The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) articles from September 2005

The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) archives from September 2005

Weis has little time to reminisce with focus on Notre Dame football.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Dick Jerardi SOUTH BEND, Ind. _ On the second-to-last Friday in August, signs are up all over the Notre Dame campus, directing the incoming freshmen to their dorms and letting them know what their new homes are like _ "Keenan,...

For openers, some food for thought for NFL Fantasy draft.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Ed Barkowitz PHILADELPHIA _ A good buddy of mine had his NFL Fantasy draft two days before Randy Moss admitted to smoking pot and just before Kansas City Chiefs kicker Lawrence Tynes allegedly broke some guy's nose in a bar fight....

Philadelphia Daily News Plugged In column.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Takiff Sep. 1--THE GIZMO: Two weeks in consumer electronics (a post-vacation report). MUSIC DOWNLOADS, EVERYWHERE: Not content with the 125-plus channels of music and information you can get from satellite radio? This...

Nick Cannon sings and acts on the big screen and TV.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Gary Thompson PHILADELPHIA _ Nick Cannon says his new album is personal, and you can hardly get more personal than begging your mother, from the womb, not to have an abortion. That's the gist of "Can I Live?," the single from...

Some question wisdom of rebuilding New Orleans.
September 1, 2005... Byline: William Bunch If you threw a dart at a map of the United States 999 times, you could not hit a worse spot to locate a metropolis. Surrounded by two large, flood-prone bodies of water, New Orleans lies as much as 10 feet below...

Easy gone, or on hiatus?
September 1, 2005... Byline: William Bunch Sep. 1--If you threw a dart at a map of the United States 999 times, you could not hit a worse spot to locate a metropolis. Surrounded by two large, flood-prone bodies of water, the city lies as much as 10 feet below...

Trolleys return along Philadelphia street.
September 1, 2005... Sep. 1--Finally, after years of delay, the historic Route 15 trolleys are coming back. The formal announcement will be made today, at the Philadelphia Zoo, and actual service is scheduled to start Sunday. If everything goes without a...

A challenge Bush has to meet.
September 2, 2005... Byline: John Baer President Bush, interrupting his five-week vacation, arrives in New Orleans on Friday, a city that looks more like a Third World country or the set of a disaster film than anything ever seen in America. His leadership...

Eastern League writers send a strong message on awards.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Paul Hagen PHILADELPHIA _ Leaked grand-jury testimony suggests that Barry Bonds used steroids, and the phone begins to ring. Mark McGwire goes before Congress, stonewalls the pols on whether he used steroids, the phone begins to...

Coming this month: Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and more.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Takiff A slew of superstar projects top September's album release pile, with vital new work from the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Tracy Chapman, Bonnie Raitt, Barbra Streisand, Burning Spear, Echo & The Bunnymen,...

Lack of clean water likely to add to health problems.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Erin Einhorn PHILADELPHIA _ In a city swallowed by water, public-health officials warn that the most serious threat to the people still trying to survive in New Orleans is, ironically, the lack of water _ specifically, clean...

Philadelphia Daily News John M. Baer column.
September 2, 2005... Byline: John M. Baer Sep. 2--President Bush, interrupting his five-week vacation, arrives in New Orleans today, a city that looks more like a Third World country or the set of a disaster film than anything ever seen in America. His...

Philadelphia to ponder liquid-gas plan.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Ramona Smith Sep. 2--City Council is expected to take a long, hard look at a plan to bring giant tank ships loaded with liquefied natural gas up the Delaware River through Philadelphia. And unlike officials in some other cities...

Low-income residents urged to apply for utility help in Philadelphia.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Dan Geringer Sep. 2--As sky-high oil and natural gas prices soar even higher in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's destruction, low-income residents who fail to apply for bill-paying help face a devastating winter. "Our low-income...

Easy gone, or on hiatus?
September 2, 2005... Byline: William Bunch Sep. 2--If you threw a dart at a map of the United States 999 times, you could not hit a worse spot to locate a metropolis. Surrounded by two large, flood-prone bodies of water, the city lies as much as 10 feet below...

