July 20, 2001

CHUCK'S JUST ABOUT RUN OUT OF LUCK ; KNOBBY COULD BE ODD YANKEE OUT

DETROIT - If Joe Torre, skipper of one of baseball's great champion ships, is going to be at the wheel of a ship that goes down, he's going down with...

INSIDE THE COMBAT ZONE ; GARDEN WON'T TURN INTO PAYTON PLACE

BOSTON - Now that a number of name players are no longer authorized free agents, holdover trades finally are official, the new salary-cap figure ($42.5 million) has been established and...

PRATT: OUTFIELD WOES HURTING METS

Backup catcher Todd Pratt looked at it as honesty, not criticism. He knows he's been awful this year, so he wasn't pointing fingers. But he stepped up yesterday after the...

JODIE PROMOTED FOR START

YANKEE NOTES DETROIT - Since Joe Torre doesn't want Mike Mussina working on three days' rest tomorrow night, Brett Jodie will make his major league debut tonight against the Blue...

PUMPED-UP FAXON'S NO WEAK LINK

OPEN NOTES LYTHAM ST. ANNES - There's perhaps not a golfer in this British Open field who's more appreciative to be competing here than Brad Faxon. Faxon's passion for the...

BOGEYMAN CATCHES UP WITH ANNIKA

BIG APPLE NOTES When Annika Sorenstam won the Big Apple Classic in 1998 and 2000, she shot opening-round scores of 67 and 69, respectively. If she is going to successfully...

SCRANTON'S 64 LIGHTS UP BIG APPLE

In the boxscore of golf, the eighth hole was recorded as a par for Nancy Scranton, a seemingly routine score buried among her barrage of birdies and a finishing eagle...

A MOUND OF TROUBLE ; KAAT: PITCHING CHANGES ARE BIG WASTE OF TIME

ITwould be difficult to find a player who better bridges baseball's past with baseball's present than Jim Kaat. Around 1973, Kaat said Monday after working the Yanks-Phils on MSG, "Chuck...

TOP TO BOTTOM, IT'S A MIXED BAG

BOTTOM fishing for porgies, sea bass and fluke are your best bets for this weekend and bluefishing is right behind them if you're looking for top water action. Striper fishing...

YANKS SMELL LIKE DEFEAT: TIGERS SHRED PETTITTE, WOHLERS AS OFFENSE BOMBS

Tigers 11 Yankees 2 DETROIT - The Yankees have been spreading the smell of failure around since the All-Star break. Sunday it was at the rat-infested outhouse otherwise known as...

CONDIT DUMPED ITEM BEFORE SEARCH: COPS

Rep. Gary Condit was seen dumping something in a street trash bin just before cops searched his apartment for clues to the disappearance of Chandra Levy, it was reported last...

MUSEUM PEACE AT LAST: STOLEN ART RETURNED AFTER YEARS HIDDEN IN B'KLYN APARTMENT

Millions of dollars worth of German art, missing for more than 50 years, was finally returned to its rightful owners yesterday - after being concealed in a closet and under...

COPS: MAN STUFFED HIS WIFE'S BODY IN SUITCASE

A Brooklyn man confessed yesterday that he strangled his common-law wife in a jealous rage, folded her body "like a pretzel" into a suitcase and dumped it, police sources said....

ED. COMPUTER IDIOTS BLEW $1.5B: HONCHO

The Board of Education fiddled while projected school construction costs skyrocketed a whopping $1.5 billion because board members don't know how to use computers, shocking new testimony suggested yesterday. School...

UNION HELPED FUND ANTI-NEWT WAR

Local 1199, the powerful hospital workers union, used $250,000 from its "strike fund" in 1996 to battle Newt Gingrich, according to stunning new documents that reveal close cooperation between the...

SHORE ENOUGH FOR W. IN ITALY

WASHINGTON - Security is so tight at today's Genoa summit that President Bush is staying at a hotel ashore instead of joining seven other world leaders on a luxury liner...

BRAD & JENNIFER'S RING RAGE

LOS ANGELES - Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are suing their world-famous jeweler for $50 million because she allegedly reneged on promises to make their weddings rings and break the...

HASIDIC CON SPEAKS TO PARDONGATE GRAND JURY

One of the Hasidic Jews whose sentences for embezzling federal money were slashed by President Clinton was pulled from his prison cell to testify to a grand jury probing the...

DOCS: HEPBURN 'FEELING BETTER'

Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn was "feeling much better" yesterday after undergoing tests at a Connecticut hospital and could be going home in a few days, a hospital spokesman said. The...

