October 27, 2005
RENEGADE TRADERS - SEC FUND PROBE WIDENS TO FIRMS' PAY PRACTICES
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into whether renegade traders at Fidelity Investments cheated both that mutual fund company and brokerage firms in order to fatten their compensation packages....
SPORTING CHANCE - CBS TAPS MCMANUS TO RUN BATTERED NEWS UNIT
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amCBS looked to the ghost of Roone Arledge for inspiration yesterday, tapping its sports chief, Sean McManus, to restore credibility to its scandal-tarred news division. CBS boss Les Moonves announced...
WIEDEN 'IS IT' FOR COKE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amCoca-Cola moved yesterday to add fizz to its fading brand, selecting independent agency Wieden & Kennedy to lead a new global ad campaign. Wieden, best known for being Nike's ad...
HARD SELL EXEC - MORGAN SETTLED SCHEME
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe executive named by Morgan Stanley to head the recruiting of new brokers recently settled charges that he directed a sleazy sales promotion program, The Post has learned. Drew Hawkins,...
NEW CARD TO MAKE SPENDING AS EASY AS A 'BLINK'
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amJ.P. Morgan Chase is rolling out an E-ZPass-styled credit card to capture the giant world of small cash transactions at movies, drug stores, delis and fast-food drive-throughs. By converting millions...
GOOGLE'S MULLING TV AD BROKERING
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amGoogle, the company that dominates online advertising, would like to try its hand at buying and selling television ad time. Google, already dabbling in print ads, recently confirmed that it's...
NYSE MUM ON LIST BLOCK
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA top New York Stock Exchange official evaded questions from senators yesterday who asked him why the Big Board had blocked the listing of Life Sciences Research, a controversial medical...
ARCHIPELAGO CHIEF DUMPS SHARES, MAY SNAP UP SEAT
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amTrader Gerry Putnam is putting his money where his butt would be when his electronic trading exchange Archipelago merges with the New York Stock Exchange. Putnam has sold $3.8 million...
CADENCE QUITS THE BIG BOARD
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange got another black eye when the world's biggest maker of semiconductor design software, Cadence Design Systems, dumped its NYSE listing yesterday to trade exclusively on...
TIMES SAYS CIRCULATION UP SLIGHTLY
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe New York Times said it would report a slight increase in daily and Sunday circulation for the six months ending Sept. 30, 2005. The unaudited publishers statements for all...
GOOGLE, TV MAY CLICK
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amGoogle, the company that dominates online advertising, would like to try its hand at buying and selling television ad time. Google, already dabbling in print ads, recently confirmed that it's...
ROSA OFF THE 'BOON'
October 27, 2005 | 4:00am'THE Boondocks" creator Aaron McGruder says he's had to take some jokes out of an upcoming episode of his new animated television series after Rosa Parks died Monday. He declined...
LISA LING UP ALL 'NIGHT'?
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amLISA Ling, who left ABC's "The View" in 2002, could be returning to the network as part of its revamped "Nightline" format. Ling has been approached about joining the post-Ted...
BTK SCOOP BURNS NBC
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amNBC News is trying to avoid being entangled in a lawsuit over tapes of the notorious BTK killer, Dennis Rader, that aired on "Dateline" last summer. Authorities are trying to...
TROUPE SETS ITSELF APART IN TWO PARTS
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Parsons Dance Company, now winding up its two-week season at the Joyce Theater, has a vitality and theatricality as individual as a fingerprint. Although six of the 11 dancers...
2 DIE 4 - CHRIS' HALLOWEEN PRINCE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHAT's not really Prince - but it is "Everybody Hates Chris" star Tyler James Williams, who's dressed up like his hero in tonight's Halloween episode. In the episode, "Everybody Hates...
IT'S NOT RIO SPECTACULAR
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amBRAZIL'S leading dance company Grupo Corpo, which returned to BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House on Tuesday night as part of its 2005 Next Wave Festival, would not disgrace the floor...
