June 4, 2002
WHAT THE GOV'T DOES AFTER FINDING $20B IN BAD PAYMENTS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON knows exactly where $20 billion of your tax dollars went - into the wrong hands. And it doesn't look like the government is doing very much to get the...
EL PASO OFF 14% ON EXEC'S SUICIDE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amEl Paso's stock got slammed yesterday, falling to a 52-week low after the company said its treasurer, Charles Dana Rice, committed suicide over the weekend. The stock dropped as low...
MARTS PULL A LIZZIE - FORD, GM, TYCO THROW STOCKS IN REVERSE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amStocks went from bad to worse yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping more than 200 points and the S&P 500 index falling to its lowest point since October....
TYCO BULLY DUMPED AMID TAX PROBE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amDennis Kozlowski - the Harley-riding, spendthrift CEO of troubled conglomerate Tyco - was fired yesterday for allegedly dodging city sales taxes on his personal luxury purchases. Kozlowski, 55, who cashed...
RETAILERS GO ON SHOPPING SPREE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amAN "eerie silence" has fallen on office leasing, as one broker put it, but the retail front shows plenty of spunk, from Chelsea to points far north. Take Outback Steakhouse....
PRICES FOR BIG APARTMENTS RISE 37% TO RECORD IN CITY
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amFamily-sized apartments are all the rage. The ongoing search for a three-bedroom co-op drove the median price up a whopping 37 percent since last year, from $182,000 to $250,000 per...
BK BIDDERS NOW A TRIPLE WHOPPER
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amAs the bidding war for Burger King heats up, a few hungry buyers are starting to add some sizzle to the auction. According to sources close to the process, Bain...
ARNAULT MAY GET TAUBMAN'S STAKE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amAs he fights to stay out of prison for an art price-fixing scandal, tycoon Alfred Taubman is selling his control of Sotheby's - possibly to French billionaire Bernard Arnault. Arnault,...
STARR REPORT
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amFawcett's turned on to possible series Jay Bernstein called yesterday to say that Farrah Fawcett has agreed to star in a network series he's developing based on real-life cases from...
KISS GIVES RUBBER STAMP OF APPROVAL
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amSAFE sex has never been this scary. A box of Trojans will doubtless suffer from shrinkage when faced with its latest competition: KISS Kondoms, a line of contraceptives featuring the...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amAction figures Adventurous travelers looking for a passel of ideas for outdoor activities not far from home should pick up a copy of Stephen Jermanok's "New England Seacoast Adventures: A...
'YA-YA' OR NAH-NAH - CHICK FLICKS' FUTURE RIDES ON THIS THREE-HANKY WEEPER
June 4, 2002 | 4:00am'DIVINE Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is girl-powering into theaters Friday, and all of Hollywood will be watching. The fate of an entire genre could hang on the success of...
'ROSE' HAS MERRITT
June 4, 2002 | 4:00am* TIFT MERRITT "Bramble Rose" [ 1/2] Lost Highway/Universal On Tift Merritt's debut country album, "Bramble Rose," the 27-year-old singer/songwriter pours forth prettily about love from a few different perspectives,...
STRITCH: SORRY - ELAINE TOOK TOO MUCH 'LIBERTY' AT TONYS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amTHE executive producer of the Tony Awards doesn't believe he owes Elaine Stritch an apology for cutting short her acceptance speech Sunday night. And neither, for that matter, does the...
WORLD MUG CHALLENGE ; WIN BEER DRINKING CHAMPIONSHIP (NO DRIBBLING ALLOWED)
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amA DRINKING special called the "World Beer Games" has some enthusiasts hopping mad - and others calling all the hooha a case of "fuss lite." The special, airing June 8...
LOVE THE JOKES HATE THE BABE ...BUT HAVE A PEEK AT 'SPY TV'
June 4, 2002 | 4:00am"Spy TV" Tonight at 9:30 on Ch. 4 ½ IF you loved the original "Candid Camera," you'll like "Spy TV." Or should I say, you'll like the show's second season...
