October 24, 1999
HALL OF FAME QB'S ONLINE OF SCRIMMAGE WITH 'NET ENDEAVORS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amIt's been 21 years since the Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton hung up his cleats, but the former Minnesota Viking and New York Giant star is still scrambling -...
FRAN'S LEGAL FIRM FAILS TO SCORE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amAmong the more curious business relationships Fran Tarkenton has struck up over the years is his association with Pre-Paid Legal Services. The publicly-traded provider of legal-services plans to working class...
UNIVERSITY SLAMS GATES OVER LICENSING
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amBILL Gates - sorry, William H. Gates 3rd - just can't get no respect. It appears that giving away more money for schools and libraries than most people make in...
HUSTLER NEW YORK ISN'T IN THE CARDS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amLARRY Flynt isn't known for backing away from a confrontation, but picking a fight with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani doesn't interest him. Flynt is expanding Hustler Hollywood, his new L.A. store...
WSJ'S PART-TIME ORPHAN
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amTHE orphan is dead, long live the orphan. The funny little story in the bottom left-hand corner of the Marketplace section - known at the paper as the "orphan" because...
THEY MIISSED OUT ON MARTHA
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amMARTHA Stewart is the newest battleground in the war of the sexes on Wall Street. Female brokers at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter say they were not given any chance to...
PIXELON DELIVERS SHARP VIDEO ONLINE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amP -stamp-sized video on your PC may be a thing of the past soon. Like on Friday. That's when Pixelon of Southern California is launching its network. The company has...
MAKING 'MUSIC' : WES CRAVEN MOVES FROM VIOLENCE TO VIOLINS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amImagine that Wes Craven - the man responsible for "Scream" and a slew of "Nightmares" - had just bought the rights to your life story. And that you, a violin...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE : ANNIE POTTS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amAnnie Potts, longtime star of "Designing Women," couldn't have designed a better career for herself. Growing up on a farm in Franklin, Ky., she always knew she was going to...
PRETTY DAME GOOD
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amIt may be a tad cheeky to suggest that the apparently schizoid Australian comedian Barry Humphries and his alter ego, the outrageous Dame Edna Everage, need a psychiatrist, and that...
TABLE HOPPER
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amPeacock Alley The Waldolf-Astoria 301 Park Ave. (at 50th Street) (212) 872-4895 Feathers were flying recently at Peacock Alley when a high-haired Bette Midler - in town for tomorrow and...
THE MONSTER MASH
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amThere will be treats - but, we hope, no tricks - next weekend when the American Museum of the Moving Image celebrates Halloween. The lead-off flick (2 p.m. Saturday) is...
MEALS & DEALS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amJekyll & Hyde 91 SEVENTH AVE. S. BETWEEN BARROW & GROVE STREETS (212) 989-7701 Halloween comes but once a year - but the horror never stops at Jekyll & Hyde....
DADDY FEAREST - VINCENT PRICE'S DAUGHTER RECALLS HER DAD IN ALL HIS GORY
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Vincent Price was many things - horror-film icon, distinguished stage actor, art connoisseur, gourmet, writer and occupant of a pivotal block on TV's "Hollywood Squares," among them. But Victoria...
IN REVIEW
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: "The Book of War: 25 Centuries of Great War Writing," by John Keegan, Viking, 492 pages, $34.95. Here's a rare treat for fans of British military historian John Keegan:...
BANISHED BOOKIES TAKING A SLICE OF APPLE WITH THEM
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amTODAY hundreds of thousands of righteous dollars that should be spent in New York will disappear into the ether - a doggone crime. And the crime is that a bunch...
BLASTER PLANNED TO NUKE TWIN TOWERS: BOOK
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing came frighteningly close to using radioactive material in the attack - and could have turned lower Manhattan into an uninhabitable wasteland, a...
