October 14, 1999
CALL IT TRUMP SOUR; TONY TENANTS TRASH THE DONALD'S GM VANITY PLATE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amDonald Trump's efforts to get his ubiquitous name plastered on the GM building has some of the site's high-powered tenants climbing the walls. The potential presidential candidate had strategically placed...
WHO'LL BUY CH.9?
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWWOR/Ch. 9 may soon have a new owner. Chris-Craft, which owns the Secaucus-based TV station, is holding preliminary talks with potential buyers of the station as well as nine others...
BMG SUES 'N SYNC FOR $150M ; NEW LABEL, JIVE, ALSO HIT IN BREACH OF CONTRACT CLAIM
October 14, 1999 | 4:00am'N Sync isn't just "Tearin' Up My Heart" - the boy band is tearing up its contracts as well, says the guy who created the teen pop idols. Louis J....
ANOTHER DOW-N DAY; OFF 184
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWall Street was hit by a panicky selloff yesterday after some of the nation's biggest companies missed profit estimates. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 184.90, or 1.77 percent, to...
U.S. NEWS SHOWS SIGNS OF WEAKNESS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amDaily News owner Mort Zuckerman has a new headache with his shrinking magazine operations. Zuckerman is about to alienate his advertisers by cutting the base circulation for his drowsy U.S....
SEPHORA OPENS ON FIFTH AVENUE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amChic cosmetics retailer Sephora is firing its biggest shot yet at rival department stores today, with the opening of its giant Rockefeller Center store and new website. The location of...
KOZMO FETCHES AN URBAN RIVAL ; COPYCAT RIVAL IS RIDING ONTO DELIVERY SCENE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe battle to bring Manhattanites their snacks and videos is about to get ugly. Kozmo.com, New York's first Internet-ready delivery service for movies, ice cream and whatever else will fit...
SINGING BRITNEY DOLL HAS $40 PRICE TAG
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amIf your talking Spice Girl dolls just aren't any fun since the band broke up, don't fret. Another pint-sized flavor of the month is on its way to a toy...
P.A. CAN'T BOOT JFK'S MOB: RUDY
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani stepped up his bid to seize control of the city's two airports yesterday, arguing that the Port Authority is ill-equipped to root out organized crime at Kennedy Airport....
BEAR-ISH EARNINGS FALL 9 PCT.
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amBear Stearns had its biggest one-day stock drop in a year yesterday after its earnings came in at $1 a share - 13 percent lower than the $1.15 a share...
THIS 'RYAN' HAS NO HOPE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00am"Ryan Caulfield: Year One" Tomorrow at 8 on WNYW/Ch.5 FOX'S teen-cop drama started out as "Ryan Caulfield." Then it became "The Badland." Now it debuts as "Ryan Caulfield: Year One."...
A WONDER FROM DOWN UNDER
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Australian Ballet, returning to New York after a nine-year absence, has perhaps grown more - what is the word? - Australian. It is not simply that almost all its...
'2' SLOW A 'SONG'
October 14, 1999 | 4:00am'CREMASTER 2," the fourth in a series of bizarre (and eccentrically numbered) films by Matthew Barney, is a visually striking but inscrutable and lethally slow-moving deconstruction of Norman Mailer's "The...
A DOSE OF REALISM WOULD FIX BAROQUE 'DREAM'
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amT HERE'S a style of post-modern play staging we might call Europomo. The 1998 production of Calderon's 1635 masterpiece, "Life Is a Dream," by Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company -...
DEEP DOO-DOO ; TONIGHT, 'CHICAGO HOPE' WILL GO WHERE NO NETWORK SERIES HAS DARED VENTURE BEFORE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amONE of the seven dirty words you can't say on TV is making its primetime network debut tonight. On the CBS medical drama "Chicago Hope," Mark Harmon's character, Dr. Jake...
NOTHING TO CROWE ABOUT
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amIT had all the fixings of a great show. Southern-fried rockers the Black Crowes were the band, and Led Zeppelin guitar ace Jimmy Page was the man, and they were...
