October 4, 2005
YANKEES VS. ANGELS: SEASON RECAP
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The Angels hold a 6-4 advantage over the Yankees in the 10 games played between the two teams this season. Here is a closer look: April 26 at...
THE MATCHUPS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The Yankees hope to write a different script against the Angels than the last time the two teams met in the Division Series. In 2002, the Angels topped...
THE SPEED DEMON - FIGGINS WREAKS HAVOC ON BASE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - According to nearly everyone in the Angels clubhouse, the team's most valuable player is not Vladimir Guerrero, the superstar who features one of the most fearsome swings in...
JAMES NOT CRAZY ABOUT CURRY DEAL
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES If the Knicks' new starting center is to be believed, Isiah Thomas should have no need for an Eddy Curry. "With the right exposure, being coached by Larry...
RANGERS MULL PURINTON DECISION
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amNow that Jarkko Immonen and Joe Rullier have been dispatched to Hartford, the Rangers have only one roster decision before tomorrow's opener in Philadelphia, and that's essentially the choice between...
PAIR OF SOX NOT A MATCH - BUT BOSTON, CHICAGO BOTH SHOW RESILIENCE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amCHICAGO - One team nearly blew a 15-game division lead to the upstart Indians. The other was on the verge of being pushed aside by Cleveland. The American League Central...
CAN'T BLAME HACKETT
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amJET REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: D Brooks Bollinger (14-of-28, 149 yards, 65.9 rating) wasn't given enough help, but he didn't really provide a spark himself. He too often looked jittery in the...
DEVILS STILL WANT TO DRINK FROM CUP
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amSalary cap handicapped, the Devils will present another edition of excellent depth rather than deep excellence. Gone are their two greatest-ever defensemen, Scott Stevens (retired) and Scott Niedermayer (Anaheim), and...
SECONDARY'S A PRIMARY PROBLEM
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The numbers that matter most are three, as in victories for the Giants, and one, as in losses. But for the record to remain impressive, the Giants must...
AL'S BIRTHDAY BASH - RIPS MIKE FOR SNUB OF DEBATE AT APOLLO
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton celebrated his 51st birthday at Harlem's Apollo Theater last night by blasting Mayor Bloomberg for not agreeing to debate Fernando Ferrer on that very stage. "This...
GET A POOCH, LOSE A PAUNCH
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amLosing weight can be doggone easy when you've got a pet pooch. A study by the University of Missouri found that having a dog encourages people to take regular walks....
MARINE TELLS HOW 'MAFIA' COP FORCED HIM TO FRAME AN INNOCENT MAN FOR SLAY
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amIN A stunning tale of police corruption, a former Marine has revealed how he was threatened by a rogue detective into framing a postal worker - whom the officer "wanted...
JOLLY JURIST 'GIVES' OFF AIR OF MYSTERY
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Eight studious justices of the Supreme Court will get joyful cards and cute gifts each year if Harriet Miers is confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice. Miers,...
HILL CANS 9/11-DISS CONSULTANT
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton dumped her teen-marketing guru yesterday, after The Post revealed that the unconventional adviser had vilified 9/11 victims. "Her project has been completed and she will...
RAPPER DMX: 'COURT IS WEARING ME DOWN'
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amAfter a judge told DMX yesterday that he would have to spend at least a weekend in jail for driving with a suspended license, the rapper replied as he was...
RALLY GOOD SHOW FOR YANKEE FANS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amPennant fever swept through the Big Apple yesterday as more than 500 revved-up Yankee fans flooded Bryant Park to cheer on their Pinstriped Princes as they get set to clobber...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN - GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amTHE LOFT WARS NEXT year is shaping up to be an interesting one for the lodging industry. On the heels of the announcement of the Solis group (a new luxury...
YANKS-SOX HOMERUN
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amLAST Saturday's Yanks-Red Sox game tied for the highest-rated baseball game in Fox history. The game, in which the Yanks clinched the American League East title, averaged a 5.4 rating...
HEFTY LINEUP, SKIMPY FANS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amFROM Woodstock's mud baths to last year's Lollapalooza implosion, rock is plastered with glorious disasters. Count Sunday's Across the Narrows concert at Brooklyn's KeySpan Park among them. The featured lineup...
