October 25, 2000

REEBOK'S BIG PLAY ; IN TALKS WITH NFL FOR LICENSING DEAL

Reebok International is in talks with the NFL over a blockbuster apparel rights deal, The Post has learned. The talks center on a possible exclusive apparel license for Reebok, including...

CON ED MULLS PULLING PLUG ON NORTHEAST DEAL

Shares of Northeast Utilities fell 10 percent yesterday, after Con Edison said it was no longer sure it would go through with plans to buy the company. Con Edison was...

XEROX IS BROKEN AND IT'S TRYING TO GET ITSELF FIXED

Xerox, one of the world's greatest brands, has fallen and can't seem to get up. The company, which is living mostly on bank loans because it can't borrow elsewhere, will...

B. SMITH'S STYLE FACES AX: TIME, ESSENCE PLAN NEW MAGAZINES

Special form the American Magazine Conference BERMUDA. TIME INC. appears ready to suspend publication of B. Smith's Style as it mulls at least two new launches as part of its...

ARMSTRONG'S JOB IS ON THE LINE: BREAKUP MAY BE HIS FINAL UNDOING

Michael Armstrong's tightrope just got a lot thinner. With AT&T expected to announce a massive restructuring today, Wall Street is waiting for its chairman to pull the company back from...

JOHN MALONE ISTHE MAN BEHIND THE MA BELL PLAN

The doctor is in the house. Cable-TV pioneer Dr. John Malone, one of AT&T's biggest individual shareholders and a member of the board of directors, is believed to be the...

RETURN OF THE SUPERMODEL

Gisele Bundchen is one. Carmen Kass and Maggie Rizer could be. And that Wisconsin teenager in the Sears bra ad? Definitely not. Supermodels are coming back, fashion experts say, to...

A GARDEN OF BEEFY DELIGHTS

NICK & STEF'S STEAKHOUSE ½ 9 PENN PLAZA (MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ON 33RD STREET) (212) 563-4444 'WHAT'S this crispy free-range chicken?" the guy behind me asks the lunch-time waiter at...

VIRTUOSO DRAMA HITS THE PERFECT PITCH

PROOF 1/2The Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 W. 48th St. (212) 239-6200. IF THE proof of a play is in its playing, then David Auburn's "Proof," which last night opened at...

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE FESTIVUS

'SEINFELD" might have been a show about nothing, but Ben & Jerry's has managed to make a holiday ice cream based on the sitcom - and it's really something. The...

VEEP'S KIN DRIVES D.C. LOCO

POLITICS isn't the only profession plied by the Gore family in Washington. Al Gore's cousin Jamie Gore - a former practicing attorney - owns two eateries in the nation's capital....

PEACE OF MINDS

THE UNEXPECTED MANPromenade Theatre, 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street, (212) 580-1313. IT'S the train from Paris to Frankfurt in Yasmina Reza's play, "The Unexpected Man." Eileen Atkins is in a...

JUST LIKE GRANDMA USED TO MAKE - ON HOUSTON

RISA ½ 47 E. HOUSTON ST. (BETWEEN MOTT & MULBERRY STREETS) (212) 625-1712 'WARM" is not a word often linked to Houston Street. Hot yes, but warm? Nah.You get the...

METAPHORS AND YANKEE-APHORS

BASEBALL and sex were inextricably linked long before Darryl Strawberry was busted for soliciting a hooker. So as this season winds down, I started thinking about - well, of course,...

'CUCKOO' CLOCK SET TO TONY TIME

If you think Broadway is crawling with loonies now, wait until "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" hits the boards in the spring. Plans are shaping up to bring a...

THE STARR REPORT

B'ball ratings Final national Nielsen ratings are in for Games 1 and 2 of the Mets-Yankees Subway Series airing on Fox. Game 1 was watched by 17.5 million viewers, down...

