February 25, 2005
EBBERS' WITNESS SKEWERS SULLIVAN
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amBernard Ebbers' defense team is trying to make Scott Sullivan's words come back and bite the government in the behind. As the Ebbers defense hit full stride yesterday, former WorldCom...
U.S. ATTORNEY IS LATEST TO INVESTIGATE KRISPY KREME
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amAfter getting hammered by regulators and angry investors, Krispy Kreme is now under criminal investigation by the Justice Department. The sinking doughnut company said the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan is...
BILLION $ RIDE - EX-VIACOM HONCHO BIDS FOR PARAMOUNT PARKS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA team led by a former top Viacom executive has quietly approached the media giant about buying its Paramount Parks unit, The Post has learned. Tom McGrath, who stepped down...
BOARD BLUES RISING
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amMorgan Stanley is bristling against new complaints of cronyism on its board that critics blame for bloated pay at the top. Overlapping relationships among directors have come under fire across...
VIACOM: WRITES OFF $18B, SALES BEGIN
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amMedia giant Viacom announced a whopping $18 billion writedown yesterday to reflect the decline in value of its radio and outdoor advertising businesses. Faced with rising competition from satellite radio...
SALE OF 'LOLLIPOP' BUILDING GETS OK
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amFans of the "lollipop building" have been licked again - an appeals court has given the green light for the sale and redesign of the controversial Columbus Circle structure. In...
FORMER MUSIC BOSS GOLDBERG EARNS HIS WINGS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amFormer indie record impresario Danny Goldberg was tapped yesterday to run the liberal radio network Air America. Goldberg, a longtime leftie political activist, stepped down as chairman of Artemis Records...
EASTWOOD: GO AHEAD, DIGITIZE ME
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amClint Eastwood is going to be shooting up the streets again as Insp. "Dirty Harry" Callahan - only this time in a video game. The Academy Award winner said yesterday...
WE'RE GA-GA FOR GLAM-A - MAGAZINE START-UPS SMASH 1,000 BARRIER IN '04
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amCAN the industry stand all this good news in one week? Fresh from a report that the Magazine Publishers of America is kicking off a three-year, $40 million ad campaign...
BILLION $ RIDE - FORMER VIACOM EXEC BIDS FOR PARAMOUNT PARKS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA team led by a former top Viacom executive has quietly approached the media giant about buying its Paramount Parks unit, The Post has learned. Tom McGrath, who stepped down...
WIFE WENDY - 'RUNWAY' MYSTERY HUBBY
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amMEET "Mr." Pepper. Actually, his name is Robert Downing, and he was the previously unseen husband of "Project Runway" firebrand Wendy Pepper - unseen until now, that is. Here he...
LUNA ECLIPSE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amLUNA ignites many moods. Listen to "Bonnie and Clyde" on "Luna Live," recorded on Bastille Day in 2000. You could feel a little schizo with the melancholy vocals of New...
HOW CAN 'IDOL' BE SO MEAN? - CONTESTANTS TREATED CRUELLY, SAY FANS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amRYAN Seacrest's abrupt dismissal of contestants on Wednesday's live episode of "American Idol" has raised some eyebrows. Especially jolting was the way in which Melinda Lira, the first contestant booted...
MISSING: MOVIE CRITICS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amWITH another Oscar weekend upon us, it's worth asking: Whatever happened to movie criticism on TV? Once upon a time, full-time critics - who delivered reviews on movies and theater...
THE NEW 'LEGENDS!' - 'DYNASTY' DAMES IN INFAMOUS COMEDY
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amFOR aficionados of off-stage drama, it doesn't get much better than the story of "Legends!" - the ill-fated 1986 comedy by James Kirkwood that paired Mary Martin and Carol Channing...
WHAT A DRAG! - THEATER BIGWIGS OUTRAGED BY TRAVOLTA PICK FOR 'HAIRSPRAY' FLICK; TRAVOLTA FAVORITE AS EDNA
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amJOHN Travolta in drag? As bizarre as it sounds, Travolta is the front-runner to play the overweight laundress Edna Turnblad in the new film adaptation of "Hairspray," knocking out Harvey...
THAT'S WHY THE LADY IS A CHAMP
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amI went into the Thai film "Beautiful Boxer," the story of a transsexual kickboxer, fearing that it might be schlock like "Iron Ladies," the 1999 comedy from the same country...
