September 5, 2003
IBM TO KICK OFF WITH LINUX PLAY
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe Giants won't be the only ones trying to gain yardage on Sunday's NFL kickoff. During commercial breaks, IBM plans to blitz Microsoft. IBM will unveil a surreal, 90-second advertisement...
RENTAL APARTMENTS SET FOR PRIME TRIBECA LOT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn developer Shaya Boymelgreen has scooped up a coveted TriBeCa parking lot with a plan to create rental apartments. The development site, currently owned by an affiliate of Edison Parking,...
ANDERSON FAMILY AFFAIRS YIELD BACK-TO-BACK BOOKSG RIVALS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Anderson family will be the toast of the book publishing world next week. Parade magazine head honcho Walter Anderson and daughter Melinda will both celebrate the publication of their...
GORHAM HOTEL TO GO FOR $23M
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe long-troubled Gorham Hotel is in contract to boutique hoteliers Richard Born and Ira Drukier for $23.1 million. "We are buying it," Born confirmed while declining to specify the price...
NO DELAY FOR SULLIVAN'S OKLA. CASE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amFallen WorldCom financial whiz Scott Sullivan yesterday tried to get a Manhattan judge to intervene in the new criminal case brought against him in Oklahoma last week. Sullivan, who is...
SELLING NEW YORK - ALLEN & CO. TAPPED TO SHOP PRIMEDIA FLAGSHIP
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amNew York magazine, the crown jewel of Primedia Inc., is finally for sale. Primedia, the struggling publishing conglomerate controlled by buyout kingpin Henry Kravis' Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., has...
GRASSO CLIPPED - MEMBERS MUTINY OVER CHAIRMAN'S BOUNTY
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA group of frustrated members of the New York Stock Exchange are organizing a petition that would require Big Board Chairman and CEO Dick Grasso to call a special meeting...
TEMP-JOB GROWTH SEEN
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amLabor officials are hoping temporary therapy for the unemployment rate could mean permanent relief. Demand for temporary workers is expected to increase 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter, according to...
RIAA GIVES AMNESTY TO SWORN-OFF SWAPPERS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe music industry plans to offer amnesty to hundreds of individual file-swappers whom it has targeted with lawsuits, The Post has learned. The amnesty program could be announced as early...
DURST AND BOFA EYEING $650M IN LIBERTY BONDS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMoving swiftly to tap a pool of tax-exempt financing while it lasts, developer Douglas Durst and Bank of America have put dibs on $650 million of federally authorized Liberty Bonds...
CASE FINDS MAUI A FRUITFUL ENDEAVOR
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amSteve Case is already making a tidy bundle on his pineapple plantation - as much as $20 million a month thus far. Just four months after stepping down as chairman...
EDGAR VOWS TO COME BACK
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amEdgar Bronfman Jr. will rejoin Vivendi's board of directors after the French giant nails down a deal to merge its entertainment assets with General Electric Co.'s NBC. In an interview...
BUGGED OUT! - SO BAD IT'S GOOD, SCI FI'S LATEST CREATURE FEATURE WOULDN'T HURT A FLY
September 5, 2003 | 4:00am"Bugs" (two stars) Tomorrow night at 9 on SCI FI ------------- 'BUGS," an original movie on the Sci Fi Channel, has gone where no man has gone before: They not...
EVERY WITCH WAY - FOLLOWING 'WICKED' TURNS ON THE ROAD TO BROADWAY
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMUSICALS - big, loud, expensive, flashy and risky - are the engines of Broadway. Nothing generates as much excitement around town as a smash hit musical. Or, if you're a...
SPANISH TV TRIES SOME INGLES
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amNBC-owned Spanish-lan guage network Tele mundo will provide English subtitles for prime-time programs this fall. It's a first for Telemundo (Ch. 47), which will kick off the new service Sept....
'PARTY' POOPER - MACAULAY CULKIN AN AWKWARD KING OF CLUBS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amPARTY MONSTER [ 1/2] (one and one-half stars) Lost in New York, indeed. Running time: 98 minutes. Not rated (violence, profanity, sex, drugs). At the Angelika and the Chelsea Clearview...
