May 7, 2003
BARGAIN BOOK SALE - PERSEUS CLOSING IN ON AOL TW UNIT FOR $320M
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amAOL Time Warner is negotiating to sell its book division to publishing house Perseus Books Group in a deal worth roughly $320 million, The Post has learned. As part of...
GABELLI SCORED $37M AS FUNDS SANK 30%
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amLegendary stock picker Mario Gabelli was ranked the highest-paid chief of a publicly traded fund last year with $37.7 million - but his investors got soaked for 30 percent losses....
CABLE RATES BATTLE GOES TO CAPITOL HILL
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amSpurred on by a recent rate hike by sports channel ESPN, cable operators and programmers duked it out yesterday in a Senate hearing over rising cable rates. Both camps blamed...
MARTS GAIN AS FED LETS RATES ALONE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amMarkets rallied yesterday when the Fed announced it would not raise rates, as expected. The rally was aided by the Fed's assurance that it was not looking to raise rates...
CENTRAL PARK HORSES TO GET STABLE HOUSING
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amAFTER nearly a year's search during which another deal fell through, about two dozen carriage drivers who are being displaced by a stable of topless dancers finally whipped up new...
LITTLE GUYS GET SHAFTED AGAIN
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amLittle investors may benefit less from Wall Street's global settlement of corrupt research practices than anyone expected. Many independent stock research firms don't want to reach into the $432.5 million...
DEF JAM JAMMED WITH $132M JURY AWARD
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amIsland Def Jam, the country's largest hip-hop record label, was ordered to pay $132 million in damages yesterday by a federal jury in Manhattan. IDJ had been sued by TVT,...
1 FOR THE GIFFORD - KATHIE LEE APPAREL MAKER CLOSES IN ON KASPER
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amKellwood Co., a large manufacturer of apparel for Nautica, Izod and a host of other brand names, is the front-runner in the race to acquire Kasper A.S.L., the struggling maker...
TURNER ON TRACK WITH U.N. PAYMENT PLEDGE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amAdmittedly wiped out financially, Ted Turner is vowing to spend what could be his last $1 billion on his United Nations cause. The 64-year-old media mogul was worth $11 billion...
SMART MONEY MAKES A BIT - AFTER BLEEDING CASH, FINANCE MAG EKES OUT TEENY PROFIT
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amSMART Money continues to wrestle with staff turnover, but after losing more than $35 million over the past two years, it may have something that no other personal finance magazine...
STARR REPORT
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amShipping news: Wayne's late dad connects It's a little-known fact that Wayne Brady used to get seasick when he performed on cruise ships - little known, that is, except to...
AMERICAN BALLET SEASON OFF TO FLYING START
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amAMERICAN BALLET THEATER At Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center; (212) 362-6000. Season runs through June 28. ------ ONE of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theater in...
DON'T CRY FOR BROOKE - 'BACHELOR' LOSER GETS GIG BACK HOME AS REPORTER
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amLIFE has been good to "Bachelor 2" runner- up Brooke Smith, whose seven-week run on the reality show last year ended in a torrent of tears. Smith, 22, has been...
OH, WHAT A 'NIGHT'!
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amLONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT [] Plymouth Theater, 236 W. 45th St., (212) 239-6200. ----- EUGENE O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" may just be the worst great play ever...
OLÉ! TO FESTIVE OLA
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amOLA [ 1/2] 308 E. 48TH ST. (212) 759-0590 ---- THERE'S life in the old mojo yet. Doug Rodriguez's nuevo- Latino party has survived its move from Flatiron to a...
MORNING, FAN-ATICS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amESPN2 is getting into the morning show game. The younger, sister channel to cable's reigning sports monarch will launch a "young, hip" talk show next fall, airing from 7 to...
VEGAS ISLAND OF CHOW
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amCHEF Alain Ducasse and restaurateur Sirio Maccioni aren't talking about their planned Las Vegas restaurant. But sources in Sin City say that - while a deal has yet to be...
ELLEN: I'M YOUR MAN! - YOUR HBO SPECIAL MAKES ME WANT TO HUG YOU, TOO
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amI'M in love with a lesbian. She's the sweetest, most charming girl in the world, and I'm crazy about her. If you must know, it's Ellen DeGeneres, and she's about...
IT'S A WONDERFUL 'TRUE LIFE'
May 7, 2003 | 4:00am"True Life" [ ] Whenever on MTV ----- I'M glad I'm not a teenager because, if I were, I would probably be forced to star on a segment of my...
