June 14, 2004
FOR RUSTY, IT'S ALL ABOUT GIVING
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe ribs at Rusty Staub's were so good, they melted in your mouth almost as fast as the proprietor's heart at the mention of somebody in trouble, other than a...
GIANTS' TRAINING IS NEVER-ENDING
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amWhen is the bye week? Anyone who feels as if the Giants are grinding through their offseason (now there's a misnomer) and are in need of a break is paying...
OFFICIALS ARE PUTTING 'SHEED IN FOUL MOOD
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Pistons coach Larry Brown, having heard the Lakers' Phil Jackson grumble about the officiating in the NBA Finals, took up the cause of Rasheed Wallace....
SERGIO'S ON A ROLL IN WESTCHESTER
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amBUICK NOTES Champion Sergio Garcia has turned in a record 19 straight par-or-better rounds at the Buick Classic since he shot a 3-over 74 in the first round in 2000,...
BELTRAN'S NOT WRIGHT FOR METS
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES KANSAS CITY - David Wright is now one step away from the majors, and general manager Jim Duquette believes Wright will begin that big-league career with the Mets....
TOM TERRIFIC AGAIN - GLAVINE'S GEM CAPS ROUGH TRIP
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - As Tom Glavine sipped on a post-victory beer and The Jackson 5 played in the background of the visiting clubhouse yesterday, you couldn't help but notice the...
FOR DONORS, BAGS OF SWAG
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amDonors to the New York committee hosting this summer's Republican National Convention will be showered with goodies ranging from lapel pins to red-carpet treatment at the four-day event, The Post...
HOW 'STREET' IT IS - BROKERAGE BUCKS SOAR ONCE MORE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Wall Street is smiling, all's right with the world - especially the Big Apple economy. After suffering one of its worst crises in modern history, Wall Street is finally...
HAMPTONS DIARY
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amTHE battle by clubs to bag A-listers caused a tizzy this weekend when two spots wrangled over prime prize Cuba Gooding Jr. The Oscar winner was flown into the Hamptons...
PAIR DROWN IN BROOKLYN
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe weekend proved deadly for two swimmers who drowned in separate incidents in Brooklyn, police said. A mentally disabled man on an outing from a Brooklyn group home to Prospect...
AN OLD FLAME IS BACK - OLYMPIC TORCH HITS N.Y.
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe Olympic flame will travel from the heart of New York's Greek community to the Crossroads of the World - carried by boldface names and average Joes - on a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN (s, lcf) * A man was shot dead yesterday by an assailant who opened fire at a city housing project in Coney Island, police said. The victim, 20, whose...
BLOODY QUEENS HORROR - TEEN SAMURAI SLAY
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amA baby-faced teen obsessed with knives brutally butchered his pal with a samurai sword after the pair got into an argument in Queens yesterday, authorities said. Ricardo Richardson's was fatally...
REUNITED IN DEATH - BX. FIRE KIDS 'WITH GRANDMA NOW'
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe grief-stricken relatives of two young brothers killed in a horrific Bronx house fire said yesterday they took solace in knowing the tragic pair died on their grandma's birthday. "It's...
IRAQ PREZ WANTS GIS OUT SOON
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The new leader of the Iraqi government said yesterday he wants all coalition soldiers out of his country in six months to a year. President Ghazi Al-Yawar, head...
'DWI' KILLS COP - NYPD RETIREE FOUGHT DRUNK DRIVING
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amA drunken driver smashed into a retired New York City cop early yesterday morning on Long Island, killing the former Bronx DWI program coordinator and badly injuring his daughter, authorities...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Tennessee drug pusher who was sent to jail for violating probation begged the judge to personally drive him back to the slammer - saying the prison bus would be...
ALL BETS OFF - 'CASINO' FAKES VEGAS GLAMOUR
June 14, 2004 | 4:00am"The Casino" [Zero stars] Tonight at 9 on Fox/Ch. 5 YOU would be hard- pressed to recall a TV series as vulgar and repellant as "The Casino" on Fox. It's...
