May 13, 2004
DON'T BANK ON SONY-MGM DEAL TILL NBC DROPS OUT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amEVEN though Sony may have the upper hand in negotiations right now, NBC has a better chance at ending up as the owner of MGM. There are several reasons for...
MERRILL SEEKS $43M RETURN
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amAlthough it just pocketed $1.3 billion in profits for the first quarter, Merrill Lynch is raising a legal ruckus to claim $43 million more - the amount embezzled by one...
WITH SIMMONS IPO, LEE SEEKING $$ IN MATTRESS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amBarely five months after hopping in the sack with Simmons Co., Thomas H. Lee Partners is already gearing up to flip the mattress darling. The Boston-based buyout shop, hoping to...
EMI CLEARED OF INFLATING SALES DATA
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amEMI was cleared by a U.S. District Court judge in New York of allegations it had hired marketing consultants to artificially inflate record sales figures reported by Nielsen SoundScan. The...
'ORDER' IN THE HOUSE FOR NEW NBC UNIVERSAL
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amAs NBC and Universal closed their blockbuster merger deal yesterday, the companies announced they had secured an extension with "Law & Order" producer Dick Wolf to air the lucrative series...
SEC PROBES FUND IPO BIZ
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Wall Street's giants push their mutual fund units to load up on stocks they take public, an SEC spokesman confirmed. The practice...
NO MOORE FOR EISNER - SELLS DIRECTOR'S ANTI-BUSH FILM TO WEINSTEINS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amMichael Eisner is finally setting free the shelved President Bush-bashing film "Fahrenheit 911" and selling it to its creators, Miramax, in time for summer release. Eisner caused a censorship firestorm...
NYSE ADS RING IN NEW IMAGE
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amSound the bell; the Big Board's back. At least that's what the New York Stock Exchange's latest ad campaign is telling the world starting Sunday. It's the first big publicity...
NYT SHIPS CULTURE ED OVERSEAS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amSteven Erlanger is out as cultural czar at the New York Times, and is being reassigned as Jerusalem bureau chief. Jonathan Landman, one of the few heroes in the Jayson...
BLACK'S SPOUSE PINK-SLIPPED AT BRITISH FLAGSHIP
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amConrad Black's pampered wife got booted from her job writing columns for his flagship British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph. His wife, who penned her column under her maiden name, Barbara...
KARAN CATFIGHT - HIGH-LEVEL EXECUTIVE BATTLE ROILS FASHION HOUSE
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amInfighting and management turmoil are once again rocking Donna Karan International, as tensions escalate between Karan and one of her chief lieutenants, Melissa Parker-Lilly, sources told The Post. The temperamental...
MOVING DOC ON A FORK IN THE ROAD
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHE JUNCTION/ SLAVES OF THE SWORD [] (three stars) The ruins of war. Combined running time: 108 minutes. Not rated (violence). At Anthology Film Archives, Second Avenue and Second Street....
STARR REPORT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amRobert's (fun) rulesBob Newhart, who knows a thing or two about good sitcoms, is sorry to see "Frasier" signing off tonight after 11 seasons. "I know some of the ['Frasier']...
STAR-CROSSED ROSIE ROW
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amROSIE O'Donnell mixed it up with Star Jones yesterday in an on-air shouting match over Martha Stewart and why high-profile black defendants like O.J. Simpson and Jayson Williams go free....
DIANA NEW 'IDOL' FAVE
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amCOULD the next "American Idol" be just 16 years old? The youngest contestant in "Idol" - Diana DeGarmo - has surged to the front of the pack and, after a...
SURPRISE! AMBER SAYS GIVE ROB $1M
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWHAT, the $1 million wasn't enough? Amber Brkich, who won the booty on last Sunday's "Survivor: All-Stars" finale, says viewers should reward the next million CBS will hand out to...
WAR IS STILL HELL FOR GULF VETERAN 'SOLO'
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amGUINEA PIG SOLOAt the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. TeleCharge, (212) 239-6200. --- IT'S not surprising that wartime violence spills over into the private lives of soldiers even after they're...
CLAY DUMPS MANAGER IN IMAGE SHAKEUP
May 13, 2004 | 4:00am'AMERICAN Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken is singing a new tune - Meet the new boss! US Weekly reports that Aiken has sacked his management company, 19 Entertainment - founded by...
