June 17, 2005
REALTY RAIDING GAME HEATS UP
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amIt's a real estate rumble. The city's top real estate brokerages have turned to raiding their rivals' management cupboards in what's shaping up to be a tit-for-tat talent contest. The...
UGLY GEORGE, CULT PORNO KING OF 1970S, IS BAACK
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amUgly George, the legendary 1970s New York underground pornographer, may be back on television screens soon. From the 1970s until the early 1990s when he went off the air, Ugly...
GOLDMAN'S NET CUT BY TRADING WOES
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amTough times on the trading desk took their toll on Goldman Sachs as the Wall Street giant yesterday reported its first profit shortfall in three years. The firm reported earnings...
OIL COULD HIT $60 A BARREL
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThe economy is bracing for the slap of record $60-a-barrel oil, which could slow down consumer spending and crimp corporate profits. Crude jumped here yesterday $1.01 to $56.58 a barrel,...
SHOPPING SCHIAVO - MICHAEL LOOKS TO SNAG BOOK DEAL ON DEAD WIFE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA book about the late Terri Schiavo's life by Michael Schiavo is sure to be as controversial as her death. Schiavo - a lightning rod in the years-long right-to-die battle...
KPMG REPRIEVE - FEDS UNLIKELY TO BRING CRIMINAL CHARGES VS. FIRM
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amKPMG is likely to avoid a death sentence. The huge accounting firm, under investigation for the sale of phony tax shelters, will likely get socked with a huge fine and...
REEBOK PLAYS CATCH-UP
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amCan a pro quarterback hurl a football across the Hudson? Reebok thinks yes, and has two of the game's greats - the Giants' Eli Manning and the Jets' Chad Pennington...
FUND BOSS BITES BACK
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amJohn Levin, the embattled boss of BKF Capital Group, told shareholders that activist hedge funds seeking to boot him off the board of his money management firm seek to derail...
KPMG REPRIEVE - FEDS UNLIKELY TO BRING CRIMINAL CHARGES V. FIRM
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amKPMG is likely to avoid a death sentence. The huge accounting firm, under investigation for the sale of phony tax shelters, will likely get socked with a huge fine and...
'CONSTANT': IT'S A WONDERFUL 'WIFE'
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amMARRIAGE, adultery, divorce and the working wife: The extraordinary thing about W. Somerset Maugham's 1926 comedy "The Constant Wife" is its topicality. As the philosopher said, "The more things change,...
EWAN CRY'S OUT OF TUNE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amLONDON - The force may be with Ewan McGregor on the big screen, but it's deserted him on the stage. As Sky Masterson in the West End revival of "Guys...
WITHERING 'HEIGHTS'
June 17, 2005 | 4:00am'HEIGHTS" is about 24 hours in New York City, and it unfolds in real time. Or seems to. Working in Terribly Serious mode, rookie director Chris Terrio proves as pompous...
SLIGHT OFF THE BAT
June 17, 2005 | 4:00am'BATMAN Begins" has taken wing with a less-than-soaring $15 million opening day, according to estimates released yesterday. Warner Bros. said it was pleased - and noted that "Begins" opened on...
'ME AND YOU' A CUTESY CROWD-PLEASER
June 17, 2005 | 4:00am'ME and You and Everyone We Know" - the inaugural feature at the splendid new IFC Center that's been carved out of the ruins of the old Waverly Theater in...
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO SHOW OFF YOUR 'TALENT'
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amIN the often riveting docu-comedy "The Talent Given Us," Judy and Allen Wagner, an Upper West Side couple in their 70s making their screen debuts, perform with a verisimilitude that...
SANTANA'S STILL GOT BLACK MAGIC
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amWHILE words failed Carlos Santana as he rambled through a plodding thank-you speech to everyone in music - from the almighty Clive Davis to God - his fretwork at Madison...
THEY'RE IN LOVE WITH 'SUMMER'
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amPAWEL Pawlikowski's "Last Resort" (2000) was set under gray, midwinter skies in a resort town that had seen better day. The Polish-born British director's follow-up, "My Summer of Love," on...
'PERFECT'-LY INSIPID
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amEVEN tweens may think twice about plunking down $10 to see "The Perfect Man," a sticky, straight-to-video-caliber Hilary Duff vehicle that's Hollywood's official sacrifice in a week that belongs to...
