June 23, 2006
EYE OF THE TIGER - BOLLORE'S PLAN TO BUILD GLOBAL GIANT
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amCANNES - French corporate raider Vincent Bollore, who last year orchestrated the takeover of ad heavyweight Havas, is digging in for a long fight over independent media firm Aegis. Bollore,...
SHAVER BUZZ IS PHILIPS' DREAM
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amElectronics giant Philips' Web campaign for its Norelco Bodygroom device - which promises to "trim and shave all body zones" - has created an underground sensation that rivals the buzz...
DEFENSE ATTACKS TRADER
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA defense lawyer for one of the two New York Stock Exchange specialists on trial for illegal trading chipped away at the testimony of the government's star witness yesterday. Joseph...
PORN QUEEN STRIKES DEAL WITH PLAYBOY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amPlayboy Enterprises yesterday acquired Club Jenna, the multi-media company founded by the porn star Jenna Jameson. The deal - the terms of which were not disclosed - includes a film...
L&T GETS TIME - REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS BUY RETAILER FOR $1.2B
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe storied Lord & Taylor chain received a stay of execution yesterday, when it was acquired for $1.2 billion by a team of real estate developers who promised to continue...
LAD MAG'S COVERUP - FHM WRAPS RACY GLOSSY AFTER HUDSON NEWS COMPLAINT
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amNAUGHTY, naughty. After complaints from its landlord at Grand Central Station, Hudson News is draping the July cover of FHM, the laddie title that features scantily clad porn star Tera...
BIZ OVER PLEASURE AT CANNES
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amCANNES - The chic seaside resort town where the ad industry used to go to play is where they now go to work. Ad execs from around the world are...
REFCO MESS TOUCHES ARAFAT, PAULSON
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amIn one of the worst meltdowns ever to shame Wall Street - the Refco collapse - a global bank behind the deal had laundered cash from a casino owned by...
MUCHO TROUBLE - RIVALRIES, REGULATORS SCARE OFF LBO GIANTS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe much anticipated bidding war for Spanish-language broadcasting giant Univision is turning into a Latin soap opera. After heated squabbling over who will run the company after a buyout, three...
BUYERS BEWARE - WILD UNIVISION ACTION SCARES OFF LBO GIANTS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe much anticipated bidding war for Spanish-language broadcasting giant Univision is turning into a Latin soap opera. After heated squabbling over the final price and post-merger terms, three of the...
POOR TREATMENT
June 23, 2006 | 4:00am'THE Road to Guantanamo" is a sometimes powerful but more often awkward blend of documentary and docudrama about the controversial U.S. military prison in Cuba, where three prisoners recently committed...
A 'MANON' FOR ALL REASONS BY SEASONED ABT TROUPE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amLIKE a triumphant player running the bases after hitting a home run, Julio Bocca has finally reached a metaphorical if flower-bestrewn dugout, on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House....
TOTAL 'WAIST' OF ONE'S TIME
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amACCORDING to "Waist Deep," a slow-witted and occasionally unintentionally hilarious hip-hop version of "Bonnie and Clyde" from the director of "Glitter," the state of California now places convicted felons in...
WASSUP? NOT MUCH
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE first half-hour of "Wassup Rockers," Larry Clark's latest movie about at-risk youth (aren't they all?), goes by slowly. As the camera caresses the bodies of bare-chested teenage guys, paying...
CONJURING 9/11 DOESN'T MAKE A FILM WONDERFUL
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amIN the future, more and more filmmakers will do exactly what "The Great New Wonderful" has done: conceal their lack of ideas by bringing up 9/11. This drama (directed by...
SEEN THIS? OR THIS? THEN SKIP THIS! - JUVENILE COMEDY FEELS LIKE A RERUN; SOMEONE GET THE REMOTE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amRARELY have I wanted to fastforward through a movie as much as "Click," a treacly and not-funny-enough Adam Sandler comedy about a man who uses a magical remote control to...
HIP-HOP HAPPENING IN BROOKLYN
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amIF you prefer your dose of hip-hop to come in music form, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is the place to be. Now in its second year, the free all-day event...
BRITISH REUNION A SIGN OF THE TIMES
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE world turned upside down when Taylor Hicks was named most eligible bachelor by People magazine. But you can set it right again by hitting the rock circuit, which takes...
HAIL KING KEVIN - KLINE SNEAKS A LEAR, MULLS NEW BARD ROLE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHREE years after winning glowing reviews for his portrayal of Falstaff in "Henry IV" at Lincoln Center, Kevin Kline is making a run at another great role from the Bard:...
