October 18, 2005
TROUBLED CALPINE BRINGS IN TEAM OF BANKRUPTCY EXPERTS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amCalpine, the embattled energy giant, has hired a high-profile restructuring team from Kirkland & Ellis to advise its board, The Post has learned. The team, led by partners Richard Cieri...
D&D TOWER LIFTS 3RD AV.
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Third Avenue renaissance near Bloomingdale's continues apace. Vornado's Bloomberg tower, the luxury condos at 205 E. 59th St. and other projects have restored the chic aura that was in...
SAKS FALLS FLAT WITH BIG LOSSES AT FIFTH AVE. UNIT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amSaks Inc. yesterday reported ballooning losses at its Saks Fifth Avenue division, which has wrestled with a federal investigation into improper supplier payments and struggled to regain the luster of...
MCCAIN, ROLLING STONE WIN BIG AT MAG CONFAB
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amFAJARDO, Puerto Rico - U.S. Sen. John McCain rolled the dice figuratively and literally at the annual American Magazine Conference here. On Sunday night, he won big at the craps...
SONY BIGS CLASH - TOP DEPUTY SMELLIE TAKES SHOT AT CEO LACK
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe civil war inside music giant SonyBMG escalated as outgoing top deputy Michael Smellie told financial analysts he would consider staying in his post if there are changes to top...
CFO GOT HUGE $46M PAYOUT AFTER LEE BOUGHT IN
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amRobert Trosten, the former chief financial officer for teetering futures and commodities trading giant Refco, received an eye-popping $46 million severance payment when he left the firm last October, according...
AD UPSTARTS STAKE CLAIM
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThere's been no shortage of upstart ad agencies vowing to shake up Madison Avenue in the past few years. Amalgamated, Anomaly, StrawberryFrog, Taxi, The Night Agency, Phenom Boutique, The Concept...
BYPASS SURGERY FOR CABLE'S JIM DOLAN
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amCablevision's combative boss Jim Dolan went under the knife yesterday after being admitted to an undisclosed hospital on Long Island on Saturday for heart trouble. In a statement released last...
BURBERRY EXEC DIDN'T GET PLAID, BUT HE MAY GET EVEN
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amBrian Blake, the No. 2 executive at the Burberry Group, is considering the possibility of leaving the fashion house after he was passed over last week for the top job,...
STUDY: SEX CLOUDS MESSAGE
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amSex sells but it also makes it harder to remember who's selling it. That's according to a new study of the effectiveness of using sex in print advertising. Both men...
WARMER WINTER MAY ALLAY FUEL COST
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amNew York and the nation's snowbelt are hoping a surprise forecast for a warm winter will offset crushing costs of heating homes. Natural gas soared as much as 11 percent...
REFCO ENDGAME - DISGRACED FIRM SETS BANKRUPTCY FILING FOR FUTURES UNIT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amDespite frantic maneuvering over the weekend, Refco's Inc.'s futures trading unit will file for bankruptcy protection, according to a Goldman Sachs executive. Refco's filing came after two groups - private-equity...
REFCO ENDGAME - DISGRACED FIRM'S FUTURES UNIT FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amDespite frantic maneuvering over the weekend, Refco's Inc.'s futures trading unit has filed for bankruptcy protection. The move came after Refco reached a memorandum of understanding with private equity shop...
QUEEN FOR A NIGHT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amIT was a confusing night for hard-core Queen fans, who didn't know whether to seethe or celebrate at the Meadowlands arena. Their anger that the beloved, late Freddie Mercury had...
NO STRANGERS IN THE 'NIGHT'
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amCYNTHIA McFadden, Terry Moran and Martin Bashir will be the new faces of "Nightline" when longtime anchor Ted Koppel leaves ABC News next month, as The Post reported last month....
R.I.P. CHARLIE ROCKET - TRAGIC END FOR 'SNL' COMIC 25 YEARS AFTER F-BOMB
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amCHARLES Rocket's brief moment of TV immortality came in February 1981 - when he used the f-word on "Saturday Night Live." He was fired pretty much as soon as the...
STARR REPORT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amSam's staying put The guessing game as to who'll replace departing "GMA" weatherman Tony Perkins has already begun - but you can scratch Sam Champion's name off the list. Those...
REDISCOVERED - HER SINGLE GROOVES. HER NEW LOOK IS HOT. MADONNA IS BACK.; ALL HAIL DANCE QUEEN
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amHOLY kabbalah! The Material Girl's returned, and the material's fabulous. Madonna version 47.2 is a tricked-out '70s disco queen with platinum feathered hair, channeling John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever."...
