October 5, 2004
WHY FANNIE MAE'S BOSS WANTS JOHN KERRY TO WIN
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE is probably nobody in the country who wants John Kerry elected more than Franklin Raines. Don't know who he is? Raines is the former Clinton Administration bigshot who currently...
$500M JACKO-POT - MICHAEL MAY SELL BEATLES' SONG STAKE TO SONY
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amSony's U.S. unit and embattled pop singer Michael Jackson are expected to begin negotiations soon to unwind a partnership that owns the rights to songs by The Beatles, The Post...
BIG SALE, LEASES BUOY DOWNTOWN
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amDOWNTOWN got a triple-barreled morale-boost this week, with a major residential building sale near Ground Zero, a Midtown technology firm's relocation to the World Financial Center, and a continued firming...
SEC EYES FIVE DEALS AIG MADE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amBillionaire Hank Greenberg needed this like he needed another hurricane blowing through Florida. The CEO of AIG, the world's No. 1 insurance company, said yesterday the Securities and Exchange Commission...
WORST TO FIRST - HITS GIVE ABC SURPRISE LEAD IN NEW SEASON
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amJubilation swept through ABC yesterday after it rocketed from lowest-rated to top-rated network with its handful of new hits. The network struck gold with what analysts hailed as "tremendous" comeback...
WASSERSTEIN IN BIDDING FOR THOMSON MEDIA
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amEven though he's in the throes of transforming the world's biggest private banking partnership into a public company, "Bid 'em Up" Bruce Wasserstein still has time to go after deals....
TOBY YOUNG HITS BIG SCREEN
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amGet ready for Toby, the movie. Toby Young, the British-born writer who has made a career of annoying Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter, has sold film rights to his memoir,...
MEG OUTRANKS CARLY ON LIST
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amAfter six years topping the list of the world's most powerful women executives, Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina lost the title to her rival - eBay's chief, Meg Whitman. The two women...
U.K. DEAL FOR TUMI LUGGAGE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amDoughty Hanson & Co. has sealed a deal to buy luxe luggage maker Tumi Inc., The Post has learned. The U.K.-based buyout firm has agreed to buy Tumi, the South...
NEW LINEUP AT CSFB BANKING
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amEric Varvel has been named the new head of investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston as part of a restructuring to be announced today, sources told The Post. Varvel,...
'HOUSEWIVES' CLEAN UP IN RATINGS
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amABC's "Desperate Housewives" got off to a terrific start Sunday - helping the network add to its "Comeback Kid" status. The dramedy snared 21.3 million viewers from 9 to 10...
SEX SEMINAR PACKS A KICK
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHE latest women's self-defense class won't just show you how to throw punches - it'll teach you where your G-spot is. "How to Be a Butt-kicking Bombshell in Ten Easy...
POSITIVELY FASCINATING - DYLAN'S 'CHRONICLES' AN ABSORBING READ
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amBOB DYLAN'S CHRONICLES VOLUME ONE[ 1/2] (Three and one-half stars)Simon & Schuster, $24 'DON'T follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters," wrote Bob Dylan in "Subterranean Homesick Blues." In his much...
D'OH OR DIE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHE upcoming "Simpsons" movie will either "kill the show or completely reinvigorate it," the long-running animated series creator says. While still in the earliest stages of production, a "Simpsons" movie...
SURVIVING REALITY TV - WE PICK WINNERS AND LOSERS
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amO you wanna be on a reality show. You sure about that? After watching "The Apprentice" reject Jennifer Crisafulli self-destruct on TV and in real life last week, you might...
'NIP'S CUTTING FINALE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00am"Nip/Tuck" Tonight at 10 on FX * * * * (four stars) EVEN if you haven't been watching "Nip/Tuck" - the edge-of-your-seat soap about two plastic surgeons who operate by...
STARR REPORT
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amNicole, as advertised "ET" will air the much- talked-about, highly antici pated Nicole Kidman Cha nel No. 5 perfume commer cial tomorrow in its 60-second entirety (7:30 p.m./Ch. 2). The...
