June 7, 2006
BRIT ADS TOUT NEWS, NOT PROPAGANDA
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amTwo British news organizations believe Americans are so hungry for unbiased coverage that they launched very similar ad campaigns touting their objectivity within days of each other. Reuters and BBC...
PIGEON HOLED - MILBERG POINTED PAID PLAINTIFFS TO WEAK STOCKS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amInvestors whom indicted class-action law firm Milberg Weiss paid to sue some of America's biggest companies were willing patsies who snapped up stocks the firm targeted as ripe for a...
CONDO HOTEL IN THE WORKS; NEW CONDO HOTEL PLAN
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amLINCOLN Property Company of Dallas is working on early plans to develop a new condo hotel mid-block by the Peninsula Hotel on W. 55th Streer right off Fifth Ave. The...
A BEEF WITH OUTBACK
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amRebellious hedge fund Pirate Capital is trying to slice up the company that runs Outback Steakhouse and other popular restaurant chains in a bid to juice the stock price. Pirate...
HEDGES ARE GROWING IN GREENWICH
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amRich and snobby Greenwich is being overrun by billionaire hedge fund sharks who're wrecking the tranquil enclave by ripping down old mansions - and building over them with bigger gaudy...
BAWAG BUCKS BLITZ - T.H. LEE DRAWS FIRE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThe private-equity honchos at Thomas H. Lee Ventures better not be counting on that Bawag settlement money for their burned investors, if one of the lead lawyers in the Refco...
PICTURE THIS: $10M - RECORD FOR RIGHTS TO BRANGELINA BABY SNAPS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amPEOPLE magazine paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights to photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby Shiloh, but the worldwide rights to shots of the...
FUND HAS A BEEF - OUTBACK TARGETED
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amRebellious hedge fund Pirate Capital is trying to slice up the company that runs Outback Steakhouse and other popular restaurant chains in a bid to juice the stock price. Pirate...
PUNK'S JETT FUELS EXCITEMENT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amJOAN Jett loves rock 'n' roll - and rock 'n' roll's loved her since the days when she was a teenage Runaway and songs cost a dime on the jukebox,...
BARANSKI TURNS UP FLAME ON 'MAME'
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON, D.C. - The disappointing reviews last week for Christine Baranski's star turn in "Mame" here at the Kennedy Center haven't scuttled a move to Broadway this summer. There is,...
GIBSON GETS BACK
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amCHARLIE Gibson has put ABC back in second place in his first week as anchor. Three weeks before Gibson took over "World News Tonight," CBS' Bob Schieffer had unseated ABC...
SO LONG, DAN - CAN'T GET CBS TO OFFER HIM A NEW DEAL
June 7, 2006 | 4:00am'IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE [CBS] WANTS HIM' - INDUSTRY INSIDER DAN Rather could be gone from CBS News by the end of the year. After months of negotiations, the former...
HERD BUT NO SCENE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amNICOLAS Philibert is a respected French documentarian whose "To Be and to Have," a 2002 chronicle of a rural one-room school, created excitement here - or at least as much...
STARR REPORT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amBut who's counting? The sixth-season finale of "The Sopranos," which aired last Sunday on HBO, averaged 8.9 million viewers - down from the nearly 11 million viewers who tuned in...
'DANCING' MYSTERY
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amTHE list of stars lined up for next fall's "Dancing with the Stars" is one of TV's rare secrets. But some names appear to be leaking out anyway. Stunner Vivica...
NEWS FAKERS - 'ALI G' WANNABE A REAL 'DOG'
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amIf reality bites, then hybrid reality really bites. I'm talking about Comedy Central's "Dog Bites Man," a new, really-not-funny mix of reality, sitcom, mockumentary and smug improv. And the whole...
SCENE SAVER - SICK OF CLUBS, HIPSTERS REVIVE OLD-STYLE DINNER PARTIES; NIGHT LIFE BITES
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amAT this very long moment, when what passes for downtown counterculture involves a Saturday night at MisShapes, multiple photos on Last Night's Party, asymmetrical hair and a mildly updated blog,...
