August 10, 2005
HOST AMERICA TARGETED FOR 'MISLEADING' REPORT
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amClass action lawyers are circling Host America, the troubled energy and food services company, hitting the outfit with four separate suits since Monday. On top of that, the National Stock...
COMCAST NETS HOCKEY DEAL
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amAfter 10 days of marathon talks, Comcast has agreed to spend more than $100 million to televise two hockey games each week when the National Hockey League resumes action. The...
NEW LEGAL OCCUPANT
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amTISHMAN Speyer Properties has become the top contender to buy land being sold by New York Law School, with a bid of $153 million. The site comes with a kicker,...
WIND-UP TALKS; MUSIC BIG EMI EYEING MAJOR INDIE ACQUISITION
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe indie music landscape could soon get much smaller. U.K. music giant EMI is in advanced discussions to buy Wind-up Records, one of the industry's largest independent labels, for as...
FRENCH DISS AT MARIE CLAIRE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE publisher of Mireille Guiliano's smash hit book "French Woman Don't Get Fat" is crying foul over "The Marie Claire wine, chocolate and cheese diet" that's hyped as the first...
THE BOARD WALKS - JUDGE CLEARS DISNEY DIRECTORS IN OVITZ PAY SUIT
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amAn eight-year legal drama ended yesterday when a Delaware judge ruled that Disney's board won't have to repay a $140 million severance package given to former president Michael Ovitz. The...
STARR REPORT
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amTeen scene in L.A. Chad Michael Murray, Jesse Metcalf, Amanda Bynes, Ryan Seacrest and others will be out in force Friday night at Teen People's Young Hollywood Party in L.A....
GYM DANDY LOOK INSIDE N. KOREA
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHAT Kim Jong Il - a k a the General and the Dear Leader - is one hell of a scam artist. He has imprisioned and starved a nation of...
KEYS TO 'WORLD'
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amMTV's "The Real World" is heading to Key West in the Sunshine State - to absolutely no one's surprise. "The Real World: Key West," the 17th edition of the popular...
ABC SPECIAL HONORS PETER
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amABC will pay tribute to Peter Jennings tonight with a two-hour retrospective of the late anchor's life and career. "Peter Jennings: Reporter" (8-10 p.m./Ch. 7) will trace Jennings' storied career...
'LAW FIRM'S' BRIEF RUN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amONE of TV's most prolific producers of scripted lawyer shows has struck out with his first reality series. David E. Kelley, whose signature courtroom dramas include "Boston Legal" and "Ally...
HOLLYWOOD'S GLAMOUR GAL - FEMININE TOUCH IN 'ENTOURAGE' WORLD
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amEMMANUELLE Chriqui may be new to "Entourage," but she's had enough Hollywood acting experience to realize just how dead-on the HBO showbiz satire can be. "At times I read the...
CHANGES? OH NO! - INSIDERS SAY YOKO IS SCHIZO ABOUT FIXES IN NEW MUSICAL
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWHO needs the critics to destroy your show when you've got Yoko Ono? The widow Lennon is up to her old tricks, undermining last-ditch efforts to save the seriously flawed...
LE CIRQUE RAISES BAR ON EBAY
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S no longer possible to dine at the shuttered Le Cirque 2000, but with enough money you can still enjoy cocktails at its bar. For a minimum bid of $65,000...
RIBOT DEMONSTRATES LITTLE HORSE SENSE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE old line, "It's not about the food," applies too well to Ribot, an ambitious Italian-Mediterranean upstart in the high-rent ground floor of a Midtown office building. Owned by a...
FALL AHEAD - EIGHT THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE UPCOMING TV SEASON
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amI didn't know Rubber-band Man was coming to prime time. Or that one of the new ABC shows is a bilingual sitcom - TV's first. If there's one thing you...
SOFI'S CHOICE - COLOMBIANA SOFÍA VERGARA LEAVES CO-STAR TYRESE SMITTEN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amAFTER gracing the cover of more than 100 international magazines, starring in several hit Latin and American television shows and awarding a fan a date after he slept in a...
THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE - BORICUA WELTERWEIGHT RISES UP FROM THE UNDERGROUND
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amA COUPLE of guys sitting behind an old desk point over to a thick-bearded man riding a stationary bike and say, "He's right over there." The man they point to...
SHAKING THINGS UP
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amJUST another indication that Latinos are the mainstream, Colombian rocker Shakira is set to perform her latest Spanish-language reggaetón hit, "La Tortura," during MTV's Video Music Awards. Insiders say that...
THE THINK BEHIND THE INK
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amCOLLAZO used to be a blank canvas - literally and figuratively. That is, until an artist tattooed a bulldog with red eyes and flaring nostrils on the back of his...
TORO DE FORCE - BEHIND THE MUSIC OF THE CUATRO'S MAESTRO
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amMASTER guitarist Yomo Toro has been making sweet music for more than five decades. Thanks to the "King of Cuatro's" infectious sounds, children in Ireland and Japan are playing Puerto...
CAN" CAN DO - FLOURISHING PHENOM FITS THE YANKEES BILL
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amROBINSON Canó is so new to the New York Yankees that announcers still can't get his name straight. He's been called everything from canoe, as in the boat, to cayno...
EARL'S DEATH WAS NATURAL
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amA young English aristocrat who mysteriously dropped dead in Greenwich Village a month after the hacked-up body of his father was found in the French Alps died of natural causes,...
NOT SO ANTI-AMERICAN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amImagine a picture of America from interviewing only Ted Kennedy, Ward Churchill and Dan Rather. 'I THINK Mr. Osama does many good things," Hassan told me two weeks ago. "I...
REDHEADS DON'T FEEL YOUR PAIN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amScientists say redheaded women have a gene mutation that makes them less susceptible to pain - and that the discovery could lead to the development of new anesthetics. The study...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amResidents of upstate Schodack are seeing red over a new highway truck stop coming to Route 9 - Betty Beavers. Its sign features a buck-toothed, bosomy beaver dressed in a...
WAR OF THE JACKO JURORS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A backroom brouhaha erupted during deliberations in Michael Jackson's kiddie-sex trial when jurors discovered one of their own was penning a book, according to documents. At least...
MOB MAMMA'S LOVE FOR HER 'SHINING' BOY
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amVICTORIA GOTTI, that is, Mamma Gotti, is assured of fortunes if she de livers her promise. While observing the trial of John "Junior" Gotti's in a Manhattan federal courtroom, she...
SO MUCH FOR 'MR. CLEAN'; CORZINE'S 'PRIVACY' PROBLEM
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amSO much for the suggestion that running multimillionaire candidates who can self-finance their campaigns will rid politics of the "influence of money" factor. Sen. Jon Corzine - the New Jersey...
PIRRO MAKES MONKEY OF WAYWARD HUBBY AL
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWho's that monkey on your back? From the looks of this, Jeanine Pirro would rather show off her monkey love than be seen with her ex-con husband, Albert. Pirro's new...
JEANINE MACHINE JETS INTO ACTION
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Jeanine Pirro today kicks off her campaign to win the right to run against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, with a morning press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria and afternoon...
MOW-DERN BRIDE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amRunaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks strapped on her sneakers yesterday - not to bolt from the altar, but to put her best foot forward as she paid for her crimes. The...
OPENING HEARTS ; HERO HELPS KIDS GET OPS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amRobbie Donno is all heart when it comes to trying to help needy kids around the world get lifesaving cardiac surgery. "It started with one beautiful child," recalled the Long...
HAMASTURNS DEAF EAR TO ABBAS ON GAZA
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday urged his people to withhold their cheers - and their rockets and gunfire - when Israel pulls its troops and settlers out of...
CITY PONIES UP ; NEIGH-SAYERS BRIDLE OVER $1.8M TO SAVE CONEY CAROUSEL
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe city rescued a historic Coney Island carousel with a whopping $1.8 million offer - just a day before it was to be trotted out for auction. The unprecedented sum...
