January 3, 2001
CLUB CHAOS AGAIN DISSES ANGRY FANS JETS, TUNA GO INTO HIDING
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amAS the calendar has settled into 2001, the Jets find themselves with a familiar look and in a familiar position: They have egg on their collective faces and they're shamefully...
STORM HAVE MO-JO WORKIN'
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amVA. TECHatST. JOHN'STonightAt Alumni Hall 7:30 - FSN WEVD (1050 AM) The three-game skid and the offensive woes seem like a millennium ago. Since losing three straight to fall below...
GIANTS TO EAGLES FANS: STAY HOME
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giants have a message to any Eagles fans who were shut out of the 5,000 tickets that went on sale yesterday for Sunday's playoff game, and the message goes...
SCHOOL DAYS AHEAD FOR CELTS' PITINO?
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amSo where will ex-Knick coach Rick Pitino end up when he leaves the Celtics? Right back at Kentucky, or at Indiana, according to industry sources. Pitino appears destined to bolt...
WEINKE LOOKS TO GO OUT WITH A BANG
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - The television ad begins with the Florida State quarterback looking into the camera and saying, "Hi, I'm Chris Weinke. I know a little bit about leadership . ....
FRUSTRATED SCARLET KNIGHTS DROP ANOTHER TO LADY VOLS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amTennessee58Rutgers51 After having her uniform stolen, Tennessee star Tamika Catchings had to play Rutgers last night wearing a nameless No. 55 jersey instead of her usual attire. No matter. Catchings...
HOLY HOLIK! BOBBY BENCHED ROBINSON MAKES EXAMPLE OF CENTER IN TIE WITH PHILLY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amFlyers1Devils1He sat down at the end of the forwards, next to Jim McKenzie, Turner Stevenson and the defensemen, and didn't get up for the entire third period. Larry Robinson benched...
HEY, YA CAN'T LOSE 'EM ALL NETS END SKID AT 7 - BUT NEARLY BLOW 25-POINT LEAD
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amNets120Magic110 ORLANDO - Somewhere in the universe last night, a knight came across the Holy Grail, Diogenes found his honest man and a farmer's wife spotted the needle in the...
HEUPEL A STUDIOUS SOONER
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - He is squarer than the shape of South Dakota, his haircut as short as his answers. Name: Josh Heupel. Rank: Quarterback of the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners. Serial...
COPS EYE MOM IN DEATH OF TRASH BABY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amA Harlem teen who gave birth on New Year's Day dumped her hours-old child in a 14th Street trash can, police said. Cops were weighing charges against Sylvia Hernandez, 18,...
DELTA NIXES EMPLOYEE'S SLAM OF PA 'SNOW JOB'
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday that Delta Air Lines - one of the nation's largest carriers - agrees with him that the Port Authority bungled snow removal at Kennedy Airport. And...
HARLEM PUPILS LEARNING TO GO THE EXTRA MILE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amMost students returned to city schools from their holiday break yesterday - but fourth-grade kids in Harlem who were in class last week preparing for high-stakes exams are saying "Where...
'REAL' JESUS A GREEN-EYED WOMAN, SAYS EGAN ATTACKER
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amThe mentally ill architect who tried to "arrest" Archbishop Edward Egan believes the real Jesus is a 30-year-old Manhattan woman with green eyes he calls "Hypacia," according to court records....
COP MADE ME GO HOME NUDE WOMAN SUES OVER OUTRAGE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amA woman charged yesterday that a Suffolk County cop ordered her to strip and made her walk home naked in the frigid cold after he stopped her for allegedly driving...
GOV GUNNING FOR ILLEGAL ARMS SALES
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki will propose a new crackdown on illegal gun sales today as he delivers his seventh annual State of the State Address to the Legislature. Pataki, in...
HIZZONER HEAPS MESS O' PRAISE ON CITY HOLIDAY CREWS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani held a City Hall celebration yesterday to thank dozens of city workers for keeping the Big Apple shiny, clean and safe during the holidays. Flanked by police officers,...
POL: PROBE GOODMAN CONTEST
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amThe state Senate's Democratic leader yesterday asked for an investigation of the absentee-ballot fiasco that snarled the count in Manhattan's East Side race for weeks. State Sen. Martin Connor (D-Manhattan-Brooklyn)...
