March 13, 2000
WWF’S EATERY ADDS DISCO TO ITS NIGHT MENU
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amIt could give a whole new meaning to slam-dancing. The WWF's Times Square restaurant plans to turn itself into a nightclub during the late-night and early-morning hours, offering everything from...
‘WASTE’ WORTH TIME
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEWWASTE The American Place Theatre Mainstage, 111 W. 46th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues; (212) 239-6200. ALONGSIDE the plays of George BernardShaw -- which are for the most...
THE STARR REPORT
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amMats entertainment! Several WWF and WCW superstars have already entered the prime-time network arena. Now it's time for Extreme Championship Wrestling to make some inroads. ECW wrestlers Tommy Dreamer and...
DOES TAX $$ FUND PATAKI PROMOS? MCCALL PROBING $4 MILLION AD BLITZ
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amCOMPTROLLER Carl McCall has launched a probe of what he calls the "outrageous" use of public funds to promote Gov. Pataki across the state, The Post has learned. The probe...
IT’S NO SIN TO BE GAY: POLL
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amA new survey reveals that less than half of Americans now consider homosexuality a sin -- but more than half of those gays quizzed still see a lot of discrimination....
MCCAIN TO BUSH: KEEP YOUR MITTS OFF ‘MY’ STATES
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amJohn McCain's top aides are warning Republican nominee-to-be George W. Bush that he'll be looking for trouble if he tries to grab any GOP delegations in states where the insurgent...
RETIRED PROBER: COPS IGNORING JONBENET CLUES
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amA Colorado detective who has long insisted an intruder murdered JonBenet Ramsey is revealing the secret evidence that bolsters his theory. Lou Smit told Newsweek he is going public because...
MCVEIGH FOUND KINDRED SOUL IN JAIL: UNABOMBER
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amOklahoma City terror bomber Timothy McVeigh said that in prison-yard talks with Unabomber Ted Kaczinski, the notorious extremists came to realize they had more than just explosives in common. "We...
‘INNOCENT MAN’ PUFFY DOGGED BY SHOOT RAP
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe controversy over Puff Daddy's Big Apple legal woes has reportedly followed him to England for his first European tour. At a press conference at a London hotel -- where...
BRIT PM’S WIFE IS SLAMMED BY HER OWN SISTER
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been blasted by her sister as a "trophy" whose husband is "dragging" her around the world to bolster his own image,...
EACHERS AXED IN SCHOOL SEX SHOCKER ; ONE WHO EXPOSED ABUSE PAYS PRICE
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amA sex scandal at a Brooklyn high school has landed two teachers on the hot seat -- one accused of molesting a 16-year-old girl and another who was removed from...
GRYDER DOMINATES INNER MEET
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amWeather permitting, racing switches to the main track on Wednesday. Post time will switch from 12:30 to 1 p.m. and remain at that time slot. Aaron Gryder dominated the jockey...
‘YIELD’ NO. 1 DESPITE LOSS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla.-- Despite his narrow loss to Hal's Hope in Saturday's Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park, High Yield -- who won his previous start, the Fountain of Youth, by 31/8...
GAELS NOT JUST SATISFIED TO BE AT DANCE
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amPlopped in front of the large-screen TV at Iona College's Spellman Hall last night, Jeff Ruland kept a poker face. CBS had just announced that Iona, seeded 14, would face...
FRESHMAN IS THE DIFFERENCE
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amPSAL B BOYS Roosevelt 59 Sarah J. Hale 57 At the beginning of the year, Edward Berrios was a freshman practicing for Theodore Roosevelt's JV team. Yesterday, he helped win...
SETON HALL RE-BERTH A LONG TIME COMING
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amAt about 6:35 last night, when the name Seton Hall flashed across a TV screen in the Brennan Rec Center, Pirate guard Rimas Kaukenas turned and high-fived Shaheen Holloway. For...
NORTHERN ARIZONA A 3-POINT THREAT
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amEverything St. John's needs to know about Northern Arizona -- the Red Storm's first-round opponent in the NCAA Tournament -- is contained in the Lumberjacks' recruiting motto. "Recruit to Shoot."...
RANGERS RUNNING OUT OF TIME
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amSO it's 10th place now, only a point out of 11th after victories yesterday by the Hurricanes and Sabres. It's 10th place now for the $61 million Ranger$ with eight...
