October 6, 2000
AMAZON'S ONE CLICK AWAY FROM LEGAL FIGHT OVER PATENT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amBezos beware! Amazon's famous "1-Click Ordering System" patent has competition. And it could be old enough to scupper its suit against Barnes & Noble. Silicon Valley-based OpenTV, which makes middleware...
LACHLAN MURDOCH GETS A NEW ROLE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amLachlan Murdoch was appointed deputy chief operating officer of News Corporation yesterday and given the expanded role of overseeing the company's global assets. Murdoch will continue to run the company's...
HOW SWEDE IT IS - H&M TO OPEN B'WAY STORE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amH&M is bringing its unique store full of cheap chic to SoHo. Already a hit on Fifth Avenue and opening at the end of the month at 34th Street, the...
STORE CLOSINGS LIFT POLO STOCK
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe Prince of Polo had a great ride on Wall Street yesterday. Shares of Polo Ralph Lauren jumped 18 percent, after the designer announced the closing of 23 stores and...
THE PRICE WAS TOO HIGH - LO$SES FORCE PRICELINE TO CLOSE GAS & FOOD SITE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amLife in the express lane just got a little tougher for Jay Walker. WebHouse Club, his gas-and-groceries-on-the-Web project, bit the dust yesterday, as mounting losses finally persuaded even his deepest-pocketed...
NEW REPORT: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL AT VIVENDI
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe feuding among the top ranks at Vivendi appears to have simmered down. Earlier in the week, reports in France had Canal Plus Chief Executive Pierre Lescure about to resign...
JOAN & DAVID OK'D BY COURT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amBankrupt Joan & David will be sold to a real estate development company for $16 million, unless a better offer comes along by Oct. 12. The New York State Bankruptcy...
WARNER-EMI DEAL OFF - COMPANIES VOW TO REAPPLY TO EU WITHIN 2 MONTHS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amWarner-EMI is dead. Long live Warner-EMI. EMI Group and Time Warner yesterday told the European Commission that they are withdrawing their application for approval of their proposed music mega-merger. But...
'BAMBOOZLED' JUST BRILLIANT: SPIKE LEE TAKES HIS SHARPEST SHOT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amBAMBOOZLED 4 stars Spike Lee's devastating satire on con temporary "black" show business pulls no punches and asks tough questions. The year's most important film. Running time: 136 minutes. Rated...
SHE MAY LIKE YOU, BUT REMEMBER - DAD'S A GUY
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amGIVEN a choice between having a kidney stone or meeting a girlfriend's parents, I'd opt for romancing the stone. Come on, guys. Don't you remember how difficult it was to...
BOY MEETS WHIRL
October 6, 2000 | 4:00am'MEET THE PARENTS," a very funny movie directed by Jay Roach ("Austin Powers"), is part sitcom, part comedy of manners - but it lacks the courage to deal honestly with...
MAKING IT LOOK EASY TO BE GREEN
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amFOR a notorious punk bad boy, there's something genuinely charismatic about Green Day's front man, Billie Joe Armstrong. At the Roseland Ballroom Wednesday, behind the tattoos, neatly trimmed hair dyed...
IT'S HER TURN - KRISTINE W. HAS PAID THE DUES AND IS READY TO STRUT HER STUFF
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTHE road to success has been rocky for Kristine W., the stunning 6-foot-in-flats dance diva who has fought for stardom since she was a teenage Miss America contestant from Washington...
DIRECTOR DESERVES LION'S SHARE OF PRAISE FOR 'TIGERLAND'
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amVETERAN Hollywood director Joel Schumacher's third attempt to put the big-budget glossiness of "Batman & Robin" behind him is by far the most successful. "Tigerland," a gritty Vietnam War drama...
