October 15, 2004
HARVEY, DISNEY TALKING TURKEY
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amMiramax and Disney are discussing terms of an agreement for Harvey and Bob Weinstein to leave the movie studio they founded, The Post has learned. Disney's board of directors is...
MEDIA TAG SALE - VIACOM'S THEATER CHAIN MAY BE FIRST ASSET TO GO
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amViacom Inc. is screening its options for its Famous Players movie theater chain, in what may be the first in a series of asset sales as the media empire re-evaluates...
FIRM BUYS AGENCY IN SECOND BIG DEAL
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amHollywood talent agency The Firm continues to expand, announcing yesterday that it has bought the music management company Spivak Sobol Entertainment. Financial terms were not disclosed. "It's a substantial deal,...
JUDGE LETS HOLLINGER REFILE AGAINST BLACK
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amHollinger International's legal fight against its disgraced former CEO Conrad Black is far from over. Less than a week after a judge dismissed racketeering claims brought against Black by Hollinger,...
MAD AVE. BISTRO TO SING ALTO
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amThree-star chef Scott Conant, whose L'Impero in Tudor City won the James Beard Award in 2003, will create a new restaurant at 520 Madison Ave. Conant, along with partners Jane...
TV AUDIENCES DECIDE REALITY BITES
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTired of swapping wives, eating cockroaches and getting fired? So, apparently, is the rest of America. A fall season with a glut of reality shows has led to several cancellations,...
KICKBACK CITY - SPITZER NAILS BIG INSURERS OVER 'TAINTED' DEALS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday accused insurance industry giants of rigging bids and using widespread payoffs to soak American businesses for hundreds of millions in ill-gotten gains. Spitzer's...
WHO'S KISSING-ER NOW? - DANISH AUTHOR LIFTED PASSAGES FROM ISAACSON'S BIO
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amFORMER Time magazine editor Walter Isaacson is caught in a Danish twist. Frank Esmann, a well-known Danish TV journalist who has just released a new bio of former Secretary of...
ON STREET, FASTER BUCK CAN BE MADE IN A TAXI
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWall Street may not be the home for quick bucks anymore. It now costs an enterprising dreamer more to lease a taxi to roam streets than it does to lease...
KIDS' PICK
October 15, 2004 | 4:00am"FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES":The Museum of Modern Art's free Friday night movie program for high school students offers screenings of classic and current films, and a discussion afterward with...
DANCE PICK
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amFOUNDER'S DAY: American Ballet Theater opens its fall season at City Center on Wednesday with a gala that pays tribute to its very earliest days when one of its major...
STARR REPORT
October 15, 2004 | 4:00am'Six' degrees of . . . "Six Feet Under" cast members Joanna Cassidy and Robert Foxworth are reunit ing on "Star Trek: En terprise" - sort of. Cassidy and Foxworth,...
ROCK PICK
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amROCKIN' FOR THE LADIES: At this year's annual benefit concert for the Step Up Women's Network, an outfit dedicated to aiding women in both health and social issues, Philly's premiere...
'HELL' IS FOR ZEROS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amANATOMY OF HELL[] (One star) Sexual perversity in France. In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 78 minutes. Not rated (sex, sex, sex). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets....
'JULIA' A JEWEL
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBEING JULIA[] (Three stars) An actress' showcase. Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (some sexuality). At the Paris and the Union Square. 'BEING Julia" is a pleasantly diverting period romp...
PUPPET MASTERS - 'TEAM AMERICA' HITS ALL THE RIGHT STRINGS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE (four stars) A riot - with strings attached. Running time: 90 minutes. Rated R (graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language, all involving...
BELOWTHE BELT; WHO'S RUNNING 'CONTENDER' - SLY OR BURNETT?
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amDOGGED by rumors of dissent behind the scenes and the failure of a similar show on Fox, NBC's heavily hyped boxing show, "The Contender," is facing an uphill battle. The...
FILM PICK
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amACTION! This year's edition of the New York Film Festival winds up on Sunday, clearing the way for Lincoln Center to showcase recent flicks from Hong Kong. Fifteen will unreel,...
FRANTIC FAMILY FEUD
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amEULOGY[ 1/2] (One and one-half stars) Dead on arrival. Running time: 85 minutes. Rated R (profanity, sex, drug use). At the E-Walk, the Cinema 1, the Lincoln Square and the...
