September 19, 2003
2 SHOW BIZ LAW FIRMS IN A DUET
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amOne of the leading music law firms is joining forces with one of Hollywood's most powerful firms, bringing the lawyers for such stars as Britney Spears, Brad Pitt and LL...
OTHER FLOORS HOPE NYSE ILLS AID THEM
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amAs the New York Stock Exchange reels from the furor surrounding Dick Grasso, other trading floors are hoping companies are willing to make a trade themselves - to their boards....
BROOKLYN OK FOR NETS: BOSS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner says he has nothing against a plan that would bring the New Jersey Nets basketball team to Brooklyn. A story in yesterday's Post reported that Steinbrenner has opposed...
NOT MAKING NYSE - CALLS FOR MORE HEADS TO ROLL AFTER GRASSO DEBACLE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA day after Dick Grasso resigned, the furor continued at the New York Stock Exchange as Big Board members called for more heads to roll, more disclosure of management pay...
P. DIDDY CITY IS MOVING BUSINESS TO TIMES SQ.
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amCall it the P. Diddy Building. Sean "P. Diddy" Combs" is expected to lease an entire Times Square Building for his hip-hop and fashion headquarters, preparing to take on 52,000...
SIMMONS HEATS UP KELLWOOD SALE TALK
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThe Kellwood Company is in exclusive negotiations to buy Phat Fashions from music mogul Russell Simmons, The Post has learned. A deal was signed last week, and Kellwood will have...
LF'S CYNTHIA STEFFE LOOKS FOR INVESTORS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThe apparel company that owns designer sportswear maker Cynthia Steffe has hired an investment bank to find an investor willing to help finance an expansion of the brand, The Post...
MAGAZINES PLANNING TO TRIM AD STAFFS IN CRUCIAL 4TH QTR.
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amDESPITE an upbeat September, publishers remain nervous about the rest of the year. "Nobody is out of the woods yet," said one knowledgeable executive. "The fourth quarter is going to...
EXPRESS HIT WITH SEVEN JEANS SUIT
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThe Express chain is selling jeans under the Seven7 brand name that mimics the more upscale Seven jeans sold in department stores and retail boutiques, according to a lawsuit filed...
WARNER, EMI ARE IN TALKS . . . AGAIN
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amAs talks between Time Warner and Bertelsmann about merging their music divisions have all but collapsed, a new round of discussions between Warner Music and EMI has begun, according to...
NBC, VIVENDI SETTLE MOST ISSUES, PLAN OCT. MERGER
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amVivendi and NBC have resolved most of their remaining differences and plan to announce a final merger deal in early October, The Post has learned. The two companies have tentatively...
PAULSON HAS PLAN TO END NYSE CONFLICTS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amGoldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson has presented to NYSE directors a proposal to overhaul the structure of its board. The proposal would prohibit securities industry directors from sitting on the...
WARNER, EMI ARE IN TALKS ... AGAIN
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amAs talks between Time Warner and Bertelsmann about merging their music divisions have all but collapsed, a new round of discussions between Warner Music and EMI have begun, according to...
NOT MAKING NYSE: CALLS FOR MORE HEADS TO ROLL AFTER GRASSO DEBACLE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA day after Dick Grasso resigned, the furuor continued at the New York Stock Exchange as Big Board members called for more heads to roll, more disclosure of management pay...
SIEBERT MIS-INTUITS QUICKEN ALLY, SUES
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amMuriel Siebert & Co. has filed a $44 million lawsuit against Intuit Inc., charging the tax software giant was a bad business partner. The two companies teamed up last year...
LEFT COAST OVERTAKES APPLE IN NUMBER OF UBER-WEALTHY
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amNew York is no longer home to the richest Americans - California now has twice as many. In Forbes' annual ranking of the nation's 400 wealthiest people, California has knocked...
STARR REPORT
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amDenis Leary says he bucks the common trend - since he's a guy who isn't afraid to ask for help (or directions). Leary will give pointers to guys on how...
'COLD' DAY IN STIX
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amCOLD CREEK MANOR ½ (one and one half stars) Low-tension rural thriller. Running time: 118 minutes. Rated R (violence, nudity, language, sexuality). At the E-Walk, the Kips Bay, the 84th...
YO, SUSANNA; THE BANGLES ARE BACK, WITH NEW PRIORITIES
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amBY day, she's a mom. But after the sun sets and her two boys are tucked in for the night, Susanna Hoffs - the girl who puts the bang in...
