October 28, 2004
GDP REPORT IS THE LAST BIG STAT BEFORE ELECTION
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S the bottom of the ninth, fourth down and a buzzer shot all in one. Tomorrow's report on the nation's gross domestic product is the last chance for one of...
YANKEE FAN SETS PRESSES FOR SOX CHAMPIONSHIP T'S
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amOn Brooklyn's commercial waterfront, one die-hard Yankee fan is trying to see the silver lining in a Boston Red Sox World Series victory. But even selling 200,000 World Champion T-shirts...
TIME WARNER: 'REALITY BIDS'
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amTime Warner is said to be offering $2.5 billion for the studio that created reality TV hits "Fear Factor" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." The Netherlands-based studio, Endemol, was put...
ACE CEO: WE HAVE LOCATED BAD GUYS
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amTwelve days after a vice president at Ace Ltd.'s excess casualty unit pleaded guilty to bid-rigging charges, CEO Evan Greenberg and his crack legal team finally discovered the "improper conduct."...
HARD-PRESSED MICHAEL KORS TO LAY OFF 25
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amMichael Kors has laid off a sizable chunk of its work force in the latest sign of trouble for the designer and his business partners, The Post has learned. About...
ESPRIT GOES ON A STORE SPREE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amEsprit is poised to open two more stores in Manhattan, bringing the total in the metro area to eight by spring, The Post has learned. An 8,500-square-foot store is scheduled...
THEY CUT ME OUT - OVITZ DESCRIBES SABOTAGE, SCHEMES AT DISNEY
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amHollywood dealmaker Michael Ovitz spun his own drama of his ouster from Walt Disney - he was knifed in the back, carved "out like a cancer" and pushed from a...
MSG, FOX CRY 'FOUL' OVER METS
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amCablevision moved yesterday to strike out the Mets' deal to form a regional sports network beginning in 2006. The cable company's MSG Network and Fox Sports New York filed suit...
J.C. PENNEY TURNS HEADS BY MAKING MACY VET CEO
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amIn a surprise decision, J.C. Penney yesterday named Myron E. Ullman III - the former head of R.H. Macy & Co. - to succeed Allen Questrom as chairman and chief...
SECRET ADMIRER - 'O.C.' REVIVES PRIME-TIME SOAPS WITH WHOLE LOT MORE THAN A KISS
October 28, 2004 | 4:00am'The O.C." has no right to be this addictive. Its characters are shallow, their lives pampered and their predicaments trivial. And yet, "The O.C.," which starts its second season one...
STERN AMBUSH 'UPSET' FCC BIGWIG
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amFCC Chairman Michael Powell "showed some discomfort" on Tuesday when a caller on a newsradio show he was appearing on turned out to be Howard Stern. Powell's press secretary was...
'RACE' PICKS PAIR OF QUEENS
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amTWO Queens gals and a couple of Brooklyn school chums are among the contestants on "The Amazing Race 6," which kicks off Nov. 16 on CBS. Lifelong friends Meredith Tufaro...
ROD STEWART'S ON TOP
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amREFORMED rock star Rod Stewart leaped to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Top Album chart with his latest collection, "Stardust . . . The Great American Songbook: Volume III."...
FOTO FINISHED - PIX DO IN 'MODEL' KELLE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amIT WAS the funky pictures that got pretty Kelle Jacob tossed from "America's Next Top Model" last night. No matter how hard she tried, no matter how beautiful she is...
BAILING OUT 'OCEAN'
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA group of top Broadway producers, who have backed some of the most important American plays of the last several years, may throw a lifeline to "Gem of the Ocean."...
STARR REPORT
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amLet the battles begin "The Tony Danza Show" got off to a strong start here in New York, and is still winning its 10 a.m. timeslot on Ch. 7 -...
PEDRO, DON'T BE CRANKY, BE A YANKEE! BUT FIRST ... CLEAN UP YOUR ACT; GET A HAIRCUT, PEDRO!
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amIF Red Sox star Pedro Martinez joins the Yankees next season, the pitching ace is going to need a new image - fast. George Steinbrenner is said to be salivating...