JUST THE FAX: KING SCARES WOLF
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amSTEPHEN King has thrown a scare into Ch.2 sports reporter Warner Wolf. The best-selling author and Boston Red Sox fanatic - recovering from a serious car accident - faxed a...
TV TICKER
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amNorville news Deborah Norville is returning to the "Today" show. Norville, who now hosts "Inside Edition," will visit "Today" on Nov. 1 to hype her new children's book, "I Don't...
'I WAS PLAYING DUMB BLONDE'
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amA wise-cracking Farah Fawcett last night confessed she was just "playing" the spacey blonde during an embarrassing 1997 appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman." Through her 10-minute appearance on...
HOW OUT PLAYERS PARTY (OR NOT): THEY ARE FOES ON THE FIELD, BUT ARE THEY FRIENDS AT THE BAR? READ ON...
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amEL Duque loves Chinese food, Derek Jeter loves the nightlife and John Olerud loves show tunes. On the field, the Yankees and the Mets are contenders, dukes of the diamond....
JUNK SCIENCE: THE FEN-PHEN FUSS SHOWS HOW A PANIC - AND LAWSUITS - CAN KEEP EFFECTIVE DRUGS OFF THE MARKET
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amIF you're one of the millions of New Yorkers who follow the latest diet news, the past two weeks may have left you pretty confused. First, there was the study...
IT'S NOT UP HER ALLY: SHEEDY DOESN'T CUT IT AS 'HEDWIG'
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amTheater Review 'THE title character of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," the brilliant rock musical that's been playing for more than a year off-Broadway, is a German man who's had...
SHEEDY GIVES AN 'INCH' OR TWO
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amPLAYING a glam-rock transvestite seems to be taking a toll on Ally Sheedy. The actress, who opened last night in the acclaimed off-Broadway musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," has...
WHO'S CHEATING WHOM? IS ALBANY SCAMMING N.Y.C. SCHOOLS - OR VICE-VERSA?
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWhere Livingston Street oncehad two incompatible, essentiallynon-functional attendance-computerhook-ups, it now has three. IF the flow of state dollars to New York's public schools is based on student enrollment and attendance...
DUNG-LASHED CATHOLICS RATE RUDY HIGH
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's approval rating among white Catholics soared dramatically after he attacked the Brooklyn Museum for "Catholic bashing," a new poll shows. The Marist College poll of 771 city residents...
'I'M NOT A NAZI,' CLAIMS AUSTRIA'S GREAT RIGHT HOPE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - The new star of Austrian politics - whose election victory has created a diplomatic crisis with Israel - presented a kinder, gentler image yesterday and denied he's a...
STATE YANKS RANK FRANKS AFTER ILLNESS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - State inspectors planned to fan out in the Big Apple today in an effort to yank potentially tainted packages of Sabrett hot dogs off supermarket shelves. The state...
CON ED SAYS MERGER COULD SPARK RATE CUTS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amElectricity rates in New York City could go down thanks to Con Ed's $7.5 billion acquisition of Northeast Utilities, the biggest power company in New England. Confirming that the boards...
MDS WEIGH IN WITH BACKPACK WARNINGS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amKids are lugging so much stuff in backpacks they're in danger of hurting their spines and shoulders, doctors warned yesterday. The docs didn't link heavy back loads to conditions like...
E. COLI BUG MAY AID IN CANCER FIGHT
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe nasty bug that brings you bad hamburger meat may also be able to battle cancer, Canadian researchers said yesterday. In lab tests, researchers used the E. coli toxin -...
PAKISTAN STILL IN LIMBO - COUP GENERAL GIVES NO HINT OF HIS PLANS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amPakistan remains at a political crossroads today after the army leader who seized power two days ago refused to disclose his plans or name a new government. State media said...
FAN-FRIENDLY ATLANTA PARK SHAMES SHEA
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA. MAYBE it's only fitting that the Braves are teaching the Mets a lesson on the field - because their field could certainly teach us a few lessons. If the...
'METS' FANS HAVE RIGHT NAME
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amMeet the Mets - Karl and Evelyn Mets, that is. The Rockland County couple said it's amazing their surname is the same as the name of their favorite baseball team....
