July 15, 2005
CITIGROUP'S $50M 'FIRE' WALL
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amCitigroup is lavishing $50 million in investment "play money" on an executive it fired for a scandal that got Citigroup barred from doing its private banking in Japan. The bizarre...
JUDGE HITS OGILVY EXEC WITH $125G FINE, 18 MOS. IN JAIL
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amFormer Ogilvy & Mather executive Shona Seifert was assigned to write a "code of conduct" for the ad industry - aside from serving jail time and paying a hefty fine...
CNOOC RAISES BID - CHINA'S OIL GIANT OFFERS $19B FOR UNOCAL DEAL
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amWall Street is expecting a war with China -fought with billions, not bullets. China's government-run oil company is ready to hike its cash bid -for the second time -to buy...
MUSIC BIG QUITS BMG
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amSonyBMG's Michael Smellie, the No. 2 executive at the music giant, is stepping down, The Post has learned. Smellie, SonyBMG's chief operating officer, has opted to leave to return home...
A LOW-COST, NO-FRILLS WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amFormer billionaire Bernie Ebbers could be dishing dinner for 12 cents an hour come October. That's just one of the jobs at the federal prison at Yazoo City, Miss., Ebbers'...
SWISS KISS TO 156 WILLIAM
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amA group of Swiss pension funds is banking 156 William St. this week for $40.75 million. The 217,000-foot U-shaped building was being purchased by the Swiss pension fund investment consortium...
PHIL PLOTS $40M SALE OF STOCK
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amDeposed Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Phil Purcell filed last week to sell over $40 million worth of the stock, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents. The SEC papers indicate...
SUIT BITES RON - PERELMAN'S $553M MARVEL CASE REVERSED
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amRon Perelman's new world of easy investing - in lawsuits - is giving him some big ups but also some big downs. Just weeks after winning a whopping $1.45 billion...
NO CANOODLE FOR GOOGLE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amDid you hear the one about the Wall Street analyst raising his price target for Google by 27 percent - to $350 a share - only to have investors yawn?...
DEAL A REAL WENNER AS US WEEKLY LOCKS UP MIN
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amMANY said it could not be done, but US Weekly Editor Janice Min and Wenner Media Chairman Jann Wenner have finally inked a new two-year deal, calling for $1.2 million...
MUSCLE-BOUND ARNOLD ; GOVERNATOR'S DEAL WITH PECKER MAGS MAY PRESENT CONFLICT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amControversy has erupted around California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's lucrative consulting deal with American Media, publisher of Muscle & Fitness, Flex and the National Enquirer, that actually pays him more than...
OGILVY EXEC GETS HOMEWORK
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amFormer Ogilvy & Mather executive Shona Seifert was assigned to write a "code of conduct" for the ad industry - aside from serving jail time and paying a hefty fine...
THE PERFECT CATCH
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTHE RECEPTION **1/2 (two and a half stars) TERRIFICALLY acted and beautifully shot on digital video - in just eight days on a $5,000 budget in filmmaker John G. Young's...
NOT MUCH FIGHT IN THIS S-L-O-W 'WARRIOR'
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTHE WARRIOR (one and a half stars) Sleepy saga.In Hindi with English subtitles. Running time: 88 minutes. Rated R (violence). At the Angelika and the Empire. NOW that the Brothers...
ALL'S WELL, ENDS WELL
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amHAPPY ENDINGS (two and a half stars) Too much of a good thing.Running time: 130 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity, drug use). At the Tower East, the Metro Twin, the...
KING FOR A DAY
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amCAROLE KING BROOKLYN'S Carole King played her first hometown show in a dozen years Wednesday night, touching on just about every milestone in her extraordinary career with a relaxed, retrospective...
MERCE'S 'OCEAN' IS MAKING WAVES
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amOCEANMerce Cunningham Dance Company at Rose Theatre, 60th Street and Broadway; (212) 721-8500. Season runs through tomorrow. Lincoln Center Festival 2005 runs through July 31. THIS year's three-week Lincoln Center...
