June 11, 2004
LANGONE'S NO INNOCENT GOOD GUY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amKEN Langone should be grateful his money is all Eliot Spitzer is going after. Like former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Dick Grasso, Langone seems to have concluded that the...
DIET QUEEN GETS SWEET EXIT DEAL
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amShe's affectionately called the queen of Herbalife, with a new job that's a perfect fit for one - working just an hour a day at $60,000 a month. Carol Hannah,...
DON'T BLAME ME- FUMING LANGONE RIPS SPITZER, REFUSES TO SETTLE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amFormer New York Stock Exchange board member Ken Langone blasted Eliot Spitzer, accusing the New York State attorney general of trying to bully him and ex-NYSE boss Dick Grasso into...
PUTNAM'S DISGRACED EX-BOSS GETS $78M
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe Wall Street boss ousted over Putnam Investments' multi-billion mutual funds scandal will get a $78 million goodbye kiss. Larry Lasser, 61 - who typically pulled in as much as...
ONCE BEST-DRESSED, SHE'S OFF ON A QUEST
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amDonna Karan, the designer who revolutionized the way women dress in the workplace, has in the last few years made no secret of her infatuation with what are viewed as...
SPITZER GETS A $1.5M B'DAY GIFT
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amMore than 450 people gathered at the ESPN Zone in Times Square Wednesday night to toast the New York Attorney General's 45th birthday. The event - a fundraiser - brought...
LAUNCH LOOKING LESS HAPPY - FULLER FACES STORM AT NEW SHELTER MAG AS SOME LEAVE STAFF
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amTHINGS aren't looking so happy at Happy Home. That's the new shelter title American Media Editorial Director Bonnie Fuller convinced CEO David Pecker to launch in a bid to reach...
UNIVISION SUES TO BLOCK NIELSEN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amIn the newest big attack on Nielsen's controversial people-meters in urban areas, Spanish broadcasting giant Univision sued yesterday for an injunction to block the ratings system. Nielsen Media Research has...
EMBEZZLER GETS 51-MOS. IN JAIL
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe former head of a payroll industry trade group was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in prison, after being accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from his not...
REAGAN STILL A GOOD READ
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amIn the scramble to publish or republish any Ronald Reagan-themed books in the days after the former president's death, two publishing houses have benefited from extraordinary coincidence. The first was...
OUT OF FASHION - PRIMA DONNA KARAN CREATING HEADACHES FOR LVMH
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amFashion designer Donna Karan recently visited the Neiman Marcus store in Beverly Hills, where she berated the sales staff over the way her clothes were displayed, people with knowledge of...
'GARFIELD' A REAL DOG
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amGARFIELD[Zero stars] Summer roadkill. Running time: 82 minutes. Rated PG (mild vulgarity). At Clearview Chelsea and Lincoln Cinemas. 'GARFIELD" is a downright cat-astrophe, with Jim Davis' lasagna-loving feline headlining the...
IT'S PUPPETGATE! - 'Q' STIFFS ROAD FOR VEGAS BUCKS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amAND we thought that "Avenue Q" Tony Award campaign was so innocent, so sweet, so heartfelt. Turns out those cute puppets were up to some dirty tricks worthy of Richard...
INDIE MUSIC
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amTWO-NIGHT STAND FOR TRIO: The three surviving members of MC5 - influential, anti-establishment Motor City rockers - are touring as DKT/MC5 and hit the Bowery Ballroom Mon day and Tuesday...
'WORD' A HIT UP & DOWN AND ACROSS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amWORD WARS[] (three stars)Running time: 76 minutes. Not rated (adult language, drug use). At the Cinema Village, 12th Street, east of Sixth Avenue. 'THIS is not your grandmother's game of...
TOUR DE FORCED
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amNO DOUBT BLINK-182 SETTING a couple of O.C. rockers like No Doubt and blink-182 on the same bill may sound like a master stroke in the art of crazysexycool, but...
STARR REPORT
June 11, 2004 | 4:00am'Idol' hands on deck "American Idol" runner-up Diana DeGarmo is already reaping the rewards of her in stant fame. Next Friday, AOL will premiere her first studio track, "Don't Cry...
DIESEL RUNNING ON EMPTY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amTHE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK [] (One star) Riddick-ulous. Running time: 115 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violent action and some language). At the Empire, the Kips Bay, the Battery...
