June 8, 2003
WORKOUT TOOK TOLL ON 'FUNNY'
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amFIRST came the relent less rain, then the fog, then the gloom - and finally the heartbreak. Funny Cide, the best loved horse in America, failed in his bid to...
A PIED PIPER IN HORSESHOES
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amTHE people arrived as pilgrims, flocking to the old racetrack on Hempstead Turnpike in the grand tradition of starved sports fans. Year to year, era to era, sport to sport,...
MARTY'S CLUTCH NEEDS FIXING
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amANAHEIM - It is all on Mar tin Brodeur now, all of the pressure, all of the burden. Ten years in the league, two Stanley Cups, an Olympic gold medal,...
LAST CHANCE FOR DEVS : DUCKS' VICTORY FORCES GAME 7
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 6Ducks 5Devils 2 ANAHEIM - The Devils now rest their hopes on home. The magnitude of the task is that they'll not only have to be the best they...
COACH TAKES POWER HOME TO SAN DIEGO
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amNew Power coach Tom Sermanni couldn't wait to head out to the West Coast for today's matchup in San Jose (6 p.m., MSG). "Maybe I'll get to see the sun...
FISHING SEMINARS TAKE BEGINNERS TO SCHOOL
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amTHE New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and local fishing experts will team up to offer Long Island residents the opportunity to learn more about fishing during the sixth-annual...
THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS: OLDER PLAYERS HAVE LEGITIMATE CHICAGO HOPE
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amIt wasn't long ago when the headliners on the PGA Tour were the young guns like Tiger Woods and Charles Howell, and the 30-something group that includes Ernie Els, David...
LIFE IS SWEET; THE LEMONHEADS' FRONTMAN MOVES ONWARD AND UPWARD
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amEvan Dando can see clearly now - finally. In the mid-'90s, the blond- haired, blue-eyed Lemonheads singer was the primo pinup boy for alt-rock. Voted one of People mag's Most...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER . . . GOING TO SUMMERSTAGE
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amCentral Park SummerStage 2003 kicks off on Saturday with a sneak preview of Martin Scorsese's "The Blues," a movie featuring excerpts from films directed by Scorsese and others. All SummerStage...
OOPS! BRIT'S BRUNETTE BLIP: JUST WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH BRITNEY'S HAIR?
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amHow did Britney grow back her blond locks so fast? After receiving tons of flack from newspapers and magazines for cutting her flowing blond mane into a choppy bob and...
THE OTHER CLINTON BOOK: BILL-AND-HILL BASHING STARTED YOUNG FOR THIS TEENAGE AUTHOR
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amHeard about the Clinton book? No, not Hillary Clinton's tear-stained account of her turbulent life and times (everybody knows about that), but the other Clinton book: a vicious attack on...
TALIBAN BLAMED FOR KABUL BLAST
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amAl Qaeda terrorists, working with remnants of the defeated Taliban army, were likely responsible for a suicide attack in Kabul which left four German peacekeepers dead and more than two...
BLOOMBERG: WTC HEROES SHOULD HAVE SEPARATE MEMORIAL
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday became the first major public figure to come out in favor of a separate memorial at Ground Zero for firefighters, police officers and emergency workers killed on...
THE REIGN STOPS FOR FUNNY CIDE
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amHometown hero Funny Cide stumbled on his gallop to history yesterday, losing heart at the head of the stretch in the Belmont Stakes - forfeiting his shot at the Triple...
HOW HILL SAVED THEIR MARRIAGE ; COUNSELING & ANTI-STARR RAGE LET HER FORGIVE HUBBY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amMarriage counseling and her fury over Kenneth Starr's probe kept Hillary Rodham Clinton from divorcing her philandering hubby, she reveals in her new book. In "Living History," which officially goes...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn A man and a woman were shot several times as they sat in a parked car just after midnight yesterday at the corner of Kings Highway and Tilden Avenue...
STORE'S TOMELY STRATEGY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amAt least one Manhattan bookstore will be quick to cash in on Hillary Clinton's memoirs - by staying open past midnight tonight to sell the former First Lady's opus on...
CIG POLICE SMOKE OUT BOOTLEGGERS
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amBootleggers hoping to cash in on the city and state cigarette tax hikes are getting their butts kicked. There has been a 30 percent spike in arrests for illegal trading...
