August 29, 2003
NEWCOMER GIVES NIKE, REEBOK FITS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amUnder Armour, a rookie company that's revolutionizing the market for performance sports apparel, is challenging larger rivals like Nike and Reebok in a series of television advertisements airing this month...
TVT MAKING MUSIC, NOT NEWS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amHere's something new: Indie record label TVT has people talking about music. The label has made headlines this year for everything but making hit CDs. It was engaged in a...
JUDGE: CITY ISN'T LIABLE FOR 9/11 BANK DAMAGE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan federal judge has tossed out a bid by Deutsche Bank to hold the City responsible for $500 million in damage to the bank's 40-story office tower sustained in...
NASD CRACKDOWN - AGENCY BEEFS UP OVERSIGHT FOR ROGUE BROKERS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amRogue brokers, beware. Finally. The NASD is cracking down on securities firms that employ brokers with spotty pasts, the agency announced yesterday. The NASD, one of the organizations that polices...
CONTEMPT FOUND IN VERSACE FAUX FIGHT
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge yesterday threatened to throw fashion designer Alfredo Versace in prison for continually ripping off the trademark of his more famous cousin, Gianni Versace. Alfredo Versace, a small-time...
CRITICS SLAM NYSE OVER GRASSO'S PAY
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amDisclosure of Big Board Chairman Dick Grasso's retirement package and future contract has done little to allay concern about transparency and effective corporate governance at the Big Board. "The floor...
KIDDIES WANT TO WRESTLE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHE BACKYARD [ 1/2] This'll pain you. Running time: 78 minutes. Not rated (extreme violence and stupidity). At Cinema Village, 12th Street, east of Fifth Avenue. ----- THERE was a...
MEDIOCRE SONG & DANCE RUMPLE 'BED'
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHE OTHER SIDE OF THE BED [ 1/2] Diverting, if overlong fluff. Running time: 114 minutes. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Rated R (sex, nudity). At the Loews 34th Street,...
FUN AT OKEY-DOKEY CORRAL
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDLANDS [ 1/2] The good, the bad and the lovely. Running time: 104 minutes. Rated R (language). At the Clearview First and 62nd Street...
GRISLY PEEPER
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amJEEPERS CREEPERS 2 [ 1/2] Call me piecemeal. Running time: 106 minutes. Rated R (gory violence, profanity). At the Empire, the Orpheum, the Union Square, others. --------- MOVIEGOERS who have...
CRUEL JOKE - 'CUPID' FANS VOTE TO KEEP THE GUYS SHE REALLY HATES
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amIT appears that the view ers of the dating show "Cupid" are finally in on the reality TV joke - they're tormenting the show's star by voting off the guys...
DECADE DAVE MARKS JUMP TO CBS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amIN a rare on-air acknowl edgement, David Letterman will celebrate his 10th anniversary on CBS tonight. But it appears Dave and the producers of "The Late Show" - who traditionally...
'OPERA' EYES ITS FINAL ACT
August 29, 2003 | 4:00am'THE Phantom of the Opera" played its 6,500th performance yesterday, making it Broadway's third-longest running show (after "Cats" and "Les Miserables"). But just how much more time does Andrew Lloyd...
THE 'RIO' THING - DURAN DURAN BACK AT OLD STAND
August 29, 2003 | 4:00am"Is the balcony shaking? Because the stage is shaking here - and that's a good feeling!" -Simon Le Bon ---------- THE packed crowd was sopping with sweat and so was...
LABORS YOU'LL LOVE : 50 THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amNOT getting away this Labor Day weekend? Good for you! The city will be empty, allowing you to take advantage of everything the metropolis has to offer. Feel free to...
MADONNA'S 2 KINKY KISSES - SMOOCHES WITH BRITNEY AND CHRISTINA
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe MTV Video Music Awards turned into a red-hot, all-girl smooch-fest last night as Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera performed a raunchy, bump-and-grind dance routine that ended in explicit,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amMissouri's rivers have been invaded by crazy carp that jump into boats and attack fisherman. One state biologist boating near Columbia had a filling knocked from a tooth by a...
A LEFTY BOOM - RISING ON OUTRAGE, PASSION AND 'FOXANOIA'
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHE rise of an ardent, pas sionate, angry and en gaged left is the most im portant political story of 2003. The hottest book of the new publishing season is...
THUGS NO MATCH FOR CITY FIRE HERO
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amPETER BLAICH - Bravest medal nominee ------- Off-duty firefighter Peter Blaich ran to the rescue the moment he spotted two thugs trying to rob a cabdriver. Blaich was on his...