ROCK PICK
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL MOTION:Madonna, who has reinvented herself a dozen times over the last two decades, sheds her skin again on her new tour, set to play six shows...
FINALLY, DAVE TO SEE PARIS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amDAVID Letterman will finally have his night with Paris. Paris Hilton will appear on "The Late Show" Monday (11:35 p.m./Ch. 2) to promote the second season of "The Simple Life"...
'GOLDEN' DELICIOUS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amBROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE[] (three stars) Bravo! Running time: 110 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Angelika and the Sutton. 'BROADWAY: The Golden Age" is a delightful "That's Entertainment"...
FILM PICK
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amUP AGAINST THE WALL (STREET): The Brooklyn International Film Festival winds up Sunday night with, appropriately, "The Kings of Brooklyn," directed by local boy Lance Lane. The tale of three...
FADING MEMORIES - ROSENBERG FAMILY GLOSSES OVER BAD
June 11, 2004 | 4:00am"Heir to an Execution" Monday at 8 p.m. on HBO MORE than 50 years after they were executed as Soviet spies, the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg continues to...
INDIE NERD NAPOLEON A CONQUERING HERO
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amNAPOLEON DYNAMITE [] (three stars) A smart "Dumb and Dumber." Running time: 86 minutes. Rated PG (very mild vulgarity). At the Lincoln Square and the Sunshine. 'NAPOLEON Dynamite," a charming...
DANCE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amBALLET THEATER TRADITIONAL: Through July 16, the venture some can twinkle their own toes, and even feet, when Lin coln Center's "A Midsummer Night's Swing," that hardy per ennial tiptoe...
KIDS' PICK
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amJUNIOR GOLF ACADEMY TRY OUTS:New York City kids hoping to become the next Tiger Woods or Annika Sorenstam are invited to participate in the City Parks Foundation's Junior Golf Academy...
'MARRIED' NOT MADE IN HEAVEN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amFRANKIE AND JOHNNY ARE MARRIED[ 1/2] (One and one-half stars) Self-indulgent folly. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated R (language, including sexual references and brief drug use)) At the Quad, West...
'OTHELLO' PUT IN BAD LIGHT
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amOTHELLOAt the Baruch Performing Arts Center, 25th Street between Lexington and Third avenues. Through June 27. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. WHEN the Venetian army descends on Cyprus in the new...
ABC PULLS 'KIMMEL' OVER DETROIT JOKE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amABC yanked Wednesday's edition of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" when network officials objected to comments Kimmel made during a taping of that day's show. They were also upset over jokes Kimmel...
EYE OF THE 'TIGER'
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amTO record mellowdrone's first EP, "a demonstration of intellectual property," Jonathan Bates used a Mac, a Casio keyboard from RadioShack and some guitars. With mellowdrone's new EP, "go get 'em...
FORTHE AGES ; TV PROVES ITS WORTH IN TRAGEDY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amTHE TV coverage of our national week of mourning for Ronald Reagan is disproving the belief held by many that TV is good for nothing. This week, TV has been...
TAKE THESE 'WIVES' ... PLEASE! KIDMAN & CO. CAN'T SAVE TROUBLED 'STEPFORD'
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amTHE STEPFORD WIVES (two stars) A waste of talent. Running time: 93 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexual content, thematic material and language). At E-Walk, Loews Lincoln Square, Loews Orpheum, others. THE...
MOB NAME GAME - MASSINO PUT HIS TAG ON FAMILY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA former mob capo and confidant to Joseph Massino testified yesterday the reputed Mafia boss boasted he was "a one-man army" when it came to murder and renamed the Bonanno...
BIDDER $WEET - HEPBURN AUCTION NETS $2M IN 1ST DAY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amFans of Katharine Hepburn were positively star-struck at an auction of the Hollywood legend's belongings yesterday, sending sales of her property far beyond estimates. By the end of the first...
OUT WITH A BANG - BANGLADESHIS SENT HOME AFTER STRIPPER BASH
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amTauhidul Chaudhury will likely be staying in the doghouse when he gets back to Bangladesh. His high-spending high jinks at an East Side strip club - which landed him a...
WORLD BIGS FLOCK TO PAY RESPECTS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - One of the greatest assemblies of world leaders ever has gathered in the nation's capital to pay tribute to Ronald Reagan. Yesterday, many paid condolence calls on Nancy...