NO EXTRA 'ENTHUSIASM'
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amNOTHING extra. That's right - noth ing. The man who created a TV show about nothing, "Seinfeld," has now given fans a DVD with nothing. Early reviews of Larry David's...
VAZ NO WELLS - THANKFULLY
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amDAVID Wells returned to his element yesterday, and we don't mean lying face down on the sidewalk outside of Dorian's. Working in the atmosphere he favors - at Yankee Stadium...
COUPLES COMES THROUGH THE PAIN
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amIt was a struggle against pain, a battle with his betraying back. Fred Couples didn't quite capture the Buick Classic, but he certainly won the fight, and the admiration of...
SERIOUSLY, BERMAN IS GOOD
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amFUNNY, how things work out. A few years ago, when word spread that Chris Berman would host ESPN's coverage of the U.S. Open (NBC does the rest), golf's devotees began...
AFTER BUTCH, TIGER HAS BEEN TOOTHLESS
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amHE will arrive at Shinnecock Hills this morning just after the sun does, making his way to the practice tee, where he will set up the most celebrated classroom in...
RASHEED STEPS UP, STOMPS ON LAKERS
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Rasheed Wallace smelled blood, Karl Malone's blood. And he attacked. But it was a little altercation with Malone's backup, Slava Medvedenko, that really got him going. "I...
GETTING HOT AT RIGHT TIME
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amONE of the theories surrounding the 2004 U.S. Open is that since it will be played, starting Thursday, at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, a links-style design, this could be the...
SERGIO'S ON A ROLL AT BUICK CLASSIC
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amBUICK NOTES Champion Sergio Garcia has turned in a record 19 straight par or better rounds at the Buick Classic since he shot a 3-over 74 in the first round...
SIERRA SHOWS GROWTH
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amRuben Sierra was in the on-deck circle in the ninth inning, tantalizingly close to an opportunity to win the Yankees a game, when Joe Torre called him back for Kenny...
LIKING IMPALE MOM'S ODDS
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amDoctors for the miracle mom impaled on a 15-foot-long fence pole said she had a "one in a thousand" chance at survival - and was so lucky they played her...
'HARRY POTTER' KOS 'RIDDICK'
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amHigh-octane Diesel wasn't enough to overpower everybody's favorite wizard as "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" blew away Vin Diesel's latest flick, "The Chronicles of Riddick," to remain No....
A SON'S PLEA TO QAEDA
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe son of a New Jersey native kidnapped in Saudi Arabia pleaded yesterday with his father's al Qaeda captors to free him. "Let him go," Paul Johnson III said from...
SHOPS IN DARK OVER GOP GALA
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amWith the Republican National Convention less than three months away, storeowners and restaurant managers around Madison Square Garden are growing more anxious about their fate during the four-day gala. And...
TRAIN IN THE NECK - TRANSIT KOOK STRIKES AGAIN DESPITE NEW SECURITY
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amDespite the city's post-9/11 security clampdown, a man notorious for posing as a transit worker and commandeering city subways and buses has been busted again - this time in a...
BLOOMY 'B' GOOD: ED. BIGS
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amNow that the first year of Mayor Bloomberg's sweeping education overhaul is nearly over, his administration is getting mostly positive marks on its report card. The Post interviewed a dozen...
THE DEVOUT FAVOR BUSH
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush holds a huge advantage over Sen. John Kerry among religious voters, while John Kerry has a significant edge among voters who do not consider themselves religious,...
SEN. SEEKS LAW FOR CELLPHONE PRIVACY
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amCellphone users can be bombarded with unsolicited calls and text-message spam if their numbers are listed without permission in an upcoming cellphone directory, Sen. Charles Schumer warned yesterday. The cellphone...
