October 19, 1999
CITIGROUP HEDGES TRADING BETS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amCitigroup is looking to play it safe. The firm is considering spinning off the proprietary trading desks of brokerage unit Salomon Smith Barney and turning them into into stand-alone hedge...
THE MARKETS FACE A CRITICAL JUDGMENT DAY - WILL REPORTS PANIC BULLS?
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amToday's the day we'll find out whether there are any legs left in this bull market, Wall Streeters say. Traders will be carefully watching several key events - starting with...
FIDELITY TIMES TECHS TARDILY
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amIT looks like Bob Stansky bought into technology stocks at exactly the wrong time. The portfolio manager of Fidelity Investments' Magellan, the world's biggest mutual fund, increased his tech weightings...
LEVITT SLAMS ANALYSTS ON ETHICS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amSecurities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt yesterday slammed the all-too-cozy relationship between many Wall Street analysts and the companies they cover. In a speech before The Economic Club of...
VIBE'S EX, CLINKSCALES, SEEKS NEW IMPACT; EXCLUSIVE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amKeith Clinkscales, the former CEO of Vibe/Spin Ventures at Miller Publishing, has taken the first step on the comeback trail by his purchase of 25-year old Impact Publishing. Impact, based...
WHO'LL BE WSJ'S NEXT TOP EDITOR? - BUZZ CAUSED BY POSSIBLE STEIGER MOVE TO CNN
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amA bigger-than-usual crowd showed up at Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger's daily 4 p.m. editorial meeting yesterday, but insiders say he didn't breathe a word about his offer...
WHOOPI RIDES STOCK CARON 'NET GRAVY TRAIN
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amWhoopi Goldberg wants to be Internet rich, not just Hollywood rich. And talent agency William Morris is right behind her. The actress, comedienne and all-round 'Hollywood Square' has signed up...
MARTHA FEASTS ON $612M CUT FROM HER IPO - WWF'S MCMAHON POCKETS $963.9M
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amTwo new IPO multi-millionaires were minted yesterday with red-hot debuts. Martha Stewart took home $612 million with her Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia while WWF Chairman Vince McMahon pocketed a tidy...
UPSCALE EBAY - KITSCHY E-TAILER GETS HAUTE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBeanie Babies take a back seat today as online auction site eBay officially launches a new up-market site. eBay Great Collections will debut at an event in the city at...
RITE AID CEO GRASS, UNDER FIRE: QUITS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amEmbattled Rite Aid CEO Martin Grass has resigned, having come under fire for his company's tumbling stock price, the mountain of debt he accumulated trying to expand the company and...
TRUMP'S AN INTERNET PITCHMAN
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amDonald Trump is back in familiar territory - on TV. The man who only last month announced he was looking into landing a new job as president of the United...
IPOS FROM MARTHA & WWF SEEK SWEAT EQUITY
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe anniversary of the ''87 stock market crash seems an inauspicious day for a company to make its public debut. And the week after a 6 percent drop in the...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amGotta fly Students have until Friday to book air transport to 15 European cities and 11 South/Central American destinations at some amazing rates. Council Travel is offering low-fare flights to...
AN INDIE IMAGE FOR MUSEUM
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amFIRST-run art-house films are coming to Astoria, Queens, as the American Museum of the Moving Image expands its weekend retrospectives to include weeknight screenings of new independent movies. This Friday,...
'VOICES' TO BE SEEN AND HEARD
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amIF the family is the key theme of American drama, A.R. Gurney's "Ancestral Voices: A Family Story" is a beautiful chamber work in that great tradition. The short play is...
GOOD BUZZ ON BRITS' 'MODERN'
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amMODERN - Buzzcocks, Go-Cart Records The Buzzcocks are an unusual outfit - edgy, powerful and well aware that one can retain punk credibility and still have a melodic side. On...
METS SHUT OUT YANKS - AMAZIN'S: 2.6M HOMES
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Mets' amazin' 15-inning game Sunday night scored one of the highest ratings of the year for WNBC/Ch.4. By the end of the Mets-Braves game, about 2.6 million homes were...
'CLUB' PUTS UP A TOUGH 'FIGHT'
October 19, 1999 | 4:00am'FIGHT Club" has kicked butt, earning $11 million this weekend and coming out on top as the box-office champion. That's the latest word from Hollywood, where studio honchos announced final...
TV TICKER
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amA Freed man NBC should thank the Mets for scuttling the debut of "Mr. Rock 'N' Roll: The Alan Freed Story." The megahyped NBC movie, starring Judd Nelson as the...
