October 17, 2004
M'SOFT REPLAYS MONOPOLY GAMES
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amThis week's release of a new media-focused version of Windows shows that, despite five years of antitrust battles, Microsoft plans to use its near-monopoly power to crush its rivals. In...
DAILYCANDY, HYPERION INK 2-BOOK DEAL
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amDailyCandy founder Dany Levy just made a sweet deal with Hyperion publishers, The Post has learned. The founder of the daily e-mail service on style has contracted for two books...
BOY TOY STORY - DESPERATE 'HOUSEWIFE' EVA LONGORIA CURLS UP WITH THE LOCAL STUD MUFFIN; LA NUEVA MRS. ROBINSON
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amHAPPINESS seems comically out of reach for the women on ABC's monster hit, "Desperate Housewives," but of all the discontented characters on the show, Gabrielle Solis, played by the sexy...
'FARSCAPE' RETURNS - CRAZED FANS BRING BACK DOOMED SHOW
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amI LIVE with an escapee and it's murder. No, I don't mean he's an escaped murderer. I mean he's a lunatic about his TV shows. The man in question is...
CAMPAIGN COVERAGE MIRED IN BIASES
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amCLEARLY, the TV coverage of the presidential campaign has been anything but clear. Take last week's "Frontline," where the word "clear" was applied numerous times to describe situations for which...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amFOOD In vino veritas THE staggering growth of the wine industry in recent years often leaves the consumer feeling confused, if not overwhelmed. Do all Chardonnays have to taste like...
MOVIE PIX - OUR MOVIE CRITIC MEGAN LEHMANN'S BEST FILMS OF THE WEEK
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amHARVEY Monday, 3:30 p.m., AMC James Stewart is loveable as ever playing an amiable dipsomaniac with a 6-foot invisible rabbit friend in this charming fantasy from 1950. Josephine Hull is...
'AMERICA UNDERCOVER': HBO'S PORN PALACE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S not that HBO is shy to present pornographic programming. Heck, no. It's more a case of being reluctant to admit it. It's more a case of presenting porn while...
SLEEPING DOGS; BOOK CELEBRATES HUMANE SOCIETY'S 100TH
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amA century ago in Manhattan, on Oct. 18, 1904, a charter was signed establishing the Humane Society of New York, whose mission was to protect the city's horses against abuse....
GMS SQUARE OFF THE WRONG WAY
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amA world championship match began in Brissago, Switzerland, last month with the most common error in chess: The pieces were set up wrong. In a logo used to promote the...
CEMETERY OF LIVING DEAD
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amJUST in time for Halloween, the Onion and Anthology Film Archives are bringing back the wacky Italian black comedy "Cemetery Man" (1994), directed by Michele Soavi, a protégé of Dario...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe iTunes ad starring U2 They even manage to make cross-branding with a gigantic corporate entity cool: the new iTunes ad starring U2 (or is it the other way around?)...
WE ALL SCREAM FOR EUGENE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00am"I do stuff that's so inventive, it'll blow you up," says comedian Eugene Mirman. He's kidding, of course - what else can a guy say when someone claims he's changed...
UPDIKE UPDATE - PULITZER WINNER'S 21ST NOVEL A NOSTALGIC TALE OF GROWING OLD
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amVILLAGES John Updike Three stars Knopf, $25 JOHN Updike once described his ideal reader as a young boy in a small Midwestern town finding one of his books on the...
SIDEWAYS GLANCES - LOVABLE GRUMP GIAMATTI HITS THE ROAD IN A WITTY BUDDY FLICK
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amWith a vintage performance as a sad-sack wine lover, the physically unprepossessing Paul Giamatti is parlaying his trademark neuroses into unlikely stardom. "I never thought I'd be anything but a...
THE BIG TEASE - NOHO STUDIO MAKES MOVIE PREVIEWS THAT REEL 'EM IN
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amSo, do you want to see "The Grudge"? If that Sarah Michelle Gellar horror film is on your list, chances are it's because of a single image at the end...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amSURVIVING CHRISTMAS Yukfest with Ben Affleck as a millionaire who pays the family that is living in his childhood home to let him spend Christmas there. UNDERTOW Rural Georgia brothers...
HEAR THIS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amIN CONCERT * Psychobilly band the Cramps today and tomorrow at Irving Plaza. Sting and Annie Lennox at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday. On Thursday: Pop-rocker Howie Day and bluegrass...
