June 1, 2000
TIME$ ARE A TAD LIEN FOR DONALD
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amTimes appear to be harder for Donald Trump than one might think. He has quietly mortgaged his beloved Mar-a-Lago club to raise $25 million - just two weeks before his...
EMERGE SUBMERGED: VANGUARDE PLANS NEW GENERAL INTEREST MAG
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amVanguarde Media said it is pulling the plug on 10½-year-old Emerge, billed as black America's news magazine, and laying off its Washington, D.C.-based staff. Insiders say the company plans to...
KATZENBERG IS M'SOFT CHEERLEADER
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amMicrosoft brought out a new big gun last night in taking its final shot at avoiding a court-ordered break-up - DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg. Katzenberg was among several prominent executives who...
TIMES SQ.'S TOP DOG - NEW PAPAYA KING CROWNS B'WAY REVIVAL
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amIt's a dog-eat-dog world - and the legendary Papaya King hot dog stand plans to take full advantage. Papaya King, which serves franks and its own patented tropical fruit shakes,...
KMART TAPS CVS FOR A NEW CEO
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amAttention, Kmart shoppers! The No. 2 discount retailer in the U.S. behind Wal-Mart has named a new CEO - and that's a good thing for its star supplier, Martha Stewart....
JACKO VENTURES INTO DOT-COM PARTNERSHIP
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amMichael Jackson wants to be startin' something - so he has become a major investor and partner in a new Internet venture. The self-appointed King of Pop inked a deal...
WACHNER RIPS CALVIN - QUESTIONS MOTIVES BEHIND SURPRISE SUIT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amLinda Wachner fired back at Calvin Klein yesterday, suggesting that his lawsuit against her was in retaliation for the designer's failure to sell his company. "Having tried and failed to...
JEEVES EXEC BOLTS FOR VIDEO STARTUP
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe question at Ask Jeeves these days is, "How long till the party's over?" The search engine run by Robert Wrubel announced the resignation yesterday of President and Chief Operating...
INTERSCOPE GETS BOOST ON EMINEM'S 1.76M SALES
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amBritney Spears was hoping to Do It Again, but "oops!" - bad boy rapper Eminem rocked her world. Seven days after the teen blond bombshell scored the highest single week...
DINOTOPIA' BUSTS MONSTER BUDGET : $70M MINISERIES MAKES OTHERS LOOK PREHISTORIC
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amWITH a big-screen budget of around $70 million, a new mini-series called "Dinotopia" could be the most expensive made-for-TV-movie of all time. The six-hour ABC show - about a land...
ACHE FOR POETRY PROPELS 'GINGER MAN'
June 1, 2000 | 4:00am'THE Ginger Man," which J. P. Donleavy adapted to the stage in 1959 from his famous 1955 novel, first arrived in New York in November 1963. It closed quickly and...
FINAL BOOK, REGIS?
June 1, 2000 | 4:00am'WHO Wants to Be a Millionaire" host Regis Philbin is writing another book. Philbin, who also co-hosts "Live with Regis & Kathie Lee," is working on "Who Wants to Be...
THE STARR REPORT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amMagee's 'Miracle' Magee Hickey has managed a feat perhaps unequaled in the annals of local TV - corralling anchors from each local station in one place. Thirteen newscasters joined Hickey...
ABT'S 'SYLPHIDE' CASTS MISSING SOMETHING
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amBALLET is a young art with few classics. The oldest ballet in the international repertoire is Bournonville's 1836 "La Sylphide," which American Ballet Theater has just restored to the repertory...
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS - A RACONTEUR ADJUSTS TO LIFE IN FRANCE
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amDAVID Sedaris is no longer the funniest writer in America - but that's because he's moved to France.And while he still holds forth on National Public Radio's "This American Life,"...
'BATTLEFIELD' CASUALTY? -NEW TRAVOLTA FILM IN THE CAN FOR NOW
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amPLANS to open another John Travolta film next month have been scrapped - and some observers think his megaflop, "Battlefield Earth," is at least partly to blame. A spokesman for...
WEATHERMAN'S GIRL OUT TOO
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amWCBS/Ch. 2 anchor Dana Adams won't be returning to the station after her fiancee, weatherman Mark Danon, was busted on coke charges last week. Adams hasn't been on the air...
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER - COLLEGE DAMMED BY NAME
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amBEAVER College is having an identity crisis.The Internet has forced the Pennsylvania college, which has lived with its double-entendre identity for longer than anyone can remember - or care to...
