May 17, 2002
SCHWAB KNOCKS BROKERAGES, LAUNCHES OWN RATINGS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amCharles Schwab, the man who famously dissed Wall Street 27 years ago when he set up a discount brokerage, did it again yesterday. He said the Wall Street firms basically...
MACKENZIE-CHILDS GETS COMFY ON 57TH
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe whimsical quality home furnishings store MacKenzie-Childs is heading for the former Henri Bendel digs on West 57th Street. The Aurora, N.Y.- based company will expand from its smaller, 824...
PROBE AT KMART ; BANKRUPT RETAILER TARGET OF FED INVESTIGATION
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe Feds are in hot pursuit of Kmart. FBI officials said yesterday they're on the case of the troubled retailer, which is bankrupt and is already the subject of investigation...
EDISON SCHOOLS LOSES CONTRACT, BLEEDS INVESTORS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amEmbattled Edison Schools, the New York-based for-profit schools management company, saw its stock plunge to new lows yesterday after it lost a lucrative contract and missed a deadline for filing...
TARGET-ING BIG APPLE: RETAILER TO OPEN 3RD CITY STORE IN BROOKLYN
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTarget has set its site on Brooklyn. The hippest of the mass merchants is opening its third New York City store at the new Gateway Mall in the East New...
1ST-TIME AUTHOR GETS $925K
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTHE publishing world has a new millionaire author, 25-year-old first-time novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who wrote the laugh-out-loud bestseller, "Everything is Illuminated." Now he can laugh all the way to...
AEROPOSTALE DAY TRADING
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amSoaring to unprecedented heights, Aeropostale shares surged 54 percent during its first day of trading. The company's initial public offering was priced at $18 and rose $9.75 during the day...
'BARTIROMO TRADES' MAY ATTRACT SEC
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTraders may have violated securities laws for secretly trading on stock tips of CNBC's Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo before she aired them, experts say. Securities lawyers say they expect the...
HER VOICE, HER LOOKS MAKE ANASTACIA . . . ONE CHIC 'FREAK'
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amONE look at newcomer Anastacia Newkirk - just Anastacia, professionally - and you have to wonder why this sexy, beautiful singer would title her debut album "Freak of Nature." Then...
'MARRIAGE' AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amLATE MARRIAGE Caustically funny tug-of-love story.In Georgian and Hebrew, with English subtitles. Running time: 100 minutes. Not rated (sex, profanity). At the Lincoln Plaza and the Cinema Village. 'LATE Marriage,"...
ACTOR'S BEYOND BELIEF
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTHE BELIEVER Murky portrait of an anti-Semite with a great central performance.Running time: 98 minutes. Not rated (violence, sex, profanity). At the Lincoln Plaza and the Angelika. 'THE Believer," loosely...
GUMBEL TAKES POTSHOTS AT KATIE COURIC
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amDEPARTING "Early Show" host Bryant Gumbel says he and his former "Today" co-host Katie Couric weren't exactly pals. "We were two different kinds of people," Gumbel tells Barbara Walters on...
FIRST ALLY, NOW ANGEL
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTHE King of the World has lost his TV show. "Titanic" director James Cameron's sci-fi show "Dark Angel" will not be back next fall. Fox yanked the show just a...
'CONTACT' HAS MORE LUCK THAN LIVE MUSIC
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amCONTACT 1/2 At the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 150 W. 65th St., Lincoln Center; (212) 239-6200. For a special New York Pulse series, Post critic Clive Barnes has been revisiting Broadway...
STARR REPORT
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amDinner with Sara Moulton? Priceless Food Network's Sara Moulton wined and dined Justice Dept. employee Bill Miller last night at Gourmet Magazine headquarters in Times Square. But it's not what...
HUGH GO, 'BOY': GRANT TRIUMPHS IN NEW BRIT COMEDY
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amABOUT A BOY Hilarious, acidic Brit comedy. Running time: 101 minutes. Rated PG-13 (nothing offensive). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others. GIVEN the trajectory of the...
JIM RYAN SAYS: GOOD DAY, DOC
May 17, 2002 | 4:00am'GOOD Day New York" anchor Jim Ryan will undergo triple-bypass heart surgery today and will be off the morning show indefinitely. Ryan, 61, was experiencing chest pains on Wednesday and...
'DUMB YANKS' QUIP MEANS ANNE IS THE DOPEY ONE...