ON A SLOW BOAT TO MARTIN EEK
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amPOOR Marty Scorsese. He's widely expected to lose - again - at the Oscars Sunday night, and, to add insult to injury, a producer has dug up an undistinguished 1997...
STARR REPORT
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amJacko actors castE! and British satellite broadcaster BSkyB have completed casting for "The Trial of Michael Jackson," in which actors will re-enact daily testimony from Jacko's trial, set to start...
MADEA CULPA
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amVEERING wildly from romance to melodrama to crude farce, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" plays like an unwieldy mishmash of "Big Momma's House," "An Unmarried Woman" and "The Burning...
'STREET' WISE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTHERE have been plenty of old-lady detectives, including Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and An gela Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher on "Murder, She Wrote." You'll find out why they're so good at...
TRUMP FIRES TARA FOR MURAL MESS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA poorly planned marketing campaign led to Tara's ouster on last night's episode of "The Apprentice." Tara, the 28-year-old Port Authority PR manager who was leading the Net Worth ("Street...
THOSE GOLDEN YEARS, FULL OF BRASS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amIMAGINE the "Golden Girls" a few years later, when they're all in a nursing home, and you'll get "Sunset Story," an alternately funny and somber documentary that won a special...
REALITY CZECH
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTOURISM officials in Prague aren't likely to be fond of "Up and Down," a Czech social comedy that portrays the beautiful city as filled with rip-off artists and soccer louts....
ROYAL FLUSH
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amWHEN you're a King, you get a second chance. At Webster Hall on Wednesday, the Kings of Leon redeemed themselves after what the band admitted was a lackluster gig the...
MARY'S HOT PICK
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amAs part of the Jazzitaliano Festival in New York, almost three dozen of Italy's finest jazz artists will perform over six nights, beginning Tuesday and running through next weekend. Eight...
SUSPECT'S DAD IN COURT DRAMA
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe father of a Brooklyn man who was shot in the head while allegedly trying to rob a Queens bodega last year caused a stir at his son's trial yesterday...
PONTIFF IN THE WORLD'S PRAYERS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amFor the second time this month, worried Roman Catholics from New York to Nigeria, Boise to Bombay, paused to pray for their ailing leader, Pope John Paul II. At St....
MONKEY'S MONIKER UP TO YOU
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amIf you've ever wanted to make a monkey out of somebody - here's your chance. It's a one-of-a-kind auction for the right to name an entire species of monkey -...
WAL-MART'S $7.5M BIAS HIT
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA federal jury has ordered Wal-Mart to shell out $7.5 million to a former Long Island employee after finding that supervisors at the retail giant discriminated against him because he...
POPE IN HOSPITAL AMID NEW CRISIS - * ON RESPIRATOR AFTER TRACHEOTOMY * 'SERENE' AFTER 30-MINUTE SURGERY * DOCS FEAR HE'LL BE LEFT VOICELESS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amPope John Paul II was rushed back to a Rome hospital yesterday and underwent an emergency tracheotomy - a 30-minute operation to help relieve severe breathing problems, authorities said. The...
GIFF PATS SELF ON BACK WITH TAX $$
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Gifford Miller used taxpayer money to send out thousands of letters touting his vote to approve a West Side rezoning plan that would not include a Jets...
SUBWAY 'FEMME FATALE' - WIFE OF 'KILLER' EYED
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe cheating wife in the love-triangle slaying at a Chelsea subway station apparently lied to cops to save her jealousy-crazed husband from a murder rap, according to new court papers...
JOSÉ: NO WAY TO 40G - WEASELS ON RING DEAL
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amYankee fan Ron Galen has a $40,000 beef with José Canseco. On Sunday, Galen, a California financial planner, purchased the 2000 World Series ring that Canseco won with the Yanks...
OLYMPIC-SITE PANEL: STADIUM OK A MUST
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe head of the visiting Olympic delegation said last night that having a green light for the West Side stadium is crucial to New York's bid for the 2012 Games....
OLYMPIC-SITE PANEL: STADIUM OK IS A MUST
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe head of the visiting Olympic delegation said last night that having a green light for the West Side stadium is crucial to New York's bid for the 2012 Games....
TRAIN-STEAL GUY BACK TO PRISON
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTransit fanatic Darius McCollum is chugging back to prison for 1 ½ to 3 years after pleading guilty to his most recent transportation-related infraction - the attempted theft of a...
BOXER SLAY BUST - '95 CASE CRACKED: FEDS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amAlmost a decade after the gruesome kidnapping and slaying of a promising Brooklyn boxer, a suspect was sent back to New York from Poland last night to face murder charges....