RIVETINGSTORY 'KILLS'
July 15, 2005 | 4:00am"Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer" Sunday night at 8 on E! (three and one half stars) THE creator/producer of "True Hollywood Story" has gone a bit out on...
KICK IN THE NUPS - VAUGHN AND WILSON BRING THE FUNNY IN BIG FRAT WEDDING
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amWEDDING CRASHERS (three and a half stars) Register for it.Running time: 113 minutes. Rated R (nudity, sex, profanity). At the Union Square, the E-Walk, Lincoln Square, others. VINCE Vaughn? Funny....
GET OUT FOR FREE SHOWS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amHAVING a tough time dragging your boiling bones to a dark, dank rock club during these hazy lazy days? These free outdoor shows will give you a double dose of...
'GETTING BETTER'; EVEN ONO SAYS YES TO FIXES IN 'LENNON'
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amLAST week, the troubled Broadway musical "Lennon" met its toughest critic yet - Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner. A close friend of John Lennon's, Wenner was invited by Yoko Ono...
STARR REPORT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTHEY'RE STREAKIN' Good day for Conan O'Brien yesterday: "Late Night" received a personal- best three Emmy nominations - and the show (12:35 a.m.) marked 10 full years unbeaten in the...
LUNATIC NOMINATIONS WRONG AGAIN
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amDon't be surprised if Martin Sheen throws up his hands and quits the TV business. Who could blame him? He is arguably the finest actor on TV, and he's just...
'EXTRA' NUNSENSE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amHERE'S your first look at "The Office" star Ricky Gervais in his new skin - as a bitter movie extra in "Extras." Gervais' much-anticipated new show premieres next week on...
'HOUSEWIFE' SCORNED - EVA GETS EMMY'S COLD SHOULDER
July 15, 2005 | 4:00am'DESPERATE Housewives" star Eva Longoria was snubbed in yesterday's Primetime Emmy nominations - the second time she's been ignored for a major award honoring TV's hottest show. Longoria, who plays...
DANCE PICK
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amMoscow 's Bolshoi Ballet,with its own orchestra,opens a two-week season Monday at the Metropolitan Opera House,its first New York visit for five years.The programs not only include those Bolshoi favorites...
MARY'S HOT PICK
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amJazz pianist Bill Charlap - who just released "The American Soul," his own take on the ubiquitous George Gershwin songbook - has taken over the artistic director slot at 92nd...
ROVE FACES 'INSECURITY' ; SCHUMER: PULL HIS SECRETS CLEARANCE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Schumer yesterday teamed with Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson to demand that President Bush's political guru, Karl Rove, lose his security clearance in the flap over...
JURORS K.O.TLC 'THUGS' ; $3M TO BEATEN DRIVER
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens jury awarded a former limousine driver a whopping $2.9 million in damages for a 1993 incident in which four Taxi and Limousine Commission officers beat, punched and kicked...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amMotorists in Dallas were scared stiff when a corpse fell from the back of a mortuary truck and into the path of oncoming traffic. "The driver of the truck was...
LABOR DRIVES TO UNIONIZE DAY CARE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe city and state teachers unions have launched a campaign to unionize more than 52,000 government-subsidized home day-care providers, labor leaders said yesterday. "When you hear stories . . ....
SHARPTON FURIOUS AT BEEP OVER BIG BOTCH
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Rev. Al Sharpton is "flabbergasted" by C. Virginia Fields' "total incompetence" in dealing with her campaign's photo-doctoring flub, sources say. Sharpton - who has not endorsed a candidate -...
2ND TERM DISEASE; BEHIND THE ROVE 'SCANDAL'
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN he won re-election in November, George W. Bush was determined to avoid the crippling anomie that had beset almost every two-term president that had preceded him. There would be...
