September 19, 2004
APPLE, POLISHED ; NEW IMAC IS COMPUTER AS ARTWORK
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIf Apple's new iMac G5, which premieres this weekend, looks familiar, there's a good reason: It resembles an iPod, supersized. By evoking the iPod's slimmed down innovative design, Apple is...
DVD'S DEF JAM- MGM DEAL HAS SONY EYEING HD
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIf you're one of the millions expected to buy the original "Star Wars" trilogy when it premieres on DVD this Tuesday, you may want to wait. Like a rebuilt Death...
ACADEMY FIGHTS OSCAR DVD PIRACY
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amOscar "screeners" won't be passed among New York friends this fall if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has its way. The Academy plans to ship 11-pound "piracy...
GOOGLE PICKS GATES' BRAINS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amGoogle, $1.67 billion richer from its August initial public offering, is spending its money poaching the brightest minds from arch-rival Microsoft and other tech giants. Based on the half-dozen hires...
BLISS FROM THAILAND
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S taken a while, but the 2001 Thai stunner "Blissfully Yours" is getting a commercial run in New York. Cine File first saw it in Rotterdam a few years back,...
SHELTER STARS; NEW AC&C PROGRAM PUTS ANIMALS' LIVES FIRST
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN a stray pit bull pup named Jackson was recently brought to the city shelter, Animal Care & Control, with a broken leg, vets were prepared to amputate the limb...
SWISS CIGAR FIRM STRIKES UP MATCH
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHE World Cigar Chess Championship begins this week in Brissago, Switzerland - and will become the second major step this year toward unifying the chess world. Vladimir Kramnik, 29, is...
MEOW MIX - TYRA BANKS PLAYS DEN MOTHER ON 'AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL'
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Barbie dolls on ''America's Next Top Model'' have claws this season. So forget the battling boxing shows, NBC's "The Contender" and Fox's "The Next Great Champ" - the real...
'REAL' OLD - AGING REALITY SERIES MOVES TO CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIT was only the first episode, and already someone came out of the closet. Karamo, one of seven housemates on MTV's "Real World: Philadelphia," revealed that he was a homosexual,...
COUNT ON 'SOPRANOS' TO SCORE AT EMMYS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amNO category better illustrates the bizarro world of the Emmy Awards than this year's nominees for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. They are: A non-actor (Larry David, "Curb...
PRIME TIME PHIL MUSHNICK - TRUMP AND CUBAN IN REALITY-TV WAR
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amJUST when you thought that these reality shows have become bereft of redeeming values, something poignant develops. Donald Trump, star of NBC's "The Apprentice," and Mark Cuban, the progenitor of...
MOVIE PIX - OUR MOVIE CRITIC MEGAN LEHMANN'S BEST FILMS OF THE WEEK
September 19, 2004 | 4:00am- Titanic - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - The Song of Bernadette - The Producers - Once Upon A Time in the West - Pulp Fiction
HOT LIST - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amClassic rebel The classical world loves pimping out its hot young musicians. To wit: The New York Philharmonic is making a lot of noise about violinist Maxim Vengerov, who will...
A PARODY FOR THE PATRIOTIC
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amBill O'Reilly's done it. So have Al Franken, Chris Matthews and Tucker Carlson. Now, with the publication of "America (The Book)," Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" gleefully joins their...
THE EMPIRE'S NEW CLOTHES - TINKER-CRAZY LUCAS CREATES FAN FIRESTORM WITH LONG-AWAITED 'STAR WARS' DVD SET
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHE original "Star Wars" trilogy finally makes its long-awaited arrival on DVD Tuesday - with the debate over George Lucas' proclivity for endlessly revising his seminal sci-fi epics reaching warp...
HEAR THIS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIN CONCERT * Today: Rockers the River City Rebels at the Continental (the band's new CD is free with admission). * R&B singer Angie Stone at B.B. King's. * At...
RISING STAR - HOT JAPANESE SINGER: I'M NO BRITNEY
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amDon't call Utada Hikaru the Japanese Britney Spears - even if she is Japan's hottest young female pop star. "I hate that! It's a pet peeve," says the 21-year-old "J-pop"...
