October 18, 2000
BIG BUCKS FOR TIMELY TOME - $2M TO PHYSICIST FOR COSMOS BOOK
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amCOLUMBIA University physicist Brian Greene - a big proponent of the Superstring theory in cosmology - has just made a super book deal. He's sold "The Fabric of the Cosmos"...
WATCH THESE 5 SAFE STOCKS OUTPERFORM THE MARTS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amDEPENDING on where you invested your money this year, you are probably down between 10 and a gazillion percent. We are doing better. The portfolio of conservative stocks that this...
CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD BUYS BOUTIQUE RETAIL BROKERAGE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amCushman & Wakefield has acquired a local boutique retail brokerage that is expected to help the global powerhouse create a strong national group to handle stores. With a quick handshake,...
ELLISON TAKES PARK VIEW - JOINS BILLIONAIRES BUYING UP CONDOS IN THE RITZ
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amLarry Ellison is among the super-rich who are buying up lavish full-floor condos now under construction overlooking Central Park at the top of the Ritz Carlton, The Post has learned....
THE PRINCESS' NEW CLOTHES (LINE)
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amDuty-free heiress Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece is getting into the rag trade. The sister of Pia Getty and Alexandra Von Furstenburg has launched her line of clothing for children...
FRENCH TYCOONS' ART WARS - ARNAULT, PINAULT FIGHT OVER BRAGGING RIGHTS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe battling French billionaires - Bernard Arnault and Francois Pinault - are at it again. After turning up the heat in their year-long court battle over control of Gucci, the...
COURT NIXES EX-ANALYST'S APPEAL FOR BONUS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - In a decision that will be felt all across Wall Street, the state's top court ruled an upstate financial analyst who left his job is not entitled to...
AOL, TIME WARNER SHARES TAKE DOUBLE-DIGIT DIVES
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amIt was a bloody Tuesday for America Online and Time Warner. Shares of AOL fell 17 percent - touching a 52-week low - while shares of Time Warner dropped 12...
MY DATE WITH NEW YORK'S HUNKIEST CHEF - HE'S SEXY, HE'S SWEET, HE'S SMOOTH - AND HE CAN COOK
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amIt was a dreary night, the kind of night I usually reserve for some quality bonding with my couch and a package of chocolate cookies. But there I was running...
BAD BOYS... IT'S 'SIN CITY'
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amBY the time you read this, Michael J. Fox will already have reached mythic status. In fact, by the time I wrote this, he was already being fitted for a...
THEY WANT A TASTE OF SANDRO
October 18, 2000 | 4:00am'IT'S big," the waiter at Sandro's agrees with my friend, dazzled by a pizza-size plate of veal Milanese. "The chef, he is big, too."As big, in fact, as his following....
EBAY BIDS FOR TV SHOW - AUCTION WEB SITE IN TALKS WITH ABC
October 18, 2000 | 4:00ameBay - the Web site that has spawned a nation of wanna-be auctioneers - now wants to become a television show. The Web site is reportedly close to a deal...
SOAPY SCRIPT A SCHLOCK OF NONSENSE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amYOU'D have to be careful if you called something the worst play of the season. Especially so early. In the first place, it can't refer merely to an amateurishly awful...
GRAPE LOVERS CAN CRUSH THEIR OWN AT RENT-A-WINERY
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amLONG Island's newest winery has no grapes of its own and you'll never see its name in big type on a bottle. But the $2.5 million worth of polished stainless...
THE STARR REPORT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amNBC crosses to the 'Other' side NBC is developing its own version of "The View" called "The Other View." NBC Studios has compiled a presentation tape for the show, which...
BAD BOYS ... H'WOOD LOVES LOW LIVES
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHE producers of "Spin City" and "Ally McBeal" are playing you for suckers. They want you to swallow a mouthful of hooey about why they've hired low-life druggies Charlie Sheen...
SOME THINGS ARE UNFORGIVABLE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amTO ERR is human; to forgive - up yours.Truthfully, though it may take many many years, I eventually do forgive everyone.Heck, I even forgave my brothers for selling me to...
WITH THE PROPER 'FUNK' SHUI, DAILY CHOW TAKES A BOW
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amRESTAURANTS like Daily Chow don't happen every day. They're born when Brad Kelley, who also owns trendy Kin Khao and Kelley & Ping downtown, expands his pan-Asian empire of eating....
