May 29, 2000
BUSH'S SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN IS JUST DUMB
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amI HAVE something to say about George W. Bush's proposal to allow some Social Security money to be invested privately. How can I put this delicately? It's stupid. Forget the...
THEY'LL USE STOCK FOOTAGE : GEBBIAS PUTTING $80M IN FILM EFFORT
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amWhat do you call five members of a family who sell their discount brokerage firm for $155 million and sink a good chunk of the proceeds into the movie business?...
MTV BENDS 'RULES' FOR QUEASY RIDERS :WHO DARES WINS $100G IN SCARY NEW ROAD SHOW
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amMTV is hoping to scare the pants off the contestants of "Road Rules" when the new season takes off this year. The show - an extreme sports/adventure/reality game-show - will...
MORE 'MILLIONAIRE': MASSIVE MISTAKE
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amYOU can't blame ABC executives for being enamored with "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." They're probably still pinching themselves over the dumb luck they had in accidentally stumbling on...
DID L.I. DEMS TAKE A DIVE TO SAVE SILVER?
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amA SECRET deal between embattled Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Nassau County Republicans could save GOP control of the state Senate, sources have told The Post. The sources said the...
THANKS, YANKS, FROM A GRATEFUL AUSTRALIAN
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amPITY the poor Yank who came into our sights when myself and Joey Smith trolled Roscoe Street, Bondi Beach, Australia, during World War II. If we saw that uniform, and...
JUDGE NIXES TEEN'S 'FRANK' APPEAL
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT'S in a name? A lot of things - especially ammunition for schoolyard bullies - when the name in question is Francis and you're a 14-year-old boy. So Staten Island...
NFL STAR OFFERED PLEA DEAL :MAY GET 30 YRS. IN GAL PAL'S SLAY
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amAfter announcing they would seek the death penalty, prosecutors have offered a plea bargain to ex-Carolina Panthers football player Rae Carruth in the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend. The...
YOUNG OFFICER HAD PLANS TO MARRY
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe young Brooklyn cop killed in yesterday's car crash had been looking forward to the arrival of his girlfriend from Texas - so they could talk about getting engaged, friends...
BRAVE SHOPKEEPERS PAY PRICE OF SELF-DEFENSE
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE were two things Garfield Hart could say about the massacre that occurred at Wendy's. "The same thing almost happened to me." And "I can't comment. You're going to have...
NUKES 101: DEFENSE CHIEF OFFERS TO TEACH BUSH A LESSON
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary William Cohen yesterday offered to brief George W. Bush so the Texas governor would be "informed" when he talks about reducing nuclear weapons. "I'd be happy...
GUESTS FLEE ESSEX HOUSE FIRE
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amA mattress fire forced more than 100 guests to flee their rooms at the posh Essex House hotel on Central Park South last night. There were no serious injuries in...
BARAK: SYRIA STIRRING UP TROUBLE IN LEBANON
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday accused Syria of fomenting unrest on the Israeli-Lebanon border, and offered to share secret intelligence data to prove it. Barak, who pulled the...
SUSPECTS CONFESSED - THEN 'SLEPT LIKE BABIES' :CHILLING NEW DETAILS EMERGE ON SLAUGHTER
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amTwo coldblooded killers "slept like babies" after confessing in chilling detail to the execution-style murders of five Wendy's employees, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. And the sources added that after blowing...
FLUSHING GRIPPED BY FEAR AS ARMED BANDITS PLUNDER THE WIZ FOR 20G
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amMerchants on Flushing's Main Street were terrified again yesterday after two brazen bandits held up an electronics store only a block from the Wendy's massacre. The two entered The Wiz...
POST DRIVER'S SON BORN HOURS BEFORE TRAGEDY
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amWhen proud father Jacques Lavache got behind the wheel of his delivery truck yesterday, he was still wearing the hospital wristband he was given while attending the birth of his...
COP, POST DRIVER DIE IN COLLISION : DELIVERY TRUCK STRIKES SQUAD CAR IN BROOKLYN
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amA horrific collision between a New York Post delivery truck and a squad car early yesterday left a young policeman and the truck driver dead, and the cop's partner critically...
BIRD BASHES INDY OUTLOOK ON MSG SPLIT
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe Pacers are up 2-1 in the Eastern Conference Finals. So naturally, all the pressure is on them, not the Knicks who could plunge into a 3-1 grave tonight. "Yeah,...