IT'S WWW.ENDOFCIVILIZATION.COM
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amHERE'S one for the "Slouching Toward Gomorrah" files: Eugenics are coming back into vogue (and Vogue) on a new Web site where fashion models offer their eggs for sale to...
BANK WINDS OF CHANGE GIVE LIFT TO CUSTOMERS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amConsumers will benefit from new one-stop financial supermarkets soon thanks to sweeping reforms of the nation's banking system struck between the Clinton administration and congressional Republicans. Under the new rules,...
RECOVERING O'CONNOR DUE BACK ON PULPIT TODAY
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor plans to return to the pulpit at St. Patrick's Cathedral today - after missing his weekly Mass the past two Sundays as a result of exhaustion from...
DEFIANT RUSSIA STEPS UP CHECHEN 'WAR'
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amChechen fighters claimed they shot down two Russian warplanes yesterday as world leaders stepped up their criticism of the Russian offensive in the breakaway republic. Nevertheless, Russia forces continued bombing...
AFGHAN RULERS TO U.S.: LET'S TALK
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amAfghanistan's ruling Taliban army said yesterday it wants to talk with the United States and "solve all the issues" - including the fate of accused terrorist Osama bin Laden. American...
BIRTHDAY GIRL HILL HINTING IT'S OFFICIAL
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - First Lady Hillary Clinton said yesterday she's "in this race" for New York senator - the closest she has come to an official campaign announcement. "I am honored...
RIVAL OWNERS ARE CRAZY...LIKE A FOX ; GEORGE AND TED SET TO SLUG IT OUT
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA. SOMETIMES it pays to be loony. Just look at the two men whose baseball teams have owned the decade and are playing for the final World Championship of the...
FATHER'S PAINFUL MEMORY A LESSON TO SONS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amTHE last time William Alexander saw "Uncle George" he was hanging from a tree in Arkansas. The family friend's nude body was burned to a crisp. Fifty years ago, Alexander...
LAID-BACK ATLANTANS SHOW LITTLE SIGN OF LIFE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Yankee fans here had a big Bronx Sneer for Braves fans yesterday - shrugging them off as largely unenthused, docile and just too damn friendly. "People aren't even...
ETHICISTS: EGG SALE OVA THE LINE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amInfertility groups and ethicists are outraged over a Web site offering the ovary eggs of gorgeous models to parents willing to pay up to $150,000 in hopes of having a...
BRADLEY KEEPING HIS COOL
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Bradley says he's laughing off Democratic 2000 rival Al Gore's attacks so far, but he's getting ready to strike back. "You know, you can only take so...
EXPERTS: CRASS ACT CRACKED MARRIAGE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amLoudmouth Howard Stern's lewd and lascivious radio routine helped kill his two-decade marriage to wife Alison, marriage counselors said yesterday. But counselors gave the celebrity ex-couple high ratings for keeping...
6 MURDERS JOLT CITY IN 7 HOURS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amSix people - including a woman who had been cooperating with police in a robbery case and was found dead early yesterday in a burning Jamaica home - were murdered...
COUNTER-PUNCH PUNISHES KLAN: 6,000 RALLY FOR PEACE, 17 FOR HATE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amViolence erupted at the Ku Klux Klan's lower Manhattan rally yesterday as one of the leaders was pummeled - and three cops were injured - before members of the unmasked...
BILL NOW BEARISH ON SOC SEC PLAN
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton yesterday backed off a controversial plan to have the federal government play the stock market with $500 billion in Social Security funds to shore up the system. Instead,...
BEACHED L.I. WHALE IS PUT OUT OF MISERY
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amA marine rescue group yesterday put to sleep the ailing baby sperm whale who beached herself on Long Island after becoming separated from her mother. The deteriorating animal, who beached...
MOM IN A PANIC OVER VANISHED 4-YEAR-OLD
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amA frantic Chelsea mom last night pleaded for help in finding her 4-year-old son, who police said disappeared from a playground near their home. Little Stephen Jones was playing with...