AIRPORT BOOST IN TRANSIT BOND ACT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe $2.9 billion transportation bond act set to go before the state's voters in November includes $30 million to beef up security at small public airports - most of them...
HARDHATS GET BACK $4.2 MIL
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amGreedy contractors working for the city cheated employees out of $4.2 million in wages - but now they have to pay it all back, authorities said. The 147 workers who...
'SITE'-SEEING TOUR - BID FOR NEW '9/11' CULTURAL HOMES
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amOfficials are searching for new locations - some away from Ground Zero - to house a pair of controversial cultural centers slated for construction next to the 9/11 memorial, it...
I GOT FAKED OUT; LATINO STUNNED BY VIRGINIA'S TRICK OF TURNING HIM 'ASIAN'
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amOne of the people removed from a doctored C. Virginia Fields campaign photo is a Latino who said yesterday he was never consulted about the fakery. John Rivera, who identified...
TOPLESS - & PROUD OF IT; CAMERON DIAZ TESTIFIES ON 'SCAM' OVER RACY PIX
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A bubbly Cameron Diaz testified yesterday she went topless for pictures as a 19-year-old unknown, "exploring the possibilities of my body," but denied she ever signed away...
ZARQAWI'S GOON CAUGHT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amU.S. forces captured a senior al Qaeda commander in Iraq who is suspected of masterminding the slaying of an Egyptian envoy as part of new wave of attacks on diplomats,...
SAVE YOUR BREATH WITH ODOR-NIXING TREATMENT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amYou take my (bad) breath away! That's the happy tune halitosis sufferers can sing now, thanks to a new dental treatment. The $500 procedure involves the application of carbamide peroxide,...
HILLARY'S BIG-MONEY DONORS ARE REAL PROS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Lawyers love Hillary. So do real-estate developers and Hollywood bigwigs. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton got more cash donations in the first fiscal quarter from the 50 most politically...
DWI MURDER RAP ; TEARS FOR KATE AS DA UPS CHARGES
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amAs a devastated Long Island family attended the wake for their 7-year-old "angel," the man who killed her in a horrifying DWI crash was slapped with hefty and rare second-...
GAZA ROCKET KILLS ISRAELI ON BALCONY
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A 22- year- old Israeli woman sitting on a balcony was killed by shrapnel from a homemade rocket fired from the Gaza Strip yesterday, authorities said. Gaza militants...
BAD 'SIGNS' FOR BLOOMBERG RIVAL
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amRepublican Tom Ognibene, who wants to challenge Mayor Bloomberg in a GOP primary, will file barely enough petition signatures to make it onto the ballot. The former city councilman told...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** Two brothers have been arrested for stabbing a male acquaintance on a Bushwick street, authorities said yesterday. The attack began at 9:30 p.m. on June 25, when Elvin...
ONE LINE THAT FIELDS WON'T CROSS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amC. Virginia Fields just can't get a break. Yesterday, she was to participate in a crime forum at Pace University but was greeted by union members protesting the college's decision...
IT'S BEEN A VERY GOOD YEAR SO FAR FOR $PITZER
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer raised a near-record $6.2 million in his campaign for governor during the first six months of the year, bringing his cash on hand to...
BYTES OUT OF CRIME; COPS' $11M DATA CENTER
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYPD yesterday unveiled an $11 million, state-of-the-art "nerve center" that lets cops access a database of suspects who have tattoos and nicknames, along with parole records and transcripts of...
COVER'S BLOWN ON FREEDOM CENTER SHILLS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amHERE'S one thing New Yorkers do not need - Colorado pinheads telling us what to think. Just last week, the Aspen Institute was an obscure, left-listing think tank boasting a...
KELLY: WE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM COP'S BUS LECTURE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBus riders will soon start seeing police officers on board telling them how to spot suicide bombers, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday. Kelly got the idea from Sgt. Luis...