JIN AND JUICE - ASIAN-AMERICAN RAPPER OUT TO PROVE THAT HE'S NO 'GIMMICK'
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amWORD on the street was the bullet was meant for Jin. It was a gang-related shooting, some speculated. Others say he was targeted by a jealous rival rapper. But bad...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amMick Jagger and Dave Stewart Alfie: Music From the Motion Picture (three and one half stars) Virgin Records After all the failed side projects from Mick Jagger over the years,...
ALFIE MALES- JAGGER AND STEWART TEAM UP ON SOUNDTRACK FOR THE SINGLE GUY
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amWhat's it all about, Alfie? We're not sure what kind of answers we'll get from the remake of the 1966 Michael Caine film (this time starring Jude Law), but the...
HAILING A DEATH CAB - 'CUTIE' ROCKERS ON A ROLL
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBenjamin Gibbard, singer and guitarist for Seattle-based indie pop quartet Death Cab For Cutie, writes songs in dark, poetic detail about failed love, distant relationships and life's disappointments and regrets....
HOW NOT TO LOOK FAT: BABY GOT BACK: FIVE EASY WAYS TO BANISH THE BLUBBER
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amIn the wide world of adipose tissue, there are some deposits that are simply more favorable than others. Busty? Good. Booty? Good. Back fat? Eh, not so good. Sad fact:...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amMarathon Man Wants a Girl for the Long Run This week, our man in the hot seat is David - he's 32, smart and runs a successful fashion business, manufacturing...
SAVING ROOM FOR DESSERT - CAN SMALL TALK OVER SOUFFLES LEAD TO SWEET NOTHINGS AFTER THE BILL IS PAID?
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amLAST week, Ilisa, 26, an editorial assistant, asked us to set her up with Francisco, 26, a TV program coordinator. We sent them for souffles and fine dining at Capsouto...
NO QUICKIE NICKY SPLIT
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amNicky Hilton would have split with her husband Todd Meister, the morning after their Las Vegas quickie wedding, but her mother Kathy didn't want a Britney Spears in the family,...
GHOST WRITER
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amLong before "Frankenstein" was a ghoulish movie, a children's halloween costume or a creepy character that launched countless spoof flicks (like Gene Wilder's hilarious "Young Frankenstein"), it was a ghost...
CELEBS 'TAG' UP IN PARK BENEFIT SALE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBrenda Belton drove through the night from Washington, D.C., and stood for hours in the early dawn chill yesterday - all in the name of grabbing bargains at the Central...
GUINEA-PIG COOKS GET SKEWERED
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amCooked guinea pigs are causing a stink in Queens. The New York City Parks Department cracked down on vendors serving skewered guinea pigs at an Ecuadorian festival in Flushing Meadows,...
GARSON STEPPING DOWN IN BRIBE WOE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amGerald Garson's days as a judge are a numbered. The embattled Brooklyn Supreme Court justice - awaiting trial on bribery charges - has decided to leave the bench effective Jan....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amIf she had simply changed the cat litter, a 63-year-old woman might not be in jail today. An apparently out-of-sorts Marie Adeline Calkins, of Port Angeles, Wash., told authorities she...
'BRIDEZILLA' LOSES LEGAL SLUGFEST
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx woman has lost the battle of Bridezilla vs. Maker-of-Bridezilla. A judge has thrown out Julia Swinton-Williamson's $136 million suit against the producers of the reality show "Bridezillas." The...
NYPD HIT BY 'TOXIC' $10M SUIT; 'JOB LED TO MISCARRIAGE'
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amA high-ranking homicide detective plans to sue New York City for $10 million for suffering a miscarriage and damaging her reproductive organs after "exposure to toxic substances" at a police...
DUBYA STORMS TO 6-PT. LEAD; REGAINS FOOTHOLD OVER KERRY AFTER 1ST-DEBATE SLIDE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush has surged to a 6-point lead over Sen. John Kerry, the largest edge the president has enjoyed since his much-maligned performance in the first debate, a poll of...
'CITY OUT TO LUNCH' IN FIASCO; SCHOOL FINGER-POINTING
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amVendors charged with delivering food to the Big Apple's public schools pointed their fingers at the city yesterday, blaming bumbling bureaucrats for the shortages hitting some kids. In the wake...
