May 23, 2006
WHY OIL INDUSTRY CHIEF EXPECTS GASOLINE PRICES TO FALL
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE head of the American Petroleum Institute asked me if I was available for a bite - so I bit him. Old joke, but seriously, I was scheduled to just...
RAISE THE ROOF - REAL ESTATE OF RICH STILL HOT PROPERTIES
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amIf you don't think the rich are getting richer, just look at the asking prices for some of their homes. The latest survey of the country's most expensive residential properties...
DOWNTOWN TOWER PLAN
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Frank Gehry-designed project that Forest City Ratner is developing on the NYU Beekman Downtown Hospital parking lot is starting to shape up. The tower's just-revealed 876-foot height will top...
NYSE FIRES BACK - BID WAR FOR EURONEXT
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange and German rival Deutsche Boerse may be on the verge of a bidding war to control European stock market Euronext. Euronext, which controls the Paris,...
GAP SLIPS INTO SHOES ON WEB
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe Gap Inc. said yesterday that it plans to begin selling footwear by leading fashion brands on its Web site in time for the holiday season. The announcement followed a...
TOMMY GUTTED - NEW OWNERS TO AX 300 JOBS IN FASHION PURGE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amApax Partners, the private-equity shop that owns Tommy Hilfiger, is planning on cutting more than 40 percent of the company's U.S. workforce, a move that would eliminate about 300 jobs...
SWEDISH MAG GIANT NABS STAKE IN SAVEUR PARENT
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amSwedish firm Bonnier Magazine Group has taken on the American magazine market by grabbing a stake in World Publications, owners of Saveur, Garden Design, Caribbean Travel & Life and Water...
GOING ONCE, TWICE, A PENSION AT A PRICE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Wall Street lawyer gave new meaning to the term "futures market" when he tried to auction his future Social Security checks - money did doesn't now have - on...
LIVING ABOVE THE SHOP - NEW YORK RETAIL CONDOS HAVE COME INTO THEIR OWN
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHINK of a retail condo as a mini-strip center. Sure, a city retail condo is a slightly different animal than what's pictured as a typical suburban mall. It is usually...
PERFECTING THE ART OF LOCATION - HOW THIS MAN'S DATABASE CAN HELP RETAILERS FIND EVEN MORE CUSTOMERS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amSOME folks draw a circle and set down a shop in the middle. Some count passing feet and believe some of them will make it inside. But not Tom Buxton....
COLUMBUS ON THE CREST OF A WAVE - RETAIL IS BOOMING ON THE "YUPPER" WEST SIDE OF TOWN
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S Goodbye, Columbus, for Boyd's, the upscale beauty products emporium that left Madison Avenue for the Upper West Side with much fanfare last year. Boyd's has put its lease at...
IT'S ALL INSIDE - QUALITY STORE DESIGN IS THE KEY
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amSPLASHY entrances, enchanting elevators, environmentally sensitive design, enhanced lighting and heady smells are all encompassed inside today's retail shops. But each design focuses on the brand and creating a space...
DOWNTOWN ON THE UPSWING - THE LOCALS WANT SHOPS - AND RETAILERS WANT TO OBLIGE THEM...
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amLUXURY retailers are lapping at the bricks to get into any available shop Downtown. Dumbstruck by Hermes' bold move to lease a store at 15 Broad St., they are now...
NIGHTCLUB NIGHTMARE? - MANY SAY 27TH ST. NEEDS MORE VARIED RETAIL, NOT JUST NIGHTCLUBS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWHY is 27th St. in Chelsea different than all other streets? Because between 10th and 11th Avenues, there are 10 clubs and restaurants. At night, it's typically barricaded by city...
SPORTY IS NOW BIGGER THAN POSH - FROM SURFBOARDS TO SNEAKERS, SOHO IS CONTINUING TO EVOLVE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amSOHO is struggling with its image as furniture makers continue to create a stronghold around Moss, while sole-filled sneaker and sportswear companies jump into other spots. Galleries and luxury goods...
PICTURE-PERFECT DIET - JUST A PHOTO ATTACHMENT AWAY, FIND FOOD ADVICE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBEFORE I dug into the plate of steak poivre, crispy-edged hand-cut fries and a side of grilled asparagus at the East Village's Counter the other night, I flipped open my...
THE LONG GOOD-BYE - HOW CAN WE MISS KATIE IF SHE WON'T GO AWAY?
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amHERE'S a country-music song for Katie Couric's "Today" show sendoff: "How Can We MissYou - When You Won't Go Away?" Couric's final day on the morning show won't be until...