NIP, TUCK & TELL - PARK AVE. PLASTIC DOC PUTS PROFESSION UNDER THE KNIFE; PLASTIC DOC'S SECRETS - BOOK REVEALS UGLY SIDE OF SURGERY
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amDR. Z. Paul Lorenc wields a mean scalpel, and not just when he's performing face-lifts. What this prominent Park Avenue plastic surgeon says about his patients, procedures and colleagues in...
JANET'S LAST SCREAM
October 5, 2004 | 4:00am'PSYCHO" changed Janet Leigh's life forever. Not only did Alfred Hitchcock's chiller provide one of the screen's best-remembered moments - her Marion Crane is slashed to death while taking a...
BACK TO FLORIDA?
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amQ: We were supposed to take a vacation to Orlando right after Hurricane Charley. We waited, then came Frances, and Ivan and Jeanne. How about now? - E. Herbert, White...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amWILD RIDE WHEN we caught up with "CSI: New York" star Melina Kanakaredes recently, she was full of stories from the road. The Ohio native best remembers a childhood trip...
THE BIG GAME - HE WORLD'S LARGEST CASINOS AREN'T IN NEVADA - THEY'RE IN THE ROLLING HILLS OF CONNECTICUT. DAVID LANDSEL ROLLS THE DICE IN NEW ENGLAND
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amBUSY staring at the incredibly beautiful bead-work murals suspended in mid-air high above the fray at Mohegan Sun, I wasn't really listening to the staffer orienting me to where everything...
THUG KILLS AIDS VICTIM, BEATS NURSE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amA homebound AIDS patient was bludgeoned to death - and his nurse badly beaten - in his Harlem apartment last night. The nurse came upon the crime scene shortly after...
'SESAME' PROF HIT IN PERV STING
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn professor who works as an animator for several children's shows, including "Sesame Street," was caught in an Internet sting trying to set up a sexual liaison with an...
'COPYCATS' COMING TO APPLE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe cloned cats are out of the bag. Two cloned kittens will be on display for the first time ever at the New York Cat Show this weekend - but...
THE ARMY WINS - BUT KERRY & CO. CRY DEFEAT
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amIN a remarkable display of skill, elements of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division and newly trained Iraqi national forces drove the terrorists from the city of Samarra last week....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amFirst there were drive-in movies - now there are drive-in funerals. Mourners pull into a field near the Woodland Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., settle back and tune into the...
WHAT PROS DIDN'T SEE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amOK, so Bush stunk up the joint. That point seems inarguable now, and I'm a little abashed that I didn't see it on Thursday night. My blindness may have been...
ROCKET'S $10M PRIZE IS A BLAST
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amSpace tourism took another giant leap toward reality yesterday as a privately funded rocket ship blasted into the stratosphere for the second time in a week - earning a $10...
SCALIA GETS A COR-X-TION
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe nation's highest court yesterday got back its G-rating. After publishing an article last week quoting Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia promoting sex orgies, Harvard University's student newspaper issued a...
RIP-OFF REV. DISCOUNTED BLE$$INGS: SOURCE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe minister accused of swiping almost half a million dollars from a Queens church had a practical side, allegedly spending the ill-gotten dough on flowers, discount clothing and an OnStar...
HOPE AMID HORROR - GLIMMER FOR BRIT AS 2 OTHERS DIE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amOn a day when video was released showing Italian and Turkish hostages being executed, the family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley was still clinging to hope, their morale boosted by...
DEADLY AFFAIR - GAL ARRAIGNED IN FIANCÉ'S STABBING
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island woman was held without bail yesterday on charges of stabbing her fiancé to death with a steak knife. Jacqueline Sullivan, 42, wept hysterically, her head hung low,...
'ILLEGAL' BUDGET STIFFS CITY SCHOOLS: CRITICS
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe state budget shortchanges New York City schools by $864 million in aid because it does not comply with a court mandate, an education-advocacy group said yesterday. According to the...