A MANY-SPLENDA THING - SOME FOLKS WILL LIKE THIS ARTIFICIAL SUGAR, BUT OUR TASTERS WEREN'T TOO SWEET ON IT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amIF it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, the saying goes, it's a duck.Things are different with sweeteners, say the makers of Splenda, which measures cup for...
CHEF MULLER'S ON THE MOVE AGAIN TO MAKE IT MODERN
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amAS chef Eberhard Muller begins his first week at Bayard, we now hear he's recently partnered up with Harry's at Hanover Square. "I'm doing a steakhouse there," says Muller. "It's...
IS PASTIME'S TIME PAST? - RECORD LOW RATINGS FOR THE PLAYOFFS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amVIEWERS have thrown Major League Baseball a curveball - as more and more people seem to be tuning the games out. The playoffs, both for the National league and the...
HER WORLD'S THE STAGE - TONY AWARD-WINNER ELIZABETH ASHLEY TALKS OF FAME, THEATER AND THE ART OF HER CRAFT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00am'DARLING, I am clinically hyperactive. Clinically hyperactive!" says veteran stage actress Elizabeth Ashley, pounding home the phrase in a voice drenched in nicotine and fried in the Deep South. "That's...
A WHALE OF A TALE - TECHNO ROCKER MOBY TALKS OF WORK & 'PLAY'
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN Moby set off on his tour for "Play" 19 months ago, he rode in a small tour bus hooked up with a U-Haul. Now, after selling more than 1.4...
MISSING: THE WARRIOR ETHIC -CLINTON-GORE RESPOND TO A MILITARY ATTACK WITH . . . POLITICS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amSO the search for the USS Cole bombers is now in the hands of Janet Reno and the Justice Department. From this, two conclusions can fairly be drawn: No information...
HAIR STUDY: BEETHOVEN HAD LEAD POISONING
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amLudwig van Beethoven suffered from lead poisoning, which may have accounted for his erratic behavior, lifelong ailments - including deafness - and contributed to his death, a four-year study of...
JEALOUS DAD TOSSES BABY OUT WINDOW: COPS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amA Bronx dad, enraged at his estranged wife, tossed their 3-month-old baby out a 15th-floor window yesterday, boasting after he killed the infant, "If I'm not going to have him,...
CHAUFFEUR IS DRIVEN NUTS BY WRONG NO.
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amLimo driver Mohammed Hasanian's loyalty to George W. Bush was tested after getting more than 300 wrong-number calls on his cell phone in a GOP campaign misdial mix-up. Former First...
DONNA DRAWS RAVES IN 'MONOLOGUES'
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amDonna Hanover made a sex-sational off-Broadway debut last night while her estranged husband, Hizzoner the mayor, was seven miles away in The Bronx rooting for the Yankees. The city's first...
CHARGING VEEP GOES FOR THE JUGULAR - BUSH FIRES BACK IN FEISTY DEBATE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS, Mo. - The real Al Gore stood up and let it rip last night - and George W. Bush fired back in the third and final presidential debate....
DONNA FINALLY DEBUTS IN 'MONOLOGUES'
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amDonna Hanover made her off-Broadway debut last night while her estranged husband, hizzoner the mayor, was seven miles away in The Bronx rooting for the Yankees. The city's first lady...
GOV'S DEATH KILLS HOPE FOR DEM SENATE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans look certain to stay in control in the Senate after Missouri officials decided yesterday to keep Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, who was killed Monday in a plane...
GORE BROKE 'LETTER' OF LAW ON ARMS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A bombshell letter by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appears to support charges that Al Gore circumvented U.S. law by striking a secret arms deal with a Russian...
MET FANS TIXED OFF - OVERNIGHTERS DENIED SHOT AT SERIES DUCATS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amHundreds of Mets fans who camped outside Shea Stadium in hopes of buying World Series tickets flew into a rage yesterday when they were told the ducats will be sold...
SERIES MAY BE 'ROOT' OF WOE FOR HILL
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amA Subway Series may be a win-win situation for New York, but it might not be a home run for Rick Lazio and Hillary Rodham Clinton. A Met-Yankee Fall Classic...
ALL-APPLE SERIES MAY BE 'ROOT' OF WOE FOR HILL
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amA Subway Series may be a win-win situation for New York, but it might not be a home run for Rick Lazio and Hillary Rodham Clinton. A Met-Yankee Fall Classic...
