June 3, 1999
TECHS WELL-POSITIONED ON ANTLEY'S TIP SHEET
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amJockey Chris Antley may be busy preparing for his run into history at Belmont Saturday, but he took time out to give Post readers his Top 5 stock picks. Antley,...
STOCK JOCKEY'S JACKPOT - TRIPLE CROWN CONTENDER RIDES A $1M PORTFOLIO
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amSuper jockey Chris Antley has one thing on his mind. OK, two things. There's the biggest race of his life, Saturday's Belmont Stakes, where he will try to become the...
MEL DROPS $1B FOR RADIO & 'NET PURCHASE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe insatiable Mel Karmazin is at it again. The head of CBS expanded his radio powerhouse yesterday, becoming the largest traffic and weather reporting service in the country. Westwood One...
SCOTLAND BANK MAY NOT STAND PAT
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amTelevangelist Pat Robertson's anti-gay rhetoric may have cost him a big-monied backer in launching an all-telephone bank. The Bank of Scotland, which said in March that it would back Robertson's...
B&N DEAL GOES BUST; QUESTIONS OVER IPO TIMING
June 3, 1999 | 4:00am"The question is, 'When did they know they were gonna walk away?'"' DONALD TROTT, Brown Brothers Harriman. Who knew what, and when? That's what some are asking, now that Barnes...
KARMAZIN BUYS $11.4M HOME
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amMel Karmazin is finally moving into mogul land by plunking down $11.4 million for a penthouse in Trump International Hotel & Tower. Karmazin, 55, who had commuted for years from...
ARISTA HUFFING & PUFFING OVER PUFFY'S $50M
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amSEAN "Puffy" Combs may have some trouble paying off a hefty debt - at least for a while. Last year, Arista Records chief Clive Davis gave the rap impresario a...
BABS IS MONEY GIRL - STREISAND'S STOCKS SWELL 89% SINCE AUG.
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amBarbra Streisand's latest role is that of a successful Wall Street stock picker. But she says it makes her so stressed she won't try it full time, nor quit her...
TV TICKER
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amBurke's law Court TV will provide live coverage tomorrow of Jerry Springer's appearance before the Chicago City Council (1-2:30 p.m.). Chicago Alderman Edward Burke wants Springer's guests to be arrested...
'GMA' REPORTER HITS BACK AT 'JEALOUS' TIMES AND 'TODAY'
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amTHE reporter for ABC's "Good Morning America" - which paid $16,000 to a friend of the Columbine killers - fired back yesterday. In a bitter and sometimes sarcastic letter posted...
BELZER'S QUIRKY COP MOVES TO NYC: CROSSOVERS WILL SAVE 'HOMICIDE' CHARACTER
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amRICHARD Belzer says he and his flaky character from "Homicide" are going to star on NBC's "Law & Order" and its spinoff, "Special Victims Unit," next season. "They're trying to...
THE 'FORCE' ISN'T WITH THE WORM
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amHOWARD Stern is a "go" and Dennis Rodman's a "no." While no formal announcement has been made yet, the Saturday-night "Howard Stern Radio Show" is expected to be renewed for...
HERE'S WHY CENSORING VIOLENT FILMS MAKES NO SENSE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amFROM the Red Scare hearings of the 1940s to the Clinton administration's post-Littleton probe into the entertainment industry announced this Tuesday, government intrusion in the entertainment industry is an ill...
JAILHOUSE SCHLOCK
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amOF all the cliched characters in Hollywood movies, perhaps none is as predictable as the Sadistic Prison Guard - except possibly the Brutal Redneck Warden. Latest example: 'Instinct,'' the new...
FASHION'S FINEST FETE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amLAST night, the Council of Fashion Designers of America held their 18th annual awards - only this time they relabeled the event the American Fashion Awards, they invited in E!'s...
DATING A CELEBRITY: THE REALITY
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amIn the movie 'Notting Hill' a superstar (Julia Roberts) falls for an ordinary bookseller (Hugh Grant). Fantasy or Reality? The Post talked to women who've been there. 'I never felt...
