May 24, 2002
UBS EXEC HAS REFORMS FOR WALL ST.
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON, D.C. - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's action against Merrill Lynch is a wake-up call for the industry to make significant structural reforms, said Joseph Grano, chairman and...
IT'S RIGAS-CIDE! ADELPHIA FOUNDERS RESIGN, STOCK PLUMMETS 54%
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amAdelphia Communications Corp., in a race to restore its credibility on Wall Street, said yesterday that the company's founding Rigas family agreed to give up control and transfer certain assets...
UGLY FASHION STATEMENT: ITALIANS DISS NEW YORK ON 9/11 ANNIVERSARY
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amMilan fashion week execs have refused to change their schedule to help their New York counterparts avoid a conflict between their shows and 9/11 anniversary observances. To make matters worse,...
AGNES B., EVERLAST IN DESIGN DEAL
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amBoxing togs will get a bit more fashionable next month. Longtime designer agnes b. has partnered with Everlast to create a collection of sports and active wear that incorporates elements...
JOBLESS POOL AT DEEPEST LEVEL IN 19 YEARS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe line of unemployed people collecting checks has grown to its longest in 19 years - and could get longer. Although fewer jobless workers showed up in the latest week...
COWLES SELLS SAG HARBOR PAPER
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amGARDNER Cowles III, a scion of the family that was once one of the nation's most powerful media families, with holdings that once included Look magazine and daily newspapers throughout...
RED-FACED SEC TARGETS TWO-FACED ANALYSTS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission may not be as sleepy as it's looked lately. Outmaneuvered by savvy New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who wrestled Merrill Lynch into a $100...
BOISI IS OUSTED AT J.P. MORGAN
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amJ. P. Morgan Chase & Co. yesterday ousted Geoffrey Boisi, co-head of its investment bank, after a clash with CEO William Harrison. Boisi, the former top Goldman, Sachs & Co....
WILD HORSES COULDN'T DRAG US BACK
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amSPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON Send him to the glue factory.Running time: 82 minutes. Rated G. At the Empire, the Chelsea, the Union Square, others. 'SPIRIT: Stallion of the Cimarron"...
'ENOUGH' ALREADY!
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amENOUGH 1/2 "Sleeping With the Enemy" meets "G.I. Jane."Running time: 115 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence). At the Empire, the 84th Street, others. LIKE Julia Roberts' superior "Sleeping With the Enemy,"...
THE OLD SQUEEZE PLAY, UPDATED
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amSIA, THE DREAM OFTHE PYTHON Virgin sacrifice goes wrong.In Bambara, with English subtitles. Running time: 96 minutes. Not rated (nudity, violence). At BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, through Thursday. 'SIA, the...
BECKER AND REG KAPUT
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amREGGIE's been dumped by Becker. Producers have ditched Terry Farrell, the former model and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" actress, who played diner-owner Regina Kostas on the CBS comedy "Becker."...
'CENTERFOLD' RUNNER-UPS UNVEILED ; IMAGINE, SHE'S ONE OF THE LOSERS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amWHAT you didn't get to see two weeks ago on "Girl Next Door: The Search For a Playboy Centerfold" you can now see online. Two weeks after the Fox special...
DIAMOND DEBUTS SPARKLE
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amNEW YORKCITY BALLET At the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 870-5570. Season runs through June 30. NEW York City Ballet cultivates diamonds, often diamonds in the rough, but...
NEW BANDS TO NOSE FLUTES, WE UNCOVER NEW YORK'S . . . ROCK SECRETS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amPSSST! Wanna know how to get the most out of New York's music night life - from hot new artists to free concerts to late-night eats? We've got the inside...
GLOOMY TONE MUFFLES 'CONVERSATIONS'
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amTHIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING 1/2 Coulda been a contender.Running time: 102 minutes. Rated R (profanity, drug use). At the Empire, the Lincoln Plaza and the Sunshine. 'THIRTEEN Conversations About...