WEAK IN THE CHINESE - FUSION FUNHOUSES SHANGHAI TRUE CUISINE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMOST of the city's Chinese restaurants outside of Chinatown stink. The fact that they've doubled in number to 2,420 since 1998, as Crain's reports this week, only makes it harder...
'WICHCRAFT BREWS HEALTH-CLUB DEAL
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amOMNIPRESENT Chef Tom Colicchio is getting more fiscally fit after inking a deal to serve his 'wichcraft menu at Equinox fitness clubs. In early July, the chef will introduce a...
'NACHO' MAN - JACK BLACK COMEDY PAYS HOMAGE TO MEXICAN LUCHA LIBRE WRESTLING
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amAS a teen growing up in Idaho, director Jared Hess watched "El Santo" movies on Spanish-language TV and was already a fan of lucha libre by the time he heard...
VIDA LOCA - VIDEO VIXEN TAKES IT ALL OFF IN NEW PLAYBOY
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amVIDA Guerra, she of the otherworldly derriere, boasts qualities that can easily be overshadowed by her eye-popping beauty. She's multitalented, as a résumé which includes modeling, acting and singing can...
STILL MUY BONITA - CRI$IS ROCKS LA ISLA - BUT TOURISM IS BOOMING
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN a government lockdown put thousands of civil servants out of work in May, travel to Puerto Rico spiked. However, According to tourism officials, the economic nightmare that saw 100,000...
MONDO MOFONGO - YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRAVEL TO LA ISLA TO NOSH ON THE DELISH RICAN DISH
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amTHE true test of how real a Puerto Rican restaurant is is not determined by how many flags it displays, rather by how delectable its mofongo is. Here are the...
LEARNING THE ROPES - TIGHTS, MASKS AND THE MEN WHO WEAR THEM
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amLUCHA libre - freestyle wrestling - is a popular spectacle throughout Latin America, although its best-known incarnation is made in Mexico. Borrowing from the theatrical tradition of circuslike carpa performers,...
SCHOLAR DOLLARS - PROGRAM HELPS KIDS PAY TUITION
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amSCHOLARSHIP winner and Puerto Rican Day parade shining star Angel Ayala of The Bronx is on his way to Yale this fall to study astronomy and physics. At five, he...
THE YEAR OF THE NUYORICAN: BROOKLYN REPRESENTED - ROSIE PEREZ AND JIMMY SMITS MAKE MAGIC TOGETHER IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amFew artists have had a cultural impact on music, film, television and pop culture like Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Rosie Perez and Jimmy Smits. And thanks to these four New...
THE YEAR OF THE NUYORICAN: MARC MADNESS - SUPERSTAR IS SET TO IGNITE CROWDS ON SUNDAY
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThe intersection of 86th Street and Fifth Avenue may where the Puerto Rican Day Parade officially ends, but for salsa superstar Marc Anthony, it's the corner where it all began....
WHO WAS HECTOR?
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amTo salsa lovers around globe, Héctor Lavoe was not a mere mortal - he was a musical saint. His wicked sense of humor about his tragedy-packed life and bouts with...
BOSTON FLEE PARTY - BACKERS PULL PLUGS TO KILL BILL
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amFallen Republican Party favorite William Weld officially ended his gubernatorial bid yesterday, saying he was throwing his support to convention-winner John Faso because "this is not a time for a...
SUBWAY FLASHER IS DOT-DUMB
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amTalk about being caught with your pants down. Police arrested a Manhattan subway flasher after one of his grossed-out victims gave officers an Internet address that was emblazoned on the...
ROCK-TOSS 'BIAS' BUST
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA young black man, angry that a Long Island mall was getting "too white," tossed 6-inch chunk of concrete into a van packed with white kids, police said yesterday. Friends...
SEDUCED & ABANDONED - BILL WELD & THE N.Y. GOP LEADERSHIP
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amWilliam Weld can be forgiven if he's feeling more than a little seduced and abandoned this morning. Six months ago, the former Massachusetts governor was widely heralded as the man...
