October 26, 2000
MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS GET A BOOST FOR CIRCULATION
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amSpecial from the American Magazine Conference BERMUDACONSUMERS may soon be able to buy one-year magazine subscriptions along with a loaf of bread and a six pack of beer at their...
FIFTY-DAY WONDER FOLDS ; IDEALAB! PULLS PLUG ON JUST-LAUNCHED MODO
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTalk about a fast company. Modo has gone bust - just 50 days after its launch. Quicker than you can say "ramp up," the egg-shaped wireless digital device that automatically...
FIBER OPTICS TURN DARK ; NORTEL NOS. SEND NASDAQ TO WORST DAY SINCE MAY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe Nasdaq composite plunged to its biggest loss in five months, after disappointing sales from Nortel Networks sparked a sell-off in fiber optic companies. The Nasdaq fell 190.22 to 3,229.57...
WHISTLEBLOWER GETS AXED FROM MSDW
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amA $1 million-a-year bond trader who filed sex discrimination charges against Morgan Stanley Dean Witter has been fired and tossed out of the building. Allison Schieffelin, 39, was stunned over...
RIVALS CIRCLING THE CARCASS OF AT&T ; BARGAIN PRICES SEEN FOR PARTS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amAT&T's cable, long-distance and wireless businesses are now officially takeover bait - and they could be selling at attractive prices. With Ma Bell's announcement yesterday that it will split into...
A SPINOFF OF MALONE'S LIBERTYMEDIA IS LIKELY NEXT MOVE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amAT&T Chairman Michael Armstrong is likely to move soon to spin off Liberty Media, which now trades as an AT&T tracking stock, many on Wall Street believe. By doing so,...
CONSUMERS COULD END UP FOOTING THE DEBT BILLS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amForget about seeing those lower phone and cable TV rates promised from competition, at least for now. And if you own any of the country's most widely held stock, AT&T,...
GET READY FOR WINTER DRIVING
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amACCORDING to the Car Care Council, 83% of the vehicles on the road are in need of minor repairs or maintenance. The changing temperatures and changing leaves are an ideal...
ALL'S WELL IN HOOTIEVILLE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amHOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH IF there was any doubt about it, at Irving Plaza Tuesday, Hootie & the Blowfish had its mojo working to defend its title as America's greatest...
DIVA POPS OFF ON CROSSOVERS: WHEN IT COMES TO OPERA, CECILIA BARTOLI IS A PURIST
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amOPERA superstar Cecilia Bartoli decries fellow singers who go pop, criticizing Luciano Pavarotti's collaborations with Sting and others as "mishy-mashy." "'Pavarotti & Friends,' this kind of thing - we can't...
FALL SEASON BALLET GETS 'UP CLOSE' AND PERSONAL
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amAMERICAN BALLET THEATER AMERICAN Ballet Theater opened its annual fall season at City Center with a gala devoted to Tchaikovsky and a Prodigal. Unlike its long spring season at the...
THE STARR REPORT
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTom's foolery? Tom Snyder has taken an online potshot at his "Late Late Show" successor, Craig Kilborn - calling him "Craig Stillborne" (sic). But Tom says he's only kidding. Snyder,...
A LEGEND CALLS IT QUITS; ZING, BOOM! VAN DYKE TAKING HIS LAST TUMBLE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amDICK Van Dyke says he's retiring from television after one of the most famous careers in TV history. Van Dyke has been on the air - more or less continuously,...
IS 'BUFFY' MOVING? BIG NETS COVET WB TEEN HIT
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE vultures are circling around "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The five-year deal for "Buffy" - The WB's red-hot series about a teenage girl who slays ghouls in her spare time...
GROWN GHOULS & GHOSTS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amHALLOWEEN doesn't have to be wasted on the young. Grownups need gore, too - not to mention the chance to wear wax fangs or a glitter crown. And they can....
INTERNET FEST FEATURES FASHIONABLE 'GEEK CHIC'
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amI saw the future at Internet World - and we'll be wearing it.The annual show's sprawled out at the Jacob Javits Center until tomorrow, so Surfer gURL slipped into her...
DA PLANS PSYCH EXAM FOR 'INSANE' NEEDLE DOC
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amProsecutors will have a psychiatrist examine the married doctor accused of a syringe attack on his pregnant nurse-girlfriend because he plans to mount an insanity defense. The exam should occur...