SHE'S THE BOSS NOW - BRUCE'S WIFE, PATTI SCIALFA, STEPS OUT WITH NEW RECORD
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amShe's married to the Boss, but Patti Scialfa misses the life she led before becoming Mrs. Bruce Springsteen. Her new album, "23rd Street Lullaby," wistfully recalls her bohemian days as...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amGreen Day "American Idiot" (three stars) Reprise Records Green Day's new record is as catchy as it is rebellious. It's also the album that will earn the boys the respect...
WATERS' WORLD - TRUE TO FORM, 'SHAME' HAS SOMETHING TO OFFEND JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amEver heard of sploshing? How about a tickle top? If you have, you might not want to admit it. But John Waters isn't ashamed. The outrageous movie director, a longtime...
MOORE NYC - MANHATTANITE JULIANNE MOORE'S EERIE NEW MOVIE WAS FILMED CLOSE TO HOME
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amJulianne Moore ain't too proud to beg. The makers of her new movie, "The Forgotten," discovered that last year, when they were trying to decide where to shoot. Director Joe...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amFIRST DAUGHTER Katie Holmes is the president's daughter who wants a regular life. Michael Keaton is the commander-in-chief. THE FORGOTTEN This suspense flick is about a mom (Julianne Moore) in...
APPETITE FOR DISTRACTION - ROCKER-OWNED CLUB PUTS STEAKS, SPORTS AND SHOWS ON MENU
September 19, 2004 | 4:00am"I wanna rock 'n' roll all night - and party every day." When Kiss sang those lines back in 1975, the band might have envisioned a place like Snitch: New...
QUICK BITES: THE TASTIEST EVENTS THIS WEEK
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S A BLIMP!: Cheese steak aficionados now have another Philadelphia classic to satisfy their cravings. Ritz Carlton Central Park chef Mark Arnao has created a sandwich based on the hoagies...
MEET MARKET: THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amRADIOGRAPHER HAS X-RAY EYES FOR THE RIGHT LADY MEET Walter, 42, a vascular sonographer and radiographer - "I examine arteries and veins with ultrasound and I work with X-rays" -...
FASHIONABLE FLIRT HARTNETT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amFASHION Week inspired everyone ... to hook up. Josh Hartnett apparently found love with a supermodel: Canadian Daria Werbowy, the brunette star of the new Gucci ads. The two, introduced...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amFries with that ice cream? You must be pregnant! Whether it's ice cream and french fries, garlic on crackers or brown sauce on everything, nearly 60 percent of pregnant women...
'I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON TIME' - SLAIN WIFE'S PAINED PAL
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amHe was supposed to be there - but he was running late. In an exclusive interview with The Post, the heartbroken boyfriend of murdered Long Beach mom Diane Malone fought...
THUGS BEAT OLD-TIMER CONEY CARNY
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amA 70-year-old Coney Island amusement park manager was beaten with a golf club, tied up and robbed by three thugs wearing Halloween masks who followed him home. Cops said the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** Most cabbies hope they'll get a tip for a job well done, but one livery driver got less than that - he was bit on the face...
THE BATTLES OF REBUILDING
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amUP FROM ZERO: POLITICS, ARCHITECTURE AND THE REBUILDING OF NEW YORKBY PAUL GOLDBERGER RANDOM HOUSE, 273 PAGES, $24.95 THIS will have to do for now. The literature on Ground Zero...
BUSH: GUARD BRASS GAVE ME THE OK TO TAKE TIME OFF
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday defended his National Guard record, saying his military supervisors gave him permission to work on a political campaign while he served in the Air National Guard. "I...
WIDOW'S TORMENT ; 'I'LL SUE THE MET OVER HUBBY DEATH PLUNGE'
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe widow of a maintenance worker who plunged 60 feet to his death while working on a glass ceiling at the Metropolitan Museum said yesterday she plans to sue the...
APPLE BOBBING ; IVAN'S RAIN PUTS CITY UNDER WATER
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amKiller storm Ivan slammed the city yesterday, hammering Manhattan and parts of the other boroughs with a hard, fast torrent of 2 inches of rain in less than two hours,...
