October 24, 2005
TUSSLE OVER 'SIMILAR' AD GROWS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe hubbub over a new Apple ad that looks a lot like an earlier spot for Lugz boots just got louder. Avrett Free Ginsberg - the agency that created the...
TOY CENTER TO MOVE TO LOWER MANHATTAN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe Toy Industry Association is relocating its 200 Fifth Ave. operations to Zar Realty's 100 Church St. - just one block north of the World Trade Center site. The Toy...
E-Z RIDE - SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR BORING COMMUTE
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amAS if having to go to work in the morning isn't bad enough all by itself, most of us are also forced to endure long and brutal commutes to and...
OFFICE READS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amMAKING IT WORK WHEN YOU WORK A LOT: 10 POWER STRATEGIES FOR CONNECTING AS A COUPLE By Dr. Joel D. Block Citadel Press, $22.95 THE average American couple works a...
CORPORATE LOVIN' - BE CAREFUL MOVING FROM SPREADSHEETS TO BEDSHEETS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHE 3 o'clock marketing meeting is looming, and you've just left the kitchen after a seriously unprofessional flirtation session with your flame from Accounting. You think you played it off...
FEELING HUES'D - COLOR BACK IN B&W FILMS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCOLORIZATION - the controversial process of using computers to convert old black-and-white movies into color versions - is getting another look. Largely abandoned after protests by filmmakers and consumer indifference...
'CHIEF' RIVAL PLOT TWIST
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHE gender politics of the hit series "Commander im Chief" is about to bite President Mackenzie Allen's evil rival. Actor Donald Sutherland says that the so-far-unseen wife of his character,...
'REAL' MOTOWN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00am'REAL World" looks like it's headed for suburban Detroit - just in time for the Super Bowl in February. MTV has leased 8,800 sqaure feet in a Royal Oak, Mich.,...
SUNSET OF THEIR LOVE - AGING CREAM HITS MSG
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amKISS back in makeup. Bald Eagles flying together over a frozen hell. Pink Floyd breaking down the wall to make peace. They're all testaments to the undeniable allure of retread...
TWO FACES - INTERNATIONAL SEX TRADE SENDS MIRA UNDERCOVER
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amHUNDREDS of thousands of young women and children are sold, kidnapped and forced into bondage as sex slaves every year. One statistic estimates the number of women and kids around...
STARR REPORT
October 24, 2005 | 4:00am'Lost' opportunity Tony Danza is offering five of his viewers the chance to fly to Hawaii, in January no less, and visit the set of "Lost." During the week of...
'TIL DEATH DO US PART - HERE WE GO AGAIN. ANOTHER CHARACTER ON 'LOST' BITES THE DUST NEXT MONTH: SPOILER ALERT!
October 24, 2005 | 4:00am'LOST' fans are getting ready for a second funeral. The show has promised to kill off another regular character in just two weeks. The drama, about a group of plane...
LASH OUT - ALL EYES ON PLUMPER, FLASHIER FAKE LASHES; LASH BUT NOT LEAST
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amMADONNA is hooked. Oprah is, too. So are many style-savvy New Yorkers, whether they're "college kids, socialites or celebrities," says makeup artist Mary Schook, a power player in the latest...
RAP QUIZ FOR JURORS IN MURDER INC. TRIAL
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amLawyers involved with the Murder Inc. money-laundering trial want to test the rap IQ of potential jurors. A jury pool of 125 people filled out a questionnaire in Brooklyn federal...
MIERS WOULD LOSE RIGHT NOW: CHUCK
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Harriet Miers still has some explaining to do. With conservatives in an uproar about her thin résumé and Democrats worried they can't discern her views from her short...
HOT SPOT LAID TO WASTE - CANCUN IN SHAMBLES AS WILMA SETS SIGHTS ON FLA.
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amThese are the devastating images from Cancun, Mexico, where hurricane Wilma flooded homes and beach resorts before heading back out to sea and taking dead aim at Florida. Shrieking winds...
HILL PLAYS CLOSER FOR TEAM FERRER
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amSEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton will make an 11th-hour pitch to New Yorkers for Fernando Ferrer, City Confidential has learned. Clinton is scheduled to appear on Ferrer's behalf at the annual...
