October 23, 1999
STEIGER TURNS DOWN CNN TOP SPOT: INK-STAINED WRETCH STAYING PUT AT WSJ
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amAfter weeks of speculation, Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger has decided not to jump ship and take over the top spot at Ted Turner's CNNfn. Steiger told his...
AMAZON IS SUING B&N.COM
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amAmazon.com is suing barnesandnoble.com, accusing its competitor of stealing its "1-click" technology. The biggest online bookseller has patented its technology, which stores customers' mailing and billing information so that repeat...
'NET STOCK SOARS 386% ON DAY 1
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amBig Wall Street rally boosts Dow 172 pts. There are hot Internet IPOs and then there's Sycamore Networks. The telecommunications technology company saw its initial public offering of stock skyrocket...
BANKING BILL BOOSTS DOW 172 :MEGAMERGERS ARE EXPECTED TO RESULT
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amMarkets soared, led by banks, brokerages and insurance firms, after Congress stayed up half the night coming up with a bill to enact financial services reform. The new bill, already...
MELLENCAMP ELECTRIFIES
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN John Mellencamp hits the stage, you can expect a workout.His show at Madison Square Garden Thursday was quite the physical affair. As he sang, the veins in his forehead...
JAY-DAVE RATINGS RACE NARROWS AS LATE NIGHT TV WARS ARE HEATING UP
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amCBS strides in primetime are translating into progress in late night for "Late Show with David Letterman," which is running closer to "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" this fall...
GEARING FOR GHOULISHNESS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe frost is on the pumpkin, and you know what that means: Halloween's right around the corner - and the kids need costumes. This year, the hottest Halloween looks are...
TEARS AND ANGER AT DWI VICTIM'S FUNERAL
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amNearly 100 family members, friends and co-workers poured out their grief - and anger at city officials - at the funeral yesterday of a Syrian immigrant run down by a...
HERE'S AN EYE-OPENER: LOTSA ZZZS SLOW AGING
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amNot getting enough ZZZs makes you age more quickly, a new study shows. Everybody knows that a lack of sleep makes it harder to function mentally. But a team of...
HERO SCHOOL GUARD GETS CROSSED OFF BY RED TAPE
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amIs this any way to treat a hero? The Queens crossing guard who saved a child's life last spring said yesterday she's fighting an uphill battle against city red tape...
WHALE OF A RESCUE : BUT IT'S ROUGH SEA AHEAD FOR THIS L.I.-BEACHED BABY
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amA lonely baby sperm whale -prematurely separated from her mother - faces a bleak future despite being rescued after beaching herself yesterday on Long Island. The baby beast -weighing only...
HILL JOINS DEM CALL FOR MORE SCHOOL $$
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday jumped into the political fray over the federal budget, joining five Democratic senators in calling for additional funding to hire teachers. "The...
POLLS: AIN'T NO THUNDER IN PAT'S BOLT
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Most Republicans won't shed any tears if controversial conservative Pat Buchanan bolts the GOP next week - and hardly anyone would vote for him if he is the...
GEORGE W. PONDERS SUIT OVER SHELVED BIO
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush is mulling legal action against the discredited author and the publisher of a controversial new book that claims the GOP front-runner was busted on cocaine charges and...
A COLORFULLY IRONIC TALE OF TWO CITIES
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S not an easy black-or-white issue. The Ku Klux Klan's right to march has been colored quite differently in New York City and Cleveland. In Cleveland, the black mayor supported...
HOODED HATEMONGERS READY FOR THEIR CLOSEUPS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amHooded hatemongers ready forJames Sheeley is an ex-prison employee who was forced to resign when state officials found Ku Klux Klan literature in his office. Jeffrey Berry is a lifetime...
AGONY OF SLAIN MEAT MAN'S MOM
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe shattered mother of a meat-packing-plant owner beaten and shot dead during an aborted holdup in The Bronx lashed out at her son's coldblooded killers last night. "They're animals, not...
ABC PUTTING 'NYPD BLUE' ON LATE TOUR FOR JANUARY
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe new season of "NYPD Blue" will debut in mid-January, ABC said yesterday, ending a conflict between the network and the show's creator Steven Bochco. Disney-owned ABC has bumped the...
COLUMBINE HS VICTIM'S MOM KILLS HERSELF
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe mother of a teenager paralyzed in the Columbine HS massacre walked into a pawn shop, asked to see a handgun and blew her brains out yesterday. Carla June Hochhalter,...
BUSHLESS GOP DEBATE TURNS INTO BILL RIP-FEST
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe Republican presidential pack - minus front-runner George W. Bush - got together for its first debate last night and joined in blasting President Clinton's "feckless" foreign policy. "This administration...
RUSSIA DENYING CIVILIAN DEATHS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amRussia claimed responsibility for the brutal missile attack on Grozny yesterday, but officials said the high-tech weapons hit arms dealers - not newborn babies and shoppers at a market. The...