HIGH ON SPEED AGAIN
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amAGGRESSIVE drivers are the scourge of our highways, yet car makers can't resist stressing speed over safety in selling their products. In commercial after commercial these days, cars are shown...
WASHINGTON IS CHEATING RETIREES
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amARE you getting more satisfaction from your VCR this year than you did in 1999? You might think that's a pretty stupid question, because it is. But it's at the...
AMERICAN MEDIA GIVES COZ MORE WORK
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amNational Enquirer Editor-in-Chief Steve Coz -- once dubbed one of the 25 most influential people in America by Time magazine -- is moving upstairs at parent company American Media. He'll...
UNDRESS SUCCESS ; HOW LOPEZ KEPT THAT THING ON
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amIT turns out the eye-popping Versace scarf dress worn by Jennifer Lopez at the Grammy Awards had more than skin, tape and glue going for it -- it was also...
UNHIP, AND PROUD: SODERBERGH BAGS INDIE TRICKS FOR ‘BROCKOVICH’
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amFormer indie wunderkind Steven Soderbergh is anticipating the reaction to his latest film, "Erin Brockovich," with something akin to glee. "I like the fact that ['Brockovich'] is about the least...
FREEDOM IN THE WORKS FOR BRIT THRILL-KILL KIDS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe young thrill-killers who kidnapped, tortured and murdered a 2-year-old boy in Britain in 1993 will be set free in three years, it was revealed last night. And that has...
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES FOR B’KLYN CHESS KIDS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amCheck it out! A Brooklyn school won the New York State High School Chess Championship yesterday. Edward R. Murrow's team had all the right moves, crowning Manhattan's Stuyvesant HS by...
BAYOU BRITNEY EYES MOVE TO ESTATE NEAR PRINCE WILLS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amBritney Spears may soon become Britain-y Spears. The teen pop goddess, who hails from Louisiana, is eyeing a move to England and could buy a posh country estate outside London,...
SAG SHOW IS A ‘BEAUTY’ ; TOP TROPHIES COULD BE CLUE TO OSCARS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00am"American Beauty" flowered at the Screen Actors Guild Awards -- taking the top three trophies in what could be a sign the movie will fully blossom at the Oscars. Kevin...
B’KLYN FIENDS MAUL CRUCIFIX AT CHURCH
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amA crucifix at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Brooklyn was desecrated this weekend -- and police say it's likely the work of the same criminals who've vandalized other religious...
ARSON PUTS S.I. SCHOOL OUT OF BIZ
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amAn arson fire heavily damaged a Staten Island elementary school yesterday, police said. The two-alarm blaze, which broke out at 4:10 a.m., destroyed eight classrooms at P.S. 36 at 255...
TRIBUNE & TIMES MIRROR IN MEGA-MERGER
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amTwo of the country's biggest newspaper corporations -- Tribune Company and Times Mirror Company -- were reportedly set to sign off on a merger late last night. Under the terms...
BERGTRAUM MAKES SHARKS FIRE BLANKS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amPSAL A GIRLS Bergtraum 59 S. Bay 43 It's pretty simple, really. If you don't hit your shots, you don't win. Sheepshead Bay knows that all too well now. The...
YARNALL UNRAVELS, GIVES RAMIRO BOOST
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amBlue Jays 14 Yankees 3 DUNEDIN -- Without mentioning Ramiro Mendoza by name yesterday, Joe Torre offered his opinion on the subject of improving the Yankees' lineup by trading the...
PULSIPHER, LEFTY JONES CAN’T DO JOB
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amExpos 9 Mets 3 JUPITER -- Their reactions were ones of utter disappointment after the Mets' 9-3 exhibition loss yesterday to the Expos. Bill Pulsipher said, "I think it was...
STORMY WEATHER AHEAD
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amGo West, Red Storm, and here's a warning: The long travel should be the least of your concerns. The West has great balance and sleepers galore. St. John's should have...
EVERYBODY IN THE (OFFICE) POOL!
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amCollege hoop fans, start your bracket pools. In offices across the country today, CEOs and mailroom clerks alike will begin filling out NCAA men's basketball tourney charts -- shelling out...
THIS IS THE 1 TO WATCH
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amOfficially, Stanford is the No. 1 seed in the South. But until Kenyon Martin suffered his season-ended broken leg earlier this week, Cincinnati would have been a No. 1 seed....
SPARTANS SHOULD RULE
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amSince Day One, we've liked Michigan State. When Mateen Cleaves went down with a stress fracture, we still liked Michigan State. When Duke transfer Mike Chappell struggled, we still liked...
