June 14, 2003
SONY PUTS HALF ITS COUNTRY ROSTER OUT TO PASTURE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amSony Music continues to trim the fat from its operations. In recent days Sony Music Nashville, the company's country music division, jettisoned roughly half of its acts as part of...
TRUMP LOSES STAKE, GETS $100M
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amDonald Trump is pulling a victory out of defeat in his legal fight over selling his stake in the GM building. The developer was shot down in court two days...
NEW NAME SPIKED; COURT DELAYS LAUNCH OF NEW VIACOM MEN'S NET
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amSpike TV is on ice, at least temporarily. Spike's corporate parent Viacom lost a court bid yesterday that would have allowed the company to launch the new network as scheduled...
BAD CONSUMER NEWS HITS MARTS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amAfter just squeaking by this week, Wall Street is bracing for whacks from weak earnings in the coming week. Stocks showed a mixed ending, bond yields continued to hit historic...
SEC TO PROBE PENTHOUSE BOOKS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amAfter 40 years of travails, Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione is now getting probed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The racy magazine and adult video empire said yesterday that the...
SWEET SMELL OF EXCESS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amSOME like it hot. Some like it dark. Others bake it in cookies or just savor its aroma. It's chocolate. For those who see the sweet confection as a "religious...
BRIGHT PROSPECT
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amRap fans hip-hopping mad that Mos Def backed out of his scheduled gig at Celebrate Brooklyn! this weekend should be more than pleased with their consolation prize: Blackalicious, the Bay-Area...
TRAILER TRASHED
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amAs dyed-in-the-wool Southerners -Libby's from south of the Mason-Dixon line, and Megan hails from south of the Equator -the Bar Belles were tickled to find a bar that appeals to...
CHEAT SHEET
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amAfter filing the necessary paperwork with the government, the Screen Actors Guild and Phil's Pocket Pets, Dinner Party Cheat Sheet has legally truncated its name to Cheat Sheet. That is...
TOPS OF THE POPS: A FEW GOOD DADS TELL US HOW THEY DO IT
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amNo doubt about it: Fatherhood is a lot of work. And we all know how tough it can be to be a New Yorker. The two combined? Well, add it...
THE BIG BANG: MUSIC MARATHON CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF STRANGENESS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amFifteen years ago, when composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe, all in their late twenties, were first out of grad school, they thought about the musical pieces they'd...
BROWN NOSES UP
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amTINA Brown hit a homer in her second time at bat. Brown's CNBC talk show, "Topic A with Tina Brown," notched 204,000 viewers Thursday night at 10 - a 176...
WATERFRONT LUXURY - VIEWS, GREAT COMMUTE AND A UNIQUE VIBE ALL MAKE DUMBO A HOT SPOT TO BE FOR ARTISTS, BUSINESSES AND FAMILIES ALIKE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amTUCKED on the edge of the Brooklyn waterfront, DUMBO, gets more exciting by the minute. Tour the penthouse of its signature Clock Tower building at One Main St. and you...
FAMILY FIRE SAGA ; UNDER COP PROTECTION AFTER THUGS TORCH QUEENS HOME
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens family beaten and robbed by home invaders are under police protection after their house was firebombed in an effort to kill them and keep them from testifying against...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amHe really got her goat - so she killed him. A woman in rural Eldon, Okla., has been charged with fatally shooting her husband in an argument over who should...
CHARITABLE MIKE DONATED $130M
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg lost a bundle last year when the city's ethics board forced him to sell all his stocks - but he still managed to donate more than $130 million...
U.S. KILLS 100 ENEMY IN 2 DAYS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces have killed more than 100 Arab terrorists and loyalists of Saddam Hussein in a series of fierce skirmishes in northern Iraq over the past two days,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amManhattan Police yesterday released a photo of two bandits (one pictured above) who robbed an Upper West Side bank at gunpoint last year. In January 2002, the robbers, one of...
BUBBA BLAB BRINGS IN $9M ; HILL & TALKAHOLIC HUBBY EARNED $39M TOTAL SINCE '01
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton raked in more than $9 million in speaking fees last year - topping wife Hillary's $8 million book deal for her best-selling autobiography. Sen....
QNS. 'RAPIST' NAILED IN CONN.
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amA gun-wielding thug was arrested yesterday on rape, robbery and kidnapping charges, police said. Leroy People, 21, of 184th Street in Jamaica, Queens was arrested in New London, Conn., where...
