June 20, 2004
'80S ROCK GROUP NOW HOTTEST NAME IN ADS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThey're risin' up, back on the streets. Took their time, took their chances. Now Survivor, the '80s group famous for the "Rocky III" anthem "Eye of the Tiger," is back...
MENTOR SHOWS 'APPRENTICE' REALITY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amDonald Trump has tapped an "apprentice" from his own skyline-shaping past to train reality-show winner Bill Rancic for the job of supervising his giant new 90-story project in Chicago. HRH...
CELL PHONE VIRUSES NEXT BIG HANG UP
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe first cell phone virus - introduced last week by a shadowy international group of programmers that specialize in "concept viruses" - hasn't been unleashed on the public or crashed...
GM: LOTS SHOULD HELP GAME PLENTY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amAS Mark Twain might have said, everyone complains about opening theory but nobody does anything about it. The complaint is that so many games have been played before that the...
FORENSICS MANIA MAKES TV A THEATER OF BLOOD
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amN(OW)Blood. Violence on TV (starring on TV:)has long been with us -especially bloody violence, which grows more graphic with each passing season. And, while blood has always been the inevitable...
WE DON'T NEED TO SEE REAGAN'S MOVIES
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amWHILE it's difficult for a TV network to overreact to the death of a U.S. President, Turner Classic Movies might have done just that upon the passing of Ronald Reagan....
BEAUTY & THE HEAT - THESE 25 TIPS WILL KEEP YOU LOOKING HOT - AND FEELING COOL
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amWhat's not to love about summer? Well, except the frizzy hair. And the sunburns. And the waxing. And the moisturizer breakouts. OK, so the warm weather comes with its own...
FAREWELL TO KISS AND TELL
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amHE was a green-eyed banker who summered in Martha's Vineyard and promised to be a "great date." I was a New York novice, fresh off the boat from London, who'd...
WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amHe said: I'd been at the bar for about 10 minutes when the hostess brought Cassandra over. She was wearing a low-cut shirt, she had blue eyes and blond hair...
MEET MARKET: THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amENTERTAINER SEEKS A RAPT AUDIENCE OF ONE Dan, who lives on the Upper East Side, is in the second year of a three-year residency, at the end of which he'll...
SALIVATING CYBER-SNOBS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amFOR a certain sector of New York,the most important invitations of the summer are going to arrive in the next few weeks.A Small World,an invitation-only,Internet-based "social network," has begun to...
MERMAIDS ON PARADE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe Coney Island Mermaid Parade - easily the best parade in all of New York City - begins on Saturday at 2 p.m. This year's celebrity ringmaster is Moby, who...
INCUBUS: GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe band's very name, Incubus, conjures images of hell-bent-for-metal rockers. Yet this Southern California quintet, fronted by 28-year-old Brandon Boyd, is one of the few bands able to straddle the...
CHICKS WITH SHTICKS - WAYANS BROTHERS ADJUST THEMSELVES AFTER BIKINI WAX, HORNY GUYS AND TWO MONTHS IN THE MAKEUP CHAIR
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amMarlon Wayans knows what hell is. "Hell is walking around for 60 days in a row with your thing taped back." Marlon and his brother Shawn had to put up...
HEAR THIS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amIN CONCERT Funk-metalers Primus perform their entire album "Frizzle Fry" at Radio City on Tuesday. Wednesday, Lou Reed plays Carnegie Hall. Styx play Beacon Theatre. Incubus kicks off its tour...
SCREAM TEAM - WELSH ROCKERS MCLUSKY BRING IN THE PUNK
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amHE may not be in the pantheon of rock gods with the likes of Robert Plant and Chris Cornell, but when it comes to screaming, Mclusky lead singer Andy Falkous...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amBrian Wilson "Gettin' in Over My Head" (three and one half stars) Rhino Records With the pace of a speeding glacier, ex-Beach Boy Brian Wilson releases his first studio recordings...
TOUGH TWEEDY - WILCO'S LEAD SINGER, FRESH FROM REHAB, TRIES A BOLD NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTION: HAPPINESS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amWilco founder Jeff Tweedy isn't well in the 2002 band documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart." The critics' darling throws up (a side effect of his lifelong battle...
