July 19, 2002
BURGER KING BATTLE SIZZLES - PARENT DIAGEO WEIGHS 2 WHOPPER BIDS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAs it gets closer to flipping Burger King, Diageo has limited its menu to two buyers. The British beverage giant has narrowed its auction for the fast-food chain to two...
LOGAN WENT FROM BACKWOODS TO BOARDROOM
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amDon Logan was so poor as a youngster that he ate squirrel that he hunted in the backwoods of Alabama. Now the squirrel-eating 58-year-old is the new chairman of media...
SEARS TURNAROUND IS PAYING OFF
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amA souped-up Sears, Roebuck & Co. is making money. The nation's largest department store chain reported net income of $420 million, or $1.31 a share, for the second quarter, compared...
S&P DROPS UNDER 900
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amStocks plunged to triple-digit losses and sent the Standard & Poor's 500 below 900 as investors unable to shake off earnings jitters and accounting bugaboos spent the afternoon dumping shares....
WORLDCOM INC. COULD FILE CHAP. 11 AS SOON AS SUN.
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAfter fighting for weeks to stay afloat, WorldCom Inc. has decided to throw in the towel. The embattled telecommunications provider, rocked by a massive accounting scandal and mounting debt, may...
START-UP QUEEN ANN MOORE TAKES REINS AT TIME INC.
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAnn Moore, a self-styled start-up queen, is now the new chairman and CEO of Time Inc. overseeing People, Time, Sports Illustrated and 140 other magazines. It marks the first time...
REVENUE DEAL WAS FOR THE DOGS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amCreative content, yes, but in accounting? AOL found a novel way to boost revenue by converting a legal dispute into a big advertising sale. It all started when AOL bought...
POOLEY HOPS POND TO RUN TIME'S EUROPEAN BUSINESS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amONE might think that with all the shaking up at the top, nothing else was happening inside Time Inc. yesterday - but you'd be wrong. Eric Pooley, the Nation editor...
HOUSE OF CARDS - AOL $HUFFLE SAVED TW MERGER: REPORT
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAOL may have distorted its books with accounting tricks to make sure its marriage to Time Warner wouldn't end at the altar. On the eve of the historic $106 billion...
HELLO, SAILOR ; THE FLEET'S IN - AND THE LADIES OF 'SEX' ARE DRESSED TO COME ABOARD
July 19, 2002 | 4:00am"Sex And The City" Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO ½ I WAS worried about the girls last year. They were getting a little bit pathetic, a tad too desperate,...
LITTLE TO RECOMMEND IN LOUSY MOUSE SEQUEL
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amSTUART LITTLE 2 1/2 Call the exterminators.Running time: 78 minutes. Rated PG(mildly vulgar humor). At the E-Walk, theChelsea, the Union Square, others. YOU know "Stuart Little 2" is spectacularly clueless...
SIMPLY SEDUCTIVE
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amTADPOLE An indie triumph.Running time: 77 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexual themes, mild profanity). At the Lincoln Plaza and the Sunshine. SHORT and sweet, small and smart, "Tadpole" is the oasis...
MEXICAN POP PRINCESS PAULINA IS READY TO... CROSS THE BORDER
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAS the latest Latin sensation to cross over into the American pop world, Paulina Rubio might seem like a newcomer.Hardly.The 31-year-old singer already has 22 albums out - and a...
ALICIA: DON'T GO CHANGIN' ; MYCHAL WATTS/WIREIMAHGE.COM
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amALICIA KEYS HAVING a great album that snags a whopping five Grammys doesn't make you a great performer. At Jones Beach Wednesday, Alicia Keys offered an erratic show that lacked...
THE UNBEARABLE NOTHING OF 'BEING'
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amBEING CLAUDINE Zero stars THIS feeble shot at a screwball comedy was director I-fan Quirk's New York University thesis project - and each frame shrieks "student film." It may be...