WIDOW'S 57-YEAR-OLD 'LOVE LETTER' IS A 'DUD' - HUBBY SENT BLANK CARD
June 3, 1999 | 4:00am"I wanted a love letter, an 'I miss you, I want you in my arms.'" LENORE BARNES COVINA, Calif. - After the years, tears and anticipation, all Lenore Barnes got...
156 SAVED AS STORM SINKS YACHT RACE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amA monster storm smashed into a regatta of yacht racers off England yesterday - hurling 156 sailors into the drink and nearly killing an 11-year- old boy. Miraculously, there were...
FLYING POOCHES POLS' PET PROJECT
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amHe was the poster dog for the 5,000 pets who are maimed, lost or even killed each year during airline shipment. But yesterday, Boris - the pooch who survived 6...
GOV 'STATES' CASE AGAINST HILLARY
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amGov. Pataki yesterday said it would be a "mistake" for Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for Senate - as the First Lady, acting more and more like a candidate, spoke...
SEIZURES NO BIG DEAL FOR KIDS WITH HIGH FEVERS: DOCS
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amIt's not uncommon for a young child with a high fever to have a seizure although - as pop icon Michael Jackson has learned from his baby son's illness -...
FIRST ROUND OF MATH TESTS IS EASY AS PI
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amNervous fourth-graders expressed relief yesterday after taking the first - and probably the easiest - of three days of the state's new math tests. But the 9- and 10-year-olds were...
DOUBT PLAGUES JUROR WHO OK'D CANNIBAL'S FREEDOM; EXCLUSIVE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - A juror who voted to free confessed cannibal Albert Fentress says the panel made a big mistake and fears the killer could still be a danger to society,...
TOUGH DWI LAW BAGS ITS 1,000TH OFFENDER
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD's crackdown on drunken drivers yesterday claimed its 1,000 offender, a New Jersey woman involved in a fender bender in front of a Brooklyn station house. When Donna Lowe...
WILL VOLPE'S STORM SINK FOUR INNOCENT OFFICERS?
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amTHE mind still boggles that a thunderstorm of brutality by a single man could cause such tidal waves of misery for so many. Of course, the ultimate victim is Abner...
LONELY ZOO PANDA FIGHTING FOR LIFE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amHsing-Hsing, the renowned roly-poly giant panda, is on the sick list at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., with a possibly life-threatening kidney ailment. The 28-year-old rare black and white...
PASSENGERS' TERROR AS DOOMED FLIGHT ENDS IN FIERY DEATH ON RUNWAY
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amPassengers screamed "God, please save us!" as an American Airlines jet skidded off a runway, broke open and caught fire while landing in Little Rock, Ark., during a violent hailstorm...
KIDS & PARENTS DESPERATE FOR READING PROGRAMS
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amTop-notch after-school reading programs are hard to get into, while others are packed and understaffed - leaving kids clamoring for attention. "There is not enough staff," said Karen Fragala, a...
SLOBBO'S NO. 2 'HONORED' BY INDICTMENT
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amBELGRADE - Vlajko Stojilkovic is sometimes called Yugoslavia's No. 2 man - and he doesn't mind being No. 5 on the Balkan war-crimes tribunal's list of indicted war criminals. ''It...
MILLIONS TURN OUT FOR S. AFRICA VOTE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amSouth Africans stood in lines that stretched for miles yesterday to vote in an election that ends the Nelson Mandela era but appears sure to give his African National Congress...
HILL MAY FACE STARR-CROSSED CAMPAIGN
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amSEXGATE prober Ken Starr will be haunting Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign in New York if she runs. Sources say Starr is finally wrapping up his probe of the messy Travelgate...
ED. BIG OUT IN PENSION SCANDAL
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amA top official at the Board of Education Retirement System was fired from her post yesterday - two months after being accused of cooking the books to get a friend...
