October 24, 2004
TUPAC STILL DELIVERS FOR INTERSCOPE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amDead men tell no tales, but some sure sell records. Tupac Shakur, a rapper who sold more than 3 million albums for Interscope Records since his shooting death 8 years...
ESPN, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED BOTH SPORTING BOOKS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amMaybe men who buy magazines really are interested in the articles. At least that's what two prominent sports magazines are hoping. ESPN magazine and Sports Illustrated are extending their brands...
STRAIGHT SHOOTER - CAROLYN KEPCHER IS THE RELUCTANT STAR OF "THE APPRENTICE"
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amSHE might act demure, but Carolyn Kepcher is all business. Asked if she has any idea how her new book is selling, Donald Trump's right-hand woman states unequivocally, "I know...
I CAN'T STAY AWAKE TO WATCH YANKEE PLAYOFFS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN did watching a baseball game become some sort of Iron Man Triathlon competition? That's what it's been like trying to stay awake to watch the Yankees in the playoffs....
THE DON'T MISS LIST
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amREALITY Mamma mia THE ABC series "Wife Swap" comes up with the ultimate mismatched households this week. A Southern California new age mom who starts her day with a family...
MOVIE PIX - OUR MOVIE CRITIC MEGAN LEHMANN'S BEST FILMS OF THE WEEK
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE Sunday, 10:15 p.m., TCM Good and evil each show their face in this classy 1932 version of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic. Fredric March won...
COMEDY CENTRAL DEFENDS VULGAR CARTOON
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amAS TV, as a matter of financial obligation, grows coarser, more vulgar and more desensitizing, the rationalizations of TV executives become increasingly absurd. This month, the MTA pulled from its...
PURR-FECT ART; CATS READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UP AT EXHIBIT
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amON Manhattan's Upper East Side, the William Secord Gal lery shows dog paintings, drawings and sculptures, while Doyle New York hosts its popular "Dogs in Art" auction every February. In...
HONG KONG HAPPY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S an early Christmas for fans of Wong Kar-wai. Kino has just released a DVD box set of five of the Hong Kong ace's films, including his debut, "As Tears...
NOW THAT'S ITALIAN
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amHORRORS! Halloween is just around the corner, a fact that hasn't escaped programmers at the Two Boots Pioneer. They're hosting an all-night marathon of Italian horror, beginning Saturday at 7...
KRAMNIK RINGS UP 'CIGAR' MATCH WIN
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWHAT threatened to be the most boring world title match ever held ended in dramatic style Monday when Vladimir Kramnik won the final game of the "cigar chess championship." Peter...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amPlaying with chocolate The Chocolate Bar and famed designer Jonathan Adler have teamed up to create this brand-new chocolate fondue set, which comes with a pot, skewers, tea light, two...
CHARLES IN CHARGE - BEFORE JAMIE FOXX COULD BE 'RAY,' HE HAD TO IMPRESS RAY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amJamie Foxx does a great Bill Cosby. As fans of his standup comedy know, Foxx can also do a mean Mike Tyson and a hilarious, shaky Ronald Reagan. But in...
HEAR THIS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amIN CONCERT * Story of the Year, Letter Kills, My Chemical Romance and the Lostprophets rock the Nintendo Fusion Tour at Roseland Ballroom on Tuesday. On Thursday: Punk legends Bad...
PLAN OF ATTACK - SIMPLE PLAN BOOSTS SECOND ALBUM WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amSimple Plan, the band that gave us lyrics like "I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare" and "I don't want to be told to grow up," are actually...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHE DONNAS "Gold Medal" (three stars) Atlantic Records The Donnas continue to carry the torch as one of rock's only all-girl bands, but that isn't why you should pay attention...
GOODNIGHT, LUNA - AFTER 12 YEARS, IT'S LIGHTS OUT FOR HOMETOWN POP HEROES
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amQuintessential New York rock band Luna is planning to leave its fans crying in their collective beers. Since the guitar-pop foursome was founded here 12 years ago, Luna has survived...
SMASHING POET - FORMER PUMPKIN BILLY CORGAN PUTS DOWN GUITAR, PICKS UP PEN
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe more things change the more they stay the same. Just ask Billy Corgan, mastermind of the now defunct alternative act Smashing Pumpkins. On his latest project, a book of...
