July 25, 2004
BETTMAN PLAN UNDERCUTS GMS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amNHL general managers will be delighted to learn that Gary Bettman considers them nearly as disposable as the office employees who received their lockout layoff notifications from the league early...
MAGGLIO’S PRICE IS TOO RICH FOR CHISOX’ BLOOD
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amOne almost-certain Met target, Magglio Ordonez, is now a near sure thing to reach the free-agent market. Even before he re-injured his surgically repaired left knee and was possibly lost...
SELL NOW! METS SHOULD DEAL VETS, GROOM KIDS, THEN BINGE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00am- CAN contention ever be bad for a team's health? Meet the Mets, Exhibit A. They are in a race more through pluck and luck than possessing more talent than...
ISCREAM FOR IPODS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amA new case of iPod envy swept the nation this week after Apple released the latest version of Apple's dashing little music players. Thinner and lighter, with a streamlined design...
FOUND IN TRANSLATION
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S a match made in cinema heaven. Two of Japan's most notorious filmmakers, Takashi Kitano and Ta kashi Miike, are uniting for the first time. The occasion is an actioner...
KNICKERS IN A TWIST – THE PERFECT PANTIES FOR SUMMER ARE CHIC & COMFORTABLE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amKiss that thong good-bye. Ditto, those torturous control-top contraptions paradoxically called briefs. After years of masochistic trends in panties, women are finally catching a break in the unmentionables department. Called...
MR. HEINZ HIDES OUT
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amWHAT should have been a slam dunk for John Edwards was instead a bitter pill for his supporters. A crowd of about 500 eager young Democrats had packed into Chelsea's...
SLIWA: I’M NOT FLEEING THE MOB – I’M ON VACATION
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amTalk-radio loudmouth Curtis Sliwa's much-reported flight from the mob - to enter what he called a "future victim's protection program" - was in actuality a "planned trip" scheduled to last...
KIN BEG FOR LORI ; DESPERATE HUNT FOR UTAH’S PREGNANT ‘LACI’
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe distraught family of a missing, pregnant Salt Lake City woman yesterday made an another impassioned plea for their loved one's safe return, as cops began using cadaver-sniffing dogs in...
SUSPECT’S PRINTS ON BRIT’S DOOR
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amMurder suspect Jack Fuller's fingerprints were on the back door of the house from which Brittney Gregory disappeared, members of the New Jersey teen's family said yesterday. The finding -...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amQUEENS *** A man was struck by an errant bullet as he walked down a Jamaica street yesterday, cops said. The man, 22, whose name was withheld, was on Guy...
KERRY’S MERRY WARRIORS; VETS BOOST HIS BASH
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - John Kerry will attempt to fire up his presidential run by storming into the Democratic National Convention Wednesday with his Vietnam combat comrades at his side. The battle-tested...
‘DADDY’ IS HOME – BABY THIEF OVERJOYED IN REUNION WITH ‘SON’
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - As his plane set down in this desert city, Barry Smiley's reunion jitters finally felt real. "Now I'm getting excited," a beaming Smiley said less than a...
THE WEEK LOOKS WET – BUT NO SWEAT
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amIt's going to stay soggy and sticky - but it won't be sweltering - as showers and lower-than-normal temperatures continue to cool off the city for the next few days....
ANATOMY OF AN UNSOLVED SLAY – PARTY KIDS SNUB COPS IN COLLEGE JOCK’S GRUESOME MURDER
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBehind the doors of an elegant, two-story Victorian home in Brooklyn, at least nine young partygoers whiled away the late-night hours in a haze of drinks and drugs. By dawn,...
ALARMING SPIKE IN COCKTAIL RAPES
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amA record number of women are reporting to police that they were sexually assaulted after predators in Manhattan bars, nightclubs and parties drugged their drinks, The Post has learned. Others...
POLS IN THE PIGGY BANK – ‘PETTY’ WITH CAMPAIGN FUNDS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - From legal fees and fancy cars to golf outings and trips, the city's state lawmakers are using their campaign committees as "personal petty-cash funds," a Post review of...
ECK: FEAR OF FAILURE MADE ME BETTER
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amCOOPERSTOWN - Bad fear, like "you're feeling sick and almost paralyzed with it" is not to be confused with the dread Dennis Eckersley says fitted him for his role, a...