HEIDI KLUM'S SPITTING GARGOYLE, A PUKING HOBO & OTHER CHIC DECORATIONS
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amCOMING up with the perfect costume is its own unique pressure - but for party hosts, finding decorations that don't fall into cliché can be sheer torture. When it comes...
SCARE UP SOME MAKEUP
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amFORGET costly costumes. Just in time for the holiday, MAC cosmetics is creating more than 25 theatrical looks, from a sexy swamp creature to a mortifying mummy (or they'll work...
THE MYTH OF THE 'MISSING EXPLOSIVES': A SHAMELESS LIE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amSHOULD the United Nations decide who becomes our president? Sen. John Kerry wouldn't mind. He's shamelessly promoting the lies that the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency is telling about Iraq....
SUBWAY RIDE TO THE PAST - ENGINEER MIKE MARKS 100 YRS.
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe city marked a century of subway service yesterday with Mayor Bloomberg driving a vintage train to re-enact the first-ever trip. "I had an expert next to me - and...
SHARON'S STUNNER
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amIN any other week, at any other time, the world's news would have been dominated by the astounding story out of Israel. The most controversial political figure on the planet,...
TIMES' WEAPON OF BUSH DESTRUCTION
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amAnd so we finally have the October Surprise - a last-minute live political grenade tossed smack dab into the middle of the campaign by The New York Times and CBS'...
'ANTI-SEMITES' AT COLUMBIA
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amColumbia University will investigate claims by Jewish students that some Middle Eastern professors use the classroom as a pulpit for spreading hate against Jews and Israel, officials said yesterday. College...
CLAWED UP IN TUG OF LOVE - VICTIM TELLS OF CATFIGHT
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A hair-pulling, face-slapping, breast-pinching Courtney Love viciously attacked another woman during a one-sided catfight earlier this year, the alleged victim testified yesterday. "She sat on me, pulled...
CRACKHEAD GETS JAIL FOR ARSON
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA 26-year-old Korean immigrant cried uncontrollably yesterday as she told a Queens judge she was "extremely sorry" for the deadly fire she set in February while high on crack. "Even...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amOf 1.4 million high-schoolers who have taken the SATs this year, fewer than 1,000 scored a perfect 1600. Two of them are Long Island brothers Dillon and Jesse Smith. The...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A thief (above) who robbed a Midtown bank Monday has been linked through surveillance footage to an April stickup on the Upper East Side, police sources said yesterday....
PEACE TABLES - PERELMAN CALLS OFF WAR WITH SIDEWALK EATERY
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe city's most bitter sidewalk food fight was settled yesterday in the time it takes to scarf down a Happy Meal. Billionaire Ron Perelman called off a small army of...
COUGH 'COVER-UP' AMID NEW YORKERS' FLU PHOBIA
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amFlu-fearing New Yorkers are telling each other to cover their mouths each time they cough, stay home from work when they're sick, and even stop kissing. "I'm kind of paranoid...
GROUP'S PLAN FOR TRANSIT WOES
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe MTA could pay for rebuilding and expanding the transit system if the city and state create "recurring revenue streams" the agency can rely on each year, a transit advocacy...
REVLON RON LIP-STICKS IT TO THE LITTLE GUY AGAIN
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amNEVER underestimate Ronald Perelman on a tear. The billionaire lipstick peddler yesterday scored a victory for the big guy. He prevailed in his lunatic battle against a tiny café, whose...
L.I. WIFE GETS 2 YEARS FOR KILLING THUG HUBBY
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island woman who fatally stabbed her abusive common-law husband after a Father's Day barbecue was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday. Under a plea bargain with the...
THE BOO-LYWEDS - JEERING SOX FAN RUINED OUR SPECIAL DAY
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA Staten Island couple's dream of a perfect wedding at a Massachusetts inn turned into a nightmare when a Red Sox-loving busboy got drunk, chanted, "Yankees suck!" and threatened to...