IRAQI BABY NAMED AFTER BUSH
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An Iraqi couple is expressing appreciation for their liberation from Saddam Hussein's tyranny in the most personal of ways - they've named their newborn baby after President Bush....
TYCOON IN TREE AX JOB
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA New Jersey multimillionaire is getting cut down to size - for bulldozing a swath of leafy public parkland to build himself a private tennis court. Andrew Krieger, 47, chopped...
WIFE IS JAILED IN 'HIT' ON RIVAL
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA Chinatown waitress was sent to prison yesterday for trying to stop a rival waitress from seeing her husband - literally. Bi Yu Zhang, 31, was sentenced to 3 ½...
CITY SUED FOR YANKING TAXI TV
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amTwo companies that installed TV monitors in the back seat of yellow cabs filed a lawsuit yesterday in a bid to slam the brakes on the city's plans to pull...
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amP.DIDDY rules! Or so it seems. The hip-hop Hamptonite, whose annual White Party is set for Sunday at his East Hampton digs, will be hosting an after-bash for his guests...
BRO'S KILLER FREE - TEEN WEEPS AFTER GUN-ACCIDENT DEAL
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA 16-year-old Queens boy who accidentally shot and killed his brother while playing with a handgun was reunited with his family yesterday after spending two months behind bars. Romando "Andrew"...
CHARITY CONCERT TO HONOR LYRIC
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amFriends and family of tragic beauty Lyric Benson are holding a benefit concert in her honor on Sept. 19, a day before what would have been her 23rd birthday. Benson,...
LACI'S BABY WAS BORN, THEN SLAIN: NEW CLUES
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amDisturbing new evidence in the Laci Peterson murder case suggests she gave birth to son Connor - who was alive before he was killed and his body trussed in a...
ISRAELIS EXACT ROCKET REVENGE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel assassinated another terrorist and its tanks rolled into the Gaza Strip last night after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered "all necessary steps" to prevent Palestinian rockets from...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A knife-wielding bandit robbed two women in Central Park before fleeing, police said yesterday. The unidentified man accosted the 20-year-old women, pulled a homemade metal knife and demanded...
TINA PICS SWIPED IN ART ATTACK
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amIt's all the talk. A portrait of former Talk and New Yorker editor Tina Brown headed for an art show in China was stolen from the van of a shipping...
CUTTING THE MUSTARD: TOP DOG'S DEMAND STIRS UP A HOT-DOG DASH
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTEBOOK USTA President Alan Schwartz sparked a mad panic among the catering staff yesterday when he wasn't served the right kind of hot dog. Turns out Schwartz has...
CHURCH'S CELL STANCE SENDS BAD SIGNAL
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amQueens parents are livid that Catholic church officials flip-flopped by deciding to keep a cell-phone antenna on the roof of their parochial school. Parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn are...
ESTATE OF CHAOS - 'DRUGGED' GENEROSA SIGNED WILL: PELOSI PALS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA heavily drugged Generosa Ammon Pelosi was kept "incommunicado" during the last month of her life by her lawyers and her children's nanny, sources close to the heiress' estranged husband...
B'KLYN TOT DEATH RULED HOMICIDE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe death of a 3-year-old Brooklyn girl who allegedly endured months of torture was ruled a homicide yesterday - paving the way for authorities to charge her parents with murder....
ROGUE RABBI BOO$TED POLS AS HEAT WAS ON
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA high-powered Brooklyn rabbi, accused of stealing $700,000 in federal funds, was facing numerous tax liens and civil judgments even as he was raising more than $200,000 for politicians nationwide,...
ARMOR SET TO SMASH HAMAS IF ABBAS WON'T
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The mo ment of truth may be close for Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Israeli security sources have told The Post. "If the Palestinians do not take...
COPS CRUSH FIREHOUSE PROTEST TENT
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amCops yesterday demolished the makeshift encampment of neighbors who kept a 98-day vigil at a closed Brooklyn FDNY station, but the fired-up supporters vowed "the fight is not over." Cops...
STATEN I. MAN HAS WEST NILE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA 72-year-old Staten Island man has West Nile virus, the second case of the deadly disease in the city, health officials said yesterday. The man, whose identity is being withheld,...
COP NABBED IN 'SEX GRAB' OF BUDDY'S GAL PAL
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA veteran cop groped a fellow officer's girlfriend inside an elevator of an NYPD Transit Division facility in Brooklyn and warned her to keep it a secret, authorities said yesterday....