MEADOW BACK IN MAFIA FAMILY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amJAMIE Lynn Sigler, who plays Tony's daughter, Meadow, on "The Sopranos," is "close" to signing a deal to return to the show, sources say. Sigler is one of several "Sopranos"...
MARY'S HOT PICK
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE JVC Jazz Festival (festivalproductions.net) closes tonight with several shows slotted around town. But for a free night of music, head to Brooklyn's Park Slope for tap-dance phenom Savion Glover...
BRIDLE PARTY - OLD-FASHIONED WESTERN ALIVE AND WELL ON 'TRAIL'
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amWITH the exception of "Deadwood," the classic TV Western has been about as dead as John Wayne and his horse for longer than is decent or proper. Not that calling...
STARR REPORT
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amJoan in 'Morning' Former "Good Morning America" co-hosts Joan Lunden and David Hartman will return to their old stomping grounds next week when the show says buh-bye to Charlie Gibson,...
CASINO BEAT
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY * The Decades Rock Live! concert series presents LYNYRD SKYNYRD with special guest stars BO BICE, rock group 3 DOORS DOWN and county's HANK WILLIAMS JR. (below) tonight...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - PRESIDENTS EDITION
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amBill Clinton - 42nd president, 1993-2001 With the popular president from Arkansas in the White House, the country enjoyed its greatest period of peace and prosperity. WILLIAM Jefferson Blythe III...
'IDOL' CLONE JUGGLING ITS 'TALENTS'
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amNBC's got a summer hit. Nearly 12.5 million viewers tuned in to see jugglers, tumblers, a rappin' granny, a break-dancing cow and dozens of other one-of-a-kind acts audition for the...
'IDOL' SHOCK - MCPHEE LOST WEIGHT AFTER BULIMIA
June 23, 2006 | 4:00am'AMERICAN Idol" knock-out Katharine McPhee secretly struggled with bulimia until being chosen for the talent show last fall prompted her to find help. Oddly though, her most dramatic weight loss...
CUOMO PULLS AWAY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Andrew Cuomo has widened his lead over former Public Advocate Mark Green in the race for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, a new poll shows. The Quinnipiac...
HUNGARY A LESSON FOR IRAQ: BUSH
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday hailed Hungary's long struggle for freedom against brutal communist rule as an inspiration for Iraq's fledgling democracy. "The lesson of the Hungarian experience is clear - liberty...
POLS TO MIKE: RETURN $35M IN HOUSE MONEY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amSeveral elected officials joined throngs of housing advocates in demanding that the Bloomberg administration restore some $35 million in subsidies to public housing. NYCHA - the city's public housing authority...
TEEN'S BODY IN A BAG
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA woman in Brooklyn made a grisly discovery yesterday when she opened a garbage bag outside her building and found the body of a teenage girl, cops said. The unidentified...
CITY CHEWS FAT PLAN
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe city may be experiencing an epidemic of obesity, but it's not clear if it has the legal right to limit fast-food franchises, Health Commissioner Tom Frieden said yesterday. "Zoning...
JAG MOWER 'FLEEING' MOB
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe lawyer for the boozed-up rich kid charged with mowing down four Long Island country club bar patrons after he was ejected says his client was not trying to kill...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Two people were arrested in Brownsville for attacking a female acquaintance with a brick and a bottle, authorities said yesterday. Vanilla Holman, 23, and James Bailey, 31, confronted...
DUELING DEM TROOP PLANS BOMB IN SENATE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton declared, "We're never going to have a strictly military victory" in Iraq moments after the Senate decisively rejected dueling Democratic plans to bring U.S....
'SLAY' TEEN COP-RAID OUTRAGE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amCops busted down the front door of a teen murder suspect without a warrant in the middle of the night, knocked his grandmother's dentures out of her head and hauled...
ELIOT'S HOT POTATO
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA press conference where gubernatorial front-runner Eliot Spitzer was to endorse his former aide Carl Andrews in a hot congressional race was abruptly canceled yesterday just before it was to...
BUNGLING RAPIST GETS 20 YRS.
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amIdiot rapist Alexander Morales was too hasty to cover up his heinous crime - and now he'll have all the time in the world for regrets. The convicted rapist and...
CITY SHELTER $TORM
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe city was double-billed about $900,000 by a firm that provides shelter for the homeless - and isn't even trying to get the money back, Comptroller William Thompson reported yesterday....
GIRL, 2, DROWNS IN POOL HORROR - QNS. MA FINDS HER AT BOTTOM
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens mom turned away from her toddler daughter for only a few moments - but it was just long enough for the little girl to climb into her family's...