MET-GOERS NOT GOING
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amNot even the mighty Metropolitan Museum of Art has been immune to Sept. 11 fallout. The museum has lost about 1 million visitors this year, down from about 5 million...
WEIGHT UNTIL DARK
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amSLEEP your way to slenderness? Now that's a diet plan we've dreamed about. A new book promises a three-minute nap could be more effective than a three-hour spinning class in...
FREE TIX FOR NIX
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amGetting rejected might not be so bad after all. In fact, it might get you a free theater ticket. All would-be writers who bring in a rejection letter - on...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amAn Indianapolis casino is employing a group of chickens to take on gamblers at Tic-Tac-Toe. The chickens are always allowed to go first and make their choice by pecking on...
WARTIME DISTRACTIONS - SEARCH FOR 9/11 SCAPEGOATS IS A RETREAT INTO TRIVIALITY
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amLAST week the CIA leaked information about how the FBI screwed up before Sept. 11. Now this week the FBI is leaking information about how the CIA screwed up before...
TOWER TO FILL GAP IN TIMES SQ.
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amBright lights will soon banish tail lights at the grungy corner of Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street, The Post has learned. What's now a dreary parking lot is expected to...
SORIANO LATE ONCE MORE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES After sitting out Sunday's game partially because of a bruised left hip and partially because he arrived at the Stadium late, Alfonso Soriano was back in the lineup...
BRONX SEX FIEND RAPED
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx man was arrested yesterday for allegedly taking a woman hostage and repeatedly raping her for 12 terrifying hours last week, police said. Ruben Acosta, 29, allegedly offered the...
THOMPSON BOO$TS CIVILIAN STAFFERS FOR NYPD
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amThe NYPD could save more than $15 million a year if it replaced 831 cops with lower-earning civilians in administrative units, Comptroller William Thompson reported yesterday. "Civilianization provides an opportunity...
INSPIRATION IN TIGHTS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amWHO'S that platinum blond with the chorus-girl gams - in black tights, white shirt and little else - who's been the hottest ticket on Broadway? The one who just took...
JERSEY GOP TODAY PICKS UNKNOWN TO FACE TORRICELLI
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amNew Jersey Republicans head to the polls today to pick a candidate to take on Sen. Robert Torricelli this fall, trying to snap the state GOP's 30-year losing streak in...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL SLAM-DUNKED LIZZIE GRUBMAN IN A BATTLE OF BASKETBALL VS. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amShaquille O'Neal slam-dunked Lizzie Grubman in a battle of basketball vs. beautiful people. Sunday night's riveting Lakers-Kings NBA playoff game ran roughshod over Barbara Kopple's much-ballyhooed documentary, "The Hamptons," both...
CLOTHES CALL FOR J.LO-DIDDY FASHION FEUD
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amLatina lovely Jennifer Lopez was on the verge of hiring Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' top designer for her clothing line - but nixed the move because it would have caused...
MIKE PUTS BUDGET ON ICE UNTIL ED REFORM
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amFacing a deadline tomorrow, Mayor Bloomberg is stalling a budget deal with the City Council until he gains control of city schools, sources said yesterday. Sources said the deadline for...
HEALTH DEPT. PUTS DOCS ON WATCH FOR BIO-ATTACKS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - To better track potential bioterrorism cases, the state Health Department has quietly added six diseases to the list of illnesses that doctors must report to the state. Some...
THAT'S THE TICKET - NET FANS NOT 'NET FANS AS THEY BEAT 2G PRICE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amIt's Team Tinseltown against the blue-collar New Jersey Nets, and the hometown folks are in hoop heaven. Some 1,500 of them snaked along the perimeter of Continental Airlines Arena in...
SLEEPING LAWYER GOOD SNOOZE FOR KILLER
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Thanks to a sleepy lawyer, Calvin Burdine may escape the death penalty. The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday granted either freedom or a new trial for Burdine, 48, a...
