September 28, 2000
ECKO KNOCKING DOWN WALLS ON B'WAY
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe hot urban fashion company Ecko Unlimited is expanding its operations to three floors of showroom offices at 1369 Broadway. The interiors are being designed by Shelly Keidan, who also...
NEWS CORP. GETS LIBERTY GEMSTAR STAKE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amJohn Malone's Liberty Media is trading its 21-percent stake in Gemstar-TV Guide International to News Corporation for shares of News Corp. and its planned new company, Sky Global Networks. The...
M'SOFT BREAKUP IS DOA ; GIANT TO DRAG ITS APPEAL THRU A BIZ-FRIENDLY COURT
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amGovernment efforts to break up Microsoft are all but doomed now that the Supreme Court has rejected a fast-track approach to the appeals process for the antitrust case against the...
GUCCI VS. LVMH, ROUND 2 ; DE SOLE, ARNUALT HEAD BACK TO COURT
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe fighting fashion tycoons are headed back to court. Bernard Arnault won a skirmish in his long-running battle with Domenico De Sole yesterday when a Dutch high court ordered a...
MTVI FACES THE MUSIC; FIRES 25% OF STAFF, CANS PLANS FOR IPO
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amHey! You, with the nose ring - you're fired! MTVi let go 25 percent of its staff - 105 people - last night and finally admitted it has officially given...
IMAX SEES FUZZY FUTURE AS SHARES HIT NEW LOW
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe big picture at Imax is not too clear. Shares in the large movie screen producer dropped to a 52-week low yesterday - extending its 30 percent dive of the...
AVON LADY COMING TO J.C. PENNEY, SEARS STORES
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amAvon could soon be calling at J.C. Penney and Sears, Roebuck. The cosmetics company, known best for selling door-to-door, is pushing for a larger retail presence under CEO Andrea Jung....
PRICELINE FLATLINE ; SHATNER CLEANED OUT BY PRICELINE IMPLOSION
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe overnight billionaires of Priceline.com have seen their stakes nearly wiped out. Its stock collapsed yesterday after officials revealed that online airline tickets aren't selling as expected, due to airlines'...
CUPBOARD'S ALMOST BARE AT ONEBIGTABLE.COM
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amFrom toast of the town, to just plain toast - in only 18 months. Onebigtable.com, the Alley-based site for foodies, is in dire straits. The site - which was cooked...
GOLDBERG WINS A HAND IN FEUD WITH ICAHN
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amInvestor Carl Icahn got dealt a possible setback in his Atlantic City play yesterday. His casino archrival, Arthur Goldberg - who's battling Icahn for control of the tiny Claridge Hotel...
NEWEST SAFETY AND ANTI-THEFT TECHNOLOGY
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE is a long list of new factory-installed safety and theft-prevention features for the 2001 model-year vehicles now arriving in dealer showrooms. Some are deep inside the design of the...
BACK ON THE SCENE WATCHING THE HERD
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amAFTER hours and hours of watching synchronized swimming last week, I decided it might be time to get out of the Barcalounger.So I hit the town, with stops at Richard...
GIVING THE DUKE ROYAL TREATMENT
September 28, 2000 | 4:00am'HE was called the Duke because he was so elegant," says Luther Henderson. "And of course he was very attractive to the ladies ... "He'd tell a woman, 'You know,...
THE STARR REPORT
September 28, 2000 | 4:00am'Dr. Laura' rumors abounding in TV-land The rumors about "Dr. Laura" and its embattled host, Laura Schlessinger, just keep on coming. Schlessinger is due back in the studio today after...
I'LL HAVE THE PDA-MP3-CELL-COMBO, PLEASE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amSO what if most of the real world feels like it can't keep up with the new technologies? Here come some more. These new devices will combine personal digital assistants...
JUST WHAT IS SEX? TEENS IN MAG POLL HAVE SOME CREATIVE DEFINITIONS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amAN eye-opening survey to determine if teenage girls were having sex found that the answer depended on the definition of the word. Most of the girls polled by Twist magazine...
COWS WITH A CAUSE: PAINTED LADIES ROUNDED UP! HEIFERS HAULED OFF TO AUCTION TO BENEFIT AREA CHARITIES
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amCALL it "the last roundup."Seventy-five cows will be lined up today across East 41st Street (between Lexington and Vanderbilt) before they're loaded up and shipped to the block. The auction...
HERE WE GO AGAIN!; A BOY BEAUTY PAGEANT FROM THE GENIUSES WHO GAVE US DARVA
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amTHE man who introduced America to Darva Conger, pets gone bad and once tried to crash a 747 jet airliner on live television, is back. Reality TV whiz Mike Darnell...
