July 21, 2000
RED BULLET ON MEND, UP IN AIR FOR HASKELL
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amPreakness winner Red Bullet, a dull third as the odds-on favorite in the July 9 Dwyer at Belmont, is recovering from a case of ulcers but is still on the...
SEARCH FOR WR MAY BE EASY PICKENS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES If the Jets are looking to replace Keyshawn Johnson, their search may have just gotten much easier. After a two-month grievance with the NFLPA, Cincinnati finally released WR...
DWIGHT'S IN CONTROL OF HIS GAME
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amIt's absurd to think Dwight Gooden won't be pitching with a fire in his belly tonight against the Devil Rays, but he won't admit to any such passion. Doc allows...
CAMBY'S PLEA: DON'T TRADE ME
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amMarcus Camby said yesterday if the Knicks make the mistake and trade him, possibly for Portland's Brian Grant, his heart will be broken and he'll be a "bitter" man. After...
MIRTH BY THE FIRTH - THERE TRULY IS NO PLACE LIKE ST. ANDREWS, THE HOME OF GOLF
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amOUR summer of '98 fortnight golf trip/tour of England and Scotland hadn't gone quite as we'd envisioned. The weather, for instance. It rained only twice. The first week and the...
BASH BROTHER COULD BE COMING TO BRONX
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amHe doesn't solve their serious need for help in left field, but the Yankees have talked to the Devil Rays about acquiring Jose Canseco, The Post has learned. According to...
EL DUQUE'S BACK MAY BE YANKEE SORE SPOT
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez' inflamed elbow may not be the ace right-hander's biggest problem. According to a medical report released by the club yesterday, an MRI on El...
LARKIN STILL IN METS' SIGHT
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - Factors have conspired to make a Mets trade for Reds shortstop Barry Larkin more probable. It's been known that the Mets have inquired about the 36-year-old...
TORRE: TIGERS PICKED OUR POCKETS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amJoe Torre called it a "hiccup," Paul O'Neill called it "sputtering" and Derek Jeter simply said the Yanks put their offense in "cruise control" yesterday and forgot to shift. The...
GORE BLASTS BUSH ON TEXAN'S HOME TURF
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Al Gore put on his cowboy boots to go to Texas for three hours and accuse rival George W. Bush of blowing much of his budget...
LIBERALS MUST BE CRAZY NOT TO PUT AWAY MENTALLY ILL
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amOF ALL the billions that the liberalistas have lovingly lavished on healthy men and women in the form of welfare checks, the same smug folks have been particularly stingy when...
ANTI-SPRAY SUIT BITES THE BIG APPLE
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amAn environmental group tied to Robert Kennedy Jr. sued the city yesterday over its anti-West Nile virus spraying - even as officials considered whether a second chemical dousing is necessary....
MOM ALIVE THANKS TO LITTLE LIFESAVER
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe only thing little Yolanda Vasquez loves more than the Rugrats and Pokémon is her mommy. So when her mom, also named Yolanda, fell unconscious yesterday inside her home in...
TOBACCO HEIR ASKS PALS FOR A MATCH
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amEven the rich and vaguely famous have a hard time finding true love. In his desperation to find a soul mate, Patrick Reynolds, grandson of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds and...
I'LL GIVE 'ALLY' A HEART AGAIN - CREATOR VOWS ROMANCE WILL BE BACK AFTER EMMYS SNUB
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - Hours after Emmy voters snubbed perennial hit "Ally McBeal," producers of Fox's flagship drama said yesterday their show had strayed from its emotional roots and promised a...
FROM RUSSIA, WITH SONG, AT LINCOLN CENTER
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amALEXANDER Ostrovsky's "Innocent as Charged," as performed by Moscow's Vakhtangov Theater, is an in-your-lap kind of play. The actors often deliver their lines from the audience (in Russian, with earphones...
TAMMY FAYE DOCUMENTARY ENTERTAINS, WITH A WINK
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS is less a, uh, straight documentary than a campy tribute to the mascara-addicted wife of the fallen evangelist, complete with hand-puppet intros and fawning narration by RuPaul. Which is...
FOOTWORK OUTSHINES PROGRAM
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amAFTER a gap of 10 years, Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet has finally returned to town at the New York Theater as perhaps the most glamorous, and certainly most celebrated part of...