'SNL' SPOOF MIGHT FLEE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amNBC may shift its new "Saturday Night Live" drama, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" to Monday, according to reports. As it stands now, the show from "West Wing" creator...
BURGER TIME
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amONE of my lunches last week included a veggie burger with cheese on a bun, with a Greek salad. And, of course, my nutritionist, Jason, had something to say. The...
FINAL 'IDOL' MELODY A MYSTERY
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amIF history is any indication, viewers will get to hear the biggest hit song in the U.S. tonight - an original song performed by the next "American Idol" winner, Taylor...
FINAL 'IDOL' MELODIES
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amIF history is any indication, we'll get to hear the next No. 1 song in the U.S. tonight - when the next "American Idol" winner, Taylor Hicks or Katharine McPhee,...
AGENT BAUER SHANGHAIED IN '24' FINALE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amIT LOOKS as if Jack Bauer will be eating Chinese food for the foreseeable future. Or at least until next winter, when "24" returns with a new season. The edge-of-your...
JUST ADD WATER PLUS A BIT MORE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWATER not only goes with everything, it comes with everything. It's spiked with vitamins, minerals, elec trolytes and, now, fluoride, protein and calcium. Nestle's Poland Spring is debuting a mini...
GHOST OF A CHANCE - MAKE NICE TO 'DESPERATION'
May 23, 2006 | 4:00am"REDRUM" is back. In "Stephen King's Desperation," the word "redrum" - which is "murder" spelled backward - is scrawled on a wall in blood, just like in "The Shining," another...
STARR REPORT
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amFace time for Isabelle This Thursday's "Primetime" features a French documentary detailing the firstever face transplant, which was performed last year on "Isabelle," a French woman who was mauled by...
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS - THE ABSOLUTE BEST GETAWAYS TO BOOK NOW
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE are years when it's difficult to get excited about close-to-home travel - this isn't one of them. All across the Northeast, change is brewing - often, where you least...
GET OUT OF TOWN - FROM EXCITING SMALL TOWNS TO NEW DESTINATION SPAS, MORE TOP GETAWAYS FOR 2006; THE BEST PLACES TO RECHARGE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amMILFORD, PA The best little town you've never visited "It's like there's a big cone of protection over this town," an ex-Upper-EastSider-turned-local recently confided. It's easy to see what she's...
READY TO POP! - 'IDOL' MAKEOVER MASTER DISHES ON PREPARING THE FINAL TWO FOR STARDOM; IDOL DUO HIT THEIR FINLA NOTES
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amSOMEWHERE out there are supertalented, badly dressed, ugly aspiring singers crying themselves to sleep every night because they'll never be American Idols. While Simon Cowell persistently points out that "this...
PORTRAITS OF SHAME
May 23, 2006 | 4:00am'BRITNEY'S just getting better and better," says 14, a San Franciscobased artist who runs galleryoftheabsurd.com. "Her decline is amazing!" she says gleefully. Since 2005, 14 has been depicting celebrity gossip...
SCHOOL-BUS PRANK KILLS GIRL, 8 - CRUSHED ON B'KLYN STREET AFTER BOY RELEASES BRAKE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn second-grader walking home with her big brother was killed by a runaway school bus yesterday - after an 8-year-old mischief-maker broke in and tampered with its brakes, police...
ANDY STILL ON POLL ROLL
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Andrew Cuomo continues to hold a double-digit lead over his chief rival, Mark Green, in the battle for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, a poll showed yesterday....
DEFEATING TERROR - DESPITE THE POLS, WE'RE WINNING
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWITH the formation of Iraq's new government, it's a good time to take stock of where we stand in our confrontation with Islamist terror. You wouldn't know it from the...
'SAM' SERIAL 'STEALER' IS SHOOTIN' FOR 'NET GAIN$
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe attorney who allegedly ripped off David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz's most cherished possessions used them in a self-published book he's "hawking" over the Internet, the serial killer's lawyer charged...
YAK TALK FROM BLOOMBERG
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amHe may be a man of the world, but Mayor Bloomberg seemed taken aback yesterday to learn that yak cheese from Nepal was being sold in Brooklyn. Attending a ribbon-cutting...
LOST TESTS TEST KIDS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amCall it a case of advanced misplacement. Eighteen students at the prestigious La Guardia HS for Music, Art and Performing Arts are set to retake a section of an Advanced...
OLMERT'S PLAN B - SWITCHES FROM SETTLERS TO IRAN FOR CHAT WITH W.
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ehud Olmert makes his first trip to the White House today as Israel's prime minister - but he had to reshuffle his agenda after U.S. officials responded coolly...
STOP NUKE 'MADMAN': SCHUMER
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amIran is run by "a madman," and the United States shouldn't rule out military action to keep him from having his finger on the nuclear trigger, Sen. Charles Schumer said...