RUSSIA DIGS IDEA OF ALASKA TUNNEL LINK
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amGet ready to sing "Three Cheers for the Reds, White and Blue" - Russia wants to build a $60billion tunnel to link the former Communist nation to the United States....
HE TOOK DUMBBELLS TO COURT AND WON
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amArthur Sutton, a Bally member for 12 years, was glad to see the company opening a new club in the Wall Street area - he was sick of the rundown...
TALKIN' THE TALK PARKER'S PEARLS CAN GIVE JINTS AN EDGE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amTHEY brought him in for so many reasons, none more vital than the influence he can and will have this week. If anyone around the Giants needs or wants to...
SOONERS HARP ON UNDERDOG STATUS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Expect the unexpected tonight in the Orange Bowl. Think about it. Prior to the season, just who picked Oklahoma to be playing for the national championship? Who could...
CATSKILLS HAS IT ALL
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amTHIS holiday season was the best in recent memory for metro area skiers and the weekend's snowstorm was just icing on the cake. If you have yet to strap on...
ANTLEY'S DEATH STILL A MYSTERY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amFound dead on Dec. 2. The tragic death of Chris Antley remains shrouded in mystery a month after the body of the troubled 34-year-old jockey was found in his blood-splattered...
TURNER-ABOUT FOR DEVILS - STEVENSON ENJOYS ROLE OF SET-UP MAN ON PPS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amIt seemed an oddity the first time, strategy the second. There was Turner Stevenson, the most penalized Devil forward, setting up a power play goal. And then, another. It was...
HATCH SEES NO HITCH TO CONFIRMING AG CHOICE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday predicted confirmation for Missouri conservative John Ashcroft as attorney general - despite criticism from civil-rights groups. Sen. Orrin Hatch...
WILL CFDA GET THE BENZ? FASHION WEEK LOOMS WITHOUT LEADING SPONSOR
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amWith Fashion Week fast approaching, event organizers have still not lined up an all-important title sponsor. Though 7th on Sixth, the arm of Fern Mallis' Council of Fashion Designers of...
COWBOYS AND INDIANS AND . . . HITLER?
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amAdolf Hitler thought of himself as the fastest gun in the West - and dreamed of having shoot-outs with Indians. A new book says the Nazi madman had a secret...
COMPLAINING ON 'NET IS ALL THE RAGE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amBally Total Fitness tries to try to wipe out Internet sites where customers vent their outrage with the company. Sometimes the damage control works, sometimes it doesn't. "They are the...
HUMMUS WILL KEEP YOU HUMMING
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amIf you want to improve your health, say "yes, peas" - chickpeas, that is. Israeli researchers say eating the popular Middle Eastern chickpea paste known as hummus is good for...
'SKY' WRITER NOTES
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amNIGHT WALTZ:THE MUSIC OFPAUL BOWLES A look at Paul Bowles as a composer.Running time: 80 minutes. Not rated. At Film Forum, Houston Street, between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street. Through...
THE BATTLE OF EBAY - SLEUTH SCOURS AUCTION SITE FOR SEXY STAR RIP-OFFS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amLAUREN Bacall in the buff. Julie Newmar, nearly nude. And Mira Sorvino as you've never, ever seen her. The pictures are digital fakes - part of the Internet's dirty underbelly...
COOPER FILLS GQ FASHION POST
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amGQ's Art Cooper (above left) brought Katrina Szish over from YM. "Vanity Fair Hollywood" from Graydon Carter (above right) has hit the remainder racks. James J. Spanfeller (below) is the...
GE'S PLUNGE FROM GRACE INVESTORS BAILING OVER ENGINE ILLS & ECONOMY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amGeneral Electric had its worst day since the Crash of 1987 - and the outlook could get bleaker. A growing array of woes at the company could cast a shadow...
ISLES OUTSCORED - BY A GOALIE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amAfter the Islanders put their fed-up fans through another humiliating loss - this one in which the opposing goalie scored a goal, no less - Mark Parrish had this to...
GIANTS' GM: MCNABB HAS STAUBACH'S STYLE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amHe has been compared to Randall Cunningham for his mobility, agility and arm strength and there are an increasing number of quarterbacks who fit a similar mold as Donovan McNabb....
BUCKEYES' PARTY COSTS COOPER
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Ohio State coach John Cooper couldn't beat Michigan, but that didn't get him fired. He couldn't win bowl games, but that didn't get him fired. It was Cooper's...
