January 5, 2001
TEAM CHECKETTS FINALLY ON RIGHT ROAD
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHE pieces are falling into place just as they did during the past year for the Yankees, Mets, Devils and Giants. The Knicks are leading the same kind of charmed...
ALEX GREAT WHILE HOLIK GRATES
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amDevils 4 - Islanders 2 There were two hot Devils last night. One has 11 goals in 11 games, the other none in 16. One is burning up the league,...
FDA OUTMUSCLES FOE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amDouglass 67 - Manhattan Ctr. 54 Frederick Douglass head coach Pat Mangan said that the key to his team's victory yesterday was "making the extra pass." Guard Tahan Engram said...
RICE GUARANTEES HE'LL BE BACK SUNDAY
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Glen Rice revealed last night that a "strained calf" kept him from playing the past two games, not the plantar fasciaitis in his left foot. Rice said he...
STEPH'S SPRAIN IS JUST THAT
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - The initial reaction by the medical people was that Stephon Marbury had sprained his left knee. But the Nets point guard felt the hot spot in the knee...
CHILDS A CRYBABY NO MORE: CONTROLLING HIS TEMPER PAYING OFF FOR KNICKS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amChris Childs has had his New Year's epiphany in Atlanta and Jeff Van Gundy can expect less technical fouls and more production. In Wednesday night's stirring, 100-91 win in Boston,...
LAURA'S SEXY RED INAUGURAL GOWN
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amJennifer Lopez, watch out! First Lady-to-be Laura Bush will celebrate her husband's inauguration wearing an eye-catching, figure-hugging red gown designed by fellow Texan Michael Faircloth. The Dallas-based designer released a...
KERIK: LET CITY COPS PATROL AIRPORTS: BLASTS RISE IN CRIME ATPA FACILITIES
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Bernard Kerik said yesterday the NYPD should take over crime-fighting at New York's airports - putting infuriated Port Authority officials on the defensive. "I'm concerned about the crime...
CLINTONS UPSTATE TO MOURN PAL
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amNewly minted Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday made her first trip back to the state after her swearing-in, to attend a funeral for a friend's dad with her husband, the president....
TOO MANY TARGETS - LIBS CAN'T FIGHT ALL OF BUSH'S EDGIEST PICKS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHE composition of George W. Bush's Cabinet is an absolutely brilliant tactical stroke - and not because of the ethnic and gender diversity. No, it's brilliant because Bush has made...
CIA BOSS TO HOST ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN ANTI-TERROR TALKS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - CIA Director George Tenet will chair a special meeting of Palestinian and Israeli security chiefs Sunday to renew anti-terror cooperation during a crucial new round of peace negotiations....
JEB TO TESTIFY IN FLA. ELECTION PROBE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amGov. Jeb Bush has been subpoenaed to testify in a federal civil-rights probe into Florida's highly controversial presidential election. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold hearings next week...
WHO'S ON 'SURVIVOR II' (BUT YOU KNEW)
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amCBS officially announced the names of the 16 "Survivor II" contestants on yesterday's "Early Show" - nearly two weeks after an explosive Post TV story broke the news with help...
GODARD'S WACKY WEEKEND
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amDEVOTEES of Jean-Luc Godard, of whom there are many, should be in celluloid heaven thanks to the Film Society of Lincoln Center's "On the Road With JLG" program, running today...
FORMER G+J EXEC TO FILL BMG VOID: SOURCES
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amBertelsmann boss Thomas Middelhoff has moved quickly to fill the top spot at record label BMG - and he's turned to his in-house creative wiz to get the job done....
LVMH PICKS BOUTIQUE VINEYARDS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amObviously not suffering from a New Year's hangover, Bernard Arnault's LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton is stocking up on vineyards. Through the company's Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin subsidiary, majority stakes are...
GLICKMAN'S CLASS WON'T BE FORGOTTEN
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amAN Olympian. A Marine. An original. Husband. Father. Teacher. World-class athlete in several sports. The radio voice of my childhood that I copied while practicing by myself in the rain,...
AMANI MAY TAKE PUNTS FOR TIKI
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES While the Giants remain certain that Tiki Barber will be able to handle the ball despite the fractured bone in his left forearm, they are not as sure...