THE UGLIEST SHOW ON TV - ADDICTED TO 'INTERVENTION'
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHIS is TV's most shocking show. It's "Intervention," a show in which real people with incredibly serious problems agree to have their troubled lives filmed and then aired on TV....
HALLOWEENIE - 'MASTERS' DRENCHED IN BLOOD AND GORE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amWHAT if you gathered up some of the great contemporary purveyors of horror flicks - John Carpenter, Dario Argento, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante, John Landis and Tobe Hooper,...
STARR REPORT
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amSay it ain't so Don't know how you feel about Michael Douglas spawning another child, but Ellen DeGeneres asks his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, if the couple is thinking of adding...
DISS-GUISED - TRULY FRIGHTENING CELEBRITY COSTUMES FOR HALLOWEEN '05; HAVE A COSTUME BRAWL - THIS HALLOWEEN, DISGUISE THE LIMIT FOR CELEBS
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amFORGET witches, ghouls and goblins. Want to really scare the kiddies this Halloween? Go as that terrifying creature - a brainwashed young actress pregnant with Scientology's spawn. Send them screaming...
BLOOMBERG PLAYS GOP STRAIGHT AFTER GAY BASH
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amYOU might say Mayor Bloomberg was "in and out" Monday night - coming out for a large rally of gay and lesbian supporters, but staying in the closet for a...
IRAN HARBORING 25 QAEDA BIGS
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amAt least 25 high-ranking al Qaeda members - including three of Osama bin Laden's sons - are reportedly living free in Iran and beyond the grasp of the U.S. military,...
JANET: I HAVE NO LOVE CHILD
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Janet Jackson denied yesterday that she's the secret mother of a love child by former husband James DeBarge born 18 years ago. The sexy diva and singer...
OIL-SCANDAL D-DAY
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An explosive report by a U.N.-appointed independent inquiry commission is expected to trigger criminal prosecutions of international businessmen and political figures who helped Saddam Hussein scam the U.N....
ANTI-UNION GOON BEAT WORKERS: DA
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amAn ex-con Queens contractor took union-busting tactics too far, beating, threatening and holding against their will two undercover organizers who tried to expose workplace abuses, prosecutors said yesterday. Steven Russell,...
6 PERVS LOCKED UP IN PSYCH WARD
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Six convicted sex fiends being held after their jail terms by the Pataki administration have been moved to a high-security mental hospital after making threats, officials said. They...
'FALAFEL BOMB' HORROR - 5 DIE AT ISRAEL MARKET IN 1ST TERROR STRIKE SINCE GAZA
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A 21-year-old Palestinian blew himself up at a falafel stand in a busy open-air market in the northern city of Hadera yesterday, killing five Israelis and wounding more...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Two bandits were arrested for sticking up a man at gunpoint on a Harlem street, police sources said yesterday. Calvin Reed, 23, Jamaine Wright, in his 20s, and...
ID THIEF JAILED
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens man who stole $225,000 by swiping doctors' personal information and using the data to take out loans was sentenced to three to six years in prison yesterday. Paul...
MAY HE REST IN PEAS
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHo, ho, heartache. Elmer Dresslar Jr., the booming baritone voice of the Jolly Green Giant in TV commercials, has died at the age of 80. Dresslar, who lived in Palm...
2 BUSTED IN HOUSING FRAUD
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amTwo Queens women have been arrested on charges of bilking the city Housing Authority out of more than $60,000, officials said yesterday. The women received housing subsidies that kept their...
20 YEARS FOR CHILD-RAPE MONSTER
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA glowering Harlem drug felon was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for raping a 9-year-old girl in the stairwell of her Malcolm X Boulevard building two years ago....
SORRY, GOV, WE'LL SLICE FARE: MTA
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amDespite reservations from Gov. Pataki about how the nearly $1 billion MTA surplus is being spent, the transit agency will go ahead today with plans for holiday fare discounts, the...
