July 13, 2001
$38G RENT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THE 'REAL WORLD'
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amNOW that MTV's "Real World" film crew has cleared out of its latest locale - a West Village townhouse at 632 Hudson St. - the owners are in the process...
COMCAST PITCHES MOGULS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amCOMCAST boss Brian Roberts took center stage at the Herb Allen media pow wow, getting a chance to present his case for why AT&T should let him buy its cable...
PROFITS IGNITE BIG RALLY: GE, MICROSOFT HELP LIFT DOW 237, NASDAQ 103
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amStocks soared on hopes of an earnings recovery - but it's still too soon to cheer. Upbeat profit reports by four giant companies - Microsoft, General Electric, Motorola and Yahoo!...
WHEAT EXIT WON'T STOP CSFB PROBE; BUT IT REDUCES INDICTMENT THREAT, SAY THE EXPERTS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe heat is still on CSFB, despite yesterday's surprise beheading of CEO Allen Wheat and his replacement by former Morgan Stanley superstar John J. Mack. Bi-coastal investigations by regulators into...
BAD NEWS AHEAD FOR QUATTRONE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amFrank has got to go, some Wall Streeters predicted in the wake of the startling dismissal of CEO Allen Wheat at CSFB yesterday. It isn't just the high drama and...
WELCH'S GOLDEN YEARS TO START IN SEPT.
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amNeutron Jack will be leaving GE - not with a bang but a whimper. General Electric Chairman Jack Welch has finally coughed up a date for his retirement. The 65-year-old...
NAPSTER, METALLICA END FIGHT
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amNapster and Metallica have finally buried the hatchet. The file-sharing service yesterday announced it has settled its copyright suit with the rights-conscious rockers as well as with hip hop star...
WALL STREET FEARS A BIG MACK ATTACK
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amJust six months after falling on his sword in a brutal battle for control of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, "Mack the Knife" has returned to Wall Street as sharp as...
HE ALMOST WENT TO MERRILL INSTEAD
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBefore agreeing to take the top seat at Credit Suisse First Boston, John Mack was in talks to join Merrill Lynch & Co. , a source familiar with the situation...
DEADLY BORING POETS' SOCIETY
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amPANDAEMONIUM 1/2 Cliffs Notes on acid.Running time: 125 minutes. Rated PG-13 (drug use). At the Village East, Second Avenue and East 12th Street. HISTORICALLY and dramatically dubious, "Pandaemonium" depicts 18th-century...
'SCORE' ONE FOR ACTORS ; CLASSY CAPER BOASTS BRANDO, DE NIRO AND ED NORTON
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHE SCORE Blithe caper with three aces.Running time: 124 minutes. Rated R (profanity). At the E-Walk, the Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others. 'THE Score" is a once-in-a-lifetime summit of...
WILLA FINDS HER WAY ; THIS POP SINGER ISN'T WAITING FOR HER PRINCE TO COME
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amHER debut album, "Willa Was Here," doesn't come out until Tuesday, but you probably already know who Willa Ford is.You may have seen the sexy 20-year-old singer on MTV, where...
TAPPING A MOTHER LODE OF TALENT
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amIF you thought tap-dancing was a male thing, Brenda Bufalino has a few steps to show you."Women are some of the most virtuosic tap dancers out there. Everything we do...
TRUE TALE OF TEEN VIOLENCE, SEX, MURDER AND HORRIBLE FILMMAKING
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBULLY Shun this trash.Running time: 111 minutes. Not rated (explicit sex, much nudity, violence, profanity). At the Angelika, Houston and Broome streets. EXPLOITATION reaches new depths in Larry Clark's "Bully,"...
'BLONDE' SHOWS ROOTS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amLEGALLY BLONDE Watery but generally amusing knock-off of "Clueless," set in law school.Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG-13 (language, sexual humor). Loews 84th St., Union Square, Kips Bay, others. TO...