DOUSE 'FIRE'
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amWHAT TO DO IN CASE OF FIRE 1/2 Anarchy lite.In German with English subtitles. Running time: 102 minutes. Rated R (language, nudity, violence). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets....
VIETNAM FROM ANOTHER ANGLE
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amGREEN DRAGON A new view of Vietnam.In English and Vietnamese, with English subtitles. Running time: 113 minutes. Rated PG-13 (some disturbing situations, nudity and language). At the Quad, 13th Street,...
'DON' NOT AT FULL TILT
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amDON QUIXOTE Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center. Season runs through tomorrow. (212) 721-6500. THERE are horses for courses. But would Alexander Gorsky's sweet but brash old ballet "Don Quixote" be...
THE VANISHED VILLAGE REVISITED
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amVERONIQUEAt the Bank Street Theatre, 155 Bank St. Through Aug. 4. Call (212) 561-9635. IT wasn't until the 1950s that writers discovered how free and fascinating life was in New...
GEORGE IS WAITING, BILL
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - ABC news executives yesterday vowed to give Sunday-morning stalwart "This Week" a "freshening up" by airing stories that reach beyond Washington. The Beltway talk institution will take...
PLAYWRIGHT TRAVELS INTO SATIRE COUNTRY
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amVALPARAISOAt the Blue Heron Arts Center, 123 E. 24th St. Through July 29. Call (212) 414-5136. THIS guy gets on a plane bound, he thinks, for Valparaiso, Indiana, but by...
STARR REPORT
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAnd you call yourself a scammer? Someone calling himself "Benson Seko" has to be one of the dumbest Internet scam artists in recent memory - and he definitely has never...
ASIAN OCCASION
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amCELEBRATING its silver anniversary, the Asian American International Film Festival opens tonight at the Asia Society, bringing over 100 new films from China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, the Philippines and...
SIMON SAYS: I SKIPPED 'IDOL' TO PARTY
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amSIMON Cowell says it was all a big misunderstanding. The snarky "American Idol" judge's absence from Wednesday night's live show had nothing to do with him allegedly flipping the bird...
PROOF IS IN PERFORMERS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amPROOF 1/2The Walter Kerr Theater, 219 W. 48th St. (212) 239-6200. WHEN you have to recast a Pulitzer Prize/Tony Award Best Play hit, you need to be extraordinarily watchful -...
PLAY-DOUGH BID ; PUBLIC AND BROADWAY MAY MAKE A DEAL
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Public Theater, which last season launched the Tony Award-winning "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Topdog/Underdog," is talking with Broadway producer Carole Shornstein Hayes about a deal...
DIG THIS SHOW - 'SIX FEET UNDER' BURIES THE FIELD WITH 23 NOMINATIONS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amHBO's surreal undertakers drama, "Six Feet Under," snagged a whopping 23 Emmy nominations yesterday - helped by the fact that HBO stablemate "The Sopranos" was ineligible this year. "Six Feet...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amA family is suing Carnival Cruise Lines after it threw them off an ocean liner for bringing dozens of live bees on board. The Afkhamis of Maryland said the bees...
SCAPEGOATS BY DESIGN
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE most brilliant political gambit in the past week took place in full public view on Tuesday, when the six designs for the World Trade Center site were released. Did...
TEARS FOR KID IN COP-VAN TRAGEDY
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe 13-year-old boy killed when the mirror of an unmarked police van hit him in a freak accident on a Harlem street was remembered yesterday as "a precious jewel." Hundreds...
VOTERS LIKE MIKE, BUT LONG FOR RUDY: POLL
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amVoters may like Mayor Mike - but not quite as much as Rudy. In a hypothetical matchup for 2005, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani edges out Bloomberg, 40 to 36 percent,...
LOVING TO HATE ANDREW CUOMO
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amOne of the strangest developments in this year's surprisingly low-key gubernatorial contest is this: The more voters say they dislike Andrew Cuomo, the better he does in the polls. Two...
