June 19, 2005
WAKE-UP CALL; PLAGIARISM SCANDAL ALARMS AMNEWYORK
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amIn the latest in a string of plagiarism scandals tainting the credibility of the media, the editor of amNewYork has resigned after using unattributed information from the Washington Post's Web...
LIL' SPEARS STEPPING OUT OF BRIT'S SHADOW
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amHey Britney, look out - little sister is catching up. Jamie Lynn Spears, star of "Zoey 101" - the No. 1 show for tween girls on TV - is featured...
BULL'S EYE
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amSome very senior Morgan Stanley mouths were watering late last week when word leaked that board members Charles Knight and John Madigan had breakfast with former GE CEO Jack Welch....
SMART 'MONEY'? CRAMER'S BARK WORSE THAN BITE
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amJim Cramer, the business media's uberchild, is knocking'em dead on his new CNBC show, "Mad Money," boosting ratings by 61 percent amid positive reviews. Executives at the cable network are...
SONY WANTS TO CASH IN ON ANIMATED FILM BOOM
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amSony is finally set to capitalize on the animated entertainment craze that has reclaimed the cineplex. The success of such films began with Pixar's "Toy Story" in 1995, DreamWorks' "Shrek"...
BATTLE OF BANDS - "GMA" HAS THE EDGE ON RETRO "TODAY"
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amFORGET about Katie vs. Diane.The real rivalry on the morning shows is between the musicians that appear every Friday. Every Friday through the end of the summer,NBC 's "Today "...
BRAND NEW TV SEASON ALREADY A WASHOUT
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amIF Trista Sutter is a "star," then I 'm the Pope. It 's one reason why I 'm not a fan of this summer 's big show hit,"Dancing with the...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amTRAVEL PEAK EXPERIENCE IN THE HIMALAYAS FORMER Monty Python troupe member Michael Palin travels to the fearsome Himalaya Mountains for a Travel Channel documentary.He visits the Pakistani border as well...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amTHE GRADUATE (1967) Monday, 11 a.m., AMC Mike Nichols ' landmark film is not only an excellent satire on the generation gap;it also contains one of the greatest seduction scenes...
O 'REILLY AND CO.BRAG FOR A LIVING
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE 'S an unnatural pattern developing among TV 's most noted politically conservative program hosts.Many are bereft of one of the most fundamental and traditional virtues of conservatism: they lack...
WELCOME TO '2046'
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amFORGET Batman. The hottest movie ticket in town last week was for Wednesday night's screening of "2046" at Lincoln Center - with the film's director, Wong Kar-wai, there. The comfy...
RANDOM PIECES OF FISCHER RANTS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amBOBBY Fischer has been fairly quite in the three months since he was freed from a Japanese jail and took up residence in Iceland. But a Russian newspaper, Rodnaya Gazeta,...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
June 19, 2005 | 4:00am1) Ads that are, uh, 'hot' This fat, hairy guy dressed up in a thong bathing suit and tried to look really sexy while washing a car and gorging on...
WILD CHILD - LINDSAY LOHAN HAS GROWN-UP AMBITIONS, TEENAGE PROBLEMS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amSHE'S not a girl, not yet a woman. Those are Britney's lyrics, but they could have been written about Lindsay Lohan: the R-rated actress with the G-rated career. In the...
DEAD MAN WALKING - LEGUIZAMO BATTLES ZOMBIES AND H'WOOD (ANY DIFFERENCE?)
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amJOHN Leguizamo takes out plenty of zombies in the campy new horror movie "Land of the Dead" - whacking their heads off and shooting them in the face. "I kick...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amBEWITCHED Nicole Kidman wiggles her nose, and Columbia Pictures hopes she makes magic. The saucy Aussie takes on the Elizabeth Mongomery role in the big-screen "Bewitched" and Will Ferrell has...
HEAR THIS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amIN CONCERT Alt-metal acts Seether and Dark New Day at Mercury Lounge tomorrow. Tuesday: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are free-falling with the Black Crowes at Jones Beach. Pop-rockers Satisfaction...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amBILLY CORGAN - "TheFuture Embrace" 3 Stars Warner Brothers ANYONE who was disappointed that the short-lived Zwan project wasn't a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Smashing Pumpkins will...
GUITAR MAN - LES PAUL STILL ROCKS AT AGE 90
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amLES Paul, the man who invented the electric guitar, is losing his hearing. But it's not from rocking out to Led Zeppelin on volume 11, as your mother might have...