GOP AT ODDS OVER WHETHER TO FIGHT OR BACK AWAY
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amJITTERY Republicans are all on high-anxiety watch for indictments in the CIA leak case, but they're deeply split over whether to fight back. "If anyone is indicted basically because of...
VOLUNTEERS SEARCH FOR TRAGIC ROWER
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amMore than 150 volunteers yesterday searched along the banks of the Harlem River for missing rower Jim Runsdorf, vowing not to stop until they recover the body of the beloved...
CALL TO SELL BATTERY PK. CITY
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amBattery Park City should be expanded to just below Canal Street - and sold to a private operator, the development's first chairman has suggested, Charles J. Urstadt, the so-called father...
THE MO SHE LOVES ME, THE MORE I AM AFRAID
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amMAUREEN DOWD says she loves me. Yikes. I'm scared. The last time Her Dowdness expressed affection for a fellow female, it ended in bloodshed. "I like Judy Miller," Dowd began...
CAR STRIKES TEEN TWICE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA 15-year-old boy was fighting for his life yesterday after he was struck twice by the same hit-and-run driver while walking to his Queens high school, authorities said. Jeffrey Javier...
'MOB COPS' TRIAL TRICK
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amLawyers for the two reputed mob cops made an offer they hope a judge can't refuse. Bruce Cutler and Ed Hayes, who represent the disgraced NYPD detectives, want Brooklyn federal...
WHEELY SLOW - YOUR FEET EASILY BEAT THE M34 BUS
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amYou can beat the city's slowest bus walking fast, says a new study that names New York's most tortoise-paced transit runs. The pokey M34 bus moves at an average speed...
VIEW TO A THRILL - ROCK CENTER REOPENS OBSERVATION DECK
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe Big Apple's best revival is taking place on a stage high above Rockefeller Center, as one of the city's best shows makes a triumphant return after a 20-year hiatus....
EX-POL WEEPS AS OFFICE INTERLUDE WITH SEAMAN BARED
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA former Long Island town councilwoman burst into tears yesterday when her ex-secretary testified she frequently saw her boss locked in her Town Hall office with a horny harbormaster suing...
'WAVE' GOODBYE TO THE HAMPTONS - PROPERTY MUNCHED BY OCEAN
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe oceanfront homes of actor Roy Scheider and five of his neighbors in the affluent Hamptons village of Sagaponack may soon fall prey to the hungry jaws of the Atlantic....
BUST IN BOWERY CLUB SLAY
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA Bowery clubgoer who fatally shot a man during a fight over a spilled drink was tracked down and arrested at his Brooklyn apartment, police said. Detectives who investigated the...
GIULIANI DIALS M FOR MIKE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA telephone message from Rudy Giuliani is going out to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in which he urges them to re-elect "my friend" Mike Bloomberg and credits the...
SETBACK FOR MARTHA PAL WAKSAL
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amMartha Stewart may be back in action after doing prison time for the ImClone stock scandal - but her jailed pal, Sam Waksal, will have to wait another five years...
'INSANE' MUSIC EXPERT GUILTY OF KIN'S BRUTAL MURDER
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amAn Upper East Side pianist and Cole Porter expert was convicted yesterday of savagely beating and strangling her 88-year-old brother-in-law in his Poconos living room. Judith Brown, 61, was also...
STAR DOESN'T COME OUT FOR AL - JONES STAYS AWAY AS HUBBY STEWS IN 'JAIL'
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amStar Jones' new hubby starred in his own police drama yesterday when he was busted for driving with a suspended license on the Upper East Side. And it looks like...
SCAM ALL IN THE FAMILY
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amSix members of a Staten Island family and two others were busted yesterday in an alleged Long Island Ponzi scheme that involved bilking homeowners of $12 million in escrow money...
EARLY-BIRD NYERS HOARDING FLU DRUG
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe threat of a possible bird-flu outbreak in the United States has whipped the Big Apple into a near frenzy, with New Yorkers - even doctors - stockpiling a personal...
