June 3, 2005
DEF JAM RINGS IN WITH MOBILE PHONE VENTURE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHip-hop mogul Russell Simmons' Def Jam Enterprises and greeting card company American Greetings are rolling out several new wireless services under the name Def Jam Mobile. The wide-ranging offerings include...
MOONSHINE SHOESHINES
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amAfter dining on caviar and filet of beef one evening last week at the Carlyle Hotel, a group of well-heeled gentlemen took off their shoes, placed them on the white...
WAR AT LAZARD - KEY RAINMAKER BRAGGIOTTI CHALLENGES BRUCE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amAnother long-running power struggle is threatening to shake up newly-public Lazard, as one of its star investment-bankers is poised to leave the firm if he doesn't get a plum promotion....
BEA BILLY AT $5M - WARNER BOOKS SETS HIGH HURDLE FOR '700 SUNDAYS'
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amBILLYCrystal kicked off the largest gathering of authors in the world last night at Book Expo America, the industry's premier trade show which returned to the Big Apple for the...
COX A SHOCK AT SEC
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amOpinion is turning ugly and widely split over whether the White House's new pick as Wall Street watchdog would roll back rules on corporate wrongdoing. Christopher Cox, a conservative California...
BLACK OUT AS DIRECTOR, ENDS ALL TIES WITH HOLLINGER
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amConrad Black resigned as a director of newspaper giant Hollinger International yesterday, marking the end of all official ties between Black and his scandal-tarred media empire. In separate letters to...
MORGAN TO GIVE AWAY IPODS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amJ.P. Morgan Chase may be big but it's not stodgy - the bank's giving away iPods to each person opening an online checking account. The bank said it wants to...
PIPER LAW FIRM DEAL
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US signed a deal that will allow it to expand and plan for the future in the fully-leased 2.291 million square foot...
BLACK, WIFE OUT AT HOLLINGER
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amConrad Black resigned as a director of newspaper giant Hollinger International yesterday, marking the end of all official ties between Black and his scandal-tarred media empire. In letters to Hollinger...
BEA BILLY AT $5M - TIME WARNER SETS HIGH HURDLE FOR '700 SUNDAYS'
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amBILLY Crystal kicked off the largest gathering of authors in the world last night at Book Expo America, the industry's premier trade show which returned to the Big Apple for...
HERE'S A KRAFT THAT WERKS WELL
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amKRAFTWERK's sold-out show at the Hammerstein Ballroom was the city's hottest ticket Wednesday night, but the atmosphere inside was cool - cold, even. Four middle-aged men in black suits stood...
'DANCING' IS A SWINGING SUCCESS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amADD "Dancing with the Stars" to ABC's list of hits. The reality show averaged 13.5 million viewers in its Wednesday debut (9-10 p.m.), easily winning the night and becoming the...
ELAINE'S BACK, TOO
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amEX-"Seinfeld" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus will return to the network schedule with "Old Christine," a CBS sitcom scheduled to air as a midseason replacement. Louis-Dreyfus' last series was the short-lived "Watching...
FISHING TALE WILL HOOK YOU
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amSOLID acting by a cast headed by Troy Garity - and striking cinematography by Bernd Heinl - helps redeem Allan Mindel's never-quite-believable crime drama "Milwaukee, Minnesota." Garity - the son...
'ROCK' ON! - BLACK TO THE FUTURE FOR TEACHER GREEN
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amJACK Black is a wuss compared with Paul Green, a manic Philadelphia rocker turned teacher who claims to be the real-life inspira tion for Black's character in "School of Rock."...
MEDIOCRE COMEDY FOR 'VOUS'
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amPARLEZ-vous farce? "Aprés Vous" speaks the lingo haltingly, like the French you sort of learned in high school. Like many hit French comedies, such as "Les Compéres" (remade here as...
DYNAMIC DUO BID ADIEU
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amTHE sad side of every dancer's career is its brevity. This season, New York City Ballet is bidding a fond farewell to two of its brightest stars, Peter Boal and...
MOTHER-DAUGHTER HOOKERS IN ISRAEL
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amLIKE mother, like daughter best sums up "Or (My Treasure)," a raw drama from Israeli director Keren Yedaya. Or is an 18-year-old Tel Aviv girl saddled with taking care of...
RAMP VAMP
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amSORRY to harsh your mellow, sk8ter boyz, but isn't skateboarding kind of boring to watch? I mean, it's basically up the ramp, turn around, down the ramp, repeat. That's the...