ALL PETS GO TO HEAVEN: POLL

Here's hoping there are flea collars in heaven. A new poll shows that a whopping 47 percent of pet owners in the United States believe there's an afterlife for their...

MCCALL PROBING $CANDAL AT SUNY UNIT

ALBANY - State Comptroller Carl McCall launched a probe yesterday of the State University of New York's scandal-scarred Institute of Entrepreneurship, a GOP patronage trough. Shortly after being told of...

INDY RACE FOR HEVESI, BLOOMBERG

The party is over - for either Alan Hevesi or Michael Bloomberg. Both mayoral candidates are trying to get onto the November ballot on an independent party line that includes...

TURNING TABLES ON JUKETEERING JOURNOS

A MOVIE press junket was a pretty exotic setting for a movie back when "America's Sweethearts" was shot earlier this year - but suddenly they're very much in the news....

LETTERMAN BUMPS FOLKIE DIFRANCO

Ani DiFranco refused to change her tune. DAVID Letterman canceled an appearance by folk singer Ani DiFranco after she refused to change the song she wanted to sing on his...

ROCK VERSUS PANDA; 'WWF' FIGHT LANDS IN COURT

A LEGAL battle between the World Wildlife Fund and the World Wrestling Federation has become a royal rumble in a London court. The two organizations have had a secret agreement...

JIM & DICK ALL THE RAGE ON 'GOOD DAY' ; AM HOST AND REPORTER SWAP ANGRY INSULTS ON LIVE TV

'GOOD Day New York" anchor Jim Ryan and the morning show's chief reporter, Dick Oliver, shocked viewers yesterday when an on-air exchange suddenly turned ugly - with the two men...

CLUELESS, BUT COOL

GHOST WORLD [ 1/2] The summer's hippest teen comedy. Running time: 111 minutes. Rated R (profanity, sexual references). At the Lincoln Plaza and the Angelika. ------------ READERS who complain Hollywood...

'INCH' MEASURES UP

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH [ 1/2] A rockin' good time. Running time: 91 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity). At the Union Square, the Chelsea, the Lincoln Plaza, the Cinema...

LIZZIE'S LAWYER GETS COMFY - IN FOR THE HAUL, SCARING TAKES HAMPTONS RENTAL

MID-summer was once a dead zone for the Hamptons rental market, but now that publicity princess Lizzie Grubman has livened up the scene, late-comers to the house hunt are cropping...

PHILLIPS SHOPS LEFTY AGAIN AFTER LOSS

Marlins 8 Mets 3 Glendon Rusch's Met career has been scarred by his teammates' inability to score runs for him. Ultimately, this might end his time at Shea. Rusch and...

TIGER'S NEW TITLE - THE EARL OF SAND WEDGE

LYTHAM ST. ANNES - Tiger Woods' swing was erratic enough in yesterday's British Open first round that he could have shot his way out of this championship. But his resolute...

TEN BIG BATS METS CAN GET ; VAUGHN, JAPANESE SLUGGER HEAD LIST

THE pipe dream is Ken Griffey Jr., and that is not happening. The Mets need a run producer, preferably left-handed. Since forcing his way to Cincinnati after the 1999 season,...

FORMER LEADER OF TROOP 666 IS CHARGED - BOY SCOUT SEX-ABUSE OUTRAGE

A former Upper East Side scoutmaster's sexual appetite for little boys turned Troop 666 into Boy Scout hell, prosecutors and accusers say. Jerrold Schwartz, 42 - whose wife is an...

TEEN BUSTED IN HATE-GRAFFITI SPREE

A Brooklyn teenager was arrested yesterday and charged with painting swastikas and hate-filled Nazi graffiti in a Jewish neighborhood, police said. Maxim Tcherkassov, 16, who lives on Bay Parkway in...

NO-SHOW PUFFY HAS JUDGE HUFFY

A Long Island judge has issued a stern warning to rap mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs - show up in court or face the music. In a huff after Puffy skipped...

'SCORE' CON IN REAL JAIL - NAILED WHILE AIDING IN DE NIRO FILM

An ex-con safecracker, hired as a technical adviser for Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando in the new movie "The Score," was unable to make the premiere - he's back...

L.I. REP. UNFAZED BY IRISH 'HIT LIST'

WASHINGTON - Rep. Pete King vowed yesterday not to let a new death threat against him from militant Irish loyalists keep him out of the peace process. "I'm not losing...

RETAILERS DANGLING TAX RE-BAIT

Big-name retailers are doing everything they can to get hold of your tax-rebate checks. Some 91 million tax-rebate checks start hitting consumers' mailboxes today, putting a whopping $38 billion into...

