Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'markj'
January 28, 2008
After intense speculation about why the masseuse who discovered Heath Ledger's body last Tuesday called actress Mary-Kate Olsen multiple times, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly spoke to reporters yesterday to clear the air. Kelly said, "We believe that of the three phone calls by the masseuse to Mary-Kate Olsen, only one got through. That call was 99 seconds long." Commissioner Kelly further emphasized, "There is absolutely no indication that investigators were going to speak to Mary-Kate......
Continue Reading "Commish Says Mary-Kate Olsen Not Wanted in Heath Ledger Death Questioning"February 17, 2007
The NBA's all-star weekend often disappoints, and this year's still might, even with the race between Dick Bavetta and Charles Barkley. But no one will call David Lee's performance in the annual matchup between the league's best sophomores and rookies underwhelming. The Knicks reserve (!) forward made all 14 of his field goal attempts and scored 30 points in a 155-114 win for the sophomores, who won for the second straight year. Lee was good......
Continue Reading "Maybe David Lee Should Be Starting"January 26, 2007
Clippers 102, Nets 101: After their heartbreaking loss at the Staples Center, the Nets have dropped three straight on their current road trip, all to Western Conference teams and all in brutal fasion. In fact, they're 16-9 against teams in their own conference but 4-14 against the others. But that doesn't tell the story of Thursday's game. Each of the losses on the trip has been worse than the one before. The Nets gave......
Continue Reading "Last Night's Action: Another Nets Heartbreaker"July 7, 2006
Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Kelly, and representatives from the Port Authority and FBI gave a press conference about the tunnel terror plot a few hours ago. This morning, the Daily News revealed that officials had "foiled" a plot to flood the city Katrina-style (no matter how technically unfeasible it would be), sending people into a tailspin, both the "crap, no" and the "the government is making this too big a deal" kinds. From the......
Continue Reading "Tunnel Terror Plot Press Conference"June 21, 2004
Sunday night at Chavez Ravine, Kobe Bryant was sporting a Dodger hat and a Yankee shirt, Billy Crystal caught a foul ball and needed to ice his hand down and "Mr. L.A.", Jack Nicholson, was in attendance to watch the Yankees and Dogers in a three game weekend set. The Yanks ended up dropping two of three in their weekend series with the Dodgers. Javier Vasquez lost the series opener 6-3 (box score) to former......
Continue Reading "Yanks Still Best in Baseball, but Drop Two to LA"