GOV TRIES TO PUT BRAKES ON TALK OF FARE HIKE
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amGov. Pataki yesterday said he hopes to avert a transit-fare hike despite fiscal woes that have Mayor Bloomberg threatening to cut city funding to the MTA. In Albany yesterday, Pataki...
SUBWAY SILLINESS COMING THROUGH LOUDER AND CLEARER
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amBasic subway announcements are getting easier to hear - but when it comes to announcing delays, conductors too often are inaudible or give useless information, a new survey found. The...
MANY OF THESE NUTTY NODS DESERVE A 'NOT!'
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE nutty Emmy voters are at it again. Yesterday, they awarded 23 Emmy nominations to "Six Feet Under," HBO's grossly overrated series about a dysfunctional funeral parlor, and virtually ignored...
HERO DOG DISSED - PET INSURER REJECTS MEDICAL CLAIMS FOR WTC SEARCH POOCH
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe owner of one of the top Ground Zero search-and-rescue dogs says an insurance company has cruelly refused to pay for his hero pooch's medical bills. Bear, a 12-year-old golden...
CHUCK MULLS MAKING CARL A 'SCHU'-IN
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amSEN. Chuck Schumer is quietly rooting for Carl McCall in his Democratic primary race against Andrew Cuomo - and considering endorsing him in early September. Schumer - who Democratic insiders...
GROOM RAIDER ANGELINA OFFICIALLY SLINGS HUBBY BILLY BOB
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAngelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton have called it quits, ending one of Tinseltown's most bizarre marriages. Oscar-winner Jolie filed for divorce from Thornton Wednesday, court documents made public yesterday...
SOB STORY: WEEPING LIZZIE IN 'SORRY' STATE AS TRIAL LOOMS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amSobbing uncontrollably, p.r. princess Lizzie Grubman blurted out an emotional apology to her 16 victims yesterday, after a judge moved to set her trial date on charges of plowing her...
'BOXCUTTER RAPIST' BUSTED IN CENTRAL PK.
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amA homeless man was busted for a rape in Central Park by a cop who was a block from the scene of the attack, police said. At 1:15 a.m., John...
ZACARIAS: I'M GUILTY - JUDGE NIXES BIZARRE AL QAEDA CONFESSION - FOR NOW
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - Zacarias Moussaoui stunned a court by blurting out, "I am a member of al Qaeda," and trying to plead guilty - but the judge refused to allow...
IT'S EVERY PARENT'S DEEPEST FEAR
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amWHEN the teacher handed me a note last week, I feared I'd been busted for slipping peanut butter into my daughter's summer-camp snack bag - a private-school felony. Don't I...
SYSTEM FLUNKS IN NEW POLL
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amBig Apple residents say the city's public schools are rotten, but believe Mayor Bloomberg can turn them around, according to a poll released yesterday. The Quinnipiac University survey shows that...
SAD END TO FAIRY TALE - SWEETHEART'S TEARS AT FIRE-HERO FUNERAL
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amIT WAS a fairy-tale romance cut short by tragedy. Firefighter Michael Kiefer and his sweetheart Jamie Huggler were supposed to be married this summer at St. Catherine of Sienna -...
CONGRESS GIVES NY ANOTHER $5.5 BILLION
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - After months of haggling, Congress yesterday finally cut a deal giving New York another $5.5 billion to rebuild at Ground Zero - making a total of $21.4 billion...
CURFEW WAS LIFTED IN TEL AVIV BOMBERS' HOMETOWN
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amTEL AVIV - The two Palestinian homicide bombers who killed themselves and three innocent people on a crowded street Wednesday were from Nablus, a West Bank town where the Israel-imposed...
MRS. OZZY TELLS OF HER CANCER PANIC
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amOzzy Osbourne's wife, Sharon, says she freaked out when she was diagnosed with colon cancer, and her rocker hubby was so jolted, he had to be sedated. "My stomach sank....
BLOOMY PLANS $1B MORE IN CITY CUTS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday told the state Financial Control Board that he's planning to slash an additional $1 billion in spending to ease the city's financial crisis. Every city agency has...
