October 30, 2000
WHAT WON'T DICK GRASSO DO?
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amDICK Grasso's family must be worried. The New York Stock Exchange CEO was just risking his reputation when he got green slime poured on him to promote one new Big...
CHAMPAGNE BUDDIES -- OR MORE?
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amBear Stearns star gaming analyst Jason Ader has been sighted hitting the hot spots with the lovely CNBC anchor Bonnie Behrend. Ader, one of the most high-profile analysts on the...
WALKING THE DOT-COM TIGHTROPE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amPeople have long compared the executives who run dot-com companies to clowns at a circus. Lately, those clowns have been making an attempt at walking the tightrope, and an awful...
GIVING JOB ADVICE, WHILE THEY STILL CAN
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE'S any number of people you can turn to for career advice. Presidents of dot-com companies, who've spent more time in recent weeks firing than hiring employees, would probably not...
IT WAS FOOLS' GOLD
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Motley Fools are admitting that they were -- well, fooled. Fool.com, the popular investing site started by brothers Tom and David Gardner, thought it had scored a big coup...
AN INTIMATE (APPAREL) MOMENT WITH DOBBS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amLOU Dobbs is preparing to tell the world everything he knows about women's bras and panties. One week from today, Dobbs will be the keynote speaker at an event sponsored...
WHEN TO GIVE LOSERS THE BOOT
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amBUY and hold is a great long-term strategy. But mutual fund managers, who are under constant pressure to put up good short-term -- as well as long-term -- numbers, can't...
HOW TO PLAY AT&T AND THE TELECOM SHAKEOUT
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amAT&T is one of the nation's most widely-held stocks, though lately it's been hard to figure out why. After all, the telecommunications giant is sitting on a year-to-date loss of...
MAKING SENSE OF THE MARKET'S MADNESS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amFOUR hundred points down, 210-points up. You're probably thinking the stock market is moving irrationally these days. And big up-and-down sessions are certainly commonplace, even though there usually isn't any...
NEW BOO SITE'S HERE, AND IT'S LOOKIN' FINE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amMiss Boo is still strutting her stuff. The site has lots of orange graphics. And it is determined to be hip. But Miss Boo of Boo.com is also revamping herself....
TRADING PUNCHES ; SHOWBIZ NEWS MAGS IN DIGITAL DUKE-OUT
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amIt's all-out war in the world of showbiz trades. This time it's the Hollywood Reporter that's come out swinging. It's set to launch an e-mail edition today for East Coast...
THE GRILL IS GONE; BURGER KING YANKS ITS ADS FROM WWF SHOW
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amBURGER King has dropped a whopper on the World Wrestling Federation - yanking all of its advertising from the popular UPN show, "WWF Smackdown!" The move puts Burger King in...
THE STARR REPORT
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amCh. 2's 'New York' story Here's the skinny on Ch. 2's revamped 4 p.m. newscast, "New York Live," which debuts today. The newscast, co-anchored by Stephen Clark and Dana Tyler,...
A MAGAZINE THAT MUST BE SEEN
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE are magazines. There is art. There are even magazines about art. And then there's Visionaire, the quarterly magazine that is art. Aptly described as a "couture" magazine, Visionaire features...
HERE COME THE BRIDAL STYLES: ROMANCE RETURNS IN A 'CELEBRATION OF THE HOURGLASS SHAPE'
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amTODAY'S bridal designers are putting the romance back into weddings with fairy-tale worthy gowns. Full skirts, corseted bodices and elaborate embroidery and beading will be in high fashion for spring...
IT'S A MAN'S, MAN'S, MAN'S, MAN'S WORLD
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amNOT since 1996, when Anthony Quinn fathered a child at the age of 81, did I think there would be another guy worthy of the title "Man of the Year."But...
MVP JETER HOLDING ALL THE RIGHT CARDS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amDerek Jeter can continue to call Manhattan home seven months a year. All it took was four wins in five Subway Series games over the Mets. "It was different," the...
MAVERICK DEM HIKIND SAYS BUSH IS HIS MAN
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amBROOKLYN Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind, an Orthodox Jew being courted by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rick Lazio, revealed yesterday he'll back Republican George Bush for president. "I'm going to vote...
STEPHEN KING EYES B'WAY HORROR SHOW
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amBroadway is about to become the Great Fright Way, thanks to Stephen King, who's penning a new horror musical. The best-selling author has joined forces with rock singer John Mellencamp...
AL CAN'T AVOID GETTING STUCK WITH THE BILL
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amAT THE feet of his master, Al Gore learned well from Bill Clinton. And to fracture the immortal words of the Godfather, it was this: Keep your enemies far away,...
