August 24, 2004
SINCE THE FED RAISED INTEREST RATES - THEY'VE GONE DOWN
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHE real estate market may crash someday. Prices may now be in an unsustainable bubble. Our houses may one day become our financial crypts. But I'd like to make this...
GOOGLE STAYING MUM AS PLAYBOY POSTS OUTTAKES
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amPlayboy has posted previously unpublished parts of the magazine's controversial interview with the founders of Internet darling and last week's sizzling new stock, Google. The excerpt, which was posted on...
DURST LOOKS TO BREAK $100 PER SQUARE FOOT
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amDOUGLAS Durst hopes to score the highest rents ever for a jumbo-size block of Manhattan office space: $100 per square foot for 1 million square feet at One Bryant Park,...
LEHMAN CITES TERROR IN WARNING TO INVESTORS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amIn light of sky-high oil prices, sparse hiring on Wall Street and the perceived threat of terrorist attacks, investors would be wise to avoid risk-taking, according to Lehman Brothers. Lehman,...
THE CHEAP SEATS - PRICE OF POSTS ON NYSE, AMEX IN NOSEDIVE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amSeat owners at New York's stock exchanges - already besieged by scandal and competition - are seeing their cash flow slow to all-time lows as sluggish business has renters running...
NEVERMIND: CONDE NAST REHIRES FIRED PUBLISHER
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amConde Nast has turned to the one-time publisher of Glamour, fired earlier this year, to become the new vice president of the Conde Nast Media Group. When Suzanne Grimes was...
SEC PROBES 'UNREAL' CONCORDE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Concorde America regarding a false press release that sent the company's shares soaring, Dow Jones reported. The company, whose shenanigans were first reported...
EDITOR IS 'HOUSE' BOUND
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThis Old House has finally found a new top editor. Scott Omelianuk, who had been one of the top editors at Esquire and at GQ, has been tapped as the...
GRASSO SWAPS BARBS WITH SPITZER ON DELAY
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amLawyers for former New York Stock Exchange chief Dick Grasso have asked for a week's extension to explain why they want the case against Grasso to be heard in federal...
BIG PORTF'OIL'IO - MUTUAL FUNDS PROSPECTING FOR BLACK GOLD
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amAs oil hovers around $50 a barrel, hedge funds and other speculators aren't the only ones betting on rising prices. Individual investors also are chasing after costly crude, based on...
AMEX, CBOE IN ANTITRUST PROBE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe Department of Justice is investigating anti-competitive practices at rival exchanges the American Stock Exchange and Chicago Board of Options Exchange related to either equity options or index options. According...
FEST SEEING 'RED'
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHE long-awaited restoration of "The Big Red One," Samuel Fuller's 1980 chronicle of World War II, is headed here, courtesy of the New York Film Festival. Originally released at a...
ANOTHER WAR HERO - 'M*A*S*H' STAR MAY REPLACE MARTIN SHEEN ON 'WEST WING'
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amALAN Alda might give Martin Sheen's "West Wing" president a run for his money. The beloved, five-time Emmy winner is returning to series television for the first time in more...
REAL DEAL TURNS INTO POKER DRAMA
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amESPN is folding its popular World Series of Poker into a dramatic series set to debut early next year. "Tilt" will be set in Las Vegas with an ensemble cast...
LADIES' CHOICE - BACHELORETTES GIVE OUT FIRST ROSE IN 'BACHELOR' TWIST
August 24, 2004 | 4:00am'WE THOUGHT IT WOULD INCREASE OUR ODDS OF MAKING A LOVE CONNECTION.' 'THE Bachelor" is changing the rules. Meet Jay Overbye and Byron Velvick, two men who will be competing...
NEW CANDIDATE FOR FUN WORKOUT
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY say people vote with their feet - at one Manhattan gym, they also vote with their abs, triceps and gluteals. At Voterobics, a gimmicky new class starting Wednesday at...
CNN LABOR TRUCE AT RISK
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amON the eve of the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden, a temporary truce in a union war with CNN is suddenly in jeopardy. "They're violating their agreement," National...
JERRY WILL BE BACK FOR MORE DESPITE ILLS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amJERRY Lewis is feeling much better these days - and expects to log more airtime during this year's annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy. "He'll do at...
MEDALISTS VISIT DAVE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amSEVERAL gold-medal Olympians are already cashing in on fame - TV style. Gymnast Paul Hamm and swimmer Natalie Coughlin will guest on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," Hamm appearing...
