October 5, 2000
ORACLE SPEAKS: 'OOPS!' - CFO RE-SPINS EARLIER COMMENT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amBe careful what you say. Oracle's Larry Ellison has just had a hideous two days - all because of some mild-mannered remarks by his chief financial officer. Ellison saw his...
EX-PREZ OF BROKERAGE PLEADS GUILTY IN STOCK SCAM
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe ex-president of Meyers Pollock Robbins Inc. - once headquartered at One World Trade Center - pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to enterprise corruption, admitting he ran the now defunct...
J&R TO HOST LIVE MUSIC WEBCASTS FROM STORE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amJ&R Music World is going live. The New York consumer electronics store is set to open a new venue - a state-of-the-art Internet broadcasting studio located inside J&R's retail music...
TIME BUYS DMI ARCHIVE, JOINING PHOTO RACE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amWatch your back, Bill Gates. Gerald Levin is moving in on your photo territory. Time Inc. announced yesterday that it will buy the renowned DMI celebrity photo archive to add...
BRITAIN'S FHM TO SPIN OFF FASHION TITLE HERE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amEmap USA's bawdy For Him Magazine (FHM) is going to spin off a twice-a-year men's fashion magazine dubbed FHM Collections. The new mag will be modeled after the British title...
RUDY: MY BOOK'S WORTH MORE THAN $1M
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani confirmed he has in the works a book project that he feels is worth more than $1 million - even though he has reservations about his ability to...
PAYBACK TIME FOR TRUMP? - EX-PALS ARE AIMING TO EAT HIS TAJ MAHAL'S LUNCH
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amDonald Trump is facing a grudge fight from some former business pals who're buying a casino next door to his prized Taj Mahal to steal The Donald's business. Armed with...
HELMSLEY IN TALKS - VORNADO PURSUING STORIED REAL ESTATE EMPIRE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amIt could be the end of the Helmsley era in New York. Vornado Realty Trust is courting Helmsley-Spear, the firm that Harry Helmsley started, which still manages and leases the...
NO - YES - NO - YES - NO - EU FLIPFLOPS ON EMI DEAL YET AGAIN: NOW IT'S DEAD
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe European Commission will either: a) Block the Warner-EMI merger. b) Approve the Warner-EMI merger. c) Ask for more concessions from Time Warner and EMI in exchange for approval of...
ORACLE CFO EATING HIS OWN WORDS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amBe careful what you say. Oracle's Larry Ellison has just had a hideous two days - all because of some mild-mannered remarks by his chief financial officer. As the company...
ATLANTIC CITY ATTRACTING HIGH-STAKES BIDS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amAfter 75 years, Atlantic City is again becoming a playground for the rich - this time, billionaires on the prowl for more bucks. A $6 billion investment guru, Tom Barrack,...
'DEDE' IS DOING A DEAL - WILL SING ABOUT EX-SOTHEBY'S BOSS TAUBMAN
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe other shoe is dropping in Sotheby's price-fixing scandal, with its former CEO Diana 'Dede' Brooks making a desperate court bid to stay out of jail. Brooks, 49, who resigned...
OUT OF FRYING PAN INTO THE FRIARS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amI LOVE being a Friar, and the Friars love me, mostly for lowering the membership's average age to senility.If you think I'm kidding, stop by the building's ironically titled "health...
THE STARR REPORT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00am'Bachelor' helps in crisis management "Sexiest Bachelor in America" Tom Gill proved he had mettle and muscle when he aided in the tragic crash of four St. Vincents Medical Center...
IT WAS CHER & CHER ALIKE FOR MAKEUP ARTIST
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN Kevyn Aucoin met blonde Alexandra von Furstenberg at a dinner party last year, he was immediately struck by her resemblance to Cher. The makeup artist, who was working on...
THE NOVEL OF THE FUTURE - BRIT AUTHOR TURNS OUT HOT NEW BOOK FOR E-MAIL GENERATION
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN British author Matt Beaumont began writing "e," a novel in which the plot unfolds entirely through e-mails, he had only been wired for a few months. The now-40-year-old copywriter...
HE'S THE SILICON RABBI - NEW DOT-COM JEWISH CENTER HELPS TECHIES KEEP THE FAITH
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amDANIEL Green is one rabbi who doesn't have to worry whether his congregants can afford high-holiday tickets. He's a founder of the Silicon Alley Jewish Center, a new group for...
