July 24, 2005
SQUEEZE PLAY - VITAMINWATER, MARKETERS ATTACKING OJ
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amO.J. is getting hit with a bad rap again. The popular breakfast drink, which still hasn't recovered from sales lost three years ago when the Atkins diet craze was at...
COX CABLE: LET'S MAKE A $3B DEAL
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amCox Communications is expected to meet this week with private equity firms to talk about the sale of some 900,000 accounts, The Post has learned. The cable company's deal is...
REALITY CHECK - 'SURVIVOR'WHIZ'S NEW SHOWS FADE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00am"Rock Star: INXS" is that rare television show: so spectacularly awful that watching it has become a cultural imperative. The Mark Burnett-produced program has pulled in an average audience of...
MPAA CHIEF'S BAD REVIEW - GLICKMAN HAS ROCKY 1ST YEAR AT TOP OF MOVIE GROUP
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amDAN Glickman's first year as head of the powerful Motion Picture Association of America has been so rocky that some of the Hollywood executives who hired the former Clinton administration...
RETAILERS SINGIN' THE BLUES OVER DENIM GLUT
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amRetailers' hopes of a profitable back-to-school shopping season are being crushed under a denim deluge. More than 2 billion pairs of denim pants, skirts and other items in a mind-numbing...
REALITY ON TRIAL - "LAW FIRM" MIXES ELEMENTS OF "PRACTICE" AND "ALLY"
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amIF a trial involving a three-legged dog sounds like something out of a David E.Kelley legal drama,then there 's a good reason for that. This particular canine triped is a...
REALLY BIG SHOW - 'LAGUNA BEACH' - SURF, SAND AND BACKSTABBING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amNOTHING says summertime TV like a show featuring gorgeous beach locales,pretty rich kids,high school relationship drama-rama and clueless parents. Although we 're months away from the return of Fox 's...
'WEEDS ' PUTS SHOWTIME AHEAD OF HBO
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amSHOWTIME 'S moment has arrived.The pay-cable channel that has long played second fiddle to HBO is about to introduce a new comedy series that is far better than anything HBO...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA young women from the midwest learns a lesson about life and love in "The Dive From Clausen 's Pier." Carrie Beal yearns to dump her childhood sweetheart,Mike,and gets the...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK 'S BEST MOVIES
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amNOW VOYAGER (1942) Sunday, noon, TCM The ultimate Bette Davis soap.Spinster Charlotte Vale goes into therapy and meets Jerry,a married man (Paul Henried).When she tells her nasty mother about the...
LOCAL ANCHORS MOCK SPORTS ANCHORS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA RECENT trip to South Carolina solidified a long-held notion:It may have begun here,but it 's no longer just here;it 's everywhere.Local TV news anchors are instructed to laugh at...
GRITTY IN PINK
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amIN 2003, an indie movie house in Tokyo asked director Shinozaki Ma koto if he could help fill a hole in its scheduling. Makoto got in touch with some filmmaking...
NEGATIVE RESULT OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amAMERICAN chess uses affirmative action - to encourage women to aspire to compete in the U.S. Championship. But it only works well if enough women want to play with the...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amBUT OH, THOSE SUMMER DATES HELLO,and welcome back to Meet Market!Last week,we sent Virnalisa,a 25-year-old meeting planner, and Todd,a 27-year-old human resources manager, for a romantic meal at Meli Melo,a...
THE HOT SEAT WITH HULK HOGAN
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amWRESTLING icon Hulk Hogan isn't shy about his motives for making VH1's new reality show "Hogan Knows Best." "I'm doing it to help my daughter Brooke's music career," Hogan tells...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
July 24, 2005 | 4:00am1) Geek rock Poetic, artful and moving in a very Radiohead-esque way, the new release by U.K. duo My Computer, "No CV," available as an import. 2) Apple, meet Denim...
LAST DAYS OF DESTINY - MAKING LIKE DIANA ROSS, BEYONCE BREAKS AWAY FROM DESTINY'S CHILD
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amWhile they might be following their destiny by unplugging the most popular girl group since the Supremes, Beyonce, Kelly and Michelle admit breaking up is hard to do. Especially since...
HIJINKS SOCIETY - IN 'THE ARISTOCRATS' ONE OF THE FILTHIEST JOKES IN HISTORY ISN'T ABOUT THE PUNCH LINE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Aristocrats" is one of the world's dirtiest jokes - but it's certainly not the funniest. "Everyone who hears it goes, 'What?' " says comedian Bob Saget, one of the...