GLUM & GLUMMER
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amBARTLEBY File under B for boring.Running time: 82 minutes. Rated: PG-13 (some sexual content.) At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets. THE comic strip Dilbert makes the tedium of a...
A MOVIES LOVE-IN
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amCQ 1/2 A stylish love letter to the '60s.Running time: 91 minutes. Rated R (some nudity and language.) At the Eastside Playhouse and the Angelika. LIKE a cineaste bower bird,...
WOOLF IN CREEP'S CLOTHING
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amROOMAt the Classic Stage Company, 136 W. 13th St. Call (212) 677-4210, ext. 2. Through June 16. ELAINE Stritch's life is one thing to put on stage - a writer's...
ROSIE WALKS ...WITH A RECORD FINALE
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amROSIE O'Donnell's live farewell on Wednesday scored huge numbers here in New York and around the country."The Rosie O'Donnell Show," which aired on Ch. 7, was seen in more than...
CONFUSED? TELL THE MARINES
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amIMAGINE a play about a young Marine sergeant and an older Marine major. The major likes the sergeant - he sees himself as a young man. But the sergeant has...
JOEY BEATS UP ON THE RATINGS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amJOEY Buttafuoco proved to be a knock-out for Fox's "Celebrity Boxing" special. "Celebrity Boxing 2" lagged behind the season finale of "West Wing" - but in the fight special's final...
THE RIDICULOUS & THE SUBLIME
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amIN a bizarrely wonderful new play, John Guare, author of "Six Degrees of Separation," mingles the mundane and the magical. "A Few Stout Individuals" takes a delirious but serious look...
STARR REPORT
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amSunday best: 'Press' clubs the competitionNBC's Tim Russert wants you to know, via this column, that his "Meet the Press" had its largest sweeps victory ever in the just-completed May...
TONY NOMINATED 'WOODS' STAR IS VICTIM OF . . . POISON PEN
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amTHE fierce competition for Tony Awards this year has apparently spawned some dirty pool tactics worthy of Tricky Dick Nixon.Gregg Edelman, a fine actor who's up for a Tony for...
EYES WIDE OPEN : BEST WORK IN YEARS FOR PACINO, WILLIAMS IN THRILLER 'INSOMNIA'
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amINSOMNIA Sleepless in Alaska; you won't nod. Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, sexual references). At the E-Walk, the Cinema 1, the Battery Park City, others. 'INSOMNIA" is...
SLAY-BID RAP FOR MARINE
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amAn "Operation Enduring Freedom" Marine was charged yesterday with attempted murder in a gruesome attack on a female shipmate while on shore leave in Thailand. The charge was one of...
HEAT'S ON: CONDIT FACES NEW GRILLING BY D.C. COPS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amWashington cops revealed yesterday that they are likely to seek a fifth interview with Rep. Gary Condit in the mysterious death of his mistress, Chandra Levy. But there was no...
EYE DOC CHARGED IN MEDI-SCAM
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens eye doctor partially blinded a patient while pretending to remove nonexistent cataracts - so he could charge the feds for the operation, prosecutors said yesterday. Dr. Shaul Debbi...
WTC DIGGERS SLAM PLANS FOR CEREMONY
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amWorkers at Ground Zero are up in arms over plans to keep them out of the site during the ceremony marking the end of recovery work, sources said yesterday. The...
ARAFAT THE 'UNASSAILABLE'? OOPS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amHERE'S one for the "Conventional Wisdom is Always Wrong" file: For months, it's been stated as bald fact that Yasser Arafat's standing among the Palestinian people had risen to stratospheric...
OPEN FOR BUSINESS - ENRON WIFE'S SHOP IS NO BARGAIN
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amEverything must go! But don't expect "low, low prices" for fallen Enron pooh-bah Ken Lay's baubles. His wife, Linda "Poor Me" Lay, is selling dozens of home furnishings, antiques and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amA robber is getting his false leg back - four months after it was pulled off by a mechanic trying to stop him from escaping a shop in Missouri. Sylvester...