COMMISH SLAMS LORDS OF THE RING ; WANTS NETS TO AIR WRESTLING IN LATE NIGHT
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amA Federal Communications Commissioner said yesterday she wants to pile-drive pro wrestling into after-hours TV - because kids can't tell that the violence is fake. In an interview with The...
SMOKE SCREEN STINGS '60 MINS.' - 'INSIDER' SHAMES CBS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Insider," starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, is a fact-based retelling of a single incident in the history of "60 Minutes" and the tobacco industry. But, in director Michael...
'HARSH' CREATORS SUE FOR CREDIT
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE creators of the comic book "Harsh Realm" - on which the new TV series by "X-Files" creator Chris Carter is based - filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit yesterday because...
LITTLE BIG MAN; EXCLUSIVE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE POST CATCHES UP WITH 14-YEAR-OLD EDWIN SABILLON, WHO JOURNEYED FROM HONDURAS TO NEW YORK CITY, HOPING TO GET HELP FOR HIS IMPOVERISHED, DIABETIC GRANDMOTHER When Edwin Sabillon's two foster...
REBUILDING AN IDENTITY - AUTHOR JILL ROBINSON TELLS OF HER HORRIFIC SUDDEN MEMORY LOSS AND HER STRUGGLE TO REGAIN HER SENSE OF SELF
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amIN 1990, Jill Robinson woke up in a London hospital bed with no recollection of how she'd gotten there. "There was a handsome blonde man sitting next to me," the...
WHAT HAPPENED TO ROB REINER? - TURNING OUT SAPPY, PREACHY FILMS, A DIRECTOR LOSES HIS TOUCH
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amHE is one of the most talented and accomplished filmmakers of our time. But Rob Reiner - the man who gave us "Stand By Me" and "When Harry Met Sally"...
YANKEE EXEC HAS TIES TO BOTH TEAMS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amNo New Yorker has more professional time invested in the dream of a subway series than Arthur Richman, a Yankee exec whose heart belongs to both Big Apple playoff teams....
MADONNA: PREGNANCY TALE IS BIG MISCONCEPTION
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amMadonna took a pregnant pause yesterday to shoot down reports that she's expecting a second child. French magazine Voici said the Material Girl has told her staff she's in the...
SICKEST GO TO TOP OF ORGAN-SWAP LIST
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amFederal officials issued controversial rules yesterday aimed at ensuring that people who need organ transplants the most get them first - no matter where they live. Under the previous system,...
'ALLY MCBEAL' SMOOCHES UP A STORM WITH GAL PAL - GETS IN LIP-LOCK FOR RATINGS WEEK
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amSultry "Ally McBeal" co-stars Calista Flockhart and Lucy Liu will lock lips in a lesbian-themed episode airing Nov. 1 - just in time for the anything-goes November sweeps period. In...
MOLINARI WEARS MARK OF MCCAIN - TELLS WHY HE TURNED ON GEORGE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amStaten Island Borough President Guy Molinari solidified his reputation as a Republican maverick yesterday by endorsing Arizona Sen. John McCain for president. Molinari's move was stunning because for the past...
LAW ORDERS MORE FELONS TO GIVE DNA
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - New York's anti-crime DNA Databank - the "fingerprinting of the 21st century" - will be massively expanded by a new law signed yesterday by Gov. Pataki. The new...
ROAD-SMASH DEATHS RISE IN BIG APPLE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe number of people killed in Big Apple auto crashes has shot up 7.5 percent this year - despite Mayor Giuliani's campaign against traffic violations. Police say 286 people died...
EXHAUSTED O'CONNOR BACK IN CANCER HOSP
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor checked into the hospital yesterday after suffering chronic fatigue from weeks of radiation treatment, according to the Archdiocese of New York. The 79-year-old cardinal - who underwent...
UP THE RIVER - IN STYLE! - GOTTI JR., CHARTERS A PLANE TO PRISON; EXCLUSIVE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amJunior Gotti carried little more than thoughts of his imprisoned father aboard a charter plane yesterday that took him from Long Island to the upstate lockup he will call home...
PAKISTAN BEGINS TROOP PULLBACK
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amPakistan began withdrawing troops from the tense border with India yesterday as part of a goodwill gesture to the international community by leaders of last week's military coup. But the...
CIVIL LIBERTARIANS BACKING KKK
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amCivil-liberties lawyers for the Ku Klux Klan will head to court today in a bid to overturn the city's decision barring the white-supremacist group from staging a weekend rally in...
'MUFFIN' VICTIM'S PALS TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF TRAGEDY
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amGary Crissey, the muffin-shop owner slain in a botched robbery, was mourned yesterday as a "great man" as friends and relatives attending a memorial puzzled over an accusation that the...
