October 2, 2005
THE RIGHT HOOK; ONCE-NOVEL WHITE-COLLAR BOXING TURNS MAINSTAY
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amGleason's Gym, the country's top boxing gym, is a living museum to the sport. Mike Tyson trained there as a youngster; Hilary Swank trained there to prep for "Million Dollar...
CLINTON PAL EYEBALLED - ACCUSED OF LIVING HIGH ON HIS COMPANY'S DIME
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amVINOD Gupta, a high-living CEO pal and fundraiser to the Clintons, is being accused of looting his company's coffers and using shareholder money to fund his lavish lifestyle. Gupta, the...
TOP 10 WAYS BIG CHEESE IGER WILL CHANGE DISNEY
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amAt 9 a.m. tomorrow, Disney, for the first time since the Reagan administration, will be run by someone other than Michael Eisner. To help ease the transition into the Robert...
JOVI-AL TIMES - JERSEY ROCKERS HIT CAREER-HIGH FIRST-WEEK SALES
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amHair bands from the '80s are supposed to quietly fade into oblivion, not release a new album to career-high first-week sales two decades after forming. But that's exactly what Bon...
ROSE SWUNG AT CASINO'S RICH PITCH
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amPete Rose sure does like to roll the dice. Baseball's all-time hits leader and most notorious gambler was thisclose to signing a two-year, multimillion dollar deal this summer to become...
SPOOFIN' OFF AT WORK
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amIf your workplace gets too boring, a solution might await inside a new office supply "catalog" hitting bookshelves this month. The 126-page send-up of a Staples catalog, "Stooples," ($12.95) roasts...
BLESS'D BEASTS; N.Y. CHURCHES OPEN PEWS TO PAWS TODAY
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amNEW Yorkers adore canines - the word dog is God spelled backward, after all - so churchgoers are requesting that their houses of worship welcome four-footed friends. Now, churches around...
TOLYA'S THE TALK OF FIDE TOURNEY
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amTHE world chess federation (FIDE) championship began this week in San Luis, Argentina, but it was Anatoly Karpov who stole the spotlight. First, the former champion appeared on an Argentine...
VICE SQUAD - 'CSI' GETS TWISTED
October 2, 2005 | 4:00am" CSI," the phenomenally popular procedural drama about forensic scientists in Sin City recently started its sixth season and it's continuing a rating-seeking trend that began in its second year:...
'MEDIUM' - ARQUETTE'S TV GAMBLE PAID OFF
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amFor many in Hollywood,Network TV remains the ugly stepchild of the movies,a place an actor goes only when opportunities for plum movie roles have dried up. But don 't tell...
NBC SUFFERS FROM 'APPRENTICE' OVERLOAD
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amTWO versions of "The Apprentice " are two too many. That 's the unfortunate conclusion reached after watching the premieres of "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart " on Wednesday,, Sept.21,at 8...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK 'S BEST MOVIES
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amNOSFERATU (1922) Sunday, 12 midnight, TCM Don 't like silent films?Make an exception for this campy,but creepy expressionistic version of Bram Stoker 's "Dracula." You can always invite friends over...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amDRAMA Nurse Ratched 2005 Tall,brash and loud - those words describe Kristen Johnston,whose weird screen presence worked well for her when she played alien Sally Solomon on the long-running NBC...
WHO'S SPINNING THE 'WHEEL'?
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amIF you cover TV long enough,you eventually learn that you don 't need a good reason for why things are done the way they 're done. "We 've always done...
LOCKED UP - WHO, OR WHAT, IS 'HOUSEWIVES' HIDING?
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amLAST season "Lost " had "What 's in the hatch?" Now "Desperate Housewives " has "What 's in the basement?" As if fans of the white-hot ABC dramedy didn 't...
O.J. MURDER TRIAL REMEMBERED
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amCAN you believe it 's been 10 years since O.J.? It seems like only yesterday that 150 million Americans stopped what they were doing to watch the O.J.Simpson verdict on...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
October 2, 2005 | 4:00am1. Rock chronicles Now in book form: the popular online entries of a cliched, would-be indie rock star from Brooklyn who actually turned out to be a Harper's magazine editor...