CIGS, BOOZE JUST CHILD'S PLAY
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amChildren as young as age 2 are aware of how and why people use cigarettes and alcohol, a shocking new study by Dartmouth University reveals. In role-playing studies involving dolls...
U.S.: MOB KILLED 4 CONTRACTORS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An Iraqi mob attacked a group of American contractors, killing four and injuring two, in a town north of Baghdad last month, U.S. military officials confirmed over the...
MAN CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amImagine waking up on the subway one day and having no idea where you are - or even who you are. Doug Bruce doesn't have to imagine, because that's what...
TIGHTFISTED HILLARY IS A ONE BIG PAC RAT
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has hoarded her political-action committee's cash stash for herself and hasn't given a dime to help other Democrats in more than three months, a...
TORMENT MADE ME SUICIDAL - CLOONEY'S INJURY AGONY
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amGeorge Clooney says the pain he suffered from a spinal injury he sustained on a movie set last year was so intense that he was contemplating suicide. The 44-year-old actor...
GOP DISTRICTS GET 60% OF HOMELAND FIRE FUNDS: POL
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCongress distributes nearly 60 percent of Homeland Security grants meant for local fire departments to Republican congressional districts, shortchanging big cities like New York, a congresswoman charged yesterday. "It's incredibly...
FLA. DRIVER, 93, IN FATAL HIT-&-FORGET
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Florida toll-booth clerk who watched a car approach with a dismembered body stuck to its windshield thought it was a well-planned Halloween prank - until she saw real blood...
DEAD PARROT SPURS EU TO WEIGH BAN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe European Union is considering banning the importation of wild birds after the death of a South American parrot in Britain was attributed to the H5N1 avian-flu strain. The British...
AUTHOR PUTS STAKE IN VAMPIRE TALES
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe renowned author of "Interview with the Vampire" and 24 other best-sellers says she's turned from writing about tortured souls to saving souls. "I promised that from now on I...
9/11 DRIVE GOES NATIONAL
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe drive to raise $500 million for the World Trade Center Memorial is poised to go national early next month, with the first test-run of a direct-mail campaign using the...
PROFITS OF 'DOOM' AT THE BOX OFFICE
October 24, 2005 | 4:00am"Doom" and gloom struck the box office as moviegoers embraced The Rock's new sci-fi thriller, making it the No. 1 movie over the weekend. "Doom," adapted from the popular sci-fi...
'COVER-UP,' DEAN YELLS AT GOPERS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Howard Dean unleashed a series of tough statements in a TV appearance yesterday - charging Republicans with dishonesty and covering their tracks. The Democratic National Committee chairman accused...
'STALKER' ARRESTED AT ABC - LOVESICK FOR TV GAL
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA deranged stalker who threatened to "ethnically cleanse" popular WABC-TV anchorwoman Michelle Charlesworth was busted yesterday after he was found lurking outside the station's West Side studios, authorities said. Burly...
BID TO 'LAND' WTC - BLOOMY'S REAL ESTATE TRADE-OFF
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amIn his renewed bid to play a greater role at Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday floated an old idea: trading the land under the city's two airports to the Port...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A man was killed yesterday when he was struck by two hit-and-run drivers on a Midtown street, police sources said. The unidentified man, in his 40s, was walking...
DROP IN NUMBER OF N.Y. JAILBIRDS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amNew York's prison population continues to decline - bucking the trend of the rest of the country - with 1,500 fewer people under lock and key in the state last...
JUDY IN DISS-GUISE: BRAVE FRONT AS TIMES FOLK RIP HER
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amDESPITE The New York Times' best efforts to whack her, I'm here to tell you that Judy Miller is still standing. "I'm not mad, I'm sad," Judy told me from...
ALPHA BIT OF HISTORY
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amTropical Storm Alpha broke records when it formed off the Dominican Republic Saturday - not for raging winds, but because of its name. For the first time since the National...
MTA TURNSTEAL - BAD SCANNERS CAUSING TICKETS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA number of "special entry" MetroCard readers across the city don't work or are taped up so they can't be used, a Post investigation has found. Instead, at many stations,...
FREDDY SHOWS 'EM THE $
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer wants to give every New Yorker who owns a house worth $800,000 or less a $973 property-tax break. In his first major policy announcement since winning the Democratic...