COMPROMISE TIME - BMG MAY SELL UNIT TO GET EC OK ON SONY DEAL
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amGerman media giant Bertelsmann is likely to sell off its music publishing business if the European Commission gives the green light to the planned merger between Sony Music and BMG,...
-CONFLICT QUESTIONED ON SPITZER FUND RAISING (M)-SPITZER DONORS EYED (S, LCF)
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amPoliticians always hit up Wall Street for campaign donations - but when Eliot Spitzer comes calling, it's headline news. Spitzer's 2006 quest for governor could raise conflict-of-interest questions about his...
BRONX LIFTS BOOMER
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amif David Wells' return to the Stadium yesterday was not quite perfect, neither was the ending. Unless, that is, you're a Yankee fan. The San Diego lefthander got a rousing...
MARIANO DECLARES HE'S FINE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Closer Mariano Rivera, unavailable because of tightness in his back yesterday, insisted along with Joe Torre that he'll be ready tomorrow in Arizona. Still, with Kevin Brown and...
TORRES THRILLED TO BE IN B'KLYN
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amAfter pitching just seven innings in his collegiate career, David Torres wasn't expecting to get a call during last year's draft. He was more than surprised, then, when a scout...
HOT BILLUPS PUTTING PAYTON IN HIS PLACE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Entering these NBA Finals, some of the match-ups looked undeniably lopsided. And entering Game 4 here last night, the biggest mismatch has been at point...
EUROPEANS GETTING HOT
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amONE of the theories surrounding the 2004 U.S. Open is that since it will be played at Shinnecock Hills, a links-style design, this could be the first time in 34...
APPLE BOWLS FOR $$ - W. SIDE STADIUM GAME
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amIf they build it, a bowl game will come. The New York Jets have scheduled the first event in their unbuilt, state-of-the-art football palace on the West Side of Manhattan:...
IT'S A GIRL FOR COURTENEY
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe stork finally arrived for Courteney Cox. After years of trying, the sexy "Friends" star gave birth to a bouncing baby girl yesterday, People magazine reports. The child, who arrived...
STUDENTS' 'ART-FELT' TRIBUTE TO REAGAN
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amArtistic teenagers in the Bronx have sketched one for the Gipper. At The Post's request, a group of students from the Bronx HS for Visual Arts drafted portraits of Ronald...
DOCS BET ON 'IMPALE' MA - LITERALLY
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amDoctors for the miracle mom impaled on a 15-foot-long fence pole said she had a "one in a thousand" chance at survival - and was so lucky they played her...
LIFE IN THE APPLE A BARGAIN
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amNext time you see your rent bill and think you're living in the world's most expensive city, relax - New York doesn't even crack the top 10. Then again, none...
JFK AIR TRAIN IS TAKING OFF
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amTaking the AirTrain to the plane is becoming a more popular way to get to Kennedy Airport. Since it opened in December, more than 1 million passengers have used the...
RON'S LAST FLIGHT - SOMBER TRIP FOR NANCY, FAMILY AND FRIENDS
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former First Lady Nancy Reagan watched a videotape of her husband's funeral service and read letters from well-wishers as she accompanied his casket from Washington, D.C., to his...
MAYOR RIPS JUDGE IN SUSPECT'S ESCAPE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg blasted the judge who helped a convicted drug dealer duck arrest for an unrelated "violent" robbery. "I thought what she did was an outrage and she should be...
A FRIAR ENGAGEMENT: STORIED CLUB TURNS 100
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amAFTER a week of wrenching mourning, the smiles return to New York tonight at the historical and sometimes hysterical Friars Club. Tonight, the club that has hosted the royalty of...
TEEN BREAST QUEST - BOOB JOBS HOT NEW GIFT FOR GIRL GRADS
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amForget the convertible. A boob job is the latest must-have on your teen daughter's graduation list. The number of 18-year-olds who underwent breast-implant surgery nearly tripled last year - from...