DOCTOR GUILTY IN RAPE COVERUP
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan anesthesiologist pleaded guilty yesterday to helping a fellow doctor escape from heinous multiple rape charges. Dr. Turker Sengul, 28, hemmed and hawed as he admitted helping his St....
OPEC SUMMIT PUMPS UP HOPES FOR LOWER FUEL PRICES
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe OPEC oil cartel finished its first summit in 25 years yesterday in Caracas with pledges to reduce prices and meet with European leaders to discuss the energy shortage. Venezuelan...
AIR FRANCE SUES CONTINENTAL
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amAir France said it is suing Continental Airlines over the possible role that a metal strip from a Continental plane played in the July Concorde disaster. Investigators believe the strip...
BE PREPARED FOR SCOUTS' DEMISE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amIF what the mayor and the schools chancellor report about the New York Boy Scouts caving to gay activists is true, it's a grievous day for America. Simply put: Boy...
SUNY STUDENT-LOAN COMPUTER MESS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A computer glitch dumped some former State University of New York students back into bankruptcy despite a legal seven-year limit that had wiped the slate clean. The faulty...
KIN OF MISSING L.I. STEWARDESS PLEAD FOR HELP
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe distraught family of a newlywed Long Island flight attendant who mysteriously vanished without trace during a one-night layover in Boise, Idaho, made a tearful plea yesterday for her safe...
SHELTER DEAL GIVES CROOK $1M: HEVESI
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amA convicted felon stands to reap as much as $1 million from a deal to build a city-funded homeless shelter in Brooklyn, Comptroller Alan Hevesi charged yesterday. Abraham J. Weiss,...
HUGE SECURITY FOR ISRAELI HARD-LINER
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - At least 2,000 police and secret service agents were being deployed today to protect the head of Israel's main opposition party when he visits Temple Mount. The unprecedented...
LEVY BRINGS BACK DISTRICT BOSS WHO RAN $1M IN RED: $100,000 FOR TRIPS, BANQUETS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amChancellor Harold Levy reappointed a Brooklyn school-district superintendent who's under fire from parents for running up a projected $1 million deficit, it was revealed yesterday. And Schools Investigator Ed Stancik...
AT 50 PERCENT, HILLARY'S HALFWAY HOME: POLL
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton reached the crucial 50 percent mark for the first time in a Senate race poll as she and her GOP foe sparred over economics for the second...
EMINEM'S X-TRA FOUL TWIST ON XMAS SONGS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amI'm dreaming of a warped Christmas! That's the word from rap star Eminem, who's releasing a twisted holiday song in which a helpless pregnant woman is killed by her psycho...
PARENTS MUST MAKE THE CALL, NOT POLS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amSO Congress is shocked,shocked that Hollywood is marketing R-rated movies to people under 17 years old. What rock have our elected representatives been hiding under? Many of their own 12-year-olds...
THE PORN VOTE SPEAKS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN you think Clinton, Gore and "sleepover," exactly what comes to mind? In any presidency, the fact that the Lincoln Bedroom was basically rented out to various Democratic Party donors...
'POTTER' AUTHOR: HARRY'S NOT FOR YOUNGER KIDS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe author of the fabulously successful Harry Potter books has made a startling confession: her stories are unsuitable for young children. Writer J.K. Rowling said the subject matter of her...
DON'T TAINT POLLARD'S PARDON ; POLITICAL GAMES COULD HURT HILLARY - AND ISRAEL
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S becoming increasingly apparent that Hillary Clinton has chosen the fate of imprisoned U.S. Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard as her key issue in appealing to Jewish voters. While that could...
CUBAN GETS OK TO SEE DYING MOTHER - A DAY TOO LATE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amA dying mother's wish to have her long-lost son brought from Cuba to say goodbye on Long Island was granted too late yesterday. Bersabe Febles, 70, cried out for her...
BUSH PULLS A CLINTON ; SCORING OFF THE 'EDUCATION RECESSION'
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Bush campaign has been threading the needle of Clinton-era politics for two years now, working to soften the testosteroni image of the Republican Party so that women - who...
ON TRIAL FOR SEX EDUCATION ; W'CHESTER TEACHER CHARGED WITH LURING PUPILS INTO HER LAIR
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amTHE rumors began with the brazen boasts of a few teenage boys - "We had sex with Ms. Stein" - first in whispers to friends, then in gossip in the...
