October 20, 2004
RAP BIG WEST HIP HOPS TO SONY
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amAfter being courted by virtually every large music company, rap superstar Kanye West has inked a joint-venture deal with Sony Music's U.S. label group, a part of SonyBMG. Such deals,...
APPLE'S NEWEST WRINKLE: THE CUSTOMIZED, U2 IPOD
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amApple Computer and the rock band U2 have inked a deal to sell customized iPods, The Post has learned. The announcement will be made at a splashy event Oct. 26...
EBBERS TRIAL SET FOR JAN.
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amDisgraced ex-WorldCom honcho Bernie Ebbers was granted an additional two months to prepare for his trial to fight charges that he masterminded the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history. During...
B OF A PRO QUITS FOR HEDGE FUND
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amAnother big Wall Street name is leaving a profits-pressured bank for the greener pastures of hedge funds. Jon Sandelman, 46, who put Bank of America into the hierarchy of Wall...
SWIG BURRIS INKS $165M DEAL FOR 110 WILLIAM ST.
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amKENT Swig's Swig Burris Equities is in contract buy 110 William St. from Trizec Properties for $165 million, sources tell us. The Cushman & Wakefield Capital Market Group is handling...
GRUMBLING CEO ADDS TO GUCCI'S TURMOIL
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amJust six months into his tenure as the Gucci Group's new chief executive, Robert Polet is facing the possibility of losing one of his top lieutenants. Giacomo Santucci, the CEO...
TOM HICKS PICKS A QUICK EXIT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amTom Hicks is in a bigger hurry than expected to give up deal-making for his first love - sports. The Texas buyout titan said he's retiring from the money game...
HEALTH CLUBBED - MEDICAL INSURERS' SHARES PLUNGE ON PROBE FEARS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amShares of health and disability insurers plummeted yesterday, joining the general decline in insurance company stocks on fears that the expanding industry probe by Eliot Spitzer will hurt profits. The...
GERSON LEHRMAN TO GO ON BLOCK; COULD GET $500M
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amGerson Lehrman, a firm that built a name for itself by offering independent research to Wall Street, may soon be losing its own independence. The privately held research boutique, which...
SHEPARD FAVORED TO LEAD FLOCK AT CUNY J-SCHOOL
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amSTEVE Shepard, the longtime Business Week editor in chief, has emerged as a front-runner to become the first dean of the City University of New York's new graduate school of...
EXEC STICKS WITH DONNA, AFTER ALL
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amMary Wang just can't seem to leave Donna Karan International. Wang had said last month that she would relinquish her post at Donna Karan, where she is president of the...
CITI BOOTS 3 OVER JAPAN SCANDALS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amHeads began rolling among top brass at Citigroup over its private banking scandal in Japan - including its superstar Vice Chairman Sir Deryck Maughan and two other key officials. The...
XM PAYS $650M FOR MLB CONTRACT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe satellite-radio war is going to be fought with dirty talk and baseball. Two weeks after upstart satellite-radio firm Sirius reeled in shock jock Howard Stern for $500 million to...
EBBERS' TRIAL SET FOR JAN.
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amDisgraced ex-WorldCom honcho Bernie Ebbers was granted an additional two months to prepare for his trial to fight charges that he masterminded the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history. During...
BOFA PRO JUMPS TO HEDGE FUND
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amAnother big Wall Street name is leaving a profits-pressured bank for the greener pastures of hedge funds. Jon Sandelman, 46, who put Bank of America into the hierarchy of Wall...
EXEC STICKS WITH DONNA, SNUBS TORY
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amMary Wang just can't seem to leave Donna Karan International. Wang had said last month that she would relinquish her post at Donna Karan, where she is president of the...
SWEET TALK AND A SWEATY LOVE SCENE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amSEX IS COMEDY [] (Three stars) In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 92 minutes. Not rated (nudity, sex). At the Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. Through...
NEW LEASE ON LIFE - CHANGES IN 'JORDAN' BODE WELL WITH FANS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00am'CROSSING Jordan," NBC's veteran crime drama, has quietly turned into one of the few bright spots on the network's troubled prime-time schedule. But while it may look to viewers like...