KID VS. MAMA IN TONYS WAR
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amBroadway is throwing a splashy party - the Tony Awards - tonight, capping a theater season that has been unusually rich in off-stage drama. The biggest drama of all -...
LOBBYING WAR GOES ON
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amProposed rent hikes of up to 8.5 percent for the city's rent-stabilized apartments may not yet be a done deal. Landlord and tenant advocates have been lobbying the Rent Guidelines...
TRAGIC BACKDROP TO PARADE OF HEROES
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amWhile a U.S. soldier was tragically killed and four others wounded near Saddam Hussein's hometown yesterday, scores of New York families welcomed 94 Marine reservists safely home from Iraq. "We...
KARROS AN UNLIKELY CUB HERO
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - As he watched yesterday's game from the Cubs' clubhouse, little did Eric Karros know that he would later become the hero. Karros began the game on the bench...
DON'T BET ON FUNNY CIDE BEING NEXT GREAT GELDING
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amTHE people's horse, Funny Cide, has been universally embraced as a gelding who may grace the turf for years, running in all the great handicaps and weight-for-age contests, a legend...
NETS GET NO RESPECT ; GAME 2 WIN CAN'T END WESTERN BIAS
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amA San Antonio television station began its newscast yesterday morning with a report that, "The Spurs won't sweep the Nets for the NBA title . . . " Obviously, with...
NO RELIEF FOR CLEMENS' WIFE, FAMILY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00am"I was upset to see him come out of the game because I thought he had a pretty good handle on it."DEBBIE CLEMENS CHICAGO - Yankees fans who were wondering...
TRIPLE DROWN ; 'MAKER' SINKS FUNNY CIDE'S DREAM IN BELMONT
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amThe bubble burst yesterday on Funny Cide's storybook quest for the Triple Crown as the celebrated New York-bred gelding, after romping home in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, finished third...
ONCE BITTEN, THRICE SHY: PEN BLOWS ROGER'S THIRD ATTEMPT AT 300
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amCubs 5 Yankees 2 CHICAGO - Roger Clemens' congested chest and Dan Iassogna's strike zone combined to force Joe Torre to dial his bullpen sooner than he wanted yesterday at...
JUAN PITCH, AND EVERYTHING IS RUINED
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - One pitch. That is all it took for Roger Clemens' great day to dissolve into further recriminations of the Yankee bullpen and justifiable first-, second- and third-guessing of...
DREAM WASHED AWAY ; MORE THAN 101,000 WATCH THEIR HERO FALTER
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amTHEY had given so much of their hearts, and their imaginations, to this chestnut wonder that now, at the end of a race and a dream, there was no other...
NOW HEAR THIS! GOLF'S MAKING WAVES ON RADIO
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF Golf on the radio? Friends, golfers, countrymen . . . lend me your ears. Yes, there is a station out there on your radio dial where you can...
JOCKS TIP CAPS TO EMPIRE MAKER
June 8, 2003 | 4:00am"I can't wait for Funny Cide and Empire Maker to meet again. It will be a great rematch."JOSE SANTOS Here's what the losing jockeys in yesterday's Belmont Stakes had to...
NICK'S RETURN DELAYED
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - The Yankees are going to be without Nick Johnson longer than expected because his fractured right hand isn't healing as quickly as predicted. When Johnson went...
'TOGA PARTY ARRIVES EARLY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amBELMONT NOTEBOOK Continuing the tradition that began at the Kentucky Derby and carried through to the Preakness, four "big yellow stretch limousines" - school buses with "Sackatoga Stable, Go Funny...
FLOYD TOUGH AS NAILS ; CLIFF KEEPS ROLLIN' DESPITE BAD WHEEL
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amEven though you're not expected to be Superman, you have to go out there and play."CLIFF FLOYD Eleven Mets have been on the disabled list this season and the incredible...
FEELING RIGHT AT HOME ; DUCKS ROUT DEVS TO FORCE GAME 7
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 6Ducks 5Devils 2 ANAHEIM - The Devils now rest their hopes on home ice. The magnitude of the task is that they'll not only have to be the best...