SOUL TO HEAVEN - LEGENDARY BLUESMAN DIES AT AGE 73
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amSinger and pianist Ray Charles, who overcame childhood poverty, blindness and heroin addiction to become one of America's most beloved entertainers, died yesterday. He was 73. Charles, who blended gospel...
WTC ARTS SURPRISE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amFailing to tap a big-name cultural institution for Ground Zero, redevelopment officials announced yesterday that four less well-known organizations were selected yesterday to occupy future new buildings at the site....
GRAFFITI ARTIST NAILED TO WALL
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA beloved Spanish Harlem street artist best known for his impromptu portrait of the late salsa star Celia Cruz was found guilty yesterday of criminal mischief and making graffiti -...
BABY SLAY RAGE - MIKE ORDERS SHELTER PROBE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe city has launched a sweeping investigation to determine how a 3-month-old child was beaten to death while his troubled family was living in a city shelter and getting help...
HOW R&B GREAT'S SOUND OPENED MY EYES
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amRAY CHARLES' best-known recording is "Georgia on My Mind," which he made for ABC-Paramount records in the early 1960s. But the legendary blind bluesman was never better than when he...
ZONGO COP: I'M NOT GUILTY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe cop who shot an unarmed West African immigrant in a Chelsea storehouse last year pleaded not guilty to manslaughter yesterday before both sides grabbed news microphones to condemn or...
'A NATIONAL TREASURE' - BUSH REACHES OUT TO LAUD REAGAN AS HE JOINSTHOUSANDS FILING PAST CASKET IN CAPITOL
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday hailed Ronald Reagan as "a national treasure" and paid his respects before the flag-draped casket of the 40th president on a day of mourning in...
KELLY BLASTS JUDGE FOR AIDING THUG'S ESCAPE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly slammed a controversial Queens judge yesterday for helping a convicted drug dealer avoid arrest for an unrelated "violent" robbery by a detective waiting outside the courtroom....
FRAUD CONVICTION DETHRONES SHAM SULTAN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA phony sultan who swindled two woman out of $110,000 by pretending to be fabulously wealthy, even as he lived in a Queens walk-up apartment, was convicted yesterday of charges...
ICAHN'S ALL CLASS - MOGUL PLANS 5 MORE CHARTERS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amBillionaire financier Carl Icahn plans to open a network of five new charter schools to build on the success of the first one he founded in the South Bronx, The...
LAVISH LAURA FELL FROM 3G COMFY COUCH TO JURIST'S BENCH
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amLaura Blackburne will forever be linked to a $3,100 pink leather couch. The couch was more than just an easily ridiculed part of Blackburne's $356,000 office renovation when she was...
B'KLYN TEACHERS ON GRILL IN CHEAT FLAP
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amProbers from Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's office are grilling teachers from a Brooklyn elementary school about alleged violations of testing rules that led to students getting an advance peek of...
'ALL QUIET' AT LAFAYETTE HS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amBrooklyn's beleaguered Lafayette HS has made strides in restoring order and reducing violence this year, a top school official said yesterday. The aide to Chancellor Joel Klein made the assertion...
LET 'LITTLE NICK' BE BOSS: GOTTI
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amGambino capo Nicholas "Little Nicky" Corozzo can rule the family if he wants. That was the message from former mob boss wannabe John A. "Junior" Gotti yesterday - on the...
BIDDER $WEET - HEPBURN BOFFO BUT TITANIC A DISASTER
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amIt was a tale of two auctions yesterday in Manhattan as fans of Katharine Hepburn were positively star-struck by the Hollywood legend's personal effects while memorabilia from the Titanic sank....
RAPPER YAP FLAP - PET-WEAR CO. SUES DIRTY DAWG DMX
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA pet-wear company is suing rap sensation DMX, insisting it didn't know he had pleaded guilty to animal-cruelty charges when it hired him to be the spokesman for a new...
THIEF MOWS DOWN BOY IN HARLEM HIT-RUN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA thief driving a stolen SUV struck and seriously injured a 9-year-old boy crossing an East Harlem street yesterday, cops and witnesses said. Little Billah Barnes was a few steps...
'A NATIONAL TREASURE' - BUSH REACHES OUT TO PRAISE REAGAN AS HE JOINS THOUSANDS FILING PAST CASKET IN CAPITOL
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday hailed Ronald Reagan as "a national treasure" and paid his respects before the flag-draped casket of the 40th president on a day of mourning in...