DEVIL MAY CARE - ALKALINE IS DARK, AND PROUD OF IT
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN you're the only guitarist in the band, fracturing your wrist before heading into the studio is a bad thing. Unless you're Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio. The frontman's skateboarding-induced...
REQUIRED READING
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPulitzer-winning Texan Larry McMurtry takes some time off from his fiction writing with an intriguing double biography. In "The Colonel and Little Missie," he looks at perhaps America's first two...
SACCO'S BIG BETTE - NIGHTLIFE QUEEN TRIES LEAP INTO FOOD
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amFOR three years, Amy Sacco walked past the empty storefront at No. 461 on West 23rd Street - a quintessential city block in Chelsea spanning Ninth and Tenth Avenues that...
GOOD TASTES
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amIF your favorite eatery seems more crowded than usual in the days ahead, chalk it up to New York Summer Restaurant Week. The annual event now spans two weeks, starting...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amSALES GUY SKS TO CLOSE A LUV DEAL MEET Jason, a handsome sales professional who describes himself as ambitious and confident. Jason's an on-the-go kind of guy who rides motorcycles,...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amAN AFFECTION CONNECTION It's Sunday, which means it's time for Meet Market to check in with last week's couple: Megan, a 26-year-old ad sales assistant, went out with Matthew, a...
EVIL FAMILY GUY; 'BIGAMY' BILL VOWED TO KILL ME: SISTER
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amAlleged bigamist swindler William Barber threatened to murder at least one ex-wife and his own sister if they revealed his dastardly serial-marriage scheme, the sister and one of Barber's business...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amQUEENS *** One cop was slightly injured and three suspects were taken into custody yesterday after a pellet from a BB gun was fired at a passing patrol car in...
JETS' FLIGHT PLANS; WOODY: MAYBE QNS.
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amIn Woody Johnson's first public remarks since the West Side stadium deal was spiked by Albany legislators, the Jets' owner called a touchdown in Queens not out of bounds. "I...
'KILLER' SGT. HAD A HOT TEMPER IN LAST POST
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amDisgruntled grunt Alberto Martinez is a hothead who voiced his frustrations with military life long before he allegedly killed two superior officers in Iraq, a former co-worker said yesterday. "He...
DUO NAILED IN COP-CAR BB SHOOT
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amA police officer was slightly injured and two suspects were taken into custody yesterday after a pellet from a BB gun was fired into the window of a passing patrol...
BREATHLESS ESCAPE ; EXEC'S ICY TALE OF RIVER RESCUE
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amLance Weaver knew he had little time to get the chopper door open if he and the seven others aboard the corporate helicopter that crashed into the East River on...
QUEENS THUG MUGS OLD LADY
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPolice are searching for a man who violently robbed an elderly woman on a Queens subway platform yesterday. Police said the 85-year-old Forest Hills woman was knocked to the ground...
GLIB LIB FRANKEN ADMITS: I LIKE MIKE
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amAL FRANKEN, one of the nation's best-known Republican-bashers, is saying some mighty nice things about Mayor Bloomberg. "I like some of what Bloomberg's done," Franken said of the Republican mayor....
BYSTANDERS STABBED AT BIRTHDAY KID'S BASH
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amA family birthday celebration at a Brooklyn Chuck E. Cheese turned bloody last night when a fight between two kids escalated to a wild melee among adults, and the birthday...
SUICIDE GIRLS' TRAGIC 'NET LINK
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amBEFORE taking her own life by jumping in front of a train last Monday, Long Island teenager Emma Casey grieved in an online teen chat room about the suicide of...
WOES FOR JOBLESS JACKO
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A downtrodden Michael Jackson is in no shape to perform, and doesn't have a manager who could book gigs even if the King of Pop were fit...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amA woman searching for cans in a Dumpster was dumped into the back of a garbage truck in Framingham, Mass., after the driver unwittingly raised the hydraulically controled bin. Wendy...
SCIENTOLOGY 'PRINCESS' IS A SPOOKY SHADOW ON KOOKY KATIE
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amKATIE HOLMES' new Scientology "handler" is church "royalty" whose family made millions in business and the stock market - and went on to be plagued by charges of religious harassment...
FANS GET NEATO TITO TREAT-O
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amMichael Jackson's family staged a hastily planned bash for his adoring fans, who were treated to a brief concert by Tito Jackson but denied a chance to see the King...
CIVIL-RIGHTS GROUP SLAMS QNS. COPS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPolice have been accused of using heavy-handed tactics in a Queens neighborhood, as they probe the case of a police officer who was shot in the foot with her own...