THE HOT SEAT - WALLACE
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amAt next year's Academy Awards, Hollywood's stars may have to watch out for Wallace and Gromit - literally. This lovable dog and his man from the happy English cul-de-sac of...
ODD MEN IN - LAND & BRODERICK TAKE A BITE OUT OF B'WAY
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amTHEY'RE APPLES AND ORANGES, BUT FOR BROADWAY, LANE AND BRODERICK ARE THE PERFECT 'COUPLE' WHEN Matthew Broderick shows up for a rehearsal, he knows every line - just not to...
SISTER ACT - FIONA'S SIBLING CARRIES A TORCH FOR TRADITION
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amCabaret singer Maude Maggart loves the hushed intimacy of dinner-theater clubs and prefers the songs of Irving Berlin to Green Day. That wouldn't be unusual for such an artist except...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amLiz Phair "SOMEBODY'S MIRACLE" 3 ½ STARS Capitol Records The girls of Guyville will probably be disappointed that on Liz Phair's latest album, "Somebody's Miracle," the singer/songwriter is no longer...
FADO GOES GLAM - PORTUGUESE STAR PLAYS NYC
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amFOR mono-monikered singer Mariza, fado - a type of folk music native to Portugal - is all about feelings. "A scientific explanation is it's the music we've had for more...
NOAH'S LARK - BROOKLYNITE BAUMBACH BRINGS IT ALL BACK HOME
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amMore proof that Brooklyn is the new Manhattan: 2005's most Woody Allen-ish film is set in Park Slope, not the Upper West Side. Noah Baumbach, who wrote and directed the...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amZOMBIE HONEYMOON Marriage is a challenge for a pair of newlyweds when the hubby becomes a flesh-eating (and shedding) zombie. TWO FOR THE MONEY High-stakes sports betting tale with Matthew...
REQUIRED READING
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amAlabama-born Paul Hemphill begins "Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams" with an episode from his own youth - listening to the singer as a 13-year-old, on a trip with...
DASTARDLY DAD A DETOUR FOR DANIELS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amNO more Mr. Nice Guy - it aptly sums up Jeff Daniels' performance in "The Squid and the Whale." If you know Daniels solely from his sweet, if somewhat dimwitted,...
HEAR THIS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amIN CONCERT * SoCal punk vets Social Distortion tell the story of their life with Mest and Bullets & Octane at Nokia Theater tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. * Post-punks...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amHot guy creates beauty,music MEET Sean,a handsomemusician/makeup artistwith undeniably great skin.When he 's not making other people pretty,Sean writes songs.And while he doesn 't wax lyrical about Meet Market, we...
WEDDING-DAY DOUBLEHEADER; BRIDE & GROOM KEEP ROOTING AS YANKS TRIUMPH
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amThe wedding was a hit, but the bride struck out with her scheduling. Still, a beaming and blushing Traci Bradbury, 29, generously flashed the score of the Yankees-Red Sox game...
NURSES TELL OF CHILD WARD'S 'HORRENDOUS' DIRT
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amNurses at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia say the hospital has failed to protect staff and patients - including newborn babies - from "horrendous" dust during construction. Earlier this year -...
WTC MEMORIAL BOARD SHRUGS OFF RESIGNATION
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amThe resignation of a major arts patron from its board won't damage the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation's fund-raising efforts, a spokeswoman insisted yesterday. Agnes Gund, a former Museum of...
MOTHER FIGHTS ON FOR SLAIN SON
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amFOR Nancy Fisher, there is no peace. Two years after her beloved son Mark was gunned down in Brooklyn, his body discarded like trash on the street, two separate juries...
5 GUNMEN HOLD UP L.I. CASINO BOAT
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amFive-hundred party cruise passengers aboard a Long Island casino boat were held at gunpoint by five men who looted the gambling ship's money room, police and witnesses said. The masked...