KILLING MANSON MYTH ONCE AND FOR ALL - CHARLIE STILL NUTS SECOND TIME AROUND
May 13, 2004 | 4:00am"Helter Skelter" [] (three stars) Sunday night at 8 on CBS ---- IN 1969, Charles Manson ordered members of his "family" of weirdos and freaks to go out to Beverly...
ANOTHER MARRIAGE FLATLINES FOR KIEFER
May 13, 2004 | 4:00am'24' star Kiefer Sutherland, no stranger to high-profile break-ups, is getting divorced again. Sutherland who stars as Bauer in Fox's cliffhanging thriller, will split from his wife of nearly eight...
LATOYA OUT IN 'IDOL' SHOCK
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amIN the second "American Idol" shocker of the season, viewers last night gave front-runner Latoya London the boot. London's sensational ouster drew boos from the studio audience and left the...
MEET DISTRICT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amNinth Ave THE Meatpacking District - especially that part of Ninth Avenue between West 14th Street and Gansevoort Street - just keeps getting busier, with a new bar or venue...
FOR THE ULTIMATE IPOD ADDICT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amDOES Karl Lagerfeld have a secret desire to be a deejay? The Fendi designer recently created an iPod carrying case called the Juke Box (at left), which can hold 12...
Correction Date: 05/27/2004
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amCorrection: - In a May 13 story about the Pratt Area Community Council's list of the city's most decrepit apartment buildings, an incorrect address was given for one. The correct...
NYERS KICK 'BUTT': CIG USE SLASHED BY 700M
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers smoked 700 million fewer cigarettes last year, health officials said yesterday. Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, who drafted the city's tough smoking ban, touted the new figures - released...
FORMER GIANT TACKLES AIDS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amTwelve years ago, ex-New York Giant Roy Simmons became one of only three pro football players to step out of the closet and announce he was gay. This weekend, he's...
LEFT-ALONE BX. BOY FALLS 4 STORIES
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA 4-year-old boy was critically injured yesterday when he fell four stories from his Bronx apartment after he was left alone by his cousin, police said. The boy, whose name...
BOY-FIEND IN NEW HORROR
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA 21-year-old Brooklyn man - set to be sentenced only to probation and anger-management counseling for an attack on his girlfriend - was charged yesterday with assaulting her a second...
THROWING VICTORY AWAY
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amQUIET isn't the same thing as peace. As a column of Marines paraded through Fallujah this week, it was done at the sufferance of our enemies. We lost the battle...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amBeing declared dead can be a real hassle, especially when you're alive. That's what happened to Alice DeHan, 67, of Stuart, Fla., when she suddenly found her cellphone service shut...
THEY'RE THE SAME OLD LUSTY LEGISLATORS I KNEW AND DIDN'T LOVE
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amTAKE it from a survivor of Albany's intern program. It brings some warped comfort in these uncertain days to know that a few services provided by your taxpayer-paid servants in...
DEM PANIC ON KERRY - WHY THE SURPRISE?
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amJUST 10 weeks ago, when John Kerry came out of nowhere to vault ahead of the Democratic presidential field and leave his rivals choking in his dust, conventional wisdom had...
LOVESICK ARSONIST LOCKED UP 5 YEARS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for setting fire to an apartment building last fall because, police said, he thought his girlfriend was refusing to...
SHOPPING FOR A JOB IN BROOKLYN
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe city has created a job center to help fill 800 positions at the new Atlantic Terminal shopping center in Downtown Brooklyn. The center, which will open in July, will...
'SMOKING GUN' IN OILY SCANDAL
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.N. investigators have arrived in Baghdad to look at "smoking gun" files that purportedly document wholesale bribery of U.N. officials and international political figures by Saddam Hussein, The...
SLAY-WITNESS TAPE MISSING, DA ADMITS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amRed-faced Brooklyn prosecutors yesterday conceded they lost the tape-recording of an interview with a man who saw a murder witness gunned down in cold blood last year. During a pretrial...
JFK DRUG GIRL JAILED
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Rhode Island teen, busted for trying to smuggle a duffel bag stuffed with two kilos of cocaine through Kennedy Airport on her way back from the Dominican Republic, was...
