June 16, 2006
LOWBALL OFFER FOR INTER-TEL
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe disgruntled ex-chief of telecom firm Inter-Tel has made what looks like a lowball offer to take his company private, offering roughly $600 million. Steven Mihaylo, who founded Inter-Tel in...
MICROSOFT TUNED UP FOR NEXT IPOD BATTLE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amMicrosoft is preparing to wage a high-stakes battle against Apple and its iPod digital music player, a move that could bring to mind the battle between the tech giant's Xbox...
HEDGE FUND SHUTS DOWN AFTER SEC CHECK
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA Bear Stearns-backed hedge fund is shutting its doors under a mysterious cloud after regulators discovered an unusual, potentially improper pay deal in which one of the Wall Street giant's...
SUITED FOR CHANGE - ABBOUD INDULGES POTENTIAL BIDDERS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amJoseph Abboud, the maker of men's suits, shirts and sports coats for the country club set, has recently received a flurry of interest from potential suitors, The Post has learned....
AD GIANT LAND$ ON HUFF POST HOMEPAGE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amIn an effort to showcase its Web savvy and promote its own brand ad agency, JWT will take a prominent position on the homepage of The Huffington Post, the hot...
DURING TV SHOOT, THEY WONDER WHERE WENNER WENT
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amAS camera crews for the upcoming reality show, "Jann's Adventures in Reality Television," converge on Rolling Stone's offices, founder Jann Wenner is missing in action. "They've totally taken over the...
EXIT GATES - ICONIC FOUNDER STEPS DOWN FROM MICROSOFT
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amBill Gates, the iconic billionaire head of technology giant Microsoft Corp., plans to step away from his day-to-day control of the company he founded, shaking up the culture of the...
EDITOR AT VOICE RESIGNS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe chaotic situation atop the Village Voice just got worse. Eric Wemple, the Washington, D.C.-based editor of City Paper, had been tapped last month to run the Village Voice by...
CROSSWORD FANATICS GET DOWN (AND ACROSS)
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amAS someone who has never completed a crossword puzzle, I was surprised how engaged I was by "Wordplay," Patrick Creadon's crowd-pleasing documentary on this most unlikely subject. It has a...
CAST TURNS DANCER'S SWAN SONG INTO STIRRING FINALE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amCREATED in 1841, that charming tear-jerker "Giselle" has been brought back to the Metropolitan Opera House by American Ballet Theatre with a nifty succession of star-filled casts. Julio Bocca, after...
MOTHER IN AWE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN I was a kid, our moms would have let us play with depleted uranium if it had gotten us out of the house. The black comedy "Loverboy" is about...
CAT BOX FILLER
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amKIDS should see "Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties." It'll help prepare them for a lifetime of mediocre entertainment ahead. Not every kid, though, will be able to stomach the...
BRAZILIAN BRAGA RIGHTS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amLIKE aunt, like niece. Twenty-three-year-old Alice (pronounced Aleesay) Braga follows in the naked footsteps of her Brazilian bombshell aunt, Sonia, in the provocative drama "Lower City." Alice plays Karinna, a...
RECIPE FOR A REVOLTING MESS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWHY do some revolutions turn out like 1775's and others like 1789's? Fascinating question, but the political satire "Land of the Blind" answers it like a semi-prepared PoliSci 101 student...
TOO EASY RIDER
June 16, 2006 | 4:00am'THE Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" stars a dangerous iron-jawed man/god who carves up the streets in sleek suicide machines before the adoring eyes of lubricious electric women fairly...
JUST NOT UP TO 'SPEED'
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amTWELVE years after they coped with a bomb on a bus in "Speed," Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are reunited to much less happy effect in "The Lake House." This...
SHORT SHOW LEAVES MONKEY FANS COLD
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amAS one of the hottest band's in rock, they should know better, but here's two words for the Arctic Monkeys: More music, dammit. OK, that's three words, maybe four. That's...