'THE WARRIORS' COME OUT TO PLAY
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWARRIORS . . . Come out and play-i-ay . . . One of the ultimate New York cult movies - "The Warriors" - is laying it down and cutting things...
HOLMES ALONE **** 'MASTERPIECE'
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amHE was an opium addict, a snob and an upper-class snot who did not suffer fools gladly - or any other way. He was unpleasant, charming and arguably the greatest...
CD'S SINGLE DOESN'T CONNECT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amIn her never-ending backstroke in the fountain of youth, Madonna, sporting a '70s disco hairdo, premiered her retro dance album's single "Hung Up" yesterday on MTV's "Total Request Live." The...
HAVE YOUR CAICOS - GORGE ON THE BEAUTY OF THE TROPICS WITHOUT GOING FAR FROM HOME. CHRIS BUNTING REPORTS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN the tourism industry on a Caribbean island begins to mature, there's always a danger it will blossom into one of two extremes: an exclusive destination catering solely to the...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN - GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amIT TAKES A VILLAGE YOUR eyes and ears on the road (that would be us) are just back from The Bahamas' Paradise Island. Not only did we spot Lionel Richie...
HOT LOOKS - GO TROPICAL, WHEREVER YOU ARE. DANICA LO IS READY TO ASSIST
October 18, 2005 | 4:00am* This year, give your hair the vacation it deserves with B&B's Creme de Coco, $19 at bumbleandbumble.com. * Lindsay Lohan loves ModelCo's Tan in a Can and Illuminizer. From...
TROUBLED TEEN AND BABY BACK
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA clinically depressed teen and her 6-week-old daughter, who were reported missing after disappearing from their Staten Island home last week, were reunited with their family yesterday, police said. Tierra...
IRAQI VOTE VICTORY - LOSS FOR PUNDITS, TERROR
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amRISKING death, Iraqis of every background came out to vote on Saturday. Terrorists proved powerless to halt the country's progress. The final count isn't in, but the people appear to...
OPEN YOUR EYES BEFORE CHILDREN TURN INTO ZOMBIES
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amYOU could have floored me with a feather when I read the staggering report on the statistics of, not only adults in a neurotic orgy of sleeping pill popping, but...
TOP GAY ACTIVIST MENDS FENCES WITH BLOOMBERG
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amMatt Foreman, one of the city's best-known gay activists, has been quietly reappointed to the Human Rights Commission a year after he quit to protest one of Mayor Bloomberg's policies,...
STARS WILL $HINE FOR SCHUMER
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - First, it was Hollywood Hillary, now it's fellow New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's chance to schmooze the stars. Schumer has corralled A-list bombshell Lindsay Lohan, hotshot comedian Ben...
STUDENT IN HS WEAPONS BUST
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA 17-year-old Manhattan student was arrested at his high school yesterday for carrying a loaded handgun and a 3 1/2-inch knife, officials said. Police said Donald Jackson produced the blade...
$12M SEX SUIT - SORDID SUBURB SAGA
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe curtain rose yesterday in a Long Island courtroom on a sensational $12 million lawsuit - featuring sex, politics and allegations of violence. William Perks, the former harbormaster of the...
PILL-POPPIN' KIDS - 85% MORE TAKE SLEEP AIDS: STUDY
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amKids are popping sleeping pills at an alarming rate to help counter their increasingly stressful lives and demanding parents, a new medical study reveals. The use of prescription sleep aids...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A teenager was arrested for robbing a Chinese-food deliveryman at gunpoint outside a Bedford-Stuyvesant building, authorities said yesterday. The stick-up began about 11:50 p.m. Saturday, when the 21-year-old...
VALERY-MOM SLAY SUSPECT SKIPS COURT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe accused killer of little Valery Lozada's mother was a no-show in Queens Criminal Court yesterday after his lawyer waived the man's appearance at a routine hearing. Cesar Ascarrunz, 32,...
MURDER AT CHINATOWN MOTEL
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA longtime feud led to tragedy yesterday in Chinatown when one resident of a $13-a-night flophouse stabbed another to death, witnesses said. The victim, 40, was repeatedly stabbed in the...
W. WON'T CALL CIA 'LEAKERS' PLAME DUCKS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday refused to say if he wants top aides like political guru Karl Rove to resign if they're indicted in the winding-down CIA leak probe. "There's...
CITY SHINES ON NEW FBI CRIME LIST
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amBe careful in Albuquerque and watch your step in San Antonio, but don't fret when you're in New York City. FBI figures released yesterday on the incidence of crime last...