MACAULAY POT-BUST PAL IS IN ON THE ACT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe friend busted with "Home Alone" star Macaulay Culkin in Oklahoma is an up-and-coming star himself. Brett Tabisel, 22, has had minor parts in TV shows, movies and Broadway. The...
CRADLE-ROB SUSPECT $TIFFED WIFE: PALS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amWOODBURY, N.J. - The South Jersey computer whiz who allegedly convinced a 14-year-old girl to run away with him to Mexico wiped out his wife's savings account earlier this summer...
COP WENT UNDER THE KNIFE TO SAVE A LIFE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amMarie Frawley is in the business of saving lives - in and out of her NYPD uniform. Nearly two months ago, the 12-year NYPD veteran donated a kidney to Jane...
DAD TRIED 'PUNCHING' DEATH TOT OUT OF SEIZURE: COPS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe sicko dad whose 3-year-old son turned up dead in a bag on a Queens church's steps gave cops a chilling account of how he brutally tried to stop the...
ALBANY'S CULTURE CRISIS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amOn Tuesday, votes in local primaries presented at least the glimmerings of a revolt prompted by Albany's cynical mindset. On Wednesday, Mayor Bloomberg's self-graded report card offered evidence of just...
BOGUS BOSOX FAN; RUDY RIPS KERRY'S BUMBLING ERRORS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amYankees superfan Rudy Giuliani has a warning for John Kerry, who's been touting his love of the Red Sox as he campaigns for the presidency: Get your facts straight. Kerry...
BLOODY KIDNAP - DAD KILLS MOM, SWIPES 3 KIDS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amAn incensed man shot his estranged wife dead in cold blood outside a Mamaroneck park and left her sister clinging to life last night, before driving off with his three...
'SEX PATCH' TIED TO 17 DEATHS: FDA
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amA trendy contraceptive patch - which has been aggressively marketed using sexy ads, fashion models and Olympic athletes - has been linked to the deaths of at least 17 young...
$44M FIASCO ON WALL ST. - CITY LOST BIG ON OFFICE PROJECT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHE city paid out $44 million - far more than it has ever revealed - when after 9/11 it backtracked on plans to buy and demolish a building across from...
THUGS BEAT ELDERLY CONEY CARNY
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amA 70-year-old Coney Island amusement park manager was beaten with a golf club, tied up and robbed by three Halloween-masked thugs who followed him home. Cops said the victim, Ellis...
HOW TRAGIC TOT MET VIOLENT END
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe sicko dad whose 3-year-old son turned up dead in a bag on a Queens church's steps gave cops a chilling account of how he brutally tried to stop the...
MACAULAY POT-BUST PAL IS IN ON THE 'ACT'
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe friend busted with "Home Alone" star Macaulay Culkin in Oklahoma is an up-and-coming actor himself. Brett Tabisel, 22, has had minor parts in TV shows, movies and Broadway. The...
FIREWORKS SCARE ON LA GUARDIA JET
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD Bomb Squad was called in when a worker discovered powerful fireworks in a jet plane at La Guardia Airport early yesterday. The four devices - which sources described...
TRANSIT PAWS FOR A RESCUE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amA black cat trapped in the ceiling of a Brooklyn subway station had its luck reversed yesterday when a team of firefighters and transit workers rescued it. The fearless feline...
APPLE BOBBING; IVAN'S RAIN PUTS CITY UNDER WATER
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amKiller storm Ivan slammed the city yesterday, hammering Manhattan and parts of the other boroughs with a hard, fast torrent of 2 inches of rain in less than two hours,...
'STAR WARS' GEEKFESTS; APPLE FANS HERALD TRILOGY'S DVD DEBUT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIt's the DVD box set more anticipated than the rebels' defeat of the Empire - and to celebrate its New York release tomorrow at midnight, Star Wars fanatics are dressing...
'RULES' WRITER'S DENTAL DISASTER
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amA world-famous love expert says her celebrity dentist gave her "gigantic" teeth that drove her husband away and ruined her health. Ellen Fein, co-author of the dating bible "The Rules,"...