DA CLIPS SUSPECT IN $1M HAIR-BRAINED BIZ RIP-OFF
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe Manhattan bookkeeper of four hair-transplant companies is facing serious fallout from charges she clipped almost $1million. Jeanne Marie Augustine, 37, faces up to 15 years in prison for allegedly...
DOCS HAIL EASY NEW BOWEL-CANCER TEST
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amA simple and painless new exam for bowel cancer could be ready in two years - putting an end to the horribly intrusive exams that have keep thousands of people...
WHY BOYS PLAY DUMB IN SCHOOL
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amBoys purposely act dumb in school to avoid being teased as teachers' pets, new research reveals. Even those who want to succeed and get good grades often choose not to,...
TRYING TO FIND A CURE FOR AN AILING SYSTEM: RIVALS HAVE MUCH IN COMMON BUT ONLY BUSH OFFERS REFORM
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amDay 5: Health Al Gore may endure terminal ridicule for complaining - falsely - that his mother-in-law pays more for arthritis medicine than his aged black Labrador, Shiloh. But while...
TRYING TO FIND A CURE FOR AN AILING SYSTEM
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amDay 5: Health WASHINGTON -- The much-discussed issue of prescription drugs serves as perhaps the best example of how George W. Bush and Al Gore differ in the way they...
ISRAEL IN THE BALANCE ; ARAB-AMERICANS' POLITICAL POWER IS ON THE RISE, WHILE JEWS SEEM TO CARE MOST ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS election is a time of testing for America's Jews - a test of electoral influence and ethnic will in the face of an Arab uprising against their Israeli brethren...
I'M ANGRY AT HER - SHE JUST DOESN'T GET IT
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amI HAVE a lot of strong but complicated thoughts about Hillary Clinton taking - and now returning - $50,000 from a Muslim group whose leader backs the use of "armed...
WAY OUT IN LEFT FIELD ; ULTRALIBERAL JON CORZINE ISN'T LEVELING WITH NEW JERSEY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amDON'T look now, but maybe - just maybe - a political miracle could be brewing over in New Jersey. The latest Quinnipiac poll, released yesterday, shows that Democratic Senate candidate...
DAD'S CAR STOLEN WITH TOT INSIDE ; QUEENS 3-YEAR-OLD FOUND A MILE AWAY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe Queens parents of a 3-year-old boy had a morning of terror yesterday when the family car was stolen with the sleeping tot inside. William Medina, 43, was following the...
EX-FATTY SINGER: I'M NOT DONE SHAPING UP
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amNewly thin Carnie Wilson says she's thrilled surgery made her 150 pounds lighter - and now plans more operations, this time to turn her into a sex machine. "Let me...
THE TRUTH BEHIND THOSE CRAZY POLL SWINGS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. THIS is the nutty time in the 2000 race, and if you can't figure out what all the polls mean, you've got plenty of company. "It's a...
BUSH & GORE ZERO IN ON 2 KEY STATES ; TRYING TO LOCK UP FLA. & CALIF. BEFORE CHASING SWING VOTE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amRivals George W. Bush and Al Gore each tried to take a key state off the playing field yesterday: Bush stumped in Florida, while Gore allies touted a new California...
CHALK UP A BIG 'W' FOR DUBYA IN KIDDIE POLLS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amRepublican George W. Bush is the kids' choice for president. Youngsters favored Bush over Democratic Vice President Al Gore in three separate popularity contests: * Some 59 percent of 877,000...
ANALYST QUIT OVER IGNORED TERROR WARNING
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amAn intelligence analyst, who claimed he had written a report that might have helped warn of terrorism weeks ahead of the USS Cole bombing, quit in disgust a day after...
HILL RETURNS 50G IN 'BLOOD MONEY' ; FUNDS LINKED TO ANTI-ISRAEL ARABS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday returned $50,000 in contributions after Rick Lazio blasted the campaign donations as "blood money" because some of it came from Arab-Americans hostile to Israel. Facing another...
BREAST CANCER IS A CAUSE CELEBRITY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE hottest accessory in Hollywood isn't the Prada bowling bag - it's the pink ribbon. Breast cancer is a cause celebre these days, with the biggest names in showbiz lending...
NEW LULL AS CIA MOVES TO POLICE TRUCE IN MIDEAST
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The CIA brought top-ranking Israeli and Palestinian officers together for the first time in weeks yesterday to coordinate enforcement of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire. The meetings, engineered by CIA...
