August 3, 1999
DUNSTON, FRANCO IN MET-RICULATION
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Shawon Dunston and John Franco were reunited yesterday in the visitors' locker room at County Stadium, two decades after they were teammates on a playground basketball court in...
THE WAY HE WAS - STATS COULDN'T CAPTURE THURM'S GREATNESS
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amTO THOSE of us for whom the last 20 years have passed in an eyeblink, it is easy to overlook how much the world, and the game, have changed since...
AL HONORS IRABU FOR HOT JULY
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Yankee starter Hideki Irabu has gone from frog to prince, winning AL Pitcher of the Month honors for July. Irabu went 4-0 in July with a sterling 2.64...
RAMS' HILL EYES ST. RAY'S COACH; EXCLUSIVE
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amIn his quest to hire assistant coaches with tight connections to New York City high school basketball, new Fordham coach Bob Hill will interview St. Raymond's coach Gary DeCesare as...
TEAM GERMANY'S IN SERIOUS SLUMP
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - How the mighty have fallen, Episode 17. It's been acknowledged for at least two years now that Germany has declined sharply as a soccer power. A 4-0 humbling...
BLISS BANISHES THE TEARS - RORY KENNEDY TIES KNOT IN GREECE TWO WEEKS AFTER JOHN'S TRAGIC LOSS
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amA priest spoke of the "deep love" that surrounded the couple, despite last month's mind-numbing tragedy. Rory Kennedy finally tied the knot in an ultra-private service in Greece last night...
DEBUT SERVES UP FRESH DISHES AND SOME LEFTOVERS
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amTINA BROWN'S Talk has opened to a great blaze of publicity and buzz, thanks to terrific play of a few good stories and a week of nonstop "exclusive" interviews by...
BARAK GETS BAD NUKES FROM BORIS
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amMOSCOW - Russia won't stop helping Iran develop ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, Israeli officials said yesterday after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak visited Russian President Boris Yeltsin. During their...
SCIENTISTS FIND GENETIC KEY TO GOOD CHOLESTEROL
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amA gene that regulates "good" cholesterol levels has been discovered - a breakthrough fueling hopes of a new way to combat heart disease. Flaws in the gene, known as ABC1,...
ALBANY SET TO OK BUDGET - AND A $375M TAX CUT
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - New York's $74 billion new state budget will include a modest $375 million in tax cuts and income subsidies, Gov. Pataki and legislative leaders announced last night. The...
UPS SHIPS JOB TO AMERIKAN'S DAD
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amIt looks like Baby Amerikan will be staying in his namesake land - thanks to a job offer yesterday from a major company that read in The Post of the...
HEADS IT'S FERGIE ON 'TODAY,' TAILS IT'S ...
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amA hoped-for deal between NBC's "Today" show and Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson appears to be in limbo. There's still no signed deal between Fergie and NBC - one month...
TV TICKER
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amMets magic The red-hot Mets scored record numbers last weekend on Ch.11. Sunday's Mets-Cubs game scored a record 7.8 rating (531,000 households), the highest rating for any regular-season game -...
FINDING THE RIGHT NOTE - WARNER STILL LOOKING FOR MUSIC CHIEF
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amMusic will have its own chief, because "new management obviously will have their hands full." - Time Warner President Richard Parsons Time Warner is making Warner Brothers' struggling music division...
PADRES BOSS SELLING COIN STASH TO AID KIDS
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Moores is selling his entire Americana collection of 1,500 pristine coins, which is expected to fetch over $6 million at a Sotheby's auction. San Diego Padres owner John Moores...
WAITING FOR BURRELL - NETS EXPECT ANSWER ON PACT OFFER
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe Nets have made their offer to Scott Burrell and are waiting for an answer. And the answer, Burrell's agent said last night, should be arriving within a few days....
DARRYL GETS OK TO RETURN
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry's long wait has ended. The Yankees' troubled left fielder is back in baseball. Strawberry missed last year's postseason after colon-cancer surgery, and most of this season with a...
