October 12, 2000
ECONOMISTS FEEL AT HOME WITH NOBEL
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amTwo Americans won this year's Nobel prize in economics for developing ways to analyze how people make basic lifestyle decisions - such as where to live, when to get married...
DOT-COMS' SUPER BET : BUT FEW JOIN IN RUSH FOR BOWL ADS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amSome dot-coms just can't get enough. Internet job-listing sites Hotjobs.com and Monster.com have both bought their $2.2 million, 30-second spots during Super Bowl XXXV's Jan. 28 broadcast on CBS. That's...
GUCCI, LVMH SQUARE OFF IN COURT
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amDomenico De Sole lobbed a legal grenade at Bernard Arnault yesterday, demanding that a Dutch court force LVMH to sell its 20 percent stake in Gucci. De Sole claims that...
SINKING DEUTSCHE TELECOM IS HANG-UP IN VOICESTREAM MERGER
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amSerious problems with Deutsche Telekom's stock is fueling speculation that its acquisition of VoiceStream is on the ropes. Shares of Europe's largest phone company fell to their lowest level in...
NASDAQ'S LOSERS GET BRONX CHEERS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amYahoo!, Motorola and Lucent were all hammered yesterday, as the market scrambled to react to lukewarm - or worse - news from the tech stalwarts. All had double-digit percentage losses....
EUROPEAN FAMILY GRABS ONE BROADWAY FOR $35M
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Landmarked One Broadway was sold to a European family at the end of September for around $35.3 million, working out to about $195 a foot. The Witkoff Group and...
EVE.COM'S PARADISE LOST: IDEALAB! CUTS FUNDING TO E-TAILER
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amEve.com may be cast out of Eden. Idealab! has told the beauty and accessories e-tailer it will no longer fund the company, and management has already begun laying off staffers...
GLOBAL CROSSING'S HINDERY FOR HIRE: QUITS AFTER JUST 10 MOS.
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amAnyone need a fix-and-flip artist for $300 million a year? What's next for Leo Hindery is anybody's guess. The 52-year-old executive abruptly quit his latest CEO job, at Global Crossing,...
DURST, SPEYER TO JOIN ON TIMES SQUARE TOWER
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amDouglas Durst is within weeks of inking a pact with Jerry Speyer to co-develop a new office tower. "We are close to reaching something, but this has been going on...
CHRYSLER BUILDING TAKEN OFF THE BLOCK
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Chrysler Building is off the market. The "For Sale" sign on New York's landmark skyscraper was pulled down by the building's majority owner, Tishman Speyer Properties, which failed the...
NO TIMES MIRROR MAGS FOR G+J OR TIME INC.
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amTwo big publishing guns - Time Inc. and Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing - are said to have dropped out of the bidding war for Times Mirror Magazines. Dan Brewster,...
PAY ATTENTION AND AVOID ACCIDENTS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amLAST month, my daughter was rear-ended at a stoplight by a fancy sports, car whose driver was on her cell phone. The automotive journalist questions how such a bump, at...
JUJAMCYN TO PAY BACK ROYALTIES FOR TIX SURCHARGE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amJUJAMCYN Theaters, Broadway's third-largest theater owner, will have to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars in back royalty payments to many of the theater world's leading directors and choreographers,...
ALL THEIRWORLD'S A STAGE ; THIS DOT-COM MILLIONAIRE AND HIS GIRLFRIEND PUT PRIVATES ON PUBLIC VIEW, 24/7
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amYOU'RE going to be seeing a lot of Josh Harris soon. Maybe more than you want to see.One of the city's strangest sons is about to make Andy Warhol's Factory...
THE STARR REPORT
October 12, 2000 | 4:00am'Walker' gets a 'Psychic' sidekick Dionne Warwick must have seen this coming. The singer and erstwhile "Psychic Friends" spokeswoman has been cast on an upcoming episode of "Walker, Texas Ranger"...
HALLOWEEN HIJACKING; LOSING VILLAGE PARADE SCARES NY1
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amNEW York's quaint, little Halloween Parade is going national - and that's a big disappointment for New York 1. The all-news cable channel has covered the Greenwich Village event live...