LJ STANDS TALL AGAINST DUNCAN
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES They list Larry Johnson at 6-feet-7, but that's probably in high heels. Yesterday, the former Grandmama had Tim Duncan on the menu -- a 7-foot rack of beef....
PRIVATE LABEL CHIC ; SWANKY SHOPS DEVELOPING THEIR OWN LINES
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amChic boutiques across New York are increasingly doing what department stores have done for years: selling their own brands of clothing. See-and-be-seen shops such as Intermix, Scoop and Calypso have...
EVER-DAZZLING PAUL TAYLOR TROUPE MARKS 45 YEARS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY AT the ripe old age of 69, fast going 70, Paul Taylor is arguably the most inventive and the most versatile choreographer alive today....
PLAYERS PAN NBA CAMERAS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amIN an effort to boost soft ratings in the post-Michael Jordan era, the NBA will install locker room cameras as early as this month. The move follows the league's decision...
MAN SLAIN IN SHOOTING AT B’KLYN BASH
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amOne man was killed and two were wounded in an early-morning shooting at a Brooklyn party yesterday, police said. The violence broke out at the Three Bells Amusement Center on...
SCHWARZ’S KIN VISIT AT MASS. JAIL HOSP
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amCharles Schwarz, the cop twice convicted in the Abner Louima police-torture case, spent the weekend with his wife and loved ones -- their first visit since he was moved to...
NO TRUE JUSTICE UNTIL LOUIMA THREE GO FREE
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amAT A time when the city needs more than a few good men, we have assured ourselves of losing three of the best. "I have given up on the system...
PREZ, NRA TRADE SHOTS IN GUN-CONTROL BATTLE
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amA top National Rifle Association honcho accused President Clinton of exploiting gun deaths for political purposes yesterday -- as the president and the gun lobby accused each other of scare...
A’S STAIRS CLIMBS INTO PICTURE
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amDUNEDIN -- If the Yankees and Angels can't close a deal for Jim Edmonds, the two-time defending World Champions have several backup plans to add muscle to the middle of...
FIRST BASE STILL ISN’T ZEILE’S BAG
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES JUPITER -- Todd Zeile's problem was he didn't realize how fast Expos leadoff man Peter Bergeron runs. So when he fielded Bergeron's sharp grounder on the opening chance...
WELLS TEACHES ROOKIE A LESSON
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amDUNEDIN -- Money. That's what David Wells is. It's what the Yankees are hoping Ed Yarnall will be. Some day. It's only spring. So, of course, Wells has the leftover...
WATSON TO HAVE ARTHROGRAM TODAY ON SORE LEFT SHOULDER
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES DUNEDIN -- Allen Watson will undergo an arthrogram today to find out if the discomfort in his left shoulder is being caused by a problem in the labrum....
PLAYOFF PUSH PICKS UP STEAM
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amNets 129 Magic 91 Next. Three straight opponents of playoff caliber for the Nets. Three straight victories. And three straight blowout victories, no less. Heck, the Nets looked even better...
SPURS MAY HAVE FINAL LAUGH
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS was the one the Knicks couldn't get last June, the one that would have sent the NBA Finals back to San Antonio, the one that would have given Patrick...
NO. 2 WITH A BULLET: RED-HOT ST. JOHN’S HEADS WEST TO MEET N. ARIZONA
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe St. John's players sat patiently - and in luxury - on the reclining lounge chairs right in front of a large bank of television screens at the ESPN Zone...
NO.2 WITH A BULLET: RED-HOT STORM GOIN’ WEST TO BEGIN JOURNEY TO INDY
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amWith everything that St. John's has accomplished already this season, yesterday's NCAA Tournament selection could have been looked at as anticlimactic. You'd have never known that, however, from the raucous...
KNICKS MAKE TIM FEEL TINY ; EWING, SPREWELL, LJ LEAVE DUNCAN DAZED
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks 93 Spurs 80 Tim who? Tim Duncan's domination of the Knicks is over. At least for one giddy Garden night. And now you have to truly wonder what could...
SPRING IN THEIR STEP: ‘FUN SHOES ARE BACK’ – AND THEY’RE SEXY, TO BOOT
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE are lots of adjectives that describe this spring's best shoe styles. Dull is not one of them. "Fun shoes are back," says Marcy Bruch, executive editor of Accessories magazine....