JACKMAN, BE NIMBLE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amNATHAN Lane and Matthew Broderick in "The Producers." Harvey Fierstein in "Hairspray." Antonio Banderas in "Nine." Audrey II in "Little Shop of Horrors." Hugh Jackman had better wind up on...
NO ROARS FROM THIS CROWD
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amSECONDHAND LIONS (two stars) Threadbare family entertainment. Running time: 109 minutes. Rated PG (action violence). At the Empire, the Union Square, the East 86th Street. YOU want to like "Secondhand...
'UNDER' WHELMING
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amUNDERWORLD (two stars) Surprisingly diverting. Running time: 121 minutes. Rated R (violence, gore). At the Chelsea West, the Union Square, the Battery Park, others. THOUGH it sometimes feels as if...
BILLYBURG HAS OWN JAZZ FEST
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amEVERYONE knows about Williamsburg as the hipster home for New York rockers, but there's a burgeoning jazz scene there as well. And Jesse Selengut, a jazz trumpeter and composer and...
A KNOCK ON WOODY
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amANYTHING ELSE ½ (one and one half stars) La-di-dull. Running time: 108 minutes. Rated R (drug use, sexual innuendo). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Battery Park City, others....
AMEN! 'TEMPTATIONS' IS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amTHE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS ½ (two and one half stars) A hoot and a holler.Running time: 123 minutes. Rated PG-13 (some sexual references). At the E Walk, Loews 34th Street, Kips...
A LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amTO BE AND TO HAVE 1/2 (three and one half stars)THIS utterly charming documentary, which observes a year in the life of a small, single-class school in a French farming...
BIG FAT ITALIAN CANNOLI
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amMAMBO ITALIANO > (two stars) Entertaining fluff. Running time: 88 minutes. In English, Italian and French with English subtitles. Rated R (profanity, sex). At the Lincoln Square, the Chelsea, the...
'CASA' WON'T BRING DOWN THE HOUSE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amCASA DE LOS BABYS (two stars) Casa de los yawns. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated R (profanity, drugs). At the Union Square and the Clearview First and 62nd. 'CASA de...
'FRIENDS' GETS NO SPECIAL HANDLING THIS YEAR
September 19, 2003 | 4:00am'FRIENDS" is entering its 10th and final season - but don't expect the Emmys to cut them any slack. All six "Friends" threw their names into the Emmy nomination pool...
PUFFED UP RATINGS BAD WEATHER IS GOOD NEWS FOR LOCAL NEWSCASTS, CABLE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amAS hurricane Isabel battered the Eastern Seaboard yesterday, the violent storm whipped up some mega ratings for the Weather Channel and local news programs. "It's all about viewing the real-life...
BUNKER OF THE BARRIO
September 19, 2003 | 4:00am"Luis" Tonight at 8:30 on Fox/Ch. 5 (three stars) LUIS Cortez will strike some as the Archie Bunker of the barrio, but that's only because Bunker- style political incorrectness has...
JONES' VINTAGE DUETS RIPE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amBILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St., between 10th and 11th avenues; (212) 255-5793. Closes tomorrow. TWENTY years after it started, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie...
TREE SPEARS L.I. DRIVER IN WIND HORROR
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amHurricane Isabel's howling winds combined with cruel fate yesterday to leave a Long Island man seriously injured by a flying tree branch that impaled him when it smashed through the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amDedicated Post reader Mickey Metcalfe offered the following tidbit from his local paper: An upstate cop blasted an 81-year-old woman with pepper spray after she assaulted him and his partner,...
JAMES BROWN'S SOUL SURPRISE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amGodfather of Soul James Brown, in Harlem to announce his upcoming shows at the Apollo Theatre, turned what was supposed to be a free, three-song mini-concert into an hourlong funkfest...
NYPD PLANS HIGH HOLY DAY VIGILANCE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThe Police Department is stepping up security for the Jewish High Holy Days beginning next week, including unannounced visits to synagogues. "Like Israel, New York City will never bow to...
SUBWAY MUMBLE BUMBLE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amStraphangers, listen up - subway-car announcements have gotten much harder to understand. Subway announcements are worse this year on 12 lines where conductors deliver garbled and hard-to-understand messages, a new...
MASSACRED INNOCENTS LAID TO REST
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amAt least 1,000 people crammed the farewell church service yesterday for four family members found slaughtered in their Queens home last week, as cops continued to hunt down their elusive...
