June 29, 2005
INTERPUBLIC CFO OUT AS MONEY WOES CONTINUE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amTroubled advertising giant Interpublic Group disclosed even more bad news yesterday about its financial situation. Robert Thompson, the chief financial officer, is resigning after just a year on the job...
FEDS PLAY GAME OF LIFE WITH BERNIE LOCKUP
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe feds have asked a judge to throw the book at WorldCom boss Bernard Ebbers and sentence him to life behind bars for his role in the company's $11 billion...
SCRUSHY WALKS ; HEALTHSOUTH CHIEF SCOT-FREE IN $2.7B SCAM RAP
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amRichard Scrushy, the born-again, guitar-playing chief executive who stood accused by federal prosecutors of orchestrating a $2.7 billion accounting sham at HealthSouth Corp., was acquitted yesterday of all 36 charges...
SWEET DEAL HAS TOWERS LOOMING
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Dermot Company and its joint venture partner, Archstone Smith, closed a deal yesterday with the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development for a 700,000-foot, two-building project now dubbed...
TV STATIONS ARE THEIR OWN BEST CUSTOMERS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe largest category of television advertising isn't cars or cell phone services or even prescription drugs - it's ads for TV itself. TV networks and stations run more ads promoting...
VANITY FAIR TO POOR; HYPED DEEP THROAT EXPOSÉ FIZZLES ON NEWSSTANDS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amVANITY Fair has been scoring major publicity coups, with stories ranging from a May gatefold cover of the sizzling women from the TV hit "Desperate Housewives" to the bombshell disclosure...
PURCELL'$ PERIL; CALPERS MAY SUE TO CUT $62.3M PAY PACKAGE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amIf the giant California pension fund Calpers has its way, Morgan Stanley's soon to be ex-CEO Phil Purcell's deferred compensation package, valued at $62.3 million, might not be so big...
LINDA'S SECRET SHAME ; INSIDE THE $4-BIL GARAGE SALE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00am"The eBay Effect: Inside a Worldwide Obsession" Tonight on CNBC at 8 * * * (three stars) IT has 9,000 employees, with an additional 430,000 people earning an income from...
SMASHING SOLO DEBUT
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amBILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN, the American hairless best known as leader of alt-rock heroes the Smashing Pumpkins, made a dynamic solo debut Monday night at Webster Hall where he looked...
DRESSED TO GRILL ; 'HELL' ISN'T A REAL RESTAURANT
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHE white hot restaurant on Fox's hit, "Hell's Kitchen" isn't a real restaurant. In fact, the dining room used to be a newsroom. Producers created the eatery from scratch in...
MARTHA STEWART PLANS HOME-SWEET-HOME SHOW
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amMOVE over "Ex treme Make over," Martha is getting into the TV home building business. Stewart is looking for someone to host a new home renovation show, according to a...
'WAR' IS HECK - WELLS RUNS DRY IN SPIELBERG'S IFFY ALIEN TALE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWAR OF THE WORLDS ½ (two and a half stars) Call it a draw Running time: 117 minutes. Rated R (disturbing images and intense sci-fi violence). At the Ziegfeld, the...
YOKO'S BAD 'TRIP'; 'LENNON' HAS ALL THE TRAPPINGS OF A BOMB
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amNOW that we've sunk "The Mambo Kings," let's make a run at another winner, "Lennon." This jukebox musical, which mines the John Lennon catalogue, opened to poor reviews in San...
INTRODUCING TOBACK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amDirector James Toback will introduce his best film - the offbeat thriller "Fingers" (1978), starring Harvey Keitel (above) as a pianist with an unusual sideline - tomorrow at 7 p.m....
ON THE SIDE - MICHELIN HAS SOME SEEING RED
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe famed Michelin Guide, long considered the standard for food critique in Europe, will debut this November with ratings for 500 restaurants in Gotham. But no publication seems as thrilled...
PREM-ON PROPER BUT UNEVEN THAI
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amIF you're worried that Prem-on Thai, the latest venture from owner-chef Prakit Prem-on, might finally establish a worthy "destination" eatery for this colorful but cruelly abused cuisine - be at...