BOWERY PROJECT GETS GREEN LIGHT
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amA group including Avalon Bay Properties, Blackacre Capital, Phipps Houses and retail consultant William Jackson Ewing has been selected by the city to redevelop a $230 million, three-block area at...
BOBBI BROWN LEASES SOHO OFFICES
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amMakeup artist Bobbi Brown, who parlayed a penchant for better, long-lasting powders and creams into a multimillion dollar business, has taken office space in polo-player Peter Brant's SoHo building. Bobbi...
BROADWAY JOE'S STILL GO-TO-GUY
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amToday's athletes have been criticized for their disdain of history and jaded natures. But when a slightly-stooped, bow-legged man wearing shorts and a Jets jacket spoke with the team after...
IT'S BEAT BRAVES OR BUST
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Starting tonight in Atlanta, the games become different. The Mets' quest to win the NL East needs to start this weekend. John Rocker is yesterday's news. It's the...
ERNIE ROARS BACK - SENDS FAST-STARTING TIGER MESSAGE WITH OPENING 66
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - Ernie Els, cool, calm and collected as he is, has sat quietly and stewed in recent months while the world has fawned at and marveled about the...
FRIARS' WELSH PICKS UP PIECES
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amNORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. - Not a day goes by when Providence coach Tim Welsh doesn't think back on the terrible events of April 10 and wonder if he could have...
'PREZ' FACES MOB 'HIT' - 'WEST WING,' 'SOPRANOS' LEAD WITH 18 NODS EACH
July 21, 2000 | 4:00am"The Sopranos" - TV's most famous mob family - is aiming to whack the president at this year's Emmys. The HBO mob hit and NBC's popular behind-the-scenes White House drama,...
PATIENTS MAY SOON 'GROW' NEW LIVERS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amAlcoholics who've destroyed their livers may one day be able to grow new ones, scientists revealed yesterday. A procedure now being developed would also benefit people waiting for liver transplants...
KNEE SURGERY FOR ARCHBISHOP EGAN
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amArchbishop Edward Egan yesterday underwent surgery on his left knee to mend torn cartilage. The 1½-hour arthroscopic procedure was performed in Connecticut at Saint Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, said...
(T)RICK-Y MOVE ON POLS' PAY RAISE
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate wannabe Rick Lazio voted "no," "yes" and "yes" yesterday as the House passed a budget bill that rewards its members with a $4,000 raise. Like many members...
PELLET-GUN SNIPER KILLS PASSER-BY
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amA 40-year-old man was killed yesterday by a pellet-gun shot fired from atop a Brooklyn apartment building, cops said. Marcel Vache, 19, injured at least three other people over several...
MCCAIN COULD BE WARMING UP TO VEEP BID
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Defeated primary rival John McCain said he's now willing to be George W. Bush's running mate, GOP sources said last night - but the move appears to be...
ED BOARD HIRES EX-DETECTIVE TO FIGHT CORRUPTION
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Board of Education is tapping a highly regarded retired NYPD detective to help clean up corruption in the school system, the Post has learned. In a major shake-up, Schools...
TEEN DROWNS, SIS FIGHTS FOR LIFE IN S.I. HARBOR HORROR
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amA 14-year-old Staten Island girl drowned and her 3-year-old sister was in critical condition yesterday after they were swept off the end of a rock jetty into the waters of...
BILL'S PLAN TO JOURNEY TO VIETNAM NOT CERTAIN
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday tried to downplay reports that President Clinton, who ducked the Vietnam draft, plans to visit the communist-ruled nation right after the November election. Such...
MISS AMERICA BLASTS CLINTON AIDE'S TACTICS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Miss America, Heather French, accused the Clinton administration yesterday of trying to muzzle her efforts to help needy veterans. The bubbly Kentucky brunette says a Clinton appointee tried...
STATE GOP BOSS RIPS HILL FOR HER 'BLIND AMBITION'
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amRepublicans yesterday launched a stinging new attack on Hillary Rodham Clinton - charging she's driven by "blind political ambition" - while Clinton met privately with a leader of the city's...
CALLERS OVERRUN BEEP'S RAT HOT LINE
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe flood of calls to Manhattan's new "rat hot line" proves the city really needs to step up its war on the rodents, Borough President C. Virginia Fields said yesterday....
$7M SUIT A SOUR NOTE FOR TEEN POP DIVA
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amWhat a girl's former manager wants is a piece of Christina Aguilera's success - and she's going to court to get it. Ruth Inniss has filed a $7 million suit...
