April 29, 2004
EISNER DIS-ORDER - COMCAST REVERSAL LEAVES MOUSE CHIEF WEAK
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amComcast is dropping its bid for Disney, but Michael Eisner's troubles are far from over. Disney's chief - who continues to face sharp criticism of his reign from dissident shareholders...
SEAN JOHN SEEKS NEW SHOP SITES
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amIf hip-hop impresario and newly minted Broadway star Sean "P. Diddy" Combs has his way, his Sean John clothing label will have its own stores in malls around the country....
FOR ROBERTS, IT AIN'T OVER YET
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amDisney probably hasn't heard the last from Comcast. While the cable giant formally dropped its $48 billion hostile bid yesterday, Comcast's executives and bankers are likely to keep a close...
NORTEL CANS CEO - DUNN LATEST CORPORATE CASUALTY OF COOKED BOOKS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe chief executive of Nortel Networks, North America's largest telephone equipment maker, was fired yesterday, becoming the latest casualty in a spate of accounting scandals. Frank Dunn left the Ontario,...
57TH ST. RENTS HIT $850/FOOT
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amMadison Avenue is no longer the city's most expensive retail address. According to a report just released by the Real Estate Board of New York, rents in the 57th Street...
TED SACRIFICES GREEN GOALS FOR GREENBACKS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amTed Turner may be biting the hand he feeds. The media mogul gives millions to environmental and conservation causes, but finds himself in the awkward position of having to drill...
SHADID GETS KELLY PRIZE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amPulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post war correspondent Anthony Shadid is the first winner of the Michael Kelly Award. Kelly, The Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large and a syndicated Washington Post columnist, was the...
RIVAL REALTY BROKER GETS CONTROL OF WILLIAM B. MAY
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amTakeover fever is far from cooling down in the residential real estate industry. Terra Holdings, the parent company of Brown Harris Stevens and Halstead Property Co., has become a major...
FEDS GOING FOR FRANK'S ROLE IN IPO ALLOCATIONS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amProsecutors opened a new attack on former star investment banker Frank Quattrone yesterday, targeting his involvement in deciding how his firm doled out lucrative pieces of red-hot stock offerings. In...
KINSLEY HEADING TO L.A. TIMES
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amMichael Kinsley, who has been on leave from the online magazine Slate, yesterday was named editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times. He replaces Janet Clayton, who was...
BABS SORRY FOR BABY BOO-BOO
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amBARBARA Walters yesterday ad mitted she made a "mistake" by promoting tomorrow night's "20/20" report on adoption as if it were a reality show - with a baby as the...
SAVOR TRIBECA BY STARLIGHT AT FESTIVAL-FRIENDLY HAUNTS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amSTARTING this Saturday, celebrities, tourists and even the occasional Upper West Sider will be piling into the Triangle Below Canal for the nine-day cinephile jamboree that is the TriBeCa Film...
N.Y.C. REELS 'EM IN - THE STARS ARE ALIGNED FOR TRIBECA FILM FEST
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S only 3 years old, but the Tribeca Film Festival has grown far beyond anyone's expectations. Originally conceived by Robert De Niro and his producing partner, Jane Rosenthal, as a...
SUMMERSTAGE ON SALE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amFORGET the Strokes - their May 19 show is sold out. And if you want to see anyone else at Central Park SummerStage, you'd better act soon. Tickets go on...
STILL A HOUSE OF USHER
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amUSHER'S still king of Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart - his "Confessions" has now sold 2.6 million copies, adding 252,950 in sales this past week. But the big news is...
'IDOL' FANS KO UPSTATE TEEN
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amCARROT-topped John Stevens, the baby- faced 16-year-old from East Amherst, N.Y., was booted off last night's "American Idol." Stevens told "AI" judge Ryan Seacrest he was "somewhat" relieved that his...
STARR REPORT
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amEllen, the generousIt's not often someone celebrates their show being cancelled - but Ellen DeGeneres had good reason to pour the bubbly when CBS canned "The Ellen Show" a few...
ROB AND LAURA ARE RICH NOW - FIRST PEEK AT 'DICK VAN DYKE' REUNION
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amROB Petrie must have done OK after leaving the employ of Alan Brady in 1966. In CBS's new, updated edition of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," the Petries - Rob...
BABY FACE-OFF - READ ABOUT THE SHOW THAT SET OFF ADOPTION ROW
April 29, 2004 | 4:00am"20/20: Be My Baby" Tomorrow night at 10 * * * (three stars) DESPITE the hype and hysteria by people who haven't even seen the show, may I be the...
