October 12, 2001
IT'S D-DAY FOR BRILL MEDIA
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amRUMORS were swirling through the media world that today is going to be the moment of truth for entrepreneur Steve Brill and Brill Media Holdings, publisher of Brill's Content and...
STARBUCKS' ISP IS DISCONNECTED
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amStarbucks' woes continued yesterday as the wireless Internet service provider it uses in 500 of its 3,000 stores hit the skids. MobileStar of Richardson, Texas, fired all 88 of its...
FRUIT COULD BE LATEST ON BUFFETT'S TABLE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amIs billionaire investor Warren Buffett interested in helping Fruit of the Loom out of bankruptcy? Some observers close to the process think so. Fruit of the Loom, the troubled underwear...
BACK TO SQUARE 1 - MARTS RECOUP LOSSES SINCE SEPT. 11
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amStock markets soared yesterday, rebounding to pre-Sept. 11 levels as investors, encouraged by better-than-expected earnings, shrugged off more dismal economic numbers. Early morning rumors among traders that bin Laden had...
NBC HABLA ESPANOL - BUYS TELEMUNDO IN CHALLENGE TO UNIVISION
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amNBC is betting heavily that it can succeed where Sony and Liberty Media failed. The GE-owned network yesterday announced it would plunk down $2.7 billion to acquire Telemundo, in hopes...
DON'T SCRATCH 'OFF CENTRE' - THE FIRST EPISODE IS SO UNFUNNY IT'S PAINFUL ...THE SECOND WAS PRETTY FUNNY...THE THIRD ONE IS EVEN FUNNIER
October 12, 2001 | 4:00am"Off Centre" Sunday at 9:30 on WPIX/Ch.11 [ 1/2] ---------- IF nothing makes you laugh like a case of the crabs (no, not the crustaceans), then this is the show...
STARS STEAL 'BANDITS' - IT'S LAUGHS ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amBANDITS [] Three scene-stealers have a lark. Running time: 123 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate violence, profanity, sexual references). At the E Walk, the Ziegfeld, the Union Square, others. ------- 'BANDITS"...
STARR REPORT
October 12, 2001 | 4:00am'Ananda' gets a new EP - after a month "The Ananda Lewis Show" has done OK so far since launching into syndication - but behind-the-scenes morale is said to be...
JOHN'S A REGULAR JOE . . . BUT JUST DON'T CALL HIM A MIDWESTERN ROCKER
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amJOHN Mellencamp is among the few American songwriters who have lived up to the legacy of Woody Guthrie. Like the master, Mellencamp's gift is to capture the people's dreams, fulfilled...
'CORKY' A CINEMATIC OFFER YOU CAN REFUSE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amCORKY ROMANO [ 1/2] Disappointing comedy. Running time: 86 minutes. Rated PG-13. At the E Walk, the Kips Bay, the Sutton, others. -------- CHRIS Kattan, the very funny "Saturday Night...
ALL 'MONKEY' BUSINESS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amIRON MONKEY [ 1/2] Classic 1993 kung fu movie featuring spectacular fight choreography. With English subtitles. Runningtime: 87 minutes. Rated PG-13(violence, some gore). At theAstor Plaza, the LincolnSquare, the Kips...
RUSSIAN INTO ROMANCE, GAS MASKS AND ALL
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amYANA'S FRIENDS [] Romantic comedy set during Persian Gulf war. Running time: 90 minutes. Not rated (brief bare breasts, sexual activity). At the Quad, 13th Street between Fifth and Sixth...
'MISTER' NICE GUY
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMY FIRST MISTER [] Charming performance piece. Running time: 115 minutes. Rated R (profanity, sexual references). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Angelika, others. -------- 'MY First Mister" is...
THE PHIL, FOR FREE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amAS lower Manhattan lifts itself from the ashes, the New York Philharmonic will serenade the people who live and work there with two months of free lunchtime concerts. The first...
CRIME AND RAW COURAGE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHINGS BEHIND THE SUN [] Powerful, rawly personal tale of rape and redemption. Running time: 117 minutes. Rated R (violence, sex, rape). At the Screening Room, Varick and Canal streets....
SURVIVE THIS, LITTLE BUDDY ; 'GILLIGAN' LANDS ON CONFUSION ISLAND
October 12, 2001 | 4:00am"Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three-Hour Tour in History" Sunday at 9 [2 pineapples] ----- WHY me, God? Why? The true story of all those...