DON'T HAVE TO PITCH WELL TO RACK UP W'S
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amHERE'S a scoop: Good pitchers get wins. Too bad there are so few good pitchers out there. Take any Dodger pitcher, except Darren Dreifort, who will undergo right knee surgery...
ISLANDERS' PURGE FAR FROM FINISHED
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amANAHEIM - So did you hear the one about Charles Wang wanting to know why if Minnesota could reach the conference finals with a $20 million payroll, the Islanders couldn't?...
FEELING RIGHT AT HOME: DUCKS ROUT DEVS TO FORCE GAME 7
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 6 Ducks 5 Devils 2 ANAHEIM - The Devils now rest their hopes on home ice. The magnitude of the task is that they'll not only have to be...
BULL'S EYE
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amIGER SANCTIONED Conventional wisdom has it that Disney CEO Michael Eisner has already tapped his No. 2, Robert Iger, as his chosen successor. But Iger himself has hinted he isn't...
FOR THESE GIFTS, WE ARE TRULY GRATEFUL
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amAFTER 20 years of watching home shopping channels, a sudden, overwhelming urge struck to pass along my personal regards. These networks, after all, make for remarkable viewing. Judging from the...
A WHALE OF A GIRL
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amJudging by her performance in "Whale Rider," 13-year-old Keisha Castle- Hughes is a natural-born actor. But don't hold your breath waiting for her next big-screen appearance. "I'd rather be a...
STARR REPORT
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amSAG reaches a Boyle - it's Peter's daughter Emmy-winning actor Peter Boyle, who plays gruff Frank Barone on "Everybody Loves Raymond," could be getting a run for his money -...
POLLY WANNA NEW OWNER?
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amFew animal experiences are more enchanting than walking into a pet store, saying "hello" to a gorgeous, exotic parrot, and having the creature say "hello" right back. But buyer beware:...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amFear of flying: Jack White says that Virgin Mobile was going to sponsor a White Stripes concert on a plane, but the band canceled when they saw themselves in a...
JAY-Z'S JOINT ; HIP-HOP'S BIGGEST STAR OPENS THE CITY'S HOTTEST NEW NIGHTSPOT
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amJay-Z is at it again. As if having his own company (Roc-A- Fella), clothing line (RocaWear), shoe (the S. Carter), production company (Roc-A-Films) and vodka (Armadale), now the hip-hop star...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amThe tiny Rhode Island town of Foster got its first crosswalk two weeks ago - but it leads to nowhere. The crosswalk stretches from a large hedge on one side...
LAST FLIGHT FOR CHELSEA RAID VICTIM
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amHe lived modestly, died from police bullets in a dead-end corridor, and yesterday left the land of dreams in a cheap pine box adorned only with the words "Ousmane Zongo"...
TRAGIC BACKDROP TO HOMECOMING
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amWhile a U.S. soldier was tragically killed and four others wounded near Saddam Hussein's hometown yesterday, scores of New York families welcomed 94 Marine reservists safely home from Iraq. "We...
BOOTS FOR PEACE; LEARNING FROM IRAQ
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amFORMER Army Secretary Thomas White - who was fired in April - is right when he tells interviewers the Pentagon "got the assumptions wrong" about the numbers of soldiers needed...
A BIG LETDOWN FOR A-LIST CELEBS' AS HOME-STATE HERO GOES DOWN
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amIt was sobs in the city for horse racing fan Sarah Jessica Parker - just one in a herd of celebrities who turned up for Funny Cide's failed Triple Crown...
KEEPING 'SEX' IN THE DARK
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amAs "Sex and the City" films its final season on the streets of the city, the show's producers say they're paranoid of passers-by getting glimpses of key plot twists before...
TAKING STOCK IN THE CASE AGAINST MARTHA
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amWHO knew that proclaiming your innocence could get you indicted? One of the charges against Martha Stewart stems from the allegation that she lied to investors to keep the stock...
EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amSO some are dubbing rising Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher the "new Dean Martin" and say he is formulating his own Rat Pack. Kutcher's the one who's newly hot with the...
DIVA'S SCHEME TEAM; HIGH-PRICED LEGAL EAGLES AND SPIN DOCS ON BOARD
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amIt's an alleged two-minute lapse that could put Martha Stewart in jail for up to 30 years - unless her high-powered posse of advisers can conjure an escape from the...