Poor blacks worst hit by Katrina.
September 2, 2005... Byline: William Bunch Many don't own a car, and some who did couldn't scrape together the money for a tank of gas. Many of them had to work over the weekend, when thousands of better-off residents were crowding the I-10 evacuation...

Philadelphia offers to take in hundreds of homeless families.
September 3, 2005... Byline: Mark McDonald PHILADELPHIA _ As Philadelphia slept Thursday night, Mayor John Street _ wide awake and restless, haunted by the televised suffering of thousands of Gulf Coast residents _ was roaming around his house. By Friday...

The latest in music downloads, gaming and high-def.
September 5, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Takiff THE GIZMO: Two weeks in consumer electronics (a post-vacation report). MUSIC DOWNLOADS, EVERYWHERE: Not content with the 125-plus channels of music and information you can get from satellite radio? This fall,...

Coming this month: Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and more.
September 6, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Takiff A slew of superstar projects top September's album release pile, with vital new work from the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Tracy Chapman, Bonnie Raitt, Barbra Streisand, Burning Spear, Echo & The Bunnymen,...

His sperm count's gone to pot.
September 6, 2005... Byline: Steve and Mia Q: Do you happen to know if there is a food out there to eat that increases the count of sperm? I ask this 'cause in the past I have smoked pot. Not like a spruce-size tree, but I would say a good amount. Anyway,...

Dozens of jobs available in Philadelphia for teachers.
September 6, 2005... Byline: Mensah M. Dean Sep. 6--When Philadelphia's 185,000 public school students begin the new school year today, some won't be able to meet their new teachers. That's because 114 teacher vacancies had not been filled as of...

Aussie world champ overcomes `nasty' assault.
September 7, 2005... Byline: Bernard Fernandez PHILADELPHIA _ As a two-time Australia Olympian and nine-year professional, IBF super featherweight champion Robbie Peden is familiar with the referee's prefight instruction to boxers that they should protect...

Owens seems to imply he finally will talk to McNabb.
September 7, 2005... Byline: Les Bowen PHILADELPHIA _ Terrell Owens seems to be planning some sort of made-for-TV reconciliation with his quarterback, Donovan McNabb. That was the most obvious inference Tuesday night when Owens spoke publicly for the first...

Eagles must beat history, too, in attempt to reach Super Bowl.
September 7, 2005... Byline: Rich Hofmann PHILADELPHIA _ We will begin this annual exercise in futility _ trying to predict the Eagles' season _ with two questions. First, are they better than they were last season, when they won 13 games _ it might have...

Report: Chaney, Martelli reconcile differences following `Goongate'.
September 7, 2005... Byline: Dick Jerardi and Mike Kern PHILADELPHIA _ The peace treaty was signed Wednesday afternoon near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Chaney-Martelli War is over. Temple basketball coach John Chaney and Saint Joseph's coach Phil...

This time, the Falcons get the Eagles at home.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Paul Domowitch FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. _ The last time the Atlanta Falcons played a football game that counted, they were pummeled by the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship Game, 27-10. Now, here they are eight months...

If Texas loses to Ohio State, Longhorns must beat Oklahoma or else.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Mike Kern PHILADELPHIA _ This is Mack Brown's eighth season as the Texas head coach. Before he arrived, the Longhorns had not finished in the Top 10 since 1983, or in the Top 10 in consecutive years since 1978. Now, they've won...

Philadelphia Daily News John M. Baer column.
September 8, 2005... Byline: John M. Baer Sep. 8--Well, it's quite a summer, eh? What with the ongoing disaster in Iraq, the local disaster called our Legislature and the natural disaster in New Orleans, there's plenty to opine about. And, as is the...

Philadelphia Gas Works' LNG storage plan opposed.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Regina Medina Sep. 8--It was standing-room-only last night at the Bridesburg Recreation Center as more than 200 residents turned out to express their displeasure -- and anger -- at a proposal to build a terminal on the Delaware...

Two mothers awarded $7.4 M; VA hospital 'negligent'.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Jim Smith Sep. 8--Camille DeJesus watched in horror in 1999 as her husband, a mentally ill Navy veteran, burst into her Media apartment and shot a neighbor's 16-year old son. Fleeing from the apartment, she heard gunshots that...