BOMBER BANNER STILL WAVES
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amFor Chris Karalekas, it's always a banner year for his beloved Yankees. The 42-year-old Long Island man is still bringing his tattered "Yes We Can!" banner to Bombers games 26...
BRIT TRAIN TERROR RULED OUT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amBritish police ruled out terrorism as the cause of a high-speed train crash that killed four people north of London yesterday. Shortly after the noontime crash near Hatfield, they disclosed...
OK, LOYAL FANS, LET'S HEAR A GREAT, BIG BRONX CHEER FOR THE SUITS AT SHEA
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amIN THIS city of great money and baseball, the Mets have always been mascots of the underdog. Though sentenced to play in the shadow of the marquee gods from The...
CHURCH PROBERS: PRIEST DID NOTHING ILLEGAL
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amInvestigators have uncovered no evidence of criminality by Monsignor Thomas Gradilone, the embattled pastor of a Queens church where at least $2 million is missing, The Post has learned. While...
TIMES SQ. TAKES GIANT STEP - MAKEOVER FOR WALKWAYS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amEleven "hidden" Times Square- area pedestrian passageways are going to be revamped in a multimillion-dollar private-sector effort to further unclog the Crossroads of the World, The Post has learned. The...
SEX SURVEY SAYS: AMERICANS SCORE AGAIN AND AGAIN!
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amAnd the sex score is: United States 132, Japan 37. A new global survey finds that Americans make love most often, while the Japanese do it the least. Other factoids...
FAN PENALIZED IN TIX THEFT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amA Jersey football fan was hit with a personal foul after he intercepted - and used - a neighbor's Giants tickets that were mistakenly delivered to his mailbox, cops said....
1ST GUILTY PLEA IN PARADE WILDING INCIDENT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amA Bronx teen pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he was one of a roving gang of thugs who terrorized 53 women in a wilding spree in Central Park after this...
$TING IN TALE OF TRANSPORT BOND ISSUE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amNew York City voters trying to decide whether to approve the state's $3.8 billion Transportation Bond Act on Nov. 7 got more expert advice yesterday - some of it conflicting....
BIN LADEN TAUNTS U.S. WITH THREATS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amMaster terrorist Osama bin Laden declared yesterday he'll continue his "mission" against the "enemies of Islam" - and warned the United States not to try attacking his base. "The dream...
LORI TELLS TV REPORTER: I'M NO TERRORIST
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amAfter five years behind bars in Peru, accused terrorist Lori Berenson has finally been allowed to speak to an American reporter. There were no tears or pleas for mercy during...
PHONE-SALE POLICY 'TIX' OFF METS FANS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amA mini-riot erupted outside Shea Stadium yesterday when hundreds of waiting Mets fans were told World Series tickets will be sold only over the phone. The faithful started yelling obscenities...
BROOKLYN ART 'DUNG VANDAL' SMEARED IN COURT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe man charged with smearing white paint over a dung-encrusted image of the Virgin Mary at last year's controversial "Sensation" exhibit is a publicity-hungry criminal, a prosecutor insisted yesterday. But...
HEATED WORDS OVER BILINGUAL EDUCATION
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amA political war is brewing over bilingual education in the city schools. At a hearing yesterday by Mayor Giuliani's task force on bilingual education, critics - including some parents -...
HILL TAKES ON THE WORLD - ENDORSES BROAD U.S. INVOLVEMENT OVERSEAS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton played world policeman yesterday - saying the United States must avoid isolationism and follow a doctrine of "international engagement." In her most detailed foreign-policy speech...
AL BROKE 'LETTER' OF LAW ON RUSSIA ARMS DEAL
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A bombshell letter by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appears to support charges that Al Gore circumvented U.S. law by striking a secret arms deal with a Russian...
DEBATE MAY BE FOR AL THE MARBLES - VEEP HAS CHANCE TO STEM BUSH'S POLL MOMENTUM
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The pressure was on the real Al Gore to please stand up at the final presidential debate last night. "Some people just don't want to cut him...
HOWARD STEWS OVER 'FLING' OF ALL MEDIA - DINES BLOND BOMBSHELL, WHINES ABOUT ATTENTION
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amRaging radio loverboy Howard Stern yesterday admitted he's been dating blond bombshell actress Beth Ostrosky - and that it's caused some headaches for him on the home front. "I did,"...