PAIR ARRESTED AFTER HIT-RUN OF HARLEM BOY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA hit and run driver and his girlfriend were arrested early today after a 9-year-old boy was mowed down and seriously injured while crossing an East Harlem street yesterday. The...
JEALOUS EX FATALLY STABS S.I. MAN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx man was busted yesterday for knifing to death his ex-lover's new boyfriend in Staten Island, cops said. Jose Roman, 31, of Mount Eden, viciously stabbed Raymond Saldana, 29,...
SARAH JESSICA'S CHOICE - ON SCHOOLS, THE POOR DON'T GET ONE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00am'SEX and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker said this week that she plans to send her son James (now just 18 months old) to public school in New York...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThirteen cops - more than half the police force of Hildade, Utah - have more than one wife. But state Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who uncovered the scandal in the...
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GUYS RAT
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amOF all the regulations observed by the mob, Richie Cantarella stuck to his guns over his very own cardinal rule: no good turn shall go unpunished. Cantarella is the fourth...
A MILE-LONG LINE OF LIVES TOUCHED BY TRUE LEADER
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amUNDER a soaring dome that feels as if it might rise up straight to God, Ronald Reagan's casket lay, simply and eloquently. Like the man himself. I'd just spent three...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amQUEENS (s, lcf) * A 53-year-old man was shot dead and a gas station attendant was wounded at a Springfield Gardens station yesterday, cops said. The two men - whose...
FAREWELL TO B'KLYN JURIST
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amHundreds showed up yesterday to pay their final respects to Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Charles Posner. Those who attended the funeral service at Harry Nieberg and Sons Midwood Chapel said...
MARTHA'S 2ND SHOT - BIDS FOR NEW TRIAL OVER 'LIAR'
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amMartha Stewart is trying to whip up a recipe for a new trial - saying a lying witness may have poisoned the jury. "How many demonstrations of perjury are necessary...
HAMPTONS DIARY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amTHE war of the East End mags is just plain nasty. On Saturday night at Nick & Toni's, one witness claims they saw Jason Oliver Nixon, editor in chief of...
COLLIE A 'BORDER'LINE GENIUS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe world's smartest dog is a border collie who understands hundreds of commands and learns new words as quickly as a small child. Scientists say Rico, a loveable nine-year-old pooch...
TIX-BLITZ GUY OFF HOOK
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn man who was slapped with a whopping $3,397 in parking tickets won't have to pay the fines after the city admitted a "computer glitch" was the cause of...
MAN KILLED IN SUBWAY HORROR
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA hard-working African immigrant who was saving money to bring his family to New York was killed after he fell on subway tracks and was hit by a train in...
'STABBER' WAS OWN WORST ENEMY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was arrested after he stabbed a stranger in an unprovoked attack and left a trail of clues that led police to his home, law-enforcement sources said yesterday....
BIG APPLE CHURCHES PORN AGAIN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amRedemption may soon be only 100 feet away for guilt-racked patrons of adult-entertainment establishments wanting to confess their sins. Under a joint proposal from the Department of City Planning and...
CRASH FERRY SET FOR COMEBACK
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe Staten Island Ferry boat that hit a pier last fall, killing 11 people, could be back on duty shuttling passengers to and from Manhattan starting next month after the...
'BLACKOUT' BAKES EAST SIDE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA dramatic drop in electrical power in one of Manhattan's poshest neighborhoods yesterday left its swanky residents schvitzing and schlepping when their air conditioning and elevators lost juice. The power...
GOTTI: PAL CAN HEAD 'FAMILY'
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amGambino capo Nicholas "Little Nicky" Corozzo can rule the family if he wants. That was the message from former mob boss wannabe John A. "Junior" Gotti yesterday - on the...
WEINER RIPS MIKE ON DEBT
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg is paying off today's bills by loading up future taxpayers with huge debts, Rep. Anthony Weiner charged yesterday. Weiner, a possible mayoral contender, released a study showing that...
MAMA KATE'S BEHIND THOSE PLAITS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amKate Hudson (above) - who dons designer tresses for next month's Allure (left) - says being pregnant is not only fun, the sex is unbelievable. "I loved being pregnant so...
MASSINO FAMILY - BIG EGO MOB NAME CHANGE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA former mob capo and confidant to Joseph Massino testified the reputed Mafia boss boasted he was "a one-man army" when it came to murder and renamed the Bonanno crime...
