October 21, 2004
DELTA AIR IS ON A DIRECT COURSE TO BANKRUPTCY
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amDelta Air Lines yesterday appeared to be hurtling faster than ever toward Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The nation's No. 3 airline, in marathon talks with its pilots' union over $1 billion...
GUCCI CHIEF AXES TOP EXEC FOR DISLOYALTY
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amRobert Polet moved quickly yesterday to put out the first major fire he has faced since joining the Gucci Group as its chief executive, by firing a division head who...
DISNEY DUMPS MONEY-LOSING STORES
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWalt Disney Co. is walking away from its more than $500 million gamble in retail stores by selling them - keeping only its glitzy Times Square space as a monument...
M & M SETTLEMENT COULD BE $2B
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWall Street is bracing for a Marsh & McLennan settlement of up to a whopping $2 billion. That's the upper range of an estimate in a research report released by...
DISNEY BOARD GAVE OVITZ FREE PASS: WITNESS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amDisney's board of directors violated company's rules when it hired Michael Ovitz as president without holding a meeting to discuss the move, a corporate-governance expert told a Delaware court yesterday....
STATES GANGING UP ON INSURERS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe news isn't getting any better for the embattled insurance industry. Already reeling from Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's no-holds-barred probe, insurers can now look forward to dozens of additional investigators...
EXIT STRATEGY - BARNEYS CEO SOCOL MAY HEAD FOR DOOR AFTER SALE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amHoward Socol, chairman, president and chief executive of Barneys New York, may not be sticking around for very long if the company is sold, The Post has learned. Socol, 58,...
STOCKS, BONDS SLIDE AS OIL, GAS PRICES HIT HIGHS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amAfter falling for two days, oil prices soared yesterday as economists sounded the alarm that energy costs are slowing the U.S. economy. Soaring heating costs for both oil and natural...
'X-FIRE' FIGHT WEB SMASH
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amTHE bombastic confrontation between "The Daily Show" host John Stewart and CNN's "Crossfire" host Tucker Carlson has spawned a media first - more people saw it on the Internet replay...
BURN VICTIM GOES UNDER 'SWAN 2' KNIFE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA woman who was severely burned in a childhood accident will be among the wannabe beauties in the latest edition of Fox's controversial makeover show, "The Swan." In the show,...
TOP BILL - 'FACTOR' HOT SINCE SCANDAL
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amBILL O'Reilly's ratings on Fox News Channel have skyrocketed in the days following the publicity frenzy that has surrounded his legal battle with a former co-worker over charges of sexual...
KOOKY KAUFMAN CONTEST COVERAGE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amNO comic legend has ever been as out-there as the late Andy Kaufman, who was just as happy to enrage audiences as to amuse them. Now, his father, Stanley, is...
STARR REPORT
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA little payback? Last spring, an episode of "The Sopranos," written by Terrence Winter, referenced "Law & Order" chiefs Dick Wolf and Rene Balcer. In that episode, a TV writer...
NOT SPOT BECOMES MYSTERY HOT SPOT
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amIT has a hit-or-miss menu, bizarre décor and gruff service. Exactly why a semi-new restaurant called Freeman's is suddenly the place to be remains a mystery to many of its...
TALK SOUP - KIMMEL EAGER TO TAKE OVER FROM KOPPEL
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amLATE night comedian Jimmy Kimmel looks to remain a big part of ABC's late night plans. ABC renewed "Jimmy Kimmel Live" yesterday - ending speculation that the network's new management...
JOHN IS OUT
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amJOHN McEnroe's lowrated CNBC show is likely to be canceled - and replaced by reruns of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." CNBC execs aren't commenting, but one scenario has the...
REAL SLIM SHADY - HOW TELE-TUBBIES LOSE SO MUCH ON TV DIET SHOW (AND WHY YOU CAN'T)
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amON the first episode of NBC's new weight-loss reality show, 12 contenders exercised up to six hours a day and ate so little, most easily shed more than 10 pounds....