HARLEM OIL MAN: MOM'S DEATH KO'D DEAL
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amA 35-year-old Harlem man who won and then lost a multimillion-dollar oil contract says his mother's death amid final finance negotiations tripped up the deal. "I was running back and...
FARRAKHAN MUST WAIT, JOE SAYS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman said yesterday he still is ready to meet with Louis Farrakhan - but it will have to be after the election. Farrakhan...
OH, FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN POLS WERE REAL PEOPLE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amWATCHING the last of the Gore-Bush waltzes last night, I felt a wave of nostalgia for the few politicians I have known who were real people, with authentic emotions and...
DUBYA WINS BY LOSING
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amIT was Al Gore's night in St. Louis. He wasn't likable, and he wasn't polite, but he was commanding and authoritative - and he answered the questions he was asked...
BOTH MEN WERE AT THE TOP OF THEIR FORM
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The "old" Al Gore went on the attack right from the start and slashed at George W. Bush's jugular - but he didn't draw much blood. Snap...
THAT'S WHY WE'RE NEW YORK, NEW YORK! - SUBWAY SERIES SET TO ROLL AS YANKS WIN
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amNext stop: Subway Series! Delirious New York fans climbed aboard the Yankee-Met Express yesterday after the Bombers banged out a hang-tough, come-from-behind 9-7 win against the Seattle Mariners in The...
GRITTY, NOT PRETTY - JUST LIKE THE CITY
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amSO NOW, we get Roger Clemens vs. Mike Piazza. Tino Martinez vs. Armando Benitez. Mariano Rivera vs. Matt Franco. More precious than all those fiery matchups, we get New York...
MARINERS HOPED TO HIJACK A SUBWAY CAR
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amSubway Series? Not if the Seattle Mariners have anything to do with it. With eyes of the city, and baseball fans across the country, watching the Big Apple, the Mariners...
MANAGER FOR ALL SEASONS - TORRE MAY HAVE DONE HIS BEST JOB IN 2000
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amYOU COULD just count the rings that make Joe Torre an unqualified success, although that approach would be shallower than some of the options he has pondered this season from...
MVP AWARD TRUE JUSTICE - DAVID'S DONE NOTHING BUT DELIVER IN POSTSEASON
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amIT WAS a long ride for a buck-fifty that David Justice gave that Arthur Rhodes pitch. He hit it from Coney Island to Pelham, via the express, no change. Justice...
CALL DEREK THE FALL GUY - ONCE AGAIN, OCTOBER IS JETER TIME
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS offseason Alex Rodriguez will sign the most lucrative contract in baseball history. Yet, he still will be unable to buy what he craves most, what his buddy has. Derek...
AMAZIN' STATE OF AFFAIRS - FOR ONE DAY, AT LEAST, YANKS NO. 2 IN GOTHAM
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amTO hear Joe Torre tell it, playing under pressure is as much a part of being a Yankee as putting on the pinstriped uniform, or winning in October. "To me,...
LOU TRIED TO GET M'S TO BELIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amLou Piniella knew what the Mariners were facing last night. But the job of a manager is to get his team to believe, so Piniella went to work right after...
JORGE NEEDED A BREAK
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amBuried under all that catching equipment is a stout, strong and fit man, but catcher Jorge Posada may need four days off more than anyone else on the Yankees. He...
JORGE COULD USE BREAK
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amBuried under all that catching equipment is a stout, strong and fit man, but catcher Jorge Posada may need four days off more than anyone else on the Yankees. He...
JETER TIPS CAP TO HAMPTON - 'IT WAS OVER AFTER FIRST INNING'
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Derek Jeter was like a lot of Yankees when it came to watching the Mets' clinching victory over the Cardinals Monday night in the NLCS. However, what Jeter...
BOMBER JACKETS WRONG BRAND? SEW WHAT?
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amIt must be the jackets. The Yankees have opted to make their run for a third straight World Series championship wearing baseball jackets made by Starter. Major League Baseball has...
SEATTLE GM GILLICK HAS WORK TO DO
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amSeattle Mariners general manager Pat Gillick stood on the Yankee Stadium field prior to Game 6 of the ALCS and seemed like a man without a care in the world....
ANDY HOPES HE'LL HAVE TONIGHT OFF
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amAndy Pettitte was hoping this thing was done and over with as of this morning. If not, he was ready for tonight. Pettitte would have been the Yankees' Game 7...