IRAQ'S OIL FOR TERROR; $72M TO PALESTINIANS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amSaddam Hussein secretly bankrolled a notorious Palestinian terrorist group with $72 million worth of vouchers from the U.N.'s corrupt oil-for-food program, according to a bombshell new report. The former dictator...
STICKING IT TO DOCS; STATE TO NAIL THOSE WHO GIVE 'UNNECESSARY' FLU SHOTS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amDoctors or health-care facilities who get caught giving flu shots to healthy or low-risk people could face steep fines or even lose their licenses, officials said yesterday. The state Department...
CHENEY SIS JUMPS INTO LESBIAN FRAY
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amAdd Mary Cheney's sister's name to a growing list of Cheney family members angry with Sen. John Kerry for bringing up Mary and her sexuality at last week's debate in...
SLEEPWALKER'S SEX NIGHTMARE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amA woman who had random sex with strangers while she was fast asleep - but who had no memory of her night-crawling - was suffering from a late-night disorder called...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amQUEENS *** Six swastikas were found spray-painted early yesterday at a Jewish center in Howard Beach, police said. Police were called to the Rockaway Park Jewish Center at 156-45 84th...
$5,000 ROBOT WANTS TO BE FRIENDS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amFirst it was economy cars, then slightly more emotional machines like the Yankees' Hideki Matsui. Now the hot new Japanese import is ifbot- a pint- sized personal robot that knows...
MARTHA'S 'PRETTY' GOOD DEAL
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amMartha Stewart is now relying on the kindness of convicts to make herself pretty. Once a board member for cosmetics giant Revlon, the guru of good living borrowed makeup last...
WOMAN WINS $2M IN DOCS' CANCER BOTCH
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amA Supreme Court jury has awarded $2.3 million to a Queens woman whose breast cancer worsened after doctors at Elmhurst Hospital failed to diagnose a large mass. The jury found...
FINDING JUDGE CRATER
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amVANISHING POINT: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JUDGE CRATER,AND THE NEW YORK HE LEFT BEHIND BY RICHARD J. TOFEL IVAN R. DEE, 216 PAGES, $24.95 FOR decades, the name "Judge Crater" has...
GRIEVING MARIANO ADMITS: I GO BLANK ON MOUND
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amMariano Rivera, the Bronx Bomber with the responsibility of closing out the Red Sox this weekend, admits his mind is still reeling after the tragic deaths of his wife's cousin...
L.I. KNIFER STABS TWO, KILLS SELF
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island dentist fatally stabbed himself through his heart after slicing his estranged wife and another man with a knife inside the couple's Kings Park home yesterday, a law...
MAN ON SUBWAY TRACKS KILLED BY TRAIN
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amA man who may have descended onto a subway track to retrieve a dropped hearing aid died yesterday after a train rolled into the station and he reacted too late...
DUBYA STORMS ; TO 6-PT. LEAD ; REGAINS FOOTHOLD OVER KERRY AFTER 1ST-DEBATE SLIDE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush has surged to a 6-point lead over Sen. John Kerry, the largest edge the president has enjoyed since his much-maligned performance in the first debate, according to a...
BROOKLYN MAN INJURED IN BLAZE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amInvestigators are trying to unravel the mystery of how a 55-year-old Brooklyn man burned his face, fire officials said. Firefighters were called to the man's first-floor apartment at 654 St....
EVACUATION AFTER L.I. TANKER CRASH
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amHundreds of people were evacuated from homes near Kennedy Airport after a gasoline tanker truck collided with an auto and threatened to explode, authorities said. The tanker was heading northeast...
MUSIC TO THE EYES; TIME WARNER CENTER'S JAZZ HALL TRIUMPH
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amIt cost $193 million to create Frederick P. Rose Hall, the formal name for Jazz at Lincoln Center's new home at the Time Warner Center opening tomorrow - $65 million...
DELONAS ON SUNDAY; GETTING NYC TO GET IT
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe Manhattan Institute, New York's preeminent right-leaning local think tank, took credit for a host of political achievements as it marked its 25th anniversary at a dinner Wednesday. The group...
MRS. MCG'S 'OUT' HOUSE ; SPLITSVILLE AFTER GAY GOV RESIGNS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amThis is the cozy three-bedroom in suburban New Jersey that Gov. Jim McGreevey's wife, Dina, was considering moving into - alone. Dina Matos McGreevey and her outed husband have been...