SCHILLING TAKES CUT AT A-ROD
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amPerhaps Curt Schilling needs a shot of Marcaine in his mouth. One day after turning in an impressive performance to lead the Red Sox to a 4-2 win over the...
BUSH-HACKED - PREZ-LOVING CABBY FINED FOR DEBATE WITH RIDER
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amSUPPORTING President Bush is not just socially suicidal in this town - it can endanger your career and cost you big bucks, as one cabby discovered the hard way. Haitian-born...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWho's that dead man next to my wife? That's what Robert Thompson wants to know, because the Oak Ridge-Glen Oak Cemetery in Illinois mistakenly buried a man next to his...
FLUNKING THE FDR TEST - KERRY'S FECKLESS FAITH IN CONFERENCES
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWHAT would that great liberal Democratic icon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, have to say about John Kerry's accusation that President Bush is no leader because he acted without the support of...
POLITICAL HANGOVER - 'BOOZY' POWELL IV THROWS TEQUILA EVENT
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Harlem Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, accused by two women earlier this year of alcohol-related sexual assaults, is holding a "tequila shots" fund-raiser next week with contributors asked,...
-ALERT SYSTEM IS A JOKE: JOHN (M)-JOHN SEES RED OVER ALERTS (S, LCF)
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The color-coded terror alert system could soon be dead if John Kerry has his way. Kerry says Americans laugh at the current system. "They don't know what to...
SCHOOLKIDS GET A LUCKY BRAKE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA Staten Island bus driver narrowly averted tragedy yesterday when his school bus, carrying 13 kids, was hit by a car and crashed through a fence - before skidding to...
'KILLER SITTER' HELD ON $5M BAIL
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island baby sitter was held on $5 million bail yesterday after allegedly shaking a 5-month-old infant - an act that may have contributed to the baby's death. In...
THUG KILLED PAL IN FIGHT OVER CROOK SKILLS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA career thief admitted yesterday that he gunned down his partner in crime 13 years ago after they argued at a Queens bar over who was a better burglar. "I...
ISRAELIS ARREST 2 BOMB GALS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Two Palestinian women planning to carry out homicide bombings were arrested in the last two days, and Israeli forces are conducting a massive search for a third, officials...
WANNA HAVE A BABY BOY? TRY GETTING MARRIED
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe living arrangements of parents at the time they conceive a child may play a role in determining its sex, a new study shows. Parents married or living together before...
THROWN FOR A LO$$ - THOMPSON RIPS 'RISKY W. SIDE BID
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amCity Comptroller Bill Thompson yesterday blasted Mayor Bloomberg's proposed $3 billion overhaul of the far West Side for relying on a "backdoor financing scheme" that could stick taxpayers with the...
PAL IN SECRET OFFICE - BRUNO FLAP DEEPENS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Another person living in the community of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's brother has been hired to work out of a secret office set up with public funds,...
CON 'FESSES UP AFTER 20 YRS.
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA Canadian man who tried to run down a cop nearly 20 years ago - and pinned it on an innocent Queens resident - will be out of jail after...
EMINEM UNCLE KILLS HIMSELF
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe uncle who raised rap star Eminem after his real dad walked out reportedly has blown his brains out. Todd Nelson, 42, was depressed over a Rottweiler he thought was...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Cops yesterday released a photo (above) of an East New York man they say fatally stabbed a teenager in 1997. Police recently learned the suspect, Halvin Grant, went...
QNS. BABY-SHAKER CONVICTED
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens jury convicted a baby sitter of first-degree assault yesterday for shaking a 10-month-old girl so brutally that she was left blind and unable to walk or talk, prosecutors...
FBI RAIDS B'KLYN SCHOOL IN 500G FRAUD PROBE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amFBI agents with a search warrant raided a Brooklyn business school yesterday as they probed suspected misuse of $500,000 in government aid, federal sources said. The investigation centers on charges...