DON'T 'UNWRAP CANDY'
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amUNWRAP YOUR CANDYAt the Vineyard Theatre, 108 E.15th St. Call (212) 353-0303. -------- THREE creepy short plays called "Unwrap Your Candy," written and directed by Doug Wright, author of "Quills,"...
BITTER BATTLE OF THE SEXES - 'DANCE' WITH A HEAVY TREAD
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amDANCE OF DEATH []Broadhurst Theatre, 235 W. 44th St., (212) 239-6200. ------ 'DANCE of Death" is a lacerating last tango in Sweden that takes no prisoners and offers nothing but...
'SOBIBOR': A LONE STAND AGAINST DEATH
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amSOBIBOR, OCTOBER 14, 1943 [] --------CLAUDE Lanzmann intended to tell the story of the Sobibor uprising, the only successful death camp insurrection during the entire Holocaust, in his celebrated "Shoah."...
'MOST WANTED' TARGETS TERROR'S TOP 22
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amAMERICA'S Most Wanted" has been mobilized as the latest weapon in the war on terror lord Osama bin Laden and his network. Tonight's one-hour special on Fox will focus on...
CHEMIST-TURNED-WRITER'S EXPERIMENT GOES AWRY
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amAN IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTIONAt Primary Stages, 354 W. 45th St. Through Oct. 28. Call (212) 333-4052. --------- PLAYS about scientists have to be careful to be plays first. Same with plays...
'WATCH' GOES TO GROUND ZERO
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amWEST Wing" creator John Wells is taking advantage of another one of his high-rated dramas, "Third Watch," to deal with the Twin Towers tragedy. Wells said he was urged by...
IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY, GOD'S ON HIS SIDE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amKEVIN Bacon is in negotiations to star in "An Almost Holy Picture," Heather McDonald's one-character play about an ex-clergyman's struggle with God, opening in February at American Airlines Theater. The...
THREE-SY DOES IT! - 'SURVIVOR AFRICA' ALREADY A WINNER AFTER DEBUT
October 12, 2001 | 4:00am"Survivor Africa" [ ] Thursdays at 8 p.m. on CBS/Ch. 2 ----- 'SURVIVOR," you had me at hello. That's about how long it took last night to get me hooked...
TRAGIC TWIST OF HATE FOR CANADIAN SLAIN IN KUWAIT
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - The gunman who fatally shot a Canadian aircraft technician working for a U.S. company in Kuwait and wounded his wife may have mistaken them for Americans, authorities said...
ARAB PAPERS BLAME ALL BUT OSAMA
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amArabic-language newspapers are playing it straight in their news-page war coverage - but their commentary contains a litany of conspiracy theories. A Post survey of newspapers - published in New...
REAGAN ONE FOR THE AGES
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amRonald Reagan smashed a 175-year-old record yesterday by becoming the oldest living ex-president in U.S. history. Reagan, 90, who occupied the White House from 1981 to 1989, was born Feb....
PENTAGON PLANS TO EXPAND TERROR CRACKDOWN
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon has begun preliminary planning for military attacks and covert operations against terrorist networks outside of Afghanistan as the Bush administration looks to expand its global campaign...
ONE MONTH AFTER 9/11 - CITY AND NATION REMEMBER THE FALLEN ON SPECIAL DAY
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amNew Yorkers yesterday marked one month since the treacherous attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with songs, prayers and heart-wrenching tears. In Washington, President Bush gathered with a...
CORPS CURRICULUM - STUDENT ENLISTS TO BATTLE TERROR
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amDaniel Cherry is trading in his college books to join the war against terrorism. The 21-year-old Queens College student enlisted in the Marines two days after the World Trade Center...
DAD TRIED TO SWAP TOT ON 'BABY SEX' INTERNET SITE: DA
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amA Long Island man has been sexually abusing his 4-year-old daughter for almost her entire life - and recently offered to swap her for another child via an Internet chat...
DREADED ALTERNATE-SIDE PARKING RULES ARE BACK
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amAlternate-side-of-the-street parking regulations resumed citywide yesterday as New York continued inching back to normal. The parking regulations - the bane of late sleepers - had been suspended since Sept. 19...
PASSAGE OF TIME SIMPLY CANNOT EASE THE PAIN
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amHAS it been only a month? It doesn't seem so to FDNY Lt. Michael Vindigni, who serves on the department's ceremonial squad. He's been going to two funerals a day...
