June 16, 2004
ZELL LANDS FIRST N.Y. APT. BUILDING
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amSAM Zell's Equity Residential real estate investment trust is finally breaking into the Big Apple, snapping up a new West Side apartment building. The investment guru has tied up Hudson...
AOL JUMPS ONTO BUBBA BOOK BLITZ
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe latest piece of the Clinton publicity pie goes to AOL. The Internet giant announced yesterday that in addition to broadcasting excerpts of "My Life," it would also host a...
CHICAGO SCANDAL SMACKS BLACK
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe scandal surrounding disgraced newspaper baron Conrad Black has deepened. In addition to Black's alleged looting of the company coffers, the Chicago Sun-Times improperly pumped up its circulation figures under...
NIELSEN PLAN A BUST: AUDIT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA confidential internal document on Nielsen's new urban people-meters indicates that the system distorts measurements of minorities' TV viewing. The audit document, leaked to The Los Angeles Times, said Nielsen...
OPTIONS RULES MAY BE EASED
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amU.S. Rep. Richard Baker (R-La.) won a victory yesterday for firms that use stock options for compensation, ushering through a bill to limit how U.S. companies will be required to...
TRUMP NO TURKEY IN APT. DEAL
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amDonald Trump got even yesterday to win his nearly $8 million condo contract case against fugitive Turkish billionaires Cem and Hakan Uzan. Trump three years ago sold the Uzan family...
SEC CHIEFS UNITE ON PLAN FOR FUND BOARDS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amIn an unusual show of cooperation, all of the living former Securities and Exchange Commission chairmen are backing a controversial proposal to require mutual fund boards be chaired by independent...
TRUST US; WE'RE SAFER ; WITH VIRUS FIGHTER, M'SOFT SEEKS SECURE NEW IMAGE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amMicrosoft, whose Windows operating system is often knocked for flaws that leave it vulnerable to malicious computer viruses and worms, is developing a program to protect against such attacks. The...
STAR KEEPS J.LOW PROFILE ; QUESTIONS RAISED OVER BONNIE HUDDLE WITH SINGER'S REPS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAMERICAN Media Editorial Director Bonnie Fuller and a company lawyer huddled with representatives for Jennifer Lopez in Miami in late February, Media Ink has learned. It was clearly a bid...
MOST WORKERS WOULD FIRE THEIR BOSS: POLL
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWe've all fantasized about it - and a new survey confirms it. Almost 50 percent of workers would fire their bosses if they could, according to a study by Web...
BILL PASSES ON STOCK OPTIONS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amRichard Baker, (R-LA) won a victory yesterday for companies that use stock options for compensation, ushering through a bill to limit how U.S. companies will be required to expense them....
'80' DAZE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (one star) Disgraceful remake. Running time: 125 minutes. Rated PG (action violence, vulgarity). At the E-Walk, the Union Square, the New York Twin, others....
TONY GOES TO THE DOGS ; AWARDS PLAGUED BY FEW VOTERS, WEAK RATINGS, LOTS OF POLITICS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00am'I thought the Tony Awards had integrity," said Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas hotel and casino magnate. "What I've learned today is that they're just as political as everything else."...
'FULL' CIRCLE ; A NEW GENERATION FLOCKS TO ORIGINAL OLSENS' SERIES
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amYES kids, Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings - and the Olsen twins had a weekly TV series once upon a time called "Full House." It seems a...
J'PARDY STREAK HITS 10
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amKEN Jennings continued his march toward game-show history by lasting yet another day on "Jeopardy!" last night. He has now amassed over $300,000 in total winnings. Jennings, 29, has already...
'DOCTOR' DO-LITTLE COMEDY
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amSEDUCING DOCTOR LEWIS (two stars) Mediocre Canadian comedy.In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 109 minutes. Not rated (sexual references). At the Paris Theater, 59th Street, off Fifth Avenue. SOME...