HEINZ IN A PICKLE - JOB JAB AT LAURA BACKFIRES
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amTeresa Heinz Kerry touched off a firestorm yesterday - and was forced to quickly apologize - by saying First Lady Laura Bush has never held "a real job," even though...
MISSING MISS AMERICA - ABC AXES DECLINING PAGEANT
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThere she isn't - at least not on your TV set. ABC has dropped its coverage of the annual Miss America Pageant - meaning the venerable swimsuit-and-talent competition is without...
SOX PUT MARTINEZ ON CALL
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amOn Tuesday night, Pedro Martinez was absent for Boston's greatest baseball moment in a generation. Red Sox officials said he was preparing for a potentially grander possibility. Martinez, who had...
JURY NAILS 450G SCAM MAN
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA phony accountant who stole $450,000 from a Chinese immigrant couple - after convincing them they owed the money to Uncle Sam - was jailed yesterday after a jury convicted...
GUARD IN CAR BRAWL - 'CRUTCH' GUY BEATEN
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA hot-headed Brooklyn correction officer is on the wrong side of the law after allegedly beating a man on crutches with a baseball bat in a road-rage incident last month,...
STEAMING CYCLISTS SUE 'BIKE THIEF' COPS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amCyclists yesterday filed a federal suit accusing cops of illegally confiscating their bikes by using a power saw to cut locks securing the vehicles to street poles. The five bikers...
MIKE'S DEAL 'RAILROADING COMMUTERS'
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amOpponents of a West Side stadium yesterday accused Mayor Bloomberg and the MTA of giving the Jets a "sweetheart deal" for use of the agency's rail yards while straphangers face...
'POOR' GRADES FOR CITY SCHOOLS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThree out of four poor or moderate-income New Yorkers are unhappy with Big Apple public schools, according to a new study being released today. Just one in four of the...
TOP DRUG COP CUT WORK FOR 2ND JOB
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA top NYPD narcotics boss is under investigation for moonlighting at a security job on Staten Island - when he was supposed to be helping catch drug dealers in Manhattan,...
KID-SLAY BUST - 'SCARED' TEEN SURRENDERS TO HARLEM COPS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA scared teen took his mother's advice and turned himself in to cops who accused him of firing the stray bullet that killed a 14-year-old girl he knew from their...
FIRST CASES HIT CITY AND L.I.
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amAt least one person has contracted the flu in New York City, and two others on Long Island also have fallen ill from the bug in the midst of a...
SERUM FOR SENATORS AT DR. FRIST'S PRIVATE CLINIC
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Even after the government warned of a severe flu- vaccine shortage and set tight guidelines on who could get shots, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist held a private...
'HOUSE OF EVIL' - S.I. BEAU TELLS OF FINDING FUME HORROR
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe boyfriend of an Albanian pop star who died of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Staten Island with her mother and young daughter said he waited two days before breaking into the...
RON'S PARK PLACE - PERELMAN USING POLICE PLACARDS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amFive years after being caught using bogus NYPD permits to score prime parking outside his Upper East side mansions, Revlon chief Ron Perelman is still playing with street-parking regulations. The...
BOXER HELD IN SPORTSWRITER SLAY
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A long-troubled prizefighter was picked up yesterday in connection with the slaying of Sam Kellerman, brother of Fox Sports host Max Kellerman. Boxer James "The Harlem Hammer"...
BUSH AND KERRY'S 'LEADER' GIBES
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush and Democrat John Kerry yesterday ripped each other as unfit to be commander-in-chief as they came within 60 miles of each other in the swing state of Iowa....
NYER IN AIR HORROR - TOP COLUMBIA PROF FEARED DEAD
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA nationally known Columbia University medical professor is missing and feared dead after a fiery commuter plane crash in northeastern Missouri that killed up to 13 people. Dr. Steve Z....