OIL SLICKSTER GETS SLAMMER
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA retired big-shot oil executive who slipped out of paying taxes on nearly $8 million was sent to prison yesterday for nearly four years after admitting he'd made "stupid mistakes."...
STUDENT RAGE IN HS GRID SCANDAL
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amFurious students stormed out of their classes in protest yesterday after Mepham HS on Long Island canceled its football season in the wake of a lurid sex-assault hazing scandal surrounding...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A Queens man who suffered an apparent stroke after being robbed in East Harlem last week has died, police said yesterday. Ivan Urrego, 45, was accosted by an...
MIKE: BUTT REALLY, RUDY BACKS BAN
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg insisted yesterday that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani "is certainly in favor of" the city's strict smoking ban - a day after Giuliani said it went too far. On...
HILL SPINS WEB OF '04 RIDDLES
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday gave her staff a green light to keep promoting speculation that she'll run for president, saying that's "freedom of speech." Clinton's remarks came after her...
BOARDWALK BLAZE - HOMELESS SUSPECTED AS B'KLYN EATERY IS DESTROYED
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA four-alarm blaze that gutted a popular Brighton Beach restaurant and injured 20 people is considered suspicious, fire officials said yesterday. The fire erupted at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at...
W'CHESTER KIDS BUSTED IN MALL ROBS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA pair of brothers, ages 10 and 15, brazenly robbed five women in a pair of upscale Westchester shopping malls, officials said. The boys, who commuted from Yonkers by bus...
ISRAELIS INTERCEPT TWO MORE BOMBERS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amIsrael staged major raids in the West Bank and Gaza Strip - and Palestinians battled Palestinians in Gaza City yesterday - as President Bush conceded the Mideast peace process had...
TRYING ON A GUISE OF DOLLS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amSHOPPING for something to wear to a party is going to be a breeze next spring. Practically every designer who's showed over the last seven days of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week...
MORE THUGS EYED IN TENNIS-SIS SLAY
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams died in a deadly hail of bullets - fired by at least three gunmen who shot off nine...
CONFESSED PERV BUSTED IN MOLEST AT HIS SCHOOL JOB
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA registered sex offender working as a janitor at a private Brooklyn elementary school has been arrested for allegedly hugging and kissing an 11-year-old girl in a school hallway, law-enforcement...
BER$ERK 'KILLER' HUBBY
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn husband, outraged over losing inheritance money to his wife, pummeled her with a shoe and dumped the dying woman in the bushes before turning his rage on a...
'GANG SLAY' TRIO NAILED
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThree Long Island members of the deadly MS-13 gang were arraigned yesterday for the execution-style shooting of one of their own, whom they suspected as a snitch, police said. Edgardo...
TRAVELERS GO NOWHERE FAST - THOUSANDS YIELD TO BEAST OF THE EAST
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amHurricane Isabel is wreaking havoc on travel plans as thousands of airline passengers, train commuters and motorists deal with high winds and heavy rain. Airline passengers should expect more delays...
DEMS DARE CLARK TO DEBATE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amDemocratic rivals yesterday dared retired Gen. Wesley Clark to show up and face them at the next presidential debate on Thursday in New York. Clark just jumped into the Democratic...
CON BLAMES HIS BRO
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amOh, brother, where art thou? A Queens mechanic who was convicted yesterday of robbing two female clubgoers at gunpoint said the real robber was his brother, a dead ringer who...
COPS IN S.I. BIAS TROUBLE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThree cops, including a sergeant, are expected to face charges as early as today for failing to properly investigate an alleged hate crime on Staten Island, sources said yesterday. The...
MIKE HAS HAR$H WORDS FOR UNIONS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA tough-talking Mayor Bloomberg yesterday warned city union leaders face to face that there's no way their workers will get raises without sweeping changes in work rules. The mayor's hard-line...
DITCHED PITCH FIRM SUING CRONKITE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amWalter Cronkite, the "Most Trusted Man in America," can't be trusted, claims a federal lawsuit filed yesterday against the legendary newsman. The former CBS anchorman was accused by a Florida...
ISABEL ROARS ASHORE - 1 MILLION ARE LEFT POWERLESS AS HUGE 'CANE SOCKS N.C.
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amIt is big. It is bad. It is ugly. Hurricane Isabel howled onto the U.S. mainland yesterday, pounding the Eastern Seaboard with 100-mph winds, stinging rain and surging 15-foot waves....
