May 6, 2005
THE POWERS THAT BE - 'RINGS' JACKSON RANKS NO. 1 ON H'WOOD LIST
May 6, 2005 | 4:00am"Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson unseated Steve Jobs as the most powerful person in Hollywood on Premiere magazine's annual power list. Jackson, who presides over the $3 billion...
SPRUNG MARTHA HAS GOOD SPRING
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThe shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia climbed 16 percent yesterday, after its chief executive said advertising in the flagship magazine was picking up and that a deal is near...
RETAIL SLUMPS IN APRIL
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amUnseasonably cool weather and an early Easter depressed April sales at the nation's retailers and contributed to the lowest comparable store gain in three years. Still, the results were slightly...
TUNE IN ALL FORD, ALL THE TIME
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amAnyone who turns on the TV this month should expect to see more Ford cars - a lot more - and not just during the commercial breaks. Watch and you...
2 AUTO GIANTS END UP JUNKED
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amAmerica's last two automakers - General Motors and Ford - are suffering the ultimate insult of becoming junk-heap investments. The sputtering car giants were hit yesterday with serious downgrades in...
SLIM FATTENS STAKE IN SAKS TO 2ND-LARGEST
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amMexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu has increased his stake in Saks Inc., the department store chain that owns Saks Fifth Avenue. His 13 percent stake makes him the second-largest shareholder....
WHEN LIFE IMITATES ADS - EDITORIAL READS LIKE A SWEET ENDORSEMENT OF A VENDOR
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amTHE vaunted wall that separates editorial content from the advertisements appears to have been a little porous in the current issue of Life. The venerable title that Time Inc. has...
STUFF DUMPS TOP EDITOR; HIRES RIVAL
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amAnother sign that there is trouble in the once red hot lad magazine field: Stuff Editor-in-Chief Michael Hammer was booted on Wednesday evening. He was replaced by 30-year-old Jimmy Jellinek,...
TRUMP SAYS HANK 'IS GOING DOWN'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amDonald Trump is turning up the heat in his long-simmering feud with fellow billionaire Hank Greenberg, the embattled insurance titan. Trump, who has weathered his own financial storms of late,...
WASSERSTEIN'S BIG LAZARD IPO FALLS FLAT IN DEBUT
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amBruce Wasserstein may have missed the banking bandwagon after his newly minted Lazard Ltd. shares bombed in their first day of trading. Wasserstein waged a long and bitter insider war...
SHORTCHANGED ON LAUGHS, BY 'JIMINY'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amGOOD news, fans of Martin Short's porky celebrity interviewer, Jiminy Glick: There's a big-screen version of the short-lived Comedy Central series, and both of you will enjoy it. Most others...
OH BROTHERS, GOOD & BAD
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amMICHAEL and Jannik, the centerpieces of the Danish drama "Brothers," are unlikely siblings. Michael (Ulrich Thomsen) is the steady sort, with a beautiful wife (Connie Nielsen) and two lively young...
DRIPPY SHTICK
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN cheering crowds lined the path to the Place de la Concorde to witness the execution of Marie Antoinette, they were probably no more excited than the millions who will...
L.A. RACE COLLISION
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amWITH a starry ensemble headed by Don Cheadle and Sandra Bullock, "Crash" presents a scary and bleakly funny view of a racially tense Los Angeles where another Rodney King incident...
WAKE ME IN DECEMBER(ISTS)
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Decemberists' namesake month may be the most wonderful time of the year, but at Irving Plaza Wednesday they made 90 minutes feel like a full 31 days. Led by...
OLDIES MAN ROCKIN'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00am'JUST because it's old, doesn't mean it's an oldie," says Allen Hill, the maniacal leader of the Allen Oldies Band. Which means you won't hear Billy Joel or Eric Clapton...
WILD 'KINGDOM' - BATTLE SCENES BLOOM IN THIS LARGE-AS-LIFE CRUSADE EPIC; STORMING GATES OF 'HEAVEN'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amDIRECTOR Ridley Scott returns to the big-scale historical epic for the first time since "Gladiator" with "Kingdom of Heaven," a rousing, politically correct, Muslim-sympathetic, $140 million take on the Crusades....