COPS IN OT PROBE; 2 IN BRONX DOUBLED PAYCHECKS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amNYPD brass have grilled the department's two biggest overtime earners - an officer and a detective who work as partners in The Bronx - to assess whether their arrest records...
BILLION DOLLAR MORON; WACKY $11B 'DEPOSIT'
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man with the same name as the author of the James Bond spy novels was nabbed trying to pull off a scheme worthy of an ambitious 007 villain...
BOGUS BOSOX FAN - RUDY RIPS KERRY'S BUMBLING ERRORS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amYankees superfan Rudy Giuliani has a warning for John Kerry, who's been touting his love of the Red Sox as he campaigns for the presidency: Get your facts straight. Kerry...
'KEY' TO A MEMO SCAM; '70S TYPEWRITERS COULDN'T PRODUCE DAN'S 'EVIDENCE'
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The latest typewriters known to have been in use at the Texas Air National Guard base where George W. Bush was stationed in the early 1970s can't produce...
PAST WOES AT TRAGIC DAY-CARE CENTER
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe owner of a Queens day-care center was found by city inspectors to be running an overcrowded, unlicensed facility only weeks before a baby in her care mysteriously died. Neither...
HOW PAXIL KILLED OUR SON
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amJAKE Steinberg had bitten his nails since childhood, but when a doctor noticed the California college student's antsy habit, he prescribed a medication to stop it: Paxil. "It was a...
PANEL'S PUSH FOR LIFESAVING LABELS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe Food and Drug Administration should require the boldest warning - a black box with white letters - be stamped on labels of antidepressant pills, cautioning that their use can...
SARAH'S LAST CHANCE TO BE STATUE-ESQUE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amSarah Jessica Parker is a hot favorite to finally break her five-year Emmy drought tonight by clinching Best Actress honors, but she'll have to beat Jennifer Aniston - and history....
'KEY' TO A MEMO SCAM - '70S TYPEWRITERS COULDN'T PRODUCE DAN'S 'EVIDENCE'
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The latest typewriters known to have been in use at the Texas Air National Guard base where George W. Bush was stationed in the early 1970s can't produce...
SLEEPERS, KEEPERS! OUR ALL-BARGAIN TEAM
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amWITH two weeks left in the season, the first-place team in most fantasy leagues has already been fitted for rings and all that's left is to etch its name into...
IT'S NOW A NON-CONTACT SPORT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amAND so it isn't enough for Gary Bettman and the Board of Governors to merely stop the games from being played until they get what they want. No; the commissioner...
TIKI: WE'VE GOTTA KEEP RUNNING BALL
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants are facing a blitz-happy Redskin defense today that allowed an NFL-low 30 yards on 15 carries in their season-opening win over Tampa Bay. But RB Tiki...
JETS MUST PUT THIS L.T. IN A SACK
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES SAN DIEGO - The task is daunting: sack L.T. This L.T. doesn't wear No. 56 and menaces quarterbacks. This L.T. wears No. 21 and helps quarterbacks. This isn't...
ENJOYING THE LIFE OF RILEY
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amBLOOMFIELD TWP., Mich. - You knew Chris Riley "Got It" when he told Hal Sutton he would be at the Ryder Cup regardless of whether his wife Michelle might be...
ROCKET RETURN TO APPLE NOT LIKELY
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES In what is another sign Roger Clemens intends to pitch in 2005, he is not shutting down at the end of this season. Instead, The Post has learned...
RUSTY GIAMBI SITS THIS ONE OUT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amJason Giambi had no problem with Joe Torre sitting him yesterday against the Red Sox and Derek Lowe. Not after going 0-for-11 with six strikeouts since returning from the disabled...
COMACINA TESTS BOYS ; FILLY GOES IN FUTURITY
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amOnly 17 horses were entered in today's three stakes at Belmont Park, but they include three of the best fillies and mares in training, one of which is facing the...
FIGHT FOR THE AGES II - HOPKINS OUT TO REARRANGE OSCAR'S FACE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - You see it as soon as you step off the plane. You see it in hotels and on billboards and on posters in store windows. Oscar De...