GIULIANI '08: A REAL CHANCE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amIN my new book ("Can She Be Stopped?"), I suggest that the Republican best suited to the challenge of preventing Hillary Clinton's ascension to the Oval Office in 2008 is...
GOV RIVALS 'TIEBREAKERS'
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - The two Republican candidates for governor yesterday rejected a last-minute proposal to avoid a bitter confrontation at next week's nominating convention by giving each an equal number of...
TOSSED SAILORS SAFE & SOUND
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amTwo men cheated death by mere minutes when a fast-moving squall flipped their sailboat and dunked them into the frigid Long Island Sound. The soaked sailors - John Gearaty, 56,...
WEASELS PAID THUGS RANSOM
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The governments of France, Germany and Italy approved ransom payments of $44 million to gain the freedom of hostages kidnapped in Iraq, according to a shocking new report....
HOWARD BEACH ONLY REASON IT'S A BIG DEAL
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE unnaturally blond mother railed at me, "See how you feel!" "Stand in my shoes as a mother, and see how you get!" Her friends tried to shut her up....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * An NYPD car driven by an officer assigned to the transit division and a private car operated by an off-duty firefighter collided last night at East Third St...
ONE BLOW KILLED MAN IN CHELSEA
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe New Jersey man found lying in a pool of blood in the middle of a Chelsea street early Sunday died from a single powerful punch to the head, police...
SLAY TRIAL THROWN FOR LOOP
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe case against a Brooklyn man charged with murder in the shooting of a soldier outside a Canarsie nightclub nearly came unhinged yesterday when a key witness uttered one explosive,...
PREZ-THREAT NUT BUSTED
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Florida man arrested and charged last year with threatening President Bush later crafted bogus Secret Service credentials - including one bearing the name of the agent who threw him...
SUNNI-SHINE FOR W. IN IRAQ
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said one bit of proof that Iraq is making real progress is that a Sunni who opposed the U.S.-led war to topple Saddam Hussein is...
POL WON'T TURN TAIL OF THE TAPE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A day after being videotaped taking a $100,000 bribe in an FBI sting, Rep. William Jefferson defiantly vowed to run for re-election. "There are two sides to every...
CHILLING HERALD SCARE - SUBWAY BOMBER WAS READY TO 'BLOW': FEDS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Muslim mole, a paid NYPD informant and a schizophrenic co-conspirator were all paraded into a Brooklyn courtroom to prove one thing - that an alleged Herald Square bomb plotter...
KIDS' 'RACKET' IS LEGAL: JUDGE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Civil Court judge yesterday answered the burning legal question: If a group of kids gets rowdy in the middle of a vacated city park, do they make a sound?...
BEER-CAN PITCHER STRIKES OUT AT SHEA
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island man was arrested Sunday night after hitting a security guard in the face with an aluminum beer container during the Yankee-Met game at Shea Stadium, authorities said...
'GAY' POL IS BARRED - GETS LAW-FIRM BOOT
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - The Rockland County assemblyman who last week resigned his seat in the wake of a gay sex scandal has also lost his partnership at an upstate law firm....
TAX-FRAUD ACCOUNTANT GETS A YEAR
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amAn accountant who once boasted he could make tax problems "disappear like magic" will be disappearing himself for a year. Jeffrey Rosner, 52, will be spending the next 12 months...
MAMA HEALTH DRAMA - FEDS' PREGNANT CAUSE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amHey, girl, if you're capable of bearing a child, you're now officially considered pre-pregnant and federal health officials want you to live as if you may soon be in a...
IMMIGRATION BIG RIPS SEN. ALIEN BILL
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The head of the agency that would handle legalization of undocumented aliens says he's not being given enough time to do it properly under a bill now before...
CRIME-CAM PLAN FOR SUBWAY CARS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amNext stop, candid camera. Closed-circuit TV cameras may be installed on thousands of subway cars to deter graffiti and other crimes, transit officials said yesterday. The MTA is considering a...
NEW GOTTI RAPS MAKE A BIG RACKET - FEDS ADD $$-LAUNDER & WITNESS TAMPERING
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe feds have whacked John "Junior" Gotti with new charges as they gear up for his third racketeering trial - accusing the former Gambino leader of continuing to commit mob...
D.A. SWINGS AT 'FAT NICK' - HITS HARD TO LEAD OFF BAT-ATTACK BIAS TRIAL
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amAccused bat-basher Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci made a racial remark moments before he pounced on his black victim and beat him with a Louisville Slugger, a prosecutor said at his...