LESS IS MOORE - LEFTY DOC-MAKER STOPS HOGGING THE CAMERA IN BUSH-BASH 'FAHRENHEIT'
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThere's less of Michael Moore in his controversial new documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11" - and it isn't because the rotund leftist filmmaker has shed a few pounds. Moore, who was the...
WORTHY OF NOTE - RISING YOUNG STAR RACHEL MCADAMS SHINES IN WEEPER 'THE NOTEBOOK'
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe romantic tearjerker "The Notebook" stands out in a summer of popcorn blockbusters as a prime example of counter-programming. The sentimental period drama, out Friday, is also notable for another...
WINDOW GUARD HORROR
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amAn unfastened window guard led to the tragic death of a 21-month-old Washington Heights toddler, who accidentally plummeted six stories, the building superintendent said yesterday. Handyman Thomas Baez first heard...
DR. BLOOMY IS IN ; NOSY HEALTH DEPT.'S PERSONAL HEALTH QUIZ
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amAsia Friedman discovered that a trip to Dr. Bloomberg is a far more probing encounter than a visit to her family doctor. The 29-year-old Park Slope student, who signed on...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amA cruise ship passenger from Wyoming was led away in handcuffs and hauled into court - all because of a marshmallow mix-up. Hope Clarke, 32, was removed from the ship...
STUNNED TOWN GRIEVES, PRAYS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amLITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. - Neighbors of beheaded American hostage Paul Johnson sought unsuccessfully to make sense of his brutal murder. "A lot of people are angry, a lot of...
PROTESTERS DUNK NETS' ARENA PLAN
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amSeveral hundred people rallied on Pacific Street in Brooklyn yesterday to voice their opposition to Bruce Ratner's proposed arena and luxury-housing plan for the area. "This is overdevelopment," said Daniel...
MISSILES HIT 'ZARQAWI' SAFE HOUSE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A U.S. missile strike killed up to 22 Iraqis in the troubled city of Fallujah - in an operation targeting Iraq's most-wanted man, al Qaeda terror chief Abu...
DIRTY DOZEN CAUGHT ALIVE - SAUDIS SHOW 4 SLAIN THUGS; HUNT ON FOR HOSTAGE BODY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amSaudi officials yesterday displayed the carcasses of the four terrorists who butchered American hostage Paul Johnson as they announced the arrests of 12 other al Qaeda terrorists connected to the...
YOUR FOLKS' WORLD; HERE'S DAD'S TAKE ON THE NEWS ON YOUR FIRST FATHER'S DAY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amDEAR Shayna: You're nine days old today. And even though your mother and I are certain that you are (in addition to being the most beautiful creature ever to walk...
CHILD HURT IN B'KLYN STAIRWELL COLLAPSE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amAn 8-year-old boy was hospitalized and dozens of people were rescued from a Brooklyn building after three stairwell landings collapsed last night, fire officials said. A combination of age and...
MIKE'S STADIUM-DEAL BEANBALL
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amMAYOR Bloomberg has ripped the city's deals with the Yankees and Mets as "disasters" for taxpayers. The mayor's harsh assessment came at a town hall meeting last week in Queens,...
NANNY 'SMEARED' ; FIGHTS 'ABUSE' MOM'S LAWSUIT
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amA nanny who once served Manhattan's richest of the rich says her life has been ruined following a dispute with her ex-employer - an Upper West Side socialite whose twin...
EVIL 12 BAGGED IN BODY HUNT; * SAUDIS SHOW 4 SLAIN THUGS ; * BIG BLOW TO QAEDA GHOULS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amSaudi authorities yesterday swept through Riyadh, arresting at least a dozen terror suspects believed to be responsible for the beheading of American hostage Paul Johnson - while displaying the carcasses...
BOY FINDS MOM DEAD IN CAR
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amA Whitestone woman was found dead in her car by her son as he took their dog for a late-afternoon walk yesterday, cops said. The woman, identified by family members...