MOM GUILTY OF 9/11 FRAUD
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amA Vassar College marketing consultant ripped off $25,000 by claiming her estranged husband was killed in the World Trade Center attacks. Diana Diaz, a 34-year-old mother of two, pleaded guilty...
MEMO TO WIFE: DENIAL IS NOT JUST A RIVER IN EGYPT
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amIF THERE were a prison for spouses in denial, Diana Gray would be sharing a cell with Russell Yates. No law prohibits a loved one from enabling a drunk or...
TEARS AND PITY AT FUNERAL FOR TROUBLED TRYST TEEN
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amChristina Long shouldn't be blamed for the deadly mistakes that eventually ended her troubled young life, a priest told hundreds of mourners yesterday. At funeral services in Danbury, Conn., for...
GARY BETTER PRAY FAMILY DOESN'T SUE
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amGARY Condit offering condolences to the family of Chandra Levy is like Bill Clinton sending a gift to Monica Lewinsky on her wedding day. Whoever of Condit's handlers wrote his...
COLLAPSE WARNING IGNORED: LAWYERS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe builder overseeing a ritzy Upper East Side restaurant renovation where a scaffold collapse killed a worker last week had been warned the building was unsafe, attorneys for the dead...
IS THIS THE END OF CUOMO?
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo was the invisible man at yesterday's closing session of the Democratic State Convention. Not a poster, not a campaign button, not a stray piece of Cuomo literature to...
BUSH OPPOSES 9/11 PANEL - PREFERS PROBE BY CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday for the first time that he's against having an independent commission investigate pre-9/11 warnings, because he doesn't want to put top-secret intelligence at risk....
SORRY DOESN'T CUT IT - JUDGE GIVES DWI COP THE MAX
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amDisgraced ex-cop Joseph Gray was slammed with the maximum prison sentence yesterday for mowing down four members of a Brooklyn family while driving drunk last August. Before Supreme Court Justice...
DEMOCRATIC BOSSES DAMN PARTY-POOPING CUOMO
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amANDREW CUOMO'S decision to skip the state Democratic convention has rankled some national party strategists who are hoping to unseat Gov. Pataki in November. "If Andrew Cuomo spent more time...
FREE RIDE OVER: MIKE TO SLASH CITY CAR FLEET
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amAfter yanking hundreds of official parking placards, Mayor Bloomberg is setting his sights on a much more coveted government perk: cars. Officials said the mayor intends to reduce the city's...
'88 COP-SLAY SUSPECT HELD
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe last of an infamous trio suspected of murdering a New York City cop in 1988 was returned from the Dominican Republic yesterday. José Fernandez, who was recently identified as...
ANOTHER SON LAID TO REST
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amJan and John Vigiano buried a second son yesterday - another hero who gave his life trying to save others in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. They...
BOY, 11, STABLE AFTER SHOOTING
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amAn 11-year-old boy was shot in the face yesterday as he and a playmate fooled around with a hand gun inside a Brooklyn home, police sources said. Joseph Berger, of...
HIT THE DECKS! GAWKERS GET A FLEET WEEK TREAT
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe Navy cleared the decks and welcomed thousands of appreciative New Yorkers on board its ships yesterday for the start of Fleet Week. Landlubbers made the most of their first...
FIREMAN SON CAN'T SAVE DAD
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn firefighter rushed to a raging blaze at his father's home - only to learn his dad died before he could get there. Police said the fire was set...
UNCONVENTIONAL ANDY HITS TRAIL
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe state Democratic convention ended yesterday with Carl McCall taking a swipe at rival Andrew Cuomo for skipping out - and Cuomo hitting the airwaves upstate with his first gubernatorial...
TRAFFIC COULD PROVE A WHEEL HEADACHE
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThere's good traffic news - and not so good - for city motorists on this long holiday weekend. First, the bright side. Getaway traffic shifts into high gear today, and...