YANK FANS GO ONLINE RATHER THAN ON LINE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amFewer than 600 Yankee fans showed up at the Stadium to buy Bomber playoff tickets yesterday - thanks to the Internet. And not everyone who showed up at the Stadium...
FEDS SEEK RACETRACK TAX PAPERS AS PROBE WIDENS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe feds have joined the money probes at New York's biggest thoroughbred racetracks, The Post has learned. Sources said investigators from the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn and the Internal...
EX-QNS. SCHOOL BOSS TARGETED IN KICKBACK PROBE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amA former city schools superintendent is being investigated for allegedly taking up to $1 million in kickbacks to steer rigged computer bids to a developer's business associates, The Post has...
CITY MULLING NEW CHARITY TO HANDLE PARKS DONATIONS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe city is considering establishing a new nonprofit organization to accept donations for the Parks Department, Commissioner Henry Stern said yesterday. Stern said city lawyers are examining how to funnel...
CITY PUT PERV IN PLAYGROUND: SUIT
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amKENNETH RAMSEURA Manhattan couple filed a $75 million suit against the city yesterday for assigning a convicted child-molester to work in the playground where he was charged with kidnapping their...
COSTLY AIRLINE TICKETS ADD TO MTA BUDGET WOES
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amRenovation of the MTA's new headquarters is $100 million over budget - but that didn't stop a top construction official on the project from taking the Concorde to Europe to...
H'WOOD: NO MORE 'R' FILMS FOR KIDS ; BUT PROMISE IS FILLED WITH LOOPHOLES, POLS CHARGE CRISIS IN THE MEDIA ; CRISIS IN THE MEDIA
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Eight Hollywood execs yesterday told a Senate panel they'll stop "knowingly" marketing violence and smut to kids - but Sen. John McCain told Tinseltown bigwigs they need to...
'STUPID' SHEA FLAP MAY COST BABY-SLAY DAD HIS PROBATION
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amBaby killer Brian Peterson realizes he was stupid to hurl obscenities and try to stop cops from busting a pal accused of tossing a beer bottle at Atlanta Braves loudmouth...
N.J. GOV URGES CALM IN WAKE OF WEST NILE DEATH
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amAn 82-year-old New Jersey man has died of the West Nile virus, officials said yesterday. New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman said the Passaic County man died Sept. 14 at a...
GORE'S OWN GENDER GAP
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amAL GORE could be learning that a kiss is just a kiss as time goes by. Suddenly the gender gap seems to have swung back and bit Democrats in the...
CITY SEEKS PACT TO KEEP BOY SCOUTS IN SCHOOLS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giulani and Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday they're working on a compromise to keep the Boy Scouts in the schools - by getting the local chapter to agree...
WHO NEEDS HOTEL LIMO? THEY'VE GOT A SCOOTER
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amNot every guest leaving a posh Manhattan hotel walks into a chauffeur-driven limo. At the Parker Meridien on West 57th Street, they're riding off on scooters. "We thought this would...
5 ROSEDALE HOMES FOCUS OF PROBE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe five two-family Queens homes ex-schools superintendent Celestine Miller bought with mortgages from developer Thomas Kontogiannis are at the heart of the bid-rigging probe. Investigators are trying to determine whether...
NO MEDALS FOR NBC ; OLYMPIC TV RATINGS AN ALMOST-TOTAL BUST
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amNBC's brief fling with good Olympic ratings has gone bust. The Peacock Network - which has suffered through less-than-stellar ratings since the Games began - got some good news Monday,...
CON STABS PRISON BIG AND GUARD
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A high prison official and a guard at Green Haven Correctional Facility were stabbed yesterday in a vicious sneak attack by a lifer convicted of two gruesome murders,...
GORE: LET'S NOT GO '$OFT' ; BUT BUSH SCOFFS AT FUND-BAN SINCERITY
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amAl Gore dared rival George W. Bush yesterday to ban all soft-money advertising in the last six weeks of their neck-and-neck presidential race. But Bush's GOP campaign laughed off the...
YUGOS PACK STREETS IN BID TO OUST SLOBBO
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amA crowd of 200,000 protesters, the largest ever in Yugoslavia, took to the streets of Belgrade last night to call on Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic to step down. There were...
JUDGE GIVES ANNA NICOLE A VERY BEEFY CASH AWARD
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amRoly-poly pin-up Anna Nicole Smith will get a fat $449 million in damages from her Los Angeles court battle with the son of her late hubby over his $1.6 billion...