'JUNIOR' SLAMMING WIFE-CHEAT MAFIA RAT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amLawyers for John "Junior" Gotti hope to show that key witness Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo is an off-balance, philandering liar by grilling the turncoat on a sordid affair that led...
MILLER GOES POSTAL; MAIL BLITZ COST $1.6M
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amCouncil Speaker Gifford Miller spent a whopping $1.6 million on a blizzard of recent taxpayer-funded mailings promoting himself - a shocking revision of earlier claims that the cost was only...
SLATER KOS BUTT-FEEL DEAL
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amHere's actor Christian Slater leaving court yesterday after he refused to take a deal offering him three days of community service on his recent rump-roughhousing rap. The no-jail deal would...
QUEENS QAEDA CONNECTION ; BRITS WANT TO GRILL MAN NABBED IN FOILED PLOT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amAuthorities investigating the London terror bombings have zeroed in on an al Qaeda "sleeper" from Queens who may have information about the attack that killed more than 50 passengers aboard...
FBI WATCHED BRIT BOMBER
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe fourth of the London homicide bombers was identified yesterday as a Jamaican-born convert to Islam - who was under FBI surveillance when he visited U.S. relatives in 2000. Lindsey...
BAT VICTIM: WAIT ON B'KLYN CASE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBrooklyn should delay an armed-robbery prosecution against a witness in the Howard Beach bat attack to avoid tainting the Queens prosecution of that racially charged case, a lawyer for one...
TV SHOW'S DATING DOC PROBED IN MED FLAPS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn surgeon who stars on the new ABC series "Hooking Up" has been probed by two states for her medical practices, The Post has learned. Dr. Lisa Aptaker, 37,...
MILLER GOES POSTAL ; MAIL BLITZ COST $1.6M
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amCouncil Speaker Gifford Miller spent a whopping $1.6 million on a blizzard of recent taxpayer-funded mailings promoting himself - a shocking revision of earlier claims that the cost was only...
'SITE'-SEEING TOUR ; BID FOR NEW '9/11' CULTURAL HOMES
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amOfficials are searching for new locations - some away from Ground Zero - to house a pair of controversial cultural centers slated for construction next to the 9/11 memorial, it...
'GRAD RATE' MESS; BAD QNS. HS STATS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amCity education officials scrambled yesterday to recalculate graduation-rate data submitted to the state Education Department after the agency released figures showing that fewer than one in 10 students in northwest...
HIZZONER 'BUILDS' UNION SUPPORT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThree construction unions endorsed Republican Mayor Bloomberg yesterday during a raucous rally - and blasted his would-be Democratic rivals for opposing the defeated West Side stadium. Union leaders representing carpenters,...
RESTAURANT LEAVES COUPLE STANDING AT THE ALTAR
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amA Los Angeles couple went from wedded bliss to wedded diss when the Manhattan restaurant that was set to host their nuptials tomorrow canceled on them - leaving them scrambling...
TRUCK KILLS HOMELESS WOMAN
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amA homeless woman was struck and killed by a large truck as she stepped into a Midtown street yesterday afternoon, police said. Veronica Williams, 49, who had been staying temporarily...
DRIVE-BY THUGS SLAY BMW MAN
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTwo men were gunned down - one fatally - in a drive-by shooting early yesterday in Queens. Miguel Reid, 27, was driving with an unidentified 22-year-old passenger in a BMW...
SNEAKY TRUCKER IN BRIDGE BUST
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amHeightened security on the Triborough Bridge last night helped cops nab a Queens man trying to cart $100,000 in bogus Nike sneakers into Manhattan, authorities said. Eagle-eyed bridge officer Steve...
CLERIC IS A BLESSING - OPERATES THEATER FOR DISABLED
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amRick Curry once tried to audition for a mouthwash commercial, but never got past a receptionist who laughed when she saw his empty sleeve. That's when the Jesuit brother began...
BYTES OUT OF CRIME - COPS' $11M DATA CENTER
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYPD yesterday unveiled an $11 million, state-of-the-art "nerve center" that lets cops access a database of suspects who have tattoos and nicknames, along with parole records and transcripts of...
