May 3, 2005
THE MAN WHO WANTS TO BE THE NEXT FED CHAIRMAN
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S time for Ben Bernanke to step up and show us what he's got. Bernanke is the Harvard and M.I.T.-trained economist who is now just one of the seven lowly...
RAPPER'S RIFT - LINKIN PARK WANTS OUT OF WARNER CONTRACT
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amRap-rock band Linkin Park is demanding to be released from its record contract with Warner Music Group unless it gets a huge payday. The Grammy award winning band has asked...
SKYLINE KINGS DISPLAY DISNEY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE'S action at the top of Douglas Durst's ever-entertaining 4 Times Square, a/k/a the Conde Nast Tower. Durst built its rooftop features on spec, as he did the office portion....
PHIL-A-BUSTER - MORGAN BOARD KEEPS PURCELL; STOCK DROPS 6%
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amInvestor backlash erupted against Morgan Stanley's board vote to keep Phil Purcell as chief - sending its stock plummeting more than 6 percent to a new low yesterday. The steep...
SIHPOL JUST ERRAND BOY: LAWYER
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amAttorney General Eliot Spitzer's 40-count indictment of Ted Sihpol is riddled with "more holes than Swiss cheese." That's the word from Sihpol's lawyer, who told a jury yesterday evidence will...
IDENTITY THEFT COULD AFFECT 600,000 AT TIME WARNER
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amJust about everyone who's ever worked at Time Warner could become a victim of identity theft due to a colossal blunder somewhere between Manhattan and New Jersey. The Secret Service...
HEDGE FUND MANAGER FOILED BY FRAUD CHARGES
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe feds yesterday slapped a hedge fund manager with fraud charges for allegedly ripping off 70 customers to the tune of $10 million in a scam that included diverting investor...
SIPHOL WAS JUST AN ERRAND BOY: LAWYER
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amAttorney General Eliot Spitzer's 40-count indictment of Ted Sihpol is riddled with "more holes than Swiss cheese." That's the word from Sihpol's lawyer, who told a jury yesterday evidence will...
STRICTLY 'BEE' LIST
May 3, 2005 | 4:00am'THE 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" - the title tells you the whole story and sets the general tone - opened on Broadway last night following a generally acclaimed...
BABY DOOM - SHIELDS TELLS OF HELLISH POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amWE'VE seen her as an Ivory Snow baby, a child prostitute, a teen with nothing between her and her Calvins. But we've never seen Brooke Shields like this - swollen,...
'FAMILY' BACK WITH A BANG
May 3, 2005 | 4:00am'FAMILY Guy" came back with a roar Sunday - three years after it was canceled by Fox. The animated series about the comically dysfunctional Griffin family was greeted by nearly...
GOULET ON B'WAY: LANCELOT MEETS PRANCE A LOT
May 3, 2005 | 4:00am'I'M not gay," says Robert Goulet, eyes twinkling, "but I'm thinking about it!" Consider it a tribute to his co-stars. The thrice- married crooner stepped into Broadway's "La Cage aux...
STARR REPORT
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amAnn goes yard So imagine Christine and Tom Bowen's surprise. One minute, they're watching Ann Curry on "Today," skydiving as part of the show's "Live for Today" segment - and...
PARTY OF FIVE - LINDA RATES THE 'IDOL' FINALISTS
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amMake no mistake about it, "American Idol" is not about the singer or the song - it's about the soap. Almost all about the soap, in fact. Who's getting broken,...
PAT & PAULA SHOW - TWO TV STARS SQUIRMING UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amTHIS Wednesday is all about Pat and Paula. "The Insider" host Pat O'Brien and "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul typically make other people the center of attention, but are now...
LI COP 'MAKEOVER' SET - TWO-HOUR SHOW FOR WIDOWER DAD OF 3
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Long Island cop whose home was rebuilt by "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" earlier this spring will get a two-hour episode May 15. John Vitale, 32, a Suffolk County cop...
