NEW YORK, Dec. 1 - The New York Knicks, locked in a dispute with guard Stephon Marbury over playing time, have told him to stay away from the team while a buyout is negotiated.
Marbury is being paid $21.7 million this season, the final year of his contract. He was suspended for one game, without pay, for refusing to play in last Wednesday's game against Detroit.
Marbury and NBA Players' Association representative Hal Biaga met Monday with Knicks President Donnie Walsh, trying to resolve the situation with a possible contract buyout.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 - Pitcher Andy Pettitte and right fielder Bobby Abreu were not offered salary arbitration by the New York Yankees prior to Monday's midnight deadline.
Both players earned $16 million last season, but because the Yankees declined to offer arbitration they won't receive compensation in draft picks should they choose to sign with another team this winter.
Other Yankees players not offered arbitration were first baseman Jason Giambi; pitchers Sidney Ponson, Carl Pavano and Mike Mussina; and catchers Ivan Rodriguez and Chad Moeller.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 - A busboy who once returned a $200,000 watch a guest lost at pop star Justin Timberlake's New York restaurant is suing the eatery for docking his pay for meals.
The New York Post said Felipe Santiago Ramales is suing Southern Comfort, Timberlake's Manhattan hot spot, for reducing his paycheck from $300 to $72 by deducting the cost of food he didn't have time to eat and for failing to give him a fair share of the tips left at the restaurant. However, the establishment's attorney told the newspaper Ramales' lawsuit is "meritless."
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 -- Police said they suspect a rider angered by not being given a free transfer stabbed a New York City bus driver to death Monday.
New York radio station 1010 WINS reported driver Edwin Thomas, 46, was fatally wounded about 12:30 p. m. shortly after a man boarded his B-46 bus in Brooklyn, swiped an invalid fare card, sat down and then asked for a transfer slip. Police said the man apparently attacked Thomas when the driver told him he didn't pay for the ride and so couldn't have a transfer ticket.
The man hit Thomas in the head and stabbed him while other passengers looked on before fleeing on foot, police said.
New York, Dec 1 : Tina Fey has no regrets over her impersonation of Sarah Palin on ‘Saturday Night Live.’
"I never did feel that we were mean to her," the New York Post quoted Fey, as telling Barbara Walters on "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008.”
"We stuck to a lot of things that she herself had said, and I think there is a very strange double standard because it''s a woman portraying another woman . . .
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 - Pitcher Andy Pettitte and right fielder Bobby Abreu were not offered salary arbitration by the New York Yankees prior to Monday's midnight deadline.
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New York, Dec 1 : Tina Fey has no regrets over her impersonation of Sarah Palin on ‘Saturday Night Live.’
