May 21, 2003
GOING SOLO AIN'T SO BAD: EMI
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAs talks between BMG and Warner Music intensify, EMI executives yesterday downplayed suggestions the company could be left out of the expected consolidation within the industry. "All of the work...
DEFLATION COULD COST MORE JOBS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amJob losses could soar to a record in the coming year because of the lurking demon of deflation. Unseen since the Great Depression, the deflation phenomenon is digging in with...
HOME, SWEET HOME ; GRASSO IGNORES CONFLICT IN RUN FOR HOME DEPOT BOARD
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amEmbattled Big Board chief Dick Grasso intends to stand for re-election on the board of Home Depot, a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, despite widespread criticism of the exchange's corporate...
CEOS FEAR STAFF EXITS DOWNTOWN
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBANK of New York Chairman and CEO Thomas Renyi, one of the key players in Downtown rebuilding efforts, said yesterday he and other area CEOs were "very concerned" that when...
IPG EXECS RETURN 1.2M OPTIONS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAfter driving their "Got Milk?" ad agency into the dumps, the top brass at Interpublic Group are trying to make amends by giving back 1.2 million options. CEO David Bell...
DEMARCHELIER BOLTS BAZAAR ; PHOTOG'S DEPARTURE FOR CONDE NAST IS BLOW TO BAILEY
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S a done deal. Famed French-born fashion lensman Patrick Demarchelier is packing his bags and moving from Hearst Corp. to Conde Nast. "I go to Conde Nast, next year in...
AKRIS STORMS NYC ; SWISS DESIGNER OPENING PRIME E. SIDE SPOT
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amHe's a Swiss designer who's beating the Americans at their own game. Now he's setting up shop in their backyard with the expected opening this fall of his first Manhattan...
PRADA REHIRES DESIGNER JIL SANDER
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amDesigner Jil Sander and Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli have kissed and made up, more than three years after they parted ways. Sander said yesterday that she would return immediately to...
CAPITALE IDEA; CASHING IN ON FORMER BOWERY BANK
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amCAPITALE 1/2 130 BOWERY, BETWEEN GRAND, BROOME STREETS (212) 334-5500 CAPITALE bravely reclaims a lost treasure of the city. Night-life king Seth Greenberg pulled off a four-star architectural miracle by...
THE NOT-SO-COSTLY CASE FOR SUMMER WHITES
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amNOW'S the time to stock up on a few "house wines" for summer - something refreshing and not too expensive. Buy a case or two now and you'll have them...
CANNES SHOCK AND AAAH
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amPROVOCATIVE is the name of the game at the Cannes film festival. Vying for the coveted Palme d'Or is Gus Van Sant's controversial "Elephant," which taps into the topic of...
CHAIRMAN WOW; RAHAV SEGEV/PHOTOPASS.COM
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amSILVERCHAIR A YEAR ago, when Silverchair released "Diorama," there were reports the support tour was canceled because frontman Daniel Johns was in a wheelchair. Johns - the band's guitarist, singer...
HOT DOG! $19 TUBE STEAKS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amNOW that we've survived the burger wars, it was only a matter of time before the lowly hot dog jumped into the fray. Enter the $19 frankfurter, a 12-inch-long, 2-inch-wide...
TRIBECA TALLY
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amNEARLY 350,000 people attended this year's Tribeca Film Festival - about twice as many as last year's inaugural event, organizers said yesterday. More than 350,000 attended a street fair organized...
BRING THE KIDS BACK IN THE ROOM - TV'S GONE OFF SEX
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amTV is slapping a chastity- belt onto prime time. The big broadcast networks are showing less sex on TV these days, says a prominent TV watchdog group. ABC, CBS, NBC...
IT'S MAL-'PRACTICE': SO LONG PARTNERS AS SHOW GIVES SIX LEGAL EAGLES THE AX
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amDAVID E. Kelley has gutted "The Practice," axing series stars Dylan McDermott, Lara Flynn Boyle and four others. Kelley reportedly engineered the cost-cutting moves to insure that "The Practice" would...
TONYS ARE IN A BILLY JOEL 'STATE OF MIND'
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amLOOKS like Billy Joel will indeed open the Tony Awards. He'll sing "New York State of Mind" and then the cast of "Movin' Out" will perform its musical segment, which...