DOC DREAMS OF RETURN TO SHEA
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amDoc Gooden says that most fans he runs into think of him as Met, but he prefers to think of himself as "a New York ball player" rather than a...
METS: HOW SWEET IT IS - NL CHAMPS CAN'T WAIT TO BEGIN WORLD SERIES
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amHis 35-year-old voice was booming early yesterday morning in the Mets' clubhouse after the NLCS clincher. Lenny Harris was thinking about all the seasons he had worked to get to...
NETS UNVEIL THE DOUBLE-K FRONTCOURT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amORLANDO - Some day, the Nets are going to get their starting five together. Some day. Just not last night. Or tonight. Still, the Nets unveiled a starting unit here...
SCATCHARD TAKES OFFENSE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amCenter Dave Scatchard disagreed with Butch Goring's sharp comments yesterday that the Islanders' centers are a major reason for the team's offensive problems. "I don't think that has much to...
LOU HAS CHANCE TO END HOLDOUTS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - If Lou Lamoriello is serious about putting the best Devil team on the ice that he can, a golden opportunity awaits him in Washington. The Post has learned...
NO TELLING WHERE GIANTS ARE HEADED
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amWE interrupt this Subway Series frenzy to remind those interested that the New York Giants will go on a two-week hiatus before once again taking the field. Please divert your...
JETS ON 'PREDATORS': WOW, WHAT A RUSH!
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE was a moment in Sunday's Jet win over the Patriots that produced such wonderful symmetry that Al Groh couldn't help but experience an overwhelming feeling of validation. In one...
RICHTER'S ALMOST READY TO RETURN
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amTime is winding down on the Mike Richter watch. The Rangers expect to see their starting goaltender back in net some time after this weekend, and head coach Ron Low...
HARRIS HOLDS KEY TO CLUBHOUSE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amHE didn't get a hit in the NLCS. He only got one at-bat, but when you look at why the Mets were a better team than the Cardinals, the best...
WILPON EXPECTED CHAMPAGNE BATH
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES As he walked into his victorious clubhouse after his team had just clinched the 2000 National League Championship, co-owner Fred Wilpon tapped a Post reporter on the shoulder...
LAZY 'D' UPSETS JEFF
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amAlthough the Knicks are 3-0 in the preseason, Jeff Van Gundy has noticed a disturbing pattern: In each game, the starters have come out playing lazy defense. Yesterday, he warned...
BORDICK THANKFUL O'S CUT HIM LOOSE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amLike almost every other kid that picked up a bat and a glove, Mike Bordick had dreamed of leading his team into the World Series. But as often as the...
ME-OUCH! JUDGE OKS BOBCAT HUNT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amPENNSYLVANIA'S first bobcat hunt in three decades began as scheduled on Saturday after a Commonwealth Court judge refused to temporarily block the hunting of the non-endangered feline. Judge Warren G....
TICKETS ON SALE SATURDAY
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amWorld Series tickets for Games 3, 4 and5 at Shea will be sold by telephone only this Saturday at 9 a.m. Tickets can be purchased by calling 718-507-TIXX. Each fan...
HAMPTON MIGHT BE GAME 1 STARTER
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amGM Steve Phillips and Bobby Valentine yesterday didn't discuss any of their possible moves in terms of the pitching rotation or the roster for the World Series, which begins Saturday....
WINNING SATISFIES BENNY'S HUNGER
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amBenny Agbayani said his Mets scrapped their way past the Cardinals in the NLCS because they wanted it more, fought their way from the wild card into the World Series...
AMAZIN'S TURN INTO BOMBER BOOSTERS - NL CHAMPS JOIN FANS ROOTING FOR A SUBWAY SERIES
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amHow crazy can one game get? Even the Mets were pulling for the Yankees to win last night. With their ticket on the Subway Series Express punched when they beat...
CAN'T WIN? FOLLOW THIS SYSTEM
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amHorseplayers on a losing streak resemble baseball players in a batting slump who press at the plate and just make their slump worse. When your handicapping skills head south, you...
THANKSGIVING FOR FONZIE - METS' BEST PLAYER GRATEFUL FOR VICTORY
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amWHILE the rest of his teammates began a champagne-spraying celebration that wouldn't end until 2 a.m., Edgardo Alfonzo was in a quiet room on his knees praying. Everybody in New...
