October 21, 2000
TOP EXEC JUMPS BRIDGE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amFinancially-strapped Bridge Information Systems has lost yet another top executive. Paul Lowe, executive editor of the financial news and information provider, unexpectedly resigned from his position yesterday after 20 years...
GE BID SPOILS HONEYWELL MERGER
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe merger talks between United Technologies and Honeywell International ended yesterday as rival General Electric came in with a last-minute bid. GE Chairman and CEO Jack Welch said yesterday his...
EVE.COM SHUTS ITS GATES
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amEve.com is shutting down and firing most of its 164 employees - but a source close to the company tells The Post that its two co-founders will each leave with...
STAR RAPPERS WIDEN THE TEEN-ADULT CHASM AND .... 'ANGER' TOUR DOES ITS BEST OT OFFEND
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Whit it's hard to stand with Eminem or Limp Bizkit on any front, the "Anger Management" show took a step toward re-establishing the balance of nature between teenagers and...
SIR ELTON ROCKS 'EM ONE MORE KNIGHT
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amAN hour and a half into Elton John's concert last night, the man who has sold more than 60 million records in the United States alone announced - so off-handedly...
HE'S STILL STANDING, BUT SOON HE'LL RETIRE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amELTON JOHN surprised a sellout audience at Madison Square Garden last night by announcing he'll retire by the end of 2001. "One more album and I'm done," John told the...
NEW SECURITY FEARS AS NAVY ALTERS COLE STORY
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Navy changed its account of the events leading to the attack of the USS Cole yesterday - raising new questions about security procedures in one of the world's most...
NARC COP KILLS ROB SUSPECT IN B'KLYN
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amAn undercover cop shot dead a Bushwick drug addict yesterday in a buy-and-bust operation that went tragically wrong. The knife-wielding dead man was identified as Renaldo Colon, 34. He was...
KID BURGLARY SUSPECT BUSTED AGAIN
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amA pint-sized 12-year-old Brooklyn boy - busted last month on charges he pulled off five burglaries - just had another brush with the law, cops said. The Crown Heights kid...
CONN. MAY DROP SLAY CASE VS. KENNEDY KIN
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amConnecticut prosecutors hurled a bombshell yesterday, threatening to drop murder charges against Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel for the sensational 1975 killing of Martha Moxley if he is tried as a...
PATAKI TO HAND OFF KIMESES FOR CALIF. SLAY TRIAL
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The murderous mother-son con team of Sante and Kenneth Kimes will be sent to California, where they could face the death penalty in another murder case. Gov. Pataki,...
VIRGIN MARY 'DEFENDER' CASE COMES UN-DUNG
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Roman Catholic activist who smeared paint on a dung-daubed image of the Virgin Mary at the Brooklyn Museum was convicted yesterday on all charges - which could land him...
EX-U.S. ARMY MAN: I WORKED WITH BIN LADEN
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amA globe-trotting lieutenant in Osama bin Laden's terror army offered a surprise guilty plea in Manhattan yesterday, admitting to a long career of orchestrating attacks on Americans for his elusive...
HEFTY PAY HIKES FOR COUNCIL STAFFERS
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amChristmas has come early to the City Council - staffers are quietly hauling in raises totaling about $900,000. The increases ranged from 3.5 percent to more than 20 percent. Among...
RICK: YANK CAP DOESN'T MAKE HILL A NYER
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amGOP Senate candidate Rick Lazio yesterday charged that Hillary Rodham Clinton is out of touch with average New Yorkers and the first lady's campaign unveiled a new ad featuring Robert...
ISRAEL 'TRUCE' IS IN TATTERS 11 KILLED IN CLASHES ON WEST BANK
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amIsrael is calling "time out" from the Mideast peace process after 11 Palestinians were killed in deadly clashes across the West Bank yesterday - the worst fighting in two weeks....
AL SPURNS DEM PLEA TO ENLIST BILL'S AID
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amDemocrat Al Gore, now trailing George W. Bush in most polls, yesterday insisted "I'm running in my own right" as worried Democrats pressed him to call President Clinton to the...