DAY OF TRIBUTES BY, AND FOR, MAYOR : HE MARCHES IN PARADE FOR WAR DEAD ON HIS B'DAY
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani took his birthday in stride yesterday - marching in the mile-long Forest Hills Memorial Day Parade, which ended with a crowd of 100 singing "Happy Birthday." The mayor,...
BOBCAT 'RE-INTRODUCES' HIMSELF TO ENDANGERED WHOOPING CRANE
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amAn attempt to re-introduce the whooping crane into the U.S. wilderness after a 60-year absence was foiled last week by a hungry bobcat in Florida. The Florida Fish and Wildlife...
HOUSE-KEEPER MADONNA PAYS $6M FOR LATEST
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amMadonna is turning from pop goddess to real-estate queen - she's just purchased a fifth luxury home, this one in Beverly Hills. She has shelled out $6 million for a...
RAMSEYS' POLYGRAPH PROVES LITTLE: EXPERT
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe lie-detector tests taken by John and Patsy Ramsey are useless, contends an expert who says he can teach anyone to beat the polygraph in five minutes. Doug Williams, a...
KNICK TOWELS SOAKING UP BIG BUCKS
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amAs the Pacers are finding out, Knick fans never throw in their towels. They wave them triumphantly instead. Those same orange pieces of cloth that Latrell Sprewell was seen waving...
FORGOTTEN HERO MAY BE HONORED AFTER 50 YEARS
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amHugh Francis Redmond, an intense patriot who fought heroically in World War II and later became a CIA spy in China, was fiercely proud to be American. His code of...
RIKERS CON A CON MAN EVEN IN JAIL, FEDS SAY
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amHe has 15 names, a handful of Social Security numbers, a lengthy rap sheet and an incredible knack for conning his way out of jail - and into the pocketbooks...
TIME FOR THOMAS TO QUIET DOUBTERS
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amKURT Thomas couldn't have asked for a better scenario. His team is playing for the Eastern Conference championship, hoping to tie the series at 2-2 with a victory today in...
'ROCKET' ONE OF A KIND
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amONE DAY after the Devils made history in Philadelphia, the greatest legend in hockey history died in Montreal. The Rocket was all that; maybe even more. "In the '50s and...
RUSCH LOWERS THE BROOM METS GO WEST AGAIN AFTER SWEEP OF CARDS
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amMets6 Cardinals2 ST. LOUIS - So today the Mets fly back to California with a chance to make this road trip a successful one. They had left the left coast...
PACERS PLANNING TO GET DEFENSIVE
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amSam Perkins was reviewing the Pacers' Game 3 performance against the Knicks. The Pacers started strong, moved the ball and found Rik Smits. Then something happened. Actually, some things happened....
KNICKS PLACE THEIR TRUST IN DUDLEY'S RUST
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amThose who sit, and sit, usually have a tough time shaking off the rust and re-locating their shooting stroke. Chris Dudley has no such problem - he's never found a...
BIRD MOVES STUMPING HIS TEAM
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amMuch of the attention was all centered on Reggie Miller. He wound up on Pacer coach Larry Bird's sit list for the final 1:49 of Game 3. That sure caused...
SPREE'S THE LATEST TO JOIN INJURED LIST LATRELL'S IFFY WITH FRACTURE IN FOOT
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe sick got sicker yesterday. Latrell Sprewell's left foot is broken. In yet another devastating blow to the physically battered Knicks, Sprewell did not practice yesterday, instead undergoing an MRI...
WHATEVER KNICKS ARE LEFT WILL JUST KEEP ATTACKING
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHE SPOT he chose to stand was only fitting. Latrell Sprewell, trying to take the pressure off his injured left foot, which he would learn later was fractured, leaned against...
NIXON GETS IN THE LAST WORD
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe first time Trot Nixon stepped to the plate against Roger Clemens last night, Clemens not only struck him out but seemingly taunted him afterwards. On Nixon's last at-bat, he...
NO 'BULLET' IN BELMONT
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amAs expected, Preakness winner Red Bullet will skip the June 10 Belmont Stakes, costing the Triple Crown finale the drama of a much-anticipated rematch with Kentucky Derby hero Fusaichi Pegasus,...