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTART-tongued "Weakest Link" host Anne Robinson is apparently unhappy NBC yanked her show off the fall schedule and is suddenly anti-American. "I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually...
CROWD WOWED BY ECLECTIC SHOCKED
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amMICHELLE SHOCKEDMichelle Shocked will play a return engagement at the Warsaw, in Greenpoint, on July 26, $15. (718) 387-5252. THERE was a key moment at the Michelle Shocked Village Underground...
SAME OLD WAY ON LBJ
May 17, 2002 | 4:00am"Path to War" Tomorrow night at 8 on HBO THE Vietnam War gives me a headache. Not the actual war, but the topic of the war - a subject some...
THE PLAY'S THE THING FOR 'RAT' AUTHOR
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amWOULD Mike Leigh - the British filmmaker best known here for "Secrets & Lies" - care to tell us about "All or Nothing," his latest flick, now screening at Cannes?...
RETURN LIFELESS AND PATHETIC 'LETTER' TO SENDER
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA LETTER FROM ETHEL KENNEDYAt MCC Theater, 120 W. 28 St. Call SmartTix (212) 206-1515. WAITER, bring me a single - make that a double - espresso; I've got to...
9/11 ON SCREEN
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA feature film about Sept. 11 may be in theaters in time for the one-year anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. Filming has just wrapped on "The Guys," starring...
RUN OF THE 'MILLIE': MUSICAL PULLS AWAY FROM TONY COMPETITOR 'URINETOWN'
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTONY ballots are due in just two weeks, so let's take a look at how the hotly contested race for Best Musical is shaking down. "Thoroughly Modern Millie," with its...
YONKERS KIN POISONED BY 'CYANIDE' AT DINNER
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amSix Yonkers residents were suddenly struck down by a mysterious, violent illness last night - sparking a massive investigation amid fears of possible cyanide poison in their dinner. A small...
COSTLY LAWYER CASHES IN ON 'MOLD' MONEY
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amResidents of a Kips Bay housing project who claimed they were being poisoned by toxic molds got very little green as part of an "extremely strange" court settlement, a Post...
GOV PLEDGES NO NEW TAXES AFTER ELECTION
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amGov. Pataki yesterday vowed not to raise taxes next year if he's re-elected - insisting that election-year politics played no role in the budgetary process. Even with the state facing...
CITY 'STICKING' IT TO SCOFFLAWS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amParking scofflaws are getting a break from Mayor Bloomberg under a pilot project that temporarily replaces the tow-truck hook with something less ominous - a warning sticker, The Post has...
SINKING ARMS SHIP WAS EASIER THAN SEIZING IT
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe arms-smuggling ship recently sunk by Israel's navy was packed with anti-tank missiles and Katyusha rockets - and guarded by 20 armed men, it was reported yesterday. The Jane's Foreign...
NO ONE KNEW ENOUGH
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amSEPT. 11 was this era's Pearl Harbor - an unprovoked sneak attack by a foreign adversary that cost thousands of American lives and awakened the nation to a deadly peril....
COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN SHOWS LACK OF INTELLIGENCE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. AN astonishing communications breakdown among government agencies appears to have prevented the FBI and CIA from unraveling the diabolical 9/11 plot - despite numerous clues already in the hands...
WITLESS FOR THE PROSECUTION: CLINIC CRAZIES
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amNORWALK, Conn. AROUND his neck, he wore a sign that read: "My name is Michael Skakel. I'm a rich brat from Greenwich, Connecticut. "Please confront me on why I killed...
GUILTY FRAULEIN FALLS FOR GERE ONE FINAL TIME
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA 52-year-old German woman who stalked Richard Gere - telling him, "I want to be with you" in a hundred phone messages - tearfully pleaded guilty to harassment yesterday. The...
ARAFAT: LET'S VOTE ; SETS ELECTION FOR HIS JOB IN 6 MOS.
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Palestinian Authority announced yesterday it would hold elections within six months for its parliament - and for Yasser Arafat's job. "President Arafat has set a program for...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA New Mexico teen convicted of endangering a 4-year-old girl by feeding her laxatives is to be sentenced by a very appropriate jurist - Judge Mary Nell Crapitto. Kelly Wagner...
CUOMO AIDE BOOSTS PATAKI FOE GOLISANO
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTHERE'S some cross-pollination quietly going on in the governor's race between the Democratic campaign of Andrew Cuomo and Independence Party candidate Tom Golisano. Erick Mullen - a savvy Democratic political...