COUNCIL: LET LEFTIES ON LAWN
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA group of city legislators yesterday demanded a hearing on why the Parks Department denied a permit to a group set to protest at the Republican National Convention. Officials had...
KIN: KEEP COP KILLER IN JAIL
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe family of a Westchester County sheriff gunned down in the line of duty 25 years ago launched a drive yesterday to keep his killer behind bars. Kieran Grant, a...
'BITER' BUSTED
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amCops took a bite out of crime when they busted a Brooklyn mom who allegedly was sinking her teeth into everybody in sight. Morgan Frontera, 35, launched into the bizarre...
HOW POLS BAG SEX INTERNS - ALBANY'S SORDID 'SCOUTING'
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - The latest Assembly sex scandal is just the "tip of the iceberg" of a far wider system of aggressive exploitation of young women in the state Legislature's intern...
SUBWAY LEARNS JOY OF YIDDISH
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amMetroCard vending machines at seven subway stations in predominantly Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods speak a new language: Yiddish. The Transit Authority has reprogrammed some of its vending machines to accommodate the...
LIVERY RIDERS TO PASS (EXTRA) BUCK
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amIt's nothing to hail about - livery cab fares are going up. The cost of riding in a livery car will go up $1 starting next week after company owners...
2ND BOMB OUTRAGE - 5 MORE ISRAELI SOLDIERS SLAIN IN GAZA
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM -Five Israeli soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in the Gaza Strip yesterday - just as another team of troops was recovering the remains of six Israelis slain...
EX-FBI AGENT ADMITS 'SPY' AFFAIR
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A disgraced FBI agent, who touched off an embarrassing sex-for-secrets scandal, pleaded guilty yesterday to lying to investiga- tors in a deal that could keep him out...
IRAN AND SYRIA AID EVIL ABU
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Jordanian terror master Abu Musab Zarqawi has eluded a massive U.S. military campaign to bring him to justice with help of extensive network of Middle East connections, including...
KERRY: PREZ 'PANICKED'
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry yesterday accused President Bush's team of being too "panicked" in setting next week for the first court-martial of a soldier charged in the Iraqi prisoner abuse...
HAMPTONS 'RAPE' - SEX SICKO ATTACKS JOGGER ON BEACH
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA woman jogging on a Southampton beach was sexually attacked early yesterday as she ran along an empty stretch of sand in one of the toniest neighborhoods in the country,...
POSTAL 'PERVERT' STUNG
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens postal worker was busted in an Internet sex sting after arranging a liaison with a 14-year-old boy, who turned out to be a detective, police said. Michael Rapino,...
POLICE FAKER A BADGE BOY
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island oil burner repairman who admits he's "obsessed" with cops was busted by a real one after impersonating a city police officer - complete with badge and illegal...
VELELLA HEADED TO JAIL - SET TO RESIGN, COP PLEA
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - State Sen. Guy Velella, one of Albany's most influential lawmakers, is expected to resign from office tomorrow - before taking a plea deal on Monday that will send...
JUROR 4 COURTS ATTENTION
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amShe's baaa-aack! Tyco's Juror No. 4, the woman at the center of the infamous mistrial, was back at Manhattan federal court yesterday, sitting in the gallery of a related trial...
EX-GIANT TAKES BIG STEPS FOR AIDS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amFormer New York Giant Roy Simmons 12 years ago became one of only three pro football players to step out of the closet and announce he was gay. This weekend,...
IRAQ VIDS SHOCK POLS - IMAGES DEPICT JAIL SEX ABUSE
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A grim procession of lawmakers yesterday visited a top-secret Capitol conference room to view what many described as "disgusting" new X-rated photos and videos of Iraqi-prisoner abuse -...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police yesterday released this surveillance photo of a note-passing bandit (above) who has robbed four banks on the East Side since February. Between Feb. 24 and this past...
DA SEEKS JAIL FOR PROTEST
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amIn an unusual move, Manhattan prosecutors are asking for jail time for four protesters who stopped traffic on Fifth Avenue for hours in March. It's not so much that they...
'FEDEX' KILLER SQUAD
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThree brazen robbers - one wearing a FedEx T-shirt and pretending to deliver a package - shot and killed a Brooklyn discount-store owner in front of his horrified family during...