NEXT REALITY SHOW: INVENTORS' 'IDOL'
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amSO you think you're an inventor? Here's your chance to prove it. USA is teaming with Home Shopping Network on a new show, "Made in the USA," in which amateur...
BORED OF THE RING - DIRECTOR LEAVES NO CLICHÉ UNTURNED IN 'CINDERELLA MAN'; 'CINDERELLA' CAN'T BE SAVED BY THE BELL
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHYPERBOLIC sportswriter Damon Runyon dubbed Depression-era boxer James Braddock the "Cinderella Man" and sure enough, Ron Howard's bio-pic is an Oscarbaiting fairy tale that manipulates the audience at every turn...
KILLERS ON THE LOOSE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Killers' leading man, Brandon Flowers, may have a name made for a porn star but he's ac tually a teetotaling Mormon from Las Vegas. That makes being on the...
TUNING IN TONY - TONY VOTERS ALL OVER MAP ON BEST MUSICAL
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHERE'S what a Tony Award-winning writer of many successful Broadway shows says about this season's contenders for Best Musical: "Some have brilliant songs but not necessarily a brilliant book. Or...
STARR REPORT
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amFor a good cause Ch. 7's Bill Ritter will emcee tomorrow's Central Park Challenge, which benefits YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities. Ritter has hosted the event a number of...
'FRIEND' IN NEED - KUDROW'S SAD 'COMEBACK' TO COMEDY
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S almost impossible to know what to make of "The Comeback," the new comedy from Lisa Kudrow ("Friends") and Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"). First off, it doesn't...
HELLO, TV MOVIE - COURT TV FIRST TO PLAN 'THROAT' PIC
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amCOURT TV wants to jump into Deep Throat. The legal channel is developing a film based on the events that rocked the White House more than three decades ago and...
MARY'S HOT PICK
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amDuke Robillard, a founder of Roomful of Blues and member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, now leads his own band, which performs at Satalla (37 W. 26th St.; [212] 576-1155) tomorrow...
LOLLAPA-WINNERS - ONLY THE BIGGEST AND BEST GET TO PLAY OUR TOWN
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amNOBODY'S taking any chances this year after the Lollapalooza disaster last summer, when the traveling music festival was forced to fold up its tent because of poor ticket sales. No...
FRESH AIR - GREAT MUSIC MOVES OUTDOORS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amA PICNIC on the grass, a gentle breeze - and Bach and Company. Who doesn't love classical music when it's free and alfresco? This year is no exception, as the...
ONE GIANT PLAYGROUND - FROLIC EVERYWHERE, FOR FREE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amWHAT would Eloise do? Now that our heroine's favorite haunt, the Plaza, is off-limits, she'll just have to make the city her playground. Done - especially in summers, when the...
'PRIMO' TIME ON BROADWAY - ANOTHER SIX OPENINGS, ANOTHER SIX SHOWS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe new theater season doesn't start until Labor Day. At least, this was the conventional wisdom. But since the summer success of "Hairspray" a few years back, Broadway has flouted...
SUDDENLY, 'SYLVIA'
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amSUMMER is always a great time for dance - especially now, when the classic ballet event of the year is opening tonight at the Metropolitan Opera House: Frederick Ashton's staging...
SAMMY 'BULL' LOSES SLAY LAWYER
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amMob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano must get a new lawyer to defend him on a murder rap in connection with the brutal slaying of an NYPD detective, a New...
BLOODY TRIANGLE - STABBER GUILTY AS WIFE WAILS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens man was found guilty yesterday of stabbing his wife's ex-boyfriend in a streetside confrontation last year - a verdict that made the woman at the center of the...
TEACHERS GET GARDEN-PARTY $$ BREAK FROM FELLOW MIKE FOE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amCABLEVISION takes very good care of its friends - at least those battling Mayor Bloomberg. The company, which owns Madison Square Garden and is vehemently opposed to the mayor's plan...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amJames Ross keeps getting in trouble - but always as different people. Cops say Ross, 23, of Godfrey, Ill., is a "a serial impersonator" who has posed as a police...
HOUSE'S KING OF SECURITY - L.I. REP EYES KEY PANEL
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Peter King is on the short list of candidates to take the reins of the influential House Homeland Security Committee - a post that would enable him...
