October 19, 2004
A SIMPLE, FOOL-PROOF PLAN THAT'LL SAVE OUR ECONOMY
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOTH President Bush and John Kerry have plans for the U.S. economy. So do I - only mine is better. Kerry wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and magically...
KENNEDY COUSIN BOOK TO SCRIBNER
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amIf there's one rule of thumb about publishing, it's that books about the Kennedys almost always sell. And this week, Nan Graham, editor-in-chief of Scribner just bought another one. The...
LUXE APTS. ARE B'WAY BOUND
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amLOVERS of Broadway's bright lights may soon bed down in the neon and LED glow of the Morgan Stanley triple-zipper and the Hershey chocolate store. A prime, underutilized site in...
LEVI STRAUSS PULLS DOCKERS FROM AUCTION BLOCK
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amLevi Strauss & Co. has decided to put Dockers back on its shelf. The San Francisco-based jeans maker pulled Dockers off the auction block yesterday, after a five-month sale process...
A SICK BUSINESS - SPITZER'S NEXT TARGET: MEDICAL INSURERS' RIPOFFS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amAttorney General Eliot Spitzer's blockbuster insurance industry probe, which has rocked Wall Street with charges of conflicts of interest, is likely to focus next on health insurance, The Post has...
RADAR COMEBACK - ROSHAN GETS BIG-TIME BACKERS WITH BANKROLL
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amMaer Roshan's Radar magazine is making another comeback - this time with backers who may be willing to bankroll him with millions. How many millions is open to debate. Mort...
NEWSDAY AD GROUP TAKES ON CIRC PACT
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA group of advertisers suing Newsday over its inflated rates asked a judge to block the paper from reaching settlements with other advertisers and to void any existing pacts. The...
A GIANT PAY DAY - EXITING KMART CEO GETS $130M FOR 30 MOS.' WORK
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amJulian Day, who stepped down yesterday as Kmart Holding's chief executive to make way for his successor, restaurant pro Aylwin Lewis, will walk away with a multimillion-dollar pay package for...
FIGHT TO LOOSEN GREENBERG FAMILY'S GRIP
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amEliot Spitzer's biggest hurdle in his new war on alleged insurance corruption is breaking up the Greenberg family ties and loosening their firm grip on much of the industry. Insurance...
'WIVES' IS TOO HOT
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amSEVERAL advertisers have yanked their spots from ABC's "Desperate Housewives" because of the show's racy content. But that hasn't stopped the network from doubling the price it charges other advertisers...
RAYMOND'S BROTHER TO GET OWN SHOW
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBRAD Garrett is preparing for life after "Everybody Loves Raymond." Garrett, who plays Robert Barone on the hit sitcom, is talking to HBO about starring in a series once "Raymond"...
HEAT OF THE NIGHT - BUYING INSURANCE AGAINST FLA. REPEAT
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amNETWORK news execs have a recurring nightmare. They wake up and it's Election Night 2000 all over again. So most have gone to great lengths to prevent a repeat of...
STARR REPORT
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amHe's hitting his mark Newly minted "Extra" co- host Mark McGrath is getting some valuable tutoring from a rival of sorts - "Good Day Live's" Steve Edwards. McGrath, who joined...
FINAL 'JEOPARDY!' - D-DAY FOR JENNINGS LOOKS LIKE NOV. 9
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amIN the next weeks, people will stop tuning in to "Jeopardy!" to see Ken Jennings win - and start watching to see him lose. If reports from last month are...
ODDBALL HANDBOOK - NEW GUIDE TO SPECIES FOUND IN AMERICA
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amCHANCES are, you've seen them - the Goth types wandering the food courts at the malls; white baby boomers tricked out in too much turquoise jewelry; the flamboyantly Lycra'd women...
EXPRESS CHECK IN - GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00am"GOOD" TIMES THE name is so not cool, but the men of Good Charlotte - and their music - sure are popular with the kids. Laurie Heifetz tracked them down...
BLUE VELVET - CAFFEINE LOVER GERSH KUNTZMAN TAKES A JOURNEY TO JAMAICA'S MYTHICAL COFFEE MECCA
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amAS an inveterate coffee drinker (addict, more like), I headed for Jamaica to find Alex Twyman, the infamous coffee baron who markets his beans under the "Old Tavern" brand. I...
