June 9, 2002
THE MAKING OF A TIGER: A LOOK INTO THE MATURATION OF A CHAMPION
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amJust when we think Tiger Woods has accomplished everything imaginable, he's suddenly striving for more. Such is the case this week at Bethpage where the 26-year-old superstar is favored to...
LEITER FIRING UP METS : GRITTY OUTING BY LEFTY SNUFFED OUT LOSING SKID
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - The Mets will be as good as Al Leiter will be this season. That's not a burden on the staff ace; it's a fact, judging from the first...
FIGHT FOR THE AGES: LEWIS & TYSON BATTLE FOR THEIR PLACE IN HISTORY
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amMEMPHIS - Legacy vs. Destiny. Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson. Ultimately, that's what their heavyweight championship fight came down to last night in The Pyramid. Lewis was seeking a place...
BAD TYSON GOOD FOR BUSINESS
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amMEMPHIS - It's a simple question that seems to have no definitive answer: Is Mike Tyson good or bad for boxing? During the weeks, days and hours leading up to...
NEWARK-BORN SHAQUILLE WANTS TO WIN TITLE IN N.J.
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amPity the poor Nets. As if Shaquille O'Neal needs any extra motivation, he has plenty this week. More than anything, Shaq wants to wrap up his third straight NBA championship...
SMITH LEADS AT CLASSIC
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amChris Smith, leader after three rounds, tees off at 16th hole yesterday at Buick Classic.AP Chris Smith has won golf tournaments before. He just hasn't won a PGA Tour event....
VELAZQUEZ HURT IN ANOTHER SPILL
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amA fatal two-horse spill in the stretch of yesterday's fourth race put a damper on Belmont Stakes Day. Imadeed, a 5-year-old mare making her 17th start, was racing on the...
PLAYOFFS VISIBLE IN POWER'S BY JOSEPH BARRACATO
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amIf you take a look at the WUSA standings, the Power are located at the bottom. Last place can be deceiving, however, because at 2-5-1, they are only one win...
YANKS KEEPING EYE ON TRIBE'S LAWTON
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amBefore the Yankees boxed a right field platoon of Shane Spencer and John Vander Wal and gave the full-time job to neophyte Juan Rivera, The Post has learned they talked...
BRYANT'S NOT BORED BY WINNING
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amKobe Bryant has yet to yawn on the court, but let's face it, he's a little bored. The triangle offense is geared to highlight Shaquille O'Neal's low-post ruggedness, not the...
NETS LOOK FOR CURE IN SWAMP JERSEY HOPES HOME COOKIN' WILL TURN SERIES
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amTo Jason Kidd, as a Mav and a Sun, the Meadowlands meant an empty arena, "nobody being there," a situation that changed quickly in his first Net season. To Kerry...
TYSON-FIGHT TIX PRICES GOING DOWN FOR THE COUNT
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amMEMPHIS - Apparently determined to notch a sellout, the Pyramid sports arena - host of last night's Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson fight - discounted its own tickets to the...
THE TERROR PAIN REMAINS: SUICIDE-BOMB VICTIMS LIVING WITH SHRAPNEL
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - They are survivors, but many carry more than the physical and emotional scars of being hit by shrapnel from a suicide bomb. About 4,000 Israelis have been injured...
GOTTI IN A PAINKILLER COMA: DYING DON UNAWARE FEDS CUFFED HIS BROTHERS
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amCancer-stricken mob boss John Gotti is in a "medically induced coma" that has left him oblivious to the arrest of two of his brothers and a nephew last week. Gotti,...
FEDS EYE WISEGUYS' SLIP-UP AT 'BANANA' BUILDING
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amLOCALS call it the "Banana Building" - a warehouse built as a huge refrigeration facility for a major banana importer at the city's largest container terminal. But the Staten Island...
IN THE ZONE : WE TAKE ON ESPN ANCHOR AT ESPN'S TIMES SQUARE ARCADE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amESPN's hotshot rookie anchor Scott Van Pelt, who will lead the network's coverage of the U.S. Open golf championship in Bethpage, L.I., starting Thursday, has an awful lot going for...
HEROES HOME AS TIX $OAR
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amHoop fans hoping to score tickets to see the Nets take on the Los Angeles Lakers tonight better be prepared to dish out thousands of dollars. Ticket brokers and Internet-based...
MR. MUSCLES VS. MOB MUSCLE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amNEHRU jacket-wearing, Buddhist-whiner Steven Seagal (that's SAH-gahl, not Segal, and not Sea Gal) says the Gambino mob shook him down, demanding he pay them $150,000 per movie. Or what? They...