VANDROSS' MOM PUTS HEART & SOUL INTO HIS RECOVERY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amWith the release of his latest and most personal album coming on Tuesday, Luther Vandross is showing signs of recovery from a debilitating stroke, the singer's mother said. Mary Vandross...
SPURS FEEL THEY GAVE GAME AWAY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amCertainly the Nets have a real chance now, especially if Tim Duncan continues to struggle at the free-throw line. The Spurs' warts were the size of Texas in Friday night's...
'ME-ME' RISES TO OCCASION
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amYOU know there's disorder in Bryon Scott's court when Tim Duncan and David Robinson are compelled to speak up in order to get Dikembe Mutombo consequential daylight in Game 2....
DENON TAKES MANHATTAN
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amBELMONT CARD Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel continued to pile up Grade 1 wins and placings as he ran one-two with favored Denon and Requete in the Grade 1,...
SCHOOL-BUS 'LIMOS' CARRY 'TOGA PARTY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amBELMONT NOTEBOOK Continuing the tradition that began at the Kentucky Derby and carried through to the Preakness, four "big yellow stretch limousines" - school buses with "Sackatoga Stable, Go Funny...
IT'S TRIPLE DROWN FOR SOGGY 'CIDE': 'EMPIRE' RUINS THE PARTY IN FINAL LEG
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amTurn out the lights on an impossible dream, and lock the door on your way out. Put the Triple Crown trophy away until next year. Because the bubble burst yesterday...
A THUNDER-OUS VICTORY ; GATTI BEATS WARD IN BRUTAL CLASSIC
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - It wasn't a trilogy. It was a thrillogy. Arturo "Thunder" Gatti and Irish Micky Ward stepped into the ring in for a third time last night and...
NO JUAN FEELS WORSE : ACEVEDO CRASHES CLEMENS' 300 PARTY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Ten minutes elapsed. Then 15. Then 20. Juan Acevedo sat and all that moved was his gaze, from his feet to the inside of his locker. An icepack...
GUYS & (N0) DOLLS: VIACOM LAUNCHING SPIKE, A NETWORK FOR MEN
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amFinally, a place on the dial just for men. Never mind the nonstop sports, shoot-'em-up flicks and sophomoric comedy specials that are already a constant on cable television. Media giant...
BACK TO SQUARE ONE: THE BLIND DATE
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amNew York must be the world capital of fix- ups. Since becoming single, almost everyone I tell has offered to send me out to dinner with a "great guy" they...
FUNDING FAMILY VALUES ; I'M ALL FOR FAMILY SHOWS SUCCEEDING ON NETWORK TV
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amTHE advertising agencies that buy the commercial time on network TV have a huge influence on the style of programs the networks develop each year. And even they have to...
'RIDER STOOD UP'; COASTER DEATH PROBE
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amA new investigation into the death of a Manhattan woman who fell from a roller coaster at an Indiana fun park last weekend backs witness accounts that she attempted to...
GRIPPING TALE OF HISTORIC STRUGGLES & BAD HAIR DAYS
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amBENEATH all the scan dals, the philandering husband and the tawdry tales of lies and deceit in Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History" is a well-woven tale of a political maven's...
KIDNAP NIGHTMARE; CALIF. KID SNATCHED IN HOME BREAK-IN
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amCalifornia cops issued an Amber Alert yesterday for 9-year-old "latchkey kid" Jennette Tamayo, who was snatched from her home by a kidnapper after he beat up her mother, tried to...
POLS TRY TO EASE RENTER ANGUISH
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The city's six Republican state senators have held a secret strategy session to coordinate pro-tenant provisions they want added to the state rent laws that expire next week,...
SCULPTOR GIVES SKULLS 'FACIALS'
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amA forensic sculptor has put faces to three African slaves whose 200-year-old remains were discovered in downtown Manhattan 12 years ago. Their images have been incorporated into a bronze sculpture...
SEX, LIES & POLITICAL AMBITIONS
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amSCORNED wife Hillary Rodham Clinton - "the Kathie Lee Gifford of politics" - has written in her new book, "Living History," that she was "furious" that her hound-dog hubby, President...