TIME FOR A '24' MOVIE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amHARRIED anti-terrorism agent Jack Bauer could be headed to the silver screen in a "24" movie. "It could still be two years from now, so it's far too early to...
THANK CANADA
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amTHE New Pornographers are an exhilarating pop super group from Canada formed in 1997 by musical pearls including A.C. Newman and Neko Case. The super power popsters' third album, "Twin...
'I TOOK ABUSE FOR HOURS' - SWEARING CHEF HAPPY HE LEFT
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amJEFF La Poff has no regrets over calling verbally abusive chef Gordon Ramsay an "a**hole" before storming off "Hell's Kitchen" last Monday. "I don't regret it at all - somebody...
'STARS' HOT TO TROT
June 17, 2005 | 4:00am'DANCING with the Stars" continues to waltz off with big numbers. Wednesday's show, in which ex-boxer Evander Holyfield got the boot, averaged 15.7 million viewers (9-10 p.m.) to easily win...
SANCHEZ TO HOST 'IDOL' FOR DANCE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amL.A. entertainment reporter/anchor Lauren Sanchez will host Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," which kicks off next month. "Dance," an "American Idol"-type show, will search the country for the...
'30 DAYS' TURNS INTO 'SUPER SIZE' HIT FOR FX
June 17, 2005 | 4:00am'30 Days" took anything but that time to become a hit for FX. The new documentary show created by and starring "Super Size Me" maestro Morgan Spurlock notched about 1.7...
ALTAR EGOS - RUNAWAY BRIDE'S BIG PICTURE: CAST AWAY!
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amWe can already imagine them flickering across the small screen: Mary Louise Parker as the goggle-eyed runaway bride, Philip Seymour Hoffman as her dim hubby-to-be. Casting NBC's forthcoming TV-movie about...
SOUNDS LIKE ... 'CELEBRITY CHARADES': THE 'WIN, LOSE OR DRAW' FOR A NEW GENERATION
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amDON'T call AMC's new "Celebrity Charades" a game show, says executive producer Bob Balaban. "It's actually a documentary about a really great party, a great game and really good food,"...
STARR REPORT
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amFrank talk in 'Guide' Author Steven Prigge ("Created By") is teaming with "Sopranos" co-star Frank Vincent on a new book, "A Guy's Guide To Being A Man's Man," which features...
MARY'S HOT PICK
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThe ongoing JVC Jazz Festival (festivalproductions.net) joins forces with Celebrate Brooklyn! tonight with a free concert - a trio of trios - at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Featured are the...
'KILLER' CRIPS CREW NABBED
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amLong Island cops say they have rounded up a Crips street-gang hit squad responsible for at least two murders of rival Bloods gang members and at least one drive-by shooting...
HEROES 'MURDERED' - SGT. BLEW UP 2 N.Y.-BASED OFFICERS IN IRAQ PALACE: ARMY
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amAn upstate Army National Guard member was charged yesterday with murdering fellow New Yorker Capt. Philip Esposito and another officer at a U.S. base in Iraq. Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez,...
JACKO GETS PASSPORT, BUT NO PORN
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - A judge yesterday ordered authorities to fork over Michael Jackson's passport and vowed to release every sealed document in the case, but the King of Pop...
GOODFELLAS RE-CHARGED IN MOB HIT
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA pair of accused mob killers nearly got away with murder when a federal appeals court tossed their convictions on a technicality - but they ran out of luck yesterday...
THE 'GOODFOGEYS' - GRANDPAS BUSTED IN $15M LOAN-SHARK & GAMBLE RING
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amForget "The Godfather." Try "The Grandfather." Cops and prosecutors rounded up a band of white-haired grandpops yesterday - including a reputed Bonanno consigliere - charging they ran a $15 million-a-year...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amIt's "Bah! Humbug" in Illinois. Authorities in Aurora are mulling an "eyesore" law that would prosecute homeowners who leave their Christmas decorations up all year. Residents have mixed feelings. "You're...
ROBONURSE IS A SMOOTH OPERATOR
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amIntroducing RoboNurse. She's billed as the perfect accessory for today's demanding surgeon: a polished assistant who never calls in sick, disappears for a smoke or makes a mistake. And she...
FIELDS MAN PERCY LIKES MIKE, TOO
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amDemocratic powerhouse Percy Sutton, the elder statesman of Harlem politics, predicted yesterday that Mayor Bloomberg would be "tough to be beat" in November because of his sterling performance in office....