'NO VENGEANCE' - 6 MOS. FOR TURKEY TOSSER, THANKS TO VICTIM'S MERCY
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe Long Island teen who tossed a 20-pound turkey through the windshield of a car - shattering every bone in the driver's face - was sentenced yesterday to just six...
PUBLIC WEARY OF KIN WHO CAN'T LET GO
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amTHE grieving relatives whipped themselves into a fury. Their loved ones, they cried, had been thrown into a "garbage dump." And they want them moved. "We're Americans, and we don't...
AL'S PALS $WEETEN PIRRO POT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - GOP Senate wannabe Jeanine Pirro's campaign piggy bank is stuffed with cash from hubby Al's pals - and some donors with shady pasts. Among the $438,555 Pirro collected...
OH, NO! JEANINE HIT$ UP HILLARY
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In an embarrassing fundraising snafu, Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro sent her political foe, Sen. Hillary Clinton, an appeal letter - at her old White House address. "[T]oday, Hillary,...
BARBER 'KILLER' TO GET PSYCH TEST
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge has ordered psychiatric testing for the disgruntled former barbershop owner who allegedly killed one of his successors and wounded the other and two customers last week in...
'CASE' AGAINST MIERS - EVASIVE ON KEY COURT RULINGS: CHUCK
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers yesterday flunked the Schumer test. Miers met privately for about a half-hour with Sen. Charles Schumer, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee...
FRESH KILLS COMPROMISE - JUDGE PROPOSES 'SYMBOLIC' DEAL
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan federal judge yesterday suggested that 9/11 kin should settle for a memorial park using only some WTC debris from the former Fresh Kills landfill, rather than ask the...
FREDDY FETE MORPHS INTO HILLARY LOVE-FEST
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amAn appearance yesterday by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that was intended to give Fernando Ferrer's mayoral campaign a boost turned into a rally for the former first lady to run...
FEDS IN E-MOLE PROBE - NYPD FACES CONGRESS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top NYPD and Department of Homeland Security officials are being hauled before Congress to discuss the leak of a subway bombing threat to a select group of New...
SHOCK RIDDLE OF ARMY 'LIAR'
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amAn Arabic translator who worked for an elite Army intelligence unit in Iraq allegedly reeled off a litany of lies to land his job - and now officials have no...
CITY REAL-ESTATE BROKER CLAIMS ANTI-MUSLIM BIAS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA real-estate broker claims she was dumped from a million-dollar deal with the Education Department because city Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz refused to work with a Muslim, according to court papers...
RENOWNED LAWYER AND TRAGIC WIFE FEARED FOR THEIR LIVES
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amIt's the kind of sensational murder-mystery that famed criminal defense lawyer Daniel Horowitz dreamed of being involved in. Instead, in this case, the tragedy has struck far too close to...
'MIKE' LOOKS FOR LOVIN' - POSER'S PRANK GETS 'PERSONAL'
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amGuys will resort to almost anything to convince women to answer their personal ads, but this has got to be a first: Some jokester was passing himself off as Mayor...
SLAY CHILLS $TORIED TOWN - COPS BAFFLED AS YOUNG VICTIM IS FOUND YARDS FROM 'GATSBY' HOME
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe victim of the "Great Gatsby" murder in Long Island's super-rich Sands Point is between 17 and 24 years old and so petite, she wore children's sizes, Nassau County cops...
MISSING-MOBSTER MISTRIAL NIXED
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA judge has rejected the mistrial bid of two union bigwigs accused of having Mafia ties, despite the disappearance of their co-defendant, a reputed mobster. Brooklyn federal Judge Leo Glasser...
PANEL URGES CITY CREATE TEACHER-MENTOR SCHOOLS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA City Council commission is recommending that the city spend billions of dollars in court-ordered education aid to create new research schools and expand pre-kindergarten. In a report to be...
'MIKE' LOOKS FOR LOVIN' - SORRY, LADIES, PERSONAL AD IS JUST A PRANK
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amGuys will resort to almost anything to persuade women to answer their personal ads, but this has to be a first: Some jokester was passing himself off as Mayor Bloomberg...
STREET NAMED FOR SLAIN COP
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYPD yesterday honored a hero cop who was killed in the line of duty 16 years ago, naming a street after him outside the Manhattan station house where he...
VALERY SUSPECT SKIPS COURT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe accused killer of little Valery Lozada's mother was a no-show in Queens Criminal Court yesterday after his lawyer waived the man's appearance at a routine hearing. Cesar Ascarrunz, 32,...