JUROR SEES MICHAEL MOUTHING OFF
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amNORWALK, Conn. - Michael Skakel's courtroom behavior came under fire yesterday after it was revealed that a juror saw him mouth the words "good job" to his cousin who was...
HOME INVADERS TAKE HOSTAGES IN S.I.
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amA Staten Island brother and sister were terrorized yesterday morning by two violent burglars who tied them up and beat them. Cops say that at about 11:15 a.m., two men...
GRISLY GAME OF 'CLUE' - INTERN'S BODY MAY YIELD TRACES OF KILLER
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In 1981, police solved the infamous Atlanta child-murder case with the discovery of a single fiber on the body of one of the victims. The fiber was traced...
BLOOMBERG & SILVER HUDDLE ON SCHOOLS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver held a secret City Hall powwow yesterday to clear the air and try to move closer to a school reform agreement. "I believe...
BUST BURNS CD SCAMMERS: COPS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amCops yesterday raided a Manhattan apartment they said was jammed with 35,000 counterfeit CDs - including the yet-to-be-released Eminem album - and 4,800 VHS movies. The stash of fakes, which...
THE GOODFATHER - PROUD PA PACINO KEEPS STEP WITH TWIN TOTS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amHe's played troubled cops, ruthless mobsters and tragic drug addicts, but Al Pacino took on his favorite role as dear old Dad yesterday. The Oscar-winning star and his longtime love...
IT'S RED, WHITE & TRUE BLUE - PATRIOTISM WILL REIGN ON HOLIDAY PARADES
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amNew Yorkers will put their patriotism on parade this weekend as they salute the Memorial Day holiday. Mayor Bloomberg said he'll march in two parades on Sunday and two on...
POPE'S CROSS WORDS - VATICAN RIPS STARS' GAUDY CRUCIFIXES
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe Vatican is cross with stars who wear crucifixes as jewelry - and wants stunners like Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Lopez to take them off. The edict from...
OWE, TO LIVE IN N.Y. - AVERAGE MORTGAGE PAYMENTS SOAR
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amNew York City is still the greatest place in the world to live - just make sure to bring your checkbook! New 2000 figures from the U.S. Census Bureau released...
SAD SALUTE TO EMS HEROES
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amEmergency medical technicians and paramedics from as far away as Canada and Boston came to lower Manhattan yesterday to honor FDNY paramedics Carlos Lillo and Ricardo Quinn, who died in...
KENNEDY TEMPTRESS GIVES SKAKEL BOOST
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe baby sitter who broke up Michael Kennedy's marriage took the stand at Michael Skakel's murder trial yesterday and testified she never heard Kennedy's cousin make a joke about killing...
ISRAELI HERO KILLS BOMBER
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A heroic security guard saved hundreds of Tel Aviv partygoers from death at the hands of a homicide bomber last night. Nobody was seriously hurt in the blast,...
FBI TO INVESTIGATE BUNGLED '20TH HIJACKER' TIP
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - FBI Director Robert Mueller yesterday ordered an internal investigation into complaints by Minneapolis agents that they were stymied in their pursuit of Zacarias Moussaoui because they asked the...
CHURCH VS. CHURCH - BLAME GAME OVER PRIEST SEX RAP
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan Catholic priest was indicted yesterday on charges he sexually abused a 12-year-old girl in her Brooklyn home - a shocking allegation that's pitting Brooklyn church authorities against the...
KID DRUG-MULE SUSPECT TAKES A LICKING IN JAIL
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amA 12-year-old accused drug mule is living in fear in a city juvenile jail after a fellow inmate attacked him and broke his hand, authorities said. Prince Nnaedozie Umegbolu, who...
DETECTIVE RESCUES SHOT PARTNER IN WILD B'KLYN GUNFIGHT
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amAs a storm of bullets flew inside a Brooklyn apartment where police were trying to pull off a weapons sting, an NYPD detective dragged his bleeding partner to safety in...