SATAN’S SCHOOL FOR GHOULS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00am"Satan's School for Girls" Tonight at 8 p.m. on WABC/Ch.7 SATANIC worship is the order of the day at "an Eastern women's college" near Boston, called Fallbridge, but it's clearly...
WHITES A MAJORITY AT 3 BLACK COLLEGES
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amWhite students have been turning to some of the country's traditionally black colleges in increasing numbers -- so much so that they're now in the majority in at least three...
JOHN PAUL: FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amIn an unprecedented gesture, Pope John Paul II yesterday asked God's forgiveness for the sins of the Catholic Church throughout the ages. "We forgive and we ask forgiveness," said the...
CHUCK WANTS $5M TO BEAT MOSQUITOES
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amSen. Charles Schumer yesterday asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to earmark $5 million in emergency funds for more research to combat the encephalitis virus that threw a scare into New...
SYRIAN ENVOY COURTS JEWS AT WEDDING HERE
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amSyrian President Hafez Assad sent shock waves through the New York Jewish community this weekend by sending an emissary to a local wedding -- and inviting several guests to Damascus,...
COPS: CRACKHEAD MOM LEFT TOT ALONE
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amA Bronx mom was busted yesterday after she left her baby daughter home alone while she went to a street corner to buy crack, police said. Princess Floyd was nabbed...
IRAN PREZ’S AIDE SHOT ; WOUNDED VICTIM POLITICAL REFORMER
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amA would-be assassin on a motorcycle shot the top confidant to Iran's president yesterday in a shocking daylight attack. Saeed Hajjarian -- a member of President Mohammed Khatami's popular reform...
COHEN OPENS NEW CHAPTER WITH VIET TRIP
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amDefense Secretary William Cohen will make a historic visit to Vietnam today -- but he said he has no plans to apologize for the war which cost the lives of...
RUDY STUMPS IN HILL’S BACK YARD
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani campaigned yesterday on the home turf of his Senate rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton -- shaking hands and kissing babies at an early St. Patrick's Day parade in Westchester...
‘EXTREMELY SICK’ O’CONNOR MISSES MASS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amAn "extremely sick" John Cardinal O'Connor skipped Mass yesterday at St. Patrick's Cathedral to rest at home. The 80-year-old cardinal was unable to preside at yesterday's public Mass as he...
LINDA BEQUEATHED ENTIRE $230M TO PAUL
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amShe loved him, yeah, yeah, yeah - so much that Linda McCartney left her entire fortune of more than $230 million to her famed Beatle husband, Paul. And, in a...
EX-BIG AT JFK MAG DRAWS ‘FIRE’ OVER BOOK
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe former executive editor of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George magazine -- who fired staffers who spoke publicly about JFK Jr. after he died in a plane crash -- is...
STUNNED STUDENTS OF ‘COOL GUY’ INSIST: ‘IT’S NOT TRUE’
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amStudents at Sheepshead Bay HS greeted the news that one of their most popular teachers is caught up in a sex scandal with disbelief. "It's not true about him. He...
DEVIL PLAYERS: WE’D WELCOME MESS
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH -- The trade deadline is tomorrow, and it may well determine the Devils' chances to win the 2000 Stanley Cup. That they can win the Cup is evidenced by...
DUKE IN TEMPLE’S WAY
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amIf Duke is going to end Temple coach John Chaney's dream of getting to his first Final Four, the Blue Devils will have to wait until the championship game of...
ZIVANOVIC TIPS PREP
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amCHSAA QUARTERFINALS Xaverian 65 St. Francis 63 Nick Zivanovic's last-second tip-in lifted Xaverian to a 65-63 CHSAA "A" quarterfinal victory over long-time nemesis St. Francis Prep at Manhattan College yesterday....
KNIGHTS HAVE FINAL SAY
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amHIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PSAL A BOYS JFK 52 Lincoln 51 Today, the doubt is gone. Kennedy was doubted when Willie Shaw went down for the season with a broken thumb...
LET THE MADNESS BEGIN: FIELD OF 64 IS SET — AND IT’S WIDE OPEN
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amNCAA Tournament office pools looked like carbon copies of one another last year. Virtually every college basketball fan in America, and many in the Third World, picked Duke. OK, one...
ROBIN SIGHTINGS RARE THIS SPRING
March 13, 2000 | 5:00amFORT LAUDERDALE -- In many ways, Garth Brooks has been more of a Met this spring than Robin Ventura. For the third baseman, this has been a virtual camp. He...