VIVE LE CHEF! FRENCH STAR EYES NYC
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amANOTHER French superchef could soon be coming to New York. Joel Robuchon, considered one of the world's greatest chefs, is in talks to work his magic at Fifty Seven Fifty...
CRU HAS A CLUE - IT'S A BEAUTY (BUT SKIP DESSERT)
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amCRU [ 1/2] (Two and one-half stars) 24 FIFTH AVE. (AT NINTH STREET) (212) 529-1700 CRU is intoxicating. If its sheer luxury doesn't seduce you right off the bat, its...
PLAYOFF DRAMA A HOMERUN
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amMONDAY'S Yanks-Bosox ALCS nailbiter pulled some huge numbers on Ch. 5. The 14-inning thriller averaged a little over 3 million viewers on Ch. 5 (5:15-11 p.m.) as the Red Sox...
'CHRISTMAS' JEER
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amSURVIVING CHRISTMAS Zero stars Yule be sorry if you see this. Running time: 92 minutes. Rated PG-13 (vulgar humor and language, drug references). At the Ziegfeld, the Kips Bay, the...
WEIGHT & SEE - REALITY-SHOW DIETERS FACE HEAVY COMPETITION
October 20, 2004 | 4:00am"The Biggest Loser" NBC/Ch. 4 [ 1/2] (Two and one-half stars) WHAT would you get if you combined the tension of the boardroom in "The Apprentice," the machinations of "Survivor,"...
STARR REPORT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe "Chappelle's Show Season One: Uncensored" DVD has now become the biggest-selling TV show on DVD, surpassing "The Simpsons: The Complete First Season" with over two million units sold, according...
BACK AT THE RANCH
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amJ.R. is getting shot again - on videotape with the rest of the cast from "Dallas" for a reunion at the show's Southfork Ranch airing Nov. 7 on CBS. On...
HOW THE 'WEST' HAS WON
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amTHE big show is back. Big cast, big conflicts, big ideas - this is how you make a TV drama, folks. Want a lesson in producing? Check out "The West...
NATHAN'S STORY - LANE TELLS POST WHY HE'S MAX IN LONDON
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amNATHAN Lane was walking into his house in East Hampton last Friday, all set to enjoy a break from the stage, when the phone rang. It was Susan Stroman, the...
LINKS GET RETHINKS - NOUVEAU SAUSAGES ARE HAUTE, HAUTE, HAUTE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amSAUSAGES are getting makeovers so fabulous this season, it could make Jimmy Dean's head spin. Compared to the humble food that started out as a way of preserving scraps, these...
'BROOKLYN' BREAK - TWO LATINA ACTRESSES GET THEIR BIG CHANCE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA highly anticipated new show called "Brooklyn, The Musical" debuts on Broadway tomorrow night. But for the two young Latina actresses who star in it, the play could also be...
Correction Date: 10/21/2004
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amCorrection: Dori's last name is TUCKER.S.I. 'HANNIBAL LECTER' SEX PERV GUILTY OF KIDNAP A convicted sex fiend who brazenly bragged of killing kids was convicted yesterday of the chilling kidnapping...
MAYOR ON THE EDGE OF A SELLOUT - LETTING TEACHERS UNION OFF THE HOOK
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIT looks like Mayor Bloomberg is getting ready to trade away the education of New York City's children for a deal with Gotham's most powerful union boss, Randi Weingarten, president...
MRS. MCG'S PAD - WILL BEGIN SINGLE LIFE IN 'BURBS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amNew Jersey First Lady Dina McGreevey is planning to buy a modest, three-bedroom ranch house in suburban Union County, where she would live without her scandal-scarred gay husband, a new...
GAY REMARK 'SHOCKED' LAURA
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amFirst Lady Laura Bush yesterday said she was "shocked" when John Kerry highlighted the fact that Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter is gay during the final presidential debate, saying family...