LASORDA: NO ONE'S BETTER THAN BOBBY
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amNOT "Hello." Not "How are you?" Not "What can I do for you?" "What did I tell you about my boy Valentine?" the voice on the other end of the...
NETS HURTIN' AS VAN HORN BREAKS LEG
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amORLANDO - The incredible ill fortune of the New Jersey Nets continued last night when Keith Van Horn, making his pre-season debut and teaming with rookie Kenyon Martin for the...
NO-WIN SEASON STILL POSSIBLE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amDucks 4 - Islanders 3 You know things are bad when fans start looking for help from a hockey-playing chimpanzee during the third period. But that's what it came down...
YANKS CLIMB ABOARD AS JUSTICE IS SERVED - DAVID'S THREE-RUN DINGER PUTS YANKS BACK IN SERIES
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amSay hello to Baseball Nirvana while putting a death grip on a Subway Series Express strap. No longer do we have to listen to another generation tell us what New...
A-ROD NOW MUST WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amez's season ended last night in The Bronx and his immediate plans were to get on the first plane to Miami. Where the superstar free-agent shortstop goes from there is...
WRONG YANKEE JACKETS? SEW WHAT?
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amIt must be the jackets. The Yankees have opted to make their run for a third straight World Series championship wearing baseball jackets made by Starter. Major League Baseball has...
OKAY, SO HE'S NOT PERFECT - RIVERA FINALLY ALLOWS RUN
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amPerfect. Since the 2000 Yankees cannot do anything with ease, of course, the final out would come down to Edgar Martinez as the tying run last night against Mariano Rivera....
VIZ GETS THE PARTY STARTED
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees raised their eyebrows, impressed, when Jose Vizcaino took the redeye flight on June 21 from Los Angeles to Boston, where the Bombers were playing a three-game series. He...
LOU'S STRATEGY DIDN'T WORK OUT
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amAfter Game 5, Lou Piniella said the pressure was on the Yankees. Piniella stuck by his words prior to the start of Game 6 last night. "I told my team...
O'NEILL'S SIXTH GAME IS ONE TO REMEMBER
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amPaul O'Neill walked slowly down the Yankee Stadium tunnel to indoor batting practice before last night's ALCS-clinching win. The late afternoon sky was drizzly and gloomy and O'Neill face looked...
DOC HAPPY FOR CHANCE TO MEET UP WITH METS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amDoc Gooden says most fans he runs into think of him as Met, but he prefers to think of himself as "a New York ball player" rather than a Met...
METS: BRING ON THE YANKS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe 44-year-old dream is here and GM Steve Phillips echoed the thoughts of co-owner Fred Wilpon. He was rooting for the guys with the pinstripes in the ALCS. "I am...
YANKS NEARLY MISSED TRAIN - NOW THEY'VE GOTTA WATCH STEP
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amALL aboooard!! Step lively, and watch the closing doors! The Yankees came awfully close to ignoring the last part of that warning last night, which would have been one El...
TORRE KNOWS REAL PRESSURE'S DOWN THE TRACKS
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amJoe Torre better call his travel agent today. When asked several days ago how intense he thought a Subway Series would be, Torre said it would take a month's vacation...
BIG APPLE FORECAST CALLS FOR 'COMPLETE MAYHEM'
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe champagne they didn't gulp was sprayed around a joyous Yankees clubhouse. They didn't dominate like 1998, nor did the season go as smoothly as 1999. But after a 9-7...
JOE: CLEMENS STARTS GAME 2
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Met pitchers won't get a chance to get even with Roger Clemens for hitting Mike Piazza in the head. That's because the Yankees' rotation for the Subway Series...
MAZZILLI: WINNER IS NEW YORK
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amLee Mazzilli has worn both uniforms and he's seen all levels of this game, so the following pronouncement can be taken as good as gold. "The next two weeks will...
TIRED JORGE WELCOMES THE TIME OFF
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amBuried under all that catching equipment is a stout, strong and fit man, but catcher Jorge Posada may need four days off more than anyone else on the Yankees. He...
NELLIE, NEAGLE HAVE REASON TO CELEBRATE
October 18, 2000 | 4:00amJeff Nelson and Denny Neagle may not have put up the kind of dominating outings they would have liked in their last appearances in the playoffs prior to the World...