DIDDY DAWDLES ; LATE TO OLYMPIC TORCH-BEARING
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amTwelve hours of Olympic glory lit up the Big Apple yesterday as the Olympic torch was carried through the five boroughs of the city that harbors hopes of hosting the...
GIRL STRUCK, KILLED AS SHE RUNS IN STREET
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amA 12-year-old Brooklyn girl was killed in a horrific car accident last night as she played with friends just blocks away from her home, police said. Frida Chirazi was hanging...
MA'S ILLNESS PROBED AS TRICK PITCH
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amAs good-hearted New Yorkers scramble to help the ailing mother of pitching phenom Danny Almonte come to the United States to treat kidney cancer, an official says her claim is...
PHONE FIEND NAILED ; WANTED IN JAIL-COP SLAY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amA phone call to a girlfriend led U.S. marshals to the fugitive gunman who allegedly killed an off-duty correction officer in Queens before bolting to Maryland. A team of marshals...
PARENTS IN SCRAMBLED EGG MIX-UP SET FOR TRIAL
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amA white couple and a black couple involved in a switched-before-birth custody battle are expected to be reunited in court this week to make the people responsible for their heartache...
COLUMBIA LAW TAPS YOUTHFUL TOP DOG
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amColumbia Law School professor David Schizer tomorrow will officially be named the school's dean. The 35-year-old Schizer will become the youngest dean at a top law school, Columbia officials said....
HIS GRAVE THOUGHTS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amWith "My Life" behind him, Bill Clinton is thinking about his death. In a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine, the former President said he's started to make plans for his...
VENDORS FIRED UP AGAINST TRUMP
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amA small, angry group of street vendors camped out in front of Trump Tower yesterday afternoon to protest Donald Trump's attempt to kick them off Fifth Avenue. About 10 disabled...
RANDY TALE SEAMY BUT NOT SORRY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amIn an unflinching, lengthy and self-deprecating look at his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton expresses remorse for his actions on almost a dozen occasions throughout his soon-to-be-released autobiography, but...
'HEY, I TRIED TO GET OSAMA'
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amResponding to criticism that he didn't do enough to combat terror during his presidency, Bill Clinton spends much of the second half of his book detailing his efforts to capture...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** A man was found shot dead in Boerum Hill yesterday, police said. David Williams, 25, of 131 E. 21st St. was found at 3:05 a.m. lying in the...
AMAZING 'FEET' OF DETECTION NAILS BX. SLAY SUSPECTS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amBronx detectives were sure they had an open-and-shut murder case yesterday after three absent-minded killers left a telltale trail of footprints leading away from the front door of a newly...
BUBBA BARES DOUBLE LIFE; CONFRONTS ANGRY PAST
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amBILL CLINTON says he's led a dual existence his entire life, with conflicting personalities that collided in ugly and spectacular fashion during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In "My Life," which...
MURDER AFOOT: SHOE TRACKS BETRAY BX. 'SLAYING' TRIO
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amBronx detectives were sure they had an open-and-shut murder case yesterday after three absent-minded killers left a tell-tale trail of footprints leading away from the front door of a newly-painted...
STABBING VICTIM DIES IN HARLEM
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amA 47-year-old Queens man was stabbed and then thrown from a moving car in front of a Harlem movie theater early yesterday. Anthony Reed, of 13-70 Eggert Place in Bayswater,...
FOR PURE HISTORY VALUE, TAKE 'MY LIFE' - PLEASE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amMuch like the career of its author,"My Life" - features greatness and disappointment. Bill Clinton 's mammoth autobiography - one of the longest presidential memoirs - covers lots of territory...
BIG-RIG WILLY - STEP INSIDE HIS $1.8M LUXURY TRAILER
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amWill Smith has been hiding out on the streets of New York in the most expensive trailer ever built - a $1.8 million palace filled with high-tech gadgets and luxurious...
RANCOR IN THE RANKS; NHL DISPUTE COMES DOWN TO OWNERS VERSUS OWNERS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amF ORGET the traditional scorecard. The NHL fight isn't really between the owners and the players. It's among the owners, themselves. The league strategy of standing behind its non-negotiable, non-starter...