GUINEA PIGS ON THE SPIT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amGuinea pigs aren't just pets anymore. Peruvian researchers say they've bred a new culinary export - the super guinea pig. It's more than twice the size of the traditional guinea...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amMembers of the New York Sports Club are literally sweating out the election, thanks to a program of "voterobics." There's "bend over backwards for special interests," by performing back extensions...
DOOZY IN BIG SKY: DIAMONDS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amLEWISTOWN, Mont. - The rush is on - there's a diamond in them thar' hills that could make Big Sky Country the diamond capital of America. While the newly discovered...
WOUNDED B'KLYN BUSBOY TESTIFIES VS. DINER GUNMAN
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA busboy at a Brooklyn diner told jurors yesterday he dived for cover when two gunmen opened fire in the Brownsville restaurant in January, but he was still grazed in...
PERELMAN EATS HUMBLE PIE - COUNCIL 'TABLES' BID TO SLAP CAFE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amRon Perelman suffered a stinging defeat yesterday as a City Council panel unanimously rejected his attempt to block a sidewalk cafe near his home, and then rebuked the billionaire's heavy-handed...
BLOOMBERG PUTS HEAT ON MTA TO HOLD OFF FARE HIKE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe city has no extra money to give the MTA and has encouraged the agency to "justify why it can't do more with less" before it decides to raise fares,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Cops are asking for help in finding this man (above), who is wanted for beating his ex-girlfriend to death in the Soundview section last year. Gary Jackson,...
GAY ACTIVIST QUITS CITY RIGHTS PANEL IN PROTEST
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA member of Mayor Bloomberg's Commission on Human Rights abruptly resigned yesterday, accusing the mayor of waffling in his commitment to equal rights for gays. Matt Foreman, a longtime gay...
BRUNO BACKING KIN ALL THE WAY - BUT GOV'S NOT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno yesterday strongly defended the close-to-home special office suite given his highly paid state-worker brother, even as Gov. Pataki repeatedly refused to do...
'CRACK'ING CASE OF VOTER FRAUD
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans are demanding closer scrutiny of new voter registration forms turned in by the NAACP after a thug who was given crack cocaine to find new voters for...
ARIEL SLAY ALERT - EX-PM PERES FEARS SETTLER RAGE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's opposition leader and security forces voiced fear yesterday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would be assassinated because of escalating anger over next week's vote to oust settlers...
PUBLIC PANEL WILL WEIGH FATE OF 'FREE VELELLA' BOARD
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday announced public hearings on the Local Conditional Release Board, which granted former Sen. Guy Velella a controversial get-out-of-jail card from Rikers Island. Silver...
PLAYED FOR A FOOL: JAZZ WIFE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe American wife of Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdes has filed for divorce, claiming he married her to circumvent post-9/11 U.S. travel restrictions that made it difficult for him to...
U.S. FIRMS PROBED IN U.N. SCAM
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate investigators have subpoenaed a handful of American businessmen and companies that did business in the U.N. oil-for-food program to determine whether they participated in Saddam Hussein's corruption...
THE YANKEES WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES TRYING TO SCORE LAST NIGHT ...
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe Yankees weren't the only ones trying to score last night. Male fans desperate for a date were offering one of their prized tickets online in exchange for someone to...
HARD-'CORE' MARTHA - PICKS JAIL APPLES FOR 'ILLEGAL' TREAT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amMartha Stewart's recipe for doing hard time in prison: whip up something sweet with crab apples. The guru of good living spent some time last week picking crab apples from...
DEAD NEWBORN FOUND IN L.I. CLOSET
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amLong Island cops are investigating the death of a newborn found yesterday inside a closet in a well-kept home in Elmont. The mystery began yesterday when doctors at Nassau University...
BRAINIACS' NEW TWIST TO RATE TOP COLLEGES
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amWhat makes a good college? Ask the students, says a group of economists who have developed a new college ranking system. The method examines colleges as if they were competing...
SUPERWOMEN TACKLED BAR GUNMAN
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amWhen berserk bigot Steven Johnson held nine men and six women at gunpoint in an East Village bar two years ago - spraying them with kerosene and promising to "light...