COPS ON HOT SEAT AT DELI-SLAY TRIAL
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amFurniture was shoved aside. Voices rose and curses flew. That's the inside look Carnegie Deli Massacre jurors are getting of the interrogation room at the Midtown North station house -...
THUMBS DOWN ON MADONNA
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amMadonna made her debut on the London stage last night - and while the critics liked the material, they were less impressed with the girl. "Up for Grabs," in which...
MILK-BILK SCHEME GOES SOUR
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amLong Island police say they've cracked an egg- and milk-theft ring that was brazenly operating out of a dairy with the help of an employee. The crooks would call the...
ISRAEL AVOIDS CATASTROPHE
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - An apparent terrorist bomb attached to a tanker truck exploded at Israel's biggest gas and oil depot yesterday but failed to ignite the fuel. "A huge disaster has...
ESCAPED DRUG LORD GOT PERKS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amAs cops hauled runaway drug lord Kevin Saxon back to New York yesterday, the Manhattan DA's office was trying to figure out if some special perks they gave the accused...
PLAN AIDS VICTIMS OF EARLIER TERROR
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate leaders yesterday struck a deal to give special 9/11 survivor payouts to victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City attack. The arrangement...
BLOOMBERG URGES APPLE NOT TO GO OFF HALF-BAKED
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg tried to calm jittery New Yorkers about nonspecific al Qaeda threats - saying they may face a greater potential threat this holiday weekend from sunburn than from a...
PRIEST 'GIRL ABUSE' : INDICTED IN BROOKLYN FONDLING
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan Catholic priest was indicted yesterday on charges he sexually abused a 12-year-old girl in her Brooklyn home, after saying he was there to visit her ailing grandmother. The...
HEAT'S ON: D.C. COPS EYE CONDIT - AND PARK PREDATOR
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amCops probing Chandra Levy's death have Rep. Gary Condit back in their sights, and are also taking a hard look at a "predator" who attacked two female joggers in the...
PEDRO LEAVES YANKS DAZED AND CONFUSED: IN MAY, IT'S TOO EARLY FOR PENNANT FEVER
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Sure, these Yankee-Red Sox games do not matter to the participants. It was probably just a scheduling glitch that resulted in the Yankees having a playoff-like contingent of...
PEDRO LEAVES YANKS DAZED AND CONFUSED: MARTINEZ (7-0) STRIKES OUT 10 AS BOSOX GRAB 2-GAME LEAD
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amRed Sox 3 Yankees 1 BOSTON - Mariano Rivera's groin is good. David Wells' back probably will allow him to pitch tomorrow. So much for the positive Yankees vibes. Rivera...
STRIPED BASS DOMINATES HOLIDAY MENU
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Memorial Day weekend should see lots of activity along both the north and south shores of Long Island with special attention to striped bass, which can be found almost...
VBK TELLS DEVS HE'S RETIRING ... AGAIN
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amFor the second straight summer, the Devils are scrambling to replace John Vanbiesbrouck, retiring this time to become GM-coach of the junior Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. The 38-year-old who also...
NETS INSIST CELTICS NOT CAUSE FOR 'O' SLUMP
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amPerhaps it is ego, maybe pride and possibly even stubbornness. Whatever the motivation, the Nets yesterday continued to insist the Celtics did very little defensively to incite the Nets' most...
PRIDE IS ON THE LINE; NETS GO TO BOSTON SET ON LICKING LORE & GETTING THE EDGE
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThey know what it will be like and they're relishing the opportunity to not only crash the party, but to rearrange the Eastern Conference finals to suit their own needs....
ESPN BATS OUT OF ORDER WITH VALENTINE FAINT SCENE
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amESPN's "SportsCenter" has again run video clips out of sequence to create a happenstance that never happened. Its Wednesday night installment included a clip of Bobby Valentine in a mock...
JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY? THEY SHOULD TALK
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amA POST gossip columnist wrote something that has been damned as irresponsible? Imagine that. But maybe - just maybe - that's why it's called gossip. Heck, if it were responsible...
