October 19, 2006
Are You Ready?
October 19, 2006 | 11:12pmIt's been 20 years since Shea Stadium last saw a Game 7. In less than an hour, the big blue stadium in Flushing will rock again. You wouldn't know their...
The recuperative powers of The Swamp.
October 19, 2006 | 8:53pmBy FRED KERBERAs Vince Carter put it regarding Marcus Williams' sprained left wrist, "Forget six weeks. Six hours."And no Nets were complaining. Looking surprised, yes, complaining no.When Williams jammed his...
FIRST LOOK: Karu & Y, Miami
October 19, 2006 | 2:02pmDon't you just love a guy who puts a picture up on his own website and slaps the word VISIONARY on it?Then again, Mother always said if we didn't believe...
Get ready for Game 7
October 19, 2006 | 4:28amTwenty years ago, the Mets won a World Series in a Game 7 at Shea Stadium. Tonight, the stadium gets its second Game 7. The Mets got the performance of...
NATURAL GAS UPTICK: ENERGY PIGS AT WORK
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amTHE energy thieves are at it again. Wall Street speculators and hedge funds apparently didn't learn their lesson when they jammed the price of oil up to record levels this...
SENATE POKES AT MACK PROBE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe Senate Judiciary Committee is ordering a probe of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigators who handled a hedge fund insider trading case involving Morgan Stanley chief John Mack. The...
NIELSEN STARTS TO TRACK GAMERS AND THEIR HABITS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amNielsen, the sole source of TV ratings, will track the time people spend playing video games along with their television viewing habits starting next year. The new measuring service, GamePlay...
VIDEO RESUME LEAK HAS YALIE CRYING FOUL
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yale senior whose over-the-top video resume has been widely mocked on the Internet broke his silence yesterday, threatening to sue giant UBS if it turns out the bank's employees...
NBC IS READY TO CUT - MSNBC LAYOFFS SEEN
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amToday is moving day for MSNBC's operations - and moving out day for some of the struggling news network's employees. According to sources close to NBC, boss Jeff Zucker will...
MAYOR QUASHES RUMORS OF BLOOMBERG SALE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amBloomberg L.P., the financial media empire founded by Mayor Mike Bloomberg, is not for sale, he said yesterday - although he confirmed there have been unsolicited buyout overtures. "I have...
LANGONE APPEAL SCORES POINTS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amKen Langone, true to his word to never give up the fight against the New York Attorney General, had another spirited day in court yesterday as his lawyers battled to...
AD GIANT MIXES UP EXECS, BIZ
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amAd giant Interpublic is shaking up its media-buying agencies and executives for the second time in less than two years as it seeks to keep up with the changing advertising...
PERELMAN SCORING ON DESIGNER DRUGS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amBuyout billionaire Ron Perelman's companies picked up a tidy paper profit of $32.7 million on their stakes in a small biotech company which reported a breakthrough for an overnight antidote...
GIMME SHELTER
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amTWO(BR)-TIMING IT'S been a long year for Peter Cook, the now estranged husband of Christie Brinkley. Cook, 47, began 2006 comfortably ensconced in the couple's historic $26 million, 20-acre compound...
SCENES FROM A ... HARLEM HOUSE TOUR - A PEEK INSIDE THE AREA'S NEW CONDOS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amGET ON THE BUS - JOIN US FOR A WHIRLWIND TOUR OF HARLEM'S SPACIOUS NEW CONDOS SANDY Wilson is a woman who had an ambitious plan. To lure real-estate folks...
NO MO' DOWNLOADS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amTHE portable video revolution just took a big step forward with the release of a new, relatively cheap box that records TV shows and movies directly onto iPods. The device,...
SPLIT DECISION - HOW 'DANCING' SCORED A '10' ON DIRTY DIVORCE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00am'DANCING with the Stars" has been pumping up reports of backstage romance and passion between the dancing celebs and their partners all year. But it has been country singer Sara...
