September 27, 2000
MISS BOO LEARNS SOME MANNERS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amLook for a kinder, gentler Miss Boo when Boo.com is relaunched this fall. Officials at the fashion Web site say the computer-generated animation will be more humble this time around....
HAS INTERNATIONAL PAPER BEEN TELLING SECRETS?
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN the Securities and Exchange Commission passed the new Fair Disclosure rules recently, they wanted to stop precisely what appears to have happened last week with International Paper. Last week...
REALTOR LEAVES $40,000 GOODBYE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amIn his last days, one of the city's top commercial real estate brokers conceived an ad campaign that would allow him to say goodbye from the grave. Edward S. Gordon...
KODAK'S PICTURE NEGATIVE ; POOR PROFIT OUTLOOK SENDS DOW REELING
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amKodak's market woes made it Wall Street's party-wrecker du jour and also wiped millions from the value of Chairman George Fisher's options. Kodak shares tumbled $14.81, or 25 percent yesterday...
GAZOONTITE SHEDS DOT-COM : E-TAILER SHUTTERS SITE, KEEPS STORES OPEN
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amGazoontite.com, which started life as a Web site and then expanded offline, is giving up on the Web for the moment. The company has suspended its Web operations in the...
END OF SALLY'SSPACE.COM RIDE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amFormer astronaut Sally Ride has blasted right out of Space.com. The first American woman to venture into outer space yesterday resigned from her president's post at Lou Dobbs' extraterrestrial Web...
ERRANT KNIGHT SHOPPING $2M BIO
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANA University ex-basketball coach Bobby Knight, , who less than two weeks ago was forced to resign in disgrace, is already shopping his autobiography and hoping to snag at least...
RODALE SHUFFLES TITLES, BREAKS UP BOOK UNIT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amRodale, battered by a string of high level defections over the last year, is taking measures to shore up its ranks. It's busting up its book publishing unit and sprinkling...
A WOMAN'S PLACE ... IS IN THE KITCHENS OF TOP N.Y. EATERIES, BUT THAT'S STILL A MAN'S WORLD
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amQUICK, name five top female chefs in New York. When The Post set out to identify the city's leading female cooks, the chefs themselves couldn't come up with more than...
GUEST'S 'BEST' IS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amBEST IN SHOW 1/2 Christopher Guest's brilliant mockumentary about a dog show; the year's funniest movie.Running time: 89 minutes. Rated PG-13. At the Lincoln Square, Angelika. CHRISTOPHER Guest's long-anticipated follow-up...
STRIP THE FLASH, IT'S JUST A JOINT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSTRIP HOUSE 13 E. 12TH ST. (212) 328-0000 'SHALL I surprise you?" the Strip House sommelier asks a table of three nerdily dressed guys and one bodacious babe in a...
DUSKY FLICK ABOUT L.A. RIOTS LACKS IMPACT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amTWILIGHT LOS ANGELES 1/2 Filmed one-woman stage show about the 1992 Los Angeles riots, with added news footage and interviews. Performed and written by Anna Deveare Smith. Directed by Mark...
THE STARR REPORT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00am'Hulk'-ing neighbor shows up in 'Queens' Ex-"Incredible Hulk" Lou Ferrigno will guest star on "King of Queens" as Doug's (Kevin James) next-door-neighbor this season, Ferrigno's spokeswoman confirmed yesterday. It wouldn't...
GO, GO, GO - TO GNOCCO
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amGNOCCO CAFFE 337 E. 10TH ST. (BETWEEN AVENUES A AND B) (212) 677-1913 THEY'RE loco for Gnocco. Barely two months old, this East Village hideaway keeps a nightly herd happily...
'CHEERS' BARROOM BRAWL; NORM AND CLIFF TAKE IMAGE FIGHT HANGOVER TO THE SUPREME COURT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN the Supreme Court knows their names. The actors who played Norm and Cliff on "Cheers" have gone all the way to the nation's highest court to keep robotic likeness...
A TASTE OF HONEY, A LITTLE SCHMALTZ
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amWHO couldn't use a few new recipes when the holidays roll around? With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur on the horizon, there are a bevy of cookbook beauties just out...
NBC SCORES IN SYDNEY
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amNBC finally got some Olympic-sized ratings Monday night in Sydney, Australia. The Peacock Network has thus far failed to live up to Summer Olympics ratings expectations. But NBC's Monday-night coverage...
VIDAL VITAL TO SEASON ; WORD OF MOUTH TURNS 'BEST MAN' REVIVAL INTO A BONA FIDE HIT ON BROADWAY
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amDESPITE mixed reviews and the sense that it was under-rehearsed on opening night, "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" is turning into the first hit of the theater season. Last Monday,...
