September 15, 2004
KORS HAS KINKS - BUMPY START FOR DESIGNER'S NEW CLOTHING LINE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBumpy start for designer's new clothing line Michael Kors is a pro at winning over the fashion elite, as he did yesterday with a runway show that featured glammed up...
GOLDMAN GIVES UP OPTIONS ON AMEX
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amWall Street giant Goldman Sachs is close to dumping the final piece of its American Stock Exchange stock options trading business for between $4 million and $6 million. Stuart Sternberg,...
ESTEE LAUDER GETS NEW DIGS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amESTEE Lauder is mov ing its Clinique, Origins, and Bobbi Brown divisions into 63,000 square feet at 110 E. 59th St. by the second half of 2005. The contiguous space...
BLACK SUES - FOR HELL OF IT
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amOusted newspaper baron Conrad Black is suing a Toronto magazine for $2.1 million for a satirical story that depicts Black going to hell. The article, titled "A Toast to Lord...
A FRASCH LOOK AT FASHION WEEK TRENDS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amJessica Simpson and Serena Williams may get all the attention as they sit front row at Fashion Week, but the real star power lies with the merchants from the big...
YAHOO! JOINS ONLINE MUSIC WARS WITH MUSICMATCH BUY
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amYahoo! is throwing its hat into the ring in the increasingly crowded music-downloading business. The Internet darling announced yesterday it will snap up Musicmatch for $160 million in cash. The...
KIRK SERVES UP WINNER OF A YEAR FOR BIG DEALS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amAt 87, wily investor Kirk Kerkorian still has his healthy vigor and up to $20 billion to spread around. His two mega-deals this year - the sale of his fabled...
NEW EDITOR MAKES PAPER CUTS IN MONEY MAGAZINE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA new editor arrived at Money over the summer, and voila, the heads have started to roll. Two months ago, new managing editor Eric Schurenberg - an old hand at...
SALE OF ALCAN UNIT COULD FETCH $5B
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amCanadian aluminum maker Alcan Inc. is exploring a possible sale of its rolled-products business in a deal that may be worth between $4 billion and $5 billion, The Post has...
NEWSDAY STAFFERS REGROUP
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amTroubled Newsday is trying to rally the troops as it copes with the fallout from its massive circulation scandal. Editor Howard Schneider held a meeting yesterday with the editorial staff...
LOWERING THE BAR; PRICEY MASA'S POOR RELATION
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBAR MASA (two stars) TIME WARNER CENTER FOURTH FLOOR (212) 823-9800 BAR Masa is the biggest letdown of all the eating places in Time Warner Center based on what you...
GIMME SWELTER FOR NELLY
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amNELLY IT was hot in therre when hip- hop superstar Nelly took over Webster Hall Monday to debut his twin CD release. Yes, the music sizzled as St. Louis' favorite...
CURTAIN RAISERS; B'WAY INSIDERS ABUZZ ABOUT FALL
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amTHE third-floor bar at Angus McIndoe is buzzing again. It's tough to get a reservation at Orso after a show. And the Starbucks at the Marriott Marquis is selling coffee...
STILL WALTERS: BARBARA REVEALS HER SECRET OF SUCCESS: 'ABJECT FAILURE'
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amHOW do you interview the most famous interviewer in the world? That's what I was wondering on my way to meet Barbara Walters for coffee at Café des Artistes the...
OUT OF THE PICTURE; BEN & JEN INVISIBLE IN ADS FOR NEW FILMS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amWHERE'S Ben? Where's Jen? Not on the posters for their latest movies. The images of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck - whose on-and-off romance dominated the media for more than...
ON THE SIDE: LOOKING AT THE FARHI SIDE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amANOTHER Nicole Farhi-related restaurant iscoming to Manhattan. Stephen Marks, the London-based CEO of the French Connection clothing empire, which owns Farhi's boutique business, is planning to open a new eatery...
SIMON WILL RETURN TO 'AI'
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA bitter lawsuit between "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell will not keep the snarky judge off the show. "I signed a contract a year ago to do...
SAY 'OLÉ!' TO MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amEVERYBODY knows Cinco de Mayo - but not everyone north of the border knows Mexican Independence Day, on Sept. 16. That's when Mexicans celebrate the beginning of the 1810 war...
RENEGADE NEW SOMMELIERS POUR ON THE ... WINE WITH BODY
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThey're surfers, skateboarders and rock musicians - and they're also sommeliers. If your idea of a restaurant wine expert is some creaky, starch-collared fellow so haughty you're afraid to utter...