TWO TOO MANY 'CSI'S FOR STAR
April 29, 2004 | 4:00am'CSI" star William Petersen is mad again, about CBS spinning his show off into "CSI: Miami" and now "CSI: New York." "I just think that it went too fast," Petersen...
BEYOND ITUNES - RATING ALL THE MUSIC-SHARING SITES
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amiTUNES Music Store, which celebrates its first anniversary this week, is still the music downloading service to beat - if you have an iPod. If you don't, you've got several...
THE LAST ONE (SNIFF) - THE BIG QUESTION: WILL ROSS END UP WITH RACHEL?
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amAll eyes are on Rachel and Ross. The smart money says the two star-crossed lovers will finally get together - permanently - as "Friends" toward its last episode. That's just...
FRIENDS OF FRIENDS - MOVIE STARS MOONLIGHTED WITH ROSS, RACHEL & CO.
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amOver its ten years on the air, Friends attracted a substantial number of A-list guest stars to play with Ross, Rachel and the rest of the gang. Some, like Charlie...
THE JOY OF SIX - THE UNDENIABLY BEST MOMENTS FROM 'FRIENDS'
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amBest Episode "The one about the prom video " Rachel and Ross were through until she saw, in an old video, how he was willing to take her to the...
WHO'S YOUR BEST FRIEND? TAKE THE ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUIZ
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amWho'll be there for you "when the rain starts to fall"? Or when your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A."? You may have six Friends - but...
QNS. DWI IS A REAL HEAD CASE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThings were tight all around. A Queens pedestrian last night found his head pinned between the car's tire and the roadway - and the driver was drunk, police said. Michael...
S.I. DUO LOADED WITH CACHE OF ARMS: COPS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Staten Island couple was arrested last night after cops executing a search warrant found a cache of guns, ammo and explosive devices in their house, police said. The unmarried...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amQUEENS * Cops are asking the public's help in finding this city cab driver (above) who they say sexually assaulted a woman passenger in the back seat of his taxi...
GETTING IRAQ RIGHT: CALLING WYATT EARP
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amWHERE'S Rudy Giuliani when we really need him? Looking back on a year of mistakes in Iraq, it's clear he would have been a better choice to run our occupation...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThey say twins feel each other's pain, but 8-year- olds Cassidy and Marissa Wiese of Laurel, Neb., have taken that idea a bit too far. In a five-hour span, both...
YOU CAN $CORE FOR SOCCER KIDS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe Long Island youth soccer team that lost two players in a DWI crash needs some help to get back on the field - because much of their equipment was...
GOV. ARNIE GOING TO ISRAEL
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will make his first overseas trip as California's leading man on Saturday by visiting Israel to break ground on a tolerance museum, officials said....
TRAGIC DAD SEEKS LAW VS. PERVS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The Long Island father of a murdered girl whose Florida abduction was caught on camera called on legislators yesterday to enact a law to lock up sexual predators...
'WHISTLEBLOWER' SUING CON ED
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA former Con Edison worker has filed suit against the utility in federal court, claiming his supervisors held him back from promotions, falsified his records and fired him because of...
FED 'CARD' $HARKS RIP US OFF
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Splurging federal workers used their government-issued credit cards to buy Oakley sunglasses, leather bomber jackets, jewelry, fine wine - and even a mounted deer head, according to a...
D.J. AIMS AT EVIL NURSE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan radio personality will be front and center in a New Jersey courtroom today to watch "lowlife" Charles Cullen cop a plea to murdering 14 hospital patients - including...
25 TO LIFE FOR 'WRONG HIT' WIFE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island woman convicted of plotting a botched contract hit on her husband - which ended with the murder of his best friend - was sentenced to 25 years...
KELLY SHUTS OT LOOPHOLE ON BRASS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe city's highest-ranking cops will no longer be able to stockpile unlimited comp time, under an order by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly that has triggered a battle with their union....
SPELLING ERRORS MAR BLAST
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA City Council member who was blasting the Bloomberg administration's social-promotion policies sent out two press releases containing spelling and grammatical errors. The first release - sent Tuesday afternoon from...
'KERRY' COOPER? MORE LIKE JOHN WANE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amRIGHT now, John Kerry's message seems to boil down to this: I deserve to be president because I served in Vietnam. But that's not a vision for America - and...
DA DENIES DEAL IN VELELLA CASE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amManhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau insisted yesterday that he's reached no plea deal with indicted Bronx state Sen. Guy Velella, who is accused of taking $137,000 in bribes. "There's absolutely...