'LOST' CODE FINALLY CRACKED
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amTHE secret of ABC's hit, "Lost," is that the baffling series is a metaphor for 9/11, the show's stars and creators say. The show's creators, J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and...
BAD-BOY JEFF RULES 'RUNWAY'
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA SELF-CONFESSED former drug addict who narrowly escaped getting kicked off "Project Runway" when he was suspected of cheating wound up winning the show's grand prize last night. "Are you...
URBAN OUTFITTER - GET INTO FASHIONS INSPIRED BY N.Y.C.
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWHAT'S New York smell like? Forget rolling around on the floor of Penn Station, dousing yourself in street vendor coffee and then marinating in a steam vent. New York, or...
CRACKING THE DATING CODE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWE'VE all been there: drunk, overly affectionate and slurring sweet nothings into the ear of our unlucky date. Now there's a word for it: Tammy. According to "Bar Code: Your...
RECURRING 'NIGHTMARE' - QUIRKY GOTH HIT RETURNS IN 3D FOR ITS OBSESSED FANS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN the stop-motion film "The Nightmare Before Christmas" hit theaters back in 1993, no one knew quite what to make of it. Loaded with cute little monsters, catchy musical numbers...
TONING DOWN BIG TONY - A&E IS RE-MAKING 'SOPRANOS'
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amBLOOD splatter is OK, but brain splatter is not. That was the decision made by A&E execs when considering how much to show of a famous rubout in an episode...
STARR REPORT
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amRosie's new Dawn Rosie O'Donnell says on her blog that she will, indeed, star in a spinoff revolving around her "Nip/Tuck" character, Dawn Budge, the lottery winner who had a...
CITIZEN WANNABE TOTES GUN TO CEREMONY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Korean woman hoping to become a U.S. citizen apparently misunderstood the part in the Constitution about the right to bear arms - and showed up at her naturalization ceremony...
L.I. DUO BUSTED IN SICKO SODOMY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amTwo Long Island teens used a plumbing snake to brutally sodomize a developmentally disabled man in the bathroom of a bowling alley, Suffolk cops said yesterday. Steven Rodriguez, 19, and...
'KID SEX' TEACH BETS ON TRIAL
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amAn East Side Montessori school director charged with seducing two male students - starting when they were only 12 and 13 - declined yesterday to take a judge's best-deal plea...
B'KLYN BEAST KILLS PUPS: COPS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man has been charged with fatally beating his two dachshund puppies, authorities said yesterday. Dudley Ramsay, 22, pummeled 5-month-old Junior to "discipline" him on Sept. 15, sources said....
NAKED DEATH SMASH - GAL'S DWI RAMPAGE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA naked woman speeding drunk down a Staten Island street last night killed a pedestrian and struck another vehicle before her car went airborne, cleared a 10-foot fence and crashed,...
HEVESI PAYS TOLL IN POLL
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amScandal-scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi is slipping, although his opponent, Christopher Callaghan, remains far behind, according to a poll released yesterday. The Quinnipiac University poll found an 11 percent-point swing...
'DOC' ADMITS CAB-FARE CON
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA scammer pleaded guilty yesterday to conning travelers with a sob story about being a doctor in need of cab fare. Michael Cosmi, of Wayne, N.J., admitted in Queens Supreme...
NEW LAWYER FOR IMETTE 'KILLER'
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe bouncer accused of killing law student Imette St. Guillen got a new court-appointed lawyer yesterday for a separate kidnapping case he's facing in Queens. Darryl Littlejohn, 41, asked Queens...
BIBLE'S BOOK OF SAMUEL
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amSamuel L. Jackson is the Lord. In a new audio Bible series, the passionate "Snakes on a Plane" star will be the voice of the Almighty. While he won't be...