'MAJOR BARBARA' A SHAW WINNER
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMAJOR BARBARA Roundabout Theater Company at the American Airlines Theater, 227 W. 42nd St., between Seventh and Eighth Aves. (212) 719-1300. GOD bless Todd Haimes' Roundabout Theater Company for keeping...
STARR REPORT
July 13, 2001 | 4:00am'Wing' commander: 'Nobody holding out' "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin is denying reports that co-stars Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff and John Spencer are holding out for more money....
THEY GOT IT 'MADE'
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMADE Clever indie comedy with dark undertones about incompetent young mobsters.Running time: 95 minutes. Rated R (language, mild violence). At the Union Square. THE wonderful 1996 comedy "Swingers" launched the...
'BIG EDEN' A GARDEN OF COMIC DELIGHTS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBIG EDEN Charming romantic comedy about a New York artist who finds love in Montana.Running time: 118 minutes. Rated PG-13 (language, adult situations). At the Quad Cinema, West 13th Street....
PILOBOLUS MONKEYS AROUND
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amPILOBOLUS DANCE THEATERAt the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street, (212) 242-0800. Through July 28. BOUNCING athletically through its month-long New York season at the Joyce Theater, the...
THE NEWS THE OTHERS WON'T USE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe Chronicle Saturday at 9 p.m. on Sci Fi SCI Fi has done once more what the networks seem very often to have forgotten how to do: make watching TV...
BY 'JEEVES,' WE'VE GOT IT: LLOYD WEBBER BOOKING A STAGE FOR '75 MUSICAL
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amANDREW Lloyd Webber isn't letting a flop show break his stride.After posting the closing notice for his London musical "The Beautiful Game" this week, the mighty British composer picked up...
MINISERIES IN CAMELOT YOU'LL LOVE A LOT... PLAY MISTYFORME
July 13, 2001 | 4:00am"Mists of Avalon" Part I Sunday night at 8 Part II: Monday night at 8 on TNT IT will be up to fans of "The Mists of Avalon" to decide...
STAGE DOOR TO DORM
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amTO the rigors of the performing life - too much travel, too little sleep - add homework. Alisa Weilerstein does. The 19-year-old cellist played 42 concerts last year, also her...
BOOTED 'BRO': 'IDIOTS' MISS THE POINT
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHE "Big Brother 2" contestant who was booted off the show for holding a butcher knife to the throat of one of the female contestants says anyone who thinks it...
BAD 'BRO' BOOTED JUSTIN TIME
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amJUST hours before "Big Brother 2" producers booted out Justin Sebik for holding a butcher knife to the throat of a female contestant, another housemate had threatened to leave the...
FIRE CHIEF IN DRUG BUST
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA city fire battalion chief was busted in Queens yesterday after he was caught trying to hide marijuana and painkillers when he was stopped for a traffic violation, police said....
PHEW! MAILED $$ RECOVERED
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMaria Fu was devastated when she realized she accidentally dropped an unsealed, unmarked envelope stuffed with nearly $600 into a postal box. "Oh, my God," the Kew Gardens hairdresser lamented...
LEGBREAKER TRIED TO KILL ME: 'SOPRANOS' MAID
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amTony Soprano's maid needs some protection herself. Katalin Pota, who plays maid Lilliana Wosilius on the HBO hit "The Sopranos," was thrown down the steps of her Jersey City apartment...
$1B BLUNDER TO BOOST NEXT WEEK'S SS CHECK
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Thanks to a $1 billion government goof, Americans on Social Security are getting a surprise $19 bonus check next week. That's the amount each Social Security recipient has...
BLOODIED BY PSYCHO CAT IN THE SHOWER
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amTROIS RIVIERES, Quebec - A small house cat sent her 80-year-old owner to the hospital with deep scratches requiring stitches and a blood transfusion after the man accidentally sprayed her...
22-CALIBER 'SOPRANOS' ; MOB DRAMA TOPS TV'S HIT LIST OF EMMY NOMINEES
July 13, 2001 | 4:00am"The Sopranos" was No. 1 with a bullet yesterday in prime-time Emmy nominations announced in Hollywood. HBO's mobsters-on-Prozac series snagged a whopping 22 nominations, including nods for stars James Gandolfini...
