September 3, 2003
SETBACK IN DEUTSCHE BANK SUIT
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge dealt a setback yesterday to Deutsche Bank's plans to tear down its black-shrouded office tower next to Ground Zero - and to official hopes of acquiring the...
DILLER TO HIT GE FOR $2.4B STAKE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amBarry Diller is closer to cashing out. Diller has long hovered over the Vivendi Universal Entertainment auction, even though he wasn't a direct participant. Now, with a preliminary merger deal...
EDGAR BRONFMAN JR. LOST OUT IN HIS BID TO RECLAIM VIVENDI'S ENTERTAINMENT EMPIRE ...
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amEdgar Bronfman Jr. lost out in his bid to reclaim Vivendi's entertainment empire, but don't expect him to walk away from the French conglomerate. The Bronfman family is still the...
AT&T SUES WORLDCOM FOR 'FRAUD'
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amStriking as the battered telecom prepares to escape from bankruptcy, AT&T sued WorldCom Inc. yesterday in federal court, accusing the long-distance carrier of racketeering and fraud in its routing of...
VF MOGUL LIST BOOTS AOL TW EX-HONCHOS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWhat does it take to make Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" list? Not being associated with AOL Time Warner is a good start. No longer the frat party it was when...
STOCKS TAKE OFF: MARTS BUCK HISTORY TO START SEPT. ON UPSWING
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWall Street's newest stock indicator says that when leaves start falling, stocks rise higher. This bullish reading of the tree leaves began in earnest yesterday, when shares across the board...
KORS SIGNS DEAL BY BRYANT PARK
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amDESIGNER Michael Kors is flocking with other frock makers to a building that overlooks Bryant Park, grabbing two floors of 11 W. 42nd St. The 32-story building is home to...
NBC FRENCH KISS - PEACOCK BEATS RIVALS FOR $14B VIVENDI DEAL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amAfter months of haggling over the future of its vast entertainment empire, Vivendi has finally cinched a preliminary deal with General Electric Co.'s NBC. Yesterday, Vivendi announced that it has...
NBC GIVES TOGA PARTY IN BERMUDA
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amFear of foreign travel may have its benefits. At least it does for the 1,000 guests of NBC's splashy junket kicking off the Olympics next summer in Athens, Greece. Reports...
PETCO A RE-PETA OFFENDER
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amPetco, the nation's second-largest pet supply retailer, has been no stranger to controversy when it comes to the animals it sells. Several lawsuits have accused the company of starving baby...
SEC CHIEF RIPS INTO GRASSO'S $140M PAY
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amSEC Chairman William Donaldson yesterday lashed out at the New York Stock Exchange, demanding the Big Board explain how its chairman, Dick Grasso, scored a $140 million retirement payout. "In...
BLAIR: HOW NOT TO BE ME - DISGRACED REPORTER RETURNS WITH ESSAY IN JANE MAG
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amDISGRACED former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair has completed his first journalistic piece since the plagiarism and fabrication capers that caused his downfall at the Gray Lady came to...
MICKEY D'S SERVES UP JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amPop star Justin Timberlake is singing for his supper. As part of a deal with McDonald's Corp., Timberlake will be appearing in the fast food giant's new advertising campaign. In...
A SOUND SAGE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amSAGE ** (two stars) 331 Park Ave. South (212) 253-8400 WHAT to do when your flashy pan- Asian place in Flatiron fails to win over the dining millions? Turn it...
SEX IS FEST & FURIOUS; SEX IS FEST & FURIOUS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amMOVIES at this year's Toronto International Film Festival will be pushing the envelope when it comes to sex. Among the more eagerly awaited titles: * "In the Cut": Meg Ryan...
FOOD GUIDE CHARTS NEW YORK SLOW STORM
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amIN this fast town, slow is usually a four-letter word. But in the case of the "Slow Food Guide to New York City," it's a good thing. The just-published book...
ON THE SIDE ; MORE SOUR GRAPES
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amTHE French aren't out of the woods quite yet. Adding perhaps a little fuel to a smoldering fire, the Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group is replacing its current wine selection...
RAMONE'S GOOD OLD DAYS: PUNK & JUNK
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amHEY IS DEE DEE HOME? 1/2 (two and one half stars) Punk's not dead. Running time: 62 minutes. Not rated (language, conversation about drugs). At the Pioneer Theater, 155 E....