GODS & LOBSTERS: NEPTUNE ROOM IS A GROWN-UP EATERY FOR SERIOUS DINERS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amNeptune Room ½ (two and one half stars) 511 Amsterdam Ave., between 84th and 85th streets (212) 496-4100 ENOUGH foodie jokes about the Upper West Side. The precincts north of...
STARR REPORT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amLiver & ham on wry Attention: Larry Hagman wants you to know that he is not dead. Far from it. "In Europe they think I am dead, which is why...
BETTER OFF 'RED' - FUNNY SERIES LOST TO STEREOTYPES
June 16, 2004 | 4:00am"METHOD & RED" Tonight at 9:30 on Fox/Ch. 5 * (one stars) Redman gets rapped up in his new neighborhood in "Method & Red." IF it weren't for all the...
THIS SEASON, PARIS TACKLES THE TOUGH ISSUES
June 16, 2004 | 4:00am"The Simple Life 2" Tonight at 8 on Fox * * ½ (two and one half stars) THE martians have landed. That's one way to sum up the reaction of...
ON THE SIDE: ESCA CHEF TO ESCALATE HIS OUTPUT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWHAT'S a chef to do when he wins the James Beard Award as the top toque in New York? Increase his output, of course. Chef David Pasternack, who helms the...
THE PITS' GREATEST HITS: AMERICA'S TOP BARBECUE STARS REVEAL THEIR SIZZLING SECRETS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amNEW York is about to get a new taste of barbecue royalty. Kansas City grill star Paul Kirk is bringing his smoking style to Manhattan,with a new branch of his...
SHOP-A-FROLICS; RETAIL AT BEST PACE SINCE '99
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe line for the cash register at a Gap store on the Upper West Side one recent Sunday afternoon was 40 deep, as customers loaded up on brightly colored tank...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA brazen gunman robbed an Indiana convenience store then skipped off to a topless joint where he boozed it up and bragged about his stick-up to the dancers. The stunned...
REPORTING FOR THE ENEMY; MEDIA WON'T SHOW SADDAM'S EVIL
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE video only lasts four minutes or so - gruesome scenes of torture from the days when Saddam Hussein's thugs ruled Abu Ghraib prison. I couldn't bear to watch, so...
HEART RISKS RISE AS HEIGHT FALLS: STUDY
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amShort women are more at risk of developing heart disease than their leggier counterparts, a new study shows. Scientists looked at the health records of 4,000 women between the ages...
BIG FAMILIES, LITTLE BABIES
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amRaising kids may be cheaper by the dozen, but babies born into larger families are less likely to thrive, a new study concludes. Researchers found that babies born into big...
'PACK RAT' COUPLE DIES IN BLAZE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn elderly shut-in couple who riled their neighbors and local offficals for two decades by hoarding tons of garbage in and around their Westchester house died in an inferno of...
SILVER'S 'SUITE' SUBPOENA
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been subpoenaed by the state Lobbying Commission in connection with a probe of a discounted suite he used at the Paris Las Vegas...
SADDAM HANDOVER MUST WAIT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said custody of Saddam Hussein will be transferred to the new Iraqi government, but only when there's "appropriate security" to guard the "thug." "We don't...
POLICE HUNT CASH-AND-CARRY ATM GANG
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThieves who broke into a Midtown Manhattan deli and tried to make off with an ATM early yesterday probably belong to a gang of robbers who specialize in ripping off...
U.N. GRAFT PROBER 'CORRUPT'
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The United Nations was rocked by a new scandal yesterday when reports surfaced that the diplomat in charge of rooting out corruption in the world body is himself...
RAY LAUDS HAZ-MAT PLAN
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday defended the plan to put the NYPD in charge of hazardous-material incidents - over the FDNY. "We can no longer just look at an oil...
QNS. POLS HAIL DEVELOPMENT CURBS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThere was no champagne, but the mood at Queens Borough Hall was clearly celebratory yesterday as Mayor Bloomberg and several elected officials announced that more than a dozen Queens neighborhoods...