GOP PRESSES AL ON SECRET ARMS DEAL
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican senators demanded information yesterday on Al Gore's secret deal with former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on weapons sales to Iran. But State Department officials refused to...
LETTERS WARN OF N.Y. TERROR CAMPAIGN
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE "The letters stated that bombs would be detonated at crowded areas, such as Times Square, and hotels near Times Square."FBI MEMOThe FBI is probing a possible terrorist plot to...
HERE'S WHO SHOULD WAIT OUT FLU-SHOT SHORTAGE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amIf you're young and healthy, please delay getting your flu shot this year - and you could help save lives. That's the plea from federal health officials who say a...
PALESTINIANS CYNICALLY EXPLOIT KIDS IN ARAFAT'S 'CHILDREN'S CRUSADE'
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Children's Crusade of 1212 is remembered today as one of history's cruelest and most absurd examples of how adults will sacrifice children's lives on the altar of religious fervor...
THREE NYPD COPS HIT WITH DRUG-TRANSPORTING RAP
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThree city cops - including a decorated Manhattan homicide detective - were charged yesterday with transporting cocaine and heroin out of state for a Washington Heights husband-wife drug-dealing team. The...
BOTH SIDES PRESS TO GET OUT THE VOTE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amBarred from spending soft money, the state's political parties are mounting massive grass-roots get-out-the-vote efforts in the hotly contested Senate race. By Election Day, the Democrats and Republicans will have...
CRACK BINGE PUTS DARRYL BACK IN STIR
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amYankee-in-exile Darryl Strawberry was behind bars last night after he ditched a drug-treatment program and went on a crack-cocaine binge with a mystery woman, Florida authorities said. The sidelined slugger...
DOV HUDDLES WITH PREZ ON EVE OF SENATE PICK
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amPresident Clinton spent 10 minutes speaking privately last night with Assemblyman Dov Hikind - just days before the influential Jewish leader is to make his much-anticipated endorsement in the Senate...
JAILED WIFE-SLAY DOCTOR 'DEVASTATED'
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amWife-killer surgeon Dr. Robert Bierenbaum spent his first full day in jail yesterday, trading his Armani suits for a gray jumpsuit - and reeling from his murder conviction. "At the...
TEEN SLAIN HELPING TEACHER OUTSIDE HS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTwo robbers shot and killed an 18-year-old good Samaritan changing a special ed instructor's flat tire in front of a Brooklyn high school - as the teacher looked on. Joseph...
EL TRAINS COLLIDE IN BRONX
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTwo subway trains, neither carrying passengers, collided on an elevated track last night in The Bronx. The trains had left a Transit Authority washing facility at Mosholu Parkway just before...
MEETINGS STIR DEBATE ON ISLAMIC GROUPS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton has met for years with Muslim groups that critics accuse of anti-Israel and terrorist connections - but some Jewish leaders say the groups are largely mainstream. The...
GROH DENIES 'PATHETIC LOSERS' REPORT
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Al Groh and a number of Jet players yesterday vehemently denied a report that Groh, in his halftime tirade Monday night, called the players "pathetic losers." Groh called...
ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE : STRING OF BIG COMEBACKS HAS JETS THINKIN' SUPER
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe thrill and ecstasy of Monday night's improbable comeback victory over the Dolphins still permeated the air in the Jets' locker room yesterday. The fourth Jets' fourth-quarter comeback victory of...
EAGLES TAKING GIANTS MORE SERIOUSLY NOW
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amWhen the Eagles think back to the last time, there is one sentiment that rises above the rest when they consider their worst loss of the season. It was the...
ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE: STRING OF BIG COMEBACKS HAS JETS THINKIN' SUPER
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe thrill and ecstasy of Monday night's improbable comeback victory over the Dolphins still permeated the air in the Jets' locker room yesterday. The fourth Jets' fourth-quarter comeback victory of...
STRAHAN HAPPY RUNYAN'S ON WAY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Michael Strahan did not register a quarterback sack in the Giants' 33-18 victory over the Eagles in the second game of the season, but he did play quite...
SNIPPY FLUTIE FEELS SLIGHTED
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amDoug Flutie, who's starting at quarterback in place of injured Rob Johnson for the Bills against the Jets Sunday in Buffalo, sounded contentious over the phone yesterday. Some of the...