SUMMER'S BOOKS WITH BITE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amREADY or not, it's Memorial Day. Time to switch into summer eating mode. A new crop of cookbooks is tuned to the casual, outdoorsy type of dining the season dictates,...
TASTE OF ADVENTURE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amJust when you think your cookbook collection is complete, along come a new batch broadening the subject base. Been longing for that tome on EASY-BAKE Ovens or underwater veggies? "The...
HERE'S LOOKIN' AT YOU, 'KID'
May 21, 2003 | 4:00am"The Kid Stays In The Picture" Thursday at 9 on HBO ROBERT Evans' life could have been designed around Dickens' best opening line, "It was the best of times, it...
STARR REPORT
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amSay, can you see Dominic in E. Rutherford? "Sopranos" star Dominic Chianese has a full plate over the next few weeks. Not only is he busy shooting the new season...
FINAL TUNE-UP - RUBEN OR CLAY? 'IDOL' FANS VOTE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amTonight's the night Ruben and Clay - "American Idol 2's" fledgling pop stars, who've spent weeks warbling, wowing and warring to win over legions of fans - will finally learn...
COMICS BID TO PARDON LENNY BRUCE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amTimes have changed in the 39 years since Lenny Bruce's arrest in a West Village club - and now a group of comedians, writers and lawyers are trying to convince...
SPITZER EYES '06 RUN FOR GOVERNOR
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer confirmed what has long been suspected yesterday - he may run for governor in three years. "I am thinking and will think seriously about...
NO JAIL IN RESTAURANT COLLAPSE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA construction-company owner got a no-jail sentence yesterday for his role in last May's fatal collapse of an Upper East Side townhouse being rehabbed by the Serafina restaurant chain. Shukum...
BURNING ISSUE UNITES GOP STROLLER MOMS AND LEFTY ACTIVISTS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amTHEY meet in secret, at night, in a Brooklyn funeral parlor - an odd coupling drawn together by mutual desperation. On one side of the room are two lefty activists,...
MOB SCENE AT BROOKLYN JAIL
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe reputed bosses of the city's five mob families all lived under the same roof this year - at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center - and it's created a logistical nightmare,...
UNIONS USE 9/11 DEFENSE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amCity union leaders said yesterday the city's workforce should not be blamed for the soaring cost of fringe benefits, and cited the Sept. 11 terror attacks among the causes. Randi...
COP CLEARED OF SODOMY CHARGE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAuthorities on Long Island have dropped a sodomy charge against an off-duty city cop accused of forcing a woman to perform oral sex on him at a party last summer....
PERV'S PRISON STAY EXTENDED
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens man finishing a prison sentence for sexual assault when his DNA linked him to another case was sentenced yesterday to 22 years-to-life in prison for raping a young...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amQueens A 27-year-old man was shot in the leg after he refused to fork over money to a gun-toting would-be thief in East Elmhurst, police said yesterday. The suspect accosted...
CITY WANTS SCANDAL BIG TO PAY FOR 350G PROBE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe probe of disgraced city housing bigwig Russell Harding has cost taxpayers nearly $350,000 - and the city is demanding Harding pay for it out of his own pocket, officials...
U.S. CLOSES EMBASSY IN SAUDI ARABIA
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The United States, Germany and Britain closed their embassies and consulates in Saudi Arabia yesterday, citing an "imminent" threat of another wave of terror bombings by al Qaeda....
$HUT YOUR 'GLOOMY' YAP, BRUNO TELLS GOV
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The state Legislature's top Republican bluntly told Gov. Pataki to shut up about state finances yesterday, charging the governor's "doom and gloom" rhetoric is hurting New York. "It...
WEIGHTY WOE FOR APPLE PETS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA new survey rating the nation's healthiest cities for pets says New York is tops in the pecking order as far as neutering cats and dogs, and keeping their teeth...
QUICK WITH-DRAW-AL - PUB PROTEST SNUFFS 233G FROM STATE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - A statewide revolt by bar owners against the state's smoking crackdown caused Quick Draw profits to plummet 18 percent after many tavern owners turned off the game in...
SPEEDBOATER DROWNS OFF L.I.
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island man drowned after falling out of his speeding motorboat, police said. Nassau County Detective Lt. Karl Schoepp said Philip Mannino, 63, of East Meadow, was piloting his...