CRASH FERRY SET FOR A COMEBACK
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe Staten Island Ferry boat that slammed into a pier last fall, killing 11 people, could be back on duty shuttling passengers to and from Manhattan starting next month after...
GOTHAM CHURCHES MIGHT ABUT SMUT
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amRedemption may soon be only 100 feet away for guilt-racked patrons of adult-entertainment establishments wanting to confess their sins. Under a joint proposal from the Department of City Planning and...
NO MAILING IT IN ; MALONE: KNEE WON'T STOP ME
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - It's a sprain, Karl Malone emphasized. Just like the last time in December. They called it a sprain then, too. Only it turned out there was a...
IT'S TIME TO BITE INTO BLUE SHARKS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amOFFSHORE fishing will start in earnest this weekend, as anglers will head to deeper waters in search of sharks. Last week there was a lot of success with blue sharks...
FAN GETS BIG SHOT AS CADDY CUTS OUT
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amIn the ultimate fan fantasy, a spectator came in from the gallery as a relief caddy at the Buick Classic's 16th hole yesterday. Volunteering to extinguish a slow burn that...
SHOCKEY SIDELINED WITH FOOT PROBLEM
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe Giants hoped that the right foot problem that slowed Jeremy Shockey for much of last season would no longer be an issue. Those hopes have been dashed for now,...
MURPH BATTLING CANCER
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amA little more than a week from now, retired Hall of Fame Metcaster Bob Murphy will have a special procedure to attempt to eradicate recently discovered lung cancer. Murphy's wife,...
AMAZING DISGRACE, HOW GREAT THEY ART
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amSHALL we conjugate? He amazes. She amazes. They amaze. We amaze. Willie Mays. Amazamanos. What never ceases to amaze eventually does. Amazing, how that works. Once, but no more, we...
MARINERS LOOKING AT CONTRERAS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Expecting to trade Freddy Garcia at some point, the Mariners had scout Ken Madeja at yesterday's Yankees-Rockies game. According to a baseball source, Madeja was looking at the...
BROWN'S BACK BIG CONCERN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amTwo years ago today, Kevin Brown had back surgery. Today, the back is a huge concern for his and the Yankees' future. Brown woke yesterday with his back still stiff...
LIBERTY LOOKS TO KEEP ROLLIN'
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThe Liberty has gotten off to better starts than the tear it's on now, but it may never have had a better team than the one it is sending out...
DQ TAKES DOWN WHY YOU
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amIt's not easy to get your horse in trouble in a field of four, but Jorge Chavez did in yesterday's eighth race aboard 4-5 favorite Why You. Looking to take...
YANKEES HAVING ; A GRAND OL' TIME ; FLAHERTY, BERNIE HELP JOSE ROLL OVER ROCKIES
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 10Rockies 4 Fifty minutes before Jose Contreras unleashed the game's first pitch yesterday, John Flaherty was trying to deal with a stomach problem that was producing heavy belches and...
MONROE HUNGERS FOR PSAL CROWN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amPSAL BASEBALL Luis Rosario felt pretty confident when he left last year's PSAL title game, leading Tottenville 6-2. "I thought we were in good shape," the Monroe senior said. "I...
FURYK'S KEEPING HIS OPTIONS OPEN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amJim Furyk is still clinging to the slim hope he'll be able to defend his U.S. Open championship next week at Shinnecock. Furyk on Wednesday told David Fay, the executive...
LITTLE CONFIDENCE IN CONTRERAS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amDEREK Jeter, Mike Mussina and Bernie Williams all have recovered from problems that evoked concerns about what kind of seasons they could have and, especially in the case of older,...
BROWN'S RELYING ON CHAUNCEY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - There were no names from Larry Brown. At first anyway. But for a second straight day, the Piston coach stressed the need to get more touches for...
NETS MAY LOSE KITTLES TO EXPANSION
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Nets yesterday submitted their list of protected players for the upcoming expansion draft. Those exposed were believed to be Kerry Kittles, Alonzo Mourning, Tamar Slay and...
SOME RELIEF FOR YATES - METS BRING BACK TYLER TO BULLPEN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00am"It looks like his niche is definitely in the bullpen. There could be bigger and better things for him because he's got a very good arm."ART HOWE on Tyler Yates...