FASHION AWARDS ARE FROCK 'N' ROLL SHOW
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThank God for clothes! If it weren't for them, nothing would set the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards apart from any of the other dime-a-dozen trophy shows on the air. The most...
MAN KILLED TRYING TO STEAL DRUGS FROM COP: POLICE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amAn undercover cop fatally shot a Bushwick drug addict yesterday in a buy-and-bust operation that went tragically wrong. The knife-wielding dead man was identified as Renaldo Colon, 34. He was...
AMAZIN'S FLUSH CARDS FOR PENNANT
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amBefore the series, the thought was the Mets had the right combination, because of the lefty-lefty matchup. Sometimes the analysis is right on. To twist an old baseball adage, good...
A REAL BITING CHANCE - TYSON-GOLOTA BOUT A BLUEPRINT FOR BEDLAM
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS, Mich. - In one corner we had the former heavyweight champ of the world, a boxer who has since bit an opponent in the ear twice, punched a...
BUTCH PUTS MARIUSZ ON 4TH LINE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - Here in the New South, Butch Goring decided to make his own changes yesterday. The fed-up Islander coach demoted All-Star right wing Mariusz Czerkawski to the fourth line...
BENNY SAYS BOLD CALL WAS A JOKE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amYou would have to be clueless not to know that Benny Agbayani's 'prediction' was said with jest, but because it was put on the front page of The Post yesterday,...
THE MATCHUPS
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amWho is better? You don't have enough time to wage that argument. Scream about Mike Hampton and Al Leiter and listen to somebody promote Andy Pettitte, Roger Clemens and El...
TALKIN' THE TALK - FELLOW NEW YORK SPORTS PERSONALITIES CHAT UP THE SUBWAY SERIES
October 21, 2000 | 4:00am"Thinking back to then I can remember how exciting it was and how everybody's radio was on. We stopped going to the park to play ball in the afternoons. We'd...
METS NEED RIGHT STUFF AGAINST DUQUE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amCan the Mets' righty lineup handle the righty sliders of Orlando Hernandez in two starts and Jeff Nelson coming out of the pen? Can a team that has coped with...
SHORT & SWEET: WILL ALFONZO REACH HEIGHTS OF JETER UNDER WORLD SERIES SPOTLIGHT?
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amABSTRACT: The World Series is forever. The forum creates eternal heroes, goats for all time. The stage is so big, so watched, so dissected that no good or bad deed...
BOMBERS TO PUSH FOR A NEW HOME
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees intend to step up to the plate after the World Series to try to reach a deal for a new stadium in the Bronx, The Post has learned....
GOING TO THE GAMES? HERE'S A FERRY GOOD IDEA
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amYou could say Met and Yankee fans are in the same boat. Aside from being the first Subway Series in 44 years, this World Series will also be the first...
BOMBERS SINK M'S TO WRAP UP 37TH AL FLAG
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amAfter surviving a near-death experience against the plucky A's in the ALDS, the Yankees looked like the team we are used to seeing in the ALCS against the Mariners. They...
THERE'S A LOT AT STEAK WITH THESE TWO FANS
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amFor Stephen Jones and Gina Royce Lucia, bragging rights are at steak when the Yankees and Mets take the field tonight. Jones, a diehard Mets fan and owner of Knickerbocker...
JOE'S CRITIQUE EATS AT DENNY
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amAll is not perfect in the Yankee world with the Subway Series ready to roll. Denny Neagle is not happy with Joe Torre's assessment that the left-hander was not as...
BERNIE'S BECOME A MODEL CITIZEN
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amSome big-time star is finally willing to take a stand. After all the poison that's been heaped on society by the likes of Mike Tyson and Allen Iverson, Bernie Williams,...
ZEILE'S FEELIN' SIMPLY AMAZIN'
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amTodd Zeile shocked many when he chose to sign a free-agent deal with the Mets; he may even surprised himself a little. The laid-back Californian had never had a reputation...
DREAMS DO COME TRUE AFTER 44-YEAR ABSENCE, SUBWAY SERIES IS BACK SUBWAY SERIES RETURNS TO BIG APPLE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amTonight the Subway Series moves from black and white to color. From the grainy television picture of Johnny Podres to every centimeter of Andy Pettitte's dimpled chin. From Dick Young...