THE ONE-ARMED 'FUGITIVE'AND A FORENSICS TEAM MAKE FRIDAY NIGHTS CRIME TIME: OFF AND RUNNING
October 6, 2000 | 4:00am"The Fugitive" Tonight at 8 on WCBS/Ch. 2"C.S.I." Tonight on 9 on Ch. 2 WHEN I first heard that they were once again remaking "The Fugitive" from the movie of...
'REQUIEM' A HEAVYWEIGHT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00am'REQUIEM for a Dream," the second film (after "Pi") by highly praised indie director Darren Aronofsky, turns out to be a powerful fable about love and addiction that manages to...
ALL THESE NUTTY NEW YORKERS AIN'T 'NORMAL'
October 6, 2000 | 4:00am"The Trouble with Normal" Tonight at 8:30 on ABC/Ch. 7 Zero stars"Madigan Men" Tonight at 9:30 on ABC/Ch. 7 Zero stars I DON'T know if the rest of America is...
THE STARR REPORT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amWorld View Entertainment has acquired the TV and cable rights to "Have a Great One! A Homeless Man's Story," written by Ohio-based scribe Laurie Anthony. World View will join with...
UPSTAIRS-DOWNSTAIRS ROMANCE ON '50S STATEN ISLAND
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amRAYMOND de Felitta's delightful "Two Family House" was one of the genuine pleasures of this year's Sundance Film Festival, where it deservedly won the Audience Award. A charming, (mostly) briskly...
GREEK COMPANY BRINGS NEW TRICKS TO AN OLD 'REX'
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS summer, the National Theater of Greece performed a new production of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" at the reopening of Rome's Coliseum to celebrate the millennium. It marked the first time...
WELLES IS 'WORLDS' BEYOND THESE THEATRICS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amORSON Welles, monumental and looming in his lifetime, is proving one of the enduring art icons of the 20th century. Now Anne Bogart and her Siti Company have made him...
SCARE TACTICS "FREAKYLINKS"
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTonight at 9 on Fox/Ch. 5 LIKE a ghost story told skillfully around a campfire, "Freakylinks" had me jumping out of my chair. It also held my attention all the...
GREENBACKS & FRAN - PRODUCERS THREATENED TO KILL 'SEUSSICAL' UNLESS WRITERS ACCEPTED NEW $$$ DEAL
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTHE lights almost went out in Whoville this week, as the producers of "Seussical, the Musical" butted heads with the show's creative team over money. The dispute became so intense...
NOVELIST'S TRUE STORY: SHE LEAVES 7G TIP ON $19 TAB
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amAuthor! Author! Best-selling crime writer Patricia Cornwell stunned the staff of a tiny English restaurant by leaving a $7,500 tip on her lunch tab of just $19. Cornwell - who...
FEDS MAY GO AFTER 'STOCK' BOY: EYE CHARGES IN CYBERSCAM
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe cyberswindling New Jersey teen who recently returned more than $270,000 he scammed by giving false stock tips may face federal charges for similar actions. The U.S. attorney's office in...
'DAY OF RAGE' LOOMS IN ISRAEL: ARAB THREAT COULD DASH TRUCE HOPE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A fragile, U.S.-brokered cease-fire faces a severe test today as Israeli Arabs vowed to hold a "day of rage" and Israeli police and military redeployed to combat rioting....
GREEK GAMES BIG IN $YDNEY MESS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe head of the Athens 2004 Olympic organizing committee may step down after Greek media reports disclosed she paid more than $3 million to wine and dine guests during the...
FRANCE OKS 'MORNING AFTER' DRUG FOR TEENS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amGirls under 18 can now buy the morning-after pill in France. In a bill passed yesterday, the French National Assembly also paved the way for school nurses to distribute the...
GORE'S THE WINNER, ANY WAY TV TED SLICES IT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSometimes a split screen isn't 50/50. While every other network gave the presidential candidates equal halves of the TV during their Tuesday night debate, Ted Turner's CNN gave Al Gore...
MAN LEAPS OFF EMPIRE STATE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amA man jumped to his death off the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building last night, cops said. The victim, whose identity was not immediately released, leaped from the...