WOODY MUST BE 'BANANAS' - FILMMAKER THINKS LAWSUIT AN 'AMUSING' TIFF
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amWE KNEW overshrinked filmmaker Woody Allen had issues with morality and propriety, not to mention his curious affinity with the French. But what about sanity? The question of how many...
PROSECUTION ARGUES CASE BUT DOESN'T HAVE ONE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amKELLY McGUINNESS, a journalism student at Southern Connecticut State, was breathless. "Boy, is he handsome," she gushed. "A lot of people saw him here, in a restaurant. Oh yeah, he's...
CITY IN VICIOUS RECYCLE - DEM EYES SUIT TO SAVE PROGRAM FROM SCRAPHEAP
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amA city councilman has asked state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to threaten Mayor Bloomberg with a lawsuit so he won't scrap much of the city's recycling program. "I am requesting...
SHOOTING SUSPECT FINGERED
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amWitnesses have fingered a 21-year-old Bronx man in the shooting death of a police officer's son over the weekend, cops said yesterday. Police released a photo of Timmy Ellis (left),...
GHOST TOWN AT GROUND ZERO - 'EVERYTHING IS QUIET' AS FOCUS SHIFTS TO REBUILDING
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amGround Zero was eerily quiet yesterday. The enormous yellow grappling machines that once clawed at mounds of debris were parked and silent. Only a handful of workers moved around the...
SCHOOLS MAY GET A 'TUNE'-UP
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy intends to end his tenure on a high note: He wants a music program in all the city's elementary schools. "I have already discussed with the...
WTC INSURER'S PAYOUT ON HOLD
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amWorld Trade Center landlord Larry Silverstein will have to hold his breath for a little longer until he finds out whether he's entitled to a $7.1 billion insurance payout. A...
GRANNY DIES IN HIT-RUN HORROR
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn grandmother was struck and killed yesterday morning by a hit-and-run driver with "handicapped" plates, police said. Olivia Jamison, 64, was crossing North Conduit Avenue at Grant Avenue in...
JAIL FOR FASHIONISTA FRAUDSTER
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amThe former chairman of fashion house Perry Ellis will be wearing stripes after a federal judge sentenced him to more than three years in prison and ordered him to fork...
'TERROR' LAWYER CAUGHT IN 'ACT'
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amThe lawyer accused of helping imprisoned blind terror sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman smuggle communiqués out of his cell joked that she could "get an award" for acting for deceiving the guards,...
POWELL TAKES HEART AS NUKE FOES COOL WAR TALK
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday said it would be "absolutely horrible" if India and Pakistan used nuclear weapons, as world leaders pressed efforts to talk them out...
DA HOPES CARNEGIE PIX WORTH 1,000 WORDS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amCarnegie Deli massacre jurors viewed grainy surveillance-video photos yesterday that prosecutors say show the two killers slowly climbing the stairs toward their prey, then dashing back down again six minutes...
CRUCIAL PUBLIC UTILITIES TOP THE LIST OF POTENTIAL TERROR TARGETS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amCrucial public utilities top the list of potential terror targets that the city is rushing to secure, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly revealed yesterday. The downtown Con Edison plant is No....
DA PITS SKAKEL VS. SKAKEL
June 4, 2002 | 4:00am"The competing hormones" of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel and his brother, Thomas, led to the brutal 1975 slaying of their Greenwich, Conn., neighbor, Martha Moxley, jurors were told yesterday. "Michael's...
CITY SLAY TOLL PLUMMETING
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amShootings in the Big Apple have finally begun to decline - while the already-decreasing murder rate is nearing early-1960s lows, police statistics show. After months of sharp increases in gunplay,...
SCHOOLS NEED TWEED: MIKE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg last night told supporters of The Museum of the City of New York that he had no "second thoughts" about spiking its deal to move to the Tweed...