PIAZZA MAY PLAY MORE AT CATCHER
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mike Piazza's sprained left wrist is improving, and he is aiming to return by the middle of this week - and is expecting to catch more. "Right now,...
SOX WIN FIGHT TO THE FINISH: THEIR WORLD, AND WELCOME TO IT
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - This is the flip side. This, in many ways, is what it's felt like, sounded like, looked like, on the other side of baseball's great divide for so...
CHAD’S CHANCE – JETS’ TALENT PUTS PENNY IN BETTER POSITION TO WIN NOW THAN GIANT DUO
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Jets have their most formidable team since 1998, and if Chad Pennington can play his first full season and be the perfect 10, they will own New York and...
CYCLE KILLERS – LET’S HOPE FRENCH ARE WRONG & LANCE IS CLEAN
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Every day, it is something else, it is something new, it is something so discouraging that you want to tear up your newspaper, or pull an Elvis on...
FAST START AND STOPS – REBUILT DEFENSE MUST KEEP JETS OUT OF EARLY HOLE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe most compelling and critical training camp of the Herman Edwards era begins on Friday when the players hit the fields at Hofstra for the first of numerous two-a-day practice...
SUMMER SERIES EXPLOIT HORROR OF 9/11
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amTWO summer series contain references to 9/11 that demonstrate how producers are exploiting the events of that tragic day. The shows are "The Grid," TNT's miniseries about government agents waging...
9/11 REPORT A PROFIT-LESS BESTSELLER
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amDespite blockbuster sales, publisher W. W. Norton will "probably lose money" on The 9/11 Commission report it published on Thursday, Norton President Drake McFeely cheerfully admits. "We intended the publication...
‘BABYLON’ SALUTES MAVERICK DETECTIVE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amEVER just stumble upon a program that quickly grabs you, then doesn't let go? It happened a couple of weeks ago, when Court TV's "The System" ran "American Babylon," a...
ROCK SMASH SCISSORS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe Scissor Sisters could have been just another burnout casualty of the fleeting electroclash trend of two years ago - but somehow the dance/rock group was overlooked in the rabid...
NIGHT MOVES – IT TAKES A ‘VILLAGE’ TO SCARE SHYAMALAN
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amM. Night Shyamalan believes in magic - though perhaps not quite as much as his rabid fans, who often camp outside his Philadelphia house to catch a glimpse of the...
BOOK $$$ BULLFIGHT; MOB-HIT KIN IN ROYALTY BATTLE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00am"Sammy Bull" is making blood boil again among the kin of his murder victims. Members of at least two of the eight families who recently received $55,000 checks - portions...
FURY AT DEATH TV PIC ; KIN RIP ‘NYPD 24/7’
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe family of a Manhattan man whose death is the subject of this week's installment of a controversial NYPD reality show blasted the cops and ABC for planning to air...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amTag, you're it! Jim Cara chose the vanity license plate "NO TAG" for his motorcycle as a gag - but it proved to be one fine mess for the Delaware...
COP HOPEFUL IS SLAIN IN STREET FIGHT
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amAn aspiring cop enjoying a night off from his job as a club bouncer was stabbed to death early yesterday during a fight on the Lower East Side. Joseph Locascio,...
‘AD’ LUCK HELPS NAB DOPEY THEFT SUSPECT
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amAn ill-fated Long Island man was arraigned yesterday for trying to sell a boat motor he allegedly stole - after the victim responded to the suspect's classified ad in a...
KERRY’S MERRY WARRIORS ; VETS BOOST HIS BASH
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - John Kerry will attempt to fire up his presidential run by storming into the Democratic National Convention Wednesday with his Vietnam combat comrades at his side. The battle-tested...
SPYING SUPERTRAMPS; UNDERCOVER ‘BUMS’ GUARD GOP’S GALA
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe stinking derelict you have to step over on the subway platform may actually be a well-trained commando on a secret mission to keep you safe. A team of elite...
TWIN’S DEATH PAIN – SIS OF SLAIN B’KLYN WORKER ‘FELT’ BULLET
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe grieving twin sister who watched in horror as her beloved 22-year-old brother lay dying -shot in a botched Brooklyn robbery - said she felt a bizarre, inexplicable pain shoot...