MEATY 'CARNAGE' LOST IN BIG STEW
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amCARNAGE [ 1/2] (two and one-half stars) Too much bull.In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 130 minutes. Not rated (sex, surgical gore, nudity). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer...
SHADES OF GRAY IN HISTORY'S DARKEST HOUR
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTAKING SIDES [ 1/2] (two and one-half stars) Talky but intriguing drama. Running time: 108 minutes. Not rated (language, disturbing images). At Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, First & 62nd Cinemas. ------...
'BUFFY' IN REVERSE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00am'FIREFLY" - the long- anticipated follow-up series from the man who created "Buffy" - burned out quickly last season. But now, teen-TV whiz Joss Whedon plans to make the dud...
'ROOM' TO IMPROVE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amHOME ROOM (two stars) Pretty tedious. Running time: 130 minutes. Rated R (profanity.) At the AMC Empire; the Village East. ----- 'HOME Room" is the second film inspired by the...
OFF THE BOAT, TO 'PARTY'
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWHERE'S THE PARTY YAAR? [ 1/2] (one and one-half stars) Not here. Running time: 110 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Union Square, 13th Street amd Broadway. ---------- AN...
RAGGEDY MEN - CS&N IN IRREGULAR VOICE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amCROSBY, STILLS & NASH ---- WHAT could have been a crowning glory of Crosby, Stills & Nash's stellar 33 years of making music devolved into an uneven, rambling concert that...
HOOKED ON THE FEELINGS - CHRIS' CRAFT IS WEARING HIS HEART ON HIS SLEEVE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00am"I think the kids really understand that the songs are about me, but they're not just about me." -Chris Carrabba -"I know if I go to hell, I'm going to...
LIP SHTICK 2
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMEREDITH Vieira pulled a Madonna on yesterday's "The View" - grabbing guest host Christy Lemire and planting a big, wet kiss on her lips on live TV. "We are desperate...
AS LETTER MAN, LANE DELIVERS IN 'TRUMBO'
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTRUMBO At the Westside Theatre, 407 W. 43rd St. Call Telecharge (212) 239-6200. ---- NATHAN Lane last appeared in Midtown as flamboyant, by-the-seat-of-his-pants Broadway producer Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks'...
PANCHO PERFECT - BANDERAS STARS IN SEXY NEW HBO FILM ABOUT A FILM ABOUT A FILM
September 5, 2003 | 4:00am"And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself" [ 1/2] (three and one-half stars) Sunday night at 9:30 on HBO ----- WAY before there was a Baghdad Bob, there was Pancho Villa...
WALLACE: 'I'M NOT SAME' SINCE FALLING
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMIKE Wallace said his "hearing, memory and sight have suffered" since he hit his head in fall a few weeks ago. The veteran "60 Minutes" reporter slipped and fell on...
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMONTREAL - The long-running feud between the Montreal and Toronto film festivals got even hotter when this city's event changed its usual schedule so its final days overlap with its...
THEY GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP . . .
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWHEN the going got tough, Marly Hornik turned to her fellow New Yorkers for a hand. The lead singer of local pop-rock band Marly's Angels, convinced usually skeptical Gothamites -...
'DICKIE' TOO STICKY
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amDICKIE ROBERTS: FORMER CHILD STAR [] (two stars) Less sap, more satire, please. Running time: 99 minutes. Rated PG-13 (crude and sex-related humor, language and drug references). At AMC Empire,...
STARR REPORT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amHer fifteen minutes have just begun Court TV's thesmokinggun.com has struck again - this time unearthing an arrest report on Robin Hibbard, a participant in MTV's latest "Real World" series...
HILLARY'S ALL BIZ WITH UNION BIGS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton scored big points with powerful labor leaders yesterday, but the words "White House" never entered the conversation. Clinton's meeting with the heads of the AFL-CIO,...
8 MINUTES, $317M - GOLDMAN INSIDER TRADE RAP
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amOver eight frantic minutes, a Goldman Sachs senior economist sparked an insider-trading binge worth $317 million after a Washington consultant leaked sensitive Treasury-bond information to the firm, the feds charged...