SURVIVING THE HYPE ; CBS 'CASTAWAY' SHOW LIVES UP TO ITS BILLING
June 1, 2000 | 4:00am"Survivor" Wednesday night at 8 on WCBS/Ch. 2 1/2 THE cheeky comparisons to a certain 1960s sitcom stop now: "Survivor" is no "Gilligan's Island." In fact, I'm not really sure...
DELTA DEFENDANT: I WAS AT THE GYM
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amA former Delta Air Lines flight attendant accused of drugging and raping a female co-worker in his Rome hotel room insisted yesterday he was working out at a gym at...
CARDINAL'S GENEROSITY CONTINUES IN HIS WILL
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor was as giving in death as he was in life, his last will and testament shows. Made public yesterday, O'Connor's Manhattan Surrogate Court filing leaves almost everything...
RAP BIG HIP-HOPPING MAD AT HIZZONER
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amHip-hop mogul Russell Simmons rapped Mayor Giuliani yesterday for quashing his plans to hold an event in City Hall Park - claiming Hizzoner wanted revenge after being mocked in an...
L.I. MYSTERY BODY HAS COPS BAFFLED
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amPolice trying to solve a murder mystery on Long Island have created a computerized facial reconstruction to help identify a gunshot victim whose body was dumped alongside a scenic parkway....
COMIC GOES FROM DROPOUT TO DOCTOR NO KIDDING
June 1, 2000 | 4:00am"Stay Strong," reads a photo showing Abby Stein striking a bodybuilder's pose. And that credo has helped the Queens junior high dropout and former standup comic become a John Jay...
WALLIS CHEATED ON EDWARD: BOOK
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amFifteen years after King Edward VIII gave up the British crown to wed divorcee Wallis Simpson, his bride was ready to dump him for a gay playboy, a new book...
B'KLYN PROSECUTOR KNOWS WHAT QNS. TEAM FACES
June 1, 2000 | 4:00am'I'VE stood over the bodies. I've talked to the families. I've seen the remorselessness of killers. Evil. I've seen it." So says Heide Mason, 39, a Brooklyn assistant district attorney...
LAZIO: FIRST LADY IS TOO COZY WITH ARAFATS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amDUNDEE, N.Y. - Hillary Clinton's "close relationship" with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his wife should worry New York's Jewish voters, Senate candidate Rick Lazio charged yesterday. "She obviously had...
BLOOMBERG ACTS HIS AGE - MOGUL INTO COSMOPOLITAN WOMEN, NOT COSMO GIRLS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amHE'S the anti-bimbo billionaire. Newly eligible media baron Michael Bloomberg, 58, is displaying a rare taste among single New York men of his means - he's dating women his age....
FINAL SALUTE TO TRAGIC COP - RUDY LEADS THOUSANDS AT FUNERAL
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir led tearful mourners yesterday at the funeral of a Brooklyn cop killed in a traffic accident with a New York Post delivery truck....
A TEARFUL FAREWELL FOR TEEN MASSACRE VICTIM
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe youngest victim killed in the horrific Wendy's massacre was laid to rest yesterday in the Navy Junior ROTC uniform he loved, surrounded by friends and family who wept openly....
ITALIAN ARMY 'INVADES' WRONG NATION
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amAn elite Italian army unit has invaded Sweden. It was all a mistake - it should have invaded Norway. The weekend misadventure of the 116 mountain troops in their feathered...
ROSIE: MY GUARDS ARE ARMED, BUT NOT IN HOUSE
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amGun-control activist Rosie O'Donnell defends her use of armed bodyguards, saying she needs extra security when she travels - but wouldn't let guns in her house. "In public places, my...
KID-PORN WEBMASTER PLEADS GUILTY
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges that he masterminded an international Internet kiddie-porn ring that he ran out of his parent's house. Peter Giordano, 37, fidgeted with...
RIVERFRONT-PARK PLAN CLEARS HURDLE
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe ambitious $330 million park project along the West Side riverfront got a green light yesterday from the Army Corps of Engineers - ending two years of nervous nail-biting by...
ASTEROID MEANT SUDDEN DEATH FOR DINOS: STUDY
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amDinosaurs died off quickly after an asteroid sent a wall of fire and destruction across North America, a new study claims. Researchers studying fossils found in Montana and North Dakota...
HILL & RICK IN CLASS WARFARE - THEY'RE AT ODDS ON SPENDING FOR BUILDING SCHOOLS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton continued to go on the offensive against her newly nominated GOP foe Rick Lazio, charging the Long Island congressman with opposing school construction. After visiting a Buffalo...
PRIEST HALTS VANDAL - TALKS WOULD-BE DESECRATOR INTO WAITING FOR COPS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amA hero priest stopped a vandal from destroying a statue outside his Brooklyn church - where two other statues were decapitated - then talked him into waiting for cops, police...