STRAY SHOT KILLS BYSTANDER
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amA homeless Brooklyn man - an innocent bystander to a shooting in Bushwick - was killed yesterday when a bullet struck him in the head, police said. The victim, whose...
BROOKLYN DISTRICT BOSS EXPLAINS A $1M DEFICIT ; GRILLED BY ED. BOARD ON COSTS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amFuming Brooklyn school board members and parents grilled the embattled District 15 superintendent last night over a projected $1 million deficit and lavish spending on things like $1,000-a-day consultant fees....
EVOKING FOND MEMORIES OF THE WAY SHE WAS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amCLAD immaculately in a brown Donna Karan pantsuit and a spotlight, Barbra Streisand last night wove a web of misty enchantment shot through with showbiz glitz that seemed uniquely, totally...
INDICTMENT COMING ON OFFICIAL AT BUILDINGS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amA top official in the Buildings Department will be indicted today for accepting gifts and not listing them on his public-disclosure forms, sources told The Post. They said Deputy Commissioner...
FEAR OF CANCER RELAPSE PUTS DAPPER DON IN HOSP
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amJailed Mafia boss John Gotti is back in the hospital where doctors are testing to find out if his cancer has returned, sources told The Post last night. About a...
N.Y. POLS DUCKING CUBA-TRAVEL BAN
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Many of New York's leading politicians will escape the cold of December with a fact-finding trip to Cuba, The Post has learned. But anti-Castro forces ripped the excursion...
AILING BRONX POVERTY CZAR SENT PACKING
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amBronx power broker and poverty kingpin Ramon Velez has been removed as head of the multimillion-dollar social-services empire he built from scratch, sources said yesterday. The board of Hunts Point...
'UNDERAGE' CYBERSEX-SOLICIT STING SNARES SUSPECT, 36
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amA Staten Island man who thought he was propositioning a 15-year-old girl was busted in a cybersex sting, cops said last night. Mohamad Mahjoub, 36, was trolling for teen-age sex...
METS GOTTA BELIEVE, TOO
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amIT WAS 6:15 yesterday morning when Bobby Valentine first heard that the USA baseball team had upset heavily favored Cuba to win the Olympic gold in Sydney. Valentine first thought...
NELSON: SHEA'S JUST FINE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amMets co-owner Nelson Doubleday thinks the Mets might not need a new ballpark. He prefers a renovation of Shea. "I kind of like this place and I don't see a...
COLOR WHITE CURED: MET RELIEVER SAYS GLITCH IN DELIVERY CAUSED HIS SWOON
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amWith a 6.00 ERA in September weighing heavily on his mind, Rick White sat down with pitching coach Dave Wallace in the video room before last night's game against the...
ORDONEZ RETURNS - BUT ONLY AS SPECTATOR
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Whatever happened to ... Rey Ordonez? The shortstop, who has been out since the end of May, was at Shea yesterday and the reports on Ordonez' fractured left...
BIG BLUE'S TRYING NOT TO FREAK OUT: PETITGOUT & CO. BRACE FOR TITANS' KEARSE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amTHe finished talking, which, if you know Luke Petitgout, rarely involves a long wait. Now you hear him, now you don't. Many of his teammates earlier in the day had...
ZEIGLER STILL CAN'T BILL-IEVE MUSIC CITY MIRACLE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES He returns Sunday to the scene of his most bitter football memory. Dusty Zeigler is the player, Adelphia Coliseum in Nashville is the place and the Music City...
PEACE IN GANG GREENLAND: VINNY, AL MEET,INSIST THEY'RE ON SAME PAGE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amAt the mere scent of acrimony between Vinny Testaverde and Al Groh, conspiracy theories have been flying through the air like September pollen, cluttering the actual truth. The bottom line...
COLES DOUBLED HIS PLEASURE IN BEATING BUCS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amAs it turned out, Laveranues Coles' coming out party as a rookie receiver for the Jets Sunday in Tampa went well beyond merely being sweet because he made his first...
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER DAY : U.S. STUNS CUBANS FOR BASEBALL GOLD
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amU.S. 4 Cuba 0 SYDNEY - Forty-five minutes had lapsed since the final out of the Olympic gold-medal baseball game. The losing team stood single file against a cement wall...
MARION'S DREAM ON TRACK ; QUALIFIES FOR FINALS IN 200, LONG JUMP
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - If Marion Jones wants to let her feet do the talking, then the track world had better get some earplugs. In her most demanding night of track and...
GIANT'S CAUSEWAY EYES GOLD CUP
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amTrainer Aidan O'Brien said that the Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup could be the next start for Giant's Causeway. In his career, Giant's Causeway has won nine...