NAKED PIX EYED IN MURDER
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA man who allowed himself to be photographed nude by an elderly Rockland County man is being grilled in the retiree's savage murder, police said yesterday. Cops believe robbery was...
METS IN STALK DRAMA
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe Mets may be near the bottom of the National League Eastern Division, but they're not desperate enough to put Matthew Barnes in their line-up. The 27-year-old Brooklyn homeless man...
ECSTASY DEALER'S WIFE COPS GUILTY PLEA
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe pregnant Russian bride of a Brooklyn "ecstasy" kingpin pleaded guilty to drug possession yesterday in exchange for a slap on the wrist - then exploded in fury as she...
BUSH MAKES FIRST PHONE CALL TO ABU
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush stressed the "absolute need" for Palestinians to fight terror as he called their Prime Minister Abu Mazen for the first time yesterday and had what the...
GATES FUNDS HARLEM SCHOOL
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBillionaire software titan Bill Gates is putting up some of his dough to fund a new parochial high school in East Harlem. The Cristo Rey HS, opening in 2004, is...
YOU GET $400 PER KID - CHECK COULD BE IN THE MAIL BY AUGUST
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Congress rushed yesterday to tidy up President Bush's latest tax-cut package, striking a deal on a plan to mail parents a check in August for $400 for each...
MIKE: I'D WANT TO HAVE J.LO
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBen Affleck, watch out! Mayor Bloomberg wants your girl from the block. In a brief appearance on WKTU's racy morning show, the mayor yesterday revealed a hitherto undisclosed affection for...
MURDER TRIAL UPROAR
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island man on trial for murdering his wife as she prepared a Greek Easter meal sent court officers racing yesterday when he suddenly sprang from his chair, reached...
SHELTER STORM ; CITY GIVING $7M TO FIRM IN FRAUD PROBE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe city will shell out more than $7 million this year to house homeless families in shelters owned by two men who are under investigation by state Attorney General Eliot...
FAMILY GETS 2ND AUTOPSY IN COP BOTCH
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA second autopsy was conducted yesterday on the body of the Harlem woman who died of a heart attack after cops hurled a concussion grenade into her home. The autopsy...
LACI MOM CRIES FOR JUSTICE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amLaci Peterson's shattered mom yesterday struggled to keep her composure at her first interview since the bodies of her daughter and unborn grandson were found, nearly breaking down as she...
'UNQUALIFIED' TEACHERS AT TOP HS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amStuyvesant HS, considered one of the nation's finest public high schools, accepts only students who excel on standardized entrance exams - but the rigorous standards don't necessarily extend to its...
FEAR HIKE HITS CITY AFTER ATTACK ALERTS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe nation was put on heightened alert yesterday after intelligence officials warned terrorist bombings overseas might be a prelude to an attack in the United States - possibly in New...
BABY-SLAY HORROR - N.Y. MOM STORED BODIES FOR 19 YRS.: COPS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe three dead infants found in an abandoned storage unit in Arizona last week were born - and killed - in upstate Sullivan County more than 19 years ago, New...
CUBA SI, CASTRO NO: BUSH
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush celebrated Cuban Independence Day yesterday by calling for the overthrow of Fidel Castro and blasting the Cuban dictatorship. "Dictatorships have no place in the Americas. May...
YOUTH LEADER BUSTED AS PERV
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe head of a Long Island youth group has been busted for impersonating a cop and failing to register as a convicted sex offender, police said yesterday. James Kimp, 31,...
IT'S BAD NUDE$ - TURNCOAT GAVE SON $1.75M FROM CLUB
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe government's star witness, mob turncoat Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo, dropped a bombshell on prosecutors yesterday, telling them for the first time that he squirreled away nearly $2 million in...
STUDY BLASTS 'DEADLY' FIREHOUSE CLOSURES
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amShutting down firehouses would result in "deadly" delays of 30 seconds or more and would "domino" out to other areas of the city, according to a new study by the...
TIMES MAN GETS BOOED AND BOOTED
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA New York Times reporter was booed off the stage at an Illinois college's commencement address for an antiwar speech in which he said the U.S. policy in Iraq was...
COPS PIN MURDER RAP ON 'SHA DANGER'
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amCops are hunting an aspiring rapper in the shooting death of a Brooklyn record producer. Tracey Boyce, 30, is being sought in last Friday's slaying of James Green, 45, the...