NOW THAT'S A DEBATE: GENTLEMEN JOE & DICK STICK TO THE ISSUES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amDANVILLE, Ky. - Veep wannabes Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman last night held a thoughtful, gentlemanly Debate of the Grownups that put their running mates to shame. And in one...
ROAD-WEARY METS FANS SAY THEY WILL FEEL SAFE AT HOME
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The city by the Bay may be beautiful, but Mets fans have one clear feeling about it - let's get the heck out of here. After New...
HILL: I WOULDN'T HUG SUHA NOW - AFFIRMS 'SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL'
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday expressed her strongest regrets about embracing the wife of Yasser Arafat - saying she "wouldn't have gone" to the politically explosive event last year if she...
AFTER-SEX PILL OK'D FOR TEENS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amGirls under 18 can now buy the morning-after pill in France. In a bill passed yesterday, the French National Assembly also paved the way for school nurses to distribute the...
SENATE OKS BILL WIDENING COVERAGE FOR TREATMENT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amCancer-care advocates yesterday hailed the Senate's passage of a bill that would provide full treatment for thousands of women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer who fall through the cracks...
SHE TAKES US FOR IDIOTS IF SHE THINKS WE'LL FORGET
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amHILLARY Clinton is like a bank robber who gets caught in the act. She thinks just like a heistman - one who thinks that if he gives the money back...
RICK'S RUNNING AGAINST BOTH CLINTONS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amALTHOUGH Rick Lazio insists he's focusing his campaign on Hillary and isn't dragging President Clinton into the race, it's hard to tell from his latest fund-raising letter. It opens with...
2 KIDS DIE IN B'KLYN FIRE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTwo children died yesterday in an early-morning blaze that filled their Brooklyn home with thick, deadly smoke. The accidental fire that started in the basement of the two-story house at...
SLOBBO ON THE RUN AS BELGRADE BURNS - HE'LL FLEE YUGO IN DEAL WITH RUSSIA
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSerbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, holed up in a bunker while a half-million protesters laid fiery siege to Belgrade yesterday, has cut a deal with Russia to airlift him out of...
KOREAN LIVES IN FEAR AFTER QNS. 'BRICK' ATTACK
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amA soft-spoken, 26-year- old Korean immigrant was brutally bashed on the head by a thug as he returned home to his Queens building, police said yesterday. Heon Lee said he's...
DONALD BUYS 50G WORTH OF APOLOGIES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Donald Trump will launch a $50,000 ad campaign to "respectfully apologize" to New Yorkers for secretly bankrolling a huge anti-gambling campaign, The Post has learned. The apology, to...
N.Y. SERBS COULDN'T BE HAPPIER
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSerbs living in New York yesterday applauded the protesters who stormed the Yugoslavian parliament in Belgrade and set it ablaze in a bid to force President Slobodan Milosevic to yield...
PUPPIES RESCUED FROM CANAL HAVE BECOME PAWS CELEBRE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe plight of the six playful puppies pulled from the Gowanus Canal unleashed an outpouring of sympathy from New Yorkers yesterday who rushed to offer them love and homes. "The...
PROTECTING THE INNOCENT IS A JOB THAT NEVER ENDS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amFIVE-YEAR-OLD Ashianay Carzan, blind, crippled and unable even to speak about her terrible hunger, was found starved to death in her fetid Bronx apartment last May. Five months later, she...
DAUGHTER: SINATRA RAN MOB 'ERRAND' FOR JFK CAMPAIGN
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amFrank Sinatra's youngest daughter says her dad asked the Mafia to help get John F. Kennedy elected president - and also worked as a courier for the CIA. Tina Sinatra,...
TABLOIDS THROWING BIMBOS AT ME: O.J.
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amO.J. Simpson says the supermarket tabloids are secretly paying beautiful women to date him - and then leak scandalous stories to disgrace him. "I feel like the tabloids have become...
