July 23, 2004
TENANTS WANT IN AT RTR
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe Russian Tea Room was sold last week and its new owner says his goal is to "make money." For New Yorkers, the question is whether or not the legendary...
TENANTS RUSSIAN FOR SPOT AT EATERY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe new owner of the Russian Tea Room is talking to prospective tenants - and it's unclear if the legendary locale will reopen for luxury dining or luxury retailing. Gerald...
VIACOM GIVES MEL $35M GOODBYE KISS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amMedia giant Viacom shelled out almost $56 million in severance payments to two recently departed executives. The company disclosed yesterday that Mel Karmazin, Viacom's former president who stepped down last...
APPLE BLOWS FUSE OVER ADS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amApple Computer is outraged over new advertisements by upstart music channel Fuse that resemble ads for the iPod, Apple's popular digital music player, The Post has learned. Apple lawyers have...
CURTAIN UP ON $2B MORGAN DEAL FOR AMC
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amJ.P. Morgan Partners sealed a deal yesterday to buy AMC Entertainment Inc. in a transaction worth $2 billion. AMC Entertainment is the No. 2 movie theater chain in the United...
LANGONE MOVES TO SQUASH AG CASE
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amNow it's Ken Langone's turn to go after Eliot Spitzer. The former New York Stock Exchange board member attacked the attorney general yesterday, while filing a motion asking a judge...
MADDEN STEPS UP - SHOE DESIGNER'S NEXT MOVE: TEEN APPAREL LINE
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amSteven Madden Ltd., whose funky shoes are a favorite of the young and trendy, is planning to launch an apparel line, The Post has learned. And in a somewhat unconventional...
THINK YOUR CO-WORKERS ARE ON DRUGS? THEY ARE!
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amWhile Americans are working three times faster than ever, they're also popping speed at their jobs in epidemic proportions. A report yesterday says workers are devouring amphetamines - both legal...
G+J BOOTS LAST ROSIE VETS - TOEPFER, FARRELL ARE FINALLY OUT AT TROUBLED COMPANY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE last of the Rosie magazine editors are heading for the exits. Russell Denson, the president of Gruner + Jahr USA, said yesterday he is disbanding the magazine development wing...
CD&R SOAKS IN CULLIGAN DEAL
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amClayton, Dubilier & Rice clinched a deal to buy Culligan International from French conglomerate Veolia Environnement SA in a deal valued at $610 million. The move by CD&R, which was...
HOY FAKED CIRCULATION FIGHTING RIVAL EL DIARIO
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA new examination of the circulation scandal at Hoy suggests that the paper employed a number of schemes to inflate its figures in a fierce race to overtake rival El...
NYSE PANEL AWARDS INVESTOR $3.1M HAUL
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA New York Stock Exchange arbitration panel awarded a California investor $3.1 million after finding a New York-based investment company made unauthorized trades and failed to protect a large stock...
AT&T PLAN LEAVES HOMES BEHIND
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amAlexander Graham Bell is probably rolling in his grave at AT&T's humiliating retreat from selling long-distance service to American homes. The company, founded by the telephone's inventor in 1885, said...
TERRA TAKES HERON
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTerra Holdings, the parent company of Halstead Property and Brown Harris Stevens, has acquired Heron Ltd., a building management company that oversees 7,000 apartments in Manhattan. The latest acquisition comes...
HOLLINGER FIRES BACK AT BLACK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amNewspaper giant Hollinger International blasted as "hypocrisy" the attempt by its disgraced former CEO Conrad Black to block a sale of the London Daily Telegraph. Branding his moves as "manifest...
'BOURNE' TO RUN - MATT DAMON MAKES A MEMORABLE SPY IN THIS THRILLER SEQUEL
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BOURNE SUPREMACY (three stars) Seriously satisfying. Running time: 108 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence and intense action and brief language). At the AMC Empire, the Kips Bay, the Battery Park,...
A 'BOLD' MOVE FOR 'MODELS'
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHREE of those sexy young women from "America's Next Top Model" have landed temporary gigs on CBS soap operas. Mercedes Yvette, right, and Catie Anderson, who appeared on the second...