NYPD SERGEANTS' 'ILL' WIND BLOWS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA group of police sergeants said yesterday that there was a "high likelihood" they'd develop long- and short-term illnesses because they weren't given proper protections in the aftermath of Sept....
UPROAR OVER PORK-BARREL POL'S 'CABLE BILL'
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Two small pork-barrel spending items in the state's new $89.6 billion budget - "Dyke TV" and "Homovisiones" - were raising eyebrows at the Capitol yesterday. Just-released budget bills...
HS GIRLS 'FAIL' TO FIELD TEAM
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe Lafayette HS athletic program struck out again yesterday. The girls softball team forfeited its final game because six players were declared academically ineligible after receiving dreadful report cards. Last...
BX. VIGILANTES STAB SUSPECT
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA group of young men raced to the aid of a woman screaming in terror on a Bronx street as she fled her knife-wielding boyfriend - and the mob then...
SAFRA SLAY LOOKS LIKE A MONACO 'O.J. TRIAL'
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe lawyer for the New York nurse accused of killing billionaire Edmond Safra in a 1999 fire in Monaco has vowed to turn the trial into a "European version of...
FOOTBALL STAR 'RAN FOR HIS LIFE': QNS PROSECUTOR
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amCory Mitchell was on top of the world. The 23-year-old star linebacker on the St. John's University football team had dreams of playing in the NFL. He was ecstatic because...
BRONX BRAVERY ; VICTIM & 3 HEROES NAIL RAPE SUSPECT
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTwo quick-thinking EMS workers and a livery cab driver joined forces with a brave rape victim to track down and subdue the woman's alleged attacker in The Bronx yesterday. The...
'BLIMPIE' BROTHERS NABBED IN HEISTS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA pair of Hell's Kitchen brothers were arrested and charged yesterday with breaking into 13 Subway and Blimpie eateries and hauling away the safes - netting about $30,000 in cash,...
THE KIND OF CRIME THAT VIOLATES US ALL
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amPEOPLE who live around the peaceful Brooklyn cul-de-sac say the apartment building on Aurelia Court was a rape scene waiting to happen. It takes just a swift kick to the...
BRAVEST TO TACKLE FINEST FOR CHARITY
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe NYPD will battle the FDNY Sunday at Giants Stadium in the 30th annual Fun City Bowl football game to benefit the widows and children funds. Cops have won 20...
JURY NAILS CHAIN-SNATCH KILLER
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man's murderous anger and greed could land him in prison for the rest of his life. Jeffrey Keys, 30, was convicted yesterday of killing a teenager for a...
CALL TO ARMS AT CARNEGIE TRIAL
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amCarnegie Deli Massacre suspect Sean Salley seemed to listen intently in court yesterday as an NYPD ballistics expert spent Day Three of the murder trial teaching jurors the intricacies of...
'SPIDERMAN' SLAYER GETS 25 TO LIFE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man, dubbed "Spiderman" after he eluded police by jumping from a 19th-story window to another building, was sentenced yesterday to 25 years to life for the savage murder...
PHONY-COP SCAM TEAM $WINDLING OLD-TIMERS AROUND TOWN
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA heartless group of confidence men posing as NYPD detectives investigating a bank robbery are preying on elderly men - and they've already conned $47,000 from one hapless senior. Police...
LINDH WANTS CASE TOSSED OR MOVED
May 17, 2002 | 4:00am"American Taliban" John new court papers yesterday he cannot get a fair Walker Lindh claimed in trial - so he wants the entire case thrown out or moved to his...
SCHWARZ LAWYER CHARGES COVER-UP
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amNew details about Abner Louima's early accounts of his sexual assault have emerged - information prosecutors sat on for five years knowing it could have helped Charles Schwarz's defense, the...
FLUNKERS SEEK TEACHER-TEST RACE INFO
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA group of uncertified minority teachers who claim the state teaching exams discriminate against blacks and Hispanics want a racial breakdown of the results. "There's no reason not to release...
BRUCE WON'T BE A POLITICAL BOSS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amBruce Springsteen apparently doesn't have a hungry heart for politics - the rock 'n' roll icon has slammed the brakes on a movement to draft him to run for the...
