October 18, 1999
ON THE NEWSSTAND
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amFROM nuclear weapons and military coups to pedophilia and gay characters on television - and in real life - if it's a perceived societal ill, it's in this week's Time...
SOHO'S NEW BAG - KATE SPADE'S GUY GETS HIS OWN STORE; EXCLUSIVE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amDon't call him Mr. Kate Spade. Andy Spade, a.k.a. husband of handbag designer Kate, president of her company, and brother of actor David Spade, is opening his own store. Andy...
CPI'S EXPECTED RISE COULD DO A NUMBER ON THE MARKET'S BUBBLE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amNEXT stop, interest rates at 7 percent. And how about a 9,000 Dow? Now that producer prices in September rose an astounding 1.1 percent, Wall Street will have to stop...
MERCHANTS READY FOR SURGE IN WILT MEMORABILIA MARKET
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amNothing makes the sports collectibles market heat up like the death of a famous athlete. It's happening now in the wake of Wilt Chamberlain's death, as card and collectibles dealers,...
TINA BRINGING IN THE SECOND STRING
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amCan Tina get her buzz back? Rocked by the recent loss of four key managers, the onetime Queen of Buzz went into overdrive last week, raiding her old stomping ground...
A DAME FINE SHOW, EDNA
October 18, 1999 | 4:00am'I'M hands on, I'm in your face, I'm here," barks Dame Edna Everage, Australia's "First Lady," while doing little dance steps in a silver dress that might kindly be described...
A THREE-HORSE RACE - 'DOUBLE' IN 1ST, BUT'US' & 'CLUB' CLOSE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00am'DOUBLE Jeopardy" wins by a nose - or does it?This weekend, it's a photo finish at the box office.Yesterday, studios offered their three-day estimates but, with the top three movies...
TV TICKER
October 18, 1999 | 4:00am'Week' lineup Richard Harris and Katherine O'Hearn have emerged as front-runners to become executive producer of ABC's "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts." Harris is an executive producer...
'MAD TV'S BIG BLUNDER - SHOW POKES FUN AT CHRIS BURKE IN 'PI' COMEDY SKETCH
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHE timing couldn't have been worse for the comedians at "Mad TV." They poked fun at actor Chris Burke smack in the middle of National Down Syndrome Awareness Month. Burke,...
'ACTION' MAN WANTS MOHR TIME FOR SHOW
October 18, 1999 | 4:00am'ACTION" producer Joel Silver says it would be a relief if Fox canned his much-talked-about sitcom - but the network won't let his struggling comedy die. Not yet, anyway. "There's...
AUSSIE BALLET NETS IMPRESSIVE 'MADAME BUTTERFLY'
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amLEAVE them asking for more is a classic concept of show business. Ross Stretton's Australian Ballet virtually embodied it over the weekend at City Center with a bright new program,...
WHAT DO YOUR SHOES SAY TO MEN?
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amEver wonder what your stilettos or sneakers say about your personality? Here, three female post readers agree to have their shoe collections photographed and dissected by a panel of male...
'ALARM' BRA IS FIT FOR A SIREN
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe alarm is kept in a gel substance, shaped around the curve of the lower part of the breast. A brand-new bra designed by an art-school student provides the ultimate...
MOLINARI SET TO DUMP BUSH & BACK MCCAIN; EXCLUSIVE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amA "furious" Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari is quitting George W. Bush's presidential campaign and will endorse rival John McCain today, The Post has learned. McCain, the U.S. senator...
CARDINAL STILL TOO WEAK TO SAY MASS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor didn't make it back to the pulpit at St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday as he had hoped - he was still too exhausted from radiation treatment. Instead, New...
WALL ST. HOLDS BREATH - STOX MAY TAKE ANOTHER BIG HIT
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe stock market could get a lot worse before it gets better, Wall Street insiders warned. After last week's devastating 6 percent loss of value on the Dow Jones industrial...
LAST-MINUTE INFO GOT JONBENET'S PARENTS OFF HOOK
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amA key prosecutor in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case reportedly focused his grand jury presentation on the little girl's parents - but last-minute evidence forced jurors to change direction. Newsweek,...
CAR0LINAS DRENCHED ALL 0VER AGAIN
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amStorm-ravaged North Carolina was bracing last night for a wet walloping from Hurricane Irene, which churned up the coast after socking Florida with disastrous floods. Beach towns were evacuated, mobile-home...
IRAN SINGS OLD TUNE IN NEW BLAST AT THE U.S.
