October 29, 2004
ALLEGED NEWS PRACTICES SIMILAR TO THOSE PROBED BY FEDS AT NEWSDAY
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amFederal investigators are questioning Newsday home-delivery agents who are alleging that the newspaper is inflating circulation figures - allegations similar to those of home-delivery dealers and agents for the Daily...
THOMSON IS EXPANDING
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amThomson Financial, the largest tenant at Peter Kalikow's landmark 195 Broadway, just added 50 percent more space in one of downtown's biggest new leases this year. Thomson is taking 150,000...
WHITING$ GIVE AUTHORS LIFT
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amThree weeks before the National Book Awards, the lesser-known but higher-paying Whiting Awards were given out in New York yesterday. Unlike the National Book Awards - which include prizes of...
NEWS DEAL QUESTIONS; EXPLANATION RAISES MORE UNCERTAINTY ABOUT NUMBERS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe Daily News' explanation of questionable circulation practices detailed in a Post story this week raises new concerns about the accuracy of circulation numbers reported by the News to the...
METS, CABLEVISION HAVE COURT DATE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge yesterday told Cablevision and the Mets to return to her courtroom on Nov. 17 to argue about the cable company's attempt to temporarily freeze the Mets deal...
CIRC FALLS AT L.A. TIMES, TRIBUNE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTribune Co.'s two largest papers, the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, disclosed steep circulation declines the same day the company reported lackluster quarterly results. Tribune executives said internal audits...
CNNFN FINALLY PULLS PLUG, ENDING DIFFICULT 9-YR. RUN
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTime Warner's CNNfn waved the white flag yesterday, saying it was shutting down after nine years of unsuccessfully competing with CNBC for the top business cable station. Jim Walton, CNN...
TRIARC, BEAR TO BID FOR BARNEYS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTwo late entrants - Bear Stearns Merchant Banking and financier Nelson Peltz - have emerged as bidders for Barneys New York, The Post has learned. Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, the...
ANIMATED MAGIC ; DREAMWORKS HEADS $HOWEREDIN STOCK WINDFALL
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amDreamWorks Animation woke up Wall Street with a stock debut that soared a dazzling 38 percent. The first stock offering from a Hollywood studio in seven years deeply enriched its...
MARTHA-LESS MSO RACKS UP BIG LOSS, SALES DROP
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amMartha Stewart Living Omnimedia yesterday reported a wider third-quarter loss, but said the closure brought by Martha Stewart's decision to begin serving her jail time would provide the foundation for...
OVITZ IS TARRED BY SEX-HARASS RUMOR
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amMichael Ovitz defended himself from attacks that he nearly wrecked Walt Disney Co.'s relations with China and planted a sex-harassment rumor involving TV executive Jamie Tarses. Disney's former president faced...
APPEARANCE NETS $1M BILL; MAG EXECS COULD DONATE THAT MUCH TO EX-PREZ'S LIBRARY
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amPRESIDENT Clinton could receive up to $1 million worth of pro bono ads for his presidential library as compensation for his Tuesday appearance before magazine executives and editors at the...
DIMINISHED EMINEMINENCE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amWITH the showman ship of a modern P.T. Barnum, hip- hop's favorite Caucasian, Eminem, rede fined self- promotion last night at the Roseland Ballroom. Eminem pulled a hat-trick of hype....
DANCE PICK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amPASSING BY?:Having heard of near- death experiences, the curious will be able to sample a "Near Life Experience" at the Brooklyn Academy on Wednesday, when French chore ographer Angelin Preljocaj...
ROCK PICK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amGOOD MUISC, GOOD CAUSE: One night might not be long enough to pack in as much music as Smithereens founder Pat DiNizio has planned for his benefit to aid the...
THE FAMILY PLOTZ
October 29, 2004 | 4:00am"The Madam's Family" Sunday night at 9 on CBS ½ (two and a half stars) IF you've about had it with answering the door to trick or treaters by 9...
STARR REPORT
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amCh. 4 political reporters Melissa Russo, Jay DeDap per and Gabe Pressman will try to make sense of the is sues surrounding Tuesday's presidential election in a spe cial airing...
FILM PICK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amPERFECT FOR HALLOWEEN:Myriam Cyr, a sweet-faced 20-year-old, complained, or so the story goes, when Ken Russell insisted that she strip and roll around in the mud while live rats scampered...
KIDS' PICK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00am"KIDS' NIGHT ON BROAD WAY":Kids ages 6 to 18 will have four chances to a Broadway shows for free this winter, when Macy's presents "Kids' Night on Broadway 2005." Tickets...