STADIUM IS MTA'S TOP SUITOR
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe West Side redevelopment plan - featuring a new Jets stadium and expanded Javits Center - is currently the only proposal on the table that would lead the MTA to...
JAYSON JURORS STALL ON COVER-UP
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amJurors in Jayson Williams' manslaughter trial appear to be dwelling on the cover-up part of the charge. The former NBA star is accused of shooting his limo driver at his...
MOM WAILS AT SON'S 'KILLERS'
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amAmid the wailing shrieks of their victim's anguished mother, two coldhearted teens accused of gunning down a man on a Far Rockaway A train were arraigned yesterday in Queens Supreme...
UNDERWORLD GUY - MOB STAB VICTIM BURIED IN GODFATHERS' GRAVEYARD
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amWiseguy Preston Geritano was laid to rest yesterday in bad company. The reputed hit man - who was stabbed to death last week by his mobster brother-in-law - was buried...
DIALLO MOM THANKS MIKE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe mother of slain police shooting victim Amadou Diallo said yesterday she was thrilled to have Mayor Bloomberg's support for special legislation to give her and her family permanent-resident status...
FERRY-CRASH CAPT. 'LIED'
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe captain of the ill-fated Staten Island Ferry that slammed into a pier last fall, killing 11 passengers, lied to a supervisor 30 minutes after the disaster, telling him he...
THE ART OF THE STEAL - NAME GAME BY 'FRAUDSTER'
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amIt's appropriate John Blumatte was an art academy bookkeeper - the accused fraudster is suspected of being an artful dodger with his own name. Blumatte is the real name of...
THUGS' HUMAN SHIELDS - WOMEN & KIDS USED IN FALLUJAH
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amMarines, backed up by jet fighters, attack helicopters and an aerial gunship, fought furious battles yesterday with Fallujah terrorists - who used women and children as shields. For the second...
U.N. OIL PAPERS VANISH - FRAUD-PROBE OBSTACLE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The vast majority of the United Nations' oil-for-food contracts in Iraq have mysteriously vanished, crippling investigators trying to uncover fraud in the program, a government report charged yesterday....
CHEF WAS SLICED INTO 7 PIECES
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amChef Zev Vulevic's killer severed his head and limbs and sawed his torso in half after pumping two slugs into the back of his skull, Connecticut police revealed yesterday. The...
THROUGH THE ROOF - WESTCHESTER REAL ESTATE $KYROCKETS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThey call it Westchester, but prices are going even farther North. The latest sales data shows the median price of a single-family house in the county went up 9 percent,...
YOU JERK - DAD BEATS BOY WITH BEEF STRIP; THAT'LL 'CURE' YA! MAD DAD WHACKS KID WITH JERKY
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Staten Island bodega owner whipped his young son with an 18-inch stick of beef jerky after catching the boy skipping school, authorities said yesterday. The bizarre beating began at...
DA NIXES ROOF RAP - CLEARS PAL'S UNCLE IN TOT'S DEATH PLUNGE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe uncle in charge of an 8-year-old boy who took a toddler onto a Brooklyn roof where he plunged to his death was let off the hook yesterday. Cops arrested...
FIEND WANTS MOMMY - SOBBING SUBWAY SLASHER GETS 25 YEARS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00am"Maaaaaaaa!" That was the final word from a cowardly subway slasher as he was led off in tears yesterday to serve 25 years prison for randomly cutting a woman's face...
DEMS' KERRY WORRY - INSIDERS GRUMBLE AT 'CAN'T WIN' CAMPAIGN
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Some key Democrats are "pretty freaked out" by John Kerry's last two bumpy weeks on the campaign trail - and are demanding he get his campaign in gear...
KIDS SPARED MAKEUP TEST
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amSome 1,300 students who got a sneak peek at up to 15 questions on last week's third-grade reading exams will not be required to take a makeup test, Schools Chancellor...
I CAN'T READ IT, AND WEEP: BEAUTY QUEEN
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amIf anyone can make the argument for pulling out all the stops to teach kids to read, it's Veronica Lewis. The actress and opera singer - a former Miss Black...
BUSH-BASHERS DENIED CENTRAL PERK
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe largest group of protesters expected at this summer's Republican National Convention has been denied its request to use Central Park as the site of a 250,000-person rally. The Parks...
DA BOOKS 'BRIBE' BROKERS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA possibly mobbed-up Wall Street securities firm rooked investors out of millions of dollars, Manhattan prosecutors said in announcing the indictment of 10 brokers on criminal enterprise charges. The brokers...
CULINARY CAPTAIN ABANDONS SHIP ON QUEEN MARY
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amFamed four star-chef Daniel Boulud has jumped ship as culinary advisor to The Queen Mary 2. He has had second thoughts about associating his name with the large-scale operation, which...