MOVE IS ABOUT WINNING, NOT SENTIMENT; BAT IS ONLY FACTOR IN DARRYL'S RETURN
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amTHE news that Darryl Strawberry had been cleared by Commissioner Bud Selig to play baseball again swept through the Yankee clubhouse yesterday afternoon like a refreshing mist. Derek Jeter, Chili...
BRIGGS-BOTHA: THE PRICE IS WRONG
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amShannon Briggs urged a member of his entourage to hit Francois Botha in the face. "Hit him!" bellowed Briggs. "Hit him!" Suddenly a meaty right fist flicked out and caught...
BIG BLUE BRAWLS GET FASSEL'S GOAT
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - As Jessie Armstead walked off the practice field yesterday afternoon, Brian Williams approached him, extending his right hand. Armstead grabbed it and shook it, hard. The gesture had...
TAX CUT WILL BOOST PURSES
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amSenate majority leader Joseph L. Bruno yesterday announced an agreement on an $8 million tax cut on track wagers, a measure aimed at increasing the size of NYRA purses and...
DOCS: TUNE OUT TV FOR BABIES
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amRaising baby should be TV-free, pediatricians say. The American Association of Pediatrics - representing 55,000 baby doctors - urges parents to pull the plug on television for kids under 2,...
NEIGHBORS GET WRONG MAN IN B'KLYN HIT-RUN
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amSome Brooklyn vigilantes weren't so vigilant last night, beating up a man they wrongly blamed for running down a teenage girl on a bicycle - while the driver who was...
PALS MOURN DAY TRADER'S CHILDREN - SAD SCOUTS BID GOODBYE TO SLAUGHTERED VICTIMS
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe two littlest victims of their father's killing rampage were buried in identical coffins yesterday after a heart-wrenching funeral in which sad-faced Boy Scouts and Brownies acted as pallbearers. Pictures...
COPS BELIEVE JEALOUSY WAS SPARK FOR S.I. ARSON HORROR
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amA manhunt was underway last night for an arsonist who set a blaze in a Staten Island boarding house, trapping three men who were burned to death and injuring 19...
CONGRESSIONAL GOPERS GO ALL OUT FOR TAX DEAL
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans last night began a crash push to reach a compromise plan today for a $792 billion tax cut that's headed for a veto by President Clinton -...
IN A SMOOTH GROOVE
August 3, 1999 | 4:00am*TREASURES OF THE HEART Nestor Torres; Shanachie Records On "Treasures of the Heart," flutist Nestor Torres proves himself to be an exceptional soloist who is able to distinguish himself on...
TELCOS SETTLE ACCESS WAR; HIDE YOUR $$$
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amLong distance and local phone companies yesterday unveiled a truce to end 16 years of fighting and suing each other over the billions collected from your phone bills. Under the...
RAISING THE HAMMER - HE'LL DO NFL PREGAME
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amIt's Hammer time once again. The artist formerly known as M.C. Hammer, a rapper who topped the charts with such popular songs as "U Can't Touch This" is back from...
LEYRITZ JUST THRILLED TO BE HOME AGAIN
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES It took newly reacquired Jim Leyritz exactly one game with the pinstripes on, playing in The House That Ruth Built, to remind him what he'd been missing. Leyritz,...
HILL EYES ST. RAY'S COACH; EXCLUSIVE
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amIn his quest to hire assistant coaches with tight connections to New York City high school basketball, new Fordham coach Bob Hill will interview St. Raymond's coach Gary DeCesare as...
NETS AWAIT WORD FROM BURRELL
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe Nets have made their offer to Scott Burrell and are waiting for an answer. And the answer, Burrell's agent said last night, should be arriving within a few days....
PULSE KNEW OLD FRIEND IZZY WOULD BE TRADED
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES MILWAUKEE - As soon as Bill Pulsipher heard that his buddy Jason Isringhausen had been traded, he went straight to a phone. Having been through virtually the same...