CITY HAS 'JET' LAG - STADIUM PLANS ARE LATE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amDevelopment of a new football stadium on the West Side of Manhattan is at least a month behind the schedule set out by the city, state and the Jets when...
DOUBT ON 9/11 'SHOOTDOWN' ORDER
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney may not have had the proper authority to issue orders to shoot down commercial aircraft on Sept. 11, according to a new account of...
HAMAS HIRED BY THE U.N. - RELIEF BIG: SO WHAT?
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A senior U.N. official in the Middle East has acknowledged that members of the Hamas terror group are working for his relief agency, touching off outrage in Israel....
'BUSH' TEACHER CATCHES BREAK
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe New Jersey teacher who claims she was ordered out of her school for refusing to remove a picture of President Bush from her classroom bulletin board says school officials...
MTA BEGS FOR HUGE BOO$T
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe MTA pleaded with state lawmakers yesterday to give the cash-strapped agency "several hundred million" dollars for current capital projects and operating expenses after 2006. But transit officials did not...
SAMARITANS HIKE REWARD FOR LOST TAPE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amA day after appealing for the return of a lost videotape of their cancer-stricken daughter, her family was still empty-handed - but had offers to triple the reward they're offering....
LITTLE GIRL LOST - HAUNTED BY '81 KIDNAP
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTanya Goodson still gets chills when she passes the spot on Staten Island's Port Richmond Avenue where 23 years ago - when Tanya was 6 - her best friend was...
Correction Date: 10/06/2004
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amCorrection: A story in Tuesday's Post on Danny Pelosi's murder trial mistakenly attributed some written statements by jailhouse informant Raul Gonzales to another informant, Clayton Moultrie. A caption accompanying the...
W. CALLS CHIRAC 'JACKASS' - AUTHORS
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush privately refers to French President Jacques Chirac, who bitterly opposed Bush's Iraq policy, as "The Jackass," according to a new book. And Bush knows how little Chirac thinks...
LIZA'S HOT WHACKS - MADE ME WATCH HER BEAT GUY: GEST
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amNot only was Liza Minnelli beating another man while she was married to producer David Gest, she made her husband watch the extramarital assaults, Gest said yesterday. "I witnessed Mr....
TOWN'S WELCOME MAT OUT FOR DIVA
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amALDERSON, W.Va. - The Martha Stewart Welcome Wagon is in business. As the domestic diva counts down the hours until she's locked up, the friendly residents of this woodsy enclave...
MIKE TO GRILL GUY'S SPRINGER
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe chairman of an obscure city commission that sprang disgraced former state Sen. Guy Velella from jail after only three months will be grilled by Mayor Bloomberg - and may...
VERIZON EMPLOYEES AXED AMID 'GIFT' FLAP
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amVerizon has fired three employees amid allegations that vendors competing for the city's mammoth $200 million telecommunications business provided dinners and golf outings to city workers, The Post has learned....
URBAN CLASSES IN CRISIS: KLEIN
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein said yesterday the public-education system in New York City and other urban areas is "broken." "And it is broken badly," Klein told a roomful of university...
CAMPAIN IN THE @#$ - 'CANED' GAL REPORTS BUSH-WHACKER, 86, TO COPS
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bush-whacking granny of Central Park West was labeled "a danger to society" yesterday, as the woman she allegedly whacked on the rear for holding a sign supporting the president...
NYERS MOURN 2 HEROES KILLED IN IRAQ
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amNoticing that another driver in his convoy was swerving in and out because she was tired, Sgt. James Pettaway offered to take her place. Farther along the Fallujah road, a...
W. SWINGS TAX AX - INKS $146B CUT IN BATTLEGROUND IOWA
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - On his 17th trip to the prized battleground state of Iowa, President Bush yesterday came bearing gifts - a $146 billion middle-class tax-cut package. Bush signed the extension...
JENNINGS IN FLAP OVER HOSP NOTE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe City Council sex-harassment hearing against embattled member Allan Jennings resumed yesterday after he returned to the proceedings with a note saying he'd been treated at an emergency room -...