GIMME SHELTER - BIANCA SUES FOR $20M AND FLEES PARK AVE. MOLD
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amWhat a drag it is getting mold. Bianca Jagger has filed a $20 million lawsuit against her Park Avenue apartment building, alleging that she's suffered "personal injury" from mold and...
N.Y. CALM BEFORE THE STORM
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amAs Isabel played havoc with the rest of the Eastern Seaboard, New Yorkers went about their business yesterday and dozens of surfers hit the beach. Mayor Bloomberg said the storm's...
MAYOR RAPS HIS OWN TAX HIKE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amIn his strongest comments to date against his own tax hikes, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday the 18.5 percent property tax increase was too high because "people just don't have the...
ISABEL ROARS ASHORE - DEADLY HURRICANE LASHES EAST COAST WITH 100-MPH WINDS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amIt is big. It is bad. It is ugly. Hurricane Isabel howled onto the U.S. mainland yesterday, pounding the Eastern Seaboard with 100-mph-plus winds, stinging rain and surging 15-foot waves....
MOST KIDS WOULD FLUNK NEW REGENTS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amMost of the city's public high school senior class would fail to graduate if the state's tougher exam requirements were in effect this year, experts said yesterday. Albany plans to...
COPS HUNTING BANK-ROB DUO
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThe police are asking for the public's help in searching for a pair of brazen robbers who've stolen more than $30,000 from banks in Brooklyn and Queens. Cops yesterday released...
B'KLYN MAN: I KILLED MY LOVER
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man confessed to police that he killed his girlfriend, whose body was discovered in the bathroom of the apartment they shared, law-enforcement sources said. The couple had been...
KIDS NABBED AS MALL-RAT ROBBERS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA pair of brothers, ages 10 and 15, brazenly robbed five women in a pair of upscale Westchester shopping malls, officials said. The boys, who commuted from Yonkers by bus...
BOOKS HID $1M POT FARM: COPS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amChinatown cops checking out a building where there'd been complaints of drug use stumbled across a marijuana farm - hidden behind sliding bookcases in an apartment, authorities said. The bookcases...
JAMES BROWN'S SURPRISE SOULFEST
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amGodfather of Soul James Brown, in Harlem to announce his upcoming shows at the Apollo Theatre, turned what was supposed to be a free, three-song mini-concert into an hourlong funkfest...
STUDENT STORM IN GRID SCANDAL
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amFurious students stormed out of their classes in protest yesterday after Mepham HS on Long Island cancelled its football season in the wake of a lurid sexual assault scandal surrounding...
BE$ERK 'KILLER' HUBBY
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn husband, outraged over losing inheritance money to his wife, pummeled her with a shoe and dumped the dying woman in the bushes before turning his rage on a...
BIG TROUBLE FOR GIANTS ; REVAMPED REDSKINS WILL SHOW OFF TALENT
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amAfter allowing Terry Glenn and Antonio Bryant to beat them with quick-hitters and down-the-field strikes, the Giants' defense has to be especially wary of the Redskins' dangerous Laveranues Coles-Rod Gardner...
THE FAN'S CORNER
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amJames Grundvig has a son named Fridrik and the middle name Ottar. You think he has any Norwegian blood in him? Oddly enough, he hates the Vikings. "People call me...
BATES OUT TO REGAIN HIS LUCKY 7'S FORM
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amWHEELING, W.Va. - The most common question heard in the hallway outside the Islanders dressing room is, without a doubt, "Where's Batesey?" There always seems to be someone looking for...
ISABEL KEEPS ANGLERS ASHORE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amHOW Hurricane Isabel will play out for New York's saltwater anglers this weekend remains to be seen, but there will be enough going on around the tri-state area to keep...
BRODEUR: STABILITY'S THE KEY
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amWhen the Devils visit Philly tonight, they'll be opening both preseason and old wounds, rubbing salt into the Flyers' now-chronic sores. It has been a drought of near-Ranger proportions for...
PENNINGTON NOW BATTLING WAIT PROBLEM
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES The wait isn't any less aggravating for Chad Pennington these days. Rehabbing his fractured and dislocated left wrist, the Jets quarterback called his time away from the field...