LAW IS ON HER SIDE - REAL SPARKS FLEW BETWEEN JUDE LAW, SIENNA MILLER ON 'ALFIE' SET
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amIt all started on a couch for Jude Law and Sienna Miller. Specifically, it was on a sofa belonging to Charles Shyer, the director of their new movie together, "Alfie."...
FED-ECCHS - HORROR FLICK 'SAW' GOES POSTAL TO GENERATE BUZZ
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amFINDING a severed hand in a plastic bag among your mail can elicit any number of reactions: Horror. Disgust. Projectile vomiting. But movie buzz? Last week, a blitz of fake...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amYES NURSE! NO NURSE! Musical comedy set in a cheerful guesthouse in a Dutch town, complete with a nasty neighbor who wants to shut it down. HOME OF THE BRAVE...
QUICK BITES
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amFEELING CHILI: The New York Giants prove they can dish it out - venison chili, that is - at tomorrow's St. Francis Big Red Event from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m...
HOW NOT TO LOOK FAT - HOW TO FIND THE MOST FIGURE-FLATTERING HALLOWEEN COSTUME
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBLUBBER bubble, toil and trouble is right. Halloween's in seven days, and your posterior (or whatever problem areas you might have - mine is the area between my jaw and...
ALL OVER THE MAP - NEW COLLECTION FROM WRITER PORTRAYED IN FILM 'ADAPTATION'
October 24, 2004 | 4:00am"MY KIND OF PLACE: Travel Stories From a Woman Who's Been Everywhere" Susan Orlean Two and a half stars Random House, $24.95 AS depicted by Meryl Streep in the loopy...
'BRIGHT' NOW - AUTHOR MCINERNEY LOOKS AT 'BIG CITY' 20 YEARS LATER
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amA few days before Jay McInerney readies to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his downtown-set classic "Bright Lights, Big City" - aptly being thrown tomorrow night at the Odeon, whose...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amMEAT EATER SEEKS SAME FOR HOT WINTER NIGHTS THIS week, our Meat Market challenge is to hook up pretty Zoe, 26, with the man of her dreams. When she's not...
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amLast week David, 32, a fashion executive, asked us to set him up with Milda, 27, a fashion designer. We sent them to the Steakhouse at the Monkey Bar, a...
TALES OF POE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWith Halloween fast approaching, it's only appropriate to pay homage to Edgar Allan Poe, American master of the horror tale - and, arguably, the creator of the detective genre. Poe...
NEW MAN FOR MONICA
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amINFAMOUS intern Monica Lewinsky has a new boyfriend. The rotund paramour of former president Bill Clinton is now dating Perry van der Meer, managing editor of a music magazine called...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amTwo out-of-towners caught in a rainstorm in Bakersfield, Calif., decided to stay dry by breaking into a shoe store. It got wetter and wilder when a cop spotted them having...
BRUNO BRO'S 'FIX' WAS IN; STATE HOME-REPAIR SHOCKER
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY -New allegations of improper conduct by the brother of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno -who abruptly resigned his high-paying state job Friday -have surfaced, The Post has learned. The...
KIN FRIGHTENED BY HARLEM NURSING-HOME FLU OUTBREAK
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe scene of the city's first flu outbreak of the season buzzed with concern yesterday from friends and relatives visiting residents at the uptown nursing home. City health officials Friday...
N-TRAIN RIDER HURT IN TRACK FALL
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amA man was injured yesterday when he fell between the cars of a departing R train at the 49th Street station, police said. Sergei Khramtsov, of West 146th Street in...
'DEAD HEAT' IS ON FOR FLAILING FOES ; BUSH AND KERRY BATTLE FOR LAST OF THE UNDECIDEDS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWith a Newsweek poll calling the race "a statistical dead heat," President Bush and John Kerry kept up their attacks on each over the war in Iraq yesterday. Among registered...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** A 23-year-old man was slashed and seriously injured early yesterday after a dispute with another man outside an Inwood nightclub, police said. The violence erupted at 4:15 a.m....