ALL 'PRESENT' & ACCOUNTED FOR - LAVISH FREEBIES LURE STARS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amHow do you get hundreds of red-hot pop stars to show up at the MTV Video Music Awards without having to twist their arms? Besides nominating them, just shower 'em...
EERIE ECHOES OF HORROR & VALOR: 'DON'T EVACUATE,' ONE COP SAID; ANGUISH ON DOOMED TOP FLOORS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe 9/11 transcripts released yesterday reveal the terror and confusion that reigned at the Twin Towers - as well as the calm determination of those who heroically tried to save...
STORMIN' NORMAN - BESIEGED B'KLYN BOSS RAILS AT DA 'WITCH HUNT'
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman, at the center of a probe into judicial corruption, broke his silence during a birthday fund-raiser and lashed out at DA Charles Hynes for...
MOURNING LOVED ONES RELIVE THE HEARTBREAK
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amRelatives of World Trade Center victims yesterday said the release of transcripts of 9/11 emergency communications was a wrenching and emotional experience. Teresa Raggio said she was anxious about how...
EERIE ECHOES OF HORROR & VALOR - *TRAGIC WARNING: 'DON'T EVACUATE' *ANGUISH ON DOOMED TOP FLOOR
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe chilling 9/11 transcripts released yesterday reveal the terror and confusion that reigned at the Twin Towers - as well as the calm determination of the heroes who rushed to...
SANIT MAN BURNED BY TRASHED ACID
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amCorrosive acid in a Brooklyn resident's trash severely burned a veteran sanitation worker yesterday, authorities said. Walter Osmanski, 56, was rushed to Staten Island University Hospital with second- and third-degree...
BOGUS B'KLYN LAWYER IS AT IT AGAIN: DA
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA woman already charged with posing as a lawyer and bilking immigrants out of tens of thousands of dollars was busted again early yesterday after she allegedly took $15,000 from...
COPS' CONFUSION AMID THE CHAOS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amMissiles fired from the Woolworth Building. Multiple aircraft over Manhattan set to dive into other buildings. Explosions blocks from the towers. These were just a few of the rumors whipping...
HOSTAGE DRAMA - 'SUSPECT' HOLDS FAMILY IN 2-HR. STANDOFF
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amScreaming, "Get off me, I didn't do it," a man sought for questioning in the shooting of an NYPD captain in Manhattan was hauled away in handcuffs from a Brooklyn...
SLAIN PA BOSS' WIFE SOUGHT HOPE IN VAIN
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amHers is the calm voice of hope. "Hi, I know you're crazed," the caller tells a Port Authority official. "I don't want to bother you, but the governor is looking...
QUICK-THINKING KID FOILS ROBBERY
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA courageous 9-year-old Brooklyn boy outfoxed three robbers who invaded his family's home yesterday by locking himself in a bedroom and calling his father on a cell phone. The father,...
'THE AIR'S GOING FAST!' THEN HER PHONE DIED
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amAn increasingly panicked assistant manager at the Windows on the World restaurant called cops four times to beg for help that never came, as smoke filled the posh restaurant, transcripts...
HOSTAGE DRAMA: THUG HOLDS TRIO IN 2-HOUR STANDOFF
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amScreaming, "Get off me, I didn't do it," a man wanted for questioning in the shooting of an NYPD captain in Manhattan was hauled away in handcuffs from a Brooklyn...
STORMIN' NORMAN: BESIEGED B'KLYN BOSS RAILS AT DA 'WITCH HUNT'
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman, at the center of a probe into judicial corruption, broke his silence during a birthday fund-raiser and lashed out at DA Charles Hynes for...
BOGUS BROOKLYN LAWYER AT IT AGAIN: DA
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amA woman already charged with posing as a lawyer and bilking immigrants out of tens of thousands of dollars was busted again early yesterday after she allegedly took $15,000 from...
LACI BABY STUNNER: BORN ALIVE, THEN SLAIN: NEW THEORY
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amDisturbing new evidence in the Laci Peterson murder case suggests she gave birth to son Connor and that the baby was alive before he was killed and his body trussed...
CYCLONES RAP RENEGADES
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amWith the season unraveling, the Cyclones desperately needed a win last night against the visiting Hudson Valley Renegades. It seemed their six-game losing streak would continue as the Renegades grabbed...
EX-YANK ANDERSON HAPPY WITH METS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Jason Anderson is no longer a Yankee, and that's fine by him. The 24-year-old righty, who was acquired in the Armando Benitez trade last month, spent...
CARTER CLOSES IN ON ROSTER SPOT
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Tyrone Carter, who's had a forgettable summer so far trying to make the team as a backup safety, made an acrobatic interception in the first quarter,...