Philadelphia Daily News Plugged In column.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Takiff Sep. 8--THE GIZMOS: Back-to-school electronics. A recent marketing study found that parents and students planned to spend about a third less on electronics for the back-to-school season than they did last year....

Almost time for the managers' merry-go-round to start turning.
September 9, 2005... Byline: Paul Hagen PHILADELPHIA _ Well, it's certainly shaping up as an interesting winter for free agents. And, no, we're not talking about players, although the talent pool could be headlined by big names like Billy Wagner, Johnny...

Owens leaves us confused after recent comments.
September 9, 2005... Byline: Sam Donnellon PHILADELPHIA _ I'd like to maybe commend Terrell Owens, maybe not, for his sort-of apology the other day. I think, maybe, that this is what sports kind of needs more of. More sort of standup guys who kind of see...

Saints' plight a factor among Fantasy league players.
September 9, 2005... Byline: Ed Barkowitz PHILADELPHIA _ As the Gulf Coast flood waters, thankfully, continue to drain, life rolls on. And while Mother Nature has touched sports before, the impact Hurricane Katrina has had _ and will continue to have _ on the...

With high drama all around him, McNabb carries heavy burden.
September 9, 2005... Byline: Rich Hofmann PHILADELPHIA _ Another day in a busy, interesting life. Donovan McNabb, Take 2005. Tired of being reduced to the role of a prop in Terrell Owens' own personal stage play, McNabb on Thursday couldn't even...

Chiefs' Peterson not expecting Vermeil back for 2006.
September 9, 2005... Byline: Paul Domowitch PHILADELPHIA _ When the 2006 NFL season gets under way in 12 months, Kansas City Chiefs president Carl Peterson fully expects his head coach and longtime friend, Dick Vermeil, to be observing it from the porch of his...

Time for that spirit to take Owens to new level.
September 9, 2005... Byline: John Smallwood PHILADELPHIA _ I'm still a little dumbfounded about what set Terrell Owens off against Donovan McNabb, but if the Eagles' electric receiver is truly ready to mend fences with his quarterback, as he told Michael Irvin...

With prime time coming, it's time for Owens to run a fade pattern.
September 11, 2005... Byline: Rich Hofmann PHILADELPHIA _ Almost undiscussed last year _ and, yes, it is hard to believe that anything about Terrell Owens and the Eagles was not overdiscussed, but there you are _ was the fact that teams began to find a way to...

Reid's job tougher because of Super Bowl aspirations, offseason.
September 11, 2005... Byline: Les Bowen PHILADELPHIA _ Andy Reid lost a lot of weight this offseason, but it wasn't from worry over the soap-opera headlines his team was generating. The Eagles' coach has dropped more than 40 pounds, he said recently,...

Nolan appears to have Niners on the way up.
September 11, 2005... Byline: Sam Donnellon SAN FRANCISCO _ Their fans walk the parking lots and perimeters of this old place wearing the jerseys of names long gone, crimson-colored ghosts in search of a life they had grown accustomed to, a life of postseason...

Lower prices arrive for high-tech gadgets.
September 12, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Takiff THE GIZMOS: Back-to-school electronics. A recent marketing study found that parents and students planned to spend about a third less on electronics for the back-to-school season than they did last year. While...

Owens, McNabb Connection still not right.
September 13, 2005... Byline: John Smallwood ATLANTA _ Now that Donovan McNabb is off the list, I wonder whether Jeremiah Trotter now will be on Terrell Owens' persona-non-grata list. The pregame of Monday night's contest between the Eagles and Atlanta...

First-date roses: Nice gesture or creepsville?
September 13, 2005... Byline: Steve and Mia Q: I recently went out on a first date, and the man came to my door with a dozen roses. I was surprised and pleased at first, but the more I thought about it, it began creeping me out. Shouldn't a gesture like this be...