FURY AS 'DWI KILLER' DUCKS QNS. SLAY RAP
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amA driver who failed a Breathalyzer test after mowing down two Queens kids - killing one - walked out of court yesterday facing the possibility of just a year in...
NO DEAL IN SIGHT FOR O'REILLY FIGHT
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amThere's apparently no deal yet in the Bill O'Reilly-Andrea Mackris settlement talks. While sources were mum yesterday about the outcome of Friday's marathon settlement talks, Mackris - the Fox News...
EX-PALS' KNIFE FIGHT ENDS WITH ONE DEAD
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amA long-simmering dispute between former friends escalated into a fatal stabbing in Brooklyn, police said yesterday. Pier Hargett, 27, and Ryan Bennett, 24, lived in facing sixth-floor apartments, and were...
INSANE LAW LETS FIENDS OFF WITH A TICKET AND FINE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amANALYSIS Killer drivers in New York have long gotten away with hardly any punishment. But despite decades of law-enforcement complaints, Albany has done nothing to toughen the state's vehicular homicide...
L.I. HOME-INVADE 'SLEAZEBAG' BUST
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amA 20-year-old Long Island man who forced his way into a 15-year old girl's bedroom and stabbed her mother was busted after the girl's brother recognized him, officials said yesterday....
INSANE DWI LAW
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe law states negligence or recklessness is determined by how a vehicle is driven and not by the driver's intoxication. In the Queens tragedy, police say driver John Wirta did...
KILLER OF 'PERV' FREED; DEFENDS SLAY OF NEIGHBOR
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amA Shelter Island man who was freed from prison six years after being jailed for the island's first murder in 300 years said yesterday he did not regret having shot...
MOTTOLA PULLS CAR 'COP-OUT'
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amMusic impressario Tommy Mottola is yet another bigshot caught trying to dance around parking regulations by using an unofficial police placard in his SUV. His black 2001 Chevy Yukon Denali...
D'AMATO ACCUSED OF 'SMEAR' IN STADIUM WAR
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHE furious fight over the West Side stadium has gotten personal. Word has gotten back to City Hall that former Sen. Al D'Amato, a lobbyist for Cablevision, is going around...
KABBALAH GAVE ME A LIGHTER WALLET, BUT NO ENLIGHTENMENT
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Sitting in the crowded classroom, I listened to Madonna's kabbalah coach promise me love, money, a soul mate - and the ability to see into the future....
GUNMAN WOUNDS FLATBUSH TEENAGER
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen was shot in the arm by a man who opened fire on a crowded Flatbush street last night, police said. The 13-year-old, identified by police sources as...
FORMER KNICK BUSTED; KING BEAT WIFE: COPS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amFormer Knick star Bernard King was called for a flagrant foul yesterday - assaulting his wife in a lower Manhattan hotel room, authorities told The Post. The alleged battery took...
'DEAD HEAT' IS ON FOR FLAILING FOES
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWith a Newsweek poll calling the race "a statistical dead heat," President Bush and John Kerry kept up their attacks on each over the war in Iraq yesterday. Among registered...
EWW!-BERRY MUFFIN; GAL FINDS CONDOM IN PASTRY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amA young Manhattan woman split open her breakfast muffin - only to find what seemed to be a condom baked inside. Theresa VanHorn, a 29-year-old writer at MTV Networks, said...
THE FACES OF DENIAL; TERROR'S NATURE HAS CHANGED - AND EUROPE JUST DOESN'T GET IT
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amEUROPEANS insist that the United States overreacted to 9/11. Condescendingly, they observe that they've been dealing with terrorism successfully for three decades, that it can be managed, that life goes...
'SPECIAL ANGEL' ACT OF KINDNESS KELLERMAN'S COST HIS LIFE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amAspiring actor Sam Kellerman left his beloved New York to make it big in Los Angeles, but his loyalty to a down-and-out pal from his youth may have cost him...
A STRANGER IN ARABIA
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amFLORENCE OF ARABIA: A NOVELBY CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY RANDOM HOUSE, 253 PAGES, $24.95CHRISTOPHER Buckley just keeps getting better: From his first madcap satire ("The White House Mess") to this latest, the...
