October 12, 2006
Next, The Knicks
October 12, 2006 | 9:26pmBy FRED KERBERNew nickname. And a new injury.The nickname, "Missile" was directed at Hassan Adams, courtesy of Jason Kidd. Adams, the rookie from Arizona, already has been called "Rottweiler," by...
UPDATE: ¿Dónde está la biblioteca? (or anything else, really!)
October 12, 2006 | 1:38pmDriving through the heart of the Yucatan, anyone with half a brain can master the toll highway (180, aka the "cuota").It has ample, easy to comprehend signage, it is a...
AIR SUPPLY: Alt.Routes
October 12, 2006 | 12:54pmThe best way to travel between two points is not always the most obvious. Or the cheapest. I was reminded of this recently, when Emirates Airline announced the launch of...
TRADER MAY POINT FINGERS IN COURT FIGHT
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amSO far, the serial trials of a group of New York Stock Exchange specialists can best be described as dull, at least by the standards of Enron and WorldCom. And...
FEDS' FUTILITY - FRONT-RUNNING PROSECUTIONS LACK CONVICTION
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amNearly 18 months after announcing a groundbreaking series of indictments against 15 New York Stock Exchange specialists, federal prosecutors have a grim track record in winning convictions. In April 2005,...
AVON PAYS OFF TRUMP
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amAvon will no longer be calling at Trump Tower. The cosmetics company is closing all its stores and spas, and now we hear it's just paid Donald J. Trump $10...
ALLEN WRENCH - M'SOFT CO-FOUNDER TO SELL DREAMWORKS SHARES
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amBillionaire Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen is planning to sell a piece of his massive DreamWorks Animation stake, and yesterday triggered a stock offering to put on the market more than...
NYMEX'S MEMBERS GET RICH
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amNew York Mercantile Exchange seat owners are expected today to overwhelmingly approve plans to take the market public, a deal that could make each seat worth almost $4.5 million. The...
TAX $$$ WINDFALL CLOSES BUDGET GAP
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bush administration welcomed an election-year gift yesterday - a narrowing of the federal deficit to $247.7 billion from $521 billion just three years ago. The deficit for the fiscal...
SEPT. 11 BOOKS VIE FOR AWARD
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe three finalists for the National Book Awards features two novels centered around 9/11 and one non-fiction book on the topic. Two big names who won the fiction award in...
WANNABE BANKER'S VIDEO RESUME BACKFIRES
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amA young Yale overachiever just wanted a job on Wall Street - but his overblown video resume is triggering an Internet firestorm rivaling Paris Hilton's sex video. Aleskey Vayner, a...
GIMME SHELTER
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amGHOST STORY Middle Lane in East Hampton is scary enough without hearing this latest dispatch. On the street where Ted Ammon was murdered and wealthy antiques dealer Barton Kaplan later...
LATEST DANCE FEAT SCORES ONE FOR IPOD
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amMERCE Cunningham is never behind the times. If anything, this 87-year-old dance wizard strives to be in front of them - which explains what those iPods were doing at the...
BLUNT CUTS FINE FIGURE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S as if James Blunt, the Brit-pop superstar, spent the summer at the School of Rock - and graduated with honors. Back in spring at Webster Hall, Blunt played a...
BEANTOWN MIRACLE - HBO MULLS BOSOX '04 MINI
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amHBO is quietly at work on a miniseries about the improbable Red Sox 2004 World Series victory. One published report said the series was being pitched as an "Entourage"-esque romp...
CH. 7 NAMES NEW CHAMP
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amLEE Goldberg, the understudy to Ch. 7 weatherman Sam Champion for nearly a decade, is getting the job permanantly, station officials said yesterday. Champion moved up to "Good Morning America"...
HALF-HEARTED AFFAIR
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amIT wasn't so much a heartbreak - more like a troublesome case of heartburn. George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" is one of those classic plays that promises more than it...
MEGAN IS MOVING
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amMEGAN Mullally, the "Will & Grace" star who jumped to talk TV this fall, is being demoted. Ch. 4 is moving her ailing talk show from the prime 3 p.m....
THE SWINGING SET - INSIDE N.Y.C.'S HOT, FRAUGHT PLAY-DATE SCENE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amPOLITICS OF PLAY WITHIN the first few weeks of having her baby, it started happening. Leila, a 30-year old first-time mother who asked that her real name not be used,...
CLEARING THE ERR - BRIT PAIR DRESSES DOWN U.S. FASHION
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amIn the U.K. press, they are known as "Trinny and Tranny." Among their famous friends, their wildly popular Brit makeover show, "What Not to Wear," is called "Two Posh Women...