IT'S MILLENNIUM MADNESS AS TOP PRIZE HITS $125M
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe Yanks won Thursday, but nobody won Saturday - so now the record-breaking Millennium Millions jackpot is up to $125 million, and sales are brisk. "It's been nonstop," said Frantz...
FIRST LADY: PREZ-RACE APATHY HURTING ME
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amROCHESTER - Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday the lack of interest in New York in the presidential race is making her Senate campaign "tougher." Speaking to reporters aboard her campaign...
RADIO ANNOUNCERS ALONG FOR THE RIDE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThey didn't throw a ball. They didn't swing a bat. They didn't even coach a player. But when the parade of Yankees makes its way along the Canyon of Heroes...
IN AL'S CAMP, A QUIET PANIC ; THE SIGNS: DESPERATE SPINNING AND WILD ATTACKS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amALL weekend, Democrats on the chat shows spoke in unison when it came to one very important point about the contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore: "This race...
RECONCILED SIS TO ESCORT LIZA HOME TODAY
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amLiza Minnelli, who's been battling potentially deadly viral encephalitis, is to be released from a Florida hospital today and will have a dramatic reunion with her half-sister, Lorna Luft, The...
USS COLE BEGINS VOYAGE HOME
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe crippled USS Cole was towed out of the Yemeni port of Aden yesterday for a rendezvous with a Norwegian heavy-lift ship that will bring it home for repairs to...
YOGI WILL LEAD YANKS UP CANYON
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amLeading today's tickertape parade for the Subway Series champions will be one baseball legend who Mayor Giuliani said can unite Yankees and Mets fans - Yogi Berra. Berra, who once...
LAZIO CLINGS TO RAZOR-THIN LEAD: NEW POLL
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amRick Lazio holds a slight edge over Senate rival Hillary Rodham Clinton - but their contest is stuck in a virtual tie, a new Post tracking poll shows. The rolling,...
BEST WAY TO PARADE? THE SUBWAY, OF COURSE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe best way to get to today's ticker-tape parade for the Subway Series-winners is, appropriately enough, the subway. Expected to draw more than 1 million people, the parade will turn...
ISRAELI TROOPS KILL FIVE IN GAZA STRIP SKIRMISH
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amIsraeli tanks and armored personnel carriers rolled into the Gaza Strip and exchanged fire with Palestinian gunmen yesterday as violent clashes continued there and in the West Bank. Israeli troops...
BILL JOINS GORE DRIVE WITH APPEAL TO BLACKS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton dived head-first into Al Gore's presidential campaign yesterday, saying George W. Bush is bad news for blacks, as he prepares to hit the stump this week....
VEEP PULLS FURTHER AHEAD IN N.Y. STATE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - Al Gore has slightly widened his lead over George W. Bush in New York and is now ahead by nearly 15 percentage points here, a New York Post...
FUR IS FLYING OVER GUCCI'S HAMSTER SUIT
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amAnimal lovers are downright fur-ious at Gucci for designing a trendy new men's suit made out of hamster fur. The new fall outfit from the renowned Italian fashion house consists...
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amTHE WEEK AHEAD: The final full week starts with Republican George W. Bush ahead by a nose in national polls and most Electoral College counts. What his dad called Big...
GOP CUTS OFF TERROR RAP IN ANTI-HILL BLITZ : RICK THINKS CALLS ARE BACKFIRING ON CAMPAIGN: SOURCE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe state Republican Party yesterday stopped making controversial phone calls that link Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to the USS Cole terror bombing, officials said. Sources told The Post that...
DEMS SIC LIEBERMAN ON BUSH ; GOPER 'NOT READY' TO BE PRESIDENT: JOE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amDemocrat Al Gore yesterday sent out his running mate, Joe Lieberman, to bash George W. Bush as unfit to be president - while Bush sought to seize the high road...
GOP CUTS OFF TERROR RAP IN ANTI-HILL BLITZ: RICK THINKS CALLS ARE BACKFIRING ON CAMPAIGN: SOURCE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe state Republican Party yesterday stopped making controversial phone calls that link Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to the USS Cole terror bombing, officials said. Sources told The Post that...
DEMS SIC LIEBERMAN ON BUSH: GOPER 'NOT READY' TO BE PRESIDENT: JOE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amDemocrat Al Gore yesterday sent out his running mate, Joe Lieberman, to bash George W. Bush as unfit to be president - while Bush sought to seize the high road...
'LOOKOUT' CHARGED IN TEEN'S SLAY
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan man was charged with murder yesterday for acting as a lookout while his friend robbed and killed a teen, police said. Kaymen Dunlap, 19, was also charged with...
TONS OF CONFETTI READY TO RAIN ON YANKS' PARADE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amSome of that paper you tossed out for recycling may rain down on the World Series champion Yankees today. Ten tons of shredded paper from the Department of Sanitation-enough to...