OLMERT'S APOLOGY TO ABBAS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday apologized for recent botched airstrikes, during the first meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in more than a year. Olmert and Palestinian President...
KITTEN STARTS RABIES ALERT IN S.I.
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA kitten in the Prince's Bay section of Staten Island has tested positive for rabies and two others in the same litter may also have been infected, putting anyone who...
NOT SO FAST, GREEN! DA PROBE STILL OPEN
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Brooklyn District Attorney Charles "Joe" Hynes has not ended his criminal probe of a controversial $250,000 contribution from Mark Green's 2001 mayoral campaign - despite Green's claims to...
RESORT FEARS NEW NATALEE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe Turks and Caicos Islands are bracing for a Natalee Holloway-like blow to tourism, as news spread about a brutal attack on a New York woman and her companion at...
AIDE 'PICKED UP CHECKS'
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA former mailroom worker at the city's welfare agency has been arrested for stealing 155 child-support checks totaling $92,000, officials said yesterday. Carlos Marks, 35, formerly of Staten Island and...
FITNESS REPORT - SCHOOLS 'LEAN' ON BIG APPLE STUDENTS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amNearly a quarter-million city students will receive supersized report cards this year - stuffed with details on their level of fitness, officials said yesterday. The evaluations, known as fitnessgrams, are...
GRANNY GRENADE IN B'KLYN CACHE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe NYPD Bomb Disposal Squad cordoned off a quiet, tree-lined East Flatbush block yesterday after finding a grenade - which turned out to be a dud - in an 86-year-old...
BROOKLYN 'FIREBUG' IN BAIL BID
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn judge wants to go to the videotaped confession of a Polish immigrant accused of igniting the city's largest blaze since 9/11 to help determine if he should be...
WTC 'FEE' FLAP - BILL SEEKS 'FREE-DOM'
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation would lose tens of millions of dollars in state funds if an admission fee is ever charged at the 9/11 memorial, museum...
FIERY FLAG RAGE - SICKO B'KLYN VANDALS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amHooligans set American flags on fire in the front yards of seven homes on a patriotic stretch of Brooklyn yesterday - including that of a family who tragically lost their...
MATADOR BAN EYED - NO BULL
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe sun also sets - Catalonia is taking the first steps to outlaw bullfighting. The Catalan parliament yesterday began considering banning the spectacle in the autonomous region of Spain where...
TEENS CANNING SOFT-DRINK HABIT
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTeens are kicking the sugary-soft-drink habit to get buff bods and better buzzes from other drinks - leaving Coke and Pepsi reeling in their first losing year in more than...
CONGRESS AGAIN VOTES FOR VICTORY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amAT crucial moments over the past three-plus years, American politicians and American voters have been forced to pass judgment on the war in Iraq - not by pollsters asking a...
WORKING CANINE-TO-5 TODAY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amIf you think work is for the dogs, you're right. Today is "Take Your Dog to Work Day," and thousands of companies nationwide are allowing employees to bring their pooches...
RIPPER VICTIM'S GOT GAME - TOURIST IS METS' GUEST OF HONOR AT SHEA
June 23, 2006 | 4:00am"Subway ripper" victim Christopher McCarthy enjoyed a day of sun and fun yesterday as the stabbed tourist got the red-carpet treatment at Shea Stadium. "This is great - I'm really...
$4.5M IN EYE BRAWL - DOE LIABLE FOR LOSS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx jury awarded $4.5 million to a boy who lost an eye in a junior high school cafeteria brawl - which a teacher watched and failed to stop, the...
PERVS DERAILED - 13 PINCHED IN NYPD GROPE STINGS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amSubway gropers beware: Next time you cop a feel, you might be feeling a cop. A baker's dirty dozen have been busted for rubbing, grabbing and flashing women on crowded...
SCHOLAR SOCIETY SELECTS QNS. BOY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amShaelon Wright is about to learn that membership has its privileges. The 14-year-old Queens boy has been chosen to receive a free college education and eight years of mentoring courtesy...
HERO COP RETIRES - FACED DOWN DRUG PUNK IN GUNFIGHT
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amHero cop Patrick Caprice, who survived a wild gun battle with a drug suspect in Brooklyn last year, retired from the NYPD yesterday - and thanked "all the people of...
PATAKI PAYS OFF PALS WITH CUSHY JOBS - LAME-DUCK GOVERNOR'S 'ORGY OF PATRONAGE'
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Lame-duck Gov. Pataki jammed nearly 150 of his political cronies, campaign contributors, longtime aides and their family members into often-lucrative state patronage jobs this week, putting them beyond...
