June 25, 2004
NYT RUSHES OUT REVIEW REDO
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe New York Times, which last Sunday published a scathing front-page review of Bill Clinton's "My Life," has alerted subscribers that another, much kinder and gentler review is coming July...
HOLLINGER SUITOR - CERBERUS CAPITAL COURTING CONRAD FOR A SALE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amPrivate equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is in discussions about acquiring Hollinger International, the newspaper chain controlled by scandal-scarred press baron Conrad Black, The Post has learned. In a regulatory...
HALSTEAD GOBBLES ROSS AGENCY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe real estate brokerage acquisition shuffle is in full swing. Just one day after Citi Habitats was snapped up by the Corcoran Group comes news that Halstead Property has bought...
FCC HITS SNAG ON NEW RULES
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe Federal Communications Commission's plan to relax media ownership rules has come under attack in court. A U.S. appeals court yesterday blocked the rules from taking effect yesterday, telling the...
EX-WARNER MUSIC VET CHASING UNIVERSAL CD UNIT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amFormer Warner Music distribution chief Jim Caparro and his private equity backers are in negotiations to purchase Universal Music's CD manufacturing arm, The Post has learned. Caparro, backed by the...
TRUMP GETS BUMP FROM BLACK SETBACK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amConrad Black's downfall is proving to be a windfall for Donald Trump. The New York developer is walking away with full control of one of Black's - and Chicago's -...
AOL SPENDS $435M ON ADVERTISING.COM
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amInternet giant America Online coughed up $435 million to snag marketing service firm Advertising.com to bolster its online ad clout. The deal will boost AOL's online viewing audience to about...
MAY HOME SALES JUMP TO RECORD
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amInterest rates may be rising, but that didn't keep home buyers from ringing up a record month as May sales jumped almost 15 percent. The Commerce Department said yesterday that...
CELEB BOOKS TAP MAG STARS - HUNGRY FOR ADS, RIVAL PUBLISHERS HIRE CONDE NAST VETS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amSOME of the upstart celebrity weeklies are suddenly trying to sell ads. The new Star, which shed its tabloid skin and turned into a full-blown glossy on April 5, has...
MACK IS WHACKED - CREDIT SUISSE BOARD BOUNCES BOSS OVER MERGER RIFT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amCredit Suisse Group co-head John Mack is leaving the firm, after failing to convince his board that the beleaguered bank needed to do a deal. "There was a difference in...
SECOND TIME DOWN AND OUT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amCo-Chief Executive John Mack's ouster from Credit Suisse Group yesterday was not the first time he has been forced out of a Wall Street giant. After helping to orchestrate the...
AOL MAKES $435 BID TO GRAB ONLINE AD FIRM
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amInternet giant America Online coughed up $435 million to snag marketing service firm Advertising.com to bolster its online ad clout. The deal will boost AOL's online viewing audience to about...
MUSIC VET CHASING UNIVERSAL CD UNIT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amFormer Warner Music distribution chief Jim Caparro and his private equity backers are in negotiations to purchase Universal Music's CD manufacturing arm, The Post has learned. Caparro, who is backed...
'WOLF' AT THE DOOR
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amTIME OF THE WOLF (three stars) In French, with English subtitles. Not rated (disturbing images). At the Cinema Village, 12th Street, east of Fifth Avenue. NEVER let it be said...
MALAYSIA MALAISE NOT WHAT'S 'INTENDED'
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amTHE INTENDED (one star) Bungle in the jungle.Running time: 109 minutes. Not rated (sex, nudity). At the Sunshine, Houston Street, between First and Second avenues. 'THE Intended" is the dull...
CLASSIC PHILLY GUMBO
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amSUMMERTIME, and the listening's easy - especially this summer, when the New York Philharmonic lightens up with a series of eminently hummable "Summertime Classics." Catch Grammy-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin's "Viva...
REED 'EM & WEEP
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amLOU REED TALKING his way through songs, Lou Reed flips out obser vations in his staccato baritone like a guy tossing cards at a hat across the room. The hits...