POLS BID FOR TOW HOLD ON MARSHALS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThree years after the city doubled most parking fines, the City Council is taking a major step to ensure drivers with a few unpaid parking tickets are no longer in...
SLICK SHTICK FROM CORNERED KOFI
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan refused to address the latest uproar over his possible lack of candor to investigators of the oil-for-food scandal yesterday, saying, "I don't want to...
DWI LICENSE PLATES EYED
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Repeat drunken drivers would be forced to have special license plates for their cars, under a proposal unveiled yesterday by two state senators. The special license plates would...
CHEAP 'SHOT' HITS KID HARD - PARENTS: PULL YEARBOOK WITH GIRL'S AWFUL PHOTO
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens couple claims their daughter's memories of elementary school have been marred by a "horrible" yearbook photo, and are demanding the school recall all 200 books and replace the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Police yesterday asked for the public's help in identifying a homicide victim (above) whose alleged killers are already in custody. The victim, described as 30 to 40 years...
CAB COMMISH HAILS HYBRIDS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThe city's taxi czar yesterday said he hopes to soon kick off a pilot program to determine whether taxi passengers would welcome hybrid electric vehicles. Matthew Daus, who chairs the...
BIKER-COP SHOCK - KIN HAD FEARED TRAGEDY
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThe city cop killed in a motorcycle accident initially kept the purchase of his bike secret so his family wouldn't worry, the officer's stepfather said yesterday. "He knew we would...
HIS 'BIT'TERSWEET DAY - K-9 NIPS A HERO FIREMAN
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amChris DelGiorno tried to take a bite out of crime. Then a police dog took a bite out of him. The off-duty city firefighter was about to go on a...
OVER THE LINE - TOP DEM SLANDERS THE MILITARY
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amFOR years, Democratic politicians have reacted with spitting, consuming rage at the accusation that they are reflexively anti-military. That anger has, at times, been justified, as the charge has been...
OPRAH POWERS UP - TOPS CELEB RANKINGS WITH TIGER ON HER TAIL
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amCall her O-power-ah Winfrey! The queen of daytime talk has topped Forbes' Celebrity 100, a list of the world's most powerful movie stars, TV personalities, musicians and athletes. The mag...
VOTES COME CHEAP - $1 FOR PETITION SIGNERS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThey say millions can't buy an election, but one enterprising young man has proven that a single buck will convince some voters to back a candidate. In an astonishing scene...
BELLEVUE BEAST CAGED
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThe Beast of Bellevue was sentenced to 37 years to life in prison yesterday for a degenerate sex attack on a young girl whom he dragged from her pediatric bed...
KLEIN WINS RIGHT TO PICK SUMMER TEACHERS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amWhen it comes to who gets to teach summer school, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein sure can pick 'em. That's what an arbitrator ruled yesterday when he said instructors who teach...
AUNT'S KILLER GETS 25 YEARS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens man who put 16 bullets into his aunt during a dispute in her Richmond Hill day-care center will spend 25 years behind bars in a plea deal negotiated...
FEUD SPARKED CHINATOWN SLAY
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA simmering feud between two New Jersey restaurateurs led to one fatally shooting other inside a crowded Chinatown restaurant, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Cheng Sau Yong, 44, allegedly shot and...
L.I. COPS IN SEX-SLASH ARREST
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amPolice have arrested a homeless man and charged him with viciously slashing a young Queens woman nearly a dozen times after she resisted a sex attack on Long Island. Bartolo...
IS THIS THE MOST EVIL MAN IN AMERICA? - PERV HAS 36,000 KIDS ON SICKENING LIST
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amRecords found in the California home of a convicted child molester have led police to believe that the pervert may have assaulted tens of thousands of kids all over the...
BROOKLYN GAY-BASH SUSPECT CAPTURED
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man wanted for stomping a gay man into a coma in a bias attack was caught in New Jersey yesterday, police said. Steven Pomie, 24, allegedly pummeled 27-year-...
PROBERS PUT HEAT ON CON ED
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amState regulators want to know why Con Ed feeder cables failed in the recent heat wave, causing multiple blackouts in parts of Queens and Staten Island. Public Service Commission probers...
APPLE CLEARS GAMES HURDLE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amNew York's Olympic bid got a big boost yesterday when track and field's governing body signed off on the Queens stadium project just as Mayor Bloomberg and a delegation arrived...