GOOD ARMS HIDING ON TERRIBLE TEAMS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amYOU know there's an excess of major-league teams when the Pirates still trot out Ryan Vogelsong every fifth day. A quick look at the staffs of some of the notoriously...
HE'S BACK: REYES DEBUTS - AND CAM'S HERO AGAIN
June 20, 2004 | 4:00am10 INNINGS Mets 4 Tigers 3 When he slid headfirst into third with a 10th-inning triple, fans roaring in his ear, bedlam reigning at Shea, Jose Reyes did a simple...
MARBURY BLOCKBUSTER WAS ISIAH'S KNICK DRAFT
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amUnlike his predecessor, who lived for them, Knicks prez Isiah Thomas doesn't do drafts any longer. When he talks about rebuilding the Knicks in "unconventional ways," he means without relying...
CAMERON SENDS 'EM HOME HAPPY AGAIN
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amMike Cameron and Cliff Floyd were both struggling so much earlier this season that it was not uncommon for the two to be talking about how to fix their problems...
PLAY BALL, JOSE ; HEALTHY REYES RETURNS TO METS AFTER 66 GAMES
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe lineup card said it all. Batting second and playing second base last night, Jose Reyes was back. "I'm ready," he said. After what seems like forever - actually 66...
IT'S A WONDER-PHIL FEELING - MICKELSONCONFIDENTHE CAN WINMORE MAJORS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amPhil Mickelson began the third round of the 104th U.S. Open as he had begun so many tournaments - at or near the top of the leaderboard. Yet this time,...
DIKEMBE'S DREAM; BIG MAN BUILDS HOSPITAL IN NATIVE CONGO
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThose who don't know Dikembe Mutombo wonder what would make a 37-year-old millionaire put himself through the rigors of two more NBA seasons? And what would make the Knick center...
SIGHTSEEK BEST IN PHIPPS 'CAP
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amIn a clash of filly and mare titans, Sightseek tracked the early pace set by 4-5 favorite Azeri, cruised to the lead at the top of the stretch under Jerry...
MOOSE CUTS LOOSE AFTER 'FULL' PEN SESSION
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES LOS ANGELES - Mike Mussina is ready to go again. He said his right groin wasn't an issue after a 10-minute bullpen session yesterday morning. "I did a...
ONE TO REMEMBER : HALSEY TAMES DODGERSIN MAJOR-LEAGUE DEBUT
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 6 Dodgers 2 LOS ANGELES - No matter how Brad Halsey's career turns out, he will always have yesterday at Dodger Stadium. In his major-league debut against the Dodgers...
NETS MAY LET MARTIN WALK
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe Nets' toughest opponents next season might not be the Pistons and the Pacers but purse-strings and the payroll. In developments that could break up the Nets' trio of Jason...
FEEL-GOOD DAY FOR JOSE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amJOSE Reyes, hamstring finally happy, back betraying him no longer, is a sight for the sorest eyes. Not his eyes, ours, just in case you incorrectly assumed he returned last...
FIELD GIRDS FOR GUSTER'S LAST STAND
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe debate over Shinnecock Hills Golf Club's devilish winds has been swirling more than the wind itself. That's about to change. The final round of the 104th U.S. Open is...
GALLERY GOES GA-GA OVER PHIL
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amPHIL Mickelson took bo gey-bogey on his final two holes late yesterday at Shinnecock, costing him his lead in the 104th U.S. Open and costing him a spot in the...
TITLE HOPES BLOWING IN WIND
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amSO THE WIND fought back, and Shinnecock Hills bared her teeth at last, and for the first time at this 104th U.S. Open, the world's best players were spotted muttering...
'1' TO REMEMBER - YANKS' HALSEYTAMES DODGERSIN MLB DEBUT
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 6Dodgers 2 LOS ANGELES - No matter how Brad Halsey's career turns out, he will always have yesterday. In a three-hour period, the 23-year-old neophyte lefty made his major-league...
BROWN'S NEXT MOUND TURN STILL IFFY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES LOS ANGELES - Joe Torre still has Kevin Brown slated to start Saturday against the Mets at Yankee Stadium. But it's not in stone, because Torre and pitching...