YOU'LL BE SORRY IF YOU GO TO SEE 'SAW'
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amSAW (one star) A dull blade.Running time: 100 minutes. Rated R (strong grisly violence and language). At the Empire, the Loews Village, the Kips Bay, others. 'SAW' is a bloody...
'BIRTH' IS A HARD LABOR
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amBIRTH (two stars) Unsavory puzzler.Running time: 100 minutes. Rated R (sexuality). At Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others. NICOLE Kidman gives an other stunning performance in "Birth," but...
OSCAR ON MY MIND - JAMIE FOXX HITS ALL THE RIGHT NOTES IN 'RAY'
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amRAY ½ (three and a half stars) One of the year's best. Running time: 155 minutes. Rated PG-13 (depiction of drug addiction, sexuality, thematic elements). At the E-Walk, the Chelsea...
'LOVE' WILL MAKE YOU THINK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amENDURING LOVE (three stars) Very disturbing.Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, sexuality). At the Lincoln Square and the Union Square. HOW a relationship unravels in the wake of...
COLD-HEARTED
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE ½ (two and a half stars) Gutsy eccentricity.Running time: 104 minutes. Rated R (a scene of strong violence, some language and sexuality). At the Quad, 13th...
'MAGNIFICO' WORTH A GOOD CRY
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amMAGNIFICO (three start) BET you can't watch "Magnifico" without sobbing like a baby during its tragic finale. When we saw the Filipino film at a festival in the Czech Republic,...
KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE, LIZ GETS HOOK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTHE grossly underestimated college kid, Andy Litinsky, took top honors on last night's edition of "The Apprentice" - and flip-flopping Elizabeth Jarosz got the axe. Despite calculating, snobbish and downright...
RACE FOR 9/11; NOT ONE, BUT TWO MINISERIES COMING
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTWO networks are pre paring major, multi million dollar miniseries on the events of 9/11. Both projects will be based on the findings of the "9/11 Commission Report" released earlier...
COUNTRY KEITH TOO URBAN
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amKEITH URBAN WHEN Keith Urban gets hold of a deep country groove, there are few in Nashville who even approach his ingrained honesty and ability to make you feel the...
THE SEASON OF THE WARLOCKS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amDRESS like a witch, but skip the parade and check out the black magic of the Warlocks, the guitar-heavy psychedelic L.A. band. Their latest disc, "Phoenix," is fuzzy and droney,...
JURY HAS APPEAL
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTWELVE ANGRY MEN ½ (two and a half stars)At the American Airlines Theatre, 219 W. 42nd St.; (212) 239-6200. WHEN the chips are down and the verdict's in, you can...
BEST SERIES SINCE 1995
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON'S four-game sweep of St. Louis - in which the Red Sox "Reversed the Curse" after 86 years - was the most-watched World Series in nine years. The series, which...
INDIE MUSIC PICK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amRALLYING SUPPORTERS:El Vez is on the campaign trail for his "El Vez for Prez" tour, which swings into town next week. The campy candidate has some good support - Hanson...
P. DIDDY MAY BE A 'GEM'
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTHE fight to save August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" was still underway yesterday as Jujamcyn Theaters and the Araca Group, which is managing the show, sought new investors. The...
CONDUCTOR ARRESTED AT MET
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA distinguished Israeli opera conductor was arrested at The Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center last night for failing to pay child support, police sources said. Daniel Oren had just finished...
FOTO-OP FLUNKIES PROP UP LIVING 'CORPSE' ARAFAT
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amYasser Arafat, possibly suffering from leukemia or another life-threatening blood cancer, began his trip to Paris for emergency treatment this morning - but only after his aides set up a...
FIFTH AVE. MAN LEAPS TO DEATH
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amAn elderly man apparently leapt to his death from the roof of his West Village apartment building last night, police sources said. The man, whose name was withheld, jumped 15...
BABY BOON: EMS SAVES THE DAY AGAIN
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amCity EMS workers helped a young mom twice - they raced to a subway to deliver her newborn, then donated baby furniture for her struggling new family. Ester Martinez, 19,...
CHUCK RIVAL'S POLL-VERIZED
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Sen. Charles Schumer holds an overwhelming 72-to-16 percent lead over little-known Republican challenger Howard Mills, a new poll yesterday showed. The Marist College survey found the Democratic incumbent...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA caregiver flipped out when he found the disabled woman he was looking after dead in her apartment - so he stuffed her in the freezer, and didn't tell cops...