FELTON GETS A START: BUT CAMBY STILL NO. 1, SAYS JEFF
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amFor those who have been too engrossed with New York's magical baseball postseason to pay any attention to Knicks' training camp, Felton Spencer is not Patrick Ewing's heir apparent despite...
KNICK GM HOT FOR SMITH: CHASE IS ON AFTER STERN VOIDS T-WOLF STAR'S PACT
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe Knicks are in another recruiting mode now - ready to go hard after Timberwolf power forward Joe Smith after Smith was ruled a free agent yesterday by Commissioner David...
BYRON: MARBURY'S GOTTA STEPH IT UP
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amPerhaps he was using a psychological tool learned from mind-game master Pat Riley. Perhaps not. Either way, Net coach Byron Scott yesterday issued a challenge to Stephon Marbury - charging...
DEVILS CHASE FIRST ROAD WIN
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The odd odyssey of the Stanley Cup champs resumed here last night, nomads in search of victory away from home. "We seem to play a little more...
DEVILS FIND CURE-ALL IN FLORIDA: GET FIRST ROAD WIN ON ELIAS' LATE GOAL
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amDevils 2 Panthers 1 SUNRISE, Fla. - The Panthers have become the perfect victims for the Devils. Last spring, Florida provided the springboard for the Devils to hurdle their playoff...
GARDEN'S KEEPING BIG EAST TOURNEY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe Garden announced yesterday that it has extended its agreement with the Big East to host the conference championship tournament through 2011. Garden president and CEO Dave Checketts said that...
ZIDANE OUT OF CONTROL
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - Genius more often than not is flawed, and such is the case with Zinedine Zidane, the artistic and inspirational French midfielder blessed with God-given skills but cursed with...
RECORD 135 HORSES GUNNING FOR GLORY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amWill Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus close out his career with a score in the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic, justifying the $60-70 million pricetag they hung on him for...
RED STORM RUNNIN' DEEP & GOOD
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amSt. John's swingman Reggie Jessie raised his head and proudly displayed the scar under his chin. "Willie Shaw hit me the first time, that was six stitches," said Jessie. "Then...
IT'S FAN-DEMONIUM: AT IS 5 IN QUEENS, SUBWAY SERIE SPIRIT RULES THE SCHOOL FOR A DAY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe question at one Queens school yesterday was: Who let the fans out? Young Amazin's believers and Bronx Bomber diehards went head to head yesterday at IS 5 in Elmhurst...
ZIM KEEPING MUM ON FUTURE PLANS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amEvery year for the past three World Series, Don Zimmer is asked if he is coming back to be Joe Torre's bench coach and the answer is the same: he...
ALL BUT DONE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amJUST before the start of the ninth inning of last night's World Series Game 4, it was announced that a pipe had burst and flooded the Yankees' clubhouse, precluding any...
FONZ, METS KEEPIN' THE FAITH: EDGARDO WON'T LET AMAZIN'S GIVE UP
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amIt's not exactly, "Ya gotta believe," but the Mets were given a new rallying cry as they try to defeat the Yankees and history, which says it is so difficult...
RIGHT MAN, RIGHT SPOT: FRANCO'S SERIES WIN THE PERFECT REWARD
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amFOR 16 years, John Franco's World Series dreams always took place in some shadowy ninth inning in which it would be his responsibility to get the three outs that would...
FANS SORRY FOR STRAW BUT TIRED OF HIS ACT
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amYankees and Mets fans briefly put aside their partisan rivalry yesterday to react to Bomber slugger Darryl Strawberry's most recent drug arrest. Fans of both clubs were split over whether...
ROG: NO APOLOGIES: INSISTS THERE WAS NO INTENT ON BAT THROW
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amRoger Clemens won't be tossing any mea culpas in Mike Piazza's direction. The defiant Yankee pitcher says he doesn't need to apologize to the Met catcher because he didn't mean...
EDGARDO IS FALTERING ON BIG STAGE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amEDGARDO ALFONZO didn't need this World Series to show New York what a great ballplayer he is. Despite the subtle nature of his baseball brilliance, the city, however belatedly, was...
LOCAL BREWS ARE AT BEER MINIMUM
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe glory days of New York baseball were also the glory days of New York beer - the two went hand in hand like a Ballantine blast off Mickey Mantle's...
YANKEE SERIES RUN A STREAK OF GENIUS: FOURTEEN STRAIGHT COVERED ALL BASES
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY won on the West Coast, south of the Mason-Dixon Line and in The Bronx. Kevin Brown, Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux and John Smoltz started not once, but twice against...