GOTTI JR.: I WANT SLIWA SILENCED
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti wants a federal judge to issue a gag order to stop radio host Curtis Sliwa from trashing him on his radio show. Gotti is facing trial for...
O'REILLY: 'BOOK' HER
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amLawyers for Fox News Channel plan to go to court so they can curl up with a book - the one penned by the Manhattan woman accusing TV talker Bill...
MOM CHARGED IN BABY SLAY
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amAn 18-year-old Long Island woman was charged with murder yesterday after her dead newborn was found in her room in Elmont. Detectives said Jamelia Allen killed the full-term girl and...
NYER IN AIR HORROR - TOP COLUMBIA PROF KILLED IN MO.
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA nationally known Columbia University medical professor was among 13 people killed in a fiery commuter plane crash in northeastern Missouri. Dr. Steve Z. Miller, director of pediatric emergency medicine...
DETAILS OF MARTHA BID TO KO HER CONVICTION
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amMartha Stewart's lawyers yesterday filed a legal brief urging a federal appeals court to toss out her felony conviction. They cited several issues in her appeal to the U.S. Second...
WHAT DANNY KNEW - SECRET INFO ON AMMON 'SPY' EQUIPMENT
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amDanny Pelosi was one of only a handful of people who knew how to operate the slain millionaire's surveillance system - which was unplugged at the time of the murder,...
PRO-CIG BIZ IN 'QUICK' NEW SLAM
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - A group of bar, restaurant and bowling alley owners from around the state is planning a new "Quick Draw" lottery boycott to protest the statewide smoking ban and...
HASIDS IN PRAY-PUMMEL BUST
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThree members of a Satmar Hasidic sect were arrested yesterday for attacking two men in a Brooklyn synagogue after a long-running feud turned violent, law-enforcement sources and witnesses said. The...
SENATE'S SHOT IN ARM - DR. FRIST STAGES POLS' PRIVATE CLINIC
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Even after the government warned of a severe flu-vaccine shortage and set tight guidelines on who could get shots, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist held a private vaccination...
BROOKLYN JUDGES GET 'SUPER-SECRET' VACCINES
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amBrooklyn Supreme Court workers' temperatures were rising yesterday after they discovered they'd have no access to a limited number of flu vaccines - while judges and others on a "super-secret"...
POWELL IV BOOZE BASH A POLITICAL HANGOVER
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Harlem Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, accused by two women earlier this year of alcohol-related sexual assaults, is holding a "tequila shots" fund-raiser next week with contributors asked,...
BRUNO BRO FLAP RUNS DEEPER
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Another person living in the community of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's brother has been hired to work out of a secret office set up with public funds,...
GARSON-CASE MOTHER WINS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn mother of four, who wore a wire to catch a judge she suspected of cutting a deal with her ex-husband to take her eldest son away, was all...
BOMBERS ARE DUDS - FIZZLE OUT IN HISTORIC LOSS TO SOX
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amExpletive deleted. The Yankees last night completed the worst collapse in postseason baseball history when they got clobbered by the hated Boston Red Sox in Game 7 of an American...
COURTNEY COPS A PLEA
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amGrunge rocker Courtney Love, back from a West Coast drug-rehab program, was in a Manhattan court yesterday, reluctantly resolving charges against her for tossing a microphone stand at an East...
ANOTHER GREAT DEBATE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWhatever happened to the art of debate? Lately, it's been alive and kicking, as we've watched both the presidential and vice-presidential candidates slug it out on television. ASK 10 people...
LOVE AFFAIR OVER - COURTNEY COPS NO-JAIL PLEA OVER MIKE-STAND MELEE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amGrunge rocker Courtney Love, back from a West Coast drug-rehabprogram, was in a Manhattan court yesterday to reluctantly resolve charges over her tossing a microphone stand at an East Village...