HOW TO $CORE AT ‘TOGA PARTY – POST’S POINTERS TO MAKE YOU SPA WINNER
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amSaratoga, thoroughbred racing's annual rite of summer, opens Wednesday for its 136th meeting, one that figures to be different from any that came before. The six-week stand runs through Labor...
LOWE TIDE HAS STENCH IN BOSTON
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amA couple of weeks ago, Derek Lowe complained that he was being compared unfavorably to Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling. The knock on Lowe is that he's not as mentally...
INCENSED A-ROD PUTS UP A FIGHT ; EJECTED AFTER YANKS, SOX BRAWL AGAIN
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees and Red Sox can't keep their hands off each other. Less than a year after Pedro Martinez flung Don Zimmer to the Fenway Park turf, Alex...
IT’S A REAL CLIFF-HANGER:CAN FLOYD SOLVE RECENT PLATE WOES?
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amAfter the Mets lost to the last-place Expos on Thursday, Cliff Floyd went home and began pacing around his Manhattan apartment. Then Floyd watched the tape of the game he...
SOME FIGHT LEFT IN SAWX
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox started another fight yesterday - one that they finally finished. If the Curse is ever going to be reversed, this was the place to begin....
ANTOINE SEES KNICK DEAL
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amJamal Crawford wants to be a Knick. Erick Dampier wants to be a Knick. Vince Carter wants to be a Knick. Now Antoine Walker predicts he'll be a Knick. If...
KNOCKOUT PUNCH ; MUELLER BLAST STEALS MO-MENTUM
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - When Bill Mueller stepped in to face Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning yesterday, the last thing on his mind was a home run. As far as he...
FLIP-FLOP ON RAINOUT IRKS YANKS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees were ready to leave Fenway early because of the wet conditions after a night and morning of rain. About two hours before the 11-10 epic loss...
STANTON STINKER – MIKE’S MELTDOWNDOOMS AMAZIN’S
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBraves 5Mets 2 The crowd booed Mike Stanton when he arrived and when he left. In between, it was not much better. In the end, Stanton's inability to hold a...
UNIT UPDATE: NEW YORK OR NO DEAL
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - With less than a week until Saturday's trading deadline, industry sources seriously believe that Randy Johnson will be a Yankee or remain a Diamondback. "It's shaping...
KID STUD SZETELA: DEAL ME TO METROS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amSo far this year, golden opportunity after golden opportunity has fallen in MLS' collective laps. And one by one, the league has turned each golden opportunity into lead, either through...
DEAD LIKE ME – GRIM REAPERS SPARE VIOLENT DEATHS – AND PROVIDE LAUGHS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amTELEVISION has found a new way to get viewers to appreciate their lives: make shows about dead people. "There's nothing quite like your own death to put your life into...
HEAR THIS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amIN CONCERT * World-beat giants the Gipsy Kings play Radio City tomorrow. * Pop rockers Butch Walker and American Hi-Fi at Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday. * Classical pop singer Josh...
KING OF THE CASTLE – ‘HAROLD AND KUMAR’ STAR SAYS FAREWELL TO THE SIDEKICK SCHTICK
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amKal Penn may be the only vegetarian ever inducted into White Castle's Hall of Fame. As one of the stars of the stoner comedy "Harold and Kumar Go to White...
MEET MARKET – THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amSassy sports fan seeks blue-eyed boy adventurer Meet Deanna, 28, who works in promotional marketing and is in the market for Mr. Right. "My last relationship ended over a year...
MEET MARKET – WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amLET'S GO ALFRESCO Last week John, a trader, picked Alexa, a publicist, as his date. We sent them off to one of the city's finest Italian restaurants, Cascina, to see...
THE PAINFUL TOOTH ON H2O
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amNew York City kids are getting more and more cavities, and dentists and researchers say one of the biggest reasons is crystal clear - bottled water. Dr. Steven Fox, a...
LOVE THAT DIRTY WATER ; ECO-NUT SWIMS THE SLIMY HUDSON RIVER
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amMost New Yorkers would shiver at the thought of taking a plunge in the grimy Hudson River. Christopher Swain lives for it. The 36-year-old, Manhattan-born environmentalist is attempting to swim...