STAIRWAY COLLAPSE LEAVES 31 HOMELESS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amThree stories of staircase in a dilapidated upper Manhattan apartment building collapsed into a huge heap of twisted steel and cracked marble yesterday, authorities said. One person suffered minor injuries...
CRISIS IN THE MIDEAST ; ISRAEL VOWS FIGHT TO FINISH VS. TERRORISTS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli rockets killed two more Palestinian terrorists yesterday in what officials called "a war to the bitter end" against the leaders of Hamas. But even as the violence...
RUDY LIKES MAYOR OVER BUBBA
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amIf Bill Clinton makes a run for City Hall, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said yesterday he's casting his ballot for Mayor Bloomberg. "My candidate for mayor, if he wants to...
HUBBY CHARGED IN BEHEAD SLAY
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens cook was arraigned early yesterday on charges he strangled and then beheaded his wife - but investigators still aren't sure how the woman's bagged, headless body moved six...
VOTERS' GLOOM DOES JOB ON MIKE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday he doesn't care that his job-approval rating is the pits. What bothers him is New Yorkers aren't optimistic about the city's future. During his weekly WABC...
HE MADE HER SICK; 'RAPE' VICTIM SAW BOXLEY THE NEXT DAY
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The young victim of an alleged rape by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's top aide had a surprise encounter with the suspect in a restaurant just hours after the...
LOTTERY TARGETED IN LATEST ASH FRAY
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Pro-smoking groups are urging a boycott of the state lottery next week to coincide with another planned shutdown of Quick Draw machines by angry bar owners upset with...
ZAPPING PELOSI ; LEAVES JAIL ONLY TO GET BUSTED AGAIN
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amFriday the 13th should have been a lucky day for Danny Pelosi, the target of a special grand jury investigating the bludgeoning murder of East Hampton financier Ted Ammon. Pelosi...
'BRIBE-JUDGE' MOM GETS NEW JURIST
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman who blew the whistle on an alleged crooked judge overseeing her bitter child-custody battle was back in court yesterday fighting for custody of her oldest child. Freida...
RUDY'S PLEA FOR PEACE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who's leading a Bush administration delegation to an international anti-Semitism conference next week, yesterday called on Europeans to stop demonizing Israel. "The ways [the...
PERV MAYOR JAILED ; CONN. 'PREDATOR' SLAPPED WITH 37 YEARS FOR KID SEX
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amA federal judge in Connecticut yesterday denounced former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano as a "sexual predator" and sentenced him to 37 years in prison for repeatedly abusing two girls, ages...
WORKERS SCULPT A BIG JOKE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amTo art lovers, John Chamberlain's sculptures of twisted car parts on display at the Dia:Beacon Museum are considered some of modern art's finest achievements. To a group of electricians who...
NEW SHOOTER SHOCKER IN COP SLAYINGS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amAccused cop-killer Ronell Wilson knew that the two undercover detectives he allegedly executed during a botched buy-and-bust operation were police officers, according to a new indictment handed up yesterday. The...
KNICKS WORK OUT 7-5 RUSSIAN STAR
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amListing Allan Houston as one of his favorite players, Pavel Podkozline, the Russian 7-5, 295-pound center, gave a solo workout for the Knicks yesterday. Desperate for size, the Knicks are...
OWE, THAT COUNCIL! THEY'RE A DEBTOR CLASS OF PEOPLE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amSOME city officials are having a tough time making ends meet, even on $100,000 or more a year. Financial disclosure reports made public this week by the Conflicts of Interest...
MOM WANTS 'SUICIDAL' DRUG BANNED
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amA New Jersey mother whose daughter mutilated herself while on the controversial anti-depressant drug Paxil called yesterday for a ban on its use to treat children. The call for a...
SCHOOLKIDS WALLOW IN FLUNK FUNK
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amReading scores jumped 3 percentage points and math scores increased a modest 2 points in the city's public schools - but a majority of students still flunk the standards, results...
CHOMP-AND-ROMP VIAGRA DUE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amTalk about doubling your pleasure! Wrigley - maker of Juicy Fruit, Doublemint and Big Red - has been granted a patent to develop a chewing gum that contains the active...
JOLLY FOR ROGER ; YANKEE FANS ECSTATIC
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amYankee fans went batty for Roger Clemens last night as The Rocket landed in the baseball record books after posting his 300th career victory. "This is great. I'm so happy...
CITY COUNCIL BASHING BLOOMBERG ON SCHOOL $$
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amBudget talks blew up yesterday as City Council members accused Mayor Bloomberg of setting aside more construction dollars for courthouses than new schools to relieve overcrowding. The mayor's capital spending...
