January 16, 2005
MOVIE PIX - OUR MOVIE CRITIC MEGAN LEHMANN'S BEST FILMS OF THE WEEK
January 16, 2005 | 5:00am12 ANGRY MEN Sunday, 2:15 p.m., TCM A dozen guys, one New York City jury room, oodles of palpable tension. Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb are among the conflicted...
MISSTRIAL - 'LAW & ORDER' GETS A NEW A.D.A - ANNIE PARISSE; THE LATEST LEGAL EAGLE
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amANNIE Parisse, the newest cast member "Law & Order," laughs as she details the legal background she brings to the cops-and-prosecutors warhorse: "I did jury duty - once." To prepare...
MEN SHINE AS LATE-NIGHT TV GUESTS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amIMAGINE a world in which the TV talk shows could not find enough guests who knew how to talk. Imagine it? We're living it right now. Articulate talk-show guests are...
GLOBE SPINNING - A HEADS-UP OF HIGHLIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN GLOBES
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amIN between the commercials during "Desperate Housewives," you might want to check out "The Golden Globes Awards." Our list of highlights will help you savor the best and skip the...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amREALITY Bikini power NOT to be outdone by Tyra Banks and her "Next Top Model" program, the aging magazine Sports Illustrated has turned their hoary swimsuit model cover into a...
SMART FIX - NEW 'APPRENTICE' GETS WARM AND FUZZY
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amTHE latest edition of "The Apprentice" is getting an extreme makeover. Following a rough sophomore season, in which viewers turned on the largely personality-free cast, producers are taking a page...
HAUTE DOGS; CANINES HAVE DESIGNS ON THE RED CARPET
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amIt's a dog's life for A-list celebs: Besides fame, acclaim, and for tune, they get tons of freebies. Exhibit A: tonight's Golden Globes, where nominees and presenters will receive bling-filled...
OSCAR HOPEFULS FROM WAY UP NORTH
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amLARS von Trier loves causing trouble. The great Dane, director of "Dancer in the Dark" and "Dogville," is the force behind Dogme '95, a 10 Commandments for filmmakers that decrees...
HERE COMES THENEW PETROSIAN
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amDO you believe in rein carnation? Play over this week's game before answering. Yes, Black's name is really Tigran Petrosian, the same as the ninth world champion, and yes he...
DELHI NUMBER - HOT TV SUPERMODEL ROSHUMBA WILLIAMS BARTERS FOR SILKY INDIAN DELIGHTS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amRoshumba Williams knows how tough it is to be a supermodel. The statuesque stunner (whose name means "beautiful" in Swahili) has traveled the world for over 15 years, working for...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amThey're going to 'Pieces' HERE at Meet Market, we felt that with the arrival of the New Year, we needed to shake things up a bit. So when Chris picked...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
January 16, 2005 | 5:00am1 Kiefer's comeback After an excruciating wait, Kiefer Sutherland returned this week with a thrilling 4 hours' worth of "24," which brought us a train bombing, a takedown of the...
GLOBETASTIC - EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED AT TONIGHT'S GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amDoes Hollywood still know how to party? Judging by the tightly scripted awards shows that are now the norm, you'd have to wonder - that is, with the exception of...
HEAR THIS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amIN CONCERT * At Irving Plaza: Jangle-poppers Sister Hazel on Thursday. Ex-New Kid and "star" of TV's "Surreal Life" Jordan Knight and Friends on Friday. * At Bowery Ballroom: Texas...
BLUES QUEEN - LOOK OUT, U.S.: HOT BRIT KATIE IS COMING
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amKatie Melua is just 20 years old - but she's at the top of the charts in the United Kingdom, she sold out London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall four times,...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amVARIOUS ARTISTS "Sweetheart: Love Songs" (three stars) Hear Music Just because it's an album of love songs doesn't mean it's all sap 'n' syrup. Hear Music, the outfit that brews...
CLINT'S 'BABY' - EASTWOOD MAY SCORE A GLOBE FOR HIS JAZZ TRACKS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amAs Dirty Harry, he famously snarled, "Go ahead, make my day." But these days, acclaimed actor and director Clint Eastwood is also making beautiful music. In addition to directing and...
FAMILY VALUES
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amIt can't be easy coming from a famous family: Sure, you get instant name recognition - but you've got a lot to live up to. So Martha Wainwright found an...
HAWKE'S NEW PREY - ETHAN ARMS UP TO TACKLE STAGE & SCREEN
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amEthan Hawke is the first to admit he hit a bad patch back in 2003. That year - which he calls "one of the worst in my life" - he...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amWATERMARKS All of the champion women swimmers of a famous Austrian sports club managed to successfully flee the Nazis before World War II started. This poignant documentary reunites the swimmers...