APPEALS COURT RIPS OFF KKK'S MASKS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amA federal appeals court unmasked the Ku Klux Klan yesterday with a stunning ruling that the white-hooded hate group doesn't have a legal right to cover their faces at a...
SHOCK-JOCK SHOCKER: STERN AND WIFE SPLIT
October 23, 1999 | 4:00am"This is an amicable separation. Following mediation, both Alison and Howard, who care for each other very much, have come to an agreement and settled all their concerns."STERN SPOKESMAN DAN...
EGG-SQUISITE MODELS ON AUCTION BLOCK
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amGorgeous models are putting their eggs on the auction block - with a Web site launched by a fashion photographer who is betting infertile couples will pay up to $150,000...
TOWERING DELAY NIGHTMARE AT JFK
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amHundreds of passengers bound for Puerto Rico were left stranded at the gate for nearly eight hours by Tower Air. Some customers at the Tower terminal at Kennedy Airport were...
GOP RIVALS GANG UP ON CLINTON
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe Republican presidential pack -minus front-runner George W. Bush - got together for its first debate last night and joined in blasting President Clinton's "feckless" foreign policy. "This administration has...
CANARSIE-CURTIS CLASH A BATTLE OF HEAVYWEIGHTS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S THE high school version of Florida State and Penn State meeting during the regular season ... well, almost. The top two PSAL squads will battle each other today when...
PHENOM BROWN IS CONN-VINCED
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amTaliek Brown is the newest Connecticut Huskie. The star guard from St. John's Prep in the CHSAA "B" division who averaged 23 points and six assists last year verbally committed...
SLOW START COSTLY FOR SAINT RICKY
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThere was a risk involved with the incentive-laden contract Ricky Williams signed with the Saints, risks that are more apparent now that the Heisman Trophy-winning rookie running back is struggling...
RUNNING ON EMPTY : LOSS OF BROWN FOR SEASON PUTS GIANTS' YOUNG BACKS TO WALL
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amHe was informed that there's a great deal of curiosity surrounding what essentially is his Giants debut. He was told there figured to be an anticipation buzzing through the Giants...
LUCKY YANKEE FANS HIT SERIES TIX JACKPOT
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThey got game. Thousands of crazed Yankee fans who waited on line all night in the freezing cold were finally able to score coveted tickets to the World Series yesterday....
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT : GLAVINE NO STRANGER TO SERIES PRESSURE
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - When Tom Glavine takes the mound to throw the first pitch of the 1999 World Series, he will be on very familiar ground. For not only is Glavine...
NLDS: HOUSTON? NO PROBLEM
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amAfter losing the NLDS opener in Atlanta's Turner Field, the Braves came back to beat Houston in three straight to advance to their unprecedented eighth straight NLCS and send the...
GORING WANTS SCORING FROM BACKLINERS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amButch Goring is looking for some offense from his defense. Heading into tonight's meeting with the Canucks, Islander defensemen have scored just one goal in the team's six games. That...
ROCKER TAKES AMAZIN' SWIPE
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Having already dispatched the Mets in six games and adopted a "no comment" policy on their fans, John Rocker yesterday found a new, more subtle way to offend...
MADDUX NEARLY BECAME BOMBER
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - When the flight took off from New York, Greg Maddux was a Yankee. When the plane landed in Chicago, he was a Brave. "Hours," Maddux said when asked...
GERALD: NO HARD FEELINGS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - When Gerald Williams plays his first World Series game tonight, he will be doing it against the team that traded him away in the summer of 1996. But...
BOMZE IS NEW HORSEMEN'S PREZ
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amRichard Bomze, owner and breeder of state-bred stakes winners Fourstardave and Fourstars Allstar, was elected president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Assn., succeeding trainer Dennis Brida. Bomze ran unopposed...
JUDAH HOPING MIKE CAN HELP HIM GET TO TOP
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - He will be fighting an exhibition tomorrow night on the undercard of Tyson-Norris. But it won't be long before Brooklyn's Zab Judah will be headlining his own...
IRON MIKE READY, WILLING & CABLE
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - In the midst of an intriguing baseball postseason, Mike Tyson wants us to care about him again. The former heavyweight champion returns to the ring against Orlin...
BOSS RIPS CALLOUS COMMISH SELIG NIXES ROSTER MOVE FOR SOJO TRAGEDY
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Yankee owner George Steinbrenner is miffed at Commissioner Bud Selig denying the Yankees' request to add an infielder to the World Series roster for two games, since the...
JETS SPECIAL IN 2 AREAS : KICKING, RETURNS STILL
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe Jets have had more than their fair share of problems this year, between the rash of injuries and their struggles on offense. But as bad as this 1-5 season...
STOUTMIRE FITS IN WITH GANG GREEN
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amOmar Stoutmire three weeks ago? Unemployed, cut by expansion Cleveland and out of the NFL altogether. Stoutmire today? Preparing for his second straight start in the Jets' defensive backfield as...