DRAMATIC ARREST IN COHN SHOOT
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe armed madman who blasted Grammy-winning artist Marc Cohn in the face was nabbed following a nail-biting, 51/2-hour standoff in which he apparently was prepared to take out police, officials...
'SUPERWIFE' HAS CANCER; DANA REEVE STRICKEN WITH LUNG DISEASE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amDana Reeve, the superwife who won worldwide respect for the care and support she gave her paralyzed husband, Christopher Reeve, has lung cancer. Reeve, 44, a nonsmoker, announced the grim...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** A man who shot and killed his estranged girlfriend in the Fordham section Saturday was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police...
ASTROS SAFE AT HOME; SHUTTLE RETURNS TO EARTH
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amAfter 14 days in space, the shuttle Discovery returned to Earth yesterday as the astronauts on board remembered the seven colleagues who died on a similar descent two years ago....
MIKE GETS FURIOUS AT FERRER
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's hands-off approach to the Democratic primary ended abruptly yesterday when he tore into Fernando Ferrer, claiming his chief rival was deliberately twisting figures on subway safety. The mayor...
GIGGLY DIXIE DRUBS OUR 'HUMORLESS' NO-YUK CITY
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amHow many yokels can you fit on a turnip truck? The punch line is enough to throw comedy on its head. According to a new survey, Americans view New York...
$LAP AT FULANI GROUP ; SPITZER EYES SPENDING
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amSTATE Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's probe of the Lenora Fulani-affiliated "All Stars Project" is now looking at the possible misuse of funds, City Confidential has learned. Spitzer's investigation into the...
SCHOOLKIDS DOING A DOUBLE TAKE ON TESTS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amCity schoolchildren entering the third, fifth and seventh grades this fall will face a double dose of pressure to determine whether they are promoted, under a new testing schedule released...
MORE PRINCIPALS WIN INDEPENDENCE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amLet freedom ring. Fewer city schools will be under the thumb of a superintendent this fall as the Department of Education expands its "autonomy zone" from 29 to 55 schools,...
CAMPAIGN UNLEASHES GOP PATAK DOGS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - A controversial political aide to Gov. Pataki and former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato has emerged as Senate candidate Jeanine Pirro's top strategist. Kieran Mahoney, one of the best-known figures...
LEAD-PAINT TAX BREAK
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg signed a bill into law yesterday extending tax-exemption benefits to landlords who do lead-paint abatements. The tax breaks will be given to landlords who perform lead-paint removal in...
A 'POST' MORTEM FOR CRAZY ABE HIRSCHFELD
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amABE HIRSCHFELD, the open-air parking garage developer who gave "real- estate mogul" a bad name, is dead at 85. The cause was complications of cancer, his family said. The family...
50'S DITTY DOZEN ; G-UNIT 'SOLDIERS' JAILED ON GUN RAP AFTER CONCERT AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amTwelve members of rap superstar 50 Cent's G-Unit posse - including top hip-hop performers Lloyd Banks and Young Buck - were arraigned on weapons charges yesterday after cops stopped their...
FINDERS WEEPERS ; '20G' IN BOX WASN'T REAL
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amAn honest East Side diner manager who thought he'd found $20,000 on Monday learned that his stash of cash was only so much funny money - it was a load...
IRS PUTS 'CHIN' KIN IN FRYING PAN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe restaurateur nephew of jailed Genovese crime boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante - whose White Plains eatery draws customers like Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro - cooked up a scheme that...
COPS SEEK B'KLYN 'BIAS ATTACK' THUGS & AVENGERS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amA suspected bias assault on an African-American man in Brooklyn nearly sparked a revenge attack when two black men threatened a white man a few blocks from the original incident,...
OFFICER'S FINGER CAN'T BE SAVED
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amSurgeons were unable to reattach the finger of a cop who was bitten as he tried to make an arrest, sources said yesterday. Doctors at Bellevue desperately tried to save...
BLOG BLABS NAMES OF SEX TEACHER'S BOY TOYS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amA sleazy Web site has published the name and photo of an upstate 16-year-old Catholic-school student who allegedly was raped by his teacher - outraging the district attorney prosecuting the...