ISRAEL FREES ANOTHER 400 PALESTINIANS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel freed nearly 400 Palestinian prisoners yesterday, fulfilling a long-delayed promise made at the start of the current cease-fire, now 5 months old. Some released inmates flashed V-for-victory...
BRIDE'S FLEE DEAL - SNEAKERS ON HER FEET, DIAMOND ON HER FINGER & A SLAP ON THE WRIST
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amGeorgia's bolting bride, Jennifer Wilbanks - in jogging suit, running shoes and tears - pleaded no contest yesterday to a felony charge of lying to police as part of a...
COURTNEY SUFFERING LIEN TIMES
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amTrouble continues to plague rocker Courtney Love at her SoHo condo. The latest dust-up comes from the board of managers at 30 Crosby St., who've filed a lien against the...
BRIT LOVES MOANING SICKNESS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amBritney Spears has turned from pop tart to horn dog. The busty blond mother-to-be, who's due this fall, tells People magazine that having a bun in the oven has made...
BID TO 'STEAL' HOMES - 'DEED FRAUDSTER' NAILED
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx man figured out how to beat the super-heated real-estate market - by trying to steal two unoccupied homes worth more than $570,000, authorities said yesterday. Messiah Ali Bey,...
ANOTHER NIXON COMEBACK - 'THROAT' LIFT$ FILM AND BOOK
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Deep Throat's stunning emergence from the shadows this week has blown "All the President's Men" - the book and movie that made him famous - back onto the...
BROWNSVILLE'S BRAINS REALLY ROCK
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amAs the city celebrates record gains on citywide reading and math exams, it owes a big thank-you to Brownsville. Schools in that Brooklyn neighborhood, which makes up most of District...
NEW YORK'S CHANCES OF GETTING THE OLYMPICS ACTUALLY WORSENED ...
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - New York's chances of getting the Olympics actually worsened despite a favorable court ruling yesterday regarding the proposed West Side stadium, according to one leading oddsmaker. New York's...
BRAVEST SACRIFICE - FALLEN GI FIREMAN HONORED BY PALS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amON THE day he was murdered by a coven of cowards, the flag that Sgt. Chris Engeldrum had carried from the firehouse of Ladder 61 flapped over Baghdad. But at...
'MERCY' KILLER IS FREE - CHOKED MA IN HOSP
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens man who smothered his ailing mother in a "mercy killing" last Super Bowl Sunday walked out of court a free man after prosecutors agreed he didn't belong in...
COP-SLAY SUSPECT A 'SAD' DUDE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe man accused of murdering two Staten Island detectives in cold blood is whining that he wants out of solitary confinement because it's making him too depressed to work with...
SPECIAL ED. IS 88% FAILURE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amBarely one in 10 city high-school special-education students graduated over the last eight years, an alarming study found. "It's appalling," said Jill Chaifetz, executive director of Advocates for Children, which...
HAPPY DAYS FOR MIKE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amMAYOR Bloomberg was in a cheery mood on Wednesday night when he appeared at the New-York Historical Society to honor the memory of Eric Breindel, the Post columnist and editorial-page...
THUG SUICIDE LAIR - COP SHOOTER BLEW HIS BRAINS OUT IN CUZ'S APT.
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amTwo hours after he'd shot a Brooklyn cop who'd seen him buy marijuana, 19-year-old David Redden shared a joint with a cousin and admitted what he'd done. "I really got...
TRASH PLAN $TINKS, BUT NOT FOREVER: STUDY
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amIt's going to cost an average of $107 a ton to dispose of the city's garbage under a plan proposed by Mayor Bloomberg, compared with the $73 the city now...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A suspect was arrested for beating and robbing a man in Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities said yesterday. Sources said James Williams, 34, confronted his 50-year-old victim at Lafayette and Classon...
'BULL' LOSES HIS LAWYER - ATTORNEY A 'SLAY' WITNESS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amMob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano must get a new lawyer to defend him on a murder rap in connection with the brutal slaying of an NYPD detective, a New...
PEDDLE-PUSHY COP DUCKS JAIL IN BRIBE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHe sold his badge on Broadway and 27th Street, getting only a few pro sports jerseys in return - and knock-off jerseys, at that. Now Jashua Penalo - a four-year...
MIKE NAMES NYPD WATCHDOG
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amA former federal prosecutor who earned a reputation uncovering police misconduct for the Knapp Commission has been selected by Mayor Bloomberg as the new head of his Commission to Combat...