TYSON KKK FUROR - DON KING: BOXER IS THE 'POSTER BOY' OF BLACK STEREOTYPE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amMEMPHIS, Tenn. - Boxing promoter Don King lashed out at Mike Tyson, calling the former heavyweight champ, whose fights he once promoted, a "poster boy for the Ku Klux Klan."...
LANDLORDS GET TERROR BRIEFING
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amA chilling al Qaeda terror manual painstakingly instructs minions on how to infiltrate U.S. cities like New York - by blending in as much as they can and renting drab...
AUCTION RAISES $4M FOR VICTIMS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amNearly $4 million was raised last night at an auction to benefit World Trade Center families. More than 250 donated items - from a walk-on role on "Friends" that went...
PUSHY PAPARAZZI GIVE BESIEGED WINONA YET ANOTHER BAD BREAK
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS - Winona Ryder broke her arm in a melee outside court yesterday as cameramen jockeyed for position to photograph the actress and accused shoplifter, her lawyer and spokeswoman...
WOODY'S $12M BATTLE: COURT HOUSE COMIC - JESTS WITH JUDGE FROM WITNESS STAND
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amIt was showtime in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday when Woody Allen took the stand for a little stand-up during his bitter, $12 million civil suit against former producer Jean Doumanian....
GIRL INJURED BY TOSSED 'BLEACH'
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amA 10-year-old Bronx girl was injured last night after a man tossed a chemical-filled bottle at her while she waited at a crosswalk. Erica Garcia and her mother were standing...
HAMAS IS REJECTING ARAFAT'S OVERTURE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The terrorist group Hamas has rejected Yasser Arafat's invitation to join a new Palestinian Cabinet. But Hamas, which has strong support in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,...
BUSH: OUR AGENTS COULD HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said for the first time yesterday that the CIA and FBI could have done more to protect the American people, as congressional hearings begin today on...
THEY'RE FASHIONABLY GREAT: DESIGNERS HAIL THEIR OWN WITH FUN-FILLED FROCK FETE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amFunky fashion kingpin Marc Jacobs last night pulled a stunning upset over Sean "P. Diddy" Combs to snatch top honors for menswear at the Council of Fashion Designers of America's...
STARS WEAR THEIR LOYALTY
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amIF YOU wanted to know who anyone in the crowd was rooting for at the CFDA Awards, all you had to do was check out what they were wearing. Supermodel...
DUBYA GETS TO WORK ON WELFARE CRACKDOWN
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush went to Bill Clinton's native state yesterday to tout the success story of welfare reform - and push for tougher work rules. "Work is work," Bush told a...
TRIAL MAY SHIFT TO VICTIM'S HOSP
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens judge may allow an attempted-murder trial to temporarily relocate today to the Westchester hospital room of a former St. John's University football player paralyzed in a 2001 campus...
POWELL WARNS NUKE RIVALS AS FIGHTING HEATS UP IN KASHMIR
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday said it would be "absolutely horrible" if India and Pakistan used nuclear weapons as world leaders pressed efforts to talk them out...
TYSON KKK FUROR - DON KING: HE'S A BLACK STEREOTYPE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amMEMPHIS, Tenn. - Boxing promoter Don King lashed out at Mike Tyson, calling the former heavyweight champ, whose fights he once promoted, a poster boy for the Ku Klux Klan....
HOW TO SPOT TERRORIST IN YOUR BLDG.
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amHe insists on renting a first-floor apartment in the middle of the block, uses only a cell phone and has almost no furniture. He may try to pass off an...
RETRO ADS TOUT NATIONAL SSSH-ECURITY
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amThe famous "Loose lips sink ships" campaign from World War II has been dusted off and retooled to fight terrorism. The new drive by the National Security Agency features kitschy...
MANY QUESTIONS FOR POTENTIAL SCHWARZ JURORS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amEx-cop Charles Schwarz met his future jurors yesterday as approximately 670 candidates for the anonymous panel filed into Brooklyn federal court to fill out questionnaires. The 30-page document tested potential...