DOCS: PATIENTS MIGHT SOON REGROW LIVERS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amAlcoholics who've destroyed their livers may one day be able to grow new ones, scientists revealed yesterday. A procedure now being developed would also benefit people waiting for liver transplants...
THINLY SKETCHED CHARACTERS CAN'T HOLD UP WEAK STORY
July 21, 2000 | 4:00am'ALICE and Martin" is best watched while doing a crossword or reading the paper. It starts promisingly, but after the first hour, the only things that really hold your attention...
THE STARR REPORT
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amWhen in Rome . . .Lorenzo Minoli and Elaine's regular Russ Kagan were in Rome yesterday, celebrating their Emmy nomination for their CBS miniseries, "Jesus," starring Jeremy Sisto. "Jesus" is...
A PALE 'GREEN' - CANADA'S FAVORITE HEROINE HITS THE BIG APPLE IN (YAWN) YET ANOTHER SERIES (Z-Z-Z-Z)
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amFIRST there was Anne of Green Gables, then there was Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel, and now for those of you who can never get enough Anne, there's "Anne...
DISCOVERY ANSWERS THOSE TRICKY QUESTIONS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amWHO knew that we all breathe 10 million balloons of air in a lifetime? This is the kind of startling-yet-digestible fact, broadcast on "Sci Trek" that freezes our family in...
NOW IT'S PERSONAL - TIME-DISNEY WAR OVER AOL DEAL
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amMickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny are getting down and dirty. Their parents, Disney and Time Warner, are now pulling out all the stops in their battle over the proposed AOL/Time...
SUSAN BLANK IS BLANKED OUT AT W
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amAfter only four months on the job, Susan Blank is the latest victim in the fashion wars - axed as the publisher of W by Fairchild CEO Mary Berner. When...
AT 40, GRAY HANGS 'EM UP
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amU.S. TRACK TRIALS SACRAMENTO - Johnny Gray, the gray old man of American track, finished last in his 800-meter heat last night and then - at age 40 - announced...
SUMMER IN THE CITY GAME - NBA TRADE TALKS ARE HEATING UP
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - No one has created more of a buzz in two East Coast summer leagues during the last week than Milwaukee's Rafer Alston and Joel Przybilla, Seattle's Shammond Williams...
THOMAS GETS A KURT NO FROM KNICKS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Knicks have rejected Kurt Thomas' initial six-year, $30 million maximum proposal and the agent for their backup power forward/center has stepped up talks with other clubs, The Post has...
WALKING WOUNDED - FONZIE'S SORE HIP PAINS METS AFTER DEFEAT TO EXPOS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amExpos 4 - Mets 1 MONTREAL - The Mets are limping into Atlanta tonight to face the Braves. Already with third baseman Robin Ventura on the DL and shortstop Rey...
WASTED DAY IN BRONX - DEAD BATS, WALKS PAVE[[ WAY FOR DETROIT
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amTigers 5 - Yankees 3 The Yankees turned the most respected address in sports into the world's largest commode yesterday as they flushed away a victory over the Tigers at...
MORE MET TROUBLE: CARDS EYEING DEAL FOR SCHILLING
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - Robin Ventura is on the disabled list. Edgardo Alfonzo is expected to miss tonight's opener of a three-game series Atlanta. And now, more bad news for the Mets,...
EVERETT LOOKING LIKE A PROPHET
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amIN nearly every corner of the United States yesterday, Carl Everett looked exactly like what he is: a bad actor being sent to the sidelines to cool off until he...
LEFTY HOPES HE'S NO FLESCH IN THE PAN
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - Steve Flesch has yet to win since he completed his long and winding road to the PGA Tour. But he senses great things about to happen to...
BEGAY STARTS SWIMMINGLY - IN HUNT DESPITE ADVENTURE ON 17 IN SWILKEN BURN
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - It was even before Notah Begay rattled the flag stick at the 12th hole and watched as his ball dropped into the cup for eagle that Tiger...
CLOUDS OF WORRY PART AS SONS BREAK FREE
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI. 'HE'S going to come out, he's going to come out!" Carlos Castillo screamed into the pay phone, almost doubting his own words. "Stop worrying," he told Andy Morales' father,...
SUSPECT BUSTED IN BRICK ATTACK
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amA homeless man confessed to the brick attack on a young woman - a week after eagle-eyed cops stopped him because he matched a sketch of the suspect but let...