'STARS'-STRUCK WORKERS PLAY WOOKIE HOOKY
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amNkosi Anderson is a trusted paralegal for Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau - except yesterday, when he paraded around Midtown in a brown cloak and a light saber. Yes, folks,...
CELEBS' CHIC CHAIN FOR EATS & GREETS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amVittorio Assaf and Fabio Granato's Serafina restaurants have always been about the scene, the fancy patrons, then the food. Recently, Janet Jackson and Missy Elliott were fighting at the weekly...
'IT'S A HOU$E OF CARDS' ; SHAKY STATE BUDGET WILL TOPPLE, EXPERTS SAY
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The $89.6 billion state budget adopted yesterday is held together by a series of questionable fiscal gimmicks that fiscal experts warn will blow a huge hole in the...
FORGOTTEN LESSONS OF WAR
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amHIDDEN inside "Small Wars Manual" - a tactical handbook for the United States Marine Corps dating to the 1930s - is another book. I know this because Max Boot, an...
BLAKE: I'M A POLITICAL PRISONER
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake's defense team lashed out at cops and prosecutors yesterday, claiming their client is a prisoner of Los Angeles politics who is being held "without...
REHAB MATES DELIVER BLOW TO SKAKEL WITH HIS OWN WORDS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amIt was alumni day yesterday at Michael Skakel's trial for the 1975 murder of his 15-year-old Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley - and the Kennedy cousin was not remembered kindly. Three...
FAMILY PAIN OVER WTC 'RITES' DATE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday outlined plans for a ceremony marking the end of Ground Zero recovery work - but some victims' families were upset about the date, saying many relatives won't...
POLICE GET HANDS ON 'MASTURBATE' MUG SUSPECT
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe so-called "masturbating mugger" has been pulled off the streets. Police have arrested a suspect they believe is the fiend who stalks young women before robbing them of their cash...
TOP AIDES RALLY ROUND THE PREZ ; SAY ALERT WAS TOO MURKY TO ACT UPON
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top White House aides yesterday aggressively defended President Bush over the 9/11 uproar, downplaying the intelligence warning he received that Osama bin Laden's terror team might hijack commercial...
'PERV' PRIEST IN SUICIDE ; FORMER EGAN AIDE IS FOUND HANGED IN HIS ROOM
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amResigned under fire.An accused child-molester priest who for years served under Edward Cardinal Egan in Connecticut hanged himself yesterday in the second suicide linked to the growing priest-sex scandal. Rev....
CHENEY: DEMS' 9/11 CRITICISM IS 'IRRESPONSIBLE'
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amVice President Dick Cheney last night lashed out at congressional leaders who've unleashed a barrage of criticism toward the White House for concealing terrorist threats last summer. Cheney said Democrats...
EX-TEACHER IN TEEN-SEX BUST
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amAn ex-Queens social studies teacher was arrested for rape yesterday for allegedly having sex with a 16-year old female student - including an encounter in a classroom closet at Newtown...
DEADLY COLLAPSE SENDS WORKERS PLUMMETING AT RESTAURANT SITE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amOne worker was killed and six others seriously injured yesterday when a makeshift floor collapsed and buried them in rubble at an East Side brownstone being renovated to house a...
VANDAL MOM DESTROYS $1.4B OF SON'S HOT ART
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amA loyal mom has stunned the art world by destroying $1.4 billion worth of stolen art masterpieces to protect her museum-thief son. Mireille Breitwieser admitted to cops she cut up...
LINDH: IT'S SO UNFAIR: WANTS 'BIASED' CASE THROWN OUT OR MOVED TO CALIF.
May 17, 2002 | 4:00am"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh claimed in new court papers yesterday that he cannot get a fair trial - so he wants the entire case thrown out or moved to...
DEMS RIP WHITE HOUSE FOR KEEPING US IN DARK
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats yesterday pounded the White House for concealing terrorist threats and demanded President Bush make public any warnings he received before 9/11. Several Democrats also raised the...
HIJACK WARNING UPROAR
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amVice President Dick Cheney yesterday brushed off reports that the president knew of a hijacking threat before Sept. 11 - dismissing the controversy as just a trivial tabloid frenzy. Appearing...
TOP AIDES RALLY ROUND THE PREZ: SAY ALERT WAS TOO MURKY TO ACT UPON
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top White House aides yesterday aggressively defended President Bush over the 9/11 uproar, downplaying the intelligence warning he received that Osama bin Laden's terror team might hijack commercial...
