October 13, 2004
SPORTING CHANCE ; VULCAN HIRES ALLEN & CO. TO SHOP SPORTING NEWS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amMicrosoft co-founder Paul Allen's investment vehicle Vulcan Inc. has hired investment bank Allen & Co. to shop the venerable magazine The Sporting News, The Post has learned. A representative for...
METS IN COMCAST, TW DEAL
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe Mets are taking a page out of the book of their crosstown rival Yankees and starting their own television network. Yesterday, the Mets said they will start a new...
VERIZON'S SALE BLURS N.Y. FUTURE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amVERIZON is putting its communications headquarters on the block, and may move out of town. The 40-story black glass tower at 1095 Sixth Ave., which has varying white vertical strips,...
FUNDS WON'T LET UP ON DISNEY
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amFour powerful pension funds are keeping the pressure on Walt Disney Co. CalPERS, the nation's largest pension fund, and three others - including the New York Common Retirement Fund -...
FRENCH RAIDER MAY PUSH FOR HAVAS SALE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe stakes are getting higher for one of the advertising industry's biggest holding companies. With talk of a sale or breakup of France's Havas, reports emerged yesterday that French corporate...
HOLLYWOOD GOLD ; DREAMWORKS IPO TO ENRICH MOGUL FOUNDERS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amRiding high with the No. 1 flick, "Shark Tale," DreamWorks is dividing up the riches among its Hollywood founders and investors. The studio had struggled with heavy losses since its...
BEAUTY CONTEST FOR AMI; TABLOID PUBLISHER VETS BANKERS FOR POSSIBLE IPO
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amAMERICAN Media's financial partners appear to be reviving their plan to sell stock to the public in an initial public offering. In recent weeks, Thomas H. Lee and the Evercore...
GAWKER SILENCED BY GLITCH
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amOffice workers across America found themselves at loose ends yesterday, with more time to devote to actual work - the result of a billing glitch that temporarily shut down the...
WOULD-BE PITCHMAN TRIES TO GET AD-VANTAGE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amIt might be the most unusual sales pitch in advertising history. A television commercial featuring Molson beer that aired in Canada and Vermont this past weekend appeared to be a...
ON THE SIDE: JEFFREY HAS NEW SPOT, ONO
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amAFTER a few fact-find ing trips to Tokyo, Jeffrey Chodorow will finally open his long-planned eatery, Ono, at the Gansevoort Hotel on Oct. 23. Executive chef Scott Ubert (formerly of...
KOREAN 'LIAISONS' HAS A GOOD LOOK
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amUNTOLD SCANDAL (three stars) THERE'S no shortage of movies based on the racy 18th-century novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Directors Stephen Frears, Roger Vadim and Milos Forman have tackled the job....
VICTORY IN LA, LA LAND
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amLA GRENOUILLE (three stars) 3 E. 52ND ST., AT FIFTH AVENUE (212) 752-1495 EVERYBODY knew for years that La Grenouille, the prettiest and most precious of Midtown's classic-French establishments, needed...
EAST MEETS WEST ON A FRENCH BAGUETTE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amNICKY'SVIETNAMESESANDWICHES ½ (two and a half stars) 150 E. SECOND ST. (BETWEEN AVENUES A AND B) (212) 388-1088 SAY what you will about the French, they sure have a way...
'HO LOTTA TRASH TALK GOIN' ON
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amSTAR Jones shocked her co-hosts yesterday when she called a talk-show guest a "ho" on "The View." The diss came in the middle of a segment featurng talk-show host Maury...
PUBLIC TO NAME ITS NEW CHIEF
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Public Theater, one of the city's premier non-profit cultural institutions, is close to naming a successor to its current chief, George C. Wolfe, who is stepping down at the...
BRIAN'S 'SMILE'STONE; CARNEGIE CONCERT HAS SPIRIT OF '67
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amLAST night at Carnegie Hall, legendary Beach Boy Brian Wilson proved rock can be art when he presented the music from his notorious "unfinished" masterpiece "Smile," which was finally completed...
THE BITE STUFF - CHEW STORY! NEW DIET VOWS FLAB-FREE LIVIN' IN 85 CHOMPS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA new diet that lets you eat whatever you want: pasta, pizza, even chocolate cake - but only 85 bites a day. Instead of counting carbs, calories or fat grams,...