HIP, HIP GOULET
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Japanese theater has the felicitous custom of nominating people as "Living National Treasures." He isn't Japanese, but Robert Goulet should certainly be named a Living National Treasure of our...
THE TONY TIGERS - 'SPAMALOT' COULD 'BEE' CHALLENGED
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Tony Award nominators meet Monday at 4:30 at the Edison Café to hash out this year's nominees. Yesterday, I conducted an informal survey of some of the nominators to...
STARR REPORT
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amIssues, no answers Dave Chappelle is undergoing treatment "for unspecified personal issues," Variety reported yesterday. Comedy Central announced Wednesday that the third season of "Chappelle's Show," scheduled to premiere May...
NBC WANTS TO TAKE '24'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amTHE suspense series "24" is embroiled in a nail-biter of its own over its renewal for next season. With less than two weeks to go until Fox unveils its new...
FOOLS FOR LOVE - PAULA JOINS 'DUMB-CHOICE CLUB'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amJUST when you were convinced that no woman on earth could have worse judgment in younger men than Mary Kay Letourneau, along comes Paula Abdul. We all know this about...
ALL-FEMALE FINALE FOR 'APPRENTICE'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amTWO women have made the finals of "The Apprentice" for the first time. Kendra Todd, 28, of Boynton Beach, Fla., and Tana Goertz, 37, of West Des Moines, Iowa, emerged...
COREY WON'T COOPERATE WITH 'AI'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amBOOTED "American Idol" kid Corey Clark won't help Fox with an investigation into allegations that he was coached by "Idol" judge Paula Abdul. "I don't have any intention of helping...
MARY'S HOT PICK
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThe Tito Puente Orchestra, in a rare reunion, will join the Latin Jazz All-Stars to celebrate the late Tito Puente (pictured) - the Harlem-born, Puerto Rican jazz great - tonight...
DANCE PICK
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThe particular novelty of New York City Ballet's current season is resident choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's brand-new version of George Gershwin's symphonic "An American in Paris." Although not specifically written for...
NO PLACE LIKE THIS HOME
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amGREGG Araki, a bad-boy founder of New Queer Cinema back in the '90s, makes a terrific return to form with "Mysterious Skin," his most mature, hauntingly poetic and disturbing film...
FILM PICK
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amMervyn LeRoy's early talkie "Little Caesar" (1930) features Edward G. Robinson (above) as ruthless mobster Rico Bandello and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as his sidekick. It's the one in which Robinson,...
MARTHA CLEAN$ HOUSE - CLEARS $6M ON ESTATE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amChalk up another winning transaction for the Stewart clan. The closely monitored media maven and her daughter, Alexis, have apparently turned a profit of about $6 million selling a long-neglected...
JERK JENNINGS ORDERED TO ANGER CLASS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amCity Council leaders have sent Allan Jennings a letter ordering the disgraced lawmaker to enroll in anger-management class by next week, pay a $5,000 fine "promptly," and make his office...
2006 POLL THRILLS HILL - BUT CHILLS PREZ BID
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - A strong majority of New Yorkers want Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to commit to serving a full six-year term if she wins re-election next year, according to a...
HOW NOT TO MOVE TROOPS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amWHAT happens when an "independent" commission advising the federal government takes its independent status seriously? What happens if the commissioners tell the cold-blooded truth, no matter how many special interests...
ABORTION STAND HALTS CLINTON'S SHIFT TO MIDDLE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is putting the brakes on her move to the political middle by opposing legislation that would bar helping underage girls cross state lines for...
THE 'RISE' GUYS - W'CHESTER DOCS CHARGED WITH GIVING MOB VIAGRA
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThree Westchester doctors were busted yesterday for providing Gambino mobsters largequantities of Viagra and other sex pills in exchange for favors - like coveted seating at the legendary eatery Rao's,...
DEAD MAN WALKIN' - GOV. PATAKI WON'T SURVIVE HIS GROUND ZERO BUNGLING
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amRIGHT now some folks circling in orbit around George Pataki are thinking deep thoughts about the New York governor's future. Should he run for a fourth term, even though his...
