October 26, 2003
BULL'S EYE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amCrab Grasso Former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Dick Grasso has been hard to locate of late, canceling appearances at events ranging from a "prudent investing" forum at New York...
ANIMAL RIGHTS: A NON-STOP FIGHT
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amDo you have what it takes to be an animal activist? Contrary to public perception, yelling and shaking carcasses to intimidate fur-clad socialites is not a prerequisite. A successful animal...
IS THIS HIP? NEW YORK'S MOST STYLISH BAND IS HAVING A FASHION EMERGENCY
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amBoys, boys, boys - where did it all go wrong? When their debut album, "Is This It?," was released back in 2001, New York's the Strokes were suddenly the coolest...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER ... THE HALLOWEEN PARADE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe Village Halloween Parade (the biggest in America) is celebrating its 30th anniversary. This year's theme revolves around the Trickster, a mythic shape-shifter who appears in different cultures as a...
CAIRO PRACTICE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amCHERIF El Shoubashy is an unhappy man. The director of the 27-year-old Cairo International Film Festival can't convince U.S. journalists and Hollywood stars to attend. "This is one of the...
MY PERFECT MATE: THE MALE VERSION OF ME
October 26, 2003 | 4:00am"Bridget, you look exactly the same!" he said.It was the perfect hello. (Whether he meant it, I'll never know). On Saturday morning, I stood in front of the mirror, stricken...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN MAKE-UP ARTIST POPPY KING BUY A DROP-DEAD HALLOWEEN COSTUME FOR ONLY $100?
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amAnybody who has a dream should take a few tips from Australian makeup artist Poppy King. At the age of 18, she says, she had "no clue" what to do...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amEmotional rescue: At Maxwell's last week, Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe kicked his bassist off the stage and played the bass himself, then later threw a label guy into the...
FOUR WAYS TO WORK TWEED: GET THE SEASON'S BIGGEST LOOK WITHOUT MAKING A SINGLE MISSTEP
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amRULE 1 Banish the predictable. Your tweed pieces will stand out more if you wear them with a contrasting texture. Thus, our model wears a pretty tweed party dress with...
RUSH AND THE SEE-THROUGH LADIES
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amFOR what it's worth, I've spent "down time" with Rush Limbaugh, more than five consecutive hours worth, and, for what it's worth, I didn't hear a word out of him...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amA toy dog that breaks wind as it bends over caused a major security alert at a Virginia airport. Something in Dave Rogerson's dog's wind breaking mechanism set off an...
TEARS FOR TRAGIC TEEN TRAIN SURFER
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amHundreds of classmates and family members gathered in Harlem yesterday to mourn Eric Alvarez, a 15-year-old honors student who died last week after climbing a subway car during a stunt...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn A 25-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street, police said. He was hit in the chest at Vernon Avenue near Lewis Avenue at around 2...
LOWLIFE STEALS CHURCH FUNDS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amA heartless criminal broke into a struggling downtown church and stole thousands of dollars meant to feed the poor and buy school supplies. St. Joseph's Church in Chinatown was locked...
BLAINE'S NEW TRICK: GONE IN A TICK
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amIt's no illusion! Magician David Blaine has pulled a disappearing act, vanishing from the London hospital where he had been recovering from his bizarre, 44-day starvation stunt, it was reported...
COP-SHOOT SUSPECT NABBED
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn fugitive who allegedly shot and slightly injured a housing cop in Bedford-Stuyvesant last week was captured yesterday in Connecticut, cops said. Isaac Lopez, 24, of Brooklyn, was nabbed...
CITY $CORES HIGH-TECH GOP BONUS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe city will reap the benefits of hosting the Republican National Convention long after President Bush and company leave town after the four-day event. Corporate sponsors are lining up to...
2 CHARGED IN BRONX TEEN SLAY
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amTwo Bronx teenagers were charged with murder yesterday in connection with the shooting of a 15-year-old community volunteer as he walked home from high school last Friday afternoon. The suspects,...
FERRY PROBERS QUIZ CAP'N KIN
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe noose tightened around beleaguered ferryboat Capt. Michael Gansas yesterday as investigators fanned out around Staten Island looking for clues in the crash that killed 10. NYPD cops spent nearly...