COLLINS IS LIKE OAKLEY TO MCNABB'S JORDAN
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe buzz is about a buzzsaw named Donovan McNabb. Walk by a Giants defensive player this week and you must resist the urge to ask "How you going to deal...
HANDICAPPING CONTEST ON TAP
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amEntries are now being accepted for the $100,000 Sports Haven Handicapping Challenge to be held Feb. 3 and 4 at Sports Haven simulcast center in New Haven. Entry fee is...
PARITY LAYING RUIN TO NCAA DYNASTIES
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Good grief, college football has more in common with the NFL every year. Oklahoma's 13-2 win over Florida State Wednesday night in the Orange Bowl is further proof...
JETS WON'T SEE LIGHT TILL BILL'S SHADOW LIFTS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHERE'S a shadow looming over Hempstead, and it's a big one. It is at its darkest and most threatening directly above Weeb Ewbank Hall and the surrounding buildings of Hofstra...
BOAT SHOW: OASIS FROM COLD, SNOW
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amT HE New York National Boat Show is back in town, and with the snow stacked up along the sidewalks, a walk through the Javits Convention Center just may put...
MALONE'S MOMENT OF TRUTH : FADING MAILMAN FACES QUESTION OF RETIREMENT
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amKARL MALONE loves to pretend he exists above the squalor of "today's athletes" who don't respect the game and only play for money. He fancies himself as being some kind...
CAMBY TAKES IT PERSONALLY: BENCHED EARLY, MARCUS RETURNS TO MAUL MAGIC
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amOVERTIME Knicks 95 Magic 92 With 6:16 remaining in the first period and the Knicks being humiliated 15-0, Jeff Van Gundy replaced four of his starters en masse with the...
COMMUTERS STRANDED ON FERRY 5 HOURS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amWhat should have been a 40-minute commute turned into an offshore night of frustration for 257 people stuck on a New Jersey-bound commuter ferry. The Finest, a boat operated by...
TEARS FOR 2 KILLED AT LIRR CROSSING
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThere were tears and angels in the snow on Long Island yesterday for two young women killed when they drove around a lowered crossing gate into the path of a...
FEAR LURKS IN RAIL TUNNEL'S ESCAPE ROUTE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amStanding in a century-old railroad tunnel into Penn Station more than 10 stories beneath First Avenue, I peered up at what could be my only hope to escape a dreaded...
DUBYA BOAT BLAZE SPARKS ARSON PROBE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amAUSTIN - A fire last month aboard a $30,000 cabin cruiser owned by President-elect George W. Bush may have been arson committed by someone who knew it was Bush's boat,...
PROSECUTORS SEEK TO TARNISH PUFFY'S IMAGE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amIt may be dirty laundry day today in the Sean "Puffy" Combs gun-rap case. Prosecutors are poised to discuss at length the music mogul's bad-boy past, just in time for...
GIULIANI IS SNOW-BLIND TO OUR WORK, SAY OFFICIALS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amAngry Port Authority executives yesterday lashed out at Mayor Giuliani for harshly criticizing their snow-removal efforts at the city's two airports. "There's comes a time when you have to stand...
STATE DEMS & GOP TOOK CAP-ITAL PAINS TO BEAT REGULATION$ - EXCLUSIVE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amState Republicans and Democrats spent a combined $9 million on "issues" advertising and polling during last year's Senate race - effectively circumventing a federal spending cap in the campaign. A...
TENNIS DUO 'UNMATCHED' - WHAT BROKE UP HINGIS & KOURNIKOVA?
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN Martina Hingis declared herself and Anna Kournikova the "Spice Girls" of tennis, she couldn't have been more prophetic. Like the Spice Girls, the flash-in-the-pan pop group from Britain, the...
METS STAR FACES NEW 'BATTER' ACCUSATION
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amMets pitcher Armando Benitez, accused of assaulting his girlfriend in Baltimore, has now been accused of beating her inside their Queens home three days before the Subway Series, police said...
BRONX TEEN FREED IN STAB-SLAYING OF MOM'S VIOLENT LOVER
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amA 15-year-old boy initially charged with murdering his mother's fiancé was released yesterday after she told cops her son was only trying to protect her. Shanta Moss told The Post...