CAMBY SET FOR KNICK RETURN
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amThe Knicks' New Year's resolution is simple - win. They know they are the best and deepest team in the East, and believe they are ready to take over the...
KEITH'S HOPING TO RETURN BY WEEKEND
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amORLANDO - More and more it looks like Keith Van Horn's Net return will be Saturday, at home against the Warriors. "I'm definitely still looking toward Saturday," Van Horn -...
COYOTE DELAY KEEPS RANGER DEALS ON ICE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amWhile Gary Bettman convened a conference call yesterday to attempt to deal with player personnel issues relating to the still-stalled sale of the Coyotes, a conversation very much of interest...
STATE WEIGHS IN WITH GYM-CHAIN PROBE COMPLAINTS PILE UP WITH ATT'Y GENERAL
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amTHE state attorney general's office is investigating complaints that Bally Total Fitness has bullied customers with deceptive sales pitches, unfair cancellation practices and strong-arm debt-collection tactics. The probe was prompted...
PALS MOURN SNOWPLOW-CRASH COUPLES
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amFour friends killed in a fiery car crash were remembered by their Brooklyn neighbors yesterday as hard-working immigrants trying to improve their lives. Police tentatively identified the victims of yesterday's...
MAGAZINE HAILS GUTSY GALS WHO 'BOLD' US OVER
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amDesigner Betsey Johnson has won Gutsiest Women of the Year recognition from Jane magazine for dumping reed-thin models from her shows and using voluptuous, down-to-earth women. The January/February issue of...
MADONNA'S OBSESSING ON BRITNEY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amMadonna says she worships Britney Spears - and even goes so far as wearing a T-shirt with the teen queen's photo to bed so she can be close to her...
COURT SHIELDS POTENTIAL EMBASSY-BOMB JURORS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amJury selection begins today behind closed doors in the Manhattan federal trial of four men suspected of helping bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa on orders from terror chief Osama...
JORDAN ASKED ISRAELI HELP VS. SYRIA TROOPS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - The late King Hussein of Jordan called for Israel to attack Syrian troops who were supporting a 1970 Palestinian uprising against him, newly revealed documents show. The release...
COCAINE TIED TO 1 IN 4 'YOUNG' HEART ATTACKS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amCocaine causes 25 percent of all non-fatal heart attacks in people under 45, scientists say. A study of former heart patients across the nation found the link - but researchers...
THE GLOVES ARE OFF CBS AND 'SURVIVOR II' GO FOR NBC'S JUGULAR WITH 'FRIENDS' FACEOFF
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amVIEWERS hate it when networks go head-to-head with two of their favorite shows, but you can hardly blame CBS for its decision to use "Survivor II" to bludgeon NBC's "Friends."...
PAID JOCKS SNEAK IN RX 'ADS'
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN Olympic gymnast Bart Conner describes his painful arthritis on TV, he isn't doing it out of the goodness of his heart. He's fattening his wallet. Ditto former baseball star...
EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE MARTIAN DEAD - ACTOR RAY WALSTON HATED ROLE THAT MADE HIM A STAR
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amWalston starred as high school teacher Mr. Hand with Sean Penn as a surfer dude in the 1982 movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Below left: He was a mischievous...
CAN PLAYS PAY ON TV? BOX OFFICE LOOKS BLEAK FOR NETWORK
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amThe Broadway Television Network chose "Smokey Joe's Cafe," with DeLee Lively and Michael Park, for its inaugural pay-per-view broadcast. So far it's the only one.Joan Marcus Ayear ago this month,...
THE STARR REPORT
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amABC News: Neufeld unveils cabaret actDid you know that Victor Neufeld, the hard-charging executive producer of "20/20," also sings cabaret? Neufeld showed off his pipes recently at Elaine's during a...
JO JO GETS A REPRIEVE, 15-YR. LEASE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amRESTAURANT Jo Jo has been resurrected.A year ago, we reported the imminent closing of Jean-George's Vongerichten's first restaurant, at 160 E. 64th St., when its lease runs out in February....
DATING'S VEXING AGE-OLD QUESTION
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amJUST the other day, I pulled a groin muscle - my own, thank you very much.I was in Florida and got up too fast from an Early Bird special.That injury,...
EX-FASHIONMALL.COM BIDDER WOULD WELCOME PROBE
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amThe head of an Internet holding company that is withdrawing its bid for Fashionmall.com said he welcomes any investigation of his company's offer for the online fashion site. The bidder,...