SEXY 'ANGEL' SINKS DEBATE - TITANIC CREATOR LAUNCHES RATINGS WINNER
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amTHE premiere of Fox's futuristic "Dark Angel" clobbered some stiff political competition in the Tuesday-night ratings war. The show, created by "Titanic" director James Cameron, was watched by about 17.3...
PUTTING THEIR BEST FACE FORWARD - COSMETIC WIZARD TRANSFORMS STARS INTO . . . STARS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amKEVYN Aucoin is known for his cosmetic wizardry, but there's a lot more to the author and makeup artist than fake eyelashes and lipliner.Sure, he's friends with Tori Amos, Cher...
NICE 'GIRLS' FINISH FIRST - GIVE THIS TEEN SCHOOL SERIES AN A
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSWEET. That's as good a word as any to sum up the feeling you get when you watch "Gilmore Girls," a tender little drama series as cozy as a New...
'STRAIGHT' IS REALLY TWISTED
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSOME productions are so wrong-headed, so perverse, so bizarrely concocted that their main interest lies in speculation as to how they came about. After about 10 minutes into the thing,...
'ANYTHING GOES' VERY 'EASY TO LOVE'
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amCOLE Porter must have written a few dud tunes in his life - none comes to instant memory - but in his musical "Anything Goes," everything emphatically went. And at...
FANS TAKE HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mets took a Giant beating yesterday - but the New York faithful didn't lose hope in their never-say-die Amazin's. San Francisco bashed New York, 5-1, in Game 1 of...
COUNCIL PROBING NYPD $$ FOR SCOUTS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe City Council said yesterday it will look into whether NYPD funding of the Boy Scouts is in violation of the city's antidiscrimination policy. The council said it needs to...
COPS PROBING CLAIM OF FAKE SPICE KIDNAP
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amCops want to talk to author Andrew Morton about his claims that Spice Girl Victoria Adams and her soccer-star hubby David Beckham faked the story about an attempted kidnapping of...
DIVORCE COURT CLERK HIT WITH 6 MONTHS FOR GRAFT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amManhattan's former top divorce clerk got six months in jail yesterday for taking bribes to speed paperwork - even though prosecutors asked for a slap on the wrist because he...
FOOD DYE . . . OR DIE? -BLUE NO. 1 LINKED TO THREE FATALITIES
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe food dye used in hundreds of products may have contributed to three people's deaths - including an infant and woman whose skin and blood turned blue-green before they died,...
CAMPAIGN SNAPSHOT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amGEORGE W. BUSH CATCH PHRASE: "What we need is a fresh start after a season of cynicism." WHERE HE WENT: Ballroom of airport Hilton in Boston; gym at West Chester...
CHARLES IS BUTT OF OWN JOKE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amPrince Charles got downright cheeky the other day - with a quip about his royal bottom. The future king of England had onlookers in stitches as he and British TV...
WE'RE CREATING LITTLE FRANKENSTEINS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSUICIDAL Michelle Bica, the Ohio woman who killed a pregnant woman and ripped her baby alive from the womb, is rightly remembered as a monster. Jack and Lisa Nash, who...
BUSH HIT FOR FLIP-FLOP ON ABORT PILL
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amPro-choicers yesterday attacked George W. Bush for his flip-flop in Tuesday night's debate when he said he wouldn't try to stop the FDA-approved abortion pill. Bush told the debate audience...
CLINTON ACCUSER FACES SEX RAP
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe leader of a group of Southern lawyers seeking to have President Clinton disbarred for his alleged lies in the Sexgate scandal has been charged with public indecency. An undercover...
SNORING MAKES YOU LOUD . . . AND STUPID
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSnoring makes you stupid, German researchers say. In addition to being an irritating habit, snoring kills brain cells by depriving the body of oxygen, researchers at the Medica Muelheim clinic...
GOLDEN GATES' BRIDGE - BILLIONAIRE BURSTS ONTO GAME SCENE AS TOP PLAYER
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amCOMPUTER programmer Fred Gitelman wasn't used to taking phone calls from billionaires. But two years ago, when a man on the other end of the line identified himself as Warren...