JUDGE GIVES CAPO SENIOR DISCOUNT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA reputed Gambino crime family capo who used mob muscle to control the Brooklyn and Staten Island waterfronts - and plotted to shake down actor Steven Seagal - caught a...
TOUT OF BOUNDS - RATNER FORCES APT. SELLERS TO HYPE NETS ARENA
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amDeveloper Bruce Ratner isn't just buying up property for his proposed Nets arena in Brooklyn - he's shopping for cheerleaders. According to the contract obtained by The Post, people who...
QUEENS CANCER COP HONORED
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday presented the Theodore Roosevelt Award, which honors NYPD cops who survive a medical hardship, to a Queens sergeant who has fought back against cancer. "I...
GROUP THREATENS ILLEGAL GOP-GALA PROTEST
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe head of a group set to protest at this summer's Republican National Convention said yesterday that her organization would march to Madison Square Garden even if it is denied...
5 WOMEN ON PANEL WEIGHING HER FATE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe 11-member judicial panel that meets tomorrow to decide whether to investigate Queens Supreme Court Justice Laura Blackburne includes five women - three of them judges. High-profile New York City...
BX. BOMBSHELL A REAL DUMMY
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe "bomb" left in the middle of a Bronx street, panicking residents, was a dummy shell, police said yesterday. The blue metal military canister, about 4 to 5 feet long,...
'KERRY, QUIT THE SENATE' ; GOP CALL IN MASS.
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top Republicans in John Kerry's home state of Massachusetts yesterday urged him to resign from the Senate to run for president - because he's there so rarely, he...
ARIEL BRIBERY CASE TOSSED
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's chief prosecutor threw out a bribery case against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday, clearing the way for Sharon to form a broad new government to push his...
WEALTH OF RICHES: 1 IN 130 AMERICANS IS A MILLIONAIRE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAmericans are now richer than ever - with one in every 130 people in the United States a bona-fide millionaire, a study reveals. And thanks to a rocketing stock market...
'BRANCH' OFFICE - GOV'T PAYS 500 TO WATCH TREES WHILE INSECTICIDE SETS IN
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amMoney does grow on trees - $12.95 an hour to be exact. That's what Joseph Edmonds earns lounging in a lawn chair under the shade of an elm or maple,...
KID-SEX DEM LEADER: I DIDN'T DO IT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA former Democratic Party district leader took the witness stand in his own defense yesterday, denying he sodomized a young sister of his ex-fiancée while they watched pornography. Anibal Ortiz's...
ANGER OVER POST-PARADE COP CLASH
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amPuerto Rican leaders yesterday blasted the NYPD for a post-parade crackdown that resulted in 19 arrests after a Brooklyn melee where cops used Mace and nightsticks to disperse an angry...
COURT POLICE WILL BUST INTERFERING JURISTS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe state's court officers will start grabbing defendants wanted by cops - and arresting any judge who tries to get in their way, The Post has learned. The presidents of...
SLAIN GAL FOUND UNDER TRIBORO
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn woman was found bludgeoned to death yesterday morning in a grassy area under the Triborough Bridge in East Harlem, authorities said. The bloodied body was discovered lying on a...
JACKO SEX DEAL ; PAID KID MORE THAN $15M TO SHUT UP IN '94
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES -Michael Jackson shelled out more than $15 million in hush money to moonwalk away from child-molestation allegations a decade ago, legal papers reveal. He also signed a carefully...
CANNIBAL'S CONFESSION SICKENS JURY
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amFemale jurors cringed yesterday as they watched the police video of the notorious "Butcher of Tompkins Square" - in which he describes killing and dismembering his girlfriend, then boiling her...
LANDLORDS & TENANTS LOBBY RENT BOARD
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amRepresentatives for landlords and tenants went before the Rent Guidelines Board yesterday to debate potential increases on rent-stabilized apartments. "There's no economic justification for any rent increase at all this...