STARR REPORT
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe news at 10 (a.m.) "The Tony Danza Show" galloped to a fast start Mon day here in New York at 10 a.m. - winning the timeslot against established, tough...
A NEW STAR ON THE RED CARPET
September 15, 2004 | 4:00am"VIEW" co-host Star Jones is replacing Joan Rivers as the host of E!'s red-carpet coverage of the Emmys this Sunday in L.A. "I've got to be honest - this is...
WHAT I'D GIVE FOR A SMOKE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amNOW here's a reality show where the par ticipants not only live together in the same house - they climb its walls, too. Welcome to "Cold Turkey," the first reality...
HISTORIC SHORTS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN Miguel Cotto stepped into the ring to challenge Brazilian boxer Kelson Pinto this past Saturday, he knew the vacant WBO junior welterweight belt wasn't the only thing at stake....
STAY TOONED - NEW ANIMATED SHOW 'MAYA & MIGUEL' PORTRAYS BILINGUAL KIDS WITH LOVE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amSAY adios to Speedy Gonzalez. If the new animated show 'Maya & Miguel' is any indication, the tradition of absurd (and sometimes offensive) Hispanic cartoon characters may be finally nearing...
TO SOUTH AMERICA, WITH LOVE - NEW YORK PLAYWRIGHT'S NEW SCREENPLAY COMES STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amIN tackling the screenplay for "The Motorcycle Diaries," an account of a road trip the revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara took across South America in his young life, New York-raised playwright...
GAEL'S GOT GAME - THE MAGNETIC MEXICAN STAR PROVES THAT HE'S MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY FACE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amI just had to ask. See, when you're interviewing a star of the hotness magnitude of a Gael Garcia Bernal on the phone, asking "What are you wearing?" is crucial...
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES - FLAMENCO KING JOAQUIN CORTES HAS THEM
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amAFTER an eight-year U.S. hiatus, Spain's sexiest export (after Antonio Banderas), flamenco great Joaquín Cortés, is back. And he's getting to realize his lifelong dream of performing on Broadway as...
CHANGING GAME - NEW TITLE TACKLES THE RISE OF THE LATINO PLAYER THROUGH THE MAJOR LEAGUE RANKS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amANYONE with a casual knowledge of the game can tell you that Latinos are a dominant force in Major League Baseball, but if you need more proof, there's a new...
THE BOOGALOO MAN - JOE CUBA REFLECTS ON A CAREER THAT TOOK HIM FROM THE BARRIO TO THE BIG TIME
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amJOE Cuba, 73, rose to fame as the Nuyorican conga player from "El Barrio" who popularized the boogaloo and rocked both the American and Latin charts in the '60s. Just...
MANACLED MANIAC - CUFFED 'KIDNAP' HUBBY LEAPS FROM SPEEDING COP CAR
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA manacled Queens man arrested in North Carolina after kidnapping his estranged wife at gunpoint leaped from a police car going 70 mph yesterday in a desperate bid to escape...
25 NABBED IN L.I. JOBLESS FRAUD
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amAuthorities on Long Island busted 25 people who were illegally collecting unemployment insurance benefits even though they had paying jobs. One man, car dealership office manager Andres Posada, 30, of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Patrick Deuel wants to get weighed, he's driven to a feed mill, where he stands on a scale designed for trucks carrying heavy loads of grain. That's because the...
RATHER'S OTHER IMPLODING 'SCOOP' ; THE ISRAELI 'MOLE' THAT WASN'T
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe growing Memogate furor over the authenticity of doc uments said to cast doubts on George W. Bush's National Guard record isn't the only controversy dogging Dan Rather and CBS...
NYERS WANT RUDY OVER GOV FOR PREZ
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - New Yorkers overwhelmingly want former Mayor Rudy Giuliani - and not Gov. Pataki - to run for president in 2008, a new poll yesterday showed. The Quinnipiac University...
ITALY, AUSSIES STAND FIRM AGAINST KIDNAPPERS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amItaly and Australia yesterday flatly refused to pull their troops out of Iraq or negotiate with terrorists, but said they were doing all they could to free their citizens who...
N.Y.'S BIG THREE BOO$T PREZ
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg, and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani are sponsoring a multimillion-dollar fund-raiser for President Bush next Monday night, newly mailed invitations show. The invitations list all...
SPECTOR SLAY CASE OFF UNTIL DEC.