BLACKS TOUTED FOR 2 KEY POSTS ON BUSH TEAM
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amIMAGINE starting the 21st century with a president whose two top foreign-policy advisers are both black. Now imagine that president is a Republican - George W. Bush. It's widely believed...
STATE TOOK HER SON IN '86, NOW GRILLS HER IN HIS DEATH
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amA Queens woman who did jail time for shaking her infant son in 1986 was questioned by detectives last night - after the medical examiner ruled the boy's death last...
GOP SENATORS ARE UNANIMOU$
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In hopes of giving Republican Rick Lazio a quick cash infusion, all 55 Republicans in the Senate have put their names on the invitation for a June 14...
JURORS SHOWN GRISLY VIDEO OF MURDERED STUDENT'S BODY
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amManhattan jurors viewed the first evidence yesterday in the slashing murder of a beautiful Columbia University law student - crime-scene video so bloody that the victim's sister ran out the...
PREZ: I'D GIVE RUSSIA MISSILE SECRETS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday said he would share the secrets of a new missile defense system with allies - and maybe even Russia - because "it would be unethical"...
SADDAM STILL A BIG THREAT TO NEW YORK, WARNS BOOK
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amIraqi dictator Saddam Hussein still menaces the world with deadly nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that could kill thousands of people in New York, a new book says. Richard Butler,...
MAMMO-SCAM PUTS 9,000 WOMEN AT RISK
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amState health officials have warned nearly 9,000 Bronx women they may have received botched breast-cancer exams from two scamming doctors - with potentially fatal results - authorities said yesterday. The...
PATAKI: THE RIDE'S OVER FOR APPLE TOUR BUSES
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amGov. Pataki pulled the plug on New York Apple Tours yesterday, ordering the fleet of double-decker buses off the street "to prevent another tragic loss of life." A city judge...
MOM-TO-BE JITTERS FOR CHERYL - AT AGE 52, SHE HAS A SURROGATE CARRY TWINS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amSupermodel Cheryl Tiegs is scared to be a mom again at the age of 52. "It's a very scary thing to do," Tiegs tells next week's People magazine. "It's about...
LEVY TAKES HEAT AT 1ST TOWN-HALL MEET
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amMore than 600 parents besieged schools Chancellor Harold Levy at a groundbreaking town-hall meeting in Queens last night, complaining about everything from overcrowding to tough new standards. "I'm still standing,"...
PRIME-SEAT NYERS STIR DISORDER AT THE COURT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Rowdy Knick fans were courtside in Indianapolis again last night - bedeviling Pacer players, who called their own fans turncoats for selling prime seats at top dollar. "We...
KNICKS ON THE BRINK - MUST WIN NEXT TWO AFTER LOSS TO INDIANA
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amWhy does this Knick team always keep fans on tenterhooks? They lost a 88-79 heartbreaker against the Pacers in Indiana last night - blowing an 18-point lead and putting themselves...
GUARDS MAKE THEIR MARKS ; WARD, CHILDS FAIL IN INDY
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - For their entire careers as Knicks, Charlie Ward and Chris Childs have been known as a point-guard tandem liability. They were beginning to silence that talk with their...
COLLAPSE LEAVES KNICKS ON BRINK: VG CREW MUST NOW DUPLICATE HEAT FEAT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Perhaps the pain-killers wore off after the first quarter. Certainly the Knicks' running attack slowed to a halt. On a night Patrick Ewing made his way back to...
QUICKNICKS PUTTING BEST FOOT FORWARD
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Allan Houston was only trying to answer a question, but he didn't know how true his words rang. Tuesday, someone asked if the Knicks would want to slow...
EW GUESSING GAME HAS PACERS AT LOSS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The debate over whether the Knicks are better with or without Patrick Ewing makes for spirited conversations and helps occupy newspaper and radio space which is welcomed from...
TICKED AT RIK: KNICKS STEAMED OVER SMITS' INSULT OF EWING
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It's one thing to Jeff Van Gundy for media and fans to suggest the Knicks are a better team against the Pacers without Patrick Ewing. It's another thing...
THORN BACK IN PICTURE FOR NET JOB
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - One dropped out but another is back in contention for a position in the Nets' front office. While Indiana GM David Kahn, who had been on the YankeeNets...
PACER GM NOT BOUND FOR JERSEY
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - With a self-imposed deadline approaching but also gaining considerable flexibility, one of the candidates for a position in the Nets' front office pulled himself out of the running...