BX. WOMAN DIES IN BALCONY FALL DURING SPAT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA woman arguing with her boyfriend on the 12th-floor balcony of his Bronx home plummeted to her death yesterday, neighbors said. Detectives were investigating how Nakia Toro, 26, died -...
SAVAGE GAS BLAST BLOWS THROUGH B'KLYN HOUSE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA gas explosion in a two-story house in Brooklyn ripped the back of the building off yesterday and sent three people to the hospital, one of them with severe burns....
MADONNA'S CONCERTS BOMBING; MSG TIX GO BEGGING
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amMaybe Madonna's "Re-Invention Tour" needs a little retooling. Thousands of tickets are still available for the Material Mom's six-night stand at Madison Square Garden that begins tonight - many at...
TERROR EXPERT NO-SHOW AT COMMISSION
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A German prosecutor who is an expert on the Sept. 11 attacks has abruptly pulled out of today's 9/11 Commission hearing, officials said yesterday. Prosecutor Matthias Krauss -...
RID ROAD OF DRUNKS; WIDOWED FATHER PLEADS WITH MIKE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWeeping inconsolably, the heartbroken husband of a mother of three killed by a repeat DWI offender appealed to Mayor Bloomberg yesterday to get drunken drivers off the road. "Try to...
GIANTS COUNTING ON HAND TO BRING HEFT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amHe cannot yet be called the incredibly shrinking Giant, but he's getting close. Norman Hand was signed to plug the middle, and girth is required for such a job. Not...
ALBANY BUDGET BROUHAHA
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno yesterday said state leaders have agreed to negotiate a new budget without including a long-term plan to meet a court mandate that the...
LEONA: I'M ONE 'MEAN BITCH,' BUT A SANE ONE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amGIVE the lady a break. Despite reports to the contrary, Leona Helmsley still possesses all the marbles God gave her, darling. "I'm in charge. Of course I am," Leona, every...
2-FACED SAUDIS LASHED
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia has failed to fully crack down on major terrorist financiers and continues to spend hundreds of millions to export extremist ideology, according to a report to...
FOUL-MOUTHED TEACH DUO FACE F - FOR FIRED
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amSchool investigators want the city to fire two romantically linked, foul-mouthed teachers - after one of them allegedly subjected her students to profanity-laced tirades and the other spewed ethnic and...
BRIT-KNEE KOS SUMMER TOUR
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe pop tart is down for the count. Britney Spears - saddled with a serious knee injury - canceled her summer tour yesterday. "She'll be wearing a hard brace for...
FRIGHT COURT ; IN-HIDING SLAY WITNESS TOO 'TERRIFIED'
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man reported missing on the day he was to testify at a murder trial has turned up safe - but is too "terrified" to testify, prosecutors said yesterday....
NEW LAURA FUROR - JUDGE LETS GUARD PAST SECURITY, UNION SAYS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amIn a blatant breach of courthouse security, embattled Queens Judge Laura Blackburne yesterday escorted a personal security guard through a back entrance reserved for jurists - allowing him to bypass...
'SCREWED' UP SON STABS MA
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man who had been hearing voices stabbed his mom in the head with a screwdriver after demanding, "Call me God," neighbors and law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The bizarre...
TOP HOSP IN AIDS SCARE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA prestigious Long Island hospital has notified 177 patients who recently underwent endoscopic exams that they may have been exposed to the HIV or hepatitis B or C virus during...
PAINT MISBEHAVIN': FEDS BEST ART DUO ON FRAUD RAP
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe feds busted two Manhattan art dealers for first commissioning and then selling fake paintings by famous artists like Chagall and Renoir to clients in Asia - raking in more...
FAMILY KILLER; WISEGUY SHOT KIN ON MOB ORDERS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn underworld turncoat testified yesterday he put loyalty to the Bonanno crime family above his ties to blood relatives - and he proved it by killing a cousin who allowed...