THE REAL DEAL - NEVIS HAS AN AUTHENTICITY MANY CARIBBEAN ISLANDS CAN NO LONGER CLAIM, WRITES PUCCI MEYER-MCGILL
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amACCORDING to the story, Columbus thought the mists around the mountain peak were snow and he called the island Santa Maria de las Nieves. Centuries of warfare, buccaneering, slavery and...
SUIT BIDS TO ZAP N.J.'S HIGH-TECH VOTE GIZMOS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amNew Jersey's 8,000 electronic voting machines must not be used on Nov. 2 because they are unreliable, a group of residents and elected officials will charge in a suit to...
STRIP-JOINT KILLER GETS 14 YEARS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amHeartbroken family and friends of a strip-club floor manager shot to death last March in Queens lashed out at the admitted triggerman yesterday as a Queens judge sentenced him to...
GENEROSA THREATENED ME: DRIVER
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amMurdered millionaire Ted Ammon's family chauffeur yesterday revealed that Ammon's estranged wife twice cursed at him, threatened to break his leg and told him she'd make him and his family...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amLawn-ornament dealer Melvyn Frye got one of the strangest orders of his career when a customer ordered a giant rhino to give to his wife. So Frye, of Sacramento County,...
SNAFU IN VOTING GUIDE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A red-faced League of Women's Voters yesterday said it plans to correct a big-time gaffe in its 2004 New York voting guide that butchers President Bush's resume and...
COOKING BOOK$ - 3RD L.I. SCHOOL BIG NAILED: DA
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA former school-district accounting clerk was charged yesterday with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from Long Island students, staffers and taxpayers to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that included trips...
NORMAN OPENS DEFENSE FUND
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBrooklyn Democratic boss Clarence Norman has opened a legal-defense fund to fight pending criminal charges of threats and larceny - but he won't be raiding his campaign treasury, as ex-state...
A BIRD! PLANE! IT'S B.J. WHO? - THE NEXT SUPERMAN
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amJust a week after the death of Christopher Reeve, Warner Bros. is poised to fill his old Superman tights with an obscure but hunky 25-year-old TV actor. Brandon James Routh...
KIDS' LUNCHES GET BEEFED UP
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBox lunches are out and Jamaican beef patties are in at PS 126. Two days after The Post reported a food delivery lag forced the Lower East Side school to...
JUDGE CUTS OFF LARRY LAWYER
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amGround Zero developer Larry Silverstein's trial to win an additional $1.1 billion in insurance damages for the 9/11 terror attacks got off to a shaky start yesterday when a federal...
DOWN 'N DIRTY - KERRY GOES ALL-NEGATIVE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amNEGATIVE campaigning works: People respond to it, because in most elections your most realistic bet is to vote not for a candidate who represents your every yearning but for the...
2 HAMAS RAIDERS KILLED
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Two Hamas gunmen made a rare invasion of Israel from the Gaza Strip yesterday, but were killed after a lengthy gun battle with soldiers, officials said. The gunmen,...
GLITCHES HIT EARLY VOTES IN FLORIDA
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Early voting got off to a choppy start in Florida yesterday as snafus in the first few hours rekindled 2000 presidential recount nightmares. The new ATM-style touch-screen voting...
JAILHOUSE CROCK - VELELLA PANEL'S ILLEGAL VOTE MAY LAND HIM BACK IN CELL
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amOnly two of the four members of the controversial commission that sprung former state Sen. Guy Velella from jail were present when the vote was taken - a violation of...
NEW GOP ADS SLAM 'PICKPOCKET' SHELLY
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - State Republicans are blasting Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as a pickpocket plucking a wallet out of a man's back pocket. The latest attack comes in a new...
TRAGIC DEAF MAN'S FINAL TRIP HOME
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bangladesh Consulate will pay the cost of shipping home the body of a poor immigrant who died trying to retrieve his hearing aid after it fell on subway tracks....
KERRY THINKS IT'S 9/10: BUSH - DEM IN DARK ON TERROR, PREZ TELLS N.J. RALLY
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amMARLTON, N.J - President Bush delivered a scathing attack on Sen. John Kerry yesterday, portraying him as clueless about the terrorist threat more than three years after 9/11. "The war...
COP ADMITS 169G SHAKEDOWN
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA veteran NYPD detective admitted yesterday to stealing $169,000 from a drug courier in Queens. Thomas Rachko, 46, pleaded guilty to grand larceny in Queens Supreme Court and could get...