GOV PASSING COLLECTION PLATE AT LAURA PRAYER BREAKFAST
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Call it "Pay to Pray" - with the first lady. A just-released invitation to a special May 11 "prayer breakfast" with Gov. Pataki - featuring an appearance by...
DONALD MERGING - TRUMP TO MARRY MODEL MELANIA
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amDonald Trump is getting married again. The billionaire star of "The Apprentice" proposed to Slovenian model Melania Knauss Monday night and put a big diamond ring on her finger, The...
TRAGIC TALE WORTHY OF THE SCREEN
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amIF THE classic movie "A Bronx Tale" was the art work of a brilliant, imaginative screenwriter, I want to respectfully impart something that I believe is a true-life version of...
JAYSON JURORS MULLING COVER-UP
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amJurors in Jayson Williams' manslaughter trial appear to be dwelling on the cover-up part of the charge. The former NBA star is accused of shooting a limo driver at his...
ROCK-TOSS DEATH SPARKS SAFETY CHECK ON BRIDGES
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Four days after a Queens woman was killed after a thrown chunk of asphalt smashed through her windshield on Westchester's Sprain Brook Parkway, Gov. Pataki yesterday ordered a...
AIRPORT SCREENER GROUNDED FOR WEED
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Kennedy Airport security screener who was wounded last year in a home invasion in which another man was murdered was busted yesterday for selling a pound of marijuana, The...
MAN GUILTY IN GAS BLAST
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA year ago, Manhattan lawyer Larry Feingold blew up three floors of Stuyvesant Town. Yesterday, moments after a judge found him guilty of arson for a catastrophically botched suicide attempt,...
GARY COOPER? MORE LIKE JOHN 'WANE'
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amRIGHT now, John Kerry's message seems to boil down to this: I deserve to be president because I served in Vietnam. But that's not a vision for America - and...
MAD DAD 'MEATS' OUT JUSTICE TO HIS KID - WITH BEEF JERKY
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Staten Island bodega owner whipped his young son with an 18-inch stick of beef jerky after catching the boy skipping school, authorities said yesterday. The bizarre incident began at...
FERRY CAPTAIN 'LIED' TO BOSS AFTER CRASH
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe captain of the Staten Island Ferry boat that slammed into a pier last fall, killing 11 passengers, lied to a supervisor 30 minutes after the disaster, telling him he...
DA DENIES DEAL IN VELELLA BRIBE CASE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amManhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau insisted yesterday that he's reached no plea deal with indicted Bronx state Sen. Guy Velella, who is accused of taking $137,000 in bribes. "There's absolutely...
BOMBER MEDALS ARE GOLD TO FANS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amYankee Medallion fever swept New York yesterday as tens of thousands of fans scored their collectable coins featuring pitching ace Mike Mussina. At Yankee Stadium last night, fans went wild...
'BRIBE' BROKERS BOOKED
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amA possibly mobbed-up Wall Street securities firm rooked investors out of millions of dollars, Manhattan prosecutors said in announcing the indictment of 10 brokers on criminal enterprise charges. The brokers...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: BABE'S FAMOUS HOUSE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amYankee Stadium is affectionately known as "The House That Ruth Built." Read about the history of the world's most famous stadium. The Yankees have never been shy about spending money....
FED 'CARD' $HARKS - RIP OFF MILLIONS ON TAXPAYERS' CREDIT
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Splurging federal workers used their government-issued credit cards to buy Oakley sunglasses, leather bomber jackets, jewelry, fine wine - and even a mounted deer head, according to a...
DRUGGIES WITH A [HEART] - ADDICTS TOLD NYU GIRL: DON'T DEAL
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe druggies and homeless men of Washington Square Park tried to talk wealthy NYU co-ed Julia Diaco out of becoming a street-level drug dealer - but, police said, she ignored...
NYU KID'S REEL DEAL - 'DRUG GIRL' CAUGHT ON VIDEOTAPE: DA
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amPolice have a videotape of accused NYU pot princess Julia Diaco selling drugs - including marijuana, cocaine, magic mushrooms and LSD - to undercover officers, prosecutors said yesterday. The revelation...
POOF! CRUCIAL U.N. DOCUMENTS VANISH
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The vast majority of the United Nations' oil-for-food contracts in Iraq have mysteriously vanished, crippling investigators trying to uncover fraud in the program, a government report charged yesterday....