SEX FIEND'S LOOPHOLE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - A sailor court-martialed in Maine for "indecent assault" on a passed-out female sailor does not have to register as a sex offender here because there is no comparable...
UPSTATE UPSTART UP CREEK
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - John Faso, who is now the undisputed Republican candidate for governor, begins his race against all-but-certain Democratic contender Eliot Spitzer 50 percent behind in the polls - and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Four black teenagers were charged with a bias assault last night after allegedly taunting a white teenager with racial epithets before robbing and beating him on a Sheepshead...
$700 LINDSAY LO-HAND - GLOVELET IS NEXT BIG THING
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amNo, Lindsay Lohan didn't hurt her hand punching Brandon Davis - she's simply sporting a tiny leather glovelet, the hottest new Chanel accessory. Priced to break the bank (even if...
DEM AUTOGRAPH HOUNDS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amDemocrats looking to topple overwhelming front-runner Andrew Cuomo for the state attorney-general Democratic nomination scrounged for signatures yesterday to get a spot on the primary ballot. Mark Green, running ahead...
BURGLAR COP GETS 15 YRS.
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA disgraced Long Island cop who took part in three commercial burglaries in 1999 and 2000 was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison yesterday. Former Suffolk County Police...
CLASSY MOVE AT WTC - TOWER SCHOOL BID
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amAs lower Manhattan overflows with new families, community leaders and parents downtown are pushing for a public school in one of the new World Trade Center towers - a move...
SCHOOL-BUS STRIKE NEAR
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amSchool-bus drivers and escorts who transport 170,000 city students each day were set yesterday to authorize a strike at the end of the month over a contract dispute with 27...
290 SCHOOLS SHINING
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amCity public schools are on the rise - so says the state Department of Education. The agency yesterday recognized 290 "high performing" schools for improving their math and reading scores...
CUT$ HIKE DIRTY-BOMB THREAT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bush administration's cut in homeland-security funds could imperil city programs to detect radiation exposure - which could be critical if terrorists explode a dirty bomb, health officials said yesterday....
STRANGLE 'SUSPECT'
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amPolice investigating the murder of a retired correction officer were last night questioning the boyfriend of a relative of the victim, police sources said. The suspect is also being held...
BUSH IN PUSH FOR ALIEN BILL
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush charged ahead yesterday with his push to set illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship and create a guest-worker program as lawmakers braced for bruising negotiations...
NYU SCAMMER'S LESSON - STUDENT ADMITS $7.5M 'HEDGE FUND' BILK
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA former NYU student yesterday admitted his role in scamming $7.5 million via a bogus hedge fund, as a prosecutor charged he and his mother tricked the university into helping...
SYNAGOGUE FIRE THREAT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA depressed man threatened to burn down a Brooklyn synagogue because he believed Jews stopped him from getting a green card, authorities said yesterday. Alex Khazim, 22, called the Brooklyn...
GOP'S 'PURGE' GROWS - BOSS WANTS KT TO QUIT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - State GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik, who just knocked William Weld out of the race for governor, will now try to do the same with Republican Senate hopeful Katherine...
EVIL HEADHUNTERS - CANADA CELL PLOTTED TO DECAPITATE PM
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amOne of the terror suspects arrested in Canada is accused of plotting to personally behead the prime minister, his lawyer said yesterday. Members of the fanatical Islamic cell are also...
MAFIA-COP PRINCESS TO DADDY'S DEFENSE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amShe wasn't in court to watch her mob-cop pop get raked over the coals by anguished relatives of the eight men he helped murder while moonlighting for the Mafia -...
NICK DA IN SIKH ATTACK
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amJurors in Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci's hate-crime case heard for the first time how the accused racist bat-beater allegedly fired paintball pellets at Sikhs on 9/11 while yelling profanities. Defense...
TRAGIC KID'S PLEA - PUT MY MOMMY'S KILLER 'AWAY FOREVER'
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn phone-book deliveryman will do 19 years to life in prison for savagely murdering his girlfriend, a judge ruled yesterday after hearing heartbreaking words from the victim's 9-year-old daughter....