ORIGINAL FAB FIVER SUES 'QUEER EYE'
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amBLAIR Boone, one of the original "Fab Five" makeover mavens on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," is suing the show's producers for breach-of-contract. Boone, who's asking for $105,000 in...
'ZERO' BATTING 1,000
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amZERO DAY (three stars) Hits the bull's-eye. Running time: 91 minutes. Not rated (violence, profanity). At Film Forum, Houston and Varick streets. 'BOWLING for Columbine" used the 1999 massacre at...
STARS, NOT SARS; FILM FEST HAS ACTORS EMBRACING TORONTO
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amA constellation of stars such as Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington and Nicolas Cage should outshine dark memories of SARS when the Toronto International Film Festival opens tomorrow night. Even though...
CRITICS TELL ALL; THE REAL FALL PREVIEW
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amLET'S take a new - and admittedly diabolical - tack on the Broadway fall preview, that annual by- the-numbers rundown of all the new shows wherein the pundit is required...
QUALITY TV, ONLY WITHOUT THE QUALITY
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S easy to disagree with the "brilliant" label Trio has attached to its "Brilliant, But Cancelled" series of shows that no one remembers (or that no one knew about in...
STARR REPORT
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amIt beats rehab or shoplifting . . . If you want a taste of David Spade's new movie, "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star," tune into TV Land tomorrow at 10...
FASHION PLATES: SOUND BITES ON HOT NEW RESTAURANTS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amNEW York's movers and shakers are streaming back into the city and gearing up for the fall social season, and there's a clutch of hot new restaurants competing for their...
SCOOTER COP SAVES WOMAN IN VICIOUS PROSPECT PARK ATTACK
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amA 33-year-old clothing designer out for a noontime power walk in Prospect Park was viciously beaten by a vagrant who tried to rape her before a cop broke up the...
DOWNTOWN RISING
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amTHIS week marks a signal turn in Downtown's rise from the ashes. Wall Street law firm Thacher Proffitt & Wood is moving into 2 World Financial Center - across the...
COUNCIL-RACE FOES GET DOWNTOWN AND DIRTY
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWHILE California political races resemble Hollywood cartoons, you can always rely on New York to provide a good, old-fashioned, down-and-dirty donnybrook. In one corner of the ring, in the hotly...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amLonnie Boyd was knocked unconscious, his hair burned off and his hearing and heart damaged when he was struck by lightning - and now he's paying tribute to his near-death...
SAD THOUGHT IS SICKENING: STUDY
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amLook at the bright side of things - it's better for your health. That's the word from University of Wisconsin in Madison researchers who asked 52 subjects to recall one...
A TRAITOR IS A TRAITOR - POLLARD SHOULD NEVER GO FREE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amJONATHAN Pollard, convicted spy, would like to be set free. His advocates in the United States also want Pollard to go free. And his one-time paymasters in Israel badly want...
THE BLUES CRUISE - 'SEA SICK' VIRUS SHIP BACK AFTER HELL VOYAGE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amA lavish cruise on the Regal Princess turned into a "cruise from hell" for many passengers who sailed from Denmark to New York after coming down with gut-busting cases of...
U.S. DOUGH 'BOYS' - DELL TOPS THE YOUNG & THE RICHEST
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amFortune has named the 10 richest Americans under the age of 40 - and once again, 38-year- old Dell founder Michael Dell tops the list, with a staggering $17 billion....
LAGGING KERRY 'OFFICIALLY' HITS CAMPAIGN TRAIL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Trailing Democratic 2004 wannabe Sen. John Kerry yesterday held an "official" campaign kickoff and tried to play catch-up with front-runner Howard Dean by blasting President Bush as a...
SUBWAY SLASHER SAYS IT WAS SELF-DEFENSE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amAlthough two doctors found him unfit to stand trial, a suspected subway psycho yesterday admitted he savagely slashed a woman in the face last month, but insisted he acted in...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Police are asking for the public's help in finding a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from her aunt's Brownsville home. Shasheen Adams (above) was last seen at the apartment...
BIG GOV'T BUSH
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amSOME conservatives are convinced President Bush has become a supporter and propounder of Big Government. Rush Limbaugh went so far yesterday as to say with some despair that his 15...