SERGIO, 6 BACK, LIKES HIS POSITION
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe trotter hanging in the pack until the stretch, Sergio Garcia claimed he's in the hunt for his first major. "I feel like I still have a chance to win,"...
ELS HAS SHOT AT REVENGE ; BIG EASY HAS PHIL IN SIGHTS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amErnie Els has exactly what he wants. He has Phil Mickelson in his sights heading into today's final round of the 104th U.S. Open. Ever since Mickelson drained his 18-footer...
MOOSE PASSES 'PEN TEST
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Even before Brad Halsey beat the Dodgers yesterday, the day was a success for the Yankees when Mike Mussina announced his right groin wasn't an issue after...
METROS RULE GALAXY WITH JUNIOR VARSITY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amMetroStars 2Galaxy 1 With a decimated roster bereft on eight starters and the youngest lineup in MLS history, the MetroStars had battled the league's best team to a standstill for...
MAY BE FUNK-Y FINALE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amEven in Japan, Fred Funk is now a household name. "It's a hard name to grow up with," Funk acknowledged recently, "But it's easy to remember. Sometimes on tour, I'm...
TIGER'S GROWLIN' AT BUTCH
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amTiger Woods went on the defensive yesterday when asked about the public bashing he's been getting from his former swing coach, Butch Harmon, who's been telling anyone with pad, pen,...
SHOTS HEARD 'ROUND WORLD - MATSUI, NOMO HRS HISTORIC FOR JAPANESE PLAYERS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Hideki Matsui lifted the Yankees to victory yesterday - and in the same stroke, might have boosted his nation's sagging baseball fortunes. Matsui hit a three-run homer...
DEBACLE ON 34TH STREET - MARV'S FIRING JUST LATEST DISGRACE AT THE GARDEN
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS is the hell of being a Knicks fan, or a Rangers fan, in this city in the year 2004: Even in the offseason, when there should be a moratorium...
VICTORY WOULD BE FUL-PHIL-ING
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amTHE 0-for-46 drought in majors ended for Phil Mickelson with his thrilling victory at the Masters two months ago. But winning the 104th U.S. Open today at Shinnecock Hills would...
NO-NAMES UPPING THEIR REPS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amA big rep alone doesn't conquer Shinnecock. That job yesterday was accomplished by a couple of golf's more anonymous sorts. Long done, Timothy Clark and Charles Howell III spent the...
OPEN BECOMES SURVIVAL TEST - FIELD FUMING ABOUT HELLISH SEVENTH HOLE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThere's no getting around it. The player who gets to experience seventh heaven euphoria by winning the 104th U.S. Open will have endured seventh- hole hell. "It's brutal, it really...
HAAS PAIR MUST WAIT FOR ITS TURN
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES They both stand 6-over, but Jay and Bill Haas, the first father-son combo to make the U.S. Open cut, will have to wait until next week to play...
OPEN BECOMES SURVIVAL TEST ; SHINNECOCK WILL CHANGE COURSE OF HISTORY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amToday's climactic final round of the 104th U.S. Open has come down to this: a war of attrition. The last man standing on No. 18 with his putter raised in...
HODGES WILL FINALLY GET THE HONOR HE EARNED
June 20, 2004 | 4:00am"Gil Hodges was a hero to New York sports fans and was a hero to our country." REP. VITO FOSSELLA GIL HODGES not only was a great all-around ball player,...
WIGGY RETURNS TO THIRD
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES With Jose Reyes back, that means the Mets have more speed. More electricity. More excitement. It also means they have one other thing - more reshuffling. The Mets...
THE GOOD GUY'S WINNING: AN '86 MET'S AMAZING TALE OF SURVIVAL AND BATTLE TO HELP KIDS FIGHT KIDNEY DISEASE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amED Hearn's 1986 World Series ring shimmers as he speaks. Life can be as unpredictable as that glorious World Series. The ball went through Bill Buckner's legs to allow the...
HEAD TO HEAD
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amPost writers Kevin Kernan and Mark Hale slug it out over what further moves the Mets should make to remain in contention this season Kevin Kernan: There's time for the...