MILLIONAIRE ROW MURDER - COPS BAFFLED AS YOUNG VICTIM IS FOUND YARDS FROM 'GATSBY' HOME
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe tragic victim of the chilling "Great Gatsby" murder in Long Island's super-rich Sands Point was so petite, she wore children's-sized clothes - all pink. Her bloodied body had been...
THE GRANNY BRIGADE - WAR PROTESTERS ARRESTED TRYING TO ENLIST
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amEighteen gray-haired grandmothers protesting the war in Iraq were arrested for disorderly conduct yesterday after they shuffled to the entrance of the Times Square military recruiting center - and tried...
$12M SEX SUIT - POL HARASSED ME AFTER I JILTED HER: TOWN BIG
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe curtain rose yesterday in a Long Island courtroom on a sensational $12 million lawsuit - featuring sex, politics and allegations of violence. William Perks, the former harbormaster of the...
TEENS STABBED NEAR SCHOOL
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amTwo boys were stabbed by a gang of thugs as they walked home from their Queens high school yesterday, police said. The 15-year-old victims, who were not immediately identified, were...
TERROR IN L.I. HOMES - GUNPOINT ROB IS 33RD
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThree masked gunmen broke into a home in the middle of the night, threatened to kill a cowering couple and terrorized their children before grabbing cash and jewels - the...
MURDER AT SLEAZY CHINATOWN MOTEL
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA longtime feud led to tragedy yesterday in Chinatown when one resident of a $13-a-night flophouse stabbed another to death, witnesses said. The 40-year-old victim was stabbed in the face,...
E-MOLE LEAK SOAKS 2 FEDS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Two federal employees are suspected of leaking word of the subway bombing threat - and have lost their security clearances, sources said yesterday. One of them, William Ross,...
FAMILY TERRORIZED BY NIGHT INTRUDERS IN 33RD HEIST
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThree masked gunmen broke into a home in the middle of the night, threatened to kill a cowering couple and terrorized their children before grabbing cash and jewels - the...
PRIEST HANGS SELF - FOUND IN S.I. RECTORY
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA Staten Island priest hanged himself in an apparent suicide last night inside his church's rectory, police said. The priest, identified by the pastor of Our Lady Queen of Peace...
NO MORE SCALPS - THE IMPLODING PLAME CASE
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amA ONCE-SIMPLE story has become far too convoluted for anyone but the most obsessive to follow. The original question was this: Did the leak of CIA employee Valerie Wilson Plame's...
PAINTING OR CHICKENS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amIt was an easy choice for the feisty New Yorker Anna Mary Robertson, better known as Grandma Moses - one of the great painters of the 20th century. The artist...
A PUNCH TO HOUSTON'S GUT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - What, Albert worry? "How do I stay relaxed?" Albert Pujols had asked Sunday evening, with the Cardinals down 3-1 and about to exit the postseason feebly for the...
CARD-IAC KIDS SHOCK 'EM - PUJOLS BLAST STALLS 'STROS DREAM
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 5: Cardinals 5 - Astros 4 HOUSTON - The Astros were only six outs away. Lance Berkman's three-run homer in the seventh inning of Game 5 of the NLCS...
COUGHLIN: JACOBS 'HAS LOT TO LEARN'
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES After his eye-opening training camp, enticing preseason and six-carry, 39-yard, one touchdown performance in his NFL debut, it appeared as if big things were brewing for Brandon Jacobs,...
BUMP IN THE ROAD
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: C- Through three quarters, Eli Manning (14 of 30, 215 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) had 55 passing yards. Late rally on two drives to force OT...
THROWN FOR A LOSS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amJET REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: F Vinny Testaverde (12-of-26, 161 yards, 2 INTs, 34.3 rating) threw two damaging INTs in the red zone, the first of which completely changed the momentum of...
BETTER RESULTS COMING TO PASS - LATE RALLY GIVES OFFENSE CONFIDENCE
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe fast finish could not make up for the sluggish way the Giants played on offense for most of their 16-13 overtime loss in Dallas on Sunday. Tom Coughlin said...
DEVS NEED SOME LUCK
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe Devils are spooked. Even Martin Brodeur is discarding his ancient lucky charm. They are desperate to snap a dreadful, two-game skid when the Panthers visit the Meadowlands tonight. So,...
RANGERS WORKIN' IT OUT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe numbers going into last night's match at the Garden against the Panthers were pretty fancy indeed for the Rangers. They'd earned at least a point in five of their...