NETWORKS EYE $$ FROM ON-DEMAND OFFERINGS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amHungering for new cash, the three major networks might start selling on-demand viewing of hit shows next season for $1 a peek - without the commercials. Viewers could also choose...
CALVIN SEWS UP FINGEN
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amCalvin Klein said yesterday it had reached an agreement with Fingen SpA, the Italian manufacturer, to produce its high-end collection designed by Francisco Costa. The agreement replaces and arrangement between...
SU DOKU SEEN AS NEXT BIG TOY CRAZE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amToy manufacturers and retailers are betting that Su Doku, a logic puzzle that is fast becoming a worldwide obsession, will prove a bright spot this Christmas season, delivering the industry's...
SOME DAYS YOU CAN'T MAKE A BUCK, MORE OR LESS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amI didn't even know I was suing MasterCard and Visa. I'm not even mad at them. But there it was, an official document from a claims adjustor saying I was...
CHIEN REPLACES CHACON
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Shawn Chacon posted a 2.85 ERA with the Yankees this year. Over his last three starts, he was magnificent, allowing one earned run in 23 2/3 innings. But...
MOOSE LOOSE IN HOLLYWOOD - MIKE SET TO LEAD BOMBERS VS. COLON IN OPENER
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Six months of preliminaries ended Sunday. Tonight the serious part of the Yankees' season begins when the Yankees face the Angels in Game 1 of the ALDS at...
LEE WAS APPLE OF BULLS' EYE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES CHARLESTON, S.C. - Knicks rookie power forward David Lee wasn't surprised the Bulls were trying to get him added to the Eddy Curry deal instead of draft picks,...
KNICKS DID DEAL IN A HEARTBEAT
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amYESTERDAY'S Eddy Curry trade is what happens when there are no options. Despite what you may have read or heard, the Bulls had little choice but to accept the Knicks'...
CENTER STAGE FOR BUBBA
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Considering the players who have started postseason games in center field for the Yankees, Bubba Crosby will be in good company tonight in Game 1 of the ALDS...
YANKS' GOAL: SLOW AGGRESSIVE ANGELS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - When the Angels get on base, they turn into the Phoenix Suns, the North Carolina Tar Heels and the old St. Louis Rams offense rolled into one. The...
CURRY DEAL ISIAH'S CALL
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amPROVIDED the NBA gets Bill Bennett's approval for integration, training camps open today. When attendance is taken, which uniform will Eddy Curry be wearing - the Knicks or Bulls? Or...
COLON IS WARY OF BOMBERS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Bartolo Colon knows the numbers. He knows that Alex Rodriguez has a career .442 average against him. He knows that the Yankees third baseman has seven home runs...
ELI'S MATURATION THRILLS VETERANS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe grimaces told the tale. Tiki Barber, Amani Toomer and Michael Strahan wondered if they'd ever again be part of anything meaningful with the Giants as Kerry Collins exited and...
LAKE GEORGE BOAT ILLEGAL - * AUTHORITIES CITE ONE-MAN CREW * B'KLYN FIREFIGHTER SAVED SENIORS * EX-SKIPPER CLAIMS CRAFT LISTED
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe doomed sightseeing boat that capsized on Lake George, leaving 20 elderly tourists dead, was operating illegally by having only one crew member, its 74-year-old captain, on board, grim-faced authorities...
CABBY STRIKE THREAT - SEEK $1 FARE BOOST
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amOne of New York's largest cabby unions yesterday threatened to strike unless the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission imposes a $1 gas surcharge on passengers and scraps plans to require...
BROOKLYN BUSH BASHER'S MACHINE GUN
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was taken into custody after police said they found a machine gun - and anti-Bush "paraphernalia" - in his car, authorities said yesterday. Cops called in the...
BUSH SUPREME PICK STUNS GOP - TAPS PAL WHO'S NEVER BEEN JUDGE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush pleased the Senate's top Democrat - but infuriated many Republican conservatives yesterday - by tapping a close friend, White House counsel Harriet Miers, as his second...
BLAKE: I LIED SO WIFE WOULD GET ABORTION
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amBURBANK, Calif. - Robert Blake admitted yesterday that he was so desperate to end his wife's unwanted pregnancy, he lied about having cancer and made a $250,000 offer for an...