WHOEVER WINS, RUDY & MCCAIN CAN'T LOSE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amEVEN before Election Day, there are two clear winners no matter who wins the White House - Republicans Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. In an era of polarization, they're two...
LETHAL PISTOL 'LIAR' - WITNESS KOS EX-COP TALE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe only witness to the Queens shooting of a teenage deli worker by a retired NYPD detective contradicted the ex-cop's claim that his gun accidentally discharged when he tried to...
MARTHA: CONVICTION WAS FAULTY
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amImprisoned domestic diva Martha Stewart filed her legal brief yesterday urging a federal appeals court to toss out her felony conviction. Stewart's lawyers cited five major issues in her appeal...
JOE'S NOT BULLETPROOF
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Red Sox beat the Yankees for a pennant before the continents drifted back together. Did it with 98 percent of the sun's energy remaining, too, plenty of time to...
KNICKS PUT UP A SMALL FRONT
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amDALLAS - When training camp opened, Kurt Thomas and Michael Sweetney were competing for the starting power-forward job. After 16 days of the preseason, they've both won. With the Knicks'...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON COLLEGE at N. DAME 2:30, Ch. 4Line: Notre Dame - 7. Angle: Toughest ticket at Notre Dame each season isn't USC or Michigan, but Boston College. Yes, the Catholic...
ESPN GOES TO FIGHTS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amESPN announced yesterday that it's getting into the ring to battle HBO and Showtime in the pay-per-view boxing game. ESPN is teaming up with Main Events to hold two PPV...
'PLAN' LETS GAME SPEAK FOR ITSELF
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amIt wasn't like he walked into a restaurant and promptly ordered a platter of medium rare toenail clippers, but Zoran Planinic had a problem with English last year. "Like I...
NEITHER SIDE MINDS THE UNDERDOG ROLE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amIt had taken six gut-wrenching games, 62 nerve-racking innings and two controversial calls for the Yankees to arrive in the exact painfully insulting position they were in prior to the...
STAR LINEUP PRE-ENTERED FOR CLASSIC
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amFeeling queasy after watching the Yankees-Red Sox playoffs? Relief is on the way. Pre-entries were announced yesterday for the Oct. 30 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Lone Star Park...
GIANTS' NEWBIES STEPPING UP
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amAfter all the hubbub subsided and the Giants gleefully trumpeted Eli Manning as their future franchise quarterback, it was understandable that two others, picked in the lower rounds on the...
REPLAY COULD HAVE DEFUSED UGLY SCENE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amIF only good faith and common sense were the rule . . . Yesterday, the TV-attached world was treated to New York City at its suspected worst: NYPD officers, clad...
MONSTER RATINGS FOR YANKS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amTuesday's Yankee-Red Sox Game 6 was only a nine-inning affair (this time) - but it still kept New Yorkers riveted to their TV sets. Boston's 4-2 victory over the Yanks...
COUGHLIN SHOWS HIS CARING SIDE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Another side of Tom Coughlin - one he revealed during his coaching tenure in Jacksonville - surfaced yesterday when the Giants' head coach and his eldest child, daughter...
JETS RESIST HYPE OF PATS MATCH
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amJets, repeat after your leader: "This is just another game. This is just another game. This is . . . " JUST ANOTHER GAME? Are you kidding? Herman Edwards certainly...
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe Red Sox arrived at the Stadium smiling and relaxed. The Yankees appeared tight. THE idiots have become intelligent. The professionals have become amateurs. Welcome to the role reversal ALCS....
CURT RIPS A-ROD - CALLS ARROYO SWIPEA 'JUNIOR-HIGH' PLAY
October 21, 2004 | 4:00am"I don't associate [class] with him, not at all." -CURT SCHILLING on Alex Rodriguez Perhaps Curt Schilling needs a shot of Marcaine in his mouth. One day after turning in...