YOU DECIDE - WHY GOING WITH YOUR GUT CAN BE THE BEST BET
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amIn his fascinating new book, "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" (Little, Brown, $25.95), best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell interviews marriage counselors, marketing experts and Vietnam vets (among others) in...
REQUIRED READING
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amYou don't have to be an opera buff to appreciate Jean Hanff Korelitz's "The White Rose," a dramatic novel about a young florist and his older, married girlfriend. It's a...
JEN LEAVES PITT MANSION
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amJennifer Aniston is packing her bags. The "Friends" star is leaving the six-bedroom, $13.5 million Beverly Hills home that she and Brad Pitt spent years redoing. Sources spotted her on...
MISERY OF RICH WELFARE MOM - AS KIDS FIGHT TO FLEE, MOTHER'S FAMILY BALKS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amThe Upper East Side family whose heiress mother stands accused of being a welfare cheat by her sons is cursed with a history of tragic deaths, depression and a shocking...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amA 100-pound coed from New Jersey took on the heaviest of eating dares - and won. Kate Stelnick, 19, is the first person to win the Denny's Beer Barrel Pub...
FREE PASS FOR TALIBAN RANK & FILE
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amThree years after U.S.-led forces ousted their leaders from power, hundreds of Taliban militants in Afghanistan are ready to lay down their arms after talks between President Hamid Karzai's government...
BODY OF SOLDIER FOUND UPSTATE
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amCops are investigating the suspicious death of an ex-soldier - home from the war in Iraq - whose body was found along the Oswego River upstate over the weekend. A...
BLACK EYE AT METRO ; PARTNER DOES PORN
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amOnly days after two top executives of the Metro newspaper company resigned under fire for making racist jokes, it was revealed yesterday that the free-tabloid publishing company is in bed...
FIRE HEROES AFLAME OVER NAME GAME
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amA rose is a rose by any other name - but a firehouse moniker should stay the same, say the city's Bravest upset over the Fire Department's plan to change...
CELEBS' T$UNAMI; TV CONCERT AIDS FUND FOR VICTIMS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amMatt Damon, Nicholas Cage, Madonna and Halle Berry were among the celebrities who appeared on last night's prime-time TV benefit for tsunami victims. The two-hour commercial-free program was put together...
ENDING SPENDING-ITIS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amIF ever there were an addiction that qualified as an illness, it's New York's insatiable desire to spend Other People's Money. Now, finally, a cure might be around the corner....
KERREY FAVE FOR DNC BOSS ; GOVS PUSHING FOR PREXY
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amDEMOCRATIC governors are mounting a late behind-the-scenes drive to convince Bob Kerrey, president of the New School, to take over the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. "He's getting calls,"...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** A man walking between subway cars in Harlem was slashed by a man after bumping into him and two other strangers, police said. Adrian Barrera, 28, was walking...
'ISLAMIC HATE' EYED IN SLAYS ; CHRISTIAN PA GOT E-THREATS BEFORE MASSACRE
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amThe father of a murdered New Jersey family was threatened for making anti-Muslim remarks online - and the gruesome quadruple slaying may have been the hateful retaliation, sources told The...
PRIEST 'PILFERS' 22G; RACKS UP MASSIVE TAB ON HIS CHARITY'S CREDIT CARD: PROBERS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amA prominent Queens priest spent $22,000 from his nonprofit's coffers on his own private dinners, shopping, and charges at a Hamptons auto-body shop, according to state investigators. Rev. Coleman Costello,...
CHOKE OUTRAGE ; PATIENT DIES EATING AS STAFF IGNORES HIM
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amA disabled Queens man choked to death on a turkey sandwich while riding in a group-home van as three oblivious aides listened to music and failed to hear him gasping...
TSUNAMI TUG-OF-LOVE ANGUISH
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amThe U.S. military said yesterday it expected to end major relief work within two weeks in tsunami-hit Thailand and Sri Lanka, where nine grieving moms continued to lay claim to...
TRUNK 'KILLER' SCARY; CREEPED OUT PALS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amThe man accused of gunning down his sister and a family employee and stuffing their bodies in a car trunk was described yesterday by former classmates as a "strange guy"...
L.I. DRIVER TOOK ROAD'S NAME TO HEART: COPS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amA Long Island motorist yesterday was busted and charged with drunken driving on - of all places - Whiskey Road, police said. Robert Milford, 47, smashed his 1989 Jeep Cherokee,...