SAVVY PACT BOOSTS MIKE'S PULL AT POLLS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg removed another obstacle to his re-election yesterday by announcing a tentative contract with the teachers union a little more than a month before voters go to the polls....
BELOVED SENIOR DIES IN CRASH
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amA happy-go-lucky, 89-year-old Irishman was tragically struck and killed by a car yesterday as he took his daily walk to morning Mass in Bay Ridge. Dennis Kelly was instantly killed...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Cops yesterday nabbed a man who knifed a convenience store worker in Eastchester on Saturday, police sources said. Angel Justiniano, 27, was charged with assault in the...
NEW WEAPON FOR WRINKLES: IRONING - SMOOTHING OUT CELLULITE? EXPERTS ARE SKEPTICAL OF WELLBOX
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amIT looks like a vacuum, works like an iron and feels like making out with your eighth-grade boyfriend. It's the Wellbox, the latest miracle anti-fat machine - which promises to...
SETS AND THE CITY - NEW YORK PLAYS HOST TO HOLLYWOOD AS FILMS INVADE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S movie madness in New York City, with high-profile films currently being shot all around town. In downtown Brooklyn, Steven Spielberg has turned back time to 1973 for his film...
STARR REPORT
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amWounded 'Wing' NBC's "The West Wing" is having a tough go of it in its new Sunday-night timeslot. This week's episode averaged around 7.7 million viewers - and was soundly...
NEED FOR SPEED - 'MINUTES' WELL SPENT
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amIn the years before it was accomplished, the four-minute mile was considered the Mount Everest of athletics - tantalizing, yet probably unconquerable and maybe even deadly. And it was true...
PLAME BOOK FOR TIME BIG
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amTime Inc. Editor in Chief Norm Pearlstine has become the first media figure to secure a book deal in connection with the controversial case involving CIA agent Valerie Plame. Pearlstine...
NYSE'S PLANS RAPPED - MART CALLED BLOATED
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange was labled a bloated bureaucracy that is stumbling into a merger with Archipelago that it doesn't really need, according to a study by an HSBC...
KKR POWER SURGE - LBO BIGS MAY POST 500% PROFIT IN ENERGY DEAL
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amTalk about a good ol' Texas power play. A group of four prominent private equity firms expect to collect more than six times their original investment after striking a deal...
MUSSINA SHOOTS FOR BLAST FROM THE PAST
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Mike Mussina was engrossed within a virtual world of video, perched in front of a laptop. On the screen was vintage Mussina, taken from the evening of July...
UNIT WILL PITCH GAME 3
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - In the end, it was an easy decision for Joe Torre: Randy Johnson wasn't going to pitch in Game 2 on three days' rest. "He can't...
RATINGS TRIGGER LATE START
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amMajor League Baseball and ESPN officials said yesterday they are starting Wednesday's Yankee-Angels ALDS Game 2 from Anaheim at 10 p.m. EDT to have the largest number of viewers watching...
STEPH'S GUNG-HO FOR CAMP BROWN
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amStephon Marbury has been given to hyperbole before, but he sees something in the Knicks' young, defensively challenged roster most don't. "I think we're going to be a great team,"...
NETS ARE 'SKY' HIGH AS CAMP OPENS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amJason Kidd dreams about being traded, Alonzo Mourning wants out, the team stinks, hope is a mirage and ... Oh wait, that was last year. In every way, both physically...
WALKER IS ON BOARD WITH A JOB
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amChristopher Barth's hard walk has finally paid off. Unable to land a job, even with a brand-new MBA, the Brooklyn man paced up and down 42nd Street wearing a sandwich...
KIDS IN 'HATE' ATTACK - 4 BUSTED IN B'KLYN
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amFour middle-school students were arrested yesterday in what police described as a racially motivated robbery and attack - the latest in a spate of bias crimes that have inflamed a...
CABBIES THREATEN TO STRIKE OVER GA$
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amOne of New York's largest cabby unions yesterday threatened to strike unless the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission imposes a $1 gas surcharge on passengers and scraps plans to require...