GET IN LINE FOR HOT MAKEUP
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amEVERYONE knows you have to suffer for beauty, and sometimes that comes in the form of waiting - sometimes, for months. Many sold-out products are slated for replenishment by the...
DUKE AND COVER - 'SHARK' RIPS COLLEGE-ATHLETE RAPE CASE FROM RECENT HEADLINES
October 12, 2006 | 4:00am'SHARK" is not turning into "Law & Order," even if an upcoming episode of the James Woods legal drama was "inspired" by the Duke University lacrosse team rape scandal. The...
FORCED MARCH - IT'S A 14-HOUR 'STAR WARS' MARATHON
October 12, 2006 | 4:00am'STAR Wars" fans will be spending light years in front of the tube next month, when the pay cable channel Cinemax plays all six of the sci-fi films in TV's...
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO 'CSI' FOR THANKSGIVING
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amWHO'S on "CSI"? Roger Daltrey, that's who. The lead singer of The Who - whose songs serve as themes for all three "CSIs" on CBS - will guest-star on "CSI:...
NEW FLIERS LIKE PLANE'S FLASH FOR LESS CASH
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amStatus-conscious beginning pilots love the Cirrus SR20 - it's a single-engine plane with the cachet of a fancy car, but with features that make it inexpensive to insure and maintain....
'BOMBER' PILOT CRASHES PLANE - PITCHER LIDLE IS KILLED WHEN AIRCRAFT SLAMS INTO UPPER E. SIDE HIGH-RISE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amYankee pitcher Cory Lidle was instantly killed yesterday when his small plane slammed into an Upper East Side high-rise and exploded in flames. The crash, which also killed Lidle's flight...
BX. STORE FIRE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amTwo-hundred firefighters battled a fierce blaze that gutted a Foot Locker shoe store in The Bronx yesterday, FDNY officials said. The blaze is believed to have started at around 7:30...
'DON'T SHOOT MY DADDY,' TOT BEGS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amA 2-year-old girl begged robbers who had burst into her family's Queens apartment, "Please don't shoot my daddy!" as they held a gun to his head, just moments before he...
FAKE PYONGYANKEE DOLLARS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - When the crackpot North Korean regime hasn't been secretly building a nuclear bomb, it has been quietly manufacturing millions worth of fake $100 bills, then smuggling them into...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police say this is the would-be rapist (above) who stabbed a 24-year-old man who came to the aide of his two female roommates inside their East Harlem apartment,...
NED CHIPS AWAY AT JOE'S LEAD
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe contentious Connecticut Senate race is tightening, with incumbent Joe Lieberman's lead over Democratic upstart Ned Lamont at eight points going into the final four weeks, according to a poll...
SHAMELESS STAR BUYS AN AFRICAN SOUVENIR
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amNO WORD - yet - on whether Madonna plans to nail her brand-new bouncing boy to a crucifix, live, in concert. Madonna, the sluttish, egomaniacal mother-of-the-century has topped even her...
W. VOWS DIPLO PUSH VS. N. KOREA - SANCTIONS BEFORE FORCE TO CURB NUKES
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush demanded stiff sanctions against North Korea yesterday for its nuclear test, and pledged to exhaust all diplomatic options to disarm the rogue communist regime "before we...
COUNCIL'S BOUNCE POUNCE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe City Council is looking to make sure nightlife establishments have enough security for the large crowds that frequent them, in the wake of recent violent acts in and around...
'FOLEY' FURY AT TEDDY - CHAPPAQUIDDICK CITED
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The congressional sex scandal threatening House Speaker Dennis Hastert got even nastier yesterday, as Republican Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut delivered a searing indictment of Sen. Ted Kennedy's...
MIKE TO PUMP UP AHNOLD
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg is lending his name - and his home - to a fund-raiser for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger next week, sources said yesterday. On Monday, the mayor will play...
CHUCK GIVES ANDY HIS NOD
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer threw his support to fellow Democrat Andrew Cuomo yesterday, becoming the latest big-name official to endorse the front-runner in the race for state attorney general. "There is...
'GAY BASH' HATE CHARGES - PUNK HIT WITH RAP AS MAN LIES DYING
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amOne of the anti-gay thugs who brutally attacked a 28-year-old interior designer and then chased him into traffic on the Belt Parkway was slapped with hate-crime charges yesterday, police said....
'SOURCE' OF SEX CRAZIES - SACKED EDITOR HITS 'PORN' MAG WITH SUIT
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe Source magazine - the so-called "Bible" of the hip-hop industry - is more like Sodom and Gomorrah, with racy pictures on full display, porn-video viewings in the company mailroom,...