BUSH DELIVERS A JERSEY JOLT - POLL HAS HIM TIED IN ONCE-'SAFE' KERRY STATE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA shock New Jersey poll shows John Kerry and President Bush are in a dead heat, with Bush boosted by fears of terrorism - now the top issue in the...
GRIEF AS DWI BOY VICTIM BURIED
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe devastated mother of an 11-year-old boy, who was killed by a drunken driver in Queens, buried her only son yesterday as state officials called for a change to the...
B'KLYN ARABS 'BASH' HASID
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amTwo Arab-American men have been arrested for roughing up a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn - and then brutally assaulting him after finding out that he'd reported the first incident to...
BABY SITTER IN SICK SLAY CONFESSION
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amProsecutors yesterday hit a Long Island baby sitter with murder charges in the brutal death of a 5-month-old girl - as they released portions of her chilling confession to the...
BOMB SCARE ONLY GARBAGE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amCops and firefighters rushed to a SoHo garbage basket yesterday after getting a tip that several Middle-Eastern looking men had dumped a bomb there. The tense scene on Greene Street...
OFF-DUTY COP SHOOTS COED IN ACCIDENT
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amAn off-duty cop's fumbling with a gun at a Brooklyn sandwich shop landed a college student in the hospital with an injury to the buttocks yesterday in a freak accident....
COUNCIL'S CAMPAIGN BILL PA$$ES
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amNew campaign-finance bills designed to help candidates for city office who are running against wealthy opponents like Mayor Bloomberg were approved by the City Council yesterday over the mayor's bitter...
'KINKY WACKO KILLED ROOMIE'
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn cross-dresser with a penchant for bizarre porn, religious artifacts and Vietnam War memorabilia was charged with beating his elderly roommate to death after an argument over the rent,...
QNS. 'BUMP' SLAY - THUGS SHOOT STRANGER AFTER BRUSH AT DELI
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA bump of a shoulder in a Queens deli led to murder after a pack of punks jumped a stranger and shot him in the chest on the street as...
SUIT VS. LIZA OPEN & SHUT
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA chauffeur's sensational big-buck assault suit against Liza Minnelli will remain under seal - for now - after an "open" closed-door hearing yesterday. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick started...
SEX - THEN DEATH - AMMON'S LOVE TELLS OF HOT TRYST ON DAY OF SLAY
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amTed Ammon's girlfriend yesterday testified that she had sex with the millionaire financier in his East Hampton mansion on the last day of his life - in the very bed...
ATM GANG'S LATEST HEAVYWEIGHT WITHDRAWAL
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA gang of ATM thieves believed to have stolen 20 bank machines in the past year apparently struck again last week, ripping off a Subway sandwich shop during the night...
SLAY PLOT JUST AN ACT: BIZMAN
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amAn aging businessman, accused of trying to hire a hit man to rub out a partner, told jurors he was set up by an FBI informant - and was only...
THREE FALSE BUSTS - MAN'S ID NIGHTMARE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amAlexis Caba looks familiar - and that's why he's the unluckiest man in the world. The Pennsylvania auto mechanic has been arrested three times for four different armed robberies in...
BOBBY HAS HISTORY OF BRITISH HEROICS
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe brave British bobby who tackled a knife-wielding man in the Diamond District is no stranger to heroics, his boss said yesterday. Five years ago, Sgt. Colin Webber, 37, helped...
JUDGE GRILLS NYPD IN BICYCLE-GRAB
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA judge grilled the city and the NYPD yesterday for confiscating the bikes of cyclists who hadn't been charged with crimes during an organized pro-biking demonstration on city streets last...
N.Y. JUDGES TO MULL COURT TV CAMS
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amCourt TV can go to the state's highest court in its battle to get cameras inside New York courtrooms. In a surprise move, the Court of Appeals has agreed to...
SERIAL 'STALKER' - 'SLAY' EXEC WENT NUTS ON EARLIER EX
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA disgraced Wall Street exec, accused of stabbing to death his wealthy ex-girlfriend, had a chilling pattern of going berserk and terrorizing women who broke up with him, The Post...
BIG-BUCKS TUTORING FIRM BEING PROBED
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA company that has been paid millions by the federal government to tutor students at struggling schools in New York City and elsewhere is under investigation by the city, The...