VICTORIA GOTTI
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amLAST week's City Hall rally against Mike Bloomberg's plan to slash millions from the city's education budget got me more than a little upset! The protest, organized by music mogul...
WHAT I WATCH
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amJEFF HUBBELING GENERAL MANAGER RUTH'S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE "THE PRACTICE." I LIKE THE HARD-EDGED WRITING. IT'S NOT YOUR TYPICAL GOOD GUY/BAD GUY DRAMA. THEY ALL CROSS THE LINE. IT'S A...
AYCKBOURN AGAIN, ON THE DOUBLE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe most popular playwrights of the United States and Britain, Neil Simon and Sir Alan Ayckbourn, are obsessed: Simon with words,Ayckbourn with time. If you wanted to find a simile...
SAYLES DAYS ARE HERE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amJohn Sayles likes to make movies his way, which is why he always demands - and gets - the final cut. "It's going to be a year to a year...
WHY TYCO BOSS FELL KID FROM NEWARK HAD A SPENDING OBSESSION
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amA poor Polish boy from Newark, Dennis Kozlowski spent years trying to buy his way into high society. But he was knocked flat in a matter of days before he...
BIG EASY HUNGERS FOR CROWN
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe other record-chaser has fallen by the wayside. The path is clear for Ernie Els to pursue the all-time Westchester crown. Vijay Singh has been banished to practice range at...
'BOSS OF THE MOSS' SUITS ROBERTS FINE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amBUICK NOTES Credit PGA Tour pro David Ogrin for nicknaming Loren Roberts the "Boss of the Moss" for his fabulously-consistent putting prowess. Roberts, who entered yesterday's Buick Classic third round...
DANDY ANDY ANXIOUS TO GET STARTED
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amAndy Pettitte is finally set to retake his spot in the Yankees' starting rotation again. After being out since April 16 with tendinitis, Pettitte pitched a pain-free, 82-pitch rehab start...
BARRY GOES BOOM! BONDS BLASTS OFF, SF BUSTS BOMBERS
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amGiants 4 Yankees 3 In his fifth Yankee Stadium plate appearance Barry Bonds gave the massive crowd what it wanted yesterday when he reached the second tier of seats in...
WINGS OUTLAST CANES IN 3-OT THRILLER
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amRALEIGH - They dominated the third period, they dominated the overtimes, but for all of the Red Wings' superiority the one place they could not dominate was the only place...
ROD FEELS KIDD WILL STAY HERE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amWill he or won't he? Rod Thorn thinks he will. Jason Kidd repeatedly has said he will opt out his contract after next season and then play the free agent...
'WAR' FALLS SHORT
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amWar Emblem, the black "stealth bomber" who soared to front-running victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, saw his Triple Crown dream go down in flames yesterday at Belmont Park,...
IT'S A CLASSIC CASE OF THE BLAHS
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amFOR a golf tournament that began the week with eight of the world's top nine ranked players, the Buick Classic at Westchester Country Club entered weekend play yesterday with little...
RANGERS' RED LIGHT: I'M RETIRED
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amSal "Red Light" Messina, the Rangers' radio color voice for the last 29 years, has called it quits. He recently told MSG management that with the exception of a few...
A LOU-LOU OF A MISTAKE LAMORIELLO'S DELAY COULD COST HIM HOLIK
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amRALEIGH - Yes, it is true, Lou Lamoriello is committed to doing everything within his power to keep the indispensable Bobby Holik in New Jersey. Question is, what on earth...
TENSIONS CREATING RIVALRY ON FIELD
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amIt may not have much storied athletic hatred or political history, but the U.S. is developing a rivalry with South Korea. "My impression is that we are allies," said coach...
CAN'T WE WIN WITH CLASS?
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amWHILE international soccer crowds are hardly known for their civility, the U.S.A.'s stunning victory over Portugal in its World Cup opener inspired some unfortunate displays of modern American sports culture....
BIZ BUZZ: TAX BREAK A BOON
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amDowntown business owners are hopeful that Mayor Bloomberg's sales-tax break will give a well-needed shot in the arm to their enterprises, which have been in a slump since Sept. 11....
WIFE TOLD SUICIDAL HOTEL HEIR: I'M LEAVING YOU
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amIn the minutes before he leaped 18 floors to his death, Gramercy Park Hotel heir David Weissberg was told by his wife that she was leaving him, The Post has...
MOUNT SINAI DEATH-PROBE COUNT AT 78
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe state Health Department is now investigating 116 complaints of inferior patient care at Mount Sinai Hospital - including 78 deaths, officials say. The growing probe, which began in the...