TWICE AS NICE - WHY SATURDAY RERUN OF 'APPRENTICE' IS BETTER THAN ORIGINAL
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amBOARDROOM junkies take note: "The Apprentice" has more of what you're looking for on Saturday nights. This season, as ABC, NBC and CBS pack their Saturday-night lineups with repeats of...
NEW 'GRIM' FAIRY TALE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amWHO knew kids would fall in love with the Grim Reaper and a master criminal's brain that lives in a jar on top of the head of a lumbering, mentally...
MORNING GLORY - RADIO STAR SONIA COLON IS MAKING DRIVE-TIME MAGIC
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amSULTRY radio co-host Sonia Colón is back with a vengeance on her new WBLS morning show. After five years as a co-host for an R&B radio station in Miami, where...
HE'S THE REEL DEAL - A 'CLOSE-UP' GLANCE AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL HONCHO RICHARD PENA
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHE New York Film Festival has always been a leader in showcasing world-class cinema but since Richard world-class cinema but since Richard Peña became selection committee chairman, the festival has...
MR. MET - DOMINICAN-AMERICAN OMAR MINAYA IS READY TO LEAD THE AMAZINS TO THE PROMISED LAND, AS THE TEAM NEW GM
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amNEWLY minted as the king of the New York Mets, Omar Minaya is not just in it for himself. With a relentless desire for success, Minaya is representing all Latinos....
THERE'S NO STOPPING SALDANA - SHE'S ON THE RIGHT TRACK
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amZOË is one busy actress. She just finished wrapping "Constellation," shot in Alabama and described as an African American version of "The Big Chill." This lucky thespian is playing Billy...
CHASING THE LATINO VOTE - BOTH PARTIES ARE DOING THEIR BEST TO COURT THE SWING VOTE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amPHOENIX, Arizona DESPITE all the differences among Latino voters -there's a huge political gap between heavily Republican Cuban-Americans and mostly Democratic Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans - Democrats have counted on...
AN 'ELECT' GROUP - A CROSS-SECTION OF LATINO VOTERS SPEAK OUT ON THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amAMERICA is divided politically - and New York City's Latino community is no exception. Both the city and community may be heavily Democratic, but there is still no shortage of...
FELIZ FELICIANO
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amJOSÉ Feliciano was born into a world of darkness but has proven to be one of the brightest lights in Latin music. The sightless legend was born in Puerto Rico...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amPolice trying to help an all-shook-up Elvis wound up chasing one of the Blues Brothers. Crystal, Minn. cops were called to a veterans halls and found a man dressed as...
FRENCH HORNY - COME OUT ON TOP IN WORLD SEX SURVEY
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTo paraphrase Barbra Streisand, the French are the friskiest people in the world. A new study reveals the frolicky French have sex an average of 137 times a year. And...
EX-GITMO THUGS AT IT AGAIN; DIRTY DOZEN IN ATTACKS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Twelve men recently released from the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay were involved in carrying out attacks on U.S. military and coalition targets in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said...
CITY VOTER SIGN-UPS SOAR BY 100,000
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amSparked by the intense race for the White House, more than 100,000 people signed up to vote in the city last week, officials reported yesterday. John Ravitz, executive director of...
APPLE COURTING W. SIDE TENNIS WARRIORS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTennis lovers now have three new courts along the Hudson River on which to serve and volley. Gov. Pataki yesterday joined former tennis great Jim Courier and the Stuyvesant HS...
BUTCHER GETS LIFE FOR KILLING WIFE, TOT
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man who savagely murdered his wife and child with a meat cleaver three years ago was sentenced yesterday to 50 years to life behind bars. Nagmeldin "Adam" Azaz,...
FINAL GLIMPSE - TIRELESS REEVE KEPT WORKING TO THE END
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThis is one of the final photos of Christopher Reeve - snapped as the tragic "Superman" star worked tirelessly on a new movie just days before his untimely death. Thrilled...
AILING BILL MAY MISS CAMPAIGN
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amFormer President Bill Clinton's slow recovery from heart surgery may prevent him from joining John Kerry on the campaign trail, Democratic officials say. Five weeks after undergoing quadruple-bypass surgery, Clinton...