SOFT TEARS SERVE BEST
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAT the end of the submarine thriller opening today, "K-19: The Widowmaker," there's a moment that's relevant to the question of what memorial will be appropriate to the events of...
$20M GAY-BIAS VERDICT NIXED
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAn appeals court threw out a $20 million discrimination verdict against the Supper Club yesterday after finding the alleged victim's lawyer made "highly prejudicial" comments about the nightspot's owner -...
STARVED KID'S POP: I'M DADDY DEAREST
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amHis 4-year-old daughter weighed only 15 pounds when she starved to death in her filthy crib. But that didn't stop Bronx security guard LeRoy Dickerson, on trial for her murder,...
PRESIDENT BUSH VOWED TO "PUSH HARD FOR PEACE"
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush vowed to "push hard for peace" despite the latest Palestinian terror attacks as he met with Arab officials yesterday to prod them to take a more...
TOP COP KELLY OUR NEWEST LIBERTY JUDGE
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly has joined the prestigious panel of judges who will select 10 winners of The Post's Liberty Medals as shining examples of Gotham do-gooders. "The Liberty Medals...
MIKE PICKS 'SILENT' 7 - MAYOR ORDERS NEW ED. BOARD TO KEEP QUIET
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday tapped a diverse group of educators and business leaders for the new Board of Education - and immediately created a stir by ordering them not to talk...
'INDIAN' UPRISING OVER HS NICKNAME
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amA Long Island high school refused to smoke the peace pipe and change the Native American nickname of its team, despite complaints from state Education Commissioner Richard Mills that it's...
T-SEXUALS FIGHT 'BAN' AT HOT CLUB
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amTwo transsexuals are fighting an alleged "tranny" ban at a popular Times Square nightclub. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Andrea Massenberg and Julie Thalheimer charge that the Sound...
DIDDY PALS HIP-HOPPING MAD OVER ROYALTIES
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amSean "P. Diddy" Combs is taking a legal hit over his biggest hit. The hip-hop honcho is being sued for allegedly cheating his co-writers out of big bucks from his...
'ROGUE' FBI TRADER A PRISONER OF LOVE
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amA former FBI agent accused of insider trading was jailed again in New York yesterday for contacting a witness in the case - an ex-girlfriend who'd taken investment tips from...
MYSTERY SHROUDS BX. COP'S DEATH
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amState police are investigating the mysterious case of a Bronx cop found dead upstate under a Route 84 overpass early yesterday - with his parked motorcycle idling nearby. Sgt. Edward...
GUTSY CABIN CREW PHONED IN CLUES FROM DOOMED 9/11 JET
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amTwo flight attendants on the doomed American Airlines plane that slammed into the World Trade Center Sept. 11 relayed vital details that helped the FBI identify the terrorists responsible. For...
PATIENTS INFECTED BY PHONY DOCTORS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAuthorities are on the hunt for a phony doctor in Manhattan who has infected patients with a life-threatening bacteria - after a Queens couple was busted for allegedly performing similar...
L.A. 'TEEN BEAT' COP FIGHTS RAP
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The white cop captured on videotape roughing up a handcuffed black teen pleaded not guilty yesterday to assault charges. Inglewood officer Jeremy Morse, 24, wore a dark...
SAMANTHA'S DAD RAGES - RIPS INTO KIDNAPPER WHO KILLED HIS GIRL
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe anguished father of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion lashed out last night at the fiend who kidnapped and killed her, comparing him to master terrorist Osama bin Laden. "This is the...
MOM'S TEARFUL PLEA: RETURN MY BABY
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn mom had a poignant message last night for a friend who abducted her 2-year-old child. "I just want my daughter home," Elisa Owens said as she met detectives...
SENATE ETHICS PANEL TO GRILL 'TORCH'
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli is slated to testify under oath on Monday as part of the Senate ethics probe into charges he took improper gifts, including a...
