June 9, 2004
DOW JONES FLIPS ON MEDIATOR
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amPeter Kann, embattled CEO of Dow Jones and Co, blinked in the bitter labor negotiations with the company's largest union, the Independent Association of Publishing Employees. After talks stalled for...
SWIG NETS 80 BROAD
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amAggressive real estate investor Kent Swig struck again this week, snatching up 80 Broad St. for what property brokerage sources estimated as "in the $70-ish million range." Swig's company, Swig...
NEW NICKELODEON BRAND MAKES THE TWEEN SCENE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe already-sizzling tween market is getting even hotter as kid-friendly network Nickelodeon rolled out a new brand for the 13-and-under set. At this week's Licensing Show in New York, Nickelodeon...
LEE TO BUY 57% OF REFCO
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThomas H. Lee Partners has sealed a deal to buy a majority stake in Refco Group, the world's largest independent retail futures and options brokerage. Yesterday, the Boston-based buyout firm...
SEC SLAPS LATE FILERS26 FIRMS ARE SUSPENDED IN MOVE VS. SHELL COMPANIES
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission ratcheted up the pressure on small companies, suspending trading on 26 firms for failing to file financial information. Yesterday's move shows the SEC moving against...
JOHN JAY GETS TO SPREAD OUT
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amJOHN Jay College of Criminal Justice has signed a 10-year lease for additional space near its main campus on Tenth Avenue. It's also moving closer to approving plans for a...
OLD CRIMES HIT TAKE-TWO NET
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amTake-Two Interactive, a specialist in violent video games such as "Grand Theft Auto," admitted yesterday it was too quick to pull the trigger. The New York company, which has been...
SEE YOU IN COURT, DICK: AG
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer threw down the gauntlet again yesterday, signaling in no uncertain terms that he would not settle his high-profile lawsuit against former New York Stock...
ALAN: THE LOW-RATE PARTY IS OVER
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amAlan Greenspan says he wants to take an even tighter grip on the economy's wheel to steer it on a new course - away from rising prices. The head of...
SIMMONS PUTS IPO TO BED
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amSix months after hopping in bed with Simmons Co., Thomas H. Lee Partners is flipping its newly acquired mattress darling to the public. Yesterday, Atlanta-based Simmons said its parent company,...
FORTUNE RIPPED ME OFF! TIMES REPORTER RANTS OVER COVER STORY ON COCA-COLA
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amCONSTANCE Hays, author of "The Real Thing," a Random House title about the management problems at Coca Cola, was fuming over a recent cover story in Fortune about the same...
REDSTONE MULLS PLAY FOR MIDWAY
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amSumner Redstone may make a play for Midway Games, a money-losing maker of video games. The media mogul disclosed in a regulatory filing yesterday that he has hired an adviser...
SOTHEBY'S CLAIMS CHRISTIE'S SALES FIB
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe rarified world of art auctions is getting testy again - with Sotheby's calling Christie's fibbers. After a long lull in such outbursts, feuding has returned in earnest, this time...
LUCKY STAR ; CRAWLING FROM THE WRECKAGE, LIZA INSISTS LIFE'S JUST GRAND
June 9, 2004 | 4:00am"Biography: Liza Minnelli" Friday night at 9 on A&E (three stars) LIZA Minnelli, who has had more ups and downs than Pam Anderson's hips, is up again. This week anyway....
THE JINX FIGHTER; TOP CHEF GOES THE EXTRA SUMILE AT OWN PLACE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amSUMILE ½ (two and one half stars) 154 W. 13TH ST. (212) 989-7699 DINERS at Sumile on Saturday night of Memorial Day weekend were treated to a sight increasingly rare...
ON THE SIDE - NO ROOM FOR BISON IN APPLE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWHERE'S the beef, Ted? Ted Turner, the mouth from the South, isn't having much luck feeding the mouths of New Yorkers with his bison-based casual eatery,Ted's Montana Grill. Sources say...
'SOPRANOS' MURDERS DA RATINGS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amSUNDAY'S fifth-season finale of "The Sopra nos" averaged 11 million viewers on HBO - down about 1.5 million viewers from the show's fourth-season finale, which aired in December 2002. Still,...
