May 16, 2002
LOOK WHO J. CREW TURNS TO FOR HELP
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amAiling J. Crew is reshaping its ranks - but it may want to rethink its latest management choice. The retailer raided the Gap's senior offices for a new head of...
SILENCE MAY NOT BE GOLDEN AT J.P. MORGAN CHASE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amNOT too many people would recognize the name Dinsa Mehta, at least not outside the rarefied world of J.P. Morgan Chase's executive suite. But it was a rumor about Mehta's...
DUNCAN: I THOUGHT SHREDDING WAS PERFECTLY LEGAL
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amDavid Duncan says he wasn't aware shredding documents was illegal when he ordered his staffers to do so, but the former official of Arthur Andersen later realized he had committed...
DUDE, YOU'RE GETTIN' DUDS - DELL TO OFFER T-SHIRTS, HATS, ACCESSORIES
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amDude, you can now get some of the Dell dude's stuff. Dell Computer Corp. is capitalizing on the popularity of Steven, the character featured in the company's commercials, and his...
CHELSEA'S CAPITOL BUILDING IS ON THE BLOCK FOR $194M
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amA ritzy, 39-story Chelsea rental building is being shopped by Steven Witkoff and the Adell family who only completed its construction last year. Real Estate Alert reports the sales price...
CB RICHARD ELLIS, GRUBB & ELLIS TALK DEAL
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe global real estate brokerage CB Richard Ellis is in talks to buy rival Grubb & Ellis, The Post has learned. A sweetened offer was transmitted just yesterday, sources said....
MARIA'S BIG MOUTH - CALL FROM 'MONEY HONEY' SPARKED INSIDER TRADING: STUDY
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amWall Street insiders may have capitalized on the stock picks of CNBC's Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo before the public even heard them on the air, says a new study. Stocks...
CHRISTIE'S MOVIN' OUT - BRINKLEY'S $25M HAMPTONS PAD ON BLOCK
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amJUST two years after Billy Joel sold his East Hampton mansion to Jerry Seinfeld for a record $32 million, comes word that his ex-wife Christie Brinkley is now asking big...
STARR REPORT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amSotheby's TV auction to benefit Sept. 11 fund A bevy of TV items will be available during a special Sotheby's auction held June 3 to benefit The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief...
SOMEBODY WANTS THE RUDY SHOW
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amRUDY Giuliani is hinting that he's interested in a TV job - but he won't say with whom. Hizzoner told TV Guide that he's been approached about working in television....
RATHER DROPS OUT OF NEW 48 HOURS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00am'48 Hours" will air next season without Dan Rather - for the first time since Ronald Reagan was president. Rather removed himself from the show because he wants to focus...
MUSIQ'S NO. 1
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amMusiq's sophomore effort, "Juslisen," hit the high note of the Top 200 Album Sales charts. The neo-soul hip-hop artist sold 260,159 copies of his new disc its first week out,...
NOT 'MAN' ENOUGH
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amKIMMELMANIA might kill "The Man Show." Rising star Jimmy Kimmel, the affable co-host of Comedy Central's beer-and-babes hit, is heading to ABC to star in a late-night talk show that...
CALLING ALL MANILOW FANS (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE)
May 16, 2002 | 4:00am"Ultimate Manilow!" Saturday at 9 on WCBS/Ch. 2 TV critics around the country were bombarded this week with something called "upfronts." Upfronts are previews of next season's offerings - followed...
BABY GRAND: MOTHER AND NBC BOTH DOING WELL AS FRIENDS GIVE BIRTH (IT'S A GIRL)
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amTONIGHT on "Friends," pregnant Rachel has a special delivery for NBC - huge ratings. That's the prediction for the highly anticipated one-hour season finale of "Friends" in which Rachel (Jennifer...
HAPPY DAY FOR '24'
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amFOX is leaning toward keeping the catchy, hour-to-hour format of the breakout hit "24." The show, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a frenzied, counter-terrorism expert named Jack Bauer, turned out to...