AIDS GUINEA PIGS - FOSTER CHILDREN USED IN 'ILLEGAL' DRUG TRIALS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amColumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center performed drug experiments on AIDS-stricken foster kids without proper safeguards or consent, the feds charged yesterday. The devastating ruling from the Department of Health and Human Services...
MY TERROR NIGHTMARE - TRIAL WITNESS RELIVES GAZA HOMICIDE STRIKE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amKesari Ruza was dozing on the bus to Gaza when she was jolted awake by what sounded like someone pelting the vehicle with rocks. Kesari, testifying yesterday at the trial...
POO-TRID PIE PRANKSTERS IN DEEP DOO
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA squad of conniving Texas cheerleaders topped a pizza with human feces, then tried to frame their rivals for the disgusting deed, authorities say. Four pompom girls from Keller HS...
A BALD MOVE BY ITALIAN INSURERS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amItalians can now take out insurance against growing bald. The policy - offered by an insurance firm and a chain of hair-care clinics - is open to men and women...
HE LED 2 LIVES & HAD 12 WIVES - BIG-TIME BIGAMIST BUSTED AS A DON JUAN OF CON
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amNew Jersey cops have busted a serial bigamist and con man who is believed to have married at least 12 women, bilking many of them out of their life savings....
HACK TO THE FUTURE AT TAXI THINK TANK
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amMoon roofs, low-step sliding doors, an E-ZPass payment system, back-seat speedometer displays and hybrid gas-electric vehicles. These are just some of the ideas for improving New York City taxis that...
HEROES 'MURDERED' - DISCIPLINED SGT. BLEW UP 2 N.Y.-BASED OFFICERS AT SADDAM'S PALACE: ARMY
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amAn upstate Army National Guard member was charged yesterday with murdering fellow New Yorker Capt. Philip Esposito and another officer at a U.S. base in Iraq. In the shocking case,...
HE LED 2 LIVES & HAD 12 WIVES - BIG-TIME BIGAMIST BUSTED IN N.J. SCAM
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amNew Jersey cops have busted a serial bigamist and con man who is believed to have married at least 12 women, bilking many out of their life savings. William Michael...
HILL'S DIXIE DOOZY - WINS S.C. STRAW POLL IN STUNNER
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton soared to a surprise win in the nation's first 2008 Democratic presidential straw poll, held this week in South Carolina - a key early...
AIDS GUINEA PIGS - FOSTER KIDS USED IN 'ILLEGAL' DRUG TRIALS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amColumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center performed drug experiments on AIDS-stricken foster kids without proper safeguards or consent, the feds charged yesterday. The devastating finding by the Department of Health and Human Services...
BELLEVUE BEAST CAGED FOR SEX ATTACK ON GIRL
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThe Beast of Bellevue was sentenced to 37 years to life in prison yesterday for a degenerate sex attack on a young girl whom he dragged from her pediatric bed...
PASSER-BY BURNED IN SOHO BLAST
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA transformer exploded yesterday in a huge fireball that rocked buildings in SoHo and burned a pedestrian. The Con Ed transformer, located under a metal grate at 172-174 Mercer St....
HARLEM KID SHOT DEAD BY BOY, 14
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA 15-year-old boy was killed by a 14-year-old gunman during a fight in Harlem yesterday, police said. Phoenix Garrett was gunned down at 4:40 p.m. at 144th Street and Broadway....
BIKE COP'S KIN GRIEVE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThe city cop killed in a motorcycle accident initially kept the purchase of his bike secret so his family wouldn't worry, the officer's stepfather said yesterday. "He knew we would...
WAITRESS STOLE CREDIT INFO FROM DINERS: COPS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA 23-year-old waitress at a trendy Alphabet City restaurant has been busted for allegedly stealing the credit-card numbers of at least 37 patrons over a two-month period, The Post has...
3 HELD IN FIERY STADIUM SLAY
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amFour men were charged last night with the murder of a 22-year-old man, whose body was dumped from a car and set on fire in a Yankee Stadium parking lot....
MAN, 70, HURT IN B'KLYN HIT-RUN
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amA hit-and-run driver critically injured an elderly man in Brooklyn last night, polices said. The 70-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was struck by a red Jeep as it sped...
SPECIAL DWI TAGS PROPOSED
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Repeat drunken drivers would be forced to have special license plates for their cars, under a proposal unveiled yesterday by two state senators. The special license plates would...