STARR REPORT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amBronx- born actress Shelley Morrison, who plays Rosario on "Will & Grace," is being honored in her native boough tomorrow with an induction into the Bronx Walk of Fame in...
FILM PICK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amHE'S AN ANGEL: Bruno Ganz, suave European leading man, is being honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which will unreel 13 of the more than 80 films he's...
KIDS' PICK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amGOT MILK?:The "Got milk? 3v3 Soccer Shootout Tour" is looking for America's ultimate soccer mom - one who drives her kids to practice and provides good nutrition by fueling them...
MODELS MEANER THAN PARIS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amENDEMOL, the European studio behind "Big Brother," has been sued for accidentally slaughtering 16 hens and ducks on the set of a French TV reality show inspired by "The Simple...
ROCK PICK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amERIC & MR. JOHNSON: Eric Clapton's got the blues, and he's loving every minute of it. On his latest album, "Me and Mr. Johnson" the guitar ace expands on his...
INDIE MUSIC PICK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amSEAPORT SOUNDS: New Jersey's Ted Leo and the Pharma cists fire up old-school folk-punk (in the Billy Bragg school of rock) that stands apart from the New York dark post-punk...
CATCH A TIGER BY A TALE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amTWO BROTHERS ½ (two and one half stars) Animal-lovers' delight. Running time: 109 minutes. Rated PG (mild violence). At the Chelsea, the Union Square, the Kips Bay, others. YOU don't...
END OF THE LINE: TIMELY FLICK GOES BEYOND THE 'EVERYDAY'
June 25, 2004 | 4:00am"Everyday People" Tomorrow night at 9 on HBO (four stars) IN the final scene of "Ev eryday People," listen carefully to the woman with the blue drink. The character's name...
CHANGE PARTNERS: TEEN DRAMAS RECYCLE STAR POWER
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWATCH the latest en semble TV shows and chances are there'll be a familiar face on one of them - someone you recognize from a different show you probably liked...
ZYDECO'S FAVORITE SON
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amC.J. Chenier is the son of the late zydeco leg end Clifton Chenier, but the younger Chenier was raised in housing projects in Texas rather than by the Louisiana bayou....
KEEN TROUPE TAKES A WALK ON THE WILDER SIDE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amTHORNTON WILDERAt the Connelly Theater, 220 E. Fourth St.; SmartTix, (212) 868-4444. Through July 18. THORNTON Wilder was a dazzlingly original dramatist who liked to take ordinary people on miraculous...
THIS WEEPER'S A KEEPER - 'NOTEBOOK' HAS WRITE STUFF THANKS TO STELLAR CAST
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amTHE NOTEBOOK (three stars) Get out your handkerchiefs. Running time: 121 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexuality). At the Empire, the Kips Bay, the Union Square, others. "The Notebook" is unapologetic romantic...
DANCE PICK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amGEORGIA ON HIS MIND: The finale of New York City Ballet's yearlong Balanchine Centennial Celebration will not, oddly but appropriately enough, be New York City Ballet. It will be the...
CBS BRINGS HOME MURROWS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amCBS snared eight Edward R. Murrow Awards yesterday - while ABC won for Best Newscast ("World News Tonight"). The awards are considered the créme-de-la-créme of broadcast awards and are handed...
KEN'S 'J'PARDY' STREAK LIVES!
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amIT's 17 and counting for "Jeop ardy!" champ Ken Jennings - who steamrolled to another resounding victory last night. Jennings, the 30-year-old software developer from Salt Lake City, racked up...
'STREET' STILL THE LULLABY OF B'WAY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00am42nd STREET ½ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, 213 W. 42nd St. (212) 307-4100. IT'S nearly over, kids: Those tapping feet are to be stilled, the spangles abandoned, when...
ANIMATED SCI-FI TALE HAS FRENCH TWIST
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amKAENA: THE PROPHECY ½ (two and one half stars) Animated sci-fi, French-style. Running Time: 83 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence). At the Village East, Second Avenue and 12th Street. THOUGH France...