HAPPY CHEW YEAR
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amSUPPOSE you had a portrait of all the food you consumed in an entire year. How would that make you feel? Excited? Filled with self-loathing? Or just plain full? Tucker...
CANDLES NO MORE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWhen it comes to hostess gifts, a scented candle "says you didn't put much thought into how you could say thank you," says Nina Griscom, who has just opened her...
CHARM STAND - THE FIVE BEST FARMERS' MARKETS ON THE HAMPTON HIGHWAYS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S easy to spot the Hamptons rookies: They're the ones buying eggs, corn, tomatoes - or other locally harvested produce - in a supermarket. There are as many farm stands...
TRANSIT WORKERS' ROAD TO HEROISM
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amHero transit workers were honored yesterday for pulling kids out of burning buildings, stopping suicides and jumping in front of oncoming trains to rescue people from the tracks. NYC Transit...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAn Indiana school principal is in hot water after she danced in a student talent show wearing short shorts, got picked up and handcuffed by a male student playing a...
HUBBY BUBBA BOO$TS HILL IN '06 'WRITE' TURN
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Clinton is lending a hand to his wife's Senate re-election by raking in big bucks for her campaign. The former president - warning ominously that "they" want...
GOING NOWHERE; DEM JUST CHURNING IN MAYORAL RACE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amFEW political candidates ever get a gift dropped in their laps the way that C. Virginia Fields did when Freddie Ferrer seemingly imploded three months ago after he declared that...
BRAVEST ARE HOT STUFF ; RELY ON EXTINGUISHER TO SAVE BOY
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amIn a race against the clock yesterday morning, firefighters pulled a 10-year-old boy from a burning Harlem building with little more than a fire extinguisher to hold back the flames....
COP 'SLASHER' FIT TO BE TRIED
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens man accused of slashing a narcotics cop within an inch of his life is sane enough to stand trial, a judge found yesterday. Radcliffe Meeks, 33, allegedly sliced...
SAUDIS ARE BECOMING TOP THREAT TO OUR GIS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. commanders in Iraq are facing a growing security threat from Saudi Arabia - which is emerging as a major center for recruitment and financing of terrorist operations...
MILLER, WEINER OFF BLOOMBERG'S RADAR
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amMAYOR Bloomberg is so unconcerned about the possibility of facing either City Council Speaker Gifford Miller or Rep. Anthony Weiner in November that his pollsters aren't even bothering to ask...
'CRIP' CHARGED IN B'KLYN GAY-BASH
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA reputed Crips gang member has been indicted on charges of beating a gay man into a coma on a Brooklyn street, officials announced yesterday. "There is no explanation for...
1787 GOLDEN OLDIE IS BACK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amNew Yorkers will flip for this coin - it's the first gold money ever made in the United States, and was minted in lower Manhattan by one of George Washington's...
ICE GUY'S RINKING PROBLEM
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA "ZWI" charge has put a New Jersey Zamboni operator on ice. Driver John Peragallo, 62, staged his own ice follies Sunday, careening around a rink at dangerous speeds and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** (lcf) A Midtown businessman was arrested yesterday for having $250,000 worth of counterfeit clothing in his deli - the day after police had responded to his 911 calls...
CONDI GIVES OLYMPIAN EFFORT FOR N.Y.
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amCalling New York "the city that refuses to quit," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined Mayor Bloomberg yesterday at a pep rally for the city's underdog bid to host the...
TRIANGLE 'KILLER' ; HELD IN SLAY OF GAL PAL'S TEEN EX
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe man who plunged a knife through the heart of his girlfriend's former beau has been arrested, ending the manhunt in a fatal Long Island love triangle, police said yesterday....
$1.8M CARROT YANKED FROM FAILING SHELTERS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe city is pulling about $1.8 million in funding from 31 homeless shelters for not finding permanent housing for their clients. Of 134 nonprofit and for-profit shelters that receive tax...