'BLUE'S' NEWS STAR SCOOPED UP

FORMER "NYPD Blue" star-turned-TV-news correspondent Andrea Thompson has signed a one-year deal with Albuquerque's KRQE-TV. Thompson spent the summer as a cub reporter at the New Mexico station and immediately...

BOB'S TIME IS RIGHT? GAME SHOW HOST HINTS HE'LL COME ON DOWN AND RETIRE

"THE Price Is Right" legend Bob Barker is hinting that he might retire - bringing an end to one of TV's longest-running hosting gigs. "I still feel like I have...

RIOTS ROCK IVORY COAST

The Ivory Coast's military coup leader slapped a state of emergency on the troubled country last night after thousands of rioters flooded the capital protesting his ascension to power. Troops...

LIFELONG ROBBER JAILED AGAIN AT 80

An 80-year-old robber with a long and colorful criminal history has been sentenced to 13 years in a Florida slammer for his latest heist - a bank stickup he pulled...

TREKKIES' EARS WILL PERK UP FOR SPOCK AUCTION

Hear, hear - rabid fans of "Star Trek" are about to be offered the ultimate souvenir: Mr. Spock's famous pointed ears. Christie's in Los Angeles is auctioning four pairs of...

TAX CUTS FOR ALL VS. 'TARGETED' CREDITS

Day 4: Taxes Part 4 in a weeklong series that looks in depth at the presidential candidates' stands on critical issues WASHINGTON -- It's true, what the two candidates have...

AL'S JUST A POSER - GEORGE IS THE REAL DEAL

Day 4: Taxes SOMETHING amazing happened on the way to the election. Even though the conventional wisdom in Washington and on liberal editorial pages kept asserting that federal tax cuts...

$87M STARBUCKS FOR LOTTERY WINNERS

Thirteen lucky Starbucks workers can now quit the daily grind - thanks to an $87 million winning lottery ticket. The coffee-house employees each gave a buck to their boss to...

2 OFF HOOK IN PARK WILDING

Charges were dropped yesterday against the first two young men accused of felony sex assaults in last summer's Central Park wilding. Tremayne Bain, 22, and David Rowe, 24, arrested just...

EAR-Y FEELING AT 'TREK' AUCTION

Hear, hear - rabid fans of "Star Trek" are about to be offered the ultimate souvenir: Mr. Spock's famous pointed ears. Christie's in Los Angeles is auctioning four pairs of...

STUDY CALLS UNINSURED A HEALTH CRISIS

Millions of sick adults without medical coverage are falling through a government "safety net" that's supposed to help them, a new study shows. The survey, conducted by Harvard researchers, found...

SCARY ALERT: DANGER LURKS IN HALLOWEEN PARAPHERNALIA

Dangerous costumes can turn Halloween into a real-life nightmare, city officials warned yesterday. The Department of Consumer Affairs inspected costumes and accessories for trick-or-treaters and found that so-called "flame-resistant" materials...

PRIEST'S EX-CON PAL ; OUT OF HIDING

An ex-con and longtime friend of the priest at the center of a $2 million Queens church embezzlement scandal has emerged from hiding and broken his silence. George Schweigert, a...

SOBS ARE NO ACT FOR OSCAR MOM JESSICA

Oscar-winner Jessica Lange burst into sobs outside The Carlyle hotel over the weekend - but she wasn't filming a dramatic scene for one of her movies. The famed beauty was...

HILL'S HELPFUL HUBBY A TOWER OF POWER ABUSE

AFTER decades of frustration, humiliation, degradation, Hillary Rodham Clinton is learning that her errant husband, Bill, is capable of playing the dutiful helpmate. Actually, the president of the United States...

BUSH HITS GORE WHERE HE LIVES

The presidential campaign has become a battle for turf with Al Gore stumping in his own back yard yesterday - defending Tennessee and Arkansas, President Clinton's home state, against a...