BIG-GAME BENNY WRITING HIS OWN CHAPTER IN HISTORY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE World Series is all about guys like Benny Agbayani, not about beanbats and Hessians like Roger Clemens. The World Series is the most rewarding of athletic events and when...
SUBWAY SERIES A TURNOFF: ALL-BIG APPLE BATTLE SHUNNED BY TV VIEWERS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amSubway Series fever is definitely not contagious. While the games on Fox/Ch.5 are shattering ratings records here at home, widespread apathy for the New York World Series - coupled with...
TIX WAR LEAVES LAWYER AT TV
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan lawyer's suit against his Mets season-ticket partner over Subway Series tickets was going, going, gone yesterday when a judge tossed the action out of court. State Supreme Court...
COPS: '30' TO FAKE PRESS PASS WOES
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThree bumbling out-of-towners looking to cash in on the World Series tried selling counterfeit Major League Baseball credentials to cops and MLB officials posted at Shea Stadium, police said yesterday....
FANS PUSH COOK TO BOILING POINT
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amAs closer Armando Benitez and the rest of the Met bullpen was finally settling in, reliever Dennis Cook was becoming unsettled. The high-strung Cook, who's gotten into hot water for...
CHAMPION YANKS RULE THE NIGHT LIFE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yanks are not only the reigning World Series champions - they also party like kings. After sealing the American League championship, David Justice, Roger Clemens and Dwight Gooden headed...
ZEILE PLAYS SERIES WITH ZEAL
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amAfter 13 years and eight different teams, Todd Zeile finally is getting to test himself on the biggest stage of all - the World Series. Zeile has been the Mets'...
DOUBLEDAY: RENOVATE SHEA
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amMets co-owners Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon haven't spoken about the possibility of a new stadium even though they have totally different ideas about a new park. "I'm not particularly...
GAME UNITES US
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amNOW it truly begins. Now, at last, the Subway Series is a story, loaded with drama, not a mere event. The story is a fundamental New York text: the one...
YANKEES ONE STOP FROM THREE-PEAT: JETER, BOMBERS PUSH AMAZIN'S TO THE END OF LINE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amGame 4 Yankees 3 Mets 2 It will take the most miraculous of comebacks to prevent the Yankees from adding to their history. After last night's 3-2 win over the...
CONE GETS HIS MOMENT: REACHES INTO PAST TO DENY MIGHTY MIKE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amSOMEWHERE between nostalgia and necessity, Joe Torre turned to David Cone last night. In the Subway Series, the Yankee manager reached out and back for a trolley of a pitcher,...
OH NO, NOT KNOBLAUCH! YANKEES DON'T NEED]]CHUCKIE'S PLAY AT 2ND
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amWITH the Yankees' leadoff spot gone drier than Mike Piazza's glass at a Roger Clemens champagne toast, Joe Torre could have started Chuck Knoblauch at second base last night at...
TORRE THINKS LATE STARTS 'ARE NUTS'
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amAll of you baseball fans who are infuriated by the late start times of Subway Series games, you have an ally in high places. What good it does you, however,...
LEFT BANK RUNS AWAY WITH DISCOVERY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amLeft Bank took charge at the start and never looked back as he won the Grade 3, $106,499 Discovery Handicap by 21/4 lengths. Perfect Cat dueled with Open Sesame throughout...
SUBWAY SERIES A TURNOFF ; ALL-BIG APPLE BATTLE SHUNNED BY TV VIEWERS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amSubway Series fever is definitely not contagious. While the games on Fox/Ch. 5 are shattering ratings records here at home, widespread apathy for the New York World Series - coupled...
VET VENDOR TAKES CARE OF WHAT ALES YOU
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Jim McNamara was 14, his father wanted what most fathers at the time wanted for their sons: A job. "We lived in the High Bridge area around Yankee Stadium...
TOUGH-LUCK LEITER STILL HAS NO 'W'
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amAl Leiter, who will start Game 5 of the Subway Series tonight at Shea, hasn't won a postseason game in seven years, and he couldn't care less. Bad luck and...
A STREAK OF GENIUS: BOMBERS' 14-STRAIGHT SERIES WINS TOUCHED ALL BASES ON WAY TO HISTORY
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY won on the West Coast, south of the Mason-Dixon Line and in The Bronx. Kevin Brown, Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux and John Smoltz started not once, but twice against...