LIFE LESSONS WE ALL COULD LEARN FROM THE YANKEES
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe three-peat success of the world champion Bronx Bombers has taught New Yorkers life lessons on how to win, experts say. The Yankees "are a great example on how a...
NO CONTEST: YOUR WALLET SAFER WITH LAZIO
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amDAY 2: TAXES Clinton has been accusing her foe of ignoring upstate's economic problems with "happy talk."AP FOR New Yorkers voting their pocketbook this November, there's little question which Senate...
HARSH LESSON FOR NEW TEACHERS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amTHE teacher-shortage farce continues. Last summer, Schools Chancellor Harold Levy appealed to the moral consciences of doctors, lawyers and assorted professionals, and persuaded hundreds to abandon board rooms and operating...
ECONOMY THE ISSUE FOR UPSTATE VOTERS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amDay 2: TAXES In upstate New York, it's not Yasser Arafat, the FALN or the Subway Series. When you're upstate, it's still the economy, stupid. Outside the economic boomtown that...
KNICKS WILL SINK
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe Knicks are going mental. As the post-you-know-who era begins for the Knicks, coach Jeff Van Gundy said that the team has only two goals for the 2000-01 season. Van...
BAILEY, PREP BURN X-MEN
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amFORD. PREP31XAVERIAN21 Lots of coaches say of certain players, "Any time he touches the ball, he can score a touchdown." Fordham Prep head coach Pete Gorynski says that of wide...
CAMBY SET TO START AGAINST 76ERS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES It turns out that Marcus Camby will probably start in the season opener tomorrow night against Philadelphia. After practicing yesterday at Purchase for the first time since sitting...
N.J. PRODUCT MEYER A HOKIES PAIN RELIEVER
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amFor the past two years, ever since Michael Vick took his first snap as Virginia Tech's starting quarterback, the Hokies have been hearing they are a one-man team. No player...
ATHENIA HANDICAP A 'WILD' ONE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amWild Heart Dancing set the pace and held off Fickle Friends to win the Grade 3 $112,500 Athenia Handicap by one-half length. Silken was another half-length behind in third. Trained...
THIS JET COMEBACK ENDS WITH GIVEBACK ; CHRISTIE'S FG AT GUN THE WINNER FOR BUFFALO
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amBills 23 Jets 20 ORCHARD PARK - The Jets' charmed-life magic carpet ride tumbled to earth yesterday, much like a barrel helplessly free-falling down nearby Niagara Falls. The Jets' 23-20...
FRIARS PAST IONA PREP
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amSt. Anthony 40 Iona Prep 14Lazio runs When flurries started falling over Cy Donnelly Field yesterday, the St. Anthony's crowd cheered at the sight of the year's first snow. By...
A BUNCH OF FAST TIMES IN WORKOUTS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - There was a bustle of activity on both the main track and turf course yesterday morning at Churchill Downs as 15 Breeders' Cup hopefuls had important workouts. Fusaichi...
PHILLIPS TO SIGN; BOBBY V'S ON HOLD
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amWith Steve Phillips' new contract expected to be announced as early as today, the clock continues to tick on Bobby Valentine's contract situation. Phillips' deal is supposed to be a...
BROOKLYN BUST GETS BOGUS SHIRTS OFF STREET
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amMore than 7,000 unlicensed World Series T-shirts were confiscated from a Brooklyn warehouse, police said yesterday, foiling plans to sell them illegally at today's parade. "It's a home run," said...
BRING ON BREEDERS' ; CUP HAS ITS OWN JETER
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - The Subway Series is over, but the "World Series of Thoroughbred Racing" is set to begin. On Saturday, at historic Churchill Downs, championships will be won and lost...
'READY' IS SET TO GO
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amBREEDERS' NOTES LOUISVILLE - Fusaichi Pegasus isn't the only top 3-year-old who'll retire at the end of this year. Another is More Than Ready, who could clinch a championship by...
WORLD CLASS: EVEN MET FANS MUST TIP THEIR CAPS TO CHAMPS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amTODAY I will tip my Mets cap to the Yankee dynasty. Today I will quietly clap for Jeter, Rivera, O'Neill, Tino, and Torre inside my old Carl Furillo model glove....
EAGLES LAND HARD: GIANTS 6-2 AFTER ROUTING PHILADELPHIA
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amForget about grading these games. Don't bother to examine these victories. Stop agonizing about what they cannot do. This is the way it's going to be with the Giants. Like...
NEARLY EXTINCT EAGLES BOW TO GIANTS AGAIN
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amYesterday started with the supposedly improved Eagles making the two-hour trek up the Turnpike to use the Giants as a measuring stick for their progress and vault into a share...