WEDDED MISS - NIX THE NUPS WITHOUT LANDING IN THE SLAMMER; NIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amSIX hundred invitations. Twenty-eight attendants. Eight bridal showers. By any standards, that's a monster wedding. And with all that pressure, it's no surprise that bride-to-be Jennifer Wilbanks ran away four...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN - GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amWYNN OR LOSE MISSING in all the hoo-hah over Steve Wynn's new Las Vegas resort (for those of you emerging from under a rock, it's called Wynn Las Vegas) is...
ESTATE PUTS PRICE FOR AMMON SLAY AT $100M
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amLawyers for the estate of Ted Ammon have asked a Long Island judge to order the millionaire's convicted killer, Danny Pelosi, to pay $100 million for bludgeoning him to death...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amTwo pranksters could go to jail - for building a giant penis out of snow. Brandon Arp, 20, and Aric Davenport, 19, were cited for promoting obscenity for allegedly making...
AMERICA'S 'ISSUE FATIGUE'
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amTHE liberal media and the Democrats have decided: The failure of the Bush administration to gain support for changes in Social Security is a sign that President Bush did not...
LANDLORDS BID FOR HIKE
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amLandlords yesterday said they need substantial rent hikes after it was reported that their net operating income for rent-stabilized apartments fell 4.5 percent in 2003 - a day before the...
GUARD BASHED INMATE - ADMITS JAIL ABUSE
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA veteran prison supervisor at the Manhattan Correctional Center pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting a defenseless inmate so severely that he broke the man's eye socket and left cheekbone. Lt....
HEALTH COMMISH MAY RUN AGAINST HILLARY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - State Health Commissioner Antonia Novello, the surgeon general under President George H.W. Bush, is considering a run against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, the state Conservative Party...
LMDC CHIEF LEFT TO SAVE HIS SOUL
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amIN THE 917 words it took the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to announce President Kevin Rampe's resignation yesterday, two words were conspicuously missing: Freedom Tower. The release cited Rampe's work...
CYBER-SETTLED SUITS SAVE APPLE $11 MIL
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amAn Internet-based system for settling claims against the city has saved taxpayers more than $11 million in its first year, according to Comptroller William Thompson. In February 2004, New York...
THOSE WACKY BUSHES - W. & WIFE TRADE QUIPS
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The comic zingers from First Lady Laura Bush kept coming yesterday as she needled her husband as the "history-buff-in-chief" - prompting the president to quip he's married to...
EDUCATION SEC DISSES 'NO CHILD' CHALLENGE
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amDismissing a legal challenge to the federal No Child Left Behind law as a "red herring," Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings championed the growth of charter schools in The Bronx...
N.Y. VOTERS 4TH-WORSE SLACKERS
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - New York voters had the fourth-worst record in the nation last Election Day, according to a study released yesterday. The study, from several government-reform groups, also found that...
CRIMEBUSTERS' TECH BOOST
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amFor the first time, the city's criminal-justice agencies will soon be able to send each other up-to-the-minute e-mail and text-message alerts. The new, $12 million system, dubbed DataShare, the largest...
PIRRO: MY HUBBY'S NO SNITCH FOR WISEGUYS
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a potential Republican candidate for statewide office next year, yesterday denied her husband leaked information on a sensitive investigation to a reputed...
HOLLOW EVICT-ORY - ISRAEL: SYRIA MAY BOOT THUGS - TO LEB
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Under U.S. pressure, Syria may oust terrorist headquarters from Damascus - by transferring them to Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday. Sharon told a U.S. delegation...
STATEN IS. KIN MOURN 'LOST' TEEN
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amAs his family and community tried to cope with the loss of a beloved Boy Scout, authorities suspended their search yesterday for the 14-year-old who plunged into the water on...
CHANEL-ING GLAMOUR - STARS DAZZLE AT MET GALA
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe fashion world's "party of the year" arrived in haute style last night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Expectations had been high for the Costume Institute's benefit ball in...