CRASH MOM: I'LL BE AT SON'S RITES
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe mother of a 3-year- old boy killed by a suspected drunken driver playing a prank was trying to mend a broken heart yesterday as well as a broken body...
TERRORIST SUPPLIER PLEADS GUILTY
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amA Montreal-based importer, charged with scheming to ship night-vision goggles to Hezbollah terrorists, pleaded guilty yesterday and faces up to 30 years in prison, officials said. Naji Antoine Abi Khalil...
'FAPP' SLAP SHOT AT 'BOSS' JUNIOR ; TURNCOAT IDS GOTTI AS TOP GUY
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amMob turncoat Frank "Frankie Fapp" Fappiano fingered John "Junior" Gotti as the former acting boss of the Gambino crime family yesterday - and gave jurors a tutorial on mob-style beatings...
JUDGE SLAMS 'MOB COP' FEDS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe judge for the reputed mob cops took another swipe at the prosecution yesterday, telling them to shape up their case or he might ship it out. Ex-NYPD Detectives Stephen...
DA GETS DOWN TO ISSUES
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWestchester DA Jeanine Pirro yesterday staked out her positions in the race against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -saying she's pro-choice, favors permanent tax cuts and opposes partial-birth abortion and gay...
BABY-DEATH BUST; QNS. DAY-CARE BOSS WAS 'RECKLESS': DA
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amA former day-care center owner surrendered yesterday to answer charges that she was responsible for the smothering death last summer of a Queens infant. Heather Zlotshewer, 35, is charged with...
'POST-IT' BLUNDER; SPIES FORCED TO 'COVER UP' ATTA
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Military spies were forced to slap "stickies on the face of Mohamed Atta" and other 9/11 hijackers - despite knowing where they were in the United States -...
PERV ABUSED GIRL, 9, IN PARK: DA
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amA hospital aide who worked with teens tried to lure a 9-year-old girl into his car in a Queens park with invitations to play a "kissing game" - then chased,...
FINDERS WEEPERS: 20G IS ALL BOGUS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amAn honest East Side diner manager who thought he'd found $20,000 on Monday learned that his stash of cash was only funny money - a load of dye packs that...
FIELDS FINDS FRESH FLIER FIRM
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amC. Virginia Fields has quietly replaced the direct-mail company at the heart of the doctored-flier flap that had roiled her mayoral campaign with a high-powered Washington firm, The Post has...
'SEX' GEN. DRUMMED OUT OF ARMY
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - One of the Army's top generals - a native New Yorker and son of a city cop - yesterday was abruptly relieved of his command after a probe...
OLD HILLARY FOE LAZIO WEIGHS IN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Rick Lazio - the man who lost badly to Hillary Rodham Clinton five years ago - had some words of advice for newly announced Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro...
ST. PAT'S SHOCK; MAN: WIFE CHEATED WITH THE RECTOR
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amA Westchester man has accused the rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral with having an affair with his wife, who has worked as the clergyman's longtime personal secretary, The Post has...
SEX' GENERAL DRUMMED OUT
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - One of the Army's top generals - a native New Yorker and son of a city cop - yesterday was abruptly relieved of his command after a probe...
ASTROS SAFE AT HOME - SHUTTLE RETURNS TO EARTH
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amAfter 14 days in space, the shuttle Discovery returned to Earth yesterday as the astronauts on board remembered the seven colleagues who died on a similar descent two years ago....
FIELDS HIRES NEW FLIER FIRM
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amC. Virginia Fields has quietly replaced the direct-mail company at the heart of the doctored-flier flap that had roiled her mayoral campaign with a high-powered Washington firm, The Post has...
MIKE IN FURY AT FERRER - RIPS FOE ON CRIME
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's hands-off approach to the Democratic primary ended abruptly yesterday when he tore into Fernando Ferrer, claiming his chief rival was deliberately twisting figures on subway safety. The mayor...