'PUSSY' WHACKS DEAL - REFUSES NO-JAIL PLEA IN 'BEATING'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amYou won't see "Big Pussy" pushing no rake around no city park no time soon, capiche? In Manhattan court yesterday on his girlfriend-beating rap, former "Sopranos" star Vincent Pastore turned...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA year after federal agents raided his home in a terrorism investigation, Muslim businessman Syed Maswood is lucky to get on an airplane without being detained. But that didn't keep...
COP'S 'HITS' & GLITZ - H'WOOD MOB-DRUG PLOT
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amAccused rogue cop Louis Eppolito believed he was catering to top movie stars when he put a federal informant in touch with his son to score designer drugs, law-enforcement sources...
WRITING ON WALL FOR KILLER - KEY CLUE AT SCENE OF CO-ED STRANGLE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThe coldblooded killer of a promising University of Delaware co-ed from New York may have left a clue for cops at the torched murder scene - writing scrawled on the...
ARIEL RIPS WORLD'S HOLOCAUST SILENCE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amAUSCHWITZ, Poland - Some 20,000 people, led by concentration-camp survivors and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, marched at Auschwitz yesterday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sixty years after the end...
MAKE CBGB A LANDMARK: ROCK FANS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amEndangered Bowery nightspot CBGB - already a shrine to rock fans - should be made an official city landmark, its supporters said yesterday. They want the interior of the club,...
GARBAGE GAL IN WELFARE-FRAUD RAP
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA sanitation worker bagged nearly $200,000 in public assistance, even though she has worked full time for the city since 2001, prosecutors said yesterday. Elaine Jones, 39, was arraigned on...
BILL'S GLOBAL 'CAN-DO' - WORLD BIGS SIGN ON FOR ISSUES FORUM
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - In one of the dreams that former President Bill Clinton hopes to make a reality with his upcoming world forum in New York City, Palestinians would make solar...
VICTIM: END SEX-RAP LIMITS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA doctor who was sexually assaulted more than a decade ago in her Upper East Side apartment yesterday joined lawmakers and Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau to call for legislation eliminating...
CONGRESS GETS SIZZLING KOFI PAPERS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Documents potentially devastating to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan were handed over yesterday to a congressional committee in an explosive new development in the U.N. oil-for- food scandal. House...
NUTTY DEM DUO ADDS PUNCH TO FERRER TEAM
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amMayoral hopeful Fernando Ferrer lined up some unusual endorsements yesterday in an effort to rescue his troubled campaign - a state senator with a history of violent behavior and an...
SHOES FIT SO COPS CATCH 'CROOK'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen's stylish, all-black Air Jordan sneakers were stolen off his feet in a housing project elevator - but recovered the next day when cops caught the thief black-footed....
IN SACKO WITH JACKO - NO HANKY-PANKY WHEN I SLEPT AT MICHAEL'S: WITNESS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - The first witness to take the stand in defense of Michael Jackson did little to change Jacko's wacko image, admitting he slept in bed with the...
KISS OFF 'POCKET PET' SMOOCHES
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amDon't kiss that hamster! That's the warning from federal health officials after "pocket pets" like hamsters, mice and rats caused 15 people in 10 states, including New Jersey, to fall...
TRIAL WITNESS TELLS OF CAR-CRASH HORROR
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amMartin Clemente stopped at a Lower East Side red light one predawn morning last June and saw a blue minivan run the light and send a tan Saturn airborne. A...
CITY COUNCIL SPANKS FOSTER-AGENCY BOSS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA top city official tried to assure the City Council yesterday a probe into the use of HIV-positive foster children in clinical drug trials will be exhaustive - and quickly...
MIDTOWN BOMBING - HUNT FOR WITNESSES IN CONSULATE BLASTS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amInvestigators are on the hunt for three potential witnesses who were in the area of the British Consulate yesterday when two crudely built bombs exploded in front of the building,...
BOYS SHOT & STABBED IN B'KLYN
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA gang of teens stabbed and shot a 17-year-old and slashed a 13-year-old - apparently without provocation - near a Brooklyn park yesterday, police said. Cops said the thugs approached...
TRAGIC FAMILY 'BONDS' - GAL 'ROBS' HER MOM
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island grandmother received a Mother's Day gift that broke her heart when cops busted the thief who ripped off her nest egg - and it turned out to...