AMMON SECRETS BURIED - GENEROSA NIXED SNITCH DEAL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amA dying Generosa Ammon was offered immunity from prosecution to testify against her estranged husband, Danny Pelosi, before a Long Island grand jury investigating millionaire Ted Ammon's murder - but...
WESTCHESTER HAILS BRIT CABS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amThe British cabs are coming! The British cabs are coming! A Westchester livery-cab company will add two London taxis to its fleet of 22 Ford Crown Victorias, The Post has...
BLOOMBERG: SIGN UP - URGES FENCE-SITTING WTC KIN TO TAKE FED $$ DEAL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday called on more families of 9/11 victims - especially those of emergency-service workers - to take the federal government's settlement offer and give up their rights to...
FIRST LADY POLI$HES APPLE FOR TEACHERS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amOn a back-to-school visit to the Big Apple, First Lady Laura Bush yesterday said teachers in New York City and elsewhere are underpaid - but she had no immediate answers...
ARAFAT MUST 'DISAPPEAR'
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat should "disappear from the pages of history" and Israel should deport him for obstructing U.S.-led peace moves, Israel's defense minister said yesterday. "I think...
CITY COPS ON GUARD FOR CLINIC 'MARTYRS'
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amCOPS will be keeping a close eye on city abortion clinics today as Florida prepares to execute abortion-doc killer Paul Hill - for fear his death may inspire violent acts...
CITY STILL CAN'T $HAKE OFF 9/11
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amNew York City's recession persisted for a 10th straight quarter from April to June, with economic losses from the 9/11 terrorist attacks lasting longer and cutting deeper than previously estimated,...
NIXON STOKED ARNIE'S FIRE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger said yesterday that it was Richard Nixon who sold him on the Republican Party - in his latest effort to woo much-needed conservative votes. Schwarzenegger...
KERIK CLOSE CALL: EX-CITY TOP COP DODGES BAGHDAD BOMB
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amFormer city top cop Bernard Kerik cheated death - ending his stint in Iraq just before a deadly bombing yesterday that could have taken his life. Kerik, who was in...
'LOBSTER LIFTER' NABBED OVER S.I. EATERY 'TAKEOUT'
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amA 31-year-old upstate man was caught in the act of stealing boxes of shrimp, calamari, lobster and other delicacies from a Staten Island restaurant yesterday, authorities said. Officers on routine...
HERO PILOT SAVES THE DAY IN JFK LANDING
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amPassengers on an American Airlines flight got the ride of their lives yesterday when the plane's landing gear seized, forcing an emergency landing at Kennedy Airport. None of the 128...
AIRTRAIN KIN TO SUE FOR $200M
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amThe family of the man who died while driving the AirTrain last year during a test run near JFK Airport said they will file a $200 million suit against the...
DAD MIXES POT & 'SPEED': COPS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island cop stopped a man for speeding and discovered that he was smoking pot at the wheel while his 11-year son sat next to him, police said. Suffolk...
I WANT ANSWERS, NOT $$
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amMonica Gabrielle, whose husband, Rich, died in the World Trade Center south tower, long ago decided not to apply to the federal compensation fund so she can file a federal...
FIREHOUSE IS CAUSING FIRESTORM
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amThe city will take over a rarely used firehouse on Governors Island from the federal government next month - igniting an uproar among supporters of six closed firehouses who say...
HILLARY: DUBYA OUT OF CONTROL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday ripped President Bush, calling him "obsessed" with going it alone on Iraq - but insisting she doesn't want his job. During a luncheon for the...
PARDON BID GIVES PEEK AT POLLARD
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Convicted spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard appeared in federal court yesterday for the first time in 16 years, as his lawyers sought another shot at a presidential pardon. Pollard, 49,...
JUDGES RIP RIKERS RAT FOOD
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amThree of the biggest jails on Rikers Island served up vermin-contaminated food to inmates, the New York federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The three-judge panel found food sanitation to be...
PARADE'S DEADLY DISS - VICTIM LAUGHED AT BLOODS THUG
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amAn aspiring teacher was shot to death at the West Indian Day Parade because he laughed at a Bloods gang member for making hand signs, a witness to the incomprehensible...
SOAKED TICKET HOLDERS LEFT HIGH AND DRY ON REFUNDS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amUS OPEN NOTEBOOKIF YOU had U.S. Open tickets to a session that was rained out, don't hold your breath waiting for a refund. The best you can do is exchange...