'WEB PERV' HIT WITH GIRL-RAPE RAP
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA 20-year-old Web surfer who used the cyberhandle "PimpSlo" to seduce a 13-year-old girl over the Internet was charged yesterday with raping and sodomizing the teen in her own home,...
POLS PUZZLE AT PATAKI'S BIG 'INSULT'
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki poked a stick in Mayor Bloomberg's eye with his "cruel hoax" of an education reform commission - so the only question being asked yesterday was, "Why?"...
BANK-ROBBING BOMB VICTIM A 'MARTYR': SISTER
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe sister of a pizza deliveryman blown up by a bomb after robbing a bank called her brother an "innocent martyr," according to a published report. Brian Wells, 46, was...
LYNCH BOOK BURNS GI DAD
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe father of a soldier killed in the ambush in Iraq that Pvt. Jessica Lynch survived is furious she's getting a $1 million book deal. "I don't have a problem...
MIKE IN 'CLASS' WAR TO MAKE STATE PAY UP
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday pressed his assault on Gov. Pataki's education-reform commission, warning he will oppose any efforts to force the city to cough up more money for schools. Bloomberg -...
DA NAILS CITY WORKER IN BID-FIX
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA city worker pleaded guilty yesterday to taking $50,000 in bribes for fixing bids on contracts to provide office furniture and equipment to day-care and children's centers. Teresita Sotto, 54,...
COP IS MY HERO - PROSPECT PARK 'RAPE' TARGET SPEAKS OUT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe woman power walker who was jumped and brutalized by a career criminal in Prospect Park expressed her heartfelt thanks yesterday to the hero cop who stopped her assault and...
POLICE NAB DUO IN ROB SPREE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA pair of pistol-packing punks were arrested yesterday on charges of robbing six Manhattan residents - including two women who were forced to take off their clothes, police said. Ishmael...
JUDGE MAY TAKE PITY ON U.N. SHOOTER
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan federal judge wants to be lenient on a postal worker who shot up the United Nations building to protest inaction over North Korea's brutal dictatorship. After listening to...
ARNOLD TERMINATES COPS' DONATION
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amRIVERSIDE, Calif. - Arnold Schwarzenegger gave back a small contribution from a police union yesterday, calling it a mistake to take special-interest money. The actor claimed he's the only candidate...
RAINING CHAMP AT U.S. OPEN
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amFans and players yesterday declared this year's U.S. Open one big bust as driving rain hammered the famed tennis tournament for a fourth straight day. And they weren't the only...
BUTTS BUMMER - STATE LOOPHOLE WON'T GIVE CITY NEW CIG BARS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg told smokers and beleaguered bar owners yesterday not to start lighting up over a loophole in the state's new anti-smoking law. Bloomberg and city health officials said the...
MAYOR GIVES TEACHERS A BIG RAH-RAH
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg held a back-to-school pep talk yesterday, insisting that his Department of Education is ready to implement monumental reforms when kids return to class on Monday. "Congratulations and good...
CITY CRIME PLUMMETS - EVEN RAPE FINALLY ON DECREASE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWith 2003 two-thirds over, citywide crime has fallen more than 6 percent, paced in part by a decline in rapes, a crime category that had resisted NYPD crime-fighting efforts. According...
JUDGE NIXES TEACHER-TEST BIAS LAWSUIT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday upheld the state's license exams for teachers as appropriate - tossing out complaints from minority instructors that the tests were culturally biased. Manhattan Judge Constance Baker...
FEDS SEIZE STOLEN ARTIFACT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA third-century antiquity stolen from Yemen 10 years ago has been seized in New York after it was sent to Sotheby's for auction. Swiss dealer Phoenix Ancient Art consigned the...
GROUND 'ZERO $$' - SILVERSTEIN'S SPENDING IMPERILS REBUILD: SUIT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amGround Zero developer Larry Silverstein is burning through his insurance billions so fast, he's making his bankers nervous - and they've gone to court to demand a greater say in...
MIKE DROPS WEE HINT OF 2005 EXIT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amFor the first time since taking the reins at City Hall, Mayor Bloomberg hinted yesterday that he might not be around after the 2005 election. When asked if school reform...
