August 2, 1999
THIS TIME, HE'S ZERO, NOT HERO - DEREK COLLARS YANKS
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON- Across the first four months of the season you watched Derek Jeter carve out an MVP season, and every game you waited for him to do something marvelous. He'd...
REACQUIRED LEYRITZ: NOW I UNDERSTAND
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Jim Leyritz had to leave the Yankees' universe to understand why George Steinbrenner and Joe Torre run things the way they do. "I have been with...
TORRE LOVES BOMBERS JUST THE WAY THEY ARE; TORRE LIKES STATUS QUO
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre does not care about the 2000 season. He does not care about forecasting budgets or protecting prospects that could help in the new century. Sure, he...
GEORGE UP IN 'ARMS' - BOSS WANTS TO SEE MORE FROM ROG, ANDY, RAMIRO
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - With no help arriving via the trade market, George Steinbrenner wants to see results from his three struggling pitchers. "It's time to fix [Andy] Pettitte, [Roger] Clemens and...
MIRACLE METS? YOU GOTTA BELIEVE IT!
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - When things like this start to happen, when a journeyman pitcher in the midst of a career year out of the bullpen delivers another sterling performance and also...
BROKEN PROMISE TO BABY AMERIKAN - KOSOVAR FAMILY: CHARITIES FAILING; EXCLUSIVE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00am"We are having a hard time - there is not enough money to buy milk for the baby." DAD NAIM KARALIJU The elaborate welcome mat that greeted Baby Amerikan -...
RAISING KING'S RANSOM - LISA MARIE HOPES ELVIS AUCTION WILL NET $10M
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amLisa Marie Presley is selling thousands of her father's personal items from private archives - hoping to raise more than $10 million to open a homeless shelter. The King's only...
2 DROWN ON L.I. BEACH
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amA man who tried to save two women in the waters off Long Island early yesterday drowned along with a friend, police said. The tragedy took place just before 5...
NEW YORKERS FINALLY GET A CHANCE TO PLAY IT COOL
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amMother Nature finally cooled down her act today - but not before blasting the Baked Apple with one more hellish day of heat. And in an even crueler twist, thousands...
SCU POLICE AGAIN GO INCOGNITO
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amSome members of the embattled NYPD Street Crime Unit were back in plainclothes as they patrolled on Saturday night, sources told The Post yesterday. The change came after police officials...
GOP BIG: GOV HOLDS KEY TO SENATE RACE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe decision on which Republican will face First Lady Hillary Clinton in next year's Senate race belongs to Gov. Pataki, the national GOP's chief recruiter for Senate candidates said yesterday....
QUEEN MOTHER INVITES CAMILLA OVER FOR TEA
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe Queen Mother "was brought up in a . . . world which tolerated lovers." ROYAL-FAMILY FRIEND Britain's Queen Mother has agreed to meet Camilla Parker Bowles - bringing Prince...
SHRINKS: HILLARY'S G0T P00R EXCUSE F0R HUBBY - EXPLANATION FOR HIS FLINGS PROVES SHE 'CAN'T SEE REALITY
August 2, 1999 | 4:00am"It sounds like some spin doctors and some consultants got to her." DR. ROBERT BUTTERWORTH Top shrinks said yesterday they don't buy a word of Hillary Rodham Clinton's dramatic new...
A DASH TO THE FINISH
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amACTOR Dash Mihok has been canned from the new CBS sitcom, "Love & Money." Mihok, the boyfriend of pop superstar Alanis Morissette, was axed from the sitcom because producers thought...
FREE HARDWARE FALLING ON HARD TIMES
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe whole concept behind the free PC has been thrown into question with a string of recent problems and failures. The most recent was Friday, when Earthlink, the respected Internet...
TORRE LOVES BOMBERS JUST THE WAY THEY ARE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre does not care about the 2000 season. He does not care about forecasting budgets or protecting prospects who could help in the new century. Sure, he...
'GALLOP' BARELY TAKES WHITNEY
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - A hundred years from now, when they talk about the greatest races ever run here at the old Spa - or anywhere else on the planet -...
PAT HAS DAY TO REMEMBER
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Pat Day was the big story yesterday at Saratoga as he hit the winner's circle four times. The Hall of Fame rider took the second with the...
BRIAN GIVES JINTS REASON TO BELIEVE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00am"Bringing [Williams] back makes the offense infinitely better." MICHAEL STRAHAN ALBANY - The imbalance cannot continue if the Giants want to rise above mediocrity and break into the realm of...