RAP STAR CAM'RON SHOT BY 'CARJACK' THUG
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amHarlem-based rapper/actor Cam'ron was shot in both arms early yesterday during a bungled carjacking attempt outside a popular D.C. nightspot, his reps said. The 29-year-old artist was admitted to Washington's...
BREAST-CANCER SURVIVORS IN 'BID' TO EDUCATE
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA group of young women affected by breast cancer will be holding a public and silent auction tonight to raise $200,000 aimed at increasing public awareness that the deadly disease...
CABBY $AVES SENATOR - RETURNS LAUTENBERG'S 200 BUCKS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCarlos Andrade has a tip for other Big Apple cabbies - it pays to be honest, especially when Sen. Frank Lautenberg is involved. After finding the New Jersey Democrat's wallet...
FUGITIVE BUSTED IN BX. AFTER BORDER RAFT RUN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA globetrotting fugitive, wanted for impersonating a dentist was busted yesterday after a round-the-world trip ended when he returned to the United States on a rubber raft - and then...
25G-A-MINUTE TRUMP SHARES $ECRETS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amDonald Trump earned $25,000 a minute last night trying to teach 6,000 people how to become millionaires. His advice: "Love what you do. Never give up. Don't trust anyone. Be...
RAPPER CAM'RON SHOT BY CARJACKER IN D.C.
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amHarlem rapper Cam'ron was shot in both arms early yesterday during a bungled carjacking in Washington, D.C., he told The Post. Cam'ron, 29, was back in New York last night...
FIERY HAMPTONS PLANE CRASH
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA small plane crashed yesterday on a quiet residential Hamptons street - where it flipped over and burst into flames, killing at least one person inside. The twin-engine Cessna 411...
'NUN' SLAY CLUE - 1977 DNA RECOVERED
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCops armed with new DNA evidence believe that they will finally nail a man who brutally raped and killed a pretty Fordham University grad and aspiring nun 28 years ago....
HAND DELIVERY: CARPAL & MOMS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amOne out of four pregnant women is afflicted with carpal tunnel syndrome just before giving birth, experts say - but the delivery itself nearly always cures the condition. These soon-to-be...
MAYOR'S POSTERS NAILED - CAMPAIGN FINED 110G
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's re-election campaign faces a fine of $110,100 after sanitation agents found him way ahead of Fernando Ferrer in the "poles." The mayor's campaign was slapped with 1,316 summonses...
HILL PLAYS TEAM FERRER'S CLOSER
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amSEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton will make an 11th-hour pitch to New Yorkers for Fernando Ferrer, City Confidential has learned. Clinton is scheduled to appear on Ferrer's behalf at the annual...
FREDDY: I'D GIVE HOMEOWNERS A $973 BREAK
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer wants to give every New Yorker who owns a house worth $800,000 or less a $973 property-tax break. In his first major policy announcement since gaining the Democratic...
BLOOMY BIDS TO 'LAND' GROUND ZERO CONTROL
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amIn his renewed bid to play a greater role at Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday floated an old idea: trading the land under the city's two airports to the Port...
HISTORIC ALPHA KILLS 5
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amRecord-breaking Tropical Storm Alpha claimed at least five lives and forced thousands from their homes yesterday as torrential rains soaked Haiti and the Dominican Republic. But it wasn't only the...
WTC MEMORIAL WILL PA$$ HAT AROUND U.S.
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe drive to raise $500 million for the World Trade Center Memorial is poised to go national early next month, with the first test-run of a direct-mail campaign using the...
N.Y. PRISON POP. DROP BUCKS NATIONAL TREND
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amNew York's prison population continues to decline - as prison populations rise nationwide - with 1,500 fewer people under lock and key in the state last year, a new government...
HIT-RUN KILLS BIRTHDAY WOMAN, 70
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman died on the eve of her 70th birthday yesterday when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Bensonhurst. The woman, whose name was withheld, was hit...
CRIPS THUG KILLS GOOD KID IN B'KLYN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teenager, described by his basketball coach as "a promising young man," was fatally stabbed during a confrontation with two Crips gang members yesterday, police and relatives said. Javon...
HIT-RUN DRIVER KILLS B'DAY GRANDMA, 70
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn grandmother died on the eve of her 70th birthday yesterday when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Bensonhurst. The woman, whose name was withheld, was hit...