TARZAN TEEN'S PARENTS GO APE - CUSTODY BATTLE IS A REAL JUNGLE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA 13-year-old Broadway star and his stage-struck sisters are at the center of a custody battle rife with allegations the dad prefers corporal punishment, while the mother blows through the...
554G A FARE DEAL - CAB-MEDALLION RECORD
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTaxi medallions set a record yesterday - with two of them going for $554,157.50 each at a city auction. A total of 254 medallions - which have to be used...
W. POINTER FROM IRAQ LOVES APPLE TO THE CORPS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe first-ever Iraqi accepted as a cadet at West Point discovered America is a friendly place - and found New York to be "like a piece of paradise." Jameel -...
SEARS TOWER TERROR PLOT - FEDS BUST 7 RADICAL MUSLIMS IN MIAMI
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Seven men who plotted to bomb Chicago's Sears Tower were arrested last night after FBI agents raided a Miami warehouse, authorities said. The men - part of a...
HIDE-&-SEEK TOT DROWNS IN POOL - QNS. MA FINDS HER AT BOTTOM
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amAn innocent game of hide-and-seek ended in tragedy yesterday when a 2-year-old Queens toddler drowned - apparently after deciding the family swimming pool would be a good place to hide,...
HEROES IN $1B BATTLE VS. CITY - COURT BID FOR WTC PAYOUTS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amShow us the $1 billion. World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers who said they got sick breathing toxic air at Ground Zero argued yesterday that they deserve a day...
LARRY TOO SMART FOR MSG FOOLS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE New York Knicks might have hit rock bottom yesterday with the firing of coach Larry Brown after just one dismal season. This once-proud team has never been more hopeless,...
HOU$ING FURY AT CITY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amSeveral elected officials stood alongside throngs of housing advocates yesterday in demanding that City Hall restore $35 million in public-housing subsidies. The New York City Housing Authority, facing a $168...
THEIR SILENCE SPEAKS WHERE WORDS CANNOT
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amIN A room jammed with an absurd number of dark-suited lawyers, two men in khakis sat in silent vigil. They are NYPD Detectives Richard Volpe and John Walcott, retired. Five...
SLEAZY-RIDER STING - 13 PINCHED AS SUBWAY GROPERS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amSubway gropers, beware - next time you cop a feel, you might be feeling a cop. A baker's dirty dozen has been busted for rubbing, grabbing and flashing women on...
CPW MUGGING SUSPECT NAILED
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amCops chased down a mugger who grabbed a woman's purse at knifepoint on the Upper West Side yesterday, police said. The 28-year-old victim was approached from behind by two thugs...
BRITS 'DO' TO DYE FOR
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amBubble-gum music has a new flavor: licorice. Pregnant Britney Spears debuted a new dark 'do yesterday as she and her 9-month-old son, Sean Preston, took a walk in lower Manhattan....
NOT-SO SMART MONEY - MENSA MORON JAILED
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amA MENSA smarty who managed to turn on the charm and con both women and welfare staffers was sentenced yesterday to one to three years in prison after a judge...
FANS: NOW FIRE DOLAN & ISIAH - BLAME THEM FOR KNICKS' DOOM AFTER BROWN GETS AX
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe Knicks finally bounced Larry Brown yesterday after putting the "dead-man walking" coach through weeks of suicide drills - but it was team owner James Dolan and general manager Isiah...
JOHNNY PUTS NBC ON SPOT
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amJOHN MADDEN, Johnny Miller, Jeromy Burnitz. How's that for a something-in-common trio? In 2002 the Mets re-acquired Burnitz with $18 million left on his contract. Just before the season began,...
WADE: BROWN 'A GREAT COACH'
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amDwyane Wade played for Larry Brown in the 2004 Olympics, when the United States finished third in Brown's biggest coaching failure. That is, until he got to the Knicks. Wade...
DWYANE WON'T SAY HE'S JORDAN'S HEIR
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amIt took less time for Dwyane Wade to win an NBA title, as well as an NBA Finals MVP award, but the third-year player said he doesn't consider himself to...
JUGGER-METS KEPT THEIR PROMISE TO PEDRO
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Mets had already piqued Pedro Martinez' interest. They'd committed to a fourth year. They'd guaranteed him a boatload of money, more than his great-grandchildren will ever be able to...