MONEY MAN KNEW 'PAROLE' PARENTS WERE PATAKI DONORS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors grilled one of Gov. Pataki's fund-raisers yesterday on whether he helped broker deals for early prison release for convicted felons in exchange for their parents' campaign donations. The...
LIFE IS TOUGH FOR FREED 'L.I. LOLITA'
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amLONG ISLAND Lolita Amy Fisher is living the legacy of infamy. Since leaving prison more than a year ago, Fisher has been forced to go underground with an assumed name...
WEB SITE LETS CROOKS SELL WHAT THEY STEAL
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amCrime pays big bucks - on the Internet. A newly launched Web site is offering burglars and thieves an opportunity to sell stolen items back to their rightful owners for...
'PREZ' FACES MOB 'HIT' - 'WEST WING' AND 'SOPRANOS' FACE OFF
July 21, 2000 | 4:00am"The Sopranos" - TV's most famous mob family - is aiming to whack the president at this year's Emmys. The HBO mob hit and NBC's popular behind-the-scenes White House drama,...
THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amJUST how big a loser is the aptly named "Loser"? So dumb that a college professor (Greg Kinnear) remarks, "I'm sure if she were alive, Betty Friedan would applaud your...
REAL SCARY MOVIE - 'BENEATH' USES ALL THE TRICKS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00am'WHAT Lies Beneath" does for bathtubs what "Psycho" did for showers. My wife was clutching at my arm so insistently during Michelle Pfeiffer's climactic bathtub scenes - there are several...
TWIST EDITOR SHOWN THE DOOR AND PUSHED THRU
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe once red-hot teen publishing arena has claimed its second editor-in-chief in a week. Lori Lombardi, the brash and outspoken launch editor of Twist, started by Bauer Publications three years...
WARNACO HAMMERED AFTER PROFIT WARNING
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amLingerie queen Linda Wachner said her legal fight with Calvin Klein will drag down her Warnaco Group's profits - which triggered a stock rout yesterday. Warnaco stock skidded 27 percent...
BERTELSMANN BUYS CDNOW FOR $117M
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amEmbattled music e-tailer CDNow can finally breathe easy. The company that was weeks away from running out of cash was scooped up yesterday by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann in a...
FEDS STILL TRYING TO WISH THE BIG 'I' AWAY
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amDON'T think about inflation. Think happy thoughts. Think about the nice weather, or the Yankees. Just don't think about inflation. That pretty much sums up Washington's attitude toward the big...
DWIGHT FEELS IN CONTROL AGAIN
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amIt's absurd to think Dwight Gooden won't be pitching with a fire in his belly tonight against the Devil Rays, but he won't admit to any such passion. Doc allows...
PICKENS RELEASED, DOOR OPEN FOR JETS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES If the Jets are looking to replace Keyshawn Johnson, their search may have just gotten much easier. After a two-month grievance with the NFLPA, Cincinnati finally released WR...
ACHING POSTELL'S 18 LIFT KNICKS OVER INDY
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - LaVor Postell was questionable for the Knicks with a bruised right thigh suffered the night before. Just before game time, he decided to play. Great decision for the...
EX-WOLVE WARD BOOSTING NETS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Jerod Ward has been one of the Nets' summer league hopefuls this week you can't help but notice. His athleticism running up and down the floor leaps out...
THERE'S NO GOING FOURTH IN TRIALS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - The danger is as palpable as the talent at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. For every do, there is a die. For every dream, there is...
ALL-TRI CARD, ROLLING PICKS AT SPA
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amBeginning with opening day at Saratoga on Wednesday, a trifecta will be offered on every race with at least six betting interests and rolling Pick Threes will be offered on...
RED BULLET ON MEND
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amPreakness winner Red Bullet, a dull third as the odds-on favorite in the July 9 Dwyer at Belmont, is recovering from a case of ulcers but is still on the...
HORSE OWNER, BREEDER ALLEN PAULSON, 78, DIES
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amThoroughbred owner-breeder Allen Paulson, a dominant force in American racing the past two decades with champions like Cigar, Theatrical and Arazi, died of cancer Wednesday night at Scripps Hospital in...
BIG BLUE PLOT BIG SURPRISE
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - They feel they are better than advertised, that they will be stronger than expected and finish higher than predicted. There is a definite we're-hiding-in-the-weeds sentiment swirling around the...