YANKS PULL OFF A TURNER-ROUND:TROUNCE TED'S TEAM WITH BIG RALLY IN THE 8TH
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amBurn, baby, burn! The Yanks are fired up - and set to blaze through Atlanta again tonight - after last night's explosive 4-1 triumph against the Braves in the World...
ED BOARD ATTEMPTING TO $NARE CHARTERS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amSome charter-schoolgroups getting nice city offer$The Board of Education is offering cash incentives to groups that want to start charter schools and is pressuring some to apply through Chancellor Rudy...
MUSIC MAY LACK THE HUMAN TOUCH
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amAdvancements in audio technology will make the next millennium a listener's dream and a composer's nightmare as computers make beautiful music - but edge humans out of the process. When...
BEIJING-JERUSALEM TIES GROW STRONGER
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amBEIJING. THE visit by China's defense minister, Chi Haotian, to Israel last week indicates the growing special relationship between two of the world's oldest peoples. Although no official details were...
WORK KEPT HIM FOCUSED
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amPhotographer Sandy Sleppin has long been mesmerized by the century-old Williamsburg Bridge. The 42-year-old freelancer from Commack, L.I., was the only cameraman to document the bridge's massive reconstruction, which included...
MARCONI LED A NEW WAVE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amGuglielmo Marconi (1874- 1937) is widely regarded as the inventor of the radio. The son of wealthy parents in Bologna, Italy, he wasted no time putting his technical savvy to...
$200M PROJECT SPANS THE CENTURIES : MAJESTIC CROSSING GETS GREEN LIGHT FOR 2002 AND BEYOND
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe city's multimillion-dollar facelift of the majestic Williamsburg Bridge - crowned the longest suspension bridge in the world when it was built in 1903 - is headed to a new...
GEORGIA BOY'S STILL PEACHY KEEN ON YANKS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amPint-sized Brendan Dunwoody - the bravest Yankee fan in America - is at it again. Last year during the baseball playoffs, Brendan was sent to the principal's office in his...
THE TOLL COLLECTOR FROM HELL: DRIVERS WANT CHANGE IN HER RUDE ATTITUDE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amTo motorists traveling between Staten Island and New Jersey, she's the Outerbridge Ogre. Her name is Beverly Wilkins, and she's the toll collector from hell - known for her foul...
ED. BOARD REBELS GO THE STEALTH ROUTE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amA half-dozen frustrated city teachers, social workers and administrators - the first to defect from the Board of Education - have teamed up to start a charter school. The board...
L.I.'S SICK BABY WHALE IS PUT OUT OF MISERY
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amA marine rescue group yesterday put to sleep the ailing baby sperm whale who beached herself on Long Island after becoming separated from her mother. The deteriorating animal, who beached...
GUNMEN SNOOZE AND LOSE: POLICE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amPolice yesterday made what might be two of the easiest weapon arrests in history - busting two gunmen who had fallen asleep in the back of a cab. Christian Rodriguez,...
BRUTAL PIMP ON THE LOOSE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amA vicious pimp, who nearly killed a 15-year-old girl he recruited into prostitution, is on the loose and may be abusing other women and girls, prosecutors told The Post. Raheem...
CAN'T KEEP KEITH OUTTA THE LINEUP
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amMEXICO CITY - The decision was made early. That was enough of Keith Van Horn playing on a twisted left ankle. The limp, though not overpowering, was noticeable. So sit....
HUGHES WILL BE IVERSON'S EQUAL
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amAT the risk of being blasphemous on the Sabbath, within a year or two, Larry Hughes will prove to be Allen Iverson's equal, maybe even his superior. Two drafts ago,...
THE JOY OF SIX
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amBoston fans had only been waiting 68 years to see the message that flashed up on the Shea Stadium scoreboard in the final moments of Game 6 of the 1986...