QUIEN ES MAS NACHO? - JUMPIN' JACK BRINGS THE OLD BLACK MAGIC; NEW JACK, WITTY
June 16, 2006 | 4:00am'CHACHO, when you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants, in your room. Just for fun." And sometimes you beat a guy with a bag of tortilla chips, train...
GET THE RHETT STUFF
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amSUMMER equals free shows. So without any ado at all, here are some to check out - some in the most unusual places. TOMORROW: At East River Amphitheater (take the...
'MAME'D BY COSTS - EXPENSES MAY SCUTTLE B'WAY MOVE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amTHE cast of "Mame" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., is on edge. With a little more than two weeks to go in their sold-out run, they're desperate to...
STARR REPORT
June 16, 2006 | 4:00am'Trace' evidence? CBS affiliates are appealing an FCC fine for showing a racy "Without a Trace" episode - saying the people who complained never even saw the episode in question....
GUNGA DAN CONFIRMS: HE'S OUT
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amDAN Rather's 44-year career at CBS News is ending. Rather, 74, is negotiating his departure from the network he's called home since 1962 - and is expected to leave well...
MEET DA NEW DA - FROM 'CSI: MIAMI' TO 'LAW & ORDER': STUNNER ALANA BACK FROM DEAD
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amCURVY Alana De La Garza is joining "Law & Order" as the show's new Assistant District Attorney. De La Garza co-starred on "CSI: Miami" last season as cancer survivor Marisol...
SNOW WHERE TO RUN - SHLEPPING FOR 'TREASURE'
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amI don't know about you, but I've about had it with "reality" shows that have nothing to do with reality and everything to do with watching other people have adventures...
TALKS TO BRING '24' TO NYC NEXT YEAR
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amNEW York could be targeted for another terrorist attack - next season on "24." The producers of the hit Fox thriller are in discussions with city officials about filming a...
'CHIEF' ENDS WITH ELECTION SHOWDOWN
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amTHE network series that came in with the biggest bang last fall has gone out with a whimper. This week's episode of ABC's "Commander in Chief" was the last for...
MARY'S HOT PICK
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amSINCE Village Vanguard founder Max Gordon died in 1989, his widow, Lorraine, has maintained the musical livelihood of the 71year-old downtown club. JVC Jazz Fest honors "Sweet Lorraine," now 83,...
FILM PICK
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amLulu's back in town, and the Film Forum has her. Louise Brooks was a Hollywood actress who didn't get along with the studio system. In the late 1920s, she went...
CASINO BEAT
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY * Trump Entertainment presents ANDREA BOCELLI (pictured) Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Boardwalk Hall Arena. Tickets: $75-$275; boardwalkhall.com, (609) 348-7000. * The Decades Rock Live! concert series...
JAIL GUARD IN $LICK SICK 'PLOY'
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amAnother correction officer has been arrested for submitting forged medical notes - the fifth in the past six months, authorities said yesterday. The city Department of Investigation said Oliver Hall,...
FIRE WIDOW WEARS HER TWO PRINCE CHARM-INGS - NECKLACE HAS TRAGIC HUBBY, TOT
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amSHE speaks with that magical accent born 50 miles from Belfast. It's not the lilt of the south of Ireland, but it still says, "Come in, luv, for a wee...
A TELLING SILENCE - DEM AGENDA SKIPS THE WAR
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amDEMOCRATIC House members unveiled their version of the Contract with America yesterday - a plan for governance should their party win control of the House of Representatives in November. The...
B'KLYN BLAZES UNCONNECTED: MARSHAL
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's chief fire marshal declared yesterday there is "no connection" between a series of suspicious fires that have unnerved residents in a 10-block swath of Brooklyn. "Statistically, there is...
EVIL FACE OF ENEMY'S NEW ABU
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - This is the new face of terror in Iraq, according to the U.S. military. He is Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian fanatic whom the Pentagon believes is the...
PATAKI SIGNS SWASTIKA LAW
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday signed into law legislation that significantly increases penalties for those who place swastikas on properties without permission or burn crosses in public. Using the images...