$HOE-LESS JASON - WOEFUL GIAMBI LOSES DEAL WITH NIKE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amJason Giambi has struck out on another endorsement deal. Nike said yesterday that it opted not to renew the multimillion-dollar deal with the fallen Yankee that expired last month. That...
JACKO JUSTICE ALL UP TO JURY - GLOVES COME OFF IN LAST SUM-UPS TO COURT THRILLER
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson will begin to sweat it out today when a jury starts deliberating whether to convict the disintegrating pop star on sensational charges he fondled...
GAL BUSTED IN JET BOMB SCARE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island woman was arrested yesterday for calling in a bogus bomb threat to a Pakistani airline that was flying her boyfriend's sister out of the country, authorities said....
SPEEDY BRAVEST NAB SUSPECT
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amIn a Brooklyn scene straight out of Hollywood, a group of New York's Bravest hopped into their fire engine yesterday and sped after a bike-riding purse-snatcher for several blocks before...
MORGENTHAU PROPOSAL TARGETS RAPISTS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amClearly, all rapists are fiends, but some - those who use weapons or have violent pasts or seriously injure their victims or rape again and again - are more fiendish...
SLAY GIRL IN WILD-TO-MILD MAKEOVER
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amDressed like a little angel and quietly holding her mother's hand, the 9-year-old Brooklyn girl cops say fatally stabbed her best friend in the heart pleaded innocent to manslaughter charges...
UFT BONKS BLOOMY WITH RALLY BAD GRADE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amA day after Mayor Bloomberg announced record-breaking gains in citywide reading and math scores, the teachers union pooh-poohed him at a massive Madison Square Garden rally, where it released a...
HEVESI THROWS A BLOCK
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - A top aide to Gov. Pataki called the escalating battle over the West Side stadium "a high-stakes game of chicken" - and state Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday added...
JAIL FOR CASTING-COUCH RAPIST
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe head of a Manhattan modeling agency was sentenced to six months jail and 10 years probation yesterday for coercing a 14-year-old client into sex with empty promises of rap-video...
TWO BIG JERKS - MIDGET-MOCKER'S WIFE IN A WEE BIT OF TROUBLE, TOO
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHi ho, hi ho, it's off to court she goes, too. The wife of the man accused of hatefully mocking a midget mother and daughter for their diminutive stature has...
PLAYING GAMES - BRUNO: I'LL BACK WEST SIDE STADIUM IF CITY WINS OLYMPICS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amState Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said yesterday he will approve a West Side stadium only if the city wins its bid next month to host the 2012 Olympics. "We're...
ICE-CREAM 'KILLER' - DRIVER HELD IN KID'S HIT-AND-RUN DEATH
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amCops yesterday arrested a man in the hit-run death of a 7-year-old Brooklyn boy - who was mowed down as he dashed across the street to buy ice cream. Second-grader...
FAA SLAMS N.Y. AIR CONTROLLERS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe FAA yesterday shot down complaints that shortages of air-traffic controllers are making the skies over New York unsafe - and blasted union-controlled scheduling practices. Due to "inefficient and wasteful"...
PARIS' 2 OF DIAMONDS - DOUBLE BAUBLE DILEMMA
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amParis Hilton's love for Paris Latsis is solid as two rocks - the hotel-heiress hottie is agonizing over which of a pair of stunning diamond engagement rings to choose, sources...
'BULL' LOSES SLAY LAWYER
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amMob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano must get a new lawyer to defend him on a murder rap in connection with the brutal slaying of an NYPD detective, a New...
CAMERON SOCK$ TAB IN KISSER
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amActress Cameron Diaz is suing the National Enquirer for $30 million over a story accusing her of cheating on boyfriend Justin Timberlake by having "hot kisses" with a married man....
WOMAN SLASHED IN RACIAL SPAT
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amA black woman was slashed in the face by a white man after he spewed racial insults at her during an argument in the Herald Square subway station, cops said...
SCHOOL PIX END IN KID-PORN BUST
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amA man was busted on child-porn charges yesterday after he was caught snapping pictures of kids outside a Yonkers grammar school, police said. Daniel Paprocki, 54, transportation supervisor for the...
HAVE FUN WITH FENG SHUI
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHaving trouble studying? Maybe you need to rechannel the energy in your room. Today's page takes a look at the ancient, but timely, art of feng Shui. NEW Yorkers are...
KILLER WALKS ON LOOPHOLE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe family of a New Jersey teen murdered 23 years ago is heartbroken after the man charged with her brutal slaying walked yesterday - even after a jury convicted him...