A-ROD PUTS BIG HURT ON BOSOX
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIt wasn't too long ago that Alex Rodriguez tried to KO the Red Sox and catcher Jason Varitek with his fists in a bench-clearing brawl at Fenway Park. But yesterday...
TY ISN'T WIGGIN' OUT; SLUMP WON'T GET EX-MET DOWN
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - You didn't really expect Ty Wigginton to change his game just because he'd changed his area code, did you? In New York, Wigginton earned a reputation for his...
BUCS' BAY ANOTHER ONE THAT GOT AWAY
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Pretty soon, the Mets' trade on July 31, 2002 may rank as one of their worst in recent history. Actually, it probably already does. If you...
MONTY TAKES A BREATHER
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amCUP NOTES BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The U.S. Ryder Cup team finally stopped Colin Montgomerie yesterday. When he and Padraig Harrington were defeated by Davis Love III and Stewart Cink,...
DOWNING, SHARKS FLEX MUSCLES VS. TOTTENVILLE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amSheepshead Bay 32Tottenville 7 Lamont Downing spent much of Friday night playing a football video game and as he usually does, the Sheepshead Bay senior played with the Kansas City...
YANKEES LIEB BOSOX IN DUST; RIGHTY'S PERFORMANCE JON FOR THE BOOKS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY STOOD, they cheered, then most left. Those from an announced crowd of 55,153 who stuck around Yankee Stadium through fits of rain, a chill in the air and a...
DEREK LEAVES FEELING MIGHTY LOWE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amFriday, the Red Sox raved about Derek Lowe's recent mound presence. Yesterday, he didn't have much of one, figuratively or literally. Lowe disintegrated in the first inning and exited without...
CALL HIM OL' DEPENDABLE ; BERNIE ALWAYS CAN FIND A WAY TO LIFT YANKEES
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amHE always was the easiest of the core Yankees to overlook, because he was so quietly proficient, because he rarely showed up on Page Six, because there always seemed to...
TORRE: 'I COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD'
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 14Red Sox 4 Their high-priced chins weren't scraping The Bronx pavement on the way out of Yankee Stadium Friday night. Yet Joe Torre said his club was down after...
WE NEED A MIRACLE - EUROS FIGHT OFF U.S. COMEBACK
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amBLOOMFIELD TWP., Mich. - Brookline, anyone? Actually, it's going to take an even more unrealistic, colossal comeback than the U.S. team produced in 1999 at The Country Club to shock...
RED SOX BATS TAKE SNOOZE IN BLOWOUT LOSS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amMost of the Red Sox' starters had already left a one-sided rout by the time David Ortiz batted with two outs in the seventh yesterday. Jon Lieber had buzzsawed through...
'FELINE' PURRS IN FLORAL PARK
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIn the Floral Park Handicap for fillies and mares at six furlongs, the first of yesterday's three stakes, front-running Cologny appeared home free leading by daylight in deep stretch, but...
A-ROD BATTERS BOSTON
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIt wasn't too long ago that Alex Rodriguez tried knocking out the Red Sox with his fists in a bench-clearing brawl. Yesterday, the Yankees third baseman knocked them down and...
U.S. LEGACY GETTING TARNISHED
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amBLOOMFIELD TWP, Mich.- When he was asked earlier this week to defend his mediocre Ryder Cup record, Tiger Woods quizzed the media about how Jack Nicklaus had fared in this...
WE'RE THE NEWSPAPER PEDRO LOVES TO HATE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amPedro Martinez is ticked at The Post. On the eve of one of the biggest regular-season starts of his illustrious career, Boston's ace yesterday was distracted by being dubbed "The...
EXECUTIONER'S CUT - HOPKINS TO OSCAR: STAND UP AND FIGHT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - When Bernard "The Executiuoner" Hopkins stripped off his baggy blue jeans and white T-shirt to reveal a perfectly chiseled, 156-pound body with a 27-inch waist, the crowd...
EUROPEANS EYE RECORD BLOWOUT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amBLOOMFIELD TWP, Mich. - Brookline, anyone? Not today. Not this time. Perhaps never again. By dinnertime tonight, the Ryder Cup will be headed back to Europe, where it truly belongs...