PARK'S SUMMERSTAGE SERIES SET
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amIF you want to see some of the best acts at Central Park SummerStage, you may have to dig into your wallet. Benefit concerts include shows by Lucinda Williams, the...
'CLONE' ARRANGER: IF YOU CAN'T TELL A JEDI FROM A JANGO - A WHO'S WHO OF THE NEW 'STAR WARS' FILM
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amANAKIN SKYWALKER Who: Jedi trainee. Played by: Jake Lloyd (as a child); Hayden Christensen (young adult); Sebastian Shaw (older man in "Return of the Jedi.") First appearance: "Return of the...
THE BEST THEATERS TO SEE IT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThere are just two theaters in the city where you can see "Star Wars: Chapter II: Attack of the Clones" the way George Lucas intended it to be seen. They...
YODA STEALS THE SHOW: NO MORE MR. NICE LITTLE GREEN GUY
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amWHO knew the little green guy had it in him? Audiences at early screenings of "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" have been going crazy at the...
STAR WARS: BATTLE OF THE BLOCKBUSTER BABES
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHEY are the hottest young actresses in Hollywood and they've both dated their hunky co-stars - but that's where the similarities between Natalie Portman and Kirsten Dunst end. Natalie -...
MOVIES BY MILLIONS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amStar Wars by the numbers Movie budget worldwide gross Oscar wins "Star Wars" (1977) $11 million $798 million 7 "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) $18 million $529 million 2 "Return...
BIG GUN, BIG LIE$
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amACTORS making hard-core porn flicks aren't nearly as shameless and morally deficient as Washington politicians and defense contractors huckstering weapons systems. They may fake sighs and groans, but at least...
HAVANA GOOD TIME - BX. BABY BOMBERS TO PLAY IN CUBA
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amWho needs the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania? The Baby Bronx Bombers, who were stripped of their third-place series finish last year, are headed to Cuba in November to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amA Georgia man was arrested for driving his car stark naked along a Florida highway. Police said William Austin, 45, told them he stripped to his birthday suit because the...
RUN TO HONOR FDNY HEROES
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amMichael Badalucco, who plays lawyer Jimmy Berluti, in the ABC drama "The Practice," will be on hand Sunday for the 22nd annual Buckley's "Heroes Run," to honor two Brooklyn firefighter...
PITCHER DANNY WORKS HIS WAY OUT OF A JAM
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHE stands were nearly empty in the South Bronx park where Danny Almonte was pitching. There were a couple of neighborhood drunks and a man who concentrated more on a...
ANDY NOW CAREFUL NOT TO ZING PATAKI
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amA month after touching the political third rail of Sept. 11, gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo yesterday called for a stronger plan to redevelop lower Manhattan - but carefully avoided directly...
PREZ GIVES CBS BLACK EYE FOR PEARL VIDEO
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday joined critics of CBS's decision to air part of a videotape from the final minutes of the life of slain Wall Street Journal reporter...
UNHOLY TRINITY? - CHURCH SUES FOR RENT ON 9/11-RUINED OFFICE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amTrinity Church - one of New York's most powerful landlords - is playing hardball over back rent with a TV-show tenant that abandoned its water-logged office near Ground Zero after...
B'KLYN GRAMPS, 76, KILLED EX-WIFE: COPS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe 76-year-old ex-husband of a beloved Brooklyn grandmother has been arrested and charged with her murder, police said yesterday. The body of Murza Bowen-Morgan, 66, who had been hit over...
COP BADLY HURT IN FREAK H'WAY MISHAP
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amAn off-duty NYPD detective was critically injured yesterday when a metal plate smashed through her windshield and into her face as she drove to work, authorities said. Janine Farrell, 41,...
GUCCIONE BARES HIS HIDDEN TALENT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amPenthouse publisher Bob Guccione doesn't just have an eye for porn - he's got X-rated X-ray vision, he claimed yesterday. Guccione made the odd assertion while testifying in Manhattan federal...