VON BULOW SHOCKER IN BIERENBAUM TRIAL
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amIn threatening to murder his wife, Dr. Robert Bierenbaum promised her he'd do a cleaner job than Claus von Bulow - leaving no evidence, a witness told jurors in surprise...
PREZ RIVALS LASH OUT AT POP-CULTURE FILTH
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amAl Gore and George W. Bush battled for the parent vote yesterday, with the veep promising to help moms and dads protect their children from "cultural pollution." Employing almost the...
PALS SAY WINNIE'S A CAN-DO WOMAN
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amDES MOINES, Iowa - Before Winifred Skinner was thrust into the national spotlight as Al Gore's Medicare talisman, she was the neighbor who never said no. Neighbors say she's always...
KID-ABUSE DEATHS DROP: STUDY - CITY NUMBERS BEST SINCE '83
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe number of child fatalities in city households with a history of abuse or neglect is down to the lowest level since 1983, an independent oversight group has found. The...
RUDY BLASTS FEDS' PROFILING CLAIM
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amAn enraged Mayor Giuliani lashed out at federal prosecutors yesterday for deciding the NYPD engaged in racial profiling with stop-and-frisks of minorities on city streets. "There is no racial profiling...
SOTHEBY'S EX-PAL PLEA BIDDER PILL FOR TYCOON
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe squeeze tightened around tycoon Alfred Taubman after his once-loyal art queen, Diana "Dede" Brooks, agreed to rat him out in a price-fixing scheme at Sotheby's and Christie's. Brooks, 50,...
JOE'S A HIT IN BAPTIST COUNTRY, BUT . . .
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amDANVILLE, Ky. THIS gorgeous Southern patch of the American heartland may be known for horse breeding, but it's fundamentally the land of mules, tobacco and Baptists. Which is to say...
JURY HANDS BX. MOM $3M IN COP SCREW-UP
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amA Bronx mother of six won a $3 million verdict against the city yesterday for injuries she suffered when she was arrested in a case of mistaken identity. Irma Morales,...
WIVES STAND BY THEIR MEN AT VP DEBATE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amDANVILLE, Ky. - The wives played lead cheerleaders as vice-presidential rivals Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney clashed in their only debate showdown last night. Democrat Lieberman's wife, Hadassah, had simple...
SCANDAL PRIEST ROOMED WITH EX-CON
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe clergyman at the center of a $2 million embezzlement probe at a Queens church lived with an ex-con in a waterfront home on Long Island after retiring, The Post...
COPS NAB KIDS IN SEX ATTACK
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amAn 8- and a 9-year-old boy sexually assaulted a 7-year-old boy on a school bus carrying the youngsters home from a special-education school in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon, cops said...
AN ALL-TOO-CIVILIZED NIGHT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amJOSEPH Lieberman admitted in last night's vice presidential debate that Al Gore lied on Tuesday night. He did so without explicitly saying so - by reducing Gore's mischaracterization of the...
METS HEADING HOME AFTER TAKING GIANT STEP TO VICTORY
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Finally, one for the road! The courageous New York Mets - bullied, beaten and bedeviled all year in San Francisco - squared their National League division series...
GORE WINS, ANY WAY TV TED SLICES IT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSometimes a split screen isn't 50/50. While every other network gave the presidential candidates equal halves of the TV during their Tuesday night debate, Ted Turner's CNN gave Al Gore...
STOCK-SCAM KID MAY FACE FED RAP
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe cyber-swindling New Jersey teen who recently returned more than $270,000 he scammed by giving false stock tips may face federal charges for similar stock-tip actions. The U.S. Attorney's Office...
GOP GAY BOMBSHELL STUNS CONSERVATIVES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amAS NIXON went to China, George W. Bush is going to Fire Island. The Republicans finally came out of the closet last night, when its vice-presidential nominee said, in effect,...