PIUS XII: ANGEL OR EVIL?
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amTHE MYTH OF HITLER'S POPE: HOW POPE PIUS XII RESCUED JEWS FROM THE NAZIS BY RABBI DAVID G. DALIN REGNERY BOOKS, 209 PAGES, $27.95 OF all the debates arising from...
AFRICA'S WARTS AND WONDER
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amTHE FATE OF AFRICA: FROM THE HOPES OF FREEDOM TO THE HEART OF DESPAIR BY MARTIN MEREDITH PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 752 PAGES, $35 SO many bad books receive extravagant praise that...
JUDGE COMPLAINTS BENCHED IN BUNCHES
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amThe state watchdog that disciplines judges fielded a record number of complaints last year, including several against top Manhattan jurists, according to the panel's annual report and disgruntled litigants. But...
GANG WEAR SET OFF FATAL SCHOOL FIGHT
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amFour teens were being questioned last night in connection with a brawl outside a Manhattan high school Friday that left a 15-year-old stabbed to death with a gang member's knife....
HIGHER STAKES; POKER VID GAME RAISES RATING FLAP
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amThe most realistic poker video game yet - with players able to toss animated chips around with celebrity card sharks - has reignited debate over ratings that let kids as...
SCIENTOLOGY SEX ASSAULT NIGHTMARE
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amFORMER Scientology staffer is breaking her silence about being sexually assaulted 100 times at ages 16 and 17 by the church supervisor she was "ordered" to live with, and then...
I FIGHT ON FOR SLAIN GRID SON
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amFOR Nancy Fisher, there is no peace. Two years after her beloved son Mark was gunned down in Brooklyn, his body discarded like trash on the street, two separate juries...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** (s,l) A man was arrested yesterday afternoon after firing a random cascade of bullets into the air as terrified neighbors ducked for cover, cops said. Police said...
SPEEDER DIES IN CADDY SMASHUP
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amA young Long Island man with a history of speeding was killed early yesterday when he crashed his father's Cadillac CTS into a tree and mailbox, police said. Islip Terrace...
MOM'S 'KILLER'; BEAU ADMITS HE KILLED LOST TOT'S MOTHER: COPS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens man confessed yesterday to strangling his girlfriend before abandoning her 4-year-old daughter, leading cops to trace his cellphone and then dredge a nearby pond in a desperate search...
MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE LED NYER TO OLD UNCLE HESHY, MOB HIT MAN
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN he got the cryptic voice mail in 1997, Eric Konigsberg secretly suspected it was from a man who filled him with both dread and a strange thrill. "If you're...
BX. MAN BUSTED IN ST. JOHN'S RAPE
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amCops have charged a Bronx man with raping a sleeping St. John's University student after he was invited back to her dorm following a night of drinking. Police said yesterday...
COP FIRES IN B'KLYN SHOOTING
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amA shoot-out between a cop and a gunman in Brooklyn early this morning landed a man in the hospital with a bullet wound in his leg - but police would...
STAFF WOE SAPS MEDIC ALERTNESS; EMTS WORK WHILE 'DIZZY, HUNGRY, EXHAUSTED'
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amA severe staff shortage and overtime-rule change have forced the city's medics to work punishing hours of OT, and the first responders say they're exhausted and their patients are at...
BEYOND NY TRIBALISM
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amFREDDY Ferrer's bread and butter this November is, supposedly, Hispanics, who'll surely back him big. And, supposedly, he needn't worry too much about blacks deserting to the GOP en masse,...
MCHALE'S LAST CALL; LANDMARK MIDTOWN BAR CLOSING
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amMcHale's - the Manhattan bar as famous for its celeb sightings as its jumbo burgers - is closing Jan. 1. With its familiar red and green neon sign, McHale's has...
POL'S FISHY $$ 'MATCH' GAME - HIRES CRONY WITH ELECTION FUNDS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amA leading Independence Party activist has opened a political consulting firm and collected more than $80,000 from the Independence Party's long-shot candidate for Manhattan borough president, The Post has learned....