BILL TO BOOST HILL
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Former President Bill Clinton will add some luster to next week's Democratic state convention in Buffalo, The Post has learned. Clinton is expected to be there when his...
I WAS MOB BIG'S CASH COWARD
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA demolition-company owner testified that he paid Gambino capo Greg DePalma tens of thousands of dollars in extortion money - shelling out cash for new cars, jewelry, suits, art and...
DEADLY PRANK - SCHOOL BUS KILLS GIRL IN BRAKE RELEASE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn second-grader walking home with her older brother was tragically struck and killed by a runaway school bus yesterday after a 9-year-old mischief-maker tampered with its brakes, police said....
SEX ORDEAL WITH BURGLAR
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA homeless fiend accused of breaking into the Lower East Side apartment of a Japanese woman and molesting her was able to remain on the lam for six days because...
ARUBA SUSPECT SET FREE - LATEST SETBACK FOR COPS IN NATALEE CASE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amAnother suspect in the murder of Natalee Holloway - a croupier who was working at the hotel where she stayed on the night she disappeared - has been arrested only...
SENATE BACKS BUSH BORDER BOLSTER
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate cast an overwhelming - but largely symbolic - 83-10 vote last night in favor of President Bush's plan to send National Guard troops to the Mexican...
METER MAID IN TIX 'SHAM'
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA traffic-enforcement agent was busted yesterday for plastering bogus tickets on cars that had been parked legally, police said. Nivea Cloud, 30, resigned yesterday in the wake of an NYPD...
FORGET TAX CUTS FOR NOW, MIKE SAYS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBig Apple tax cuts are off the table for the foreseeable future, despite a city treasury flush with cash, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "We've made it clear that we're not...
RAGE OF LYE VICTIM - ANGRY CLASHES: PAL
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx restaurant owner who died after being drenched with lye couldn't keep his temper from boiling over, often yelling yelled at customers - mostly women - a former partner...
COPS HURT BREAKING UP BAR BRAWL
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amFour off-duty Yonkers police officers were injured during a bar brawl that left one of them unconscious, authorities said yesterday. The melee erupted at a Yonkers restaurant called The Tyrone...
290 MISS 9/11 COMP
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington is among 290 city workers who blew the two-year deadline to file 9/11 workers' compensation claims against the city, Bloomberg administration officials said yesterday. Testifying...
NEWARK SARGE KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Newark soldier who won a Purple Heart after taking shrapnel while parachuting into Baghdad was killed Friday in Afghanistan, military officials said yesterday. Special Forces Staff Sgt. Christian Longsworth,...
ARREST IN L.I. BADA BING SLAY
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amLong Island detectives yesterday busted a suspect in the bludgeoning murder of a man found dead outside a Port Jefferson Station bar. Daniel Callahan, 37, was taken into custody just...
CITY BIDS FOR GOP CONVENTION
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe Big Apple is ready to host another Grand Old Party. New York, which hosted the 2004 Republican National Convention, submitted its bid yesterday to once again host the GOP...
WTC COMP $TOMP - 290 CLAIMS MISS CUTOFF
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington is among 290 city workers who blew the two-year deadline to file 9/11 workers' compensation claims against the city, Bloomberg administration officials said yesterday. Testifying...
COPS GRILL LYE MAN'S KIN, PALS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amPolice hunting for the sick killer who drenched a Bronx restaurant owner with lye have been speaking to his relatives and co-workers - and are not ruling anyone out, sources...
BLOOMY WHACKS TAX CUTS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBig Apple tax cuts are off the table for the foreseeable future, despite a city treasury flush with cash, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "We've made it clear that we're not...
SHEFFIELD MAY PLAY TONIGHT
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees' immediate future is in Gary Sheffield's left hand. Sheffield was Trenton's designated hitter in New Britain last night in a Double-A game - going 1-for-3 with...
ACHING DAMON SETTLES FOR DH
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Joe Torre wanted to give Johnny Damon's right foot a complete rest last night. But when Torre discussed the idea with his center fielder, Damon wanted...
PERUSING AT QUARTER-POLE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Tuesday Morning Shortstop refuses to say it is still early. One-quarter of the season is gone, and we can all be pretty sure that Albert Pujols is good and...
DANICA REVS UP INDY 500 DREAM
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amDanica Patrick lit a media fuse in 2005. All eyes, notepads, microphones and cameras honed in on her 5-foot-2, 100-pound frame. Patrick, 24, placed fourth in the Indianapolis 500, earning...
TURNPIKE TUSSLE - METS CAN OPEN BIG EAST LEAD VS. PHILS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amWhereas the Yankees jumped from the frying pan into the fire last night, the Mets had a chance to turn down the heat for a day. After the intensity of...