STARR REPORT
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amItemizing . . . New Yorker Dave Jay Gerstein was crowned the winner of "The View's Origi nal Song Contest" yesterday. He'll perform his three-min ute song, "A Hot Date...
INDIE MUSIC PICK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amBATTLING BANDS: Garage punkers Rocket From the Crypt, in their only U.S. appearance, will headline the national finals of the Underground Garage Battle of the Bands tonight at 8 at...
FILM PICK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amROMAN HOLIDAY: Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960) - which is getting a two-week revival starting today at Film Forum - ranks among the 10 greatest movies of all time....
DANCE PICK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTWO FOR TANGO: It started in the slums of Buenos Aires nearly 150 years ago, and during the 20th century it graduated to nightspots, some distressingly sleazy, some surprisingly chic,...
TOP TIX FOR TUBBY TENOR
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amLUCIANO Pavarotti is hoping to score big with the summer's highest priced ticket. The top price for the Aug. 28 stop at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J....
'ORWELL' DOC HITS THE NEWS ALARM
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amORWELL ROLLS IN HISGRAVE [ 1/2] (Two and one-half stars)THE Fourth Estate gets worked over in Robert Kane Pappas' "Orwell Rolls in His Grave," a cheaply made, occasionally repetitive, but...
'HOME'-LESS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD[ 1/2] (One and one-half stars) Indie mush. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated R (drugs, sex, disturbing images). At the Paris and the...
NO OSCAR FOR EMMY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amNOLA[] (One star) Objectionable indie. Running time: 97 minutes. Rated PG-13 (thematic elements, language, sexual content, some drug references and brief violence). At the New York 1&2, Second Avenue and...
RAP PICK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amSEAPORT TERROR SQUAD: Fat Joe, who heads up the Terror Squad rap ensemble, celebrates the group's new release, "True Story," with a full concert performance at the South Street Seaport...
FULL-BLOWN 'DYNAMITE'
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA newly shot ending is being added to "Napoleon Dynamite," the cult hit comedy about the triumph of a high school nerd in Idaho. The apparently unprecedented epilogue, which will...
'4400' INVADES SUMMER ; NBC MAY NAB NEXT SEASON
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amUSA has a hit on its hands with "The 4400" - and there could be more episodes on the way. The six-episode, sci-fi-flavored series shattered cable records in its July...
NO GREAT LEAP IN 'THE FROGS'
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE FROGS[ 1/2] (Two and one-half stars)Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center. (212) 239-6200. IT'S here and it's croakin'! But even with the ineffable Nathan Lane as its star, with the...
BEACH 'PARDY ; KEN ON VACATION UNTIL NEXT FALL
July 23, 2004 | 4:00am'JEOPARDY!" champ Ken Jennings is tak ing some time off. He has to. The game show that he has dominated for the last two months is ending its season tonight....
AXED 'CSIER' IN TALKS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amJORJA Fox, who was fired from "CSI" last week along with George Eads, is in discussions with CBS to return to the show - but there's no agreement in place...
A DASH OF PUNK IN BROOKLYN
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYNITE Tom Hyland has been throwing Dot Dash punk-edged rock parties for two years now, and to celebrate the anniversary, Dot Dash is pulling out all the stops with two...
KIDS' PICK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE MAD CHEF: Chef Marc Felix, a.k.a. Nickelodeon's Mad Chef, returns to the Plaza to give children and their parents a lesson about cooking with chocolate. Kids will learn about...
ALBEE BACK: COUNT ON IT - IT'S ALL HAPPENING AT THE 'ZOO'
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amAT 76, Edward Albee remains one of the theater's most prolific - and bankable - playwrights. Seems a theater season doesn't go by without a new Albee play, or, at...
WITNESS FEARED FOR LIFE - SAW INTIMIDATION-SLAY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA witness to a murder testified yesterday that she suspected her life was in danger when another witness to the same shooting ended up dead right outside her window. The...
BRIT'S LAST PICS: FAMILY HOLDS ON TO TREASURED MEMORY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThis is one of the last photos Brittney Gregory's heartbroken family took of the slain New Jersey teen - showing the ebullient high-schooler at her Sweet 16 birthday party blowing...