REFUSING TO BACK DOWN ; COUPLES SUCCEEDS DESPITE PAIN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amIF YOU'RE one of those who don't believe golfers are athletes, that if it weren't for the ball, golf would simply be called walking, then maybe what Fred Couples did...
BERNIE'S STILL HITTING IT OFF ; FANS, TEAMMATES SALUTE 2,000TH
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Bernie Williams became the seventh Yankee to reach 2,000 career hits, all of his teammates climbed to the top step of the dugout to clap, and the crowd rose...
LOST FORM FREEZES FROST OUT OF OPEN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amBUICK CLASSIC NOTEBOOK You could have excused David Frost for being in a bad mood this week except for the fact that he's not in a bad mood at all,...
REYES BACK ON TRACK . . . AGAIN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Jose Reyes is back on course once again. The prized Met second baseman, who celebrates his 21st birthday today, has resumed baseball activity after sitting out...
BIRD SHOULDN'T HAVE BIT ; PLAYING RACE CARD GRAY MATTER
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amANY sports fan needing elite ethnicity or color-coordinated celestial beings to boost their rooting interest is a raging racist. Anyone who advocates such depressing ignorance is promoting racism, reverse racism,...
GIANTS' LEGENDARY OL ROSEY BROWN IS DEAD
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amLast summer, Rosey Brown quietly celebrated his 50th consecutive training camp with the Giants, a remarkable career that started in 1953 and spanned so much of the franchise's rich history....
IT'S VIJAY DAY ; RECORD ROUND HAS 'EM SINGH-ING HIS PRAISES
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amWith the world's No. 1 ranking seemingly more attainable than it's been for the last few years, Vijay Singh has found himself daydreaming about overtaking Tiger Woods. While doing that,...
XAVERIAN WINS TITLE ON SUICIDE SQUEEZE
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amCHSAA BASEBALLXaverian 3Farrell 2 Joey Menendez didn't stride to the plate with the utmost confidence in the seventh inning yesterday. "I was kind of scared," the senior Xaverian shortstop said....
KNICKS WON'T PROTECT HOU
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amAllan Houston heads the list of Knicks who will be left unprotected when Isiah Thomas hands in his protected list today. The expansion draft for the Charlotte Bobcats is June...
REYES BACK ON TRACK ... AGAIN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Jose Reyes is back on course once again. The prized Met second baseman, who celebrates his 21st birthday today, has resumed baseball activity after sitting out...
PISTONS ARE POPPIN' ; DETROIT'S DEFENSE MUZZLES LAKERS
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 3 Pistons 88 Lakers 68 AUBURN HILLS - No one really believed the Pistons when they said they were all right. Sure, Game 2 was a gut-punch defeat. But...
MORE MINNY MISERY ; METS TURN ANOTHER VICTORY TO DEFEAT
June 11, 2004 | 4:00am15 INNINGSTwins 3Mets 2 MINNEAPOLIS - How many ways can you lose a game? Let's count 'em up. One, you can lose it in the bullpen, as Braden Looper did...
BUM KNEE CAN'T SLOW MAILMAN
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - It has been called a sprain, Karl Malone emphasized. Just like the last time in December. They called it a sprain back then, too. Only it turned...
METS BLOW LEAD IN NINTH, FALL TO TWINS IN 15TH
June 11, 2004 | 4:00am15 INNINGS Twins 3 Mets 2 MINNEAPOLIS - How many ways can you lose a game? Let's count 'em up. Number 1: You can lose it in the bullpen, as...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JIM LAMPLEY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with HBO's and NBC's Jim Lampley. The 55-year-old Lampley will have the call on the re-broadcasts of the Oscar De La Hoya and...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amRob Dibble vs.Tom Arnold (Who's a better talk-show host?) Monday on The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio, Rob Dibble - apparently in an attempt at humor - said that...
BUT SIRIUS-LY, FOLKS ... REEVES GETTING SATELLITE-RADIO GIG
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amSirius' Satellite Radio's NFL network is about to makes its first major hire - signing ex-Bronco, Giant and Falcon coach Dan Reeves to co-host a daily morning show, sources have...
HERE COMES BOOMER! WELLS BACK IN BRONX - THIS TIME AS ENEMY
June 11, 2004 | 4:00amSunday Padres at Yankees 1 p.m., YES Some days, Joe Girardi recalls, he could only laugh at David Wells. Wells would walk into the Yankee clubhouse and say he might...