WIFE-SLAY DOC'S HIGH LIFE OVER IN ONE WORD: GUILTY

A brilliant but evil plastic surgeon was convicted yesterday of strangling his pretty young wife - a brutal murder he'd gotten away with for 15 years. Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, 44,...

FED WORKERS: PROTECT US

More than 300 government workers - fearing increased vulnerability to a terrorist attack - have signed a petition demanding the rehiring of 30 cops who used to guard federal buildings...

PRINCIPALS FIRE BACK AT B'KLYN SUPT.

The head of the principals union condemned the embattled superintendent of Brooklyn's School District 15 yesterday for "lack of leadership" and trying to blame principals for the district's deficit. "I...

IT TOOK 'DUMB' FLATFOOT TO NAIL EVIL GENIUS

IT'S not quite what the doctor ordered when he met O'Malley. But O'Malley had a prescription and it took a chunk of a generation to have it filled. "I knew...

STOCK SCAM MASTER: I LIED TO SENATE PANEL

A convicted stock-fraud king testified yesterday that he lied to the Senate Ethics Committee when said he did not engineer a $37,125 one-day stock windfall for then-Sen. Al D'Amato in...

'PETTY' PREZ DISSES RICK - SIGNS LAZIO CANCER EGISLATION IN PRIVATE

President Clinton yesterday - with no public fanfare - signed a breast-cancer bill sponsored by Rick Lazio, denying Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate rival a chance to shine on the White...

COURT BACKS RUDY IN WELFARE TUSSLE

Mayor Giuliani had every right to force Comptroller Alan Hevesi to approve two welfare-to-work contracts, a court ruled yesterday - as a City Council contingent called for the resignation of...

RAPE-SLAY SUSPECT TAUNTED HIS 'LUCKY' VICTIMS: PROSECUTOR

Arohn Kee is a sadist who "raped, robbed, violated and/or murdered seven young women" - and who told one of his victims she was "lucky" to get raped by him,...

JOE'S BROTHER KEEPS ON TICKIN'

The city is filled with hangers-on who claim friendship to the Torre brothers, Joe and Frank. Maybe they shook their hands a couple of times, or let them cut in...

GAIL'S SIS NEVER LET UP ; HER DETERMINATION HELPED COPS PUT AWAY BIERENBAUM

ALAYNE KATZ suspected her brother-in-law from the start. And from the start, the red-headed Westchester County mom pursued him for 15 years, doggedly, fearlessly - and not a little maliciously....

FAN TAKES HILL FOR $1M THRILL

Tonight, before a stadium full of cheering fans, a lone unemployed California man - who's never played baseball before - will ascend the pitcher's mound for a chance at a...

PIAZZA LUMBER WOULD SELL LIKE 'A BAT OUT OF HELL'

The Hall of Fame may not want it, but sports memorabilia mavens say the piece of Mike Piazza's broken bat that Yankee ace Roger Clemens bizarrely hurled could fetch tens...

COURT SCENE OF SERIES TIX WAR

A Manhattan man went to court yesterday to fight for the World Series tickets he says he was cheated out of by a fellow Mets season ticket holder. Michael S....

FLOAT MAKERS HOLD OFF BRONX CHEER ; NOT TAKING YANK CROWN FOR GRANTED

At the Bond Float Co. in Clifton, N.J., the staff is only working half as hard as it might. After all, there's no point in making a fleet of Yankee...

MOM IS THE WORD ON DAD & SONS DAY AT SHEA

THIS is a real-life fairy tale about a baseball game, two boys, a loving father, and the $900 he spent behind his wife's back. It started about 2:30 p.m. yesterday...

SCHOOL HOSTAGE TERROR

An Arizona teen wearing camouflage and toting a 9mm handgun barged into an eighth-grade class at his old elementary school and took 30 kids and their teacher hostage yesterday, cops...

BILL HINTS AT D.C. PEACE PARLAYS: SEPARATE MEETINGS WITH BARAK & ARAFAT

President Clinton raised the possibility yesterday of inviting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Washington, separately, in a bid to stem the conflict in the...