CRIPPLED WRESTLER GETS NEW GRASP ON LIFE; EXCLUSIVE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWildman wrestler Darren Drozdov told his beautiful finance that if he ever became paralyzed, she should leave him because he wouldn't want to live. But now that "The Droz" is...
RUDY BETS HE WON'T BE A SOX SYMBOL
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani has made a lot of sports bets in his six years in office, but yesterday's wager with his Boston counterpart may have been his most difficult. Giuliani is...
TERRIBLE TONYA TO GIVE SKATING HER BEST SHOT
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amFive years after she was convicted in the assault on skating rival Nancy Kerrigan and banned for life from amateur competition, Tonya Harding is making a comeback - as a...
GOP'S SECRETLY HOPING BRADLEY WILL GET GORED
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amS UDDENLY Republicans are starting to think the unthinkable - what happens if their man, George W. Bush, has to run against Bill Bradley instead of Veep Al Gore in...
DOES DONALD HAVE GAL PAL IN MIND AS HIS FIRST LADY?
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amDonald Trump's gorgeous model gal pal thinks chances are "good" he will run for the White House - and Melania Knauss hopes she's in the running to be his mate....
NYPD SAYS NO TO KKK'S HOODED HATEFEST
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD last night denied a permit for a Ku Klux Klan "white pride" rally, citing a state law that bars protesters from wearing masks - setting the stage for...
N.Y. POLS STICK TO BUSINESS AT HAND: BASEBALL!
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Jose Serrano of The Bronx faced a dilemma yesterday: Attend an ultra-dull subcommittee meeting - or watch his beloved Yankees. Serrano - at risk of losing his...
BUCHANAN SET TO LEAVE GOP
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Conservative presidential wannabe Pat Buchanan is set to announce on Oct. 25 that he's leaving the Republican Party to run as a Reform Party candidate, an official in...
STILL-SLIDING GORE GETS AFL-CIO NOD
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Embattled Vice President Al Gore yesterday got the AFL-CIO's endorsement to boost him at the grass roots - over protests from a few big unions such as the...
TRIBUTES ROLL IN FOR CHAMBERLAIN
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amHeart-wrenching tributes poured in for Wilt Chamberlain yesterday as funeral plans for the legendary dunkmaster were announced. Services for "Wilt the Stilt" - found dead at his home in Bel...
RUDY'S FOES RALLY BEHIND EVIL SPIRITS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amMINORITIES, gays, community groups and even the black lawyer who fought for the right to hold the Million Youth March in Harlem support the Ku Klux Klan. That's right. The...
TEARS FOR U.N. WORKER - QNS. MAN KILLED ON FIRST DAY
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe U.N. worker killed on his first day in Kosovo because he enraged a group of ethnic Albanian teens by speaking Serbian was a Queens man who "lived to help...
45% OF APPLE'S HS SENIORS MAY NOT GRADUATE ON TIME
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amNearly half the high-school students in the city's Class of 2000 face the prospect of not graduating on time because they haven't passed the now-required English Regents exam, new data...
LEGAL EAGLES SAY COPS AND DA BLEW IT
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amInept police work and a lackluster district attorney's investigation doomed an indictment in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, legal experts said last night. "The cops destroyed the crime scene. They...
ALMOST ONLY COUNTS IN HORSESHOES AND GRENADES
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA. THEY don't give rings for being close. "Almost" is a word for losers, not league champions or World Series winners. Twice, the Mets have come close to beating the...
SENATORS NUKE BILL'S TEST-BAN ACCORD
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate last night killed President Clinton's historic no-nukes treaty by a 52-48 vote, after Democrats failed to postpone the issue until next year. An angry Clinton immediately...
YANKEES BERN WHILE METS BURN - BOMBERS TOP SOX, BUT AMAZIN'S FALL
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amIt was a tale of two cities yesterday, as Yankee fans celebrated a pinstriped playoff victory over the Red Sox and Mets fans gnashed their teeth after the Amazin's dropped...