RINGLING BROS. CIRCUS STAR DEAD

Famed animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams - a longtime star of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - died at his Florida home yesterday at age 66 after a...

TRUMP'S CHICAGO HOPE: TALLEST BLDG.

Brash billionaire Donald Trump is planning to blow into the Windy City to build the world's tallest building. The Donald has partnered with the owners of the Chicago Sun-Times to...

'OPERA' STAR TO 'DANCE'? - CRAWFORD MAY SINK TEETH INTO 'VAMPIRES' MUSICAL

MICHAEL Crawford may be headed back to Broadway next year as the star of the upcoming musical "Dance of the Vampires." Crawford - who has not appeared on the New...

A SATIRE SLIDES INTO SENTIMENT

MUSIC FROM A SPARKLING PLANETAt Greenwich House Theatre, 27 Barrow St. Call (212) 239-6200. Through Aug. 12. --------- NOSTALGIC satire is a tricky customer, almost a contradiction in terms. What...

GOOD BUZZ ON SETH

SETH Green's hair is nearly as well-known as the actor himself. Depending on the role, the natural redhead has worn his coif dyed black and spiky, bleached platinum and colored...

'ALASKA': STARK. 'ROAD': UNCONVINCING

A KIND OF ALASKAONE FOR THE ROAD Part of the Harold Pinter Festival within Lincoln Center Festival 2001. Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. Call...

LOWDOWN ON A '70S SKI-TOWN

SCRAPPLE [ 1/2] THE best thing about this Colorado cult film about '70s ski bums - besides its music by Taj Mahal - is its all-round authenticity, from the clothes,...

POP IN NEW FLAVORS - LANCE BASS SAYS *NSYNC'S MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS SALES

"In just a year, it's been crazy how much has changed. We feel so much stronger as a band, especially with the critics finally coming over to our side and...

AFTER JUST 5 ISSUES, THE LAST ONE

The design divas at One Magazine will be boxing up their iMacs and Alessi staplers this afternoon, as the combined Web site and trendy magazine bit the dust yesterday after...

BROOKS BROS. TAILORS THE FIELD

Brooks Brothers' summer sale is heating up. The venerable men's chain being sold by British retailer Marks & Spencer PLC has narrowed its list to seven or so potential buyers,...

KNOBBY MAY BE ODD YANK OUT

DETROIT - Chuck Knoblauch's days as a regular player could be over if Gerald Williams or Shane Spencer get hot or David Justice's left groin improves enough for him to...

REACQUIRING CEDENO NO-BRAINER FOR METS

DETROIT - A team trades for a ballplayer and decides to delay the decision on whether to sign him to long-term contract. The player performs well, making the team look...

A GREAT SCOT FOR A DAY ; MONTY JUMPS OUT TO THREE-SHOT LEAD

LYTHAM ST. ANNES - Colin Montgomerie, a cartoon-character figure of sorts, has been one of Europe's long-running sports tragicomedy shows for years now. The British tabloids feed off Montgomerie, who...

SUBWAY SERIES SET FOR 2 RUNS IN 2002

If there is major league baseball season in 2002, it will contain a second Mets-Yankees series afterall, The Post has learned. Under the new interleague scheduling plan, which called for...

HOUSTON'S WARD WELCOMES TRADE

MET NOTES Astros outfielder Daryle Ward knows about the rumors that have him coming to the Mets for Glendon Rusch. Yesterday, before the Astros took on the Cardinals in Houston,...

NO POP FATAL FLAW

THE Mets hit the road desperate for three-run jacks. Day after day, they wait for the big blast that never comes. Any candles still left burning for them drop wax...

JETS RELEASE JUMBO

Is this the end of the line for Jumbo Elliott, a fixture on the New York football scene for 14 years? Could be. The Jets yesterday released the 36-year old...

BLIMEY! ABC FLUNKING COURSE MANAGEMENT

ABC's first-round coverage of the British Open, yesterday on ESPN, had several notable moments. While we're constantly reminded of the unusually taxing nature of British Open courses and conditions, ABC...

QUEENS MIRACLE AS EMTS SURVIVE AMBULANCE FLIP

Two Fire Department emergency medical technicians miraculously escaped serious injury yesterday when their ambulance flipped over in a high-speed collision on Queens Boulevard. EMTs Albert Pruden and Patricia Oliverio survived...

MYSTERY SURROUNDS SHOT DOCTOR

The investigation into the mysterious shooting of a Bellevue Hospital doctor is focusing on a bizarre series of anonymous phone threats made to the woman's shrink, The Post has learned....