PAROLE RAP FOR SHOOTING VICTIM
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens man who was shot and wounded on a crowded street in Times Square early yesterday was arrested on an open warrant for violating his parole, police said. Robert...
EGGS ON THE SIDE: NYU TO DEBUT OVA-FREEZE CLINIC
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amNew York women, worried that their fertility is dwindling as they remain unmarried or career-focused, can now put motherhood on ice - literally. New York University is planning to launch...
DURST'S FIRED-UP FANS DON'T SIT WELL WITH JUDGE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amGALVESTON, Texas - One sideshow to the mega-weird Robert Durst murder-and-dismemberment trial is the behavior of the millionaire defendant's fans and supporters - some of whom have been so disruptive...
N.Y. GIANT'S DRIVE ENDS WITH PENALTY
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amGiants star cornerback Will Peterson was definitely on the defense yesterday after he was busted in Midtown for driving his Mercedes SUV with a suspended license. Peterson, who was recently...
GAME 6: THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY ; YANKEES COLLAPSE IN 2-0 LOSS TO MARLINS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThere was something fishy going on in The Bronx last night - a visiting team was celebrating a World Series win at Yankee Stadium. The saddening scene came after the...
HISTORIANS DENY THE PAST
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amIn Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Encounter Books, $25.95 In 1992, Russia's first post-Communist leader, Boris Yeltsin, made a historic decision to open...
IT'S TOO BAD LIZA HAD TO END UP WITH LOUSE GEST
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amYour heart's got to go out to poor Liza Minnelli, who has worse taste in men than J. Edgar Hoover. Last week, her suit-slap-happy hubby, the relentlessly self-promoting David Gest,...
UP IN THE AIR; MYSTERY DEEPENS IN OLD PIC
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amIt's probably the most famous picture of a lunch break in New York history - and it seems hundreds of people know someone who was there. Or do they? Last...
TALE OF THE TAPING REALITY TV BITES GEST IN DIVORCE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amFootage from an aborted reality show could become key evidence in David Gest's $10 million suit against wife Liza Minnelli for allegedly beating him, The Post has learned. VH1 shot...
'RAPE' DAD FINDS CHURCH SANCTUARY
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amSYRACUSE - Outraged residents are casting scorn at a neighborhood church for supporting a Syracuse father accused of raping his 11-year-old daughter, hours before she was found hanging in her...
PAINED SURVIVORS STILL WAITING FOR ANSWERS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amTHE anxiety attack is as sharp as the pier that ripped a hole into the ferry Andrew J. Barberi. It creeps into the dreams of those who survived the Staten...
ILLEGAL PROCEDURE: GIANTS' PETERSON BUSTED FOR SUSPENDED LICENSE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amGiants star cornerback Will Peterson was definitely on the defense yesterday after he was busted in midtown Manhattan for driving his Mercedes SUV with a suspended license. Peterson, who was...
CHURCH BURGLAR GETS SIN-AND-OUT UNSEEN
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amA heartless criminal broke into a struggling downtown church and stole thousands of dollars meant to feed the poor and buy school supplies for students. St. Joseph's Church in Chinatown...
POLS SAYING 'WHEW!' TO UFT REBUFF
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amSOME politicians who publicly supported the teachers union ballot referendum to limit class size are quietly rejoicing that the measure was blocked last week by the state's highest court. "Everyone...
LAWSUIT OVER B'KLYN HOSP-PATIENT 'RAPE'
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe husband of a cancer patient who reported being raped by a male nurse's aide at Brooklyn Hospital Center last year has sued the hospital and a former suspect for...
B'KLYN DEM BOSS A HOSP-SPACE INVADER
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn's embattled Democratic boss Clarence Norman keeps one of his luxury cars at a Downstate Hospital garage reserved for doctors and staff, The Post has learned. Norman, who owns three...
RUTHLESS ROYALS: QUEEN & CHARLES SENT DI CRUEL DIVORCE LETTERS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amPrince Charles and his mother, Queen Elizabeth, asked Princess Diana for a divorce just days before Christmas, in cold, separate letters using language that was remarkably alike, a book by...
MARATHON MAN'S ALL IRON HEART
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amHe's all heart. British adventurer Ranulph Fiennes, who suffered a near fatal heart attack in June, has hit the ground running in his quest to complete seven marathons in seven...