AL'S OUTLOOK LEITER; WANTS TO RETURN
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - One day after saying on a radio interview that he wasn't sure he wanted to be back with the Mets next year, Al Leiter clarified himself....
LANGER'S ROOKIES RED HOT
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amBLOOMFIELD TWP, Mich. - The importance one of the eight matches played in yesterday's Ryder Cup second round cannot be overstated. It came from Paul Casey and David Howell, two...
CASEY GETTING TEST VS. TIGER
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amRYDER CUP NOTES BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Perhaps as reward for his brilliant four-ball victory yesterday, Paul Casey got his wish. Casey, the brash European Ryder Cup rookie who went...
TODD CATCHES UP ; ZEILE PROPELS METS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00am10 INNINGS Mets 8 Pirates 7 PITTSBURGH - This was supposed to be Todd Zeile's night. Until Jason Bay ruined it. First, the 39-year-old Zeile got behind the plate to...
RAMS D-FEAT LIONS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amFordham 17Columbia 14 During a fourth-quarter timeout, Fordham coach Ed Foley found a pack of his players sprinting and screaming toward the sidelines. Foley figured the ranting would go the...
'EXECUTIONER' SLAYS OSCAR ; HOPKINS SCORES TKO IN 9TH
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - A tension hung over the ring in the MGM Grand for eight rounds as "Golden Boy" Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins engaged in...
MCGREEVEY'S HUNTING POLICY UN-BEAR-ABLE
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amNEW Jersey's Gov. McGreevey and his DEP commissioner Bradley Campbell are trying to give the animal-rights people everything they want before the governor leaves office in November. In a letter...
JEFF: AMAZIN'S DON'T HAVE SON POISONING - YOUNGER WILPON DEFENDS FAMILY'S COMMITMENT TO WINNING, ASSURES REBOUND
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amI AM not an idiot, I am not abrasive, I am not running the day-to-day workings of the baseball operations, I "feel the pain" of Mets fans because I am...
THE O.C. IS JETS' KEY - HACKETT NEEDS TO STAY ON ATTACK IN S.D.
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - The Jets get their chance to make the daunting walk from Pretender, U.S.A. to Contender, U.S.A. today against the Chargers. Beat the Chargers in their home opener,...
'DOGS ON SHORT LEASH - 'SHAMEFUL' GIANTS HAVE LOT TO PROVE TO HOME FANS
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amIs there any word that conjures up a feeling of disgrace and embarrassment more passionately as the one chosen by Giants co-owner Wellington Mara to describe his team's performance at...
WASTING TIME - NO SUCCESS ON COUGHLIN'S WATCH UNTIL VETERAN CREW'S SENT PACKING
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe new coach fines players for being late even when they arrive two minutes early. It delivers a message of misrepresentation, not punctuality, but ironically it all seems appropriate. To...
BIG-LEAGUE BOZOS SOLD MAYHEM
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amWE NEVER miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. That chair-throwing hassle at the Rangers-A's game on Monday was followed by the requisite woe-is-us stuff. Two days' worth, the usual....
WHEN THE SNIT HITS THE FAN: PLAYERS MUST RESIST, EVEN IF ROWDIES DESERVE SLAP
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS isn't to excuse Frank Francisco, OK? We should get that out of the way first. The second Francisco, a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers, grabbed that metal chair,...
HEAD TO HEAD
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amPost baseball writers Michael Morrissey and Mark Hale slug it out over who will win the National League pennant Michael Morrissey: Mark, who cares what the wild-card standings are or...
BIG DADDY'S LAST STAND - BOWE'S WILD RIDE FROM CHAMP TO PRISON AND BACK TO RING
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amSHAWNEE, Okla. - Riddick Bowe sits in the passenger seat of his manager's black Hummer H2 singing along with Marvin Gaye on the radio. Then, something strikes the former heavyweight...
EYES OF A 'NATION' ON COMEBACK
September 19, 2004 | 4:00amSHAWNEE, Okla. - This town's logo says, "The Center of it All." It's more like the middle of nowhere. Located 30 miles east of Oklahoma City, this city of 26,000...