MIKE'S FOE HOSTS IOC GARDEN PARTY
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amSome of the Olympic delegates are playing games with Mayor Bloomberg's affections - spending their last night in town with his arch-enemy, Madison Square Garden boss James Dolan. Three members...
MASSAGE BECAME MOLESTATION: COPS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA masseur at an exclusive Estée Lauder Spa on Long Island has been arrested and charged with sexually molesting one of his female customers - and police are asking other...
MERRY MARXIST MELODY - THE MAYORAL WANNABES' TUNE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amDEMOCRATIC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner declared that Wednesday was "the first day of the ideas primary." That was very ambitious of him - maybe too ambitious. After all, most political...
LET'S GET REAL, H'WOOD: POLL
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amHollywood needs a reality check. That's the opinion of conservatives, moderates and liberals across the country, who say today's moviemakers are out of touch with their values, according to a...
JETS' FOES KEEP HEAT ON MTA TO PLAY FAIR
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe MTA should not favor the Jets' plan to develop the West Side rail yards, and must ensure that all bidders be treated in a "fair and equal manner," stadium...
MOM RAILS AT TORTURE KILLER
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn mother branded one of her son's killers a "monster" as the woman was sentenced to 25 years to life for torturing the teen to death. "How could you...
URBAN-LIT QUEEN BEGAN BOOK BIZ ON THE STREETS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amIf Teri Woods had waited for a publishing house to print her first novel, it would still be collecting dust in a closet - and she'd still be cleaning toilets...
SCHOOL SUIT $$ SOARS - $7M FOR VICTIMS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amSchool violence may be on the downswing, but past schoolyard assaults are costing the city a fortune - and the payouts are growing, new records show. The city shelled out...
CHILLING LAST PIX - TSUNAMI KILLED COUPLE TAKING THESE PHOTOS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA loving couple smile for the camera - then snap photos of the monster tsunami that would kill them. These eerie pictures were found in a digital camera that washed...
CABINET CLEANUP - ABBAS BOOTS ARAFAT CRONIES
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat's successor cleaned house yesterday, sweeping the late president's corrupt old-guard loyalists out of a new Cabinet dominated by technocrats. "They are young and professional, and I...
FEMALE PROFS SUFFER MORE STRESS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amWomen in academia are far more stressed out than men, a study shows. Eighty-five percent of female professors identify research and publishing demands as stressful, compared with 67 percent of...
SUPER-HIV PATIENT HAD SEX BINGE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amBOSTON - The New York City man infected with the "superstrain" of the AIDS virus had sex with at least 10 men after he tested HIV-positive, according to new information...
THROAT OP MAY MEAN PNEUMONIA
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe decision to give Pope John Paul II a tracheotomy to help him breathe means his flu may have turned into a dangerous pneumonia - and his age and Parkinson's...
TRAIN NUT TO PRISON - TRIED TO DRIVE ON LIRR
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTransit fanatic Darius McCollum is chugging back to prison for 1 ½ to 3 years after pleading guilty to his most recent transportation-related infraction - the attempted theft of a...
HILL'S IRAQ SLAP - IRAN-LINK TALK ANGERS NEW GOV'T
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has touched off a diplomatic flap with Iraq's incoming government by questioning whether the leading candidate to become the next prime minister is too...
SAD WEEKEND FOR KIN OF TRAGIC CONN. CO-ED
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amRelatives and friends, still reeling from the apparent drug-overdose death of a Connecticut dean's-list college student Victoria Hagman, will say their farewells to the tragic beauty this weekend. Hagman, 22,...
BUNDLE UP FOR A WINTRY WEEKEND
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe snowstorm may be over, but don't look for any spring-like weather this weekend. Or next week, either. Temperatures will hover around the freezing mark today and tomorrow, with northwest...
S.I. WOMAN, 76, KILLED IN HIT-RUN
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA 76-year-old Staten Island woman was killed yesterday by a hit-run driver just two blocks from her home as she took her regular evening walk to a supermarket, authorities said....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amFile this under Stupid Bank Robber tricks. Cops in Chicago say Randy Washington, 24, phoned a talk show on radio station WFIE to brag about how he and five pals...
VLAD'S PLOY LEAVES W. AT A LOSS - AND A WIN
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amCALL it Vladimir Putin's chutzpah. He knew that President Bush would press him on Russia's slip-slide away from democracy, so he tried to turn the tables - and got help...