VIRUS CRUISE SHIP NOW CLUB MEDS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe newest accessories for cruise travel appear to be Lysol spray and Imodium A-D. More than two dozen passengers canceled their planned cruise on the Regal Princess, following the norovirus...
CRACKHEAD GETS JAIL IN FATAL BLAZE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA recovering crack addict was sent to prison for four to 12 years yesterday for leaving a smoldering crack pipe on an old mattress in a Brooklyn building that went...
DEM DEBATE RIVALS TAKE BEST SHOTS AT BUSH
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Democrats who want President Bush's job last night competed to blast him over Iraq at a debate, accusing the commander-in-chief of angering America's allies and putting U.S....
CIGARETTE PUFFERS' LAST HOPE GOES UP IN SMOKE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amBeleaguered bar owners were burned again yesterday after Mayor Bloomberg warned that a legal loophole in the state's smoking ban was tight enough to stop all but a handful of...
95 MORE CITY SCHOOLS ADDED TO FED FLUNK LIST
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amAt least 95 additional city public schools are flunking new federal standards, The Post has learned. That means the number of Big Apple schools defined as "in need of improvement"...
COPS NAIL TWOSOME IN HOME-INVASION STICKUP SPREE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA pair of pistol-packing punks were arrested yesterday on charges of robbing six Manhattan residents - including two women who were forced to take off their clothes, police said. Ishmael...
FATHER'S FURY - SUING CHILD WELFARE AFTER MOM KILLS TOT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island dad whose toddler was drowned by his suicidal ex-wife has initiated a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Nassau County Child Protective Services, which he says failed to protect his...
GERMANY AND FRANCE SULK IN SOLITUDE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - France and Germany are at it again - grousing about the U.S. call for U.N. help in Iraq with more international troops and money just as they opposed...
'DIAPER' DON IN GUILTY HIT PLEA
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amGiovanni "John" Riggi acted more like an ailing grandfather than the feared godfather of the DeCavalcante crime family yesterday when he admitted he ordered the execution of a Staten Island...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA musician wannabe fondled at least seven women in Mississippi and bragged about his crimes in the lyrics of songs he was writing, police say. The twisted tunes were found...
REGAL PRINCESS CRUISE NOW 'CLUB MEDS'
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe newest accessories for cruise travel appear to be Lysol spray and Imodium A-D. More than two dozen passengers canceled their planned cruise on the Regal Princess, following the norovirus...
DUNG FLUNG IN BRONX SILO BLAST
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA huge silo filled with treated human feces for use as fertilizer exploded early yesterday, sending an unpleasant wave of burnt fecal odor into the Hunts Point section of The...
THE SICK SMELL OF PANIC
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Bush administra tion's sudden decision to go to the U.N. Secu rity Coun cil for a new Iraq resolution looks like bad news for America and for the prospects...
BUSH WILL STAY IN D.C. THIS 9/11
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush plans to mark the second Sept. 11 anniversary quietly with a church service and visit to wounded troops, but he's sending Vice President Dick Cheney to...
JUDGE PURGES FATTIES' MCSUIT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday made mincemeat out of kids' claims that scarfing McDonald's food every day made them fat. Manhattan federal Judge Robert Sweet tossed their lawsuit, ruling the Bronx...
THE MAFIA'S BIG WHEEL - GOTTI DRIVER IN CHARGE: SNITCH
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWill the real boss of the Gambino family please stand up? Lawyers working to undercut convictions in the Peter Gotti racketeering case want the feds to investigate a mob snitch...
RUMMY RIPS IRAN & SYRIA
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday blasted Syria and Iran for failing to stop terrorist fighters from infiltrating Iraq, and said the coalition needs an additional 10,000 international troops....
CRACKHEAD GETS PRISON FOR STARTING FATAL BLAZE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA recovering crack addict was sent to prison for four-to-12 years yesterday for leaving a smoldering crack pipe on an old mattress in a Brooklyn building, which went up in...
CLUMSY CROOK TAKES 18-YEAR FALL
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA bungling burglar was sentenced to 18 years to life behind bars yesterday for breaking into a Brooklyn apartment, ransacking the place, and snatching jewelry before falling out a fourth-floor...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A 24-year-old woman was charged with murder yesterday after she fatally stabbed her boyfriend on a Brownsville street, police said. Lyris Brouet stabbed Hillary St. Louis in the...