PUBLIC HEARING SET FOR REDEVELOPMENT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amFor the first time this year, officials overseeing rebuilding at Ground Zero will hold a major public hearing at which people can speak out about what should replace the former...
FEDS: RESTORE LOUIMA VERDICTS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe feds have launched a battle to reclaim the cover-up conspiracy convictions of three cops in the Abner Louima police-brutality case - asking an appeals court to reverse its decision...
'69 JET'S BOOZY SPIRAL TO DEATH
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amFormer New York Jets tackle Sam Walton - a member of the 1969 Super Bowl champs - died homeless and drunk far from the roaring crowd in an abandoned building...
WAIT TO ID VICTIMS DRAGS ON
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe work at Ground Zero is drawing to a close with thousands of family members still hoping for word that their loved ones' remains have been identified - and many...
UPSTATE DOC'S TEEN 'KILLER' IS LINKED TO STOLEN SLAY GUN
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amA baby-faced teen gang leader was arraigned yesterday on charges he murdered a Poughkeepsie oncologist near Newark Airport, after being tracked down by the bullet found in the doctor's head....
MOM UPSET SUICIDE DUO WILL SHARE CEMETERY
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe distraught parents of a real-life Juliet are outraged that their daughter and her Romeo will spend eternity together in the same New Jersey cemetery. Doomed lovers Theresa LaMarca, 22,...
HILL DEFENDS HER CASH DRIVE AS GOP GOES ON PAC ATTACK
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday said raising money to defeat Gov. Pataki won't affect her ability to work with him, but Republicans ripped her for injecting national money into...
BLOOMY: I'LL BUILD ON RUDY'S WELFARE REFORM
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday pledged to build on the Giuliani administration's achievements in welfare reform while also aiding 450,000 recipients at a time of economic decline. "We are not going to...
MCCALL ROUTES $47M TO CAMPAIGN DONOR
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amState Comptroller Carl McCall has invested $47 million of the state's pension fund in an account managed by an executive who is hosting a McCall fund-raiser tonight, The Post has...
FRANKEL COPS PLEA IN $208M SWINDLE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amDisgraced financier Martin Frankel pleaded guilty yesterday to looting $208 million from insurance companies in five states and using the money to buy mansions, planes and luxury cars - and...
COURT-CAFETERIA THIEF GRABS 4G TO GO
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amCops in lower Manhattan are investigating a brazen, little burglary - the theft of more than $4,000 in cash and cigarettes from a Supreme Court cafeteria. The burglary, discovered at...
PROSECUTOR ENGAGING IN DOGGED PURSUIT OF INJUSTICE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amNORWALK, CONN.CAN you believe that in the 21st century, a man's freedom and the closure of a terrible tragedy is hinging on the bark of a dead dog? This, in...
MEGA MANIA HIT$ NEW YORK
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amMega Millions lotto fever swept the city yesterday - the first day New Yorkers could buy tickets in their home state. As of yesterday afternoon, $1,239,000 worth of the $1...
RADIO 'KILLER' CONFESSES TO LIE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amA day after confessing to a double murder on the "Opie & Anthony" radio show, a Queens man returned to the air to recant, saying he lied to aggrandize himself....
EX-YANK A CHIP OFF OLD AUCTION BLOCK
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amFormer Yankee reliever Jeff Nelson has taken baseball memorabilia auctions to a new low - trying to sell off bone chips from his pitching elbow. The grotesque grab for green...
NAME DROP: SCHOOLS 'SPONSOR' PLAN NIXED
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday withdrew his proposal to allow private companies to put their names in schools in exchange for donations after objections from Board of Education members. "I'm...
DNA MATCH FOR VALIANT FIRE CHIEF
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe city's most decorated firefighter will finally be laid to rest. The remains of Chief Ray Downey were identified through DNA matching Monday, officials said yesterday, after the hero firefighter's...