ROBBER JAILED AGAIN - AT 80

An 80-year-old robber with a long and colorful criminal history has been sentenced to 13 years in a Florida slammer for his latest heist - a bank job he pulled...

U.S. WON'T HIT BACK AGAINST BIN LADEN

The Clinton administration has ruled out plans to launch pre-emptive missile strikes against terror master Osama bin Laden, believing an attack would do little damage and only inflame Mideast tensions....

COPS: TOT HURT IN HIT-RUN HORROR

A 3-year-old girl was in critical condition in a Brooklyn hospital last night after she ran away from her mother and was struck by a hit-and-run driver, police said. The...

LUCIOUS' TIMETABLE: 3 WEEKS

NET NOTES When it comes to the Nets, good medical news usually means the lack of a trip to an emergency room. Really good news might be considered a quick...

JEFF HIGH ON GRITTY LAVOR

There had to be legitimate concern from Jeff Van Gundy about Lavor Postell's attitude when the coach learned the Knicks' second-round pick was considering holding out of the first day...

METS BATTLE YANKS AND NUMBERS: SERIES HISTORY SAYS COMEBACK NOT VERY LIKELY

The Mets will go into tonight's Game 4 trying to beat the numbers as well as the Yankees in this Subway Series in which they lost the first two games....

METS JUST WANT TO GET ON WITH IT

If Major League Baseball really wanted to punish Roger Clemens, it would have made the over-juiced Rocket pitch Game 5 at Shea tomorrow night, if there is to be a...

MLB SHOULD GIVE CLEMENS THE ROCKER TREATMENT

A FINE of $50,000 for a player who wasn't even ejected from a game is extraordinary. It's so high that if Roger Clemens decides to appeal - and he will,...

50G OUT OF ROCKET'S POCKET: FINED BUT NOT BANNED; PHILLIPS OK WITH DECISION

Roger Clemens' ash tray money took a hit yesterday when the Rocket was fined $50,000 by Frank Robinson for throwing a shattered bat in Mike Piazza's direction during Game 2...

NICE GUYS STILL FINISH LAST: AMAZIN'S GOTTA DO WHATEVER IT TAKES

A MUCH more competitive man than I once said, "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser." Ladies and gentlemen, I show you the New York Mets....

ROCKET PENALTY JUST FINE WITH MET, YANK FANS ALIKE

Met and Yankee fans finally found something to agree on yesterday - cheering the $50,000 fine levied against bat-tossing Bomber Roger Clemens. "Clemens is a jerk and he's lucky he...

ROGER'S TOSS 'EMBARRASSED' REGGIE

Reggie Jackson wore four uniforms during his Hall of Fame career, but deep in his heart "Mr. October" believes he is as much a Yankee as any of the other...

FOR METS, IT WAS REED OR AN ABYSS

IT WAS such a long way down for the Mets last night if they didn't win, they didn't dare look down. Instead, they peered into the eyes of Rick Reed...

FOR TINO, FIRST THING'S FIRST

THE Yankee fan, in painted blue face and lunatic-fringe tones, recognized a reporter in Times Square the night before the Subway Series was to begin. "This is great, just great,"...

BORDICK'S BAT IS HURTIN'

When the Mets acquired Mike Bordick to solidify them at shortstop, the Flushing faithful rejoiced in the knowledge that while they'd still miss Rey Ordonez' Gold Glove, they were at...

ZEILE HITTING CAREER PEAK

Todd Zeile has been across the country, played all around the major leagues. The veteran bat-for-hire has been with eight teams in his 13-year career, but he's never felt like...

DESPERATE METS BACK FROM DEAD - AMAZIN'S WIN FIRST AS BENNY'S DOUBLE BEATS YANKS, DUQUE

They jammed the stadium, 55,299 strong last night for the first World Series game at Shea since 1986. They were mostly Met fans, who were hoping to believe this Subway...