METS' REYES OF HOPE - JOSE HOMERS FROM BOTH SIDES TO BACK LEITER
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amMets 3 - Braves 1 ATLANTA - Seeing Mike Hampton and Al Leiter post zero after zero last night must have reminded Mets fans of the glorious past. But seeing...
ANNA LOVES NEW ROLE WITH MEDIA
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTEBOOK Anna Kournikova is hardly down in the dumps over the negative reviews of her entertainment reporting for USA Network. In fact, Kournikova, romping round the Flushing Meadows...
CAPRIATI HAS EYES ON PRIZE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amRarely has tennis seemed so much a blessing and less like a burden to Jennifer Capriati. Rarely has the 27-year-old seemed so comfortable or at ease - or hit the...
IN END, GIANTS GET A 'W' - RALLY PAST RAVENS AFTER UGLY START
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amGiants 30 - Ravens 24 BALTIMORE - Long after the game is forgotten - the sooner the better - Jim Fassel hopes the lesson remains. Last night's preseason finale against...
USA ROLLS, HEAPS PRAISE ON K-MART
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amUSA 91 - Puerto Rico 65 SAN JUAN - Keep Kenyon. OK, so maybe it's not the strongest or loudest rallying cry at the moment, but Ray Allen, for one,...
HEWITT HANGS ON
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amLleyton Hewitt lost the first set, then needed to go seven deuces in the last game against 69th-ranked Korean Hyung-Taik Lee yesterday at the U.S. Open. No, this isn't the...
USA CRUISES INTO SEMIFINALS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amUSA NOTES SAN JUAN - Now they know whom they play in the semis. And it's an opponent they really know. The Team USA stars advanced to the semifinals of...
IT'S TIME TO SET RECORD STRAIGHT ON OPEN ROMPS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amTENNIS is another sport through which the media-at-large lines up to prove they just don't get it. The U.S. Open, for example, annually finds sportscasters and sportswriters reporting the unremarkable...
RAMS READY TO REIGN
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe Fordham football team's biological clock is ticking. Four years removed from an 0-11 season, the Rams now have a conceivable shot at the Division I-AA National Championship. But they'd...
JOYCE WRITING SUCCESS STORY SPECIAL TEAMER OVERCOMES GIANT ODDS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Do the math. The reason Delvin Joyce was a member of the Giants last year was to fill one role, and this season, that role was taken away...
ANOTHER BIG GAME FOR JOYCE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES BALTIMORE - Amid the wild and craziness for the Giants last night in their 30-24 preseason victory over the Ravens was a forceful show by Delvin Joyce, the...
JINTS' OL DOWN TO 1 STARTER
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES BALTIMORE - And then there was one. No one could question Rich Seubert if he felt just a bit lonely last night as the Giants faced the Ravens...
MARTIN'S RUNNING ON EMPTY SO FAR
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The numbers, if this were regular season, would be cause for major alarm. The Jets entered last night's preseason finale against the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field having...
CYCLONES IN TAILSPIN
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn Cyclones don't want history to repeat itself. At the same time last year, the Cyclones were residing in second place, poised to make a run at the playoffs...
KIDS END SUMMER WITH A BANG
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amIT was a beautiful day, the sun was high in the sky and sea bass were coming over the rail at a steady pace. It would have been a perfect...
SHUG 'DAYDREAMING' OF SPINAWAY VICTORY
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Shug McGaughey will always be remembered for training the great colt Easy Goer, but don't forget he's saddled more outstanding fillies than any horseman in recent memory....
PIGSKIN PROFIT
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe first week of the season is usually the toughest call. Too many freshmen who are wound tighter than their ankle tape. Nebraska says it will use alignments that include...
K-MART SHOWING STAYING POWER
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - Keep Kenyon. OK, so maybe it's not the strongest or loudest rallying cry at the moment, but Ray Allen, for one, wants to see Nets forward Kenyon...
VELAZQUEZ TIES SPA RECORD
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Jockey John Velazquez reached a milestone yesterday his Hall-of-Fame mentor and agent, Angel Cordero Jr., always dreamed of but could never achieve, tying the record for most...
HEADING FOR BOOTH - LEITER SET TO PITCH IN WITH BUCK, MCCARVER
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amATLANTA - In his formative years, Al Leiter remembers watching baseball in October and seeing active players Tom Seaver and Reggie Jackson doing World Series television commentary. Leiter believes such...
'NATIVE' IS 7-5 CHOICE FOR CANE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amAllamerican Native, trained by Mark Capone and driven by John Campbell, drew post position one and was installed as the 7-5 morning-line favorite for the $331,000 Cane Pace final on...