LIGHT OF HIS LIFE
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA suicidal Spider-Man wannabe who climbed onto the Whitestone Bridge with the intention of ending it all was brought down with the promise of a light for his cigarette, officials...
'SANDY' STORM - HOUSE FUMES OVER 'LOST' BERGER NOTES
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amLawmakers are seeking to determine if any original documents are gone forever as they probe whether former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger hid top-secret files in his socks to sneak...
'BEDROOM' FIEND IN 4TH ATTACK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA sex fiend who has sneaked into homes in Yonkers and Mount Vernon struck for the fourth time in a week early yesterday morning. The "Bedroom Bandit" entered a woman's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA New York man miraculously woke from a deep coma after his dad promised to buy him a brand-new Corvette if he recovered. Thomas Stackiewicz, of upstate La Grange, made...
THREAT DELAYS AMTRAK TRAIN
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA New York-bound Amtrak train was searched for 90 minutes in Newark yesterday after a passenger found a note that threatened Jews, officials said. The Washington-to-Boston train was boarded at...
THE 911 COMMISSION REPORT: WHO'S THE LIAR?
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN it comes to the historical record on the American response to al Qaeda, you now have to ask yourself: Whom do you believe, Clinton or Bush? The 9/11 Commission...
HAMPTONS DIARY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA BLACK 2004 Land Rover has been turning heads in Southampton lately because of its vanity license plate: "RUNUOVR 1." The tag is causing many an East Ender to speculate...
PATAKI'S ED. BILL FLOUNDERS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe "extraordinary" session called yesterday by Gov. Pataki was anything but, as the governor and Legislature are no closer to meeting a court order to boost school funding. With just...
B'KLYN SPORTS ARMORY ON TRACK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe city is converting the Park Slope Armory in Brooklyn into a new $16 million athletic center. Since the 1980s, the armory's offices have been used as a women's homeless...
PELOSI MUST PRODUCE SLAY ALIBI
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe Long Island electrician charged with the East Hampton murder of millionaire Ted Ammon must reveal his alibi for the night of the 2001 slaying, a judge ordered yesterday. Suffolk...
HOOD'S KILLER BOAST - CLUE IN '88 SLAY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA thug nicknamed "Joey Guns" admitted the brutal 1988 murder of a Long Island couple, according to a witness whose memory could free their son. John Guarascio told the packed...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Three people were shot - one fatally - when two thugs accosted them on a Bushwick street yesterday, police said. The three were walking on Stockholm Street near...
SLAY WITNESS FEARED FOR LIFE
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA witness to a murder testified yesterday that she suspected her life was in danger when another witness to the same shooting ended up dead outside her window. The young...
BURSTIE ALLEY HITS IT BIG - SHE'LL STAR AS TV'S 'FAT ACTRESS'
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amFormer "Cheers" star Kirstie Alley has a new cable comedy loosely based on her life - "Fat Actress." "They don't give a damn how much I eat or how many...
PLUCKY PRIEST FIGHTS FIEND
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn priest was violently beaten after discovering a burglar robbing his rectory yesterday morning - but the scrappy cleric refused to turn the other cheek. When Monsignor James Kelly,...
WUSSES OF WASHINGTON GET ROTTEN WITH APPLE'S HEROES
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amRUDY GIULIANI, the real Italian stallion of this crew called New York, was a little incredulous of the 9/11 commission report. In particular was a segment on Page 318 that...
JEALOUS RAGER SHOOTS WIFE: QNS. COPS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA raging lovers' quarrel turned violent early yesterday when a jealous man shot his common-law wife in the stomach because he believed she was being promiscuous, police and neighbors said....
SLEAZE CONVICTED OF JEWELER SLAY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA ruthless thug was convicted yesterday for the shooting death of a jeweler who refused to give up a gold chain crafted for him by his parents. "Justice was served...
PRESIDENT DODGES ON 'CZAR'
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday praised the "really good job" done by the 9/11 commission and said he's ready to act on it, but he didn't say if he agrees with the...