JUDGE RIPS 9/11 CASE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA judge yesterday ridiculed federal prosecutors for bringing charges against a former Secret Service employee who admitted to swiping government cars damaged on 9/11 - then sentenced him to probation....
RAT-CAT FIGHT IN RADIO CITY LABOR WAR
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA brass band blared, and a giant cat and rat squared off on Sixth Avenue yesterday, as the labor dispute between musicians and management at Radio City Music Hall opened...
VANDAL 'RAP' - 'HIP-HOP BIBLE' BIG SURRENDERS
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe editor of self-proclaimed "hip-hop Bible" The Source magazine turned himself in last night to face charges of desecrating a Jehovah's Witness assembly hall in Harlem. David Allen Blanks, 32,...
AT ATTENTION IN D.C. - CAPITAL IN SUSPENSE AS INDICTMENTS LOOM
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bush political guru Karl Rove yesterday gave a puckish military salute to a visitor as if he hadn't a care in the world while the nation's capital stayed...
BOMB $HELL - JURY NAILS PA FOR '93 WTC BLAST; PA MORE TO BLAME THAN BOMBERS: JURY
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury slammed the Port Authority yesterday, finding the agency's negligence made it twice as responsible for the deadly 1993 attack on the World Trade Center as the terrorists...
MOWED DOWN TWICE - HIT-RUN KID BRAIN DEAD
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA 15-year-old Queens boy was left brain dead yesterday after he was struck twice by the same hit-and-run driver while walking to his high school, authorities said. Jeffrey Javier was...
MIKE FURIOUS AT TEEN'S BAIL - SLAY SUSPECT FREED TO GO ON 'ROB SPREE'
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn judge who set a low bail that let an accused killer back out on the streets - where he allegedly went on a mugging spree and got shot...
HASIDS IN TEMPLE BREAK-IN
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amMore than two-dozen Hasidic men are in a holy mess after allegedly breaking into a Brooklyn synagogue, apparently as part of an ongoing power struggle among warring Satmar sects. Cops...
REV. ROBBED AT CHURCH
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThree armed bandits pushed their way into a Queens church last night, forced the priest to open the safe - and then stole $120 from him when they found it...
NEW YORK'S CARIBBEAN SON
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThat face on the $10 bill is full of history. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton might have been born 1,300 miles away on the Caribbean island of Nevis, but he would...
20 YRS. FOR RAPE FIEND
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA glowering Harlem drug felon was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for raping a 9-year-old girl in the stairwell of her Malcolm X Boulevard building two years ago....
MAN FOUND SHOT AT CREEDMOOR
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA man was found shot in the shoulder at the gate of Creedmoor Hospital in Queens Village last night. He refused to cooperate with cops - and officials were trying...
MTA'S FARE $HAKE - WILL OK CUT DESPITE GOV
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amDespite reservations from Gov. Pataki about how the nearly $1 billion MTA surplus is being spent, the transit agency will go ahead today with plans for holiday fare discounts, the...
JANET: NO LOVE CHILD
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Janet Jackson denied yesterday she's the secret mommy of a love child allegedly born to former husband James DeBarge 18 years ago. The sexy diva and DeBarge...
SCHOOL TO BLOG KIDS: REPENT!
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amOfficials at a New Jersey Catholic high school have laid down an 11th Commandment for students: Thou Shalt Not Blog. Students at Pope John XXIII Regional HS in Sparta have...
'FITTY' GAME IS A BLAST - GUNS BLAZE IN N.Y. TALE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amBullet-ridden rapper 50 Cent is shooting back. Here's a sneak peak at next month's much-anticipated video game, "50 Cent: Bulletproof," which features "Fitty" fighting through the New York drug underworld....
CURSE OF CARLOS CUTS DOWN 'STROS
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES CONFIDENTIALHOUSTON - The amazing factor about the Astros' Game 3 offensive drought in losing 7-5 in 14 innings to the White Sox was just how comfortable they were...