CHENEY AND EDWARDS ARE FIT TO BE TIED
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Voters see tonight's debate showdown between Vice President Cheney and fresh-faced Democrat John Edwards as a pretty even match - and each side is aiming to prove that...
CENTER TO AID BATTERED VICTIMS
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe city will open a center to serve all the needs of domestic-violence victims with the help of a $1.2 million Justice Department grant, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday. The Family...
A-ROD READY FOR PINSTRIPED POSTSEASON
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amAlex Rodriguez knows what an electric and energetic sound and light show Yankee Stadium is in October. And he has a better understanding than most Yankees of the utter blackout...
RELEASE REVIVED OLERUD
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Olerud arrived at the Stadium by cab yesterday and spent several minutes explaining to the driver who he was and that he played for the Yankees. "The guy figured...
ROTATION HAS JORGE CONCERNED
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amJorge Posada hasn't been in this situation too many times before. Typically at this time of year, the catcher knows what to expect from the Yankee pitching staff and how...
SHEFF: BOSS IS FOCUSED
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Gary Sheffield and the Yankees were in contract negotiations, things got a little sticky when it came to deferred money. But there was one aspect of the deal that...
JOHAN'LL THRIVE ON DECEPTION
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amYou can describe Johan Santana's arsenal by listing how his fastball zips in and out, his changeup darts through the zone at 20-mph slower and his slider has its own...
TYSON GUARD'S BIZARRE 'RAPE' BUST
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amOne of Mike Tyson's bodyguards was arrested on a rape charge early Sunday after he was found having sex in a hallway of the tony Rihga Royal Hotel in Midtown...
MINNY OK WITH UNDERDOG
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amGo ahead. Call the Twins roadkill-to-be. Call them merely a hardball formality on the Yankees' way to an eventual ALCS meeting with the Red Sox. That's fine. The Twins know...
SCRATCHING AN 8-YEAR ITCH
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTO win it all for the first time in four years, the Yankees must resemble the first of their four champions under Joe Torre. There have been many bad-rotation, big-bullpen,...
BETTER BATS BOOST TWINS
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThere were the Twins last year, feeling optimistic about their chances and even stealing Game 1. Then they got slammed, losing three straight. "I don't even care about last year,"...
FEDS LAUNCH CHILLING HUNT FOR CORPSES IN QUEENS DUMPING LOT
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amAuthorities yesterday unearthed a suspected Gambino graveyard at an overgrown lot in Ozone Park, Queens, where at least five men - including the unlucky guy who accidentally ran over and...
SANTANA MIRRORS SANDY
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS is the challenge the Yankees face tonight in Game 1 of the Division Series. Think of Minnesota's Johan Santana as another left-hander, Sandy Koufax, circa 1963. In that World...
YANKS NEED MUSSINA TO BE MIGHTY
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amHE doesn't enjoy the perception that's built around him, not even a little bit, doesn't appreciate the notion that the only relief appearance of his career somehow yielded the signature...
TORRE'S 3RD MAN MYSTERY
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe Yankees' starting pitcher for Game 3 of the ALDS against the Minnesota Twins will be . . . who? The fact that as of yesterday, manager Joe Torre had...
YANKS PUT ON THEIR ARM-OR ; PRAY PITCHING TAMES TWINS
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amFrom George Steinbrenner to Staten Island Vinny, everybody knows the Yankees' biggest concern is their starting rotation. If healthy, there were questions. Since Orlando Hernandez' shoulder is barking and Kevin...
COPS SEEK CAR CLUE IN 'FRENCHIE' SLAY
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amDetectives are checking license-plate numbers in a bid to identify the vehicle driven last week by a man who killed an elderly Brooklyn woman known as "Frenchie," Police Commissioner Ray...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A woman plunged to her death climbing down a fire escape to get into a locked apartment, in Tremont, police said yesterday. The 34-year-old woman, whose name...
SCHILLING SERIOUS ABOUT REACHING SERIES
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Curt Schilling wasn't born to be here just yesterday. This is hardly an accidental tourist who has wandered unaware into New England's fixation, anything but a $22 million...