Philadelphia International Airport officials target delays.
September 13, 2005... Byline: Bob Warner Sep. 13--Officials at Philadelphia International Airport and the Federal Aviation Administration are ready to unveil their proposals to ease airport congestion and reduce flight delays. But air travelers beware: The...

Philadelphia Daily News John M. Baer column.
September 13, 2005... Byline: John M. Baer Sep. 13--Call it a case of udder nonsense. House Speaker John Perzel, defending the Legislature's grotesque pay grab, says he and his ilk deserve more because migrant cow milkers in Lancaster County earn up to...

Philadelphia's Divine Lorraine Hotel sold again.
September 13, 2005... Byline: Earni Young Sep. 13--The Divine Lorraine Hotel, the grand dame of North Broad Street, is being sold for the third time in five years to yet another investment group with big plans. The soon-to-be new owner is a joint-venture...

Feds: Bucks County, Pa., pharmacy sold illegal diet pills online.
September 13, 2005... Byline: Jim Smith Sep. 13--Federal prosecutors contend that a small pharmacy in Bucks County illegally sold more than $13 million worth of diet drugs to Internet customers over a recent 19-month period. Agents with the U.S. Drug...

CORRECTION: Feds: Bucks County, Pa., pharmacy sold illegal diet pills online.
September 13, 2005... Byline: Jim Smith Sep. 13--The story slugged PD-INTERNET-PHARMACY, filed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News for Sep. 13, incorrectly reported ties between a hair and nail salon in Infinity Plaza in Feasterville and Budget Pharmacy next...

Jones' stellar play helps Braves over major hurdles.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Paul Hagen PHILADELPHIA _ Andruw Jones won his seventh straight Gold Glove last season. The centerfielder played in more than 150 games for the eighth consecutive time and hit 29 homers, drove in 91 runs and helped the Braves win...

Raheem denies Morales a miracle win in upset.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Bernard Fernandez PHILADELPHIA _ North Philadelphia's Zahir Raheem was to have played the role of sacrificial lamb to megastar Erik Morales on Saturday night at Los Angeles' Staples Center. Instead, Raheem _ a 10-1 underdog...

Terrell Owens is old news in Bay Area.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Sam Donnellon SAN FRANCISCO _ They have gone underground. Apparently, some Terrell Owens jerseys still exist around here. There are still some garnet-garnished 81s buried deep in the clothes drawers of this city, taken out only...

Suffering goes on beyond the klieg lights of catastrophe.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Carol Towarnicky In the week that Hurricane Katrina engulfed the Gulf Coast, pediatrician Deborah Frank examined a 2-year-old girl who weighed only 21 pounds. (That's the normal weight of a 1-year-old.) When Frank asked if the...

If McNabb is in pain, then he shouldn't play against 49ers.
September 14, 2005... Byline: John Smallwood PHILADELPHIA _ If it were left up to Donovan McNabb, there would be no doubt about his status for Sunday's home opener against the San Francisco 49ers. "I will be in the game on Sunday," McNabb said Wednesday...

Pennsylvania, utility energized by deal.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Chris Brennan Sep. 14--Peco Energy Co. cleared a major hurdle of public opposition yesterday in its courtship with New Jersey's Public Service Enterprise Group. But if the utility merger succeeds, Peco could still face a...

Florida brings Urban renewal to rivalry with Tennessee.
September 15, 2005... Byline: Mike Kern PHILADELPHIA _ There was a time when Florida owned Tennessee. Or, more to the point, Steve Spurrier owned Phillip Fulmer. Just ask Peyton Manning. That changed in 1998, when the Vols won a national title, two years...

Philadelphia Daily News John M. Baer column.
September 15, 2005... Byline: John M. Baer Sep. 15--President Bush finally speaks to the nation tonight on Hurricane Katrina. Here's what I'd like to hear. "My fellow Americans: "First, let me say I'm sorry. I'm sorry the government you pay to protect...

Swing-set maker pays $275G to settle bias claims.
September 15, 2005... Byline: Jim Smith Sep. 15--Creative Playthings' owner, Donald E. Hoffman, was aghast when he saw two black employees who install his wooden swing sets walk into one of his many retail stores wearing stocking head coverings, long coats and...