END OF THE ROAD FOR DUFF - LOSES 'FINAL' CUSTODY APPEAL IN PERELMAN WAR
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amCould it be? The five-year, off-and-on court battle between billionaire Ron Perelman and ex-wife Patricia Duff apparently ended yesterday, when an appeals court denied the multimillionaire mom's bid to overturn...
GOV FACES UP-HILL BATTLE - CAPITOL POLS MAY BLOCK PATAKI'S BID FOR $54B
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki yesterday called his mission for money a success, despite growing signs that New York's $54 billion rebuilding wish list is in big trouble. Rep. Charles Rangel...
LANDLORD SUES GATIEN OVER APT. BACK RENT
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amCash-strapped former club king Peter Gatien has been sued for nonpayment of rent before - but this time, it's personal. In papers filed in Manhattan state Supreme Court, Gatien's apartment...
ANTHRAX FEARS GIVE MAIL WORKERS POST TRAUMA
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amJittery postal workers sorted letters yesterday as authorities struggled to figure out if the fatal dose of anthrax found in Florida was delivered through the mail. But officials probing the...
CONTRACTOR BUSTED IN WTC THEFT CASE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amA construction-company owner who helped rescue trapped World Trade Center victims has been busted for possessing a $25,000 NYPD earth-mover stolen from ground zero. Louis Gregorio, 37, was charged with...
MISSING - OR HIDING? - MYSTERY OF NYPD CADET FROM PAKISTAN
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe NYPD is hunting for one of its former cadets, initially reported missing in the Twin Towers attack, issuing an urgent "hold and detain" order for the Pakistani native. Mohammad...
HS KID'S 'PREDICTION' PROBED
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn high-school freshman has been investigated for allegedly boasting to classmates during the first week of September that the World Trade Center would soon disappear, Board of Ed officials...
KIN OF EX BITTER AT DURST BAIL
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe brother of a woman who vanished 19 years ago is furious that the man he thinks can unravel the mystery - her husband, real-estate scion Robert Durst - is...
WIDOW GOES AFTER BIN LADEN IN COURT
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amA pregnant New Jersey mom widowed by the World Trade Center attacks filed the first lawsuit against Osama bin Laden yesterday, trying to seize the terror chief's money to support...
FINAL HOURS OF HIJACK MONSTER - HE WAITED UNTIL LAST MINUTE TO BUY BOXCUTTERS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amHijack ringleader Mohamed Atta had one final job to do before bunkering down in his hotel room for his last night of sleep - he had to go shopping for...
NO BAIL FOR DRUG-BUST COACH
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amA Staten Island high-school football coach, accused of drug-dealing, was ordered held without bail yesterday after prosecutors said he had threatened to kill a witness. Ronald Abruzese, 56, was charged...
TERROR SUSPECTS TAKE OFF AND HIDE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThey fled like rats. Of those on the FBI's master list of people wanted for questioning in the terror attacks, many disappeared shortly before or after Sept. 11, according to...
HAMAS AIDE KILLED BY HIS OWN DEVICE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amA deputy of Israel's most-wanted terrorist blew himself up yesterday while trying to plant a roadside bomb, the Israeli government said. The dismembered body of Hamas militant Hani Rawajbeh, 22,...
MARK GETS HEVESI, VALLONE BACKERS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMark Green gobbled up the lion's share of votes from people who cast ballots for Peter Vallone and Alan Hevesi in the Sept. 25 Democratic primary, exit polls showed yesterday....
RUDY ROYALLY RILED - REJECTS $10M AFTER SAUDI PRINCE DISSES U.S.
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amA steaming Mayor Giuliani yesterday turned down a $10 million check for Twin Towers relief from a wealthy Saudi prince after the royal blindsided the mayor by claiming U.S. foreign...
VOTERS WANTED SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE CITY AND EDUCATION
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amEducation and the man who knows the city and its problems were the two most important things weighing on voters' minds as they cast ballots yesterday, exit polls showed. Just...
HERAT'S ALL, FOLKS! WE POUND TALIBAN - PANIC SPREADS ON FIFTH DAY OF AIRSTRIKES
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Massive explosions sent panicked residents of Kabul and Kandahar fleeing to the countryside yesterday as a relentless air assault on Osama bin Laden and the Taliban thundered across...
VOTER NUMBERS ARE LIKELY TO TOP TURNOUT FOR PRIMARY
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe high-stakes mayoral runoff seemed to lure a healthy number of voters to the polls yesterday, even though the election was the third one in a month and held on...