VOODOO KILLER CAN'T FACE KIN - HIDES IN CELL FOR SENTENCE
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens father of 11 who claimed that a voodoo spell made him stab his lover to death refused to face the music yesterday - stubbornly holing up in his...
TOWER POWER PLAY BY MIKE & PATAKI
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amChaos erupted yesterday over the future of Ground Zero. As political leaders traded bitter charges about who was to blame for delays in rebuilding the site and erecting the Freedom...
NYC KIDS BEAR 9/11 TRAUMA: STUDY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amMore than a quarter of New York City schoolchildren experienced anxiety disorders in the six months after the Sept. 11 terror attack on New York, a new study shows. A...
BREWERS ALE-ING - YOUNG TIPPLERS PREFER QUICKER LIQUOR TO BEER
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe nation's brewers are crying in their beer as the new drinking generation shuns suds for spirits. "Baby-boomlet babies [born in the 1980s] are starting to turn 21 and spirits...
SHOT TEEN: I STILL [LOVE] N.Y.
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe cherub-cheeked Georgia teen wounded by stray bullets outside a Brooklyn funeral home was released from the hospital yesterday - and is sweet on the borough again. "New York is...
SUBWAY CLERKS TO MEET & GREET
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amNew York City Transit yesterday unveiled a program to transform clerks at eight stations into "customer assistance agents" who'll offer straphangers face-to-face help. "It's designed to make the position of...
1G ON ICE-CREAM KID'S HIT-RUN KILLER
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe National Latino Officers Association and 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care are offering a $1,000 reward for the identity of the hit-and-run killer of a 7-year-old boy last...
VASEAN'S MOM HAILS DWI BILL
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Tears came to the eyes of the mother of an 11-year-old Queens boy killed last year by a drunken driver as she praised a deal yesterday between Gov....
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT HONCHO IS QUITTING
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amGov. Pataki's point man for rebuilding downtown, Kevin Rampe, said yesterday he is resigning as president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. He insisted the move has nothing to do...
HISTORIC B'KLYN HOUSING PLAN OKD
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amOfficials struck a deal yesterday on a rezoning plan for a 175-block stretch of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn that will create 3,500 units of affordable housing and acres...
BAD NEW$ BARED - PAPER MAY OWE WINNERS $444M
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe Daily News could owe its stiffed contest winners an "extraordinary" $444 million, a lawyer for the game admitted to a Bronx judge yesterday. Andrew Devor, who represents D.L. Blair,...
15 TO LIFE IN HOBO SLAY - TEEN JAILED IN BRICK BASH
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA teen who teamed up with a friend to bludgeon a homeless man to death in front of a church was sentenced yesterday to 15 years to life. Jamel Robinson...
JURY OUT ON 'STEROID' EX-BRAVEST
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury begins deliberating today in an unusual drug-dealing trial against a bodybuilding, nude-dancing, porn-acting ex-firefighter whose name turned up as the addressee on a $350,000 steroid shipment from...
KOZ: MINUTES AREN'T CHEAT $HEETS
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amDisgraced former Tyco tycoon Dennis Kozlowski climbed down from the hot seat in his $600 million Manhattan embezzlement trial yesterday, having kept his cool despite two tough days of cross-examination....
TWO KIDS ARRESTED IN 'BIAS' ATTACK
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amTwo more toughs were arrested in the alleged Brooklyn bias attack on six Catholic schoolgirls who claim to have been jumped by a marauding wolf pack chanting, "Black power," authorities...
'MAFIA' COPS IN JAIL WHINE
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amTwo former NYPD detectives accused of leading double lives as mob hit men say they're suffering in the cold isolation of solitary confinement and have asked a federal judge to...
HONEYMOON PARADISE LOST
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amGroom-to-be John Mason not only had to cancel his splashy nuptials Saturday - he was also forced to can an expensive luxury honeymoon on the idyllic Caribbean island of St....