'POST-IT' BLUNDER - SPIES FORCED TO 'COVER UP' ATTA
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Military spies were forced to slap "stickies on the face of Mohamed Atta" and other Sept. 11 hijackers - despite knowing where they were in the United States...
OLD HILL FOE LAZIO LASHES LOUSY TACTIC
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Rick Lazio - the man who lost badly to Hillary Rodham Clinton five years ago - had some words of advice for newly announced Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro...
FALL CLASSIC ; IDIOT GETS SCREEN SAVER AFTER TAKING STADIUM DIVE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amA thrill-seeking teenager hoping to make ESPN highlights plunged over 50 feet from the upper deck seats into the netting behind home plate last night in the eighth inning of...
CONTRERAS SHOWS YANKS THE BRONX
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWhite Sox 2Yankees 1 Jose Contreras never was consistent in New York, while Shawn Chacon already seems to have figured it out. There's really nothing more Chacon can do -...
BUD: PALMEIRO BAN WASN'T HELD BACK
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amIn his first extended public comments since Rafael Palmeiro's suspension, Bud Selig said he was "stunned" at Palmeiro's positive test, and Major League Baseball did not delay the announcement of...
MOYER TURNED DOWN WAIVER DEAL TO BRONX
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Jamie Moyer was claimed on waivers by the Yankees, but the 42-year-old lefty declined to come to New York, sources told The Post last night. Moyer (9-4, 4.29...
ACHING BACK SHELVES UNIT
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amAlthough his back and his personality often resemble Kevin Brown, the Yankees actually need Randy Johnson in the long term. So the club made the cautious decision yesterday and scratched...
TIGER'S A COOL CAT - AS CONFIDENT AS EVER, WOODS CLEAR FAVORITE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amLet this serve as a stern warning to the rest of the field at this week's PGA Championship at Baltusrol: Tiger Woods right now looks as comfortable and as confident...
ALLEN: LAW CAN MAKE COMEBACK
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - It can be done. That's the word from Giants cornerback Will Allen, who endured the exact same injury that befell Ty Law, the newest Jets shut-down...
EUROPEANS SEEK RARE VICTORY
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amThis has become a jinx. For 74 years, in terms of winning a PGA Championship, European golfers have been just more summer tourists visiting the United States. Others have since...
PHIL HAS MAJOR PROBLEM ; MICKELSON HASN'T BEEN A CONTENDER
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amIT certainly looked as if the Phil Mickelson worshippers who longed for him to be a fitting challenger to Tiger Woods were finally seeing their dreams fulfilled. Mickelson claimed his...
METS FACE ROAD BLOCK TO PLAYOFFS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - On the road this season, the Mets have been baseball's version of Ron Burgundy, the Will Ferrell character from the movie Anchorman. Going into last night, they...
THIEF! REYES MAY STEAL CROWN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - The Mets have been playing ball since 1962, but they've never had a player lead the National League in stolen bases. Over the next eight...
A GREAT LINEAGE - PIERCE KNOWS BIG BLUE LB HERITAGE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - He's considered extremely studious and instinctive, and so it comes as no surprise that Antonio Pierce was well aware of the Giants' linebacker legacy when he signed with...
BOSS REMAINS CALM AMID ROTATION CHAOS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner arrived at the Stadium yesterday just before 5 p.m. with a smile on his face and a spring in his step. Sharply dressed in a pinstriped shirt under...
JONES CUTS CONFERENCE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amRoy Jones Jr. never showed up for yesterday's press conference at the Copacabana, at which he was to discuss the final stanza of his fight trilogy with world light heavyweight...
YANKS ARE NOW SEEING BIG PICTURE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE YANKEES gathered behind home plate yesterday around 4 p.m. for an annual team photo that disproves a picture is worth a thousand words. A thousand is not nearly enough...
REST OF METROS' LIFE STARTS NOW
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWith the MLS' Eastern Conference becoming as jammed as the BQE during road construction, the MetroStars have one thing going for them, entering the final third of the season: Their...