ANDY'S CASH & KERRY - HUD-$$ COLLEGES PAID MRS. CUOMO TO SPEAK
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Two universities that paid Andrew Cuomo's wife to speak when he was President Bill Clinton's secretary of housing later received thousands of dollars in grants, The Post has...
DEMS BOOST $ENATE RACE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Democratic National Committee is opening a line of credit to pour cash into the hot New Jersey and Virginia Senate races. Democratic boss Howard Dean is planning...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Two thugs attacked a livery driver in Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities said yesterday. The attack took place at 2:40 a.m. Tuesday when the 39-year-old driver picked up Fainclai Williams, 25,...
MADONNA BABY HAS 28G TOY CHEST
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amMaternal girl Madonna's 13-month-old adopted son is going from life in a ramshackle African orphanage to an opulent London nursery with $28,000 worth of cool toys - including a child-sized...
GIVE CLUBS JUST 1 SHOT - THEN SHUT THEM DOWN: CITY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration revealed yesterday that it will propose cleaning up the city's out-of-control nightclubs with new "two strikes and you're out" legislation. The bill would give city officials the...
HEAR, HEAR: DOCS WARN THE IPOD SQUAD - DEAFNESS DANGER LOOMS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amNow hear this: Pull that wire out of your ear after an hour and a half. A new study says people who plug in their earphones, crank up the volume...
BLOOMY AIDE BEATEN AND CARJACKED IN JERSEY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA personal aide to Mayor Bloomberg was assaulted yesterday on a quiet New Jersey street in a brazen daylight carjacking. Police said Gladimir Bosnjak, 62, who works at Bloomberg's Upper...
YOKO, IMAGINE THERE'S NO CASH
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amOno, they've done it again - John Lennon's widow says his old record company has been stiffing the music icon's estate. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Yoko Ono...
MIKE: LAY OFF SCHOOLS, ELIOT
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amGubernatorial favorite Eliot Spitzer will have a fight on his hands if he tries to wrest control of city schools as a way to get out of paying billions of...
$16M DRUG RING BUSTED
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe feds crippled a massive Colombian money-laundering ring, rounding up 26 accused members and seizing $10 million in drug proceeds and $6.5 million in narcotics from the city's streets, authorities...
11 CHEATED WORKER'S COMP: DA
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amEleven people have been charged with scamming the worker's compensation system out of hundreds of thousands of dollars - including a man who kept cashing his deceased friend's check for...
EAST SIDE 'KID SEX' TEACH BETS ON A TRIAL
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amAn East Side Montessori school director charged with seducing two male students - starting when they were only 12 and 13 - declined yesterday to take a judge's best-deal plea...
JOE TAKES HITS AT DEBATE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe Iraq war - virtually absent from the first Senate debate in Connecticut - took center stage in Round Two yesterday as incumbent Joe Lieberman came under attack. Upstart Democratic...
HOOPS LINK IN FABOLOUS FOUL SHOT - COPS EYE ROB OF NBA STAR
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amCops are investigating whether a man who snatched Boston Celtic star Sebastian Telfair's $50,000 gold necklace was part of rapper Fabolous' crew and may have been the catalyst for a...
UNION ABUZZ AS PREZ BOWS OUT
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amJust a week before the feds indicted Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin on racketeering charges, veteran labor leader Thomas Van Arsdale resigned as head of the electricians union at the center of...
$CHOOL LUNCH CRUNCH - MORE KIDS MUST PAY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThousands of city students will have to cough up cash to chow down, under a Department of Education crackdown on school-lunch freeloaders. Advocates charge the new policy violates anonymity requirements...
BEAST BEAT PUPPIES TO DEATH: COPS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man has been charged with fatally beating his two dachshund puppies, authorities said yesterday. Dudley Ramsay, 22, pummeled 5-month-old Junior to "discipline" him on Sept. 15, law-enforcement sources...
HAMPTONS PRIEST 'KILLER' DODGES MURDER RAP
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island woman facing manslaughter charges in the death of an elderly priest she hit while allegedly driving drunk will not be charged with murder, prosecutors said yesterday. Karen...