BERKSHIRE MURDER - B'KLYN WOMAN FIRST SLAY VICTIM IN 30 YEARS
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn Heights woman who went for a short stroll Sunday in the Berkshires was found slain in what officials say is the first homicide in the idyllic region in...
HANNITY 'STALKER' ARRESTED
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Maryland woman who came to Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday to answer charges that she stalked Sean Hannity was arrested for allegedly continuing to terrorize the talk-show host. Miriam Burstein,...
'PG' PARENTS IN FOR REEL SHOCK
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amParents who rely on Hollywood's movie-rating system may find that "PG" actually means "poor guidance," a new study suggests. When it comes to violence, moms and dads who rely on...
ROBBERY ANOTHER BLOW FOR TRAGIC PASSOVER FIRE FAMILY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn Hasidic family that lost three young children in a blaze sparked by a stovetop burner have reported $13,500 in jewelry missing from their fire-ravaged Williamsburg apartment. A diamond...
FOODIES DISH OUT AWARDS TO APPLE
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amIf the James Beard Awards are the Oscars of the food world, then New York City is its Hollywood. The Big Apple's chefs and restaurants raked in most of the...
HE'S WELL-GROOMED - JILTED HUBBY SAYS HE WANTS RUNAWAY BRIDE
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe jilted groom of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks said yesterday he'll still marry his fast-footed fiancée - while authorities probe allegations the Georgia nurse pulled disappearing acts before and even...
KNIFED TEEN DIED OVER $40
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe 16-year-old Seward Park HS student fatally stabbed Friday in the Lower East Side died over a $40 debt, police sources said yesterday. Robert Adams, who lived in the area,...
JETS: W. SIDE - OR JERSEY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amJets President Jay Cross warned yesterday that the team would have to consider offers to stay in New Jersey - at a new stadium with the Giants - if Albany...
JACKO AIDES 'RANG' ALARM - PHONE-CALL FRENZY REVEALED AT TRIAL
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's panicked underlings furiously traded 60 phone calls on the day his sex accuser's family allegedly made a Neverland escape, a damning sign there was...
WALL COLLAPSE KILLS WOMAN
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA woman was killed and five other people injured yesterday when a wall collapsed onto a Brooklyn grocery store, causing the roof to cave in and sending piles of debris...
KIDS CHOOSE SPIRITS OVER BEER
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe nation's brewers are crying in their beer as a new drinking generation shuns suds for spirits. "Baby-boomlet babies [born in the 1980s] are starting to turn 21 and spirits...
HOUSING PLAN TO REDO BROOKLYN WATERFRONT
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amOfficials struck a deal yesterday on a rezoning plan for a 175-block stretch of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn that would create 3,500 units of affordable housing and acres...
JAIL GUARD CONFESSES TO BEATING
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA veteran prison supervisor at the Manhattan Correctional Center pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting a defenseless inmate so severely that he broke the man's eye socket and left cheekbone. Lt....
STUDY: 9/11 HIT CITY KIDS HARD
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amMore than a quarter of New York City schoolchildren experienced anxiety disorders in the six months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a study shows. A report released by Columbia...
BONUS BUCKS 'BAFFLE' KOZ
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amDisgraced former Tyco tycoon Dennis Kozlowski climbed down from the hot seat in his $600 million Manhattan embezzlement trial yesterday, having kept his cool despite two tough days of cross-examination....
FREDDY MOCKS LAUGHING-STOCKS
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amTrying to get his mayoral campaign back on track, Fernando Ferrer charged his Democratic rivals yesterday with living in fantasy land if they think the city won't have to pony...
W'CHESTER CO-ED SLAIN
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA popular and talented college student from White Plains, whose body was found in her burned apartment near the University of Delaware campus, was a homicide victim, authorities said yesterday....
GANG ATTACKS JOGGER PRIEST
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Catholic priest was savagely beaten yesterday by a gang of teens who attacked him as he jogged along a path in a Bronx park, police said. The Rev. Jorge...
