September 24, 2000
COUNT ON IT: EIGHT IN THE BIDDING FOR WTC
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThere are eight bidders for the World Trade Center, we've now learned from an Empire State source. One of the bidders is only interested in a portion of the property,...
DIGITAL ISLAND HOPPER: RECORD LABEL'S BLACKWELL IS INTO THE 'NET - AND THE HOTEL BUSINESS, TOO
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amFOR a digital dude, Chris Blackwell has quite the analog past. Blackwell, 62, is the founder of Island Records, the label that gave the world Bob Marley and U2. His...
AUTHOR HOPES ALI BOOK IS A KO
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amStephen Rivele, the screenwriter for a new Muhammad Ali movie starring Will Smith, is hoping the flick will trigger a bidding war for a book he's billing as the first...
SUIT: ROTH'S REIT LAUNCHED SNEAKY TAKEOVER PLOY
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amA nasty legal battle is shaping up in State Supreme Court between Ian Schrager and Vornado's Steven Roth over what could be the ultimate control of Schrager's hotel empire. Affiliates...
'LAW & ORDER' MAG IN WORKS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amDICK Wolf, creator and executive producer of NBC's hit "Law & Order," is talking with Time Warner about launching a glitzy, upscale crime-busting magazine, sources tell Media Ink. The magazine...
A TRUE TASTE OF MEXICO: TACOS AL PASTOR'S THE REAL ENCHILADA
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThink authentic Mexican food is easy to find in the big city? Think again. Tacos al pastor, the Mexican equivalent of the hamburger in terms of popularity, can only be...
UNCORKING A NEW COLLECTING CRAZE
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amIn the world of collecting, enthusiasts are grabbing up everything from antique thimbles to stuffed polar bears. But perhaps the screwiest obsession is with corkscrews. Some vintage cork-pullers fetch as...
THE REAL-LIFE COACHES WHO INSPIRED THE FILM
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amIn the sleepy town of Alexandria, Va., in the politically tumultuous 1970s, Herman Boone and Bill Yoast were just doing their thing: coaching high school football the best they knew...
DENZEL STRIKES AGAIN: WITH A POWERFUL PERFORMANCE AS A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH, HE'S RUSHING TOWARD ANOTHER OSCAR NOD
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amIt's a sunny Sunday afternoon, and the Oscar-winning actor in the sneakers and loose-fitting sweatpants is embracing the weekend ritual of American men everywhere. But Denzel Washington, sprawled in an...
UNDERDOG QUEENS CHEERLEADERS ARE NEW YORK'S BEST
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe movie "Bring It On" has its team of underdog cheerleaders, and so does New York. The peppy squad at St. Francis Preparatory in Fresh Meadows, Queens, has a lot...
JUNGER AND WISER 'THE PERFECT STORM' SCRIBE AND HIS PALS HAVE A NEW MOVIE - HOW THEY TRIED TO CATCH A BOSNIAN WAR CRIMINAL
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe reign continues for "The Perfect Storm" scribe Sebastian Junger. The journalist's career, which seemed to hit a high-water mark with the smash film version of his book this summer,...
NOTEWORTHY: GOSSIP GURUS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amGossip - for some it's a sin, for others a sinecure.Liz Smith has been reporting on celebrities for more than 50 years and since the mid-'70s has maintained the most...
DEGREES OF SUCCESS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amAlthough they are boys and in a band, don't call 98 Degrees a boy band unless you're looking for a fight. "A lot of people see four guys singing and...
ODD PAIR SUPPLIES LAUGHS FROM THE PAST
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amWhat do two seemingly disparate plays - one about selecting a presidential candidate, the other about a man revisited by the inconvenient specters of dead wives - have in common?...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: CHYNA
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amJoanie Laurer once dreamed of becoming a Las Vegas showgirl. Instead, she changed her name to Chyna and became the first woman ever to hold a men's title in the...