READING BETWEEN THE LINES
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday applauded increases in the city's fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores - but said there are still far too many kids who can't read and write....
APPLE PICKED FOR FUND-RAISER
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush plans to hold one of his first fund-raisers in New York next month - and is asking big players to commit to raise as much as...
JAYSON HINTS GUN FIRED BY ITSELF
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amNew court filings hint that ex-NBA star Jayson Williams may try to show the shotgun that killed a limo driver at his New Jersey mansion discharged by itself. The disclosure...
OUTRAGE ON 34TH ST. ; 'MACY'S CALLED ME SHOPLIFTER BECAUSE I'M BLACK'
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA legal secretary at a prestigious Manhattan law firm filed a $100 million class-action lawsuit against Macy's yesterday, claiming the Herald Square department store falsely accused her of shoplifting and...
LIVERY DRIVER MOWS DOWN KID: COPS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA livery driver, already wanted on a reckless-driving warrant, ran down an 8-year-old Bronx girl just before school started, police said. Njie Alhlji, 44, of The Bronx, slammed into little...
CAPO NAILED IN PORN SCAM
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA Gambino crime boss was busted yesterday after pocketing millions in an Internet porn scam, authorities said. Salvatore Locascio, 43, was picked up by the feds at his luxurious Naples,...
FINAL TUNE-UP - 'IDOL' FANS VOTE BETWEEN RUBEN AND CLAY
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amTonight's the night Ruben and Clay - "American Idol 2's" fledgling pop stars, who've spent weeks warbling, wowing and warring to win over legions of fans - will finally learn...
DAD IN UPROAR AT EASTER-SLAY TRIAL
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island man on trial for murdering his wife as she prepared a Greek Easter meal sent court officers racing yesterday when he suddenly sprang from his chair, reached...
BUSH & ABU TALK PEACE - FIRST CALL TO PALESTINIAN PM 'HOPEFUL'
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush stressed the "absolute need" for Palestinians to fight terror as he called their Prime Minister Abu Mazen for the first time yesterday and had what the...
'SPIDEY' JACKO TAKES FAST-FOOD FIGHT TO CONGRESS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA mask-wearing, Taco Bell-craving Michael Jackson popped in to see his local congressman in California, demanding to know why there's no fast food restaurant near Neverland, published reports said. The...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amA convicted L.A. bank crook had his armed-robbery conviction thrown out by a federal appeals court yesterday, after it found he never intended to show his gun to the teller....
MOB SCENE AT B'KLYN JAIL A HEADACHE FOR FAMILIES
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe reputed bosses of the city's five mob families all lived under the same roof this year - at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center - and it's created a logistical nightmare,...
IT'S BAD NUDE$: TURNCOAT GAVE SON $1.75M FROM CLUB
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe government's star witness, mob turncoat Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo, dropped a bombshell on prosecutors yesterday, telling them for the first time that he squirreled away nearly $2 million in...
JAYSON DEFENSE HINTS GUN WENT OFF BY ITSELF
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amNew court filings hint that Ex-NBA star Jayson Williams may try to show the shotgun that killed a limo driver at his New Jersey mansion discharged by itself. The disclosure...
SET TO SOCK MONEY INTO COLLEGE FUND
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amSaving for their children's education is what one Manhattan family plans to do once they get their hands on money from the impending federal tax cut. "That's good news, it's...
METS CAN'T WEATHERS THIS STORM
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amPhillies 11Mets 7 The 12-game stretch that began last night is the most important of the Mets' year. Naturally, they opened it with a loss typical of their season. The...
STARTER CHEN LAST TO KNOW
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - In a bizarre twist last night, Bruce Chen, Boston's emergency starter with Pedro Martinez out, found out he was starting when a reporter asked him about it. "Somebody...
K-MART QUIETS ALL DOUBTERS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Kenyon Martin could only remember one other game like this one, one other night when his teammates kept fixing their eyes on him, kept feeding him the...
BOSTON BATTERS YANKEES
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Eleven hits. Ten runs. Eight walks. Against what might be the league's best pitching staff. That was in just eight innings. This wasn't an offensive show. It was...
JEFF EARNS AN 'F': WEAVER WRETCHED AS YANKS FALL TO SOX
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amRed Sox 10 Yankees 7 BOSTON - How bad was Jeff Weaver last night against the Red Sox? So horrid that Joe Torre praised Jose Contreras' performance, even though Contreras...