THESE CHUMPS ARE OFF THEIR ROCKIES
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amARROGANCE, imbecility and incompetence are thriving in the clear air of Boulder, Colo. The investigation of the murder of little JonBenet Ramsey has been the most outrageous perversion of justice...
BELOVED BAKERS KILLED IN SOHO SHOP - COPS CATCH TWO SUSPECTS AFTER SIDEWALK GUN BATTLE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amA sweet-tempered, generous muffin-shop owner and his manager were shot and killed last night in a botched holdup - two weeks after armed thugs failed to rob the same SoHo...
PANEL GIVES UP QUEST FOR JONBENET'S KILLER
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe murder of JonBenet Ramsey remains a maddening whodunit - after prosecutors said a grand jury failed to turn up "sufficient evidence" to indict anyone in the 3-year-old case. "The...
MET FANS SEE A SHEA OF SUNSHINE : UPBEAT DESPITE 2ND STRAIGHT LOSS IN GA.
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amIt's hole-and-two for the Mets after dropping a pair to the Braves in Atlanta - but diehard fans say they'll be out in force at Shea Stadium tomorrow to help...
SHRINK TESTS PUT STALKING TRIAL ON HOLD
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amA Manhattan harassment trial is on hold until two shrinks determine today if the defendant - a woman accused of phone-stalking a CBS executive - is competent to proceed. Criminal...
WILLIAMS STANDS TALL FOR MOUNTIES
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amDuring the first two weeks of the season, Mount St. Michael's offense wasn't producing and the team was 0-2. No one was more disappointed than senior fullback Jonathan Williams. "It...
LEITER'S JOB: BEAT GLAVINE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amAt first glance, the credentials of Al Leiter and Tom Glavine seem fairly similar; veteran lefties with long resumes, reputations as big-game performers and a well of post-season experience. That's...
SIR BEAR TOPS BIG M CUP
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amA field of 11 3-year-olds and up were entered yesterday for tomorrow night's Grade 2, $500,000 Meadowlands Cup at 11/8 miles, topped by Met Mile winner Sir Bear, the 3-1...
TUNA KEEPS MIRER AT THE CONTROLS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amOn Tuesday, in the aftermath of the Jets' dismal, listless, 16-6 loss to the Jaguars, Bill Parcells gave somewhat of an "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going...
GRAHAM IS QB OF THE WEAK
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amNo thunderbolt, no shockwaves, no outrage, no eruption of joy. Kent Graham starts at quarterback for the Giants this Monday night against the Cowboys. Kerry Collins sits. So says Jim...
COX: WE WON'T RIP OFFENSE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES With the Jets' offense having failed to score a touchdown in two of the last four games, you might think the defense, playing well, might be getting restless....
VAN'S GANG OFF TO MESSY START
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES The Knicks are a training-camp mess off the court with injuries to Patrick Ewing, Chris Dudley and Larry Johnson, and the Latrell Sprewell Charleston fiasco. And Tuesday night...
FASSEL ADMITS TO DEFENSE IT'S OFFENSE THAT'S LAGGING
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Call it Team Meeting Lite. The Giants did not exactly have one of those knock-down, drag-out meetings yesterday, but they did sit down and talk over the problems...
ISLES BRACE FOR THRASHERS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe Islanders look to rebound from Monday night's loss to the Rangers as they take on the expansion Thrashers tonight at the Coliseum. Atlanta is winless in three games 0-2-1,...
STANLEY & HUSKEY RECALL N.Y. ROOTS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amMike Stanley and Butch Huskey have both called New York, and now Boston, home. Both have played for the Red Sox and against the Red Sox. Stanley was a Yankee,...
YANKS ARE NEXT TEST FOR RAMON
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amDavid Cone knows about great pitching comebacks. This is a man who returned to the mound after having aneurysm surgery and another operation to clean a shoulder inflamed by tendinitis....
BABY BOSS' SWEET DEAL
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amNO matter how far the Yankees go in the postseason, Hal Steinbrenner will be a winner in 1999. Prince Hal, a general partner of the New York Yankees, the son...