LET THE SIDESHOW BEGIN - JACKO JURY FINAL FOR MON. TRIAL
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - It's a wrap. Jury selection drew to a close in the Michael Jackson child molestation case yesterday, and the judge announced the trial would begin in...
TEEN FIT TO BE TRIED IN GRID MURDER
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amOne of the men accused of murdering a Connecticut football player was found mentally fit to stand trial yesterday, just weeks after telling a judge he didn't know where he...
PA TO OVERHAUL AIRPORT SECURITY
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amNew anti-terror security measures will be installed at Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports as part of a $219 million overhaul, officials said yesterday. The Port Authority announced that it...
STATE MAY STYMIE SUBWAY FIX-UP
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA plan to rehab subway stations and buy new trains could be scrapped if the MTA fails to get enough money from the state to bankroll its capital program, officials...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amQUEENS * Cops yesterday released sketches of two men (above) sought for raping and robbing two workers in a Flushing massage parlor last month. Police described the two assailants as...
DEMS PUSH HILL, CHUCK ON DIALLO
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer are again on the hot seat over their refusal to support immigration help for the family of NYPD shooting victim Amadou...
TRUNK-SLAY SECRET - KILLER GOT BRO'S EX PREGNANT: POLICE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA man's bid to keep a dirty family secret - that he impregnated his half-brother's ex-wife - led him to kill her and leave the body in the trunk of...
BUSH TAKES ON RAS-PUTIN - CHALLENGES RUSSIA PREZ FOR HARMING DEMOCRACY
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amPresident Bush yesterday confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin about backsliding away from democracy - and Putin pushed back hard. Putin claimed his own decision to end direct election of Russia's...
'JOKER' JAILED - BANK-ROB NOTE A PRANK, HE INSISTS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA Long Island man was busted for slipping a bank teller a robbery note following an account withdrawal - which he claims was a joke. Michael Richard, 23, a tire...
Q&A FOR BRAVE GAL MELISSA: 'I'LL SURVIVE'
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amIt was the Grammy moment no one will forget: rock goddess Melissa Etheridge's triumphant, bald-headed performance that proclaimed to the world she was recovering from breast cancer. Her passionate rendition...
WISEGUY ADMITS $9M PHONE-Y BIZ
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA reputed Gambino wiseguy and his brother yesterday fessed up to bilking taxpayers out of $9 million by inflating expenses at a small Missouri telephone company in order to qualify...
MOB LAWYER OFF GAMBINO CASE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA well-known New York lawyer has stepped off the defense team for reputed Gambino underboss Anthony Megale after the feds alleged he was caught on video hobnobbing with high-ranking Mafiosi...
HOWARD HUGHES' NIXON BRIBE SPARKED W'GATE: PROBER
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amIn new bombshell claims, a former Watergate investigator says the break-in was motivated by President Nixon's paranoia that the Democrats would find out that he had taken a $50,000 bribe...
$LAP FOR CITY JOB RACISM
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration yesterday agreed to pay $150,000 to a black Department of Environmental Protection worker who charged that his city bosses hurled racial slurs and punished him for reporting...
BYSTANDER, 16, SHOT ON TRAIN
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn teen who found himself in a subway car with a crowd of arguing youths was shot early yesterday when one squeezed off a bullet that ricocheted off a...
SUBWAY 'FEMME FATALE' - LOVER OF 'KILLER' EYED
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe two-timing woman in the love-triangle slaying at a Chelsea subway station apparently lied to cops to save the jealousy-crazed father of her three kids from a murder rap, according...
COOL COLIN 'DONS' THE 'VICE' LOOK
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amMove over, Don Johnson - Colin Farrell is taking over your white sports jacket to go on the prowl for crime and babes. And with his sun-bleached, greased-back hair and...
BEJARANO RIDES THREE WINNERS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00am1ST RACE - Field was tightly bunched down backside as Platitude, 3-5 under Aaron Gryder dropping from 18G to 12.5G for Scott Lake, moved through along rail to duel for...
BASEBALL LOVES ITS JUNK BONDS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTHE TRUTH of the matter is that Major League Baseball, despite its last-to-know public awakening on steroids, is still happy to cash in on the most suspicious muscle. The Mets,...
PEARL'S WISDOM IS REACHING KIDS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amJust last week, Sebastian Telfair had his No. 31 jersey retired at Lincoln. A lottery pick by Portland straight out of Coney Island, it's only natural to toss Telfair into...