IS IT A HATE CRIME TO BEAT UP SICKOS IN SHEETS?
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE other day on the N train to Brooklyn, a young Hispanic man told his black girlfriend that if the Klan marches downtown this weekend, he plans to go "down...
SHOCKING RISE IN ASSAULTS ON CITY'S TEACHERS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amAssaults on city teachers rose nearly 15 percent in the last school year, with special-ed kids blamed for a disproportionate number of the attacks, the teachers' union said yesterday. "We've...
SHRINK: SUBWAY PUSHER 'GOES OFF' ALL THE TIME
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amHe pushed his mother. He pushed doctors. He pushed other patients. He pushed strangers in bookstores, supermarkets and fast-food restaurants. Schizophrenic Andrew Goldstein - on trial in Manhattan for fatally...
BILL & GOP TO HUDDLE ON BUDGET
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton is having top Republicans over to the White House today, hoping to strike a budget deal and avoid a looming government shutdown. "We're going to have...
CAMPAIGN-CASH BILL LOOKS DEAD
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - John McCain, the war-hero senator from Arizona who wanted to make his campaign finance reform bill a centerpiece of the presidential race, looks headed for a letdown today....
DOUGLAS' EX SLIPS $64M IN PURSE: REPORT
October 19, 1999 | 4:00am"Fatal Attraction" star Michael Douglas has reportedly popped the $64 million question to his estranged wife - asking her to take the money and run so he can marry 30-year-old...
BUBBA: I WON'T BLUBBER IF GORE HARPOONS ME
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton says it's fine if Vice President Al Gore wants to give him a little chill - while wannabe New York senator Hillary Clinton had nice things to say...
ATLANTA'S FANS START FEELING THE HEAT
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA. THIS city is sweating - and it ain't the Southern heat. After the hometown Braves jumped to a seemingly insurmountable 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series,...
METS ARE SPECIALISTS AT BEATING THE ODDS - AND THAT'S WHY BRAVES SHOULD FRET
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amAS soon as things got impossible, that's when the Mets started to win. It was impossible to overcome a three-game deficit for the wild-card spot with only four games left...
THE DONALD'S LOVE LIFE MAKES BILL LOOK GOOD
October 19, 1999 | 4:00am"I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." - Bill Clinton, Jan. 26, 1998. "There wasn't infidelity. I left my wife, but not for a younger woman." -...
DOCS REMOVE HEART FOR 2 HOURS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amDoctors in Houston took a man's heart out of his body for more than two hours while they removed a tumor behind it - in a rarely performed operation more...
BOMBERS RUN UP ANOTHER PENNANT
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Yankees did their part -now it's up to the Mets. The Bombers finished off the Red Sox 6-1 in Boston last night to seize their 36th American League pennant...
OK, BOSTON FANS, LET'S HEAR A CHORUS OF 'LET'S GO METS! LET'S GO METS!'
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON. REGARDLESS of your loyalties, if you are a New Yorker, today be a Met fan. Tomorrow also, if necessary. Let's stop hearing about the subway series from our parents...
MARLA TO IVANA: SORRY - REGRETS SWIPING HER 'EGO-DRIVEN' HUBBY
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amMarla Maples has issued a dramatic apology to Ivana Trump - saying she's sorry for stealing away Donald Trump, branding the billionaire developer "ego-driven" and "obsessive." "I regret the harm...
OWNERS TAKE 'PREZ' YACHT OUT FOR A SALE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amIt sounds like the sail of the century: the presidential yacht used for 50 years is up for auction on the Internet and cable TV. But since 100-foot-long Sequoia hit...
BOSTON DREAMS OF TOMORROW
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON. PITY poor Boston - their recurring civic tragedy is upon them again. There is a bittersweet beauty in watching Boston conjure hope for its Red Sox in the face...
FANS ARE SURE SERIES VICTORY IS TWO-ABLE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amCall them the comeback Mets. Met fans are convinced their beloved squad will be the first team in baseball history to come back from a 3-0 deficit and get into...
GREATEST COMEBACKS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amImpossible? Can't be done? The Mets are trying to become the first baseball team to win a best-of-seven series after losing the first three games. While no one has ever...
KITTLES SEES NO KNEED TO RUSH BACK
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amKerry Kittles does not want to think about past decisions regarding his knees. But he also will not repeat past decisions regarding his knees. So Kittles is taking it slowly...
JET REPORT CARD
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amQUARTERBACKS: C- Ray Lucas (16-of-30, 137 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) gave the Jets everything Bill Parcells wanted from him ... except for that ghastly game-costing INT to Colts CB...