JUDGE'S RULING $OCKS WAKSAL
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amSam Waksal has suffered his first courtroom setback - and it could cost him as much as $1.8 million. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ira Gammerman ordered the alleged biotech scammer...
9/11 KIN ARE ALL EARS ON REBUILD - AWAIT FORUM BEFORE SPEAKING OUT ON NEW TOWER DESIGNS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amA coalition of 9/11 victims' relatives has decided to wait until after a major public forum tomorrow before commenting on the six Ground Zero designs. Lee Ielpi, a retired firefighter...
SHARON: 'I WAS IN SHOCK, OZZY WAS TERRIFIED'
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amOzzy Osbourne's wife Sharon says she freaked out when she was diagnosed with colon cancer and her rocker hubby was so jolted he had to be sedated. "My stomach sank....
'DIDDLER ON THE ROOF' NABBED DNA FINGERS PERV MUGGER
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amA mugger who kidnapped a woman three years ago and forced her to strip naked on a Gramercy Park rooftop while he masturbated at the scene has been arrested through...
9/11 KIN ARE ALL EARS ON REBUILD
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amA coalition of 9/11 victims' relatives has decided to wait until after a major public forum tomorrow before commenting on the six Ground Zero designs. Lee Ielpi, a retired firefighter...
LUNKERS APLENTY, FROM CITY ISLAND TO EAST END
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amSALTWATER anglers working the New York Bight and the waters around Long Island can expect another fun-filled weekend. Keeper fluke continue to provide action along most of the South Shore....
WISCHUSEN, LYONS GET CALL FROM JETS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amPlay-by-play man Bob Wischusen and analyst Marty Lyons will call Jets games this season, the team and MSG Radio announced yesterday. Wischusen's pre- and post-game host role will be taken...
TRIO OF FIREFIGHTERS TACKLES CELEB GOLF
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amThree New York City firefighters will be playing in the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course, beginning with today's first round. Kevin O'Brien, Tom McCann...
PRICE STILL PACKS A PUNCH
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amGULLANE, Scotland - Nick Price, following a three-under-par round of 68 yesterday, predicted that this British Open will be "a closely-contested major with about eight guys within three or four...
UNLIKELY DUO NEAR TOP SPOT
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES GULLANE, Scotland - Two unlikely players are lurking near the top of the British Open leaderboard: Des Smyth and Sandy Lyle. Smyth is a 49-year-old Irishman readying himself...
TIGER GIVES FIELD OPEN LOOK AT JUG; SPUTTERING PUTTER PRODUCES LOGJAM ATOP LEADERBOARD
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amGULLANE, Scotland - That gust of wind you might have heard or felt coming from Muirfield in yesterday's British Open first round wasn't a nasty weather front gathering off the...
KIDD'S BRACING FOR FREE-AGENT QUERIES
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amNets superstar Jason Kidd, back in his home area yesterday, was asked about playing with the Warriors after becoming a free agent next summer. Kidd said he would consider it....
ROSE SMELLS SUCCESS ; PARTNERS PLAY BETTER THAN TIGER
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amGULLANE, Scotland - You think Justin Rose and Shigeki Maruyama were intimidated by playing in Tiger Woods' group yesterday? They kicked his butt, and had a delightful time doing it....
KNICKS GET LUCKY BREAK ON WILLIAMS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Book a room for rookie Frank Williams in Charleston. After the point guard had successful surgery on his broken left wrist yesterday at Beth Israel, a relieved Knick...
MCHALE TO KNICKS: T'WOLVES WON'T DEAL
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Timberwolves GM Kevin McHale took a shot at the Knicks' roster in defusing any chance of doing a sign-and-trade for free agent center Rasho Nesterovic. "I'm not trading...
ROSE: GAME CAN GAMBLE WITH A STRIKE
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amPete Rose bets that if there is a baseball strike, it won't hurt the game that much. "They know and you know and I know that if there's another strike,...