BAD BLOOD SIMMERED FOR 6 YRS. BEFORE BOILING OVER
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe clash over crime at city airports is just the latest flare-up in a war of words waged between City Hall and the Port Authority for the past six years....
BUSH TURNS TO HIS TOP AIDE IN AN 'EMERGENCY'
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amPresident-elect George W. Bush tapped campaign manager Joe Allbaugh yesterday to run the federal agency that helps people whose lives get "turned upside down" by fires and hurricanes. The surprise...
THE FUTURE IS HERE - AND '2001' IS PROVED NO SPACE PROPHECY
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHIRTY years later, "2001: A Space Odyssey" turns out to have been about as predictive as your average space opera flick. Even if you had the wealth of Warren Buffett,...
LET IT BE! STILL NO. 1 FOR FAB 4
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amFORGET the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC - the original boy band is still dominating the charts and won't let go. The Beatles are now in their fifth consecutive week in...
NEWS CORP. SLASHING ITS WEB-RELATED COSTS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThree News Corp. Internet sites - FoxNews.com, FoxSports.com and Fox.com - will be run by the company's broadcast divisions in a move expected to bring layoffs, company officials said yesterday....
BRILL NEVER CONTENT - FORMS NEW MEDIA GROUP WITH PRIMEDIA
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amSteve Brill has managed to turn his latest magazine start-up into a mini-empire that will include all of Primedia's media-related trade properties. The consummate deal-maker, who created Court TV, American...
SEARS TO CLOSE 89 STORES, FIRE 2,400
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amRetailing's bloodbath continued yesterday as Sears, Roebuck & Co. said it would shutter 89 stores and fire 2,400 employees. Weak holiday sales - the worst in five years - and...
C&W POACHES TOP BROKER FROM INSIGNIA
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe long-stable world of Manhattan's commercial real estate brokering was jolted last night with word that high-flying dealmaker Joseph A. Cabrera is leaving Insignia/ESG for rival Cushman & Wakefield. "It's...
SOTHEBY'S MAY GO ON BLOCK : TAUBMAN GETS CSFB TO PUT PRICE ON STAKE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amEmbattled tycoon Alfred Taubman moved a step closer yesterday towards selling his control of Sotheby's in the wake of the art auction world's worse scandal. Taubman, Sotheby's former chairman, who...
CAMBY TAKES IT PERSONALLY - BENCHED MARCUS RETURNS TO SLAM MAGIC
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amWith 6:16 remaining in the first period and the Knicks being humiliated 15-0, Jeff Van Gundy replaced four of his starters en masse with the Rick Brunson brigade. One of...
MALONE'S MOMENT OF TRUTH - LOOKS LIKE THE END FOR FADING MAILMAN
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amKARL MALONE loves to pretend he exists above the squalor of "today's athletes" who don't respect the game and only play for money. He fancies himself as being some kind...
VAN BUREN REPELS MAGNET AGAIN
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amVan Buren 49 - Magnet 46 Call it luck, call it hard work, call it what you want, but Van Buren just seems to have Campus Magnet's number. Going into...
PARCELLS TO RUN SHOW OR GO - FIGUREHEAD PREZ ROLE NOT ONE OF OPTIONS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amIt's all or nothing for Bill Parcells and the Jets. Parcells confirmed to The Post yesterday that one of the things he and team owner Woody Johnson decided on in...
TRADE BENITEZ NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amGET ready to watch John Franco strut in from the bullpen in the ninth inning to protect 40 or 50 leads this summer. The Mets' ultimate survivor could be back...
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND MCDONOUGH
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amCOLLEGE Bowl week offered a poignant contrast in sportscasting styles. Naturally, we mostly heard broadcasters travel the speak-no-evil, back-slapping six-lane highway, even to the point where the most dubious of...
ANOTHER PHILLY-BUSTER - GIANTS ARE POISED FOR EAGLE HAT TRICK
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN the first lines came out last Sunday night after the Eagles whipped up on the Bucs, they had the Giants as 5 1/2-point favorites against their division rivals from...
HE'S NEW-MAN IMPROVED
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amNET NOTES MIAMI - Johnny Newman had sunk to a career worst .337 shooting with more O-fers than a weak-hitting shortstop. Nets coach Byron Scott had hinted that perhaps Newman...