Eagles must pay $10M in skybox revenue to city.
September 15, 2005... Byline: Dave Davies Sep. 15--When the Philadelphia Eagles were in financial trouble 20 years ago under owner Leonard Tose, city taxpayers helped the team by building skyboxes at Veterans Stadium and letting the Eagles keep all rental...

Customers mourn death of Philadelphia keymaker.
September 15, 2005... Byline: Jill Porter Sep. 15--The tiny key shop on 13th Street near Chestnut is boarded up now, but the people keep coming. The locksmith who labored here for so many years died suddenly last week. So the customers visit not to buy keys...

Philadelphia Daily News Plugged In column.
September 15, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Takiff Sep. 15--THE GIZMO: iPod-ready receivers; high-def DVD on pause; Katrina makes waves. IPOD ANTICS: Just two days after Apple unveiled its tiny iPod Nano player and iTunes-ready Motorola/Cingular ROKR mobile...

Philadelphia schools let parents use Internet to track kids.
September 15, 2005... Byline: Mensah M. Dean Sep. 15--The Philadelphia School District, which in the 1990s could not figure out how to supply all of its students with required textbooks, has now graduated to cyberspace. Starting this month, parents will be...

Philadelphia transit authority ends deal with free newspaper.
September 15, 2005... Byline: Dan Geringer Sep. 15--The five-year marriage between SEPTA and the free Metro tabloid it has distributed since January 2000, is ending in divorce Sept. 30. Last month, Metro agreed to pay SEPTA a lump sum of $1.8 million to...

What happened to the Phillies' fans, and other notes.
September 16, 2005... Byline: Paul Hagen PHILADELPHIA _ During the final homestand of the season in a couple weeks, the Phillies' owners will gather for their quarterly meeting. From all accounts, although few really know because the proceedings are veiled...

Packers' offensive woes cause Fantasy players to rethink, retool.
September 16, 2005... Byline: Ed Barkowitz PHILADELPHIA _ At the risk of hitting the panic button too early, fantasy players owning Green Bay players should be worried about the Packers' offense, which is in trouble. Seeing Javon Walker go down for the...

McNabb, even with a $115-million contract, could be underpaid.
September 16, 2005... Byline: Paul Domowitch PHILADELPHIA _ The list of Eagles players lobbying for pay raises is sizable. There are Terrell Owens and Brian Westbrook, of course, and David Akers and Hollis Thomas and Tra Thomas. If I missed anybody, please...

Philadelphia Daily News John M. Baer column.
September 16, 2005... Byline: John M. Baer Sep. 16--Well, well, well. Looks like your Legislature's drawing some attention. The usually somnambulant electorate of this usually status-quo state seems a tad stirred, maybe even exercised. Could we be...

Pennsylvania politicians Rendell, Santorum lag in new poll.
September 16, 2005... Byline: Dave Davies Sep. 16--The voters are restless. The latest Daily News/CN8 Keystone Poll finds Pennsylvanians economically stressed and angry about legislative pay raises, resulting in weak numbers for Gov. Rendell and U.S. Sen....

Philadelphia tech school raided in financial aid row.
September 16, 2005... Byline: Kitty Caparella Sep. 16--Amanda Vitali, 23, and 20 classmates were undergoing training for CPR yesterday when they learned their Center City school, Harrison Career Institute, might need CPR of its own. Yesterday, agents from...

Gov. Rendell pushing property-tax relief.
September 17, 2005... Byline: Chris Brennan Sep. 17--Gov. Rendell yesterday tried to revive a key component of his successful 2002 run for state office -- property tax relief. First question: Will the Republican-controlled General Assembly want to help him...

Sources detail alleged pre-crash hours of Philadelphia restaurateur.
September 18, 2005... Byline: Theresa Conroy Sep. 18--When Susanna Goihman allegedly struck and killed Kayla Peter, she was driving from a get-together with a married Manayunk restaurateur, sources said. Goihman's friend, Alberto Delbello, is the owner of...