TEMPORARY 'TRIBUTE' - 9/11 CENTER TO FILL IN 'TIL MEMORIAL IS BUILT
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amWith a permanent memorial for the victims of 9/11 still four years away, Gov. Pataki yesterday unveiled plans for an interim center across the street from Ground Zero. Pataki said...
IT TOOK 4 YEARS TO COME UP WITH THIS?
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amINSTEAD of even the appearance of real progress at Ground Zero, we're getting two "interim memorial projects" - a temporary audio booth and a "Tribute Center" on Liberty Street. Better...
IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amSunner's just around the corner, but it's heating up all over the planet. Today's page looks at global warming and the threat to all of us on planet Earth. Global...
KNICK TRADE CAUGHT NAZR BY SURPRISE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amNBA FINALS NOTEBOOK AUBURN HILLS - Isiah Thomas repeatedly has said the Knicks will address their center vacuum this offseason. Eddy Curry, Kwame Brown and Zydrunas Ilgauskas are free agent...
PISTON POWER - DETROIT DESTROYS UNRECOGNIZABLE SPURS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 4: Pistons 102 - Spurs 71 AUBURN HILLS - The Spurs - so sharp, so poised, so ready to win their third title in six years just days ago...
CENTER'S RING - TRADE TO SPURS HAS MOHAMMED ON TITLE TRACK
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Isiah Thomas has said repeatedly the Knicks will address their vacuum at center, perhaps in the June 28 NBA Draft. And Thomas will pursue free agent centers...
TIME TO GRAB SOME BASS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amANGLERS are catching striped bass just about anywhere you find saltwater, and starting tomorrow the freshwater bass season opens in New York with some "reel" great fishing opportunities at hand....
DRAFT-BOUND TAFT WORKS HARD TO SHED 'SOFT' REP
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amIn a perfect world, Pittsburgh forward Chris Taft would be drafted by an NBA team with a star-quality point guard. And that team would be close to home. Taft comes...
BETANCES TO PLAY IN H.S. CLASSIC
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amDellin Betances nearly pitched Grand Street Campus to Yankee Stadium before the Wolves lost in the PSAL semifinals to eventual champion Tottenville. However, the righthander wound up getting to The...
NYRA UPS CLAIMER PURSES
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amIn order to encourage business and competition, NYRA will bolster its purses in claiming races effective tomorrow. "Not every trainer in New York is loaded with allowance horses," said Mike...
'MUST-NOT-SEE' TV: ABC SPORTS MASTERS UNTIMELY CUTS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amBEFORE there was something about Mary, there was something about ABC. ABC Sports, over many years and under several ownerships, has had the good fortune to own the exclusive TV...
ANSWERING THE BEL - CARLOS' CLUTCH HOMER BOOSTS METS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Carlos Beltran again delivered at a moment of extreme Mets desperation. Facing the A's in the top of the fifth inning yesterday, the Mets were trailing by a...
GIANT COMMITMENT MAKING TOM SMILE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amHighlights from Tom Coughlin's State of the Giants speech yesterday with training camp six weeks away: The General cares about his troops. "I talked about a group of young men...
MEDIATE, JONES RAISING GLASSES TO THEIR HEALTH
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST, N.C. - Golf is considered the least physical of all the major sports. You seldom hear about players playing with pain the way you do in football, basketball or...
NOT 'REAL' TRUTH - OHIO ST. REFUTES HBO REPORT ON VIOLATIONS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amOn March 20, 1999, St. John's came within 5.5 seconds of getting to the school's second Final Four. It lost to an Ohio State team that, according to an HBO...
IAN'S CUP RUNNETH OVER
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES PINEHURST, N.C. - Talk about bad luck turning a man into a bad mood. Ian Poulter, who shot 7-over 77, had a rather animated spat with a rules...
CAMERON NOT BACK IN SEATTLE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES OAKLAND - This weekend marks Mike Cameron's return for a game in Seattle for the first time since leaving as a free agent after the 2003 season. But...
CARLESIMO SKIPS GAME 4 FOR ILL WIFE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amNBA FINALS NOTEBOOK AUBURN HILLS - Spurs assistant coach P.J. Carlesimo flew back to San Antonio yesterday to be with his ailing wife, Carolyn, and missed last night's Game 4,...