BOOK IGNITES CAUSE CELEB
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amYOU'RE a successful, single New York woman with a great job, dates galore and count Matthew Brode rick and Marisa Tomei as close friends. Then one afternoon, you're told you...
CUFF-CAPER 'COP' BUSTED
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amAn off-duty correction officer was busted yesterday for pretending to be a cop and handcuffing a 19-year-old prostitute who was found in his car, police said. Derek Stays, 38, picked...
COUNCIL PASSES $47B BUDGET
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe City Council early today unanimously approved a new $47.2 billion city budget that restored programs cut by Mayor Bloomberg and added millions to projects near and dear to individual...
FED KILLS HER DAD IN B'KLYN: COPS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA U.S. immigration inspector shot and killed her stepfather as her mother watched in horror in their Brooklyn home last night, cops said. Ulannie Watson, 26, of Brownsville, told cops...
MAJORITY OF IRAQIS SAY THEY'RE CONFIDENT IN NEW GOV'T ....
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amAn overwhelming majority of Iraqis say they're confident their new interim government set to take over Wednesday, will succeed. A U.S.-commissioned poll showed that 68 percent of Iraqis are behind...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA man in his 40s, armed with a carload of guns and 6,000 rounds of ammunition, vowed to kill as many people as he could in Toronto, but suddenly had...
SMALL SCHOOLS OF THE ABSURD - NYC'S NEXT BOONDOGGLE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWONDERFUL news for New York City parents: Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is opening a high school called the "Peace and Diversity Academy" in The Bronx. The brochure says students lucky...
B'KLYN GAL GETS LIFE IN DRUG SLAY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA judge sent a 23-year- old Brooklyn woman to jail for 25 years to life yesterday for killing her pot dealer during a robbery she masterminded to pay back her...
GRISLY MURDER ORDEAL - HAMPTONS HORROR CASE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA slain Westhampton woman whose car was found torched several months ago was also raped, tortured and brutalized by her jilted co-worker, police said yesterday as they slapped him with...
BILL'S BOOK A BIG BORE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amI TRIED, I really did. I wanted to read it, I really did. But once again, I've been defeated by Bill Clinton. He got me to pay cash dollars for...
TOUCH OF BRASS FOR 9/11 HERO'S SON
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amFirefighter John Feehan became an FDNY lieutenant yesterday, surrounded by his family and a cadre of fellow fire-eaters. But the event was bittersweet because his father, the man who inspired...
CORRECTION FRAUD GETS YEAR IN JAIL
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA former high-ranking city official was sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in prison for ripping off a not-for-profit foundation he oversaw. Frederick Patrick, 39, pleaded guilty to...
8 YEARS FOR POL'S VICIOUS PUMMEL-SLAY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe second of two men who admitted they savagely beat to death a Manhattan Democratic district leader was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday. Hill and cohort Shaguye Colbert...
JERKY JUDGE, UH, POUNDED THE GAVEL IN COURT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA sicko jurist regularly masturbated in court as he presided over criminal cases, state officials in Oklahoma charged yesterday. Sapulpa District Justice Donald Thompson allegedly used a male enhancement pump,...
CRUEL CROOKS USE KID TO ROB ELDERLY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA pair of Long Island crooks are using a cute little boy to distract elderly people while robbing their homes, police said yesterday. In one robbery Wednesday, the boy -...
FEDS GRILL BUSH ON CIA LEAK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Federal probers yesterday quizzed President Bush in the Oval Office for about 70 minutes in connection with the leaking of the name of the CIA agent whose husband...
DEATH-PENALTY KO - COURT RULES N.Y. LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - New York's highest court effectively killed the death penalty yesterday by striking down a major provision as unconstitutional. In a 4-3 decision, the Court of Appeals ruled that...
MAN SHOOTS ROCK-THROWING KIDS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA livery passenger went ballistic Wednesday and shot up a group of teens who were tossing rocks at passing cars, police said. When the smoke cleared, three young people had...