JUDGE RIPS EX-FED FRAUD SUSPECT
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday blasted former FBI agent Jeffrey Royer for his "outrageous arrogance" and "colossal misjudgment" for allegedly trying to tamper with witnesses in his stock-fraud case. A New...
COMPTROLLER BOO$TS CIVILIAN COP STAFF
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amThe NYPD could save more than $15 million a year if it replaced 831 cops with lower-earning civilians in administrative units, Comptroller William Thompson reported yesterday. "Civilianization provides an opportunity...
FASHION HAILS KING KARL- LIFETIME AWARD FOR THE DIETING DESIGNER
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amDesigner Karl Lagerfeld took the most prestigious honor at the Council of Fashion Designers of America's annual Fashion Awards last night. Accompanied by Aussie gal pal and sometime muse Nicole...
WINONA HAD 'DESIGNS' ON ONLY THE BEST IN SHOPLIFT SPREE: WITNESS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Sticky-fingered screen siren Winona Ryder favored only top designer duds during her shoplifting spree at Saks Fifth Avenue, a store security officer testified yesterday. Surveillance cameras...
CLEMENS LET GAME SLIP AWAY
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amRoger Clemens had no-hit stuff last night, and hits did not do him in. Instead, a short attention span and a long delivery pushed The Rocket to a no-decision and...
LOWLY O'S PREY ON MO: RIVERA FALTERS AS BIRDS WIN IN NINTH
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amOrioles 4 Yankees 3 As Mike Bordick's ninth-inning drive hooked away from sprinting Rondell White and landed right on the left-field line for a game-winning RBI double, closer Mariano Rivera...
NETS: LAKERS CAN BE BEAT
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Believe. The Nets have used that little yet powerful word for several weeks now. They believe in themselves, always have, always will, even when their belief should...
THE THREAT OF 'WAR' IS IN THE AIR! WALDEN MULLS ONE THAT GOT AWAY
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - As Triple Crown candidate War Emblem galloped his customary mile-and-a-half yesterday morning at Churchill Downs, going at a brisk two-minute lick while gearing up for Saturday's Belmont Stakes,...
WHO STOPS KOBE? BRYANT'S EXPLOSIVENESS A NET WORRY
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - They call him a total package, probably the best one-on-one player in the game today. They'll throw small forwards, shooting guards, point guards at him. Yup, the...
TRAINER FEELS HIS 'PERFECT' WEAPON WILL BE DETERRENT
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amTHE last two furlongs of the marathon Belmont Stakes will trip War Emblem and deny him the coveted Triple Crown. That's the analytical opinion of an experienced horseman, Murray Johnson,...
BOSS WISE NOT TO WHACK NICK
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amJAMES Gandolfini sat recently with George Steinbrenner in the Yankee Stadium owners box, just two guys who play impatient Bosses for pubic consumption. Of course, when Tony Soprano's patience expires...
CANDY CANES CAN'T MATCH WARY WINGS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amDETROIT - So you're trying to recall an upset in the Stanley Cup Finals the magnitude of the Patriots beating the Rams in the Super Bowl, of the Dodgers shocking...
PUZZLEMENT, 'BREAK' HAVE FINAL WORKS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amBELMONT NOTES LOUISVILLE - Sunday Break and Puzzlement, a pair of potential upsetters in Saturday's Belmont Stakes after running 1-2 in the May 25 Peter Pan Stakes, both had their...
SORIANO'S BACK ON TIME AND IN LINEUP
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Alfonso Soriano was both on time and healthy last night, back in his customary leadoff spot atop the Yankee lineup. He sat out Sunday's game partially because of...
SCOTT'S WORDS STAND TALL
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Byron Scott insists he used only words. Simple, common-sense words. No real grand-standing or sticking his head in a bucket of ice water. And yet...
WEST: SHAQ'S THE X-FACTOR IN FINALS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amMEMPHIS - Jerry West has followed boxing long enough to understand contrasting styles can make for a good fight. It can make for a good NBA Final, too. Long before...