ROCCO NOT IN A HARD PLACE - MEDIATE, BROWNE PACE FIELD AFTER FIRST ROUND
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST, N.C. - The U.S. Open has always been as much about survival as it is about golf. No round of the Open's scheduled four represents survival more than the...
GRINDING TIGER STILL CONFIDENT
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST, N.C. - Tiger Woods isn't leading the U.S. Open after yesterday's first round at Pinehurst No. 2, but that's just fine with him. Woods, with a solid, though unspectacular...
DEREK FEELS FOR CUBBIES
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amDerek Jeter had never thought about it before. Not even once had he contemplated how it feels to put on the uniform of team that owns basically the opposite history...
PRADO RIDES FOUR WINNERS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00am4TH RACE - When a jockey knows he is on much the best horse, he can afford to wait patiently while his backers are screaming to make a move already....
GOOSEN NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST, N.C. - Two-time U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen quietly complained about the lack of attention he was getting leading up the this year's tournament, saying, "You've won a couple...
LOCKOUT EMPTY THREAT
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - According to TV ratings reports, the Spurs-Pistons match-up is on track to be the next-to-least watched Finals in NBA history. Viewers have tuned out in alarming numbers...
SAVED BY THE BEL - CARLOS' CLUTCH HOMER BOOSTS METS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amMets 9 - A's 6 OAKLAND - In the top of the fifth yesterday, the Mets were trailing the A's by a run and had two men on base when...
BOWEN SHRUGS OFF HAMILTON'S OFFICIATING RIPS
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amNBA FINALS NOTEBOOK AUBURN HILLS - The Spurs' Bruce Bowen disputed Richard Hamilton's claim that the Pistons' shooting guard is getting the short end of the stick from the officials....
GIAMBI'S ON UPSWING
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amIt is way too early to say Jason Giambi is even close to being back. It is way too early to even think he has turned a corner. But Giambi...
BROWN'S NEXT START IN LIMBO
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre said the severity of Kevin Brown's back injury would make it "doubtful" that he'll make his next scheduled start. Brown left Wednesday's game in the fifth...
BUBBA GETS CHECK FOR TSUNAMI RELIEF
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amBill Clinton sat in George Steinbrenner's box for six innings last night and came to the same conclusion that The Boss has always had. "A lot of people think what...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amTo: Dick Ebersol, NBC Sports president From: Andrew Marchand Re: Football Night in America Dear Dick, If you land Al Michaels to pair with John Madden on Sunday Night Football...
5 QUESTIONS FOR LOU HOLTZ
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with former college-football coach (Arkansas, Notre Dame, South Carolina, among other stops) Lou Holtz. The 68-year-old Holtz was hired this week by...
BUCS NO MATCH FOR RECHARGED BIG UNIT
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amCrabby Kevin Brown is out for who knows how long, leaving the Yankees other old crank to turn ever harder. Randy Johnson can't be the No. 1 starter and No....
BIG UNIT CAN BAIL OUT BUMBLING BROWN
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amCRABBY Kevin Brown may not miss his next turn, but you never know about his next one or the one after that. So another old crank has to turn it...
RANDY HAS BUCS WALK THE PLANK - JOHNSON FANS 11; YANKS CAP SWEEP
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Pirates 1 The Yankees went for the kill shot last night against the Pirates, looking for their first series sweep since taking three straight from the Tigers...
TIMING IS RIGHT FOR A REVIVAL - WALK-OFF HOME RUN MAY JUST IGNITE GIAMBI
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amEvery day Jason Giambi arrives at Yankee Stadium, he quickly changes out of his street clothes, pulls on a pair of black batting gloves and heads straight to the batting...
GANNON ACES CBS AUDITION - RETIRING RAIDER MAY GET ANALYST GIG
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amCBS Sports may soon add another All-Pro quarterback to its NFL analyst roster. During a tryout to be a game analyst, 2002 NFL MVP Rich Gannon - who is on...
YANKEE PUZZLE - SUTCLIFFE: BOMBERS NEED TO FIND MISSING PIECE
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amFriday Cubs at Yankees 7 p.m., WWOR-9 ESPN's Rick Sutcliffe is a baseball analyst, but he might as well be a mathematician. His advice for the Yankees is simple: Don't...
BROWN'S START STILL IN LIMBO
June 17, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The severity of Kevin Brown's back injury was not known yesterday as the pitcher only underwent treatment and stretching rather than getting any tests administered on him. Brown...