February 24, 2001
JACKSON IS REAL FORCE FOR UNITY
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amTO UNDERSTAND what Mark Jackson's return means to the Knicks, you have to understand people and basketball. There's someone at the Garden who knows Jackson longer and better than anyone....
PHILLIPS NIXES TRADING BENITEZ TO DODGERS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Even if the Braves step forward and offer the appealing combination of Javy Lopez and B.J. Surhoff for Gary Sheffield, the Mets' front office doesn't plan...
PUT IT BACK HITS 'TURN'
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amIt's not often a 3-year-old can negotiate the jump from a maiden victory straight to stakes company. But if it can be done, Put It Back is the right horse...
HITMEN NOT CHI ABOUT DESIRE FOR INITIAL WIN
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amPlay time is over. "I just can't [bleeping] stand the [bleeping] losing," Hitmen head coach Rusty Tillman told The Post this week. Trying to spit out the bitterness of defeat...
ZEILE FINDS 1ST A FINE FIT NOW
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The "wheel" play was on. Mike Piazza pounced in front of home plate, tore off his mask and yelled, "three." Smoothly, quickly, Todd Zeile picked up...
SUB PROBE FAULTS CIVILIANS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amA preliminary Navy report on the submarine disaster that killed nine people on a Japanese fishing boat is laying blame on the sub's crew and distraction from civilians in its...
CLUES SUGGEST MORE SPIES ARE OUT THERE
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amSpycatchers are looking for more moles in American intelligence operations, The Post has learned. These are some of the chilling reasons: * Someone planted a bug in a State Department...
LAWYERS IN BID TO SETTLE ASSEMBLY SEX CHARGE
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Efforts were under way last night to find an "informal resolution" to the charge that a top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver sexually attacked a female staffer....
BILL BOOK BUZZ A BUST :SCANDALS PUT MEMOIR ON HOLD
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amThe ongoing scandals surrounding former President Bill Clinton appear to be hitting him in the pocketbook - at least as far as publishers are concerned. The book auction for his...
$20M BIO-RESEARCH LAB DUE AT CCNY
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amNew York's top medical institutions have joined forces to open the nation's most advanced high-tech biology center at City College in Harlem to find ways to beat diseases such as...
A BEACON IN THE CITY'S DARKEST DAYS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amAN APPRECIATIONFor all his Hollywood-bred flamboyance, Warner LeRoy had New York in his blood. His devotion to his adopted hometown made him a true prince of the city. Like a...
WWF WEIGHING IN ON EXPANSION
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amThe World Wrestling Federation is ready to rumble. The wildly popular WWF is looking at expanding its television and film production business - and may be close to making an...
KOVALEV ROASTS RANGERS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amPenguins6 Rangers4 PITTSBURGH - It was a game very much like a dozen or so the Rangers have played before in this city against the Penguins, whether Mike Richter was...
SLUMPING DEVILS ACQUIRE CORKUM
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amHurricanes3 Devils2 With their forward ranks dwindling daily, the Devils last night acquired center Bob Corkum from the Kings for future considerations. The addition of Corkum comes as sparkplug Sergei...
CSI WOMEN WIN AGAIN
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amCSI83 Hunter70 When College of Staten Island center Courtney Aimetti helped the Dolphins to the CUNYAC championship as a junior, she figured it would be her last title. "I didn't...
TORRE TELLS MENDOZA TO TAKE IT SLOW
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - There is an entire exhibition schedule to play, so there is a chance Ramiro Mendoza can be ready for the start of the season. However, the valuable right-hander...
FIELDS: BRING BACK SURTAX TO SAVE SCHOOLS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amManhattan Borough President Virginia Fields yesterday suggested reinstating the 12.5 percent surcharge on the city's personal-income tax to produce an extra $800 million a year for schools. The tax, which...
BROOKLYN SLAY SUSPECT BUSTED
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amPolice last night arrested the man they say bludgeoned and shot to death a 31-year-old man in Brooklyn while the victim's 3-year-old son watched in horror. Remi Ellis, 33, was...
HOLLYWOOD HARRY JOINS PARDONGATE :BD+]]THOMASON: I LOBBIED BILL FOR TWO CONS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amHollywood producer Harry Thomason, a close pal of the Clintons, yesterday emerged as a Pardongate player - acknowledging he lobbied Bill Clinton to pardon two Arkansas tax cheats. Thomason "was...