PUFF & BUFF - NEW SPAS LET YOU LIGHT UP (AND THE CITY SAYS IT'S OK!); BUFFING AND PUFFING
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amMOST people go to spas to undo the damage caused by too much partying. Now a handful of new spas are luring new clients with skin's worst enemies: booze and...
STARR REPORT
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amOkay, we get it The cast of "Will & Grace" is going all-out to hype the show's seventh season - which arrives next month (Sept. 16) with a companion album...
'ROCKY' ROAD - THE BIGGEST FILMS YOU MAY NEVER SEE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE's a special spot in Hollywood for troubled movie projects, and it's called "development hell." That's where you'll find wayward titles including the latest "Superman" film, which has been stuck...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN: GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amWHERE ARE WE GOING? NYPT knows the answer, thanks to a study we did. And by study, we mean asking other people what they found in the course of their...
HEROES DON'T SHOUT - HOW THE TROOPS JUDGE KERRY
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amJOHN Kerry went to Vietnam. Voluntarily. Given that President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and every chicken-hawk in the coop did all they could to avoid getting the mud of...
DEPT. STRUCTURE LEAVES BRAVEST WITHOUT A NET
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE is nothing the average firefighter has done that I - and many readers - haven't done. OK. I haven't saved anyone's life, but I have been in brawls, I...
COURT HITS PROTESTERS OUT OF PARK
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amA protest group yesterday lost its bid to hold a rally in Central Park on the eve of the GOP convention. A Manhattan federal judge upheld the Bloomberg administration's decision...
DUBYA'S FLA. LEAD IS '2' CLOSE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush holds a 2-point lead over Democrat John Kerry in the key state of Florida, according to a new CNN poll - a reversal from other recent surveys that...
NEW BILL WOULD TRIPLE CAMPAIGN MATCHE$
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amCity Council lawyers are putting finishing touches on a new campaign- finance package that would triple the current public matching funds for certain political candidates, The Post has learned. The...
RUDY'S $UPPORT MAKES HIM LEADER OF THE PAC
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amRudy Giuliani, who has traveled across the country to bolster Republican candidates, has now reactivated one of his campaign funds to support them with cash. Federal election filings show that...
ISRAEL DOGS SNIFFING OUT BUS BOMBS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - "Pups for Peace" began sniffing for bombs on Israeli buses this week. The first eight teams - with two or three dogs and one handler per team -...
CAMP COUPLE SLAY MYSTERY - SHOT AS THEY SLEPT ON BEACH
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amTwo soon-to-be-married counselors at a Christian camp were trying to save money when they slept under the stars on a remote California beach after a brief break in San Francisco....
'DRUNK' QNS. MOM ASLEEP AT WHEEL: COPS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens mom was arrested after police found her asleep at the wheel of a car stopped in the middle of the road with her two children in the back...
NONE OF IT'S FAIR - KERRY & THE 'SWIFT' QUEST FOR JUSTICE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amJOHN Kerry's service in Vietnam, which has become the central issue in the presidential campaign this month, was concluded - think about this - 35 years ago. Since John Kerry...
NYPD TERROR DEFENSES 'READY'
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers got their first taste yesterday of the massive security step-up for next week's Republican convention as dozens of uniformed cops took up posts in and around Penn Station....
FINEST 'ROUGHED US UP' - DRIVER, FOTOG CLAIM ATTACK AT CRASH SITE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amA city bus driver and a celebrity photographer claimed yesterday that cops roughed them up in two separate incidents after a collision between an unmarked police car and another vehicle....
'I WANT TO STAY IN IRAQ' - FREED NYER'S PLEA
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amA New York journalist freed by his Iraqi kidnappers said yesterday that he wants to stay in Iraq and continue working on a documentary about the looting of archaeological sites....
TRASH CHUTE BODY - MANGLED MAN IN QNS.
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe body of a 29-year- old man was stuffed into the garbage chute of a Queens apartment building and crushed in a trash compactor before it was discovered by a...
JUDGE LETS IN JACKO EVIDENCE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif - The judge in Michael Jackson's child-molestation case tentatively accepted 38 items of prosecution evidence yesterday, but expressed concerns over other items seized from the King of...
JURORS SQUISH 'SPIDEY' - GUILTY OF 12 BREAK-INS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amIt's back to climbing the walls in prison, possibly for life, for the "Spider- Man" burglar - the per sonal-trainer-turned- crack-addict who terror ized upscale Manhat tanites last year. Agile...