LAST-SECOND NON-CALL TICKS OFF CROWD
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Jason Kidd and the rest of the Nets skipped off the court in jubilation as an angry Palace mob chanted "Bull-bleep" to protest a last-second non-call. In...
FINDING OUT TRUTH NOT WORTH THE WAIT
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amPAT BURRELL stalks the Mets like a deranged fan stalks Steve Phillips, while an organization that had its head in the clouds faces the reality that the $120 million hill...
STRANGE HAS ODD OUTING
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Graeme Lloyd took the loss in last night's 11-7 win by the Phillies, and David Weathers shouldered much of the brunt of the blame. But it was Pat...
CASHMAN: ALEJO'S OUT
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Brian Cashman made it clear last night that the Yankees are not planning to lift restrictions on the access of personal trainer Bobby Alejo in order...
TEAM TRAGEDIES HAVE UNIFIED NETS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Nets have endured an unusual array of heartache and worry all season. There were family tragedies that tested them as individuals. Yet the Nets held together...
DEVILS DON'T MISS HOLIK
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amALLOW me to be the first to point out my error. Allow me to acknowledge that the Devils - who are going to have to be far sharper and more...
'D' IS DIFFERENCE: PREVENTING POINTS KEY TO NET SUCCESS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Dunks, fast breaks, long-range threes get on highlight films. Plays of the Day are thundering jams, soaring picturesque slams, on-line trifectas from neighboring area codes. Blocks and...
TRAGEDIES KEEP TEAM TOGETHER
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Nets have endured an unusual array of heartache and worry all season. There were family tragedies that tested them as individuals. Yet, the team held together...
NETS RALLY, GO UP 2-0
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 2 Nets 88 Pistons 86 AUBURN HILLS - The Pistons were in control. No doubt. The lead was 11, the time was steadily shrinking. Fewer than 11 minutes separated...
BLUEFISH SEASON OFF TO REEL-LY GOOD START
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amTHE bluefish have moved and are taking over the New York Bight. From North Jersey to the Rockaways, large schools of 3-5-pound bluefish are attacking everything in sight. "They're a...
PEDRO'S OUT ; SCRATCHED WITH BACK INJURY
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Curse of the Bambino continues. Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez is out, scratched from last night's start against the Yankees with a strained right lat muscle. Martinez...
NBA TITLE WILL HELP KIDD MAKE UP MIND
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES AUBURN HILLS - The daily Jason Kidd barometer heavily favored a return to the Nets for a second straight day yesterday - especially when talking about the possibility...
'BABY SHAQ' TEMPTS KNICKS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe Knicks' intrigue in Greece's teen-age center sensation known as "Baby Shaq" grew yesterday as the team called his reps looking to work him out in the next two weeks,...
GIANTS MULL ZEIGLER'S FUTURE
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amDusty Zeigler's future with the Giants could be determined - if it isn't already - by the results of today's physical examination by team physician Dr. Russell Warren. The starting...
NET TITLE MEANS THAT KIDD STAYS (WELL, SORT OF)
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES AUBURN HILLS - The daily Jason Kidd barometer heavily favored a return to the Nets for a second straight day yesterday - especially if the All-Star point guard...
'CIDE' GOES BACK TO WORK
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amFunny Cide's quest to join the likes of Affirmed, Seattle Slew and Secretariat begins today as the gutsy gelding returns to the track for the first time since thrashing nine...
MONMOUTH TO OPEN EXTENDED MEETING
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amOCEANPORT, N.J. - With near-record daily purses of $300,000, a backstretch filled to capacity with horses ready to run and an influx of fresh trainers and jockeys, Monmouth Park is...
BURNS TO DEVS: WE STILL LEAD
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amNow it's Pat Burns' turn to extract a vital victory from his team. Burns' Devils are facing the biggest game of his regime - unless there's a seventh one -...
PISTONS POP OFF OVER WACKY ROTATION
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The grumbling is getting louder. Some Pistons - namely Chucky Atkins and Jon Barry - wish coach Rick Carlisle would have a set rotation and more clearly...
ROCKET'S REVENGE: CLEMENS CAN GET 299 AND 300 VS. RED SOX
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Dan Duquette shouldn't expect an invitation to the party following Roger Clemens' 300th career victory. However, the former Red Sox GM may get a short thank you note...