HARDHATS GET $4.2M BONANZA FOR STOLEN WAGES
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amGreedy contractors working for the city cheated employees out of $4.2 million in wages - but now they have to pay it all back, authorities said. The 147 workers who...
JESS PLAINHAPPY DUO
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThe honeymoon may not be over yet for "Newlyweds" Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. This photo of the superstar couple cuddling for the cameras at the ESPY Awards in Hollywood...
REDDING GETS TO LIVE DREAM
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Tim Redding will be battling more than the muscular Red Sox lineup at Fenway Park tonight when he fills in for the injured Chien-Ming Wang and makes his...
ALEX PUTS BIG HURT ON CURT ; YANKS ONLY 1½ GAMES OUT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 8Red Sox 6 BOSTON - Of course, it had to come down to Curt Schilling against Alex Rodriguez. There was no other way the defining moment of the latest...
A-ROD HAS TRUE YANKEE MOMENT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Just a few moments earlier, the noise inside Fenway Park was so rich, so dense, so riotous, you could see the grandstand sway, feel The Wall vibrate, Red...
MENU HAS GOOD MIX
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amSALTWATER fishing has added variety this week with big time porgy fishing out east and bluefin tuna off the South Shore. Bottom fishing keeps getting better now that we've seen...
DONALD FOCUSED
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK ST. ANDREWS - Perhaps the most impressive performance of the opening day of the British Open - outside of Tiger Woods' jump to the lead - came from Luke...
CLUBS RACE INTO ICAHN FOR NATIONALS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amA busy debut season for Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island will come to a close with the USATF National Club Track & Field Championships today and tomorrow. And while it...
SECOND COMING - ROBINSON BACK ON DEVILS' BENCH
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amWhile the NHL turns cold as ice, the Devils turn to their Great Old Days. More than three years and one Stanley Cup later, Lou Lamoriello yesterday undid one of...
TIGER ALREADY FREEZES FIELD; WOODS FIRES 66 AS RIVALS RETREAT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - It was a performance eerily reminiscent of his record-setting winning performance in 2000. Tiger Woods, looking every bit as dominant as he did en route to his...
PENA HOPES TO BE SUPER AT 'NOVA
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amAntonio Pena decided last year that he needed to leave New York City to fully develop as a player, so he left Lincoln - where he had won three PSAL...
TIGER'S MOM WAS NEAR BLAST
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - Tiger Woods wasn't a half-hour removed from his sterling 6-under-par 66 yesterday in the opening round at St. Andrews when, during his post-round press conference, he matter-of-factly...
FREE AGENCY WILL HURT NHL
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amLOU LAMORIELLO, the only legitimate hockey man invited by the NHL to sit on its side of the table in executive-committee labor negotiations with the NHLPA, voiced strenuous objections to...
NETS WON'T WAIT FOR SHAREEF
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTrail Blazers free agent Shareef Abdur-Rahim and his agent are willing to wait as long as it takes to find a solution for his future. The Nets won't go that...
NYRA CHANGES ARE TRIAL BY FIRED
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amCall it the "Thursday morning massacre." The New York Racing Association -facing the loss of its franchise while struggling to climb out from under a series of scandals, a federal...
CRYSTAL'S CLEARLY HELPING CHRISTON
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amCrystal Robinson has been around a while, so the game-winning shot she hit in Houston on Tuesday was hardly her first clutch play. It was the kind of play that...
FINALITY STARES AT NICKLAUS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - Yesterday's first round of the British Open wasn't exactly the romantic walk around the Old Course Jack Nicklaus would have liked it to be. Translation: He didn't...
GLAVINE VS. SMOLTZ ; FRIENDS, EX-MATES FACE OFF AT SHEA
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Tom Glavine and John Smoltz oppose each other tonight for the first time in their careers, it will be a matchup Glavine compared to when he faced his older...