FLIPPING OVER PANCAKES ; CHEERS FOR HARLEM'S FIRST IHOP
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amSix years ago, when a group of eight Harlem doctors came up with the idea of opening an International House of Pancakes franchise on 135th Street, the chain politely told...
$70M HOME RON; PERELMAN SELLS FLA. 'CASA' FOR RECORD SUM
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amCosmetics mogul Ron Perelman is putting on a happy face after selling his oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach for $70 million - the highest price ever paid for a home...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** Cops are asking for help in finding this man (above), who shot and killed a 27-year-old man on a Chelsea street earlier this week. Roberto "Macho" Velazquez allegedly...
ENEMY YOU KNOW VS. ONE YOU DON'T
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amAFTER every big terrorist attack in Israel, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was urged to "eliminate" Yasser Arafat, he replied, "The only difference between Arafat and his possible successors is...
WHEEL OF JUSTICE FAVORS CYCLISTS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amCyclists won the initial battle against the NYPD over organized bike rides on city streets, in a federal court ruling handed down yesterday. Manhattan District Judge William Pauley shot down...
25 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FACING CLOSING BELL
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn Diocese could shutter as many as 25 schools next year, since dwindling enrollment at Catholic elementary schools in Brooklyn and Queens has become "a problem of monumental proportions,"...
'EXPLOSIVE' CHARGES AS W. HITS BACK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush called John Kerry "the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time" yesterday as he and Republican backers launched a blistering counteroffensive in the battle over...
NOW PITCHING FOR DUBYA - SCHILLING
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amDAYTON, Ohio - Yankee-slaying stud Curt Schilling yesterday took the mound for President Bush and hurled a brush-back pitch at Red Sox fan John Kerry. "Tell everybody to vote," Schilling...
CROSS-DRESSING 'SLAYER' IN JAILHOUSE WHINE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe cross-dressing Orthodox Jew charged with killing his elderly roommate in Brooklyn gave a judge a wish list yesterday for his prison stay: psychotropic drugs, protective custody, pastoral care and...
MUSIC-SCHOOL BOSS ADMITS PULLING PURSE STRINGS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx woman yesterday pleaded guilty to ripping off $43,000 from the famed East Harlem music school that inspired the Meryl Streep movie "Music from the Heart." Katharine Ogonek, 44,...
STATE EASING TEACH STANDARDS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The state is quickly backing off tougher standards for certifying new teachers after complaints they could lead to instructor shortages. Under a proposed regulation revealed yesterday, the state...
'DWI KILLER' MAY FACE SLAY RAP
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe families of two 12-year-old boys run down last Friday in Queens left a meeting with the district attorney yesterday hopeful the driver - already hit with a DWI rap...
DANNY SHOCKER - ADMITS HE DISABLED AMMON CAMS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amDanny Pelosi confessed that on the weekend millionaire Ted Ammon was murdered, he went into Ammon's East Hampton mansion and removed the hard drive to the hidden surveillance system that...
U.S. TAKES SHOT AT 5M VACCINES
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amSome 5 million additional doses of flu vaccine may soon be available to help ease the nationwide shortage. The doses have been located in Germany and Canada, and U.S. regulators...
HORROR OF 'BUM HUNT' ; N.J. TEENS IN BEAT BUST
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amFive bored and brutal New Jersey high-school students who made a sport of "bum hunting" were arrested after allegedly beating at least three homeless people with golf clubs, baseball bats,...
WEEKEND AT YASSER'S - FOTO-OP FLUNKIES PROP UPLIVING 'CORPSE' ARAFAT
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amYasser Arafat, possibly suffering from leukemia or another life-threatening blood cancer, will be flown to Paris for emergency treatment today - but only after his aides set up a bizarre...
'BUELLER' PERV IN KINK-COSTUME SUIT
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amJeffrey Jones - the sicko "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" actor who confessed to paying a 14-year-old boy to pose for perverted sex photos - made his victim dress up in...
PROBE INTO PRIVATE TUTORS HEATING UP
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amSchools Investigator Richard Condon has launched a probe into the private tutoring industry serving city kids, his spokeswoman said yesterday. Tutoring companies are battling for a share of the nearly...
COPS NET ISLANDERS 'EMBEZZLER'
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA former New York Islanders accountant is skating on thin ice after being arrested yesterday for allegedly funneling nearly $174,000 in team money into her personal account, police said. Heather...