SOSA'S COUSIN WANTED IN BX.
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amBronx cops are searching for Sammy Sosa's cousin, and recently flew to Chicago to ask the Cubs slugger if he knew where he was, authorities said. The cousin, Rudolfo Ramirez,...
TYSON GUARD IN WEIRD 'RAPE' RAP
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amOne of Mike Tyson's bodyguards was arrested on a rape charge early Sunday after he was found having sex in a hallway of the tony Rihga Royal Hotel in Midtown...
JACKO MOVES TO TOSS 'VENDETTA' DA
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's lawyers filed a secret motion yesterday to remove the Santa Barbara County district attorney's office from the singer's child-molestation case. Attorney Robert Sanger said sealing...
KEEPING FIT WHILE GETTING SMART
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amIt's tough to keep fit when you're in school. With classes, studying, homework, TV, video games, computers and maybe only one gym class a week, there's little time to play...
TIGER GAL'S WETTING CHEESECAKE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amSwedish sweetie Elin Nordegren yesterday counted down the hours before she says, "I do" to Tiger Woods by frolicking in Barbados in a polka-dot bikini. The two are expected to...
'I SHOULD HAVE SHOT HIM' - TIRED 'KILLER' DANNY'S COMPLAINT: JAILHOUSE SNITCH
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amA jailhouse informant who told prosecutors Danny Pelosi boasted of Ted Ammon's murder said the accused killer complained the bludgeon slaying was such hard work, he "should have just put...
BARELY MADE GRADE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amJet Report CardQUARTERBACK: C Chad Pennington (14-of-24, 143, INT) wasn't at his best. Miscommuni cated on first-half INT. RUNNING BACKS: B+ Curtis Martin (24-for-110, 1 TD rushing, 4-31 receiving) was...
WINNING THE ONLY THING FOR MARBURY
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amHe has the All-Star berths, the gaudy numbers, the mammoth contract. He has kids all over the city wearing his "3" jersey. Now Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury wants to...
TIM WANTS TO KO KENYON IN RING
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Tim Thomas still wants a piece of Kenyon Martin - in the boxing ring. Thomas, who verbally sparred with Martin during the Nets series last April, ran into...
JUST ONE BLEMISH
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amGiant Report CardQUARTERBACK: B First INT of season for Kurt Warner (20-of-26, 187 yards) was a killer, coming from the Packer 2-yard line, but that was only blemish on otherwise...
CLOSE WIN WAS TELLING FOR HERM
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES Defeating the Dolphins was something the Jets had to do - but the way they survived the struggle after winning their first two games in more one-sided fashion,...
BELMONT INKS OWN TV PACT
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amFor about a million more dollars per year, the Belmont Stakes is leaving NBC - and its Triple Crown partners - in 2006. ABC/ESPN will pay NYRA $17.5 million over...
NEW GIANT 'FOE' - OVERCONFIDENCE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amHis goal from the very moment he accepted the job - his first public pronouncement - was to promise "the restoration of Giants pride." Now that Tom Coughlin has the...
CHRISTIE'S NOT KICKED . . . YET
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants aren't making any immediate move with Steve Christie, who missed three field goals Sunday in Green Bay - but that doesn't mean they will stand by...
HERM'S MESSAGE: FOCUS
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amCalm down. Chill out. Put away the crystal balls, pay attention and focus on what's right in front of you. This was the essence of the message Jet coach Herman...
KIDD: NETS CAN'T WIN
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amReality rejoined the Nets yesterday, shortly after Richard Jefferson said he's "insanely optimistic" and anointed New Jersey as divisional favorite. That reality came from Jason Kidd. "We're not going to...
ORTIZ SAYS HALOS WILL MISS JOSE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amRED SOX-ANGELS NOTEBOOK ANAHEIM - David Ortiz predicted Anaheim's decision to suspend Jose Guillen might cost the Angels a World Series title. Ortiz, the Boston slugger who has dampened his...