FREEDOM IS POST-PONED FOR REJAILED GASTINEAU
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amAdmitted wife-beater Mark Gastineau was sent back to the slammer last night - after probation officials reviewed the ex-Jet's rap sheet following a Post story that disclosed he'd been quietly...
TEMPEST IN A D CUP OVER GIRL'S IMPLANTS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amA 15-year-old schoolgirl who says her chest is much too small is getting a big lift from her parents - a check for $5,000 for breast implants. Jenna Franklin plans...
BIO'S A HART ATTACK - KITTY CARLISLE UNHAPPY ABOUT BOOK ON LATE HUBBY
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amKITTY Carlisle Hart, the classy Park Avenue socialite and former head of the New York State Council on the Arts, is steeling herself for the publication this spring of a...
FERRARI EXITING TEEN PEOPLE FOR LOVE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe editor behind red hot Teen People, Christina Ferrari, is packing it all in to move to Europe. Ferrari told a stunned staff yesterday that she was leaving after getting...
DOBBS' NO. 2 OUT OF SPACE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amIt wasn't just ground crew that left Space.com this week. Also decreed to have the wrong stuff was Mitchell Cannold, president and COO - CEO Lou Dobbs's right-hand man. Cannold's...
FLAKEY NETS DENIED AGAIN
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amHeat 81 - Nets 78 MIAMI - It is because of teams like the Nets that promising young psychiatrists turn to lives as encyclopedia salesmen. And why fans are routinely...
STEPH SPRAIN IS JUST THAT
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amNET NOTES MIAMI - The initial reaction by the medical people was that Stephon Marbury had sprained his left knee. But the Nets point guard felt some pain in different...
AMANI & IKE HOPING FOR INSTANT REPLAY; TOOMER, IKE: BETTER TO RECEIVE VS. EAGLES
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe last time the Giants made it into the playoffs, one was sulking on the bench, convinced he should be involved. The other was freezing up in the stands, wishing...
HUGH SHOULD KNOW LOMAS HOLDS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amEAGLE NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Not that he's complaining, necessarily, but Hugh Douglas feels there's a reason for why veteran offensive tackle Lomas Brown has controlled him during the two Giants-Eagles...
EAGLE DBS HOPE THEY'VE GOT IT COVERED
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - With one Giant blemish to his Pro Bowl season, Troy Vincent was proven to be just short of invincible. But here, even the Liberty Bell has a crack....
FASSEL DRIVEN TO GET FIRST PLAYOFF WIN
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amAs an assistant he was labeled a quarterbacks guru and then an offensive mastermind. He won the NFL Coach of the Year Award in his first year as a head...
MARA LIVIN' ON BRIGHT SIDE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amNOW, it's Wellington Mara's turn to issue a guarantee. "I know I'm going to the Super Bowl," Mara said. "I just don't know if my team is going with me."...
NIT SUES NCAA
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe NIT filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA yesterday, saying the national college group is trying to kill their pre-season and post-season tournaments. "The NCAA is out to destroy...
HOLIK, ROBBY YET TO CLEAR AIR
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe "open communication" Larry Robinson claims exists on his Devils had not opened by last night with Bobby Holik, upset over being benched. The fifth-leading vote-getter among World All-Star centers...
RICE HOPES TO BOUNCE BACK BY SUNDAY
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Glen Rice revealed last night that a "strained calf" kept him from playing the past two games, not the plantar fasciaitis in his left foot. Rice said he...
BUSH PRESSING TO PUT TAX CUT ON FAST TRACK
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amPresident-elect George W. Bush yesterday said he may push to get his $1.3 trillion tax-cut plan through Congress faster because of the slowing economy, and insisted it's the "right size."...
HACHETTE JOB ON GEORGE: JFK JR. MAG TO SHUT AS PUBLISHER GIVES UP
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amGeorge magazine, the glitzy, money-losing political monthly founded by John F. Kennedy Jr., will publish one more issue and then close up shop. Staffers gathered in what was once Kennedy's...
LOW-LEVEL CROOK A HUSTLER OF HOPE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amHE STOOD in the shadows of City Hall yesterday, selling dreams just like a crack dealer. "Big Game tickets!" the 57-year-old Manhattan man screamed from the street corner as the...