COPS EYE EX IN L.I. SLAYING
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amNassau County Police are searching for the former boyfriend of a 23-year-old woman who was fatally shot near her New Cassel home early yesterday morning. Merline Port-Louis was hit several...
A FERRY AMBITIOUS WEB $ITE
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens ferry fan who runs SIFerry.com is jumping ship and selling the site on eBay for just under $3 million. Trevor Gherardi, 39, decided to auction off his popular...
DAD TAKES POINT ; HOOPS, HOPE AND FATHERHOOD: THABITI BOONE'S ROAD BACK TO EAST NY
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amBASKETBALL and fatherhood can go together in a positive way. The "record" from the pros is poor: Ex- Knick Larry Johnson: seven kids - only two of them with his...
PLAYING TOXIC GAMES; 2012 SITE A CHEM 'HELL'
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe Willets Point section of Queens, awaiting a makeover through Mayor Bloomberg's new Olympics plan and local renovation efforts, is a "hell hole" of environmental problems that will cost millions...
BRAVEST BUNCH - KIDS OF 'BLACK SUNDAY' HONOR THEIR HERO DADS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amTODAY, as our kids give us goofy gifts and wives pretend to cook breakfast, let's pause on our great moments of fatherhood, and yes, childhood, for a tiny second, and...
GAY-BASH STATS RISE; TROUBLING SPIKE IN ASSAULTS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amHate crimes against gays shot up 32 percent this year from 2004, with a host of bashings marring the city's image of tolerance. Homophobes committed 19 bias attacks against gays...
FEW LOUSY MDS LOSE LICENSES
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe state revoked the licenses of only nine New York doctors last year despite receiving nearly 7,000 complaints, The Post has learned. The state's Office of Professional Medical Conduct stripped...
GULLED BY GHOULS ; FAMILY'S 'SCAM' SCHEMES EXPOSED
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amA bombshell report in New York magazine details for the first time how jailed mother-and-son con artists Ayferafat and Hakan Yalincak - who were indicted last week on charges they...
'OWE' SOLE MIO! OPERA MAN'S $53M LIENS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amCreditors are banging down the jail-cell door of embattled philanthropist Alberto Vilar, who stiffed at least two companies out of money and has millions of dollars in federal liens on...
TRIBE-ULATIONS OF THE INDIAN HAVE-NOTS IN THE HAMPTONS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amWITH a quick left turn, Southampton suddenly transforms from rich to ramshackle. Just off stately Hill Street is the entrance to the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, a 1,200-acre tract that's home...
SMUT IN THE CITY ; PORN MAKERS FLOUT LAW WITH PUBLIC FILMING
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amLocal porn peddlers are illegally taking their smut trade to the streets - filming their sickening sex scenes in public places. On sidewalks and in alleyways, these pornographers are breaking...
X-RATED APPLE GETS 'ACTION!' PORN-FLICK BLITZ MAKES GOTHAM SMUT CITY AGAIN
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amIt's sex all over the city. On rooftops, along alleyways and in high-class hotels - starring your neighbor, shopkeeper and bartender - New York City's porn industry is back and...
DOUBLE LIFE OF SEX STAR NEXT DOOR
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amStore owner by day - porn star by night. Anne Hanavan said customers at her Lower East Side boutique have no idea what she's up to when she shutters her...
MANU FEELING FINALS CRUSH
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amNBA FINALS NOTEBOOK AUBURN HILLS - About two dozen Spanish-speaking journalists surrounded Spurs coach Gregg Popovich yesterday for a "private" session to talk about Spurs swingman Manu Ginobili. The Spanish-speaking...
MOTIVATING FACTORS - EARLY STRUGGLES MAY HAVE BEEN GOOD FOR YANKS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BAD start just may have a good side. A team with a $200 million payroll is never going to be underdogs, but you know what the Yankees are not...
JUST NO GIVING UP FOR LEFTY
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTEBOOK PINEHURST - Phil Mickelson recovered from a 7-over par 77 on Friday to manage a 2-over-par 72 yesterday, and is 8-over par entering today's final round. While...
SINKING FEELING - PEDRO CAN'T PUT BRAKES ON METS' WOES
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amMariners 4 Mets 1 SEATTLE - If the Mets couldn't capitalize on this kind of mismatch and win last night, you have to wonder what will get them out of...