MASSINO TEAM'S 'NAUSEATING' WRAP
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe trial of Joseph Massino was scripted like "a Broadway show" and starred a collection of moronic and murderous liars who make "Sammy Bull" look like a kindergartner, a lawyer...
SURPRISE TWIST IN SAGA OF FLIGHT 93
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amLET'S ROLL Passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 fought back against the hijackers - but never actually made it into the cockpit, the Sept. 11 commission concluded. The assertion, included...
ANGEL & THE BADMAN - JR. GOTTI TRIED TO WHACK SLIWA: FEDS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti has been indicted on a slew of racketeering charges - in cluding the 1992 attempt to kill Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, federal officials announced yesterday. The...
CLINTON RECEIVED RED FLAG ON HIJACKINGS IN '98
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe 9/11 commission released a previously classified briefing to President Clinton - made in 1998 - about a threat from Osama bin Laden to hijack aircraft in the United States....
TA EYES CREATING SPEEDY 'BUS LANES'
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amSlow-moving city buses may soon be a thing of the past. The Transit Authority will spend $2.9 million to study a plan that will identify "bus corridors" along segments of...
FANEUIL FEELS FOR MARTHA
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe star prosecution witness in the Martha Stewart case sympathizes with the felonious home fashion icon - even as he awaits his own sentencing today. Douglas Faneuil "has compassion for...
DIZZY DON HAS ALWAYS STUMBLED IN HIS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00am"Junior" Gotti may have been the son of the Dapper Don - but he was no Dapper Don. The heir apparent to the title of Gambino Crime family boss never...
FOR LIZA, IT'S ONE FIGHT AT A TIME
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amDavid Gest and Liza Minnelli won't be duking it out in divorce court until his assault lawsuit is resolved, a Manhattan judge ruled yesterday. Justice John Stackhouse granted a request...
MORTGAGE 'SCAM' SMASHED - 7 NAILED IN BRAZEN RIP-OFFS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amScheming real-estate brokers, investors, appraisers and a lawyer were charged yesterday in an elaborate mortgage rip-off in which they stole identities, faked property values and falsified records, officials said. The...
SUMMER TYKES OUTSHINE TEENS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe good news is that struggling second- and third-graders are attending summer school. The bad news is that struggling high-school kids aren't. Data released yesterday by the Department of Education...
PERV RAP GROUNDS FED AIR MARSHAL
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA federal air marshal was nabbed on kiddie-porn charges yesterday after investigators found a vast collection of 1,300 disturbing pictures and movie clips on a computer in his Long Island...
LOCKED-OUT TENANT IN DEATH FALL
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA 44-year-old woman plunged to her death from the roof of her Brooklyn building yesterday morning, police said. Audrey Washington was discovered in a courtyard behind her apartment at 19...
PEEP OF TROUBLE - 'PERV' TEACH PUT VID AND MIKES IN POTTY: COPS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA New Jersey piano teacher facing the music as a potty-peeper not only used tiny hidden cameras to make 1,100 videotapes of students and others who used his toilet -...
H.S. KIDS' CRUISE TO HELL
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA celebratory cruise in New York Harbor turned into a voyage on the hellish River Styx for more than 430 high school students yesterday after they agreed to take the...
'SHOW-OFF' COP SHOOTS TEEN
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amAn off-duty rookie cop with an itchy finger, who was "showing off" his gun to two female visitors, shot one of them in the chest during an early-morning mishap in...
DI LOVER NOW COCAINE VILE
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amJames Hewitt - the love rat who enjoyed steamy sex sessions with Princess Diana behind Prince Charles' back, then bragged about it to the world - has been arrested on...
KERRY 'GANGS' UP ON DUBYA
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amWith one of the nation's most crime-ridden cities serving as a backdrop, Sen. John Kerry yesterday ripped President Bush for allowing gang violence to skyrocket on his watch. Speaking before...
TROOPER NABBED IN CAR-TORCH
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA cash-strapped state trooper set his car on fire in a bid to collect on the insurance, authorities said yesterday. Trooper Derek Johnson, assigned to Troop K in Westchester, was...