RED ALERT! REFS CRACKING DOWN
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - A record-breaking 27 players have just been red-carded in one round of play among the four divisions that comprise England's pro soccer league. This comes a matter of...
MILLWOOD'S A TRUE BELIEVER
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Mets have made believers out of Kevin Millwood and the Braves. "We always knew they had a good team," tonight's Game 6 starter said during a press...
SUDDENLY, JETS GOING UNDERCOVER
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amTo say the Jets are shellshocked might be an understatement. To say their season has turned to garbage time with Halloween still more than a week away is rather accurate....
KNICKS PAY LAYDEN DEBT
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES SALT LAKE CITY -As compensation for GM Scott Layden leaving Utah for the Knicks while under contract, Dave Checketts was willing to give up a second-round draft pick....
IF METS CAN'T, YANKEES WILL - BRAVES DOOMED TO CHOKE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - It's been 134 years, but it's basically the same story for the team from the deep South: Those damn Yankees. Back in 1865, the Brooklyn Atlantics were posting...
ZIMMER BLASTS BOSS FOR FINGERING JIMY
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The relationship between George Steinbrenner and Don Zimmer apparently will end this season the way it began - not good. Zimmer was disturbed that Steinbrenner blamed his friend,...
SPREE-RICE WAS HOT TOPIC
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amACCORDING to L.A. sources, the Knicks offered Latrell Sprewell for Glen Rice and Derek Fisher, but hardly raised a ripple of excitement. At least on the surface. "We want players...
EVEN FRANCO HAD DOUBTS - DIDN'T THINK METS' RETURN WAS POSSIBLE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The pause said it all. When asked yesterday if he thought the Mets would make it back to Atlanta after they left down 2-0 in the NLCS, John...
TUNA TURNS BACK TO RICK
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Seemingly reluctantly, Bill Parcells named Rick Mirer as his starting quarterback for Sunday's game in Oakland against the Raiders. "Let me think that over, but I would say...
BANGED-UP PIAZZA MULLS MAJOR MOVE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Mike Piazza is 31 and he feels so many bumps and bruises his body keeps telling him he's 91. His body is talking to him, telling him to...
YA' GOTTA STOP BELIEVING NOW!
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Now is the time for all good journalists to come to the aid of the ballclub. Sure, that obliterates every tenet of the profession, but there's a Subway...
HERSHISER SAVORS SUPER SUNDAY
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Since he began playing pro ball in 1979, Orel Hershiser has nearly seen it all. But he admitted that Sunday's game was one thing that he hadn't, and...
JACKSON: LAKERS DON'T WANT SPREE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Has the L.A. smog clouded Phil Jackson's brain? Apparently, the Lakers' Zen master believes Latrell Sprewell is a bigger headache than Dennis Rodman, for whom Jackson...
ISLANDERS DECK HABS WITH WEBB'S BIG HIT
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Steve Webb made the most important play of his career. And he didn't even mean to. After an Indy 500-like collision with Canadiens' hot goalie Jeff Hackett in...
LATRELL'S 27 NOT ENOUGH
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amSALT LAKE CITY - At the game's outset, Latrell Sprewell heard a Utah fan razzing him: "Hey, Spree, did you drive or fly out?" Sprewell spread out his arms to...
YANKEES KEEP CURSE ALIVE ANOTHER YEAR - BOMBERS KO BOSOX FOR 36TH SERIES BERTH
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - On the hallowed diamond of Fenway Park the Yankees danced in the Red Sox faces as they celebrated winning the AL pennant last night by stomping on the...
DALLAS 'D' ADDS INSULT TO INJURY
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amWith All-Pro wideout Michael Irvin missing his first game due to injury in nine years, and several other players getting banged up last night against the Giants, Dallas' offense struggled...
BOSTON'S WISH LIST COMES UP SHORT
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox had a couple of last requests going into Game 5 of the ALCS. A competent umpiring crew. A team that didn'tthrow the ball all over...
BARBER SCALPS 'BOYS ; 85-YARD PUNT RETURN, BIG GRAB LIFT GIANTS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amGiants 13 Cowboys 10 An absolutely needed victory. An absolutely wacky victory. A victory that was absolutely the work of Tiki Barber, who showed that the stars can come out...
CALLS, ERRORS SAP LIFE OUT OF BOSOX FANS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Not a good day to be a Boston fan. Your beloved Red Sox had their season ended last night in a 6-1 loss to the Yankees in Game...