ON THE EVE OF THE SEPT. 11 ANNIVERSARY, 30 TONS OF STEEL FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE TWIN TOWERS WILL GET MELTED DOWN.....
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - On the eve of the Sept. 11 anniversary, 30 tons of steel from the wreckage of the Twin Towers will get melted down to be reborn as the...
'HARASS' MORASS FOR PRINCIPALS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amTeachers union boss Randi Weingarten is battling two Brooklyn school principals whom staffers allege are harassing them. Weingarten yesterday met with teachers from PS 304 and PS 35 to help...
'IT'S A WAY TO HELP MY KIDS'
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amNick Chiarchiaro was once an outspoken critic of the compensation fund who urged other victims' families to go to court and get what they could from the airlines. But after...
BRUCE CLOSING TOUR WITH TWO SHEA SHOWS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amLook out, Met fans - The Boss is taking over Shea Stadium. No, not that boss. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be closing out their mammoth "The...
KERIK CLOSE CALL - EX-CITY TOP COP DODGES BAGHDAD BOMB
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amBaghdad's fourth car bombing in a month killed an employee of a U.S.-sponsored police academy yesterday - but spared former New York top cop Bernard Kerik, who would have been...
BANK DROPS ATM FEES FOR RIVALS' CUSTOMERS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amChalk one up for local consumers: One major area bank is finally dropping the controversial $1.50-a-pop fee it charges noncustomers to use its ATMs. Washington Mutual said the move makes...
CLASSROOM MOB SCENE - WORST SCHOOLS TO BE HIT HARDEST
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amMany of the city's struggling high schools will be swamped next week by a tidal wave of hundreds of extra students. The new kids are pouring in because the city...
CATHOLIC ED. $QUEEZE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amThe city's Catholic schools open today - and some are struggling to survive through hard times of dwindling enrollment and higher costs. The Brooklyn Diocese starts the first day of...
FLOWER KA-POWER - PETAL PEDESTAL AT ROOT OF L.I. WEDDING BRAWL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amFirst the bride and groom exchanged vows. Then the guests and the catering staff exchanged blows. The fracas at the Long Island catering hall started when a tipsy guest allegedly...
FLOWER KA-POWER: PETAL PEDESTAL AT ROOT OF L.I. WEDDING BRAWL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amFirst the bride and groom exchanged vows. Then guests and the catering staff exchanged blows. The fracas at the Long Island catering hall started when a tipsy guest tried to...
US OPEN NOTEBOOK
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amIF YOU had U.S. Open tickets to a session that was rained out, don't hold your breath waiting for a refund. The best you can do is exchange your ducat...
W'CHESTER HAILS BRIT CABS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amThe British cabs are coming! The British cabs are coming! A Westchester livery cab company will add two London Taxis to its fleet of 22 Ford Crown Victorias, The Post...
SCHOOLS WILL BE A MOB SCENE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amMany of the city's struggling high schools are set to be swamped next week by a tidal wave of hundreds of extra students. The new kids are pouring in because...
HERO COP: SAVES WOMAN FROM RAPIST
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amAn eagle-eyed young cop yesterday nabbed a would-be rapist who viciously attacked a 33-year-old clothing designer out for a noontime power walk in Prospect Park, police said. Officer Anthony Ward,...
USTA LOOKING TO RAISE THE ROOF
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES For those soggy fans in Flushing and irritated viewers at home saying, "If only they had a roof," hold out hope. U.S. Open officials said it's a prospect...
DAN-DY DEBUT GARCIA GETS CALL-UP, THEN DELIVERS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amMets 3Braves 1 Danny Garcia can't help the comparison, and contrast, to Roberto Alomar. He didn't have a choice about wearing Alomar's old No. 12. But Garcia does have a...
DENT'S INJURY HELPS AGASSI GAIN QUARTERS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amAndre Agassi had already lost his first set of the U.S. Open and was now down a break, 3-2, in the second. "Come on!" a voice rang out from the...
STINGY LEITER KEEPS ROCKIN'
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amIt was announced before last night's game that a New Jersey guy is going to rock Shea Stadium next month when Bruce Springsteen ends his current 119-concert world tour with...
DAN-DY DEBUT: GARCIA GETS CALL-UP, THEN DELIVERS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amMets 3 Braves 1 Danny Garcia can't help the comparison, and contrast, to Roberto Alomar. He didn't have a choice about wearing Alomar's old No. 12. But Garcia does have...