AMAZIN'S NEED MIRAC-AL NOW: LEITER'S GOTTA STOP THE BLEEDING AFTER BRAVES GO UP 2-0
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 2 Braves 4 Mets 3 ATLANTA - The dominance not only continued, it somehow became even worse yesterday when John Smoltz came trotting out of the bullpen. The former...
WATCH OUT FOR LOCALS IN BC
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amIt's called the "revenge motive." The Mets have it. So do the Red Sox. And Big Apple-based thoroughbreds have it as they head for the Nov. 6 Breeders' Cup at...
BOBBY V ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH ; METS GO TWO DOWN AS ROGERS IS LEFT IN TO YIELD FATAL HOMER
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Two loud thwacks came echoing out of the back hallway of the Mets clubhouse, and a moment later a scowling Bobby Valentine, already dressed in shirt and tie...
SPREE WON'T WHINE OVER KNICK FINE ; JUST WANTS NY FANS' SUPPORT
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amLatrell Sprewell said Knick brass can punish him all it wants. As long as New York fans are on his side, Spree wants to remain with the Knicks despite the...
ACHY METS GO LIMPIN' IN
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amNLCS NOTEBOOK ATLANTA - The Mets went into yesterday's game with several players banged up, bruised and feeling nauseous, and that includes Mike Piazza's sore left thumb, Robin Ventura's shoulder,...
'FAIR' JORDAN TURNS TIDE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Braves' bats had been smothered for five innings yesterday by lefty Kenny Rogers' bewildering changeup, their rallies short-circuited twice by his even-more-frustrating move to first. The Mets...
SMOLTZ DONS FIREMAN'S HAT
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Take it as manager Bobby Cox' newest, wackiest innovation, an indictment of Atlanta's bullpen regulars or just a sign of the importance and gravity of everyout in the...
MEL GIVES METS MORA ; RICKEY REPLACEMENT BELTS HIS 1ST HOMER
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - This time, Rickey Henderson jogged off the field. And Melvin Mora raced onto the perfect green grass of Turner Field. That move instantly energized the Mets in the...
BOBBY BO TIPS HIS CAP TO COX
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Bobby Bonilla offered this comment regarding Bobby Cox' decision to bring in John Smoltz to close out yesterday's 4-3 win over the Mets. "It's a pretty brilliant job...
AMAZIN'S NOT READY TO WAVE WHITE FLAG
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Despite the overwhelming odds facing them, there was no quit in the Mets yesterday, even after losing the second game of the NLCS 4-3. They are down 2-0...
METS' BIG 3 DRAW BLANK
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - There is one number Mets fans should be concerned with - and no it is not Kenny Rogers' post-season ERA this year of 7.45. It is this, the...
ROGERS STAYED TOO LONG
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Kenny Rogers looked at the crowd around his locker in the moments after his latest post-season failure and broke the tension by inviting discussion about his role in...
SHOOK-UP KEITH SHAKES OF SPILL
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amAKRON - Face it Net fans, you've got to be accustomed to this by now: another day, another injury. "No worry, because this is something minor," said forward Keith Van...
ROCKER POURS FUEL ON THE FIRE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - If New York fans hated Atlanta's John Rocker before, he gave them even more reason last night. In the war of words between Rocker and an entire city,...
REY & ROGERS BUNTS NOT IN PLAYBOOK
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - What on earth was Bobby Valentine thinking in the second inning? Did he see all the bunting hanging from the rafters and go bunting crazy himself? No, he...
HOLIK'S HOT STICK SMOKES THE DUCKS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amDevils 3 Ducks 2 The Devils' Dilemma personified, Bobby Holik is averaging a goal-per-game. Mr. October isn't the nickname hockey players relish, but he can't score any playoff goals now,...
VALENTINE BLEW IT - AND HE KNEW IT
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Never let it be said Mets manager Bobby Valentine wasn't a stand-up guy in the aftermath of a 4-3 setback to the Braves at Turner Field, a Game...
VENEZUELAN DIET THE KEY TO PEREZ' POWER SURGE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Turns out there is a good reason that Braves catcher Eddie Perez has turned into Babe Ruth this series. And like the Babe, it has something to do...