SKAKEL BOASTED OF SLAY: WITNESS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00am"I've killed before." Michael Skakel made that incredible boast while having his hair cut in a Greenwich, Conn., salon shortly after the 1975 slaying of Martha Moxley, a hairdresser testified...
CELEB BABY SHOCKER - HURLEY EX SIRED KERKORIAN KID: REPORT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amLove rat Steve Bing, who Liz Hurley says fathered her baby, has been named as the dad of 4-year-old girl at the center of the big-bucks battle between casino czar...
PAT'S MUSIC A BOONE TO OZZY'S BROOD
May 16, 2002 | 4:00am"The Osbournes," MTV's lovable hard-rock TV family, showed a mellow side yesterday, announcing that white-shoe crooner Pat Boone will sing an Ozzy Osbourne classic on a new album of the...
MOVING TOWARD REMEMBRANCE - CEREMONY WILL MARK FINISH OF SEARCH EFFORT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amIn a major step toward shifting the focus at Ground Zero from recovery to remembrance, Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki today will announce plans for a ceremony there to honor...
PROMISES, PROMISES - ARAFAT VOWS 'REFORM' OF PALESTINIAN GOV'T
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat bowed to Palestinian and foreign pressure yesterday and promised to reform his government, "correct mistakes" and hold new elections. But Arafat gave few details and asked...
ANOTHER FIFTH AVENUE JEWEL HEIST
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amBurglars yesterday made off with $200,000 worth of jewelry from a Fifth Avenue store, the fourth fashionable jeweler in the area hit in smash-and-grab heists over the last two months,...
WATCHDOGS: CUTS STILL NOT ENOUGH
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe city is facing "its most serious fiscal challenge in recent memory," and even Mayor Bloomberg's $500 million in contingency cuts don't go far enough, according to the Independent Budget...
ALBANY ANSWERS BLOOMY'S PRAYER$
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe new $89.6 billion state budget contains almost $1 billion in aid for New York City - giving Mayor Bloomberg nearly everything he wanted to help close a massive city...
BUDGET GIVES TEACHERS NEW REASON TO LEAVE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThanks to the new state budget, the Big Apple will face another teacher brain drain - even as it struggles to find 10,000 new certified instructors. Gov. Pataki and legislative...
BUSH HAD HIJACK WARNING - WAS TOLD BEFORE 9/11 OSAMA GOONS MIGHT ACT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amIntelligence officials warned President Bush in the weeks before Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden and his terror henchmen might have been plotting to hijack passenger airliners, the White House...
PAKISTAN TROOPS MOVE TO KO AL QAEDA
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Pakistan is sending 1,000 troops to the tense tribal area near the Afghanistan border as part of a U.S.-led campaign to deliver a knockout blow to Osama bin...
GOOD SCHOOLS MAY AID THE BAD ONES
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday proposed giving superintendents from the best school districts $250,000 to help prop up failing schools in other districts. Under the arrangement, staff from District 2...
TALE OF TWO TENORS: SECRETS BEHIND PAVAROTTI'S NO-SHOW MET DRAMA
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amFOUR hours before the curtain was to rise on his much-ballyhooed farewell, Luciano Pavarotti sat in his Central Park South apartment with two doctors and a vocal coach, anxiously waiting...
SILVER TWEAKS MAYOR ON SCHOOL REFORM
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday questioned whether Mayor Bloomberg still wants a deal on school reform. "It should have been closed by now, but it's not," Silver told The Post....
MOVING TOWARD REMEMBRANCE: CEREMONY WILL MARK FINISH OF SEARCH EFFORT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amIn a major step toward shifting the focus at Ground Zero from recovery to remembrance, Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki today will announce plans for a ceremony there to honor...
A TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE LOSS: YANKS MUSTN'S FALL TO CLUBS LIKE RAYS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHE YANKEES lost to the Devil Rays last night and it felt like that time Chaminade took out No. 1 Virginia with Ralph Sampson. It is not supposed to be...