INTIMATE PEEK INSIDE CAMELOT
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amA dazzling new book of rare and never-before-published images of John F. Kennedy sheds new light on one of America's favorite sons. Marking the 40th anniversary of his assassination at...
TENSION AT ST. JOHN'S SHOOTING TRIAL
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amNearly five full days of tense jury deliberations appears to be taking their toll on Lloyd Prince, whose son Christopher is on trial for the attempted murder of a St....
IT'S SIN & OUT FOR CHURCH ROBBER
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amA heartless criminal broke into a struggling downtown church and stole thousands of dollars meant to feed the poor and buy school supplies for students. St. Joseph's Church in Chinatown...
GIANTS LOOK TO TURNOVER A NEW LEAF
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - You hold on to the ball, you can win. You put the ball on the ground, you will lose. Absolutes are few in football, but the preceding axiom...
TIME FOR BLUE PLAYMAKERS TO COME UP BIG
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The injury-riddled offensive line is a mess, freak turnovers have been crippling, and special-teams goofs have lost two games. Yes, there are plenty of justifiable reasons why the...
MERCURY ANGLERS RISE TO OCCASION
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amMONTAUK - The wind howled from the north and the temperature kept dipping, yet the 25 boats entered in the Mercury Redbone PFLGA celebrity fishing tournament managed to get in...
TIME FOR LINDROS TO SETTLE DOWN ; GOALS, NOT BIG HITS, NEEDED
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amAM I alone in believing that all of the people who are advocating, if not essentially demanding, that Eric Lindros resume the reckless physical approach he has adopted since the...
DEVILS OUT TO END SWAMP SLIDE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amWith one winless streak halted, the Devils went to work on another last night. They have made such a point of winning at home under Pat Burns that the three-game...
WEBB COMES BACK AS THE OPPOSITION
October 26, 2003 | 4:00am"I can't worry about Steve Webb."STEVE STIRLING Steve Webb called Long Island home for the last six years. But last night after being plucked off waivers by Pittsburgh, Webb returned...
PURINTON TRYING TO STAY POSITIVE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amGive this much to the Rangers, who despite winning only one of their first five games, have done a rather reasonable job of keeping the puck of the net. Fact...
GIANTS HAVE PLAN TO RATTLE RANDY
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - At times, the only way to stop Randy Moss is to have the gifted, mercurial receiver stop himself. When he's motivated, he's a terror, but when...
MCDYESS FORESEES IL TIME
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amAntonio McDyess revealed yesterday that he expects to be placed on the injured list tomorrow when rosters are finalized. That will make him ineligible for the first five games, with...
THE GREAT PAIN DEBATE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amHAD Jorge Posada hit the ball a few feet farther, how would Grady Little's decision to stick with Pedro Martinez in the eighth inning of ALCS Game 7 have looked?...
PAYROLLS DON'T PROMISE PAY DIRT
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amLET this season, and most especially these playoffs, serve as reminders of just how inexact a science baseball really is. Let these Yankees serve as the latest reminder that the...
CHIEFS HOLD FORT, REMAIN UNBEATEN
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amCanarsie 24Hamilton 14 Jude Primus didn't know all that much about Canarsie football before he got to the Brooklyn school, but he was aware of one aspect of the program:...
DEAD HEAT MAKES THIS HISTORIC RACE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - In the closest and one of the most exciting finishes in Breeders' Cup history, which took the placing judges 10 minutes to decipher, High Chaparral and Johar...
RACING'S NEW SUPERSTAR ; MANDELLA JOINS RANKS OF GREAT TRAINERS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - Just when you think you've seen everything racing has to offer in trainers, from Hirsch Jacobs to Wayne Lukas, along comes Richard Mandella to add a new...
GODZILLA FIZZLES IN FINAL ACT
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amWhat happened to Godzilla? As the Yankees lost the final three games of the World Series, Hideki Matsui also lost his swing. The two were not coincidental. Through the first...
SUFFERING IN THE SWAMP CONTINUES
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amBruins 5Devils 2 They bear the burden of past greatness. At home, the Devils are buckling under its weight. For the first time in 20 years, the Devils have failed...