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amAyatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian spiritual leader, blasted the United States yesterday, calling it an international bully with arrogant, dictatorial policies. "The United States and Israel are clear examples of...
WHO NEW? ROCKERS RECORD AGAIN
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amWho's putting out a brand-new record? You guessed it - The Who. After 17 years away from the recording studio, the legendary British rockers are reforming to put out an...
VENTURA: I'LL PIN MY BIG FAT MOUTH
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amMinnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura is tired of getting in trouble for his big mouth. So for now, the ex-grappler is going to put a stranglehold on himself. And...
NO SAFETY IN BILL'S DISARMING CHARM; DISARMING CHARM IS BILL'S ONLY BIG WEAPON
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S a bit like the loudmouth in a pub who offers to take a guy outside and catches a beating only to complain it wasn't a unfair fight. Liberal Washington...
A CITY FACE-OFF WOULD THRILL PHIL
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amHoly cow! Yankee legend Phil Rizzuto is pulling for a subway series. The Hall of Fame shortstop, who anchored the defense on the dynastic Yankee teams of the '40s and...
POST WELCOMES METRO EDITOR JOHN MANCINI
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amVeteran New York newsman John Mancini rejoins The New York Post today as metropolitan editor. Mancini, 39, will be responsible for day-to-day news gathering. "It's an exciting time to be...
PAKI COUP CHIEF BREAKS SILENCE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe head of Pakistan's new military regime made his first public appearance last night, promising to lead the country down a "path toward democracy." In Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf's first speech...
DEMS PRESS FOR RADAR GIFT TO RUSSIA
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday defended plans to give Russia millions of dollars for a new radar system in order to win the right to build a now-banned type...
ALI'S LATEST PUNCH LINE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amIs it something in the air? Or just the genes? Barely a week after Muhammad Ali's daughter climbed into the ring, the erstwhile Louisville Lip said he'll be doing the...
PUNK ROCKER 'FLIPS' LID FOR FANS AT SHEA
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amLoudmouth Braves hurler John Rocker, who has been steadily taunted by New Yorkers, made an obscene gesture at Met fans before last night's game. Rocker, who gave up the winning...
NARCS AREN'T BUSTING CHOPS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amNYPD narcotics cops, angry at being forced to work weekends, staged a slowdown last week and made very few arrests, police said. Although the number of arrests haven't been tallied...
CRIME TAKES FRESH DIVE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amNew York - and the nation - appear to be heading into the new millennium with some of the lowest rates of serious crimes in years, the latest local and...
BEAUTIFUL BOSTON DAY FOR A SOFTBALL GAME
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON. THE grass is green and lush, the infield dirt reddish and moist. The players compete hard, run out every ground ball, play through injuries, celebrate line drive hits and...
RESCUED ANTARCTICA DOC ON WAY TO U.S. HOSP
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amSouth Pole doc Jerri Nielsen - expected back in the States last night, tired and bald from self-administered chemotherapy - is very anxious to get expert treatment for her breast...
ST. THERESE GRACES CITY - THOUSANDS AT ST. PAT'S WELCOME TOURING RELICS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amMore than 5,000 worshipers broke into wild applause and song outside St. Patrick's Cathedral last night as priests carried in the sacred relics of St. Therese of Lisieux. It was...
BOBBIES GUARD MENACED MADONNA
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe Material Mom, cradling little Lourdes in her arms, got a police guard as she arrived last night at London's Heathrow airport following a terrifying telephone threat. About six officers...
QUEEN NIXES FERGIE, ANDY RE-TYING KNOT
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amQueen Elizabeth has reportedly told Fergie and Prince Andrew to forget about re-tying the knot though the happily divorced couple still live together. "Andrew would not consider going against his...
HILLARY WON'T SHOW HAND ON CASINOS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amMONTICELLO - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton last night disappointed Democrats in the Catskills when she failed to throw her support behind legalized casino gambling. Local officials in the economically...
JESSE VOWS TO PIN LOOSE LIPS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amMinnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura is tired of getting in trouble for his big mouth. So for now, the ex-grappler is going to put a stranglehold on himself. And...
GORE GOES FROM WOODEN TO PLASTIC
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amAL GORE was on C-SPAN recently looking like a contestant in an Oprah Winfrey impersonation contest. The vice president looked as though he had just come from a sense-memory class...
METS SHRED LATEST PREMATURE OBITUARY
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amONE of the greatest baseball games ever played, one that lasted 5 hours, 46 minutes and was a perfect microcosm of the Mets' believe-it season, had just ended - and...