BRONX BOOM LIFTS BLOOMBERG
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amJUST as Freddy Ferrer is charging that Mayor Bloomberg is ignoring the city's neediest, out comes a report showing that The Bronx - Ferrer's base and the poorest of the...
MAYOR 'KIDS' AROUND IN BX.
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amWhile his opponents blasted him for refusing to face Fernando Ferrer in front of a Harlem crowd, Mayor Bloomberg spent yesterday before his easiest audience yet: children. At a community...
SLAY-BUST SHOCK - BEAU KILLED MOM OF WANDERING GIRL: DA
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens porter was charged yesterday with strangling his girlfriend and abandoning her 4-year-old daughter, who then wandered the streets cold and shivering in the middle of the night. Cesar...
MOM'S 'KILLER' - BEAU ADMITS HE KILLED LOST TOT'S MOTHER: COPS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens man confessed yesterday to strangling his girlfriend before abandoning her 4-year-old daughter, leading cops to trace his cellphone and then dredge a nearby pond in a desperate search...
THUGS STICK UP FLOATING CASINO
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island casino boat preparing to depart for a night of booze and gambling was robbed by several shotgun-toting men last night, police said. At least three men boarded...
SPEEDER KILLED IN L.I. SMASHUP
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amA young Long Island man with a history of speeding was killed early yesterday when he crashed his father's Cadillac CTS into a tree and mailbox, police said. Islip Terrace...
GANG GEAR SET OFF FATAL SCHOOL FIGHT
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amAn after-school fight turned deadly, killing a 15-year-old boy, when one attacker - a known gang member - mistook another brawler for a member of a rival gang, a fellow...
CHAMPAGNE AFTER CORKER OF A YEAR
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - In other years, with other teams, the Yankees have greeted this moment differently. When winning the World Series is the only acceptable standard, then that is the only...
OCTOBER FEST FOR BOMBER BOOSTERS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amYankee fans yesterday trekked to their hated rivals' hometown, enduring catcalls and other abuse, to see order restored to the baseball universe: New York is back on top! "It's beautiful...
HAPPY APPLE SWINGS INTO OCTOBER-FEST
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amCheers erupted throughout the city yesterday as the Yankees defeated the Red Sox, 8-4, in Fenway Park to clinch their eighth consecutive American League East title. As Johnny Damon bounced...
NYERS AT GAME ARE BOSTON BRAVES
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Bombers boosters yesterday trekked to their hated rivals' hometown, enduring catcalls and other abuse, to see order restored to the baseball universe: The Yanks are back on top!...
MARONEY IS GOPHERS' GO-TO GUY
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Personal awards aren't high on the priority list for Laurence Maroney. Minnesota's emerging tailback wants to lead the No. 18 Golden Gophers to a Big Ten...
HEALTHY YOURI DRIVES METROS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amSome players recognize and live for those pivotal moments that define a season. They thrive in those watershed games that can change the course of a regime, or even a...
CALL A SHRINK! CRAZY SPLIT SCREEN REDUCES YANKS-SOX TO POSTAGE STAMP
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBY NOW we should come to expect - if not accept - the ridiculous. We should know that on the day of the big game we're going to see everything...
'KARAKORUM' ENDS LONG LOSING STREAK
October 2, 2005 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Karakorum Patriot, making 15th start this year, winless since January, was 18-1 under Pablo Fragoso for Jeff Odintz barn that's batting .08 for year. Five-year-old gelding gunned...
LEGACY ON THE LINE - ROY RETURN MAY TARNISH IMAGE
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amTAMPA - The ending is usually never pretty in boxing. Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis, Marvelous Marvin Hagler are the exceptions. They are the fighters who left the sport still feeling...
SHEFF, YANKEES NOTCH '1 MORE'
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Gary Sheffield came to New York for one reason, and it wasn't to see Manhattan. Sheffield became a Yankee to win a championship and feel the love that...