FEDS BACK PATAKI ON JOB BOOM
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A federal investigation of Gov. Pataki's claims of strong New York job growth - dubbed "politically inspired" by Pataki - has ended in a victory for the governor....
EMPIRE STATE 'PIRATE' FALLS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amA man, dressed in a pirate costume, fell to his death from the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building last night, cops said. A police spokesman, Sgt. James Foley,...
NOW THAT'S A DEBATE - GENTLEMEN JOE & DICK STICK TO THE ISSUES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amDANVILLE, Ky. - Veep wannabes Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman last night sparred in a thoughtful, gentlemanly Debate of the Grownups that put their running mates to shame. Republican Cheney...
GUTSY VICTORY KNOTS SERIES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amGame 2/10 Innings Mets 5 Giants 4 SAN FRANCISCO - When John Franco struck out Barry Bonds looking to end last night's game, he erased disaster. The Mets could've talked...
TIMO'S A HERO IN THE MAKING
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Sometimes postseason heroes come from the strangest places. Sometimes, they even come from the bench because a regular goes down with an injury. In 1988, National League...
FOR BAKER, MUM'S THE WORD
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amGIANTS NOTEBOOK SAN FRANCISCO - The manager mind games have started. The Giants are not about to give the Mets any more information than they have to in this series....
PAC BELL'S NEW HOUSE OF HORRORS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The Mets scoffed at pre-series comments that Pac Bell Park was a house of horrors for them. Hey, this isn't Atlanta, they thought. Bobby Valentine went so...
PRESSURE PAC-KED: METS TRY TO AVOID IMPLOSION OUT WEST
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The Mets traveled back to New York last night, trying to make history. Regardless of what happened, they were trying not only to rewrite history, but to...
TINY TIMO'S A HERO FOR POSTSEASON
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The Mets' Division Series fortunes turned with Derek Bell's ankle. Bell's Game 1 ankle sprain meant Timo Perez was in last night's Game 2 lineup and slumping...
FRISCO BOSS BAKER TOAST OF THE COAST
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Picture this scenario. You're a manager of a major league club that has made the playoffs as one of the top eight teams in the league. At...
BELL MAY BE FINISHED FOR SERIES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTEBOOK SAN FRANCISCO - Derek Bell appears to be finished for this NLDS series. "Right now, I doubt it," manager Bobby Valentine said last night when asked if Bell...
CHISOX PIN HOPES ON BALDWIN
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amALDS NOTES SEATTLE - The White Sox are one loss away from ending their season and the team's hopes rest on the injured right shoulder of James Baldwin, who will...
HAMM LOOKS AHEAD TO LEAGUE OF HER OWN
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amIs it possible for Mia Hamm to become more popular than she already is? Hamm, recognized as the world's greatest women's soccer player, is preparing for the opening of the...
WORLD SERIOUS: TRUE GLOBAL BASEBALL TOURNEY ON HORIZON
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amREADY for the World Series? No, not that one. The new one. The one that, World Cup style, will be baseball's stab at a Worldwide Series. It's very likely coming....
DEVILS ALL FIRED UP FOR BANNER NIGHT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThey celebrate their Stanley Cup tonight, these Devils, in front of the most celebrated and most Stanley Cupped hockey team in history. It will be a moment to be savored....
JETS KEEP ON GROH-ING ; GANG GREEN'S GONNA SWAMP SAD-SACK STEELERS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Jets caught a huge break last week when the Steelers surprisingly jolted the Jaguars in Jacksonville. That's because there's no scenario more ripe for an upset than an undefeated...
GARDEN BIG DID IT FOR EW
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amDave Checketts is sticking to his story. Although Patrick Ewing continues to contend the Knicks were looking to move in another direction, Checketts said he dealt "the Big Fella" only...
CHECKETTS SAYS WIN OR BE GONE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amGarden prez Dave Checketts put the post-Patrick Knicks on alert yesterday, saying if the new cast doesn't produce, he won't hesitate to make drastic changes. Checketts also admitted he does...