DAVE'S RAVES; FURIOUS OVER BY ADAM BUCKMAN
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amIN a multi-faceted rant triggered by last Sunday's cover story in the New York Times magazine, a feisty David Letterman called the Times a "rag," Rush Limbaugh a "bag of...
POLITICAL BUCKS AD UP LOCALLY ; CAMPAIGNS FEEDING STATION COFFERS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amIT's election time - and local TV stations are raking in the dough on political advertising. And that's a problem to a good-government group which has started a national campaign...
ATTA BOY, GEORGE ; HE'S OLDER AND A LOT WISER - AND STILL HAS A WAY WITH WORDS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amIN nearly two decades of pop stardom, Boy George has been called the devil, a queer, a prima donna, a heroin junkie and who knows what else.Now nearly 40, he...
SCANDAL IN GAS-TANKER INFERNO THAT KILLED L.I. NURSE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe driver of the gasoline tanker that exploded in a ball of fire after it was hit by a minivan, killing the 62-year-old Long Island nurse driving the van, was...
SHEA COPS BUST PUSHY BABY-SLAY DAD AGAIN
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amBaby slay dad Brian Peterson was busted at Shea Stadium last night for stepping between cops and a friend about to be arrested for pitching a bottle of beer at...
L.I. SLAY VICTIMS' KIN SUE 'DR. DEATH'
September 27, 2000 | 4:00am"Doctor Death" Michael Swango is being hit with a multimillion-dollar suit by the families of three Long Island men who died after he injected them with poison. Lawyer Edward Nitkewicz...
DEAD QUEENS MAN WAS SHOT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA 52-year-old man found dead in a Queens building was shot, police said yesterday. When Mark Nikol's body was found Sunday night police thought he might have fallen and banged...
JURY TOLD OF LESBIAN-COP LOVE TRIANGLE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amJurors in Manhattan got an earful yesterday at the start of a gay cop's $5 million sex-harassment case against the NYPD, including claims of cruel taunting - and intimations of...
MY 3-WEEK RUMBLE IN BX. PAYING OFF: KERIK
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amCrime overall has fallen in The Bronx each of the three weeks since Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik shook up the borough's power structure, the city's new top cop said yesterday....
'RACE FRISK' EPISODE LEFT OVAL OFFICE AIDE AFRAID
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - One of the highest-ranking blacks at the White House said yesterday it "scared the hell" out of him when gun-waving cops pulled him over and handcuffed him as...
ACCUSED PAN AM BOMBERS HAD TNT AT AIRPORT: WITNESS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA former Libyan spy testified at the Lockerbie bombing trial yesterday that the two defendants stored 22 pounds of TNT in his office at Malta's airport. Abdul Majid Abdul Razkaz...
BREAST-CANCER RISK GROWS WITH HEIGHT: STUDY
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amStartling new research shows that taller women may be at greater risk of developing breast cancer, scientists say. Scientists looked at seven major international studies involving 337,800 women - as...
DIABETES GENE POSES RISK FOR LATINOS: STUDY
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA newly discovered gene is believed to influence the risk of developing diabetes - especially in Mexican-Americans, new research shows. The new information could lead to better treatments, said Graeme...
GRASS STAYS GREEN FOR PARKS BOSS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amTHE scene: A town hall meeting led by Mayor Giuliani. The ritual: Giuliani introduces each commissioner, right down to the waste-trade guy. The response: Bored applause for most of the...
U.S. BACKS 'RADICAL' IN YUGO PREZ CLASH
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe United States and NATO allies have thrown their support in Yugoslavia's struggle for the presidency behind a man whose views on the Kosovo and Bosnia conflicts are even more...
HE'S EEL-ECTED OLYMPICS' LOVABLE LOSER - LAST-PLACE SWIMMER HAS BECOME SYDNEY STAR
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Everything's going swimmingly for Eric the Eel. Although the flailing, gasping, unemployed swimmer from Equatorial Guinea became one of the slowest swimmers in Olympic history - he barely...
DRIVER IN TANKER BLAZE WAS UNLICENSED: COPS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe driver of the gasoline tanker that exploded in a ball of fire after it was hit by a minivan, killing the 62-year-old Long Island nurse driving the van, was...
LENNON KILLER'S WILD DREAMS ABOUT YOKO
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amJohn Lennon's killer has had bizarre dreams of returning to the scene where he blew away the famed Beatle - and having widow Yoko Ono lovingly embrace him. "I've had...
FEDS: LEE WON'T GET A 'SOLITARY' APOLOGY FROM US
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top federal officials yesterday refused to apologize for their harsh handling of Wen Ho Lee - and claimed they could have won their case against him. "Dr. Lee...