MARATHON METS WIN 15-INNING THRILLER - YANKEES BEAT SOX TO TAKE 3-1 LEAD
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThey don't call them the Amazin's for nothing. The Mets had their fans believing in miracles last night as they pulled out a heart-stopping 4-3 victory over Atlanta with a...
L.I. MAN HIT BY CARS - 3 TIMES
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThree motorists hit Robert Lemoine on Hempstead Turnpike, but only the third driver - who killed him - stopped to help. Nassau cops are looking for the two hit and...
'$TARBECA' HOMES: THERE GLOWS THE NEIGHBORHOOD!
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe first townhouses to be built downtown in 150 years will soon be rising in the red-hot neighborhood real-estate types gleefully call StarBeCa. Three $4.2 million homes planned for Reade...
THIS YEAR POLS POLISH PIVOTAL APPLE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amNew York feels like New Hampshire these days with all the presidential wannabes flitting about. GOP 2000 front-runner George W. Bush spent three full days in the Empire State this...
PAVAROTTI'S WIFE $TALLS THE SPLIT-UP
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amLuciano Pavarotti's dreams of wedding his young mistress have been dashed by his estranged wife. The tubby tenor has hoped for a speedy marriage to his secretary Nicoletta Mantovani -...
APPLE HOLDS BREATH FOR NAIL-BITE METS - AMAZINS GO INTO EXTRA INNINGS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets were fighting for their life against the Atlanta Braves last night as Game 5 of the National League Championship Series went into extra innings tied at 2. A...
JEFF'S NOT HAPPY WITH KNICK EFFORT
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The Knicks' tumultuous preseason is now being rocked by coach Jeff Van Gundy's greatest fear: complacency. The regular season is 2 weeks away and Van Gundy...
GOMEZ IS ONE HOT DEVIL
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amIt is one reason the Devils have such a vaunted drafting reputation, and it is one reason they haven't had a 30-goal scorer in the past five seasons. Instead of...
ISLES AS BAD AS ADVERTISED
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThis is what happens when you trade your top three scorers from last season. This is what happens when you replace them with rookies, career minor-leaguers and veteran vagabonds. And...
FOR NOW, CAMBY AT CENTER OF GAMEPLAN
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES SALT LAKE CITY - On the Knick roster, four other players may be more suited defensively for center than the 6-11, 225-pound Marcus Camby. But in the first...
MONDAY GIVES GIANTS BLUES - PRIME-TIME GAMES AGAINST 'BOYS HAVE BEEN DEBACLES
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe stars come out at night, except when the Giants take the field. When it's the Giants in prime time, what almost always follows is a show in need of...
FASSEL'S THEORY OFFENDS STRAHAN
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The way Jim Fassel sees it, the offense has to have a different mind-set than the defense. That is garbage, according to Michael Strahan. This is what we...
'MONARCH' IS JAMAICA KING
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amWeaving his way through traffic like a New York City cab driver, 3-2 favorite Monarch's Maze went into overdrive when jockey Joe Bravo stepped on the accelerator in the deep...
NETS' LUCIOUS ROUNDING WAY BACK INTO FORM
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amNets guard Lucious Harris moved up and down the court during the team's scrimmage yesterday and three times he pulled up for jumpers. Three times, Harris wasn't close. And he...
WAGNER BEATS PORT WITH AUTHORITY
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amWagner 60 Port Richmond 8 Wagner High School head coach Al Paturzo said there were no lessons to be learned from his team's loss at home to Curtis last week....
GANG GREEN: SHADES OF KOTITE - FALL TO 1-5, LOSE LUCAS, TOO; THINGS JUST GET WORSE FOR JETS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amColts 16 Jets 13 It was emotional all the way for the Jets yesterday. The day began with a shock to the team's psyche when Bill Parcells handed locker room...
INSIGHT ROLLS AT WOODBINE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amInsight, making her first start since a troubled fifth in the Flower Bowl, swept to the lead and drew away from Cerulean Sky yesterday to win the Grade 1 E.P....
LAST-MINUTE BENCHING STUNS MIRER
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amAfter not talking to his quarterback since last Monday night's loss to the Jaguars, Bill Parcells pulled over Rick Mirer around 10:30 a.m. yesterday in the Jets' locker room at...
HE'S READY TO DUQUE IT OUT
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Orlando Hernandez was borderline cocky yesterday as he spoke about tonight's Game 5 start, and it once again proved the Cuban defector known as El Duque does not...