HISTORY NOT ON YANKS' SIDE: BOMBERS BETTER BE CAREFUL, OR ELSE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE are few men Andy Pettitte admires more than Mel Stottlemyre. Is he about to become Stottlemyre? Derek Jeter grew up idolizing Dave Winfield. Might they end up sharing more...
SLUGGISH KNICKS RUNNING ON EMPTY
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES The huffing and puffing during a Knicks scrimmage at SUNY-Purchase yesterday was apparent, lending some credence to Jeff Van Gundy's blast on Day 1 Tuesday that the club...
JETS PLANNING BOOSE CRUISE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amFor more than a month now, as the Jets' four wins have mounted entering Sunday's game against the Steelers, Dorian Boose has been an outsider with a front-row seat on...
THERE'LL BE EL TO PAY IF DUQUE AIN'T RIGHT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTHE steel shutters were down on River Ave. yesterday, the way they will be the day after the baseball season ends in The Bronx. That could come as early as...
ISLES HAVE HIGH HOPES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTAMPA - New Islander owners Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar begin to see tonight if buying a playoff berth proves as easy as it was to buy half of Oyster...
AREA BOTTOM FISHING HITS BONANZA IN AUTUMN RUN
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amAUTUMN has finally arrived, the fluke season is over and bottom fishing is sharing center stage with striped bass as anglers in the metro area prepare for the final big...
CHUCK EXPECTS MORE PINE TIME
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amA lot has happened to Chuck Knoblauch in 10 big league seasons. And through the ups and downs that every player experiences, Knoblauch knew there was one constant in his...
COLLINS WANTS TO FORGET THE TITANS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amHe is coming off a game in which he threw not one or two, but three interceptions. The knock on Kerry Collins has been his inability to steer clear of...
COLES GRABS GROH'S EYE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amJETS NOTES Al Groh yesterday insisted that he was still unsure of who'll be the No. 3 receiver for Sunday's game against the Steelers. Yet with the way rookie Laveranues...
BLUESHIRTS ARE BEING REBUILT WITH PRIDE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amAll of a sudden there's a different feel, no question about it. One ingenious - if shady - move by Glen Sather and it seems as if the Rangers are...
DAYNE'S DOWN ON LIMITED ROLE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amMonday morning was so strange and unfamiliar. The aches were missing, the pains a memory. "At least now I can get up early and play with the kids," Ron Dayne...
QUINTAL'S WAIVER RAISES EYEBROWS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe Rangers, Blackhawks and NHL can frame it any way they desire, but the fact of the matter is that Glen Sather and Chicago GM Mike Smith broke the spirit,...
PLETCHER: 'READY' GOING TO CUP
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amAfter owner James Scatuorchio said earlier this week that More Than Ready may skip the Breeders' Cup Sprint and await the Cigar Mile, trainer Todd Pletcher announced that More Than...
TIME TO BRING IT HOME: WEARY YANKS HOPE TO FINISH A'S AT STADIUM
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amMore than ever, the AL Division Series becomes a showdown of youth vs. age. Will Oakland's inexperience matter before 55,000 hostile spectators in The Bronx? Will the older Yankee bodies...
ANDY'S TRAVEL PLANS HARDLY DANDY
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Yankees want to clinch this AL Division Series at Yankee Stadium for reasons that go beyond simply advancing in the playoffs. They also want to avoid having...
MARINERS EYE SAFECO SWEEP
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - These ancient Mariners are too smart, too experienced, too familiar with the vagaries of postseason play to utter the 'S' word. Seattle might be thinking sweep, but the...
BULL'S-EYE ON KRAUSE ; CHICAGO VP MAY TAKE FALL FOR NOT LURING FREE AGENTS
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amORLANDO - Today's opening broadside directed at Jerry Krause may be nothing more than wishful thinking by a disgruntled employee, or it could be nothing but net considering Chicago's anticipated...