POOR SPORTS FLEE TONYS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amTONY Award tidbits, gossip and observa tions: Christopher Plum- mer wasn't the only loser to stalk out of the Tony Awards Sunday night. "Wicked" composer Stephen Schwartz bolted Radio City...
FIELD OF SCREENS - METS' THIRD BASEMAN SHOWS ZEAL FOR FILMMAKING
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amMETS third baseman Todd Zeile has been cranking out lots of clutch hits lately. Now the veteran ballplayer is trying to be a heavy hitter in Hollywood. Zeile, 38, who's...
STARR REPORT
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amOn the front Berner "Law & Order: Criminal In tent" executive producer Fred Berner will be honored Monday with the 2004 Crea tive Vision Award by the En semble Studio...
LIZZIE'S ANGELS - PR 'GIRL' MTV SHOW IN WORKS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amPUBLICITY princess Lizzie Grubman is close to turning her Manhattan-based PR powerhouse into the next big reality show. "Power Girls" - a new series described as "The Apprentice" meets "Sex...
'SURVIVOR' SVENGALI'S WEDDING WISH
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amREALITY TV master Rob Burnett wants to get into the wedding business - "Survivor" style. Burnett says he wants to produce the wedding - Trista and Ryan style - of...
LIFE & SHOES OF IMELDA MARCOS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amIMELDA ½ (three and one half stars) A shoe-in. Running time: 103 minutes. Not rated (poverty, violence). At the Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. THE first thing...
CREAM OF THE CROP - SUMMER ICE CREAM SPOTS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amNO wonder we all scream for it. Especially in the summertime, nothing beats the cool comfort of ice cream. Even if it costs a little more to get your licks...
BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR TUNA
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN it seems there's nothing in the cupboard, there's always a can of tuna. And when best-selling author Joie Warner got her hands on the pantry staple, she went wild...
BALLET 'CLASS' - CUBAN DANCER XIOMARA REYES DAZZLES THE BALLET WORLD WITH HER ELEGANCE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amXIOMARA Reyes is just full of contradictions. This 4-foot-8 ballerina weighs only 100 pounds, but boy, is she powerful. Her pale skin plays against her dark mane and her large...
JAVY - YANKS' HURLER SHOWS OFF HIS STYLE AND SHARES HIS SECRETS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00am'It's been easier than I expected. The team has a lot of Latino players. This city is Tatino.' -Vazquez on joining the Yanks USUALLY sporting pinstripes, the Yankees' new pitcher...
TRUE COLORS - INTELLECTUAL LATINA HAS MADE THE STUDY OF RACES HER LIFE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN Marta Moreno Vega looks into a mirror, her deep mahogany image reveals the complexities of the African Diaspora. "Latinos come in different shades," says the Puerto Rican scholar, who...
A DAY OF DREAMS - HOW AN AMAZING PHOTOGRAPH CAME TO LIFE IN SPANISH HARLEM
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWE planned for a great day and were blessed with a spectacular afternoon. It was a dream for any journalist who chronicles the fantastic people of New York - the...
PARTY WITH TEMPO!!
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amEL BARRIO ALL-STARS FUNDRAISER Mibarrio.org and "Tempo" present Eddie Palmieri, Ray Barretto, Jimmy Sabater, José Mangual, Jr., Johnny Colon and Gilberto Colon, Jr. June 11, 10 p.m. Copacabana, 560 W....
OFF THE CHAIN - MIAMI RAPPER PITBULL IS READY TO SINK HIS TEETH INTO THE HIP-HOP GAME
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amBorn Armando Perez, the 23-year-old Cuban-American rapper Pitbull, who scored his first hit single with "Oye" off the "2 Fast, 2 Furious" soundtrack, has a much-anticipated debut album, M.I.A.M.I. ("Money...
VICTIM TO SUE SILVER ; 'IGNORED HARASSMENT'
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - and the Assembly itself - will be sued today by a young woman who accused Silver's former chief counsel of raping her last...
STATE'S WORKERS WILL GET A HOLIDAY - BUT CITY'S WON'T
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amGov. Pataki yesterday said he would give state workers the day off on Friday in honor of Ronald Reagan, but Mayor Bloomberg said it will be business as usual in...
POLS PROBE PATAKI'S JAVITS PLAN
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday ordered a public hearing on Gov. Pataki's plan for the expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, citing a "broad range of...