JURY-DUTY 'LIAR' COULD FACE OWN JURY
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA Parks Department manager who forged a letter saying she served on a jury could now end up facing one, city investigators said yesterday. Donna Remmen, 53, of Brooklyn, allegedly...
HILL 'WINS' POLL AS THE SCARIEST
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the scariest top candidate for president, and the prospect that she'll run in 2008 frightens a stunning 36 percent of voters, a new...
PARENTS GET 'TEST'Y
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThrongs of angry public school parents mobbed the city's school accountability chief at Department of Education headquarters yesterday, complaining about a plan to test students every six to eight weeks....
SUOZZI'S NEW SLAP
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amTom Suozzi yesterday accused Eliot Spitzer, the front-runner for the Democratic gubernatorial nod, of using a "double standard" by giving the state teachers union a pass in an investigation because...
RAGE OVER HOMELAND HOOKER LIMOS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A seething Rep. Peter King (left) lambasted Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff yesterday and accused him of "gross dereliction of duty" for contracting with a prostitute-toting limo company...
GRIEF FOR CABBY - NAKED LOON TEARS SOUL FROM FAMILY
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn cabby killed by a suspected pervert speeding away from cops died the day before his beloved Ecuadorian national team scored its unprecedented second victory in the World Cup...
'PUTRID' PARKS - WATCHDOG SLAMS CITY'S $$ 'NEGLECT'
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amMany of the city's once-glorious parks have morphed into havens for drug use, prostitution, homeless encampments, illegal dumping and other criminal activity, a parks-watchdog group said yesterday. The problems, spiraling...
HAMAS BIDS FOR A TRUCE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Hamas-led Palestinian government yesterday offered to restore a cease-fire with Israel - after Israel hinted it may target Hamas leaders. Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad said the group...
CITY ADDS 'CREDIT' METERS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amNew Yorkers may never again have to beg bodega owners for change for a dollar, now that the city is dramatically expanding the number of parking meters that take credit...
CLIFF-FALL DAD GRILLED - VAN KIDS CRYING: WHERE'S MOM?
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amCops spent yesterday questioning the husband of a Staten Island woman who was killed Wednesday when she and her two young children plunged 300 feet off a Bear Mountain cliff...
AFTER ZARQAWI: THEY'RE LOSING
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amIRAQ's government just released the first insider documents captured from terrorists in the raids surrounding Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death. The contents will horrify America haters in our media but won't...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Police yesterday released a sketch (above) of a gun-toting thug who allegedly raped two women in separate incidents in Mott Haven. The first attack took place at...
UNIONS ABOARD FOR BUS STRIKE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA strike by the city's largest school-bus drivers union could force hundreds of drivers and escorts from two other unions off the road. Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union...
GREENPOINT 'ARSONIST' INDICTED
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA homeless man busted for setting a fire that engulfed Brooklyn's Greenpoint Terminal Market last month has been indicted on burglary, petit-larceny, arson, criminal-mischief and reckless-endangerment charges, prosecutors said yesterday....
TAXI GAS TAX MAY HACK US
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amCabdrivers crusaded yesterday to get the city to add a surcharge to taxi meters to offset rising gas prices. At a Taxi and Limousine Commission hearing, the hacks urged members...
IT'S NUTS TO SAY STABBER'S CRAZY - 'REASONS' FOR RAMPAGE: DA
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe rampaging ripper responsible for a terrifying spree of knife attacks in Manhattan is not crazy, but rather a cold and calculating monster, prosecutors said yesterday. Kenny Alexis, 20, has...
GLOOMY QAEDA BEASTS WHINE OF LOSING WAR IN BOMBSHELL IRAQ INTEL FIND
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A remarkable secret document describing Iraqi terrorist groups in disarray and detailing plans for a diabolical new phase in the war against U.S. forces was among new al...
BRIDGE DRIVER ARMED & LOADED
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA drunken Connecticut driver, armed with two guns, 150 bullets and a knife, was arrested on the Throgs Neck Bridge yesterday after cops spotted him videotaping the toll booths heading...
CITY-SCHOOL 'BIAS' BATTLE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe federal Department of Education will work to remedy charges of discrimination in enrollment practices at small city schools - a cornerstone of the mayor's education reforms, officials said yesterday....