PEN WILL WRITE YANK SCRIPT: NELSON & STANTON HOLD KEY
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amTICKETS for seats on the Yankee bandwagon have become almost as hot as Bernie Williams and are going faster than you can say "El Duque." After 16 losses in 19...
DUTROW EAGER TO BOUNCE BACK
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amRick Dutrow Jr., who ranked third among New York trainers this year with 51 victories when he surprisingly turned in his license Sept. 25, did so after testing positive for...
CARDS COME UP ACES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amGame 2 Cardinals 10 Braves 4 ST. LOUIS - For the second straight game, Atlanta sent a Cy Young winner to the mound against the Cardinals; and for the second...
NEWMAN: NETS' MR. VERSATILITY
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amAsk Byron Scott what type of player he wants on his Nets and he'll tell you smart, determined, focused, conditioned. He'll also tell you versatile. And as long as Scott...
GLAVINE FIZZLES IN SIZZLING MATCHUP
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amNLDS NOTES ST. LOUIS - If this was a pitching duel, Tom Glavine got skewered. Yesterday's matchup between Glavine (20-9) and St. Louis' Darryl Kile (21-9) marked only the second...
SF'S ESTES ANA AMAZIN' BONEHEAD ON BASES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Duh! The Mets can be thankful today that the Giants forgot how to run the bases. Starting pitcher Shawn Estes forgot to slide at second base in...
METS STEAL THUNDER FROM JINT HERO SNOW
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - On a night they honored the memory of Russ Hodges' famous "The Giants win the pennant" call of Bobby Thomson's home run, J.T. Snow stole the home...
AMAZIN'S A TEAM OF MANY HEROES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - When J.T. Snow's stunning three-run home run slid inside the right-field foul pole to turn a 4-1 Mets lead into a 4-4 tie in the ninth, Todd...
METS TELL JOHN: 'FRANC'S A LOT': OL' JOHNNY TURNS BACK THE CALENDAR
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Get lost old man. We have a younger man to do your job now. Your new seat is in the corner. Your new job is filing these...
TIMO TURNS INTO AN AMAZIN' SURPRISE
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The Mets' Division Series fortunes turned with Derek Bell's ankle. Bell's Game 1 ankle sprain meant Timo Perez was in last night's Game 2 lineup and slumping...
DARRYL, JAY CENTER OF ATTENTION AGAIN
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Darryl Hamilton saw the ball fly off Jay Payton's bat in the top of the 10th inning and had one thought. "I was just worried he hit...
FOR 81/3, AL WAS LEIT'S OUT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Al Leiter deserved better. He deserved better from the Mets brass that chose Mike Hampton over him to start Game 1. And he deserved better last night...
BENITEZ TIPS CAP TO SNOW
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Armando Benitez stood by his locker. The biggest relief performance of his career had just taken place. John Franco, the man he had replaced this year as...
KENT: SF BETTER TEAM; BONDS CAN'T TAKE HEAT
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Kent, who stands mighty tall in the Giant clubhouse, had this reaction to the Mets' thrilling 5-4, 10-inning victory last night at Pac Bell Park. Listen...
METS TELL JOHN: 'FRANC'S A LOT': RELIEVER CLOSES OUT FRISCO IN 10TH AS METS GET EVEN
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amGame 2/10 Innings Mets 5 Giants 4 SAN FRANCISCO - Mike Piazza wanted a fastball, but the man with the second most saves in the history of baseball shook off...
DUSTY, RODRIGUEZ ARE GIANT 'DAWGS'
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Well, now we know the answer to that annoying singing question: Giants reliever Felix Rodriguez let the dawgs out. "Who let the dawgs out?" is...
BELL COULD BE FINISHED FOR THE SERIES
October 6, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Derek Bell appears to be finished for this NLDS series. "Right now, I doubt it," Bobby Valentine said of Bell's return before last night's 5-4,...