PROOF THAT OUR SCHOOLS HAVE HIT A BAD 'SPELL'
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amThis is the state of our schools. Read it and weep. Failing students are being taught by instructors who can barely write in English. A Brooklyn social-studies teacher, who is...
HER SPIN MACHINE IS BREAKING DOWN
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amIn the wake of the incident that has shattered her life, Lizzie Grubman has assembled an unprecedented team of lawyers and PR specialists for damage control. It's not working very...
STATE GETS TOUGH ON SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Truants beware: Schools may be taking attendance every period. Three years after an exposé by The Post found school-attendance fraud in the city to be rampant, the state...
GREEN'S LEAN & HUNGRY LOOK
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMARK Green really, really, really wants to be the mayor of New York City. Perhaps that's the best explanation for his consistent lead in all polls. Sitting at The Post...
EX-KNICK MASON ACCUSED OF RAPE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBasketball bad-boy Anthony Mason - the former Knick with a knack for trouble - is under investigation on rape and sodomy charges in New Jersey, The Post has learned. A...
SMOKERS' HEART ILLS TIED TO GENE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amSmokers with a version of a gene linked to high cholesterol levels have a higher risk of developing heart disease, scientists say in a study released today. Smokers are more...
FLACK FOE REVELS IN HER RIVAL'S MISFORTUNE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMeeeeeowwww! Lizzie Grubman's recent bout with publicity has a catty competitor baring her claws. When reporters and camera crews massed outside Grubman's apartment Monday, rival publicist Lara Shriftman plopped down...
HE KOS KINKS AT MONICA'S SPA
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. REP. Gary Condit was into massages big time - and he actually got his muscles soothed at the same spa where Monica Lewinsky once was a regular. Cops have...
HE TEACHES US THE REAL PROBLEM
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amPoor Sunny Liang's grip on the English language is tenuous, but his take on New York City's principal public-education problem is on the money. It's the students, stupid. And the...
GOD BRINGS IN A KILLER - BIBLE-TOTER TURNS SELF OVER TO COPS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA conscience-stricken, Bible-toting killer calmly walked into a Greenwich Village police station and confessed to his role in three murders, saying he "had found God," police sources said yesterday. Troy...
WHITE HOUSE 'BOMB' SCARE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Parts of the White House were evacuated yesterday while the Secret Service inspected a suspicious car parked in the presidential driveway that turned out to be a false...
AMBULANCE BIG IN HOT WATER
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe head of the biggest private, for-profit ambulance service in the city's 911 system lied to get his company's operating license and his personal Emergency Medical Technician license, the state...
SLAY FUGITIVE STABS SELF AS TRIAL LOOMS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amEx-hippie radical Ira Einhorn - convicted in absentia of the 1977 murder of his girlfriend - yesterday tried to slit his throat just hours after losing his bid in France...
GREEN RIPS RIVAL OVER DIALLO COPS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral candidate Mark Green yesterday accused rival Fernando Ferrer of being "politically expedient" for trying to "convict" the four cops who accidentally killed Amadou Diallo in The Bronx in 1999....
WHAT A RUSH! FUND TOPS $1M
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amAn amazing $200,000 donation by talk-radio king Rush Limbaugh and his wife, Marta, has sent The Post's Astoria firefighters' fund above the magic $1 million mark. The Limbaughs made their...
NEW YORK POST: FROM JULY 13, 1979
July 13, 2001 | 4:00am"GREED!" was The Post's front-page headline about the death of the mob boss who wanted too much. "Mafia godfather Carmine Galante was assassinated on orders of La Cosa Nostra's national...
TELEVISION IS REALLY GOING FULL 'BORE' THIS YEAR
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBORING is as boring does. That about sums up the sleepy state of television as reflected in yesterday's ho-hum Emmy nominations. Scan the list of this year's nominees and you'll...