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amALHAMBRA, Calif. - A judge approved the hiring of new lawyers in music legend Phil Spector's murder case yesterday, and set a schedule that could delay a trial until late...
ISRAELI COPS PROBE PLOT TO KILL SHARON
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli police have launched an investigation into threats to kill Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and aides preparing to withdraw settlers from the Gaza Strip. Jerusalem police commander Ilan...
ENROLLMENT SKYROCKETS AT CUNY
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amEnrollment at the City University has jumped for the fifth year in a row and is at its highest level since 1975, the university announced yesterday. The total number of...
HARD HAT HURT AT PROBLEM SITE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA laborer was seriously injured yesterday when a piece of plywood dropped on his head at a Upper East Side construction site with a history of citations by the city...
2ND AVE. SUBWAY GETS FED BOO$T
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe feds have earmarked $2 million for preliminary engineering work on the long-awaited Second Avenue subway. The Department of Transportation gave the grant to the MTA after Sens. Hillary Clinton...
THE MOMENT OF MASSACRE; AL QAEDA BLASTS ON SPAIN VID
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThis is the terrifying moment when an al Qaeda bomb blew up in a crowded Madrid train station - part of a shocking video sequence that captures the massacre of...
MAN SMUGGLED MISSILE PARTS ONTO FLIGHT: FEDS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amAn emergency medical technician working for a State Department contractor in Afghanistan has been arrested on federal charges for allegedly sneaking "highly explosive" Soviet missile parts onto a flight to...
NO JAIL FOR COP WHO MOLESTED COLLEAGUE'S WIFE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA veteran cop escaped yesterday with no jail time - but must go into sex-offender treatment - for molesting the wife of a disabled officer in an elevator. Judge John...
JERKY JURY DISRUPTS PELOSI TRIAL
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe trial of Long Island contractor Danny Pelosi was thrown into chaos yesterday when more than a dozen prospective jurors said they would refuse to serve on the panel with...
SILVER TESTIFIES ABOUT SUITE DEAL
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave an unprecedented deposition yesterday behind closed doors to the state Lobbying Commission over a heavily discounted Las Vegas suite he received from a...
'APPRENTICE' GAL TRUMP-ETS DONALD'S REAL ESTATE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00am"Apprentice" hopeful Jennifer Crisafulli already appears to be a winner. The attractive Manhattan residential real-estate broker recently added more than $7 million worth of listings - and they're all Donald...
SERIAL-RAPE SAVAGE JAILED
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA serial rapist who brutalized at least 14 women during a 10-year sex-attack spree was sentenced to 233 years in prison yesterday. Louis Acosta, who preyed on women from 13...
FIREHOUSE GAL 'UNFIT': EX'S MOM
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe groupie who sparked last month's Bronx firehouse sex scandal is "an unfit parent" who doesn't deserve custody of her two children, the Staten Island divorcee's ex-mother-in-law said yesterday. "I...
SLIPPERY SIREN ; LONELY-HEARTS CON GAL DUCKS PRISON
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe buxom blonde charged with conning five lonely retirees out of their life savings coughed up enough money to escape jail yesterday, but still denied she hurt her elderly victims....
BELMONT MURDER - EX-BEST FRIEND STABS FELLOW RIDER IN FEUD: COPS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA simmering feud between two Belmont Park riders exploded in murder yesterday when one man fatally stabbed the other with a steak knife in front of the track cafeteria, authorities...
'ID THIEF' IN 10-YR. RENT SCAM: CITY
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amAn illegal immigrant from China was arrested yesterday for stealing someone's identity to obtain city public housing - where she paid $112-a-month rent in Manhattan and lived undetected for nearly...
RICH HAUL IN SILVER SHOP HEIST
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA posh store on the Upper East Side was burglarized yesterday morning, with brazen thieves pilfering more than $100,000 in designer jewelry and other valuables, police said. The bandits smashed...
SPEW ORLEANS; IVAN ON COURSE TO SUBMERGE BIG EASY
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amHurricane Ivan zeroed in on New Orleans yesterday, threatening to deluge the city under 20 feet of water - and could continue churning north with just enough strength to hit...
HOLY OUTRAGE - CATHOLIC SCHOOLS REQUIRE LAWSUIT WAIVER
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amCatholic-school parents and students are being asked to limit their right to sue the New York Archdiocese as a condition of enrollment - a demand that is enraging parents. Under...
GUARD CHEERS BUSH - 'PROUD' TO BE ONE OF THEM
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush brought National Guardsmen to their feet yesterday when he told them he was "proud" of his own service in a Texas unit. "Nineteen individuals have served...