MTA WILL MISS BUS DEADLINE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority's takeover of seven private bus lines - scheduled to go into effect on Thursday - will not happen for six months, officials said yesterday. Mayor Bloomberg...
ROTC LOSING RANK IN THE BRONX
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe Army is losing the war for classroom space. The head of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Cadet (ROTC) program at the Theodore Roosevelt HS complex in The Bronx says...
DREAM TEEN GETS HIS SHOT - NBA COURTS BUDDING B'KLYN STAR
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWith the moves of a warhorse and the bloodlines of a thoroughbred, Brooklyn high-school basketball phenom Sebastian Telfair is set to take the professional hoops world by storm. The 19-year-old...
GEEZER IN TEAMSTER-BRIBE BUST
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amAn 81-year-old New Jersey man has been busted for bribing a Teamsters official to allow his non-union firm to work on the construction site of the new Time Warner building,...
HAMPTONS DIARY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amPARIS HILTON will host a party for the launch of her new record label, Heiress, at the PlayStation 2 celebrity party pad in Bridgehampton on July 2. The gathering, a...
6-CITY QAEDA DEATH BLITZ - TOLL TOPS 100 AS BOMBS HIT IRAQIS AND GIS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Six days before the handover of power to the Iraqis, al Qaeda fighters launched a vicious offensive in six cities yesterday, killing at least 100 people and wounding...
HOMEOWNERS MAY LOSE $75 TAX BREAK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amSmall homeowners cheering Mayor Bloomberg's $400 property tax rebate may not be so happy to hear they probably won't get a traditional break on their bills worth about $75. The...
FIRE HERO KILLED IN WAR AFTER N.Y. WOES
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA former Queens man killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq took a dangerous job driving trucks there to fund his long-running legal battle over his FDNY pension, his brother...
QUEENS STOLEN-BABY DAD PAROLED
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man who kidnapped a boy and carted him off to New Mexico, where he raised him for 22 years, has been granted parole after spending two years upstate...
TRAIN DEATH TWIST - 'OTHER MAN' TRIANGLE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe longtime female partner of the Brooklyn woman sliced in half by a subway train yesterday bitterly blamed the "other man" in their bisexual love triangle for "leaving her alone,...
FEISTY BLOOMY STILL GOP'D OFF
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday he intends to stand up for the city, even if it that means taking on Republicans and getting cozy with Democrats. "I'm only concerned about one...
PROTEST PERMITS COMING: KELLY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD will likely begin issuing permits next week to protest groups planning to gather for this summer's Republican National Convention, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday. A variety of...
MOM IN SEX-RAID ORDEAL - THUG PUT KNIFE TO BABY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island sex predator broke into a home, held a knife to a 5-month- old baby's throat and threatened to kill the child unless the mother submitted to his...
SUICIDE SHOCKER - B'KLYN BRIDGE STROLLERS SEE MAN SHOOT SELF
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA group of tourists strolling across the Brooklyn Bridge got a jolting shock yesterday when a disturbed man pulled out a gun and shot himself to death in front of...
RAT FELT THE HIT - FEARED MASSINO WOULD BUMP HIM OFF
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA longtime Bonanno underboss so feared reputed Mafia don Joseph Massino - his own brother-in-law - that he sent his wife to find out if the alleged boss had marked...
VOTERS GIVE W. A '7-UP' - EDGES PAST KERRY: POLL
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush has opened up a 7-point national lead over John Kerry, according to a new Fox News poll - while a Gallup Poll has a statistical tie...
SCHOOLS GIVE FAILING KIDS A PASS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amNearly 1,500 third-graders are being promoted even though they flunked their standardized reading or math exams - that's 14 percent of all the students who were in danger of being...
JURY HEARS SHEIK'S JIHAD JABBERINGS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury yesterday heard the bloody and chilling words of a blind sheik who preached that Jewish and Christian hearts are "boiling with hatred" and encouraged true Muslims to...