THE BUDDY SYSTEM - JOE'S BRO HIRES HIS NEIGHBOR
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The state-employed brother of powerful Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno has hired his next-door neighbor as a $75,000-a- year "special assistant," The Post has learned. Robert Bruno, 65,...
AMERICA 'ON ALERT' FOR PRE-ELECTION ATTACK: DUBYA
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday said the United States is "on alert" for a pre-election terror strike aimed at tilting the vote - but claimed there are no specific threats. "We have...
HATE-SPRAY SPREE SCARS B'KLYN, QNS.
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA rash of anti-Semitic graffiti scarred a number of Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens over the weekend. Cops found swastikas painted on the door and window of a medical...
GOPLEASED IN BED
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBirds do it. Bees do it. Even starchy GOPs do it. And they're apparently more satisfied doing it than Democrats. In an ABC News survey released yesterday, 56 percent of...
DINER RAMPAGE FIREWORKS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man charged in the shooting of eight people during a botched robbery at a popular Brooklyn diner said petrified patrons threw cash and phones toward him after his...
JURY HEARS VICIOUS GUNMAN'S HATE RANT
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amSometime before he spewed bullets, kerosene and racial epithets on 15 cowering hostages in an East Village wine bar, Steven Johnson gave himself a twisted little pep talk. "Get ready...
BADDIES & CADDIES - ESCALADE TOPS LIST OF THIEVES' FAVORITES
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe flashy Cadillac Escalade EXT, the favorite ride of rappers and movie stars, is the newer-model vehicle car thieves are most likely to steal, according to a study released yesterday....
STRAPHANGERS FACE A DOUBLE THRA$HING
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amStraphangers not only face fare hikes and service cuts next year, they could be hit with more of the same in 2006 if the MTA doesn't get extra city and...
MIKE NIXES FLU 'FINES' - CONFLICTS WITH STATE ON SHOTS FOR HEALTHY
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg, who loves fining people who violate the city's smoking, parking and noise regulations, yesterday pooh-poohed the idea of fining providers who give healthy or low-risk people flu shots....
REAGAN DAUGHTER DECLARES WAR ON SALVATION ARMY
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amRonald Reagan's daughter is suing the Salvation Army, charging it canceled her lucrative speaking gig because of her outspoken support of stem-cell research. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court,...
QNS. HOSP GUNMAN'S BIZARRE TALE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe Queens man who allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife after a bloody confrontation at a Queens hospital last month was apparently oblivious to the trouble he was in when...
KID 'PERV' NAILED IN CYBER STING
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan attorney was busted in an Internet sex sting after attempting to meet someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl on Long Island, police said yesterday. Steven J. Lever,...
JOHN'S MARY REMARK WAS OUT OF LINE: W.
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday said John Kerry went too far when he noted that Vice President Cheney's daughter Mary is gay during the final presidential debate. "I thought it was over...
DA SHOWS OFF 'MODEL' DRUG PROGRAM
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe Belgian bombshell caught with three small bags of cocaine at Kennedy Airport last summer is performing well in a DA-approved drug program, prosecutors said yesterday during a routine court...
RANGER GAL ICES GARDEN WITH SEX SUIT
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe former head of the New York Rangers' cheerleading squad filed a federal suit yesterday against Madison Square Garden officials for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation. Courtney Prince, 26, said...
MAN SLAIN ON B'KLYN PORCH
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA gunman shot and killed a Haitian immigrant on the porch of an assisted-living home in Brooklyn yesterday, police said. The killer fled on foot after shooting Weslie Lewis, 40,...
TEEN PALS IN PERIL - RUNAWAYS NYC-BOUND
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amNew York authorities are on the lookout for a pair of runaway teenage girls from Oklahoma who stole a parent's car for a cross-country trek to see a boy one...
HOSP-RIDE HORROR - AMBULANCE CRASH KILLS CANCER PATIENT
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA cancer-stricken Brooklyn man being transported to a hospital for emergency treatment was killed early yesterday when his TransCare ambulette flipped on its side after colliding with an SUV driven...
FIELD OF DREAMS - BX. BEEP PITCHES DESIGN FOR NEW YANKEE STADIUM
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amHere's a sneak peek at the proposed new Yankee Stadium - and Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion's plan to use the current ballpark's field and distinctive facade for recreation and...
KIDS GET ADMISSIONS BREAK
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amManhattan students who were caught off guard by stricter admissions criteria at elite middle schools have gotten a break. Education officials said yesterday that fifth-graders from District 2 can apply...