I'M LEARNING TO ACT LIKE A JOURNALIST
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amI know what it's like to act like a journalist - I do it every day.And I also know what it's like to be an actor, having had a cameo...
LADY AND THE VAMP
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amTALLULAH HALLELUJAH!Fairbanks Theater, 432 W. 42nd St., (212) 239-6200. THE theater of celebrity impersonation is an odd bird. Late in the life of the subject, she (or he) looks back...
'CAT' SCANNER WON'T SURVIVE NINE LIVES
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amI'M one of the lucky 10 million who received Digital:Convergence's CueCat bar code scanner in the mail. (Radio Shack, as well as magazines such as Wired and Forbes, are giving...
SPLITSCREEN; GETTING A DIVORCE? GIVE FOX TV A CALL
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amHERE they go again! Fox, which married off a multi-millionaire and found "The World's Sexiest Bachelor," is now seeking contestants for "I Want a Divorce," a two-hour slam-bang reality show...
'C.S.I.' OUTRUNS 'FUGITIVE' AS FALL SURPRISE PACKAGE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00am"C.S.I.," a vastly under-rated cop show from movie mogul Jerry Bruckheimer is shaping up to be the surprise hit of the new fall TV season. The show - about a...
WHITE HOUSE IN BELATED EFFORT TO GET SLOBBO OUT
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Clinton administration yesterday sought to jump-start negotiations to get disgraced Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic out of Yugoslavia. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott told the Moscow newspaper Sevodnya that...
EGAN STOPS IN AT HARLEM SCHOOL FOUNDED BY SAINT
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amArchbishop Edward Egan yesterday added a personal touch to the recent canonization of St. Katherine Drexel by dedicating a memorial to her at a Harlem school she helped establish nearly...
JUSTICE & PIAZZA ARE FANNY FAVORITES
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amNew York is serving up great buns at the ballpark - and we're not talking about hot dogs. Female fans keeping score on the Yankees and the Mets are raving...
BOXING BENEFIT SET FOR FINEST TONIGHT
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amNew York's Finest are putting on boxing gloves tonight to raise money on behalf of fallen or injured comrades. Bouts between cops will highlight a fund-raiser that begins at 8...
AL BIDS TO 'KREME' W. BEFORE DEBATE: LAUNCHES 'DOUGHNUT' ATTACK ON RIVAL'S PLANS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - In case anyone doubted the high stakes of the second presidential debate, both sides began firing even before the starting gun went off last night. Aides to...
BURNED BY 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIE'
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. SUDDENLY we're in a brave new world where "Saturday Night Live" and the Internet are really driving politics. Democrat Al Gore is fighting a "fibber" label that got...
A 'TRIPLET' HEADER FOR PLAY-BY-PLAY DAD STERLING
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amYankee radio play-by-play announcer John Sterling had more on his mind than the Bronx Bombers yesterday - his wife gave birth to triplets just hours before yesterday's big game. Jennifer...
BUSH ISN'T BUYING AL'S 'SORRY' STATE: NIXES APOLOGY, BLASTS FOE'S 'EXAGGERATIONS'
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - It started as a lovefest and ended in a slugfest as George W. Bush again accused Al Gore of "exaggeration" and Gore promised to try not to...
VEEP TRIES PLAYING THE NICE GUY, AND DUBYA SETS THE TONE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - They tried to make nice - and Al Gore bent over backward to be on his very best behavior toward rival George W. Bush at their second...
FOUR FACE HATE CHARGES IN BX. SYNAGOGUE ATTACK
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amFour suspects - including a 15-year-old - arrested in an amateurish attack on a Bronx synagogue could be the first prosecuted under the state's new hate-crimes law. Authorities said yesterday...
DID LAZIO PICK THE WRONG GURUS?
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Rick Lazio entered the Senate race in May, he hired out-of-state guru Mike Murphy for chief strategist - a move that was seen as risky but refreshing. It meant...
PAL: DOC TOLD ME HE WANTED TO KILL WIFE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amJust months before his wife disappeared, Dr. Robert Bierenbaum confided to a friend that he hated her so much, he wanted to kill her, the pal told jurors yesterday. Bierenbaum...