EX-COP QUIZZED IN FATAL SHOOTING OF DELI WORKER
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens deli man was killed early yesterday when a retired cop dropped his gun and it discharged, police said. The former detective, whose name was not released, initially told...
PLAY SLAY HOUSE - AMMON SCENE BUILT FOR JURY
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amDanny Pelosi's prosecutors are using a large-scale model "dollhouse" to illustrate the upper floor of Ted Ammon's $10 million East Hampton mansion, where the investment banker was beaten to death....
NYERS' 'AWAY' GAMES- OUT 'SICK' WITH SEVERE CASE OF YANKEE-ITIS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers are so glued to the baseball playoffs that they've come down with the Yankee "flu" - blowing off work, shunning eateries and skipping school. And those who do...
'SLAY' SITTER - BEATS CRYING 5-MONTH-OLD: COPS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island baby sitter beat a crying infant to death and then tried to cover up her crime by wrapping the slain child in a blanket and pretending nothing...
BUSH LEAD UP TO 7 POINTS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amRiding strong support from independents, President Bush has surged into a 7-point lead over John Kerry, according to the latest Fox News Channel national poll. In a three-way race including...
TWEED SUITED TO EDUCATING TEACHERS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amCity Hall Academy isn't just for kids anymore. The school at Tweed Courthouse, where youngsters learn lessons in history and government with New York City themes, is now a training...
QNS. DRIVE-BY KILLER GUILTY
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man was convicted of murder yesterday for a 1996 drive-by shooting in Richmond Hill that killed a 19-year-old man. It took a jury of 10 men and two...
HOUSE FUMES KILL 3 - S.I. IMMIGRANT TRAGEDY
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amAn East European folk-rock star died of apparent carbon-monoxide poisoning with her mom and daughter in their Staten Island home, officials said yesterday. Investigators said singer-songwriter Anita Bitri, 36, who...
RUNAWAYS OKIE DOKEY - SAFE AND SOUND IN APPLE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA young Oklahoma girl told The Post yesterday she and her friend stole a parent's car and drove all the way to New York with just enough money for gas,...
FEDS LOOK NORTH - CANADA TO SELL US SHOTS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amScrambling to cover a major shortfall in flu vaccine, federal officials yesterday announced that an extra 2.6 million doses would be produced and available by January. They said they're negotiating...
NEWARK AIR SECURITY AX
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe federal government will soon fire nine baggage screeners at Newark Airport for failing their annual recertification - but the numbers may be much higher when the final hammer comes...
RIKERS GUARD NABBED TWICE ON GUN RAPS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA Rikers Island guard was suspended without pay yesterday after she was busted twice on weapons-possession charges, officials said yesterday. Marisol Serrano, 33, was arrested early Tuesday after she was...
SCAMS PUSH B'KLYN INSURE RATES TO TOP
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amScams by criminal syndicates are jacking auto-insurance rates in Brooklyn to the highest in the country and costing consumers millions of dollars, according to a new report. The crime rings...
9/11 AD BATTLE - SPOTS TARGET SAFETY WORRIES
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe 9/11 ad wars broke out yesterday, as supporters of President Bush launched a tear-jerking commercial in which a teen who lost her mom in the Twin Towers recalls how...
CONDÉ CLEAR$ AIR - PAYS WINTOUR NANNY $2M TO SETTLE TOXIC-FUME SUIT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amCondé Nast made Condé Nice with Vogue editor Anna Wintour's former nanny yesterday, joining in on a $2.1 million settlement to bring her toxic-fume lawsuit against them to a close....
STRAY BULLET KILLS IRAQ VET'S TEEN SIS - E. HARLEM THUG SOUGHT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA heartbroken Navy sailor was rushing back from Iraq yesterday after his little sister was senselessly shot to death near her East Harlem home by a gunman firing at someone...
EX-HUBBY: DON'T JAIL SWASTIKA PAINTER
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man whose ex-wife went on a three-day swastika-painting rampage called for police to dismiss the charges against her because of her emotional problems. "Everyone knows this is not...
O'REILLY TEAM WANTS 'TAPES'
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amLawyers for TV host Bill O'Reilly are hauling his sex-harass accuser into court Friday to force her to say whether there are tapes of phone chats between the pair. Lawyers...