PACT-LESS UNIONS IN MIKE SLAP ; ANGRY CITY HALL RALLY
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amChanting, "Bloomberg sucks!" tens of thousands of angry, placard-waving cops, firefighters and teachers descended on City Hall yesterday to demand better pay. A sea of New York's Finest, Bravest and...
COURTNEY WANTED IN L.A. ASSAULT
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Prosecutors charged rock bad girl Courtney Love with felony assault with a deadly weapon and issued a warrant for her arrest, officials said last night. Love allegedly...
READY TO IRAQ'N'ROLL - 15-0 U.N. VOTE OKS NEW GOV'T
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A "delighted" President Bush cheered yesterday as the U.N. Security Council cast a unanimous 15-0 vote to support Iraq's new government - marking an end to the bitter...
DON'T DIG UP DAD ; MOB KIN IN PLEA
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe daughter of murdered mobster Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano is enraged over plans by reputed Bonanno boss Joseph Massino to unearth her father's remains, a judge revealed as the godfather's...
COPS NAIL BX. SLAY SUSPECTS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amTwo men were busted yesterday for shooting a 20-year-old Bronx man in the back during a mugging last month, cops said. Todd Branham and Cardell Speight, both 23, allegedly murdered...
MAN DIES IN SUBWAY FALL
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amA 67-year-old straphanger was killed yesterday when he fell to the tracks as he walked between cars, officials said. The man - whose name was withheld pending family notification -...
'FREAKY' FATHER; LINDSAY LIVES IN FEAR OF HER DAD: UNCLE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amLindsay Lohan's uncle claims the young star has a "24-hour" security detail because she and her mother are "frightened" of her trouble-plagued father. The "Freaky Friday" actress' uncle, Paul Sullivan,...
RIDER, 67, DIES IN SUBWAY FALL
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amA 67-year-old straphanger was killed yesterday when he plunged to the tracks as he apparently walked between cars, police said. Sergio Arias, of Brooklyn Heights, was riding an R train...
'GLOVES OFF' FOR WALKER LINDH: REPORT
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's government lawyer told military intelligence officers to "take off the gloves" when they interrogated John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban, according to a published report. The...
FURIOUS JUDGE GRABBED ME: ATT'Y
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn judge who has ordered defendants into anger-management classes stormed off the bench to scream at and angrily grab a lawyer in court yesterday, the attorney and a witness...
APPLE SOARS EVER HIRE; SENSATIONAL JOBS GROWTH SHATTERS SLUMP
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe nearly four-year drought in hiring in New York City is finally over. For the first time since January 2001, the Big Apple has started adding new jobs - and...
PAIR RODE SCOOTERS TO KILLING
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe pair of perps who shot a man dead near Brooklyn's Prospect Park swept down on their victim, identified as ex-con Antoine Johnson, on motor scooters, police said yesterday. Johnson,...
THE FIRST 'REALITY SHOW'
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amFifty years ago today, in a packed committee room at the U.S. Capitol, came one of the most electric moments in American political history. Indeed, it was a defining moment...
MUSLIM KID BASHED AT S.I. SCHOOL
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amA 12-year-old student was beaten and subjected to anti-Muslim slurs in a Staten Island school, authorities said yesterday. The boy, who was not seriously hurt, was accosted by another 12-year-old...
CRITICS STILL GETTING IT WRONG
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amMEMO to all those who believe that Ronald Reagan is being unfairly lionized in death: Bring it on. The undercurrent of unhappiness at the elegiac coverage of the Gipper isn't...
DON'T DIG UP DAD
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amHOW does that old song go? "Yes, we have no Bonnanos, we have no Bonnanos today." And when Frank Coppa finishes his aria, there likely won't be a single Bonnano...
BOSTON IS STRANGLED BY PICKETS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amChaos loomed in Boston yesterday as hundreds of union workers hit the picket lines and prevented the start of construction preparations for this summer's Democratic National Convention. Seven weeks before...
SHARON COALITION HANGS ON
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday lost his parliamentary majority because of new defections over his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. But Sharon's government appeared to...
COMMANDOS RESCUE ITALIAN HOSTAGES
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An elite U.S. Special Forces team rescued three Italians and one Polish hostage from pro-Saddam kidnappers yesterday in a daring commando raid south of Baghdad. In a dramatic...