ROCKET GOES 4TH IN QUEST FOR 300: BUT HE WHIFFS HISTORIC 4,000TH IN 2ND INNING
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amWhile Roger Clemens had at least a few innings to go to nail down his 300th win, he got another colossal milestone out of the way early last night against...
LA GUARDIA AIR STRIPPER
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amAn emotionally disturbed man bared it all yesterday when he scaled a fence and scurried around naked at La Guardia Airport, cops said. The 27-year-old man, whose name was withheld,...
TRASH TALK RILED JACKSON
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES Stephen Jackson couldn't hold it in any longer. He was ticked by too much Nets talking after they beat the Spurs in Game 4. But last night, after...
'HARD HAT BANDIT' CAUGHT
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amThe Hard Hat Bandit was in handcuffs last night after upstate cops collared the man suspected of ripping off a dozen banks in Brooklyn and Queens in a string of...
NETS DROP INTO DEEP HOLE ; SPURS GO HOME WITH A 3-2 LEAD
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 5Spurs 93Nets 83 It's not impossible. But then neither is hitting the moon with a spitball. But the chances of the Nets going to San Antonio and winning twice...
KENYON GUTS OUT ILLNESS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES The bottom line for the Nets regarding Kenyon Martin and his volcanic stomach heading into last night's Game 5 of the NBA Finals: A sub-par Kenyon Martin was...
BROOKLYN KICKS OFF SUMMER PICK 3
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amA week after wrapping up the Triple Crown, thoroughbred racing shifts its focus to top older horses with today's NTRA Summer Pick 3, a national $1 bet that begins with...
ROSE, KERR SAVE SPURS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amThey have Tim Duncan and no one else does, and on most nights that's enough to give the Spurs the edge they need. But last night, as brilliant as Duncan...
M'STARS IN A MAKESHIFT MODE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amWhen the MetroStars host Chicago today (4 p.m., ESPN2), it will be the first time Bob Bradley has coached against the Fire club he led to MLS and U.S. Open...
LIBERTY FACE TOUGHEST TASK
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amA team doesn't get far, certainly not to the promised land of championships, without the utmost in confidence. The belief that any opponent can be beaten any time, any place,...
LOUSY GAME LEAVES KENYON FEELING BAD
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amKENYON MARTIN was going to be a grown-up about all of this. The words that came tumbling from his mouth spoke of a contrite, humbled star coming up small in...
LOW-SCORING GAMES GETTING OFFENSIVE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amThe way the Nets are operating might be effective, but that doesn't mean they are enjoying this tractor-pull NBA Finals against the Spurs. "We don't like it," Nets guard Lucious...
GIANTS SIGN DIEHL, TYREE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amWith 11 draft picks, the Giants will be busy this summer negotiating contracts. They got two out of the way this week, signing guard David Diehl and receiver/special teams ace...
PSAL GAMES WASHED OUT
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amFollowing a season that was filled with rotten weather, it should come as no surprise that the PSAL championship baseball games that were scheduled for last night at Brooklyn's KeySpan...
BYRON TAKES TIME TO ENJOY JOURNEY
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amIT finally dawned on Byron Scott a few hours after the Nets held off the Spurs on Wednesday night, after Manu Ginobili's shot fell short, after the final buzzer groaned,...
BOO-BIRDS SERENADE JOE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amYANK NOTES Joe Torre's players took exception to Yankees fans booing their leader for taking Roger Clemens out in the seventh inning last night and replacing him with Chris Hammond....
'D' IS KEY FOR POWER
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amThe 4-5-1 Power knew that in order to turn around their season they needed to clamp down on defense. After giving up 15 goals in their first five games, the...
SCORE-BORED WATCHING ; 90 POINTS LOOKS LIKE NETS' MAGIC NUMBER
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amIn the regular season, scoring 90 points was decidedly sub-par for the Nets. They were 38-13 when they scored at least 91 points, 11-20 when they were at 90 or...
'THRILLED' TINO RETURNS: LIKE OLD TIMES AS MARTINEZ HITS BRONX
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amIt took a little while. But soon enough, Tino Martinez figured it out. The visitors' clubhouse at Yankee Stadium? It's a few hundred feet down the hall from the home...
FOR METS, TIME WILL TELL : NEW GM DUQUETTE PREACHES PATIENCE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Jim Duquette grew up during the dawn of Rotisserie baseball, but he is a player-development guy. With Steve Phillips getting kicked to the curb, the Strat-O-Matic era of...