IMPACT OBVIOUS - & WRONG - THE 'PALESTINIAN' VICTIM IN THIS PHOTO WAS REALLY A JEW
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amTHE photo was stark and gripping, its immediate impact obvious. A uniformed Israeli soldier, a look of fury on his face and a blunt nightstick in his hand, moves in...
ODD TWIST IN TALE OF TEACHER HIT WITH TEEN CYBERSEX RAP
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amAn art teacher - posing online as a woman - coerced a student at his Westchester County high school to make pornographic videos of himself, authorities charged yesterday. And in...
L.I. FORUM-BAN BISHOP: I'D BE FOOLISH TO AIR 'CHOICE' VOICE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amLong Island's Roman Catholic bishop yesterday defended his decision to cancel candidate forums at churches, saying it would be "foolish" to hand a megaphone to abortion-rights supporters. Bishop James McHugh...
HARD DAY'S NIGHT FOR BEATLES BOOK FANS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amProving you don't have to be a 10-year-old Harry Potter fan to buy books at midnight, hundreds of '60s children turned out at Bloomingdale's hoping to be the first on...
SUBWAY SAFETY CHECKS ARE SKIPPED, FAKED: TA PROBER
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amTransit Authority supervisors failed to inspect up to 358 crucial subway signals last year and falsified records - "creating a potentially serious safety issue," the agency's inspector general found. In...
LATEST W. NILE VICTIM IS JUST 37
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amA 37-year-old Staten Island man has become the 14th city dweller to be infected by the deadly West Nile virus, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. The Bulls Head man - who...
CITY'S JEWS AND ARABS VOW UNITY
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amNew York Arab and Jewish leaders vowed to preach tolerance in their communities after a two-hour City Hall sitdown with Mayor Giuliani yesterday. Cops are investigating 10 suspected bias attacks...
COSTS ARE GOING THROUGH ROOF - PROJECTS CAN RUN DOUBLE THE ESTIMATE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amBUILDING costs in the city are skyrocketing - with the final outlay for some public and private projects ending up double, and sometimes even triple, original estimates. Examples abound: *...
BARBS FLY THE DAY AFTER
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amRevved-up presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore yesterday basked in the afterglow of their first debate - and continued to hammer at each other's key campaign proposals. Buoyed...
NYPD $$ FOR SCOUTS REVIEWED
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe City Council said yesterday it will look into whether NYPD funding of the Boy Scouts is in violation of the city's antidiscrimination policy. The council said it needs to...
$20M LOTTO VICTORS FIND 'FORTUNE' IN A COOKIE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amA retired Bronx couple found $20 million in a fortune cookie - when they hit the winning jackpot after playing the numbers found on the back of a fortune. Lucky...
MOM'S ANGUISH IN GIRL'S DEATH - TELLS OF FAULTY WATER SPRINKLERS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amA 13-year-old Brooklyn girl who died in an apartment fire might have been spared if the sprinklers in the building had worked properly, her tearful mother told a City Council...
PRIEST WAS MAKING DAILY PAYOFFS, SAYS EX-CON'S KIN
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amMonsignor Thomas Gradilone, the focus of a probe into $2 million missing from a Queens church, made almost daily visits and payoffs to a convicted burglar, the ex-con's cousin told...
B'KLYN KIDS SPENT DAYS WITH MOM'S CORPSE IN THE KITCHEN
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amTwo bewildered Brooklyn kids lived with their mother's corpse for three days - and never told anyone, cops said. "My mother's sleeping. She's been like that since Monday," 9-year-old Patricia...
YUGOS RISE UP VS. SLOBBO COPS - UNREST GROWS IN WAKE OF COURT RULING
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amYugoslavia's highest court challenged the results of the presidential election yesterday - a move that could buy time for Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. The decision came after tens of thousands...
THUMBS DOWN ON MANY CITY SERVICES - VALLONE STUDY IN SHARP CONTRAST WITH MAYOR'S
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amA sweeping new survey of city services raised questions yesterday about whether some agencies are achieving the lofty results they're claiming. "Every single year the mayor releases a Mayor's Management...
CONTRITE GORE BLAMES DEBATE CAMERAS FOR CATCHING HIM SIGH
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amLEXINGTON, Ky. - Al Gore - who took flak for ostentatiously sighing and grimacing while rival George W. Bush was talking at the first debate - yesterday said it was...