BEAU HELD IN WOMAN'S BX. DEATH PLUNGE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn enraged beau pushed his girlfriend off the 12th-floor balcony of his Bronx home yesterday - then threatened to leap off the terrace after her, cops and neighbors said. "I...
HEART RISK HIGHER FOR SHORT GALS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amShort women are more at risk of developing heart disease than their leggier counterparts, a new study shows. Scientists looked at the health records of 4,000 women between the ages...
DUAL TRAFFIC TRAGEDIES
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA 21-year-old Queens man was killed on his way home from work yesterday when his brand new motorcycle slammed into two parked cars, police and family said. Neil Barrett, a...
SEVEN FAR FROM HEAVEN
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTES The hole looks innocent enough. The seventh hole at Shinnecock is a 189-yard par-3. Before the players descended upon the U.S. Open here, no one was predicting...
1 IN 130 AMERICANS A MILLIONAIRE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAmericans are richer than ever - with one in every 130 people in the United States a millionaire, a study reveals. The World Wealth Report, by financial houses Merrill Lynch...
S.I. BOY, 16, SLAIN PLAYING PEACEMAKER
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Staten Island teen was killed last night - stabbed in the neck while trying to break up a melee that began with a lovers' quarrel, law-enforcement sources and witnesses...
U.N. PROBER IN GRAFT SCANDAL
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The United Nations was rocked by a new scandal yesterday when reports surfaced that the diplomat in charge of rooting out corruption in the world body is himself...
TEACH ON SEX CHARGE ; MET TEEN AT QNS. HS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens high school teacher - described by his stunned wife as a loving father of two young kids - was busted yesterday for rape after authorities charged he had...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** A livery driver assisted police in arresting a man who had robbed him at gunpoint near Prospect Park, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Tariq Chaudry picked up Randy Bryant,...
BRUNO WEIGHS WAGE HIKE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno yesterday raised the possibility that he will agree to increase the state minimum wage this year. Asked if there was a good chance...
FAMILY KILLER - WISEGUY SHOT KIN ON MOB ORDERS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn underworld turncoat testified yesterday he put loyalty to the Bonanno crime family above his ties to blood relatives - and he proved it by killing a cousin who allowed...
RIVALS RANT TO RENT BOARD
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe annual battle between landlords and tenants hit a fever pitch yesterday as representatives from both sides passionately argued about potential increases on rent-stabilized apartments before the Rent Guidelines Board....
METS: WE LIKED DENNY
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amMets hitters reacted to the firing of Denny Walling with a common conclusion: they were lucky they weren't kicked to the curb with him. "Let it be told, if they...
BROWN ON SHELF; MOOSE NEXT?
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amPHOENIX - Kevin Brown's 11th trip to the disabled list could be followed by Mike Mussina's fourth. And, no, GM Brian Cashman hasn't turned up the intensity to acquire a...
FIRST IMPRESSION: BAYLOR LOOKS LIKE A GENIUS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amMets 7 Indians 2 After the game, it was the first word out of Don Baylor's mouth. "Coincidence," he said. Call it what you want - freakish coincidence or instant...
WALLING WALKS THE PLANK
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amIn the end, somebody needed to be blamed, and that man was Denny Walling. To nobody's surprise, the Mets made their first 2004 firing yesterday, cutting loose Walling, the hitting...
JAX BACK? 'SLIM' SHOT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - With four of his five children behind him, including two of his daughters with tears in their eyes, legendary Laker coach Phil Jackson said following their 4-1...
JOSE BOUNCES BACK ; CONTRERAS HURLS YANKS OVER 'ZONA
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 4D'Backs 2 PHOENIX -They banged into four double plays and stranded a dozen runners. Jose Contreras was effective at times and inconsistent at others. Yet, this is interleague play...