GOP GETTING GAL-VANIZED
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amA FUNNY thing happened on the way to this presidential election. Demo crats became flummoxed by a question that has kept ordinary men up at night for millennia: What do...
CELEBS GET OUT (AND SIT OUT) THE VOTE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amVote or die? Not so fast. The cavalcade of celebrities donning sloganeering T-shirts and organizing voter drives have sketchy records of appearing at the polls themselves - and at least...
ALIEN OUTRAGE; UNDERSTAFFED FEDS LET FOREIGN THUGS SLIP BY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amNew York's arm of the Department of Homeland Security is so understaffed it interviews only about 40 percent of foreign-born inmates at Rikers Island - a failure that puts criminal...
HOW 'BUDDIES' ANDREA & BILL ENTERED THEIR TAILSPIN ZONE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Andrea Mackris was dumped by her fiancé in early 2002, her boss, cable-TV host Bill O'Reilly, took her out to dinner. No longer supported by her lawyer partner of...
1 OUT OF 3 AIN'T BAD FOR BUSH IN SWING STATES
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWITH so many swing states still extremely close, President Bush has a chance of squeaking to victory by winning just one of the three big swing states, Ohio, Florida and...
BITTER POLITICS SPARK LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIPS IN CRUCIAL OHIO
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amCOLUMBUS, Ohio - In the most intensely fought county of the 2004 election, the race for the White House has turned personal - now it's neighbor against neighbor, and girlfriend...
D'AMATO 'SMEAR' IN W. SIDE STADIUM WAR
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHE furious fight over the West Side stadium has gotten personal. Word has gotten back to City Hall that former Sen. Al D'Amato, a lobbyist for Cablevision, is going around...
'DEAD HEAT' IS ON FOR FLAILING FOES - BUSH AND KERRY BATTLE FOR LAST OF THE UNDECIDEDS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWith a Newsweek poll calling the race "a statistical dead heat," President Bush and John Kerry kept up their attacks on each over the war in Iraq yesterday. Among registered...
FRIGHT FLIGHTS ALOFT - APPLE AIRBORNE ALARM
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amAir traffic over the city is soaring, according to the FAA and a top traffic controller - and that's giving some terror-weary New Yorkers the jitters. Commercial flights into the...
TURKEY-HUNTING NUMBERS COULD DROP IN FALL
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHE CHILL in the air and the leaves changing to brilliant reds, oranges and yellows are a starting gun for sportsmen to head afield for the fall harvest, with none...
GARDEN BOOK PICTURE PERFECT ; KALINSKY'S PHOTOS CAPTURE HISTORY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amPhotographer George Kalinsky brings nearly 40 years worth of personal memories into sharp focus with his new book, "Garden of Dreams," which will hit stores this week. The book, which...
AZERI ON FENCE FOR BREEDERS'
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amGRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. - A year ago, 2002 Horse of the Year Azeri was seemingly headed for a life of making babies on a Kentucky farm. Her then-trainer, Laura DeSeroux,...
METROS HOPE TO TURN UP HEAT
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amAfter 30 regular-season games, a short stay in the U.S. Open Cup and more roster moves than a Fantasy Football owner run amok, the MetroStars came into last night's home...
HEAT WILL BE ON MARIO, WAYNE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amIF the package threat of impasse, implementation and presentation of a scab 2005-06 NHL season remains the foundation of the league's refusal to negotiate anything other than a hard cap...
KRISTIC KEEPS WORKING TO MAKE NET GAINS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Whenever members of the Nets' hierarchy talk about Nenad Krstic, they first point they make concerns his work ethic. The guy is relentless. Krstic doesn't understand all the...
CRAWFORD LOOKS LOST DURING KNICKS' TRIP
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe Knicks have seen the hoop magic that guard Jamal Crawford can create: igniting the fast break, swooping to the basket with dynamic crossover moves, making flashy passes off a...
A DAMPIER ON THINGS ; MAVERICKS CAN'T GET INSURANCE ON ERICK
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amLOSING Erick Dampier to the Mavericks might look as if it's minimized the Knicks' odds of accomplishing something meaningful this season and maximized Dallas' chances of winning the West, but...