POSSIBLE MONEY CHANGE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top Republicans said yesterday plans are under way to dump Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill in favor of Ronald Reagan. The lawmakers, fueled by the outpouring of...
FORECAST NOT A SHORE THING
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amFor everyone waiting for a perfect week of summer weather, this one definitely won't be it. The Big Apple will be a tropical wonderland today - hazy, hot and humid...
SARAH GOES PUBLIC - 'SEX' STAR: I'LL SEND SON TO CITY SCHOOL
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amSizzling "Sex & the City" beauty Sarah Jessica Parker announced yesterday that she'll send her child to a New York public school. "I want very much to send my son...
PS: TWO VIE FOR VILLAGE VAMP
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe red carpet is already being rolled out for David Perkins Broderick at the elementary school nearest his West Village home. If Sarah Jessica Parker makes good on her promise...
BELOVED MAN OF THE PEOPLE; * THOUSANDS WAIT IN LINE FOR HOURS * KERRY IN TRIBUTE AT REAGAN CASKET
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amSIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Mourners defied choking freeway traffic and hours of lines to pay their final respects to Ronald Reagan yesterday in a staggering outpouring of grief for the...
TOM'S THE FAVORITE - FRESTON HAS INSIDE TRACK IN VIACOM SUCCESSION RACE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amMTV founder Tom Freston has a leg-up in the race to succeed Viacom Chief Executive Officer Sumner Redstone, The Post has learned. Redstone's original succession plan called for Freston to...
PROBE FED SLAY-BLDG. MANAGER: CHUCK
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer yesterday called for an investigation of the real-estate management firm charged with overseeing more than 150 federally-owned buildings in the city - including two in Harlem where...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** A Bushwick man was arrested for beating his fiancée's 3-year-old son in his apartment, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Juan Ortiz, 25, grabbed the boy and pummeled his face...
MIKE GETS CREAMED ; POLS DON'T FLAVOR CONE OF SILENCE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amCity Council members yesterday rushed to the defense of Mister Softee trucks targeted in Mayor Bloomberg's new anti-noise plan. Several council members told The Post they don't support Bloomberg's proposal...
COPS SIFTING NEW CLUES IN 'TRUNK' SLAY
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amCops yesterday continued hunting the killer of Myrna Gonzalez, 45, a homeless woman whose strangled body was found in a trunk on an East Village street. An ex-girlfriend of Gonzalez...
PROTESTERS DOG KOREANS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amNew York animal lovers want cats and dogs off the menu in Korea. The dozen animal-rights activists who protested outside the Korean consulate on East 45th Street yesterday said pets...
SCHOLARSHIP HONORS SLAIN GRIDDER
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe family of Mark Fisher, the 19-year-old college sophomore gunned down on his first visit to Brooklyn, has established a scholarship fund in his name. "It's for a student who...
RELUCTANT DAD FAKED PATERNITY TEST
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amAn upstate man has been busted for cheating on a paternity test. Identified in court papers only as G.S., the Onondaga man "paid his cousin a sum of money to...
SMOKE 'SCREEN' ; FAKE SULTAN IMITATED FLICK: 'VICTIM'
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amAn allegedly swindling sultan, accused of conning two women out of $110,000 by pretending to be a royal millionaire neurosurgeon, had a novel - or, rather, cinematic - explanation for...
CRYING SHAME: 3RD-GRADERS LEARN WHO FAILED TESTS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's controversial policy to eliminate social promotion in the third grade hit home yesterday when school officials told heartbroken kids that they flunked their standardized reading and math exams...
BROOKLYN APT. SALES THROUGH THE ROOF
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amBrooklyn condos are selling like egg creams on a hot day. Data compiled by the Real Estate Board of New York shows reported transfers of condominiums in the borough have...
READY TO IRAQ'N'ROLL - SECURITY COUNCIL VOTES 15-0 TO BACK NEW GOV'T
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A "delighted" President Bush cheered yesterday as the U.N. Security Council cast a unanimous 15-0 vote to support Iraq's new government - marking an end to the bitter...