YANKS CAN'T DEAL WITH MARLIN ACE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amNearly every Yankee who was asked about Josh Beckett began his answer by shaking his head, seemingly in disbelief at what had just transpired. Join the club. The Marlins' ace...
BLUESHIRTS EARN GARDEN CHEERS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amRangers 3Wings 1 They have not only weathered the most tense opening two weeks of any Ranger season in memory, they have emerged from the cauldron at .500, riding a...
KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT AS ISLES PUMMEL PENS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amIsles 7Penguins 2 The kids have arrived. On a night the Islanders' shooters were hot - and they sure sizzled against the defensively challenged Penguins - the hottest stick belonged...
SAY IT AIN'T SO, DEREK! HARD TO BELIEVE - JETER CAME UP SMALL
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amWHO could have pictured this? It didn't take any arrogance, perceived or otherwise, by the Yankees and their fans, or any underestimating of a fine Marlin team, to never in...
OFFENSE MUST TAKE HIT ; STEINBRENNER SURE TO COME OUT SWINGING
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amTHE YANKEES did not need Mystique and Aura. They needed a few big hits. There was talk of ghosts helping out at the Stadium, but the invisible men were again...
MEL'S FUTURE MAY BE HERE, HOME OR ELSEWHERE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amMel Stottlemyre had to come back after last season. He said he felt personally responsible for the Yankees' Division Series lost to the Angels because his pitchers had performed so...
ZIMMER: GEORGE NOT BOSS ANYMORE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00am"I am going home; that's it. Who would want an old man like me? I am not Jack McKeon."DON ZIMMER In a voice choked with emotion, Don Zimmer said so...
DON'T BLAME ANDY ; BRILLIANT AGAIN IN GAME 6 LOSS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amAndy Pettitte still can't believe it. "I'm still kind of in shock a little bit," Pettitte said. "I didn't expect for this to happen." "It" was a loss in a...
BECKETT'S BIG NIGHT ; GAMBLE PAYS OFF FOR FISH
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amJosh Beckett made short work of the Yankees on short rest, and by doing so he officially made Jack McKeon a genius. The Florida manager's risky gamble of pitching his...
AND THE 'REST' IS HISTORY BECKETT MADE MCKEON'S MOVE LOOK GOOD
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amGREAT decision. Great pitcher. Josh Beckett did what Pedro Martinez couldn't do. Jack McKeon did what Grady Little wouldn't do. Little couldn't make the tough decision and take out his...
DISAPPOINTED ROG BOWS OUT WITH 'A HEAVY HEART'
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amHis Hall of Fame career finished, Roger Clemens walked out of Yankee Stadium for the final time last night, less than an hour after the Marlins beat the Yankees, 2-0,...
YANKEES SLEEP WITH THE FISH ; BECKETT, MARLINS SINK BOMBERS' TITLE DREAM
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 6 Marlins 2 Yankees 0 On the hallowed turf of Yankee Stadium the Marlins celebrated defeating the Yankees in the World Series last night. As the Yankees exited their...
HITTING COACH NOT SURE IF HE'LL GO DOWN WITH SHIP
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK Rick Down knows how it works around the Yankees. And since he is the hitting coach of a team that didn't hit in the World Series and...
TORRE: I WANT TO BE BACK
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amAfter 162 regular season games and 17 postseason games, Joe Torre thanked his players last night for their effort, passion and unselfishness. And although Torre and his players were both...
MIRACLE MARLINS PARTY ON
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe team that even South Floridians couldn't love became America's sweethearts. Destiny's Dead End Kids did it. Behind Josh Beckett's five-hit shutout and a couple of scratch runs in the...
ANGRY BOSS MUM ON CASHMAN'S YANK FUTURE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amNinety minutes after watching the Marlins celebrate a World Series championship on his team's home field, George Steinbrenner stepped into the dark, fall night outside a defeated and quiet Yankee...
MOVES REALLY PAID FOR CAPTAIN JACK
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amJack McKeon has been known to enjoy needling the media - and it was no different late last night. Moments after his players gave their 72-year-old manager his first world...
'THEY WERE BETTER' STUNNED YANKS GIVE MARLINS THEIR PROPS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThis one will be hard to take, and already Andy Pettitte said he was sick to his stomach over it. In 2001, the Yankees lost on a broken-bat blooper from...