7TH HEAVEN ... 7TH HELL - FOR FAITHFUL, GAME'S EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amTHE wait was excruciating. Such are the burdens of Game 7. Such are the payoffs of Game 7. You spend so much time as a baseball fan wading through the...
PATRIOTS PUT PETE IN PINCH
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES Pete Kendall, a Boston-area native, has played in nine NFL seasons - but he's never played the Patriots. That will change on Sunday at Foxboro, where the Jets...
A-ROD LEGACY ON LINE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amALEX Rodriguez found com fort in Derek Jeter's shadow this season. He espoused all season that this was Jeter's team and then symbolically moved into the No. 2 spot in...
GAME 7 LOSS WOULD FINISHHISTORIC CHOKE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner was waiting for Joe Torre in the Yankee clubhouse at 2:40 yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately for Torre, The Boss wasn't able to provide solid pitching or add muscle to...
SLUMPIN' JOHNNY'S 'INSPIRED'
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amJohnny Damon can run, but he won't be able to hide in New England. For the first six games of an unforgettable ALCS, Damon - one of the most popular...
BOONE BELIEVER - 2003 ALCS HERO EXPECTED YANKEE WIN
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWhen the Yankees put the tying runs on base in the ninth inning in Game 6 of the ALCS on Tuesday night, Aaron Boone could visualize a new Yankee hero....
GOOD NEWS FOR OLERUD
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amCurt Schilling one night. John Olerud the next? There may have been another Willis Reed effort last night, as Olerud and Joe Torre both said it was possible for the...
BELTRAN BREAKS BONDS' RECORD
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS -With two runs scored in yesterday's Game 6 of the NLCS, Astros outfielder Carlos Beltran has scored 20 in this postseason, breaking the previous record of 18 set...
CARDS TAKE IT TO LIMIT - EDMONDS HR FORCES GAME 7
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 6 / 12 INN.: Cardinals 6 - Astros 4 ST. LOUIS - You figured Roger Clemens had scripted the perfect ending to his career when he won two world...
REPLAY COULD HAVE EASED UGLY SCENE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amIF only good faith and common sense were the rule . . . Yesterday, the TV-attached world was treated to New York City at its suspected worst: NYPD officers, clad...
BOSTON TOOK LOWE ROAD IN GAME 7
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amBefore Game 6 of the ALCS, Terry Francona indicated Tim Wakefield would get the chance of a lifetime if the Red Sox could force a do-or-die Game 7. But after...
BOTTLES TOSSED BY STADIUM
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amYankee Stadium had a little different look last night for Game 7 of the ALCS between the Yankees and Red Sox. Those plastic beer bottles that advertise your favorite brew...
PLANINIC'S CONFIDENCE IS STARTING TO PERK UP
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amIt wasn't like he walked into a restaurant and promptly ordered a platter of medium rare toenail clippers, but Zoran Planinic had a problem with English last year. "Like I...
IT'S MIGHTY FINE DAY FOR TAVAREZ
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES ST. LOUIS - Julian Tavarez started yesterday by being fined $10,000 for throwing a pitch over the head of Houston's Jeff Bagwell in Game 4. He ended it...
KNICKS DOWNSIZE THE FRONT COURT
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amDALLAS - When training camp opened, Kurt Thomas and Michael Sweetney were competing for the starting power-forward job. After 16 days of the preseason, they've both won. With the Knicks'...
'ALL EMPIRES FALL' - BOSOX PLAY LIKE CHAMPS WHILE BOMBERS COLLAPSE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE remains one final victory before The Curse of the Bambino is broken, but the Red Sox have destroyed the Evil Empire. The Olde Towne Team danced on Babe's grave...
CHOKE'S ON YANKS - GREATEST COLLAPSE IN BASEBALL HISTORY GIVES FLAG TO BOSOX
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amStarting today and until the world logs off, the 2004 Yankee season will be known as The Colossal Collapse. The darkest moment in Yankee history descended upon The Bronx last...