S.I. 'HANNIBAL LECTER' SEX PERV GUILTY OF KIDNAP
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA convicted sex fiend who brazenly bragged of killing kids was convicted yesterday of the chilling kidnapping of a 7-year-old Staten Island girl who vanished 23 years ago. A seven-woman,...
STUDENT TWIST IN COLLEGE RANKINGS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amWhat makes a good college? Ask the students, say economists who have developed a new college-ranking system. The method examines colleges as if they were competing head-to-head for a student,...
EX-COP'S DEADLY GUN JEST - MISHAP KILLS DELI TEEN
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA retired cop joked yesterday about pulling his gun on a Queens deli worker slow to cash his lottery winnings - then dropped the weapon minutes later and killed the...
S.I. TEENS LEAD WAY - IN BOOZE & DRUGS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amStaten Island high-school kids are the most likely of any in the city to abuse drugs and alcohol, according to survey results released yesterday. The highest percentage of students who...
O'REILLY GAL FOLLOWS 'SUIT'
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIt's apparently déjà vu all over again for the lawyer handling a Fox News Channel employee's sexual-harassment lawsuit against Bill O'Reilly. Attorney Benedict Morelli recently represented a woman in a...
WOUNDED BUSBOY TESTIFIES VS. DINER GUNMAN
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA busboy at a Brooklyn diner told jurors yesterday he dived for cover when two gunmen opened fire in the Brownsville restaurant in January, but he was still grazed in...
SULTANS OF S.W.A.T. - COPS HIT FIELD AS FANS GO BATTY IN YANKS' LOSS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amSULTANS OF S.W.A.T. Yankee Stadium turned into Fort Apache, The Bronx last night as cops stormed the field to protect the umpires from fans outraged over a controversial call in...
AX FOR 9 AIRPORT FAILURES - NEWARK SCREENERS OUT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe federal government will soon fire nine baggage screeners at Newark Airport for failing their annual recertification - but the numbers may be much higher when the final hammer comes...
BARRETT SEES WRITING ON WALL
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Unless Jamison Brewer breaks a leg or another GM falls in love with Moochie Norris and takes him off Isiah Thomas' hands, Andre Barrett is not...
KNICKS LOOK LIKE A SHAKY EXPERIMENT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amPRESEASON: Jazz 113 - Knicks 89 SALT LAKE CITY - Lenny Wilkens tried an experiment last night, starting Croatian Bruno Sundov at center against the Jazz in the Knicks' third...
JON'S MAGIC DISAPPEARS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amSuddenly everything fell apart for Jon Lieber. The Yankee righthander had cruised in Game 2 against the Red Sox, harnessing their booming bats by allowing one run in seven brilliant...
SPORTSMEN MAY DECIDE WHO WINS WHITE HOUSE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amWHICH candidate sportsmen think will most protect their hunting and fishing heritage may very well be the occupant of the White House for the next four years. Hunters and anglers...
TV DOES ITS BEST TO DESTROY GAME
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amBASEBALL truly must be the greatest game. For it to have survived what TV has done to it - what MLB has allowed TV to do to it - is...
JETS BECOMING TRUE 'TEAM' - CHEMISTRY IMPROVES AS WINS MOUNT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIN his 13 NFL seasons, Terrell Buckley never has played on a losing team. They haven't all been Super Bowl champs, like the 2001 Patriots, but the worst record a...
STEINBRENNER HAS NO WORRIES
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amPanic may have set in among Yankee fans as they watched their team blow two chances to close out the Red Sox in Boston, but George Steinbrenner remained confident as...
'BYE' WOES STRESSED
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Here's a stunner: Not only did Tom Coughlin anticipate what the media would dredge up this week, but he's already spoken to the Giants about the latest statistics-driven...
NO LION: GREEN GETS SHOT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIt might as well have been flashing in neon, jumping off the page. All Barrett Green had to do was take a cursory glance at the Giants' schedule and right...