HOW SHY FOX BAGGED THE BILLIONAIRE
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amIt wasn't love at first sight. In fact, it wasn't even like. When Melania Knauss was introduced to Donald Trump at a fashion party at the Kit Kat Club in...
HOW PLUCKY NUN DEFIED VICIOUS THUG
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amA 69-year-old Queens nun recounted last night how she stood up to a mugger who attacked her Thursday, broke her nose and stole her car. "He walked up to me...
LAST-MINUTE CHOICES QUESTIONED
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - It'll be a hot-button topic for days: Why didn't the Jets try more aggressively to gain extra yardage at the end of regulation before Doug Brien's second missed...
OUR POLS' DAYS OF BLUNDER
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amMaybe they're still suffering the aftereffects from ebullient New Year's celebrations, but politicians seem to be suffering from a severe case of foot-in-mouth disease in 2005. They've stumbled over the...
WHEN DISSENT IS DISLOYAL
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPERILOUS TIMES: FREE SPEECH IN WARTIME, FROM THE SEDITION ACT OF 1798 TO THE WAR OF TERRORISMBY GEOFFREY R. STONE W.W. NORTON & CO., 730 PAGES, $35 IN wartime, writes...
PENSION PANIC; NYPD FLEES FROM 9/11 ANXIETY PAY
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amTHE fit, blond police officer started trem bling. His heart pounded. Minutes after we met, he lurched out of the room with tears in his eyes. A panic attack is...
TA HIJACK-JOKE EMPLOYEE ON TRACK FOR WRIST SLAP
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amA judge has recommended that a wisecracking Transit Authority worker be reprimanded after he joked about hijacking an airplane, court documents show. It is the lowest form of punishment under...
JUDGE PROBED IN 'SALON PAL' CUSTODY FUROR
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amThe FBI is investigating allegations that heiress and alleged welfare cheat Linda Jacobs was pals with the judge who gave her custody of her two sons. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice...
'APPRENTICE' GAL ON GRILL - NYER GRABSBULL BY THEHORNS IN NEW SEASON
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amAfter serving in Jim McGreevey's scandal-ridden administration and apparently bending the truth about her schooling, Tara Dowdell - the sole New York City contestant on the third season of "The...
GOT MILKED? $6 PER GALLON AN AWFUL LOT OF MOO-LA
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amHoly cow! At least two New York delis are charging nearly $6 - the price of a bottle of table wine - for a gallon of milk. The prices are...
PATIENT CHOKE DEATH OUTRAGE - QNS. AIDES IGNORE HIM AS HE EATS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amA developmentally disabled Queens man choked to death on a turkey sandwich while riding in a group-home van as three oblivious aides listened to music and failed to hear him...
MARTHA'S 'VOTER' LAMENT
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amFor Martha Stewart, losing the right to vote was almost as sad as losing her freedom. So says reality-TV genius Mark Burnett, who visited the domestic diva in Alderson Federal...
TERROR WIDOWER BATTLING BLOCK ASSOCIATION
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amAn East Village 9/11 widower is set to do battle in court with a local block association that he thinks stiffed him out of thousands of dollars. Charlie Wolf, 50,...
IGNORE RAD LAWYER RANTS, JURY IS TOLD
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amRadical lawyer Lynne Stewart's provocative and violent political views were aired out during her eight-month terrorism trial - but they can't be held against her, a federal judge overseeing the...
THE 'PARENT' TRAP - WHEN BIO CLOCK IS LOVE'S TIME BOMB
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amShe was 34 and just offered a promotion to a top executive post in a Manhattan advertising firm. He was 36, a successful Wall Street broker who came from a...
'ISLAMIC' SLAYS - 'NET HATRED EYED IN N.J. FAMILY MASSACRE
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amThe father of a murdered New Jersey family was threatened for making anti-Muslim remarks online - and the gruesome quadruple slaying may have been the hateful retaliation, sources told The...
BETTMAN IS NOT IN VICINITY OF TRUTH
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amIT'S unfortunate, but not at all surprising, that neither Mike Francesa nor Chris Russo was well enough in formed to challenge Gary Bettman when the com missioner mounted the WFAN...
DORMANT EAGLES SET TO FLY AGAIN
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amNFC NOTES PHILADELPHIA - There's been considerable debate about Andy Reid's decision to basically ignore the results of the final two games of the regular season and rest most of...
MOSS DISSES DAUNTE ; RANDY'S PUNK ANTICS SUBMARINE VIKE QB
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Randy Moss doesn't need the money. We all know $10,000 is nothing to him. But he needs the attention and the media plays right into his hands and...