SON'S GUN SHOT MOM
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThe bullets that critically wounded a Brooklyn mother as her son traded fire with a gang of thugs may have come from her son's gun, authorities said yesterday. Mary Pughe,...
THE TOASTS OF THE TOWN - THESE 2 DRINKS TOP TASTE TEST
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amHere's something to raise your glass to - two juicy concoctions just named the best sidewalk-cafe beverages in the city. In a stiff-drink competition run by the city's Consumer Affairs...
SUBWAYS SADDLE UP FOR RODEO
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amIt'll be hand-to-hand combat - at the controls of trains - at the Coney Island rail yard this weekend. That's when the world's finest subway conductors and train operators will...
BRAVEST OF BRAVEST - IRAQ DUTY DURING HERO RITE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amFirefighter Sean Cummins is receiving a bravery award today for a dramatic rescue he made last year while battling a stubborn Manhattan blaze. But he can't be at the ceremony...
ROYAL ROMANCE HUNT IN HAMPTONS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amWomen fed up with kissing frogs will have a chance to find their prince this weekend in the happy-ever-after Hamptons, where TV's "The Bachelor" heads to audition bachelorettes fit for...
THE 'DEVIL' NEXT DOOR - BX. NEIGHBORS FEARED 'TOP GUN' RAPIST
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThe sadistic sex fiend who raped "Top Gun" co-star Kelly McGillis when he was just 15 years old terrorized women on his Bronx block, neighbors recalled yesterday. "I felt like...
GABBY CAPO IS KAPUT - DEPALMA CONVICTED
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amLoose-lipped Gambino capo Gregory DePalma will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars after jurors found the sickly gangster guilty of a slew of mob crimes yesterday. Jurors...
RIGHTY WRITER COULTER HURLS NASTY GIBES AT 9/11 GALS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Conservative rabble-rouser Ann Coulter created an uproar among 9/11 victims' families yesterday after she charged in her new book that a group of "self-obsessed" politically active widows are...
ALL HAIL THE CITY'S SAFEST CABBY
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's safest taxi is now its cheapest. Cliff Adler, whose meter has clocked 32 years and millions of miles, yesterday was named New York's safest cabby. In honor of...
'WIDOW BANDIT' TEACH - $1.5M PLUNDER BARED
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teacher is facing the ax for seeking a leave of absence to serve a jail term in New Jersey, where he was convicted of stealing more than $1.5...
KING RELOADS ANTI-GUN BILL
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Traffickers who illegally sell guns to criminals would face tough new federal penalties under gun-control legislation introduced yesterday by Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.). "You have gun traffickers who...
2ND SHOP RE-ARMS AFTER NYPD SEIZURE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA second Big Apple gun store swept up in the city's crackdown on rogue gun dealers had hundreds of firearms returned by police, the store's lawyer said yesterday. Cops handed...
DOUGH'NUT' SLAM-DUNKED
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA jury took less than two hours yesterday to convict a Brooklyn man for a string of doughnut-shop robberies and the slashing of a cop who tried to stop him....
COURT DUMPS ON CITY IN LANDFILL SUIT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amPeople living near the Pelham Bay Landfill "are being systematically poisoned by environmental contaminants," a state appeals court said yesterday. The state Appellate Division made the strong statement in a...
KILLER B'KLYN BLAST - 1 WORKER DIES, 3 HURT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amAn explosion at a $2 million Brooklyn house killed a construction worker and left two others seriously burned yesterday. They were spraying a highly flammable solvent indoors while illegally installing...
NEW MOMS LICK CURSE OF 6-6-6
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amNo, they didn't name him Damien. But not because new mom Christy Jensen is concerned that her son was born yesterday - on 6-6-6, the Biblical sign of Satan. "I...
GOTTI: I'M DON & OUT WISEGUY - WANTS TAXPAYERS TO PAY LEGAL BILLS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti is crying poverty as he gears up for his third racketeering trial in a year - and has asked a federal judge to make taxpayers pick up...