KERRY CAMP PREPS ARMY OF N.Y. LAWYERS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amAs many as 1,000 New York-based lawyers will be dispatched to Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio on behalf of the John Kerry campaign in an attempt to combat voter fraud in...
COMPLIMENTARY COMPTROLLER COOLING ON BID TO UNSEAT MIKE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amF OR those handicapping next year's mayoral race, now's the time to ramp up the odds on Comptroller Bill Thompson. Facing a self-imposed mid-December deadline on whether to enter the...
NANNY FELT WINTOUR'S CHILL: SUIT
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe former live-in nanny of Anna Wintour, the feared editor in chief of Vogue magazine, says she worked for the media bigwig from dawn to dusk, made only $325 a...
MEGA KICK HURTS LOTTO ; LURE OF BIGGER JACKPOTS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The Mega Millions lottery game and its promise of mega-jackpots has left the more established Lotto in the dust, new statistics obtained by The Post show. New York...
COIN CONS OF 9/11; SLEAZEBAG 'SOUVENIR' PURVEYORS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amShameless schemes to profit from 9/11 by selling bogus commemorative coins are running rampant - even as state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer cracks down on a Westchester business selling "Freedom...
STROKE HITS MADONNA'S RABBI GURU
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Madonna's personal kabbalah guru Rabbi Philip Berg has suffered a stroke and is now wheelchair-bound, raising fears the controversial spiritual leader may not have long to live....
SLEEPWALK WOMAN'S PASSIONATE NIGHTMARE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amA woman who had random sex with strangers while she was fast asleep - but who had no memory of her night-crawling - was suffering from a randy late-night disorder...
SUBWAY HERO SAVES HOMELESS GUY
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amAn NYU religion student was among the guardian angels who helped save the life of an apparently homeless man as he got hit by a subway train last night, witnesses...
MRS. MCG'S 'OUT' HOUSE - SPLITSVILLE AFTER GAY GOV RESIGNS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amThis is the cozy three-bedroom in suburban New Jersey that Gov. Jim McGreevey's wife, Dina, was considering moving into - alone. Dina Matos McGreevey and her outed husband have been...
STICKING IT TO DOCS - STATE TO NAIL THOSE WHO GIVE 'UNNECESSARY' FLU SHOTS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amDoctors or health-care facilities who get caught giving flu shots to healthy or low-risk people could face steep fines - or even lose their licenses, officials said yesterday. The state...
Correction Date: 10/31/2004
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amCorrection: In the article "Coin Cons of 9/11" published in our Oct. 17 issue, we printed a photograph of a World Trade Center Recovery Silver Eagle coin distributed by Morgan...
PLANINIC'S MAKING POINTS WITH LAWRENCE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The Nets have some pretty big shoes to fill for the next month while Jason Kidd rehabs from offseason knee surgery, and no guard on the team has...
THRASHERS OWNER SPILLS BEANS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amSTEVE Belkin, who has been part-owner of the Thrashers for about five minutes, became Bob Goodenow's best friend last week. Because in quite casually telling the Boston Herald of the...
TOO LATE TO STOP NOW - ROCKET APPEARSON COURSE FORRETURN IN 2005
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - It is the competition, the roar of the crowd, the sweet taste of triumph that tempts athletes to keep playing past their prime. Nearly all the great ones...
JOE FEELS AT HOME IN ENEMY TERRITORY
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Even though he is the face of the Yankees, Joe Torre isn't a hermit when in Beantown. Torre is often seen walking Newberry Street or dining...
MINAYA DINES WITH VALENTINE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Mets' managerial search added its most intriguing wrinkle yet when GM Omar Minaya dined with former skipper Bobby Valentine Friday night. "I can tell you that I...
FOES SEARCH FOR ANSWERS; QUESTIONS DOG RED SOX, YANKS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The sun that pierced thick white and gray clouds and bathed Fenway Park in brilliance yesterday afternoon did nothing to answer all the questions smothering the Yankees-Red Sox...
FENWAY PARK: HOME OFFICE OF HEARTBREAK
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - For the Red Sox, home is the place where they were about to take Bernie Williams during the winter of 1998 until George Steinbrenner couldn't stand the thought....