DREARY POSTSEASON ENDS FOR SORIANO
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe offseason came too soon for most Yankees, but not soon enough for Alfonso Soriano. After a very good regular season in which Soriano became only the third player in...
IT'S REDEMPTION FOR CASTILLO
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amLuis Castillo's postseason slump was so deep, he was digging a tunnel to free agency. Castillo, Florida's speedy, switch-hitting second baseman whose contract is up after this weekend, was mired...
CHAD SET TO FLY IN PHILLY ; WILL TAKE HANDOFF FROM VINNY TODAY
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Sometime around the beginning of the second quarter today at Lincoln Financial Field - fair or unfair - the weight of the Jets' hopes, dreams and aspirations for...
HERM EXPECTS TO SEE THE REAL MCNABB
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - The Jets are wary of the sleeping Eagles' offense. Eagles' quarterback Donovan McNabb has been widely criticized for his performance this season, entering today's game against...
HE DID IT BEFORE & HE MUST DO IT AGAIN
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Chad Pennington comes riding in on his green-and-white horse today, and tries to save a season that was left for dead the night he fractured his wrist two...
ESPN2 PUTTING DAWKINS' BALONEY ON 'COLD PIZZA'
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amDawkins' claim of racism is more than bogus, it's inflammatory. But he's now in at ESPN while Limbaugh's out. ONE week after ESPN "resigned" Rush Limbaugh for what the network...
WEST IN PEACE FOR RILES ; FORMER GM SAYS NO HARD FEELINGS AS PAT STEPS DOWN
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amDON'T look now (you're too late, the preseason ended Friday), but the Grizzlies were the NBA's most improved Canadian outcast during the exhibition schedule, their sole setback to the champion...
IT'S A FISH TALE IN THE BRONX! BELIEVE IT OR NOT: YANKS LOSE SERIES TO MARLINS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 6 Marlins 2 Yankees 0 On the hallowed turf of Yankee Stadium the Marlins danced in celebration of defeating the Yankees in the World Series last night. As the...
BETWEEN JACK & HARD PLACE : NO JOSHING: MCKEON WAS IN TOUGH SPOT
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amJOSH Beckett went for the kill last night on short rest. Jack McKeon will never be able to put it to rest if his ace was anything less than lights...
GODZILLA DISAPPEARS IN FINAL SCENES
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amWhat happened to Godzilla? As the Yankees' lost the final three games of the World Series, Hideki Matsui also lost his swing. The two were not coincidental. Through the first...
MICHAEL BLAMES STICKS, NOT SCOUTING, FOR FLOP
October 26, 2003 | 4:00am"We haven't gotten the big hit as often as we could." GENE MICHAEL Considering that the Yankees were on the verge of being on the wrong end of a Buster...
FISHIN' FOR COMPLIMENTS: YANKEES TIP HAT TO MARLINS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe Yankees said all the right things heading into this World Series and there's no reason to doubt their sincerity. They said the Marlins were for real. They said the...
MARKET IMPROVEMENT: YANKS MUST BUY NEW 2ND BASEMAN
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amWHEN Alfonso Soriano was asked about playing right field the other night, he admitted it felt really strange. Get used to it. This postseason has given us a revealing glimpse...
CASTILLO BREAKS FUNK IN BIG MOMENT
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amLuis Castillo's postseason slump was so deep, he was digging a tunnel to free agency. Castillo, Florida's speedy, switch-hitting second baseman whose contract is up after this weekend, was mired...
FISH SOLD ON 2-IN-1 CLOSING COALITION
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amHow effective has the Marlins' two-headed relief monster been this October? Well, how much excitement do you need in your life? Relievers Braden Looper and Ugueth Urbina, both of whom...
NO TIME FOR REST: CONTRERAS KEEPS ON CHUCKING
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe question was meant only as an assurance, a confirmation of what was already known. After Jose Contreras pitched for the fourth time in five games - and threw 65...
SORIANO'S STRUGGLES OVER 'TIL NEXT YEAR
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amThe offseason came too soon for most Yankees, but not soon enough for Alfonso Soriano. After a very good regular season in which Soriano became only the third player in...