'BOOZY' BOAST - GAL SAID SHE'D RUIN O'REILLY: BAR OWNER
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe woman who's suing TV personality Bill O'Reilly for sexual harassment boasted she had written a book to "take [him] down" - months before she went back to work for...
ESCALADE TOPS 'HOT'-ROD LIST
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe flashy Cadillac Escalade EXT, the favorite ride of rappers and movie stars, is the newer-model vehicle car thieves are most likely to steal, according to a study released yesterday....
WIFE'S 'NAZI' SPREE - 'SWASTIKA' REVENGE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amAn emotionally disturbed woman went on a three-day anti-Semitic rampage, painting swastikas in Jewish neighborhoods - because she was furious that her ex-husband married a Jewish woman 14 years younger...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Police in Flatbush are searching for a knife-wielding suspect (above) who tried to sexually assault a woman in her apartment after posing as a repairman. The woman managed...
MAN BUSTED IN FATAL 'HIT-RUN'
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA hit-run van driver who killed a bicyclist Sunday in Queens was arrested yesterday, police said. Mark Alcantara, 23, of Corona, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident....
DA SHOWS OFF 'MODEL' PROGRAM
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe Belgian bombshell caught with three small bags of cocaine at Kennedy Airport last summer is performing well in a DA-approved drug program, prosecutors said yesterday during a court appearance....
TEEN SLAIN IN HARLEM RESTAURANT
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amA 14-year-old girl was shot inside a Chinese restaurant in Harlem last night, police and relatives said. Melissa Gayle had been inside the China House restaurant on Madison Avenue, between...
NEED A FLU SHOT? IT HELPS TO BE A FORMER MAYOR ...
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amNeed a flu shot? It helps to be a former mayor. Ed Koch was able to get ahead of hundreds of people waiting in line last week at the Chelsea...
YOUNG NEW YORKERS RECOGNIZE HEROES
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amWhat makes an NYPD sergeant's job so tough? Just ask these young New Yorkers. Here are excerpts from their prize-winning essays. These children of NYPD Sergeants know of the missed...
GORDON ABSORBS BLAME
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Forget about what your box score tells you today. Tom Gordon blew last night's save, not Mariano Rivera. The Yankee set-up man continued his ALCS struggles in the...
ESTEBAN SUPERB IN LOSS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - He only got the call out of necessity, out of emergency. Fact was, there was nobody left in the bullpen. Nobody but Esteban Loaiza. The seventh Yankee pitcher...
SOX THRILLED BY JOY OF SIX - SEND SERIES BACK TO BRONX
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 5 / 14 INN.: Red Sox 5 - Yankees 4 BOSTON - Gary Sheffield said this is no time to get tired. So, you can't blame fatigue for the...
GOING HOME FINE WITH YANKS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - They have never craved the sight of the big ballpark in The Bronx quite so much as they do this morning. After these past two nights, after struggling...
PEDRO TO YANKS: WHO'S YOUR PAPI ?
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Pedro Martinez couldn't summon his Cy Young Award form in what was possibly his final start with the Red Sox last night. In fact, the 32-year-old righty put...
CLUTCH COLLAPSE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees lost Game 5 of the ALCS last night because they blew another lead. They lost because David Ortiz turns into Reggie Miller in late-inning situations. But...
WAKEFIELD RESCUES BOSOX
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Jason Varitek said Tim Wakefield didn't deserve to lose last year's ALCS Game 7. A year later, Wakefield wouldn't let the Red Sox lose. Boston's knuckleballer came out...
DESPERATE MEASURES
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Forget the cushion, it's time for the Yankees to play with desperation. If not, this Curse will be reversed and this Yankee team will be remembered as the...
SHEFF SAYS QUOTE THAT FIRED UP SOX WAS BOGUS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - The Red Sox used a quote Gary Sheffield said he never uttered as motivation for last night's Game 5 victory over the Yankees. Sheffield was quoted...
LENNY WANTS MORE FROM MOHAMMED
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES The Knicks' starting center battle between Nazr Mohammed and Vin Baker still is being fought in the trenches, with Lenny Wilkens saying he needs to see more rebounding...
MARBURY: HOUSTON'S OUR NO. 1
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amNo one has been happier, no one has embraced, no one has gotten closer to Jamal Crawford than Stephon Marbury has. Across preseason, Marbury has frequently sung Crawford's praises, while...
PAD WILL ALLOW 'ZO TO PRACTICE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe protective pad has arrived for Alonzo Mourning. And now he and the Nets are waiting on his timing and conditioning. But when he'll play after undergoing a kidney transplant...