3 QNS. SYNAGOGUES FINALLY SAY SHALOM TO MERGER
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThree Queens synagogues combining into one seems like a merger made in heaven - but when congregations behave like corporations, earthly dilemmas intervene. Rabbis were fired. Lawyers were hired. And...
HEATHER TALKED MOM & DAD INTO IMPLANTS 'FOR DOING WELL IN SCHOOL'
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amFor graduation, Heather Panzner got quite an endowment: a new set of breasts. "It was a bonus, a gift for doing well in school," said the blond, busty Hauppauge resident....
YOU'VE GOT SALE - PERSONAL SHOPPERS REVEAL THEIR STORES' TOP DESIGNER BARGAINS
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amSUDDENLY, it's summer - and you haven't got a thing to wear. And if you've been putting off shopping for weddings, Hamptons weekends and more, it's now or never. The...
ABC PULLS THE PLUG
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amthe Tiger Woods Era was supposed to spell the end of networks running out before golf events concluded. That had been the case, until yesterday, when ABC pulled the plug...
BLINDNESS PROVES NO HANDICAP
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe first difference at the Mount Kisco Country Club in Westchester County yesterday is what the golfers didn't have. Bob Andrews went blind in Vietnam. Mike Mercado lost his sight...
LEAVING LINCOLN, MORE OR LESS
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amSebastian Telfair probably won't be the only All-City player lost by Lincoln by next season. Despite his insistence that he wants to return to the three-time defending PSAL champs, Antonio...
MAGIC WORDS - JOHNSON, LAKER VETS RIP MAILMAN, GLOVE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Lakers' part-owner and walking, talking, living legend, Magic Johnson, has called the team out, saying its play and attitude have been "unacceptable." Then the five veterans...
DISCORD CHURNS IN L.A.
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Lakers' part owner and walking, talking, living legend, Magic Johnson, called the team out, saying its play and attitude in the NBA Finals have been "unacceptable."...
YANKS' COMEBACK OUTSHINES WELLS' - POP PADRES IN 12
June 14, 2004 | 4:00am12 INNINGS: Yankees 6 - Padres 5 It's not like David Wells hadn't seen this act before - Yankee Stadium magic turning a dominant opponent's work into dust. Yesterday, Wells'...
FINISHING SERG - GARCIA WINS BUICK IN PLAYOFF
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amLet the real golf begin. Shinnecock Hills and the U.S. Open await this week, and nothing else in golf matters. Certainly, if you were watching ABC's embarrassing excuse of a...
PISTONS POWER - DETROIT WIN LEAVES LAKERS ON LIFE SUPPORT
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 4: Pistons 88 - Lakers 80 AUBURN HILLS - The tempo was all Detroit's. And now the NBA Finals seem all Detroit's. Detroit had no answer for Shaquille O'Neal...
NEW LOOK AT L.I DOUBLE MURDER
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island man convicted of butchering his parents has been moved from a maximum-security prison to the Nassau County Correctional Facility - the first step in a legal process...
AIRTRAIN RIDERSHIP IS REALLY TAKING OFF
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amTaking the AirTrain to the plane is becoming a more and more popular way to get to Kennedy Airport. Since it opened in December, more than 1 million passengers have...
BASEBALL KID DANNY IN PLEA FOR HIS DYING MOM
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amHigh-school baseball star Danny Almonte, who once pitched a tarnished perfect game in the Little League World Series, is now pitching something much more important: lifesaving treatment for his mom....
PUERTO RICAN PARADE PAINTS FIFTH AVE. RED, WHITE & BLUE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amIt was a fiesta grande where everyone was Puerto Rican - by mayoral order. Tens of thousands of jubilant, chanting, flag-waving revelers turned Fifth Avenue into a sea of red,...
MIKE MELTS AS FOLKS PAN 'SOFTEE' BAN
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg softened his stand on Mister Softee yesterday, telling ice-cream truck owners he might consider alternatives to a proposed ban on their "annoying" jingles. "When the proposal goes to...