DON'T BLAME ANDY: PETTITTE BRILLIANT AGAIN IN GAME 6 LOSS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amWhen you look at the won-loss ledger on this one, don't let it fool you. Andy Pettitte didn't deserve the "L." Pettitte took the mound for Game 6 last night,...
TORRE GIVES SLUMPING SORIANO 2ND CHANCE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK Joe Torre promised Alfonso Soriano he would be back in the lineup for Game 6 when he benched the slumping second baseman for Game 5. True to...
JOE GIVES SORI 2ND CHANCE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK Joe Torre promised Alfonso Soriano he would be back in the lineup for Game 6 when he benched the slumping second baseman for Game 5. True to...
MOOSE SET FOR MUST-WIN: MUSSINA LOOKS TO GO 7-UP
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amMike Mussina was riding a streak of six straight postseason starts without a win before start No. 7 - Game 3 of this series - was the charm. Now the...
PAVANO PRIMED TO BE MARLINS' ACE IN HOLE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amIt would only be fitting if Carl Pavano, whose baseball career has been peppered with odd but notable run-ins with superstars, pitches a winner-take-all Game 7 tonight in the Bronx....
BUD TOASTS POSTSEASON THRILLS, RATINGS
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amBud Selig claimed he's never seen this much playoff excitement during his lifetime, and the commissioner of baseball was hopeful the Marlins' late October run will eventually sustain the South...
CUP FEES RUNNETH OVER: OWNERS 'TAXED' TO BOOST PURSES
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - Early one summer morning on the backstretch at Saratoga, New York Hall of Fame trainer Phil Johnson waved a sheet of paper at me and asked, "What's...
ISLINGTON REBOUNDS WITH RIDE BY FALLON
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif - The European contingent snagged its second grass Breeders' Cup event in the Filly and Mare Turf when Islington, one of the big flops of last year's Cup,...
'FINESSING' JULIE ADDS ANOTHER VERSE
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - Julie Krone, the pixie-ish Hall of Famer who returned last November from a 3½-year "retirement," put an exclamation mark to her storied career yesterday, guiding undefeated favorite...
SIX PERFECTIONS HAS PERFECT TRIP
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - It didn't take long for the European invasion to hit the jackpot in the Breeders' Cup when Six Perfections, hot off the plane from France, finished with...
'PLEASANT' SURPRISE - CLASSIC LONGSHOT GIVES MANDELLA FOURTH WIN
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - Hall of Fame trainer Dick Mandella, whose barn is just a stone's throw from the Santa Anita finish line, completed one of the most remarkable days in...
'PLEASANT' SURPRISE - CLASSIC LONGSHOT GIVES TRAINER 4TH WIN OF DAY
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - All week, Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella, whose barn is just a stone's throw from the Santa Anita finish line, was quietly confident his eight runners...
CAJUN BEAT TOPS BIG $780 EXACTA
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - Until yesterday, trainer Bobby Frankel was enjoying the best season of his Hall of Fame career. But "Brooklyn Bobby's" well-documented Breeders' Cup woes mounted when both of...
IT'S BOMBS AWAY! - AMAZING ADORATION SHOCKS DISTAFF FIELD
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - The 20th Breeders' Cup began with a sensational shock to horseplayers in the Distaff when the longest shot on the board, Adoration, bolted in while the odds-on...
MANDELLA'S 1-2 PUNCH
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Dick Mandella was hot as the wild fires that burned in the nearby hills yesterday, sending out longshots Action This Day and Minister Eric to run...
NBA ROOKIES HEATIN' UP - DARKO, CARMELO SHOW OFF BEST MOVES
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amNBA rookie studs Darko Milicic and Carmelo Anthony went one-on-one with Maxim's Tim Struby. Just another threesome from the magazine that gave you that Jeremy Shockey twins-and-mom shocker. Maxim hits...
SHAKEUP LOOMS - WIN OR LOSE: BOMBERS TO HAVE NEW LOOK IN '04
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amNo matter what happened in Game 6 of the World Series last night or what may happen tonight if Game 7 is played, Yankee fans are going to need the...
HISTORY NOT ALWAYS HAPPY
October 26, 2003 | 4:00amIT was 10:54 p.m., on the quietest Saturday night you will ever hear at the corner of 161st Street and River Avenue. Jorge Posada swung, and the best he could...