit the boards. And...
JETS LAND CHATHAM FROM PATS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe Jets last night officially dipped their toe into the free agency pool for the first time this offseason. After a series of move that has included releasing players, reconstructing...
CTK LOSES DAVIS FOR ACCOSTING REF
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWhen Christ the King faces St. Dominic's at Fordham on Thursday in the CHSAA AA state semis, the Royals will be without Larry Davis, who was suspended by the school...
HAWKS 'PLAY-IN' WITH FIRE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThere are many ways to look at the NCAA Tournament play-in game, especially when you're a participant. The bad? The committee looks at you as quite possibly No. 65 in...
HI-TECH TEST FOUND BOUNCER'S 'INVISIBLE' BLOOD
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe telltale blood that linked a bouncer to the brutal rape and slaying of graduate student Imette St. Guillen was invisible to the naked eye - and was revealed by...
SHOCKING PIX OF 'WRONG' HIT- 'MOB COP' JURY SEES SCENE OF INNOCENT MAN'S MURDER
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amChilling photos of one of the worst botched mob hits in history surfaced for the first time yesterday as the explosive trial of two alleged cops-turned-Mafia-hit men kicked off in...
L.I. DA SOCKS DWI'S - NASSAU GETS TOUGH
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amDeclaring drunken driving in Nassau County "an epidemic," the county's district attorney yesterday announced a get-tough policy for boozed-up drivers. "Today is day one in our assault on drunk driving...
FISHY BIRD-FLU ADVICE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amUncle Sam is advising people to store canned tuna and powdered milk under their beds to be ready for an avian-flu outbreak. "What we're talking about here is preparedness, and...
SPITZER & SUOZZI ARE TV AD-VERSARIES
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi released dueling ads yesterday, firing the first shots of the TV war for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. The...
HS CHESS KINGS EYE 3RD CROWN
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe reigning national high-school chess champs from Edward R. Murrow HS in Brooklyn will get a chance to three-peat next month after retaining their state crown in New Rochelle over...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * A gang of toughs assaulted and robbed a woman as she walked on a Washington Heights street yesterday, police sources said yesterday. The 24-year-old victim, whose name was...
BLAZE GUTS FOUR QNS. BUSINESSES
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amA five-alarm fire roared through a commercial strip in Queens yesterday, destroying four businesses, the FDNY said. It took 198 firefighters 4 ? hours to douse the flames in the...
STATE SENATE BUDGETING FOR $400 HOME REBATES
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - In a move reminiscent of Mayor Bloomberg, property taxpayers would receive $400 tax rebates checks shortly before this year's elections under a state Senate budget proposed yesterday. Senate...
PATAKI'S JUDGE PICK MAY BE CHUCKED OUT
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amSen. Charles Schumer is blocking Gov. Pataki's effort to secure a federal judgeship for Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue, The Post has learned. "Chuck has put his finger on Mary's nomination,"...
BRADLEE IDS FIRST PLAME LEAKER
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Ben Bradlee, the Washington Post editor who helped expose the Watergate scandal, says former Secretary of State Colin Powell's top deputy, Richard Armitage, was the first member of...
KEEP IT SIMPLE - THIS YEAR, SKIP PARIS OR ROME, AND DISCOVER LIFE AS IT USED TO BE; GETTING BACK TO BASICS
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amTHERE are those who can't get enough of a European city. Why, is no secret: The history. The food. The architecture. The shopping. The culture. Or maybe it's simply the...
CBS CALLS HOWARD 'DESPERATE'
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amCBS brass quickly slammed Howard Stern last night following his vitriolic appearance on David Letterman's "Late Show." "We believe his appearance was his desperate attempt to distract attention from the...
VIEIRA AND 'TODAY' TALKING
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amNBC's interest in Meredith Vieira as a possible replacement for Katie Couric is reportedly heating up. Vieira herself has said she wouldn't rule out the possibility of jumping to the...
ROCK'S HELL OF FAME - LACKLUSTER LINEUP HITS A SOUR NOTE
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amWHILE rock 'n' roll may never die, it took a beating last night at the annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria. The class or 2006, which included...
FASTOW FOOLED BOSSES - DEFENSE CITES 'LIES'
March 14, 2006 | 5:00amFolding under verbal assaults, star Enron witness Andy Fastow has admitted that his two bosses were innocent of dipping into Fastow's crooked side deals blamed for Enron's $68 billion collapse....