METS FACE DECISION ON BACSIK
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - As expected, lefty Mike Bacsik will start tomorrow night in Cincinnati. "I'm just happy to be here today," Bacsik said. "I'm starting to ease into feeling...
BOMBERS FIRED UP FOR BOSOX BATTLE ; YANKS ARE LOOKING TO PAD 3-GAME LEAD
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amCome Sunday, Jeff Weaver will take the mound at Yankee Stadium, glance around, take in the cacophony of noise, venom and spirit that defines Yankees vs. Red Sox. Perhaps he...
SPENCER'S DOUBLE TOPPLES TIGERS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 6Tigers 5 Shane Spencer trotted around the Yankee clubhouse yesterday wearing a T-shirt that read: "Wasssuuup." Chances are his spirits were. Spencer's game-winning RBI double in the eighth inning...
STANTON UPSET FOR GIVING AWAY BOOMER'S LEAD
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES There weren't all smiles in the Yankees clubhouse following yesterday's 6-5 victory over the Tigers. Reliever Mike Stanton was kicking himself for a poor outing that nearly cost...
TORRE TIPS HIS CAP TO WELLS ; LEFTY'S PERFORMANCE IMPRESSES SKIPPER
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amDavid Wells was long gone by the time the Yankees' 6-5 come-from-behind win over the Tigers was decided. In the seventh inning he walked off the Stadium field to a...
BOSTON OWNERSHIP'S PINK SOX ARE SHOWING
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amBY THE time new owners Tom Werner and John Henry get done with their subtle dismantling of the Red Sox, the team might want to consider changing its name to...
GUERRERO GORES METS ; SOLO SHOT IN 8TH SNAPS AMAZIN'S WIN STREAK
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amExpos 2Mets 1 MONTREAL - It took the Mets eight innings and 10 hits to score one run off Bartolo Colon and tie the Expos yesterday afternoon. And then with...
BASEBALL SUES UMPIRES IN TIFF OVER HIRSCHBECK
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amMajor League Baseball sued its umpires yesterday in an attempt to discipline John Hirschbeck without taking the matter to arbitration. It was the latest round in a dispute that began...
JAMES BACK TO SONICS
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Seattle's Jerome James will not be taking the opening tap for the Knicks for their season opener Oct. 30 in Detroit. The 7-1, 280-pound free agent center, who...
ISLES INK DEFENDER AND LW
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amThe Islanders yesterday filled the position vacated by defenseman Branislav Mezei by signing former Calgary farmhand Alan Letang. The 27-year-old is expected to step in for the departed Mezei, who...
WHITMORE GIVES LIBERTY GOOD REASON TO SMILE
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amLiberty 72 Sparks 59 If you want to see Tamika Whitmore play her best, just push her around a little. The Los Angeles Sparks tried to do that last night...
LIBS' PHILLIPS STILL ALL-STAR STRUCK
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amTari Phillips is glad she made last week's WNBA All-Star game. Really. She just has to remind herself sometimes. "It's a great honor and it's great for the fans, but...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amMichael Kay vs. Mac & Sid Anyone can have an opinion, but an informed one is another story. This takes more than just reading the newspapers. Showing your face in...
5 QUESTIONS WITH FRED HICKMAN
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand caught up with YES Network studio host Fred Hickman. Hickman, 45, worked at CNN for almost two decades before joining YES in November. Q:...
NO PARDON FOR TONY: ESPN HOST VOWS SUSPENSION WON'T CHANGE HIM
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amAfter getting suspended without pay by ESPN for criticizing the sports network, talk show host Tony Kornheiser doesn't plan to conduct his work differently. "I hope not," Kornheiser said. "It's...
THE BEST OF ENEMIES: AMONG RIVALRIES, YANKEES VS. RED SOX IS UNRIVALED
July 19, 2002 | 4:00amYankee-Red Sox history features one undeniable theme. In the end, the Yankees win. ESPN's Peter Gammons, who began his career as a reporter for the Boston Globe in 1969, knows...