LOVE TRIANGLE DEADLY FOR QNS. TEEN
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens girl stabbed in a love triangle altercation that turned violent was killed while trying to walk away from the fight, cops said. But sources said the victim, Frances...
GEHRY TAPPED FOR WTC SITE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amWorld-renowned architect Frank Gehry was chosen yesterday to design a new performing-arts center slated for the World Trade Center site - the second time he's been picked for a major...
SCHOOL PERV GETS 2 YEARS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA registered high-risk sex offender was sentenced yesterday to two to four years in jail for sneaking into a Queens school and eyeballing confidential student records. Matthew Matagrano, 28, was...
WRONG-ID KILLER TEENS COP PLEAS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTwo teens who beat a Queens man to death in a case of mistaken identity five months ago will face up to 10 years in jail after copping pleas yesterday....
GRID SLAY SUSPECT'S LIFE 'RUINED'
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe mother of a suspect in the murder of Fairfield college football star Mark Fisher claimed police and media pressure has "ruined" her son's life to the point where he's...
HOSTAGE-RESCUE MISSIONS FAILED
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The United States twice launched missions aimed at rescuing two Americans and one British hostage in Iraq - but came up empty both times, it was revealed last...
THE BONE-ANNOS ; TWO CAPOS' REMAINS DUG UP IN GAMBINOS' QNS. GRAVEYARD
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe FBI believes it has uncovered the remains of two Bonanno capos whacked in the early 1980s - along with one mobster's credit card and the other's jewelry - in...
GAG ORDER OVER N.J. SCHOOL GRID 'RAPE'
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA New Jersey judge yesterday slapped a gag order on the prosecutors, lawyers and parents of two high-school football players accused of kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old classmate in a...
VELELLA-RELEASE EXEC QUITS AFTER MIKE MEET
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The head of the panel that granted former state Sen. Guy Velella's controversial early release from jail abruptly resigned yesterday after a surprise closed-door meeting with Mayor Bloomberg....
HIGH (SCHOOL) ANXIETY ; EARLIER BUT TOUGHER ADMISSIONS DECISIONS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amEighth-grade students won't have to wait until June to find out which high school they'll be attending - but tougher admissions standards at 10 schools may limit their choices. Under...
MTA COP PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN BEATING
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA four-year veteran MTA cop pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges he repeatedly bashed a homeless man in the head with his police-issue metal baton. The alleged beating took place...
SLAY SUSPECT SUICIDAL: MA
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe mother of a prime suspect in the murder of Fairfield college football star Mark Fisher claims police and media pressure has "ruined" her son's life to the point where...
POL PUSHES MEASURE TO CURB HMO$
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Calling the latest HMO rate increases "outrageous," an influential Assembly member is calling on the Senate to give final passage to a bill requiring state approval for hefty...
COPS NAB KILLER 'HACKERS'
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amFour men were caught with knives, a machete and garbage bags getting ready to hack up and dispose of the body of a Brooklyn man they had killed over a...
TA DOES WELL BY JUDGE - NEW SICK-LEAVE RULE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTransit employees suspected of abusing sick leave can be grilled by their bosses about their medical conditions before getting more time off, a federal judge ruled yesterday. In her 44-page...
PREZ RIVALS ARE FIT TO BE TIED IN LATEST POLLS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush is clinging to a narrow lead over John Kerry among likely voters nationally, and Pennsylvania - a near-must win for the Democrats - is a dead heat, new...
'DAD-SLAYER' WAS TO BE DEPORTED
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA 19-year-old gang member due to be deported has been charged in the murder of a Bronx dad who was gunned down in front of his wife and child Sunday,...
BILLY'S BOFFO! CRYSTAL IS B'WAY'S NEW $6 MILLION MAN
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amAND the new king of Broadway is . . . Billy Crystal. With a month to go before it begins previews at the Broadhurst Theatre, "700 Sundays" - Crystal's autobiographical...
$17M FINE BURNS 'NET CIG SELLER
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA federal judge slapped a Switzerland-based Internet cigarette retailer with a whopping $17 million fine for allegedly running a scam that stiffed the city out of tobacco taxes, The Post...