DOBBS DE-ORBITS 12 STAFF FROM SPACE.COM
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amSpace.com boss Lou Dobbs started the New Year by firing a dozen people yesterday. Ruthless Lou also canned the company's tiny Washington, D.C., office, which is based inside NASA headquarters....
GORING DOESN'T RELISH ISLES' HOT DOG
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amTim Connolly got away with these hot-dog moves in the Ontario Hockey League. Flaunting some crowd-pleasing stick work, he often embarrassed opponents en route to another stylish goal for the...
NETS STILL MIFFED AT MCGRADY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amORLANDO - Hey, Nets. Want to keep Tracy McGrady from scoring 40 points on you? Try playing defense. That was the rather curt reply the Magic star shot back after...
YAHOO! YANKING 'NAZI' AUCTIONS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amYahoo! will ban Nazi paraphernalia and other hate items from its auction site. The company's decision yesterday ends its battle to stop French regulation of its auctions - although Yahoo!...
SPIELBERG WON'T 'REIN' IN L.A. AFTER ALL
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Filmmaker Steven Spielberg has temporarily shelved plans to build a massive equestrian center that had angered neighbors, officials said yesterday. Neighbors in the tony Brentwood neighborhood of...
SHE BECOMES 'CAPITOL HILL' TODAY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is sworn in today as New York's junior senator - the first woman to move from the White House to the Capitol - and she'll let...
THEY APPLIED MUSCLE ON 'FORGED' PACT
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amKeith Sanders sweated through 2½ years of badgering from Bally's billing office and debt-collectors, even though he never signed up as a member. His signature had been forged on a...
N, R TRAINS TO BYPASS STATIONS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amStraphangers who use four lower Manhattan subway stations on the Broadway line found the uptown platforms closed yesterday - part of a six-month project to get ready for the new...
BUSH RAIDS CLINTON'S CABINET TO NAB DEM : PICKS CHIEFS OF TRANSPORT, ENERGY, LABOR
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amPresident-elect George W. Bush yesterday rounded out his Cabinet and found a Democrat from the Clinton administration to join his team: Norman Mineta, who will be transportation secretary. Bush's other...
'SANTA' KERIK DELIVERS FOR B'KLYN FAMILY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Bernard Kerik played a belated Santa Claus to a Brooklyn grandma on New Year's Day - delivering sacks full of toys for her dozens of progeny. Rogenia Barnett,...
BX. BRAVEST, TAKE A BOW (WOW!)
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amRescue 3 is going to the dogs. The South Bronx firefighters saved 10 puppies and their mother from last week's near-blizzard. Then yesterday, they saved another dozen pups from a...
STUDY LINKS CHLAMYDIA TO CANCER
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amCertain forms of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia increase a woman's risk of developing cervical cancer, researchers say. A study of women in Finland, Norway and Sweden found a strong...
GREEN MAKES A RUDY-FREE PLEA TO GRAMMYS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amPublic Advocate Mark Green is trying to woo the Grammys back to New York next year - by pointing out that Mayor Giuliani will be gone by then and replaced...
POL WANTS PROBE OF GOODMAN CONTEST
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amThe state Senate's Democratic leader yesterday asked for an investigation of the absentee-ballot fiasco that snarled the count in Manhattan's East Side race for weeks. "I am very concerned about...
JAIL LISTINGS DISS LATINOS, BX. POL SAYS
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - A Bronx assemblyman accused state prison officials yesterday of the ethnic profiling of Hispanic inmates. Assemblyman Peter Rivera (D-Bronx) said the ethnicity listing on personal prisoner profiles posted...
THIRD WORLD DRAMA FIRST-RATE & FUNNY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amNIGHT AND DAYThe Bouwerie Lane Theatre, 330 Bowery. (212) 677-0060. Call for schedule. TOM Stoppard is the most stimulating and innovative dramatist working today, and he enjoys a vital relationship...
MARTS AILING WITH LAST YEAR'S HANGOVER
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amWorried investors began the year by shifting their money out of stocks and into the safety of bonds. A sell-off tore through all sectors - from hearty blue chips to...
DOTCOMGUY LEAVES HOME ; ISOLATED TECHIE GETS GIRL BUT NOT MONEY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amDotComGuy's year-long experiment in self-imposed isolation, e-commerce and brand-name dropping has finally come to an end - and he's richer only in experience. Mitch Maddox, who legally changed his name...