KELLY KIN SUES 'BRUTAL' POLICE - $120M FOR 'BEATING'
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA cousin of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is suing the city and the NYPD for $120 million for alleged police brutality, The Post has learned. Arthur Heller, 27, of Inwood...
WARNER'S RAP ON HILL
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMark Warner, the former Virginia governor whom some Democrats are looking to boost as the Hillary Rodham Clinton alternative for president in 2008, last night suggested New York's senator would...
JAZZMAN'S MYSTERY N.O. DEATH
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMystery surrounds the tragic death of a respected New York jazz pianist, who passed away yesterday after being severely battered on Bourbon Street in New Orleans last month while promoting...
DEVECCHIO DA KICKS 'HARASS'
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amFormer G-men, including a noted best-selling author and mob-buster, are intimidating witnesses the Brooklyn DA plans to use against accused FBI mob mole Lindley DeVecchio, prosecutors said yesterday. "These people...
BURN-BABY AUNT IS LIVID
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThe horrific abuse of a 6-month-old baby in Queens could have been prevented if authorities had heeded pleas from the teen mom's family to jail the infant's lawbreaker father, relatives...
WEST SIDE STAB NAB
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA suspected serial robber was busted last night for posing as a neighbor to push his way into an elderly couple's home on the Upper West Side and then viciously...
NEW MOMS LICK CURSE OF 6-6-6 - DEFY DEVIL JINX AND GIVE BIRTH
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amNo, they didn't name him Damien. But not because new mom Karla George-Smith is concerned that her son would be jinxed because he was born yesterday, on the date 6-6-6,...
'FAKE-COP PERV' QUIZZED
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amCops last night were grilling a man in connection with five recent attempted abductions of young girls in Brooklyn by a pervert flashing a phony police badge. Police sources said...
SCHOOL-BUS STRIKE OK'D
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amSchool-bus drivers and escorts who transport 170,000 city students each day voted overwhelmingly yesterday to authorize a strike at the end of the month, in a contract dispute with 27...
GREEN GETS MEAN VS. CUOMO
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMark Green heaped criticism on Democratic state attorney general hopeful Andrew Cuomo's ethics yesterday, prompting the front-runner to blast back that Green is a desperate, six-time loser. Green, who is...
BIG-TIME BURGLAR BUST IN BROOKLYN
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA man responsible for a string of burglaries in Brooklyn and Queens was busted yesterday, police said. Hector Morales, 22, was charged in 17 burglaries since March after he was...
GIRL, 9, HELPS BUST 'PERV'
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amBrooklyn cops last night busted a pervert who tried to lure a 9-year-old girl into a car, police said. Elfego Herrera, 41, allegedly tried to grab the youngster and then...
DEATH BLAST IN BROOKLYN
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amAn explosion at a $2 million Brooklyn house killed a construction worker and left two others seriously burned yesterday. They were spraying highly flammable waterproofing solutions indoors - without proper...
TRASHY TOXIC SHOCK - COURT DEFEAT FOR CITY
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amPeople living near the Pelham Bay Landfill "are being systematically poisoned by environmental contaminants," a state appeals court said yesterday. The state Appellate Division made the extraordinarily strong statement in...
DEVECCHIO DA RIPS 'HARASS' TACTIC
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amFormer G-men are intimidating witnesses the Brooklyn DA's Office plans to use against accused FBI mob mole Lindley DeVecchio, prosecutors said yesterday. "These people are not playing fair," said Assistant...
PUT MOM'S MURDERER IN PRISON FOR LIFE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn phone-book deliveryman will do 19 years to life in prison for savagely murdering his girlfriend, a judge ruled yesterday after hearing heartbreaking words from the victim's 9-year-old daughter....
IT'S TIME TO HOOK NEW FISHERMEN
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amIF IT'S June, you must be fishing somewhere. And if you don't fish, it is a good time to get started or get someone started. This week is also the...
LIBS GO FOR TWO IN ROW
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amNew York has been liberated from the loss column. After four straight road losses to start the season, the Liberty won their home-opener on Sunday, 89-79 in OT, over the...