IT'S TIME FOR MUCKLER TO TAKE STOCK
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amP.J. Stock's performance Friday night against Eric Lindros should earn him a spot in the lineup for tonight's Garden match with Mark Messier's Canucks. Now we'll see whether he gets...
TURF TESTS IN SPOTLIGHT AT BELMONT
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amWith racing moving to Aqueduct Wednesday, Belmont Park closes out the millennium this afternoon with a pair of Grade 3, $100,000 grass stakes for 2-year-olds going 11/8 miles: the Miss...
CANARSIE: TURNOVERS KILLED US
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amCurtis30 Canarsie20 The game was supposed to determine the best team in the PSAL. According to the losers, it did not. "We beat ourselves. They didn't beat us," Ca-narsie LB/TE...
GLAVINE'S SCRATCHED BY FLU BUG
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Braves were shocked to find out late Friday night that their scheduled Game 1 starter, Tom Glavine, was sick with a stomach flu and would not be...
TORRE PAYS OFF HIS DOCTOR BILL
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Before his prostate operation in March, Joe Torre made what he thought was a great baseball trade. He told his surgeon, Bill Catalona, that if the procedure went...
CONE AT EASE IN SERIES
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - David Cone is savoring every moment. Why not? He's been here three times before and soon to be 37, he doesn't know if he will ever be back....
MILLWOOD ISN'T TWO DISTURBED
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - One of the first things Kevin Millwood did when he found out he would be pitching tonight was try to get more tickets for the game. The right-hander...
PENN STATE COOLS BREES : NITTANY LIONS STOP PURDUE COMEBACK
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amPenn State31 Purdue25 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The most potent offense in college football was 12 yards from victory. Purdue had four chances to pull off one of the greatest...
BRAVES FUME OVER RULE ON INTRODUCTIONS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Braves were furious last night with Major League Baseball. An hour before the game Atlanta president Stan Kasten raged at MLB officials behind the batting cage because...
PICK 6 PAYS PAIR 326G
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amTwo lucky off-track bettors - one at an OTB on Long Island, one at Les Bois Park in Idaho - took a gamble on the "muskrat ramble" yesterday and made...
HOLLOW VICTORY FOR ENTEPRENEUR
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amEntepreneur, the 3-5 favorite in a field of four, took over the lead entering the stretch and defeated Storm The Gate by a half length to win the $100,000 Sleepy...
KNICKS OFFER MAX TO SPREE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - The Knicks have finally showed Spree the money! Keep the "8" Latrell jersey around for a while. Latrell Sprewell is going to remain a Knick for a while....
FTOREK PLAYS WITH FIRE, BENCHES DANEYKO
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amBlues3 Devils1 ST. LOUIS - Needlessly knotting his own noose, the already wildly popular Robbie Ftorek embarrassed the longest-ever Devil last night. This was a move Mike Keenan might make....
ISLES MUST SETTLE FOR TIE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amOVERTIME Islanders2 Canucks2 The crowd erupted, the Islanders celebrated, but the referee wasn't going to his hotel just yet because what appeared to be a game-winning overtime goal by forward...
BOMBERS PATIENCE PAYS : USE FLURRY OF JABS IN 8TH TO PRODUCE GAME 1 KNOCKOUT
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - It was not the duel scheduled. Yet it turned out better than could even be expected. Tom Glavine had to be scratched as the Braves' scheduled Game 1...
CHIPPER THE ONLY BRAVE TO PULL TRIGGER
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - This is what makes Chipper Jones a little different than your average major league ballplayer preparing for a World Series game. Jones got up early yesterday morning, drove...
LEYRITZ PUTS CAPPER ON DECIDING RALLY
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Jim Leyritz came and went from a pre-World Series workout in a yellow sports coat and audacious cowboy hat, an outfit that should have come with volume control....
MADDUX NOT GOOD ENOUGH
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Greg Maddux pitched very well last night, but as he put it, it just wasn't good enough. "It ain't about pitching good," Maddux said. "It's about winning. I...