REAL TO REEL SEX - BIG-SCREEN LOVE DOESN'T ALWAYS REQUIRE ACTING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amTWO actors actually have sex - a lot of it - in Michael Winterbottom's new film, "9 Songs," which opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles. This doesn't necessarily...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA Documentary on the war in Chechnya, as seen by its youngest victims. Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo takes us to a Russian military school and to...
THE UN-KURT - MICHAEL PITT'S NOT PLAYING NIRVANA'S FALLEN LEADER
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHIS is not a movie about Kurt Cobain," says Michael Pitt. The star of Gus Van Sant's new "Last Days," is slouched over a back table at Junior's restaurant in...
HEAR THIS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amIN CONCERT * At PNC Bank Arts Center: country rebel Toby Keith tonight. Duran Duran come undone on Saturday. * Indie rockers the Forecast at the Knitting Factory tomorrow. *...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amVARIOUS ARTISTS "NYC Subway: Songs From The Under-ground" 3 Stars Headset Productions AFTER one spin of this record by New York City subway buskers you can't help but wonder where...
REQUIRED READING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amBritish author Chris Cleave caused a stir - to say the least - with his debut, "Incendiary." Released in England the day of the London subway and bus bombings, it's...
WAR ON TERROR
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe group 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care raised fears yesterday that the NYPD's subway searches will not be as random as promised and will be used as a...
'RACING' HORROR IN B'KLYN
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA speeding motorist spun out of control and smashed into a van in Brooklyn yesterday morning - killing one person, seriously injuring the driver and injuring five others, police said....
BLOODY GREAT DONOR ; POL SAVES BX. CANCER KID
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx teen with leukemia yesterday met the anonymous donor who saved his life - and both vowed their new father-and-son-like relationship would last a lifetime. High-school senior Lamar Adams...
'SLAY MOM' GIVES BIRTH - MIRACLE NEWBORN
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amDoctors performed an emergency C- section on a woman shot dead as she sat outside her Brooklyn apartment - deliv ering a two-pound miracle boy 10 weeks before his due...
COPS GO TO THE SOURCE - GRILL MAG STAFFERS IN CHELSEA SHOOTING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amTwo staffers of the controversial hip-hop magazine The Source, famous for its bitter feud with rapper Eminem, were brought in for questioning by police in connection with yesterday's shooting of...
RACIAL SLAP AT NO. 1 LAW FIRM
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA fired Asian-American staffer at America's largest law firm - which frequently advises corporations on employment-law issues - says his boss refused to let minorities sit together in the Manhattan...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** A Brooklyn woman in poor mental condition has disappeared, police said yesterday. Tsaiti-hsieh Chan-ye (above), 53, of Dyker Heights, was described as 5 feet tall and 120 pounds...
PERV'S SLIMY TRAIL; N.Y. CYBER-SICKO'S SPREE OF BOY SEX EVEN SHOCKS COPS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amCops have busted a man they say is the most persistent pedophile in memory - a super-predator so obsessed with stalking teen boys that he did virtually nothing else. Pedro...
SLAIN MOM GIVES BIRTH
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amDoctors performed an emergency C-section on a woman killed by a stray bullet as she sat outside her Brooklyn apartment yesterday - delivering a two-pound miracle boy 10 weeks before...
PATCH GALS SUING; BIRTH-CONTROL DANGER
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amTen women are uniting to sue the maker of a popular birth-control patch, saying the device caused them to suffer strokes and blood clots, The Post has learned. The suit,...
'DRAG RACE' TRAGEDY IN BROOKLYN
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA speeding motorist spun out of control and smashed into a van in Brooklyn early yesterday - killing one person, seriously injuring the driver and hurting five others, police said....
DYING WIFE FINGERED HUBBY
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe dying wife of an aging real-estate mogul fingered him as her killer even as he, knife in hand, was telling cops an intruder had attacked them both in their...
COPS GO TO THE SOURCE; GRILL MAG STAFFERS IN CHELSEA SHOOTING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA high-ranking manager and another staffer of the controversial magazine The Source, famous for its bitter feud with rapper Eminem, were brought in for questioning by police in connection with...
DEAD-END SHOOTOUT ; COPS WOUND KIDNAPPER OF EX-GIRLFRIEND
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amAn abduction ended in a wild police shootout yesterday when a man who had kidnapped his ex-girlfriend shot her in the mouth, then fired at approaching cops. About 10:30 a.m.,...