FRANK STAYING WITH NETS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThe NBA's youngest head coach received another year on the job yesterday when the Nets picked up the fourth-year option at $2.5 million on coach Lawrence Frank, locking him up...
YANKEES SLAY DAVID - CHANGE IN STRATEGY CUTTING BIG PAPI RIGHT DOWN TO SIZE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amDAVID Ortiz's past three games at the plate against the Yankees had been the baseball equivalent of the individual who finally stops hitting himself on the head with a hammer....
MATTINGLY'S SON DRAFTED BY DODGERS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amDon Mattingly's son Preston was the first sandwich-round pick yesterday in the Major League Baseball draft, chosen by the Dodgers 31st overall. The elder Mattingly acknowledged it was a little...
O'S GRAB BEATO IN MLB DRAFT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amPedro Beato gambled and won. The hard-throwing former Xaverian right-hander turned down the Mets' offer of roughly $750,000 last week before re-entering the major league draft. Yesterday, Beato, who spent...
ROCKET RELAUNCH - CLEMENS ENJOYS EARLY FATHER'S DAY
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amLEXINGTON, Ky. - Inside Suite 15, Applebee's Park. Debbie Clemens, wearing large sunglasses, watched her oldest son Koby, 19, and husband Roger take the field for the Lexington Legends. After...
HE PUTS 'FIGHT' IN FIGHTIN' IRISH
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amSusan Zbikowski knew from the day she gave birth to her youngest son, Tom, Notre Dame's fierce-hitting strong safety, that this would be a challenging child to raise. "From the...
OSCAR MULLING FINALE VS. FLOYD
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amLOOK for Oscar De La Hoya to announce later this month he'll stage his final career fight, a bout against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in September. That's not official, just a...
STANNERS STAY IN THE BALLGAME
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFS: Molloy 11 - Iona Prep 2 Sandy Sussman has been the ace of Molloy's staff throughout the season, but he didn't look like it in the first inning...
TAM O'SHANTER PRO'S LIVING HIS DREAM
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMark Brown hasn't been here or done that, which is what makes this week so special. While banging range balls on the Westchester Country Club practice range yesterday in preparation...
SERGIO PUMPED FOR W'CHESTER
June 7, 2006 | 4:00am"I like everything about it. I think it's a very challenging course." -SERGIO GARCIA (m) For a guy who's supposedly mixes with the New York crowds like oil does with...
RED BULLS MAY SIGN BRIT DUO
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amWhile Red Bulls coach Mo Johnston isn't hopeful of landing the World Cup defender he's after - Poland captain Jacek Bak made $1.5 million last year in Qatar - he's...
YANKS MAKE THEIR PITCH - USC RIGHTY LEADS PICKS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yankees went pitching heavy on the first day of the amateur draft, taking pitchers with their first three picks and eight of their first 10. The Bombers took Ian...
ROBERT TAYLOR, EX-GIANT, DEAD
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Giant defensive end Robert Taylor, who played for Big Blue in 1963 and '64, has died from complications following surgery for colon cancer. He was 68. Taylor died Sunday...
JETER STILL THUMB'S DOWN
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When Derek Jeter couldn't grip a baseball Monday, Joe Torre told him he wasn't playing against the Red Sox. Yesterday, Jeter was informed not to do anything involving...
MANNY BEING MANNY - RED SOX SLUGGER SHOWS UP DURING THE KEY MOMENTS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amBOTTOM of the fourth, one out, Jorge Posada crushes one over Coca Crisp's head and off the center-field wall. The ball bounds past Crisp, and for a moment it seems...
WILLIE DEFENDS DECISION TO BYPASS BILLY
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Yesterday Willie Randolph backed up his move to bypass Billy Wagner and have Chad Bradford close Monday's win over the Dodgers. "I've been in the...
HOUSE OF PAIN - PEDRO ROCKED AS METS TUMBLE IN L.A.
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amDodgers 8 - Mets 5 LOS ANGELES - Forty days ago was the last time Pedro Martinez won a game. Martinez began his year with wins in all five of...