NEW RAPS VS. 'BODY SNATCHERS'
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe macabre bone- and tissue-snatching operation smashed by Brooklyn prosecutors last winter had its tentacles in funeral homes in Manhattan, The Bronx and upstate New York, according to a new...
SCROOGE STIFFED HIS STAFF, THEY SAY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amTHE feds say he got his wife a Mercedes, himself a posh home, and his mistresses out of debt. But to his staff, powerful union chief and Queens politician Brian...
EX-PRIEST KID-PERV GETS 3 YRS.
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA former Upper West Side high-school administrator with a sick appetite for young boys may have had a dozen victims in his career as a pedophile, prosecutors said yesterday. The...
'COULD HAVE BEEN ME' IN SLAY - CAPE COD JURY HEARS OF SUSPECT'S CHILLING TALK
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe Cape Cod trial of the garbage man accused of raping and killing New York fashion writer Christa Worthington opened yesterday with a prosecutor saying the "terrible crime" was committed...
PUB BOOKKEEP THIEF GETS 3 YRS.
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe 5 1/2-months-preg- nant thieving bookkeeper of the popular Gramercy Tavern was sent to prison for at least three years yesterday for taking $275,000 from the restaurant's safe. Sandrene Austin,...
TWIN-SLAY SUSPECT IS EX-CON
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe man being held by cops in connection with the gruesome discovery of a mother and her 9-year-old daughter found decomposing in their apartment is an ex-con who had just...
'THEY ARE MY BREASTS!': HEATHER RIPS 'ST. PAUL' AS BRUTAL BEATLE MANIAC IN HER DIVORCE FILING - SHOCKING ACCUSATIONS IN MCCARTNEY SPLIT
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amPaul McCartney's estranged wife accuses the beloved Beatle of being a violent, heartless fiend who stabbed her with a broken wine glass, beat her, choked her - and forbade her...
W. TO KIM: DON'T DARE EXPORT NUKE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush issued a stern warning to North Korea yesterday as it was revealed Pyongyang is ready to carry out three more nuclear tests. "I want the leader...
SITE LETS NYERS 'NET INFO ON AID
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe city unveiled a new Web site yesterday that will make it easier for New Yorkers to access social services such as food stamps and child care. ACCESS NYC allows...
EX-CON HELD IN MOM-KID SLAY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe man being held in connection with the gruesome discovery of the decomposing bodies of a mother and her 9-year-old daughter is an ex-con who had been released from prison...
DRIVER LEFT KID ON BUS: COPS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA school-bus driver was arrested after he left a 4-year-old boy sleeping on the back of his bus yesterday morning, cops said. Yitzchak Goldberg stayed on the bus when the...
STATION DEAD IN ITS TRACKS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Despite warnings that he's sending the long-planned, $900 million project back to square one, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday blocked Gov. Pataki's Moynihan Train Station proposal, saying it...
SUBWAY DAREDEVIL IS KILLED
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA man was killed last night trying to board a crowded subway train by climbing on between cars, cops said. The tragedy occurred at 7:40 p.m. on the northbound C...
ELEVATOR DEATH FALL IN MIDTOWN
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA security guard at a Midtown office building fell 11 stories to his death trying to help a passenger stuck in an elevator, police sources said. One of the freight...
MADONNA SON'S 28G TOY CHEST
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amMaternal Girl Madonna's 13-month-old adopted son will spend his time playing in an opulent London nursery with $28,000 worth of cool toys - while his natural father continues to live...
SCANDAL GLARE HITS BEAME - EX-MAYOR'S SON PROBED IN 450G 'BRIBE' TO POL
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe son of former Mayor Abe Beame headed the electric company that paid indicted politico Brian McLaughlin $450,000 to carry out a megabuck contract for new traffic signals in the...