IT'S AN EMBARRASSMENT, KIDS SAY
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amGive him an F! Summer-school students expressed outrage and disbelief when shown a veteran teacher's letter to The Post riddled with the kind of errors that would earn them failing...
CAMPAIGN $$ REFORM LEFT REELING
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The historic drive for campaign-finance reform collapsed yesterday when House Republicans stalled the measure indefinitely and each side accused the other of sabotage. It was unclear last night...
COURT TOSSES SLAY RAP 12 YRS. LATER
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amAn Albanian man who spent 12 years in prison for murder was ordered released yesterday after an appeals court ruled the Brooklyn DA's office suppressed evidence from a cop that...
RACISM BEHIND STROLLER ATTACK: DA
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA fugitive Jersey City coke dealer attacked a Manhattan mom - and tipped her baby's stroller onto busy First Avenue - just because she's white, prosecutors charged yesterday. "White people...
LAWSUITS PILING UP - TWO MORE VICTIMS BRING TOTAL TO $65M
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amTwo young lawyers mowed down by Lizzie Grubman sued the publicity princess and her dad for $35 million yesterday as Southampton officials continued a bid to shut down the nightclub...
QUEENS JEWELER KILLED DURING HEIST
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA hard-working Queens merchant whose Korean immigrant family owns two small businesses on the same block was gunned down in cold blood yesterday during a botched heist of their jewelry...
FED NABBED IN DRUG STING
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA U.S. Customs agent, embittered about being passed over for a promotion, was busted yesterday for trying to set up a drug-running business to get back at his bosses, officials...
SCHOOL SAFETY VAN MOWS DOWN MOM
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA school safety van - rushing to a Queens high school to help stop a fight - crashed into a Jeep and then jumped the curb, mowing down and trapping...
'AFFAIR' TEEN HAD BABY - CONDIT'S LUST FOR SEX ENDED FLING: SOURCES
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA minister's daughter gave birth to a son during the two years she allegedly had an affair with Rep. Gary Condit - whom she dumped him because of his sexual...
LOUIMA TO GET $8.75M - BOTH SIDES CLAIM CREDIT FOR NYPD REFORMS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amFour years after NYPD cops beat and sodomized him with a broomstick in a Brooklyn station-house bathroom, Abner Louima agreed yesterday to an $8.75 million settlement. "I don't really see...
DINERS FLEE RAINBOW ROOM FIRE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amDozens of diners last night fled a minor fire at the famed Rainbow Room - many walking off their dinners by descending 65 flights of stairs from the top of...
DA: LAWYER RIPPED OFF $1M
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA Manhattan real-estate lawyer brazenly pocketed more than $1 million of his clients' money, prosecutors charged yesterday. Clients gave Harold Adler, 46, control over down payments and the proceeds of...
PHEW! MAILED $600 RECOVERED
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMaria Fu was devastated when she realized she accidentally dropped an unsealed, unmarked envelope stuffed with nearly $600 into a postal box. "Oh, my God," the Kew Gardens hairdresser lamented...
MARITAL BLISS IN THE GENES
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amWant to live happily ever after? Then you and your spouse better have good genes. Researchers at Boston University have concluded that there is a significant genetic influence on whether...
COED DORMS TO SPARE GAYS FROM TEMPTATION
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amGay students at a prestigious Pennsylvania college have won the right to have opposite-sex roommates - saying same-sex roommate create too much temptation. Swarthmore College, a 137-year-old private liberal-arts school...
$1B BLUNDER BOOSTS NEXT SS PAYMENT
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Thanks to a $1 billion government goof, Americans on Social Security are getting a surprise $19 bonus check next week. That's the amount each Social Security recipient has...
FIRE INSPECTOR IN BRIBERY BUST
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA Queens Fire Department inspector was busted yesterday for bribing a co-worker to rig fire-safety records for two auto-repair shops, officials said. The probe of Louis Smith began last month...
FIREWOMAN GETS TO WEAR MUSLIM CLOTH
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA Muslim firefighter in Maryland has won the right to wear her religion's required head scarf while on duty - a probable first in the nation. Stacy Tobing, 29, began...