SANIT-MAN SLAY - BX. UNION ACTIVIST FOUGHT CARTING CO.
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx garbage man and union organizer wannabe wound up shot dead execution-style yesterday - barely a month after he complained to the feds that his employer was stifling his...
CALL SEXPOT CITIZEN PAM
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Pamela Anderson can now call herself a proud American. The blond sex symbol passed her U.S. citizenship test yesterday, and a federal judge swore her in during...
PA IS LEERY ABOUT LARRY - WANTS WTC FUNDING PLAN
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe Port Authority has sent a letter to Ground Zero developer Larry Silverstein demanding a detailed accounting of how he plans to pay for the rebuilding of the World Trade...
POLS TURN SHARP EYE ON NIELSEN
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee says he's asking for a federal study into a controversial new Nielsen TV ratings system. Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas)...
3 CLAIM SEX ABUSE BY BOSS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThree immigrant women filed a lawsuit in federal court yesterday charging they were harassed and sexually assaulted by the owner of the Inwood discount store where they worked long hours...
'F' IS FOR FIASCO ON MAKEUP TESTS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amCity educators flunked on yesterday's makeup reading exams - just weeks after botching the original tests by giving some students an advance peek at questions. In yesterday's fiasco, test preparers...
SIC THAT SEX FIEND - DOG FIGHTS OFF CENTRAL PK. ATTACKER
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA 60-pound mutt helped save its owner from a sex-crazed would-be rapist in Central Park, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The dog's owner was walking her pooch at around 8:30 a.m....
VEEPRESSING NEWS FOR DEMS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE'S now a hope against hope in Democrat-land that somehow John Kerry's vice presidential search can pull a magical rabbit out of a hat because the known prospects aren't turning...
LIVING LIKE RATS - SLUM TENANTS RALLYING FOR REPAIR BILL
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amJuan Reyes, his wife and six children have been living in their Brooklyn apartment without water for more than two weeks. Before that, they lived for years without heat. And...
CANARIES' DEALS HAVE BONANNO JURORS MUDDLED
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amPotential jurors in the federal murderous racketeering case against reputed Bonanno boss Joseph Massino waffled when asked yesterday whether they could fairly consider the evidence, particularly testimony offered by turncoats...
DROWNING A $CAM: COPS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA man who mysteriously vanished from a New Jersey beach last summer staged the drowning with his wife to collect on a hefty life-insurance policy, authorities charged yesterday. But the...
DNA NAILS MAN IN '98 SEX ATTACK
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA man was convicted yesterday in the 1998 sexual assault of a 32-year-old woman in Brooklyn, although the victim couldn't recognize him. DNA evidence clinched the conviction of Dwain Meekins,...
10G BONUS? HEY, YOU DO THE MATH
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration is considering a plan to pay the city's best math teachers to transfer into low-performing high schools. A $1 million grant from City College would be used...
MAN JAILED FOR BEHEADING WIFE
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amOscar Pilamunga was 15 and Beatrice Yually was 13 when they married nine years ago in their native Ecuador. Yesterday, Pilamunga, now 24, was sentenced to 15 years to life...
'REVENGE!' CRIES ECHO FROM COAST TO COAST
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amAn eye for an eye! From the Big Apple to his hometown of West Chester, Pa., horrified Americans cried for revenge over the savage beheading of Nick Berg by Islamic...
EVEN HEZBOLLAH CAN'T STOMACH SICKENING IMAGES
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amEven the killers of Hezbollah were outraged by the beheading of Nicholas Berg. "Hezbollah condemns this horrible act that has done very great harm to Islam and Muslims by this...
YOU'RE UNDER ARRESSSSSSST
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amDon't try and wriggle out of this one, buster. Two large snakes were collared by Brooklyn cops yesterday. One of the serpents was seized after slithering into a crevice next...
9/11 PANEL PUTS UP FIRE WALL
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe city's top fire union officials have asked to testify at 9/11 commission hearings next week, but the commission says the hearings are "reserved for people in authority." "We have...
'TAUNT' BRAWL AT MEPHAM HS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA baseball game at Long Island's Mepham HS turned into a melee yesterday after visiting players taunted a Mepham player about the sex-abuse scandal at the school, sources said. Mepham...