CALIF. FIEND EYED IN N.Y. SEX SLAYS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCity detectives are digging through records of long unsolved sex-assault slayings of women to see if they can be linked to a California convict believed to be a serial killer....
POSTER BOY BLOOMY HIT WITH 110G FINE
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's re-election campaign faces a fine of $110,100 after sanitation agents found him way ahead of Fernando Ferrer in the "poles." The mayor's campaign was slapped with 1,316 summonses...
THE RAPES CONTINUE - WHY U.N. CAN'T CONTROL ITS PEACEKEEPERS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amUNITED Nations peacekeepers have a rape problem, and the U.N. last week basically admitted that it's not doing anything about it. Perhaps worse, the reasons why the world body hasn't...
COLONEL OF TRUTH - BARES N.Y. $$ LINK TO TERROR
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amPit-bull Manhattan prosecutor and Marine Col. Matthew Bogdanos - best known for taking on Sean "Diddy" Combs - has been working to recover the priceless, looted antiquities of Baghdad's Iraq...
TEACHER IN UNION WAR IS DEMOTED
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amAn outspoken city teacher leading a charge against the proposed contract between his union and the city has been ousted from his school for jailed teens, The Post has learned....
'VALUABLE' LESSONS - BRONX SCHOOL REWARDS GOOD KIDS WITH 'CASH'
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amGold stars for good behavior have faded at one Bronx middle school, where administrators are motivating preteens with something they can understand - a paycheck. The Laboratory School of Finance...
SINGING LEGAL EAGLE AN A'TUNE'EY AT LAW
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWhat's the difference between a lawyer and a cabaret singer? In the case of Lenard Leeds, nothing at all. The Long Island lawyer is planning on releasing an album next...
NYPD BRUISE - COP: COLLEAGUES BRUTALIZED ME [EXCLUSIVE]; NARC MAKES COP-BRUTALITY COMPLAINT
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amAn undercover narcotics cop has lodged a shocking brutality claim with the Civilian Complaint Review Board against four members of the NYPD's elite Major Case Squad, charging they mistook him...
GOP FOES EYED IN 'PIRRO OUT' RUMOR
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amTOP state Republicans are blaming some of their own for widespread rumors that Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro will soon drop her troubled campaign for Senate and run instead...
HOSP'S GRANNY SNAFU - 'LOST' IN BLUNDER
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amA disoriented elderly woman found wandering in a subway spent a month in a city hospital not far from her home and frantic family because of a communication snafu between...
JIM HENSON - MUPPET MAN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amToday's page looks at the life of Muppet-Master Jim Henson. JIM HENSON was born on Sept. 24, 1936 in Mississippi. His family moved to Washington, D.C. By the time he...
TIGHTFISTED HILLARY IS A PAC RAT
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has hoarded her politicalaction committee's cash stash for herself and hasn't given a dime to help other Democrats in more than three months, a...
BACK WOES WON'T KEEP BURRESS DOWN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The scare that ran through the Giants on Friday when Plaxico Burress was unable to practice because of back spasms dissipated yesterday, as Burress was in uniform and...
FROM THE OBSERVATION DECK
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amOFF until Thursday, the Rangers have played 10 games and earned 11 points. Off until Wednesday, we'll make 11 brief points of our own. * The goaltending issue can be...
PARALYSIS BY ANALYSIS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE was so much talk last week about percentages, third-down conversions and such, you got the feeling the Giants were more like a lab experiment than a football team. A...
FRANK'S ROTATION STILL UP IN THE AIR
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amPat Riley frequently summed up his view of rotations with that adage that basically said, "Play eight, rotate seven, go to six, trust five." Nets coach Lawrence Frank has two...
DEVS CAPPED OUT
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amThis is the salary-cap bed Lou Lamoriello made, and the Devils won't be getting out of it this season. It's lumpy, full of ups and downs, is going to hurt...
NCAA: OUT OF CHARACTER
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWHATEVER happened to all those people who reflexively reasoned that even if full scholarship athletes don't actually attend classes and even if they have no hope of graduating, just being...
'STONE' IS ROCK SOLID
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amFIRST Samurai, a convincing winner in all four of his starts, will be a solid favorite in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, but he's not the only undefeated colt in the...