KNICKS TAKE EW-TURN FOR THE WORSE - TORN TENDON KOS TEAM'S STAR CENTER
June 3, 1999 | 4:00am"To not be able to be on the floor to help my teammates is very frustrating and disappointing." PATRICK EWING Knick superstar Patrick Ewing is out for the rest of...
JURY HEARS 'HORROR OF BRUTALITY' - LOUIMA TRIAL WRAPPING UP
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors launched a searing attack on the accused Abner Louima cops yesterday - and demanded justice for the man who is "living proof of the horror of police brutality."...
RETIRED N.Y. POLICE CHIEF LAID TO REST
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amA somber crowd of 2,000 mourners crammed a Brooklyn church yesterday to say goodbye to retired New York City Police Chief Patrick Brennan. Brennan - who died Saturday following a...
PORT (AUTHORITY) IN A STORM OVER AIRPORT $$
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe PA will pay Newark $59.6 million in rent, but give New York only $3.5 million for both Kennedy and La Guardia. The Port Authority is paying New Jersey a...
DEFENDANT'S 'CRIME' IS SHE LOVES HER KIDS
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amANA Rivadeneira - known to Bronx authorities as criminal No. 99X025195 - shared a hardwood bench in court yesterday with other defendants waiting to be called before the judge. Looking...
MAYOR, GOV PUSHING YALIE FOR CUNY BOSS
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amGov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani were trying yesterday to line up former Yale President Benno Schmidt as the next chancellor of City University - but it wasn't clear if they'd...
MRS. JACKO LIVID OVER HEARING OF SON ON TV
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Jackson's wife had no idea her 2-year-old son was seriously ill at a New York hospital - and was furious and terrified to hear it first on TV. Deborah...
HOMETOWN HEROES CAN WIN WITHOUT BIG FELLA
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amJEFF VAN GUNDY predicted today would be a "down day" for the Knicks. It shouldn't be. It will be their first practice at Purchase College since learning Patrick Ewing is...
BILL GETS GENERAL IDEA ON GROUND WAR
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton huddles with his top military chiefs today for the first time since the Kosovo war began - to discuss his next move and the possibility of...
BROKER TO THE STARS AIM FOR HIGH STAKES
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amWall Street defector Todd Morgan is one of Hollywood's hottest money managers, but won't touch anyone with less than $10 million to invest. That puts Morgan in the company of...
MANDELA'S PARTY ROLLING IN S. AFRICA
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe ruling African National Congress took about half the vote and seemed headed for another five years in power yesterday as South Africans went to the polls in an election...
GROUND WAR ON BILL'S AGENDA TODAY
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton huddles with his top military chiefs today for the first time since the Kosovo war began - to discuss his next move and the possibility of...
MRS. JACKO LEFT IN DARK ON AILING SON
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Jackson's wife had no idea her 2-year-old son was seriously ill at a New York hospital - and was shocked and terrified to hear it first on TV. Deborah...
THREE KILLED IN CRASH NEAR LA GUARDIA
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amA gory, high-speed accident on the Grand Central Parkway outside LaGuardia Airport early today killed at least three people. The roadway was closed after the 12:05 a.m. crash, which involved...
HOUSE POISED TO RENEW TRADE TIES WITH CHINA
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The China spy scandal won't kill President Clinton's annual campaign for normal trade rules with China, House Republican leaders said yesterday. But the larger issue of whether to...
JUST ONE FOR THE MONEY - TORRE NO FAN OF MULTIPLE GAMES WITH METS
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amIf Joe Torre was the commissioner of baseball, Mets versus Yankees would be a one-game roll of the dice until they met in the World Series. Torre, no fan of...
ROCKET IN NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amLong before Roger Clemens became known as Rocket and put himself in position for a bust in Cooperstown five years after he stops throwing pellets past major league hitters, he...
ROBIN PUMPED FOR FIRST BITE OF APPLE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amRobin Ventura knows he is in for one of the special moments of his career. Although as a White Sox player he has experienced the thrill of inter-city inter-league play,...