CALL TO ARMS ; CARDS' HURLERS AT DISADVANTAGE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - It was only Game 1 last night for the Cardinals and Red Sox. Yet it already felt like must-win territory for St. Louis. That's because of how things...
A PESKY PLACE IN SOX LORE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - He comes out of a different part of the last century, and so he comes from a different part of baseball's culture. But Johnny Pesky longs for a...
BERNABE LEADS ERASMUS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amH.S. FOOTBALL Erasmus 28 Carnarsie 6 Marvin Bernabe guided Erasmus to its first playoff appearance in recent memory a year ago, and the Dutchmen lost to perennial power Sheepshead Bay....
YOU'LL 'FALL' IN LOVE WITH PATRIOT HILLS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amN.Y. GOLF It's autumn. Leaves are still on the trees and it's not so hard getting tee times. Here are five courses worth playing this fall:Patriot Hills - Scenic Rockland...
SOX PLAYING THE NUMBERS ; THEY ADD UP TO BEANTOWN CROWN
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - You have to admit, this is all getting kind of cosmic. After 86 long, long years, the numbers are starting to add up for the Red Sox. It's...
YANKEE COACHES FACE SCRUTINY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - George Steinbrenner will bring the two dysfunctional Yankee families to Tampa Tuesday and a very dissatisfied Boss is loaded with questions. GM Brian Cashman, who won't be fired,...
SOX HOPE SCHILLING HOLDS UP
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Curt Schilling was super after a suture. But to him, it was no big deal. "I've got to do it again (today)," he said yesterday. "I go out...
CARPENTER DOESN'T GET SPOT ON CARDS' ROSTER
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOKS BOSTON - Chris Carpenter was hoping he could be an ace in the hole for the World Series. It won't happen. Carpenter, the Cardinals' right-handed starter who...
FOULKE FIRMS UP SOX PEN
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Keith Foulke and Jason Isringhausen share the same agent. Both are former closers for the A's. But right now, those are the only similarities between the two firemen....
CURT PRAISES ROLEN
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - If he didn't have to try to get Scott Rolen out tonight, Cut Schilling would probably try to adopt him. Rolen plays third base for the Cardinals and...
RUFFIAN DOC DIES
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amDr. William O. Reed, internationally regarded as one of the finest equine practitioners of his generation, passed away yesterday morning at Winthrop Hospital in Mineola at the age of 83....
JERKENS' 'DEVIL' IS KING OF EMPIRE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe Giant Killer strikes again. Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens added another entry to his long list of upset victories as 15-1 Spite the Devil outlasted favored West Virginia...
CARDOZO'S DAVIS BACKS OUT ON TEXAS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amTheo Davis said he was tired of the recruiting process over the summer and rushed his decision to commit to Texas. He has since changed his mind. "I made it...
JUST ONE LEFTY HURLER ON REDBIRDS' ROSTER
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK BOSTON - It's now up to just Ray King to get the Red Sox's lefty hitters out. The Cardinals did not put lefty reliever Steve Kline on...
JAMAL'S WORST OF KNICKS' TRIP ; CRAWFORD 6-FOR-32 IN THREE GAMES
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe Knicks have seen the hoop magic that guard Jamal Crawford can create: igniting the fast break, swooping to the basket with dynamic crossover moves, making flashy passes off a...
NETS' KRISTIC WORKS ON GAME ; 7-FOOTER KEEPS GETTING BETTER
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amSixers 86 Nets 81 PHILADELPHIA - Whenever members of the Nets' hierarchy talk about Nenad Krstic, they first point they make concerns his work ethic. The guy is relentless. Krstic...
MAYBE METROS ARE CURSED, TOO
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amSince the inception of MLS, the MetroStars and D.C. United have been the league's bitterest rivals. Even though they hadn't faced each other in the MLS Cup since the inaugural...
MORRIS READY FOR HUGE START WITH LITTLE REST
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - It's not that Matt Morris hasn't done it before. It's just been a while since he pitched on three-days rest. Like 20 years. "I think the last time...
YANKS COACHES FACING SCRUTINY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - George Steinbrenner will bring the two dysfunctional Yankee families to Tampa Tuesday and a very dissatisfied Boss is loaded with questions. GM Brian Cashman, who won't be fired,...