LUNDMARK NOT TAKING ; JOB FOR GRANTED
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amJamie Lundmark scored one goal in the final 25 games last season, eight in 55 matches overall. That much about his rookie season is documented. What isn't documented is that...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amBefore you lay your hard-earned greenbacks on a college game this weekend, we make this rare suggestion: Turn to the Weather Channel. These people get as worked up about a...
YR MULLS 5-MONTH HIATUS
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amA report that Yonkers Raceway has tentative plans to close for five months this coming winter and spring to install a new electrical system for its under-construction slots casino sent...
NYRA KNOCK ADDS FUEL TO FIRE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThe audit and accompanying report on the New York Racing Association released Wednesday by state comptroller Alan Hevesi, which, as expected, was highly critical of NYRA's business practices, fiscal performance...
SLAP AT COMMON DECENCY ; ESPN'S SCOTT HIT LOW ROAD WITH SLUR
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amLAST week, "SportsCenter" anchor Stuart Scott described the Raiders as having "pimp-slapped" an opponent. Even by ESPN's diminishing standards, it was a highly inappropriate crack, and, given that Scott is...
HARRY GETS HIS DUE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amDAYS off have always been as few and far between as playoff appearances, both for the Rangers of Harry Howell's 17 NHL seasons and the same organization for which he...
METS MIGHT LOSE OUT ON GUERRERO
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amHow bad are things going for the Mets right now? Even their offseason plans have taken a hit. The Expos have announced that they've begun discussions on a new contract...
COLES CATCHES GIANTS' EYE ; 'SKINS WR POSES PROBLEM FOR BLUE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amIn this business known as the National Football League, players are cut, signed and traded with such frequency that the transactions become a blur. Yet when the Redskins lured Laveranues...
FASSEL CONCERNED WITH COLLINS' PROTECTION
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amGIANTS NOTES Giants coach Jim Fassel is keeping an eye on quarterback Kerry Collins, who got hit early and often by the Cowboys in Monday night's 35-32 overtime loss. Collins...
GEORGE: 'IT WAS STUPID' TO PLAY ; ANGRY YANKS DRENCH O'S WITH DOWNPOUR OF CRITICISM
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Call him Hurricane Joe. An angry Joe Torre ripped into the Orioles yesterday for their Birdbrain decision to go on with yesterday's Hurricane Isabel game at Camden Yards...
BLAZERS CAN'T WORK IT OUT
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amTHE best thing about the NFL season is the NBA season is just around the gully, and over the ridge to Grandpa Stern's house we go. With training camps scheduled...
BLUSTERY BOSS BLASTS BASEBALL, COULD FACE FINE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00am"It was stupid and terrible judgment by the commissioner's office."GEORGE STEINBRENNER ST. PETERSBURG - Using words that likely will lead to him getting fined, George Steinbrenner unloaded on Major League...
JETS AIR IT OUT ; MOSS THRIVES AS DEEP THREAT
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThere was a moment as the Jets prepared to face the Dolphins early last week when Herman Edwards quietly entered the room during an offensive coaches' meeting, approached the board...
TIE FEELS LIKE LOSS TO MUSSINA ; 6
September 19, 2003 | 4:00am5 INNINGSYankees 1Orioles 1 BALTIMORE - The Yankees didn't lose yesterday, but they didn't win either. Worst of all, their pitching took a hit. "We burned a pitcher," Joe Torre...
METS MIGHT LOSE CHANCE AT GUERRERO
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amExpos 1Mets 0 How bad are things for the Mets? Even their offseason plans have taken a hit. The Expos have begun contract negotiations for All-Planet right fielder - and...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amAl Michaels vs. Mike Breen (Who really should be the NBA's lead play-by-player?) TNT's Marv Albert is the best NBA play-by-player. But right now he is unavailable to ABC (which...
5 QUESTIONS FOR RALPH KINER
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner. The 80-year-old Kiner will work with soon-to-retire Bob Murphy - his fellow original Met-caster - for the...
SIDELINE SIREN SILENT: GUERRERO MUM ON BAD START - OR HAS ABC MUZZLED HER?
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amABC Monday Night Football sideline reporter Lisa Guerrero is paid to talk, but she won't speak. With all the harsh criticism of Guerrero's work in her first season, NYP TV...
STEVIE WONDER : SPURRIER HAS SKINS 2-0 - BUT CAN HE STOP STRAHAN?
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amSunday, Giants at Redskins, 4 p.m., Fox His critics mockingly call him "Steve Superior" because of his cockiness. But with his Redskins at 2-0, Steve Spurrier is on the verge...