SLAIN CHRISTA STARTED DIALING 911
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amCape Cod writer Christa Worthington's cellphone was found on her kitchen table with only the number 9 entered - indicating she was killed as she desperately tried to call 911...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN (lcf) * A man was killed in a Washington Heights barbershop last night when a man walked in and opened fire with an automatic pistol. Police said several men...
'VINNY GORGEOUS' SPRUNG FROM SOLITARY
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amLife is looking up for reputed Bonanno leader "Vinny Gorgeous" thanks to a federal judge who yesterday ordered his release from solitary confinement into the general prison population. The legal...
FIRE ANGUISH ON BX. BLOCK - FIVE FAMILIES FLEE FEROCIOUS FLAMES
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amFive families in The Bronx were left homeless when several attached homes were damaged by fire yesterday morning. The three-alarm blaze started in the unused second-floor bedroom of 946 College...
BRONX MOBSTER GOES ON LAM
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThe FBI has launched a manhunt for fugitive Gambino associate Christopher Sucarato. Sucarato, 40, has been charged with racketeering and shaking down bar owners in The Bronx. But he's been...
TEEN CUT TO PIECES - DAD DUMPED PARTS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man choked his teenage stepson to death, hacked up his body, stuffed the bloody remains into two black garbage bags and then dumped them along a stretch of...
MTA E-MAIL RAIL ALERT DUE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amYou've got mail - and a bad commute! Straphangers will be able to sign up for a free e-mail notification service starting today warning them of planned weekend disruptions, officials...
BOY HELD IN SCHOOLYARD ATTACK
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amPolice yesterday busted a 14-year-old boy as the ringleader in the alleged bias attack on six Catholic schoolgirls playing basketball in Brooklyn. The victims, who are white, told cops they...
IF THE SHOE FITS, ARREST HIM
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen's all-black Air Jordan sneakers were stolen - but recovered the next day when cops caught the alleged thief black-footed. Matthew Franklin, 18, was still wearing his victim's...
KID HURT AS MA LOWERS HIM FROM FIRE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA 9-year-old Queens boy survived a two-story fall last night after his mother tied together two bed sheets and tried to lower him to safety from their burning building. "My...
FILTHY SCHOOL LUCRE - JANITORS' 529G 'THEFT'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amSixteen janitors and a major vendor of cleaning supplies for city schools were busted yesterday for a dirty scheme to steal more than half a million dollars that should have...
SON IS CUT TO PIECES - FOLKS DUMP PARTS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThe body of a 22-year-old Brooklyn man was hacked up by his mom and stepdad - who then stuffed his bloody remains into two black garbage bags and dumped them...
WRITER DIED IN CELL HELL - PHONE IS SLAY CLUE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amCape Cod writer Christa Worthington's cellphone was found on her kitchen table with only the number 9 entered - indicating she was killed as she desperately tried to dial for...
SIMPLE LIQUID CURE FOR HER ABSTINENCE OF MALICE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amTHE source of Jennifer Wilbanks' anti-marital disorder has been identified, and her problem was not caused by cold feet, a muddled head or an icy heart. The bug-eyed bride-not-to-be from...
NO PEEP OUT OF QAEDA CREEP
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Pakistani cops are subjecting recently captured al Qaeda leader Abu Faraj al-Libbi to an intense grilling, but so far, the No. 3 terrorist is refusing to reveal details...
THIEVING DEA BIG GETS JAIL
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA former high-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration official was sentenced to 30 months yesterday for embezzling $138,488 and using the money to lease a car, repair a hot tub, buy clothing...
'SANTA' LIKES TO SLEIGH CRITTERS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island "Bad Santa" has been busted for allegedly trapping animals in his yard, then torturing and killing them. William Thomas, 76, of Baylor Place in East Northport, is...
CHASTE-Y RETREAT - FLED OVER HANKY-PANKY BAN: PALS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amBolting bride Jennifer Wilbanks was chaste away - by her fiancé's insistence on abstinence, friends of the sex-deprived couple claim. "She told people the fact that she and [husband-to-be John...