B'KLYN ROAD-RAGE BRAWL
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThree Brooklynites battled one another with bricks, fists and a "Club" anti-theft device after a near-miss car accident, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The violence began at 4 p.m. Wednesday, when...
'BOMB' COP EYED IN FRAUD - CREDIT-CARD PUZZLE
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amPolice probing transit cop Joseph Rodriguez's link to the mysterious Times Square subway pipe-bombing have uncovered evidence pointing to possible credit-card fraud by the officer, sources said yesterday. While searching...
KIN VOW TO LEAN ON POLS - WILL LOBBY FOR INTEL REFORM AS A 'LEGACY'
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE FAMILIES The release of the long-awaited report on the 9/11 terror attacks was celebrated yesterday by families of the victims, who called it the first step in preventing another...
DEMS LOSE BASH-BUSH OPPORTUNITY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE 9/11 commission said everyone shares the blame for failing to think the unthinkable about how terrorists could hit America - instead of pointing a finger at President Bush as...
TOME'S FLYING OFF THE SHELVES
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amCopies of the "9/11 Commission Report" flew out of New York bookstores yesterday after its much-anticipated release. Shortly before 7 p.m. Amazon.com ranked it as its No. 1 bestseller. It...
B'KLYN JUDGE-PICK PANEL BLASTED
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA panel established to clean up the way the Brooklyn Democratic Party selects judicial candidates isn't doing its job, two former members charge. Lawyers Jane Barrett and Robert Begleiter resigned...
BRIT'S LAST PICS - FAMILY HOLDS ON TO TREASURED MEMORY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThis is one of the last photos Brittney Gregory's heartbroken family took of the slain New Jersey teen - showing the ebullient high-schooler at her Sweet 16 birthday party blowing...
JUDGE-REFORM PANEL HIT
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA panel established to clean up the way the Brooklyn Democratic Party selects judicial candidates isn't doing its job, two former members charge. Lawyers Jane Barrett and Robert Begleiter resigned...
OUR GOV'T FAILED US - ALL AGENCIES LEFT THE DOOR OPEN TO EVIL, PROBERS SAY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE FINDINGS In a sweeping indictment, the 9/11 commission's devastating final report yesterday blasted virtually every government agency charged with protecting national security for failing to recognize the threat posed...
MASSINO ATT'Y RIPS WITNESSES
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe trial of Joseph Massino was scripted like "a Broadway show" and starred a collection of moronic and murderous liars who make "Sammy Bull" look like a kindergartner, a lawyer...
BATTY OVER BABE - BIDS FOR RUTH'S LUMBER READY TO SWING PAST $1M
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe bat that hammered the final nail on the House that Ruth Built is for sale. Babe Ruth's famous lumber - the very bat with which he homered on the...
FED$ TO CITY: DROP DEAD
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE FUNDS WASHINGTON - New York City's anti-terror resources are being grossly underfunded by the White House and Congress, which treat the critical money as "pork-barrel spending," the new 9/11...
BULLETS FLY IN 'SNACK' ATTACK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amCops arrested two men yesterday in a bizarre spat over a lunch order at a Greenwich Village construction site that resulted in one worker being grazed in the head by...
KOOSHY SETTLEMENT IN 'ROSIE' SUIT
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThe producers of the "Rosie O'Donnell Show" have settled a lawsuit brought by an elderly widow who was hurt in a freak Koosh Ball accident. Lucille DeBellis, 72, quietly withdrew...
5 QUESTIONS FOR SUMMER SANDERS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Summer Sanders. The 31-year-old Sanders is co-host of NBA Inside Stuff, as well as Fox Sports...
EISEN, EAGLE PLAY DOUBLES - PAIR WILL SPLIT U.S. OPEN HOST DUTIES
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amCBS Sports plans to ask Ian Eagle to co-host some of its late night coverage during the U.S. Open tennis tournament, NYP TV Sports has learned. For the first week...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amSuzyn Waldman vs. Matt Loughlin (Who is better on baseball?) YES Network reporter Suzyn Waldman owns a rare sportscaster commodity. She has a Cosell-ian, love-her-or-hate-her persona. Say her name to...