'IT'S A HOU$E OF CARDS' : SHAKY STATE BUDGET WILL TOPPLE, EXPERTS SAY
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The $89.6 billion state budget adopted yesterday is held together by a series of questionable fiscal gimmicks that fiscal experts warn will blow a huge hole in the...
FLOOR COLLAPSE SENDS WORKERS PLUMMETING AT RESTAURANT SITE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amMayhem was on the menu for an as-yet-unopened Upper East Side restaurant yesterday when 18 construction workers were swallowed up by a collapse inside of the 61st Street brownstone. The...
RAMOS GOAL FIRES METROS TO FRIENDLY TIE WITH MILAN
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amMetroStars 1AC Milan 1 The MetroStars continued their history of strong play in friendlies with legendary European clubs, pulling out a 1-1 draw with fabled AC Milan of Italy's Serie...
U.S. BOOTERS BANGED UP IN VICTORY OVER JAMAICA
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amWorld Cup Tuneup U.S. 5 Jamaica 0 Minor injuries to three players couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the U.S. soccer team after its 5-0 win over Jamaica last night in...
STREAKING METS HAVE LEIT STUFF ; LEFTY HURLS, HITS CLUB PAST PODS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amMets 3Padres 1 SAN DIEGO - Al Leiter didn't need to throw a two-hit shutout to win last night. But he did need to help his own cause. Leiter couldn't...
FRANCO FINDS SOME RELIEF IN CLUBHOUSE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - John Franco greeted his teammates in the visiting clubhouse with a plastic cast on his left arm, a blue sling around his shoulder and painkillers...
NETS KEEP DREAMIN' ON; JERSEY'S MAGIC RUN MOVES ON TO CELTICS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe Improbable Dream season continues for the Nets. Improbable, not impossible. The Nets already have shown nothing is impossible as they have advanced to the Eastern Conference finals. Yes, the...
TIME TO GET YOUR FILL OF MIXED BAG
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amIT was not an easy week for anglers, having left off on Saturday with some terrific fishing, then the next four days seeing lots of rain and wind and only...
STEWARD: BEWARE LEWIS' DARK SIDE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amSo, to hear Lennox Lewis' trainer tell it, Mike Tyson won't be the only cashew in that Memphis jar on June 8. Emanuel Steward says he's afraid that Lewis might...
BLAME BAD HERB FOR THIS HEADACHE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amAS George McGovern said 30 years ago, "Who's next?" Make no mistake. Herb Brooks not only did the Rangers a huge favor by backing out of his implied commitment to...
PLOT THICKENS WITH CELTS FINAL EAST HURDLE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES Pick a plot line, any plot line, in this upcoming Nets-Celtics Eastern Conference Finals. How do the Nets deal with Paul Pierce, who riddled them for 37 points...
DON'T TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amMONDAY'S Diamondbacks-Pirates game provided the perfect micro-study of how money now supersedes common decency. Scheduled for a 7:05 start on ESPN2, the game's start was delayed more than two hours...
TERPS' WILCOX EYES KNICK NOD
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amChris Wilcox insists it doesn't matter where he's picked in the NBA Draft, saying all he wants is a chance to be successful. But the soft-spoken Maryland sophomore can't hide...
BOSTON BOMBERS BOTHER NETS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amTHIS just in: Displaying true humanitarian qualities, Lord Byron Scott presented the game ball to the person (beside himself, of course) most responsible for hushing Sweet Charlotte: Russ Granik. So,...
EARLY & LATE BUT MOSTLY LIVE ; WITH EFFORT, CATCH CUP AS IT HAPPENS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amIF the Yankees or Mets played a World Series game beginning at 2:30 a.m., would you stay up or get up to watch it live? A lot of you would....
METS ARE PITCHING IN: VALENTINE'S HURLERSSTARTING TO IMPRESS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - The season is one-quarter of the way over, and the Mets can barely get one-quarter of the way around the bases. Luckily for them, the club is...
'EMBLEM' HAS TRIPLE HISTORY ON HIS SIDE ; BAFFERT COLT EYES REPEAT OF SLEW'S '77 RUN TO GLORY
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - It was 25 years ago when a jet-black colt, fresh off a front-running romp in the Kentucky Derby, broke from post 8 in the Preakness, battled for the...