GARCIA DODGES TROUBLE FOR WIN
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Freddy Garcia didn't mind pitching around trouble last night. And he never seems to mind pitching on the road. Garcia was mostly dominant in Game 4 of the...
NOTHING TO BE CHI ABOUT
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Say it is so, Joe. The curses involving the Sox - Red, White and Black - are now officially dead. The White Sox outran their past and beat...
GUTSY BAILERO HOLDS 'COURT'
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amTrack was good, harrowed; wind was blowing fiercely down stretch; no more turf racing until Breeders' Cup, then we move to Aqueduct next Wednesday. FOURTH RACE: Three-way speed duel in...
FOUR HOPEFULS MISS BIG DANCE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amCUP NOTES Four horses pre-entered for the Breeders' Cup last week were withdrawn before final entries were taken yesterday. Alkaased, a European invader, came out of the Turf because of...
'HE'D EXPECT US TO CARRY ON' - GRIEVING GIANTS EYE 'SKINS
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amAs the Giants yesterday gathered for the first time since co-owner Wellington Mara's death, they were asked by coach Tom Coughlin to stand for a moment of silence "to our...
RANGERS TRUE MELTING POT
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe first day of training camp, Jaromir Jagr said that while he would consider it an honor to be captain of the Rangers, it was his belief that because of...
VINNY REMAINS PILOT OF JETS
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amA day after waffling slightly about who his starting quarterback will be the next time the Jets take the field, Herman Edwards was definitive yesterday. "It's over, it's done," Edwards...
THURSDAY NIGHT IS PRIME TIME FOR HOKIES
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amBLACKSBURG, Va. - Welcome to Thursday night hell. This is when college football teams get burned and bloodied before a national television audience. The Hokies have played on ESPN's Thursday...
LUKAS' FOLKLORE WON'T BE DENIED
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amD. WAYNE Lukas, the training colossus of the Breeders' Cup, who has been in never-never land for a few years, expects to make a thundering comeback Saturday when he saddles...
TOUGH LOVE - MARA SET SHOCKEY STRAIGHT
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amJeremy Shockey remembers back to 2003, his second year in the league, when he was injured and not in uniform for a late-season game in New Orleans. A night of...
BIG EAST CALLS ON ANOTHER GAVITT
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe name is familiar to any coach in college basketball, certainly any with ties to the Big East. Dave Gavitt was much more than just the first commissioner of the...
GREEN DONE FOR SEASON
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants yesterday finally ended the speculation concerning linebacker Barrett Green's health when they placed him on season-ending injured reserve. Thus ends another highly disappointing year for Green,...
NO MORE BLUM RAP FOR GEOFF
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - There was much hand-wringing in Chicago when GM Ken Williams didn't acquire a big bat or a fireballing reliever at the trade deadline. The fans and media were...
DEVILS' 'TOP' LINE TOTING BIG BURDEN
October 27, 2005 | 4:00am"We don't look at it as being the No. 1 line. We just have to contribute." -BRIAN GIONTA (ABOVE) It hasn't yet been confused with Trottier-Bossy-Gillies, or Ratelle-Gilbert-Hadfield. Still, the...
LOOKS LIKE DAVIS WILL STAY (& START!)
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amToday could have been the day Antonio Davis re-signed with the Bulls, had he reached a buyout settlement with the Knicks. Under the NBA's collective-bargaining rules, the Bulls had to...
SOX PEN TRULY WAS MIGHTIER
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - The White Sox used eight relievers in Game 3 of the World Series. Up until then, they had only used five different relievers in the entire postseason. In...
ASTROS' OFFENSE OFFENSIVE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - When the best pitcher in your league spits out a four-run lead in the fifth inning of a World Series game you have to win, it's easy to...
NET VICTORY CARRIES THE MARK OF ZORAN
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amEven besides Jason Kidd's minor bruised left quad, the Nets' 118-116 OT escape against Boston on Tuesday was a good-news, bad-news win. Their Zoran Planinic-led bench dominated the Celtics down...