SUMMER SHOWDOWNS: YANKS-BOSOX & METS-BRAVES GO TO WAR
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amFriday * Yankees at Red Sox 7 p.m., WCBS-2 * Braves at Mets 7 p.m., WPIX-11 There hasn't been a New York baseball weekend like this since 2001. With the...
IGNORE THE HEAT, FISHING'S GREAT
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHESE are supposed to be the dog days, those slow paced, tough fishing days because of the heat, except we continue to have some fabulous action both in the New...
'I DON'T CARE' ABOUT SOX
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amMARIANO Rivera had this to say about the Yankees' three-game series against the Red Sox that begins tonight in Fenway Park: "I don't care about the Red Sox," Rivera growled...
HEALY'S 'HOMER' CHAMP
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amMAYBE it's just my imagination, but since Marv Albert's departure from MSG Network/FSN-NY, Fran Healy seems to have replaced his usual excessive enthusiasm with Russ Hodges-like ("The Giants win the...
YANKEES AIM TO BURY DEAD SOX ; BOMBERS CAN ADD TO HUGE EAST LEAD
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amSure, the Red Sox technically are still in the AL East race. But in this "race," the Sox are tied to the Yankees' back bumper and dragging along the pavement....
'1' FOR THE BOOKS ; SIERRA, YANKS WALK OFF WITH WIN
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 1 Blue Jays 0 Ruben Sierra's baseball life certainly has been lengthy, but not always illustrious. Yet there's no doubt yesterday's ninth-inning, game-winning homer will go down as one...
DEREK DETERMINED TO RETURN TONIGHT
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Derek Jeter says he will play tonight in Boston, while Joe Torre says the opposite. "I'll play tomorrow. I couldn't convince them today," Jeter said following yesterday's 1-0...
METS BLAME IT ON ME-O
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amTHE grand pronouncements of badness, the "I stunk" and "It was my fault" were flying fast and furious after the latest Mets loss, a 4-1 stinker against the Expos, a...
LIBS TUNING UP FOR RADIO CITY
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amA tape measure laid just off the court where the Liberty practiced yesterday, but interim head coach Patty Coyle said she wouldn't have to prove to her players that the...
GLAVINE STILL IN GLOOM
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amWhen attempting to calculate when exactly Tom Glavine last won a decision, you would think carbon testing of the ball he threw in that game would be required, with all...
FRANCO CAUGHT ; IN IRE OF STORM ; BOOS RAIN AT SHEA AFTER UNTIMELY HOMER
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amExpos 4 Mets 1 John Franco is 43 years old. He's pitched in the majors for 20 years. He's appeared in nearly 1,100 games, logged more than 1,200 innings and...
NOT IN BOSTON'S WILDEST DREAMS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The music is gone, replaced by a sullen silence that consumes Fenway Park's cozy home clubhouse. The swagger has vanished, the cocky byplay replaced by shaken heads and...
LILLY BLOSSOMING INTO STAR FOR JAYS
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Ted Lilly was a Yankee, the Bombers saw his good curveball and his super changeup and waited for the young left-hander to put it all together, to realize his...
GALANTE HAS THAT RUNDOWN FEELING
July 23, 2004 | 4:00am"I tried to stop him. It's certainly not his fault." MATT GALANTE In the end, the play meant nothing. But at the time Richard Hidalgo was caught in a run-down...
FIRST HIT IN BIGS FEELS ALL WRIGHT
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES As the ball bounded down the line, David Wright pulled into second with a double. Even if he couldn't recall doing so. "I don't even remember running to...
EL DUQUE STRONG IN KEY START
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amOrlando Hernandez' performance yesterday was vintage El Duque at his best. With his socks high and his knee-kick higher - almost to his chin - he put on a clinic...
HOU PITCHES KNICKS TO UNSURE DAMPIER
July 23, 2004 | 4:00amKnicks captain Allan Houston lent his hand in the recruiting wars yesterday morning when he phoned free agent center Erick Dampier to put in a plug for New York. Houston...