NOW WE HAVE A SERIES - METS FINALLY SHOW THEY'RE WORTHY FOES

WHEN they talk about this World Series in years to come, and they will, this is the one they will remember. This is the one we came to see, the...

VALENTINE FEELING IN 'FINE' HUMOR

Met manager Bobby Valentine might have had the best reaction to the $50,000 fine imposed by Major League Baseball on Roger Clemens. "That's not my department," Valentine said. "Unless they...

BASEBALL BECOMES A BATTLE ROYALE

THE XFL has got to be envious. Vince McMahon is trying to bring the bizarre into mainstream sports with his new football league that debuts in February. It's likely to...

HOMES OF THE BRAVE: AS SERIES MADNESS SPREADS, MET AND YANKEE FANS TAKE IT OURSIDE... AND INSIDE

Home base is where the heart is for a couple of New Yorkers who have turned their houses into Subway Series shrines to the Yankees and Mets. While most die-hards...

BANGED UP BORDICK TOUGHS OUT GAME 3

The only lineup change Bobby Valentine considered going into last night was inserting Kurt Abbott for Mike Bordick, whose is still effected by his bruised right thumb. "I was thinking...

NEW SCORECARD DIVIDES FISH'S FRIENDS & FOES

THIS month a new "scorecard" debuted that rates members of Congress on their voting records for conservation and protection of fish and their habitats. Chambers and Associates, a fish-specific consulting...

STEVENS PUSHES FOR A 'PATH' CUP

SUNRISE, Fla. - Even the Stanley Cup champs, losing their slim share of the spotlight to a Subway Series, are excited. And the playoff MVP, Scott Stevens, says the NHL...

LOMAS ALL PUMPED UP FOR THE STRETCH RUN

The way he figures it, what has already taken place is merely a prelude, and what comes next truly counts. He's been figuring it that way for 16 years, so...

HOW TO MAKE HAY AT THE BIG A

It's that time of year again, as New York thoroughbred racing returns today to Aqueduct, where it will remain until after they run the 2001 Kentucky Derby. The good news...

HOW JETS CAME BACK

Here's how the Jets rallied from 30-7 deficit to record stunning 40-37 overtime win over Dolphins Monday night: 13:49 remained in the fourth quarter and a Vinny Testaverde 30-yard pass...

THIS TIME, RICHIE PLAYS HERO ROLE

JET NOTES Each week, it's a different hero for the Jets. Earlier in the season, it was Marcus Coleman catching a Hail Mary TD pass against Buffalo. Then came Curtis...

AFTER THE MIRACLE, IT'S BACK TO WORK: WEARY JETS SAVOR VICTORY, THEN START PREPPING FOR BILLS

MONDAY NIGHT (OT) Jets 40 Dolphins 37 Al Groh walked into the press room for his daily news conference yesterday and offered this right away: "I'm tired." Groh, of course,...

JONES SEES A SURVIVOR

Bobby Jones may have a different perspective than most. Pitching Game 4 of the Subway Series with the Mets trailing the crosstown rival Yankees might sound like angst to some,...

SATHER DENIES INTEREST IN GETTING LINDROS

It was inevitable that once Flyer GM Bob Clarke threw Eric Lindros' name into play, rumors would begin to circulate about where, let alone when and if, No. 88 would...

FELTON TO START OVER CAMBY

Jeff Van Gundy revealed a stunner following last night's win over the Nets, announcing that center Felton Spencer will start in place of Marcus Camby tonight against the Wizards at...

JEFF: KNICK STARS NEED TO SACRIFICE

Jeff Van Gundy sat down with Allan Houston, Latrell Sprewell and Glen Rice recently to discuss what could be the season's key: make sacrifices or be doomed. Ever since the...