RED SOX PUT FATE IN HANDS OF MERCKER
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - For the Red Sox, it's up to Kent Mercker. The Boston lefty, once one of the many talented Atlanta Braves young guns, was the Red Sox starting pitcher...
CHREBET BACK IN FINE FORM
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe first catch wasn't exactly an easy one for Wayne Chrebet. After the long wait following his broken left foot, suffered in the preseason finale against the Vikings, Chrebet was...
TUNA CALL A SURPRISE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Aside from the terrible injury to Ray Lucas, the talk after yesterday's 16-13 loss to the Colts by the Jets was about Bill Parcells' decision to throw the...
BURRIS EARNS PRAISES
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amMaybe it is just that God is not on the Jets' side this year. That could be it. Yesterday, apparently, he was rooting for Colts CB Jeff Burris. "The Lord...
MEDIA PROVE INCITE-FUL
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amEVER watch one of these Jerry Springer-genre shows when the girlfriend of the husband tells the wife's sister of the cross-dressing cousin that she's nothing but bleepity-bleep gutter trash? The...
RANGERS MAKE THRASHERS PAY
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amRangers 4 Thrashers 1 The turnover from last year has been so significant that only nine Rangers in last night's lineup were on the ice wearing Blueshirts in Los Angeles...
METS MANAGE TO SURVIVE - BOBBY V MAKES EVERY RIGHT MOVE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amFifteen minutes after Robin Ventura hit the ball out of the park to end one of the greatest post-season games in baseball history, Bobby Valentine was told by reporters that...
MCGLINCHY TAKES LOSS TO HEART
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBefore Robin Ventura's ball had even sailed over the wall at Shea, Kevin McGlinchy knew what he had done. As Ventura was being mobbed at first base bythe rest of...
COX BLOWS CHANCE TO CLOSE DEAL
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe first three games Bobby Cox managed as if there was no tomorrow. The last two games he has managed like this is spring training. No surprise he's lost those...
DOTEL'S RELIEF JOB IS BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amQuite frankly, rookie right-hander Octavio Dotel was sitting in the Mets' bullpen last night getting a little ticked off in the rain. He was the forgotten man out there and...
ANOTHER CASE OF THE MORA, THE MERRIER
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amMelvin Mora is the Forrest Gump of the real world. Every time you look up, he's doing something heroic from a different place than he was doing it the last...
ROCKER RAINS ON AMAZIN' PARADE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets' 4-3, 15-inning win over Atlanta last night was the longest playoff game in history in terms of time (5 hours, 46 minutes), and it might even go down...
LEITER'S BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amWhile John Rocker was in the other clubhouse "celebrating" his 25th birthday with a 4-3 loss to the Mets and his latest wonderful comment about the fans at Shea ("I...
OREL TURNS BACK CLOCK TO '88 NLCS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amOrel Hershiser, 41, was 30 again in Bulldog years yesterday. Left out of the Mets' post-season rotation, Hershiser began heating up in the bullpen when Masato Yoshii began melting down...
YANKS FEEL LUCKY TO GET OUT ALIVE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Red Sox manager Jimy Williams threw his hat like a frisbee after arguing an out call on Nomar Garciaparra in the ninth inning and the Red Sox fans...
YANKS GET PETTITTE-CURE - ANDY RESTORES ORDER TO BOMBERS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - In his tough-guy whirl around the clubhouse following humiliation for Roger Clemens and the Yankees on Saturday, George Steinbrenner stopped long enough to tell Andy Pettitte "we're counting...
DARRYL JUST SAYS YES! - SILENCES BOSTON FANS WITH FIRST-INNING HR
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Fenway fans went from chanting, "Just Say No," to thinking, "Oh, no," as Darryl Strawberry skied one of his typical lofty fly balls into the right-field corner...
HOLY HOMER! ROBIN RISES - RESURRECTED VENTURA BREATHES LIFE INTO METS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amAS FAR AS the Mets are concerned, the ball that flew off Robin Ventura's bat in the 15th inning of a five-hour, 46-minute ballgame took off from Flushing and came...
VERY FEW SMILES VERY FEW SMILES - 9TH-INNING CHAOS TAKES LUSTER OFF YANKS' 3-1 LEAD
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - With his team one win away from its second consecutive World Series appearance, Joe Torre wore the look of a manager whose season had just ended. Yes, Torre...