PEDDLE-PUSHY COP DUCKS JAIL
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHe sold his badge on Broadway and 27th Street, getting only a few pro sports jerseys in return - and knock-off jerseys, at that. Now Jashua Penalo - a four-year...
TAKING COMMAND - HEAT NOT LYING DOWN, WRESTLE GAME 5 FROM CHAMPS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 5: Heat 88 - Pistons 76 MIAMI - Dwyane Wade was taken out of AmericanAirlines Arena after last night's Game 5 victory on a yellow motorized cart, potentially taking...
SNIT HITS THE FAN
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amEND of the line. Jim Monroe, 55, of Woodside, Queens, is a friend of horseracing in the best sense. "I'm only a $2, $5 bettor, but I love it." He...
GOTTA WAIT FOR FLUKE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amAS SUMMER approaches, striped bass and fluke continue to offer excellent fishing along the Atlantic while Long Island Sound anglers have plenty of bass, but are still waiting on a...
HEAT HAVE TO WADE AND SEE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - Whether it's foul trouble or thigh trouble, Heat center Shaquille O'Neal has been more Clark Kent than Superman in the Eastern Conference Finals. Dwyane Wade has come to...
RANGERS, CAPS TO SHARE JAGR'S SALARY CAP CHARGE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe NHL will split the post-rollback annual $8.36M salary cap charge on Jaromir Jagr's contract equally between the Rangers and Caps, executive sources have told The Post. Jagr, who underwent...
RED STORM MAY NOT HAVE ACE UP SLEEVE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amIf the St. John's baseball team is going to make it out of the Corvalis (Ore.) Regional, it might have to do so without its No.1 starter, Anthony Varvaro of...
NETS WORK KID PG
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amMonta Ellis, a 6-3 Parade All-America out of Mississippi who's entered the NBA draft, got a quick glimpse of what lies ahead yesterday. Ellis had a solo workout with the...
ST. JOHN'S HAS PLAN TO RENOVATE ARENA
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThere is a moment of apprehension before every men's basketball game at Carnesecca Arena. When the St. John's starting five is introduced, the arena goes dark. The players are illuminated...
BROWN STILL A CAV-NOT
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHEAT-PISTONS NOTEBOOK MIAMI - Larry Brown did not fly to Cleveland yesterday to join the press conference introducing Mike Brown as the new Cavs coach, even if reports say the...
GLORY DAYS FOR PEDRO - EX-PLAYERS REMEMBER AMAZIN' SHEA BUZZ
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amTWO DECADES later, Dwight Gooden more than just remembers it. He can hear it, feel it, and now sense it again from Tampa. Here it is, straight from one of...
THE SQUEEZE IS ON
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amXaverian 4 - Farrell 3 Xaverian won last year's CHSAA title game with a suicide squeeze bunt in the bottom of the seventh against Monsignor Farrell. It was the kind...
STRUGGLING KOO ON DISABLED LIST
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Dae-Sung Koo won't be getting hammered by lefties anytime soon. The Mets southpaw reliever was placed on the 15-day disabled list yesterday with a contusion of the left...
CLARK GETS RAVES FROM TEAMMATES
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amIf they ever draw a Congressional district made up solely of baseball players, Diamondbacks first baseman Tony Clark would win a landslide election to Washington. "Man, he's a special person,"...
OH, TO BE LIKE MIKAN
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amNO. 99 on my scorecard while growing up during the NBA's infancy, but No. 1 in almost everything else related to professional basketball, Mr. Basketball died Wednesday at 80 when...
HOUSTON HOPING FOR HERB'S RETURN
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHerb Williams may not have public, vocal backing of Stephon Marbury, but he apparently does have it from Allan Houston. The Knicks' captain and longest-tenured player said he's confident Williams...
PEDRO BRINGS BACK GLORY DAYS AT SHEA
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amTWO DECADES decades later, Dwight Gooden more than just remembers it. He can hear it, feel it and, even from Tampa, sense it happening again. Only Doc, Tom Seaver, maybe...
PLAYERS, NHL STILL TALKING
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThe good news is that she went slow but steady in yesterday's lengthy meeting in Toronto between the NHL and NHLPA, with the sides set to go back at it...
DOWN & STILL OUT - SLIP DOESN'T COST CAMERON CATCH
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amWith his mouth agape and his body stretched to the limit, Mike Cameron resembled a man desperate to grab a life preserver instead of a baseball. Either way, it was...