'PRINCESS' AND 'RULER' OPT OUT
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCUP NOTES There were two more defections yesterday from Saturday's Breeders' Cup, and they're big ones. Pampered Princess - who's won four of her last five starts, and is coming...
NICK TAKING GIANT STEPS - GREISEN AIMS TO STICK AT LB
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe prevailing opinion on Nick Greisen is not that he doesn't play hard enough. Quite the contrary. It's that he plays too hard, putting too much strain on his body....
BUTLER EARNING KUDOS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Larry Brown likes to say the Knicks have four rookie first-round picks in training camp, adding undrafted 6-10 center Jackie Butler to the mix. Channing Frye, David Lee...
FIGHT TO THE FINISH - ONE MORE BATTLE FOR 'WONDER', RISKAVERSE
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amOne of the great yet unsung rivalries in American racing plays its final hand Saturday at Belmont Park in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf, when Wonder...
ASTROS GOTTA BE CLUTCH
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - In the third inning of Game 1 of the World Series, the Astros had their first chance with a man in scoring position. With men on second and...
NOONMARK SCORES EASILY
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHIRD RACE: Lawrence Realization, carded for mile-and-half on turf, was rescheduled from previous weekend to yesterday because of heavy rain; it was switched to main track anyway, run a mile-and-eighth,...
LARRY TO PIVOTS: SHAPE UP!
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWith the season opener nine days away, Larry Brown has fired a message at his top two centers: Get in shape or you won't play. Eddy Curry and Jerome James,...
THE COMEBACK KID - JETS NEED BARTON'S ENERGY VS. FALCS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amATLANTA - Eric Barton represents everything the Jets must have when they take on the Falcons tonight inside the Georgia Dome in a game they absolutely, positively must have to...
EDWARDS: MONDAY NIGHT GAME'S A 'PRIVILEGE'
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES ATLANTA - One of the messages coach Herman Edwards had for the Jets as they prepared for tonight's nationally-televised game against the Falcons was the "privilege" it is...
PLUMMER POWERIN' BRONCOS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amComing into this season, the book on Jake Plummer was to keep the Broncos quarterback in the pocket, take away his bootlegs and waggles and give him just enough rope...
PLETCHER HOLDING HOT HAND FOR CUP
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHE hottest gun in the American training establishment, Todd Pletcher, yesterday weighed his chances of hitting another big jackpot in Saturday's Breeders' Cup and said, "Any time you take two...
WAITING ON CASHMAN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK CHICAGO - The Yankees likely will know tonight whether Brian Cashman is staying or if they need to search for a new GM. While Cashman has remained...
EAGLES WARE IT WELL - BEAT BOLTS ON BLOCKED FG RETURN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amEagles20 - Chargers 17 PHILADELPHIA - Not only did Quintin Mikell block the field goal that Matt Ware ran back 65 yards yesterday to beat the Chargers, but all memory...
BUEHRLE TRIES TO PITCH IN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Mark Buehrle is one of the quickest workers on the mound, which was especially appreciated on a rainy 39-degree night. But try as he might, the White Sox...
ROCKET MAY START GAME 5
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Two innings were all Roger Clemens could go in Game 1. The issue now is whether he'll be able to go at all if a Game 5 is...
UMPS HELP SOX AGAIN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - If the White Sox win the World Series, they should award partial shares to the umpires' union. For the third time this postseason, a Chicago victory appeared to...
EAGLES WARE 'EM OUT
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amEagles20 - Chargers 17 PHILADELPHIA - Not only did Quintin Mikell block the field goal that Matt Ware ran back 65 yards yesterday to beat the Chargers, but all memory...
FOR ANDY, TWO MUCH TO OVERCOME
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Yankee fans who watched last night's World Series very possibly experienced deja 2. Because there was Andy Pettitte doing his best work with runners on base and picking...
CREDE GIVES ROBIN REASON TO CHIRP
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - When Joe Crede was drafted in 1996, Robin Ventura was entrenched at third base for the White Sox. Crede often has mentioned since then that Ventura was his...
MARA'S MEN COME UP BIG - JINTS NIP BRONCS FOR AILING OWNERS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amBack in his Westchester home yesterday, a television set was rolled into the bedroom of Wellington Mara, who at 89 years old is in failing health after undergoing extensive radiation...