YANKEE FANS ARE READY TO POP CORKS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amYankee fans are one stop away from celebrating another world championship after the Bombers beat the Mets 3-2 last night in Game 4 of the Subway Series at Shea Stadium....
ROCKET: I WON'T APOLOGIZE ; INSISTS THERE WAS NO INTENT
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amRoger Clemens won't be tossing any mea culpas in Mike Piazza's direction. The defiant Yankee pitcher says he doesn't need to apologize to the Met catcher because he didn't mean...
FOR NIGHT, FELTON GETS CENTER STAGE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES For those who have been too engrossed with New York's magical baseball postseason to pay attention to Knick training camp, Felton Spencer is not Patrick Ewing's heir apparent,...
PINCH HITTERS FAILING TO LAND KO PUNCH
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY spend most of their time either fidgeting, pacing or practicing for a moment in time that may never come. The role of the pinch-hitter in baseball carries even more...
IT'S TIME TO PANIC:AMAZIN'SNEED BIGSHAKEUPFROM V.
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amDESPERATE times call for bold moves and it's time for Bobby Valentine to make a few as the Mets teeter on the brink of elimination. The time has come for...
BERNIE STILL CAUGHT IN COLD
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amJust because Bernie Williams isn't cut from the Look At Me cloth that far too many professional athletes are these days, it doesn't mean Williams cares any less about his...
TORRE MAKES ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amFUN is in the eyes of the victor. This is Joe Torre's subway ride to glory, but the Yankee manager hasn't been having a lot of fun. There is still...
GUTSY CONE SEIZES MOMENT,TURNS BACK THE CLOCK AT SHEA
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amJOE Torre searched David Cone's eyes again. He had done this on a mound in the World Series once and no one knew a dynasty was being born. He did...
YANK SCOUTS HAVE TIMO'S NUMBER
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amCut off the head and the body dies. The Yankees have put the pressure on Timo Perez like never before in this World Series. The rookie was the story of...
MO HAS MURDER ON HIS MIND
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amMariano Rivera showered and traded his visiting gray uniform for street clothes. Yet, as Rivera stood on the Shea Stadium field for post-game interviews, the focused face of an assassin...
YANKS: ONE STOP FROM 3-PEAT: JETER, BOMBERS PUSH AMAZIN'S TO THE END OF LINE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amGame Four Yankees 3 Mets 2 In the words of their closer, Mariano Rivera, the Yankees "are going for the kill" tonight, wanting to end this Subway Series. Everyone in...
MET FANS TAKE DEFEAT LIKE PUNCH TO THE GUT
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amOne of the fundamental texts of New York is the one about the guy who gets knocked down and gets up off the floor and keeps coming. In the third...
JONES: MORAL VICTORY STILL A LOSS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amMet starter Bobby Jones leaned on his locker, the wall giving him the support his offense never did last night. His leg was wrapped, his arm tired, and he had...
NEAGLE SAYS HE'S SHOCKED BY MOVE
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amDenny Neagle retired Edgardo Alfonzo, the Mets' second best hitter, on a lazy fly ball to right for the second out of the fifth inning. As the ball was passed...
JOE BLASTS LATE STARTS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amAll of you baseball fans who are infuriated by the late start times of Subway Series games, you have an ally in high places. What good it does you, however,...
LEADING OFF BY EXAMPLE ; DEREK'S HOMER SETS TONE IN GAME 4
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Yankee leadoff spot had gone drier than Mike Piazza's glass at a Roger Clemens champagne toast, leaving Joe Torre with the alternative last night of starting Chuck Knoblauch at...
BOSS CLEANS HOUSE AT SHEA
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amIn the middle of the biggest game of the Yankees' season - Game 4 of the World Series against the Mets - George Steinbrenner was moving furniture to higher ground...
BEER HERE! A LOST ART
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe glory days of New York baseball also were the glory days of New York beer - the two went hand in hand like a Ballantine blast off Mickey Mantle's...
A-ROD'S 'LEANING' TOWARD MARINERS
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amSeattle shortstop Alex Rodriguez was at Shea for last night's Game 4 of the Subway Series. Met fans are hoping and praying Rodriguez - soon to be the most-sought-after free...
METS FEAR THE WORST
October 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe joy of winning the NL pennant has been replaced by the frustration of three one-run losses to the Yankees. The hope of winning the Subway Series has been replaced...