BIG PUN'S BONANZA OF BLING
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe cash-strapped wife of dead rapper Big Pun is reluctantly selling off his iconic bling to feed her three children and make ends meet. Pun's widow, Liza Rios, 32, is...
HEARTBREAK IN BRONX FOR COURAGEOUS MARINE GAL
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx Marine killed in the bloodiest day for female troops in Iraq died just three days short of her 21st birthday, her family said yesterday. Cpl. Ramona Valdez was...
BLOOMBERG DEFENDS 10.25% COP RAISES
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAn arbitrator's award of raises for cops totaling 10.25 percent over two years doesn't break a pattern set earlier by civilian unions because 5.5 percent is funded by givebacks, Mayor...
MIKE & GIFF REACH $48B BUDGET DEAL
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller hammered out a $47.9 billion budget deal yesterday that restores $230 million in proposed cuts to social-service programs and cuts the sales...
CITY PROBES APT. RIP-OFF
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAuthorities are investigating sales of affordable-housing units at a Brooklyn apartment complex after a state probe revealed unqualified buyers were gliding to the head of a years-long waiting list -...
TOURISTS 'MADE UP' PARK ROB
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amTwo Norwegian tourists were busted after allegedly telling cops a tall tale of being robbed in Central Park - in what police sources believe was a scam to collect insurance...
'PRO-FERRER' SPITZER IS HIGH ON HIZZONER
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amState Attorney General Eliot Spitzer - who has already endorsed Fernando Ferrer for mayor - said yesterday the city has made "real progress" under Mayor Bloomberg and declined to say...
TEACHERS NIX NYPD-TYPE OFFER
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amHours after a state arbitration panel decided to slash salaries for rookie cops in exchange for pay raises to veterans, the head of the city teachers union ruled out a...
A JAWS-DROPPER; DEAD SHARK FOUND IN QNS.
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amNew York City got a taste of the shark terror that's paralyzing the Florida Panhandle, when a 6-foot shark washed up on a Rockaways beach yesterday. The blue shark was...
NEWSDAY 'PERV' - EX-PUBLISHER BUSTED ON RAP OF KIDDIE PORN
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amRobert Johnson was once the respected former publisher of Newsday and a member of the state Board of Regents - but his suave exterior belied his penchant for child pornography,...
HAMPTONS SEX FIEND ; NUDE MAN IN SKI MASK JUMPS WOMAN AT MAIDSTONE CLUB
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA naked maniac wearing only a ski mask tried to rape a 61-year-old woman yesterday as she took a morning walk along a beach in front of one of the...
RAPIST BEATS WOMAN WITH CAST
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA vicious thug tried to rape a woman inside a Lower East Side apartment building - smashing her on the head with a cast on his arm, police said. The...
MTA ZIP-SIP LAW ALREADY IN PLACE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amDrinking a cup of coffee while taking the subway to work might be a way of life for many New Yorkers - but few riders actually know it's been illegal...
CITY JAZZMAN, DOCTOR DENY TERROR CHARGE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA New York jazz musician and a Florida doctor pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges they conspired to aid al Qaeda. The arraignment of Tarik Shah and Dr. Rafiq Sabir...
'SPIDEY RAPIST' GRILLED; SUSPECT ON PERV LIST
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA convicted sex attacker who was supposed to register with the state was being questioned late yesterday as a suspect in the recent "Spider-Man" rapes on the Upper East Side...
MADAM GETS OFF SO EA$Y
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAbout $200,000 in cars, a motorboat, and savings - plus a guilty plea - was all Manhattan prosecutors could squeeze yesterday from admitted madam Julie Moya, who for a decade...
SPITTING IMAGE; HANNIBAL LECTER COURT GEAR FOR 'HIV SPEW' MAN
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amProsecutors say he tries to kill by spitting. So when an HIV-infected career thug was brought into a Manhattan courtroom yesterday - to set a trial date on attempted-murder charges...
WALTON DIED IN BELOVED HOMEMADE PLANE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAs the 11th richest person in the world, John Walton could have traveled the globe on luxury jets. Instead, the Wal-Mart fortune heir loved to take to the skies in...