BOAT CHAIRS EYED IN PROBE - * PASSENGERS SLID BEFORE CAPSIZE * B'KLYN FIREFIGHTER SAVED SENIORS * EX-SKIPPER CLAIMS CRAFT LISTED
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe doomed elderly passengers aboard the boat that capsized on Lake George Sunday were put in portable, plastic seats that slid sharply to one side of the vessel just before...
FREDDY UNLEASHES AL - RIPS MIKE FOR SNUB OF DEBATE AT APOLLO
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer unleashed his first attack ad of the race, featuring the Rev. Al Sharpton blasting Mayor Bloomberg for ducking Thursday's debate at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Sharpton's broadside against Bloomberg...
KIDDIE COACH FUROR - RAGING TRIO SUSPENDED
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThree football coaches in a Jersey Shore Pop Warner League have been suspended for the rest of the season after they allegedly threw curses, threats and even a swing at...
'MOB' COPS' FAKE STOOLIE: 'IT'S LIKE I PUT MY FOOT DOWN ON JESUS' FACE'
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amIN A stunning tale of police corruption, a former Marine has revealed how he was threatened by a rogue detective into framing a postal worker the officer "wanted to get"...
HE'S THE MOST EVIL MAN IN N.Y. - NEW GAL PAL AFTER SLAY OF VALERY'S MA
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amWithin days of strangling his girlfriend in their Queens apartment and then cruelly abandoning her 4-year-old daughter on a dark street, admitted killer Cesar Ascarrunz moved another woman into their...
RETRIAL IN '84 L.I. MURDER
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island man whose conviction in the 1984 rape and murder of a Long Island teen was overturned in 2003 is back in court for his retrial. "This is...
'I HAD TO KILL' - BABY-STABBER CONFESSES TO SEEKING VICTIM
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amA deranged man who confessed to stabbing a 10-month-old baby in her stroller last month told cops: "I had to kill something." "I'm sorry now that I did that," the...
TIGHT-LIPPED CITY COP BUSTED IN L.I. PROBE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amA city cop was busted and suspended for refusing to answer questions from officers conducting an investigation near his Long Island home, officials said. Michael Lachioma, who works out of...
JUDGE NIXES TYCO 2'S BID TO BAIL OUT
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amTyco plunderers Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz lost their bid for bail yesterday, meaning they must stay in prison while their lawyers appeal their June convictions. A state appellate division...
GAIN A POOCH - & LOSE A PAUNCH
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amLosing weight can be doggone easy when you've got a pet pooch. A study by the University of Missouri found that having a dog encourages people to take regular walks...
SILVER BACKS GOV ON SEX OFFENDERS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - long accused of blocking legislation to allow unreformed perverts to be locked up even after they had finished serving their prison sentences -...
JEWS OBSERVE ROSH HASHANAH
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amAfter a year that brought hurricanes, a tsunami and other calamities, Jews around the world began celebrating a solemn Rosh Hashanah last night, with much to reflect on. "In the...
STRANGERS IN THE FLIGHT - WEB SITE MATCHES FREQUENT FLIERS FOR MILE-HIGH CONNECTIONS; HIGH HOPES
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amIT was a four-hour flight, and frequent flier Peter Shankman was bored, flipping through travel magazines. The trip included mini-pretzel bags, upright seats and business as usual - until he...
IN THE MONEY
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amPoker phenom Chris Moneymaker's Top 5 tips for winning big If you're playing in a World Series of Poker or World Poker Tour event for the first time, it's easy...
'LOST' MYSTERY - WHAT'S 'DHARMA' GOT TO DO WITH IT?
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amFANS of the hit drama "Lost" are buzzing about the sharp, new change in direction that the series took last week with the appearance of a mysterious logo. The logo...
GROUND ZERO RETAIL IN FLUX
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amSO, the Port Authority plans to build a half-million square feet of retail space at Ground Zero. Did anybody, however, ask the opinion of Larry Silverstein, who has rights to...
SEEING STARS - YANKS NEED TO RELY ON BIG-TICKET ITEMS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The second day of October could hardly have gone worse for the Yankees and that could keep them from playing deep into the month. The combination of losses...