NETS' ESCHMEYER STANDING FRONT & CENTER

Look at the center position around the East. Patrick Ewing is gone. Alonzo Mourning is out for the season. Rik Smits is in Holland, or wherever 7-4 centers go when...

KENYON'S OK BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER MUCH

NET NOTES Coach Byron Scott said he wanted to see Kenyon Martin play the way he can. He got to see it last night. Unfortunately, he also got to see...

SMALL, SLOW AND PASSIVE ; RANGERS PUT ON DISPLAY EXACTLY WHAT'S WRONG

Flyers 5 Rangers 4 Yes, there was yet another first-period Garden no-show last night, but the Rangers are kidding themselves if they think their inability to break well out of...

BATTY ROG FINED $50G; AVOIDS BAN

Roger Clemens' ash tray money took a hit yesterday when the Rocket was fined $50,000 by Frank Robinson for throwing a shattered bat in Mike Piazza's direction during Game 2...

AMAZIN' FANS: YANKS ARE GOIN' DOWN

Mets fans were in 7-train heaven yesterday after the Subway Series pulled into Flushing for a 4-2 Amazin's win over the Yankees. The Met win cut the Yanks' Series lead...

BENNY & THE METS TO THE TOP OF BIGGEST HITS' CHART

It's no fluque when you beat El Duque in the post-season. The man who got the biggest hit for the Mets last night, , Benny Agbayani had this plan working...

JETER'S MOTOR RUNNIN'

David Justice's laser had gotten by the first-base bag in fair territory and was rolling toward the stands that bordered the right-field line. It was going to be a double....

SERIES-LY, FOLKS - BERNIE'S IN A REAL FUNK

Bernie Williams has fallen into a disturbing postseason pattern at the plate. The Yankees' cleanup hitter sizzles in the ALCS and fizzles in the World Series. Williams hit .435 (10-for-23)...

YANKS' 14-GAME SERIES STREAK IS HISTORY

THE Yankees won 14 World Series games in a row. Yet they have always insisted the only way to build such a stunning streak is to think small. Focus on...

BENITEZ GETS THE JOB DONE

JOHN Franco and Al Leiter couldn't bare to watch the ninth-inning drama unfold. So they looked into the sky. "I was just too nervous to watch," Franco said. "I was...

FRANCO LIKE A KID AT CHRISTMAS

At age 40, he might be the oldest player on the Mets roster, but it's easy to see the little boy in John Franco. We saw it when his team...

ZEILE PUTTING ON A SHOW ON CENTER STAGE

Todd Zeile has been a roving bat for hire in his major-league career, going from city to city, team to team, with a reputation as a professional hitter and an...

BUBBA-LICIOUS RBI GIVES METS INSURANCE RUN

Bubba Trammell's eighth-inning sacrifice fly to center off Mike Stanton wasn't just your average sacrifice fly. It was the greatest piece of Armando Benitez insurance ever purchased. Trammell's RBI scored...

HE LOST, BUT REMAINS A WINNER: EL DUQUE SHOWS TRUE GRIT IN DEFEAT

HOW many pitchers have earned the privilege to stay in that sixth inning, as Joe Torre extended Orlando Hernandez last night? How many starters, rocked for two doubles to tie...

DESPERATE METS BACK FROM DEAD: AMAZIN'S WIN FIRST AS BENNY'S DOUBLE BEATS YANKS, DUQUE

Game 3 Mets 4 Yankees 2 The sign hangs above Benny Agbayani's locker. It was put there by Edgardo Alfonzo hours before the first World Series game at Shea in...

COOK HAS RUN-IN WITH HECKLER

It was a strange and somewhat disturbing sight, considering the surroundings: Game 3 of the Subway Series at Shea Stadium. But unbelievable as it may seem, there was Met reliever...

REGGIE RED-FACED OVER ROG

Reggie Jackson wore four uniforms during his Hall of Fame career, but deep in his heart "Mr. October" believes he is as much a Yankee as any of the other...