'SMOKING GUN' IN SADDAM'S OILY SCAM
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.N. investigators have arrived in Baghdad to look at "smoking gun" files that purportedly document wholesale bribery of U.N. officials and international political figures by Saddam Hussein, The...
QUESTION-ABLE CENSORSHIP
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amState education officials violated rules by rejecting nearly 20 controversial literary and nonfiction passages about death, violence and obesity from use on high school English Regents exams last year because...
SLAIN HOSTAGE IGNORED ALERT - NIXED FEDS' OFFER TO BE FLOWN OUT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe FBI warned the young American beheaded by terrorists to leave Iraq because new violence was sweeping the country, U.S. officials revealed yesterday. But Nick Berg, 26, turned down a...
LEASH GAL'S SEX PIX - POLS AGHAST AT JAIL ROMPS WITH GIS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Shocking shots of sexcapades involving Pfc. Lynndie England were among the hundreds of X-rated photos and videos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal shown to lawmakers in a...
AIDE BUSTED IN SCHOOL ASSAULT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Department of Education aide was arrested yesterday for punching a 12-year-old student in a Staten Island classroom, cops said. Ruben Malave, a school aide assigned to PS 373 in...
HEARTLESS HIT-RUN DRIVER KILLS L.I. CANDY-SHOP KID, 9
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA 9-year-old Long Island boy on his way home from a candy store was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver yesterday, police said. Messiah Lovelady was crossing Straight Path...
MOB JURORS LEERY OF FEDS' CANARIES
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amPotential jurors in the murderous-racketeering case against Bonanno boss Joseph Massino waffled when asked yesterday if they could fairly consider the evidence, particularly testimony offered by turncoats who have cut...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: WATCH YOUR SOUP?
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWhen a Long Island family hired Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, as their cook for the summer, they had no idea she'd stir up nothing but trouble. Was she really...
FINALLY! CLIFF'S SET TO RETURN TONIGHT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - The Mets will finally activate Cliff Floyd tonight. They're also looking to say goodbye to Ricky Gutierrez. The Mets need to create a roster spot for...
ANOTHER BAD GAME FOR JAVIER
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amIf Javier Vazquez wants to be a stopper, this isn't the kind of momentum he's supposed to stop. After the Yankees' extra-inning, come-from-behind win on Tuesday put even more wind...
BAD NOSE BOMBERS - POSADA INJURED IN A REAL STINKER
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amAngels 11 - Yankees 2 The Yankees had their catcher and their pride hurt last night. Jorge Posada suffered a fractured nose in the second inning, and the Angels were...
DEION SACKED AT CBS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amDeion Sanders is leaving CBS' "NFL Today" because of a money dispute. After Sanders wanted to double his $1 million salary, CBS thanked him for his services and said goodbye....
YANKS FORCED TO CALL UP CATCHER
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Jorge Posada suffered a fractured nose last night in the second inning after getting struck by a thrown ball. He was listed as day-to-day, but it was highly...
LONG ROAD AHEAD FOR '90S TRACK STAR
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amBob Kennedy almost quit running. But too many people pleaded for the American record holder in the 3000 meters and 5000 meters to keep pushing, despite injury and emotional setbacks....
DEREK SAYS 'THIS YEAR IS MUCH BETTER'
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHESE six weeks cannot be erased. They scream from the scoreboard, from the stat sheet. These six weeks of mostly feeble swings and unexpected home boos are part of Derek...
NETS: NO SYMPATHY FOR ACHING PISTONS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amNETS NOTES When the Nets moved into the playoffs they arrived with great concern about the health of Jason Kidd and Kenyon Martin and understood their opponents could care less....
MO NEED TO WORRY - CONFIDENT RIVERA BLOWS OFF FAILURE VS. ANGELS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amMariano Rivera has been so good for so long, one almost becomes jaded into expecting perfection. The last time the Yankees closer had blown a save, Saddam Hussein was on...
TAURASI, CASH JOIN DREAM TEAM
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amPedigree didn't matter. Personal accomplishments didn't matter. Championship rings didn't matter. Swin Cash and Diana Taurasi weren't named to the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team for helping to establish the...