CHEERS FOR HARLEM'S FIRST IHOP
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amIHOP (two stars) 2294 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. at West 135th St. (212) 234-4747 Cheap Eats doesn't recall ever once seeing chicken and waffles on the menu at IHOP....
JOHN KERRY, FOOT IN MOUTH
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amHERE'S a question for which only Tuesday will provide an answer: Did John Kerry make a colossal blunder by deciding to spend the last week of the campaign highlighting the...
TOT'S MOM-SLAY ORDEAL; IN CAR 24 HRS. WITH BODY
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA 29-year-old Queens woman was found dead in her SUV yesterday, her head covered with a coat - and her terrified 2-year-old daughter in the back seat, law-enforcement sources said...
HEAT ON SLAY-PLOT DUO
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amProsecutors are challenging a federal appeals-court decision that freed two men convicted of plotting a double mob murder, according to court papers obtained by The Post. The court in September...
GEEZER GUILTY IN BIZ HIT PLOT
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amAn elderly businessman was convicted yesterday of attempted extortion after prosecutors charged he tried to hire a hit man to whack a partner who owed him $1.6 million. A jury...
DAD-SLAY SON, 19, KILLS SELF; EYED IN BX. MURDER
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx teen who was the prime suspect in his auto-mechanic dad's grisly murder hanged himself yesterday - apparently tormented by guilt in the crime, cops and family members said....
OLIVER'S TWIST; FREED MAN SUES IN CYBERSEX CASE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA man who was cleared on charges he was a cybersex fiend - after spending 20 months in prison - has slapped a famed sex-crimes prosecutor and police with a...
WEATHER EVENTS 'PRODUCE' FOOD CATA$TROPHE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amIf you're hungry for a BLT, get ready to shell out extra lettuce for the tomatoes. That's due to a shortage of a wide variety of vegetables because of the...
CASH & KERRY BUSH-HATERS; FAT CATS PUMP $74M INTO BEAT-PREZ PUSH
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amBush-hating billionaire George Soros and four other super fat cats have poured nearly $74 million into an all-out push to defeat President Bush - about as much tax-payer money as...
GOTTI RAT COPS MURDER PLEA
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amReputed Gambino mobster Frank "Frankie Fapp" Fappiano - expected to testify against Peter Gotti in an upcoming racketeering trial - has pleaded guilty to plotting four murders. Fappiano also confessed...
RIP OFF THE HOOK; TORN TOASTS JURY AFTER DWI ACQUITTAL
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amRip Torn was acquitted of drunken-driving charges yesterday by Manhattan jurors who believed he could have been merely tired and angry when he flamboyantly cursed at his arresting officers in...
TONE DEAF ; KERRY'S BUNGLING ON BLACKS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amLIKE any recent Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry's hopes hinge on an overwhelming share of the black vote - about 90 percent. But Kerry's hinge may be rusty. The eye-opening...
'HE'S A PSYCHO' ; CHILLING WORDS OF DOOMED RICH GAL
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amIn the final hours of her life, a successful Manhattan businesswoman confided that her ex-boyfriend was a "psycho" and she just wanted him out of her life. At 10:30 a.m....
ED. BIGS BACK OFF 'HALLOW' THREAT
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amEducation officials who wanted to put the kibosh on Halloween costume parades, parties and candy handouts in schools have apparently been scared off. In a memo circulated Wednesday, the Department...
9/11 SHOOK UP 'TERROR' LAWYER LYNNE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amRadical lawyer Lynne Stewart said yesterday she has second thoughts about representing terrorists in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Stewart was the lawyer for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind...
APOCALYPSE NOW; TAPE VOWS ATTACK WORSE THAN 9/11
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A masked terrorist declaring that he's an American member of al Qaeda warned that a deadly new attack inside the United States could come "at any moment," according...
NOW, $HUT UP! O'REILLY SETTLESAS ACCUSER GETS CASH FOR SILENCE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTV talk show host Bill O'Reilly and accuser Andrea Mackris buried the hatchet last night, settling their spectacular dueling extortion and sexual-harassment lawsuits. Financial terms weren't disclosed, but it's believed...
DANNY SHOCKER ; ADMITS HE DISABLED AMMON CAMS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amDanny Pelosi confessed that on the weekend Ted Ammon was murdered, he went into the millionaire's East Hampton mansion and removed the hard drive to the hidden surveillance system that...
BUST IN 'BUMP' SLAYING
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA 22-year-old man was arrested yesterday for fatally shooting another man in front of a Queens deli in a fight law-enforcement sources say was started by the victim. Marco Cribillero...