TOP DRUG COP BOUNCED : TRANSFER FOLLOWS HEATED HARLEM MEETING
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amThe head of the NYPD's narcotics war was dumped yesterday, just hours after an angry town hall meeting at which Harlem residents ripped into Mayor Giuliani and his battle against...
HIZZONER APPLAUDS MARY JO'S PROBE
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani praised Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White yesterday for probing the commutations granted to four upstate men whose community voted en masse for Hillary Clinton. White is now...
SUSPENDED DOC BARRED AGAIN OVER KIDNEY OP
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - A Queens urologist already under suspension for removing a wrong kidney is now accused by the state of deliberately cutting out the healthy kidney of another patient to...
ISRAEL ROLLS IN TANKS TO SEAL OFF GAZA : BEEFING UP SECURITY FOR POWELL VISIT
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli tanks cut the Gaza Strip in half yesterday to quell worsening violence and beef up security on the eve of Secretary of State Colin Powell's first Mideast...
THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX : STEP RIGHT UP TO THE STARS AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amHave you ever wanted to get so close to, say, Michael Jordan, that you could practically touch him? How about Madonna - or Oprah? There's one spot, right here in...
THE $%&@ HITS THE EFANSHOP SITE CLOSES
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amEFanShop.com: the name was ugly. So was the end. The Dallas-based builder of sports-oriented Web sites fired the last 10 of its 30 workers yesterday. The company's own Web site,...
BRYLIN THE LATEST DEVIL CASUALTY
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amSubtracting another important player from the Devil lineup, Sergei Brylin will undergo right knee arthroscopy today to remove damaged cartilage from his right knee. Brylin is believed to have a...
EW CAN'T BEAT PAT'S RETURN
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amMark Jackson remembers thinking last week about Patrick Ewing's upcoming retun to the Garden on Tuesday. "I knew Patrick was coming [back] to the Garden," said Jackson, who played five...
NEW ARRIVAL SAYS: WE CAN WIN IT ALL!
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amMark Jackson proclaimed last night before the first game of his second stint as a Knick that he feels the club can win the championship. Jackson, who suited up last...
SPREE, HOUSTON GIVE TRADE PASSING GRADE
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amLatrell Sprewell and Allan Houston acted like two kids in a candy store yesterday. They finally have an elite passing point guard to get them easier shots. "The biggest thing...
PULL THE TRIGGER ON SHEFFIELD DEAL
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amVERO BEACH - Gary Sheffield screwed a ring in each ear, zipped his pocketbook, stood up to leave at the end of his first spring training workout yesterday, and informed...
HAMILTON, BOBBY END THE 'FEUD'
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Early yesterday morning, Darryl Hamilton left any stubbornness by his locker and walked into Bobby Valentine's office. While the meeting wasn't high on Valentine's to-do list,...
LUONGO WON'T GO AGAINST DIPIETRO
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amIf you were anticipating the Rick DiPietro-Roberto Luongo goaltending battle today, forget it. Taking the fun out of the game for the long-suffering Islander fans, Panthers coach and former Islanders...
YANKEES TEST SORIANO IN CF
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Other teams are so enamored with Alfonso Soriano's solid bat and sinewy body that they have asked the Yankees for the heralded prospect and want to use him...
CCNY COMPLETES A MIRACLE RUN
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amCCNY77 CSI69 CCNY hardly looked like a championship team at the beginning of this season. Rookie head coach Andy Stampfel was hired three weeks before the season started. The school's...
MOURNERS BID KHALLID A TEARFUL FAREWELL
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amRadical activist Khallid Muhammad was mourned by followers yesterday at a public viewing in Harlem. About 500 people paid their final respects to Muhammad's widow and relatives inside Unity Funeral...
PUFFY WITNESS DIDN'T SEE GUN OR ANYTHING ELSE
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs' hopes for acquittal soared for about 25 minutes yesterday when a Bronx man testified he looked right at the rap mogul during the Club New York shoot-'em-up...
IS THOMPSON SEEKING GIULIANI'S NOD?
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amBOARD of Education president Bill Thompson, the only black candidate seeking citywide office, has conducted a poll that suggests he's interested in Mayor Giuliani's endorsement. A Democratic voter who was...