FED: PROBE MCGREEVEY HIRE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amA New Jersey federal prosecutor said yesterday the state attorney general should probe possible wrongdoing by Gov. Jim McGreevey in hiring Golan Cipel - who's at the center of the...
TEACHER MENTORS GET $36M BOOST FROM CITY
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe city will triple the amount it spends to hire mentors for teachers, setting aside $36 million this year to recruit the vital lifelines for all new instructors, Mayor Bloomberg...
RUDY'S TRIBUTE $HOCK - POLS CHARGED $250
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amElected officials invited to a party honoring Rudy Giuliani got a jolt yesterday when the company sponsoring the event explained they'd have to pay a $250 entrance fee to comply...
STOP ALL ATTACK ADS: BUSH - BUT SWIFT VETS VOW TO CONTINUE ANTI-KERRY CAMPAIGN
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday said rival John Kerry served "admirably" in Vietnam and denounced all TV attack ads from outside groups - including anti-Kerry ads by Vietnam vets who say he...
PHIL CHANGES TUNE - DUMPS TOP LAWYER FOR GOTTI'S MAN CUTLER
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - When pop impresario Phil Spector faces the music at his murder trial, his lawyer will be longtime Gotti mouthpiece Bruce Cutler. Spector has hired the flamboyant New...
SIREN'S EX DEMANDS KIDS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe ex-husband of the woman at the center of the Firehouse Sex Scandal intends to seek full custody of their two children because of her wild ways, his lawyer said...
FIRE COMMISH BURNING MAD - BLASTS BRASS WHO TURN BLIND EYE TO BOOZE, SEX
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amTop FDNY officials yesterday vowed to crack down on captains and chiefs who pretended not to notice sex and boozing that took place right under their noses - and promised...
TRAGIC LOCAL GIS IDENTIFIED
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amTwo area soldiers killed in Iraq have been identified. They were Pfc. Kevin Cuming of North White Plains and Army Capt. Michael Tarlavsky, a Green Beret from Clifton, N.J. New...
MARINE'S POW 'SLAY' CASE OPENS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe court-martial of a New York-area Marine - charged in the first Iraqi POW death to be acknowledged by the Pentagon - opened yesterday with the questioning of prospective military...
SLAY VICTIM'S CORPSE IN WEST SIDE CHURCH ATTIC
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe body of a murdered man in his early 20s was found in the attic of an Upper West Side church yesterday, police said. The partially decomposed body of the...
JUDGE WARY OF JACKO EVIDENCE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif - The judge in Michael Jackson's child-molestation case tentatively accepted 38 items of prosecution evidence yesterday, but expressed concerns over other items seized from the King of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Two thugs punched a man in the face as he walked down Broadway in Hamilton Heights, police sources said yesterday. The 39-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was...
BOMB RAP FOR JEWISH TERROR GAL
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A Jewish Israeli woman who befriended a Palestinian terrorist chief has been accused of helping to transfer a bomb used in an attack two weeks ago, it was...
KIN OF MAN KILLED BY 'DWI' DRIVER DON'T WANT PAL JAILED
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe stepfather of one of the two pals killed in a tragic DWI crash over the weekend is defending the young driver, saying he doesn't deserve to be locked away...
NETS' ALL-$TAR TEAM - B'KLYN-BOUND SQUAD'S BIG-BUCKS OWNERS REVEALED
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe New Jersey Nets may have lost some stars since the NBA team was sold to developer Bruce Ratner - but the squad still has plenty of famous investors, including...
MAIN EVENT TURNS B'WAY TO RIVER AT RUSH HOUR
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amA water-main break yesterday on the Upper West Side sent water splashing along a stretch of Broadway during the morning rush hour. The 12-inch main ruptured at around 6:30 a.m....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amSometimes lightning strikes twice - unless you're Roy Ritenour. The 74-year-old cattle farmer from Fauquier Springs, Va., has been zapped six times over the past 35 years and lived to...
CABLEVISION SLAPPED WITH LATINO BIAS SUIT
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amDominicans are being shafted by their Puerto Rican bosses at Cablevision, a discrimination lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court yesterday charges. Marino Javier, a black Dominican sales representative at Cablevision's...
LYNNE TALKED UP FARRAKHAN
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amRadical lawyer Lynne Stewart had proposed arranging a meeting between imprisoned blind terror Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and controversial black minister Louis Farrakhan to draw attention to the sheik's conditions...
'I GOT JUDGE DRUNK' - LAWYER'S BOAST
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn lawyer was so confident of his control over a judge, he actually boasted once that, after plying the jurist with drinks, the lawyer's wish was Gerald Garson's command....