STORES SHOW SHELF-CONTROL
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amLike a classified document, Hillary Rodham Clinton's opus about life in the White House remained under lock and key all week even as excerpts bared her hurt over her husband's...
SLOW-HEALING HAND DELAYS NICK'S RETURN
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - The Yankees are going to be without Nick Johnson longer than expected because his fractured right hand isn't healing as quickly as predicted. When Johnson went...
COACH BURNS TO WIN : ON BRINKOF CUP,IT'S TIMETO REFLECT
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Cop to Cup, Pat Burns was ready to let loose after 12 years worth of waiting. The Devils' coach is as responsible as anyone for his team's 108-point...
WILLIAMS STAYS QUIETLY ON BENCH
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES As is his way, Aaron Williams stayed silent. Williams, the Nets' muscleman reserve for whom "hi-ya" qualifies as a speech, remained nailed to the bench when the call...
PSAL SEMFINAL HELD UP BY RAIN
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amPSAL SEMISTottenville 5J. Adams 5 A walk was all the rain would allow in the top of the fifth inning at yesterday's PSAL semifinal matchup between Tottenville and John Adams...
GLAVINE'S START STREAK IN JEOPARDY
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Tom Glavine says he's never missed a start in his career, and he's made it clear how proud he is of his durability. But if Glavine wants to...
JEFF TURNS EYE TO WIZARDS
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amIf only Jeff Van Gundy's offensive playbook were as remotely whimsical as his personal decision-making. Just when you think he's leaning toward accepting the Cavaliers' coaching job, he bails out...
AN 'ACCEPTABLE' OPENER
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amThrough the Binocs1st RACE - The track had been scraped and sealed on Friday night and then it was kept sealed all through the morning. But prior to post time,...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amKRESKIN SAYS... JOE WILL GO You don't have to be a mind reader to figure that if anyone knew the relationship between Joe Torre and George Steinbrenner would hit the...
THE COURSE OF HISTORY: GANGSTER AND LEGEND FELL AT OLYMPIA FIELDS
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Most golf fans, poised to watch the 103rd U.S. Open this week with a keen eye on their favorite player, know little about the venue hosting this venerable...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER ALICIA BELL PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amFashion designer Alicia Bell doesn't care if she's never touted as the industry's "next big thing." "I don't want my stuff worn one minute and then in a resale shop...
HURT DOLPHIN NEEDS A HOME
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amThe dolphin beached on the shore of Great Neck Estates has a broken jaw and may not be able to return to his ocean home, his marine caretakers cautioned yesterday....
IRISH, THUNDER ONE FOR AGES: WARD & GOTTI WARS RATE WITH THE CLASSICS
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - Arturo Thunder Gatti and Irish Micky Ward stepped into the ring for a third time last night with no title on the line. Yet if the first...
FINAL FAREWELL TO FIREFIGHTER
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amHundreds of family members, friends and fellow FDNY members gathered in Staten Island yesterday morning to say a somber goodbye to the youngest firefighter killed on 9/11. Firefighter Michael Cammarata,...
MURDER BY SHOE IN LOVERS' QUARREL
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amA 51-year-old man died after he was beaten with a blunt instrument - a high-heel shoe - during a violent brawl with his ex-lover outside an after-hours club in Brooklyn...
JUDGE IS EYED IN CONFLICT OF INVEST
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan Supreme Court justice, under investigation by the FBI for possible conflicts of interest, owns $40,000 of stock in J.P. Morgan Chase - yet has presided over civil cases...
2 CLIENTS SUE 'TARDY' LAW FIRM
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn law firm that specializes in filing medical malpractice suits is being sued by two former clients who say their cases took so long to proceed that the statute...
NO KNOCK ON WOOD AFTER HIS 50TH WIN
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amWhile Roger Clemens failed in his third attempt to win his 300th career game, his counterpart, Cub pitcher Kerry Wood, won his 50th career game yesterday in his seventh try...
CHOI HURT IN COLLISION ; LEAVES IN AMBULANCE
June 8, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - In a Yankees-Cubs interleague showdown already bubbling over with potential historic moments, emotion and controversy yesterday, a sobering and scary episode dominated the day early in the game....