DORISMOND PAL SETTLES FOR 75G
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens man who watched Patrick Dorismond die from an undercover cop's bullet - and claims he was brutally beaten by officers involved in the incident - has settled a...
W. LOSES JUDGE FIGHT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer won a victory over President Bush yesterday after federal judge nominee Miguel Estrada withdrew from consideration. "I never, ever did this for political purposes," said...
CALL TO KO ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS COULD HURT DEAN
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic 2004 front-runner Howard Dean is raising some eyebrows with a vow that Israel must eliminate an "enormous number" of settlements - remarks that could be controversial among...
STAR LAUNCHES RAPE-HELP PROGRAM
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amActress Stephanie March, who plays a tough prosecutor on the NBC series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," dropped by City Hall yesterday to kick off a public-service campaign urging...
LANCE'S MARRIAGE AT THE FINISH LINE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMiracle man Lance Armstrong - who beat cancer to win the Tour de France five times straight - is divorcing his wife of five years, only months after reports surfaced...
MAHMOUD: I'LL QUIT IF YASSER KEEPS CHALLENGING
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amHundreds of supporters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat tried to force their way into a meeting of the Palestinian legislative council yesterday as Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas fought for their...
RAPIST'S TARGET: COP IS MY HERO
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe woman power walker who was jumped and brutalized by a career criminal in Prospect Park expressed her heartfelt thanks yesterday to the hero cop who stopped her assault and...
CIG FAN HOPE UP IN SMOKE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amBeleaguered bar owners were burned again yesterday after Mayor Bloomberg warned that a legal loophole in the state's smoking ban was tight enough to stop all but a handful of...
MORNING SICKNESS IS PART MENTAL: DOCS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMorning sickness may be as much a state of mind as it is a physical condition, a new study says. Scientists found pregnant women who vomit and feel nauseous also...
POLS SCRATCH HEADS OVER PATAKI'S 'INTENTIONAL INSULT'
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki poked a stick in Mayor Bloomberg's eye with his "cruel hoax" of an education reform commission - so the only question being asked yesterday was, "Why?"...
MIKE IN 'CLASS' WAR TO MAKE STATE PAY
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday pressed his assault on Gov. Pataki's education-reform commission, warning he will oppose any efforts to force the city to cough up more money for schools. Bloomberg -...
REDMAN'S HR WASTED - PHILS FINISH OFF METS IN 9TH
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Prentice Redman beamed with pride, and deservedly so. Minutes earlier, the rookie center fielder had crushed a game-tying, ninth-inning jack off Philadelphia closer Jose Mesa for his first...
YANKS MEET CHALLENGE - ANSWER JOE'S PLEA, END TWO-GAME SKID
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - Joe Torre did what managers do when their team has trouble hitting, scoring and winning: He held a pregame meeting, told his first-place Yankees to play like they...
THUMB WORRIES SORIANO
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - Alfonso Soriano's right thumb is throbbing. "It felt OK [Wednesday and Monday] but that last at-bat I got a little jammed and it was a little cold," Soriano...
CUP FEAT FINALLY SINKS IN WITH BURNS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe tough coach, ready to start again, said it was nearly a month before he found out what winning the Stanley Cup really meant to him. "It was that [July...
COLLAPSE COULD KO JOE, CASHMAN
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amEITHER history is on the Yankees' side or else they are going to make all the wrong kind of history this month. In their glorious history, the Yankees have gone...
IT'S A BLUES FESTIVAL
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTHIS is the time of year when saltwater anglers should find the time to fish, because it only gets better from now through October. Mother Nature may even cooperate this...
MIKE WAS A CLASS ACT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amFOR all the who-knows- how-many hundreds of hours we watched Mike Richter tend goal on TV, Olympics included, one off-ice minute remains carved in cranium stone, not ice. Several years...
TOOMER SHIFTS TO ATTACK MODE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Amani Toomer brawling? The Giants must be ready to stop practicing against themselves and hit someone else. The usually mild-mannered receiver went ballistic yesterday during practice when Frank...