ISIAH HAS BIG PLANS FOR SUNDOV
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Call him the European Michael Doleac. Or just call him the Knicks' starting center last night. In a shocking move, Lenny Wilkens made his expected starting-lineup...
ROCKET IN THE HOLE - MUNRO, NOT ROGER, EARNS GAME 6 NOD
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - In the end, Phil Garner let his gut overrule his heart and his head. Instead of tabbing Roger Clemens to start Game 6 of the NLCS tonight...
JETER, MO MUST ANSWER CALL
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amDEREK Jeter and Mariano Rivera share a place that is never going away. An exalted place as the twin baseball princes of this city. The cornerstones of an indelible era...
EXTRA EFFORT LEFT VARITEK PLAYED OUT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIn the moments after Game 5 of the ALCS ended, Jason Varitek looked as drained and battered as a heavyweight who had gone 15 rounds. The Boston catcher, who had...
RED SOX: PLENTY LEFT IN OUR TANK
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amKeith Foulke doesn't remember ever having pitched as much as he has in the past couple of days. He threw a combined four innings in the Red Sox pair of...
HEY, BAMBINO - MEET PAPI
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amHE'S a big bear of a man, he's lovable, he's left-handed and he's been an October monster. In many ways, David Ortiz is the Red Sox' Babe Ruth. Through five...
CALM AMID THE CRAZINESS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS is why they are different than you and I. This is why they are playing these games and we are watching them, why the tension of observing a playoff...
LA RUSSA'S NOT READY TO FOLD HIS CARDS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES ST. LOUIS - The Cardinals have had a charmed season, running away with the NL Central this year and whipping the Dodgers in four games of the NLDS....
MATES MARVEL AT ORTIZ HEROICS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amDoug Mientkiewicz has a simple explanation for David Ortiz's incredibly difficult accomplishments. "He's a gamer," Mientkiewicz said. "He refuses to have a bad at-bat." Ortiz carried the Red Sox on...
WEARY POSADA PLAYS ON
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIt didn't matter much that Jorge Posada had caught 26 innings in 27 hours. He wasn't about to sit out last night. "For us, there's no tomorrow," the sturdy Yankee...
GORDON GRINDS ON - PENS POOPED AFTER MARATHON CLASHES
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amDuring his chat with reporters before last night's game, Tom Gordon sat in his chair the entire time. It was a smart move; he should probably be conserving his energy....
STORM SEES NEW NORMS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amNorm Roberts was in his office yesterday, recounting the reasons why St. John's was and will again be a destination for the city's top recruits. He talked about the Red...
WAKEFIELD MAY START IF NEEDED
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amTim Wakefield might finally get his start after all. Wakefield, who selflessly gave up his Game 4 start in order to pitch relief during a 19-8 Game 3 rout, was...
CLARK IS IT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When the knob of John Olerud's bat hit his left instep in Game 3, the Yankees lost their slick-fielding first baseman for the remainder of the ALCS. "He...
GUESSING GAME 7 - TORRE DOESN'T PLAN TO PLAY TONIGHT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe question was innocent enough: In the event of a Game 7 tonight, who would the Yankees' starter be? Joe Torre wasn't about to entertain that notion. "We're not talking...
YANKS BELIEVE IN THE BRONX - AIM FOR HOME IMPROVEMENT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIt was hard to believe that Yankee Stadium was going to pump life into the arms belonging to Tom Gordon, Tanyon Sturtze and Mariano Rivera. Was it realistic to believe...
METS TALK TO COLLINS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe Mets took another step in their managerial search yesterday, but don't expect the process to end until after the postseason is over. "I think it's safe to say that...
NETS IN NO RUSH TO SIGN COLLINS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amPRESEASON: Nets 96 - Bobcats 89 Mark Blount got $30.6 million for five years from Boston. Minnesota's Rasho Nesterovic is in the second season of a six-year, $42 million deal....
TV HOST'S BROTHER MURDERED
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amSam Kellerman, the brother of sports talk show host Max Kellerman, was murdered in Los Angeles on Sunday, according to the LAPD. Cops are searching for middleweight boxer James Butler...