STRAW GETS THE OK - COMMISH CLEARS DARRYL TO RETURN TO BASEBALL
August 3, 1999 | 4:00am"We all know what Darryl brings to the table ... he gives you a threat, and that's the thing that intimidates the opposition." JOE TORRE Darryl Strawberry's long wait has...
TUNA BRINGS BACK BYARS - PARCELLS ASKS KEITH TO FILL F-BACK ROLE
August 3, 1999 | 4:00am"In the back of my mind, I've had Keith there ... Keith always said he wanted to play if he could." BILL PARCELLS Throughout the offseason, there were big plans...
NANI ROSE COPS LAKE GEORGE 'CAP
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amNani Rose, the 3-2 favorite, took control midway down the backstretch and then held off the fast-closing Perfect Sting yesterday to score a half-length victory in the Grade 3 Lake...
ISLES RE-SIGN POTVIN
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe two toughest jobs in the NHL are Islanders season-ticket salesman and Isles' goaltender. The latter is Felix Potvin, who agreed to a no-raise, one-year, $2.7 million contract Friday and...
KID TALK UNNERVES BERNIE
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amBernie Williams was nervous. Was it his sore left shoulder? There were questions about his injury. However, he said that the disabled list was not a possibility. So that wasn't...
TINA'S STARS OF ALL STRIPES - CELEBRITIES BOOZE, SHMOOZE & PERUSE AT NEW MAG'S BASH
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amTina Brown's Talk magazine bash drew movie stars, supermodels, media moguls and politicians to Liberty Island last night to celebrate the launch of the new celebrity-driven glossy. The swanky partiers...
AUTHOR THINKS 'VICTIM' EXCUSE IS PRETTY LAME
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amChristopher Andersen, the author of the revealing new book about the Clintons, says he's appalled the first lady is blaming her husband's aberrant sexual behavior on psychological scars from childhood....
MADMAN'S COLLEAGUE 'IN AWE OF HIS ABILITY'
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amAtlanta gunman Mark Barton was a gutsy trader who liked to take big positions in volatile stocks and once made $130,000 overnight, colleagues said yesterday. Trader Francis Chadwick, who sat...
L.I. BANK ROBBER SHOT DEAD BY RETIRED CITY COP
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amA retired city cop foiled a bank robbery on Long Island yesterday, shooting and killing the robber, who died inside the taxi he called to use as his getaway car,...
BOOK: HILLARY 'DEEPLY' LOVED TRAGIC FOSTER - SAYS THEIR AFFAIR WAS NO SECRET
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amA new book detailing the Clinton marriage claims First Lady Hillary was "deeply in love" with White House lawyer Vince Foster - and that their long-rumored affair was well-known for...
'FIREMAN'S CORNER' MARKS INFAMOUS ARSON
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn corner where six firefighters plunged to their deaths when the roof of a burning supermarket caved in 21 years ago was renamed yesterday in their honor. The intersection...
BILL'S OK WITH FIRST LADY'S 'ABUSE'-EXCUSE THEORY
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton is "comfortable" with the bombshell interview in which wife Hillary blames his cheating on being "scarred by abuse" at age 4, the White House said yesterday. But Clinton...
BACKSTAGE AT 'FOSSE' - A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT BROADWAY'S HOTTEST MUSICAL
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amMARY MacLeod, a pretty blonde, slides across the stage of the Broadhurst Theatre on her knees, performing "Steam Heat" in the Broadway musical "Fosse." A second later, she's up on...
CLOONEY: WHAT $2M 'ER' OFFER? - NOBODY'S ASKED ME ABOUT A COMEBACK, SAYS GEORGE
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amEVERYONE assumes hunky George Clooney will return for a few episodes of "ER" this season - everyone except George Clooney, that is. "No one ever talked to me about it,"...
STORM BREWING - WILL NBC SPORTSCASTER FIT GUMBEL'S GLASS SLIPPER?