MARTINEZ AGAIN SEN-SHEA-TIONAL - PEDRO PITCHES METS TO WIN OVER D'BACKS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amMets 6 - D'backs 1 The fans all stood and cheered as Pedro Martinez dug into the dirt. He stared in at Jose Cruz Jr. in the eighth inning with...
HEAT IN COMMAND - SHAQ SPARKLES, BUT WADE HURT
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 5: Heat 88 - Pistons 76 MIAMI - The Heat won the battle last night, but the Eastern Conference Finals' war might have been lost if Dwyane Wade's rib...
TRAGEDY IS STILL ON MO'S MIND
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - When Mariano Rivera walks into the Metrodome tonight, he won't be able to block out the empty feeling he had the last time he was in it....
TORRE'S 10TH YEAR TENSE, TREACHEROUS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHE HAS been every bit the Hall of Fame manager with these Yankees that Miller Huggins and Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel were before him, and there will come a...
THE K.C. SWEEP NOW COMPLETE - LOWLY ROYALS EMBARRASS YANKEES YET AGAIN
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amRoyals 5 - Yankees 2' KANSAS CITY - P.U. The stench originating from America's heartland and wafting East was coming out of the Yankee uniforms last night, when every pinstriped...
YANKS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS - MEETING CALLED AFTER FUNK REACHED 4 GAMES
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - For those scoring at home, Joe Torre held his fourth closed-door meeting of the season Wednesday night. Based on the results following the first three, the Yankees...
BROWN: I TALKED TO CAVS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amHEAT-PISTONS NOTEBOOK MIAMI - Larry Brown did not fly to Cleveland yesterday to join the press conference introducing Mike Brown as the new Cavs coach, but he finally acknowledged publicly...
NBA MOURNS MIKAN
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amNO. 99 on my scorecard while growing up during the NBA's infancy, but No. 1 in almost everything else related to professional basketball, Mr. Basketball died Wednesday at 80 when...
REYES OF SUNSHINE - OFT-INJURED SHORTSTOP NOW STARRING FOR METS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amLast night marked the end of the first third of the Mets' season. At some point during it, Mike Cameron, Kris Benson, Cliff Floyd, Kaz Ishii, Carlos Beltran, Kazuo Matsui...
BERNIE RUNS INTO TROUBLE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - Bernie Williams used his bats to get himself regular work. But it was his mind that overshadowed his wood last night at Kauffman Stadium. Starting...
TORRE KEEPS BERNIE IN LINEUP
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEES NOTES KANSAS CITY - When Joe Torre turned Bernie Williams into a bench player on May 3, he told the veteran center fielder there would come a day when...
BERNIE GOES BACK TO CENTER FIELD
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEES NOTEBOOK MIAMI - Getting beaten is one thing. Beating yourself is another. That was the gnawing assessment Detroit's Chauncey Billups had after Miami victories in Games 2 and 3...
END OF DAZE - SHOCKEY: I'M STILL ONE OF BEST TES
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amJeremy Shockey believes he knows the secret to unlock the Giants offense, a secret that also will best display his great skills. "We have to establish the run like we...
FAVORITES SCORE EARLY ROMPS
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amIn long overdue move, Equibase, sport's official record-keeper, will begin noting "sealed" and "all-weather" track information in pp's and charts. Sealed tracks, very common when it rains, are surfaces that...
SLAM DUNC! - ANTHONY: DUNCAN'S BEST POWER FOWARD EVER
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amAt this point for Tim Duncan, it's about more than just Larry O'Brien Trophies. Having already won two NBA Championships, Duncan is on the brink of adding another title: Best...
5 QUESTIONS FOR SUZYN WALDMAN
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with first-year Yankee radio analyst Suzyn Waldman. Previously, Waldman covered the Yankees for WFAN and YES. Q: How have you found working...
GRID VOICES FACE SHAKE-UP - 2006 PROMISES WHOLE NEW LANDSCAPE
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amNYP TV Sports this week surveyed top executives, announcers and agents to find out what the NFL broadcasting landscape could look like in 2006, when NBC takes over Sunday night...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: HUBIE BROWN VS. STEVE KERR (WHO'S A BETTER NBA ANALYST?)
June 3, 2005 | 4:00amAs an analyst, ABC's Hubie Brown is still a coach. When a player makes a fundamental mistake, you half expect Brown to blow a whistle, stop the play and start...