COPS TOLD TO AVOID SKEETER-SPRAY TRUCKS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe NYPD has warned cops to steer clear of trucks spraying mosquito-killing pesticides, even though Mayor Giuliani insisted yesterday the chemicals are harmless. "There is absolutely no evidence that anyone...
ALL-STARS TAKE HIT IN WALLET
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MIAMI - Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Mike Stanton are each $500 poorer after being fined by Joe Torre when the All-Star trio reported to Pro Player Stadium...
MOOSE MISSES CALL: FISH BURN MUSSINA FOR 8 RUNS IN LOSS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMarlins 9 Yankees 3 MIAMI - He pitched away and the Marlins spanked him. Then he tried to come inside and they punished him. He missed high and low and...
RIVERA: I WON'T PITCH IF SORE ANKLE WORSENS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - While Mariano Rivera's cranky right ankle didn't render him unavailable to Joe Torre for last night's game against the Marlins, the best closer in baseball will keep close...
ADMIRAL STAYS WITH SPURS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks' chances of catching lightning in a bottle ended yesterday when the Spurs re-signed center David Robinson. Had the Spurs signed Chris Webber, they had planned to renounce the...
FONZ FEELIN' FINE: HR HELPS LEITER ZAP RED SOX
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMets 4 Red Sox 2 After ending the first half 1-for-20, Edgardo Alfonzo still questioned the health of his back so he sought a second opinion from former team doctor...
BONDS SMASHES 40TH; BIG MAC TIES REGGIE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Barry Bonds ended a drought, reached a milestone faster than Mark McGwire and caught Jimmie Foxx all in one night at Safeco Field, but the Giants lost to...
BOTTOM'S UP, EVERYBODY
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBOTTOM fishing will again be your best bet this weekend if you're fishing inshore while canyon runners have gotten their first taste of action along the continental shelf. Porgies and...
THERE'S NO BETTER BIGOT ; HOUSTON, ROCKER SAYING SAME THINGS DIFFERENTLY
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBIGOTS come in all shapes, sizes, colors and tones of voice. Some spew their hateful ignorance loudly and proudly with spit flying from between their teeth, as if they've had...
AT LONG LAST, CAPRIATI HAS MADE GOOD
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amCall Jennifer Capriati the Prodigal Daughter. She owned fame, fortune and good looks and made it to the Finals of the French Open in 1990 before her 15th birthday. She...
ISLES IN SECRET LINDROS TALKS ; MILBURY DANGLED JONSSON, MARIUSZ
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amWhile Eric Lindros sits by the phone, hoping the Rangers' failure to get Jaromir Jagr will make Glen Sather desperate enough to overpay for the prodigal Flyer's rights, perhaps he...
SPREE'S REP BLASTS ALLAN ; HOPES KNICKS SAY NO DICE TO NO-TRADE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe agent for Latrell Sprewell said yesterday that Allan Houston's demand for a no-trade clause is ridiculous and would damage the Knicks' future. Bob Gist, Sprewell's rep, told The Post...
LAMORIELLO TO RUN NETS AND DEVILS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amLou Lamoriello, the successful GM of the Stanley Cup finalist Devils, will take over the No. 1 operations spot of the Nets as the YankeeNets combine the back office business...
BLAZE-ING CONFIDENCE ; GM CONVINCED LIBERTY CAN WIN IT ALL
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amCarol Blazejowski is not in the business of issuing guarantees. But before the WNBA season started, the Liberty's GM said another loss in the championship series would no longer be...
GET READY FOR SUMMER HEAT ; FIVE BIG QUESTIONS AS BASEBALL HEADS INTO 2ND SEASON
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amICHIRO SUZUKI can thrive in America, the Mets do not have the talent to successfully defend their NL title and even $252 million shortstops cannot mask pitching inadequacies. Plenty of...