SHOWCASING THE PICK SIX
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amToday, the final Saturday of the fall meet, Belmont Park hosts the annual "muskrat ramble," officially known as "New York Showcase Day," featuring 10 races for state-breds, seven of them...
TEAM OF '90S? THESE GUYS ONLY WANT '99
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Hype gives way to reality in the final World Series of the millennium tonight at Turner Field, a new-age ballpark where the Yankees and Braves, the best baseball...
DARK CLOUD TRAILS YANKS : SOJO'S DAD'S DEATH LATEST TRAGIC EVENT
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Baseball, like life, keeps rolling along no matter what tragedy occurs. The death of Luis Sojo's father is the latest bad news to come the Yankees' way. This...
THE APPLE OF OUR EYE : YANKS KEEP NEW YORK NEAR TOP OF SPORTS WORLD
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Part of the World Series goodie package for the media was a T-shirt that had these words over the left breast: "Atlanta, Sports Capital of the World." Well,...
SUPERPOWER SUMMIT : YANKEES & BRAVES OPEN SERIES TONIGHT IN ATANTA
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Yankees strolled into the same Turner Field setting yesterday that Kenny Rogers walked the Mets out of Tuesday night. Tonight the AL champion Yankees begin to defend...
NETS, CAL ARE COOL AND CALM
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - It was a one-on-one matchup anyone would pay to see and there it was last night when the Nets and Sixers squared off here. Stephon Marbury against...
MOUTH OF THE SOUTH, MEET MR. PERFECT
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA -In the end, this 95th World Series, the steel cage match of the teams of the decade, will come down to the closers. And you can't have two more...
PURDUE BIG THREAT TO LION TITLE HOPES
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - There was a time when beating Ohio State would have been considered a great accomplishment, something to savor. But if ever there was concrete evidence that...
'DUQUE' KEEPS COOL AMID GAME 1 HEAT
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez is 0-2 lifetime against the Braves and was bounced around this past July by Atlanta. But you wouldn't expect him to be worried about...
SIGNS POINT TO DEVIL DEAL : OT LOSS SHOWS NEED FOR SCORER
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amOVERTIME Stars2 Devils1 DALLAS - This was not the right time for the Devils to revert to their popgun goal-a-game offense, especially with the sense in the locker room that...
OH ZIP, RANGERS CAN'T BUY A GOAL
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amFlyers2 Rangers0 Here is the current sad state of the Rangers now three weeks and 11 games into a season that was supposed to make everyone forget the last two...
YANKEE SUCCESS INSPIRES A PHONY MET-AMORPHOSIS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amHERE come the fair-weather fans. The Yankees are in the World Series again, and suddenly the streets are full of guys in business suits wearing team hats, messengers wearing Yankee...
DRAINED MARIS GOES HOME
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amCINCINNATI, OCT.10 - In one week's time Roger Maris went from being the most celebrated name in baseball to a player who quietly and unobtrusively walked out of the Yankees'...
A MIRACLE COMEBACK
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES,OCT. 18 - The miracle is complete. The Yankees are champions. All hail the Yankees. All glory to the Yankees. "We've got some big hearts on this team," Bucky...
'GREATEST TEAM EVER'
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO, OCT. 22 - How sweep it is! Led by a brilliant pitching performance from Andy Pettitte and timely hitting by Bernie Williams, Ricky Ledee and Scott Brosius the...
ROAD TO THE WORLD SERIES NLCS: BRAVES WIN AMAZIN' SERIES
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amFor a while it looked like this NLCS would be a forgettable Brave blowout, as Atlanta took the first three games to continue its domination of the Mets. But the...
REG-GIE! REG-GIE!
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amOCT. 19 - It began 348 days ago with the signing of the Three Million Dollar Man and ended last night in a Yankee World Championship with three million-dollar home...
INTERLEAGUE: BRAVES 2, YANKS 1
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amGreg Maddux lasted 31/3 innings and gave up nine hits and five runs in one of the three games between the Yankees and Braves in mid-July. With runners in scoring...
ROAD TO THE WORLD SERIES ALCS: RED SOX GO DOWN IN FIVE
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amPedro Martinez against Roger Clemens never developed into the Pitching Matchup Of The Century because the pesky Red Sox ripped The Rocket in Game 3. However, the rest of the...
ALDS: RANGERS SWEPT 2ND STRAIGHT YEAR
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe wise guys will say the turning point of the Ranger-Yankee AL Division Series was when the Rangers found out they were playing the Bombers. Since the Yankees swept the...
DEAL FOR SCORER LOOMS FOR DEVILS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS The feel is deal. It almost has to happen if Brendan Morrison and Patrik Elias return to the Devils. The sense in the locker room is that it will...
MUCKLER LIGHTENS UP ON SAGGING RANGERS
October 23, 1999 | 4:00amBad Cop John Muckler went to sleep Thursday night and when he awakened the next morning, he had become Good Cop John Muckler. Not only were there no tongue lashings...