CALL OF THE WILD - HERE'S WHAT METS NEED TO REACH PROMISED LAND
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Entering tonight, the Mets will play 50 more games this season. Unless, that is, they can move on to the postseason and play a few more. Heading...
NORMAN PULLS OUT
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amPGA NOTES Greg Norman withdrew yesterday from the PGA Championship he has never won, citing a setback from recent back surgery after playing in four straight tournaments. "The surgery was...
CHAD PLAYS IT SAFE - HE'LL SIT OUT PRESEASON OPENER
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amChad Pennington's return to game action won't happen for at least another week, but the Jet quarterback said there's no cause for alarm. Both he and head coach Herm Edwards...
GANG GREEN EXPECTS FAST IMPACT FROM TY
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES New Jet Ty Law still isn't ready to practice, but defensive-backs coach Corwin Brown knows it's only a matter of time until his former Michigan and New England...
LIBERTY IN ONE HOT RACE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe best playoff race isn't taking place at Shea, where the Mets are looking up at every team in the NL East, or the great ballpark in The Bronx, where...
MIENTKIEWICZ LANDS ON DL
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO -Yesterday when Doug Mientkiewicz was asked how he was feeling, he said, "Not good. Can't run at all." And, for the time being, Mientkiewicz won't be...
SHAREEF WON'T BE JOINING NETS
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amOn paper, the Nets still are a good team. But not as good as they looked last week. The NBA-approved deal for Shareef Abdur-Rahim, whose presence could have made New...
NO WAY VS. JOSE ; EX-YANK CONTRERAS OUTDUELS CHACON
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWhite Sox 2Yankees 1 Jose Contreras never was consistent in New York. Shawn Chacon already seems to have figured out how to pitch here. There's really nothing more Chacon can...
PEDRO PUMMELED ; PODS POUND MARTINEZ AS ROAD WOES CONTINUE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amPadres 8Mets 3 SAN DIEGO - Throughout this year, the Mets have had a bunch of problems on the road. But for the most part, Pedro Martinez had not. While...
YANKEE NEWCOMERS HAVE FIGHTING SPIRIT
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Yankees gathered behind home plate yesterday around 4 p.m. for an annual team photo, disproving in the notion a picture is worth a thousand words. A thousand is not...
BEAT BACK - SUBPAR LUMBAR WILL KEEP UNIT OUT OF NEXT START
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amLet's face it: Randy Johnson's back won't be getting better with age. By the time he hits 65, Johnson may make Fred Sanford seem limber. So the Yankees made the...
NICKLAUS REMEMBERS BALTUSROL
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amWalk through the hallowed locker room underneath the clubhouse at Baltusrol and it looks like a golf photography museum. Most prominent among the litany of framed pictures on the walls...
SERGIO NEEDS TO SHOW US
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amSOMEHOW, six years have passed since Sergio Garcia first splash-landed in America's living rooms, a 19-year-old with a heaping helping of élan in his game who was going to demand...
BERNIE EYES RETURN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Bernie Williams missed his third straight game last night, but Joe Torre is poised to start him today. Williams jammed his right shoulder Saturday while making a diving...
NO CONTEST: HERE'S HOW TO END SUMMER WITH FUN
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amSEVERAL major events planned for upcoming weeks should give both anglers and bow hunters some enjoyment as the summer begins to wind down. The last weekend in August will see...
LIBERTY CAUGHT IN HOT PLAYOFF RACE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe best playoff race isn't taking place at Shea, where the Mets are looking up at every team in the NL East, or the great ballpark in The Bronx, where...
NORMAN PULLS OUT ON MEDICAL ADVICE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amPGA NOTES Greg Norman withdrew yesterday from the PGA Championship he has never won, citing a setback from recent back surgery after playing in four straight tournaments. "The surgery was...
BUSCH TO DEPART ROUSH FOR PENSKE
August 10, 2005 | 4:00amReigning NASCAR Nextel Cup champion Kurt Busch is leaving Roush Racing to join Penske Racing South, it was announced yesterday. Penske signed Busch to a multi-year contract, the terms of...