JINTS END FUTILITY ON CHALLENGE RULE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Jim Fassel thrust his right arm into the air and pumped his fist. Then he did it again. He was greeted with pats on the back and handshakes...
DEVILS GM EXTENDS HAND TO HOLDOUTS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe stalemate probably isn't solved, but at least the wall of silence has been breached. Spending four hours negotiating with Lou Lamoriello isn't something anyone would do willingly without some...
NO STOPPING YANK EXPRESS : BOMBERS DERAIL METS FOR HISTORIC THREE-PEAT
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amGame Five Yankees 4, Mets 2 The jubilant Yankees ran around Shea celebrating their 26th World Series title after winning Game 5 in dramatic fashion last night. It was their...
ONE FOR THE AGES: FOR OPENERS, YANKEES CAPTURE NEW YORK MARATHON
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amGame One Yankees 4, Mets 3, 12 innings What a crying shame it will be if we have to wait another 44 years for the next Subway Series. Hyped to...
MEEK THE METS: PIAZZA, AMAZIN'S HAVE WEAK RESPONSE AFTER CLEMENS GOES BATTY
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amGame Two Yankees 6 Mets 5 MIKE Piazza stood midway between home plate and first base, shouting into a wind tunnel and clutching six inches of bat handle, a pathetic...
NOW WE HAVE A SERIES: METS FINALLY SHOW THEY'RE WORTHY FOES
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amGame Three Mets 4, Yankees 2 WHEN they talk about this World Series in years to come, and they will, this is the one they will remember. This is the...
TORRE MAKES ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amGame Four Yankees 3 Mets 2 FUN 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...
FUMBLE EVEN STUNS CURT
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES ORCHARD PARK - Curtis Martin is so used to being dependable that the moment he went the other way on the Jets - even though it was for...
COLES CATCHING ON IN BIG WAY
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amORCHARD PARK - Laveranues Coles is fast becoming a legitimate pro receiver and a significant factor in the Jet offense. The rookie receiver had a career day in yesterday's 23-20...
SNUB OF PARADE'S AN AMAZIN' ERROR ; TURN BACKS ON GOOD PR
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Mets just don't get it. For all their marketing genius that would turn a ticket to a Yankee-Mets interleague game into a "buy six-get one" hosing, truly creative marketing...
EAGLES FEEL BLUE AGAIN
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amYesterday started with the Eagles making the trek up the Turnpike to see just how improved they really are, trying to beat the Giants for the first time since 1996...
STRAHAN FEELIN' CHEATED
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe last time he walked off the Veterans Stadium field after a victory over the Eagles, Michael Strahan was in a playful mood as he delighted in his fine performance...
DEVIL GM EXTENDS HAND TO HOLDOUTS
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThe stalemate probably isn't solved, but at least the wall of silence has been breached. Spending four hours negotiating with Lou Lamoriello isn't something anyone would do willingly without some...
MONTGOMERY'S NOT DEAD YET
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Ron Dayne was over on the sideline - throwing up. Tiki Barber was hobbling off the field after getting his foot stepped on. The Giants, leading 17-0 in...
BIG BLUE CAN DO! REAL-DEAL JINTS KEEPON ROLLIN'VS. PHILLY
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amForget about grading these games. Don't bother to examine these victories. Stop anguishing about what they cannot do. This is the way it is going to be with the Giants....
DAYNE TOSSES BIRDS, LUNCH ASIDE
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amThey call him 'The Great Dayne,' but in reality, the name hardly suits him. Were Ron Dayne a beast, he'd clearly be a workhorse, not a dog. As the season...
AMANI'S A GOOD FIT: HEALTHY TOOMER FINALLY STEPS UP
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amGIANTS offensive coordinator Sean Payton walked up to wide receiver Amani Toomer before yesterday's NFC East game against the Eagles and told him, "You'll have eight or more catches (today),...
MACLEAN'S DAYS IN BLUE NUMBERED
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amIn Ranger terms, John MacLean is a Dead Man Walking. Expanding upon derogatory comments he had made to the Edmonton Sun on Friday regarding the team's 13th forward, Glen Sather...
FROM GRATING TO GRATEFUL; JEERS TO CHEERS FOR KEENAN
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amTHE pain does go away. Rest assured that relentless as the torture may seem for a Ranger franchise three years removed from its last playoff appearance, the good inevitably will...
RANGERS ROLL, BUT . . .
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 5 Bruins 1 Let's wait a while before we read too much into last night's dominating 5-1 Ranger victory at the Garden over Mike Keenan's listless and fatigued Bruins....
THE STREAK: YANKS' 14-GAME SERIES RUN MAY NEVER BE BROKEN
October 30, 2000 | 5:00amAll you have to know about the Yankees' record-breaking 14-game World Series winning streak is the one word Tino Martinez used to describe it: "Insane." In claiming four championships in...