ROUND TWO TO BUSH ; WOW - W. DOMINATED!
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amAL Gore knows that George W. Bush's attacks on his leftward lurch from the Democratic convention onward are working. That's why he was so cautious debate last night. It wasn't...
CLOSET-TOT TWIN TESTIFIES: SAYS MOM KILLED SIS, HID CORPSE 20 YEARS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amA mother charged with beating her 3-year-old to death in 1979 and hiding the mummified body in a closet for 20 years yesterday faced the dead child's twin in court...
CULT BOASTS: WE'LL CLONE COUPLE'S DEAD DAUGHTER
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amA bizarre cult that worships flying saucers says its gearing up to produce the world's first human clone - duplicating a 10-month-old girl. The tot's parents, identified only as an...
AMAZING SIDE OF THE AUTISTIC MIND ; ASPERGER'S DISORDER A SCIENTIFIC PARADOX
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amIn the last of a three-part series about the alarming rise in autism cases, The Post examines Asperger's syndrome - a rare condition that causes some autistic people to develop...
MYSTERY OF 'RAIN MAN' SYNDROME
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amIn the last of a three-part series aboutthe alarming rise in autism cases, ThePost examines Asperger's syndrome - arare condition that causes some autisticpeople to develop extraordinary skills. Experts call...
THIS GUY'S GOT ALL THE DIRT ON THE METS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amTom Flynn has resorted to dirty tricks to bring his beloved Mets good luck. The retired NYPD cop has been sprinkling dirt he scooped from the infield at Shea Stadium...
LENNON KILLER HAD HIT LIST OF CELEBS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - John Lennon's murderer said he had a backup hit list in case he was unable to get to the legendary former Beatle. Mark David Chapman spoke of the...
KIMES' HOSTAGE SAYS PRAYER EASED ORDEAL
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amCourt TV reporter Maria Zone says she got through her 4 1/2-hour hostage horror by reciting the Lord's Prayer with murderer Kenneth Kimes as he held a pen to her...
RUDY GETS ON BOARD TRANSIT BOND REFERENDUM
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday offered his long-awaited endorsement of the state's $3.8 billion transportation bond referendum - but only after taking a swipe at Albany for shortchanging the city in the...
POLS PROBING HARLEM MAN'S OIL-RESERVE DEAL
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amTwo congressional committees are probing how three men with no oil experience - including one who lives with his mom in Harlem - won contracts to deal precious oil from...
LET THERE BE NO PROFIT IN PRISON PENANCE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S A good thing Mark David Chapman remains in prison, if only because we are spared the squalid spectacle of seeing John Lennon's murderer making a revival tour of the...
ANOTHER 'F' FOR CITY ON ; 8TH-GRADE TESTS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe city's eighth-graders scored miserably for the second consecutive year on state tests - with a whopping 77 percent failing the math exam and two-thirds flunking reading and writing. The...
NBC AD STIRS ISSUE OF ADVOCACY
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amA Wall Street fat cat financed an ad blitz that is getting blasted for advocating school vouchers, but it hasn't ruffled any peacock feathers - NBC ran the spot on...
BRONX BECOMES A BOOM-TOWN! - YANKS EXPLODE FOR 7 RUNS TO TIE SERIES
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Bombers' bats finally woke up and smelled the Starbucks yesterday, bopping Seattle's bullpen with a late burst to dry roast the Mariners 7-1 and even the American League Championship...
LUMBER AWAKENS FROM ITS SLUMBER
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amSOMEBODY check the Gatorade bottles. Get names, addresses and fingerprints on everyone. Run a DNA test on every guy in a pinstriped uniform. Those couldn't have been the Yankees, could...
METS AND YANKS ON 2-CHOO TRAIN - SUBWAY SERIES NEARER AFTER TWIN WINS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Subway Series express was back on track yesterday, with both the Mets and Yanks scoring big wins that had their fans talking about an all-Big Apple Fall Classic. The...