HONEST, ABRAHAM'S TOO HURT TO PLAY
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - As expected following a week of speculation, analysis and amateur physicians making their diagnoses, the Jets were without their best defensive player, defensive end John Abraham, for yesterday's...
CLOCKING BIG BEN ; JETS WERE OUT TO RATTLE ROOKIE
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amJET NOTES PITTSBURGH - One of the Jets' most pressing tasks in yesterday's AFC divisional playoff game against the Steelers at Heinz Field was going to be how they handled...
FEDERER'S FEELING GRAND; SHOOTING FOR FIRST SLAM SWEEP SINCE '69
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amAUSSIE OPEN On the 100th anniversary of the Australian Open, Rod Laver has been asked to present the trophy to the men's champion in two weeks. It will be a...
CURRY: I'LL STAY IN CHI
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES CHICAGO - With the Bulls rising in the East, center Eddy Curry has found himself off the trading block, which is not good news for Knicks president Isiah...
TALL TASKS FOR COLLINS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amDALLAS - To Jason Collins' way of thinking, the difference for him in the last two games was simple. "The other night it was pushing. This one is sliding," Collins...
LINCOLN'S BOATENG COMMITS TO GATORS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amNyan Boateng wasn't even being recruited by Florida until Urban Meyer left Utah to coach there, but Meyer made the 6-3 Lincoln receiver a top priority. Boateng, who played in...
BYRON MAKES IT LOOK BIG EASY
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amSUBJECT: More Bees, Please. It's official . . . Byron Scott's a genius! How else can one explain the latest jive at the hive, where the Hornets, who won twice...
MIG DENIES SCAM INVOLVEMENT
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amJockey Rich Migliore, who rode the winning horse A One Rocket in a race federal prosecutors say was part of a far-reaching betting scam engineered by an illegal gambling organization,...
DIRTY SHAME ; BILLUPS GOT OFF CLEAN FOR RJ CHEAP SHOT
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amQUICK, someone please call the whaaambulance! That's what I was thinking last Tuesday when I heard Richard Jefferson assess the flagrant, post-Christmas foul committed by Chauncey Billups that ultimately ended...
NETS DROP 4TH STRAIGHT
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amMAVS 98 NETS 93 DALLAS - The Nets were in such familiar surroundings. Here they were again with the game at the pace they wanted, getting good effort, supplying terrific...
TOTAL VICK-TORY - MIKE & FALCS WRECK RAMS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amNFC PLAYOFFSFalcons 47Rams 17 ATLANTA - In the end, Week 2 of the NFL postseason was very much like Week 2 of the regular season. The Falcons whipped the Rams...
STORM FIZZLE OUT ; IRISH' THOMAS STOPS JOHNNIES' UPSET BID
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amNotre Dame 67St. John's 66 SOUTH BEND - St. John's played inspired basketball yesterday in almost upsetting Notre Dame. In fact, the Fighting Irish didn't really beat them, the free-throw...
CRUTCH SHOOTING ; HOU SITS IN FOURTH; KNICKS FALL
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amBULLS 86 KNICKS 84 CHICAGO - The Knicks were without Jamal Crawford again and for all intents and purposes, without Allan Houston, too. The final indignity occurred for Houston when...
HUDSON ADDS AGGRESSIVE METS TO WISH LIST
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amDOWN THE LINE The benefits from signing Carlos Beltran and Pedro Martinez might extend into next offseason for the Mets. Tim Hudson has defined a March 1 deadline with the...
CRUTCH SHOOTING: HOU SITS IN FOURTH; KNICKS FALL
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amBULLS 86 KNICKS 84 CHICAGO - The Knicks were without Jamal Crawford again and, for all intents and purposes, Allan Houston, too. The decline of Houston continued yesterday as he...
PUNCHLESS PAUL LOOKS LIKE GANG GREEN GONER
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amJET NOTES PITTSBURGH - No announcements have been made yet, but last night almost certainly marked the end of Paul Hackett's four-year stay as the Jets' offensive coordinator. Herman Edwards...
FISH HEAT UP RACE FOR DELGADO
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amConsider the Marlins squarely in the Carlos Delgado sweepstakes. Delgado, the latest free-agent slugger to be chased by the Mets, sat down with the Marlins yesterday, and the Mets' NL...
JET 'D' FINALLY SUCCUMBS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The Jets' defense had withstood blow after blow for 60 minutes. Twice they watched from the sidelines as Doug Brien missed game-winning field attempts. The Steelers sent one...
CHAD CHEWS ON DEFEAT
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Chad Pennington couldn't get the Jets in the end zone yesterday. Until the very end, when he marched his team into position to win the game on two...