TIMES' 'EXPLOSIVE' ARTICLE COULD BACKFIRE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amSUDDENLY in the final stretch, President Bush is running against the liberal media - that would be The New York Times and CBS News - and many Republicans couldn't be...
'FIEND' WITHOUT A NAME IS ID'D
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amTo his 20-year-old victim, he was an anonymous fiend - the nameless beast who'd tried to rape her at gunpoint against the grimy wall of a Canal Street subway station....
LAWYER ON TRIAL IN 9G 'GRANNY BILK'
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA lawyer who was supposedly working gratis to help an elderly grandmother went on trial in Brooklyn yesterday for allegedly bilking her out of $9,000. Special prosecutor Maranda Fritz told...
LAST W. AD VOWS 'WHATEVER IT TAKES'
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush unveiled his final TV ad of the campaign yesterday, pledging to do "whatever it takes" to defend America - and prodding voters to see the war on terror...
LAW BITES 'PUPPY' PURVEYOR
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA 22-year-old Brooklyn man who offered $1,000 bulldogs on the Internet was actually peddling a line of bull, authorities charged yesterday. Victor Chermirsov allegedly advertised "beautiful French bulldog pups" on...
8 HURT IN B'KLYN HOME FIRE - 60 SMOKE-EATERS BATTLE INFERNO
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amEight people were injured yesterday when a pre-dawn blaze raced through a Brooklyn house, fire officials said. Some 60 firefighters battled the flames at the two-story frame home at 173...
BOMBER ADMITS COP PLOT
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA imprisoned bomb-maker pleaded guilty in Brooklyn yesterday to masterminding a plot to plant a bomb in the car of a female cop on whom he had a crush. The...
RIP'S LAWYER TEARS INTO COP
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amEmmy-winning actor Rip Torn is scheduled to begin his defense case against misdemeanor drunken-driving charges today, but his lawyers have already come out swinging. In a lengthy cross-examination of Torn's...
SCHOOLKIDS LOSE TRANSFER STAKES
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amFewer than one in seven city students who asked to be transferred from their failing schools under federal law have been given the chance to do so, Department of Education...
QUEENS MOM BURIES 'DWI' KID
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe devastated mother of an 11-year-old boy who was killed by an allegedly drunken driver in Queens buried her only son yesterday as elected officials called for stiffer DWI penalties....
'QAEDA' VOTE-TERROR VOW
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The CIA and FBI are analyzing a new videotape in which a man claiming to be an al Qaeda terrorist warns of bloody new attacks inside the United...
CLAWED UP IN A TUG OF LOVE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A hair-pulling, face-slapping, breast-pinching Courtney Love viciously attacked another woman during a one-sided catfight earlier this year, the alleged victim testified yesterday. "She sat on me, pulled...
MY SLAY-DAY SEX WITH TED - AMMON'S LOVE TELLS OF HOT TRYST
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amTed Ammon's girlfriend yesterday testified that she had sex with the millionaire financier in his East Hampton mansion on the last day of his life - in the very bed...
OFF-DUTY COP'S GUN ACCIDENT
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amAn off-duty cop fumbling with a gun at a Brooklyn sandwich shop yesterday, landing a college student in the hospital with a wound to the buttocks in a freak accident....
ARAFAT ON DEATH BED - PALESTINIAN LEADERS HOLD 'LAST' VIGIL
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amPalestinian President Yasser Arafat was near death last night after collapsing and blacking out for about 10 minutes, prompting the entire Palestinian leadership to hold vigil at his West Bank...
ATM GANG'S HEAVYWEIGHT WITHDRAWAL
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amA gang of ATM thieves believed to have stolen 20 bank machines in the past year apparently struck again last week, hitting a Subway sandwich shop during the night and...
8 HURT IN B'KLYN HOUSE FIRE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amEight people were injured yesterday when a predawn blaze raced through a Brooklyn house, fire officials said. Twelve units and 60 firefighters battled the flames at the two-story frame home...