DEVIL DOGS HAVE DAY: HERNANDEZ TATTOOED BY TAMPA BAY
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amDevil Rays 10 Yankees 7 Maybe Orlando Hernandez figured he could beat the patsy Devil Rays with a bad back. Maybe he did his team a disservice by trying. After...
SWEET WIN FOR KERRY & KEITH
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Nets were ahead, but only by four points, when Keith Van Horn popped free at the top of the key. In other seasons, his shot would have prompted groans...
IN FINALE, HE'S BARREN DAVIS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amBaron Davis disputed the call, but it didn't stop him from saying the Nets "deserved to win the series." It was with 5:39 remaining when the Hornets' 14-year run in...
CELTS A THREAT TO JUGGER-NETS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amHe never even paused. A split second after Lucious Harris was asked why the Nets had a world of trouble this season with the Celtics, the reserve guard shot back...
DOCS PLEASED WITH FRANCO ELBOW SURGERY
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - John Franco underwent successful Tommy John surgery at the Kerlan Jobe Clinic yesterday and will rejoin the team in San Diego. Franco, whose flexor tendon and medial...
COMMISH OPTIMISTIC DESPITE TALK OF STRIKE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - As Mike Piazza stood behind the batting cage late yesterday afternoon, he eloquently reaffirmed the players' union right to keep its options open. The Mets catcher was...
SILAS: NETS WILL BOUNCE BOSTON
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amHornet coach Paul Silas believes Nets-Celtics will go seven games, with New Jersey making the NBA Finals. "If I had to favor somebody, I'd have to favor New Jersey because...
KIDD AND CO. SWAT HORNETS, FACE CELTS IN EAST FINALS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amGame 5 Nets 103 Hornets 95 In their NBA history, the Nets never before advanced to the Eastern Conference finals. Never before had they won 50 games, an Atlantic Division...
BEE-LIEVE IT, NETS MOVE ON: FINALLY, A MAGICAL NIGHT IN THE SWAMP
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amONLY 8,749 bothered to show up for the Nets' home opener on Oct. 30, 2001. And only 5,277 were in the seats a week later when the Sonics came to...
TODD ANSWERS NETS' LATE CALL
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES Jason Collins was gone. Aaron Williams was gone. Both fell a foul of fouls. So Todd MacCulloch, the guy who starts and rarely finishes in the middle for...
LUKAS SITTING ON DOUBLE-BARRELED THREAT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - D. Wayne Lukas, who rides shotgun on all the classic races in America, will fire two barrels in Saturday's Preakness, hoping to hit the target and get the...
REYNA: U.S. BOOTERS WON'T BE PUSHOVERS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amClaudio Reyna says ignore the naysayers. He believes the U.S. soccer team will make some noise in next month's World Cup. Reyna is aware the loss of Chris Armas to...
LOCALS LOOKING FOR OLD 'MAGIC'
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - It's a tradition at Old Hilltop: Every Preakness should have a hometown horse who's taking on the big boys for the first time, hoping to fulfill his stable's...
'EMBLEM' ARRIVES
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem and trainer Bob Baffert arrived like conquering heroes yesterday at Pimlico, where the ebony-coated colt and ivory-haired horseman will bid for the second...
BAFFERT POSTS EARLY WIN
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - "Racing luck," trainer Bob Baffert says, can spell the difference between victory and defeat, and at last evening's post draw for Saturday's 127th running of the Preakness Stakes,...
SATHER'S COACH SEARCH IS PUZZLING
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amAnd so the question is this: with Dave Tippett set to become coach of the Stars, is Glen Sather being thorough in his search for a successor to Ron Low,...
BOMBERS BEGIN DOLLAR DANCE WITH SORIANO
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amResponding to Alfonso Soriano's superstar start to his sophomore season, the Yankees have opened negotiations on a multi-year contract for the second baseman, The Post has learned. Don Nomura, Soriano's...
STANTON: PLAYERS' STRIKE LAST RESORT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amDerek Jeter's quest for a fifth ring. Jason Giambi making like Reggie. Alfonso Soriano's reach for stardom. Roger Clemens brushing back Father Time. Mariano Rivera closing in Oct. It could...