REGGIE'S REDEMPTION ; TONGUE TD INTERCEPTION BITES STEELERS BACK
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - There was a good deal of tongue-wagging this week as the Jets and Steelers bore down on yesterday's AFC Divisional playoff game. Jets cornerback David Barrett said Pittsburgh...
DOUG JOINS GOAT HALL OF FAME
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amWhen Jet kicker Doug Brien blew two chances to win yesterday's playoff game, he joined a group of dubious distinction - Great Sports Goats. Here' a look at some of...
JETS KICKED OUT THE DOOR ; MISS TWO FGS, BEATEN IN OT
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amOVERTIME Steelers 20Jets 17 PITTSBURGH - Torture and angst don't come more neatly packaged than they did in the Jets' 20-17 overtime playoff to the Steelers yesterday at Heinz Field....
THORN SEES NO DEALS ON HORIZON
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amDALLAS - The window to acquire Jim Jackson and Cliff Robinson may be closing for the Nets. The Nets have made their offers for both - a second-rounder and a...
BIG BEN STOPS TICKING ; STEELERS SURVIVE ROOKIE QB'S FLOP
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The rookie of the year played like a rookie in fear. Ben Roethlisberger remained undefeated as a starter but he did as much to hurt his team as...
IN END, JETS COULDN'T HACKETT
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Dust off a special place on the shelf for this one. Put it in the pantheon of pathos upon which every Jet fan's soul is built. Stack it...
CHILLIN' OUT ABOUT NIGHT OPENER
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amI'VE been told by col leagues and readers that I've become too cynical, too negative, that this column needs brightening. OK, then, let's give it a go: The Yankees, who...
60-DAY SEASON REEL LIKELY
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amTHE Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission apparently headed the pleas from recreational anglers and decided on an option that most anglers should be able to live with. It appears there...
BELICHICK RUNNING OUT OF TRICKS, MEN TO DENY MANNING
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amFOXBORO - The brilliant Mike Holmgren won one Super Bowl and was a heavy favorite to make it two until beaten by the next mastermind, Mike Shanahan. Who repeated, but...
JETS KICKIN' UP A STORM! HERO BRIEN KNOWS HE'S 'ONLY AS GOOD AS HIS NEXT' SHOT
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - He won last week's game. But he nearly helped lose it, too. Such is the life of an NFL kicker, specifically Jets kicker Doug Brien, whose 28-yard field...
THE WORLD'S MOST SECURE JOB
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The idea caused Herm Edwards a moment of levity earlier in the week. The Steelers, he was told, have had two coaches since 1969. Bill Cowher has been...
FALCS BUILT TO LAST - WON'T BE A ONE-SHOT WONDER
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amATLANTA - Despite being 11-5, the Falcons largely have been overlooked as being one of the elite teams in the NFL. Except for the Eagles, the NFC has gotten little...
PATS VS. PRESENT - COLTS SAY TIME IS 'RIPE' TO OUST AILING CHAMPS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amFOXBORO - Today's AFC Divisional playoff tilt, rife with backdrops, subplots and the ultimate clash of styles, is one of the most eagerly anticipated playoff games in recent memory. Can...
EAGLES & THE 'REST' - NFC'S ONLY ELITE TEAM RUSTY FOR VIKES TEST
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - This is a different time of year, which is why Eagles defensive tackle Corey Simon has this to say about today's NFC divisional playoff game against the Vikings:...
HOT STOVE JEWELS & FOOLS BASEBALL'S WINTER WINNERS AND LOSERS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amTROY Glaus and Richie Sexson both had shoulder surgery last season that limited them to a combined 81 games and yet they signed contracts worth a combined $95 million. Kris...
HEAD TO HEAD
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amTOWERING INFERNO Post columnists Mike Vaccaro and Kevin Kernan slug it out over whether the Big Unit will burn it up or melt down in the Big Apple Mike Vaccaro:...
OMAR THE MAGICIAN - GO-GETTER GM MINAYA GIVES THE METS A WINNING PERSONALITY
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amQUOTE: "I rode the 7 train my whole life . . . I believe in diversity. I don't care what color the player is." - OMAR MINAYA In the past...
WRITE ON THE MONEY - AGENT'S BOOK HELPED BELTRAN GET $119 MILLION FROM METS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amBASEBALL has always had its "book" on players. Such a term is as old as the game itself. When it comes to agent Scott Boras, though, having "The Book" on...
STEPH INFECTION - DAZZLING MARBURY NOT PRODUCING SUPERSTAR RESULTS
January 16, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - He is a wonder, every bit the precocious talent we expected him to be. Anyone who ever saw Stephon Marbury when he played at Lincoln High all those...