MIKE $MILES ON CITY - GOOD NEWS IN ELECTION-YEAR BUDGET
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday unfurled a $52 billion budget filled almost entirely with good news - in what happens to be an election year. "We have a reason to have a...
DIPLO BLOW TO STATE'S CAR LEASERS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - In the latest blow to auto leasing in New York, the state's top court ruled yesterday that diplomatic immunity does not extend to companies that rent cars to...
TRUMP: BUILD 'TWINS' - WANTS OLD WTC BACK - & HIGHER
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amDonald Trump called on Gov. Pataki yesterday to ditch his just-announced "redesign" of the Freedom Tower and instead rebuild the Twin Towers as they were - but at least one...
LATEST MEETING NO HELP
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - For a man who admits to hating meetings, Joe Torre is getting used to them. However after his latest get-together produced last night's stinker, don't...
SHAQ SHOULD TRY SENSITIVITY
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amWE KNOW Shaquille O'Neal's a primetime TV star and he may be the biggest kid on the block, but when does the NBA give him a time out? When is...
TUCK: 31 OTHERS MADE GIANT DRAFT ERROR
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amAs the first round of the NFL Draft came and went, Justin Tuck watched intently from his home in tiny Kellyton, Ala. Tuck was not picked. "After I slipped out...
LOT OF BASS ON MENU
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amSALTWATER fishing continues to improve and anglers can expect a nice variety this weekend frrom which to choose their target. Fluke fishing is still a bit slow in most areas...
SUN KING, 'ALEX' DUAL-QUALIFIERS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Dosage is a method of measuring a horse's distance ability based on the "chefs-de-race" (influential sires) in the first four generations of its pedigree. These sires are classified...
HEILMAN CHANGING FOR BETTER
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amAaron Heilman got the win yesterday but deserved a save. With two outs in the fifth, the bases were packed with Phillies and, after 88 pitches, just-activated Kris Benson's holster...
BULLPEN PITCHES IN - LOOPER FANS METS KILLER TO GET SAVE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThe boos and the cheers fought to be heard as closer Braden Looper jogged in from the Mets' bullpen yesterday. Wednesday, Looper gave up two solo home runs to the...
BELMONT EXPERTS ON 'ROAD'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amHorsemen at Belmont Park yesterday offered their expert opinions on who will win tomorrow's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Here's a sampling: Stewart Elliott (won last year's Derby aboard Smarty...
CAMERON SAYS HE'LL BE ALL RIGHT
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES At the plate, Mike Cameron was terrific in his Mets season debut. In the field, things could have gone a little better. Cameron, who's been on the disabled...
PIAZZA GETS BACK INTO THE SWING - 3-RUN HR HIGHLIGHTS METS' WIN
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amMets 7 - Phillies 5 After Wednesday's Mets game, Doug Mientkiewicz and Mike Piazza had a conversation in which the first baseman dispensed some much-needed counsel to the catcher. Piazza...
. . . BUT SUN KING COULD RULE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - By all conventional handicapping standards, tomorrow's supposedly wide-open Kentucky Derby is essentially a two-horse bust-out between the two favorites, Bellamy Road and Afleet Alex. Slide the whole field...
BELLAMY ROAD IN OVERDRIVE - BOSS HOSS 'REAL DEAL'
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Yankees owner George Steinbrenner's dream of winning a Kentucky Derby is about to come true. The Boss' magnificent colt Bellamy Road, a strapping, Incredible Hulk of a horse...
TORRE'S 'SIS' TOP CHOICE IN OAKS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - George Steinbrenner isn't the only Bronx Bomber gunning for Grade 1 glory this weekend at Churchill Downs. While the Boss' Bellamy Road is the 5-2 program favorite in...
WITH WILLIE, THERE'S A WAY
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN Ramon Castro catches Pedro Martinez, Willie Randolph will look us in the eye and tell us Mike Piazza's day off just happens to fall coincidentally. Do not get into...
SECURITY TIGHTENED IN BARNS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK LOUISVILLE - There was a welcome sight never before seen on the backstretch at Churchill Downs yesterday morning: light-brown squad cars of the Jefferson County Sheriffs Dept. parked outside...