SIDE (INJURY) RETIRES REED FOR ONE START, MAYBE MORE
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - No. 3 starter Rick Reed is not going on the disabled list - at least, not yet. However, because of his strained left oblique muscle, the 34-year-old...
'LADY' HAS GENUINE SHOT AGAINST MET MILE BOYS
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE'S a first time for everything, and even though a filly has never won the Grade 1, $750,000 Metropolitan Handicap in 106 runnings, Honest Lady has a huge shot against...
WARD'S BLOCK DOESN'T FACTOR
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amCharlie Ward doesn't like the term "X-factor" when applied to his dazzling playoff run. As in, Ward has been the X-factor in the 2000 playoffs for the Knicks just the...
RIGHT MANN FOR THE JOB
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Reliever Jim Mann couldn't sleep because he was living his dream. After being told by Triple-A Norfolk manager John Gibbons at 1:30 a.m. yesterday that he was...
PRADO REGISTERS NO. 4,000
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amEdgar Prado, who moved his track to New York last summer after dominating the Maryland jockey colony for years, won the 4,000th race of his career yesterday in the second...
SALLUSTIO SURVIVES ROCKY START
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amMt. St. Michael7 Msgr. Farrell6 Steve Sallustio walked the first two batters he faced yesterday. Then came a double and a single. Before the inning ended, five runs had scored....
CAMBY: I'LL GIVE IT A TRY
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amOne moment, he was on the court, trying to help the Knicks secure their first victory in the Eastern Conference finals. The next, Marcus Camby was flat on his back...
JARVIS TO NETS HEATS UP
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amSLess than one week after Mike Jarvis withdrew himself for consideration for the Washington Wizards' head coaching job, his name has surfaced as a candidate for the Nets job. As...
WALLACE AWAITING VG'S CALL
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amJohn Wallace came off the Purchase practice court yesterday, his gray T-shirt soaked in sweat after working an extra 45 minutes with Knick strength coach Greg Brittenham. With the battered...
PHILLY ESCAPE FIRES UP DEVILS
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amTheir historic comeback is taking the Devils back in time, back to last season and the year before that. It has finally brought them to the Stanley Cup Finals that...
IN BOSTON ROTATION, EVERYBODY'S PITCHING IN
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amBoston manager Jimy Williams claims his starting rotation hasn't exceeded his expectations, because he didn't have any. The Red Sox insist their pitching success may have stunned the rest of...
GET HELP - AND TRUST IT - SPORTS SHRINK'S ADVICE TO KNOBBY
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amDr. Charles Maher made it very clear he wasn't talking specifically about Chuck Knoblauch's throwing problem. One, he has never met Knoblauch. Two, the only baseball team Maher offers his...
CLEMENS RUNS OUT OUT OF OLD MAGIC - ROGER COMES UP SHORT
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amHERE was one way to look at Pedro Martinez vs. Roger Clemens: The greatest pitcher on the planet vs. a No. 3 starter. Sure, the names looked great on a...
FROM TOP DOWN, THESE RED SOX BUILT TO GO DISTANCE SOX CAN PULL OFF FEAT
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHESE are not your father's Red Sox. This is not a team simply around to break New England's hearts. This club is conceived to topple the Yankees, not merely to...
THE THRILL IS GONE - WILD CARD KILLS EXCITEMENT OF THIS RIVALRY
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHE WIND cooperated, pushing south the bad weather that was supposed to prevent the series finale of baseball's best rivalry. The pitching match featured two of the greatest in Red...
EL DUQUE'S BACK PAINS TORRE
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees have their fingers crossed that Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez' back problem allows him to pitch in one of the three weekend games against the Braves in Atlanta. But...
TROT'S HR RUINS ROGER'S 13K GEM
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amRed Sox2 Yankees0 If you didn't dig Pedro Martinez against Roger Clemens last night at Yankee Stadium, baseball isn't your bag. Thankfully, Arena Baseball stayed as far away from The...
ROCKET PUTS ON RETRO SHOW
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amWOUND a once-great performer's pride the way the Red Sox did last October with their bats, the way they scarred it a few winters ago with their decision, then mix...
PEDRO THE BEST, JUDGING BY CYS OF IT
May 29, 2000 | 4:00amHERE was one way to look at Pedro Martinez vs. Roger Clemens: The greatest pitcher on the planet vs. a No. 3 starter. Sure, the names looked great on a...