BETTORS RACE TO YONKERS - HOT FOR NEW RACEWAY VID SLOTS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amGambling returned to Yonkers Raceway yesterday, but its 100-year tradition of horse racing did not - at least not yet. The overhauled clubhouse at the newly renamed Empire City at...
BUST IN KIDNAP OF L.I. GIRL, 10
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amLong Island police have arrested a suspect in the bizarre and terrifying abduction of a 10-year-old girl. Computer installer Michael Burkhardt, 30, of Nesconset, was busted Tuesday after a tipster...
DAD GUILTY OF BEATING TOT
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens man who dodged two jail stints involving his underage lover is finally headed to prison - for viciously beating their 6-month-old son. Kevin Gary Sr., 32, will be...
MATH CONCERNS ARE ADDING UP - SCORES PLUMMET AS KIDS GET OLDER
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amProficiency in math drops sharply for students in the fifth grade statewide, and plummets rapidly through middle school - mirroring a pattern in literacy revealed last month in the results...
CHARTERS CHARTING COURSE TO SUCCESS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amCity charter-school students this year held to a trend of outperforming students in traditional public schools in math, according to a Post analysis of state math exam results. Overall, 65.8...
RAIL-YARD 'KILLER' IS ACQUITTED
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday acquitted a former subway-train cleaner of blowing away two supervisors - including one who fired him during an early-morning confrontation at a Coney Island rail yard...
HAUNTING THOUGHTS CHILL 9/11 SURVIVORS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amNot again! That was the initial horrified reaction of New Yorkers who escaped the Twin Towers - or had family members who didn't - after hearing of yesterday's Upper East...
CITY PUTS BRAKES ON PLANNED SCHOOL BUS CUTS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe city Education Department has pulled back on a cost-cutting plan to slash yellow school bus service after an attempt to pinpoint the number of users failed to take 40,000...
NORMAN PAL DEAL - WILL PLAY BALL IN JUDGES-FOR-SALE PROBE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amBrooklyn prosecutors dropped all charges yesterday against the right-hand man to disgraced Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman, ending their nearly three-year-old case against Jeffrey Feldman in return for a promise...
$15M SUIT IN HOOKER BUST
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens man says there is no way he is dumb enough to try to pick up a hooker with his pregnant wife sitting next to him in the car....
EERIE ECHO OF MUNSON CRASH
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe death of pitcher Cory Lidle is a heartbreaking reminder of the fiery crash that claimed the life of legendary Yankee catcher Thurman Munson at the controls of his plane...
CALL IT FDNYPD - MAYOR SAYS COORDINATED RESPONSE WENT 'PERFECTLY'
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amMassive, quick and coordinated - with the FDNY and the NYPD equally sharing control at the scene under new rules put into place after Sept. 11, 2001. That's how Mayor...
MADONNA'S ORPHAN BABY BEAT ALL ODDS TO SURVIVE HIS 1 TRAGIC YEAR
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThere was very little of material value in the life of 13-month-old David Banda before the African toddler was chosen for adoption by the Material Girl. He was living in...
ESCAPE FROM 40-STORY HELL - SURVIVORS SAW HUGE FIREBALL - 'AND WE ALL STARTED RUNNING'
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amIlana Benhani was working in her home office when the small white plane slammed into a 40th-floor apartment in the East 72nd Street high-rise. "There was fire on the floor....
PLAYERS NUMBED BY DEATH OF HURLER
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe tragic death of Cory Lidle jolted friends and relatives of the Yankee pitcher. "This is a terrible and shocking tragedy that has stunned the entire Yankees organization," club owner...
ESCAPE FROM 40-STORY HELL - WOMEN'S FRANTIC DASH FROM INSIDE FIERY APT. HIT BY PLANE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amIlana Benhuri was quietly working in her home office when the tiny, white plane suddenly slammed into her 40th-floor apartment in the East 72nd Street building. All at once, "everything...
HI-RISE HOUSES MOVERS, SHAKERS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amBigtime businessmen, famous writers and even a Met coach live in the tony tower struck by the plane that carried Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle to his death yesterday. The Belaire,...
KIDNAPPED WEST BANK TEACH FREE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A previously unknown Palestinian terrorist group kidnapped a young American teacher in the West Bank but released him yesterday unharmed. Michael Phillips of New Orleans was turned over...
DAD GETS HORRIBLE NEWS VIA TV REPORT
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amCory Lidle's father learned from a television bulletin that his son was never coming home. Doug Lidle and a friend, Bobby Compton, spent several hours yesterday playing golf near their...