LIBERTY TIP OFF THEIR SEASON ON LONG, WINDING ROAD
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amYou won't hear the Liberty complain about their early-season fate. No trashing the WNBA or NBC or the Garden for sending them on the road for nine of the first...
KENNY TRIED TO GET RJ'S GOAT
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES The popular playoff ritual of He Said, He Said has found a place in the Eastern Conference finals. Without anyone actually figuring out how this got started, it...
BOSTON: BEST YET TO COME
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amCELTIC NOTES WALTHAM, Mass. - Why not feel good if you're the Celtics now, playing the next two at the FleetCenter, with the series tied at 1, all the while...
BEEN A BANNER YEAR; ANDERSON: WIN OR LOSE I'M SATISFIED
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amKenny Anderson sees how Nets fans have gone ga-ga over Jason Kidd's team. The Celtics point guard fears the demanding Boston fans, despite the club's massive turnaround, will consider the...
O'BRIEN FIXES WRECK OF RICK
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amIN A lot of ways, Jim O'Brien is reminiscent of Jeff Van Gundy, a long-time assistant who replaced a high-profile, cranky coach (Rick Pitino and Don Nelson, respectively), bonded with...
BUTLER MAY BE NEW GARDEN-ER
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThe Knicks work out a player today they actually may take at No. 7 - UConn's sophomore small forward Caron Butler. However, the 6-7 Butler, who has a game like...
LACK OF POWER A WEIGHTY SUBJECT FOR VAUGHN
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Before he took batting practice yesterday, Mo Vaughn strapped a yellow-colored contraption around his right ankle. It looked like one of those weights ambitious joggers use...
JOHNSON MAKES HIS MARK: PINCH-HIT DOUBLE IN 9TH PLATES MCEWING FOR WIN
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amMets 1 Philadelphia 0 PHILADELPHIA - Mark Johnson didn't have a hit all month, and the Mets seemed like they had needed one for that long. Mired in an 0-for-15...
BOOMER STILL ON FENCE ABOUT BOSTON START
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Because he is dealing with a back that was operated on last July, David Wells isn't 100 percent sure he will be able to start against...
IN MAY, IT'S TOO EARLY FOR PENNANT FEVER
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Sure, these Yankee-Red Sox games do not matter to the participants. It was probably just a scheduling glitch that resulted in the Yankees having a playoff-like contingent of...
WILD-CARD ELEMENT DILUTES SHOWDOWN
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Sure, these Yankee-Red Sox games do not matter to the participants. It was probably just a scheduling glitch that resulted in the Yankees having three advanced scouts -...
BEANTOWN BUZZING FOR YANKEE SERIES: TORRE SEEKS ANSWERS TO PITCHING QUESTIONS
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Anybody who breathed the fresh air or looked up to a cobalt blue sky devoid of clouds couldn't find anything wrong with yesterday's weather in the nerve center...
5 QUESTIONS FOR AL TRAUTWIG
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand sits down with MSG Network's Al Trautwig. The 46-year-old Trautwig currently hosts "Angles" at 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. The Long Island native's resume...
CRIS-TAL BALL SHOWS GIANT HARMONY
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amNew HBO analyst Cris Carter doesn't believe the Michael Strahan-Tiki Barber controversy will rip the Giants apart. Still, Carter pins the bulk of the blame in the dispute on Barber,...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK - TOM SEAVER VS. KEITH HERNANDEZ
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amTom Seaver has been better than many anticipated when he replaced Tim McCarver. But Keith Hernandez - who lately has received more pub than Norm from "Cheers" - is a...
'PRIMED' FOR BATTLE : YANKS & RED SOX GET THE BIG SPOTLIGHT
May 24, 2002 | 4:00amSunday's climax of the Red Sox-Yankees' Fenway four-gamer will play out under the national spotlight it deserves. All cable and dish subscribers will be able see if the Yankees can...