ED. BOARD'S CELL-PHONE HANG-UP RILES OUT-OF-TOUCH KIN
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe Board of Education's ban on cell phones in schools has ignited a furor among nervous parents and students since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Just ask Schools Chancellor Harold...
'SPIDER-MAN' CAN'T SWING RINGSIDE SEAT
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amMEMPHIS - Along came a spider who sat . . . back in the stands! "Spider-Man" star Tobey Maguire and pal Leonardo DiCaprio didn't make the A-list, and had to...
UNDERDOG-DAY AFTERNOON IN L.I. BUT BELMONT CROWD NOT UPSET BY SURPRISE FINISH
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amIT WAS a day for the underdog as 90,000 people turned out yesterday in Belmont Park's star-packed stands. Expectations were high for War Emblem to score an historic Triple Crown...
DEAD IN '79, FUNERAL IN '02
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amTwenty-three years after she died, Latanisha Carmichael, beaten to death at age 3 by her mother and brother, and then entombed for two decades in a closet, finally had a...
IS SUPER SERENA WORLD SPORTS' STRONGEST WOMAN?
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amLook out, sister - Serena Williams muscled her way to the No. 2 ranking in the tennis world yesterday, beating out her older sibling Venus to win the French Open....
NEW TERROR WARNING OF KILLER NERVE-GAS ATTACK ON SUBWAY
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amU.S.-based Al-Qaeda agents may attempt to hit the subways of New York and other cities with a lethal nerve gas by Independence Day, a federal source in Washington told The...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amLooks like some soccer fans at one Welsh pub were really thirsty for an England loss. A pub in Wales has been deemed racist after its owner decided to offer...
PAUL'S NUPTIAL NIGHTMARE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amAll you need is love - but even that may not mend the growing rift between Paul McCartney's daughters and his bride-to-be. As the former Beatle and his fiancée Heather...
GIVE THAT PESKY OLD SHARK E! FOR EFFORT
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amYOU might be surprised when I tell you which network consistently presents the richest documentaries on TV. It's not PBS, A&E, The History Channel, Court TV, HBO or any of...
STEAK HOUSES: IT'S A DOG'S LIFE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amIt makes perfect sense that a restaurant group specializing in steak appears to be run by a 130-pound bull mastiff. And while it looks as though Mr. Truman, the mastiff,...
NOTHING BUT LENNOX LEWIS STOPS TYSON IN 8TH IN DOMINATING PERFORMANCE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amMEMPHIS - Lennox Lewis did what every kid in school dreams of. He beat up the school bully. Lewis jabbed and battered Iron Mike Tyson into submission last night at...
HEALTHY ALFONZO STARTING TO FIND POWER
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Edgardo Alfonzo has been among the league leaders in batting average for most of the season. But he's suddenly showing some power while driving in runs, and Bobby...
NET PAL: BORCHARDT NBA-READY
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amPerhaps Stanford basketball center Curtis Borchardt is following the advice of former teammate Jason Collins of the Nets. Collins spoke to Borchardt last week and told the 7-footer he's ready...
BOBBY V HITS JACKPOT
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - In the top of the seventh last night, Bobby Valentine made the big gamble. At first, the roll of the dice looked to come up craps. By the...
PETTITTE TO OPEN VS. METS
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amAndy Pettitte, out since April 16 because of elbow tendinitis, is expected to return to the rotation Friday when he opens the Subway Series for the Yankees at Shea Stadium....
JUAN'S DAY GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amThirty minutes before noon Juan Rivera's day had gone from bad to awful yesterday. Because Joe Torre wanted John Vander Wal's left-handed bat in the lineup and was concerned about...
WHAT PRICE GLORY? BUYING A CHAMPION IS 36,000-1 SHOT
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amTHE dramatic sweep toward a possible Triple Crown, a $5 million bonus that goes with it, turf immortality and huge breeding fringe benefits indicate the enormous riches that awaited War...
GARY PUTS DAMPER ON NHL PARTY
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amRALEIGH - Gary Bettman rained all over his own Stanley Cup Finals parade by essentially promising a 2004 work stoppage during his press briefing three days ago, and he and...
SECRETS OF 'INTERROGATION'
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM.EGYPT'S Hosni Mubarak is getting a red-carpet treatment in Washington this weekend, not only as president of the most important Arab country, but also as a close ally of the...
ON A TRACK TREK TO GLIMPSE A PRINCE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amA HORSE is a horse, of course, of course, but a young Saudi prince - now that's worth schlepping out to the Belmont Stakes for. We arrived at Long Island's...