'DR.' EDWARDS' RX ; SAYS PARALYZED WILL WALK UNDER KERRY
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTEMPE, Ariz. - John Edwards is claiming that if John Kerry wins the White House, paralyzed people like Christopher Reeve will get out of their wheelchairs and walk again -...
MARTHA A GOOD MIXER; 'ADAPTING WELL' TO JAIL
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amALDERSON, W.Va. - Martha Stewart's living well in prison - she's palling around with her fellow jailbirds and says she's "adapted" to life on the inside, an inmate said yesterday....
LAWYER: QUIZ JURY ON EGYPT TERROR HIT
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amLawyer Lynne Stewart is concerned that the recent terrorist bombing in Egypt could bias jurors in her own terror trial. Stewart and her two co-defendants have requested that Manhattan federal...
COLOMBO NO-SHOW$ ARE GUILTY
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe son of the Colombo crime family's boss and a top-ranking wiseguy pleaded guilty to raking in a fortune through a series of lucrative no-show job schemes targeting several major...
GANG MEMBERS BUSTED IN 'SNITCH' SLAYS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amFive members of the violent Latino gang MS-13 were busted by the feds on charges of killing two Long Island residents they suspected of being police informants, authorities said yesterday....
CITY WEIGHS NEW PANEL ON CHILD-DEATH SPIKE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amIn a bid to stem the spike in child deaths, City Council members are pushing for the creation of an independent panel to review such tragedies. Currently, an existing panel...
U.N. BIG LOST SWEET OIL DEAL
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An angry Saddam Hussein stopped giving the head of the U.N. oil-for-food program sweetheart oil deals after fuming that the honcho was not doing enough to earn his...
FRENCH HORNY: NO. 1 IN SEX
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTo paraphrase Barbra Streisand, the French are the friskiest people in the world. A new study reveals the frolicky French have sex an average of 137 times a year. Americans...
TA WINS ROUND IN SICK-LEAVE BATTLE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTransit employees suspected of abusing sick leave can be grilled by their bosses about their medical conditions before getting more time off, a federal judge ruled yesterday. In her 44-page...
SAVING GRACE; GRIEVING MARIANO HELPS YANKS WIN
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amBrave Bronx bomber Mariano Rivera earned what may have been the most difficult save of his career last night after a heartrending and emotionally exhausting day burying loved ones. Rivera...
COP PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN BEATING
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA four-year veteran MTA cop pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges he repeatedly bashed a homeless man in the head with his police-issue metal baton. The alleged beating took place...
MARIANO'S BACK - PITCHES IN AFTER TEARFUL FUNERAL
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amAfter a heartrending and emotionally exhausting day burying loved ones, brave Bronx bomber Mariano Rivera made it back to Yankee Stadium last night for the playoff opener against the Red...
RIVERA'S ANGUISH - TEARS GUSH AS HE BURIES KIN
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amAfter a heartrending and emotionally exhausting day burying loved ones, brave Bronx bomber Mariano Rivera swallowed his emotions and asserted, "I'm ready," as he boarded a jet to get back...
U.N. BIG BLEW OIL DEAL WITH SADDAM
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An angry Saddam Hussein stopped giving the head of the U.N. oil-for-food program sweetheart oil deals after fuming that the honcho was not doing enough to earn his...
BX. MAN GUILTY OF TRIPLE SLAY
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx man was convicted of fatally shooting his elderly neighbor and her two adult children in a long-simmering argument over noise, the Bronx DA's Office said yesterday. Corey Gamble,...
FINAL GLIMPSE -TIRELESS REEVE KEPT WORKING TO THE END
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThis is one of the final photos of Christopher Reeve - snapped as the tragic "Superman" star worked tirelessly on a new movie just days before his untimely death. Thrilled...
LAWSUIT $MOKES CIG FIRM - CITY WINS $17M
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA federal judge slapped a Switzerland-based Internet cigarette retailer with a $17million fine for allegedly running a scam that stiffed the city out of tobacco taxes, The Post has learned....
COP: RAND WAS SLAY SUSPECT #1
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA retired detective yesterday testified he wanted to slap child-abductor Andre Rand with murder charges the day after 7-year-old Holly Anne Hughes disappeared - but he was blocked by a...
DAD'S SPEEDY DELIVERY - BABY COULDN'T WAIT 'TIL ARRIVAL AT HOSP
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island man delivered his own bouncing bundle of joy in the passenger seat of his Acura after his wife went into labor ahead of schedule and they got...