BODEGA DISASTER - WOMAN KILLED AS WALL COLLAPSES IN B'KLYN
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA woman was crushed to death and six other people were injured last night when a wall collapsed onto a Brooklyn bodega, authorities said. The wall crashed through the bodega...
VOODOO KILLER CAN'T FACE FAMILY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens father of 11 who claimed that a voodoo spell made him stab his lover to death refused to face the music yesterday - stubbornly holing up in his...
2-OLD 'BIAS' CLAIM - UNION BIG SUES CITY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amNew York's king of double dippers has slapped the city with an age-discrimination suit - claiming he was unfairly forced to quit one of his two city jobs after being...
THINK EARTH DAY EVERY DAY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amWe love our planet - and we must take care of it. This year marked the 35th anniversary of Earth Day. Here's how it got started. The first Earth Day...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A man was busted for stabbing a female acquaintance on a Hamilton Heights street - after she refused to stop and talk to him, police sources said yesterday....
WHAT'S A BOSS TO DO?
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amIN ANOTHER era, George Steinbrenner would simply have found himself a patsy, a classic, old-time punching bag, and he would have beaten it silly until he felt better. He would...
UH-OH! UNIT SCRATCHED, MAY BE DL'D
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - It only gets worse for the Yankees. Now Randy Johnson's left groin is barking loud enough to force the struggling club's ace out of his...
BAN, FINE FOR TOP TRAINER
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Rick Dutrow Jr., the leading trainer in New York, has reached a settlement with the state Racing and Wagering Board to serve a 120-day suspension and pay a...
A 'NEW' SEASON - BELTRAN BLAST, PEDRO HEAT POWER METS
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amMets 5 - Phillies 1 Pedro Martinez walked around the Mets clubhouse yesterday afternoon, muttering about the coverage of the sputtering Yankees. He approached a Post reporter who had recently...
'Z FACTOR' BLANKETS ROSES
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Seldom in its 130-year history has the Kentucky Derby been so dominated by one man as this year when trainer Nick Zito will saddle five horses, all of...
BAFFERT POSES LITTLE THREAT
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - A media posse jostled for position yesterday at Churchill Downs outside the barn of a white-haired trainer with multiple Kentucky Derby victories under his belt. It wasn't D....
KNICKS FOCUS ON DRAFT PREP
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amIf Phil Jackson eventually becomes the Knicks coach, he'll have missed the club's first pre-draft workouts. Tomorrow, Isiah Thomas will turn from his coaching search to begin working out draft...
PLETCHER PLEASED WITH 'SILVER'
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Coin Silver, winner of the April 23 Lexington making his stakes debut, breezed five furlongs in 1:01 for trainer Todd Pletcher yesterday morning at Churchill Downs, in company...
NET LOSSES - FREE AGENT FUTURES CLOUDY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThere are as many Nets with uncertain futures as there are players with security. As the Nets head into their earliest offseason since 2001, seven players have unresolved contract status,...
ROCKY START IN TRIAL OF BERGTRAUM HOOP STAR
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amEpiphanny Prince's future used to depend almost solely on her success as a basketball player. Not long ago, the Murry Bergtraum High School star seemed in position to pick whichever...
PIAZZA WATCHES ... AGAIN
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES When it comes to Mike Piazza and Pedro Martinez, it's still nothing personal. Met manager Willie Randolph again denied that backup catcher Ramon Castro was Martinez' personal catcher...
BIG HURT - GROIN FORCES UNIT TO MISS START
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - It only gets worse for the Yankees. Now Randy Johnson's left groin is barking loud enough to force the struggling club's ace out of his start tomorrow...
CASHMAN: I'VE SEEN ENOUGH
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Brian Cashman is sick of watching the underachieving Yankees. And the normally soft-spoken GM vowed to do something about it. "After 25 games I don't want to...
FLOYD STILL BAT-TERING REST OF NL
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Cliff Floyd is among the league leaders in virtually every offensive category that matters. So which one is he proudest about? "I think one category, if I had...