HILL RAPS RICK AS ABSENTEE REP
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton, borrowing a move from Alfonse D'Amato, yesterday unveiled a new ad that attacks Rick Lazio for missing votes - a tactic mocked by fellow Democrat Chuck Schumer...
CRAZED DOG ATTACKS TOTS IN DAY-CARE NIGHTMARE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amA black Rottweiler yesterday dragged a terrified toddler from a Queens day-care center and ripped his face before two men clubbed the dog unconscious, authorities said. Another boy from the...
VEEP'S SPARRING PARTNER DOING BANG-UP JOB
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. PAUL BEGALA, the main man behind the truth-challenged Al Gore, admits he lies. "Every time I go to my mother-in-law's house in Austin, Texas, I lie," he said...
ALBRIGHT: I'LL VISIT NORTH KOREA
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amSecretary of State Madeleine Albright plans to visit North Korea "soon" to meet with the country's communist dictator, Kim Jong Il. During a toast at a state dinner held last...
BUSH ISN'T BUYING AL'S 'SORRY' STATE - NIXES APOLOGY AND BLASTS FOE'S 'EXAGGERATIONS'
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - It started as a lovefest and ended in a slugfest last night as George W. Bush hit Al Gore for "exaggeration" and Gore promised to try not...
DUBYA SCORES BIG ON KINDER, GENTLER AL
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amWINSTON-SALEM, N.C.AL GORE bent over backwards to be on his very best behavior toward rival George W. Bush at their second debate - and that let Bush take command. Even...
WILLIAMS INVENTS 'DOUBLE' DRIBBLER
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES One moment John Halama was on the mound looking for a place to hide and hoping he wasn't going to suffer the same fate as the A's Gil...
LEITER IN LEFTY GROOVE: MET SOUTHPAW TOUGH ON CARDINALS' BIG BATS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Perhaps Al Leiter's biggest advantage tonight is that the Cardinals are more left than Al Gore. Left-handed batters hit .118 against the lefty Leiter this season. "I...
TURK, MCGWIRE ON COLLISION COURSE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - One is a big-game hunter, the other is just plain-old big. At some point in the NLCS it will be up to the Mets' Turk Wendell to...
ANKIEL'S JUST WILD ABOUT NEXT START
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Rookie Rick Ankiel, who starts Game 2 of the NLCS tonight against Al Leiter and the Mets, put on a record-breaking performance in his last outing, but...
WELCOME MATT FOR FRANCO
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. LOUIS - Bobby Valentine decided to go with Matt Franco as the 25th man on the Mets' NLCS roster because he felt having another left-handed bat against...
VINA HELPS CARDS TAKE IT FROM TOP
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Fernando Vina moonlights playing hits for a local St. Louis radio station, on his show Livin' La Vina Loca; but at his real job, he earns his...
FAST START? METS WILL RELY ON SPEEDY TIMO
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Speed will kill in this National League Championship Series. Both starting catchers - the Mets' Mike Piazza and the Cards' Carlos Hernandez - are well aware of...
HALAMA HANDLES THE PRESSURE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amA guy from Brooklyn silenced The Bronx for six innings yesterday. He silenced the bats of the Bronx Bombers; silenced the fans who had jammed Yankee Stadium; silenced the critics...
SASAKI'S SUCCESS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mariners weren't counting on Kazuhiro Sasaki to be their closer this season. In fact, the Mariners didn't know if they could count on Sasaki at all. "When spring training...
ALL'S WELL IN RICKEY'S WORLD
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amIt was long after the Mariners had beaten the Yankees 2-0 Tuesday night and Rickey Henderson was thrilled to be talking about his favorite subject - Rickey Henderson. The former...
BLUESHIRTS TURN BACK THE CLOCK
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amOne by one, the great Rangers walked into the Garden to watch yesterday's morning skate. There were Andy Bathgate, Gump Worsley and Harry Howell; Jean Ratelle, Vic Hadfield, Rod Gilbert,...
RILEY'S MARK IMPACTS NETS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amHey, Nets. Ticked off about those hard practices? Those long and hard practices? Blame that guy last night, the guy on the opposite sidelines with the slicked-back hair and fancy...