BITTER ENDFOR KOBE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The rebound slipped through Kobe Bryant's hands in the second quarter. Piston Corliss Williamson grabbed it, handed it to Richard Hamilton, who dribbled two steps in for...
TIGER'S READY, NO DROUGHT ABOUT IT ; WOODS TRYING TO END SEVEN-MAJOR SKID
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amTiger Woods' day of preparation began quietly and, incredibly, in near anonymity as the sun rose over Eastern Long Island. Woods, on a mission to end his unseemly seven-major winless...
RICHIE WANTS LIBS TO SPREAD IT AROUND
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAside from worrying about his team's two-game losing streak going into last night's Garden meeting with the Seattle Storm, Liberty head coach Richie Adubato was tormented by his team's poor...
GABE'S NOT IN JEOPARDY
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amPHOENIX - Even though he has pitched miserably for most of the year, the Yankees aren't ready to pull the plug on struggling lefty reliever Gabe White. According to a...
PLAYING ELS ENOUGH TO WIN
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN Ernie Els first cleared his throat and commanded our attention, the year was 1994 and the sport was dominated by a star-crossed crowd-pleaser named Greg Norman. Els kissed the...
GARCIA THE TALK OF TOWN
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amSergio Garcia has been walking the winning walk, triumphant twice in his previous four tournaments. Now Garcia says he's talking the talk, even thinking in the first language of the...
ON DEFENSE, PRINCE HAS BEEN KING
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Throughout the opening rounds of the playoffs, when Tayshaun Prince struggled offensively, Piston coach Larry Brown repeatedly was asked why he stuck with his second-year...
BACK ON THE SHELF - BROWN WINDS UPON BOMBERS' DL
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amPHOENIX - Kevin Brown's 11th trip to the disabled list could be followed by Mike Mussina's fourth. And, no, GM Brian Cashman hasn't turned up the intensity to acquire a...
PHIL GETTING LAST LAUGH ; NO JOKE; HE CAN WIN SLAM
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE QUESTION was in tended to be a humorous start to Phil Mickelson's press conference yesterday at Shinnecock Hills. Though it drew chuckles, it won't be so funny 10 years...
MAJOR DILEMMA FOR HARRINGTON ; IRISHMAN SEEKING FIRST TOUR WIN
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amNow that Phil Mickelson has relinquished the least-sought-after title in golf - the man who couldn't win the big one - this humbling sport offers up Padraig Harrington, a man...
'FRIENDS' ARE DREDGING UP SOUND FACTS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE battle to keep dredged materials out of Long Island Sound took a giant step forward last week when New York said "not in my backyard" to neighboring Connecticut and...
ALTERNATE WAITS FOR OPEN-ING
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amSit, wait and hope against hope for two days that someone drops out. Such is the lure and lore of the U.S. Open. Matthew Cannon was keeping vigil in the...
DEKE BEHIND PISTONS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWith construction yesterday starting on his Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in his native Zaire, Dikembe Mutombo had more pressing matters to consider. Nonetheless, the Knicks center had a strong rooting...
REYES MIGHT BE BACK OVER THE WEEKEND
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES The kid could be back this weekend. Jose Reyes, out all year with a strained right hamstring and a sore back, is now making such progress that he...
MARV'S REIGN AT MSG ENDS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amCablevision, its Madison Square Garden revenues minimized by a string of playoff-less springs, several months ago began to gut MSG Network of programming other than live events. And now Marv...
WALLING WALKS THE PLANK - METS AX HITTING COACH - HOWE ABOUT THAT?
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amIn the end, the Mets could not ignore the problem anymore. Someone needed to be blamed, and that man was Denny Walling. The first casualty fell on the Mets' 2004...
SHOCKEY OUT A WHILE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amIf Jeremy Shockey needs surgery on his right foot, he would be unable to attend training camp and could be sidelined for about two months. That's the word from someone...