SOUR NOTE - PATERS' MISSED 'GYPSY' DATES CAUSE HAVOC AT BOX OFFICE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amDON'T tear down all of that black crepe paper yet, boys. Momma may have delivered "big time" for Ben Brantley last week, but whether she can keep it up for...
MOM'S THE WORD FOR N.Y. KITCHEN KINGS & QUEENS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amNEW York's cooks are a diverse crew, but one thing many have in common is early inspiration from their mothers. In honor of Mother's Day, we asked what Mom taught...
PLAY IT AGAIN: THERE'S PLENTY OF OUTDOOR SPACE SOUTH OF HOUSTON FOR SOME QUALITY R & R
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWhen you think of recreational sports activities, the words "out of town" usually come to mind before "downtown." But at the bottom tip of our urban jungle, you can kayak,...
SPACE FOR RENT: ACT NOW FOR GREAT RETAIL AND COMMERCIAL DEALS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amDOWTOWN'S commercial real estate sails are lufting business activity, including tourism, continues in the doldrums. The lack of tourism, and reluctance by those visiting Ground Zero to do much shopping...
PARENT 'KILLER'S' CHANGE OF HEART
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amIt's her guilty plea and she can cry all she wants to. That's what Manhattan prosecutors say about teen murderess Connie Leung. The statuesque teen pleaded guilty in January to...
MAN DROWNS IN CENTRAL PARK MEER
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man drowned in Central Park's Harlem Meer last night and another man who tried to rescue him was hospitalized, police said. Alberto Hernandez, 23, went into the water...
RIVER YIELDS BODY - CARTIER-CLAD CORPSE LOOKS LIKE SVETLANA
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe badly decomposed body of a blond woman wearing a Cartier watch was found floating in the East River yesterday - and is likely that of missing Russian book dealer...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amA stray named Tinker is now a fat cat. An elderly London widow has left the friendly feline her $562,000 home in London as well as a $160,000 trust fund....
PATAKI'S NEW CLOTHES - VETO FIGHT REVEALS WEAKNESS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY FEW state lawmakers doubt Gov. Pataki will veto their profligate tax-and-spend budget within days - but hardly any of them expect his vetoes to be sustained. It's not that...
CITY OF DEADLY RUMOR
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amBAGHDAD THIS is a city of wild stories that pass for news, inflaming this or that section of the population, while U.S. authorities lack the resources, human or material, to...
THE REAL MENACE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amTHE release this week, with great fanfare and media hoopla, of the so-called "secret" hearings of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist investigations committee 50 years after the fact is hardly the...
YANKEL WANTED TO FIGHT BACK, SAYS BROTHER
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amNORMAN Rosenbaum said in the final days of this trial: "Lemrick Nelson was very lucky that Yankel didn't get his hands on him that night. The only way they could...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A man died yesterday after he fell and hit his head on the stairs of a Park Slope subway station, police said yesterday. Willie Burns, 33, of 284...
CYBER-PERV SLAY FIEND GETS 30 YRS.
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amSaul Dos Reis was slapped with a 30-year prison sentence yesterday after a judge scornfully dismissed the Brazilian immigrant's "attempt to shift blame" from himself to the 13-year-old Connecticut schoolgirl...
PEEVED PATAKI VOWS TO VETO 'FALSE' BUDGET
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday vowed to issue "extensive vetoes" of the Legislature's record-high tax-and-spend budget, which the governor warned would drive New York's deficit to a breathtaking $13 billion...
LACI FILES STAY UNDER WRAPS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amA top California court handed Scott Peterson's defense another victory this week when it decided to keep sealed potentially damaging arrest and search warrants in the case. Peterson's lawyer, Mark...
$PEEDING PAST BUDGET CRISIS - DOT BURNS 360G ON MOBILE UNIT
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe cash-strapped city is shelling out more than $360,000 to buy the Cadillac of mobile command centers - complete with a 37-inch plasma-screen TV, The Post has learned. The city...
OPRAH LETTING $280M SHOW RIDE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe richest woman in television, Oprah Winfrey, has decided to keep her show going through 2008 - adding another $280 million to her bank account. It was supposed to end...
HOUSING BIGS BOUNCED - THREE TOP OFFICIALS 'IMPEDED' EMBEZZLE PROBE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe city's Housing Development Corp. was rocked yesterday after its president and two other top officials were forced out for "impeding" a criminal investigation of former officials. The HDC has...
SARS-WARY NEWLYWEDS: IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amSARS is killing an estimated 20 percent of patients hospitalized with the dread disease in Hong Kong - and more than half of those over 60 don't survive, a startling...