BOBBY V SAVORS VISIT TO STADIUM
June 3, 1999 | 4:00am"It's the third year. By now it's three games in the schedule that will by hyped up more than any three games." BOBBY VALENTINE Every time Bobby Valentine goes to...
BOMBERS' FARM YIELDS TOP APPLE CROP
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amIMAGINE A Subway Series of a slightly different variety. Al Leiter would pitch, but for the Yankees. Darryl Strawberry would be allowed to play, but for the Mets, where he...
THE AMAZIN' BIG APPLE BOMBERS - COMBINED N.Y. ROSTER WOULD BE A POWERHOUSE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amEXPANSION to 30 teams has diluted baseball talent to the point where old-timers' claims the game isn't what it used to be have a ring of validity. For the sake...
IT'S A ONE-TEAM CITY - AND THAT TEAM'S IN BRONX; WORLD CHAMPS ARE PRIDE OF CITY
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amTALK ABOUT impossible assignments. How about David Waldstein sitting on this page trying to convince baseball fans the Mets are better than the Yankees? Trying to explain how the Mets...
'IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER' - MCCARVER ANALYZES THE SERIES
June 3, 1999 | 4:00am"Before the game starts, I don't think there is anybody better than Torre at getting his players ready to play." "[Edgardo] Alfonzo has instincts in the infield you just don't...
YANKS-METS: AN OCTOBER PREVIEW?
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amUntil we get Yankees-Mets in late October, we have to settle for the best sports theater in New York which is six regular season games between the bitter rivals. Three...
CALL HIM A 'STUPOR' HORSE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amWHETHER he sweeps or flunks the Triple Crown at Belmont Saturday, Charismatic will go down in history as the public handicappers' worst nightmare. No headliner in recent memory has smashed...
ZOLAK HOOKED BIG ON TUNA
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amBill Parcells has always had an affinity for athletes who've been coached by their father. In Scott Zolak's case, not only did his father coach him at the high schoollevel...
DEVILS MIGHT ADD VAN RYN
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amEven while they were losing two draftees back to the pond, the Devils appear likely to be hauling in their biggest amateur catch. GM Lou Lamoriello yesterday confirmed what sources...
STARS' STYLE DOESN'T SHINE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amWE HAVE absolutely nothing personal against the Stars or the Dallas organization, and under different circumstances would in fact think it fine for the Stanley Cup to find its way...
CHARISMATIC POISED 'FOUR' RUN TO GLORY
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amCharismatic, the former claiming horse who stunned America with longshot victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, is the 2-1 morning-line favorite in a field of a dozen 3-year-olds entered...
BAFFERT'S BELMONT BIND - DENYING CHARISMATIC DASHES CLIENTS' DREAM
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amBOB Baffert is trying to ruin Bob and Beverly Lewis' party on Saturday. Yeah, I know, Baffert works for the Lewises - he trains 23 of their horses, including Silver...
HORSES' FLIGHT TO JFK GETS OFF TO STORMY START
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amBELMONT NOTES The plane from Kentucky carrying Charismatic, Silverbulletday, Prime Directive and Pineaff to JFK yesterday morning was supposed to touch down at 9:30 but arrived 1 hours late after...
BIRD KEEPS ROSE'S HEAD ON STRAIGHT
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - On a mirror above his locker room stall at Market Square Arena here, Pacer forward Jalen Rose has taped a reminder. It is a recent story from a...
NETS CLOSING IN ON NEXT COACH
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The Nets' coaching search committee is scheduled to meet today with members of the team's ownership group who will be told what the thinking has been for months....
BARCA EYES NEW LOOK
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - In a more innocent age, soccer would close down for a lazy summer and perhaps slowly pick up momentum again in late July, starting with a few pre-season...