LEGENDS & LOSERS OF MESMERIZING WEEK U.S. SWIMMING HEROES MAKE THE BIGGEST SPLASH
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - It happens every four years. America sits back and watches the Summer Olympics and falls in love with a handful of winning Olympians who lift our hearts with...
A NEW POOL OF ATHLETES TO ROOT FOR
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Now that the swimmers have left the building, athletes in other sports will get their chances to shine. Here are five competitors to keep an eye on: *...
NO KING'S RANSOM FOR LINCOLN'S BED
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amQUINCY JONES is a sport, King Juan Carlos of Spain is a stiff, and you can't blame Danny DeVito because he had a case of the shorts when he slept...
EXPERTS SUPPORT SKEETER-SPRAY VICTIMS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amEnvironmental experts say people who claim they've become sick from Anvil - the pesticide used to kill the West Nile virus-bearing mosquito - should be taken seriously and not dismissed...
RATS! RUDY'S LOSING RODENT BATTLE - POL
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe city's war on rats turned into a political war of words yesterday, prompted by the Manhattan borough president rating the Giuliani administrations efforts as lackadaisical. C. Virginia Fields, brandishing...
O.J. SPENDS BIG BUCKS ON FLORIDA HOME
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe Juice has bought a Florida home. O.J. Simpson, the 53-year-old Football Hall of Famer and celebrity crime suspect, plunked down as much as $625,000 for a five-bedroom, four-bath home...
QNS. MAN ADMITS TO '98 KID SLAY: COPS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amA 20-year-old Queens man has confessed to bludgeoning to death a 12-year old girl and then setting her body on fire, police said yesterday. Thomas Bryant admitted to killing Lee...
NYPD SUE-PER SQUAD WILL PROBE 'BRUTALITY'
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe NYPD is creating an elite unit to investigate high-profile brutality cases against cops before they're settled for big bucks or wind up in court, The Post has learned. Plans...
WEST NILE STRIKES S.I. MAN IN 12TH VIRUS CASE
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amA 52-year-old Staten Island man is the 12th victim of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus this year, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday, as he vowed to continue the controversial pesticide spraying...
SCRAMBLED EGGS WORRY CLINIC MOMS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amOver three dozen mothers and mothers-to-be in England may have babies that aren't genetically theirs after a horrifying mix-up at two British fertility clinics. A massive investigation is now underway...
AUCTION GIANTS SETTLE SCAM SUIT FOR $512M
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amA $512 million class-action settlement against Christie's and Sotheby's may ease the virtual stranglehold the highbrow auctioneers have had over the $5 billion art-auction market, a source said yesterday. The...
WHAT WOMEN WILL REALLY WEAR
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amRepeat after me: Fashion shows are not reality. That's not saying that they're computer-generated or anything. It's just that a catwalk show should never be used as a barometer for...
TEEN KILLED IN DWI PARTY 'VENGEANCE'
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSursdaye Ramersad (left), the tragic teen's mom, is gripped by grief yesterday.Helayne Sediman A Queens birthday celebration turned deadly early yesterday when a drunk partygoer who was tossed out of...
SHOOTING THE RAPIDS IN SHANGRI-LA
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amALL the adventurers saw was their friend's yellow helmet bobbing in the ferocious river as his kayak swirled into oblivion. They stood powerless on a stretch of one of the...
ROCKER'S EX BURIED IN A BIKINI
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amPaula Yates, who had a well-publicized battle with booze and drugs, was laid to rest yesterday in a white mink bikini following a funeral at which her recorded version of...
DIPLOMAT'S SUSPENSION A BLOW TO PEACE PLAN
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli officials yesterday were reeling over the suspension of the U.S. ambassador to Israel - a key player in the shattered Mideast peace talks . Ambassador Martin Indyk,...
YANKS, ROCKET FLY ON 'STRING AND A PRAYERROGER'S HAMMY DAMPENS VICTORY
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amTheir six-game losing streak vanished when Derek Jeter's clutch home run landed in the right-field seats. Suddenly, a team that reminded Jeter of The Bad News Bears for the past...