BIG BLUE PUTS IT ON 'D' LINE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amNO gassers for the cheering Giants at the end of practice yesterday. Jim Fassel, the scourge of Albany, appointed training camp guardian of their edge in this promising year, seems...
RAM BAM: ARCHULETA TARGETING SHOCKEY
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amJeremy Shockey isn't saying much these days, but one of the Rams' heavy hitters is saying plenty about Jeremy Shockey. Adam Archuleta, the hard-tackling strong safety who patrols the St....
ACADEMIC WOES SIDELINE RED STORM HOOPSTERS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe St. John's basketball season has yet to start but the Red Storm already have received some bad news. Junior college swingman Anthony Ighodaro will not be academically eligible for...
LOOK OUT! HERE COME THE BOSOX - TORRE: JETER WON'T PLAY IN SHOWDOWN
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - Not one Yankee believed they buried the Red Sox last weekend at Fenway Park, where they took two of three against a team that had Pedro Martinez pitch...
THE WILLS TO WIN - PETERSON & ALLEN HAVE CORNER ON ST. LOO WRS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe questions hit the two of them early in their NFL lives, week after week, game after game, repeated often enough so that Will Allen and Will Peterson quickly understood...
KENNEDY GETS ITS LEADER BACK
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amIt didn't take long for Shaun Rodriguez to know there was something different about football practice this year. "Right away, the first day, there was more intensity," said the Kennedy...
HOOP STAR CATCHES ON
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amNyan Boateng is about 6-foot-3. He lives in the basketball-fevered neighborhood of Coney Island. He helped guide Lincoln High School to the PSAL and state Federation championships last season, while...
BIG EAST'S STILL FACING SPLIT FUTURE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amBig East commissioner Mike Tranghese said Wednesday that November is the target date for setting the league's membership issues. But sources told The Post that the agreement probably will not...
THE CAPTAIN WILL BE BACK
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThere is still work to be done on the contract, but Mark Messier yesterday declared he would be at Rangers training camp when it opens next Wednesday in Burlington, Vt....
FINALLY, IT'S SHOWTIME FOR ROBERTSON
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES LANDOVER - Dewayne Robertson said he had been anticipating the moment ever since the day the Jets made him the No. 4 overall pick in last April's NFL...
JETER: I'LL PLAY WHEN I'M READY
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - In what can easily be described as the Yankees' biggest series of the season, the AL East leaders will be without Derek Jeter for all three games against...
HAMMOND EGGS ON FANS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Chris Hammond says he has used the pressure applied by Yankee Stadium crowds to perform well. However, the negative atmosphere has taken something away from the...
MAGIC MOMENTS WILL LAST LIFETIME
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMIKE RICHTER was a Ranger for 14 years, which, in ever-more transient athletic lives, only seemed like forever until yesterday, when he retired and became officially infinite. The goalie who...
METS ROLLING IN DOUGH - OFFSEASON SURPLUS WILL BE $57M
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - This offseason, the Mets will have $57 million available to them compared to their April payroll. Read that last sentence again, because it's a staggering number. The $57.1...
'SIMPLY TOO MUCH RISK' - CONCUSSIONS FORCE LIKABLE GOALIE OUT OF GAME FOR GOOD
September 5, 2003 | 4:00am"What I have to remember . . . is that what I'm giving up in hockey, I'm gaining in life." -MIKE RICHTER --- The Rangers did it up as best...
REDMAN GETS SHOT IN CENTER
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Art Howe won't call it a platoon, but Prentice Redman was starting in center field last night against a lefty for the second straight time. With...
FLOODING WIPES OUT GRANDSTAND MATCHES
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES The Grandstand court was remodeled for this U.S. Open but there was nothing USTA officials could do with its geology. The Grandstand had to be shut down yesterday...
FOUR DAYS LATER, IT'S SCHIAVONE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe longest match in U.S. Open history - spanning four days or 78 hours - ended yesterday as Italy's Francesca Schiavone rallied to beat Japan's 15th-seeded Ai Sugiyama in an...
JETS GET GREENER - HACKETT BEGGING FOR FANS' PATIENCE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amLANDOVER - On the eve of the Jets' regular-season opener, their offensive coordinator Paul Hackett, albeit in his usual upbeat tone, delivered a rather sobering and ominous message to expectant...