FLY LIKE AN EVEL; KNIEVEL’S INTREPID BID
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amHoly ship! When Kaptain Robbie Knievel hits the throttle of his bike aboard the USS Intrepid next Saturday night, he'll be taking on not only his father's daredeviling legend -...
N.Y. SUFFERS MOST FROM TAX WHACKS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - New York leads the nation in state and local taxes paid per resident, exceeding the national average by 47.5 percent, a new analysis released yesterday shows. Taxes in...
FIENDS TARGET AUSSIES; DEMAND IRAQ RETREAT
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amA group calling itself the European branch of al Qaeda threatened to turn Australia and Italy into hellish "pools of blood" if the two nations did not withdraw their troops...
SANDY’S SLOPPY SIDE LET HIM DOWN
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amHe was known to worry about details - but behind that diligence, Sandy Berger was a man who could lose track of papers and appointments without subordinates' help. So while...
KIN: ROAD-SLAB DAD LUCKY
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amChoked with emotion, the daughter of the motorist who cheated death when a huge slab of concrete fell from an overpass and onto the Grand Central Parkway said yesterday that...
NYERS: WE WON’T CROSS LINE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amA welcoming party tonight in Boston for New York state delegates will be quite the quiet affair if pickets are up at the event, a spokeswoman for the New York...
TEEN’S HORROR AS BRONX DAD IS SLAIN
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe daughter of a Bronx man blown away in an apparent botched robbery in their home said her life flashed before her eyes as her parents struggled with the masked...
POLICE BUST ‘LYING’ ROOKIE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amA rookie cop has been arrested after making up a phony story about why his girlfriend's teenage sister was shot by his service weapon last week, police said. Jeffrey Rivera,...
CHAMP LANCE’S PASSION IS AN ALTRUISTIC FASHION
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe must-have accessory of the moment isn't a Cartier ring or a Marc Jacobs bag - it's a yellow rubber bracelet that costs $1. Eva Mendes wears one, and so...
‘DADDY’ IS HOME; BUT ‘SON’ RIPS INTO HIS BIRTH PARENTS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Barry Smiley has been reunited with Matthew Propp - the "son" he was jailed for kidnapping more than 20 years ago. But the homecoming was bittersweet as...
POL: PROBE MUSLIMS IN MILITARY
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amA Republican running for Congress in Westchester says Muslims in the U.S. military should be investigated immediately for possible terror ties. Richard Hoffman, a 33-year-old longshot to unseat four-term incumbent...
STANTON STINKER – MIKE’S MELTDOWN DOOMS AMAZIN’S
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBRAVES 5 METS 2 Perhaps you've read this script before. Having a chance to make up some ground on the first-place Braves, the Mets squander early-inning opportunities before eventually finding...
IT’S ANOTHER MELEE DAY
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The ball plunked Alex Rodriguez flush in the back, and before the ball even flopped to the ground you knew what was coming next. Are you kidding? Did...
DMITRI: KEEP YOUR FANTASY TO YOURSELF
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amWE CAUGHT up with a few members of the Tigers during their last trip to New York and got their views on fantasy baseball. Carlos Guillen - maybe the most...
GMS SHOP AROUND THE CLOCK – BASEBALL EXECS KEEP BATTERIES CHARGED AND EARS OPEN AS DEADLINE NEARS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amYou could tell what time of year it was by the bags under Jim Duquette's eyes. As the Mets GM stood in the team's clubhouse last week he looked exhausted....
TOP PROSPECTS TOO HOT FOR NY
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amTHIS is the month when the minors matter most. Also-rans like the Pirates and Diamondbacks dangle stud big-leaguers in potential trades. Postseason locks like the Yankees and hopefuls like the...
FLY GIRLS- MIRNA AND CHARLA RACE FROM ARGENTINA TO ST. PETERSBURG ON ‘THE AMAZING RACE’
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amJACKIE CHAN'S movie "Around the World in 80 Days" was a flop this summer, but another globetrotting adventure - "The Amazing Race" on CBS - is a runaway hit. The...
GIAMBI MIGHT RETURN TO DL
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON -There is a possibility Jason Giambi is headed for the disabled list again. The Yankee slugger met with manager Joe Torre yesterday morning, and Torre left Giambi out of...