BOMBERS GLAD THEY GOT MELK - CABRERA CATCH HELPS SECURE YANKEE WIN
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 2 - Red Sox 1 There's a new entry in the ledger of Greatest New York Baseball Catches. Add Melky Cabrera to the list that includes Willie Mays, Tommie...
ORTIZ SUCCESS SHIFTS DOWN
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amDavid Ortiz has only one solution to the shift. And even he can't homer every trip. Yesterday afternoon, the Red Sox slugger conceded that he might lose 20 points off...
NEW ADDITIONS MAKE BIG STRIDES IN BIG LEAGUE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMELKY Cabrera raced toward the wall, raced against time and against Manny Ramirez. One of Ramirez's liners was heading hard and fast toward left-center field, toward a game-tying, eighthinning homer....
BIG STEP - ANDY TAKES ADVANTAGE OF LONG-AWAITED MAJORS STINT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMAYBE this is all a mirage for Andy Phillips. Maybe this is his Shane Spencer moment, and maybe it is not even that. Maybe he will wake up today from...
JETER'S STILL THUMB'S DOWN - 'BETTER BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH'
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When Derek Jeter couldn't grip a baseball Monday, Joe Torre told the shortstop he wasn't playing against the Red Sox. Yesterday, Jeter was told not to do anything...
DESIGNATED DRIVER - GIAMBI NOW THRIVING AS BOMBERS' DH
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amAmong all the young faces keeping the Yankees afloat these days, one old one has led the team's offensive charge. Jason Giambi appears to have shaken off a May slump...
RANDOLPH MUM ON SNUBBING WAGNER
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Willie Randolph yesterday backed up his move to bypass Billy Wagner and have Chad Bradford close Monday's win over the Dodgers. "I've been in the...
WANTED: GOOD, OLD WORKHORSE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amTHE year of the Triple Crown has suddenly dissolved into the week of the Single Crown. When the field runs under the wire in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, three different horses...
SOLER ENERGY - CUBAN RIGHTY JOLTS METS' STAFF
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - In his first two starts, Alay Soler didn't pitch with great control. He walked four in his first outing; three more in his second. Soler walked only...
FINAL TUNEUPS FOR FIVE HOPEFULS
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amIN THE WORKS THE final round of morning drills for Saturday's Belmont Stakes took place yesterday as five different horses worked a wide assortment of distances and speeds at three...
ZEKE SPEAKS - KNICKS PREZ BREAKS SILENCE; NO HINT OF BACKING BROWN
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amORLANDO - The Knicks' soap opera officially hit Orlando last night as Isiah Thomas finally broke his silence since reports surfaced that owner James Dolan is seeking a divorce from...
SUSSMAN SETTLES DOWN AS STANNERS STAY ALIVE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFS: Molloy 11 - Iona Prep 2 Sandy Sussman has been the ace of Molloy's staff throughout the season, but he didn't look like it in the first inning...
ORTIZ WATCHES HIS SUCCESS TAKE A DOWNWARD SHIFT
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amYesterday afternoon, David Ortiz conceded that he might lose 20 points off last season's batting average due to the constant shifts he faces. But the Boston DH vowed that he...
AMAZIN'S HOPE MULVEY COMES UP ACES
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - This past season at Villanova, right-hander Kevin Mulvey went only 3-8. The Mets, though, took him with their top pick in yesterday's MLB draft, and...
BORN TO BE WILD FOR DISTANCE - STEPPENWOLFER IS BANKING ON BREEDING
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amIn the end, Saturday's 138th Belmont Stakes could come down to this: Which 3-year-old, in a field of 12 to be entered today in the wide-open "Test of the Champion,"...
DOLAN SICS HIS LAWYERS ON SITE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amKnicks owner James Dolan has sent his lawyers after the new Web site selltheknicks.com for peddling derogatory T-shirts with his likeness, including one with Dolan pictured in a dunce cap,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amThis couple never said " 'til death do us part." Police parted them before they could get around to it. The Boulder, Colo., duo was set to exchange vows -...