BIRD'S NO GLASS-KISSER: RIPS INDY FOR NOT REBOUNDING
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Larry Bird figured the best way for the Pacers to rebound from their Lost Weekend in New York was to rebound. With proud words but sagging confidence plus...
FOR INDIANA, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - At first, the Eastern Conference final between the Knicks and Pacers was supposed to come down to talent, the talents of Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston matched up...
WARD & CHILDS POINTS OF LIGHT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - For their entire careers as Knicks, Charlie Ward and Chris Childs have been known as a point guard tandem liability. Surely one can't forget the painful words of...
IZZY LEAVES PAST BEHIND
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amCALLED to the majors at the age of 22 on July 13, 1995, Jason Isringhausen went 9-2 for the Mets with a 2.81 ERA, moving him to the head of...
ACHING LJ GETS MORE BAD NEWS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - More bad news from the injury front arrived for the Knicks yesterday -Larry Johnson has a new ailment, plantar fasciaitis, in his right foot. Johnson sustained...
DONNIE DOESN'T DOUBT MOVES BIRD'S MAKING
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amPACER NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - A team loses, it grumbles. It points fingers. And some Pacers were grumbling and pointing at Larry Bird and his strategy in the Eastern Conference Finals....
VALENTINE SINGS MORA'S PRAISES
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES- The love affair Mets fans have with Melvin Mora continues to get stronger. On Tuesday against the Dodgers, Mora, in his first game back since being...
DUQUE TO START AGAINST BRAVES
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Orlando Hernandez tested his sore back yesterday, and passed with flying colors. So as far as the Yankees and their ace starter are concerned, El Duque can rejoin...
JETER FOUND TIME TO REBUILD SWING
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amDerek Jeter likes missing games about as much as having a root canal. So imagine how much it pained Jeter to admit that his recent trip to the DL was...
TODD'S SLAM MADE METS FEEL GRAND
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES- When Todd Pratt stepped to the plate in the ninth inning on Tuesday night with the bases loaded and two outs, he had one thought. "I just wanted...
STARS NEED TO FIND SOME ANSWERS QUICK
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amFOR Dallas, it looks darker than a Brett Hull mood. Their Big D, Derian Hatcher, has a bum knee; their goalie can't breathe; and Joe Nieuwendyk has disappeared faster than...
BECHT NEXT CHALLENGER FOR JETS' BAXTER
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amFred Baxter's locker stall is tucked into the furthest corner of the Jets' locker room, which is rather symbolic. Few players in the room are as anonymous, quoted less in...
MARBURY'S LONE LOCAL ON ALL-NBA TEAM
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Maybe this eases the All-Star slight. The Nets' Stephon Marbury, illogically left off the All-Star Game roster, yesterday was named to the All-NBA third team. Marbury represents only...
YANKS ASK ABOUT ANDERSON, SURHOFF
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees have inquired about the availability of Baltimore outfielders Brady Anderson and B.J. Surhoff. They have no shot at Anderson and would have to pay a steep price for...
IT'LL BE BIG BLUE AND GANG GREEN IN JOINT WORKOUTS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants will break tradition this summer and practice against two different teams at out-of-town sites. After reporting to training camp in Albany July 21, the Giants will...
COLLINS IN COMMAND - QB FEELS MORE LIKE JINT LEADER NOW
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amThis is how Kerry Collins recalls his status, comfort level and situation from one year ago: "Just kind of messed up." This is how he described his standing with the...
ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH - DEVILS CAN'T AFFORD SLIP-UP TONIGHT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amThey have not forgotten, these Devils. In the wild whirl of standing three victories from the Stanley Cup, of humbling the defending champs in the opener, of the Finals' biggest...
DANEYKO UP FOR MASTERTON
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe all-time Devil was told he was a finalist. Well, duh. That's what this series is. No, besides a Stanley Cup finalist. A Masterton Trophy finalist. "What? Are you kidding?"...
'FUSAICHI' STILL AIMED AT B'MONT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe connections of Belmont Stakes candidates who think Fusaichi Pegasus might not start in the June 10 Test of the Champion shouldn't get their hopes up. Trainer Neil Drysdale told...
BELFOUR STILL ILL
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amWith prescription antibiotics clouding his goaltending judgment, Ed Belfour went cold-turkey yesterday. "I've been told to get off it," said Belfour. The intervention was arranged by the Devils Tuesday night,...
BENCHED MULLIN MULLIN' RETIREMENT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - He admits there is a chance, a "real small one," but a chance all the same that he will not be back in the league next year. So...
SATHER TAKES REINS OF RANGERS TODAY - MESSIER RETURN SHAPING UP; LOWE A TOSS-UP
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe search for the 10th general manager in Ranger history began and ended in Edmonton ... or maybe it was La Quinta, Calif., where Glen Sather maintains a modest little...