SHAWON KEEPS ON GOIN' - OLD PRO IGNITES DECISIVE RALLY IN 15TH
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amSHAWON Dunston didn't catch the ball the last time the Mets were pronounced dead, either. Two week ago, it was Brian Jordan's 11th-inning fly ball that the career-shortstop-turned-outfielder botched into...
NOTHING'S E-ASY FOR BUMBLIN' SOX
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Barring a miracle comeback, this is the loss that will haunt the Red Sox all winter. The Red Sox didn't get outpitched by Andy Pettitte and Yankees while...
UMPS ENRAGE SOX
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - It's not a curse. It's the men in blue. The Red Sox feel as if they're getting a raw deal in this ALCS. And boy, are we cleaning...
KNOBBY ON TAG: I HAVE NO COMMENT
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Chuck Knoblauch said, "I have no comment" on whether or not he tagged Jose Offerman in the eighth inning last night. Second base ump Tim Tschida, who called...
BENCHED LEDEE IS GRAND IN END
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amALCS NOTES BOSTON - Joe Torre watched Ricky Ledee's futile performance Saturday in Game 3 of the ALCS and decided to throw his left fielder a life preserver by starting...
FANS AWFUL, MRS. STRAW SAYS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Darryl Strawberry said he wasn't bothered by the Fenway Park fans serenading him with a chant of "Just Say No" during his first at-bat last night in the...
YOUNG COLTS SHOW LOTTA TALENT
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amJet fans had better get used to this. You see Cornelius Bennett has seen this before. The ex-Bill remembers the young Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas and Andre Reed. Guys, Bennett...
RANGERS HOPING KAMENSKY HELPS - WINGER RETURNS VS. ATLANTA
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amThey had scored a total of 13 even-strength goals in seven games, including a pair of empty-netters, which, even allowing for the absence of Valeri Kamensky in the last six...
BRAVES HAUNTED BY LOSER LABEL
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amA PLAYER strike kept the Braves out of the one National League Championship Series they missed in the '90s. Eight times in nine years they have gotten there, five more...
COX TAKES QUESTIONABLE ROUTE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amClose games provide many close calls and much second-guessing, which is half the fun of baseball. Especially in the postseason. For the second straight game, Bobby Cox left himself vulnerable...
OREL TURNS BACK CLOCK - HERHISER"S BRILLIANT IN CRUCIAL RELIEF STINT
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amEVEN when he had a Kevin Brown-type arm and a sinker to match, back when he blew the Mets right out of the playoffs and into a 10-year drought he...
JOE'S NOT SCARED OF BIG, BAD PEDRO - TORRE WELCOMES CHALLENGE OF MARTINEZ IN GAME 7 AT STADIUM
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - One Red Sox win, a victory that was fueled by Pedro Martinez' latest pearl against the Yankees, resulted in the Bombers fielding questions about what it would be...
CHIPPER FINDS HIS STROKE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amFor Chipper Jones, the second-most reviled Brave behind John Rocker, this wasn't the way he'd expected the NLCS to go. For a man who had tortured Met pitching all year...
YANKS AT CROSSROADS; YANKS LOOK VULNERABLE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - John Valentin grew up a Yankee fan. Now he is becoming a Yankee killer. What he should be to the Yankees is an example. Throughout this post-season when...
YANKS SHOW THEIR METTLE; YANKS UP TO CHALLENGE
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - It wasn't exactly like being down 1-2 against the Indians at Cleveland last year. But for the first time since Game 4 of last year's ALCS, the Yankees...
'WE'RE NOT CLEVELAND' - ANGRY JETER PROMISES YANKEES WON'T FOLD
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - If you ask Derek Jeter what depresses him, what really gets him down in life, it doesn't take him long to respond. "Losing," he says. He cites falling...
MERCKER FEELING UP TO TASK
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Kent Mercker versus the Yankees. Round 2. Mercker, once one of the the many talented Atlanta Braves young guns, was the Red Sox starting pitcher in Game 1...
JOE BENCHES LEDEE, TABS CURTIS
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre watched Ricky Ledee's futile performance Saturday in Game 3 of the ALCS and decided to throw his left fielder a life preserver by starting Chad Curtis...
TORRE KEEPS CHUCK UP
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre talked to Chuck Knoblauch briefly following Saturday's defeat in which the second baseman uncorked a horrible throw to first base after fielding Nomar Garciaparra's routine ground...
EVERY DAY IS VALENTIN'S DAY
October 18, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - John Valentin made two admissions Saturday night after racking up five RBI in the Red Sox 13-1 trashing of the Yankees in Game 3 of the ALCS. The...