BLOOMY: DEMS' RACE IS FOR SECOND PLACE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amEven before the votes were tallied, a confident Republican mayoral hopeful Mike Bloomberg said the Democratic runoff was nothing more than a race to finish second in the general election....
WILL GREEN REMEMBER WHY HE WON?
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMARK Green won last night because, in the campaign's final days, he succeeded in turning the Democratic mayoral runoff into a referendum on Freddy Ferrer. There seems little doubt that...
AMERICANS FEAR WIDER WAR: POLL
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amTwo-thirds of Americans fear the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan could lead to an expanded war pitting the nation against the Muslim world, an ABC News poll showed yesterday. And an...
CANDIDATES' NEW BUZZWORD: EXPERIENCE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amANALYSIS Get ready to hear a lot about "experience" over the next 3½ weeks. Both Democrat Mark Green and Republican Michael Bloomberg will be touting their vast experience - Green...
GRIEVING U.S. STEPS UP RAIDS - TALIBAN BOSS' RELATIVES KILLED IN BOMBING 'INFERNO'; MEMORIALS SALUTE VICTIMS MONTH AFTER ATTACK; GREEN TOPS FERRER FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amFerocious daylight bombing raids aimed at Osama bin Laden and his Taliban guardians rocked Afghanistan yesterday - while the thousands killed in the Sept. 11 attacks were quietly mourned under...
DEMS LOVE RUDY AS EX-MAYOR - 68% HAIL HIZZONER, BUT STILL SAY HE SHOULD GO
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani is still riding a popularity wave a month after the World Trade Center calamity - but that doesn't mean Democratic voters want him to stay after his term...
HOW VICTORIOUS GREEN ALMOST BLEW IT
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMARK GREEN came close to throwing it all away. But at the last moment, he found the will, the voice and the guts to fight. Last night, he beat Fernando...
GOTBAUM'S GOT IT: WINS ADVOCATE NOD
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amBetsy Gotbaum trampled civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel in yesterday's Democratic runoff for public advocate - catapulting the former parks commissioner into the city's second-highest post. Gotbaum was leading Siegel...
GREEN WINNER IN DEM RUNOFF - BEATS FERRER BY 4-POINT MARGIN
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMark Green captured the Democratic nomination for mayor last night, narrowly beating rival Fernando Ferrer thanks to overwhelming support from white voters. Green topped Ferrer, 52 percent to 48 percent,...
STUCK IN A LEFTY PAST
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amIN crises, people display unexpected strengths. That's been the glory of the past month, and it's been true in intellectual and journalistic circles as in others, as the superb re-evaluations...
TERROR SUSPECTS RUN & HIDE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThey fled like rats. Of the FBI's master list of people wanted for questioning in the terror attacks, many disappeared shortly before or after Sept. 11, according to neighbors interviewed...
DID YOU CHANGE YOUR VOTE FROM SEPT. 25 - AND WHY? (VOX POX)
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amJeanine West, 77, retired antiques importer "I stayed with the same one - Mark Green. He's going to be for everybody, for all the people. Right now, we need it."...
GREEN LOOKING LIKE A WINNER - TAKES LEAD OVER FERRER IN EXIT POLL
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMark Green appeared to have captured the Democratic nomination for mayor last night, holding a lead over his rival Fernando Ferrer due to overwhelming support from white voters, according to...
SECURITY PUTS GIULIANI IN GUARDED CONDITION
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani now has a mini-army of his own to protect him against a possible terrorist attack. An elite NYPD counter-assault team - dressed in bullet-proof vests and prepared for...
HOW BOZO & CO. FINALLY GOT GREEN GOING
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMARK GREEN has wanted to be mayor since his hair was brown. But his fight for the job didn't begin in earnest until two weeks ago. Friday, Sept. 28, to...
DEMS LOVE RUDY AS EX-MAYOR - 70% HAIL HIZZONER, BUT STILL SAY HE SHOULD GO
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani is still riding a popularity wave a month after the World Trade Center calamity - but that doesn't mean Democratic voters want him to stay after his term...
TURNOUT 'MUCH BETTER THAN ROUND ONE'
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe high-stakes mayoral runoff election seemed to lure a healthy number of voters to the polls yesterday, even though the election was the third one in a month and held...