DADDY KILLED ME: 911 BOY
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amThe 911 call came in a minute after 4 a.m. "My daddy killed me with a knife and I'm gone," the 8-year-old boy calmly told a dispatcher in Tacoma, Wash....
NOW, $HUT UP! O'REILLY ACCUSER GETS CASH FOR SILENCE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTV talk-show host Bill O'Reilly and accuser Andrea Mackris buried the hatchet last night, settling their dueling extortion and sexual-harassment lawsuits. Financial terms weren't disclosed, but it's believed O'Reilly -...
BATTLEGROUND POLLS HINT AT EDGE FOR W.
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amTwo new polls yesterday claimed President Bush has 2-point leads in Pennsylvania and Michigan - must-win states for Democratic rival John Kerry. In other key states, polls suggest Bush is...
FEDS BID TO RE-JAIL MOB SLAY-PLOT DUO
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amProsecutors are challenging a federal appeals-court decision that freed two men convicted of plotting a double mob murder, according to court papers obtained by The Post. The court in September...
SOX & VIOLENCE - 39 FANS ARRESTED IN BEANTOWN BROUHAHAS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - They need some practice in how to win with class. Boston police yesterday said 39 people were arrested as the streets of Beantown erupted in mayhem following the...
MAN SAVAGELY BEATS EX-LOVE: COPS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man with a history of domestic abuse has been busted for brutally beating and choking his ex-girlfriend and holding her captive in her apartment, authorities said yesterday. Demarcus...
HIKES ARE MTA'S OWN FAULT: HEVESI
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amStraphangers could have been spared a fare hike next year if the MTA had not embarked on a reckless course of "excessive borrowing," state Comptroller Alan Hevesi charged yesterday. The...
WALLY TO METS: NOT INTERESTED
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amThere won't be any return home for Wally Backman after all. The former Mets second baseman and current Arizona minor league manager informed the Mets yesterday he was withdrawing his...
LATE GAMES ALARMING
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amPLEASE indulge this self-indulgence, but I hadn't missed the last out of a World Series game since 1960, when Bill Mazeroski broke my Yankee-loving, eight-year-old heart. Wednesday night, in the...
OUTDOOR OPTIONS ABOUND
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S the time of year when you have to decide whether to pick up a fishing rod, hunting rifle, shotgun or bow. Stiff northeast winds made fishing difficult or near...
INJURY BUG CENTERS ON O-LINE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants' offensive line, which struggled to protect Kurt Warner in last week's loss to the Lions, could be in trouble again Sunday against Minnesota, since center Shaun...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amOKLAHOMA at OKLAHOMA ST. Noon Ch. 7 Line: Oklahoma -121/2. Angle: Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops did his players a disservice last week when he started whining about the BCS rankings....
OTB TAKING CUP BETS TODAY
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amWith Tom Durkin at Lone Star for the Breeders' Cup, Steve Levar, the track announcer from Singapore, filled in for him. Levar will be calling the races through Sunday. During...
RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - It may be hard for Yankees fans to appreciate this right now, of course, because they are too busy bemoaning the dissolution of Boston's 86-year championship drought....
TENTATIVE TOOMER ; STRAIN MAY FORCE AMANI OUT VS. VIKES
October 29, 2004 | 4:00am"He's got real good strength, he's just sore."TOM COUGHLIN on Amani Toomer Amani Toomer sat on the sidelines a second straight day with a strained hamstring, in jeopardy of missing...
SOX JUST WARMING UP
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amNOW that the Red Sox are World Series champions for the first time since 1918, the casual thinking is they won't be able to remain on top of the baseball...
FRANKEL MAKES BIG NOISE WITH CLASSIC 'ZAPS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amGRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. - The aw-shucks, howdy-pardner backstretch at Lone Star Park got juiced with some down-and-dirty New York trash talk yesterday when Hall-of-Fame trainer Bobby Frankel arrived for tomorrow's...
HOUSE OF HORRORS ; METRODOME, VIKES TOO SCARY FOR GIANTS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amYOU have to figure that after losing at home to the Giants the past two seasons, including the game that started the Vikings' journey from 6-0 to out of the...
SHAKEN MIG WILL STILL RIDE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amBREEDERS' NOTES GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Jockey Rich Migliore, who rides Artie Schiller in tomorrow's Breeders' Cup Mile and Bwana Charlie in the Sprint, had a scare yesterday at Aqueduct...
HERM: PRO BOWL AWAITS DEWAYNE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES Herman Edwards had some bold words yesterday about second-year defensive tackle Dewayne Robertson. "If he just keeps playing the way he's played, he's going to be in Hawaii,"...