PROBATION FOR NASSAU BIG
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA former top Nassau County government executive was sentenced to three years' probation yesterday for charging a luxury London trip to his county credit card and for harassing a young...
MARTHA'S APPEAL DELAYED
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amMartha Stewart's challenge to her criminal conviction will be delayed at least a month. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan pushed back the date to consider the case after...
NEW KERRY MEDAL FLAP
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA newly surfaced document from John Kerry's Navy record says he shot a lone, wounded enemy who was running away in the incident that led to his Silver Star, his...
RANK THEM AMONG HEROES: SLAIN COPS PROMOTED
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amTwo hero cops who were gunned down in Brooklyn last week were promoted posthumously yesterday to detective first grade. "It's a small thing we can do. It's a little bit...
MOB-SLAY 2 GET OFF ; BEAT LIFE TERMS ON APPEAL
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA federal appeals court yesterday cleared two reputed mob underlings serving life in prison on racketeering murder charges that stemmed from the coldblooded shooting of two cousins in 1994. The...
RAPPEL TEEN'S DEATH HAUNTS MOM
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe heartbroken mother of a Manhattan teen who fell to his death while trying to rappel down the side of his apartment building learned of the tragic death while trying...
HARD TIME FOR HEFTY ID THEFT
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA heavyweight help-desk worker pleaded guilty yesterday to launching the biggest ID-theft scam in U.S. history. Philip Cummings, 35, admitted in Manhattan federal court to three counts of conspiracy, wire...
'APPRENTICE' GAL BROKERS TRUMP APTS.
September 15, 2004 | 4:00am"Apprentice" hopeful Jennifer Crisafulli already appears to be a winner. The attractive Manhattan residential real-estate broker recently added more than $7 million worth of listings - and they're all Donald...
GAL WANTED HUBBY HIT: COPS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA New Jersey woman busted four years ago for trying to murder her hubby was arrested again yesterday for attempting to kill him a second time via a hit man,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** Two Manhattan men beat a livery driver and menaced him with a knife in Bedford-Stuyvesant, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The violence began at 3:30 a.m. Monday, when the...
CATCH THIS IF YOU CAN, DAN: FORGER CRIES HOAX
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA master forger-turned-crimebuster who has taken a look at CBS anchor Dan Rather's documents about President Bush's National Guard service says they're such obvious fakes that they're a joke. Ex-forger...
JERKY JURORS HAVE PELOSI CASE IN CHAOS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe trial of Long Island contractor Danny Pelosi was thrown into chaos yesterday when more than a dozen prospective jurors said they would refuse to serve on the panel with...
MIKE'S MAN LOSES; DEMS & GOP NIX KAUFMAN IN 'VELELLA' RACE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBronx Democrats cheered last night as Assemblyman Jeffrey Klein successfully fended off Stephen Kaufman -the Democrat backed by both Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki as a Republican -in the hotly...
CAR HITS MAN ON P'KWAY
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA 29-year-old man was clinging to life early today after a car hit him on the Henry Hudson Parkway, sending him plummeting almost 40 feet down an embankment, cops said....
VET POLS BOUNCED IN L.I., QNS.
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA movement to get rid of entrenched Albany pols - which many observers had expected to crumble - took root with several huge upsets yesterday. David Sidikman, a six-term assemblyman...
GIRL HURT IN KITCHEN EXPLOSION
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amAn 11-year-old Brooklyn girl's hand was nearly blown off while she helped her mother inside their Canarsie apartment, cops and neighbors said. The young girl was warming up milk on...
KOBE HUSH MONEY - TOLD COPS HE'D PAY 'VICTIM' FOR HER SILENCE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amKobe Bryant reportedly admitted to cops that he'd take a shot at paying off the teenage hotel worker who accused him of rape. "I'm in the worst f - -...
SUICIDE DRUG LABELS; WARN RX KIDS: FEDS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amFederal health experts yesterday declared that at least six antidepressants may be dangerous to children - and said they should be branded with bold labels warning they may make youngsters...
HARD TIME FOR HEFTY ID THIEF
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA heavyweight help-desk worker pleaded guilty yesterday to launching the biggest ID-theft scam in U.S. history. Philip Cummings, 35, admitted in Manhattan federal court to three counts of conspiracy, wire...
FEW VOTERS BOTHER TO SHOW UP
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amVoter participation was particularly low in yesterday's primaries. "Turnout was extremely light," said Chris Riley a spokesman for the Board of Elections. By 11 a.m. yesterday only seven people had...