DEAD TEEN'S KIN: SCHOOL LIED
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe devastated parents of a 16-year-old Bronx student who died of a heart attack in school accused officials yesterday of lying to them about the circumstances of their son's death....
LENNON KILLER'S SICK WISH FOR CONCERT TOUR
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe man who killed ex-Beatle John Lennon reportedly wants to hit the road for a singing tour - belting out songs about the 1980 slaying - if he's ever released...
HAITI 'TORTURE' EXILE FLEES QUEENS HOME
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amA fugitive who faces trial in absentia in Haiti this week - for allegedly commanding a death squad tied to 50 murders - has disappeared from the Queens neighborhood he...
DRIVER WHO HIT STEPHEN KING FOUND DEAD AT TRAILER HOME
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe driver who ran down Stephen King and left the horror author gravely injured has been found dead. Police discovered the body of Bryan Edwin Smith, 43, in his bed...
IT'S A DEAL! RICK & HILL PUT END TO 'SOFT' MONEY
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio and Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a deal last night to banish "soft" money, making the New York Senate candidates the first in the country to voluntarily clean up...
AL'S 'MISLEADING' OIL PLAN HAS GOT BUSH BURNING
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush yesterday unleashed his sharpest attack yet on Democrat Al Gore, accusing him of routinely making things up and using the nation's emergency oil reserve as his own...
GORE AIDE BOASTS OF SPY REPORT: HE HAD A 'MOLE' IN W. CAMP
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amAn aide on Al Gore's campaign has boasted of having a "mole" inside the George W. Bush camp - insisting that Gore staffers "knew where Bush was going before Bush...
GIVE US PARK AVENUE . . . THOUGH CPW WILL ALSO SUIT BILL & HILL
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThere goes the neighborhood! President Clinton and his Senate-candidate wife have had people scouting Manhattan apartments in hopes of finding an in-town pied-a-terre to complement their Westchester County house. Now...
NEW BIO: DI WAS CAST OUT
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe cold hearts of the royal family turned Princess Diana into a rebel, her former courtier says in a controversial new biography excerpted in today's Sunday Times. "The Princess of...
SEUSS SHOW NEEDS DOCTORING
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe beleaguered $8.5 million show, one of the most eagerly anticipated of the new theater season, is cutting short its Boston out-of-town tryout by a week. Insiders say the show...
N.Y. TAX SQUAD EYES OUT-OF-STATE CHEATS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Out-of-state residents and corporations owe New York state a whopping $200 million in delinquent taxes, and the Tax Department has hired a collection agency to go after it,...
BARAK SPARKS AN IDENTITY ; CRISIS AMONG JEWS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. EVEN if Prime Minister Ehud Barak doesn't mean it, his stunning new political moves, internal and international, have thrown Jews in Israel into unprecedented disarray about their Jewish identity....
SHRINK'S CHILLING, REAL-LIFE 'EXORCIST' ORDEAL
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN "The Exorcist" first hit theaters in 1973, Carolyn Carroll was as scared as anybody else who saw it, but chose not to take its message seriously. "I thought of...
ICAHN PLEDGES: I'LL MAKE MY S. BRONX SCHOOL A SUCCESS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amCorporate raider Carl Icahn thinks so, and he's betting millions on the dream. After squeezing billions out of weak companies over the past two decades for himself and shareholders, the...
NOT-SO-SUPER-HEAVYWEIGHT BROCK TAKES BEATING
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY- Just before American super-heavyweight Calvin Brock stepped into the ring for his first Olympic boxing match last night, a contingent of police swept through the Sydney Exhibition Centre to...
JONES WINS FIRST, BUT KNOWS FIVE GOLDS WILL BE TOUGH
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - OK, the good news first for Marion Jones. She is now 20 percent of the way to her quest of winning five Olympic gold medals. Now the bad...
GREENE LIGHT TO GREATNESS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - On this night, Maurice Greene had to be the fastest person on the planet. Second place was as delectable an option as a breakfast of razor blades and...