PATAKI DEMANDS TOUGHER AIRSPACE RULES
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amCory Lidle's plane wasn't monitored by air-traffic controllers when it crashed yesterday - prompting Gov. Pataki to call for tighter restrictions on city airspace. "New York's airspace should enjoy the...
SIS TELLS WIFE OF HORRIBLE ACCIDENT
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amCory Lidle's wife learned that her husband was never coming home after getting off a plane at a California airport last night. Lidle's wife, Melanie, and 6-year-old son, Christopher, were...
HS GRID KID DIES
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amA 16-year-old New Jersey high-school student collapsed during football practice and died yesterday, possibly after choking on his mouth guard. James Bliss caught a pass and was tackled during a...
'GAY BASH' HATE CHARGES - 3 PUNKS ARE HELD AS VICTIM LIES NEAR DEATH
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThree of the anti-gay thugs who brutally attacked a 28-year-old interior designer and then chased him into traffic on the Belt Parkway were slapped with hate-crime charges yesterday, police said....
BABY-NAMERS STILL LIKE MIKE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amIsabella, Joshua and David surged in popularity among city parents naming newborns last year. Isabella was the fifth hottest name among 59,714 baby girls born in 2005, up a notch...
THE VILLAGE BORATS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amHe's not at the YMCA or in the Navy, but Sacha Baron Cohen impersonates the members of The Village People in the new Entertainment Weekly. The offbeat comedian is hyping...
RAGING FIRE GUTS BX. STORE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amTwo hundred firefighters battled a fierce blaze that gutted a Foot Locker shoe store in The Bronx yesterday, FDNY officials said. The blaze is believed to have started at around...
U.S. TEACH KIDNAPPED IN W. BANK
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A previously unknown Palestinian terrorist group yesterday claimed it kidnapped a young American teacher in the West Bank. U.S. consulate officials confirmed that Michael Phillips of New Orleans...
RISKY OFF-FIELD PASSION LED TO A JOURNEYMAN PITCHER'S FINAL FATEFUL JOURNEY
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amYankee pitcher Cory Lidle was no stranger to on-field difficulties - so he turned to his latest offfield obsession, flying, to leave his troubles behind on the ground. It had...
TIGERS GO 2-UP
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amGAME 2: Tigers 8 - A's 5 OAKLAND - Put Alexis Gomez in that delightful category of unlikely postseason heroes such as Al Weis and Brian Doyle. The little-known designated...
HOME OPENER'S NO BANNER NIGHT
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amIt becomes their lame-duck home tonight, this Meadowlands arena the Devils rarely filled; that made Newark look to them like a good idea. It's their 25th home opener, they hope...
GIANTS WON'T RUN FROM VICK
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThere was a time after Dan Reeves was asked to leave the Falcons and Jim Mora came aboard as head coach that the team tried to reinvent Michael Vick, attempting...
ORANGE WON'T GET SQUEEZED
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHEY are a ho-hum 3-3, aren't likely headed to a bowl, and almost certainly will not threaten in the underrated Big East. But the Syracuse Orange are better than people...
COLES CAUGHT IN ANGRY MOOD
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amWhen we last heard from Laveranues Coles, the Jets wide receiver was so mad he was spitting out words like shards of metal. This took place in the visitor's locker...
KASPAR THE ANGRY GHOST
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amAfter sitting out the first three games of the season, Darius Kasparaitis finally reached his boiling point. There is a chance he'll dress tonight against the Penguins, be it an...
KNICKS ON THE RUN - THOMAS SET TO IMPLEMENT UP-TEMPO ATTACK
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amStephon Marbury repaired his beat-up image notably this season by endorsing a $15 discount sneaker this summer, marketed to kids from low-income homes. Marbury is wearing the "Starbury Ones" shoes...
POTEAT WILL FACE MIAMI AGAIN
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES What a strange trip it's been for Hank Poteat, the defensive back the Jets signed to replace waived Derrick Strait. Poteat was signed by the Jets for about...
GIANTS EMPLOY VICK IMPOSTERS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Jared Lorenzen is a quarterback and he's left-handed, just like Michael Vick, which leads to the question: Why isn't he working on the scout team this week trying...
AGENT: UNIT HURT SINCE MAY
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amRandy Johnson's back problem, which will likely require surgery, didn't surface in September. According to agent Alan Nero, Johnson was experiencing pain from May on. "People don't realize, he pitched...
B.C. HOSTS VA. TECH IN KEY ACC BATTLE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amCHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Brian Toal knows all about the lunch-pail tradition at Virginia Tech. It's one of the reasons the linebacker, special-teams fiend and goal-line offense specialist considered the...