'AIR'HEAD SECURITY SLIMEBAGS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Federal air-security agents smuggled drugs, tried to lure a child with porn and got caught hawking seized knives on eBay, according to a bombshell report. Three security screeners...
SUNNY SCORCHER
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amSummer officially arrives Wednesday - but unofficially, it'll hit Sunday, when the first 90-degree temperature of the year is expected. And forecasters are predicting uninterrupted warm weather through next week....
CRACKPOT HAS STAFF IN FEAR & LOATHING
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amMAYOR BLOOMBERG, you have a race problem on your hands. A day after a crackpot City University professor ranted against the white race - inside the headquarters of a city...
'RIGHTS' & WRONG - MIRANDA FLAP TAINTS SLAY CONFESSION
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA veteran police officer testified yesterday that he never read a murder suspect his rights before the hardened criminal spontaneously confessed to the fatal stabbing of a pretty 56-year-old mom...
SOPRANO GOTTI AIN'T A-SCARED
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti isn't looking over his shoulder, even after reports that he broke mob rule No. 1 by ratting out members of his crime family, his lawyers said. The...
HERO COP DOUBLY HONORED AS FALLEN PALS GET MEDALS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amErnest Kenner was honored twice yesterday at an annual ceremony that recognized two other hero cops posthumously. Kenner, 35, and two 73rd Precinct colleagues got the Police Combat Cross for...
WTC'S INCREDIBLE SHRINKING SHRINE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amCost-cutting proposals for the World Trade Center memorial reviewed yesterday by officials would downsize the underground gallery, move the display of the victims' names to the above-ground plaza and eliminate...
HATER A HOT POTATO - MIKE PASSES ON BANNING RACIST TALKER
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe city is reviewing a lunchtime speakers program for its workers after The Post disclosed that a CUNY professor went on lengthy anti-white rant, a spokesman for Mayor Bloomberg said...
KING OF BLING BUSTED - JACOB THE JEWELER IN COKE-CASH RAP
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe feds want to ice Jacob the Jeweler. The famed Manhattan purveyor of diamond-encrusted "bling" to Madonna, Diddy, hoop star Allen Iverson and other celebs was busted yesterday on charges...
CLIFF-FALL DAD GRILLED - VAN KIDS CRYING: WHERE'S MOMMY?
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amCops spent yesterday questioning the husband of a Staten Island woman who was killed Wednesday when she and her two young children plunged 300 feet off a Bear Mountain cliff...
MUSIC STARS WENT PLATINUM WITH JAKE - HE MADE HIP-HOPPERS SHINE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amIn rap songs, he's simply referred to as "Jake." Jacob "The Jeweler" Arabo added shine to Sean Combs, luster to Lil' Kim and bling to Beyoncé - but the music...
GRIEF FOR CABBY - NAKED LOON ALSO KILLS SOCCER DREAM
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn cabby, killed by a suspected pervert speeding away from cops, died the day before his beloved Ecuadorian national team clinched an unexpected second-round berth in the World Cup...
NANNY DROWNS IN POOL HORROR
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA nanny drowned after she accidentally fell into a swimming pool yesterday at the Queens home where she worked, police said. Mangri Ramoutar, 43, was watering plants near the pool...
FAMILY FINDS TEEN SLAIN & DAD HANGED
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amRelatives of a 16-year old Brooklyn girl made a blood-curdling discovery yesterday - her corpse riddled with stab wounds in a bedroom, and her stepfather hanged in a closet. Cops...
SLAP AT RATNER
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA city planning group last night condemned Bruce Ratner's $3.5 billion NBA arena and residential complex in Brooklyn, saying the developer should reduce its size and figure out a way...
BROOKLYN 'SOCCER' TRAGEDY
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA family's celebration turned unimaginably tragic when a nephew headed to Germany for the World Cup mowed down his elderly aunt as she waved goodbye in front of her Brooklyn...