COCHRAN ON HS HEART-KID CASE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amDream Team defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran is taking on the case of a Bronx student with a congenital heart condition who died while running a lap in the school gym....
MAMA MUTT'S PUPPY LOVE - SHE FIGHTS VALIANTLY TO SAVE LITTER IN CANAL
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amA devoted Brooklyn pooch desperately tried to save her puppies after they fell into the Gowanus Canal yesterday - and later watched anxiously as rescuers pulled six of the pups...
DUBYA'S THE CYBERCHAMP
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush was the overwhelming debate winner in informal online polls posted on the Web sites of major news organizations yesterday. Surfers at NYPost.com voted for Bush by a...
BAD NEWS FOR TRUANTS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amHooky-players might not make it to their classes but their report cards will get to their homes - hand-delivered by truant officers. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy says he will assign...
GORE'S NOSE IS GROWING AGAIN - 'CAN' LADY LOOKS LIKE HIS LATEST WHOPPER
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amAl Gore's tale of the little old lady who "has to go out seven days a week" to pick up cans to buy medicine unraveled yesterday, as she admitted she...
TO TELL THE TRUTH, AL JUST CAN'T KEEP HIS STORIES STRAIGHT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amLEXINGTON, Ky.IMAGINE you're the proud principal of a high school with an 85-acre campus that's just had a $23 million renovation with lots of new science equipment, plus 900 computers...
BLOOMBERG JUMPING TO GOP IN BID FOR MAYOR
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amMedia mogul Michael Bloomberg is planning to switch from Democrat to Republican next week in preparation for a possible mayoral run, The Post has learned. "He plans to switch his...
YANKEES ARE A-OK AFTER TYING SERIES
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amBombs awaaaaaay! Yankee fans finally had something to cheer about yesterday after New York beat the A's in Oakland 4-0 to snap their losing streak and knot the American League...
DOZENS STORM SENATE FOES' HQS TO PRESS AIDS AS ISSUE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amDozens of AIDS activists stormed Rick Lazio's and Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign headquarters yesterday in a bid to force the Senate rivals to focus on the dread disease. Eight of...
CHICKS RULE COUNTRY - 'DIXIE' GALS CLEAN UP AT AWARDS GIG
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amChicks rule - at least when it comes to country music. Lone Star State songbirds the Dixie Chicks won the 34th Annual Country Music Association's entertainer of the year, vocal...
SUIT MAY HELP PUFF BEAT RAP
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSean "Puffy" Combs got bad news and good news yesterday when he was hit with a lawsuit by the man who was his chauffeur the night of a Manhattan nightclub...
ANDY'S JUST DIVINE AS YANKS GET EVEM - HILL, SOJO ALSO HELP END SKID
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - You could have disagreed with Joe Torre's decision to sit Chuck Knoblauch, the Yankees' hottest hitter. Yet, Johnnie Cochran and the Dream Team would have a hard time...
A'S CONFIDENT THEY'LL HANDLE BRONZ ZOO
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amA'S NOTEBOOK OAKLAND - The A's came into New York a day early for their late May series with the Yankees and went to see a game at Yankee Stadium....
JITTERY JOE SHAKES UP BATTING ORDER -TORRE DESPERATE TO SPARK DORMANT YANKEES
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Joe Torre described his lineup changes for last night's Game 2 of the ALDS against the A's as moving the furniture around the room. In reality, Torre dropped...
BATTLE-TESTED ANDY GIVES BOMBERS SHOT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - You know the Yankees, an absolute rock in the last two postseasons, are in a hard place because practically all they had to say for themselves after losing...
BONDS BEGINS RE-WRITING OCTOBER SCRIPT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The first pitch sent his way by Mike Hampton jammed Barry Bonds and the best regular-season player in baseball over the past decade looked oh so over-anxious...
A'S HERNANDEZ NO SECRET ANYMORE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amArt Howe refers to Ramon Hernandez as the A's "secret weapon." His most dangerous quality may be his deceptively poor batting average of .241. His age also may be a...
GIAMBI BROS. LOVE SHARING GOOD TIMES
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amJeremy Giambi said it took until his junior year in high school to really get over the frustration of being "Jason's younger brother." "Before that, it got to me a...