2ND WOMAN SAYS L.I. COP MADE HER STRIP
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amA second woman claims that a Long Island cop ordered her to take off her clothes and walk naked in the cold after stopping her for allegedly driving drunk, her...
DEMS TAKE $HOTS AT GOV'S SCHOOL PLAN
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amCity Democrats warned yesterday that Gov. Pataki's plan to revamp state education funding could actually cut state assistance to New York City's schools. The governor called Wednesday for a sweeping...
'GREAT GUY' FIREFIGHTER DIES WHILE EXERCISING
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amA Queens firefighter, who suffered a fatal heart attack while exercising at the end of his shift, was mourned yesterday as a hardworking, caring father. Gregg McLoughlin, 39, a 14-year...
BABIES GET FOOD PREFERENCES IN DINING WOMB
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amBabies acquire a taste for certain foods their moms eat while the fetus is in the womb, researchers say. Scientists in France tested the response of 24 newborns, half of...
WALL ST. BIG GETS MAX FOR 'HIT' TRY ON JUDGE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amHe whimpered, he begged, he prayed and he apologized. But disgraced Wall Street honcho Stuart Winkler, who was convicted last month of hiring a hit man to try to murder...
RUDY'S SEX-SHOP SUCCESS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amWITH Rudy Giuliani now in his final year in office, expect to see a spate of revisionist news stories detailing his alleged failures. The Times fired the first salvo this...
LET'S BYPASS BLEEDING-HEART ASSAULTS ON JOHN ASHCROFT
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amHAVING bravely survived global warming, the Y2K crisis, Mayors John Lindsay and David Dinkins, and athlete's foot, I must now gird for the next Armageddon. We are talking about the...
HOTEL HORROR FIRST QUEENS SLAY IN '01
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amQueens has registered its first murder victim of the year, a 37-year-old woman bludgeoned in a hotel room by her boyfriend early yesterday, police said. The suspect, Miguel Vendrell, 44,...
LADY POL ADMITS HARASSING EX-FLAME
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - A state lawmaker who has sponsored anti-stalking legislation has pleaded guilty to harassing her ex-lover last year. Assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun, a Republican from Orange County, was granted a...
HART OF GOLD - IF BOB NEWHART IS SUCH A GREAT GUY, HOW COME HE'S SO DAMN POPULAR?
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amCAN Bob Newhart really be this nice? Here's a guy who cracked two of the toughest nuts in show business - TV and Las Vegas - and a new A&E...
STOP THE AWARDS! - ANOTHER HOUR . . . ANOTHER TROPHY
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amENOUGH with the awards, already!An Oscar win can add tens of millions to a film's box office and distinction to an entertainer's career, but what sort of kudos attaches to...
THE STARR REPORT
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amRodriguez leaving Wayne's world Veteran WCBS (880 AM) anchor Deborah Rodriguez will be leaving the daily grind and cutting back to part-time radio duty. Rodriguez, who teams with Wayne Cabot...
STRONG STRUCTURE, DULL IN DESIGN
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHE tinsel has tattered, the baubles have burst and "The Nutcracker" has been mercifully tucked away for yet another merry Christmas at the New York State Theater. New York City...
LOVE CLASSIC ROCK - NEW JERSEY BAND GETS A LIFT FROM ROCK FOREFATHERS
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amNOW is the perfect time to check out a new band, and of all the local acts currently attempting to crack the big time, one real standout of 2001 is...
SOTHEBY'S GOES ON THE BLOCK -TAUBMAN HIRES CSFB TO SHOP HIS MAJORITY STAKE
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amEmbattled tycoon Alfred Taubman moved a step closer yesterday to selling his control of Sotheby's in the wake of the art auction world's worst scandal. Taubman, Sotheby's former chairman, who...
THEY'RE DYING IN THREES - MERCATA, MUSICMAKER, GERMAN FOOL ALL FAIL
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amIt was a busy day in the dot-com morgue, with three e-companies giving up the e-ghost. Top of the heap was Mercata.com, the Paul Allen-backed group buying service. Mercata will...
MILKEN'S CIVIL CASES END, PREZ PARDON COULD FOLLOW
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe last civil case surrounding junk-bond king Michael Milken was closed yesterday - just as his name is being mentioned for a possible presidential pardon. Milken pleaded guilty in 1990...