FEDS BUST CONDOM 'MYTH'

WASHINGTON - A new federal report raises questions about whether "safe sex" with condoms really is safe after all. The draft report, conducted by the National Cancer Institute and being...

CBS DAN DAMNS BOSSES

Dan Rather ripped his CBS bosses for forcing him to lift his ban on the Chandra Levy story Wednesday evening. "What happened is, they got the willies, they got the...

BETTE DAVIS OSCAR DRAWS A COOL 578G

Bette Davis' 1938 Best Actress Oscar for her role in "Jezebel" sold for a whopping $578,000 at auction yesterday. An anonymous telephone bidder scored the statuette at Christie's New York...

WEST NILE BACK IN QUEENS, S.I.

For the third straight summer, the West Nile virus has turned up in birds and mosquitoes in the city, health officials said yesterday. State officials confirmed the virus was found...

MUSEUM PEACE AFTER 50 YRS.

Millions of dollars worth of German art, missing for more than 50 years, was finally returned to its rightful owners yesterday - after being concealed in a closet and under...

'NAZI' LOSES CITIZENSHIP

A 77-year-old Catskills innkeeper has been stripped of his citizenship because of overwhelming evidence he was a Nazi guard at World War II slave-labor camps. Mykola Wasylyk persecuted Jews while...

GOT A GRIPE ABOUT FREE $$? FINE, GIVE IT TO ME

FROM all the whining, you'd think Uncle Sam was taxing sunshine. But no. What's causing so much gloom, from the Beltway to the Upper West Side, is the fact that...

NEW L.I. COP-SEX SCANDAL - NARC LIED ABOUT FLING WITH DRUG SNITCH: D.A.

A veteran Nassau County narcotics detective was indicted yesterday for allegedly lying about an affair he had with a drug defendant-turned-informer. In September 1998, Clive Frazier, 45, was assigned to...

'77-SLAY FUGITIVE DUE IN U.S.

Fugitive hippie Ira Einhorn yesterday lost his bid to avoid extradition from France to face U.S. charges of murdering his girlfriend 24 years ago. Einhorn, 61, was escorted by gendarmes...

'ECO' FEARS BLOCK ARMY AMMO TRAINING ON HAWAII

A federal judge has barred the Army from conducting live ammunition training in a remote Hawaiian valley, saying it would threaten endangered species and ancient cultural sites. Opponents of the...

EASY SPRAY MAY BE QUICK RX FOR PMS

A new nasal spray is said to give instant relief to women suffering from premenstrual syndrome. The mist contains pheromones, airborne chemical messengers known for their role in animal mating...

PETER'S PRINCIPLES

PETER Vallone, speaker of the New York City Council and candidate for mayor, came by the New York Post for an editorial-board meeting yesterday and posed a question about his...

OTB SALE COLLAPSES IN STRETCH

The city's plan to sell its Off-Track Betting Corp. to a Canadian-based racing powerhouse collapsed yesterday - the second broken deal in two weeks, coming just one hour before Mayor...

HIP-HOP GOES POLITICAL

RAP impresario Russell Simmons, who helped bring the world LL Cool J, Run-DMC, Phat Farm clothing and the HBO's "Def Comedy Jam," is trying to make the hip-hop community a...

BULLETPROOF NBC BOSS: MY SHOWS DON'T ZUCK

PASADENA, Calif. - Once savaged for missing the reality-TV bandwagon, NBC executives yesterday had to defend themselves for pushing the boundaries of good taste with such new - and successful...

AXMAN GETS THE AX - CAHNERS CHIEF GONE AFTER ROCKY YEAR

Marc Teren, the president and CEO of Cahners Publishing, has been tossed overboard after leading the nation's largest trade magazine publisher on a choppy voyage into the Internet ocean. "He...

MADONNA CHOPS JOBS - PERFORMER FIRES TOP EXECS AT MAVERICK LABEL

Madonna's raking in bucks on her concert here next week - but her record company's on the skids and mired in a major shakeup. The Material Girl's Maverick label -...

FAREWELL, DISCLOSURE? - PITT TELLS CONGRESS HE'S RETHINKING TRADE RULE

More grief is in store for the embattled Regulation Fair Disclosure rule, the shoo-in for Wall Street's top cop, Harvey Pitt, told Congress - while warning it won't be the...

CAN I GET YOU FRIES TO GO WITH THAT ONLINE EDUCATION?