GORE COMES OUT FOR GAY IMMIGRATION RIGHTS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amANN ARBOR, Mich. - Al Gore told an MTV audience yesterday that gay foreigners who enter a "civic union" with U.S. citizens should have the same immigration rights as heterosexual...
2ND GUARD IN SLAY-MOM TRYST
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA second prison guard was formally charged yesterday with having sex with killer mom Susan Smith. Capt. Alfred Rowe Jr., was hit with one count of sexual intercourse with an...
WIN FOR MICROSOFT IN BREAKUP BATTLE - TOP COURT WON'T SPEED THE APPEALS PROCESS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amBill Gates' Microsoft won a big victory yesterday when the Supreme Court refused to allow the government to put appeals of a federal judge's break-up order on a fast track....
ONE MAN'S BID TO OVERCOME THE SYSTEM'S SHORTCOMINGS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amREVOLUTIONS have started with less. It began with a single child. Now there are five. Five children with brains and talent - but no access to cash - this year...
PARKING BARRIER COULD HAVE SAVED NURSES
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA small concrete strip - no higher than a stair step - could have saved the lives of the four Manhattan nurses whose car crashed through the wall of a...
CLINTON KEEPING THE HEAT ON SERB STRONGMAN SLOBBO
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Yugoslav crisis worsened yesterday as President Clinton stepped up pressure on Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic to step down - and Belgrade ordered voters back to the polls....
COP KILLER PLEADS GUILTY TO '82 SLAY
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA convicted cop killer pleaded guilty yesterday to the long-unsolved murder of a druggist who was found handcuffed, gagged and naked in the basement of his Brooklyn home in 1982....
SOFTBALL HERO INSPIRED BY PARALYZED FIANCE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Laura Berg went from despair to joy yesterday when she missed a catch that nearly cost the U.S. softball team a gold medal - then bounced back to...
OPEC EYES PRODUCTION CUT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe OPEC cartel will be forced to cut output if President Clinton's release of petroleum reserves causes a dip in oil prices, Libya's oil minister said yesterday. "I hope this...
WORKING STIFFS TAKE A HIT FOR THE POOH-BAHS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amAS A reporter, I have gotten more bum steers than a bankrupt rancher. And this is why I cannot grasp the self-flagellation of the New York Times' massive mea culpa...
'RACE FRISK' EPISODE LEFT WHITE HOUSE AIDE AFRAID
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - One of the highest-ranking blacks at the White House said yesterday it "scared the hell" out of him when gun-waving cops pulled him over and handcuffed him as...
WIVES TOP HUBBIES AS KIDNEY DONORS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amWives are much more likely than husbands to be willing to donate a kidney to their spouse. That's the conclusion of researchers who reviewed the records of almost 150 transplant...
HILL AND RICK TRADE SWIPES ON TAX PLANS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio charged yesterday that Hillary Rodham Clinton's spending plans would force a tax hike - but the first lady warned it is Lazio who could bust the budget. Speaking...
COLOMBIAN BROUGHT HERE TO FACE COP-SLAYING CHARGES
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amAn alleged Colombian jewel thief was extradited to the United States yesterday and ordered held without bail for the 1999 murder of a retired NYPD detective. Federal prosecutors charge Nelson...
$$ CRISIS ENGULFING HARLEM HOSP
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amHarlem's North General Hospital almost couldn't meet its payroll last week - and it's not the only hospital in the region facing severe financial pressures, The Post has learned. State...
GIANT CAN BARE ITS TEETH AGAIN
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amTalk about Windows of opportunity. Bill Gates can now breathe a sigh of relief - while he gets back to world domination. The Supreme Court decision yesterday to send the...
N.Y. TIMES SHOCKER: WE GOOFED ON 'SPY' STORIES
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA red-faced Gray Lady yesterday stunned even its own staffers by publicly admitting it goofed big-time - printing all the news that wasn't fit to print on FBI-hounded Los Alamos...
$1M DEFICIT HAS B'KLYN SCHOOL BIG ON CARPET
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn school district superintendent is in hot water for running up a $1 million-plus deficit - and failing to immediately report the red ink to his board members. District...
PATAKI PAL GIVES BRATTON HIGH-POWERED HELP
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA powerful adviser to Gov. Pataki is helping former top cop Bill Bratton with his fledgling mayoral bid because "he's the only Republican who can win," a new report says....
ANOTHER SCHOOL SCANDAL: KIDS WERE NOT TOLD THEY GRADUATED
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn high school has upended the lives of three students - by failing to tell them they graduated. Lafayette HS staffers never bothered to tell the students last spring...