PRATT CATCHES, PIAZZA TO DH IN GAME 1
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amTodd Pratt was a little surprised yesterday to learn he would be starting Game 1 of the Subway Series. On Wednesday when a reporter approached him about this opportunity, Pratt...
WHERE'S THE HATE, MAN? THESE YANKS TOO NICE TO BE CONTEMPTIBLE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amOn the field at Yankee Stadium on this cool, sun-dazzled afternoon, it was hard to imagine that once upon a time almost everybody you knew hated the Yankees. They were...
MAHOMES WAITS FOR WORD FROM BOBBY
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amFor Met reliever Pat Mahomes, as with most athletes, uncertainty and inactivity are far tougher on the nerves than playing and competing. And rarely has Mahomes been this uncertain, leaving...
THEY'RE AMAZIN' UNDERDOGS
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE summer took one of those turns a baseball season takes and the Mets roared around it with precision, hotter than ever. The Yankees hit a bump and flew off...
COOK 'PASSES' THE TEST
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amMet reliever Dennis Cook has proclaimed himself fit and ready for World Series duty. Cook, who has not given up a run in 16 postseason innings, had been diagnosed with...
BAD BLOOD? ONLY AMONG FANS BASEBALL RIVALRIES AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS is what the Subway Series means to Bernie Williams: "I'm just glad we don't have to fly anywhere." This is what the Subway Series means to Paul O'Neill: "The...
TORRE AND V. MANAGE TO HIDE THEIR DISLIKE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amWorld Series managers Joe Torre and Bobby Valentine have a history. Valentine played for and was released by Torre. Valentine asked Torre if he would like to coach for him...
EVERYTHING TO LOSE IF YANKS FAIL, DOES THEIR PROUD PAST MATTER?
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amGIVE Andy Pettitte credit. If the Yankees don't win Game 1 tonight of the only series that has ever counted, then Joe DiMaggio never existed. Tonight's starter understands his responsibility....
BELMONT BRINGS OUT NEW YORK'S FINEST
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe best New York-breds in training will be on display at Belmont Park as $1 million in purses will be available in seven stakes races on New York Showcase Day....
SPUTTERING DEVILS TURN TO TERRERI
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThis is a pretty fix for the swooning Stanley Cup champs. Even the franchise's goaltending bedrock is shaky. Yanked for the first time in 2 ½ years in Thursday's 5-2...
METS TAKE A GIANT LEAP - BOBBY'S 1-HIT CLASSIC CAPS NLDS
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amEveryone thought this series would be close. If you were to add up the scores of the four games, it was. The Mets only outscored the Giants, 13-11, but they...
CALM BEFORE STORM IS RALLY SOMETHING FANS REVVED-UP ABOUT SERIES
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amBryant Park became a bloodless battlefield for baseball boosters yesterday, as thousands of Met maniacs and Yankee yahoos revved up for the Subway Series at a rip-roaring rally. It looked...
GOVERNORS NEED TO WIN
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S HARD to tell which team was uglier last week. Was it Clinton, which needed an Edwin Alvarado touchdown in overtime to get past a weak Columbus team or was...
LEITER'S BEEN THERE, WON THAT
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amSo many of Al Leiter's baseball memories consist of the Mets or the Yankees. Now, maybe his greatest memory will include them both. Leiter will start for the Mets in...
CONFIDENT METS ARE READY TO RUMBLE
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mets head into the biggest series of their lives, the first Subway Series in 44 years, with the confidence that they are going to give their fans bragging rights...
BAILEY TO RIDE 'MISSILE' IN CLASSIC
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amIt didn't take long for Jerry Bailey to get a new Breeders' Cup Classic mount after Behrens was declared out of the race. Trainer Joe Orseno announced that Bailey will...
MAWAE SET FOR ZACH ATTACK
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amRarely do professional athletes ever admit to being obsessed with an opposing athlete. Yet with Dolphins' candid middle linebacker Zach Thomas, this is the case. Since as far back as...
MET FAN DIES AT RALLY
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amA Mets fan suffered a fatal heart attack at yesterday's pep rally in Bryant Park. The man, whose name was not released, was waiting for the Subway Series festivities to...