DRAG OUT ALL DRUGGIES - PROJECTS BAN THEM FOR LIFE ON 1ST BUST
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amOne strike and you're out. Anyone caught selling drugs in a housing project will be banned for life from ever setting foot in any city housing development under a new...
CAGED CANNIBAL WON'T STOP EATING
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe city's asylum for the criminally insane is trying to talk its resident chubby cannibal into starting a diet - but he won't bite, his shrink testified yesterday. Daniel Rakowitz,...
DEADBEAT DOC PAYS 100G FOR FREEDOM
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA deadbeat doctor arrested over the weekend coughed up $100,000 to his ex-wife yesterday after a Manhattan judge sentenced him to six months in jail and threw the book at...
KOBE JURORS MAY POSE QUESTIONS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amJurors in the Kobe Bryant rape trial may be allowed to ask questions under a new Colorado legal procedure. The measure, which goes into effect July 1, will permit jurors...
GORE'S IRAQ WORDS HAUNT HIM
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Democrat Al Gore yesterday claimed President Bush lied to get America into war with Iraq. Gore said Iraq "posed no immediate threat to us whatsoever," and contended that...
BUSH-SLAM JUDGE SORRY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday apologized after making anti-Bush remarks. Judge Guido Calabresi, a 2nd Circuit court of appeals judge based in New Haven, Conn., compared President Bush's election to the...
BOMBS & SKULLS IN B'KLYN APT.
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA narcotics raid on a Brooklyn co-op yesterday yielded a bizarre cache of homemade bombs, medieval swords, knives, heroin and five skulls, police sources said. Police arrested a hulking resident...
HIP-HOP HONCHO TAKES GUN RAP
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA reputed associate of hip-hop impresario Irv "Irv Gotti" Lorenzo pleaded guilty yesterday to gun charges stemming from an August 2003 standoff with Brooklyn law-enforcement officers. Tyran "Tah-Tah" Moore admitted...
ARMS HUNTER FEARS FIENDS SEEK WMD
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. expert heading the weapons hunt in Iraq yesterday said he's worried that terrorists like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi are trying to get chemical weapons to use against...
B'KLYN HS KID AN NBA MILLIONAIRE - SEBASTIAN'S HOOP DREAMS COME TRUE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amMeet Lincoln HS senior Sebastian Telfair - the kid from the Brooklyn projects who'll be blazing a trail of money to Portland as one of basketball's newest millionaires. The prep-school...
FEISTY MIKE STILL GOP'D OFF
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday he intends to stand up for the city, even if it that means taking on Republicans and getting cozy with Democrats. "I was hired to do...
CHENEY CURSES OUT LEAHY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amVice President Dick Cheney, ignoring the careful manners of politics, lost his temper and told a Democratic senator to "f- - - yourself" after a pointed exchange on the Senate...
'QUARTER MASTER' HITS BANK FOR 2G
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThis guy definitely has change for a dollar. Cops are asking for the public's help in finding the man who single-handedly robbed more than $1,800 in quarters from a Queens...
TERROR-BUST COP GETS A BUMP-UP
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD detective lauded for helping to bring down the hook-handed London-based terrorist last month will be promoted at Police Headquarters today. Detective George Corey, 40, a member of the...
TRAIN DEATH TWIST - BOYFRIEND: MY FAULT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe boyfriend of a Brooklyn mom crushed by a subway train said yesterday he was to blame for her gruesome death - a charge leveled by her former lesbian lover....
BEYONCÉ IS HEAVEN-SCENT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amHere's Beyoncé as you've never smelled her before - "modeling" the latest Tommy Hilfiger fragrance collection for women, True Star, at its launch party at the Chelsea Art Museum last...
HEAT ON COAST GUARD OVER CONTRERAS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amMIAMI - This is the boat that out-raced the Coast Guard as it hauled the family of Yankee hurler José Conteras on a high-speed, high-seas escape from Cuba earlier this...
TWIST TO JACKO BOOZE CLAIMS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe mother of the boy who accused Michael Jackson of molesting him often saw the child drink alcohol at the singer's Neverland ranch and did nothing to stop it, witnesses...