CHARA GLAD HE GOT 2ND SHOT WITH ISLES
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - After what his teammates did for him during training camp, saving his job and all, Zdeno Chara feels there's only one sufficient way to show his appreciation. And...
O(-FER)'NEILL MOVED TO 7TH: HIS LOWEST SLOT OF YEAR
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Dropping him from third to sixth in the batting order for two games in the ALDS against the A's didn't chase the termites out of Paul O'Neill's dead...
SCOTT'S NETS ALL RILED UP
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amByron Scott obviously learned from Pat Riley during his playing days with the Lakers "Showtime." Need proof? Look no further than the fourth quarter last night. One aspect Scott obviously...
EL DUQUE RIGHTS SHIP ; HERNANDEZ GEM A LIFE PRESERVER FOR YANKS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Yankees' $110 million yacht had lost power. Their ration of baserunners was meager and, after not scoring in 22 innings, they couldn't have hit a Great White Shark with...
AS FAR AS NFL'S CONCERNED, GANG GREEN'S REALLY HURTIN'
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES In what can only be described as a comedic response to recent criticisms and an accusation that they were withholding injuries from the NFL's official weekly list, the...
AL'S GROH-ING 'TESTY': VINNY WANTS TO PLAY, BUT COACH WON'T SAY
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe effects of the season's first loss, along with this Sunday's game coming against the rejuvenated Patriots in their raucous and hostile house and with uncertainty at starting quarterback has...
JINTS BURN TO TORCH SPARKS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe what-if scenario gets played out each day on the practice field. Rarely, though, does it spill over into the reality of a Sunday afternoon, with more than mere bragging...
NIEDERMAYER, ARNOTT STICK TO THEIR GUNS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amSpelunking is not the sport that interests Scott Niedermayer and Jason Arnott. Neither intends to do any caving to play hockey for the Devils, their agent says. Agent Don Meehan...
LOMAS KNOWS REAL MEANING OF FOOTBALL
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants offense hasn't run over much of anyone lately, but one of the Giants recently nearly got run over. It was quite a near-miss for Lomas Brown,...
NYRA TABS SCHWARTZ
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amBarry K. Schwartz, co-founder and chief executive officer of Calvin Klein Inc., prominent racehorse owner-breeder and seven-year trustee for the New York Racing Assn., was unanimously elected chairman of the...
TRINIDAD, VARGAS TOSS EARLY JABS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe term "keep it in the ring" was never meant for Felix Trinidad and Fernando Vargas. Yesterday on Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport, the IBF junior middleweight champ,...
CAMBY, LJ NOT SO HOT IN LOW POST
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES So where are the Knicks going to get their low-post scoring, now that Patrick Ewing is 3,000 miles away? Nowhere, if their exhibition opener was any indication. With...
KAHN - SERIES NO BIGGIE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amFamed author and sportswriter Roger Kahn says a Mets-Yankees Subway Series could never compare to the Subway Series of the 1940s and '50s, in an exclusive interview in the latest...
POSTELL, MICKEAL IMPRESSING KNICKS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amPete Mickeal and Lavor Postell are Knicks rookies in name only. They each show a brashness not befitting their second-round status, a brashness that has all but assured them of...
FROM BUMBLERS TO BOMBERS AGAIN: 7-RUN 8TH SNAPS SCORELESS STREAK AS YANKEES GET EVEN
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 2 Yankees 7 Mariners 1 Joe Torre traveled too many dark roads with his boys to quit on them. If Derek Jeter, Paul O'Neill, Bernie Williams and Tino Martinez...
LOU'S HAPPY TO BE EVEN ; MARINERS: WE GOT WHAT WE WANTED
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Seattle Mariners came to New York with a mission: Get a split. So the company line after yesterday's 7-1 loss to the Yankees in Game 2 of the ALCS...
FROM BUMBLERS TO BOMBERS AGAIN: EL DUQUE, SEVEN-RUN 8TH HELP YANKEES GET EVEN
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amGame 2 Yankees 7 Mariners 1 They didn't score a run the night before and as yesterday afternoon folded into evening, the Yankees were six outs away from being blanked...