JENNY'S OVERALL NUMBERS ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR HER
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Jenny Thompson now claims peace with her piece of history. No American woman has won more gold and yet needed to offer this many explanations. Thompson won her...
AMERICANS FINISH POOL PARTY
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The Olympic swim meet opened last week with Ian Thorpe pushing American pool domination toward a watery grave. It ended yesterday in a familiar way, with the United...
TENSIONS RISE, U.S. FALLS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amBASEBALLCuba6U.S.1 SYDNEY - U.S. and Cuban baseball players nearly came to blows on the field yesterday after Team USA's top hitter was plunked on the back by a fastball he...
CANARSIE OFFENSE TURNS UP THE HEAT
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amCanarsie36Curtis12 ka-3>Canarsie was supposed to be driven by its defense. Nobody told the offense that. For the second week in a row, a dominant performance on defense was matched by...
DOC: IT'S NEW YORK OR RETIRE
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amIf Dwight Gooden can't work in New York he isn't going to pitch anywhere else. Two years in Cleveland and brief stops in Houston and Tampa Bay this season have...
AIR WAS HOT AND HEAVY FOR PATRICK
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSeattle wasn't the only team dying to bring on the 38-year-old Patrick Ewing. During his stirring 22-minute radio interview on the John Thompson show Friday, Ewing revealed, although the Knicks...
TIME FOR KEYSHAWN TO WALK THE WALK
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amT AMPA - Keyshawn Johnson has talked the talk, and some of it has been entertaining, and some of it , specifically as it relates to Wayne Chrebet, has been...
THE EX-CHAMP WHO RAN AWAY AUSTRALIANS DELIGHT IN PEREC'S TORMENT
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - It was supposed to be the race of the Olympics. It turned out to be a one-woman flight to oblivion. Tomorrow was the day all Australia has been...
HAMILTON'S TRUE BLUE TACKLE'S LOYALTY TO GIANTS A RARE TRAIT
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amTHE made-over Redskins come to Giants Stadium today hoping the millions upon millions that was spent for new players starts to show a profitable return. The Giants also spent their...
A CHANCE FOR 4-0 HAS JETS FIRED UP: WIN AT TAMPA WOULD BE HUGE
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amTAMPA - Keyshawn Johnson, "The Mouth of the South," roared all week in a thinly-veiled attempt to draw his former teammates into a game of psychological warfare. The disciplined Jets,...
TIMO'S A SPEED BUMP: ROOKIE OF PUTS AMAZIN'S ON FAST TRACK
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The apologists for the Mets' shaky September constantly remind us the club went through the same thing a year ago and went out and smoked the Diamondbacks in...
HEY BROCK, PIAZZA IS JUICED, NOT BALL
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Mike Piazza takes great care to distance himself from the inaccurate Hollywood image pinned on him from his days in Los Angeles. Remember the shampoo commercial? Remember Piazza...
YANKS, ROCKET FLY ON 'STRING AND A PRAYER: ROGER'S HAMMY DAMPENS VICTORY
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 13 Tigers 8 Their six-game losing streak vanished when Derek Jeter's clutch home run landed in the right-field seats. Suddenly, a team that reminded Jeter of The Bad News...
BLOWN AWAY! IONA GAELS COACH RULAND LAUGHS ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK -- AT THE POST'S EXPENSE
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amPOST GOLF CHALLENGE THE PLAYERS CANNIZZARO RULAND THE HANDICAPS CANNIZZARO: -14 RULAND -16 THE COURSE WINGED FOOT GOLF CLUB Mamaroneck, N.Y. THE STAKES $5 Nassau, with backside doubled to $10...
'PEGASUS' FLYIN' AGAIN
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amAll week long trainer Neil Drysdale had flown warning flags about the return of Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus in yesterday's Grade 2, $150,000 Jerome Handicap at Belmont Park. The...
GROH WON'T LET THE HYPE BOTHER HIM
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES TAMPA - Today marks the fourth game of the Al Groh era as Jets' head coach and the third with a significant degree of potentially distracting subplots. To...