JETER'S LEFT STANDING - YANKEES' STAR WINS BATTLE OF SHORTSTOPS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Roger Clemens calls Derek Jeter the Yanks' "good luck charm" since the 25-year-old has been the one constant for the Yanks as they have virtually dominated the American...
KNOBBY HAS NO PROBLEM WITH LATE-INNING HOOK
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre insisted he would never do it, but he did. In the eighth inning of last night's 6-1 American League Championship Series victory over Boston, Torre inserted...
DUQUE DAZZLES 'EM AGAIN - MVP SETS TONE EARLY FOR YANKS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - It was spring training of 1998 and Joe Torre had gone to the Yankees' bullpen to get his first glimpse of Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez in action. He...
DALUISO OUT FOR SEASON WITH ACL RIP
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Brad Daluiso's night went from high to low in an instant, a cruel instant. He kicked the game-winning field goal with one second remaining, a 21-yard kick that...
WATSON WANTS METS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Allen Watson wants the Mets. The Christ the King grad and Queens native said a Subway Series would be "a great way to close out the 1900s. "The...
TORRE TIPS CAP TO 'SPECIAL' SOX
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox found each other in their clubhouse and pats on the back turned to hugs. No one believed in this team. No one, that is, except...
BOMBERS SET TO BID ON CUBAN GEM BAEZ
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amALCS NOTEBOOK BOSTON -Having made three trips to Costa Rica to see Cuban defector Danyso Baez work out, the Yankees will be among the teams making a bid on the...
MENDOZA COMETH TO SAVE BOMBERS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre walked up in the Yankee clubhouse and hugged reliever Ramiro Mendoza. "Way to go, Iceman," Stottlemyre said. According to Scott Brosius, Mendoza "pitched the...
ROG: IT'S GREAT FEELING
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - For Roger Clemens, this is "what you play for." The five-time Cy Young award winner is going back to the World Series for the first time since 1986....
RUDY RIPS TRASHY FANS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amOh, behave! The Big Apple's top-elected Yankee zealot yesterday scolded garbage-throwing Beantown fan-atics, but noted that such dangerous high-anxiety antics can crop up anywhere. "It could happen in New York....
DEION DOESN"T HAVE CORNER ON GREATNESS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES With all the talk of the arrival of Deion Sanders and the impact he makes as a dominating cornerback, another pretty fair cover corner was on the field...
GIANTS OPEN BARBER SHOP - TIKI DOES IT ALL IN WIN OVER 'BOYS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amGiants 13 - Cowboys 10 An absolutely complete victory. An absolutely wacky victory. A victory that was absolutely the work of Tiki Barber, who showed that the stars can come...
BIG BLUE'S LAMENT: 'O' NO
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amIt was a mistake, an honest mistake, a mistake Amani Toomer owned up to, blamed himself for, let everyone know he was at fault. This is the way it is...
WHAT'S MY LINE? CZERKAWSKI ASKS
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Hailing from Poland, Mariusz Czerkawski knows something about solidarity. He understands about sticking together, and the importance of forming strong lasting unions. That's what makes his inconsistent line...
YANKEE WIN STIRS HATRED AND HOPE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - In the course of a gloomy Sunday in the northeast, the great anger of baseball history and the great angle of this postseason were revived. As the weekend...
IT'S CLOSING TIME - YANKS ZERO IN ON 36TH WORLD SERIES BERTH
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Thanks to an outstanding pitching performance by Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, a two-run homer from Derek Jeter and the Red Sox awful defense, the Yankees were poised to...
HECKLERS ZERO IN ON KNOBLAUCH
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - If you ask Chuck Knoblauch whether he would rather start a double play or finish it, he says he'd rather "turn it." "I like throwing to first," he...
BASEBALL"S TOP COP IS IN THE HOUSE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Scott Brosius joked after Sunday night"s game that the Yankees should hold hands on their way out of the clubhouse. "Let's all use the buddy system, guys," Brosius...
STOP THE INSANITY - YANKS HOPE FANS IN BRONX DON'T GET CHANCE TO RETALIATE
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Standing near the same dugout where he had to be restrained from physically attacking a Fenway Park security guard Sunday night, Jeff Nelson didn't back down from saying...
REPLAY NOT THE ANSWER - UMPIRES' GOOFS PART OF GAME
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - It has not been a good year for the umpires. Not a good year at all. First their ill-advised attempt to force baseball to renegotiate their union contract...
''FIFTH" STARTER MERCKER A WILLING DO-OR-DIE GUY
October 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Well, Red Sox, any last requests? A competent umpiring crew? A team that doesn"t throw the ball all over Fenway Park? Someone who can hit Orlando Hernandez in...