BENCHING DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH KNOBLAUCH
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Chuck Knoblauch made sure to repeat his benching last night wasn't about himself, that it was all about the Yankees finding a way to win Game 2 of...
BELL'S JOB IN JEOPARDY
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Will you see Derek Bell again in this series? Well, X-rays taken by the doctors on his right ankle were negative, but Bobby Valentine could...
METS SPEND ANOTHER DAY IN PAC BELL HELL - HAMPTON HAMMERED, BIG BATS GO SILENT IN OPENING LOSS TO S.F.
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 1: Giants 5 - Mets 1 SAN FRANCISCO - "Starter 1A" didn't get it done so today it's up to "starter 1B" to save the season. Al Leiter must...
PETTITTE PERFORMANCE A SWEET SYMPHONY
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Yankees, losers of 15 of their last 18 largely meaningless games, threw the switch for playoff Game 1 and the bulb stayed on all of four innings....
GROH'S JET WARNING: DON'T LET ME DOWN
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amHuman nature is a powerful force, something that athletes are often influenced by, regardless of how many warnings are issued. The human nature that'll tell them they can let down...
CHAMPS AS TALENTED (AND CHEAP) AS EVER; DEVILS NOT 'PAYING FOR PERFORMANCE'
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe rationale for playing antagonistic contract hardball used to be that John McMullen was losing his shirt on the Devils. Then he made $142 million profit on the $33 million...
FERGUSON LIKELY TO MISS THE BUS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets' most imposing task in Sunday's game against the Steelers will be stopping "The Bus," Pittsburgh's bruising running back Jerome Bettis. Making it even more difficult, though,...
HOUSTON RESTS ON HIS LAURELS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Allan Houston's Down-Under jet lag has allowed him to be a wallflower for the first two days of Knicks' practices. Houston will probably also skip both sessions today...
PITCHERS HOG SPOTLIGHT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amNLDS NOTEBOOK Fans of high-scoring, homer-filled, baseball on speed probably won't want any part of Atlanta-St. Louis in Game 2 of the NLDS. But if you're looking for a classic,...
BRAVES LEAN ON GLAVINE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Funny, Atlanta sure doesn't look like a team that won its ninth straight division title. Seemingly everybody outside the state of Missouri saw the Cardinals as fodder...
SPAVINAW CRUISES TO VICTORY
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSpavinaw stalked the early pace, but once she took the lead she drew away to an impressive 3 1/4-length victory over Love On Hold in the $83,375 Joseph A. Gimma...
QUINTAL DEAL MAY TRIGGER UNION GRIPE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amA deal between the Rangers and Blackhawks in which Chicago today will claim Stephane Quintal off waivers and then send either Michal Grosek or Dean McAmmond here for future considerations...
SPREE: GET WEBBER
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amNo disrespect to Dikembe Mutombo, but Latrell Sprewell is ready to campaign Knick management to save their assets and attempt to land Chris Webber next summer when he becomes a...
PATRICK FEELING SLIGHTED BY EX-TEAMMATES
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amYESTERDAY marked the two-week anniversary of the historic Patrick Ewing trade. And as of mid-afternoon, not one Knick player had yet bothered to pick up the phone and wish "The...
AGELESS RICKEY STEALS THE SHOW
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amALDS NOTES CHICAGO - Rickey Henderson brought the Mets nothing but headaches this season. He's brought the Mariners to the playoffs. "We picked up Rickey in May when he got...
FRANKLY, CHISOX CHOKING - THOMAS PROVES BIG BUST VS. M'S
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 2: Mariners 5 - White Sox 2 CHICAGO - It was a superstar performance. Frank Thomas stood in, bore down and displayed terrific self-control and concentration. Unfortunately for the...
HOLMES NEEDS TO PUT BEST FOOT FORWARD
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES If the game on Sunday against the Falcons comes down to a field goal for the Giants, Jaret Holmes is going to be the kicker to attempt it....
GIANTS NEED STRAHAN TO BUST OUT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amYou look at the matchups and figure this could be the week. This should be the week. But no one is confident about that, which is a telling indictment about...
GIANTS BELIEVE IN BURKS' LAW - BIG BLAST LIGHTS UP FRISCO
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Baseball is forever a game of fathers and sons. Ellis and Christopher Burks had a beauty of a day yesterday when dad made the foghorn blow. The...