MORNING RAIN IN FORECAST
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The local forecast calls for rain today with a high of 74 degrees, and morning showers tomorrow with temperatures dropping to the mid-60's. Most of the Preakness runners...
KENYON'S A NEW MAN IN PLAYOFFS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amSO WHAT has happened to the Bad Boy of the NBA, the Nets' Flagrant Flyer and all the other baggage that followed Kenyon Martin into these playoffs. After two rounds...
WINNER WILL COME FROM DERBY QUARTET
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The Preakness Stakes, set to go at Pimlico tomorrow, is usually the easiest of the Triple Crown races to handicap because it is the most formful. Well-bet horses...
FRANKEL'S TAKING HIS TIME WITH 'MEDAGLIA'
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Of the 13 horses lined up for tomorrow's Preakness Stakes, none is coming up to the race in more unorthodox fashion than 5-2 morning-line favorite Medaglia d'Oro. After...
ALBERTS GIVES MIG LEG UP
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Nancy Alberts, breeder-owner-trainer of local horse Magic Weisner, as expected named Richard Migliore yesterday to ride him in the Preakness, replacing regular jockey Phil Teator. In the gelding's...
ANDY FEELING DANDY AFTER TEST IN TAMPA
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The true test will come when Andy Pettitte gets into a game and unleashes all of his pitches against live batters trying to get hits off him. However,...
NETS KEEP DREAMIN' ON: JERSEY'S MAGIC RUN MOVES ON TO CELTICS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe Improbable Dream season continues for the Nets. They beat Indiana in the first round. They toppled Charlotte, wrapping up that series Wednesday. With a second series victory, they felt...
CHANEY BIG ON YAO'S TEAM-FIRST ATTITUDE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amPerhaps if Don Chaney did not interview Yao Ming for 20 minutes two weeks ago in Chicago, the Knicks coach would harbor concerns about how he'll handle the obstacles the...
JOHNSON EARNING HIS STRIPES
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amFORGET about revenue sharing, luxury taxes, payroll thresholds, etc. Table all those labor buzzwords and concentrate on a more pressing concern. The first order of business for baseball's power brokers...
BOOMER BE-DEVILS RAYS
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 13 Devil Rays 0 Most people's eyes grow weaker with age. Yet when it comes to evaluating baseball talent, George Steinbrenner's lamps are getting stronger. The Boss hasn't always...
SERIES IN GRAVE DANGER
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amNOW that baseball labor is in the air, look for a lot of rhetoric - plenty of angling for public support - coming from both sides and from all those...
D-RAY ROMP WON'T KEEP DUQUE DOWN
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Less than 24 hours after complaining about tightness in the middle of his back and getting spanked by the brutal Devil Rays, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez expects to...
WELLS BE-DEVILS RAYS: YANKS' 4 HRS BACK HEFTY LEFTY'S 3-HITTER
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 13 Devil Rays 0 Ryan Rupe's first pitch came out of his right hand at precisely nine minutes after seven last night, which was the exact time the Devil...
ANDY FEELING DANDY AFTER TAMPA TEST
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThe true test will come when Andy Pettitte gets into a game and unleashes all of his pitches against live batters trying to get hits off him. When Pettitte asks...
TIME FOR U.S. TO PUT PIECES IN RIGHT PLACES
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThere was a time not so long ago that picking the U.S. national soccer team roster wasn't so much whittling down a huge pool of talented players but finding enough...
MR. BIG SHOT: CELTS' PAUL PIERCE CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO NETS' PLAYOFF HEALTH
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amNBC turns into the History Channel Sunday as the Nets host their first Eastern Conference Finals. The transformation of the Meadwolands from the home of basketball futility to a real...
HOOP LINEUP HINGES ON MARV
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amThese days the clamor among basketball announcers is as much about the fight for network jobs next year as it is the playoffs. With NBC relinquishing the NBA rights to...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: MIKE VS. MAD DOG
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amMike Francesa vs. Chris (Mad Dog) Russo [ITAL]Mike & the Mad Dog [END ITAL] is more about entertainment than information. That is why the more likeable Chris Russo takes this...
5 QUESTIONS FOR BARRY MELROSE
May 17, 2002 | 4:00amAndrew Marchand fires away at ESPN lead studio hockey analyst Barry Melrose. The 45-year-old Melrose has worked in Bristol full-time since 1996. Before that, Melrose coached the Kings from '92-95....