ENIGMATIC MUSSINA IN FOCUS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - In the last 11 days, Mike Mussina has pitched one time and, that time, he tossed a total of an inning and a third. The Yanks will be...
HOW TO HALT THE HALOS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amSCOUTING REPORT THE last time the Yankees played the Angels in the Division Series they were four-time defending AL champions and had won four of the previous six World Series....
KNICKS LAND CURRY - BULL STUD MUST 1ST PASS HEART TESTS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amCHARLESTON - As the Knicks flew to Charleston yesterday for training camp, team president Isiah Thomas stayed behind to land new coach Larry Brown a legitimate, potentially spectacular, new center....
CAN YANKEES SLOW AGGRESSIVE ANGELS?
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - When the Angels get on base, they turn into the Phoenix Suns, the North Carolina Tar Heels and the old St. Louis Rams offense rolled into one. The...
TIME FOR VINNY? - JETS LIKELY TO GIVE TESTAVERDE START
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe most important huddle of the season for the Jets might have taken place late last night in an upstairs office at Weeb Ewbank Hall. That's where Herman Edwards yesterday...
'O', WHAT A FEELING!
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: A+ OK, right now, do you care at all what the Giants gave up for Eli Manning (19 of 35, 296 yards, 4 TDs, 0 INTs)? RUNNING...
CRONY CALAMITY - BUSH'S WASTED OPPORTUNITY
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amIMAGINE, for a moment, that the president of the United States were not George W. Bush but his brother, Jeb Bush - another conservative Republican with similar conservative instincts. The...
CAR KILLS MAN, 89, IN B'KLYN
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amA happy-go-lucky 89-year-old Irishman was fatally hit by a car yesterday en route to morning Mass in Brooklyn. Dennis Kelly died instantly in busy Fourth Avenue's predawn darkness. He had...
BRAVEST GET THEIR ROPES BACK
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amFirefighters will again be issued safety ropes starting today, nearly five years after the city eliminated them - and nine months after two men lost their lives jumping from a...
HEROES LEAVE MARK - 4 MORE FALLEN COPS ADDED TO TRIBUTE WALL
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe families of four cops who died in the line of duty saw the names of their loved ones unveiled on the police memorial wall in Battery Park City yesterday....
BIZMAN GUILTY OF $$-WIRE SCHEME
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan man faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to running a massive illegal money-transfer business. Thinh Tran, 59, admitted in Manhattan Supreme Court that...
LIFELONG LOVE AFFAIR ENDED IN AN INSTANT
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThey were high-school sweethearts who had been married for nearly 50 years - and then lost each other in the blink of an eye. Ann Mae Hawley, 74, and her...
TEACHERS TO GET 15% PAY HIKE IN NEW DEAL
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe city's 80,000 teachers are in line for a healthy 15 percent raise, but must work an extra 10 minutes a day and forfeit their right to transfer to any...
ANGELS FROM DIRTY PLACES
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Angels are the only baseball team in the country so embarrassed by where they play, they actually lie about it. When the Los Angeles Angels take the field against...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThroughout life, Irv Terchak was known as a notorious skinflint who liked to surprise workers at his local library in Wisconsin with bizarre gifts - like pits from avocados. That's...
HAMAS OUTGUNS US: GAZA COPS
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amDozens of armed and angry Palestinian police officers stormed the Gaza Strip parliament building yesterday to complain that they don't have the firepower to confront terrorist group Hamas. Hundreds of...
REAL ESTATE IN BUBBLE TROUBLE - PRICES TAKE TUMBLE FOR MANHATTAN SALES
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amThe bubble is in trouble. Manhattan residential real-estate sales numbers for the last quarter are in - and the picture ain't pretty, especially at the top end of the market....
PLAY TO WIN - EXHAUSTED CARD SHARK ANDY WANG HITS THE TOP POKER TABLES ON AND OFF THE VEGAS STRIP
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amI took a $10,000 vacation in July. It lasted less than four hours. Such was life at the main event of the World Series of Poker at the Rio Hotel...
NET NEWS SHEP SHAPE
October 4, 2005 | 4:00amFOX has taken another step toward establishing a national evening newscast. Fox News Channel reporter Geraldo Rivera, whose syndicated daily show, "Geraldo At Large," begins on Fox TV stations next...