HEIST IS A BLAST; THIEF'S DYE-PACKGAS SICKENS 15
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amMore than a dozen straphangers were sickened yesterday morning after a bank robber fled into a lower Manhattan subway station and his bag of loot exploded, sending red dye and...
OLD 'SOFTEE' SAYS MAYOR'S OUT OF TUNE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amAFTER 14 years of selling ice cream from a white panel truck, Gonzalo Zuniga doesn't even hear the music anymore. Although the bouncy tune plays over and over again, like...
CAMPAIGN POLLS' MIXED MESSAGES
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Three new presidential polls yesterday sent conflicting messages - one showed Democrat John Kerry with a slim but growing lead over President Bush, another showed him ahead but...
WACKO IN 'ART ATTACK ; STRIKES TOP MUSEUMS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amA nationwide manhunt is under way for a twisted artist with a political agenda who left disturbing paintings of President Bush and ex-President Clinton on the walls of four major...
GATES AIDS NEEDY COLLEGE KIDS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amBill Gates said yesterday he's subsidizing the college education next fall of 1,000 low-income, minority students across the country - including 53 from the Big Apple and its suburbs. "Too...
NIGHT STALKER ; CLOCK TICKS AS B'KLYN COPS HUNT RAPIST
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amCops fanned out yesterday in a desperate manhunt for a sweet-talking sex fiend who's terrorizing Brooklyn by robbing and raping young women - skipping a day between each attack. "We...
MARCH FOR MONEY; UNIONS DEMAND BIGGER PAY HIKE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amChanting "Bloomberg sucks!" tens of thousands of angry, placard-waving cops, firefighters and teachers descended on City Hall yesterday to demand better pay. A sea of New York's Finest, Bravest and...
BANNED: JUDGE ORDERS 'VIOLENT' TV CHEF ROCCO TO STAY AWAY FROM 'THE RESTAURANT'
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amCeleb chef Rocco DiSpirito should keep out of the kitchen - and the entire restaurant, a judge ruled yesterday. Justice Ira Gammerman issued an order saying DiSpirito - whose food...
MOBSTER'S DAUGHTER FIGHTS BID TO DIG UP DAD
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe daughter of murdered mobster Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano is enraged over plans by reputed Bonanno boss Joseph Massino to unearth her father's remains, a judge revealed as the alleged...
SISTERS SLAIN IN BRONX
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amTwo sisters were shot to death in the Bronx last night by a man who had child with one of them, police said. The women were slain around 10:30 p.m....
YES, WE HAVE NO BONNANOS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amHOW does that old song go? "Yes we have no Bonnanos, we have no Bonnanos today." And when Frank Coppa finishes his aria, there likely won't be a single Bonnano...
COMMANDOS SAVE ITALIAN HOSTAGES
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An elite U.S. Special Forces team rescued three Italians and one Polish hostage from pro-Saddam kidnappers yesterday in a daring commando raid south of Baghdad. In a dramatic...
TIME TELLING SO MUCH ABOUT BERNIE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amDURABILITY is one of Derek Jeter's strengths, but patience is one of Joe Torre's; the shortstop could wait at least one more day to play the 53rd game of his...
LIONS THUMP REGIS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFSFarrell 13Regis 4 Larry DiGiorgio is unaccustomed to pitching with big leads, what with Monsignor Farrell having trouble scoring runs throughout the season. The past two days, however, the...
COTTON: BEEN THERE, WON THAT
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amFormer Suns coach Cotton Fitzsimmons was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. Here's the second of Peter Vecsey's two-part series on the hoop legend.SCOTTSDALE - Tex Winter's standard line on Cotton...
AMAZIN'S DRAFT BURT'S SON
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Seventeen years after the Giants won the Super Bowl, Jim Burt is back playing in New York. Meet Jim Burt's son, the latest Met draftee. In...
EXPOS DRAFT GW'S PEREZ
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amMelvin Perez became George Washington's third player selected in this year's major league draft when the Expos picked him in yesterday's 40th round. "He's a great student, but he wanted...
KOBE TO KNICKS: LET'S TALK IN JULY
June 9, 2004 | 4:00am"I'm going to listen to all options. If he [Isiah Thomas] invites me, I'll be there."KOBE BRYANT LOS ANGELES - Rev up the engines of James Dolan's yacht. Free-agent-to-abe Kobe...