A DIFFERENT SIDE OF ROGER
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amA PITCHER is always alone on the island, alone on the mound. It is his game to win or lose. He is the one who winds up with a "W"...
TORRE NOT HARBORING A GRUDGE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amYANK NOTES He played six season for them and managed them for six more before being fired. So the Cardinals will never be just another team to Joe Torre. However,...
WATSON STILL IN CONTENTION
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amOLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. - He didn't go away. He didn't shoot 90. He didn't even fall off the first page of the leaderboard. Tom Watson, one day removed from one...
ROCKET LIFTS BOSS' SPIRITS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amOn this night, The Boss was pleased. "I couldn't be prouder of any man than The Rocket," George Steinbrenner said last night after the ageless pitcher he brought to The...
SINGHING HIS OWN SONG
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amOLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. - The only thing Vijay Singh did wrong in his controversial episode surrounding Annika Sorenstam playing in the Colonial last May was apologize. There was no reason...
CROUCHING TIGER SET TO SPRING
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amNOTES OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. - Defending U.S. Open champion Tiger Woods is right where he wants and needs be to entering the weekend after the crisp 4-under-par 66 he shot...
A WIDE OPEN TOURNEY ; SINGH, FURYK SET RECORD, BUT TIGER STALKS LEADERS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amOLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. - Now the 103rd U.S. Open really begins. The headliners to yesterday's second round were the leaders at 7-under-par - Vijay Singh and his 7-under 63, tying...
A WIDE OPEN TOURNEY ; SINGH, FURYK SET RECORDS, BUT TITLE STILL UP FOR GRABS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amOLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. - Now the 103rd U.S. Open really begins. The headliners to yesterday's second round were the leaders at 7-under-par - Vijay Singh and his 7-under 63, tying...
ROGER REACHES MAGIC NUMBER : VINTAGE CLEMENS DOES IT OLD-FASHIONED WAY
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amROGER Clemens earned his 300th victory and registered his 4,000th strikeout just the right way. As The Rocket. His first six outs were by strikeouts, and the two key outs...
ROGER REACHES MAGIC NUMBER: WINS 300TH AT LAST - AND K'S 4,000, TOO
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 5Cardinals 2 Like everything else in his life, Roger Clemens had to work for his 300th victory last night at Yankee Stadium. On a rainy Bronx evening against a...
ROGER REACHES MAGIC NUMBER: WINS 300TH AT LAST - AND K'S 4,000TH, TOO
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 5 Cardinals 2 It was fitting that Roger Clemens had to work for his 300th win last night, because the common thread running through his Hall of Fame career...
REHABBIN' PIAZZA MAKIN' PROGRESS
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES ANAHEIM - The physical therapist working with Mike Piazza told the 10-time All-Star he should recover fully from a severe right groin strain, Piazza's agent told the Post...
AN EMPTY FEELING LEAVING SWAMP
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amAT the end, there were only shrugs and whispers and emptiness inside the Meadowlands. The people began the long, slow trudge upstairs and outside, out to the Turnpike, the last...
DUNCAN PROVES THE DIFFERENCE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amWhen the assault on the rim was finally over, when the last inept Nets offensive sequence mercifully came to an end, the Spurs last night prevailed because they had Tim...
FAMILY NIGHT FOR ROGER
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amROGER CLEMENS never is really alone on the mound. Some of the great pitchers of the past are there with him in his fiery attitude and approach, and, as always,...
TORRE HOLDS NO GRUDGE
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amYANK NOTES He played six seasons for them and managed them for six more before being fired. So the Cardinals will never be just another team to Joe Torre. However,...
FLU LEAVES KENYON AILING
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES The bottom line for the Nets regarding a flu-weakened Kenyon Martin heading into Game 5 of the NBA Finals last night was this: A sub-par Kenyon Martin was...
TINO 'THRILLED' TO BE BACK
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amIt began in the second inning as soon as Bob Sheppard's voice came across the public address system: "The designated hitter, No. 21, Tino Martinez, No. 21." Tino Martinez returned...
IT'S DUQUETTE MAGIC ; AMAZIN'S 2-0 UNDER NEW GM
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amMets 7Angels 3 ANAHEIM - There were only three National League teams worse than the Mets when the Jim Duquette Era began midday Thursday, and that's still the case this...
IT'S DUQUETTE MAGIC: AMAZIN'S 2-0 UNDER NEW GM
June 14, 2003 | 4:00amMets 7 Angels 3 ANAHEIM - There were only three National League teams worse than the Mets when the Jim Duquette era began midday Thursday, and that's still the case...