YOGI GIVES MR. CUB INSIDE SCOOP
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Yogi Berra was standing and chatting in the tunnel that leads from the Yankee dugout to the clubhouse yesterday when a man from his era interrupted with a...
PAULIE'S HEALTHY CUT : O'NEILL'S RIBS AREN'T BARBECUED ANY LONGER
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Now, it only hurts when Paul O'Neill swings. Hurts the other guys, that is. You don't turn on a left-hander's fastball the way O'Neill did in the decisive...
YANKS GET EDGE ON TOMAHAWK FLOPS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 1 Yankees4 Braves1 ATLANTA - Long before they knew Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez was going to hurl a gem, Paul O'Neill was going to deliver in the clutch and...
MANY HAPPY RETURNS FOR STONE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - When 35-year-old Dwight Stone was signed by the Jets as stop-gap receiving and special teams help in training camp this summer, he badly wanted to returned kickoffs, but...
IT ALL POINTS TO RICK : MIRER NEEDS TO PUT PUNCH IN JET OFFENSE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Jets trudge into to the Oakland Coliseum today a team on pins and needles, teetering on the brink of completely losing its season. They're 1-5 and staring...
COX KEPT ACE UP HIS SLEEVE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - When faced with the decisive moment in last night's game, a bases-loaded situation in the eighth inning with nobody out, Bobby Cox decided to stick with Greg Maddux....
YET ANOTHER FOUL FINISH : LATE BLOW BY TYSON LEADS TO NO CONTEST
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - It took only one round for the third comeback of Mike Tyson's checkered boxing career to end in another sordid controversy. A fight that was expected to...
NEAR-PERFECT DUQUE OWN HARSHEST CRITIC
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Chipper Jones looked at Strike 3 to make it a first-inning hat trick for Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez and Jorge Posada knew what kind of night was in...
YANKEES DECIDE TO WAIT FOR SOJO
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - When commissioner Bud Selig denied their request to add infielder D'Angelo Jimenez for the first two games of the World Series while utilityman Luis Sojo prepared to bury...
ROCKER: O'NEILL'S HIT WAS DP BALL
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - When John Rocker gave up a two-run single to John Olerud in the 15th inning of Game 5 of the NLCS against the Mets, he called it the...
JETER LIVES UP TO SUPERSTAR BILLING AGAIN
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Reggie Jackson was Mr. October, Derek Jeter is Mr. Octoberfest. You have to love the way Jeter plays the game. For him, it's a festival of fun. Jeter...
SCOTT'S A WORLD-BEATER
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - A few of the many Yankees fans in the audience at Turner Field broke into a familiar chant after the Yankees put away the Braves, 4-1, in the...
STRAW HAPPY TO GET CALL
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - David Cone called Joe Torre's move of pinch-hitting Darryl Strawberry in the eighth with Scott Brosius at first and none out, "brilliant." Braves manager Bobby Cox had another...
BRAVES TIP THEIR CAPS TO EL DUQUE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The question that has existed as long as the game of baseball itself surrounds a good pitching performance. Is it good pitching or is it lack of hitting?...
RIVERA MAKES GOOD ON BULLPEN PROMISE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Mariano Rivera promised that this World Series would come down to the two team's respective bullpens. Last night he and two other Yankee relievers delivered on that promise,...
TELLING IT LIKE IT WASN'T : HBO'S COSELL BIO IGNORES UGLY TRUTHS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amFOUR years after his death, Howard Cosell is the subject of a one-hour HBO documentary that debuts Nov. 1. Like most HBO Sports documentaries, it's a high-quality production. Unlike most...
DITKA'S A SAINT FOR LONG HAUL
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amOn his 60th birthday, Mike Ditka was fined $20,000 by the Saints for making two obscene gestures to the New Orleans fans at halftime of last week's 24-21 loss to...