BROOKLYNITE RULES BRONX
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amA guy from Brooklyn silenced The Bronx for six innings yesterday. John Halama silenced the bats of the Bronx Bombers; silenced the fans who had jammed Yankee Stadium for Game...
MARINERS RUN AGROUND IN FATEFUL EIGHTH
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mariners didn't lose their way last night in Yankee Stadium. They were shipwrecked. The Mariners, leading 1-0, were six outs away from a 2-0 lead in their ALCS against...
TOO MANY PENALTIES KEEP ISLES WINLESS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amMaple Leafs 3 Islanders 2 TORONTO - Two games into their season, one thing is already clear: The Islanders have not adjusted to the league's new hard-line officiating. And for...
ANKIEL WILD ABOUT GAME 2 START
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Rookie Rick Ankiel, who starts Game 2 of the NLCS tonight against Al Leiter and the Mets, put on a record-breaking performance in his last outing, but...
LEITER ALWAYS TOUGH ON CARDS' BIG STICKS
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Perhaps Al Leiter's biggest advantage tonight is that the Cardinals are more left than Al Gore. Left-handed batters hit .118 against the lefty Leiter this season. "I...
MESSIER'S GOAL LIGHTS UP GARDEN
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amRangers 3 Canadiens 1 They played the Ranger Victory Song throughout the 30-minute Garden pre-game 75th-anniversary ceremonies that commenced with the introduction of Mike Keenan and culminated with the re-introduction...
MIGHTY MIKE & CO. REAL CARD SHARKS: NUCLEAR ARMS MAKE AMAZIN'S TEAM TO BEAT
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Jim Edmonds, author of late-inning heroics that twice buried the Mets when last they visited Busch Stadium, connected with two outs and two on in the seventh...
HEART OF CARD ORDER COMES UP SMALL
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The Mets' 6-2 win in Game 1 of the NLCS last night was clear proof that it's not about how many hits you get, or how far...
METS MIGHT LAND LOU IF BOBBY GOES TO L.A.
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amLou Piniella managing the Mets and writing Alex Rodriguez' name in the lineup every day? How sweet would life be for Met fans? How big a nightmare for George Steinbrenner?...
VALENTINE NOW HOTTEST COMMODITY
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - A week ago, San Francisco's Dusty Baker was the most attractive free-agent manager on the market. Now it's Bobby Valentine. And don't think Valentine doesn't know it....
MCGWIRE NEVER GETS CHANCE TO SHINE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amCARD NOTES ST. LOUIS - The most feared bat in baseball never got off the Cardinals bench last night. Mark McGwire, who has been limited to pinch-hitting duty because of...
TERRIFIC TIMO SETS THE TONE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Timo Time is Winning Time. All it took was one batter for the tone of this series to be set. And now, after the Mets' 6-2 victory...
TODD FINALLY BUSTS LOOSE
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - He consistently produced RBIs throughout the season until fading in September and vanishing in the Division Series. And his name is? Todd Zeile, whose season followed similar...
MIGHTY MIKE & CO. REAL CARD SHARKS: HAMPTON'S GEM HELPS METS DECK
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 1 Mets 6 Cardinals 2 ST. LOUIS - Mission accomplished. Now the Mets can get greedy. The Mets came to Busch with one thing in mind: They wanted to...
AMAZIN' FONZIE GETS THE JOB DONE AGAIN
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The local newspaper here yesterday put together its matchup page and declared second base to be even. Fernando Vina even with Edgardo Alfonzo is like saying the...
SHARP KILE DONE IN BY LACK OF SUPPORT
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - It wasn't as if Darryl Kile pitched poorly last night against the Mets. The St. Louis ace was good; but Mike Hampton was great. Kile had no...
ACHING THUMB MIGHT SIDELINE BORDICK
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. LOUIS - Mike Bordick said he has no idea whether he will be able to play tonight after Mike James hit him on his right thumb in...
PIAZZA FINALLY HEATING UP: DESPITE DINGS, MIKE MAKING NOISE AT BAT
October 12, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Mike Piazza emerged from the Mets' training room walking with a limp, courtesy of a sore big toe on his right foot. It was injured when he...