WATCH FOR PRE-RACE CLUES
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amOne of the big advantages to being at the racetrack when you bet is being able to watch the horses in the paddock, in the post parade and as they...
'JERSEY JOE' COMES HOME
June 1, 2000 | 4:00am"Jersey Joe" Bravo, who dominated the jockey colony at Monmouth Park through the past decade, will begin riding at the Jersey shore track again Saturday after a three-month soujorn to...
MONTICELLO CARDS IN JEOPARDY
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amA threatened horsemen's boycott may halt live racing at Monticello Raceway beginning Sunday. The Monticello horsemen refused to enter horses to race until they are given a new contract. Due...
COLLAPSE LEAVES KNICKS ON BRINK: 1 LOSS FROM DOOM AFTER NIGHTMARE 2ND QUARTER
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 5 Pacers 88 Knicks 79 INDIANAPOLIS - Unless they perform a miracle across these next few days, the Knicks will have all summer to remember last night's second quarter...
THORN EYED AGAIN FOR NETS' TOP JOB
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - One dropped out but another is back in contention for a position in the Nets' front office. While Indiana GM David Kahn, who had been on the YankeeNets...
COLLAPSE LEAVES KNICKS ON BRINK: EL FOLDO EQUALS ONE 'L' OF A MESS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Today, the Big L stands for lame. And listless and lackluster and limping. Most of all, it stands for loss. The biggest loss of all. There can be...
CONE'S IN NEED OF EXTRA REST
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amDAVID CONE was armed with so little and shelled so hard by the A's at the Stadium last night he felt compelled to discredit the career obituaries before any had...
A BRUTAL QUARTER: KNICKS WILL SECOND THAT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - This was the worst. Ever. This was awful. This was embarrassing. The Knicks scored eight points in the second quarter of their 88-79 loss to the Indiana Pacers...
YANKS FAIL TO BAIL CONE OUT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amAll season, all throughout David Cone's struggles, Joe Torre has insisted that Cone has pitched better than his record, claimed that the numbers didn't tell the whole story. Maybe not,...
JAX CONNECTS WITH RIGHTEOUS CROSS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Mark Jackson was sitting at home Tuesday night after watching the Blazers beat the Lakers. He was ticked. He was determined to do something that would convert the...
SPREE LACKS USUAL ZIP
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amLatrell Sprewell is hurting. But the pain is the result of how he played last night in the Knicks' 88-79 loss to the Pacers in Game 5 of the Eastern...
SMITS FLAPS HIS LIPS - AND WINDS UP WITH ZIP
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Be careful what you wish for. sometimes, you get it. Rik Smits wanted Patrick Ewing. And he got him. He also got his first scoreless game in over...
SOLE BROTHERS CAN'T CUT IT ; KNICKS SHOW FEET OF CLAY
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Maybe the pain killers wore off after the first quarter. After that it was the agony of defeat for the Knicks along with their bad feet. On a...
COLLAPSE LEAVES KNICKS ON BRINK: FINALS DREAM IN PERIL AFTER NIGHTMARE SECOND QUARTER
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amGame 5 Pacers 88 Knicks 79 INDIANAPOLIS - Unless they perform a miracle across the next few days, the Knicks will have all summer to agonize over last night's second...
INDY SECONDS ITS EMOTIONS
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Larry Bird figured the best way for the Pacers to rebound from their Lost Weekend in New York was to rebound. And so last night, they got a...
VG TICKED AT RIK
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amEAST NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - It's one thing to Jeff Van Gundy for media and fans to suggest the Knicks are a better team against the Pacers without Patrick Ewing. It's...
GUARDS MAKE THEIR MARKS: TRAVIS BRINGS 'A' GAME
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Travis Best read the papers. Now, being a professional athlete, he had the normal, every day reaction those of his ilk have when their play is criticized and...
WHAT A COINCIDENCE! ; NOT ALL HIS DOING, BUT KNICKS FALL WITH EWING
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - If Knicks really are better with Patrick Ewing, as they insist they are, they have a strange way of showing it. Real strange. No, you can't blame the...
LJ CALLS NO FOUL ON MARK
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Larry Johnson had no idea what Mark Jackson was doing. Jackson crossed his arms in a cross that he flashed to the Knicks' bench after each basket he...
ELSTER HR IN 9TH AN AMAZIN' DEFEAT
June 1, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - In a game featuring the marquee pitching matchup of Mike Hampton vs. Kevin Brown and a scary incident in which All-Star catcher Mike Piazza suffered a gash...