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amWHILE local Democrats were sloshing around in the mud to support John Kerry at Alan and Susan Patricof's home in East Hampton on Saturday, Republican bigwigs attended a drier dinner...
CHURCH CORPSE - MURDER VICTIM FOUND IN W. SIDE SANCTUARY
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe body of a murdered man in his early 20s was found in the attic crawl space of an Upper West Side church yesterday, police said. The partially decomposed body...
JACKO JUDGE OKS EVIDENCE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif - The judge in Michael Jackson's kid-sex case tentatively accepted dozens of items of prosecution evidence yesterday, but expressed concerns over others seized from the King of...
4 DEAD, 3 WOUNDED ON BLOODY NIGHT IN CITY
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amFour people were shot to death and three wounded in three separate incidents during a bloody two-hour span in three boroughs last night. The most serious violence took place in...
OH, GOD! IT'S ELLEN! - LADY IS LORD IN REMAKE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amGood heavens - Hollywood is turning the Almighty into a wise-cracking gay woman. Ellen DeGeneres has been inked to play God in a remake of the smash 1977 comedy, "Oh,...
GROUND ZERO SUBWAY AD UNPLUGGED
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe MTA has decided to remove a bright electronic advertising screen at the top of the Cortlandt Street subway station, near Ground Zero, after a lawmaker argued it would interfere...
'SHEAR' LUCK SAVES MIRACLE DRIVER
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amYou can't get luckier than this. The driver of this mangled Nissan Altima escaped serious injury in a horrific Brooklyn crash that sheared off the vehicle's entire front end -...
DEAD BODY FOUND ON CHURCH ROOF
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe body of a man in his 30s - possibly a murder victim - was found by construction workers on the roof of an Upper West Side church yesterday afternoon,...
FLOYD HBP PUTS SCARE INTO METS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amMoments after Cliff Floyd was drilled in the right arm by Padres starter Jake Peavy last night, as the left fielder danced an agony-induced pirouette, his arm dangling like dead...
'BIGGEST WIN OF YEAR' - SHEFF BLAST PUTS HALT TO YANK SKID
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - After Gary Sheffield's latest clutch homer halted a losing streak and the news was good on Derek Jeter's left elbow, the Yankees' AL MVP candidate admitted something a...
2B OR NOT 2B: FOR KAZ, IT'LL BE 2B
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets are finally rectifying their errors - Kaz Matsui will begin his transition to second base this week. General manager Jim Duquette and manager Art Howe told...
BLEAK PROSPECT - HEILMAN HAMMERED BY PODS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amPadres 9 - Mets 4 It seems obvious the Mets traded the wrong first-round pitching prospect. With Scott Kazmir making an impressive major-league debut last night in Seattle a few...
PINIELLA: I'M HAPPY IN TAMPA
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amLou Piniella has two years left on his deal with the Devil Rays. But if the Mets fire Art Howe after this season, they are expected to pursue Piniella, whom...
WHO GETS THE BALL?
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - There's a need-to-know atmosphere around the Giants. For all the advancements the Giants hope to have made here, nothing is settled on the offensive side of the ball...
EMMONS, COUGHLIN AT ODDS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - This was all expected, according to linebacker Carlos Emmons. This was not expected, according to Tom Coughlin. Huh? Emmons, the prize of the Giants' free-agent class,...
'BRAND NEW BALLGAME'
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - Maybe the rest of American basketball was cowering at the images as they criss-crossed the globe, as they beamed the sight of humbled players trundling off basketball courts...
ARTEST: I DESERVED U.S. SPOT
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amRon Artest is miffed at being bypassed for the U.S. Olympic basketball team. Artest, arguably the NBA's best perimeter defender, was at a Park Avenue press conference yesterday, dressed in...
SUTTON'S PERFECT FOR RYDER
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amLISTEN to Hal Sutton for even a few minutes and you want to go to battle for the guy. He reminds you of every high school football coach who ever...
ERASMUS FACES UNCERTAIN FUTURE
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amMarvin Bernabe was on Sid Luckman Field with 44 teammates last Friday as Erasmus opened its preseason camp. It was a stark change from four years ago, when the field,...
CLUTCH PROBLEM - A-ROD STRUGGLING WITH RUNNERS IN SCORING POSITION
August 24, 2004 | 4:00am"When you hit .450 with runners in scoring position, are you that good? Sometimes you hit .200. Are you that bad. Numbers sometimes do funny things. You can do anything...