WHO CATCHES PEDRO ISN'T REALLY PERSONAL
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES SEATTLE - Regardless of who the starting Met backstop was last night, the idea of Pedro Martinez having a personal catcher has surely been killed. Early in the...
PAIN IS FIRST WOE FOR YANKS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amTino Martinez gallantly tried to ignore the pain shooting from the bottom of his right foot yesterday. Martinez knew Jason Giambi's cranky hamstrings weren't going to allow Giambi to play...
YOU CAN'T DUCK GOOSE ANYMORE ; RETIEF CLOSE TO ANOTHER CROWN
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST, N.C. - Whether we like it or not, we must salute Retief Goosen today, bestow him of the all props that have unfairly averted him for too long. By...
BROWNE'S FOCUSING ON COURSE, NOT FOES
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES PINEHURST, N.C. - Olin Browne is more worried about dealing with the Pinehurst No. 2 course one more time than he is about catching Retief Goosen in today's...
M'STAR RAZ-ZES OLD CLUB
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amJackets and ties, goals and wins, and a demand for the MLS Cup. New MetroStars GM Alexi Lalas upped the ante and new striker Ante Razov responded. Razov haunted the...
METROS' COACH ON HOT SEAT
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amBob Bradley is the winningest coach in MLS history. He took over the Chicago Fire and led them to the MLS Cup and U.S. Open Cup in their first season....
WAUTERS GETS TOUGH - LIBERTY CENTER LEARNING GAME
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amIt didn't take long for Liberty head coach Pat Coyle to notice the difference in Ann Wauters this year. "She got tired of getting beat up," Coyle said. "She started...
KIDDING AROUND GETS OLD
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST, N.C. - Sergio Garcia teed off in the third round of the 2005 U.S. Open yesterday with a chance to win his first major championship and shed the tag...
THAT WAS HENN, THIS IS NOW ... LEFTY GETS ANOTHER CHANCE
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amSean Henn was hammered in his major-league debut on May 4 against the Devil Rays. Not only does he get a chance at revenge against Tampa Bay tomorrow night, but...
EVERYONE STILL DUCKING GOOSE ; CROWDS RUNNING FROM RETIEF
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Eight reporters attended Retief Goosen's pre-tournament press conference on Tuesday. Goosen is not only the defending U.S. Open champion, but he hass won two Opens and entered this...
REPEAT RESPECT ; PISTONS CRAVING CHEERS, NOT JEERS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Two wins from repeating as NBA champions, the Pistons can taste it. They have set the Finals on fire. Tonight against the demoralized Spurs, the defending champs...
SKED HEATS UP FOR AMAZIN'S ; AFTER M'S, GOING GETS ROUGH
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amSEATTLE - The Mets are not done with the Mariners yet, but after this series finishes today, the Mets will play 16 straight games against pennant contenders. Frankly, if the...
ASHADO TAKES OGDEN PHIPPS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amLast year's 3-year-old filly champ Ashado, favored at 4-5, won for first time in three starts this year and the first time since taking the Breeders' Cup Distaff last October,...
ANDERSON GETS TURN AT LEADOFF
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES SEATTLE - Even though Mike Cameron was not back in the lineup yet, Met manager Willie Randolph last night took Jose Reyes out of the leadoff spot anyway....
JACOBSEN COMES UP ACES ON 9
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST, N.C. - Peter Jacobsen wasn't sure exactly where his 7-iron shot on the 175-yard ninth hole ended up until he looked at the fans surrounding the green. "I saw...
BROWN BACK ON DL
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Around noon yesterday, the Yankees had a flicker of hope that Kevin Brown could avoid a trip to the disabled list. But after their 8-1 win over the...
ALLAN SAYS KNICKS SHOULD HIRE HERB
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amAllan Houston said yesterday he wants Herb Williams to coach the Knicks this coming season, and that he still plans on playing for the team this year. "I would like...
RARE AIR (& WAUTERS) ; AS V.J. NOTCHES NO. 3,000, ANN EMERGES FOR LIBERTY
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amLiberty 65 Mercury 54 On a day when the team's lone remaining original member reached a milestone only six others have achieved, it became more evident that the Liberty may...
RIVERS DELIVER GREAT FISHING OPPORTUNITIES
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amTHE black bass is about as popular a game fish as there is in this country and although the majority of anglers tend to fish lakes and ponds, rivers, especially...
C'MON, GO FOR IT ... DARE YA!
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST, N.C. - For three days we have witnessed some of the most cautious golf ever played in a major championship. Instead of "playing to win the game," as Jets...