THE LUCKIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE TIX BROKER$
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amBabs' bye-bye has been a field day for ticket brokers. One broker said she sold seats for Barbra Streisand's Madison Square Garden sayonara for a whopping $8,000 a piece. The...
LOWER E. SIDE FAMILIES EVACUATED
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amAbout a half-dozen families were forced from their Lower East Side apartments yesterday after city officials decided they were endangered by the decrepit building next door. "I've lived here all...
BUSH CAMP REQUESTS LIE TEST
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush staffers offered to take lie-detector tests yesterday as they pressed the FBI to solve the mystery of whether a mole gave a debate prep video to rival...
SUBWAY VICTIM'S NIGHTMARE TALE - TELLS OF SHOVE THAT LEFT HIM LEGLESS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSubway-push victim Edgar Rivera choked back sobs yesterday as he told a jury about waking up in a hospital bed - and finding his legs were gone. "I remember at...
PROBERS HAVE EYE ON '$CAM' IN A DAY AT RACES
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amDozens of state troopers swooped down on Belmont, Aqueduct and Saratoga racetracks yesterday in a money-laundering investigation into New York's biggest thoroughbred tracks. The unprecedented raids were directed by the...
SAME SICKENING ENDING FOR METS - ROCKER, BRAVES FINISH OFF AMAZIN'S TO CLINCH NL EAST
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amBraves 7 - Mets 1 Unless the Mets can advance to the National League Championship Series, this season will be remembered and marked by the same sickening feeling for them:...
AMAZIN' QUESTION: TO POP OR NOT TO POP?
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amTHE wild-card is such that even the magic-number formula is all wet. Although the magic number coming into the Braves-Mets three-game series at Shea Stadium supposedly was three for the...
THIS TIME, SERIES IS RIVALRY LITE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amWith the Braves looking to clinch the NL East and celebrate in the Mets' own stadium - and the Amazin's needing a sweep to stay alive for the division title...
MEMO TO THE METS: LOCK UP REED NOW - BIG-GAME PITCHER AT BEST VS. BRAVES
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amHe is a must-sign this offseason because of how he performs in big games. The Mets should give Rick Reed his $18 million over three years this offseason because they...
AMAZIN'S MAY POP CORKS YET
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Mets' consolation is that there wasn't going to be any champagne, anyway - not to celebrate any wild-card berth while the division title was still at stake. This edict,...
WILD CARD'S BEEN GOOD DEAL - FORMAT'S PRODUCED GREAT MOMENTS, NO FRAUDS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE will be no champagne to celebrate no stinkin' wild card berth, says Steve Phillips, an edict supported by not only the Women's' Christian Temperance Union, but baseball purists everywhere....
AGBAYANI 'RIGHT ON EDGE' OF PLAYOFF MIX
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Although Benny Agbayani again wasn't ready to play last night, he says there is no reason to believe he will miss the postseason. However GM Steve Phillips thinks...
ROCKET POINTING TO NEXT START, THEN GAME 1
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - It started in the morning at a nearby gym where he asked his bruised left hamstring to stand up to the punishment of leg squats....
FALK: L.A. WAS A DISS OF RICE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Superagent David Falk told The Post yesterday he was disturbed by the manner in which his client, Glen Rice, was treated by the Lakers during his 1 1/2-year...
EX-SONICS MAY NOT FIND ROSTER SPOTS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES SEATTLE - Of the six players the Knicks obtained for Patrick Ewing last Wednesday, the Knicks have only definite plans for three of them: Glen Rice, center Luc...
NIEDERMAYER SAYS: I'M WILLING TO TALK
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Perhaps signaling a break in the stalemate, Scott Niedermayer told The Post yesterday that he is willing to bend to work out a contract with the Devils. "I...
MARTIN CASE TO HIGH COURT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at major tournaments. The high court...
U.S. BEACH BOYS HAVE GOLDEN HIT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The U.S. is king of the beach again. Underdogs Eric Fonoimoana and Dain Blanton took it to one of the hottest beach volleyball teams in the world early...
PRIMUS GREW INTO GRID GIANT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe summer before Stanley Primus entered Lincoln H.S., he started playing street football with some neighborhood kids in Coney Island. He impressed some of the older guys so much that...
BAD AD-ITUDE AT NBC
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amThe comically absurd essence of NBC's Sydney Olympics was captured Monday night in a commercial that ran on NBC during its Olympic coverage. The ad, for Visa credit cards, congratulated...
VINNY'LL GET OVER IT - QB, GROH WON'T LET DISAGREEMENT FESTER
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amTHE words were coming out of Vinny Testaverde's mouth on Monday, but because of who Testaverde has been since he's been in New York, the words weren't initially registering as...