WELL-MEANING FLICK HAS A BAD 'HAIR' DAY
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amHAIR SHOW [ 1/2] (One and one-half stars) Hair today, gone tomorrow. Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG- 13 (sexual content, including dialogue). At the E- Walk and the Magic...
DREAM TEENS: NEW FACES FOR 'O.C.'
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amFOUR new teen icons-to-be have joined the second season of the runaway Fox hit, "The O.C." The new crew will include a "yard boy" DJ (Nicholas Gonzales, 28) who producers...
HERE'S THE STRAIT STORY
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTURNS out George Strait is actually king of the hill this week. Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks album sales, incorrectly reported that Usher's "Confessions" was No. 1 and Strait No. 2...
IF MEMORY SERVES, BETTER 'CUT' AND RUN
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTHE FINAL CUT[] (One star) Push delete. Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG- 13 (sexuality, violence). At the Empire, West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. TAMPERING with memories has lately...
SHALL WE BARF?
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amSHALL WE DANCE[] (One star) Lost in translation. Running time: 106 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexuality, brief profanity). At the E-Walk, the Cinema 1, the Chelsea, others. JENNIFER Lopez's butt-hugging costumes...
(AND, 'P.S.', IT'S HOPELESS)
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amp.s.[] (Two stars) Hard to swallow. Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity). At the Empire and the Angelika. LAURA Linney gives a lovely performance in "p.s." as a...
'SURREAL' LOVE AFFAIR SPAWNS REAL SERIES
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amRAPPER Flavor Flav and '80s action star Brigette Nielsen, the most improbable couple to come out of a reality TV show yet, now have their own series. "Strange Love" which...
DEARS IN ENDEARING LINEUP
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amAS if the ongoing CMJ Music Marathon weren't enough, tonight also brings the opening night of the DUMBO Arts Festival (see dumboartscenter.org). The Dears, an orchestral rock act from Montreal,...
INDIE MUSIC PICK
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY'RE BOOKED: The CMJ Music Festival is in town, so the Housing Works Used Book Café is holding a special afternoon edition of its acoustic benefit series today, with a...
'RECKLESS' IS JUST A WRECK
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amRECKLESS[ 1/2] (One and one-half stars)The Manhattan Theater Club at the Biltmore Theater, 261 W. 47th St. (212) 239-6200. THE revival of Craig Lucas' "Reckless" isn't so much reckless as...
COLD NORTH - MUSICALS MISS CANADA $$$
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBLAME Canada. A Toronto production company has failed to come up with the millions of dollars it had planned to invest in several of this season's new Broadway musicals, leaving...
BX. COP BUSTED IN COKE STING
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx cop was busted in an undercover sting in Rhode Island yesterday for trying to buy a kilo of cocaine from federal agents in a motel, law-enforcement sources said....
YEAR LATER, BRAVE VICTIM RETURNS TO FERRY
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWALKING heavily on his cane toward the ferry dock, Lloyd Joseph suddenly froze. His eyes were assaulted by the sight of 14 letters - a name, stenciled in black, on...
MEDIA X-CESSES LEAVE MANY COLD
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amNot tonight honey - or any night! New evidence suggests a sizable minority of people have absolutely no interest in sex. And they may be getting turned off by the...
BUSH TAKING JERSEY JAUNT TO SURPRISE SWING STATE
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush will stump in southern New Jersey on Monday - a major sign that Republicans believe they can win in the traditionally Democratic state. Also on Monday, First Lady...
BUSH'S BIGGEST FLAW
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWITH debate season finally over, the presidential race is almost exactly where everybody predicted it would be eight or nine months ago. Polls say the race is dead even, which...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amSteven Dulka III gave his heart to his bride as they walked up the aisle, then traded it in hours later. As he was getting hitched, Deidre Jacoboni, Dulka, 51,...
ENVOY WHO SNUBBED GI HEROES QUITS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Rend al-Rahim Francke, Iraq's ambassador-designate to the United States, has resigned from her historic appointment months after coming under fire for refusing to visit wounded U.S. troops in...
DEBATE BARELY EDGES YANKS-SOX GAME IN THE RATINGS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers voted to watch Wednesday's final presidential debate over their hometown Yankees - by thisclose of a margin. A total of 3.5 million people on both broadcast and cable...
HIT-RUN KIDS 'FORGIVING' - BUT MOM DEMANDS APOLOGY
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTwo hospitalized Bronx brothers mowed down by a hit-and-run driver at an unguarded school crossing told their mom yesterday they would forgive the heartless person who left them for dead...