DEMS SLAP BRIBE-PROBE COLLEAGUE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - House Democrats yesterday voted to strip embattled Rep. William Jefferson of a key committee post, despite protests of a "double standard" from black lawmakers. As part of a...
CLIFF DAD CHARGED - KIDS IN VAN WITH 'SUICIDAL' WIFE: COPS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe husband of a Staten Island woman who was killed Wednesday in a 300-foot plunge off a Bear n Mountain cliff, was expected to be charged early today in connection...
DAD & TEEN DEAD - SLAY-SUICIDE HORROR
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amRelatives of a 16-year old Brooklyn girl made a blood-curdling discovery yesterday - her corpse riddled with stab wounds in a bedroom, and her stepfather hanged in a closet. Cops...
IMMIGRATION POLL BACKS W.
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A new poll claims the public is warming to President Bush's immigration stance and backs a guest worker program coupled with tougher border enforcement by 50 to 33...
GO HAVE YOURSELF A FISH-TASTIC TIME
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amIT APPEARS Mother Nature finally will cooperate and give us the first truly fishable weekend of the summer. Last week's easterly winds created some good action in Long Island Sound,...
FURYK'S BACK AFTER WRENCHING INJURY
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amJim Furyk literally couldn't look over his shoulder a week ago, forced to withdraw from the Barclays Classic because of a back injury. But after the way he started the...
PURITZ LEAVES ON TOP
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amLast week was a pretty good one for LaSalle baseball, a school not typically known for its prowess on the diamond. First, former player Willie Ortiz was drafted by the...
JOHNSON, POSADA STILL TALKING TOUGH
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe day after the Yankees and Indians almost engaged in a bench-clearing brawl, Jorge Posada and Cleveland pitcher Jason Johnson still were verbally snarling at each other like Ann Coulter...
BUD'S LETTER TO FANS: WE'LL FIGHT HGH USE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amIn an advertisement that will be published in several newspapers today, baseball commissioner Bud Selig vows to fight against the use of human growth hormone (HGH) in the game. The...
PLAX WON'T LOOK BACK
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amNo explanation necessary. That's the sentiment of Plaxico Burress regarding the controversial way he ended his first season with the Giants. After his production did a nosedive down the stretch,...
NET HOPEFULS SHINE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThis was the best pre-draft workout the Nets have staged to date, so says Nets GM Ed Stefanski. "A high-level workout. All four guys are NBA players," Stefanski said. The...
ISIAH COULD COACH KNICKS IN SIN CITY
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amIf Larry Brown's dismissal occurs before the June 28 draft as expected, there's a chance coach-in-waiting Isiah Thomas will run the bench for at least a couple of games during...
ALL EYES ON CHAD - COMEBACK ON TARGET
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amIt reminded no one of Namath-to-Maynard. But Chad Pennington did hit Laveranues Coles in stride on a 35-yard pass in the morning and then presided over the first-team offense in...
A-ROD FAILURE IS ONE OF MANY - MUSSINA, LINEUP COME UP SHORT
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amIndians 8 - Yankees 4 Yesterday's game featured a routine clutch failure by Alex Rodriguez, but so much more than that: Mike Mussina's worst start this season, poor bullpen work...
UNIT, TORRE SUSPENDED
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Yankees weren't feeling so fine yesterday. Randy Johnson was suspended five games and fined an undisclosed amount, and Joe Torre was suspended one game and also fined...
FRAN'S THE MAN IN OPENER
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amIn racing, you need the trip but also racing luck. First-race favorite Classic Fran and Charimount were both rating off the pace and as a tandem gradually moved up toward...
JUST A TADD YOUNG - FUJIKAWA, 15, SAVORS HIS OPEN DEBUT
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amYouth was not served, but is still hungry for more today at the U.S. Open. The youngest-ever player in the 106 editions of this national championship, 15-year-old Tadd Fujikawa showed...
RODRIGUEZ ISN'T RESCUING YANKS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amALEX Rodriguez homered with the Yankees down by five in the seventh inning, struck out with the tying runs in scoring position in the eighth. He is at the point...