QUIET HIDEKI A REAL PRO
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Hideki Matsui still plays for the Yankees, just in case you needed that information. The highest-profile athlete in an entire country is the lowest-maintenance player in baseball's most...
GORDON: NO RELIEF FROM PAST
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Tom Gordon began his interaction with reporters yesterday by saying he didn't want to talk about last year. By the time the Yankees reliever left Legends Field, he...
STRICKLAND STRIKES UP THE BAND
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - It was only 30 pitches, but it was enough for Scott Strickland to get pretty excited. "I'm so happy," he said yesterday. "I was...
NO SWAMP SWAPS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThere were calls from numerous teams, but nothing made sense for the Nets. So while the Atlantic Division underwent significant change before yesterday's NBA trading deadline, the Nets played no...
DOUBLE THE TREASURE - FORTUNES LINKED FOR ZAM, KRIS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - You can't mention one without mentioning the other. It's simply the way it is with Kris Benson and Victor Zambrano. Benson and Zambrano came to the...
NO CALL FOR C-WEBB
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amIsiah Thomas goes way back with Chris Webber, who considered the Knicks president his idol when Thomas played for the Pistons. But that didn't mean Thomas wanted to trade for...
TAYLOR ESCAPES VG'S DOGHOUSE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The defensive-poor Knicks will only get worse when Maurice Taylor is on the floor. Taylor has been stuck on the Rockets' injured list since Jan. 18 because of...
KURT'S MAN IN MIDDLE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks 113 - Sixers 101 It was appropriate that on Hardwood Classics night, there were the Knicks in their vintage burgundy and white 1980 uniforms, staring down the barrel of...
FELIX DAZZLES WITH FLAMETHROWING FLAIR
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Felix Rodriguez showed off the kind of power arm the Yankees lust for yesterday. Before you start getting excited, remember Jay Witasick possessed that kind of...
ISIAH'S FOLLIES
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amON a day it might've been easier for the NBA to relocate franchises rather than move the multitude of traded players, Isiah Thomas almost did exactly the opposite of what...
STOCK & TRADE - KNICKS PILE UP DRAFT PICKS, DEAL NAZR, BAKER AND MOOCHIE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThis time, Knicks owner James Dolan used his wallet in the name of the draft. In obtaining two first-round picks, the Knicks, getting slightly younger and more athletic, agreed to...
MO NOT TAYLOR-MADE FOR KNICKS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amMaurice Taylor isn't exactly going to help the Knicks correct their defensive woes. Taylor has been stuck on the injured list for weeks because the Rockets got on a roll...
JASON GETS BIG LIFT - WEIGHT PROGRAM PUTS GIAMBI BACK ON TRACK
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - The rebuilding of Jason Giambi's body is complete. Now we will see if the strict workout program can help Giambi resurrect a baseball career. Giambi flexes his biceps...
LOOKING TO ROLL A... LUCKY SEVEN - PIAZZA PRIMED TO MAKE '05 MAGICAL FOR METS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - He doesn't mean to sound so nostalgic, and doesn't want anyone to think of this season as any kind of thanks-for-the-memories victory lap. But it's hard...
SIXERS SPLASH - THANKS TO WEBBER, IVERSON THRILLED ABOUT PHILLY'S CHANCES IN EAST
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe balance of power in the Eastern Conference was shifted so forcefully at yesterday's NBA trading deadline that the shockwaves were powerful enough to put a smile on Allen Iverson's...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTo: Mike Francesa and Chris Russo From: Andrew Marchand Re: Pedro Gomez interview CC: The Amazing Kreskin Dear Mike & Chris, Hours before Barry Bonds' news conference Tuesday, you offered...
'DREAM' TEAM FOR GERALD - EX-KNICK VIES FOR ESPN GIG
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amSince former Knick Gerald Wilkins retired from the NBA in 2000, he hasn't done much in terms of a "real job," he says. Now he's going after a "Dream Job."...
5 QUESTIONS FOR BRYANT GUMBEL
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with HBO's Bryant Gumbel. The 56-year-old Gumbel is in his 10th year as host of "Real Sports." Q: What is the advantage...
BALL HOG - SELFISH KOBE CAN'T CARRY LAKERS
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amMonday Lakers at Knicks 7:30 p.m., MSG, ESPN Kobe Bryant is not only one of the most talented players today, he's also one of the most skilled ever, according to...