CON MAN CHARGED IN NEW $1M SWINDLE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA convicted swindler facing a securities-fraud indictment in Florida found himself in cuffs again yesterday, charged with trying to refinance his wife's swanky Queens home behind her back - and...
GET SOME STIFF MEDICINE TO CURE THESE CRUISE BLUES
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHIS is an urgent public appeal to save Tom Cruise before it's too late. If Tom were just some homeless person with a habit of raving in public and snarling...
DOUGHNUT DOPE JAILED IN COP-SLASH
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn man who allegedly slashed an off-duty cop while trying to stick up a Dunkin' Donuts spent his 22nd birthday behind bars yesterday after NYPD officers nabbed him in...
WOUNDED OFFICER PROMOTED
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amHero cop Patrick Caprice, who survived a volley of gunshots while making a drug bust, will be promoted tomorrow to detective, officials said yesterday. Caprice, 42, was shot in the...
BUSH: WE CAN TOUGH IT OUT - SAYS IRAQ 'IS WORTH IT' IN TV PEP TALK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush last night warned the nation that more "tough moments" lie ahead in Iraq - but said the war is vital to America's future security. "It is...
RICE GOES COLD IN FAREWELL TO MIKE ; OLYMPIC PIC HINTS AT A SNIT
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWhat's wrong with this picture? After spending the day agreeing on the Big Apple's underdog bid to host the 2012 Olympics, Mayor Bloomberg and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared...
BACK ON TRACK ; DUBYA'S TACIT APOLOGY
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amCRITICS of President Bush often say he will never admit error. Last night, in speaking to the nation about the war in Iraq, George W. Bush implicitly acknowledged that the...
BIG-SHOT 'PERV' ; KID-PORN RAP FOR NEWSDAY EX-BOSS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amRobert Johnson was once the respected former publisher of Newsday and a member of the state Board of Regents - but his suave exterior belied his penchant for child pornography,...
A JAWS-DROPPER ; DEAD SHARK FOUND IN QNS.
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amNew York City got a taste of the shark terror that's paralyzing the Florida Panhandle when a 6-foot shark washed up on a Rockaways beach yesterday. The blue shark was...
'SISTER PING' MISTRIAL ON HOSTAGES
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA federal judge has declared a mistrial on the most serious charge against "Sister Ping," the Chinatown businesswoman who ran an international smuggling operation that led to the deadly 1993...
BUSH: WE CAN TOUGH IT OUT; SAYS IRAQ 'IS WORTH IT' IN TV PEP TALK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush last night told the nation that more "tough moments" lie ahead in Iraq - but the war is vital to America's future security, so "it is...
MIKE HAILS GIFF OVER $50B BUDGET DEAL
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg praised political rival Gifford Miller yesterday as they shook hands on a $50.2 billion budget deal that restores $229 million in proposed cuts to social-service programs and lowers...
RUSH-HOUR CHASE NAILS RAPE SUSPECT
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA suspected rapist led police on a wild chase through Midtown yesterday before he was tracked down in a bodega in his old Bensonhurst neighborhood. Fabion White, 20, was apprehended...
SHOT COP A DETECTIVE TOMORROW
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amHero cop Patrick Caprice, who survived a volley of gunshots while making a drug bust, will be promoted tomorrow to detective, officials said yesterday. Caprice, 42, was shot three times...
DOWNTOWN TRANSIT HUB GETS DOWNSIZED
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe glass-domed transportation hub proposed for lower Manhattan has been scaled back, officials said yesterday. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said plans for the Fulton Street Transit Center were revised because...
ISRAEL JAILS 'MUTINEER' - REFUSED TO FIGHT SETTLERS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A New Jersey-born Israeli soldier - who refused to help close down a settler outpost - was thrown in jail yesterday for two months in a sign that...
HAMPTONS SEX FIEND - NUDE MAN IN SKI MASK JUMPS WOMAN AT MAIDSTONE CLUB
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA naked maniac wearing only a ski mask tried to rape a 61-year-old woman yesterday as she took a morning walk along a beach in front one of the most...