CHEEKS INTERVIEW IMPRESSES ISIAH
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amIt was hardly a concession speech, but Knicks president Isiah Thomas sounded more comfortable talking about coaching candidates other than Phil Jackson. Perhaps Thomas knows the longshots the Knicks have...
TORRE HAS ANOTHER MEETING
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - For a man who admits to hating meetings, Joe Torre is getting used to them. Prior to last night's 6-2 loss to the Devil Rays,...
HOT ROUND HAS GARCIA RIDING HIGH
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amWACHOVIA CHAMPIONSHIP CHARLOTTE - Sergio Garcia always seems to feel slightly left out. When it comes to talk about the best players in the world - the Big Four, the...
SINDELAR OFF FAST IN DEFENSE OF TITLE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - Joey Sindelar had rather modest plans this week for his defense of the Wachovia Championship he won at the Quail Hollow Club a year ago, a moment that...
VAN OFFICIALLY OFF HIS ROCKET
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amNOT wanting to drag out the NBA's investigation, Jeff Van Gundy has ratted out his sources - Woodward and Bernstein. Truth be told, David Stern & Sleuths can't help but...
SEASON KEEPS GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - It was April 5, and the Yankees' clubhouse felt like the final day of October after the final win, laughter and giddiness filling the room. Derek Jeter...
BERNIE RETURNS AS THE DH
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Twenty-four hours after there was a possibility that Bernie Williams could be shelved pending the results of an MRI on his right elbow today, the switch-hitting Williams...
BOMBERS TAKE IT ON THE CHIEN - YANKEES IN LAST-PLACE TIE AFTER LOSS TO RAYS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - In Chien-Ming Wang's language the word is Lang. In Hideki Matsui's language the word is Warui. In Spanish, the language of several Yankees, the word is Malo....
THE CAPTAIN IS JUST NOT USED TO THIS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Could it really only have been a month ago? Is that possible? Only a month? Derek Jeter shook his head. "Nice anniversary, eh?" he asked. Jeter was...
'PEN IS THE PEAK OF THE PROBLEM - GORDON, QUANTRILL HEAD BULLPEN FULL OF BUSTS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Pinpointing one area that has hurt the Yankees the most is almost impossible. Jason Giambi has killed them with a .208 average and 26 strikeouts in 72...
BERNIE BACK IN THE LINEUP AT DH
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Twenty-four hours after there was a possibility that Bernie Williams could be shelved pending the results of an MRI on his right elbow today, the switch-hitting Williams...
EXTRA SECURITY IN BACKSTRETCH
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK LOUISVILLE - There was a welcome sight never before seen on the backstretch at Churchill Downs yesterday morning: light-brown squad cars of the Jefferson County Sheriffs Dept. parked outside...
SUNSET RACING RETURNS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amStart of Belmont meet brings return of sunset racing. On every Friday of meet except June 10, post time will be 3 p.m. With Churchill Downs having 11 a.m. post...
BETTOR'S GUIDE TO THE 131ST KENTUCKY DERBY
May 6, 2005 | 4:00am131st running; distance 1 1/4 miles; All starters carry 126 pounds; total purse $2,399,600. Post time 6:04 p.m.; TV: Ch. 4, 5:00 p.m. Horses are listed in post position order....
131ST DERBY COULD BE REAL ... 'CAUSE' CELEBRE
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThe memory of last year remains burned in Mike Battaglia's mind. The NBC oddsmaker wanted to pick Smarty Jones. "But I couldn't make myself pick [jockey] Stewart Elliott and [trainer]...
5 QUESTIONS FOR CHRIS MYERS
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with Fox Sports' Chris Myers. Myers, 45, is hosting the Dodge Charger 500 from Darlington (S.C.) Raceway on Saturday night. He also...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amTo: George Steinbrenner From: Andrew Marchand Re: Bobby Murcer CC: Fran Healy Dear George: Sometimes The Memo wonders if YES' Bobby Murcer can hearhimself speak. On Tuesday, it was already...
TAFOYA GIVES SHAQ A PASS - IGNORES O'NEAL'S SEXIST REMARK
May 6, 2005 | 4:00amNot only did Shaquille O'Neal make a sexist comment on national television Sunday, he said it to a woman reporter. But it was fine by ABC's Michelle Tafoya. Interviewing O'Neal...