NO PARTY AT THIS GARDEN ; MSG TEAMS CAN'T PURCHASE SUCCESS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBEHIND the barricades, Jim Dolan is chopping off tongues, not salary. Alas, Madison Square Garden has millions more to spend on players and nobody worthy and eligible to take the...
KEEPING HOLIK COULD TAKE DEVIL OF A DEAL
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe Devils' pattern resumes Sunday, when Bobby Holik takes that first small step towards becoming the next star to leave the team as an unrestricted free agent, just 11½ months...
RICE'S SWEET TO LEAVE DUKE FOR SETON HALL
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amAs first reported in The Post last month, Andre Sweet, the former Rice High School star, will transfer from national champion Duke to Seton Hall. Sweet, a 6-foot-6, 203-pound swingman,...
OAKLEY TRADED TO BULLS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amCharles Oakley is returning to the Windy City. Sources close to Oakley have told The Post that the Raptors power forward has been dealt back to the Bulls for Brian...
KITTLES STARTS OVER IN NETS' ROOKIE CAMP
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amThere were the four draft picks, running and grunting and sweating last night, along with some guys whose paths to the NBA, if ever completed, will detour through Helsinki or...
OUT-OF-SYNCH POWER CAN'T FOLLOW THE BEAT
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBeat 3 Power 0 It was supposed to be a battle for first place. Instead, it was a match that showed just how far the Power have to go to...
MCINTYRE, CYCLONES KEEP ROLLIN'
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amIt's getting hard to figure out who's hotter, the Brooklyn Cyclones or their shortstop Robert McIntyre. The 15-8 Cyclones have won seven in a row and are in first place...
PIAZZA PICKS UP WHERE HE LEFT OFF
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMike Piazza was back in the swing of things at the plate and behind it. The Met slugger caught his first game since June 29 while maintaining the batting stroke...
SHINJO SET TO RETURN
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Tsuyoshi Shinjo, who has been out since June 18, expects to come off the DL tomorrow or Sunday. Shinjo said after last night's 4-2 win over the Red...
BATTERED BOSOX AMAZIN' ; STILL IN THE HUNT DESPITE RASH OF INJURIES
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amIMAGINE BREAKING your leg and running faster, chipping a tooth and having a better smile, losing faith in your mate and having a stronger marriage. It is all as illogical...
PULSE GETS THE JOB DONE
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBases loaded, nobody out and Robin Ventura at the plate. This wasn't how Bill Pulsipher dreamed about his career in Shea Stadium. Regardless, the former blue-chip Mets' prospect entered last...
CONE PSYCHED FOR SHEA START
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA lot of people in New York wrote off David Cone last winter, but the veteran right-hander wasn't eager to declare vindication yesterday. More than anything else, Cone was psyched...
CONEY'S PSYCHED FOR START AT SHEA
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amA lot of people in New York wrote off David Cone last winter, but the veteran right-hander wasn't eager to declare vindication yesterday. More than anything else, Cone was psyched...
FONZIE DEALS WITH PAIN
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Edgardo Alfonzo is relieved that two doctors agree that he can't do further damage to his back and that surgery isn't going to be needed. Alfonzo thinks he...
METS NEED TO FORGET FIRST HALF
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amBy 3:50 p.m. yesterday, every Met walked out of the clubhouse to stretch. They then went through drills as if it were spring training. Guys worked on pickoff moves and...
FOR PETTITTE'S SAKE, TORRE SHIFTS ROTATION
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MIAMI - Andy Pettitte's start was moved from tonight to Sunday - but not because of physical problems. "Andy basically likes another work day before he pitches," Joe...
ALL-STAR PITCHERS TAKE HIT IN WALLET
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Mike Stanton are a tad lighter in the wallet after reporting to Pro Player Stadium 12 minutes late for a 4:50 meeting yesterday....
MO'S IN THERE PITCHING: ANKLE PROBLEMS HAVEN'T STOPPED YANKEE CLOSER
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - While Mariano Rivera's cranky right ankle didn't render him unavailable to Joe Torre for last night's game against the Marlins, the best closer in baseball will keep close...