CONE'S NIGHTMARE YEAR ENDING IN 'PEN; DOC TO START
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Due to a bothersome left shoulder, the final week of David Cone's regular season - and maybe his Yankee career - will be spent in the bullpen unless...
CAN'T BEAT YANKEE TRADITION
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amYankee Tradition made a successful debut in stakes company, coming back on the rail in the stretch to win the $81,075 Schenectady Handicap for New York-bred fillies and mares. Favored...
NO LEG TO STAND ON WITHOUT CLEMENS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amDAVID CONE'S plight cues the entire strings section. Problem is, the orchestra had been stinking for a week. Not only could a billion people in China care less about who...
PLUNGE A FORK IN NITTANY LIONS BUCKEYES PUMMEL PENN STATE
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amOhio State45Penn State6 COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Penn State players pledged that yesterday's Big Ten Conference opener at Ohio State would serve as a glorious start to their second season....
SNYDER SHOWS 'SKINS WHO'S BOSS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES He did not actually see it, but he certainly heard about it and, given the circumstances and the parties involved, believes it did happen. Mike Pope, the Giants'...
REAL DEALS OR A MIRAGE? JINTS WILL FIND OUT IF 3-0 IS A FLUKE REDSKINS TRUE TEST FOR JINTS
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe secret is out. Three weeks into the season, the Giants have been discovered. Unveiled. Unmasked. Gone from unknown to unbelievable. Transformed from the depths to the stratosphere. From easy...
DEVILS LOOKING TO FILL 'D' HOLES
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amAt the moment, the Devils have a protection slot free for Friday's waiver draft. So far, Larry Robinson has been only mildly satisfied with his rookie candidates to fill the...
PUNCHLESS ISLES FALL AGAIN
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amRICHMOND - The Islanders' scoring woes continue. Capitals rookie defenseman Mike Farrell beat John Vanbiesbrouck with 5:18 left in the third period last night to lift Washington to a 2-1...
METS GET PHAT ON PHILS - BIG BATS STAY ALIVE, HAMPTON HOLDS ON FOR 14TH VICTORY
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The fog has lifted for the Mets and Mike Hampton just in time for one last regular season fling with the Braves. This could be a fascinating final...
AT THE VET, YOU'RE NEVER SAFE AT HOME
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - At the decrepit Vet, the filthiest stadium in baseball, you are not even safe at home. Mets outfielder Timo Perez was the latest player to slip on home...
GETTING YOUNG HUNTERS OFF IN RIGHT DIRECTION
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amGETTING young hunters started on the right foot is one of the goals of New York State's Youth Waterfowl Hunt Days that are scheduled for this fall. "Youth waterfowl hunts...
JAPANESE WOMAN WINS MARATHON
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Running through 91 percent humidity and unusually warm early-spring heat, Japan's Naoko Takahashi ran the race of her life yesterday over a hilly, difficult course and won the...
TIMO'S A SPEED BUMP - ROOKIE OF PUTS AMAZIN'S ON FAST
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The regular leadoff hitter is no threat to steal bases. The No. 2 hitter leads the team in strikeouts by 33. And people wonder why the Mets have...
SEPARATING PAT FROM FICTION
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amREVISIONIST history travels at the speed of sound. As soon as people heard of Patrick Ewing's departure from the Knicks, tributes, embroidered and framed, began to pour in. Suddenly, Ewing's...
AN A-MAYS-ING SEASON SAY HEY KID SAYS BONDS DESERVES MVP
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amDON'T look at his offensive numbers to appreciate what a remarkable season Barry Bonds is having for the Giants. Count the number of times his chief baseball adviser talked to...
SATHER SHOWS HIS LOYAL SIDE WILL TESTIFY FOR MCSORLEY'S CHARACTER
September 24, 2000 | 4:00amGLEN Sather, whose job it is to evaluate Ranger talent, won't be at the Garden for tomorrow night's preseason match against the Devils. Neither will he be attending Tuesday night's...