NEW FACE STARTS IN CENTER, TOO
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Most of Prentice Redman's action last night happened in the second inning, but he said the first inning of his first major-league start was intense. "I was jumpy,...
GOOD START FOR JETS ; REVENGE ENOUGH TO RUB-OUT REDSKINS
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amTHE JETS were going to have a tough enough time making the playoffs even before Chad Pennington's devastating injury. But that doesn't mean the team's season is over before it's...
WATERFOWL HUNTERS HAVE GEESE LIMIT INCREASED
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWATERFOWL hunters got some good news this week with the announcement that the daily bag limits for Canada geese hunting during September have been increased in almost all of New...
THE FAN'S CORNER
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amTry the fish. That's Michael Fabrizio's motto for the season. Fabrizio, 43, works at a gourmet deli in Fishkill, N.Y., where his specialty is "any fish dish." Not surprisingly, his...
IT'S NO FUN ANYMORE ; TORRE GROWING TIRED OF BEING QUESTIONED
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - He manages the team with the best record in the American League. Some believe he is doing the best job of his managerial career because of an unsettled...
GIANTS KNOW WELL WHAT THE RAM-IFICATIONS ARE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amHE was going down the list, singling out this Rams great and that Rams stud and yet another Rams menace, when Will Peterson suddenly stopped talking. Enough was enough. "Every...
HAMMER'S DRUG CASE DELAYED
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amKeith Hamilton, the Giants' veteran defensive tackle who was arrested May 22 on a variety of drug charges, had his case adjourned yesterday at Morris (N.J.) County Court House. The...
CAPT. KIRK RETIRES
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amNext year's likely lockout already is doing hockey dirt, one reason former Devil captain Kirk Muller retired yesterday after 19 NHL seasons. "The lockout threat prompted it," Muller told The...
ENOUGH OF THIS HIT! YANKEE PITCHERSGETTING LITTLE HELPFROM LAME LINEUP
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - Joe Torre is right when he says that pitching will carry the Yankees as far as they're going to go. Still, it would be helpful if Jason Giambi,...
NEW KID'S IN TOWN GARCIA MAKES HIS MET DEBUT
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amDanny Garcia received the same uniform number as the Mets' last everyday second baseman, but early indications are his personality is nothing like Roberto Alomar's. That isn't a bad thing,...
JOE CURIOUS TO SEE WHICH CONTRERAS HE'S GETTING
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Which Jose Contreras will take the mound tomorrow night against the Blue Jays? Will it be the lights-out pitcher who blanked the Orioles through seven innings...
JETS MUST GET IN FAST LANE EARLY ; COACH & PLAYERS AGREE SLOW START COULD BE FATAL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00am"Of course we can withstand a [slow start], because we've shown that we can. Do we want to go through it again? No."CURTIS MARTIN Don't be late. This is the...
BRAVES: GLAVINE WILL RISE AGAIN
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amAccording to some of Tom Glavine's former Brave teammates, Met fans will see the Glavine of old soon enough. "Any free agent takes time," Greg Maddux said before the Mets...
HERM: PRICE FOR LAWYER IS TOO STEEP
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES Herman Edwards denied the Jets are interested in picking up Pro Bowl safety Lawyer Milloy, who was released by the Patriots yesterday. "No, not at that price I...
TORRE GETTING DISS-GUSTED
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - He manages the team with the best record in the American League. Some believe he is doing the best job of his managerial career because of an unsettled...
ENOUGH OF THIS, HIT! YANKEE LINEUP HAS TO START PITCHING IN
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - Joe Torre is right when he says that pitching will carry the Yankees as far as they're going to go. Still, it would be helpful if Jason Giambi,...
JOSE HAS MANY FACES
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Which Jose Contreras will take the mound tomorrow night against the Blue Jays? Will it be the lights-out pitcher who blanked the Orioles through seven innings...
IT'S OVER FOR RICHTER ; CONCUSSION-PRONE GOALIE WILL HANG 'EM UP
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amIt was neither his surgically repaired knees nor his heart; it could never have been his heart. Rather, of all things, it was - and is - Mike Richter's head....
RAIN WREAKS HAVOC IN FLUSHING ; MEN'S DRAW MIGHT FINISH MONDAY
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWhat was a minor nuisance at the U.S. Open is now a serious problem. Despite Andre Agassi's win over Taylor Dent last night after another day of rain, the fact...