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amNBC sportscaster Hannah Storm has turned up as the latest Cinderella said to be under consideration to accompany Bryant Gumbel to the new CBS morning-show ball. But her chances of...
FROM THE BOLSHOI, WITH LOVE: 'DON QUIXOTE'
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - The world of dance must be as full of silly ballets as the world of Monty Python was full of silly walks. But of all those silly ballets,...
GRAND CENTRAL STAKE - ALLEY ANGEL FUNDS LOCAL ONLINE STARTUPS; EXCLUSIVE
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amNew York venture capital fund Grand Central Holdings is open for business. The Lafayette Street firm, which targets tech and Internet startups within driving distance of the city, is backing...
SCHUMER WANTS ECNS, EXCHANGES LINKED
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amTraditional exchanges and upstart electronic stock trading networks should all be linked to increase liquidity and allow traders to get the best price possible, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday. Speaking...
SMALL-CAP MANAGER BEATS THE BIG BOYS
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amA small-cap fund manager is expected to beat the Russell 200 index of smaller stocks. But for a small-cap fund manager to trounce the S&P 500 index several years running...
IT'S ALL ABOUT WINNING - STRAW'S POTENT BAT KEY TO HIS RETURN
August 3, 1999 | 4:00am"He's the type of guy who is a threat to hit a home run every time he's at the plate." DEREK JETER THE news that Darryl Strawberry had been cleared...
DAILEY'S TRYING TO REBOUND
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES A year ago, Bill Parcells could hardly contain his excitement about a linebacker out of Northwestern named Casey Dailey. Parcells projected Dailey as a pass-rushing demon on nickel...
PHILLIPS PUSHING FOR BUCKLEY'S JOB
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - He has made more than 45 sky-diving jumps and has recently taken courses on wilderness survivial. Yes, you get the idea that Ryan Phillips feels at home in...
DEATHS TOP 200 IN INDIAN TRAIN WRECK
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe death toll in yesterday's India railway disaster - in which two packed trains collided head-on - has risen to a staggering 220 victims. And authorities expected the death toll...
BRADLEY IS DEMS' BEST BET TO BEAT BUSH IN N.Y.: POLL
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Bill Bradley is stronger than Vice President Al Gore as the Democratic candidate in New York against Republican George W. Bush, a new poll yesterday found. The Quinnipiac...
MTV TAKES A RIDE 'DOWNTOWN' ... WHERE IT'S S-O-O-O UNHIP TO BE HIP
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amTHE residents of "MTV's Downtown" are so unhip they're hip. At least that's what MTV wants us to think. Those who think for themselves will find that "Downtown" is not...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amBlown away It's not just the Hamptons that are full of hot air. If you get off the LIE at exit 68, mosey on over to Waldbaum's Balloon Festival in...
CBS PROFITS ROAR AHEAD 82% IN QTR
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amCan Mel Karmazin keep his title as the comeback kid? Wall Street thinks the CBS boss is doing everything right so far, considering the 82-percent surge in his second-quarter cash...
NYSE'S HQ PLANS ON TRACK: RUDY
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe city and the New York Stock Exchange are moving full-steam ahead with plans to build a new Wall Street headquarters for the Exchange, Mayor Rudy Giuliani said yesterday. The...
HIP INJURY PUTS RICKEY ON SIDELINES
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Rickey Henderson was taken out of last night's 7-2 Met win with a strained right hip. Henderson said he probably won't be able to play tonight...
METS: NOMO FOOLIN' AROUND - BELT BREWERS TO TIE IDLE BRAVES FOR 1ST
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE -- About an hour after the Mets had dispatched the Brewers with relative ease, a group of Mets watched as a clubhouse TV showed a national sports show discussing...
NO DROUGHT ABOUT IT - SLUMPING JETER'S HR GIVES WIN TO PETTITTE
August 3, 1999 | 4:00amAndy Pettitte's game had struggled and his name had been bandied about in trade rumors as if he were some old baseball card. His team had lost four of its...