KENT CLOCKS CARDS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amGame 5: Astros 3 - Cards 0 HOUSTON - Whoever would have thought Game 5 of the NLCS would turn out to be a pitchers' duel where the respective starters...
SECOND-HALF SIZZLE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amJET REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS B+ Chad Pennington (20-of-30, 222 yards, 88.5 rating) was key with some out-of-character heated words for his offense at halftime and then he backed those words up...
SOX FIND RIVERA'S WEAK SPOT
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees understand. Mariano Rivera is not perfect. And give the Red Sox credit, too, for smartening up a bit. They realized they were lucky to get to...
COUGHLIN'S 'LONELY' LIFE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amHe is surrounded on a daily basis, almost every minute, by large bodies and a swirl of activity. That's the way it will be today for Tom Coughlin as the...
GAME 6 GUT-CHECK - LIEBER'S SET TO BE STOPPER
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Back in Game 2 of the ALCS, everything was focused on Pedro Martinez. There were the "Who's your daddy?" chants, the resounding jeers, the concerns over his velocity...
HERM SHIELDING JETS FROM HYPE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amImmediately following the Jets' 22-14 win over the 49ers on Sunday, Herman Edwards urged his players not to talk to reporters about their next opponent. It was an odd bit...
ROBERTS TIPS CAP TO TERRY
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The second toughest thing in a late-inning game is to steal a base when everyone in the ballpark knows you're running. The toughest thing is to give the...
SCHILLING BACK IN SADDLE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Their plan to topple the Yankees tenuous, but still intact, the Red Sox will give Curt Schilling the ball for Game 6 and hope for the best. Schilling,...
MUELLER KNOWS HERO ROLE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Bill Mueller's game-tying hit off Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning of Game 4 Sunday was "a little deja vu thing," in the words of Sox reliever Curtis...
ANKLE FORCES OLERUD TO THE BENCH AGAIN
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - John Olerud's bruised left instep was improved yesterday, but not enough to allow him to start at first base for the Yankees against Pedro Martinez in...
FENWAY FANS WON'T GIVE UP
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - You probably can't understand, because we don't have anything like the Red Sox in New York. We used to. We used to have the Rangers, and all the...
BULLPENS RUNNING ON FUMES
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Once the rain started coming down hard on Friday night, Joe Torre could see this coming. Games every night, no days off - it wasn't hard for him...
TAKING IT ONE GAME AT A TIME
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees weren't able to finish off the Red Sox in four games because Mariano Rivera had a rare failure, Paul Quantrill has never been right since being...
INJURIES BEGINNING TO MEND
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets' three offensive starters who were unable to play against the 49ers on Sunday were upgraded yesterday to "probable" for Sunday's game against the Patriots in Foxboro....
STICKING WITH THE STARTERS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Dave Roberts stole second and scored the tying run. Doug Mientkiewicz executed a sacrifice bunt to move a runner over. Pokey Reese came in for defense. In short,...
LIDGE'S LIVING LARGE - ASTRO CLOSER MOWS DOWN FOES
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - When Astros GM Gerry Hunsicker pulled the trigger on a trade for Carlos Beltran on June 24, it was a gamble. Not only because Beltran was a free...
LET THE COACHES COACH
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amCAN'T say I'm the least bit surprised the NBA's deep thinkers are considering banning the bomb until the last five minutes of regulation; and, what, long distance field goals only...
SUDDENLY, BOMBERS ARE IN TROUBLE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The baseball fans of this city, generation after generation of them, have waited 85 years for deliverance. They've learned the lesson of waiting till next year. The way...
ROG'S WISDOM HELPED BACKE
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES HOUSTON - Brandon Backe credited a chat he had with Roger Clemens after a jittery performance in Game 1 of the NLCS for the one-hitter he threw last...
ORTIZ PLAYS SAVIOR - COMES THROUGH AGAIN FOR GRITTY BOSOX
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Five pitches David Ortiz fouled off from a much tougher-than-expected Esteban Loaiza before, on the 10th pitch of the at-bat, muscling the winning hit into center field in...
MO IN NEED OF MORE SUPPORT - GAME 4 SLIPPED AWAY FROM YANKS
October 19, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - It's easy to blame Mariano Rivera for the Yankees not sweeping the Red Sox out of the ALCS, because that BS next to his name in the boxscore...