CASHMAN SEES CHANGES IN HIS CRYSTAL BALL
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Brian Cashman's Blackberry went off while he was addressing a group of reporters in the morgue that was the Yankees' clubhouse last night. Twenty seconds later he broke...
CASHMAN COULD BE FIRST FALL GUY
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amDavid Ortiz ripped a first-inning, two-run homer last night off Kevin Brown, a combination that hardly could have been worse for Yankee GM Brian Cashman. That is, until Johnny Damon...
BERNIE TIPS CAP TO BOSOX
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amHail to the Red Sox, Bernie Williams said, they must been a helluva team to have come back from 3-0 on the Yankees. "They didn't want to get beat," said...
THIS ONE PERSONAL TO JETER
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe worst sight a Yankees' fan can behold is that of the team's captain, Derek Jeter, standing on the top step of the dugout watching the opposing team celebrate winning...
YANKEES DEAL WITH DISBELIEF
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe atmosphere in the Yankees' clubhouse last night after losing the AL pennant to the Red Sox was similar to the feeling that permeated the Stadium after Boston took 6-0...
BOSTON: WE SHOCKED WORLD
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe Red Sox flipped the bird at the history books - becoming the first baseball team to recover from a three-games-to-none grave. Against their arch-enemies, no less. So forgive Sox...
SHEFF'S COLLAPSE A KILLER
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amIn the final four games of the Yankees' season, their MVP went MIA. There are plenty of reasons why the Yankees lost the ALCS in historic fashion, but one of...
WHO TO BLAME? EVERYONE!
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amOUTSIDE, a small but piercing corps of Red Sox fans had commandeered the lower bowl at Yankee Stadium, yelling for their team, taunting the ghosts, chasing away the final remnants...
PEDRO GETS LAST LAUGH
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amPedro Martinez famously faded in last year's ALCS Game 7, left twisting in the wind by former Red Sox manager Grady Little. Last night, Martinez relieved starter Derek Lowe, and...
LOSER BROWN FAILS TO CASH IN
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amEven the very rich are learning a dollar doesn't go as far as it once did. George Steinbrenner shelled out $15 million for Kevin Brown this season; $15 million to...
VAZQUEZ PROVIDES NO RELIEF
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amJavier Vazquez is not a reliever, but he plays one in the postseason. And he knows what hitters look for when pitchers enter a game in relief. "Coming out of...
RED SOX RIDE THE LOWE ROAD TO SUCCESS
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amAfter Derek Lowe had kept Boston alive with Sunday's Game 4 emergency start, he was asked if the Red Sox would tell him how he'd be used in the next...
JOHN'S FOOT INJURY GAVE THE YANKEES A 'RUD AWAKENING
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amBelieve it or not, some will say this series changed in the sixth inning of the Yankees' 19-8 Yankee win. That's because that was when John Olerud got hurt. Olerud,...
BOSS LAUDS SAWX
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWho knows how many heads will roll because of last night's dreadful loss to the Red Sox? For one night, anyway, George Steinbrenner would only compliment the Bosox. "I want...
A-ROD NOW FACE OF FAILURE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amALEX Rodriguez arrived to applause in February, not just because the Yankees thought they had secured the majors' best player, but because the joy is always sweeter for them when...
PAPI POPS YANKEES ONCE MORE
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Johnny Damon was gunned out at the plate by Derek Jeter's cutoff throw in the first, the Yankees must've thought they'd finally killed Boston's momentum. Then David Ortiz stepped...
DAMON POWER PACES 'IDIOTS'
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amJohnny Damon has unforgettably typecast his team as "a bunch of idiots." As Josh Beckett said about the Marlins, Damon and Boston might just be dumb enough to win the...
TORRE TURNS TO LOFTON
October 21, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre said he didn't factor Kenny Lofton's numbers against Derek Lowe when he replaced Ruben Sierra as the DH last night in Game 7 of the ALCS....