SHEFF HAS NO SHOT
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Since the pain in Gary Sheffield's left shoulder is subsiding a bit, the Yankees' MVP has canceled plans to get a cortisone shot Monday. Last week in Minnesota...
THE BOSS CALLS BRASS TO TAMPA
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - George Steinbrenner has summoned his Inner Circle to Tampa for meetings in the wake of the Yankees losing three straight, six of seven and having their...
THE KID ARRIVES - BUT KAZMIR STARTS FOR D-RAYS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amSEATTLE - The best Mets pitching prospect of the last 10 years took the mound at Safeco Field last night for his major league debut. He just didn't take the...
ALL AMERICAN - U.S. TRIO SWEEPS MEN'S 400
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - Gold, silver and bronze are the only colors that should matter in these Olympics, but too many see the world in black and white. Jeremy Wariner has begrudgingly...
USA'S CLAY HAS SHAKY FIRST DAY AT DECATHLON
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amTRACK ROUNDUP ATHENS - The decathlon competition couldn't have started better - or ended worse - for U.S. champ Bryan Clay. Clay got off to a record-pace performance when he...
BENSON CONTRACT TALKS SET TO RESUME
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Kris Benson is roughly 800 pitches away from free agency. Thus, time is not on the Mets' side regarding a contract extension for Benson. Benson's agent, Gregg Clifton,...
GRAHAM PICKED WRONG TIME TO CRACK
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amOLYMPIC NOTEBOOK ATHENS - U.S. track and field has had plenty of trouble with the BALCO investigation and other accounts of athletes using performance-enhancing substances. After the first two full...
METS HAVE 2ND THOUGHTS - KAZ BEGINS MOVE TO RIGHT SIDE THIS WEEK
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amThe Mets finally are rectifying their errors - Kaz Matsui will begin his transition to second base this week. General manager Jim Duquette and manager Art Howe told reporters yesterday...
STILL KICKIN' - U.S. TOPS GERMANY IN OT TO REACH FINAL
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amWOMEN'S SOCCER - OT: United States 2 - Germany 1 ATHENS - When Heather O'Reilly was growing up, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Julie Foudy, Joy Fawcett and Brandi Chastain were...
BAKER TAKES CAKE - RISING JET TE IS EAGER TO FLOWER
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amAnthony Becht helped Chris Baker work out before Baker was even selected by the Jets in 2002 and since then has taken it upon himself to develop his fellow tight...
HERM: ABRAHAM IS NOT A CRIMINAL
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES Herman Edwards is not worried about DE John Abraham. "He has been a model citizen," Edwards said yesterday after it was revealed in The Post that Abraham was...
NO DAY AT THE BEACH - COLUMNIST TAKES A WELCOME SIDETRACK
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - I am not sure how this happened. I was supposed to be at the beach. I am not at the beach. I am in a room filled with...
BRONX III UNLIKELY FOR WELLS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amWith David Wells back in New York to face the Mets tonight at Shea - and having been both claimed by the Yankees off waivers a few weeks ago and...
KID ARRIVES - KAZMIR DAZZLES IN ML DEBUT
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amSEATTLE - The best Mets pitching prospect of the last 10 years took the mound at Safeco Field last night for his major league debut. He just didn't take the...
FLOYD'S INJURED AGAIN
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amMoments after Cliff Floyd was drilled in the right arm by Padres starter Jake Peavy last night, as the left fielder danced an agony-induced pirouette, his arm dangling limp, the...
WIN AND BEAR IT - SHEFF'S HR IN NINTH BOOSTS YANKS; JETER HURT
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Indians 4 CLEVELAND - Joe Torre's message to his struggling club was concise. "I reminded them it will be fine," Torre said before the Yankees attempted to...
SWEET DREAM - EASY VICTORY OVER ANGOLA HELPS U.S.
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - They had fun for a change. They ran whenever they wanted. They got as many lay-ups and dunks as they needed. They enjoyed one of the most astonishing...
HER-ICANE - U.S. SOFTBALL TEAM GRABS GOLD TO CAP EMOTIONAL WEEK
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - The ball skipped into Natasha Watley's glove, Watley picked it clean, fired a strike to Leah Amico at first base, and suddenly there was joy all in front...
U.S. MAY SUPPORT 2ND GOLD
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amATHENS - The U.S. Olympic Committee said yesterday it might support a duplicate gold medal in the men's all-around, won by Paul Hamm. South Korea protested after it was acknowledged...