CURSE JUST KEEPS CURSING
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES CONFIDENTIALHOUSTON - The amazing factor about the Astros' Game 3 offensive drought in losing 7-5 in 14 innings to the White Sox was just how comfortable they were...
REDSKINS' SYSTEM SUPER FOR SANTANA
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amASHBURN, Va. - Not much has fazed Santana Moss in his first year with the Redskins - but when a reporter mistakenly called him "Laveranues" yesterday, the speedy receiver did...
ANTONIO GOING FROM GONER TO KNICK STARTER
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amToday could have been the day Antonio Davis re-signed with the Bulls, had he reached a buyout settlement with the Knicks. Under the NBA's collective-bargaining rules, the Bulls had to...
DEVIL DISASTER! BRODEUR'S HURT
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amLightning 6 - Devils 3 Disaster piled on Devil debacle last night. The Franchise probably sprained his right knee. "I have to be really hurt to leave a game," Martin...
A MINOR CONCERN FOR SOJO
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Still smarting from having his third base coaching job yanked from him and given to Larry Bowa, Luis Sojo is contemplating returning to the minors as a manager...
'FORGOTTEN' MAN SCORES MEMORABLE CHISOX RUN
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - You know the irony? Willie Harris said he's allergic to champagne. It makes him break out in hives. Well, all the little-used Harris did last night was set...
'STROS' BATS ARE SIMPLY NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Brad Lidge absorbed the loss for being guilty of giving up the game's only run in a 1-0 loss that enabled the White Sox to sweep the Astros...
FOR BIGGIO, A WEEK TO FORGET AFTER A CAREER TO REMEMBER
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Craig Biggio deserves better than this, deserves more than what he's gotten out of this first World Series experience. He deserves more than to be sitting on the...
DYE CAST AS MVP AS CHI-TOWN ENDS 88-YEAR CURSE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - He released the bat and started pounding his hands together, even before the ball had cleared the infield. Why wait? Jermaine Dye knew exactly what he'd just done....
SWEEP SMELL OF SOX-CESS! - PALE HOSE WIN, CLAIM FIRST CROWN SINCE 1917
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 4: White Sox 1 - Astros 0 HOUSTON - The clincher came on Oct. 15, 1917. The sixth game. That was the day and the game in which the...
ASTROS MAKE A LAST STAND - HOUSTON CLINGS TO HOPE AS SOX SHOOT FOR SERIES
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - A Geoff Blum homer and a victory in 14 innings have meant one thing for the Chicago White Sox. "We've got four chances," catcher A.J. Pierzynski said very...
PEDRO AN OFFSEASON FOOT SOLDIER
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK HOUSTON - Pedro Martinez said yesterday that his right foot is improving and is optimistic that a winter of rehab will have it fixed before next season....
ROCKET'S FUTURE UP IN AIR
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK HOUSTON - After last night's Game 4 loss ended the Astros' World Series hopes, both GM Tim Purpura and Andy Pettitte said they were unsure what the...
A-ROD DEFLECTS TALK OF HIS FAMILY ISSUES
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Alex Rodriguez's mother may have said her son was affected by the death of an uncle during the ALDS against the Angels, but the Yankees' third baseman didn't...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe Post continues its profiles of each of the eight Breeders' Cup races to be run Saturday at Belmont Park. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights potential nice-price winners as...
ASTRO HURLER WANTED TO GO BACKE IN THE GAME
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Having just been swept out of the World Series in four games, Brandon Backe wasn't going to second-guess Phil Garner for taking him out of a scoreless Game...
BUYIN' BRIAN - CASHMAN WILL HAVE MORE MONEY, POWER
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - There is no denying money is power. But within the dysfunctional Yankee universe, power is defined in ways that have nothing to do with dollars. And it was...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 27, 2005 | 4:00amJust in time for Halloween, a pumpkin with legs is freaking out people in Pennsylvania. That's where a deer got a plastic pumpkin stuck on its head and can't seem...