WANG MAY BE OUT FOR SEASON
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Thanks to a right rotator cuff problem Chien-Ming Wang's promising rookie season is likely over. And the Yankees' AL East pennant hopes may have gone with the injured...
PUTTING ON BRAVE FACE - ROOKIES KEEP ATLANTA IN RACE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTHIRTEEN straight division titles and only one stinkin' World Series is all the Braves have won, which has become their mark, a definition unfortunately shortened from remarkable. "We can't take...
TRAVELING OFF THE MARK
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - You may excuse Mark Hensby for not realizing what he missed last year. A year ago, Hensby, a quirky Aussie journeyman with a propensity for speaking his...
. . . BUT MASTERS NO SURE THING
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amMichelle Wie has reached the quarterfinals of the Men's U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship and is now three wins away from the capturing the championship and putting herself in position...
BROWN OUT? AGENT: LARRY WON'T COACH KNICKS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThough yesterday's talks directed at keeping Larry Brown in Detroit offered no resolution, his Long Island-based agent sounded as confident as ever the Hall-of-Fame coach will remain with the Pistons...
TRADING PLACES - BUYERS NOW, METS COULD START SELLING
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amSixteen days from now, the trade deadline will be here. And until July 31, the Mets may be one of the more interesting clubs to follow. GM Omar Minaya said...
THIS PICK 6 IS A FAN FAVORITE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amCard started out looking like longshots' delight, with apprentice Channing Hill winning both halves of double at $14.80 and $19.40, then ended with five of last six races going to...
PAIN AND GAIN - DAMON HIT STREAK REACHES 26
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - There are mornings when Johnny Damon will phone Terry Francona, insisting that his sore right shoulder shouldn't keep him out of the lineup that night. "Put me in...
MIENTKIEWICZ COULD RETURN BY WEEKEND
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Doug Mientkiewicz continued his rehab yesterday and could be back with the Mets before the end of the four-game series with the Braves that began last night. Kazuo...
ERICA JUST GETS IT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - They met in Colorado Springs where both were training to experience the ultimate in amateur athletics. She was attending the junior Olympic basketball camp and he was...
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Bookies were busy taking action the last few days as to who would be released first, Harvey Lawrence Brown or Harry Potter. In comparison to Next Town...
IT'S A PRETTY 'LAIM' EFFORT
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amIn a face-saving gesture, Detroit Shock coach Bill Laimbeer pulled his name from consideration for the Knicks job. Problem is, Isiah Thomas had already dropped Laimbeer's name last weekend when...
CRYSTAL'S HELPING CHRISTON
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amCrystal Robinson has been around a while, so the game-winning shot she hit in Houston on Tuesday was hardly her first clutch play. It was the kind of play that...
PIAZZA DELIVERS ; THREE-RUN HOMER GIVES METS VICTORY
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amMets 6Braves 3 Last Thursday, Mike Piazza helped the Mets take down the first-place Nationals, winning a game for them with a bloop single. One week later, Piazza beat the...
BELTRAN STARTS 2ND HALF STRONG
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBy all accounts, Carlos Beltran turned in a subpar first half for a player considered to have been the crown jewel of last winter's free-agent class. To be fair, a...
A-ROD GETS EVEN WITH BIG BANG!
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - He's waited for this. You bet he has. For a year and a half Alex Rodriguez has had to listen to the nonsense about his qualities as a...
A WRIGHT FUTURE ; YOUNG METS TAKE PAGE FROM BRAVES
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Braves came to Shea last night with seven players of less than a year's major league service, with 18 players produced by their farm system. Also, with a 51/2-game...
MUSSINA GIVES PEN A BREAK
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees desperately needed length from Mike Mussina last night, and it looked as if he was giving them a Darrell May effort instead. Mussina tossed 34 pitches...
MINAYA PLAYS TRADING GAME
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Sixteen days from now, the trade deadline will be here. And until July 31, the Mets may be one of the more interesting clubs to follow. Yesterday GM...