CITY'S STALLING LEAVES INJURED AT SEA: LAWYERS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amFerry-crash victims and their families, who have sued the city for more than $1 billion, have been "left in a legal limbo," their lawyers charged yesterday. The city has been...
BOOKIE CRUMBLES - LONG IS. COPS SMASH $35M-A-YEAR BET RING
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amLady Luck ran out on one of the largest sports gambling rings in Long Island history, with the arrests of eight members of a $35 million-a-year bookie operation, authorities said...
MIKE SUES OVER 'PARTNER' LAW
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday filed suit to block enactment of a law that would force contractors who do business with the city to offer benefits to domestic partners of their employees....
JACKO PLAYING HIDE-&-SEEK: DA
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Prosecutors yesterday accused Michael Jackson's defense team of hiding critical evidence - including gifts and letters to his young accuser. Lawyers for Jackson, the 46-year-old pop...
AMMON 'GAY BASH' - DA SLAMS PELOSI TALE OF HOMOSEXUAL KILLER
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amHours before he was murdered, multimillionaire Ted Ammon spent thousands of dollars on a pair of sweaters and visited a gay beach, witnesses said yesterday, before an irate prosecutor complained...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amQUEENS * A bank robber (above) threatened to blow up an Astoria bank, and then commandeered a livery cab at knifepoint before smashing the taxi into a store and escaping...
DEATH TOLL TOPS 100 IN ATTACKS ON GAZA
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Five more suspected terrorists were killed yesterday in the Gaza Strip, pushing the death toll of the 16-day Israeli offensive over 100. Two Hamas gunmen were killed by...
COMMISH MAKES VOW TO TRAGIC DAY-CARE PARENTS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amHealth Commissioner Thomas Frieden yesterday consoled the grieving parents of the Queens baby who died at an understaffed day-care center, and said their son's death would change the way the...
WANT TO STAY OUT OF THIS CESSPOOL? DON'T GET DIVORCED
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amLADIES, there is one thing more difficult, humiliating, painful and expensive than finding a husband in this city: Getting rid of him. Take it from the experts. Take it from...
METROCARD HIKE WOULD $LAP 'MONTHLY' RIDERS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amStraphangers who buy monthly MetroCards could be hit with the brunt of next year's fare hike. Monthly passes go up by as much as $14 - a 20 percent hike...
I DESERVE WHAT I GOT: LENNON KILLER
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The man serving a life sentence for the murder of John Lennon said he deserves exactly what he got "because of the pain and suffering I caused," a...
VEEP TO KERRY: HOW DARE YOU! - 'ANGRY DAD' HITS FOE FOR NAMING GAY DAUGHTER
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTEMPE, Ariz. - Vice President Dick Cheney, calling himself an "angry father," yesterday blasted John Kerry for mentioning that Cheney's daughter is gay during the presidential debate. "You saw a...
CITY NIXES TRANSFERS FOR KIDS STUCK IN FAILING SCHOOLS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amKids who think they can get out of failing high schools this year better think again. Under a deal struck between the city and state departments of education, no student...
DEMOCRAT PRIMER: PLAY A PHONY RACE CARD BY CHARGING VOTE 'INTIMIDATION'
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans ripped into John Kerry yesterday over a stunning new internal manual that advises Democrats to launch "pre-emptive" strikes charging the GOP with voter intimidation - even if...
JUDGE RAPS SOROS BOO$T AS ILLEGAL
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - A small political party bankrolled by billionaire George Soros illegally involved itself in a Democratic primary for the Albany County district attorney's race, a judge ruled yesterday. The...
MIKE INKS 'JODIE'S' LAW VS. CON ED
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg signed into law yesterday a bill that would ensure that utility companies like Con Ed undertake swift repairs of damaged infrastructure on city sidewalks and streets. The City...
JUDGE THROWS AWAY KEY ON SEX-FIEND GRAMPS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA heinous senior-citizen sex fiend stared down his petite victim in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday - and as she successfully begged the judge to put him away forever, he muttered...
QNS. MAN SURRENDERS IN '99 SLAY
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man facing charges in a 1999 rap-rivalry killing turned himself in yesterday after being improperly freed from jail last week. The state parole board released Corey Bussey, 27,...