SCHOOL LOSES KID FOR A DAY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA 14-year-old girl with the mental capacity of a toddler disappeared from a Manhattan public school - and was found a day later, hungry and confused. Priscilla Rodriguez, who has...
TEARS OF A MOB MISTRESS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe mistress of a missing mobster wept on the stand yesterday, describing their last night together as prosecutors argued that Colombo crime family boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico and acting...
JUROR'S REGRET - SORRY ABOUT DWI MURDER VERDICT
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe forewoman of the jury in the Long Island DWI case yesterday expressed more sympathy for the boozed-up killer than his two victims - and even apologized for voting to...
3 NEW NUKE BOOMS LOOM IN N. KOREA
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - North Korea has told China it is prepared to carry out three more nuclear tests, defying international calls to exercise restraint, it was reported yesterday. North Korea's blunt...
'NEW CITIZEN' TOTES GUN
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Korean woman hoping to become a U.S. citizen apparently misunderstood the part in the Constitution about the right to bear arms - and showed up at her naturalization ceremony...
MONTESSORI 'SEX TEACH' BETS ON TRIAL
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amAn Upper East Side Montessori school director charged with seducing two male students - starting when they were only 12 and 13 - declined yesterday to take a judge's bestdeal...
GOUMADA IN TEARFUL TESTIMONY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe mistress of a missing mobster wept yesterday, describing the couple's last night together as prosecutors argued that Colombo crime family boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico and acting underboss John...
FEDS BUST UP $16M DRUG RING
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe feds crippled a massive Colombian moneylaundering ring, rounding up 26 accused members and seizing $10 million in drug proceeds and $6.5 million in narcotics from the city's streets, authorities...
SCHOOL 'LOSES' A CHILD - MISSING 20 HOURS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA 14-year-old girl with the mental capacity of a toddler disappeared from a Manhattan public school where she was supposed to be under close supervision - and was found a...
HAWK JOE TAKES HITS AT DEBATE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe Iraq war - virtually absent from the first Senate debate in Connecticut - took center stage in Round Two yesterday as incumbent Joe Lieberman was hit from all sides...
APPLE-AID WEB SITE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe city unveiled a new Web site yesterday that will make it easier for New Yorkers to access social services such as food stamps and child care. ACCESS NYC allows...
PEREZ: COUNT ON ME - OLIVER WANTS THE BALL IF THERE'S A GAME 7
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThree months ago, Oliver Perez was a Pittsburgh minor leaguer. Tonight, he could pitch the Mets into the World Series. After last night's 4-2 win in Game 6, Willie Randolph...
REDBIRD ACE: 'I DID MY JOB'
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amQuietly, the Cardinals believed if their ace was on last night they would be celebrating a National League title by midnight. After all, Chris Carpenter already had received a spanking...
AMAZIN'S WANT GLAV TO RETURN
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES The Mets are hoping Tom Glavine returns to their rotation next season. Glavine is one of 14 Mets - some are on the current playoff roster and others...
CANARSIE STAR TABS HOFSTRA
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amNathaniel Lester began drawing interest from St. John's and Hofstra at roughly the same time of his sophomore year at Canarsie. "They both wanted me all the way through," the...
ISIAH 'BALKS' - RIPS ANTHONY FOR DISSING PICK
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe same fans who roundly booed Renaldo Balkman on draft night gave him a rousing ovation at the Garden Tuesday night. And after the Knicks were criticized for drafting Balkman,...
'NOLE CAN'T DO VS. BC
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amBOBBY Bowden still has the aw-shucks facial expressions. He still has the deep southern smiles. Heck, he still has those one-of-a-kind statements, like the patented "Dadgumit." What the legendary Florida...
BLEDSOE: T.O. FINE WITH ME
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES During Terrell Owens' stays with the 49ers and Eagles, the receiver has been known to save his worst for his own quarterbacks. He was critical of Jeff Garcia...