SURE, I'M WORRIED, BOSS SAYS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amOn the verge of what would be the greatest collapse in baseball history, George Steinbrenner was clearly perturbed as he quickly left the Stadium after the Yankees' loss to the...
UMPIRES REVERSE 'FAN HR'
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amMichael Appelbaum didn't want to be the next Jeffrey Maier. Rather than stick his hand out on the field, the Manhattan resident stood with his arms at his side as...
IT'S BOTTOM OF THE NINTH
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY play tonight for Babe and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, Reggie and Thurman. These Yankees play to avert an infamy worse than becoming the first team to blow a three-games-to-none...
MAYBE CURT KO'D CURSE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amCURT Schilling took his sutured right ankle and shoved it in the mouth of every Yankee fan last night on the coldest of nights at the Stadium. In a performance...
TORRE STUCK WITH CLARK
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When the knob of John Olerud's bat hit his left instep in Game 3, the Yankees lost their slick-fielding first baseman for the remainder of the ALCS. "He...
NOW IT'S A ONE-NIGHT STAND
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amWE are sitting square in the epicenter, right on the crack of the fault line. We are Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove," riding shotgun on the belly of that missile....
GUESSING GAME 7 - JOE MUM ON STARTER, BUT BROWN LIKELY
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA few hours before last night's game, Joe Torre was asked about his plans for tonight. The Yankee manager replied that he had dinner reservations, indicating he wasn't planning on...
RED SOX RELISHING THE RIDE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThe Red Sox have already made history. Tonight, they can create a new legacy - and perhaps shatter the Yankees' stranglehold on them, once and for all. Last night, Boston...
TIRED FOULKE GUTS IT OUT
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amKeith Foulke had no doubt that he would be ready if needed in Game 6 of the ALCS last night, despite having thrown four innings the previous two nights. "I'm...
SOX SWIPE A WIN
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amThere is no slapping at the ball in baseball. And basically because of it, the Yankees' season is in jeopardy. In the eighth inning of last night's 4-2 Game 6...
WHERE'S PEDRO?
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIt was one of the biggest victories in Red Sox history - and Pedro Martinez wasn't there to see it. Martinez was not on the team charter following Boston's Game...
YANKS FAIL TO SEAL THE DEAL - SOX FORCE GAME 7
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 6: Red Sox 4 - Yankees 2 Ecstasy or a lifetime of endless torture. That's what's facing the Yankees tonight in Game 7 of the ALCS. Unthinkable Saturday night...
PRESSURE MOUNTS ON YANKS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amLose tonight, and the Yankees will make baseball history of the worst kind. Think there's some pressure in The Bronx right now? "We can't worry about history," Alex Rodriguez insisted....
CHARGED-UP BATTERY - 'WORN OUT' VARITEK REFUSED TO SIT DOWN
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amA couple of hours before Game 6, Jason Varitek was asked what it was like to have caught 26 innings in the past two days. "Fun," Varitek replied. The games...
SOX MIGHT TAP WAKE OR LOWE
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amMaybe Tim Wakefield gets the chance of a lifetime tonight. Then again, maybe he doesn't. Last year's ALCS Game 7 goat could become a Red Sox hero for the ages...
BELLHORN'S BIG BOMB ENDS SKID
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIf you asked most Red Sox fans, Mark Bellhorn didn't deserve to be in the lineup last night. After his first at-bat, they were ready to burn Bellhorn at the...
KEEPING CALM AMID CRAZINESS
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS is why they are different than you and I. This is why they are playing these games and we are watching them, why the tension of observing a playoff...
YANKS BELIEVE IN THE BRONX - BOMBERS SAY HOME EDGE WILL BURY BOSOX
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amIt was hard to believe that Yankee Stadium was going to pump life into the arms belonging to Tom Gordon, Tanyon Sturtze and Mariano Rivera. Was it realistic to believe...
SLAY GETS CHANCE TO DO MORE THAN CLAP
October 20, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Tamar Slay will get to do more than clap. Slay, the athletic 24-year-old swingman lost by the Nets to Charlotte in the expansion draft, has started the Bobcats'...