BAD ATTITUDE PAID OFF FOR THOMAS, SUNS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amPHOENIX - If not for Tim Thomas' 3-point poison dart that forced overtime in Game 6 of the Suns-Lakers first-round matchup, Los Angeles would've commemorated its first Staples Center Hallway...
CAN'T WORK IT OUT - NOTHING NORMAL ABOUT KNICKS' FAMILY FEUDING
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amLarry Brown ran the workouts; Isiah Thomas, Brown's partner in feuding, watched the workouts; and Knicks owner James Dolan stayed away from the workouts, continuing his agonizing silence that has...
KIDS AT CENTER OF MEDIA CIRCUS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amMoments before Knicks officials escorted four draft prospects into a press room filled with more than 40 media members yesterday in Greenburgh, the club's P.R. chief Jonathan Supranowitz bellowed: "Don't...
WRONG GUY IS GARDEN'S LAME DUCK
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amLARRY Brown worked out four potential draftees yesterday whom he never will coach with the Knicks, four guys who, hopefully for their own sake, evaluated so poorly that they will...
BARBARO ON MEND
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amKENNETT SQUARE, Pa. - As dawn broke on a brilliant spring day over the New Bolton Center in the heart of Pennsylvania horse country, America's most famous four-legged hospital patient...
NETS SLATE WORKOUTS
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amUCLA point guard Jordan Farmar heads the list of players whom the Nets will work out this week in preparation for the June 28 draft. Along with Farmar on Friday,...
FOR OPENERS, LIBERTY LOOK TO BOUNCE BACK
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amTonight is take two for the Liberty, who stumbled out of the gate to a 91-74 loss to the Sun in Saturday's 10th season opener. They get a chance to...
BRIGGS NOT READY TO BE COUNTED OUT
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amFor Brooklyn's Shannon Briggs, it is just another step along the path toward the undisputed world title. The 34-year-old Briggs (42-4-1, 6 KO's) will attempt to resume his return to...
GIANTS WAIT FOR FIEDLER
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe Giants are willing to wait for Jay Fiedler to get healthy, and when he is, they are anxious to see if he fits as their backup quarterback. "When the...
SOX SPURRED BY BLOOD FEUD
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox are like a wily old Great White shark that smells blood in the water. They are circling these injured Yankees, aware that a wounded animal...
BLACK CLOUDS OVER THE MEN IN GRAY
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees are the Yankees in name only for the time being, the same fancy uniforms draped around a cast of strangers. It's a less than satisfying product....
A WANG NIGHT IN BEANTOWN - BOSTON BATS BATTER UNDERMANNED YANKEES
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amRed Sox 9 - Yankees 5 BOSTON - There is a very good chance Gary Sheffield will return to the Yankees tonight. In the best interest of the Yankees, Sheffield...
A LONG WAY TO GO
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - Derek Jeter was in mid-sentence on the subject of coping amid so many roster flips and flops when he was tapped on the shoulder. He wheeled around to...
SOX THRILLED BY SCHILL
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The 9-5 win over the Yankees wasn't the best news of the night for the Red Sox. This team thinks long term. This team thinks big picture. This...
DAMON'S MANTRA: RUN, JOHNNY, RUN
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The best moments are the ones where Johnny Damon can simply shut off his brain and just go, just do whatever it is that needs to be done....
GETTING A-LONG WITH PAIN - RESHUFFLED YANKS TO 'FIND OUT HOW TOUGH WE ARE'
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - Derek Jeter was in mid-sentence on the subject of coping amid so many roster flips and flops when he was tapped on the shoulder. He wheeled around to...
GOTTA HAND IT TO SHEFF - GARY COULD RETURN TO YANKS' LINEUP TONIGHT
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees' immediate future is in Gary Sheffield's left hand. Sheffield was slated to play for Trenton in New Britain, Conn., last night in a Double-A game, and...
DAMON SETTLES FOR DH
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Joe Torre wanted to give Johnny Damon's right foot a complete rest last night. But when Torre discussed the idea with his center fielder, Damon wanted...
FEAR FACTOR FIZZLED FOR CONFIDENT SOX
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox are like a wily old Great White shark that smells blood in the water. They are circling these injured Yankees, aware that a wounded animal...
GIANTS WAITING FOR FIEDLER
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe Giants are willing to wait for Jay Fiedler to get healthy, and when he is, they are anxious to see if he fits as their backup quarterback. "When the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 23, 2006 | 4:00amIt was a real gas filling up at a service station in Hammond, Ind. Seems a pump malfunctioned and was selling gas for 29 cents a gallon instead of $2.79....