SOX WIN FIGHT TO THE FINISH ; AFTER BRAWL, HR IN NINTH STUNS YANKS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amRed Sox 11Yankees 10 BOSTON - It started with a third-inning brawl ignited by Alex Rodriguez getting hit in the elbow and ended with Mariano Rivera giving up a walk-off...
LIBS TURN ‘RADIO’ UP
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amLiberty 78Shock 69 Nobody forgot their lines, nobody came down with stage fright and nobody broke any legs after the Liberty's home court was trucked uptown to Radio City Music...
DREAM SOURS FOR STURTZE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - This wasn't exactly the way Tanyon Sturtze's Fenway Park dream used to look on all those mornings when he would make the trip with his father, Ken, a...
TAG-TEAM MATCH TO BOSTON
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Alex Rodriguez invited Jason Varitek to "come on." The Boston catcher RSVPed with two hands in the Yankee third baseman's face. A few moments later, Gabe Kapler and...
FITTING FOE FOR BRADLEY’S 100TH
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amMetroStars 2Fire 1 With last night's 2-1, come-from-behind win over arch-nemesis Chicago, MetroStars coach Bob Bradley became the first MLS coach to reach the 100-win plateau. Chances are, no victory...
BLUE’S CLUES – GIANTS HEAD TO ALBANY TO LEARN ABOUT NEW COACH AND QBS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amTraining camp is always a time of renewal but rarely is the sense of total upheaval as complete as it is this summer for the Giants. When players report to...
ANTOINE SEES TRADE TO KNICKS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amJamal Crawford wants to be a Knick. Erick Dampier wants to be a Knick. Vince Carter wants to be a Knick. Now Antoine Walker predicts he'll be a Knick. If...
LIBS LIKE NEW HOME ON STAGE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amAs quickly as things fell apart for the Liberty in June, that's exactly how fast they've turned around in July as they went into last night's historic game at Radio...
WHEN JOE GOT BLITZED – NAMATH BIO REVEALS BOOZY JET QB AT ROCK BOTTOM
July 25, 2004 | 4:00am"I want to kiss you." For all of Joe Namath's accomplishments (a Super Bowl III victory, the first 4,000-yard passing season in history, a 496-yard game against the Colts), those...
HEAD TO HEAD
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amPost reporter Andrew Marchand and columnist George Willis slug it out over whether Mike Tyson, who fights Friday on pay-per-view, is still worth watching Andrew Marchand: For $44.95, you could...
FROM THE FENWAY HOTSEAT TO CAMP FOR FUTURE CHAMPS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amHINSDALE, Mass. - When you love the game, that's all that matters. You gotta have heart. While the Yankees and Red Sox are taking care of business a few hours...
PAY PER NEWS – CELEB MAG WARS BLUR ETHICS LINES
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe ferocious battle between celebrity magazines has renewed the debate over "checkbook journalism." While many mainstream publications insist they don't pay for stories, critics say the rules are being bent...
ART A-FISH-IONADO; THIS PHOTOGRAPHER TAKES INSPIRATION FROM HIS PETS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amJoining the ranks of artists who look to companion animals for inspiration - among them William Wegman (dogs) and Sandy Skoglund (cats) - photographer Dirk Westphal turns his lens on...
PICKING APART ‘PREDECESSORS’
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amCHESSPLAYERS love to second-guess, and right now they are engaged in the greatest "postmortem" ever. It was triggered by Garry Kasparov's first two volumes of "My Great Predecessors," a critical...
NY TURF WAR – DICK WOLF RESENTS ‘CSI’ FRANCHISE MOVING INTO HIS BACK YARD
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amTHE reigning king of TV law-and-order drama just picked astreet fight with "CSI.'' Dick Wolf, creator of the three "Law & Order" shows, mouthed off at a television critics conference...
GOTTI HAVE IT – DAPPER DON’S GRANDKIDS STEAL SPOTLIGHT IN MOM’S REALITY SHOW
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThey're cute. They're tough. They're rich. They're mini-mob royalty. And Carmine, Frank and John Agnello - the three sons of Victoria Gotti and scrap-metal magnate Carmine Agnello, and the grandchildren...
HOT LIST – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amAmish gone wild In what may be the best new reality show this year (aside from Andy Dick's spoof on the genre, "The Assistant"), a bunch of Amish kids are...