CHISOX STAFF HAD THE HORSES
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWhat those White Sox starters pulled off in the ALCS was almost inhuman: winning four straight complete games in the postseason. The impetus behind Chicago's first American League pennant since...
MAWAE OUT FOR SEASON
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amYou thought it couldn't get any worse for the Jets? With the team mired in last place in the AFC East after its uninspired 27-17 loss in Buffalo on Sunday,...
HERE WE JOE! - EXPECT TORRE TO BREAK HIS MEDIA SILENCE TODAY
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe thick cloud of silence that has smothered the Yankee universe since Hideki Matsui made the final out of Game 5 in Anaheim eight days ago will start to dissipate...
CARTER RETURNS TO ERR CANADA
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amLast April, when Vince Carter returned to Toronto for the first time since he was traded to New Jersey, the media and fans treated the event with only slightly more...
CASHMAN'S EXIT NO SURE THING
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES A week ago, the tears that flowed from Brian Cashman's eyes following a devastating Game 5 ALDS loss to the Angels were taken as a sign that Cashman's...
CARDS' PUJOLS STAYS RELAXED
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - What, Albert worry? "How do I stay relaxed?" asked Albert Pujols Sunday evening. "I'll show you tomorrow. Come and see." All eyes last night were on the best...
CANO WANTS SKIPPER BACK
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amRobinson Cano cast his ballot yesterday - he wants Joe Torre to return as Yankee manager next year. While admitting, "I don't know anything about next year," the rookie second...
TWO TEAMS ON THE BRINK - ASTROS EAGER TO REACH FIRST WORLD SERIES
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - The most appropriate comment coming out of the Astros clubhouse after Game 4 was spoken by Brad Ausmus. The catcher was asked about the Astros being one win...
NO PROBLEM, HOUSTON
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Knicks already have planned a gala ceremony to retire Allan Houston's number from their salary cap. Not that Isiah Thomas is glad or anything like that to see Houston...
BAGWELL MAY BE DH IN SERIES
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES HOUSTON - If the Astros advance to the World Series, they could have a new offensive weapon in their lineup against the White Sox. Jeff Bagwell is a...
NETS: ALLAN WAS GREAT
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe Nets who played with Allan Houston, or had dealings with him, remember not just a great shooter, but a classy individual. "A great guy, an unbelievable shooter," said Vince...
JACOBS 'NEEDS WORK'
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES After his eye-opening training camp, enticing preseason and six-carry, 39-yard, one touchdown performance in his NFL debut, it appeared as if big things were brewing for Brandon Jacobs,...
CLOTTEY'S AIMING HIGH
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amJoshua Clottey wants to be a star. He wants to fight pay-per-view bouts on HBO and show the world his devastating left hook. More than anything, though, he wants to...
RANGERS KEEP THE POWER ON
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amRangers 4 - Panthers 0 They had taken control of last night's game against Florida just as they had taken command of Saturday's game against Atlanta and last Thursday's game...
LIDGE TRIES TO SHAKE IT OFF
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES HOUSTON - There is probably no better closer in the National League than Brad Lidge. But last night, Lidge was the reason the Astros didn't clinch the NL...
MEMORIES OF MIAMI MOMENT TO LIVE ON
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amIF you're one of the lucky ones, you get one Moment to call your own for the rest of your life, one confluence of instant and opportunity that stays attached...
MATES WILL MISS HIM
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Malik Rose looks at Allan Houston, he doesn't see a 34-year-old with bad knees, but one of the toughest competitors he played against. When assistant Herb Williams looks at...
SEE HOU LATER - AS EXPECTED, ALLAN CALLS IT CAREER
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amPerhaps Allan Houston was the last to realize it, but the hobbled $100-million Knick finally came to his senses yesterday. Thirteen days into training camp, Houston announced his long-anticipated retirement...
CASHMAN'S EXIT NO SURE THING SKIPPER BACK
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES A week ago, the tears that flowed from Brian Cashman's eyes following a devastating Game 5 ALDS loss to the Angels were taken as a sign that Cashman's...
DEVS NEED NEW LUCKY CHARMS
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe Devils are spooked. Even Martin Brodeur is discarding his ancient lucky charm. They are desperate to snap a dreadful, two-game skid when the Panthers visit the Meadowlands tonight. So,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 18, 2005 | 4:00amHe came, he crashed, he ordered. Rouland Steppert, 78, barreled his Lincoln Town Car into the entrance of a Burger King in Wausau, Wis., then backed out, parked and went...