KIDD READY FOR KNIFE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - All indications are that Jason Kidd is headed for surgery on his aching left knee. While the team maintained that nothing has been determined, several league sources...
RANDY MUM ON TRADE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amRandy Johnson didn't close the door on accepting a trade to the Yankees if the Diamondbacks want to move the future Hall of Famer. The subject of trade rumors for...
LIBS FALLING FAST
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amStorm 86Liberty 62 The Liberty fooled everybody. It had us all going there for six straight wins, made believers out of many who thought it had no chance to make...
PISTONS GIVE DALY A SENSE OF 'D'-JA VU
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Chuck Daly has seen this Piston team defense before: On the 1989 and 1990 NBA champion "Bad Boys." "Absolutely, deja vu," Daly, who coached those teams, said...
JOSE MAY RETURN BY WEEKEND
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Jose Reyes could be back this weekend. Reyes, out all year with a strained right hamstring and a sore back, was bumped up to Double-A Binghamton yesterday. He...
NEW 'BAD BOYS' GIVE DALY SENSE OF 'D'-JA VU
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Chuck Daly has seen this Piston team defense before: On the 1989 and 1990 NBA champion "Bad Boys." "Absolutely, deja vu," Daly, who coached those...
DISMAL ENDINGFOR KOBE, SHAQ
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The rebound slipped through Kobe Bryant's hands in the second quarter. Piston Corliss Williamson grabbed it, handed it to Richard Hamilton, who dribbled two steps in for...
PISTON POWER RULES THE NBA: DETROIT ROUTS LAKERSTO CAPTURE CROWN
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 5 Pistons 100 Lakers 87 "The shots were falling. You have to keep it fast-paced because they got the big fella [Shaquille O'Neal] down there and he'll just bang...
PISTON POWER RULES THE NBA: DETROIT ROUTS LAKERS, COPS CROWN
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 5 Pistons 100 Lakers 87 AUBURN HILLS - As a Piston slogan has proclaimed much of the season, "Bad is Back." It certainly was last night. For both sides....
BITTER END FOR KOBE
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The rebound slipped through Kobe Bryant's hands in the second quarter. Corliss Williamson grabbed it, handed it to Richard Hamilton, who dribbled two steps in for a...
DETROIT: NETS DESERVE BIG ASSIST
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The world champion Pistons can say, "Thank-you, Nets." The Nets were Detroit's blueprint. The Pistons' major in-season addition came to offset New Jersey personnel. The "defining moment"...
GETTING HIS PHIL - MICKELSON ISN'T SATISFIED WITH JUST ONE MAJOR VICTORY
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amFIRST things first. Phil Mickelson will win the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills this week. Here's why: Having sipped the magic potion from the coveted cup that only major-championship winners...
VIJAY'S QUEST - SINGH OUT TO PROVE HE'S THE BEST IN WORLD - RANKINGS BE DAMNED
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE official golf rankings are issued every Monday, offering the illusion they represent a current comparison of how the world's best golfers stand. But it's just that, an illusion, for...
SOMETHIN' ELS - PRIVATE PLANE, TRAINERS KEEP ERNIE ON GO, GO, GO
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amERNIE Els is a long 6-foot-3, 210 pounds, a body frame that's not meant for spending long hours in airplanes traveling from continent to continent on business. It's a lifestyle...
GOOSE ON THE LOOSE!
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThree years ago, a South African twister blew into Oklahoma and stormed off with the U.S. Open. Now it appears Retief Goosen is quietly bearing down on eastern Long Island....
SERGIO NOW THE BEST PLAYER WITHOUT MAJOR
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Phil Mickelson donned the Masters green sportscoat, he handed down the straightjacket to El Nino. Now Sergio Garcia is the star who has never won a major, the tag...
PERRY INTERESTING
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Perry, amongst the last of the Shinnecock Indians who still caddies at Shinnecock Hills, offers these tips and observations from his 37 years of experience on the old course:...