TEACHERS DECLARE WAR ON BLOOMBERG
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amTeachers union chief Randi Weingarten is planning to withdraw the union's support of Mayor Bloomberg's education reforms - claiming educators have been mistreated and kept out of the loop on...
JUDGE FLIP-FLOP - ALLOWS LEMRICK ADMISSION
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe federal judge in Lemrick Nelson Jr.'s new trial reversed his key decision yesterday and allowed jurors to hear how the defendant previously claimed he did not kill Hasidic scholar...
THE 'HOLE' TRUTH - 'UNDERTAKER' DUG GRAVES UPSTATE, MOBSTER TESTIFIES
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWhen DeCavalcante wiseguys needed to dispose of a body quickly, they called "The Undertaker" - a mobster buddy with a wealth of experience in digging graves, a Manhattan jury heard...
TOT-SLAY SHOCK - JURY SEES GRIM NEWBORN PIX
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amJurors in the murder trial of Kathleen Brown - the unwed mom charged with suffocating her newborn baby during a family Christmas party - reacted with shock and horror yesterday...
GOP IN PUSH FOR TAX BONUS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Millions of families across America could get checks in the mail for $400 or more by July under a stimulus plan unveiled yesterday by Senate Republicans. The checks...
KLEIN TO AX 856 SCHOOL STAFFERS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday announced he's axing 856 supervisors and administrators as part of the overhaul of the school system. Nearly half of the people losing jobs are special...
JUDGE-PICK PANELISTS QUIT
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amTwo members of the committee that screens judicial candidates for the Democratic Party in Brooklyn and Staten Island resigned yesterday, with one blasting the politicized system that selects judges. Well-known...
RAPIST'S TRAIL MAY PASS JAIL
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amCops are combing jail records in their search for the smooth-talking elevator rapist who has attacked seven young women in Chelsea and The Bronx over the past five months. They...
TOT-DEATH PANIC - COPS BAFFLED AS GAS-LEAK FEARS PROVE UNFOUNDED
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe mysterious death of an 11-month-old Brooklyn boy in his baby sitter's care sparked a near panic in Borough Park yesterday as false fears spread that a gas leak had...
PAIR POCKETED INMATE CASH, FEDS CHARGE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amA federal prison guard and her companion were busted yesterday on charges of swiping $1,600 from inmates at a Brooklyn lockup, officials said. The guard, Debbie Austin, pocketed money orders...
50 CENT IN 2-BIT DISPUTE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amGangsta rappers apparently don't get good gunshot insurance from their record companies - a Queens doctor is suing red-hot hip-hop star 50 Cent for unpaid medical bills. Dr. Nader Paksima...
CARDOZO FIELD'S A DREAM
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWatch out Shea Stadium, there's a new field in Queens - and it's got great media buzz. At a dedication ceremony yesterday, Benjamin N. Cardozo HS in Bayside celebrated its...
NOT-GUILTY GANG-SLAY PLEA
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amA father and son accused in the stabbing death of a gang member pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday, saying they were merely defending themselves against a posse...
SEN. CHUCK IN ROLE REVERSAL
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer, who's leading Senate efforts to kill President Bush's conservative judicial appointments, yesterday switched roles and spent the afternoon as a witness in front of his...
TRIBECA STARS ARE REEL THING
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe stars shone downtown last night as the second Tribeca Film Festival kicked off with a glamorous red-carpet premiere. Following a procession along Greenwich Street with Mayor Bloomberg, festival founder...
'TOXIC' PANIC IN B'KLYN
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe mysterious death of an 11-month-old Brooklyn boy in his baby sitter's care sparked a near panic in Borough Park yesterday as false fears spread that a gas leak had...
FINE TIME ON E-ZPASS TAGS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amSome 20,000 drivers could face a $23 fine this month for failing to return their worn-out E-ZPass tags, the state Thruway Authority said yesterday. The agency wants the old tags...
SKETCHY CLUE KEY TO SLAY
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThis is the fiend witnesses say gunned down an aspiring banker on the Lower East Side in January - and the slain man's dad says the area isn't safe with...
HARRY BOOKS TURN UP IN POTTER'S FIELD
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amTwo copies of the hotly anticipated Harry Potter book - not due in stores until June 21 - were discovered lying in a field in the British countryside. They were...
LEO Q&A'D IN BRAWL SUIT
May 7, 2003 | 4:00am"Gangs of New York" star Leonardo DiCaprio, faced with a $45 million lawsuit stemming from a Manhattan street brawl, was grilled by the plaintiff's lawyer for hours during a deposition...