O'NEILL'S SWING WAS UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHE stands were full, but the seats were empty. Everyone in the joint stood to thank Paul O'Neill for nine entertaining seasons of blue-collar baseball. A jacked-up crowd of 56,684...
YANKEES HEADING WEST IN 0-2 HOLE - HUDSON, A'S SILENCE BOMBER BATS AGAIN
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThey were facing Jason Isringhausen who admitted to being freaked. After Tim Hudson had frustrated them for eight innings, the Yankees had a big chance in the ninth. Suddenly, there...
GANT'S BLAST IS ALL THE A'S NEED
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amIt's fair to call Ron Gant a journeyman and a bench player, as long as you call him the winning difference last night. Gant slugged a fourth-inning solo shot to...
ECK OF A SERIES FOR IZZY
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amOn Wednesday night, Jason Isringhausen closed the door on the Yankees with no fanfare. Last night, the Oakland closer opened the window of opportunity a hair before slamming it shut...
HUDSON BREAKS BATS, HEARTS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amIF TIM Hudson pitched for the Yankees the way he pitched for the A's last night, they'd name a river after him in this town. Instead, his name will go...
JETER LOOKING FOR OFFENSIVE HELP
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amShortstop Derek Jeter has been playing - and excelling - in front of packed houses every night, but in some ways he seems the loneliest man in Yankee Stadium. Jeter...
OLD RELIABLE MOVES BACKFIRING ON TORRE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHROUGH two Division Series games, we have not seen the old Yankees, just old Yankees. Looking more gray than great, the Yankees have lost consecutive games to the spry A's,...
YANK BATS GO ON STRIKE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amPaul O'Neill's face has always been an open book, a window to his intense soul. And as his weak popup ended the eighth inning with Derek Jeter on base -...
PICKIN'S ARE SLIM VS. TIM
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amJeff Tam and Mike Magnante were warming up. Tim Hudson, in contrast, was already on fire. The 26-year-old Oakland right-hander stood at the mound with runners at the corners and...
SATHER 'DISCIPLINES' RANGERS - GM BLASTS TEAM'S EFFORT VS. CAPS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThree games. Two losses. One address from the general manager. "It's about discipline; you have to be disciplined in order to play this game," Glen Sather, who chaired a team...
STRIPED BASS COMING UP BIG
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amFROM the Statue of Liberty to the Montauk Lighthouse, striped bass have become the prime target for anglers seeking a trophy fish to close out the season. Stripers have been...
'STROS FACING SEVENTH HELL
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - The mindsets of the two teams playing in Game 3 of the NLDS here this afternoon are as different as Felix Unger's and Oscar Madison's. The Braves enter...
A BLEACHER BUM IF EVER THERE WAS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amUNLESS ONE watched with his or her eyes squeezed shut - a difficult way to view a telecast - there was no escaping. The first seven innings of Game 1...
COX COULD MISS GAME 3
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - Braves manager Bobby Cox may miss today's NLDS Game 3 in Atlanta to be with his ailing sister in Birmingham, Ala. Joy Rogers, Cox's sister, had a brain...
STICK A FAULK IN 'EM - GIANTS WON'T BE ABLE TO CORRAL LOADED RAMS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amLAST season, a Rams team without Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk and without a competent defense came to Giants Stadium and beat the soon-to-be NFC champs by two TDs. When they...
ISLANDERS HAVING TROUBLE AT THE TOP
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe Islanders are 3-0 and we have yet to hear the roar of the top line. Going into last night's game at New Jersey, the Isles were perfect through three...
GAME 2 START DELAYED BY PREZ
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush's eight o'clock press conference last night pushed the start of Game 2 of the ALDS between the Yankees and A's at Yankee Stadium back to 8:45. It was...
ROGER WILL START GAME 5 IF NEEDED - INJURY WON'T KEEP CLEMENS OFF THE HILL
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amIf the Yankees need Roger Clemens to pitch a deciding Game 5 of the ALDS against the A's Monday night at Yankee Stadium, Joe Torre is handing the ball to...
JINTS PLAN TO MARSHAL 'D' VS. FAULK
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amGiants defensive coordinator John Fox says best way for team to stop Rams' Marshall Faulk (28) Sunday is with Coaches and players are trained not to divulge any secrets. However,...
JET COACH HAS SPECIAL BEEF AGAINST FISH
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amIt's been a helter-skelter season for Jets special teams coach Mike Westhoff, who's spent the better part of the last four months putting out brushfires. This week, it gets personal...