TONGUE BITTEN BY BAD BREAKS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amReggie Tongue's locker stall is located in the furthest corner of the Jets' locker room, yet he's been unable to hide from a series of negative experiences since he joined...
BLUEPRINT TO BREAK BC BANK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amGRAND PRAIRIE, Tex - Down here in the wide-open prairies, among the cowboys and oil drillers, they'll run the 21st Breeders' Cup tomorrow at Lone Star Park, a modern, handsome...
A STOREY-BOOK FINISH
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Just before Nets training camp began, guard Tierre Brown left for the Lakers and the promise of guaranteed money. So what? Well, it turned out to be the...
RU WOMEN FACE TOUGH HAUL AGAIN
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amAt yesterday's Big East's women's media day, Rutgers' C. Vivian Stringer sat tucked away in the back corner of the room, surrounded by microphones and recorders. The image was fitting,...
ISIAH WON'T FLIP ON LENNY
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amONLY in the NBA are head coaches reported to be in job jeopardy before getting a chance to screw up a solitary substitution or a huddle that counts. Only in...
THE BOSS SALUTES CHAMPS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner tipped his hat to the champion Red Sox yesterday at the same time vowing to make his shell-shocked club better next year when the Yankees will be chasing...
YANKS AWAIT DECISIONS ON MEL, WILLIE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amWhile George Steinbrenner's Inner Circle ended three days of meetings yesterday in Tampa to discuss how to pick up the shattered pieces of the brutal meltdown against the Red Sox,...
MOLDING JETS INTO WINNERS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amNO moral victories for one of the most moral guys in sports. No hidden agendas either from Herm Edwards, who says what he means, thinks everybody should, and therefore wanted...
KIDD LOOKS TO ARISE FOR NEW MOURNING
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amAlonzo Mourning and Jason Kidd were to be the tandem that would drive the Nets to an NBA title. But fate and circumstance had other designs. So last night, when...
LOOK FOR SIGNS; FREE AGENCY SOX' KEY
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Do it again! After waiting 86 years for a World Series title the World Champion Red Sox face (still sounds funny, no?) the daunting task of going...
GOOD PHIL-OSOPHY
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES While emphasizing the Knicks have no coaching vacancies, president Isiah Thomas called the unemployed Phil Jackson "an attractive candidate." On Tuesday, Jackson told The Post during a book...
TRANSFER CHAOS HITS GRIDIRON
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amPSAL FOOTBALL The transfer chaos that has descended upon the PSAL this year has not been contained to the basketball court. The Office of Special Investigation is set to look...
ISIAH'S CODE TAILOR MADE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amIsiah Thomas has installed stricter dress codes for players, practice uniforms for coaches and has even changed the way the players stand during the national anthem. "Two things taught to...
KIDD MUM ON FUTURE
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Alonzo Mourning and Jason Kidd were to be the duo to drive the Nets to an NBA title. But fate and circumstance had other designs. But last night,...
ZO BACK WITH BANG
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amOnly 5,556 were on hand, but there was a distinctive murmur when Alonzo Mourning took his seat on the Nets bench, dressed not in street clothes, but a uniform. And...
THE FAN'S CORNER
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amMike Kennedy's tastes in sports spans from the West Coast to Philly, up the Jersey Turnpike and on to New England - anywhere but his home state of New York....
HEALTH IS PRIORITY FOR KIDD
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Alonzo Mourning and Jason Kidd were to be the duo to drive the Nets to an NBA title. But fate and circumstance had other designs. But last night,...
CHARLES IN CHARGE? TNT'S BARKLEY EYES GM GIG
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amCharles Barkley might not be long for TNT's NBA studio. "I'm going to be a GM sooner or later," Barkley told NYP TV Sports this week. "There is no rush...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amPhil Simms vs. Cris Collinsworth (Who is more forthcoming?) While CBS' Phil Simms explains a lot, he doesn't tell viewers everything. When watching Simms, there is a sense he could...
5 QUESTIONS FOR MARV ALBERT
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with TNT's Marv Albert. After nearly four decades, Albert will not be the voice of the Knicks this year. For TNT this...
... AN IT COUNTS! KNICKS OPEN REGULAR SEASON WITH FIRST-PLACE DREAMS
October 29, 2004 | 4:00amWednesday Knicks at T'wolves 8 p.m., MSG A new style plus a new-look division could bring the good old days back to the Knicks, according to TNT's Charles Barkley. The...