LAST WEEK'S GOAT IS FENWAY'S DARLING
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Mark Bell horn is his name. A week ago, if you strolled the streets of this city, you couldn't make it three blocks without hearing the surname uttered...
UGLY SHTICK HITS CARDS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Welcome to American League Baseball, Cardinals. It sure ain't pretty. It's about the last man standing. Just ask the Yankees, who went down for the count against the...
PAPI'S BAT REMAINS RED HOT
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - By the end of the World Series, David Ortiz should set the major-league record for RBIs in a postseason. In other words, make room for Papi. The ALCS...
E-GADS! MANNY HAS BAD NIGHT
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Manny Ramirez worked hard on his defense this year, Red Sox manager Terry Francona likes to say, but he'll never earn a Gold Glove. Last night, the Boston...
CARDINAL SLUGGERS HIT SNAG
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - One is the game's best right-handed hitter; the other, according to Curt Schilling, is the game's best all-around player. Last night, though, Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen hardly...
IT'S RED SOX FOR OPENERS - BELLHORN BLAST IN 8TH PUTS BOSTON UP 1-0
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 1: BOX / P. 41Red Sox 11Cardinals 9 BOSTON - With bats in their hands, the Red Sox are monsters - and have to be. Because when they take...
WALKER HAS SOX SEEIN' RED
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - It took Larry Walker 16 years to get here. And all he could talk about afterward was the national anthem. "I was most excited about seeing Steven Tyler...
WOMACK SURVIVES BAD HOP
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK BOSTON - Cardinals second baseman Tony Womack was forced out of Game 1 with a left collarbone injury in the seventh inning last night, the result of...
BRODEUR RIPS NHL STANCE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amGary Bettman has already accomplished the difficult. He has managed to anger usually-jolly Martin Brodeur with his refusal to negotiate anything except his cap-or-nothing lockout position. "The league is almost...
WEIS WOULD BE WISE HEAD-COACHING CHOICE
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES FOXBORO - Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, an NFL head coach in waiting, gains more support around the league with every game he coaches. Weis, the former Jets...
NOW'S THE TIME TO MAKE HISTORY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amFOXBORO - It is Showtime today for the Jets. Show the world champion Patriots they are not in a league of their own by ending their 20-game winning streak. Show...
BIG BLUE'S TRUE WORRY: FALSE STARTS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants' offensive line has played much better than outside expectations. One area in need of improvement: the frequency of false-start penalties. Heading into today's game against the...
CAN'T TAKE AWAY WINS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHE LINE already is a quarter of a mile around Giants Stadium to kiss Tom Coughlin for keeping it simple, making a lot of us look stupid. By refusing to...
TALK OF THE TOWN - JETS READY TO MAKE STATEMENT VS. PATS
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amFOXBORO - Herman Edwards has been completely content flying his Jets under the radar this season. So what if the prognosticators predicted little success for his team this season? All...
HE'S NOT BYE-ING IT: COUGHLIN WANTS TO END GIANTS' OFF-WEEK SLUMP
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amFor the Giants, the question almost always has been followed by an answer they don't want to hear. Why can't they win following their bye week? They almost never do....
JETER PRINCIPLE - CAPTAIN NEEDS MATES TO RISE TO HIS LEVEL
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - It may be hard to remember now, but there was a time when Derek Jeter wasn't the captain of the Yankees. There was a time, in fact, when...
ALCSI: NEWYORK - THE POST EXAMINES WHAT HAPPENED TO THE YANKEES
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amOn this week's edition of ALCSI, we perform an autopsy on the Yankees to discover why they asphyxiated on the national stage last week. Yes, we know the obvious causes...
WORLD OF DIFFERENCE - SOME POSTSEASON 'RECORDS' CAN'T BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amIt's probably too late, but we're going to beg Fox not to spend the World Series mixing "postseason" and World Series records. Please, fellas, don't. That Jim Thome, in Fox's...
HEAD TO HEAD
October 24, 2004 | 4:00amPost football writers Paul Schwartz and Mark Cannizzaro tackle the question: Who's more valuable to their team, Curtis Martin or Tiki Barber? SCHWARTZ: Let's take the high road on this...