NETS MAKE WRIGHT PICK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAfter drafting Nenad Krstic in 2002, Nets brass went to Dallas to see him play in the Global Games. It loved what it saw. And it wasn't just Krstic it...
KNICKS LAND Q, EXTRA PICK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe Kurt Thomas-for-Quentin Richardson deal is done, but not without the Knicks getting the Suns to sweeten the pot to take on Richardson's contract that's uninsured for a career-ending back...
BATS LEAD TO VICTOR-Y - FOUR-RUN FIFTH MAKES ZAMBRANO'S JOB EASY
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amMETS 8 PHILLIES 3 The numbers say Victor Zambrano has pitched better than his record. The hard facts say the Mets had lost six of his previous seven starts. Last...
GEORGE TAPS IN-LAW AS SUCCESSOR
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Whenever George Steinbrenner has had enough of running the Yankees, The Boss has hand-picked son-in-law Steve Swindal to be in charge. Yesterday, Steinbrenner made that official. "Yes, Steve...
PIAZZA, BELTRAN EYING STAR TREK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES With less than two days remaining in the All-Star voting, Mike Piazza and Carlos Beltran are poised to be named National League starters. Pedro Martinez is a strong...
TWIST OF 8
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amCHANNING Frye stayed in college four years. So what's wrong with him? "Well, I go bowling, if that scares you," said the Knicks' first-round pick. Hell, considering all the gutter...
WANG'S WING SORE, BUT HE SAYS HE'S OK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Considering how it started, Chien-Ming Wang's night didn't turn out so bad. Yes, the Yankees lost and Tom Gordon flushed his victory, but after taking a...
NOREAST TOURNEY ON DECK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amA NEW tournament is starting up in July and it looks as if it will be a big one, both in prizes and in anglers. The popular "Noreast Saltwater" magazine,...
HODGE DOESN'T DODGE THIS YEAR'S NBA DRAFT
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Julius Hodge came home to Harlem last summer after his junior year at North Carolina State and spurned the opportunity to go into the NBA, he was met with...
TRICKS OF THE TRADE ; NETS' DRAFT PLAN HAS MANY OPTIONS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAs the wish-list names on the board eventually numbered more than the hours remaining before last night's NBA draft, not much had cleared up for the Nets. About all they...
COUGHLIN & CURTIS TEAM UP FOR BALL
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAs the head coach of the Jaguars, Tom Coughlin created The Jay Fund Foundation to aid Jacksonville-area children suffering from leukemia and other childhood cancers. Now that he's with the...
MARLON'S BEEN FINE IN A PINCH
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amYou could say that Marlon Anderson has been there all season when the Mets were in a pinch. Coming out of spring training, the Mets had no doubts Anderson would...
PEN POSES PROBLEMS - SUBWAY SERIES FAILURERAISES AMAZIN' CONCERN
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Braden Looper flushed a one-run lead to the Yankees on Sunday night, he wanted to destroy the visiting clubhouse. Looper had converted 14 straight save opportunities before the disastrous...
STEVE'S COMEBACK IS RIGHT ON TRACH
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Since his back feels good, Steve Trachsel's biggest enemy is monotony. Trachsel - recovering from herniated disc surgery - is about to be tested. He's making a return...
YANKS NEED CALM - FIRINGS WILL SOLVE NOTHING
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - He has assembled quite a prodigious collection of moments and memories across a crowded baseball lifetime, but Joe Torre happened to be sitting and sweating in what is...
FUNK'S ENDING - JASON'S SWINGING BETTER ... AT LAST
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - There are days he wakes up tired and wonders if his body is revolting for the second straight summer. At times he will see a doctor to make...
POSADA UNDERSTANDS THAT TRADE IS POSSIBLE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - He doesn't have the no-trade clauses that Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez have, so Jorge Posada knows that in the turbulent Yankees universe there is a...