HEAVY LOAD TO SHOULDER
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE are ways to survive a rotation beset by injury and underperformance. You need a deep lineup, a deep bullpen, a deep farm system and depth of character. And last...
ALEX PUTS BIG HURT ON CURT - A-ROD, YANKS TRIM DEFICIT TO 11/2
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 8 Red Sox 6 BOSTON - Of course it had to come down to Curt Schilling against Alex Rodriguez with the score tied in the ninth inning. What other...
YANKS MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH TO SHOULDER LOAD
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThere are ways to survive a rotation beset by injury and underperformance. You need a deep lineup, a deep bullpen, a deep farm system and depth of character. For the...
MOOSE TIGHTENS NOOSE - MUSSINA RECOVERS FROM SLOW START
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees desperately needed length from Mike Mussina last night, and it looked as if he was giving them a Darrell May effort instead. Mussina tossed 34 pitches...
SCHILLING DOESN'T LOOK ANY CLOSER TO OLD FORM
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - At least Curt Schilling didn't try to BS anybody about his high-stakes move to the bullpen. "I'm a lot nervous," Schilling said before last night's 8-6 victory by...
HOBBLED DAMON EXTENDS HITTING STREAK
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - There are mornings when Johnny Damon will phone Terry Francona, insisting that his sore right shoulder shouldn't keep him out of the lineup that night. "Put me in...
SCHILLING RETURNS, HEAD TO BULLPEN
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - While the Yankees received another hit to their starting rotation yesterday with the loss of Chien-Ming Wang, the Red Sox welcomed Curt Schilling back onto their team yesterday....
WOE IS WANG: CHIEN HITS DL - SHOULDER INJURY COULD SHELVE ROOKIE FOR YEAR
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Thanks to a right rotator cuff problem Chien-Ming Wang's promising rookie season is likely over. And the Yankees' AL East pennant hopes may have gone with the injured...
MING'S INJURY A HEAVY LOAD TO SHOULDER
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThere are ways to survive a rotation beset by injury and underperformance. You need a deep lineup, a deep bullpen, a deep farm system and depth of character. The Yankees...
WOE IS WANG - ROOKIE COULD BE LOST FOR SEASON
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Thanks to a right rotator cuff problem Chien-Ming Wang's promising rookie season is likely over. And the Yankees' AL East pennant hopes may have gone with the injured...
EYE OF STORM - GIAMBI NEEDS TO BE FOCUS OF SECOND HALF
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - His can no longer be simply a nice little story of redemption and retribution any longer, a small supporting plot set against the broader Yankee storyline. No, across...
FENWAY IN PINSTRIPES - REDDING LIVING HIS LIFELONG DREAM
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Tim Redding will be battling more than the muscular Red Sox lineup at Fenway Park tonight when he fills in for the injured Chien-Ming Wang and...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amTo: Chris Berman From: Andrew Marchand Re: Nicknames CC: Bert (Be Home) Blyleven Dear Chris, Is there an event at which the nicknames aren't appropriate? Is there a time when...
YANKS FACE UN-FRIEND-LY SNUB - COULD GET BUMPED BY PERRY & ESPYS
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amIt's possible the conclusion of Sunday's Yankee-Red Sox game could be bumped from ESPN to ESPN2 because of the ESPY Awards. Sunday's game already has the unusual start time of...
5 QUESTIONS FOR LINDA COHN
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN's Linda Cohn. During the interview, Cohn revealed she will be calling WNBA action next season. Cohn grew up in Long...
HELL HOLE! ST. ANDREWS BUNKER IS 'MAJOR' HEADACHE
July 15, 2005 | 4:00amBritish Open * Friday 7 a.m., 1 p.m. - TNT * Saturday 7 a.m. - TNT; 9 a.m. - ABC * Sunday 6 a.m. - TNT; 8 a.m. - ABC...