USTA THINKING OF BUILDING ROOF
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES For those soggy fans in Flushing and irritated viewers at home saying, "If only they had a roof," hold out hope. U.S. Open officials said it's a prospect...
RAIN WREAKS HAVOC IN FLUSHING : MEN'S DRAW MIGHT FINISH MONDAY
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWhat was a minor nuisance at the U.S. Open is now a serious problem. Despite Andre Agassi and Taylor Dent briefly taking the court late yesterday afternoon after another day...
REDMAN'S DEBUT IS SMASH HIT
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Danny Garcia wasn't the only Met rookie with his first major-league start - and first major-league hit - last night. Prentice Redman doubled and finished 1-for-4 in the...
CHAD FINDS A NEW ROLE ON SIDELINES
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES He won't be in uniform tomorrow night when the Jets open their season against the Redskins, but Chad Pennington is very much still an integral part of the...
ARMED & DANGEROUS: FASSEL MUST USE GIANTS WEAPONS RIGHT AWAY
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amGiants Preview MOST IMPORTANT OFFENSIVE PLAYER Ian Allen. Who? The new right tackle has a distinctive patch of gray hair and the Giants hope he won't be a worry as...
SHOCK VALUE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amHe is our blond-haired Howard Stern in shoulder pads: Shock Jock. He is our outrageous and fearless Bad Boy: Kid Shock. Jeremy Shockey isn't the Giants' problem anymore. Jeremy Shockey...
THINK ABOUT TIKI: BRAINY BARBER COULD BE GIANTS' BEST EVER
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amHe's not. That succinctly sums up the waybTiki Barber defines his running style. Not this, not that. He readily admits what he cannot eagerly recites a list of attributes that...
KERRY-ING ON: DURABLE COLLINS TAKES PRIDE IN HEALTHY IRON-MAN STREAK
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amFifty-five straight starts Kerry Collins has gone without going down for a single down. Through 3 1/2seasons, two almost entire offensive-line reconstructions, with the apparent mobility of a china closet...
STRAHAN'S A REAL PRO: TRIP TO HAWAII MOTIVATES MICHAEL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amBefore Michael Strahan plays the first game of an NFL season, he thinks about the last game; not the Super Bowl, but the Pro Bowl. Though Strahan has made the...
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HERM: EDWARDS WAS 'BAT' DUDE BEFORE HE BECAME COACH
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amNew York knows and embraces Herman Edwards as the strait-laced, taught-faced, no smoke, no drink, no curse, no nonsense head coach wearing that now-famous "you-play-to-win-the-game" intensity with pride on both...
FASSEL FUEL: QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE EXACTS GIANT TOLL
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWhen her husband first caught wind of the job opening, Kitty Fassel recalled, he was attracted "like a heat-seeking missile." Jim Fassel wanted to become head coach of the Giants....
TAKING HIS BEST SHOT: 'OLD GUNSLINGER' TESTAVERDE GETS ANOTHER CHANCE TO RIDE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amOn the Jets This has been a maddening offseason of shock and aftershock for the Giants and Jets. First came Jeremy Shockey jumping Bill Parcells in New York magazine, and...
THEY'RE OFF AND RUNNING: MIGHTY MARTIN MUST CARRY JETS' TO FAST START
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amJETS PREVIEW MOST IMPORTANT OFFENSIVE PLAYER Curtis Martin. The Jets are 22-7 in games when he rushed for 100 or more yards. They're 33-11 in games when Martin rushed at...
NEW AIR ABOUT ABRAHAM: SURGERY SACKS BREATHING PROBLEM
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amImagine being a 6-foot-4, 262-pound mass of fast-twitch muscle fiber with the speed of a running back, the athleticism of a small forward, the toughness of a boxer and the...
DEWAYNE WON'T BE DERAILED
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amDave Szott has been getting into his crouch and staring at defensive linemen for 14 years now. Over thousands of practices and games, the Jets left guard recognizes a talent...
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING CURTIS: MARTIN THE MAN IN DEPLETED OFFENSE
September 3, 2003 | 4:00amWhen former Jets fullback Richie Anderson learned Chad Pennington had fractured his left wrist, he thought first about Curtis Martin. "As long as they've got Curtis, they'll be fine," said...