BUSTS IN MOB WHACK - WISEGUY DUO INDICTED
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTwo top-ranking mobsters - including the Colombo crime family's former acting boss - were busted yesterday on murder charges in the mysterious disappearance of Colombo underboss William "Wild Bill" Cutolo....
GRAND CAM SLAM - POSADA STOMPS TV 'DIRT' LENS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amJorge Posada got down and dirty with a pair of minicameras embedded in the dirt in front of home plate at Yankee Stadium. The Yankee catcher admitted yesterday he "kicked"...
FREE-VELELLA PANEL'S BOSS TIED TO $24M APPLE GRANT
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA nonprofit group tied to the chairman of the commission that sprung state Sen. Guy Velella from jail early received a $24 million city grant six days before the panel's...
WINTOUR NANNY TELLS OF E.R. DASH
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amVogue editor Anna Wintour's husband rushed their nanny to the hospital in a limo after she was "overcome" by toxic fumes in their Greenwich Village house - an exposure she...
PARENTS RALLY VS. PERV - L.I. MAN CAUGHT OGLING BOYS: COPS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amParents in a Long Island community are standing together to get a convicted sex offender who's living in their neighborhood off the streets and away from their kids. To back...
EX-CONS DROVE KIDS TO SCHOOL
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amMore than two dozen drivers and emergency medical technicians under contract with the city to transport disabled schoolchildren earlier this year had criminal records ranging from manslaughter to drunken driving,...
MOBSTER: I $CAMMED 4 UNIONS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA high-ranking member of the Genovese crime family pleaded guilty yesterday to plundering four construction unions for the mob. Louis Moscatiello allowed mob-influenced contractors to siphon payments from union pension...
'FLIPPING OUT' - 'LUNATIC' O'REILLY GAL WENT NUTS IN BAR: CHEF
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe woman accusing Bill O'Reilly of sex harassment threw a hissy fit inside a tony Midtown hotel bar last week and then sneered to onlookers that she works for "The...
EX-CONS DROVE KIDS TO SCHOOL: PROBERS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amMore than two dozen drivers and emergency medical technicians under contract with the city to transport disabled schoolchildren earlier this year had criminal records ranging from manslaughter to drunken driving,...
MCG'S BIG NIGHT 'OUT'
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amNew Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey made an appearance at a mammoth gay fund-raiser in Midtown last night - the first such appearance since coming out as a "gay American." McGreevey...
SLAY SUSPECT IS BACK IN JAIL
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man facing charges in a rap-rivalry killing turned himself in yesterday after being improperly freed from jail last week. The state Parole Board released Corey Bussey, 27, who...
CUSTODY CHAOS - PARENTS RIP COURTS AT FORUM
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amNew York's twisted divorce courts have become a judicial labyrinth for child-custody cases "straight out of Alice in Wonderland," angry parents told a packed public hearing in the West Village...
SLAIN COPS ON HEROES' WALL
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe names of two NYPD detectives who were murdered in the line of duty last year were added to the Police Memorial Wall in lower Manhattan yesterday. Detectives Rodney Andrews,...
MORE FOLKS DON'T CARE ABOUT SEX
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amNot tonight honey - or any night! New evidence suggests a sizable minority of people have absolutely no interest in sex. And they may be getting turned off by the...
NEWBORN TAKES THE EXPRESS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens woman took the term "rush hour" literally yesterday morning, going into labor on a Flushing-bound No. 7 train and giving birth less than an hour later on her...
GIRARDI MAY MOVE TO MARLINS' BENCH
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Joe Girardi may be leaving the Yankees broadcast booth to become Florida manager Jack McKeon's bench coach, The Post has learned. According to industry sources, Marlins...
SANIT WORKER CLOBBERS HIS PARTNER: COPS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA round of trash talk turned violent on the Upper West Side last night when an on-duty Department of Sanitation worker cracked his partner over the head with a shovel,...
KNICKS BECOMING 'HOT TICKET' AGAIN
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amKNICKS NOTES WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Before preseason opened, Knicks president Isiah Thomas said his goal was to make the Knicks "a hot ticket" this season. So far, the Knicks brass...
MOBSTER GUILTY IN BIG UNION $CAM
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA high-ranking member of the Genovese crime family pleaded guilty yesterday to plundering four construction unions for the mob. Louis Moscatiello let mob-influenced contractors siphon payments from union pension and...