COLLINS CAN'T FIND COMFORT ZONE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Everything about this training camp with the Giants is new for Kerry Collins, and it's not a comfortable feeling. "It's definitely anxiety-producing," Collins said. "I don't...
CURTIS' GOAL: 2,000 IN 1999 - JETS' RB SETS SIGHTS ON PLATEAU
August 2, 1999 | 4:00am"My body feels good, my legs feel good. Mentally, physically, I feel great." CURTIS MARTIN Call it a pipe dream. Call it an impossible dream. Call it Curtis Martin's dream....
KEITH'S NET WORTH SOARS
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Keith Van Horn insisted that when the time came, the process around his contract extension with the Nets be done in a quick and cordial fashion, with the...
MONICA RATTLED BUT OK AFTER CALIF. FREEWAY FLIP
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amMonica "slid through the dirt center divider and the vehicle overturned." CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL'S KATHLEEN FOSTER Sexgate siren Monica Lewinsky walked away with only bruises and neck pain last night...
LOFT LAW TO BE RENEWED IN ; NEW BUDGET DEAL
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amSOME 10,000 Manhattan rent-regulated tenants will get a reprieve this week when the Legislature and Gov. Pataki agree to renew New York's 17-year-old Loft Law. Sources told The Post yesterday...
TV TICKER
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amPark it! Rugged Tom Brokaw heads for the wilds of Yellowstone National Park to anchor tonight's "NBC Nightly News" (6:30 p.m. on Ch.4) for a look at the park system's...
GOING OUT OF FASHION - MENSWEAR SHOWS GET DRESSING-DOWN; EXCLUSIVE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amR.I.P., New York Men's Fashion Week. After bruising defections by Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren this year, Fern Mallis, head of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, is throwing...
BERNIE PLAYING IN PAIN; EXCLUSIVE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Bernie Williams and the Yankees were so concerned about his sore left shoulder that they sent their center fielder and switch-hitting cleanup man for an MRI recently, The...
AMAZIN'S GOOD AS NEW - HAMILTON, MCELROY & TAYLOR IMPRESSIVE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Three of the four new Mets arrived at Wrigley Field in time for yesterday's game and all three made an immediate and positive impact. Darryl Hamilton started in...
DEMARCO HAS A CALL INTO KNICK BRASS
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Knicks had barely left the court following the completion of their 3-3 showing in the Pro Summer League here when Ed Tapscott's cellular phone started ringing. "DeMarco...
FROM TROJANS TO TOTTENVILLE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amImagine coming straight out of college, getting a job on the other side of the country and being able to bring a fraternity brother with you. You get to work,...
KEYSHAWN HAS SOME DEEP THOUGHTS
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amJust throw Keyshawn Johnson the damn ball - deep. "I want to get better at Dedric Ward stuff," Keyshawn said. "I want to go down the field more. I can...
CHINA DISSIDENT FINALLY ARRIVES SAFELY IN N.Y.
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amA Chinese dissident and one-time leader of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests arrived in New York this weekend after a hair-raising escape by way of Russia, a human-rights group said...
LITTLE FOR REFUGEES AS AID AGENCIES HELP THEMSELVES
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amAt the height of the Kosovo crisis, the Clinton administration promised to relocate 20,000 Kosovar refugees - with $740 in federal funds allotted for each. The State Department contracts with...
WOUNDED ROBBER ESCAPES HOSP: COPS
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amDane Simpson walked into Brookdale Hospital with a gunshot wound - then walked right out after cops found out he's wanted for robbery, authorities said. Simpson, a 21-year-old Queens resident,...
HIGH TEMPS MAY HAVE DOOMED SKY DIVERS
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe nation's killer heat wave may have caused a plane full of sky divers to crash in Michigan, killing all 10 aboard. Federal investigators said weather could have been a...
EUROPE CHUCKS BRIT-BEEF BAN
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amBritish farmers hoping to put the mad-cow disease scare behind them threw free barbecues yesterday to celebrate the lifting of a three-year ban on the sale of British beef to...
WRITER'S BRAIN MAY HELP CURE ALZHEIMER'S
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amResearch hospitals are using the brain of novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch to help find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, it was revealed last night. Murdoch died at age of...
WHAT TO DO IF YOU'RE ON TINA'S DISSED LIST
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amToday, the Metro Gnome offers a conversation he's sure must be taking place somewhere in this city with some fabulous New Yorker who somehow got overlooked from the invite list...