THERE'S NO QUIT IN WAGNER
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amH.S. FOOTBALLWagner 20Curtis 12 Andre Cirino still has bad memories of last season. "It was hard," the Wagner junior said. "We had a bunch of people quit on us. They...
JAX PASSES TORCH TO A-ROD
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The first in kling came long before anyone had ever even seen Mr. October swing a bat, before anyone outside of his Philadelphia neighborhood had ever heard of...
JAMAL PUTS ON SHOW AT GARDEN
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amKnicks 98Spurs 84 Wearing his No. 11 Knick uniform for the first time in the Garden, Jamal Crawford scored a point a minute yesterday. In 25 minutes, he put up...
SHEFF'S COOKING IN ALCS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Years ago, when Joe Torre was broadcasting Angel games, he watched Gary Sheffield play third base for the Brewers. At the time, Sheffield was in his first seasons...
BACKUP'S BACKSTOP BOOSTER
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - When Doug Mirabelli replaces Jason Varitek at catcher tonight, the Red Sox just might be bolstered by their backup backstop. How often has a second-string catcher influenced the...
MANY HAPPY ANNIVERSARIES
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - A year ago today, the Yankees were celebrating their Game 7 victory over the Red Sox on the strength of Aaron's Boone's 11th-inning home run off Tim Wakefield....
SOX STILL HOPEFUL SCHILLING CAN PITCH
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Now it's a race against time. The Curt Schilling saga continued yesterday at Fenway Park, as Boston manager Terry Francona said his ace felt only the normal soreness...
PEDRO IN GAME 5? DON'T ASK
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Red Sox manager Terry Francona isn't ready to announce a Game 5 starter, and he's sick of people asking him about it. For the second straight day yesterday,...
IRISH CAPSIZE NAVY; GRANT RUNS WILD IN WIN
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amNotre Dame 27Navy 9 This time there were no late-second heroics for Notre Dame, no dramatic last-ditch rally to beat Navy. No need. No drama. No contest. Just a one-sided,...
MATSUI MADNESS SINKS SOX
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Four batters into the game, the Yankees had a run in and man on third with one out. With Hideki Matsui up, Sox manager Terry Francona elected to...
VAZ GLOWS AFTER BROWN-OUT
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Early last night, Kevin Brown's sinker was dropping just like the Red Sox' hopes. By the third inning, he was out of the game. Good thing Javier Vazquez...
DOWNING LEADS SHEEPSHEAD BAY
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amHIGH SCHOOLFOOTBALL Lamont Downing scampered for 164 yards and three touchdowns as Sheepshead Bay showed once again it likely is the best team in the PSAL with a 26-6 win...
SHEFF, GIAMBI MUM ON BONDS REPORT
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON -The two Yankees involved in the BALCO hearings had different levels of awareness concerning Barry Bonds' personal trainer allegedly saying on secret tapes made by federal law...
FIRED-UP ROCKET DECKS THE CARDS: CLEMENS FEELS RIGHT AT HOME; ASTROS TRAIL 2-1
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 3 Astros 5 Cardinals 2 HOUSTON - It is the fountain of youth for Roger Clemens and a house of horrors for any team in the third base dugout....
SORE RIB MAY BOTHER OSWALT IN GAME FOUR
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES HOUSTON - Before Roy Oswalt starts for the Astros today in Game 4, he'll take an injection in his rib cage to numb the soreness from a muscle...
IDIOTS' BLUNDERS DEADLY
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - As his teammates celebrated an ALDS sweep of Anaheim last Friday, Johnny Damon at one point screamed, "There goes the idiots!" Damon's grammar was as bad as Boston's...
NETS' POINT 'PARTNERSHIP' PASSES TEST
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amPRESEASONNets 95Celtics 86 ALBANY - Jason Kidd is expected to miss roughly another month as he rehabs his surgically repaired knee, putting his return somewhere around two weeks into the...
FRANCONA DOESN'T LEARN FROM HISTORY
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Terry Francona was hired to replace Grady Little, not to repeat him. But last night, with Boston's season teetering in the balance, Francona kept a Boston pitcher in...
BUD: IT'S TIME TO GET TOUGH
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Commissioner Bud Selig called the fresh allegations tying Barry Bonds with steroid use in 2003 "a further manifestation of why we need to strengthen our policy regarding steroids."...
DUQUE'S BACK - AGAIN
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - It was already going to be 15 days since Orlando Hernandez's last start. One more wasn't going to make much of a difference. Although El Duque had his...