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amWHILE the inshore picture remains about the same with plenty of great fluke and striped bass fishing around Long Island and along the New Jersey shore, the offshore scene continues...
LAWRIE CAN'T DEFEND OPENING-ROUND DISASTER
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES ST. ANDREWS - On the eve of this 2000 British Open, Paul Lawrie was talking confidently about defending the Open title he won last July at Carnoustie. After...
BASKETBALL STAR ROBBED IN HARLEM
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amHouston Rockets guard Steve Francis was robbed last night by three armed thugs who held up a Harlem barshop, police said. Francis was getting his hair cut at Danny &...
HOUSE VOTES TO LIFT CUBA TRAVEL BAN
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amCuba may soon be a legal travel destination for U.S. tourists under measures that cleared big hurdles in Congress last night. By a 232-186 vote, the House backed a proposal...
LEVY'S WILLING TO PRIVATIZE FIVE OF CITY'S WORST SCHOOLS
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy is daring private firms to manage and improve the city's worst schools. Levy will be issuing a proposal "in the next few days" to convert at...
DOCS FIGHT TO SAVE 'BRICK' DRIVER'S ARM
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amA truck driver underwent 12 hours of microsurgery yesterday in a desperate attempt to save his right arm after it was nearly severed when a slab of concrete, hurled from...
MOM OF SLAIN JEWISH TEENAGER: FIRST LADY IS ALL TALK, NO ACTION
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amA YEAR after Hillary Rodham Clinton helped spark a federal probe into the slaying of a Jewish teen, the dead boy's mother is charging the first lady has dropped the...
DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS FOR THIS CHANCELLOR
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amHAROLD LEVY is a study in static electricity. Energetic, frenetic, in constant motion - and impossible to pin down. The chancellor of the largest school system in the nation -...
NO PAROLE FOR DEATH-DODGING KILLER
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe killer of a correction officer was denied parole yesterday - 25 years after his life was spared when the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional. The Parole Board blasted Joseph...
MORE GRIEF FOR BATTERED NICOLE
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amNicole Barrett, who's still recovering from being smashed over the head in last year's brutal Midtown brick attack, has been hit with another heartache - her father's death. Arlen Barrett,...
KATIE'S SISTER IS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amCancer has struck Katie Couric's family again. The perky "Today" hostess - who lost her husband to colon cancer - has been hit with the news that her older sister...
HILL'S NEXT MEMO: JUST PHONE IT IN
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amNEW York media circles were awash in amazement on Wednesday as a memo by Hillary's chief liaison to the New York Jewish community flew around fax machines for which it...
'T2' ROBOT JOINS 'X-FILES' CAST
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amRobert Patrick - who played an evil robot opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator 2" - has landed a regular spot on "The X-Files." Patrick will appear as an FBI agent...
GOOD 'WITCHES'? - ANTICIPATED MUSICAL HITS LONDON
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - As a glittery audience of Broadway and West End big shots coursed through the lobby of the Drury Lane Theater Tuesday night for the opening of "The Witches...
BENJAMIN'S LIFE UP IN 'SMOKE'
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE subject of this documentary is a Georgia rock musician, drag queen and amphetamine addict who died of AIDS the day after his 39th birthday. He went only by the...
CHICKS' HIT MIX: BIT OF COUNTRY, LOTTA ROCK
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amCHICKS with picks, guitars, fiddles and banjos owned the evening.At the first of their two sold-out concerts at Radio City Music Hall, the Dixie Chicks ruled the roost with a...
TOUGH LOVE LESSONS - SAVAGE GARDEN'S HAYES SINGS OF 'AFFIRMATION'
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE prettier the rose, the sharper the thorns. That's the lesson of love Savage Garden grows on its latest album, "Affirmation," and 28-year-old lead singer Darren Hayes knows that firsthand....
THEY'RE SOUR ON SCOUR - MOVIE, MUSIC BIGS CALL OVITZ SITE ANONLINE 'PIRATE'
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amHollywood and the music industry have teamed up to battle what they call global Internet pirates stealing millions of their hit movies and songs and giving them away for free....
MARTHA HAS SOMETHING OLD, BORROWED AND NEW
July 21, 2000 | 4:00amMartha Stewart stands accused of doing a not-so-good thing in her latest Weddings magazine. A small, up and coming handbag company says the domestic diva tampered with one of its...