AMANI'S THE HERO & GOAT
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amAmani Toomer has caught more passes for more yards than any player in Giant history. But while he'd earned the nickname GOAT (Greatest of all time) in Big Blue's locker...
MANNING DAZZLES MATES WITH LATE HEROICS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Eli Manning headed into yesterday's game leading the NFC in fourth-quarter ratings among quarterbacks and he did nothing to hurt that by directing the Giants to a pair...
THE 'D' COMES FOURTH
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amMICHAEL Strahan was jumping up and down on the Giants bench like a kid who'd just won his first Pop Warner football game. His ecstasy was shared by just about...
PINIELLA WOULD BE GOOD TORRE AIDE
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES CONFIDENTIALCHICAGO - The Yankees are on the brink of hiring two ex-managers, one with the reputation as a firebrand (Larry Bowa) and one who recently was let go...
CREDE LIGHTS UP HOT CORNER
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - When Joe Crede was drafted in 1996, Robin Ventura was entrenched at third base for the White Sox. Crede often has mentioned since then that Ventura was his...
LIDGE: NOTHING TO FEAR
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Six days before, it was Albert Pujols. Last night, it was one of the sport's lightest-hitting players who took Brad Lidge deep to cost the Astros the game....
ASTROS: WE'LL BE ALL RIGHT
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The Astros started 16-31 this year yet still made the playoffs. So they have come back from a large deficit before. This one might be tougher. The White...
KONERKO PLAYS SECOND FIDDLE
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Hard to believe that the World Series grand slam was only the second biggest home run all night. Paul Konerko's seventh-inning granny transformed a two-run deficit into a...
BAGWELL NOT WELL IN GAME 1
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - If he were another player, with a different resume and a different history, then the decision to play Jeff Bagwell in Game 1 might have gone down as...
FAMILY TIES WERE NEVER TIGHTER
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amNICK Greisen has been the Rodney Dangerfield of linebackers, perceived as little more than a utilityman. Until now. Which means the late, great Ray Nitschke was right after all. Greisen's...
ROCKET MALFUNCTION - CLEMENS' SERIES STATUS UNKNOWN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Two innings were all Roger Clemens could go in Game 1. The issue now is whether he'll be able to go at all in Game 5. Clemens left...
PODS POWERS THE PALE HOSE - PODSEDNIK'S SOLO SHOT GIVES CHISOX 2-0 LEAD
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 2: White Sox 7 - Astros 6 CHICAGO - Enter Scott Podsednik's name into World Series lore. The pesky White Sox leadoff hitter who didn't homer in the regular...
CHICAGO 'PEN PACKS PUNCH - GOOSE SEES HIMSELF IN SOX FIREBALLER JENKS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Sitting in his Colorado home, Goose Gossage looked at Bobby Jenks Saturday night and the television turned into a 48-inch mirror. Suddenly the year was 1978 and Gossage...
YANKS WAIT ON CASHMAN
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWorld Series Notebook CHICAGO - The Yankees may know by tonight whether Brian Cashman is staying or if they need to search for a new GM. While Cashman has remained...
SKIP TO MY LOU - PINIELLA WOULD BE GOOD BENCH COACH FOR JOE
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amWorld Series Confidential CHICAGO - The Yankees are on the brink of hiring two ex-managers, one with the reputation as a firebrand (Larry Bowa) and one who recently was let...
ASTROS NEEDED TO BE CLUTCH
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - In the third inning of Game 1 of the World Series, the Astros had their first chance with a man in scoring position. With men on second and...
SCOTT'S RARE BLAST STUFF OF LEGENDS
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The people were frozen in place, soaked and satisfied and utterly incapable of pushing themselves toward the exits. The White Sox had already danced off the field. The...
BROOKLYN & BASEBALL IN REINSDORF'S BLOOD
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn in the 1940s and '50s. To say he was a Dodgers fan is understating the...
RACE 3 FILLY & MARE TURF
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amABSTRACT: The Post continues its profiles of each of the eight Breeders' Cup races to be run Saturday at Belmont Park. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights potential nice-prize winners...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 24, 2005 | 4:00amAn Idaho wacko waving a pellet gun didn't do himself any favors when confronted by cops - he dropped his pants and declared "I am an American." And why did...