RESTAURANT KING LEROY DEAD AT 65 : TAVERN ONGREEN OWNERHAD CANCER
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amAfter years of battling illness, restaurateur extraordinaire Warner LeRoy succumbed to complications from cancer yesterday at the age of 65. The colorful owner of the Russian Tea Room and Tavern...
NAPSTER FACES THE END
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amSix days and counting . . . Napster has until March 2 to find a life raft - or else. The controversial song-swapping site and the music labels that waged...
CHARLIE GOES OUT QUIETLY
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amIf last night was Charlie Ward's final start as a Knick for awhile, it didn't exactly go the way he'd hoped. He missed a wide-open 3-pointer from the right wing...
GILL CRAVES LATE-SEASON RETURN
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amRemember Kendall Gill? Well, he's going to try to make it back with the Nets before the season ends and he hopes to make some sort of a positive impression...
IT'S SANTA ANITA VS. GULFSTREAM
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amSanta Anita and Gulfstream Park announced the creation of the Super Track Racing Series, to be held March 3 and 10 at each respective track. It will be a team...
ZIMMER'S ACE MEANS THE DINNER IS ON HIM
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Don Zimmer's first hole-in-one cost him a dinner check Thursday night when the venerable Yankees bench coach was on hand at the opening of Jack Willies, an Oldsmar...
SMOKE-FILLED AIRLINER EVACUATED AT NEWARK
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amTerrified passengers fled the smoke-filled fuselage of an American Airlines jet as it landed at Newark Airport this morning, but nobody appeared seriously hurt. As the plane hit the runway...
SEX STALKER TERRORIZING UPPER W. SIDE
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amA serial sexual predator and robber is suspected of stalking women on the trendy Upper West Side, cornering them in their building lobbies as they come home from work, police...
HALF-BRO'S HALF-WITTED ESCAPADES AREN'T NEW
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Bad news is no stranger to bad boy Roger Clinton, former first brother, former cocaine addict and ex-jailbird who cashed in on the family name to carve out...
BROADCASTING KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amOften heard, but rarely seen, the pioneers of black radio are in the spotlight - in an exhibit honoring their breakthrough work in broadcasting. The showcase, unveiled Thursday, will be...
HOW TINSELTOWN DUO BECAME BILL'S CLOSEST BUDDIES
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Harry Thomason is such a close pal of the Clintons he had his own special White House pass so he could come and go as he pleased. Thomason...
EGAN PASTOR-IZED MADE HONORARY HEAD OF PARISH IN ROME
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amROME - Edward Cardinal Egan formally took over as honorary pastor of Rome's Basilica of Saints John and Paul in a Mass last night. Egan is the fourth consecutive New...
SHAKE THIS FAMILY TREE AND WATCH THE NUTS FALL
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amBROTHERGATERS Hugh and Rog, as members of a dysfunctional family, are putting the Sopranos to shame. "Why would you get a fat slob like Hugh Rodham, who is actually only...
HILL'S RISE IN POLITICS IS OVER: PUNDITS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amPardongate is crippling Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to establish herself as a senator and could doom her presidential ambitions, politicos say. Even a Hillary supporter like Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn)...
A WEEKEND DATE WITH 'KATE' :'BRASHER' SHOWS PROMISE
February 24, 2001 | 5:00am"KATE BRASHER" Tonight at 9 on WCBS/Ch. 2 IT'S not a perfect show, but "Kate Brasher" has its heart in the right place. And since that's more than you can...
ANGELL OF THE MARKETS : ANALYST SEES FED RATE CUT AS STOX FLIRT WITH BEARS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amInvestors owe Bear Stearns economists Wayne Angell and John Ryding a big thank you. With the Nasdaq in freefall and the S&P 500 officially in a bear market, Angell and...
DOLPHIN WOMEN ARE TOPS AGAIN
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amKnock off Hunter for title CSI 83 Hunter 70 When College of Staten Island center Courtney Aimetti helped the Dolphins to the CUNYAC championship as a junior, she figured it...
SHEFFIELD DIVIDES D-TOWN INTO 2 CAMPS
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amVERO BEACH - The biggest story in baseball was easy to spot yesterday at sunny Dodgertown. He was the guy wearing the Dodger blue warmup windbreaker while he worked out....
INACTION JACKSON
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amMark Jackson received a standing ovation when he checked into the game in the second quarter, but the cheering stopped in overtime. It may be the last time the Knicks...