JACKO RAPS EMINEM OVER VIDEO
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson lashed out at Eminem yesterday, calling the rap star's spoofing video of him "outrageous and disrespectful." In the video "Just Lose It," Eminem relentlessly mocks...
SNITCH 'HITTER' - DANNY OFFERED $$ FOR ASSAULTS: DA
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amMurder suspect Danny Pelosi - from his jail cell - arranged to make at least three secret cash payments in a scheme to assault five jailhouse snitches, according to a...
HE'S BROOKLYN ATTACK FIEND: POLICE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amPolice yesterday released a sketch of the fiend who raped a woman in Brooklyn two days ago while his friend acted as lookout. The disturbing drama unfolded after the 30-year-old...
MILLAR: DEREK'S THE BEST
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amYou know all about the bad blood between the Yankees and Red Sox. But listen to the respect that exists, too. Listen to Kevin Millar talk about Derek Jeter. "As...
LARSEN WATCHED IT ON TV
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amMike Mussina fell short of immortality last night. But Don Larsen was certainly impressed with the Yankee pitcher's bid for history. "He was excellent," Larsen told The Post last night...
JON WANTS YANKS TO BE-LIEB IN HIM
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amA couple of those great Americans whose faces are carved into Mount Rushmore have been accused of showing more emotion than Yankees pitcher Jon Lieber. So Joe Torre knew there...
SOX BACK MARTINEZ
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amPedro Martinez declined an invitation to yesterday's pregame press conference, but fill-in Kevin Millar answered the only question most people cared about. "Well, I'm his daddy; not the Yankees," Millar...
MUSSINA ALMOST PERFECT
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amFor 61/3innings, Mike Mussina was perfect. Nineteen Red Sox came to the plate; 19 walked backed to the dugout, some muttering. With every out, the fans in the Stadium tried...
GRIEVING MO STANDS TALL
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHE one who needed comforting gave comfort to 56,135 fans last night at Yankee Stadium. After the Yankees gave away all but 90 feet of an 8-0 lead, Mariano Rivera...
RIVERA RIDES TO THE RESCUE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY should have known bet ter, sure. Barely an hour earlier, there had been 56,135 people standing at Yankee Stadium, stomping feet, shaking the old yard to its core. The...
JOE MULLS GAME 4 NOD
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre is still waiting to name his Game 4 starter Saturday at Fenway Park. His choices are Orlando Hernandez and Javier Vazquez. Torre has a decision to...
ACHY ANKLE PROVESBOSOX BUMMER
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amWELL here are the Red Sox, ankle deep now already in an 86th straight failed attempt at a World Series championship and trying to pull up socks that aren't hiding...
SETUP HURLERS SPUTTER
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amEverything was going perfectly for the Yankees last night. Then Mike Mussina began to get hit. And then Mussina's relievers began to get hammered. The Yankees won Game 1 -...
MATSUI RIPS TIE RECORD; 5 RBIS KNOT MARK
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amAmong the many aspects of life in America that Hideki Matsui had to get accustomed to was the food, the intense media attention and the unbridled disdain that exists between...
ANDY & ROG HAVE EYE ON YANKS-SOX
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were just as jubilant as any other Astros after beating the Braves Monday night in Atlanta to advance to the NLCS that...
JERSEY BILLS WOULD STOP BEAR HUNTING
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHROUGH a political back door New Jersey anti-hunters have moved two dangerous bills to a much more friendly committee. The bills had been stalled in the original committee to which...
MATSUI ADJUSTS TO RIVALRY
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amAmong the many aspects of life in America that Hideki Matsui had to get accustomed to was the food, the intense media attention and the unbridled disdain that exists between...
COUGHLIN UNMUZZLES STAFF
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amFOR the first and only time since the season started, Tom Coughlin yesterday allowed his assistant coaches to speak to the media. The Giants sit at 4-1 heading into their...
PEDRO DESERVES A SPANKING
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amPEDRO Martinez is a great pitcher, there's no doubt about that. He's also afraid to meet the press. Evidently, the media are Pedro's daddies, too. It is customary for the...