CLOCK'S TIK-ING - RETIREMENT PLANS NOT NEW
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amA somewhat bemused Tiki Barber yesterday answered a call from The Post inquiring about the sudden buzz surrounding the fairly common knowledge he's leaning toward retirement following this season. "Like...
JETS NOW ON OTHER SIDE OF DONNIE'S DEFENSE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe Jets' offensive players had better wear their hard hats to Sunday's game against the Lions at Giants Stadium. Donnie Henderson's back in town, this time wearing Detroit Lions' silver...
SUPPAN WAITING TO TAKE MOUND
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWith Game 7 on tap tonight at Shea Stadium, the Cardinals won't have their ace because Chris Carpenter started Game 6 last night. However, the smart money says the Redbirds...
HOUSE OF HORROR; HOUSE OF HEALING - GIAMBI SURGERY MAY BE IN LIDLE CRASH BUILDING
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amHow is this for eerie? Today, Jason Giambi will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his left wrist to repair a torn ligament. The procedure is being done by Dr. Andrew J....
ROGERS SUSPENSION BOOST FOR JETS 'O'
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets catch a significant break Sunday with not having to face Lions defensive tackle Shaun Rogers, who's not only nursing a knee injury but yesterday was suspended...
GARDEN GOOSE EGG - BLUESHIRTS BLANKED, LOSE 4TH IN 5
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amPredators 3 - Rangers 0 You can pinpoint failures on three five-on-three power plays. You can pinpoint the distressing regularity with which defensemen were beaten wide by speed without getting...
DEVS OUTSCORE PENS' NEW STAR
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amDevils 2 - Penguins 1 PITTSBURGH - First, the Devils' new captain helped spoil the NHL debut of his former lockout linemate. Then Patrik Elias offered Penguin Evgeni Malkin some...
IT'S 'WORST' CASE: PEREZ IN GAME 7
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amIt still resonates with Ralph Branca all these years later. "A sore spot," he calls it, the sound in his voice over the phone saying the hurt hasn't fully dissipated,...
CARD LINEUP FOR THE BIRDS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amTwenty-seven outs from going home with a door prize instead of a trip to the World Series, the Mets figured to be the team with a tennis ball in its...
ST. LOO BATTERS GO AWOL
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWITH a chance to do for the Cardinals what Roy Oswalt did to the Cardinals last October - close it out in Game 6 - Chris Carpenter couldn't do it....
BILLY ADDS DRAMA TO 'PEN GEM
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - So Taguchi has Billy Wagner's number. So what? The Mets have the Cardinals' number now, too: Three wins down, one to go. Last night, Wagner made his...
PEREZ GETS NOD - METS' GAME 4 STARTER IS 'READY' FOR GAME 7
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThree months ago, Oliver Perez was a Pittsburgh minor leaguer. Tonight, he could pitch the Mets into the World Series. Willie Randolph decided to hand the ball to the 25-year-old...
CLUTCH HIT BIG BOOST FOR GREEN
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Scott Spiezio's first-inning single dropped into right field in front of Shawn Green, the grumbling began. Spiezio had victimized Green in the NLCS twice before. The Shea fans showed...
LO DUCA COMES THROUGH IN CLUTCH, BEHIND PLATE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe 56,334 fans packed into Shea Stadium last night were waiting. Waiting for that moment when they could exhale, cancel their alternate plans for tonight, and prepare for the second...
OMAR WON'T MIND IF GLAVINE RETURNS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES The Mets are hoping Tom Glavine returns to their rotation next season. Glavine was one of 14 Mets - who are both on the current playoff roster and...
PUTTING FOURTH EFFORT - RANGERS TORN BETWEEN ORR, DAWES
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amAt the conclusion of the Rangers' optional morning skate yesterday, Tom Renney was talking about the necessity of "coming to grips with how we want to do this." The head...