N.Y. 'CON ARTIST' NABBED IN BRAZIL
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amFugitive Manhattan art dealer Michel Cohen, who went on the lam two years ago after allegedly swindling as much as $50 million from bogus deals involving everything from Picassos to...
N.Y. CON 'ARTIST' NABBED IN BRAZIL
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amFugitive Manhattan art dealer Michel Cohen, who went on the lam two years ago after allegedly swindling as much as $50 million from bogus deals involving everything from Picassos to...
INTERNET SEX-SLAY FIEND GETS 30 YEARS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amSaul Dos Reis was slapped with a 30-year prison sentence yesterday after a judge scornfully dismissed the Brazilian immigrant's "attempt to shift blame" from himself to the 13-year-old Connecticut schoolgirl...
GRAHAM IN, HART OUT OF DEM RACE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Onetime Democratic presidential contender Gary Hart yesterday decided to give the 2004 race a miss - but the pack picked up its ninth entry when Florida Sen. Bob...
MATH MAY ADD UP FOR TEACHER$
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein said yesterday he'd consider paying higher salaries to hire and retain qualified teachers in hard-to-staff subjects like math and science. The city currently pays all teachers...
ISRAELIS HAIL HERO GUARDS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel marked its 55th anniversary yesterday by honoring for the first time guards who protect against homicide bombers - and with a warning that peace talks are doomed...
GRAHAM OFFICIALLY THROWS HAT IN RING
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Democratic 2004 presidential pack picked up its ninth entry yesterday as Florida Sen. Bob Graham jumped into the race by accusing President Bush of ignoring homeland security...
PAL HELPS COPS HUNT LOWER E. SIDE SLAYER
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe only witness to the January slaying of a would-be banker on the Lower East Side has supplied cops with enough information to produce a sketch of the shooter, sources...
FEDS: PAIR POCKETED PERP CASH
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amA federal prison guard and her companion were busted yesterday on charges of swiping $1,600 from inmates at a Brooklyn lockup, officials said. The guard, Debbie Austin, pocketed money orders...
COPS LOCKING IN - RAPE-SPREE PROBERS EYE THUGS IN JAIL DURING LULL
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amCops are combing jail records in their search for the smooth-talking elevator rapist who has attacked seven young women in Chelsea and The Bronx over the past five months. They...
'MONEY GRUBBING' SLUR POL QUITS D.C.
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - White House budget boss Mitch Daniels - who once accused New Yorkers of "money grubbing" by insisting on $20 billion after Sept. 11 - is quitting his job....
SCRAPING BY ON 200G IN BROOKLYN NO, REALLY!
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amYOU call this "rich"? Our billionaire mayor and his buddies up in Albany are fond of labeling people like the McDevitt family of Brooklyn as some of our "wealthiest" New...
GOV THROWS DEBT RELIEF INTO DOUBT
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday raised doubts about a major piece of a $2.7 billion city bail-out package, which would leave Mayor Bloomberg with a $500 million hole in his...
WEASELS GAVE VISAS TO IRAQIS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - France secretly undermined the search for the most-wanted members of Saddam Hussein's regime by giving some of them passports in Syria and allowing them to escape to Europe,...
HUNT FOR $1 BIL BUTCHER BOOTY
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Bush administration yesterday launched a worldwide hunt for Iraqi assets Saddam Hussein is believed to have shipped out of the country days before the war - including...
BLUES FINALLY OK DEV SWAP
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe Senators can count on one otherwise impartial rooter: Blues GM Larry Pleau. Pleau yesterday told The Post that he will permit the Devils' enforced swap of first-rounders with his...
CELTS MAY TRY FAST BRAKE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amJim O'Brien arguably is the NBA's most underrated coach. But he hinted yesterday that he did not have his Celtics prepared to defend the Nets' formidable fast break in Game...
JERSEY COULD END BEAR MARKET
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amNEW JERSEY lawmakers are considering a measure that would give nearly $100,000 in state funds to the Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest anti-hunting group. Senate Bill...
TRAINER LANDS DREAM JOB
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES The Nets will have three representatives on the U.S. Men's Olympic basketball team after all. Nets trainer Tim Walsh, 40, a veteran of 19 NBA seasons, has been...
DEVILS TRYING TO OVERCOME WAIT PROBLEM
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amRest becomes rust in this quantity. The seven full days they'll have off before opening the Eastern Conference final Saturday in Ottawa will be the Devils' longest-ever break between playoff...