CITY MAY SEND $350 EACH TO 17,000 HOMELESS CLANS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe city is prepared to send checks of $350 each to 17,000 homeless families as part of a settlement on claims that they weren't provided proper services, but a feud...
DEM PRIMER: CLAIM VOTER 'INTIMIDATION'
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans ripped into John Kerry yesterday over a stunning new internal manual that advises Democrats to launch "pre-emptive" strikes charging the GOP with voter intimidation - even if...
ROCKIN' 'N' ROLEN; SCOTT'S HRS GIVE REDBIRDS 2-0 LEAD
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amCardinals 6Astros 4 ST. LOUIS - So much for Scott Rolen's slump and so much for the Astros trying to steal a win in St. Louis. Rolen entered the NLCS...
NIT WINS OPENER VS. NCAA TOURNEY
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan federal judge gave the green light yesterday to a lawsuit over NCAA rules that allegedly keep top college hoop teams from playing in the annual National Invitation Tournament...
LAPDOG SID DOES IMUS' DIRTY WORK - MO 'JOKE' LATEST AFFRONT
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amIN the scheme of things, it's the scheme of things. Of course Sid Rosenberg, on the Imus In The Morning WFAN/MSNBC simulcast, this week had a good time with the...
THE FAN'S CORNER
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amRob Kuhn just missed the cutoff to be part of one of the most famous concert groupies ever. "I'd say I've seen upward of 30 Grateful Dead shows," Kuhn, 53,...
ACTION'S HOT AND HEAVY ALONG COAST
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTHE autumn harvest along the Atlantic coast has been nothing short of spectacular with an abundant supply of stripers, porgies, bluefish and sea bass being taken by anglers. The striper...
TURNOVER RATIO BOOSTS BIG BLUE
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amOf all the good the Giants have done through their surprising 4-1 start, of all the statistics that have contributed to Big Blue's turnaround from doormat to contender in the...
RICE HOPES TO STICK WITH NETS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWILKES BARRE, Pa. - Darius Rice was a projected lottery pick coming out of high school in Mississippi. He had the reputation, the shot, the size at 6-foot-10. And he...
JET PROPULSION; PRIMED TO GO 5-0, GANG GREEN WILL BLAST NINERS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amTHE gloom-and-doomers are out in force: The Jets are walking into a double trap vs. the 49ers - a division-sandwich game with a major look-ahead to next week in Foxboro....
REVENGE VS. THOMAS NOT PART OF NET AGENDA
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES WILKES BARRE, Pa. - With Knick Tim Thomas re-launching his now-tired act of verbal Net abuse, the Nets came here last night expecting one thing in terms of...
'IDIOTS' NEED TO SMARTEN UP
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox revel in their self-proclaimed role of being idiots. The truth is, the Yankees starting pitching has made them look like idiots. Consider that Johnny Damon,...
BAILEY'S BACK IN THE SADDLE
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amJockey Jerry Bailey returned to the saddle yesterday at Belmont Park for the first time since Sept. 1 when he broke his wrist falling off a ladder at his Florida...
MOUND OF PRESSURE ; NO GUARANTEES WITH BROWN UP FOR GAME 3
October 15, 2004 | 4:00am"[Brown's] going to be okay to go out there and compete."JOE TORRE BOSTON - Joe Torre cannot guarantee victory with Kevin Brown tonight in Game 3 of the ALCS. Torre...
ARROYO AIMS TO KEEP THINGS OFF-BALANCE
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - A guitar-strumming, corn-rowed Pirates reject holds Boston's season in his right hand. It has come down to Bronson Arroyo for the Red Sox, and they wouldn't have it...
MEL STILL WORKING HIS MAGIC
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The most valuable member of the Yankees traveling party slipped unnoticed into a back trainer's room at Fenway Park yesterday, earlier than just about anyone else. He fired...
KNICK TICKET BASE IS ON THE UPSWING
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Before preseason opened, Knick president Isiah Thomas said his goal was to make the Knicks "a hot ticket" this season. So far, the Knick brass can report...
JETS PUT TRUST IN GUARDS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amYou hope, as a Jets fan, not to hear their names at all during Sunday's game against the 49ers at Giants Stadium. They, too, hope not to hear their own...
JASON'S YANKS' FORGOTTEN MAN
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - You can still see him if you look carefully. You have to come early to watch batting practice. Be on the bench while he's giving his teammates support....