8TH WONDER ; AL EAST CHAMPIONSHIP GOES TO YANKS AGAIN
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 8 Red Sox 4 BOSTON - What was improbable three weeks ago is fact today: The Yankees are the AL East champs. On Sept. 10, the Yankees were four...
NEW DEER REGS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amTHE archery season opens this week in the Northern Zone and due to the discovery of CWD there will be some changes in hunting regulations in the containment area. The...
A MAJOR LOSS TO COLLEAGUES
October 2, 2005 | 4:00am"You just wish he had used the same fight with this instead of killing himself. It's terrible."RUTH LOVELACE Todd Myles, then nine, was shooting hoops near PS 309 when he...
SHAKESPEARE'S STILL PERFECT
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amAll's well that ended well at Belmont Park yesterday for the 4-year-old colt Shakespeare, who ran his unbeaten streak to five with a hard-fought, photo-finish victory over the dead-game 3-year-old...
FLOYD AWAITS ESPN PLAYOFF NOD - MET'S PERSONALITY REALLY PAYING OFF
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amAnyone who has been in the Mets' clubhouse for five minutes knows Cliff Floyd can talk. If he isn't cracking wise on David Wright or breaking up his buddy Mike...
SLICK VICK LIFTS TECH
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amVa. Tech 34West Va. 17 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia fans taunted Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick with words and mocked him with signs. They were thinking along the same...
TRIBE ON BRINK ; INDIANS FACE MUST-WIN, NEED YANKEE HELP
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amWhite Sox 4Indians 3 CLEVELAND - Just consider Cleveland the sixth borough today. From the Bronx to Queens, there may not be any group of people rooting harder for the...
THERE IS CRYING IN BASEBALL
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON -The mist started growing thicker in the fifth inning, when the lead grew to five runs and Randy Johnson started stringing zeroes on the scoreboard and Fenway Park had...
UNIT MEASURES UP
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - There was something missing, Joe Torre knew that. Randy Johnson's fastball seemed to be working fine. His slider had some bite to it. And yet, there was something...
WAKEFIELD: DIDN'T HAVE RHYTHM
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - When the Red Sox were rained out last Monday night, it set a less-than-ideal situation into motion. Boston was forced into a day-night doubleheader with Toronto the next...
RED SOX THRILLED IT'S SCHILL ON THE HILL
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - When Curt Schilling chatted with David Ortiz during yesterday's 8-4 loss to the Yankees, Ortiz picked up on something that might bode well for Boston. As far as...
SHEFF'S RECIPE COOKS UP SUCCESS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Reggie Jackson, Mr. October, found Gary Sheffield, yesterday's Mr. October, in the visitors' clubhouse at Fenway as the champagne flowed. The two men embraced for about 30 seconds...
THE CUP GOES TO BORREGO
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBorrego, a 4-year-old California-based colt who's been a notorious bridesmaid through most of his career, made it to the altar for his second million-dollar race in a row with a...
CASHMAN PROUD - BUT NOT SATISFIED
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Brian Cashman quietly let it all sink in yesterday. "The American East title, I'm pretty proud of it," the Yankee GM said after the Bombers' 8-4 win over...
STAGE SET BY BP KNUCKLER
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - After helping the Yankees batter Tim Wakefield on their way to winning the AL East yesterday, BP pitcher Joe Ausanio jokingly said he was going to ask the...
ONCE MO WITH FEELING!
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Mariano Rivera smiled again at Fenway Park, only this time there was champagne dripping from his head and a soaked T-shirt telling anyone who could see that the...
KNICKS STILL HUNGERING FOR CURRY
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amLeon Rose, Eddy Curry's agent, believes a stalemate can still be broken between the Bulls and Knicks that could consummate a sign-and-trade package that would make the 6-11, 280-pound center...
GOPHERS NO MATCH FOR LIONS' ROAR
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amPenn St. 44Minnesota 14 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Penn State coach Joe Paterno may have had his Nittany Lions at 4-0 for the first time since 1999, but without a...