FOREVER GOTH – THE CURE’S ROBERT SMITH STAYS TRUE TO HIS ROOTS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amRobert Smith, the mastermind behind Brit pop group the Cure, insists his band isn't part of mainstream music, even though it has managed to sell 27 million albums in its...
THIS WEEK’S CDS
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amVARIOUS ARTISTS: 'THE CRICKETS AND THEIR BUDDIES' "The Crickets and Their Buddies" (three stars) Sovereign Artists While February 3, 1959, was the day the music died, nobody told Buddy Holly's...
BLURRED MEMORIES OF THE NIGHT A SICKO SLIPPED ME A MICKEY
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amCALL me the Martini Manchurian Candidate. It happened June 18 in the Villard Bar in the Helmsley Palace Hotel. This is what I know: After 1½ drinks, I became incoherent,...
COP PARTY-SWOOPERS ; WILL ‘CLEAN UP’ TOURIST SITES FOR DELEGATES
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amCops will descend this week on Times Square, Central Park, the World Trade Center site, and other popular destinations for Republican National Convention delegates, to clear out hookers, drug dealers,...
FEAR FOR ISRAELI MOSQUE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amIsrael's security minister warned yesterday of a possible attack on a Jerusalem mosque - Islam's third-holiest shrine - by Israeli right-wing groups seeking to derail a plan to pull out...
SISTER FEELS SHOT TWIN’S DEATH PAIN
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe grieving sister who watched in horror as her beloved 22-year-old twin brother lay dying - shot in a botched Brooklyn robbery - said she felt a bizarre, inexplicable pain...
GUNMAN KILLS MAN IN BODEGA
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amAn argument ended in bloodshed last night at a Harlem bodega - leaving one man shot dead and a store clerk grazed in the leg, cops said. The attack happened...
BEYOND 9/11 ; WHAT COMMISSION MISSED
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amIMPERIAL HUBRISBY ANONYMOUS BRASSEY'S, 309 PAGES, $27.50THIS book is so valuable, it hardly seems that any review could do it justice. As a veteran intelligence official, Anonymous has spent two...
QNS. ‘DWI’ TRAGEDY; BELOVEDGRANDMA KILLED IN FLUSHING
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amAn allegedly drunken driver with a history of DWI convictions killed a beloved Queens grandmother of 16 yesterday as she walked to a beauty salon to spruce up for a...
AS THE WHEEL TURNS – TOPSY-TURVY YEAR HASN’T HALTED LANCE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amAnother year, another likely victory - but it's not the same Lance Armstrong racing toward a record sixth Tour de France title today in Paris. Armstrong's public face during last...
CYCLING CHAMP’S PASSION IS AN ALTRUISTIC FASHION
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amThe must-have accessory of the moment isn't a Cartier ring or a Marc Jacobs bag - it's a yellow rubber bracelet that costs $1. Eva Mendes wears one, and so...
ASHADO ‘CLUB’ CHAMP – FAVE CRUISES HOME IN BELMONT FEATURE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amSaratoga doesn't open until Wednesday, but yesterday at Belmont Park, trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey John Velazquez, who both set records for most wins last summer at the Old Spa,...
DOWN DAYS FOR DUCKS AFTER WATERLESS WINTER
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amDUCK populations have dropped dramatically across the nation, according to the latest survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Using the figures from this survey, waterfowl managers from federal...
THE CURSE THAT KEEPS ON CURSING
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - My 20-month old daughter is learning way too many curse words. Such was the posting yesterday on the Red Sox fan Web site, Sons of Sam Horn. Perhaps...
BIG UNIT TALKS MAY HEAT UP
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - With less than a week until Saturday's trading deadline, industry sources seriously believe that Randy Johnson will be a Yankee or remain a Diamondback. "It's shaping...
PIAZZA COULD CATCH MORE TIME BEHIND PLATE
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES When Mike Piazza returns to the lineup, it could mean a return to regular time behind the plate and less at first base. "I've talked Mike about increasing...
HE’S GOT WRIGHT STUFF
July 25, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE is no present for the Mets, not with this bullpen. There is, however, a future, because New York hasn't scared David Wright. And it won't. "I think no matter...