MALKIN LOOKING TO DEBUT VS. DEVS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - This city's Icon of Ice sees something familiar in Evgeni Malkin. Himself. "Yeah, a little bit," Mario Lemieux said. "He's going to be a great player for many...
IT'S TIME TO GET IT WRIGHT
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - David Wright signed an autograph for a Mets security guard yesterday afternoon, wishing him all the best on the baseball. If the Mets don't get all of...
CATCHER GRABS LEADING ROSE FOR METS' SUCCESS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Paul Lo Duca politely refused an interview request as he headed to the indoor cage yesterday afternoon. "I've got to go hit," he said about three hours...
WITH YEAR ON LINE, MUST-WIN METS HOST CARDS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amIn pregame yesterday, Willie Randolph would not say he was upset or surprised when a reporter asked him about feeling those sentiments regarding his ballclub. It's too premature. The Mets...
SHEA OR GO? THE GOAL WAS SIMPLE: 'LET'S PLAY TWO'
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amDEPENDING on your point of view, it was either a very special parting gift or a sign from the heavens that there was no need to part with summer just...
REYES OF LIFE - JOSE GETS METS STARTED EARLY IN GAME 6
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - There may be nobody more electrifying in baseball than Jose Reyes. With the Mets on life support last night, he gave them a jolt to remember. Reyes...
MAINE, REYES KEEP AMAZIN'S ALIVE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amGAME 6 Mets 4 Cardinals 2 Before the first batter last night, Paul Lo Duca went out to the mound to speak to John Maine. "He wants to be out...
LIVING OUT THEIR DREAMS TONIGHT
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amNO matter where they grow up, no matter the circumstances, no matter the background, they know about Game 7. They understand what it means. They realize the consequences. Game 7....
MAINE HURLS METS INTO WINNER-TAKE-ALL TILT
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amAnother chance is here. The Mets have a shot now to take this series, to come back in the final two games of the NLCS and triumph. Last night at...
A NEW NIGHT, A NEW LIFE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amTHEY get to hang onto the summer for at least one more day, and one more night, they get one more baseball game out of a season that has yielded...
NO IZZY? NO PROB FOR 'PEN
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Jason Isringhausen was felled by a season-ending hip injury in early September, the Cardinals were more concerned with closing out the NL Central than wondering what they would do...
ACHES CAN'T STOP CARD SPARKPLUG
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amWhen David Eckstein arrived in the visitor's clubhouse at Shea Stadium yesterday for Game 6 of the NLCS, he saw a blank space at the top of the Cardinals' lineup....
LAST-PITCH EFFORT - AMAZIN'S GAME 7 PITCHING OPTIONS HISTORICALLY DREADFUL
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - It still resonates with Ralph Branca all these years later. "A sore spot," he calls it, the sound in his voice over the phone saying the hurt...
CLOSE-OUTS CAN DEFINE BIG-TIMERS
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amLIKE Chris Carpenter did a year ago, Mark Davis once won a Cy Young Award. So did John Denny, Steve Bedrosian, Mike McCormick, Jack McDowell, Bob Welch, Willie Hernandez, La...
A GIFT FROM ANNA CLAUS - BENSON DEAL THROW-IN SAVES AMAZIN' SEASON
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amIT WAS 9:58 p.m. on what could have been the last night of the Mets season when Willie Randolph emerged from the dugout and the onset of what would in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amAndy Griffith is running for sheriff of Grant County, Wis. No, not that Andy Griffith, who played Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor on TV in the 1960s. We're talking about Platteville...
Trump Ready For Skins Game Against Women
October 19, 2006 | 3:20amIt's not exactly Bobby Riggs against Billie Jean King, but it should prove interesting entertainment when Donald Trump and Tom Watson team for a Skins Game against Annika Sorenstan and...
Trade turmoil
October 19, 2006 | 1:42amWith the NFL trade deadline approaching, are there any deals that will dramatically alter the fantasy perspective? All you have to do is look at the recent past to find...