PLANT GROWS IN B'KLYN - CITY BUILDING RECYCLING FACILITY IN SUNSET PK.
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amTwo years after he slashed recycling across the city claiming it was too costly, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday announced the construction of a $45 million plant in Brooklyn that will recycle...
RANK THEM HEROES - SLAIN COPS PROMOTED
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amTwo hero cops who were gunned down in Brooklyn last week were promoted posthumously yesterday to detective first grade. "It's a small thing we can do. It's a little bit...
MOLESTER COP GOES FREE - NO JAIL TIME FOR 18-YEAR NYPD VET
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amA veteran cop escaped yesterday with no jail time - but must go into sex-offender treatment - for molesting the wife of a disabled officer in an elevator. Judge John...
LOOKS LIKE LIZ HAS EYE ON BIZ - PUZZLE OF HURLEY AT [[CD3;KA-1]]KLEIN SHOW
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amIs Liz Hurley thinking about taming her sex-kitten image? Or did she attend last night's Calvin Klein show because, like Mandy Moore and Janet Jackson, Hurley is hankering to get...
SETTING 'KORS' FOR ELEGANCE - JET-SET GLAM LOOKS EXUDE CONFIDENCE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amKudos to Michael Kors. The poster boy for polished glamour previewed a collection that oozed confident affluence - while avoiding ostentation - under the big top at Bryant Park yesterday....
SHOW BUZZ
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amCALVIN KLEIN is either a fan of reality television or shares a barber with Victoria Gotti's sons. Taking his position at the end of the runway to watch his namesake...
'ID-THEFT' GAL BUSTED AFTER 10-YEAR CON
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amAn illegal immigrant from China was arrested yesterday for stealing someone's identity to obtain city public housing - where she paid $112 a month rent in Manhattan and lived undetected...
SPEW ORLEANS - IVAN ON COURSE TO SUBMERGE CITY
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amHurricane Ivan zeroed in on New Orleans yesterday, threatening to deluge the city under 20 feet of water - and could continue churning north with just enough strength to hit...
KINKIER KOBY - ADMITS TO BEING SERIAL SEX CHEAT: REPORT
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amKobe Bryant has reportedly admitted to cheating on his wife even before his infamous sex tryst with a teenage hotel worker in Colorado. The basketball superstar revealed that he had...
AL QAEDA BLASTS ON SPAIN VID
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThis is the terrifying moment when an al Qaeda bomb blew up in a crowded Madrid train station - part of a shocking video sequence that captures the massacre of...
NICOLE'S BEWITCHED: CASTS A SPELL AS NEW SAM
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amHere's the first sneak peek of beak-tweaking Aussie actress Nicole Kidman playing TV's beloved witch with a twitch, Samantha Stephens, on the set of the Hollywood remake of "Bewitched" yesterday....
CLASSROOM EXTRA: HURRICANES WREAK HAVOC!
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amHurricanes have been making headlines lately, with Florida getting hit with three storms in a month. Learn more about these deadly storms. Charley, Frances and Ivan. No, these aren't rappers...
BENSON TOSSES GEM VS. BRAVES
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amIf this was Art Howe's final game as Met manager, he went out on a high note. Thanks to Kris Benson. The Met right-hander was brilliant in last night's 7-0...
SHEFF TURNS UP HEAT ON SOX
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Gary Sheffield threw down the gauntlet last night to Jason Varitek and the Red Sox. No more cheap shots allowed. "You [take care of business] on the...
FOR CANADA, IT'S BRODEUR OR BUST
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amTORONTO - This was the last chance to make a memory that will have to last a long time, and Team Canada figured Martin Brodeur was its best chance. Brodeur...
CAP'N HAL: WE WON'T PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amCUP NOTES BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The words from the question had barely turned to vapor from the European reporter's mouth yesterday and U.S. Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton served...
ONE FOR THE CUP - STILL THE GREATEST
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amTORONTO - The uniqueness that defined Wayne Gretzky on the ice continues to define him off it, as well. Never in the history of North American professional sports has an...
DAY IN BAY WITH CAPT. RAFF
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S been 37 years since Ken Rafferty left the Upper East Side of Manhattan for Gardiners Bay, but even behind the wheel of his flat boat you can still see...
STANFORD FOR MOLLOY STANDOUT
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amRosalyn Gold-Onwude, who led Archbishop Molloy to three straight girls' basketball state titles, announced yesterday she's committed to Stanford. Gold-Onwude, 5-11, averaged 19 points per game as a junior, helping...