REBUILDING BLOCKS - KIDD, CARTER, RJ NEED HELP IN JERSEY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amJason Kidd declined to play anything resembling "Let's Make A GM Deal" but asked for more consistency. Richard Jefferson, admit ting the hurt was the same 24 hours later as...
KRSTIC MADE HIMSELF CENTER OF ATTENTION
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amWhen a team that has grown accustomed to playing in the NBA Finals is swept out of the first round, there are precious few positives to be found. For the...
MEMPHIS GRISLY
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Grizzlies crudely completed their stressed-out season Sunday longing for their idyllic years in Vancouver. Who needs the pressure to win the first playoff game in franchise history or the...
BIG UNIT WILL MISS NEXT START
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - It only gets worse for the Yankees. Now Randy Johnson's left groin is barking loud enough to force the struggling club's ace out of his...
SAMPLE TO BE HONORED
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amBernard Hopkins will honor his good friend and former Jet Johnny Sample by wearing his name on the back of his robe on July 16 when Hopkins defends his undisputed...
YANK SHAKEUP - CANO RECALLED, BERNIE BENCHED
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Shortly after GM Brian Cashman said his actions will speak louder than words and threatened to do something about their pathetic start, Cashman proved to be a...
SHOWTIME AT SHEA - MARTINEZ MAKES AMAZIN'S 'MUST SEE'
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amYOU can count on one hand the number of baseball players it's worth waiting through a rain delay of longer than two hours to watch perform. It just so happens...
JOSE DOES IT ALL - EXCEPT GET WALK
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amJose Reyes is still looking for his first walk of the season. Despite the chants of "Walk! Walk! Walk!" in the bottom of the eighth inning and Reyes facing a...
PHILLIES ARE GRACIOUS YANKS LET LIEBER WALK
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amThink the Yankees miss Jon Lieber these days? Lieber went into last night's game against the Mets and Pedro Martinez carrying better numbers than anyone the Yankees replaced him with....
DESPITE THE INCONSISTENCY, CAIRO BELIEVES METS CAN WIN
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amMIGUEL Cairo, whose mail last season was addressed to, House That Ruth Built, Bronx, NY 10451, was one of millions who understood what was expected - nay; demanded - of...
PEDRO ON MOUND, PIAZZA ON BENCH - CASTRO GETS TO CATCH MARTINEZ AGAIN VS. THE PHILS
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amWhen it comes to Mike Piazza and Pedro Martinez, it's still nothing personal. Yesterday afternoon, Mets manager Willie Randolph again denied backup catcher Ramon Castro was Martinez's personal catcher -...
YANK SHAKEUP - BERNIE SITS; MATSUI TO CF; WOMACK TO LF
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Devil Rays 2 ST. PETERSBURG - Unwilling to wait for their high-priced stable of underachievers to bloom, the Yankees last night made several of the boldest moves...
INJURY KOS CONSOLIDATOR
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amDERBY NOTEBOOK LOUISVILLE - It's an unfortunate Derby tradition that at least one projected starter gets injured and drops out of the race during Derby week. Yesterday, that horse was...
KNIGHT SPEAKS OUT AGAINST THE NCAA
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amWe've seen the images of Bob Knight throwing a chair or slamming a telephone or admonishing a player so often that some have tuned him out, like the bizarre uncle...
NEXT STEP - WILLING TO DISCUSS THE NEW POLICY, FEHR WRITES SELIG
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amIn a response to Bud Selig's proposal of a stricter steroids policy, Donald Fehr sent a letter to the baseball commissioner yesterday saying he's willing to talk. Fehr, the head...
STEROID TESTING NABS MINNESOTA SETUP MAN
May 3, 2005 | 4:00amMinnesota Twins reliever Juan Rincon became the latest, and best-known, player caught by baseball's new steroids policy. Rincon, the fifth player on a major league 40-man roster to test positive...