SMOKE ON THE WATER - PHELPS SETS SIGHTS ON SPITZ'S RECORD SEVEN GOLDS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amAt the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, swimmer Michael Phelps strode into the natatorium for his first event with the attention span of a six-week-old puppy. Not until he went...
METROS BEFUDDLED BY MIDFIELD MUDDLE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe MetroStars midfield was supposed to be among the best in the MLS, the engine that drove a free-flowing, high-scoring team to its first title. But so far this season...
HER BIGGEST SAVE ; N'EASTERN GOALIE HANDLES EPILEPSY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe seizures would hit Chanda Gunn in mid-sentence, leaving a listener lost in conversation. Or they'd come as she walked around the University of Wisconsin campus, stealing her balance, once...
FREE FISHING IN BIG APPLE NEXT WEEKEND
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amNEW York has always been recognized as a destination state for saltwater fishing as well as some world class trout fishing, but ranked right up there with both is our...
BLASTS FROM THE POST - A LOOK BACK AT GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTS: JUNE 20 - JUNE 28
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amIT WAS 40 YEARS AGO AT SHEA - A PERFECTO! June 21, 1964 James Paul Bunning, 32 years old, father of seven children, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies by summer,...
MIKE, DOG BARK IN DARK
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amAND now, finally, we can get to the least significant but loudest chapter of last week's Marv Albert saga: Those two see-through, egocentric, personal agenda and vendetta-driven disinformationists, Mike Francesa...
KNEE SURGERY SCHEDULED FOR KIDD
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amJason Kidd is headed for surgery. Several sources confirmed yesterday that Kidd will undergo surgery July 1 on his aching left knee and figures to be on crutches for six...
WIGGINTON GETS ANOTHER STAB AT THIRD
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES With Jose Reyes back, the Mets have more speed. More electricity. More excitement. It also means one other thing - more reshuffling. The Mets have played without Reyes...
GAGNE'S LIKE JOE D: TORRE
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Eric Gagne's remarkable save streak survived its first Yankees test, and the Bombers now know first-hand why he's baseball's most devastating ninth-inning weapon. Gagne's streak of 80...
FEEL-GOOD DAY AT SHEA
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amJOSE Reyes, sore hamstring healed, sore back healed, was the sight for the sorest eyes last night at Shea. Uh, not his eyes - ours. Just thought we should make...
SUCCESS SHOULDSHUT THE TRAPSOF N.Y.'S CRITICS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amFORGET what the foofs say. Disregard the jealous ramblings of out-of-towners who envy everything we have in New York. Whispers abound of a bias toward New York golf courses, since...
KOBE DRIVES THIS BUSS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amIN my concocted dictionary, an enabler is someone who waters the weeds. Alongside the definition is a picture of Jerry Buss. "The NBA's most dangerous gardener this season," confirms the...
GONE WITH THE WIND - LACK OF BREEZE NOT WHAT FIELD WANTS
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe debate over Shinnecock Hills Golf Club's devlish winds has been swirling more than the wind itself. As the third round of the 104th U.S. Open got under way, players...
FURYK PROUD HE GOT TO PLAY
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amRust and reality finally overcame the will of a champion. Jim Furyk's rousing charge to make the final 66 - hurrying back to his first tourney after wrist surgery -...
MEET HAAS AND HAAS-NOT
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amBILL HAAS and Spencer Levin stood next to each other, talking to report ers after finishing their second round Friday at the 104th U.S Open at Shinnecock Hills. As amateurs,...
IT'S THE SLIDE OF THE TIGER - WOODS STILL HAS A MAJOR PROBLEM
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amIt's time for Tiger Woods to end the denial dance. It's time for Woods to deliver an answer, whether it be on the golf course or off it. To coincide...
MATSUI MADNESS - JAPANESE FANS CHOOSING BOTH SIDES IN SUBWAY SERIES
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amGet ready for the "Chikatetsu Series." That's the Subway Series to you and me, but for thousands of Japanese baseball fans, this week's meeting between the Yankees and Mets means...