WRIGHT CRANKS COUPLE MV-PEAS - DAVID'S TWO HOMERS PUT AMAZIN'S 10 GAMES UP
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amMets 6 - Reds 2 With three words yesterday afternoon, Pedro Martinez might have vaulted David Wright to a lofty perch in the National League. Earlier, Wright smashed two-run homers...
HOT TIMES FOR ANGLERS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amQUALITY saltwater action was the norm for most anglers this past week as fishing both inshore and offshore heats up with the official start of summer. Striped bass fishing is...
BRADFORD GIVES METS SIDEARM SAVE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amOn a day when their superstar pitcher went only six innings and admitted he didn't have his best stuff out there, the Mets turned to their bats and bullpen to...
MINISTER'S BID IMPRESSES
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amFlower Alley, winner of last year's Grade 1 Travers and second to Horse of the Year Saint Liam in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Classic, will make his seasonal debut...
LIBS FEELIN' SOUP-ED UP
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amFresh off Wednesday night's 72-66 win over the Washington Mystics, the Liberty took to the street yesterday to help some third graders cool down after a tough day in the...
MARATHON TRIALS HEADING TO NYC
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe 2008 U.S. Olympic Men's Marathon Trials will be hosted by the New York Road Runners Club, piggy-backing off next year's New York City Marathon. "This is going to be...
A-ROD WELCOMES 'TOUGH LOVE'
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amBoo him so loud your throat bleeds. Scream at him until you spit up a lung. Alex Rodriguez hears the Yankee Stadium abuse and has no intention of firing back...
GODZILLA'S REHAB RIGHT ON SCHEDULE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Hideki Matsui's goal of returning from a fractured right wrist by the middle of August took a step in the right direction yesterday. Matsui was examined by Dr....
DELGADO IS HOPING FOR TORONTO CHEERS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Carlos Delgado expects this weekend's trip to Toronto to be "hectic as hell," as he answers repeated questions about why he's no longer a Blue Jay. After parts...
FANS: NOW FIRE DOLAN AND ISIAH
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe Knicks finally bounced Larry Brown yesterday after putting the dead-man-walking coach through weeks of suicide drills - but it was team owner James Dolan and general manager Isiah Thomas...
'JUST NOT ME' - ELI NOT A LOUD LEADER
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amFast-forward five years from now. Eli Manning is 30 years old, an established star quarterback, owner of many Giants passing records and on pace to accumulate a bundle more. He...
BEAN THERE, DONE THAT - PEDRO RETURNING TO BOSTON - AS ENEMY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amAs a New Englander for all of his 61 years, ESPN's Peter Gammons has a good feel for Boston, so he probably is the right person to predict the reaction...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JAY BILAS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amThis week NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN basketball analyst Jay Bilas. Bilas, 42, will be an analyst on ESPN's NBA draft coverage Wednesday. Q: Are the Bulls,...
DOLAN NO GARDEN SMARTY
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHEY are an organization so riddled with incompetence that you half expect to show up at Madison Square Garden some nights and see that the baskets have been set to...
KNICKS SAY BYE, BROWN - STERN TO DECIDE WHAT HE'S OWED
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amLarry Brown is free at last, but the big-bucks battle with Knicks owner James Dolan has just begun. Brown said yesterday he deserved to be fired but also believes he...
EASY TO FIND OTHERS TO BLAME
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amJAMES Dolan's rubout of Larry Brown caught me by complete surprise. Geez, who exactly saw that one coming? My initial selfish reaction regarding the fit of temporary sanity by the...
PACE MAKER - IN INDIANA, THEY'RE NOT DOUBTING THOMAS
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amFIGURE the Knicks will be up-tempo and creative offensively next season. At least that's what the man who first gave Isiah Thomas an NBA head coaching job forecasts for the...
ARENA DESERVES SOME BLAME FOR OUSTER
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amIn the wake of the United States' abbreviated three-and-out World Cup, much wailing will ensue about the Americans being robbed. Maybe. But it was coach Bruce Arena who left the...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amTo: Diehard Soccer Fans From: Andrew Marchand Re: Dave O'Brien CC: Giorgio Chinaglia Dear Diehards: Give Dave O'Brien a chance. We know you were insulted that ESPN had the audacity...
HUBIE RETURN NO SLAM-DUNK - ABC MIGHT TURN BACK ON BROWN
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amHubie Brown wants to return as ABC's lead NBA analyst. But will he be invited back? The informative Brown's contract ended after the just-concluded Finals. While he looks at himself...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 23, 2006 | 4:00amGuests at a resort in Plymouth, Ind., were evacuated early in the morning after a bartender reported seeing a suspicious light blinking on a restaurant wall and thought it was...