BOSTON'S VARITEK CAN'T GET A GRIP
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe ball got to Boston catcher Jason Varitek long before Scott Brosius did. But Varitek didn't catch it. He wasn't concerned about Brosius bearing down on him in the bottom...
BERNIE AGAIN IS MR. ONE-DERFUL
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 1 / 10 INNINGS Yankees 4 Red Sox 3 That Magic Carpet Ride the Red Sox arrived at Yankee Stadium on was jerked out from under them by the...
NOMAR HAS HIS UPS AND DOWNS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWhich shortstop did you vote for the All-Star game? Derek Jeter, New York's shortstop extraordinaire, or Nomar Garciaparra, Boston's best all around player by far? This battle will rage for...
O'NEILL GETS GREEN LIGHT
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amJoe Torre waited until Paul O'Neill arrived in the Yankee clubhouse late yesterday afternoon before filling out his lineup card for Game 1 of the ALCS against the Red Sox....
SCOTT DOES IT FOR DAD ; THREE HITS, 2-RUN HR GIVE BOMBERS BOOST
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amSOMEWHERE above the rain clouds, Maury Brosius must have been smiling with pride again, watching his boy star in another October playoff game at Yankee Stadium. He had one of...
BECK NO MYSTERY TO BERNIE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amRod Beck didn't know for certain if Bernie Williams' blast was leaving the Stadium last night. Neither did Williams. They both had to turn and watch as the ball sailed...
UMP ADMITS BLOWING CALL AT SECOND BASE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amUmpire Rick Reed blew it and was man enough to admit it. That didn't help the Red Sox feel any better about dropping Game 1 of the ALCS to the...
BERNIE WINS ONE FOR GOOD GUYS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amIT COULD have gone either way, just like this game, just like maybe the series, if the Red Sox get Game 1 of the ALCS with Kent Mercker and with...
EL DUQUE GOOD AS OLD
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amOK, so maybe the only way Orlando Hernandez is 30 is counting only leap years. Or in dog years. Perhaps his nose by now should be longer than his cigar,...
EL DUQUE'S GOOD AS OLD
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amOK, so maybe the way Orlando Hernandez figures he is 30-years-old is by counting only leap years. Or dog years. Perhaps his nose by now should be longer than his...
YANKS-SOX GO LONG: ALCS OPENER MOVES INTO EXTRA INNINGS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amWhile Bucky Dent didn't drive through a time tunnel with Bill Buckner riding shotgun to dash all of New England's hopes last night at Yankee Stadium in Game 1 of...
PAUL GETS CALL : TORRE PUTS AILING RF IN HIS GAME 1 LINEUP
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amJoe Torre waited until Paul O'Neill arrived in the Yankees' clubhouse late yesterday afternoon before filling out his lineup card for Game 1 of the ALCS against the Red Sox....
O'LEARY WON'T TOSS DIRT ON THE INDIANS' GRAVE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amIf it's any consolation to Cleveland manager M0ike Hargrove, Troy O'Leary thinks he did the right thing Monday night by walking Nomar Garciaparra twice. "If I was the manager, I...
RIVALRY FOR THE AGES: ALCS SHOWDOWN ADDS TO YANKEE-RED SOX LORE
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEES bench coach Don Zimmer recalled the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry in the 1970s when he was the Boston manager and said flatly: "There was some hatred between the two clubs."...
JORDAN, PEREZ WRECK ROGERS
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Mets seemed destined to head back to Flushing with the momentum of a road win under their belts; but with two swings of their bats, Brian Jordan...
METS NEED ICE-MAN VENTURA TO HEAT UP
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Mike Piazza is not the only big gun shooting blanks for the Mets. Robin Ventura is engulfed in a terrible slump, at the worst time of year. Ventura...
AWAITING 1ST GOAL CAN BE MADDEN-ING
October 14, 1999 | 4:00amHe wants that puck, the one he holds next to his face for the photographers, the first he buries for the Devils. Rookie John Madden is looking for that first...