DESIGNER FICTION
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amIT looks as if Hollywood storylines aren't the only things that have become escapist these days. In "The Thomas Crown Affair," out this Friday, the biggest scene-stealer is Rene Russo's...
DON'T THROW THAT TV AWAY - REPAIRMAN GIVES OLD SETS A TRANSPLANT
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amHE'S no Dr. Frankenstein, but former television set repairman Harry Poster has figured out a way to take yesterday's TV bodies - and fuse them with today's color TV brains....
THANKS FOR NOTHING, PILGRIM
August 2, 1999 | 4:00am"Thanks"Tonight at 8:30 on WCBS/Ch.2 IT appears 1621 was not a good year for comedy. But CBS is gonna go way back there, anyway, with a stupefyingly humorless series in...
A SNEAK PEEK AT THE TALK OF THE TOWN
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amTonight some 800 people from the entertainment, media, political, fashion and literary worlds are expected to converge on Liberty Island for the long-awaited launch party for Tina Brown's Talk. The...
THURM'S FLYING UPSET BOSS
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - If any of the Yankees question clauses in their contracts that forbid them to do certain activities, all they have to think about is Thurman Munson dying in...
LEITER SHATTERS PERSONAL K MARK
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CHICAGO - For some reason, whenever Al Leiter pitches well, something else seems to be the bigger story of the day. Yesterday was no different as Leiter pitched...
MAHOMES' HEROICS ARE EXTRA SPECIAL - AMAZIN'S RELIEVER BAILS OUT BENITEZ WITH ARM & BAT
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Throughout the entirety of 13 exciting and well-played innings, John Franco sat in the Mets dugout like some kind of tantalizing mirage. Unable to pitch, barely allowed to...
ORSENO'S FILLY PERFECT LATELY
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Before the meet began, The Post's "Saratoga Bettors Guide" predicted that trainer Joe Orseno was loaded for bear at this meet with his Stronach Stable horses. So...
DEM BIG: BRADLEY PALS GAGGED - PREZ LETS GORE BULLY FOES: BIDEN
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amA veteran Democratic senator is accusing the Clinton White House of using crude pressure tactics to keep Democrats from endorsing Bill Bradley against Vice President Al Gore for the 2000...
MONICA OK AFTER ROLLING CAR
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amSexgate siren Monica Lewinsky walked away with only bruises last night after her sport utility vehicle rolled over on a California highway, officials said. Lewinsky - the 25-year-old ex-White House...
HILLARY PLANS FALL VISIT TO ISRAEL
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will take a break from her listening tour of New York this fall to travel to Israel for a conference on violence, an Israeli newspaper...
SLAY TRADER'S WIFE LAID TO REST - GA. KIN BID TEARFUL FAREWELL
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe grief-stricken family of Leigh Ann Barton, the first to die in her husband's killing spree last week, packed a crowded rural church yesterday to hear a pastor try to...
BROOKLYN BYSTANDER DIES IN DRUG-BATTLE CROSSFIRE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amAn innocent bystander - described as a well-loved neighborhood fixture - was killed yesterday when rival gangs opened fire during a drug dispute in Brooklyn, police said. Rajesh Lall, 23,...
OUSTED NATO GEN. NEARLY LAUNCHED WWIII: REPORT
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. Gen. Wesley Clark - just dumped as NATO's top commander - wanted to seize Kosovo's Pristina airport to bar Russian troops, but was blocked for fear he'd start "World...
CHURCH BASHES 'PO$H' WEDDING
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe Church of Ireland has slammed the lavish wedding of Posh Spice and David Beckham as un-Christian because it dripped of so much money. The church's official newspaper tore into...
WEBB: STARR PROBED HER SEX LIFE
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's disgraced ex-law partner, Webster Hubbell, claims in a new interview that Sexgate prober Ken Starr quizzed him about the first lady's sex life. Starr wanted to know...
U.S. HIKES INVOLVEMENT IN COLOMBIAN CONFLICT
August 2, 1999 | 4:00am"What you have here is a 1964 model of Vietnam." CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER, IN NEWSWEEK REPORT More than 300 American soldiers, CIA agents and drug agents have been sent to Colombia...
LEVITT POOPS ON EXCHANGES' PLANNED COUP
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amWHY is SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt being such a party pooper? Probably because his commission has found so little oversight at the stock exchange these days that he can't imagine...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
August 2, 1999 | 4:00amTIME wins the battle of the newsweeklies with the best coverage on the story of the week: the Atlanta massacre. Time exclusively obtained a deposition that day-trader killer Mark Barton...