BREAKING NEWS? FIX IT
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amON ESPN, the Extreme Self-Promotion Network, the sell now comes first, even before life or death. In March, Kirby Puckett's death was immediately parlayed into an ESPN commercial. As Puckett's...
VIJAY HAS CONFIDENCE IN THE GROOVE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES Vijay Singh, fresh off his Barclays Classic victory at Westchester Country Club last week, pronounced he was "back" from his slump and promised he would be a factor...
HOWELL'S LATE FADE TOUGH TO STOMACH
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThanks, but no thanks. David Howell won't be swinging Vijay Singh's Iron Bar to warm up for his second round of the U.S. Open this time. Howell won't need it....
NO WAY JERMAINE'S ON THE BLOCK
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amMIAMI - If you read a quote by a named Pacers official or an unnamed source denying Jermaine O'Neal is being shopped, do not fall for it. Too many reliable...
JERMAINE NOT ON BLOCK
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amMIAMI - If you read a quote by a named Pacers official or an unnamed source denying Jermaine O'Neal is being shopped, do not fall for it. Too many reliable...
FANS ARE FRIENDLY TO MONTY
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amEveryone was nice to Monty yesterday - even the supposedly surly West Course at Winged Foot. Colin Montgomerie, the grizzled 42-year-old Scot, has had a bitter relationship with American fans...
CLASSROOM EXTRA PRESIDENTS EDITION
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amRICHARD MILHOUS NIXON - 37th president, 1969-1974 After a defeat in 1960, he won the White House and became the first president to resign from office. RICHARD Milhous Nixon was...
WILLIE CALM ABOUT THE KID
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - When you are hot like the Mets, you are really hot. But Willie Randolph is not at Lastings Milledge. "I wanted to get [Eli Marrero] in soon as...
TIGER IN BIG TROUBLE AFTER FIRST ROUND
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amALL WEEK he looked fine. He smiled. He joked. He insisted all was well and that he was ready to not only compete again, but be Tiger Woods again. Woods...
METS KEEP UP AMAZIN' PACE - 9-1 TRIP BLOWS OPEN RACE IN NL EAST
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amMETS 5 - PHILLIES 4 PHILADELPHIA - The last 11 days have been a sensational journey back to Shea. The Mets finished their 10-game road trip yesterday in familiar territory,...
WICKED WINGED FOOT'S WRATCH - ROUGH COURSE PLAYS HAVOC WITH WOODS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWith no European player having won a U.S. Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970, what could be more shocking than to see Scotland's Colin Montgomerie, supposedly well past his prime,...
HOME COOKING - MICKELSON PHILS LOVE FROM FANS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE were only about 30 or 35 people waiting for the Home Team when he showed up for work yesterday, but then the hour was early and the weather was...
GALLERY MAKES MONTY FEEL AT HOME
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amEveryone was nice to Monty yesterday - even the supposedly surly West Course at Winged Foot. Colin Montgomerie, the grizzled 42-year-old Scot, has had a bitter relationship with American fans...
MIND GAMES - OPEN DUEL WILL BE DECIDED BY MENTAL TOUGHNESS
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Sunday at the U.S. Open comes, golf suddenly will become a fast game. From the outside, the play will look the same as any other day. But in the...
NOW BATTING FOR SNY: MOOKIE; MET-NET GIVES WILSON STUDIO GIG
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amMookie Wilson will be a SportsNet New York studio analyst for the Mets-Red Sox series in Boston June 27-29. While Wilson is receiving the opportunity because of the obvious hook...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JOHNNY MILLER
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with NBC golf analyst Johnny Miller. The 59-year-old Miller, who is broadcasting the U.S. Open this weekend, signed a sixyear extension with...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amTo: ESPN Employees From: Andrew Marchand Re: Cell Phones CC: The "Can You Hear Me Now?" Guy Dear ESPN-ERS: You can all add a new line to your resumes: Cell-phone...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 16, 2006 | 4:00amA Texas bank robber took time out while making his getaway to buy new cowboy duds so he wouldn't be recognized, then rode off into the sunset - on a...