HAND IT TO JAVY ; STRONG START GETS STANDING OVATION
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 2Rockies 1 Befitting a team with the best record in baseball, the red-hot Yankees have many strengths. This season, starting pitching has not been one of them. But if...
GIAMBI BACK WITH A BANG
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amJason Giambi has been back in the Yankees' lineup for a grand total of two games, and since his return to action from the 15-day disabled list, he has won...
TIME TELLING QUITE A BIT ABOUT BERNIE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amDURABILITY is one of Derek Jeter's strengths, but patience is one of Joe Torre's; for one more night, then, the game went on without the shortstop. But Roll Call waits...
BRYANT TO RESCUE! TREY AT :02.1FORCES OT, LETSL.A. TIE SERIES
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 2 / OT Lakers 99 Pistons 91 LOS ANGELES - The Lakers' dynasty was all but ready to crumble last night when Kobe Bryant saved the night with what...
JAX: I MAY STILL LEAVE
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES LOS ANGELES - Phil Jackson shrugged off his girlfriend Jeannie Buss' prediction on L.A. radio that he'll likely return next season as Lakers coach. The owner's daughter and...
N.Y. BIGHT PORGIES AREN'T KEEPERS YET
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amON MOST wrecks and reefs in the New York Bight, the porgies are piled so thick that it's impossible not to catch them. So what's the problem, you ask? The...
GIANTS' AIDE BATTLING CANCER
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amJust as the Giants were settling into a rhythm and players were growing comfortable with their new coaching staff, word came yesterday that Pat Flaherty, the first-year offensive line coach,...
DRY COURSE COULD MEAN HIGH NUMBERS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amBUICK NOTES It has been so long since the Buick Classic has finished a weekend without being interrupted by rain, it's hard to remember how difficult Westchester Country Club can...
GIAMBI GETS BACK TO FIRST
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amThe Yankees' training room has featured more stars recently than a high-priced celebrity golf pro-am. In the past two weeks, big-time players Derek Jeter, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Kenny...
DEREK: 'I FEEL FINE' ; CAPTAIN LIKELY TO PLAY TONIGHT
June 9, 2004 | 4:00am"Any time you have days off, you're going to be a little rusty."DEREK JETER Derek Jeter said his injured left groin feels fine. He sat out last night's game against...
SHEFFIELD RETURNS TO LINEUP
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Gary Sheffield was back in the Yankees' lineup last night after missing Sunday's 2-1 win over Texas with a stomach virus, the ailment that limited him to DH'ing...
LIONS' ATTACK MAKES IT EASY FOR DIGIORGIO
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFSFarrell 13Regis 4 Larry DiGiorgio is unaccustomed to pitching with big leads, what with Monsignor Farrell having trouble scoring runs throughout the season. The past two days, however, the...
NO OUTSIDE CHANCE; FASTBALLS AWAY GIVING FLOYD FITS
June 9, 2004 | 4:00am"You can't continue to stay at the top of the order if you don't produce."CLIFF FLOYD MINNEAPOLIS - When Cliff Floyd leaves Shea Stadium after a game, he hears it....
COTTON: BEEN THERE, WON THAT - AILING LEGEND HAS SEEN IT ALL
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amFormer Suns coach Cotton Fitzsimmons was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. Here's the second of Peter Vecsey's two-part series on the hoop legend. SCOTTSDALE - Tex Winter's standard line on...
BILLUPS TRYING TO MAKE HIS POINT WITH BROWN
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES LOS ANGELES - Chauncey Billups, who has smoked the Lakers all season, thinks he and Piston coach Larry Brown have spent the years trying to adjust one another....
METS TAKE BURT'S SON IN DRAFT
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Seventeen years after the Giants won the Super Bowl, Jim Burt is back playing in New York. Jim Burt's son, that is. In a remarkable New...
JETER SET TO RETURN TONIGHT
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Derek Jeter's heretofore-injured left groin feels fine; his sitting out last night was more about Joe Torre's comfort than his. "He's fine. For my own comfort, I want...
HOT ELS ROLLS INTO BUICK
June 9, 2004 | 4:00amYou would think Ernie Els would be wearing down after four straight weeks of competitive golf on two continents. But to the contrary, the 34-year-old South African was practically bubbling...