MARLON GETS TURN ATOP METS' LINEUP
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES SEATTLE - Even though Mike Cameron was not back in the lineup yet, Met manager Willie Randolph last night took Jose Reyes out of the leadoff spot anyway....
NATIONWIDE GORE ; JUNIOR-CIRCUIT PRO A CROWD PLEASER
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST, N.C. - Tuesday night in Knoxville, Tenn., professional golfer Jim McGovern of New Jersey, who has been on the PGA Tour and is currently playing on the Nationwide Tour,...
CAN I GET A COMMA WITH MY CLOSER?
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amALL of a sudden, fantasy GMs are salivating over Milwaukee's Derrick Turnbow. The Turnbow fascination has little to do with his solid ERA (3.16) and stellar WHIP (1.16). And it...
NOW HE'S TOUCHED ALL BASES
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amDerek Jeter won a World Series ring in his rookie season, won over New York even before that. It means he has spent a decade not having to wait for...
SIMPLY GRAND - JETER HITS FIRST SLAM; WANG DOES BANG-UP JOB
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 8 Cubs 1 Derek Jeter's bat enabled the Yankees to laugh their way past the Cubs. His first career grand slam broke open a close game in the sixth...
BOSS' 'WORK' WITH DEREK PAYS OFF
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amAt first George Steinbrenner said, "No kidding?" A few moments later, he claimed he was kidding. Steinbrenner was in a jovial mood yesterday afternoon, so it was hard to determine...
SIMPLY GRAND - JETER HITS FIRST SLAM IN 2-HR EFFORT AS BOMBERS ROLL
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 8 Cubs 1 Without Derek Jeter's grand slam and solo blast two innings apart, the Yankees don't laugh their way past the Cubs. Sans Chien-Ming Wang's brilliant pitching, they...
RAIL HEROES - FOR A DAY: NINE UNLIKELY STARS OF SUBWAY SERIES
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amFor several years, Matt Franco got the same reaction from many of the people he met. "It probably happened 100 times," Franco said last week from Japan, where he currently...
BUYOUTS WILL BE NAME OF THE GAME
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amBARRING AMENDMENT, the new NHL's new collective bargaining agreement will contain a transitional provision allowing teams to buy out players over a defined period this summer without having the 67...
AT LAST, JETER'S IN SLAMMIN' COMPANY
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amIf the ecstatic Yankee Stadium throng didn't know beforehand, word spread almost immediately. Moments after Derek Jeter crushed a Joe Borowski pitch over the fence in deep left-center with the...
DL LIKELY FOR BROWN
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Yankees didn't put Kevin Brown on the DL yesterday, but strongly indicated that was the direction the veteran right-hander with a balky back is heading. "There will...
COMING UP ACES - JACOBSEN DRAINS HOLE-IN-ONE
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Peter Jacobsen wasn't sure exactly where his 7-iron shot on the 175-yard ninth hole ended up until he looked at the fans surrounding the green. "I saw all...
DRIVER'S MANUEL - ANTI-BOWA SKIPPER SHIFTS PHILLIES INTO HIGHER GEAR
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amKNOW this about Charlie Manuel: He loves George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers and Clint Eastwood is one of his favorite actors. Considering all that, he wasn't about to get...
SWING AND A MYTH - SPARE US THE TEARS OVER STADIUM TEARDOWN
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amOH, the weeping. Oh, the groaning. Oh, the beating of breasts, the wringing of hands. Oh, the outrage. Oh, the indignation. Oh, the righteous anger. Only three things could inspire...
IT IS HIGH ... IT IS DEEP ... IT IS WRONG! YANKS HAD A BETTER WEEK THAN THEIR BROADCASTERS
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amWHILE the overall state of Yankee baseball broadcasting has long been depressed, last week it was just plain depressing. It began Tuesday, in the first inning of the first game...
POWER OUTAGE - 'ROID CRACKDOWN A FACTOR IN SLUGGERS' SILENT SUMMER
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe great home-run hitters of this era are going, going and, in many cases, pretty close to gone. Forget about one man hitting 70 homers in 2005. It is a...
STAN-DIN' STRONG - ALBECK RETRACES THE STEPS OF HIS CROSS-COUNTRY COACHING CAREER
June 19, 2005 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Almost instantaneously upon taking over the Denver Rockets from Joe Belmont 13 games into the 1970-71 season, Stan Albeck got initiated into the unstable head-coaching fraternity and...