U.S. TEAM KEEPS ROLLIN' TIGER, NOTAH LEAD THE WAY FOR AMERICANS
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amGAINSVILLE, Va. - A stirring pep talk by Ernie Els charged-up the International Team enough to battle back from its horrendous play Thursday. But by the time dusk fell yesterday...
CANSECO'S BIG BAT READY IN A PINCH
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Joe Torre left Jose Canseco off the ALCS roster in order to add pitcher Jason Grimsley, Canseco supported the move because he admitted to being the "worst pinch-hitter in...
SCOTT TAKES THE NETS BACK TO CAMP
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Nets just completed a lovely little three-hour-plus sweat fest when coach Byron Scott called them into a group. "Good workout. That's what we have to do. Nobody is going...
DEREK CAN'T ANSWER BELL
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amDerek Bell has an answer for everyone who thinks he should be with his team during the World Series. "I can't walk, and I'm on crutches," Bell told The Post...
STARKS: KNICKS'LL MISS PAT
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - John Starks believes if the Knicks stood Pat, they'd be eyeing another Eastern Conference championship. Starks, a free agent who signed with the Jazz over the summer, said...
EWING DEAL NOT PANNING OUT FOR NY
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - It has been exactly one month since the Patrick Ewing blockbuster and the Knicks have been unable to evaluate what they've gotten in return. With Russian 7-footer Vladimir...
TORRE GIVES VIZ START AT SECOND
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amHow deep are the Yankees? They were able to dip down to their third-string second baseman to start the World Series. Jose Vizcaino got the nod at second over Luis...
HEY! ISLES ON BOARD
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amIslanders 5 - Thrashers 3 ATLANTA - It was an explosion not felt in this city since the '96 Olympics. After going winless in their first four games (10 if...
LOCAL JUDAH MAKES FEW BELIEVERS IN VICTORY
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Brooklyn's Zab Judah ruined his own coming out party with an unimpressive technical knockout of Hector Quiroz last night at The Palace. Referee Dale Grable stopped...
JETS CATCH NICE BREAK AS FINS' GARDENER SITS
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES For the second consecutive week, the Jets will catch a bit of a break with an opposing team finding itself without one of its best run-stoppers. Last week,...
POLISH PRINCE OF QUIT
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS, Mich. - No one needed a translator to understand what 'juz nie' meant last night. In one of the most bizarre and disgraceful performances in boxing history, Andrew...
CREATURES READY TO ROAR - STADIUM BLEACHERS NO PLACE FOR MET FAN
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amFire, cowbells, beer - the Bleacher Creatures have their weapons ready and they're ready to rumble. The Yankees' most diehard fans, the lovable rabble who haunt Section 39 in the...
SCOUTING OUT THE SERIES: YANK KEY IS BEATING LEFTIES
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amCan David Justice, Tino Martinez and Paul O'Neill cope with Met lefties Al Leiter and Mike Hampton in what could be four World Series starts? Can Roger Clemens overcome any...
PRELUDE TO FALL CLASSIC - PIAZZA BEANING LOWLIGHT OF 2000 MET-YANK WARS
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankee-Mets annual Subway Series has served as the only forum for the greatest rivalry in all of baseball. Until now. For the first time in the franchises' storied histories,...
PEREZ TURNS METS INTO AMAZIN' TIMO
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amTo work as a Triple-A manager is to live with the reality your best player will be stolen and replaced with an untested kid. Norfolk Tides manager John Gibbons knows...
YANKEES KICK A'S IN FIVE GAMES
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amJust when everyone said the Yankees had nothing left in the tank and were past their prime, they got the job done. Against a young and upstart Athletics team, playing...
DODGERS 2 GOOD
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 2: Dodgers 13 - Yankees 8The Post did not cover Game 2 of the 1956 World Series as it did not publish on Oct. 6. The following is Mark...
HEARTBREAK OF '56 LIVES ON IN INFAMY
October 21, 2000 | 4:00amOCTOBER 10, 1956 is a date that will live in infamy - in Brooklyn and in my private memory bank of disappointments. On that date I sat in the upper...