WEAVER GETS 'STRIPES BACK
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Jeff Weaver's banishment to the minors lasted two days thanks to David Dellucci's sprained right ankle. Weaver was sent to Tampa Tuesday night when the Yankees also designated...
PIERCE'S RALLY LIKE OLD TIMES
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amIn the last stages of the third-set tiebreaker, Mary Pierce smacked a backhand winner past Jelena Dokic and looked up into the sky. She closed her eyes tight and stuck...
WATCH OUT, CANES: HERE COMES PITT
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amPittsburgh quarterback Rod Rutherford isn't a newcomer to Big East bashing. When he was a hotly recruited prep junior, Rutherford heard one Ohio State assistant coach tell him how superior...
BOOMER COULD BE BUSTED FROM ROTATION
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amDavid Wells' hold on his rotation spot is suddenly as shaky as his recent outings. After Yankees pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre criticized Wells' work ethic and failure to throw enough...
SANDMAN RETURNS FROM REST
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amScores of 13-2 and 11-2 didn't do much for Mariano Rivera on Tuesday and Wednesday. Said Joe Torre of Rivera's inactivity, "He was taking a nap out in the outfield."...
HEWITT WORKS FOR WIN
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amLleyton Hewitt lost the first set, then needed to go seven deuces in the last game against 69th-ranked Korean Hyung-Taik Lee yesterday at the U.S. Open. No, this isn't the...
HUSAK'S FIRST AND LIKELY LAST JET CALL
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Last night's game was oddest of all for Jet reserve QB Todd Husak, who might have played his first and final game as a Jet. Husak...
BAGGAGE BURDENS BOMBERS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Red Sox, as always, have baggage. This is their lot, their history. They tote eight decades of cursed results around with them at all times, their obsessive fans and...
YANKEES UP FOR BEANTOWN BASH - SERIES SETS STAGE FOR FANTASTIC FINISH
August 29, 2003 | 4:00am"I don't think [the race for the AL East title] will come down to how we play each other." -JOE TORRE ----- It's not as crucial as bringing peace to...
HERM PLAYS IT SAFE - STARTERS SIT OUT VICTORY IN PHILLY
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amPRESEASON: Jets 17 - Eagles 9 PHILADELPHIA - Just days after their season was jolted by the loss of Chad Pennington possibly for the season, the Jets kept virtually every...
MISTAKES PUT FINN ON BRINK
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES BALTIMORE - Coming into the game, Jim Finn knew all about the stakes. "It's the Super Bowl for me," Finn said. "If I don't do my job I...
GIANTS FINALLY GET A 'W' RALLY TO SLIP PAST RAVENS
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The preseason, thankfully, is over for the Giants. They had better hope they are much better when the games count for real, starting with the challenging Sept. 7...
AFTERNOON DELIGHT: YANKS PULL TOGETHER, AVERT CHISOX SWEEP
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 7White Sox 5 Mike Mussina gave them a chance, something Roger Clemens and David Wells didn't. Jerry Manuel gave them a break by starting the control-challenged Neal Cotts, a...
GRACE-FUL MOVE BY FOX - D'BACK SLUGGER EYED AS ANALYST
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amFox Sports hopes to add the Diamondbacks' Mark Grace, along with the Mets' Al Leiter, to its postseason baseball coverage, according to sources. "We have had discussions with Al and...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: CHRIS RUSSO VS. ANNA KOURNIKOVA (WHO IS A BETTER PR STUNT FOR THE U.S. OPEN?)
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amHere are two of the reporter's credentials: Known to be ditzy and has never won a pro singles event. OK, enough about Chris Russo. While WFAN's Russo is doing late-night...
5 QUESTIONS FOR TODD BLACKLEDGE
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with CBS college-football analyst Todd Blackledge. The 42-year-old Blackledge begins his 13th season in that role when USC faces Auburn at 6 p.m....
GANG GLOOM - JET FORECAST STORMY - NO MATTER WHO'S AT QB
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amThursday, Jets at Redskins, 9 p.m., ABC ---- The way ESPN football analyst Bryan Cox sees it, having Vinny Testaverde as the Jets' starting quarterback instead of Chad Pennington doesn't...
BROWN CRUSHED OVER ISIAH FIRING
August 29, 2003 | 4:00amUSA NOTES SAN JUAN - Jermaine O'Neal wasn't the only member of the U.S. Olympic qualifying team here who felt deeply affected by the firing of Isiah Thomas as Pacer...