TANKS ROLL AFTER 3 SETTLERS ARE SLAIN IN THEIR BEDS
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amIsraeli troops yesterday launched new raids in the West Bank just hours after Palestinian gunmen killed three Jewish settlers in their beds, including a nine-months pregnant woman and her husband....
APPLE SET FOR PUERTO RICO PARADE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe Puerto Rican Day Parade - a rite that traditionally marks the beginning of summer in the Big Apple - kicks off today with several hundred thousand jubilant participants expected...
BULL'S EYE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amMADDEN HAVING PRE-JAIL BALL Bad boy shoe designer Steve Madden has been partying like it's 1999. After all, Madden starts serving a 31/2-year jail term for stock scams next month,...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amINTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE O.J. Simpson grows more creative in his search for the Real Killers. O.J. popped up last week in Atlantic City when Evander Holyfield lumped up Hasim...
LEWIS NOW BADDEST BULLY ON THE PLANET
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amMEMPHIS - In the end Mike Tyson apologized. He apologized for biting Lennox Lewis in January during their melee in New York. He apologized for vowing to eat his unborn...
FINAL ANSWER IS WRONG
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amNOW is the time for all good NBA commissioners to come to the aid of their Finals. Not the 2002 NBA Finals, lamentably, which are being governed by prison rules:...
STUMBLE, FATIGUE A LETHAL MIX
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amTHE dream of glory and history and a $5 million bonus crashed in dust yesterday when War Emblem stumbled out of the starting gate and blew what any chance he...
BARRY GOES BOOM! BONDS' BLAST HIGHLIGHTS GIANT DAY IN THE BRONX
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amThere are days when baseball reminds you how wonderful it can be. Unfortunately, they don't surface as often as we would like. Yet, when games like yesterday's Giants-Yankees unfold in...
PEREZ IS PLAYING WITH 'OPEN' MIND
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amJust two shots off the lead, the rookie looking for his first tour victory fairly spat his anger. "I'm not excited about it, being 9-under," Pat Perez said after he...
A TEST OF BODY & SEOUL HOBBLED U.S. FACES S. KOREA
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe recipe is already mixed for a letdown, the stage set for failure. With half of their midfield questionable, coming off an emotional upset of heavily favored Portugal, the U.S....
FURY OVER STALLED SEARCH NEAR WTC
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amCity officials are slated to meet tomorrow to resolve a conflict over searching a contaminated building near Ground Zero for remains - the latest tangle in the recovery effort at...
SCHOOL PARENTS GO POSTAL MEMO TO MIKE: EXPECT STACKS AND STACKS OF ANGRY LETTERS
June 9, 2002 | 4:00am"Dear Mayor Bloomberg: Congratulations on gaining control of our fractured education system. Now do something!" That message could be among the pile of mail the mayor is likely to find...
NYPD HAS BEEF WITH STEAK GUY'S PLACARD
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amAllen J. Bernstein leads a nice life - he runs the upscale Morton's steakhouse chain, lives in a swanky Manhasset, L.I., home, and is chauffeured around town in a Mercedes-Benz....
SCHOOL REFORM'S TICKING TIME BOMB
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amThere's no guarantee that the new law giving Mayor Bloomberg control of the city school system will carry over to his successors, since state lawmakers will insert an expiration date,...
CITY BIGS PLAN NEW GROUND ZERO SEARCH
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amCity officials are slated to meet tomorrow to resolve a conflict over searching a contaminated building near Ground Zero for remains, the latest tangle in the recovery effort at the...
EGYPTIAN PREZ WAVERS IN SUPPORT OF ARAFAT
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak yesterday became the first Arab leader to question Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's ability to end the violence and forge peace with Israel, as President Bush said...
DON'T GET CRABBY: IT'S HAMMER TIME
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amStuck in the city dreaming of your favorite seaside food shack? Set sail for Park Slope to celebrate the season's bounty at the Minnow's Blue Crab Festival. This weekend and...
WHY OLD MAGIC IS VANISHING
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amIf you happen across a man in an opera hat and cape dangling by his feet from the Queensboro Bridge this summer, or perhaps one who's clinging to the wing...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: BRIDGET MOYNAHAN
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amShe's the woman we can't help but hate.Ever since she stole Mr. Big's heart on "Sex and the City," former model Bridget Moynahan has locked lips with some of Hollywood's...
NEW WELLINGTON MGR. LIKES VALUE
June 9, 2002 | 4:00amVANGUARD Wellington fund, a giant of the industry with more than $22 billion in assets, is getting a new manager at the end of this year. Long-time portfolio manager Ernst...