METS' MESS GETS EVEN MORE HAIRY - REY DENIES 'CUT,' MATES DOWNPLAY IT
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amIn the aftermath of Rey Sanchez's "haircut heard 'round the world," the Mets reacted quickly. And that reaction was to evade the situation completely. As reported in yesterday's Post, Sanchez,...
CONFERENCE SWAP COULD RAISE 'CANE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amTHERE'S no honor among thieves. Never has been. Never will. Big time college athletics is a den of thieves, working the back-alleys for better television contracts and shoe deals. No...
VAUGHN'S KNEE MO DAMAGED THAN EXPECTED
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES And the hits just keep on coming . . . A set of X-rays and an MRI yesterday revealed that the damage to Mo Vaughn's left knee is...
TIME TO SHOW SOME GUTS, MOVE MIKE TO 1ST
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amIF the Mets ever needed Sal (the Barber) Maglie last night was the night. For two good reasons because every day the news gets worse for Team Wilpon. Sal the...
BIG BLUE HIGH ON CITADEL SACKER
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThree years ago, Ellis Johnson was introduced as the new football coach at The Citadel during halftime of a basketball game. As Johnson glanced across the court, he spotted one...
DEREK'S STARTING AT TRENTON
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - Derek Jeter takes a step today he hopes lands him back with the Yankees in a week. Out since March 31 when he dislocated his left...
FORDHAM STILL SEARCHING
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amAfter being rebuffed last weekend by Boston University coach Dennis Wolff and Davidson's Bob McKillop, Fordham is continuing its search for a basketball coach who, as one source told The...
HEY, MIKE, TRY FIRST
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amDON'T GET too carried away with the haircutting escapades of Rey (Flowbee) Sanchez. Sanchez, after all, is just keeping shortstop warm for phenom Jose Reyes. There was a much more...
METS CUT ABOVE L.A.
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amMets 3 - Dodgers 2 In between the haircut fallout, the pregame meetings and the Guillermo Mota death watches, the Mets also played a little baseball last night. And wouldn't...
PIAZZA OPEN TO MAKING FIRST MOVE
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWith overpaid, underperforming Mo Vaughn out indefinitely, and Mike Piazza about to become a 10-and-5 player on May 23, the question naturally turned to the catcher's willingness to move to...
SEATTLE STINKER - MARINERS HAND BRUTAL BOMBERS 3RD STRAIGHT LOSS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amMariners 12 - Yankees 7 SEATTLE - If they were laying naked in a snow drift atop Mt. Rainier last night, the Yankees couldn't have caught a cold. Or a...
A-TRAIN GETS ON BIG ROLL
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amAaron Williams' strength is renowned. His pain threshold, legendary. His loyalty, unquestioned. His work ethic, remarkable. Williams has all the intangibles a team desires. Oh, he's a pretty good player,...
ANGER MANAGEMENT THE KEY FOR KENYON
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amKENYON MARTIN, new father and new, improved, Nets' no-nonsense, meat-and-potatoes guy, was at a pricey steakhouse the other night when the bubbly arrived, courtesy of another North Jersey epicure once...
NETS HIT BACK AT WRITER - RYAN SUSPENDED; SCOTT WANTS HIM 'OUT OF JOB'
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe Boston Globe yesterday suspended columnist Bob Ryan for one month without pay, and members of the Nets expressed anger and disbelief - coach Byron Scott said he believed Ryan...
SAVE AND A HAIRCUT - BENITEZ THE BARBER IN NEW METS MESS
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amAs Rey Sanchez was denying allegations of his taboo clubhouse haircut yesterday, The Post learned the identity of the amateur barber: Armando Benitez. A source close to the team told...
MOLE CALL KO'S PIAZZA
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amWhen Mike Piazza arrived at Shea yesterday, everyone wanted to ask him about facing Dodger reliever Guillermo Mota. But it turns out Piazza had more important things on his mind,...
LUMBER SLUMBERS - BOMBER BATS MIRED IN FIRST SLUMP OF YEAR
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Until the day they vanish from the baseball universe Joe Torre and Brian Cashman will insist that the Yankees will be as good as their pitching. But even...
PREAKNESS PROBABLES STILL UP IN THE AIR
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe probable field for the May 17 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico remains in flux. While Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide is definite for Baltimore's middle jewel of the Triple Crown,...
IT'S A TOUGH SELL - BASEBALL LOSING POTENTIAL PLAYERS TO HOT NBA, NFL
May 7, 2003 | 4:00amCubs manager Dusty Baker watches the NBA and its splendid athletes and wonders what they could do on a baseball field. "You tell me Allen Iverson couldn't play shortstop, or...