TRAIN GAL'S BEAU: I'M TO BLAME
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe boyfriend of a Brooklyn mom crushed by a subway train said yesterday he was to blame for her gruesome death - a charge leveled by her former lesbian lover....
DMX IN BUST AT JFK - 'STOLEN CAR' CAPER
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amBad-boy rapper DMX - whose rap sheet is as long as his list of hits - was arrested last night after he and a buddy tried to steal a car...
L.I. TEENS GO ON CAR RAMPAGE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA pair of speed-crazed teens terrorized a Long Island neighborhood on a demolition-derby joyride - crashing into houses, smashing into a brand-new Mercedes and narrowly missing a crowd of kids...
JURY HEARS SICKO SHEIK'S JIHAD JABBERINGS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury yesterday heard the bloody and chilling words of a blind sheik who preached that Jewish and Christian hearts are "boiling with hatred" and encouraged true Muslims to...
BELTRAN DEAL PUTS OFF BOSS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - George Steinbrenner loves Carlos Beltran, but the Royals didn't feel the same about the Yankees' prospects. Kansas City recently had talent evaluators in Double A Trenton,...
NETS REACH FOREIGN TRADE AGREEMENT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amAnother year, another foreign player for the Nets. But unlike Nenad Krstic in 2002 and Zoran Planinic last year, the Nets weren't choosing for themselves last night when they grabbed...
JASPERS' FLORES TO ROCKETS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWhen he heard the news, Luis Flores began to cry, then ran to a church to say a prayer of thanksgiving. Months of anxiety ended happily last night for the...
LET REAL GAMES BEGIN ; YANKS GEAR UP FOR METS, BOSOX BY BELTING BIRDS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 5Orioles 2 BALTIMORE - With Javier Vazquez's guile and some clout from Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees last night ended a grueling nine-game road trip in businesslike...
HONORING PUFFY FANS THE FLAMES
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amSO let's see what we have here: The guy has operated under three aliases, all street names. He has grown fabulously wealthy promoting those inclined toward violent criminal behavior and/or...
NETS PLAY 22-SKIDOO
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amHistory has shown teams have found quality with the 22nd pick in the NBA draft. Chris Mills, Brian Skinner, Kenny Thomas, Jerry Reynolds, Randy Wittman, Reggie Lewis and Scott Skiles...
ISIAH, KNICKS AREN'T INTO FUTURE SCHLOCK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amKnicks president Isiah Thomas reacts with surprise at the criticism he gave up too much of the future in the Stephon Marbury trade Jan. 5. "When you look at it,...
SUMMERTIME AND THE FISHING'S EASY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amSCHOOL is just about done, the vacations are starting and from one end of Long Island to the other you can take your kids fishing and have a great time....
RIDERS COST JERKENS AGAIN
June 25, 2004 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Stormin Greek was off beat slow. Big favorite Illusionary Magic checked between horses on far turn and dropped back to fifth as Sully's Silver was being hounded...
RANGERS EYEING MICHIGAN GOALIE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amRALEIGH - They haven't ruled out the goaltender. Despite the presence of goaltending prospects Dan Blackburn and Henrik Lundqvist on an otherwise shallow organizational depth chart, the Rangers this week...
BUCKS STOPPING HERE ; BUDGET CRISIS CRIPPLING NETS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe Nets' off-season makeover continues. And it's not necessarily for the better, as cost-cutting has become a way of life. While Kerry Kittles and his $10.267 million salary continue to...
WAIT NEARLY OVER - TELFAIR'S BIG NIGHT ARRIVES
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amSebastian Telfair had been waiting for last night since before he was in high school, since he was a freshman and said that his goal was to become the first...
IRON MAN STREAK ENDS FOR MATSUI
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Streak is over. Kaz Matsui got yesterday off, the first time the Met shortstop hasn't played a regular-season ballgame since 1995. Matsui had played in 1,143 straight...