One of America's most popular educational institutions is under threat from the Internet. Hamburger University - where McDonald's orchestrates training for its huge staff - could be a lot less...

NETS PLAY WAITING GAME: 76ERS MULL TODD MATCH

BOSTON - Now comes the hard part for the Nets in their quest for free agent center Todd MacCulloch. Waiting. The wait will be 15 days maximum, until Aug. 2....

FLOYD FINDS HIMSELF BIG HIT FOR FISH

Don't believe Cliff Floyd's three-run homer yesterday was a matter of vengeance. If anything, it was a family matter. "I'm just happy I hit a home run," Floyd said of...

WEBBER LACKED HEART FOR KNICKS

In the end, Chris Webber found the Knicks' situation appealing but impractical. It is why C-Webb never personally returned one of the Knicks' calls, even to thank them for the...

$1M BILL: EX-PREZ TO COST TAXPAYERS A BUNDLE

Bill Clinton is set to become the first ex-president in history to cost taxpayers more than $1 million a year, The Post has learned. As Clinton prepares to move into...

MYSTERY SHROUDS DOCTOR'S BIZARRE SHOOTING

The investigation into the mysterious shooting of a Bellevue Hospital doctor is focusing on a bizarre series of anonymous phone threats made to the woman's shrink, The Post has learned....

INTERN 'PAL' REFUSES LIE TEST

WASHINGTON - A man who worked with Chandra Levy at the Bureau of Prisons and sometimes walked her home at night has refused to take a lie-detector test for D.C....

W.'S GIFT TO REAGAN DAUGHTER

WASHINGTON - President Bush has sent a special get-well gift to Ronald Reagan's cancer-battling daughter Maureen - granting permanent U.S. residence for her adopted daughter, Rita Mirembe Revell, 16, who's...

ADWATCH

TITLE: "Decency" LENGTH: 30 seconds PRODUCER: Hank Morris SCRIPT: Hevesi: "As mayor, I won't use my energy searching for indecency inside our museums. Instead, I'll fight for decency outside them...

NEW LOUIMA BOMBSHELL - MYSTERY COP CHALLENGES KEY WITNESS AGAINST SCHWARZ

A mystery cop has come forward to challenge the key witness against convicted Officer Charles Schwarz in the brutal sex torture of Abner Louima, lawyers revealed yesterday. The shocking sealed...

IT'S A STAIRWAY TO HELL FOR STRANDED TENANTS

One of New York's most notorious landlords has struck again - ripping the stairs out of a five-story walkup and leaving 20 tenants stranded. Shocked residents of 21 W. 106th...

LET AN INNOCENT MAN DEFEND HIMSELF

ON THE right-hand side of Courtroom 506 at 40 Foley Square was Abner Louima, the city's newest multimillionaire due to being the victim of an outrage which is unspeakable. On...

'GRAND' VICTORY AT SUBWAY STOP

Under pressure from Gov. Pataki and Chinese-Americans, the MTA abruptly reversed itself yesterday and agreed to spend millions of dollars to expand service near Manhattan's tangled Grand Street station. The...

VALLONE HITS RIVALS OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Mayoral candidate Peter Vallone opened fire on his three Democratic rivals yesterday, saying it's an "outrage" that they support gay marriage - and accusing two of them of "pandering" by...

SWEET ON 'SWEETHEARTS': CUSACK AND WALKEN ARE THE REAL DARLINGS OF THIS FUNNY HOLLYWOOD SPOOF

AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS * * * (three stars) Reasonably diverting romantic comedy. Running time: 102 minutes Rated PG-13 AS undemanding summer movies go, "America's Sweethearts" is surprisingly funny and sweet, despite...

LA SCALA BALLET EARTHBOUND

LA SCALA BALLETThe New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5200. Through Sunday. ---------- LA Scala Ballet of Milan hasn't the class and prestige of the theater's famed opera company,...

STARR REPORT

Dirty drug dealer disses Downey Court TV has snagged an exclusive interview with a man who claims to be Robert Downey Jr.'s former drug dealer. The interview airs tonight (6:30...

ZEN & THE ART OF MAYHEM-RIDDEN MASSACRES

BROTHER [ 1/2] Slow, violent tale of a Yakuza gangster in L.A. In English and Japanese, with English subtitles. Running time: 113 minutes. Rated R (brutal violence). At the Empire...

HEVESI WARNS CITY'S LOSING MORE JOBS

The city lost a seasonally adjusted 2,400 jobs in June. The city's economy is giving clear indications of a slowdown, city Comptroller Alan Hevesi reported yesterday. Hevesi said the city...

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