The Chef's Table: Snails.
September 19, 2005... Byline: Jim Coleman and Candace Hagan Q: Help! My French mother-in-law is coming to the States and I'd like to impress her with her favorite food item _ snails. Where can I get snails, is there anything I need to do after I buy them, and...

The latest on iPod accessories and high-def discs.
September 19, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Takiff THE GIZMO: iPod-ready receivers; high-def DVD on pause; Katrina makes waves. IPOD ANTICS: Just two days after Apple unveiled its tiny iPod Nano player and iTunes-ready Motorola/Cingular ROKR mobile phone to much...

Philadelphia Daily News John M. Baer column.
September 19, 2005... Byline: John M. Baer Sep. 19--As state senators return to Harrisburg today for the first time since their dead-of-the-night pay grab back in July, they'll be greeted by a 25-foot, inflated pink pig behind the Capitol. The pig's...

South Philadelphia's gasoline costs highest in Mid-Atlantic region.
September 19, 2005... Byline: Scott Flander Sep. 19--South Philly is getting hosed. Big time. Gas prices in the land of oil refineries, cheesesteaks and water ice are higher than in any other neighborhood of the city, according to a Daily News analysis...

For young doc, Internet drug case 'is a nightmare'.
September 19, 2005... Byline: Jim Smith Sep. 19--Life had been good to Akhil Bansal. Son of a wealthy medical doctor in India, he, too, became a physician, hoping to care for patients in his native land. Well-educated, bright, refined, polite and...

PGW plans to spend $5M of ratepayers' money on LNG plan.
September 19, 2005... Byline: Ramona Smith Sep. 19--Philadelphia's hard-pressed gas-heat customers could be stuck with millions in expenses if PGW's plan to import liquefied natural gas fails to get off the ground, utility watchdogs warn. The city-owned...

She's worried about his genes.
September 20, 2005... Byline: Steve and Mia Q: I've been dating this really great guy for almost a year now. We love each other and I definitely see a future with him. But I have one concern. He recently told me that his father, grandmother and an uncle all...

Whole Foods considering move for first Philadelphia store.
September 20, 2005... Byline: Earni Young Sep. 20--Whole Foods Market is eyeing greener pastures for its first Center City store at 20th and Callowhill streets. David Grasso, president and CEO of Metro Development, confirmed that he is negotiating with...

Philadelphia jury seated for retrial of rap star.
September 20, 2005... Byline: Theresa Conroy Sep. 20--Jury selection -- conducted behind closed doors -- began yesterday in the attempted murder retrial of rap star Beanie Sigel. By the end of the day, 10 jurors had been chosen for the case, which is...

Braves chasing their own ghosts of winning.
September 20, 2005... Byline: Sam Donnellon PHILADELPHIA _ He passes like a friendly old ghost through the familiar clubhouse with the unfamiliar names, the incarnate symbol of this team whose time should be long past, but somehow isn't. The spirited golf...

A very tragic turn for a new boxing champion.
September 20, 2005... Byline: Bernard Fernandez PHILADELPHIA _ Leavander Johnson never appeared at the Blue Horizon, but the career of the Atlantic City lightweight bears the gritty imprimatur of a lot of fighters who year after year pay their dues in boxing's...

In Q & A, new 76ers coach Cheeks expects much from his team.
September 20, 2005... Byline: Phil Jasner PHILADELPHIA _ Maurice Cheeks first came to the 76ers in 1978, as a somewhat obscure point guard from a West Texas State team that neither ran nor won very much. He came back again in 1994, as an assistant coach who had...

Steward touting Ukraine's Klitschko in nonstop fashion.
September 21, 2005... Byline: Bernard Fernandez PHILADELPHIA _ Samuel Peter is not known as the "Nigerian Nightmare" because his heavily accented English is difficult for the untrained ear to understand. But he is not a fount of quotes and sound bites for media...

Five things to watch for at Presidents Cup.
September 21, 2005... Byline: Mike Kern PHILADELPHIA _ The Presidents Cup isn't the Ryder Cup. At most, it's a somewhat reasonable facsimile. That's not a knock at the Presidents Cup. It's just reality. The Ryder Cup has been around for eight decades. The...