YANKS' BATS DO THEIR BIDDING
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The biggest bats finally shut up the biggest baseball mouths as the quietest professional, Hideki Matsui, helped lead the Yankees. The Bronx Bombers annihilated the Red Sox last...
SHEFF'S COOKING WITH GAS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - It's one thing to step up your play in an American League Championship Series. It's quite another to basically not get out. But this is where we are...
FENWAY'S SEEN ALL OF THIS BEFORE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Dad saw Yaz pop up here, the Reds come back from 3-0 in Game 7 here. Granddad is too young to remember the last World Championship in 1918,...
BATTY BOMBERS ONE WIN AWAY! A-ROD HOMER GETSSLAUGHTER STARTED
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - This time, the Red Sox didn't even give their fans the familiar tease - the usual angst, suspense, agony. For the second straight year, the Yankees and the...
BATTY BOMBERS ONE WIN AWAY! MATSUI, SHEFF PUT YANKS ON CUSP OF SERIES
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 3 Yankees 19 Red Sox 8 BOSTON - When it comes to the 2004 season, the Red Sox are nine innings away from being Three-D. That's morgue talk for...
RED SOX' ROTATION HITS LOWE
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - No wonder Terry Francona was so testy about his pitching. After snapping at reporters for the second straight day regarding his Game 5 and Game 6 plans, Francona...
NINERS MADE GREAT CATCH WITH CONWAY
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES Look who's leading the 49ers' receiving corps: Curtis Conway. Conway, the receiver the Jets brought to New York last season in a failed effort to replace Laveranues Coles,...
MAWAE CENTER OF IT ALL
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amTHE JETS try to make history today against the 49ers. Not even the Joe Namath Jets went 5-0. The Chad Pennington Jets have no chance to go 5-0 without Kevin...
MORE CHANCES FOR DEER HUNTERS IN NEW YORK
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amHUNTERS in New York State were given early Christmas presents from the state and New York City. The Department of Environmental Conservation extended the Westchester archery season by two weeks,...
HEAD TO HEAD
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amPost baseball writers Michael Morrissey and Mark Hale slug it out over which team would be a tougher World Series opponent for the Yankees, the Astros or the Cardinals? MORRISSEY:...
TRAINER: BONDS USED STEROIDS - ON TAPE WITH DRUG DETAILS, SAYS REPORT
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amRecord-breaking slugger Barry Bonds used an "undetectable" performance-enhancing drug during the 2003 baseball season, his personal trainer allegedly claimed in a secretly recorded conversation. Controversial trainer Greg Anderson, Bonds' boyhood...
ALL SYSTEMS GO - JETS SEE BLOWOUT ON RADAR
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe explosion is on its way. When it will arrive is anyone's guess. But there's going to come a time when the Jets click on all cylinders - offense, defense...
MAKING THE RIGHT CALL - BASEBALL, NFL HANDLE TOUGH TOPICS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amLAST WEEK was marked by unfair bashings of those who often escape them when they deserve them. But these are strange days, when baseball announcers are quicker to criticize a...
SPECT-HATER SPORTS: SOME PEOPLE LOVE TO ROOT AGAINST US
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Nobody roots for us anymore. We are everyone's Great Satan, whether they live in Fayetteville, Ark., or Fayetteville, N.C., whether they throw their scorn our way from Portland,...
MAKING A NAME FOR HIMSELF - CLINKSCALES TIPS FAME IN HIS FAVOR AT DEPAUL
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The name is not easily forgotten, like Smith, Jones or Johnson. It has its own distinct feel when it comes off your tongue and lodges itself in your...
DON'T BANK ON IT - KIRILENKO WANTS PAYDAY GIVEN TO LESSER PLAYERS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amJUST BECAUSE one NBA team overpays a player, that doesn't mean a relatively comparable player from another team is entitled to a cloned contract. Yet that's the perverse position plagiaristic...
IT'S CUP IN THE AIR
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amThe World Series isn't the only championship event on the October calendar. Less than two weeks from today, the 21st running of the $14 million Breeders' Cup - the world...
METROSTARS GET A JUMP ON PLAYOFFS
October 17, 2004 | 4:00amFor the second straight year, the MetroStars find themselves in the position of playing their finale against the same team they'll face in the playoffs. They can only hope this...