FOUR-DAY MATCH WEARS OUT SCHIAVONE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThe longest match in U.S. Open history - spanning 75 hours - ended four days after it started as Italy's Francesca Schiavone rallied to beat Japan's 15th-seeded Ai Sugiyama in...
DEREK: I'LL PLAY WHEN I'M READY
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - In what can easily be described as the Yankees' biggest series of the season, the AL East leaders will be without Derek Jeter for all three games against...
UNHAPPY HAMMOND EGGS ON FANS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Chris Hammond said he has used the pressure applied by Yankee Stadium crowds to perform well. However, the negative atmosphere has taken something away from the...
FLOODING WIPES OUT GRANDSTAND
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES The Grandstand court was remodeled for this U.S. Open but there was nothing USTA officials could do with its geology. The Grandstand had to be shut down yesterday...
FEDERER EXPRESS DERAILED
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWimbledon champion Roger Federer's worst nightmare battered him again. Argentine David Nalbandian continued his inexplicable hex over Federer, frustrating him with his smooth service return in bouncing the Swiss second...
GLAVINE GETS A REPRIEVE, BUT PHILS ZAP METS IN 9TH
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amPhillies 6 - Mets 5 PHILADELPHIA - Tom Glavine admittedly doesn't want to finish below .500. Last night, he received an unlikely ninth-inning reprieve from Prentice Redman. The wild-card hopeful...
CAPPY MARCHES ON
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWhat do you know? Apparently it can go three hours without raining in Queens. After 3 ½ days featuring nothing but rain, the Flushing Meadows deluge finally subsided late yesterday...
AMAZIN'S: NO PLANS FOR $57M SURPLUS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - The Mets have about $57 million to spend this offseason from their projected April payroll, but COO Jeff Wilpon was mum yesterday on how the money...
HALL OF A FINISH - EX-JET KICKER BOOTS WINNER
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amRedskins 16 - Jets 13 LANDOVER - The pieces were all deliciously in place for a glorious start to the season for Jets. They arrived here to play the Redskins...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: CHARLEY STEINER & JOHN STERLING VS. OIL & WATER (WHICH HAS BETTER CHEMISTRY?)
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amWhen Yankee radiocaster Charley Steiner dramatically delivers one of his cliches, his partner, John Sterling, seems unimpressed. When Steiner repeats his lines for emphasis, Sterling remains unmoved. A year-and-a-half into...
5 QUESTIONS FOR DICK STOCKTON
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with Fox Sports play-by-player Dick Stockton. Last Saturday, Stockton broadcast a Yankee-Red Sox game for the first time at Fenway Park since he...
CALL HIM 'MR. MICROPHONE' - LOOKS LIKE BREEN WILL ADD ESPN TO HIS BROADCAST RESUME
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amKnick broadcaster Mike Breen is expected to become ESPN's No. 2 play-by-player when negotiations are completed, according to sources. Breen would sit behind Brad Nessler on ESPN's depth chart. Although...
2 BIG - GIANTS SUPER DREAMS REST ON COLLINS & STRAHAN
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amSunday, Rams at Giants, 1 p.m., Fox ---- If the TV experts are to be believed, the Giants are legitimate Super Bowl contenders - as long as Kerry Collins and...
MCGRAW KNOCKED OUT BY SCARY SHOT
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES LANDOVER - The Jets last night endured yet another scary injury moment when starting free safety Jon McGraw initially looked like he might be seriously injured after colliding...
HAMMOND: HOME FANS CUT NO SLACK
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Chris Hammond says he has used the pressure applied by Yankee Stadium crowds to perform well. However, the negative atmosphere has taken something away from the...
HUSKIES AIMIN' TO BE TOP DOGS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amConnecticut wide receiver Keron Henry repeated the word, just because he liked the way it rolled off his tongue. "Undefeated," he said. "We've never been able to say that in...
NALBANDIAN DERAILS FEDERER EXPRESS
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amHail Argentina. In the scramble to complete the men's fourth round last night, Wimbledon champion Roger Federer got lost in the shuffle, losing to his worst nightmare, David Nalbandian of...