COPS FIRE TEAR GAS AT SOX FANS
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Tears were shed in Beantown last night - some from joy and some from gas fired by cops when the celebrations got out of hand. Initial reports had...
OUR INDISPENSABLE SUBWAY
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amAs we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the subway, today's page takes a quick look back at its not-so-humble beginnings. BY the mid-1800s, New York was already one crowded city....
GARDEN STATE GORE VOTER NOW GOPER
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amDinorah Burgos is one of many New Jersey voters who backed Al Gore in 2000 - but who will be casting her ballot for President Bush on Nov. 2, making...
LA RUSSA LAUDS LAU - CITES HITTING GURU, NOT SPLINTER, FOR MANNY STYLE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amWorld Series Notebook ST. LOUIS - Unable to lay a glove on the Red Sox in the first three games of the World Series, Cardinal manager Tony La Russa went...
'W'S, NOT POINTS, FUEL STEPH
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe Knicks are younger, longer and quicker than they've been in years, and nobody is happier about that than Stephon Marbury. All through the preseason, which concludes tonight against Utah...
MERCER FEELS 'SWELL' AFTER HUGE GAME
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe 12-of-18 shooting, 30-point, 10-rebound performance by Nets' guard Ron Mercer against the Knicks led to one obvious question: What could he do with two good knees? Mercer admitted yesterday...
HERM: NO PATS ON BACK - COACH SAYS JETS DIDN'T SEE LOSS AS MORAL VICTORY
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amHerman Edwards had a loud, "YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME" moment yesterday. Was it real anger? Legitimate agitation? Or a motivational tactic as his team readies itself to try...
MOURNING IFFY FOR PRESEASON FINALE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES A day after Alonzo Mourning vowed he'd return for the start of the season, the Nets center was still unsure - even a little indignant - when asked...
GREISEN'S STOCK STILL ON THE RISE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES After a one-game punishment for not adhering to team rules, Barrett Green on Sunday will be back in his starting spot at weakside linebacker. But it's not the...
FANS GLAD TO LEAVE LONG WAIT IN PAST
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Unless you belong to that segment of Yankees fandom that is completely incapable of feeling anything other than spite for the Red Sox or the poor populace...
JET SECONDARY GETS A TWEAK
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets Achilles' heel has been inconsistent play in the secondary. Every week it seems, there are a couple of big pass plays that hurt what has otherwise...
CHANGES IN STORE FOR SOX
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - As soon as the World Series ends, Red Sox GM Theo Epstein has some major issues to attend to; free agents Jason Varitek, Pedro Martinez, Derek Lowe...
MANNY AMONG MEN - RAMIREZ HAPPY HE STAYED IN BOSTON
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - For a few days last winter, Manny Ramirez had no control of where he'd play in 2004. In contrast to Nomar Garciaparra, Ramirez accepted that and moved...
'PLEASANTLY' PERFECT - MANDELLA OOZES CONFIDENCE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amGRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. - Ace trainer Richard Mandella served notice yesterday that his superlative stayer Pleasantly Perfect is "as good as, or even better" than he was last year when...
METS STILL HAVE EYE ON LEYLAND
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The end is nearing for the Mets' first round of managerial interviews, and a new hire could be in place sometime next week. The Mets continued their...
RED STORM DEEMED LEAST OF BIG EAST
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amYesterday may be remembered as the most bizarre day in the history of Northeast sports. On the same day the Red Sox sought to snap an 86-year-old curse and win...
BOSTON BRACES FOR BIGGEST WIN - DESPERATE CARDS SHUFFLE LINEUP
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - With all of New England poised for the unthinkable to happen, the Red Sox took the field at Busch Stadium last night looking to sweep the Cardinals...
AGONY OF DEFEAT HAUNTS A-ROD
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Alex Rodriguez awakes and the pain of losing hasn't budged from the location it was before he went to sleep. He has a wonderful wife who will...
FIELDS OF DREAMS SET
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amGRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. - The stars will shine big and bright deep in the heart of Texas Saturday when 92 of the world's top thoroughbreds head for the starting gate...