METS GET ANOTHER GEM - D'AMICO MIRRORS PEDRO WITH TWO-HIT SHUTOUT
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - An old baseball axiom is that starting pitchers should feed off each other. Once one starter hurls a great game, it's up to the next man in...
SCOTT AND CO. DON'T WANT TO BE ONE-HIT WONDERS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amBYRON Scott understands the opportunity the Nets have in front of them during these playoffs. A victory in Game 5 last night against the Hornets would have advanced them to...
FINALLY, A MAGICAL NIGHT IN THE SWAMP
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amIT felt like New Year's Eve at the Meadowlands and rightly so. The Nets had a chance to make history last night and it seemed everyone in the tri-state area...
KIDD & CO. SWAT HORNETS, FACE CELTICS IN EAST FINALS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 5 Nets 103 Hornets 95 Never before have the Nets in their NBA history advanced to the Eastern Conference finals. But then, never before had they won 50 games,...
WHO'S BETTER THAN JORGE? POSADA OUTDUELING I-ROD AND PIAZZA AT THE QUARTER POLE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amFOR four straight offseasons, Jorge Posada would travel several days a week from his San Juan home to Ivan Rodriguez' parents' residence in Vega Baja or Pudge would go to...
NICK GETS CHANCE TO HACK IT VS. LEFTY
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre, encouraged by Nick Johnson's recent surge, started the rookie at DH and batted him ninth last night against Tampa Bay left-hander Joe Kennedy. "He's had some...
NETS HOPE TO TAKE PLAYOFF LESSONS TO THE NEXT LEVEL
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amTo a man and to a coach, the Nets insist they learned valuable lessons in the first round of the playoffs, lessons they wanted to apply in the second round....
SIGNS SAY 'DEAD END' : YANKEE REP STANTON: AUGUST PLAYERS' STRIKE WOULD BE 'LAST RESORT'
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amDerek Jeter's quest for a fifth ring. Jason Giambi making like Reggie. Alfonso Soriano's reach for stardom. Roger Clemens brushing back Father Time. Mariano Rivera closing in October. It could...
DEVIL DOGS HAVE DAY - HERNANDEZ TATTOOED BY TAMPA BAY
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amDevil Rays 10 Yankees 7 We were reminded last night that even the Casey Stengel Mets won a baseball game once in a blue moon. Choo Choo Coleman might have...
FRANCO'S ELBOW SURGERY CALLED SUCCESSFUL
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - John Franco underwent successful Tommy John surgery at the Kerlan-Jobe Clinic here yesterday, and plans to rejoin the team in San Diego, the Mets said....
CEDENO'S 1ST HOMER OF YEAR MEMORABLE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Roger Cedeno isn't a home-run hitter, but he played one on TV Tuesday night. With one out in the ninth inning and the Mets leading...
PEDRO'S CURVE PERFECT MET RX
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - If Pedro Astacio wasn't already one of the best free-agent signings of the offseason, his masterpiece Tuesday night against the Dodgers erased any doubts - just when...
CALL HIM BARREN DAVIS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amEntering last night's Game 5, the question about Hornet point guard Baron Davis was his foul shooting. In the end, what foiled the Hornets was Davis' fouls. On a highly...
WOE IS FREE FOR DAVIS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amBaron Davis stayed in the trainer's room to receive treatment for his back during most of Monday's practice at their facility in Fort Mill, S.C. But when the Hornets began...
VAN HORN STARRING IN SUPPORTING ROLE
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amHe was supposed to be all about great plays and great games and great times, but somewhere along the way, the greatness eluded Keith Van Horn. Until now. Not that...
NETS: CELTS MORE THAN TWO STARS
May 16, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES The Nets advanced last night by ousting the Hornets 103-95 in Game 5 at the Meadowlands, and Boston awaits. The Celtics, back in the playoffs after a six-year...