'ZO SENDS MESSAGE OF HOPE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThis comeback, Alonzo Mourning says, is for the folks he met in dialysis at Columbia Presbyterian hospital, the ones waiting for kidney transplants similar to the one that may have...
BOSOX, HALOS UP TO THE TEST
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Last month, with a critical series against the Yankees looming large, Johnny Damon dropped a bombshell in the Fenway Park clubhouse. "The Angels, they're the best team we...
METS SETTING THEIR SIGHTS ON HIRING A MANAGER
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe offseason has officially begun for the Mets, though nothing is moving too swiftly just yet. Yesterday the Mets continued working on getting freshly-minted GM Omar Minaya up to speed,...
ISIAH CAN'T LEAVE SHANDON STANDIN'
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amCHARLESTON - If it's such a great honor to wear a New York uniform, as Isiah Thomas preached to Shandon Anderson last Friday through the media, how come he decided...
SAMMY'S UNLIKELY TO LAND AT SHEA
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThe best player Omar Minaya ever signed is Sammy Sosa. So it's no surprise that, with Minaya now running the Mets and Sosa now entrenched in Cub controversy, there already...
TOOMER, BENIGNO IN TIFF
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amWFAN's localized weekend wrap/Monday Night Football pregame show turned nasty last night when host Joe Benigno and regular, contracted contributor Amani Toomer, the Giants' wide receiver, went at each other....
BOSS HOPING FOR THE BEST
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amOn the eve of the Yankees' 10th straight postseason appearance, George Steinbrenner strode into the Stadium shortly before his team began its off-day workout. When asked how confident he was...
EL DUQUE START IFFY; GIAMBI OFF ROSTER
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amALDS NOTES Hoping Orlando Hernandez can pitch by the weekend, the Yankees put the veteran right-hander on the ALDS roster yesterday and left Jason Giambi off. Esteban Loaiza was also...
BOMBS AWAY! - YANKEES' MOST POWERFUL TEAM EVER MUST LUMBER TO 27TH CHAMPIONSHIP
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS isn't the way you're supposed to win October baseball games, of course, and nobody knows that better than Joe Torre. Arms win in autumn. Pitching, generally, is the primary...
YANKEES WILL TAKE OUT THE TWINS - BOMBERS' OCTOBER PEDIGREE KEY TO TIGHT SERIES
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Twins are no longer just happy to be here. This is their third trip to the ALDS, having won one and lost one. Arguably, they have the best starter...
EARNING HIS 'STRIPES - MVP OR NOT, SHEFFIELD'S A TRUE YANKEE
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amAS terrific as Gary Sheffield has been, as much as he has captivated the Yankee Kingdom, he still might not win the MVP. The last Yankee to earn the award,...
HOW TO TACKLE THE TWINS - EXPERTS SAY BE BOTH PATIENT AND AGGRESSIVE VS. SANTANA
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Yankees ousted the Twins from the Division Series in 2003. But the stars of that four-game triumph were Andy Pettitte, Roger Clemens and David Wells, none of whom are...
CAPTAIN CLUTCH - DEREK JETER POSTER
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amFOR Derek Jeter, Captain Clutch of the New York Yankees, the regular season in merely a prelude, "This is the fun time of the year," Jeter says of the postseason....
THE QUIZ
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amThink you know it all about the Yankees in the AL Divisional Series? 1. Which opponent have the Yankees faced most in divisional series play? 2. Name the five players...
HOW TO BREAK THE BOMBERS - CAN'T OUTSLUG 'EM, SO SCOUTS STRESS SMART PITCHING & SPEED
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amAFTER a season of hearing how vulnerable they will be come October, the Yankees have an opportunity to dispel that premise. The reason for the susceptibility theory is based on...
A DECADE OF DOMINANCE - YANKEES' PLAYOFF RUN 10 YEARS & COUNTING
October 5, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS all began humbly enough. The Yankees defeated the Blue Jays on the last day of the 1995 season, and Don Mattingly quietly pounded the SkyDome turf with his left...