COPS HURT IN CAFE CARNAGE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThree patrons were stabbed during an argument over a woman outside a popular eatery on Theatre Row early yesterday in a melee that also injured two cops. The 4:30 a.m....
DAD BUSH MAKES 80TH A LEAP YEAR
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amSome folks jump for joy when they make it to 80 - former President Bush jumped out of a plane. Twice. The daredevil dad of George W. celebrated his birthday...
FAMILY OF HEROES - COP WILL GET HONOR GRAMPS WON IN 1906
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan police lieutenant will receive the Medal of Valor, one of the NYPD's highest awards - nearly a century after his granddad took home the same medal as a...
KIMES L.A. MURDER TRIAL OPENS TODAY
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Prosecutors will tell jurors this morning how infamous New York grifter Sante Kimes allegedly murdered an L.A. businessman six years ago before hiding his body in a...
SADDAM ULTIMATUM
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amUnless the United States charges Saddam Hussein or releases him from custody by June 30 the nation will be in violation of the Geneva Convention, the Red Cross charged yesterday....
STAB ATTACKS AT MIDTOWN CAFE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThree patrons were stabbed during an argument over a woman outside a poplar eatery on Theatre Row early yesterday in a melee that also injured two cops trying to break...
20 PARADEGOERS BUSTED IN RAMPAGE
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amA gang of 20 Puerto Rican Day paradegoers trashed and robbed an Upper East Side pizzeria, cops said. Five men, all from Mount Vernon, were charged with robbery; 15 were...
A SON'S PLEA TO QAEDA - 'LET MY DAD GO'
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amThe son of a New Jersey native kidnapped in Saudi Arabia pleaded yesterday with his father's al Qaeda captors to free him. "Let him go," Paul Johnson III said from...
NEW LOOK AT L.I. DOUBLE MURDER
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island man convicted of butchering his parents in 1988 has been moved from a maximum-security prison to the Nassau County Correctional Facility - the first step in a...
PRETZEL POPPER SILVER DISSED MY RAPE CLAIM
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amASSEMBLY Speaker Sheldon Silver sat back "eating pretzels, with nonchalance and with rudeness" as an emotional young staffer told him she had just been raped by his top aide, the...
OVER THE HILTON - 'WE JUST MESS UP MORE STUFF THIS TIME'
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amDEAR Mr. Letterman: It wasn't personal - just business. Love, Paris. That's sort of what hotel heiress Paris Hilton says was the reason for bailing out of a guest spot...
NO 'O.C.,' THAT'S FOR 'SHORE'
June 14, 2004 | 4:00am"North Shore" [*] (One star) Tonight at 8 on Fox/Ch. 5 'NORTH Shore" is so vapid and inept that it makes "The Love Boat" look like "The Sopranos." According to...
STARR REPORT
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amBrandy catching Zs Z-100's Shelley Wade chats with Brandy tomorrow (1 p.m.) - covering everything from Brandy's new love, L.A. Clippers star Quentin Richardson, to her past love, L.A. Lakers...
DON'T BOTHER TRYING TO FIND THIS 'ADDRESS'
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amADDRESS UNKNOWNAt the Promenade Theatre, 2162 Broadway. Call Telecharge (212) 239-6200. 'ADDRESS Unknown" is an absurd melodrama set in the early 1930s about Max, a Jewish art dealer in San...
THE KID ROCKS JONES BEACH
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amKID ROCK THE reason that Kid Rock kills when he plays live is that he understands that music lovers don't just love one kind of music. At Rock's Jones Beach...
ECKO PLANS HIP HEADQUARTERS IN CHELSEA
June 14, 2004 | 4:00amStreet-fashion powerhouse Ecko Unlimited is moving into a new home on the historic Ladies Mile in Chelsea - complete with a basketball court for its CEO suite. The company, whose...