POST HAS PUNCH; PRESSMAN SPORTING 2-0 MARK AS A PRO
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWe already have The Best Sports In Town. Maybe some day soon we'll have The Best Fighter In Town. With Jason Quick in our corner, we've got a pretty good...
SUN BURNED: CAMERON'S 'GLARING' ERROR COSTS METS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amReds 6Mets 2 The Mets lost yesterday's game in the sun. Instead of arriving in The Bronx for the opener of tonight's Subway Series riding momentum, the Mets will trudge...
ACT II FOR HALSEY - YANK ROOKIE GETS BIG STAGEAS SUBWAY SERIES OPENS IN BX.
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - If anyone was ever fast-tracked into a profession, it was Brad Halsey. He grew up with a pitching mound in his yard in New Braunfels, Texas, that his...
MET PLAYOFF HOPES GET ULTIMATE TEST
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amOver and over, the Mets repeated it in spring training: It was fine that the Yankees got Alex Rodriguez. It was fine that the Yankees were spending approximately $100 million...
KEEPING RIVALRY ON RIGHT TRACK ; YANKS, METS PREPARE FOR SUBWAY PRESSURE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - You don't have to look deep into the Subway Series to discover which team the pressure will be on this weekend at Yankee Stadium. "The Yankees are always...
BRONX CHEER FOR THIS SERIES
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Each year, you can understand why the Yankees enjoy these series less and less. Each year, you can see the dread in the players' eyes; you can hear...
TRYING TO GET ON TRACK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amWELCOME to life on the wrong side of the subway tracks. Mike Cameron, one of the best center fielders in the game, lost Ken Griffey's high fly ball in the...
HOWARD UNDER SPELL OF MAGIC ; PREP STAR TOP PICK IN DRAFT
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amCollege or high school? Experience or potential? The Orlando Magic, riding the trend of younger players in the NBA, chose prep standout Dwight Howard over UConn center Emeka Okafor with...
HAWKS SET SIGHTS ON DEVILS' GOMEZ
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe Scott Gomez trade rumbles grow louder. Sources told The Post last night that the 2000 NHL Rookie of the Year might be headed to Chicago, seemingly with the Devils'...
IT'S TIME TO GET SUBWAY SERIOUS ; YANKS, METS VIEW RIVALRY DIFFERENTLY
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - You don't have to delve deep into the Subway Series to discover which team the pressure will be on this weekend at Yankee Stadium. "The Yankees are always...
TEEN SPIRIT AT DRAFTING TABLE ; MAGIC TAKE HOWARD NO. 1
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amExperience or potential? College or high school? Make that Connecticut or bust. The Orlando Magic, riding the trend of younger players in the NBA, chose prep star Dwight Howard over...
BLAZERS CHOOSE LINCOLN'S TELFAIR
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amSebastian Telfair sat in a suite in Trump International Hotel last night, waiting to find out where the next stop would be in his basketball world. When Portland GM John...
SECOND CHOICE ; KNICKS TAB UCLA'S ARIZA
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amMore than three hours into the draft, with three-quarters of the crowd at the Garden's Theatre departed, and the lottery picks having cleared their VIP area, it finally was Isiah...
INSIDE THE MARV MESS - ALBERT: REPORTED CENSORSHIP CLAUSE NEVER AN ISSUE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amYes, Jim Dolan's MSG Network wanted Marv Albert to be a homer. But, contrary to reports last week, there was never, ever going to be a written censorship clause in...
5 QUESTIONS FOR BOB PAGE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with former MSG Network anchor Bob Page. Page, 52, left MSG in 1997 after nine years. Q: What are you up to?...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amYankee radio vs. Met radio (Which do you trust more?) When you listen to Gary Cohen and Howie Rose, you truly feel they are telling you what they see and...
SUBWAY'S BACK ON TRACK : METS ARE REVIVED - AND - SO IS RIVALRY WITH YANKS
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amMets at Yankees * Friday, 7 p.m. WCBS-2, WPIX-11 * Saturday, 1:15 p.m. Fox * Sunday,8 p.m. ESPN This year is different. This year, the juice returns to the Subway...