JINTS' 'D' JUST ONE-DERFUL : FOX'S CREW AT ITS BEST
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amOnce he got away from the stadium, the noise and the commotion, Keith Hamilton took a moment to reflect and came away impressed. He thought back on what the Giants'...
HEY, BIG BLUE: SCORE, SCORE, SCORE!
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amHERE is the challenge today for the Giants' offense, a.k.a. Bad Blue: Score a damn touchdown. I realize that you have to crawl before you can walk. Wait a minute....
GOING AFTER TASTY BLACKFISH IS WORTH THE EFFORT
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amIF THERE is one fish that is even more popular on the dinner table than the winter flounder it is the blackfish, and it is also one of the most...
BRONCS READY FOR FAVORITE PAT-SIES
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN the Broncos and Patriots square off today in Foxboro, we'll see if Denver's decade-and-a-half dominance in this series is a true trend or whether it simply wore No. 7...
IT'S NEXT YEAR!
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amIn 1955, Ebbets Field was a shrine and baseball was a religion in Brooklyn. Brooklyn's identity and mood were tied to the fate of the beloved Bums - a team...
TYSON RETURN A TEAM EFFORT : NEW HANDLERS KEY TO LATEST COMEBACK
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - If the revamping of his management team is any indication, Mike Tyson's latest comeback might have a reasonable chance to succeed. Gone are former cornermen (comedians?) John...
BY FLU BUG SCRATCHES GLAVINE
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Braves were shocked to find out late Friday night that their scheduled Game 1 starter, Tom Glavine, was sick with a stomach flu and would not be...
BRAVES DECADE'S DARLINGS : BUSTS OF '90 NOW POSTSEASON GIANTS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - In 1990, the Braves were a miserable team that almost lost 100 games. Many people did believe they eventually would climb out of the cellar they had been...
HOW ABOUT THAT! SLEAZY BUD RIGHT TO REBUFF GEORGE SELIG WAS RIGHT TO REBUFF BOSS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - It"s October, harvest time, time once again to bottle the finest whine in baseball. You know the one I"m talking about, the whine that comes from the Tampa...
YANKS CHAMPING AT THE BIT AGAIN : TORRE'S GUTTY HURLERS DESERVE MORE RESPECT
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Perhaps it's because Roger Clemens was mortal instead of the five-time Cy Young winner. Maybe it's due to David Cone winning 11 games instead of 20. Or it...
DEVIL'S RAFALSKI HAS RIGHT STUFF
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - His skating and passing are his primary job qualifications, but Devils rookie Brian Rafalski has one more that came naturally: He's a righty. For the past few...
DANEYKO BOLTS AFTER BENCHING
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - This was a move Mike Keenan might make, the sort that made his Adolf reputation. Robbie Ftorek might not be able to get away with it. Two...
FERRARO FINDS NEW LIFE - SWITCH BACK TO CENTER PAYING BIG DIVIDENDS
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amIt's like moving from the basement of the Nassau Coliseum to an ocean-front home in Southampton. When the season began, Chris Ferraro was as much an afterthought to Butch Goring...
BIG CAT'S OUTLOOK STILL PICTURE PURR-FECT
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The revelation that Tom Glavine was scratched as the Braves' Game 1 starter because he had been sacked by the flu didn't leave Andres Galarraga with a defeatist...
YANKS WILL WAIT FOR SOJO: THEY'LL PLAY MAN SHORT FIRST TWO GAMES
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK ATLANTA - Once Commissioner Bud Selig denied the Yankees' request to add infielder D'Angelo Jimenez for the first two games of the World Series while utilityman...
CHANCES OF A LIFETIME: BELLINGER GETTING HIS 1ST - STRAW GETS YET ANOTHER
October 24, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: ATLANTA - For Yankees Clay Bellinger and Darryl Strawberry, this World Series really is something special. One year ago, Bellinger's claim to fame was that he was the first...