EUROPE'S BEST PUT TO THE TEST
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amGRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. - Ever since France's Lashkari, a 53-1 outsider, won the inaugural Turf at Hollywood Park in 1984, European shippers have been a force in the Breeders' Cup....
TONY SHAKES UP LINEUP
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - One out of 31 are Britney Spears' chances of having a long-lasting marriage. They're the Mets' odds to land a guy like Carlos Beltran. It's also the...
THIS TRICK'S A REAL TREAT - BOSOX CAN'T DISGUISE JOY
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - They Red Sox not only have changed the culture in baseball. They've changed the culture. Imagine the horror for Yankees fans on Halloween night when little trick-or-treaters...
JOCKEY CHALLENGE A BC WARMUP
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amGRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. - As an appetizer for Saturday's Breeders' Cup, Lone Star Park today serves up its annual International Jockey Championship with nine riders competing in three races: the...
WHO ARE THOSE GUYS IN RED UNIFORMS?
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - You can sum up the Cardinals' three-game World Series misery very simply. "We're not pitching, we're not running the bases and [we're] not driving in the runs...
MINNESOTA SPLATS - SPICY CULPEPPER MAY GIVE GIANTS BIG TUMMY ACHE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amEach week it's about numbers. Numbers, numbers, numbers. Look at the opponent, analyze the numbers. This week is no different, but perhaps it should be. Can any rational, sane defensive...
WOODY WAITS, HOPES
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Just before the World Series opened, the Cardinals' Woody Williams talked about getting to start Game 1. He talked about how he imagined doing it as a...
WAKEFIELD DREAMING OF CROWN
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Tim Wakefield is the longest-tenured member of the Red Sox, so he knows what the reaction would be if they pull off a World Series title. "I...
A PERFECT ENDING
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The ball stuck in Keith Foulke's glove, and it wasn't going anywhere. There were no ghosts to pry it loose, no goblins to steer it sideways. It...
RED SOX SWEEP AWAY THE CURSE - WIN FIRST SERIES TITLE SINCE 1918
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 4: Red Sox 3 - Cardinals 0 ST. LOUIS - The Yankees' worst nightmare is real and promises to soak many bed sheets for a long time. And if...
DING-DONG, CURSE IS DEAD
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - This is how it started. "I am going to sell Ruth to the Yankees," Red Sox owner Harry Frazee told his manager, Ed Barrow, on Dec. 28,...
CURT WORTH EVERY SCHILLING
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The pain was irrelevant last night, the ailing right ankle forgotten for one magical evening. Curt Schilling wasn't feeling anything but good last night. "It doesn't matter...
BIRD BATS A TOTAL NO-SHOW
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Growing up, Scott Rolen imagined playing in the World Series, dreaming what it would be like to take part in such a fantasy. The reality, though, was...
LOWE WANTS ENCORE
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - A few weeks ago, Derek Lowe must have thought the Red Sox cost him millions of free-agency dollars. But with two straight superb performances, Lowe might have...
AT LAST! NO MORE '1918' CHANTS
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Red Sox owner John Henry had termed his team's pursuit of a world championship "a real-life Arthurian quest." Finally, baseball's Holy Grail is returning to Boston. Sox...
VANQUISHED CARDS HAIL BOSTON
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - When the final out was recorded, the Cardinals filed into their clubhouse, shook hands and congratulated themselves on their season. Then they began praising the Red Sox....
NOW SOX CAN LOOK TO 2005
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The tough part is over, considering it took 86 years. Now Boston's front office decides who stays and who goes from a championship team. Red Sox GM...
DAMON HELPS DISPEL DEMONS - LEADOFF HR IGNITES SWEEP
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amWorld Series Notebook ST. LOUIS - Before the playoffs began, Johnny Damon famously quipped, "We are just the idiots this year." Not anymore. Make it world champions instead. With nervous...
MVP MANNY IS HAPPY HE STAYED PUT
October 28, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - For a few days last winter, Manny Ramirez had no control of where he'd play in 2004. In contrast to Nomar Garciaparra, Ramirez accepted that and moved...