BROWN BASHES PISTONS' EFFORT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Piston coach Larry Brown took time off from picking on the officials to bash his team's effort in its two Swamp debacles. On the day he was...
RJ: THEY'RE IN DRIVER'S SEAT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amWinning back-to-back playoff games by a total of 33 points has a way of steeling a team's confidence, but any giddiness felt by the Nets should be tempered by the...
GET READY TO 'ROCK'
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - California thunderbolt, or Hollywood fake? That's the question mark hanging over one of the most intriguing horses in Saturday's Preakness, Rock Hard Ten, who swooped out of the...
IT'S SMARTY'S PARTY - DERBY WINNER 8-5 TO SNARE 2ND JEWEL
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Smarty Jones stepped off the van here at Pimlico shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday following a two-hour drive down I-95 from Philadelphia Park, cool as a cucumber in...
M*A*S*H UNIT - METS TAP FITNESS GURU TO FIGHT INJURY PLAGUE
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amPHOENIX - Jose Reyes. Cliff Floyd. Scott Erickson. Shane Spencer. Todd Zeile. All are Mets. All are crucial to the team's fortunes in 2004 and beyond. And all have either...
TORRE WON'T NAME SATURDAY STARTER
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre said he could make it easy and anoint Donovan Osborne the Yankees' starter for Saturday against the Mariners. But Torre wasn't willing to do that quite...
ROUGH STRETCH GETTING ROUGHER
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - Last Thursday at Shea, Mike Piazza belted a walk-off homer, capping a sweep of the Giants and sending his Met teammates into a euphoric celebration. Finally,...
USA PULLOUTS IRK BROWN
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Larry Brown has enough to worry about with his Pistons amidst a playoff collapse. But the U.S. Olympic coach is becoming distressed by the growing number of...
GARY GETS GOING - GAME-WINNER COULD HELP SHEFF BREAK OUT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00am"I've seen it on TV, but never live. Now I'm a part of it. It's something special." - Gary Sheffield Gary Sheffield woke up yesterday and felt nothing had changed...
ELLIOTT ARREST STORY SURFACES
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - For the second time since Stewart Elliott rode Smarty Jones to victory in the Kentucky Derby, a news report has aired dirty laundry from the 39-year-old jockey's past....
ON DIAMOND, PROSPECT'S IN CLASS BY SELF
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amNearly a dozen scouts crowd behind the fence near home plate at the Parade Grounds in Brooklyn. All are there for the same reason: To see one of the rare...
GW'S SALOME A REAL HITTING MACHINE
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amClassmates approach Angel Salome throughout the day before games and make requests. "They say, 'I'm coming to watch you play, hit three home runs,' or 'We want you to get...
DOC: KURT NEEDS SCALPEL
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amThere appears no way out for Kurt Thomas to avoid surgery on his dislocated right pinkie. The Knicks forward was examined yesterday by Dr. Steve Brotherton, a Fort Worth orthopedist...
FLOYD'S RETURNING TONIGHT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amPHOENIX - The Mets will say hello to Cliff Floyd tonight. They're also looking to say goodbye to Ricky Gutierrez. Floyd, who has been on the DL since April 12...
YANKS WILL NEED BATTERY BOOST IF JORGE'S OUT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amA year ago today, Anaheim's John Lackey started against the Yankees, Jose Contreras already had pitched his way to Columbus and Derek Jeter played his first full game of the...
ANGEL 'VERY SORRY' - BUT YANKS WON'T ABSOLVE SS IN JORGE INCIDENT
May 13, 2004 | 4:00am"I feel pretty bad to hit him, especially a guy like that, a nice guy." -ANGELS SS ALFRED AMEZAGA Jorge Posada was trying to break up a double play, but...
GLAVINE GEM, KAZ HR LIFTS METS OVER D'BACKS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00am"If you're a purist, this is the kind of game we all miss. Every pitch matters and defensiveplays are remembered." -TOM GLAVINE PHOENIX - Tom Glavine did not want to...
BEAMING BOSS HANDS IT TO YANKS
May 13, 2004 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner, still aglow over the Yankees' come-from-behind, extra-inning, 8-7 win over Anaheim on Tuesday, walked around the Bombers clubhouse yesterday afternoon. He stopped at locker after locker, congratulating players,...