FEALEY PUTS MOLLOY IN FINALS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFS: Molloy 3 - Iona Prep 0 Matt Fealey rarely cracks 80 mph on his fastball and doesn't have a particularly fiery demeanor on the mound. But Archbishop Molloy...
HOLMES FORCED TO ALTER DEAL
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amIn the eyes of the Giants, Kenny Holmes did not live up to the hefty contract they gave him last year and, as a result, his salary was slashed. Holmes...
SO, YOU THINK NETS CAN'T WIN . . .
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Somehow, I seriously suspect whatever pontificating Phil Jackson was peddling while lacing 'em up for those 75 memorable games as a member of the Piscataway Nets from...
MET OFFENSE STUCK IN SLOW-MO
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - He lurked on deck, thinking what kids always holler: "Save my ups." Back in his Boston days, he used to cast such a long and menacing shadow from...
BRAVE HRS RUIN STEVE AND METS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amBraves 5 Mets 4 ATLANTA - The moment Vinny Castilla hit a high curveball down the right-field line, Steve Trachsel headed toward home plate for a new baseball. Trachsel's first...
RAMSAY SAYS L.A.'S TOO TOUGH TO BE STOPPED
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - After the two-time defending champion Lakers had survived their seven-game Sacramento scare Sunday night, L.A. forward Robert Horry looked ahead at the Nets and said, "They have...
KNICK OFFERS SPURNED
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amKnicks GM Scott Layden has made several inquiries to the Rockets about trading up for the first overall pick in hopes of stealing center Yao Ming, but has been unable...
U.S. READY TO ROLL - BUT REYNA, MATHIS 50-50 FOR PORTUGAL
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amThe U.S. soccer team is convinced it can upset Portugal. Some players are bold enough to say they can win the World Cup. Long on hubris and short on health,...
BOSS A WISE GUY FOR NOT AXING NICK
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amJAMES Gandolfini sat recently with George Steinbrenner in the Yankee Stadium owners box, just two guys who play impatient Bosses for pubic consumption. Of course, when Tony Soprano's patience expires,...
BOBBY THE LINEUP-SHUFFLER LETS IT RIDE
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - The Mets used 144 lineups last season, most in the majors, and Bobby Valentine has a tendency to tinker with what he calls his "groupings." The...
LOWLY O'S PREY ON MO; RIVERA FALTERS AS BIRDS WIN IN NINTH
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amOrioles 4 Yankees 3 It was a game the Yankees seemed to have lost, then salvaged and eventually lost again. And when Mike Bordick's hooking ninth-inning RBI double landed right...
PHILLIPS' BIG DEALS GO BUST
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - Moe, Larry and Curly made generations of people laugh. Mo, Jeromy and Robbie are making Met executives cry. After Steve Phillips traded for Mo Vaughn, Jeromy Burnitz and...
WHACK-A-TRACH: BRAVE HRS SOCK STEVE AND METS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amBraves 5 Mets 4 ATLANTA - After serving up a first-inning grand slam to Vinny Castilla, Steve Trachsel looked like he'd be the victim of a quick TKO last night....
MO-TIVATIONAL SPEAKER: VAUGHN TELLS METS NIX NEGATIVE THOUGHTS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - If Mo Vaughn isn't having nightmares, he guesses some of his teammates might be. Night terrors of 0-for-5 outings, unforgivable errors and games the Mets must win in...
IT'S PAYBACK TIME: YANKEE HURLERS TAKE THEIR CUTS AS INTERLEAGUE NEARS
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amOne of the strangest - and in some offensively-challenged cases, funniest - sights in baseball is watching American League pitchers try to hit. And with the Yankees preparing for upcoming...
U.S. HURTIN' BUT HOPEFUL: REYNA, MATHIS ARE 50-50 FOR PORTUGAL
June 4, 2002 | 4:00amThe U.S. soccer team is convinced it can upset Portugal. Some players are bold enough to say they can win the World Cup. Long on hubris and short on health,...