BORE OF WORDS ; EVEN-KEEL YANKS DOWNPLAY 2-0 LEAD
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - They have spanked Curt Schilling and beaten Pedro Martinez, and Schilling can't pitch Sunday due to a barking ankle. So, all that stands between the Yankees and celebrating...
GIRARDI MAY MAKE MOVE TO MARLINS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Joe Girardi may be leaving the Yankees broadcast booth to become Florida manager Jack McKeon's bench coach, The Post has learned. According to industry sources, Marlins...
WILKENS TELLS TIM: FORGET ABOUT COLLINS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Knick coach Lenny Wilkens wants Tim Thomas to move on. Thomas still hasn't gotten over the way last season ended, with him grimacing on the...
RODRIGUEZ GIVES JARAMILLO A RATING
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - When the Mets interview Rudy Jaramillo today in New York, they'll be talking to a man who is earning raves from people all over the game. Just another...
SCHILL-SHOCKED ; LOSING CURT MAKES 2-0 HOLE EVEN DEEPER
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Curt Schilling won't pitch Game 5, and at least some teammates are admitting the harsh reality of the ramifications. The Red Sox already faced a nearly insurmountable task...
PEN NOT ALWAYS MIGHTIER
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Curt Schilling won't pitch Sunday, or maybe for the duration, because of a subluxation in the sheath that holds his right ankle tendons. So they're bringing in the...
CALL HIM JUDAS JACKSON
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amGIVE Phil Jackson this much - at least when he rats out his team in this printing, he doesn't do it anonymously. When Sam Smith wrote The Jordan Rules, chronicling...
JOE GIVES EL DUQUE GAME 4 NOD
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - He has pitched only once since Sept. 22. But Orlando Hernandez is ready to take the ball tomorrow night. "I feel happy," El Duque said. "[Yesterday was] much...
A-ROD PUTS APRIL 'MESS' BEHIND HIM
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Back in April at Fenway, Alex Rodriguez had what you can call a slightly difficult four-game series. A-Rod went 1-for-17. He went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position....
'SMALL' VICTORY - CARDINALS SHOW ANOTHER DIMENSION
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - When you think of the Cardinals, it's easy to get swept away by the proficiency of their hitting. You think long balls, home runs and baseballs smashed...
HERM'S OFFENSE AILING
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amJETS NOTES The Jets are facing the very real possibility of being without three offensive starters when they face the 49ers Sunday at Giants Stadium. Guards Pete Kendall (fractured right...
CARDS ARE BIG FANS OF RAMS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES ST. LOUIS - Do you think the Yankees would rush through their warm-ups before a postseason game to watch the Giants or Jets on television? Likely not. But...
RICE WANTS SPOT ON NETS' MENU
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWILKES BARRE, Pa. - Darius Rice looked at the final stat sheet and shook his head. "It says I was 3-for-7. I was 3-for-6," Rice claimed. Not that it mattered,...
NETS SET TO EXTEND CEO THORN
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES WILKES BARRE, Pa. - Rod Thorn says he likes a challenge. Well, he's got one with the Nets, but he'll also have five more years to figure it...
JAMAL ELECTRIC IN KNICK DEBUT
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amKnicks 92Nets 84 WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - As Jamal Crawford came out with 1:58 left to complete his Knicks debut, he got a bear hug from Knicks coach Lenny Wilkens. The...
ESPN SHOCKER: KIPER GONE - DRAFT GURU, NETWORK PARTING AFTER 22 YEARS
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amMel Kiper Jr. is off ESPN's draft board, NYP TV Sports has learned. After a two-decade run as ESPN's NFL draft guru, Kiper and ESPN are separating. "ESPN will not...
FLY ME, I'M CURTIS - JETS WILL GO AS FAR AS MARTIN TAKES THEM
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amWhen breaking down why an NFL team is doing well, one of the reasons rarely is: The star is a good person. If it were more often the case then...
5 QUESTIONS FOR MIKE EMRICK
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with Devils' play-by-player Mike Emrick. With the NHL in a lockout, Emrick is calling college hockey for CSTV. When the NHL resumes,...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK (WHO'S A BETTER PLAY-BY-PLAYER?)
October 15, 2004 | 4:00amThom Brennaman vs. Josh Lewin (Who's a better play-by-player?) Fox' No. 2 MLB play-by-player, Thom Brennaman, is Brent Musburger Lite. When calling big events, he hypes things that don't need...