JETER A HIT ON DEFENSE
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amDerek Jeter extended his Charlie Brown-like skid at the plate to 0-for-32 last night. But he might've saved the game in the field with some eighth-inning, double-play dance steps to...
ACHY KNEE PUTS BERNIE ON BENCH
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Bernie Williams' cranky body won't give him a break. Williams was held out of last night's game against the A's because Joe Torre said the switch-hitter strained his...
METS FIZZLE AGAIN - LACK OF OFFENSE DOOMS TRACHSEL
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amDodgers 3 - Mets 2 LOS ANGELES - It was fun while it lasted. Too bad it only lasted one game. On Tuesday, the Mets busted out of their offensive...
CONFIDENT MANDELLA: IT LOOKS LIKE MY 'DAY'
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The scrambled Kentucky Derby picture took another twist yesterday when one of the greatest trainers in the country confidently predicted that his horse, one of the longest shots...
LENNY'S EXPECTED TO RETAIN HIS AIDES
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Lenny Wilkens said he plans to bring back his coaching staff, though he had an intriguing critique of Mark Aguirre. Insiders believe Aguirre, Isiah's childhood buddy from Chicago,...
TRAINERS KNOW TIME'S RUNNING OUT FOR FINAL TUNEUPS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - For the first time in history, two runners in the Kentucky Derby will be saddled by female trainers, and both of those colts had their final blow-outs yesterday...
HE'S MILESTONE MIKE - PIAZZA TIES FISK, NEARS OTHER GREATS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Mike Piazza could have been a lifelong Dodger. Could have strolled into the Hall of Fame dressed in Los Angeles royal blue. But when Piazza was asked...
ISIAH: TIME TO STEPH UP - THOMAS WANTS MORE FROM MARBURY
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe critics say Stephon Marbury won't reach Jason Kidd's level next season, though Kidd and his sore knee will turn 32. If he doesn't get there, it won't be from...
WEAVER'S LOVIN' LIFE IN LA-LA LAND
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Jeff Weaver has just one thing to say about life with the Dodgers. "I'm loving it, man," he said. "I'm home. The sun shining in...
BOMBERS SERVE UP A RUBEN
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amFor a bat off the bench like Ruben Sierra, opportunities are infrequent. A slump can be a coffin, while one clutch hit can resurrect a season. Coming off Tuesday night's...
KIDD TRUSTS NETS' BENCH
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amJason Kidd has seen better than almost anyone the development of his young teammates, Richard Jefferson and Kenyon Martin. The two emerging stars played critical roles in sweeping the Knicks...
JINTS SEND KERRY PACKING
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amWhen a player gets cut, especially a veteran, it's the duty of the head coach to make the phone call. But it came as no surprise that when Kerry Collins...
DERBY JOCKS DENY THREAT OF BOYCOTT
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Velazquez and Jose Santos denied a story on ESPN.com that reported they would sit out the Kentucky Derby if the two jockeys were barred from wearing advertising logos on...
HEAT'S ON JOSE - CONTRERAS MIGHT BE PITCHING FOR HIS JOB
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amThey have changed his windup. They have altered where he sets his hands in the stretch. They have instructed him to do a better job of hiding his pitches. But...
TORRE TELLS ACHY BERNIE TO SIT
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Bernie Williams' body won't give him a break. Williams was held out of last night's game against the A's because he strained his left knee getting out of...
AGING YANKS COULD BE HINDERED BY HEALTH
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE is an age-old problem already besetting the Yankees, threatening their season much more than a poor April. Because the forecast for May, June, July and so on must include...
'PHILLY FLASH' GOES FOR CASH - UNBEATEN 'SMARTY' CAN EARN 5M BONUS
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Smarty Jones, the "Philly Flash," will break from post 15 in a full field of 20 3-year-olds entered yesterday for Saturday's 130th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, seeking...
HIGH SIERRA RIDES AGAIN
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amFor a bat off the bench like Ruben Sierra's, opportunities are infrequent. A slump can be a coffin, and one clutch hit can resurrect a season. Coming off Tuesday night's...
CONTRERAS, AND YANKS, FINALLY ROLLING
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 5 A's 1 His splitter cut through the crisp air and then seemingly dropped through a trap door. The fastball had life and, more important, was in the strike...
AGE A YANK WORRY
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE is an age-old problem already besetting the Yankees, threatening their season much more than a poor April. Because the forecast for May, June, July and so on must include...
BACK ON TRACK - CONTRERAS, AND YANKS, FINALLY ROLLING
April 29, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 5 A's 1 Bobby Crosby's third-inning homer was still in the air when Jorge Posada took off for the mound. If Jose Contreras had any plans to wilt at...