KIDD & VAN HORN ARE RIGHT ON TIME
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amTiming is everything. Just ask Nets forward Keith Van Horn. Van Horn, bulkier and happier this preseason, is flashing indicators that big numbers are on the horizon. Van Horn and...
MR. WIZARD STILL HAS OLD MAGIC
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amHAVING just returned from the revisionist birthplace of basketball - Springfield, Mass., has been replaced by Wilmington, N.C., in history books - I offer an opening dose of truth serum...
MARINERS EVEN IT UP - MOYER LOBS CLUB BY TRIBE
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amSEATTLE - After the Mariners' 116 hard-to-fathom wins this season, hard wouldn't begin to describe the prospect of losing to the Indians in the first round of the playoffs or...
SAKHEE IS HEADING TO BREEDERS' CUP
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amAn already strong European contingent for the Breeders' Cup at Belmont Park, just 15 days away on Oct. 27, got even stronger yesterday with the announcement that Sakhee, winner of...
KNICKS GET BAD BREAKS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amEXHIBITION: Knicks 90 - Nets 85 The Knicks were dealt a blow yesterday when their bid for the $4.5 million injury exception in wake of Larry Johnson's retirement was shot...
ISLES HAVE ANSWERS IN TOUGHEST TEST YET
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe Islanders were faced with their greatest challenge of this young season last night. They were in New Jersey to play a ticked-off Devils team. They were without their captain...
YANKEES HEAD WEST IN 0-2 HOLE - HUDSON, A'S SILENCE BOMBER BATS AGAIN
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amNothing lasts forever. Last night at a sold-out Yankee Stadium the A's and Yankees delivered a wonderful October baseball game that the A's won, 2-0, and unofficially ended the Yankees'...
IZZY'S TURNING INTO ONE ECK OF A CLOSER
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amOver the regular season, Jason Isringhausen was as much a sieve as a savior, as much a colander as a closer. On Wednesday night, the only thing he drained the...
IT MIGHT BE TOO LATE TO SHUFFLE THE DECK
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHE stands were full, but the seats were empty. Everyone in the joint stood to thank Paul O'Neill for nine, entertaining seasons of blue-collar baseball. A jacked-up crowd of 56,684...
THE BAM-TINO WOULD BE A PERFECT FIT AT SHEA
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amTINO Martinez went through his normal pregame ritual of hitting, hitting and more hitting before last night's Game 2 of the Division Series against the A's. He swings inside, outside,...
JOE STICKS TO HIS GUNS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amJoe Torre is dancing with the bats that have paved his way to the Hall of Fame. After Bernie Williams, Paul O'Neill and David Justice went a combined 0-for-12 in...
JOHNNY FINALLY GOT MARCHING WITH A'S
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amHe was supposed to lead the A's to the playoffs and beyond. But Johnny Damon, the team's new leadoff hitter, looked to be marching Oakland off a cliff like a...
IT'S JUST A BALL GAME - STADIUM FANS KNOW REAL STAKES ARE MUCH BIGGER
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amFOR all but a few moments of the three hours and forty-five minutes it took the Yankees and Athletics to play Game 1 of the ALDS Wednesday night, it was...
BAM-TINO VS. GIAMBI-NO
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amTino Martinez has swung the Yankees' most consistent bat since June and has a history of bludgeoning Oakland pitching and excelling in the ALDS. But no matter how well he...
HITCHCOCK GETS A BAD REVIEW
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amSterling Hitchcock made the Yankees postseason roster as a long-reliever/spot-starter, a lefthanded insurance policy. It remains to be seen exactly how that insurance policy is going to pay off. He...
AIR JORDAN TURNS BACK THE CLOCK
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Michael Jordan was hoping to take us to a place far, far away last night, back to a time when sports mattered. The magical one stepped...
NO BREAKS FOR KNICKS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks, trying to capitalize on Larry Johnson's retirement, had their bid for the $4.5 million injury exception shot down by the league yesterday, according to sources. The Knicks hoped...
RED-HOT ISLES THUMP DEVILS
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amIslanders 6 - Devils 4 They are being passed like they were moving backwards all summer. In the 20 years since they came to New Jersey, the Devils have never...
DANEYKO BRACED FOR BIG SEASON
October 12, 2001 | 4:00amWhen Mr. Devil stepped onto the ice last night for his 1149th NHL game, all with New Jersey, he had to thank his lucky knee brace that his amazing total...