FIXING TIGER - HOW GOLF'S BEST TEACHERS WOULD HELP WOODS CLIMB BACK TO TOP
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amTiger Woods enters this week's U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills having won just once in 2004, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in February. The Post's Ralph Wimbish asked six of...
FOR BETTER, NOT WORSE - EXPERTS SEE WOODS' UPCOMING MARRIAGE TO ELIN AS A PLUS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amIf you watch golf or play golf, you've probably heard the speculation. Is Tiger Woods' relationship with Elin Nordegren to blame for his shaky performances of late and will their...
WINNER MUST CONQUER WIND
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amThat wind at Shinnecock stands to be this U.S. Open's signature feature. And those who utilize it rather than fight it stand the best chance at triumph. That's the consensus...
BREAKUP TIME FOR LAKERS?
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amBIRMINGHAM, Mich. - If this was the last practice for the Phil-Shaq-Kobe dynasty, it occurred yesterday in a hot, stuffy high-school gym in a tony suburb of Detroit. About 150...
CONTINENT-AL DIVIDE - OPEN'S ALWAYS TOUGH ON EUROPEAN PLAYERS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amIT has been 34 years since Tony Jacklin won the U.S. Open at Hazeltine - the last European to capture America's national championship. Given the links-style design of Shinnecock Hills...
GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT - POST HACKER 10 STROKES BETTER THAN '95, BUT STILL BEATEN UP BY SHINNECOCK
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amNine years ago, on the eve of the 1995 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, The Post brought you a hole-by-hole look at "How not to play Shinnecock." I was humbled...
PISTONS' NET GAIN - N.J. SHOWED WAY FOR DETROIT'S RUN AT NBA CROWN
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - As the Pistons went for the kill against the Lakers in the NBA Finals last night, they gave an assist to the Nets for getting them here....
KING OF THE HILLS - HEAD PRO SAYS SHINNECOCK WILL STAND TALL
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amDon McDougall is used to stability, and so is Shinnecock Hills. McDougall has been the head pro at Shinnecock for the last 43 years and will be overseeing his third...
WORLD'S BEST WON'T SIZZLE ON THESE LINKS
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amIN one beautifully simple statement, Mark Michaud, the superintendent of golf at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, summarized why this year's U.S. Open will be a daunting test for the world's...
HOME ON THE RANGE - '86 OPEN CHAMPION FLOYD NOW MEMBER AT 'THE GREATEST GOLF COURSE I'VE EVER SEEN'
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amRAYMOND Floyd had never seen Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, had never visited Southampton before, never immersed himself in the vast history and quirky charm of the links course tucked cozily...
NINE LONG YEARS AFTER MIRACLE ON 18, '95 CHAMP PAVIN'S BACK TO GIVE IT ... HIS BEST SHOT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amCOREY Pavin's career is divided by one Eureka moment, his U.S. Open victory at Shinnecock Hills in 1995, a gritty, even-par performance that left the likes of Greg Norman, Phil...
HOLE LOTTA HISTORY - SHINNECOCK WAS HOME TO AMERICA'S 1ST BLACK GOLF PRO BETT
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amAlong time ago, before there was Teddy Rhodes, Charlie Sifford, Lee Elder and Tiger Woods, there was John Shippen Jr., the legend of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. Shippen not only...
IN THE GAME OF THE FATHER - GOLFER'S SON RISE TO SPECIAL OCCASION
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amLIKE a family heirloom, golf is a sport fathers hand down to sons. From the driving range to the 18th green, fathers act as both instructor and playmate while passing...
A GOOD WALK BROILED - GOLF'S TRUE GRIT CAN ONLY BE APPRECIATED FROM INSIDE THE ROPES
June 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE questions being thrown at Davis Love III seemed ridiculous. Love, at one-under, had the lead after three rounds of the 1996 U.S. Open at Michigan's Oakland Hills, a course...