WEATHER BUOYS THE CARDINALS' CHANCES
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHE NLCS has begun - or, quite properly, has not begun - in disarray and with the Cardinals gaining a subtle advantage. The normal rhythms of any pregame, much less...
RIGHT DECISION, WRONG REASON
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHE rain came at the right time, and allowed baseball to do the right thing. There shouldn't have been a baseball game at Shea Stadium last night, not with another...
RAIN FLOATS CARDS' CHANCES
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHE NLCS has begun - or, quite properly, has not begun - in disarray and with the Cardinals gaining a subtle advantage. The normal rhythms of any pregame, much less...
CARDS FACE MOUND OF TROUBLE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Mets have a bullpen that's believed to be deeper than a Shea puddle. So in the NLDS, the manager got hooked on his short hook. John Maine and Steve...
NOTHIN'S DOIN' AT SOGGY SHEA - METS AND CARDS GET GOING TONIGHT AFTER WASHOUT
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe Mets couldn't begin Game 1 of the NLCS last night, as the series opener at Shea was postponed because of pouring rain. The game was called off approximately an...
CLIFF READY, WILLING, BUT HOW ABLE?
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Cliff Floyd is set to face the Cardinals. Floyd is on the Mets' NLCS playoff roster and was going to start in left field last night in Game...
ACHILLES WILL NOT KEEP CLIFF OUT
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES We will see Cliff Floyd vs. the Cardinals. Floyd is on the Mets' NLCS playoff roster and was set to start in left field last night. He is...
MIGHTY CASEY IS OUT - CALF KAYOS TIGER STAR
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Tigers are in control of the ALCS, but they will have to find a way to win the series without Sean Casey. It's likely Casey will miss...
TIGERS GO 2-UP - POST-SEASON WIN STREAK HITS 5
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amGAME 2 TIGERS 8 A's 5 OAKLAND - Put Alexis Gomez in that delightful category of unlikely post-season heroes such as Al Weis and Brian Doyle. The little-known designated hitter...
AGENT: UNIT PITCHED IN PAIN SINCE MAY
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amRandy Johnson's back problem, which will likely require surgery, didn't surface in September. According to agent Alan Nero, Johnson was experiencing pain from May on. "People don't realize, he pitched...
YANKS IN 'SHOCK' AFTER CRASH
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amBrian Cashman and the Yankees didn't know Cory Lidle long, but the anguish in the Yankees' GM voice clearly painted a picture of despair yesterday. "It was disbelief at first,"...
ATHLETICS REMEMBER PITCHER'S 'FREE SPIRIT'
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Cory Lidle spent two years with the A's. Teammates remembered him yesterday as a free spirit and a big-time competitor. "This is really tough, very disturbing," third baseman...
DISASTER IN MANHATTAN - DEATH IN THE AIR ALL TOO FAMILIAR TO FANS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amBEFORE we ever knew names yesterday, we knew there were victims, and we assumed they would be nameless strangers, the kinds of victims that fill the darker pages of the...
INTERVIEW GOT UGLY
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amDeceased Yankees' pitcher Cory Lidle's last public words were made calling into WFAN to defend himself on Monday. In an unusual move for an athlete, Lidle phoned FAN after being...
NOTHIN'S DOIN' AT SOGGY SHEA - SERIES STARTS TONIGHT AFTER BIG WASHOUT
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe Mets couldn't begin Game 1 of the NLCS last night, as rain poured at Shea, postponing the series opener. The game was canceled approximately an hour before it was...
LOOPER LIKES ST. LOO SET-UP
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amRight after the 2005 season, the Mets made finding a new closer their immediate priority. In other words, they kicked Braden Looper to the curb. Told him to hit the...
MOUND OF TROUBLE FOR CARDS
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amPEDRO Martinez and Orlando Hernandez went down, but the Mets didn't in the first round because their bullpen is even deeper than the puddles last night at Shea. Fearless Willie...
TRAGEDY LEAVES MLB IN DISBELIEF - 'IT FEELS LIKE YOUR SOUL HAS BEEN BRUISED'
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amMark Mulder remembered a golfing buddy. Rick Peterson remembered a pupil. John Franco remembered a competitor. As word filtered through Shea Stadium of Cory Lidle's death just before 5 o'clock...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amElections officials in Ottawa County, Mich., are going to have to reprint the ballots for the Nov. 7 election because of a small - but important - typo. The letter...
Updates
October 12, 2006 | 1:34amSopping wet day at Shea. Here are a few items before we close down for the night. . . . First of all, on tickets. This is all in tomorrow's...