PENULTIMATE PIAZZA; STRIKES OUT IN PINCH; FINALE TODAY
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amMETS 3 ROCKIES 1 The 36,385 who showed up for last night's Mets' game surely came to say goodbye to Mike Piazza. This is Piazza's unofficial farewell weekend, but Willie...
BOSS: EAST TITLE ONLY FIRST STEP
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - While George Steinbrenner is proud of the way the Yankees responded to adversity this year, The Boss isn't settling for an AL East title. "Our team...
REST IN ORDER FOR YANKS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Mike Mussina will start Game 1 of the Division Series rather than Game 162 of the regular season. Jaret Wright will replace Mussina against the Red Sox today,...
TARVER TOPPLES ROY IN DECISION
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amTAMPA - Roy Jones Jr. didn't get knocked out last night. But he didn't win, either. Antonio Tarver claimed the rubber match of their trilogy with a unanimous 12-round decision....
METROS MELT AS D.C. ROLLS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amD.C. United 4MetroStars 1 In a game they desperately needed to win for their playoff push, the MetroStars last night wanted to show something about their character. Unfortunately for them,...
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - In a season they played as if they had everything to lose, the Yankees gained a measure of revenge yesterday. Nothing will ever make them feel good about...
CASHMAN FUTURE STILL UNCLEAR
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Twenty-nine days from today, Brian Cashman's contract runs out and he can take his place next to Hideki Matsui and Bernie Williams as free agents. "It's...
NO TIME TO FLOUNDER - HERM WON'T FOLLOW TUNA INTO TANK
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Is it over? Well, with two Jet quarterbacks down, a guy who has thrown nine NFL passes starting here today and a 42-year-old standing by, don't bet the...
BOLLINGER NOT READY TO STEP UP TO THE 'PLATE'
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES BALTIMORE - Brooks Bollinger, readying for his first NFL start today against the Ravens, was standing in front of his locker chatting with a handful of reporters early...
BROOKS' BIG SHOT - NEW JETS STARTING QB HAS CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The kid is blinded by no illusions. "I don't think people are giving me much of a chance to do much," Brooks Bollinger said. No, they're not. But...
RAMMING SPEED - GIANTS HOPE TO HEAD INTO THEIR BYE ON WINNING NOTE
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amOne game. For all the psychological mumbo-jumbo thrown around about the impact of a victory or loss in a particular week, each game is a singular event. Some results feel...
THEY'VE GOT HIGH HOOPS - BROWN TRYING TO CONSTRUCT WINNER FROM KNICK RUBBLE
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amThe Knicks have a head coach ready to win now and a roster ready to win later. Larry Brown has his "dream job" but not his dream roster. It's why...
HIGH HOOPS - BIG THREE PUTS NETS BACK IN TITLE MIX
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amThe Nets' plan was simple. Get a proven low-post scorer to add to Jason Kidd, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson. Blend in on-hand talent and some to be added. Then...
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES - CLASSY BERNIE GREW FROM TORMENTED KID TO PILLAR OF DYNASTY
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amFULL confession: I like Bernie Williams. It has a lot to do with longevity. I covered the Yankees as a beat for this newspaper from 1989-95, and Williams is the...
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES - CLUTCH PIAZZA SIMPLY THE GREATEST EVERY-DAY PLAYER METS EVER HAD
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBOSTON - Certain snapshots are important to remember now, as Mike Piazza enters the final few hours of his career as a Met, specific memories that remind you of all...
THE ICEMEN COMETH BACK - NHL RETURNS WITH DEVILS ON TOP, RANGERS EVEN WORSE
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amLET'S be honest here. Nobody knows. Nobody knows what this new age NHL is going to look like this week, this month, this season. Nobody knows how an NHL that...
VAC'SWHACKS
October 2, 2005 | 4:00amBrian Billick earlier this week: "Tomorrow we're going to take up a donation for the Jets' relief fund. Because based on what I'm reading and hearing, I can't imagine these...