COUGHLIN & CURTIS TEAM UP FOR CAUSE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAs the head coach of the Jaguars, Tom Coughlin created The Jay Fund Foundation to aid Jacksonville-area children suffering from leukemia and other childhood cancers. Now that he's with the...
METS GOING WITH FIRST-BY-COMMITTEE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amAbbott and Costello had no idea who was on first, and neither do the Mets right now. Before last night's 8-3 win against the Phillies at Shea, Willie Randolph said...
BATS LEAD TO VICTOR-Y - FOUR-RUN FIFTH MAKESZAMBRANO'S JOB EASY
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amMets 8Phillies 3 The numbers say Victor Zambrano has pitched better than his record. The hard facts say the Mets had lost six of his previous seven starts. Last night,...
BOSS KEEPS AX ON HOLD - NO BLOOD SPILLS AT TAMPA TALKS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amLightning struck Legends Field yesterday - literally, as severe storms hit the Tampa area. But the storm proved not to be a metaphor for the Yankee organizational meeting that was...
HUSKIES HELPED CHARLIE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amCharlie Villanueva spent most of his childhood in Queens, often playing ball in the park with other kids from the area. One of those other players was a pretty good...
YANK 'PEN FOR BIRDS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00am10 INN. / BOX: P. 82Orioles 5Yankees 4 BALTIMORE - Sunday, the Mets handed them a victory. Monday, the Orioles walked them to a win. Last night, the Yankees' charitable...
KEEP THOSE KIDS! OLD YANK FORMULA IS BAD MEDICINE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - From all indications, everything proceeded in a neat, orderly fashion when the Commission met in Tampa yesterday. No one was thrown under a bus, literally or figuratively. No...
MET BULLPEN HAS GRAVES CONCERNS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amTwo fans were walking out of Shea Stadium last night when one turned to the other and said, "That's why Cincinnati got rid of him." The two buddies were talking...
BOSS SPARES AX AS BOMBER BRASS MEETS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amLightning struck Legends Field yesterday - literally, as severe storms hit the Tampa area. But the storm proved not to be a metaphor for the Yankee organizational meeting that was...
BOSS KEEPS AX ON HOLD - BOTTOM LINE: HELP NEEDED
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - He has assembled quite a prodigious collection of moments and memories across a crowded baseball lifetime, but Joe Torre happened to be sitting and sweating in what is...
'EL' OF A DEAL! YANKS & METS MULL SHEFF-FOR-CAMERON
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amBRIAN Cashman and Omar Minaya have engaged in preliminary talks about a blockbuster trade that would send Gary Sheffield to the Mets for a package headed by Mike Cameron, according...
BULL'S EYE - KNICKS HAVE FRYE HIGH HOPES FOR 'ZONA CENTER
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThere hasn't been much joy and expectation in Knicksville on draft night in 20 years. The Knicks used the first overall pick in the 1985 NBA Draft on Georgetown center...
BOGUT JOURNEY - UTAH CENTER GOES TO BUCKS WITH TOP PICK
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe Green Room is the place to be on NBA Draft night. The projected top picks huddle with family, friends and agents, waiting to be transformed from prospects to millionaires....
FRYE HIGH HOPES - KNICKS LAND BIG MAN THEY EYED FROM START
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWhen commissioner David Stern announced the Raptors had selected Charlie Villanueva with the seventh pick, the people at Channing Frye's table on the green-room floor at the Garden's theatre exploded...
KNICKS DON'T HAVE A 'Q' - COMPLETION OF DEAL FOR SUNS' RICHARDSON DIMS
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amIn the hours leading up to their big draft to make the team younger and more athletic, the Knicks brass' stomachs were in knots. Last week's agreement to swap Kurt...
MULLIN STOPS TAFT TUMBLE
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amDuring his sophomore year at Pitt, there was talk that Chris Taft could be a lottery pick or even a top-five selection in the NBA Draft. But as the actual...
KNICKS GET PG IN SWAP
June 29, 2005 | 4:00amWith the Kurt Thomas-for-Quentin Richardson deal on the verge of collapse last night, the desperate Suns sweetened the pot to get it done. The Suns swapped their first-round pick (22)...