PATRICK BOWS OUT BUT KNICKS GO ON: REGGIE AND JAX SORRY BIG FELLA WON'T BE 'ROUND'
June 3, 1999 | 4:00am"The Knicks are still going to be dangerous. It doesn't make our job any easier."REGGIE MILLER INDIANAPOLIS - The Knicks, with or without Patrick Ewing, still represent a formidable obstacle,...
DUDLEY IS READY TO DO RIGHT
June 3, 1999 | 4:00am"I feel good. I feel confident going in that we'll do well."CHRIS DUDLEY Chris Dudley, now the man in the middle and the man of the moment, still thinks the...
METS' SOLUTION IS DE-PRESSING
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amMike Piazza knows what's wrong with the Mets. So does John Olerud and John Franco and Rickey Henderson and every other veteran in the clubhouse. They know it and right...
HOW TO NAIL TODAY'S BIG PICK SIX
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amAs the Belmont Stakes Festival week heads closer to the biggest day of the racing year, a Pick Six carryover of $211,577 and a possible pool of $750,000 could turn...
LONG TRIP HOME WAS PLANE RIDE FROM HELL
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amHours after their frenzied Game 2 finish in Indianapolis Tuesday night, the Knicks had other things to think about during a frightening plane flight to New York. Flying through heavy...
WINGS HEAD A SIX PACK OF TEAMS IN ZIGGY HUNT
June 3, 1999 | 4:00am"The full-blown auction," as one league insider called it, for Islanders sniper Ziggy Palffy continued to heat up yesterday with six clubs in the hunt. Team officials believe a deal...
JUST SHUT UP & PLAY! WITHOUT EWING, KNICKS MUST BE SMARTER THAN EVER
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amTHE only thing more shrill than the sound of 48 whistles during a playoff game is the whine that accompanies them. Chris Childs insists he didn't touch Reggie Miller? What...
CONFIDENT PACERS SET FOR GARDEN
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Confident, but not arrogant. To some degree fortunate. Very fortunate. But still not satisfied. That just about sums up the thinking of the Pacers, who have split the...
PATRICK BOWS OUT BUT KNICKS GO ON: NOT READY TO WAVE WHITE FLAG JUST YET
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe playoffs did not end for the Knicks yesterday with word that Patrick Ewing is done for the rest of the post-season with a torn left Achilles, an injury that...
DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS TEARS EWING UP
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES During the season, the Knicks repeatedly said that Patrick Ewing's Achilles' tendinitis was not something that could lead to a more devastating injury. So yesterday when an MRI...
INDIANS PUMMEL PITIFUL PETTITTE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amIndians 10 Yankees 7 The Yankees committed baseball suicide last night when they attempted to match the muscular Indians hit for hit after their pitching polluted the muggy air hanging...
ANOTHER AMAZIN'LY DEPRESSING EVENING
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amMike Piazza knows what's wrong with the Mets. So does John Olerud and John Franco and Rickey Henderson and every other veteran in the clubhouse. They know it, but right...
FRANCO'S AMAZIN' STREAK SNAPPED
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Franco answered all the questions - about last night's crushing blown save against the Reds, about the upcoming series with the Yankees, about the team's six-game losing skid -...
SIX TO THEIR STOMACHS - MET SKID CONTINUES AS FRANCO FAILS IN 9TH
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amFirst the starting pitching, then the hitting. And now, finally, the bullpen has failed them. It's an entire package of futility now. So as the Mets go into the big...
STRAW, BOSS WAITING FOR SELIG VERDICT
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amYANK NOTES The one man who holds Darryl Strawberry's major league baseball career in the palm of his hand has a lot in common with the rest of the baseball...
DECISION TO GUARD LINES LEAVES BOBBY V IN HOLE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The big debate after last night's game was whether the Mets should have been guarding the lines while protecting a one-run lead in the ninth. With two outs...
THE MATCHUPS: THE BATTLE FOR THE APPLE
June 3, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: A street-corner game for a Subway Series. Go position by position, my team's guys vs. your team's guys. OK, we know baseball isn't really played this way. But it's...