EPSTEIN MAKING ALL RIGHT MOVES
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amIt was something Theo Epstein said while standing in a corner of the visitors' clubhouse in Yankee Stadium after last year's ALCS Game 7. Epstein, the Red Sox' wunderkind of...
JETS THRIVE WITH BETTER RUN DEFENSE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTRAVIS Henry is proba bly still shaking his head up in Buffalo. "What in the name of Mo Lewis have the Jets done with their run defense?" Those are probably...
KEY FOR RED SOX? IT'S ORTIZ, OR ELSE
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amOn Monday, Red Sox DH David Ortiz wore a gray leather jacket with these words embossed on the back: "Never Broke." The phrase referred to money - and the Red...
VARITEK BATTLES BX. JINX
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amJason Varitek will henceforth be known as the guy who gave A-Rod a facewash. But at Yankee Stadium in the regular season, he was also known as Mr. 0-fer. The...
PENNY'S POLISHED
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amAnfernee Hardaway could go crazy thinking about what his NBA life might have been like, if not for the countless injuries and chronic setbacks that plagued him after he entered...
CURT'S BIG MOMENT
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amLONG before Curt Schil ling joined the idiots - Johnny Damon's good-natured nickname for these Red Sox - he was one. Frank Robinson, Schilling's first-major league manager, with the Orioles,...
BRIAN - I WILL BE VEAL DEAL
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amBrian Scalabrine thanks Nets fans for their support. He welcomes the cheers. He appreciates the chants to get him playing time. But he also wants the fans to know something:...
RANDOLPH, GIBSON NEXT UP FOR METS
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amWillie Randolph is set for his second chance with the Mets. Kirk Gibson can get ready for his first. The Mets took two steps in their managerial search yesterday, receiving...
RATNER REWARDS THORN AND FRANK
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amOwner Bruce Ratner liked what he saw of the Nets on the court - about as much as he likes what he has seen from the team's brass and coaching...
ON TOUGHEST DAY, RIVERA COMES THROUGH
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amYOU didn't think this could possibly get any better, right? How could you? How could anyone? Yet, here were the bullpen doors, swinging wide open. Here came Mariano Rivera, bathed...
BERNIE'S HIT NAIL IN COFFIN
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amIt was all falling apart for the Yankees. Suddenly, Mike Mussina had become imperfect again. Suddenly, the Red Sox had surged back into the game. And suddenly, an eight-run lead...
ROUGHED-UP SOX REMAIN CONFIDENT
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amSo much for Boston going undefeated in the postseason. But now you know why some Sox entertained the thought. After nearly rallying from an 8-0 canyon, Boston players professed confidence...
VARITEK'S HR PUMPS UP SOX
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amJason Varitek will always be known as the guy who gave A-Rod a leather facewash. But Varitek, 0-for-34 in the regular season at Yankee Stadium, gave his own team something...
PETTITTE & ROG HAVE EYES ON AL
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were just as jubilant as any other Astros after beating the Braves Monday night in Atlanta to advance to the NLCS that...
MARIANO MAKES IT OK FOR YANKS - MUSSINA STRONG; SCHILLING SHELLED
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amALCS GAME 1 Yankees 10 Red Sox 7 Mariano Rivera saved his 31st postseason game last night, adding to his major-league record. But he never had one quite like this....
CURT MAY BE COOKED: ADMITS HE'S IFFY FOR REST OF SERIES
October 13, 2004 | 4:00am"I'm not planning on it being an issue." - Curt Schilling, speaking Monday Curt Schilling insisted it wasn't wishful thinking that he could beat the Yankees on one good ankle....
BOSS: MARIANO WAS GREAT
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThanks in large part to the heroics of Mariano Rivera, the Yankees were able to hold on and beat the Red Sox last night, much to the delight of George...
SERIES STARTED TO GROW IN SPRING TRAINING
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHE long wait ended, at last, just past 8 o'clock last night, when the Red Sox and Yankees finally got back after each other. Yankees fans kept craning their necks,...
YANKS OPEN UP WITH QUESTIONS - GRIEVING RIVERA AT TOP OF THE LIST
October 13, 2004 | 4:00amThree hours prior to Game 1 of the ALCS against the Red Sox at the Stadium, the Yankees were anxiously awaiting Mariano Rivera, and Joe Torre said he didn't know...