FOR SHAME, TIGER; WOODS NOT TOO PROUD OF RYDER CUP RECORD
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The record stares Tiger Woods right back in the mirror like one of those ghastly cold sores on the lip that won't go away. It reads:...
'MY WAY ; OR HIGHWAY'
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amTHE very first time they sat down with Tom Coughlin during his interview for the vacant Giants head coaching job, general manager Ernie Accorsi and John Mara, the executive vice...
LANGER HIKES EURO VALUE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - It finally sunk in yesterday morning when Bernhard Langer stood on the first tee at Oakland Hills Country Club and instead of holding a driver in...
JASON RETURNS! GIAMBI IN YANKS' LINEUP TO GET READY FOR BOSOX
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Jason Giambi was in the Yankees' starting lineup last night against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium. But even if Giambi was able to crush baseballs, he couldn't...
METS PIVOTING ON DP COMBO
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Don't be surprised to see Kaz Matsui playing second base and Jose Reyes playing shortstop together at some point this season. Before last night's game, the Mets' 2005...
SHEFF TOLD TO STALL SHOTS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - From George Steinbrenner on down, the message Gary Sheffield received from Yankee brass yesterday was to postpone the cortisone shots he planned to take in...
ORTIZ: YANKS 'WORRIED' ; DAMON: RED SOX ARE 'BETTER TEAM'
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The biggest blood feud in sports is still two days away, but Boston's David Ortiz drew first blood yesterday. With the Red Sox only four games back in...
LOU CRACKS DOOR FOR LEAVING RAYS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - After tsk-tsking rumors that he'll take over the Mets next year, Lou Piniella made it perfectly clear that he hates managing a loser. During a sometimes emotional pregame...
MARTINEZ, BOSOX BOW TO KAZMIR
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amDevil Rays 5Red Sox 2 BOSTON - If the Yankees end up winning the AL East by one game, they have the Mets to thank. As if the lives of...
NETS EYEING A KIDD SWAP FOR SHAREEF
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amThe Nets once again may seeking to plug their inside needs with Shareef Abdur-Rahim of Portland. But the move could create a gaping hole elsewhere - because the cost would...
BRASS TO SHEFFIELD: STALL CORTISONE SHOTS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - From George Steinbrenner on down, the message Gary Sheffield received from Yankee brass yesterday was to postpone the cortisone shots he planned to take in...
YANKS, MOOSE COME UP ACES - MUSSINA LOOKS SHARPWHILE FLUSHING ROYALS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 4 Royals 0 KANSAS CITY - One, two, three . . . exhale. That's what the Yankees did last night at Kauffman Stadium, where Mike Mussina delivered the type...
EYE D-RAY MAKE-UP
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Major League baseball has presented the Yankees with several plans to make up a game with the Devil Rays next week at Yankee Stadium without playing a...
BITTERSWEET END ; CANADA'S CUP MAY BE BIG FINNISH
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amCanada 3Finland 2 TORONTO - Celebrating its triple as World Champs, Canada partied like there was no tomorrow, because there isn't. "It's bittersweet," Pat Quinn said of the World Cup...
THE PARTY'S OVER
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amTORONTO - The boys in the Canadian room couldn't have meant it as a sign of disrespect. How could they after representing their country on the ice so well and...
REYES AND KAZ COULD DO PIVOT
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Don't be surprised to see Kaz Matsui playing second base and Jose Reyes playing shortstop together at some point this season. Before last night's game, the Mets' 2005...
YANKS, MOOSE COME UP ACES - MUSSINA LOOKS SHARP WHILE FLUSHING ROYALS
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 4 Royals 0 KANSAS CITY - One, two, three . . . exhale. That's what Mike Mussina allowed the Yankees to do last night when the veteran right-hander pitched...
LOU CRACKS DOOR FOR RAYS EXIT
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - After tsk-tsking rumors that he'll take over the Mets next year, Lou Piniella made it perfectly clear that he hates managing a loser. During a sometimes emotional pregame...
HOWE MAY GET AX TODAY - MET SKIPPER SEEMS RESIGNED TO FATE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amArt Howe's job now appears to be on a day-to-day basis. And the final day could be today. The embattled Met manager had a 40-minute meeting with principal owner Fred...
REVERSING THE CURSE
September 15, 2004 | 4:00amBack in 1978, the Yankees stormed from 14 games behind to shock the Red Sox and win the AL East. Here in 2004, the Red Sox are trying to turn...