NETS ARE SHAPING UP - SCOTT WANTS FORWARDS TO BECOME TOUGH GUYS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe second morning session of training camp ended and the Nets gingerly walked toward the video room for their film session. They moved with the swiftness of winter molasses. Some...
LIVAN JUST LIVES FOR PLAYOFFS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Livan and Orlando Hernandez will have plenty to talk about in their next breakfast meeting. Livan Hernandez continues to be a post-season monster. He improved his post-season...
ESTES GETTING ANOTHER SHOT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The Mets can only hope Shawn Estes pitches like a playoff pup again versus that old determined dog Al Leiter today in a battle of lefties. If...
PAC MEN GOBBLE UP - HAMPTON HAMMERED, BIG BATS GO SILENT IN OPENING LOSS TO S.F.
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Mike Hampton will take the bulk of the blame for yesterday's 5-1 loss to the Giants in NLDS opener. And he should. He is the one who...
LEITER ON THE SPOT FOR GAME 2
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Baseball butterflies multiply in October and nobody can predict how a first-time, post-season pitcher is going to respond to the extra pressure. The Mets have no such...
INJURY LIKELY TO SHELVE BELL
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - His eyes were more drooped than usual. His crutches were to his side. His ankle was wrapped up and was propped on a chair as Derek Bell...
MEDIOCRE MIKE FLUNKS ANOTHER BIG-GAME TEST
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - With the count at two balls, two strikes, Mike Hampton fired a four-seam fastball that started at Barry Bonds' hips and sailed across the plate in the...
BURKS LAYS DOWN LAW FOR GIANTS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Baseball is forever a game of fathers and sons. Ellis and Christopher Burks had a perfect day together yesterday when dad made the foghorn blow. The foghorn...
HUNT FOR MR. OCTOBER - BONDS BEGINS REWRITING HIS PLAYOFF SCRIPT
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The Giants can't hit left-handers. Barry Bonds can't hit left-handers. He can't hit in the postseason, period. Bonds heard and read these charges so many times in...
BUBBA'S 'PREPARED' FOR START IN RIGHT FIELD
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - The Mets plan on starting Bubba Trammell in right field in place of the injured Derek Bell in Game 2 of the NLDS, according to...
... WHILE PIAZZA CAN'T GET IN GROOVE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The more opportunities Mike Piazza gets to drive in runs, the less heat he puts on himself when an opportunity presents itself. His team goes into a...
DUSTY GRABS HIS FIRST 'W' IN PLAYOFFS
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Dusty Baker finally has his first post-season victory. After eight years of managing, the 5-1 win over the Mets yesterday put Baker on the playoff...
BENCHING DOESN'T SIT VERY WELL WITH CHUCK
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Chuck Knoblauch made sure to repeat that his benching last night wasn't about himself, that it was all about the Yankees finding a way to win Game 2...
A'S TIP CAPS TO PETTITTE
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The A's were very quick to give Andy Pettitte credit after he won Game 2 last night, but that doesn't mean they are quaking in their boots about...
GOTTA HAND IT TO BROSIUS - YANK THIRD BASEMAN STEADY AS THEY COME
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The second baseman trips over his own feet on what had to be the softest ground ball in almost the entire history of baseball, bringing the tying run...
ANDY'S JUST DIVINE AS YANKS GET EVEN - HILL, SOJO ALSO HELP END SKID
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 2: Yankees 4 - Athletics 0 OAKLAND - Unlike Bill Clinton, the Yankees inhaled deeply when they arrived at the Oakland Coliseum last night. With their margin of error...
SOJO STANDS TALL AFTER GOOFY FALL
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - It was a simple slide step, one Luis Sojo has done a zillion times in his career. It's the sort of move that athletes' bodies have memorized to...
A'S CONFIDENT THEY'LL HANDLE BRONX ZOO
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amA'S NOTEBOOK OAKLAND - In late May, the A's came into New York a day early for a three-game series against the Yanks and decided to take in a contest...
TORRE SAYS ROCKET WILL START GAME 4
October 5, 2000 | 4:00amYANK NOTEBOOK OAKLAND - Joe Torre never hesitated when asked if Roger Clemens will pitch Game 4 of the ALDS Saturday at Yankee Stadium. Torre had reduced his postseason rotation...