JONES MIGHT FEEL DEVERS' PAIN
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The biggest threat to Marion Jones' chances of winning an unprecedented five gold medals is not her talent but her teammates' health. Every time Jones seems to make...
IN TRUTH, FIDEL'S TEAM NO BIG RED MACHINE
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - This was no Miracle on Grass. In the aftermath of the Americans' 4-0, gold-medal baseball triumph over Cuba yesterday there was an attempt to link this surprise with...
BRENDL MIGHT BE KEEPER
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amIt was only a pre-season match, and one against the Expansiontown Blue Jackets, no less. But still. Three assists are three assists, and the journey to the NHL must begin...
BRONZE MEDAL GOOD AS GOLD FOR HAPPY HURDLER MORRISON
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Nobody was telling 29-year-old Melissa Morrison that her bronze medal was anything less than golden. The hurdler raced past the finish line, looked up at the scoreboard and,...
TEDDY BALLGAME IS IN KNIGHT'S CORNER
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amTed Williams feels Indiana University mistreated Bob Knight and says he never met a man he would "put in the same league as him" in an exclusive interview in the...
IT'S WINNING TIME! FORGET CLINCHING, YANKS JUST NEED SOME VICTORIES
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - With their third straight AL East title nothing but a simple formality when the Yankees took on the Devil Rays at Tropicana Field last night, the Yankees...
MOVE OVER, DAVID! RULON RULES: YANK WRESTLER SHOCKS RUSSIAN GOLIATH
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - To understand the hero of this tale - the Wyoming farmboy who grew strong lifting bales of hay and buckets of milk - you have to know the...
JOE GIVES JOSE DH AUDITION
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Joe Torre doesn't know what way he will use the designated hitter when the postseason starts next week. He can go with Chuck Knoblauch with...
KNICKS EYE T-WOLVES' SMITH
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amIt's not Dikembe Mutombo, but the Knicks are going to be one of the suitors for Timberwolves power forward Joe Smith, who is expected to have his contract voided for...
FLUSHING HS TO HOST JOHN JAY
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amFor one struggling PSAL football program at least, the worst appears to be over. After both Stevenson and Erasmus folded their programs earlier in the season, Flushing appeared to be...
KELLY FITS IN WITH DEVILS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The doormat's reject has received a warm welcome in the penthouse. Steve Kelly has found a home with the Stanley Cup champs. It wasn't this way in Edmonton,...
CYCLING: $MELL ON WHEELS
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK SYDNEY - There is something seriously wrong with Olympic road cycling. Professional team memberships are making a mockery of the sport as riders put a higher value on the...
USOC TO START INDEPENDENT DRUG WATCHDOG
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - It's about time. It took several days for common sense to sink into the heads of the executives over at the U.S. Olympic Committee, but yesterday the brass...
BELL REELS IN THE DAY'S BEST CATCH
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amHow badly did Derek Bell want this game? He nearly ran through a wall to get it. Bell crashed into the right-field fence to rob Andruw Jones of a possible...
IT'S AMAZIN'! METS WILD BUNCH AGAIN: BOBBY'S THRILLED FOR PAL LASORDA
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amMet manager Bobby Valentine may have had worries of his own, as his Amazin's were hosting archrival Atlanta in a three-game series at Shea last night. But he found time...
FONZIE HEATIN' UP FOR OCTOBER
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amHis team may be stumbling a bit heading into the playoffs and many of his teammates may be slumping, but despite all the bumps and bruises, aches and pains, Edgardo...
JOSE GETS AUDITION AS JOE ULLS PLAYOFF DH
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Joe Torre doesn't know how he will fill the DH role next week when the postseason starts. He can go with Chuck Knoblauch, hoping his leadoff hitter...
YANKEES HAVING DEVIL OF A TIME
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amDevil Rays 11 Yankees 1 ST. PETERSBURG - At this rate, by the time the Yankees get around to celebrating their AL East title, the liquid they pour over each...
WIN OVER BRAVES CLINCHES NL CARD
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amMets 6 Braves 2 GM Steve Phillips picked up the last half bottle of champagne and looked for his manager. He sneaked around the media, which was interviewing Bobby Valentine...
IT'S AMAZIN'! METS WILD BUNCH AGAIN: PROUD PIAZZA: NO APOLOGIES
September 28, 2000 | 4:00amMIKE PIAZZA, the symbol of the Mets' three-year rise from division laughingstock to post-season participant, stood in the middle of a champagne-soaked clubhouse and offered no apologies for being the...