PIAZZA'S SEASON IN DOUBT ; 'IT'S POSSIBLE' HE'S OUT FOR YEAR
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe Mets' terrible season got worse yesterday when the team learned catcher Mike Piazza could miss the rest of the season with an injured groin muscle. Piazza was examined by...
YOUTH MUST SERVE METS NOW, NOT LATER
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAS IF the Mets weren't already inexorably dogged by misfortune and bad planning, there is a guy hanging outside the Diamond Club who has been stalking their GM, too. Steve...
TIGER LENDS HAND TO ANNIKA
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amCOLONIAL NOTES FORT WORTH - Tiger Woods, who already has a reputation for being partial to Swedish blondes, has called Annika Sorenstam several times, including three times this week, offering...
CASHMAN:NO CHANGE FOR GIAMBI
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Brian Cashman made it very clear last night that the Yankees have no plans to reinstate Bobby Alejo's full access in order to get Jason Giambi's...
WEAVER, CONTRERAS NEED TO PROVIDE HILL HELP NOW
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Word buzzed through the Yankee clubhouse around 4 p.m. yesterday that Pedro Martinez would not be starting for the Red Sox. It felt like a reprieve from the...
WIN NO. 299 (AND REVENGE) IN ROCKET'S REACH TONIGHT
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Dan Duquette shouldn't expect an invitation to the party following Roger Clemens' 300th career victory. However, the former Red Sox GM may get a short thank-you note from...
WEAVER, CONTRERAS PROVE DUO OF DOOM
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - With each failure, Jeff Weaver and Jose Contreras not only damage the 2003 Yankees, but unsettle the organization's future, as well. They are supposed to be contributors to...
RED SOX PITCH IN FOR PEDRO
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Here's how yesterday went for the Boston pitching staff: It began with Pedro Martinez being scratched from his scheduled start due to a strained right lat muscle. It...
CHRISTIANSEN CARRIES CLIPPERS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFSXaverian 2Mount 1 When his final fastball eluded the final Mount St. Michael's hitter, Xaverian ace Keith Christiansen hopped off the mound and pumped his trusty left arm. Most...
METS CAN'T WEATHERS THIS STORM ; BULLPEN BLOWS LATE LEAD
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amPhillies 11Mets 7 The 12-game stretch that began last night is the most important of the Mets' year. Naturally, they opened it with a loss typical of their season. The...
BLACK AND BLUE AND BEAUTIFUL
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - In the end, the final play looked like a rugby scrum, a fullback plunge, and that was exactly the way it should have ended. Chauncey Billups was...
KNOT ENOUGH HELP ; PEDRO OUT, BUT BOSOX OUTSLUG, TIE YANKS
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amRed Sox 10Yankees 7 >Jose Contreras, who melted down in seventh inning when Red Sox scored five runs en route to 10-7 win, delivers pitch last night at Fenway. AP...
JUDGMENT DAY: PRACTICE ROUND WITH SERGIO, JESPER HAS ANNIKA RARING TO GO
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amFORT WORTH - A supremely confident Annika Sorenstam yesterday declared herself ready to compete in the otherwise all-male Bank of America Colonial that begins tomorrow, and added she has every...
MOTOR CITY NEEDS TUNEUP : SUBURBAN PISTONS TRY TO SPARK HOPE DOWNTOWN
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amDETROIT - In a perfect world, in an ideal sporting life, this would be where all of this city's dreams come true. For those Detroiters whose hearts still reside within...
THEY'RE HALFWAY HOME: NETS RALLY IN FOURTH, GO UP 2-0
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 2 Nets 88 Pistons 86 AUBURN HILLS - This time, Jason Kidd missed his last shot. But this time, it didn't matter. Because this time Kenyon Martin had been...
JEROMY COMING OFF SHELF
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Jeromy Burnitz has begun his rehab assignment to assist his recovery from a fractured left hand. He batted third for Double-A Binghamton and played center field, going 2-for-5...
RIGHT ON COURSE: PRACTICE ROUND WITH SERGIO, JESPER HAS ANNIKA RARING TO GO
May 21, 2003 | 4:00amFORT WORTH - A supremely confident Annika Sorenstam yesterday declared herself ready to compete in the otherwise all-male Bank of America Colonial that begins tomorrow, and added she has every...