THIS SYSTEM IS ALL 'GO'
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amYear-in, year-out, at every racetrack across the country, one of the best handicapping angles you'll ever find is a horse that a) showed good early speed in its last start;...
PLENTY OF TURKEYS TO GO AROUND
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amTHE fall turkey-hunting season kicks off in New York on Sunday, and despite the weather this year not being conducive for reproduction of many more birds, their numbers remain at...
GIANTS TO GET GORED IN TENNESSEE? MAYBE NOT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amONE loss meant there would be two losses. The magnificence of a 3-0 start faded into the ugliness of a 3-2 swoon. The next game of importance for the Giants...
COMEBACK KIDS STRIKE GOLD - U.S. SOFTBALLERS NEVER GAVE UP
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSOFTBALL: U.S. 2 - Japan 1 SYDNEY - The U.S. Olympic softball team, those comeback kids, are on top of the softball world. Again. They supported their trademark tough pitching...
AMERICAN KNOW-HOW PAYS OFF
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - So much for needing some offense to win the gold medal in softball. Team USA won its second straight Olympic gold medal with one of the weakest offensive...
BARKLEY: PATRICK DESERVED BETTER
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amCharles Barkley hates the Knicks for how they handled the trade of Patrick Ewing. "I got nothing good to say about the Knicks," Barkley said last night. "The way they...
LIKE WAITING FOR GODOT - U.S. SOCCER'S BIG DAY MIGHT NEVER COME
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - There have been two huge soccer moments for me - moments that were supposed to be catalytic, making this game of the world relevant in the U.S. The...
FOX GETS BASEBALL PACKAGE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amMajor League Baseball will announce tomorrow that Fox, beginning next season, will become its exclusive over-the-air national network for the next six seasons. Fox's new, $2.5 billion deal will also...
PAYTON, FURCAL TAKING ROOKIE RACE TO WIRE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal made a brilliant defensive play to rob Jay Payton of a hit in Atlanta last week, Payton made sure to catch Furcal's eye and shake...
TORRE EYES KNOBBY OVER HILL, JOSE AT DH
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - With the Yankees on the verge of clinching their third straight AL East title, Joe Torre had Chuck Knoblauch in the DH role last night against the...
JONES KEEPS ON RUNNIN' - BANNED HUBBY SEES MARION POST VICTORY IN 200-METER HEAT
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - In the glow of a just-completed 100-meter victory and with an approaching storm not yet in sight, Marion Jones lectured Saturday that she was not feeling pressure in...
YANKS' BIG PARTY PUT ON HOLD
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amDevil Rays 2 - Yankees 1 ST. PETERSBURG - Jeff Nelson didn't need two eyes planted in the back of his skull to know what the scoreboard in left-center field...
CLEMENS READY FOR NEXT START
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - It started in the morning at a nearby gym where he asked his bruised right hamstring to stand up to the punishment of leg squats....
THERE'S NO AVOIDING NL'S QUIET ASSASSINS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amIF YOU missed the Mets' National League East division title elimination game last night, don't sweat it. There will be another one in 10 days or so. If not then,...
RISKY ROBIN THROWS ONE INTO OBLIVION
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amIf it had worked, it would have been risky but brilliant. But the play backfired dreadfully and Robin Ventura was left lying on the infield grass, his head down. If...
ACHY BENNY ON BUBBLE FOR PLAYOFFS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Although Benny Agbayani again wasn't ready to play last night, he says there is no reason to believe he will miss the postseason. However, GM Steve Phillips thinks...
ROCKER GETS LAST LAUGH
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amClearly whatever higher being is in charge of baseball has a strong sense of irony. How else can you explain John Rocker on the mound last night, sealing Atlanta's 7-1...
LEITER HOPES NEXT START'S JUST A TUNEUP
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amJust listening to Al Leiter was draining. As the lefty described his own personal, pitch-by-pitch tension on the mound during last night's 7-1 Met loss, his stress pervaded those around...
BRAVES PARTY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amThere were no wild, carnal celebrations on the Mets logo, a la Terrell Owens. Even the scenes in the privacy of the visiting clubhouse were relatively tame. Oh sure, eyes...
VENUS BAGS GOLD IN 55 MINUTES
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Venus Williams extended her domination of women's tennis into the Olympics by winning the gold medal in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4, today over a game, but overpowered and...
LANCE 13TH IN BIKE RACE
September 27, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Lance Armstrong has had better days in the saddle. The two-time defending Tour de France champion never challenged for the lead of the 148.5 mile Olympic cycling road...