COP GETS BUSTED IN OFF-DUTY SHOOTING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA city cop was arrested after he shot a man in the leg while off-duty during an argument at a downtown restaurant, police said yesterday. Bernard Marti, 31, a NYPD...
COPS TO 'BAG' IT BEYOND SUBWAYS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amRandom bag searches will be expanded to bus stations, light rail and air trains starting tomorrow - even as the NYPD hinted that the subway checks might have an expiration...
DEAD-END SHOOTOUT; COPS WOUND 'KIDNAPPER' OF EX-GIRLFRIEND
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amAn abduction ended in a wild shootout yesterday when a man who had kidnapped his ex-girlfriend shot her in the mouth, then fired at approaching cops, authorities said. About 10:30...
SERRANO SLAMS DC 37
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amREP. José Serrano is fuming that District Council 37, the largely minority municipal union, abandoned Democratic front-runner Freddy Ferrer to endorse Mayor Bloomberg. "In all honesty, I have no other...
OFF-DUTY COP BUSTED IN SALOON SHOOTING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amAn off-duty city cop was arrested after shooting a man in the leg during an argument in a downtown restaurant, police said yesterday. Bernard Marti, 31, an NYPD community-affairs officer...
JENNINGS' RIVAL EYES HOME-FIELDS ADVANTAGE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens City Council candidate running against disgraced Councilman Allan Jennings has pumped nearly $15,000 into the campaign coffers of mayoral hopeful C. Virginia Fields - and is hoping to...
TEEN BUSTED IN BUS STABBING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amTwo men were stabbed on a city bus in Brooklyn, in a scuffle with a third man, police said yesterday. Alain Gurvil, 18, allegedly stabbed the men after he bumped...
L.I. HOME INVADERS STEAL SAFE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amTwo Queens men terrified a Long Island family by busting into their home and stealing their safe, Nassau County cops said yesterday. Vijay Ramroop, 23, of Jamaica, allegedly posed as...
THE MAKING OF THE NEOCONS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHE NEOCONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION: JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND THE SHAPING OF PUBLIC POLICYBY MURRAY FRIEDMAN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 310 PAGES, $29 THEY'VE been hailed as prophets who've reshaped the American body politic...
MONDAY IS FUN DAY ; WOMEN'S SEX SURVEY REVEALS FRISKY TRUTH
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe Monday blahs have become the Monday aaaahs, according to a new survey on the sex habits of women. Seventy-seven percent of 1,515 women surveyed by Self magazine reported canoodling...
NY: BEGGING FOR FRAUD
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amNEWSFLASH: Medicaid cheats are fleecing billions from New Yorkers. In a remarkable series last week, The New York Times cited some mind-boggling numbers: As much as $18 billion a year...
KID-TRUNK PROBE COPS MUM
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amPolice officers who botched the search for three New Jersey boys who suffocated in the trunk of a car have refused to cooperate with authorities investigating the case, officials said....
'ICE' IS NICE FOR PHONE ALERTS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amFor peace of mind, put your cellphone on ICE, experts say. In Case of Emergency is a plan allowing cellphone owners to list, under the acronym ICE, the person they...
CALENDAR GALS HOT AS 'FIRE'
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe women of "The Apprentice" are going from the boardroom to the boom-boom room. In a sexy spin on their businesswoman image, a dozen fired contestants from Donald Trump's reality...
PHONE-Y REMORSE; CROWE WON'T SAY SORRY TO CONCIERGE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amRussell Crowe can chuck a phone at a cowering hotel clerk but he can't pick one up to apologize, the clerk's lawyer charges. After the infamous flying-phone incident at the...
QUESTION THE COURT; SORRY, REPUBLICANS: SEN. SCHUMER'S GOT A POINT
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amREPUBLICANS can't have it both ways. Either judges are fallible human beings, prone to substituting their own biases for sound constitutional reasoning at the clack of a gavel, or they're...
INSIDE E-DISHIN':BLOGS BLAST JOBS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amForget the company suggestion box - New Yorkers are taking their workplace woes online with personal blogs. From club bouncers to public-school teachers, frustrated workers are increasingly entering the blogosphere...
DEDICATED TO A LOST LOVE ; SLAIN ACTRESS'S HEARTBROKEN EX POURS GRIEF INTO A DOCUMENTARY NICOLE WOULD HAVE MADE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amSIX months ago this Tuesday, Jeffrey Sparks held his slain fiancée, actress Nicole duFresne, in his arms after a teenage mugger blew her away on a Lower East Side street....
CITY'S 'ARCH' FOES; GROUP SUES TO BLOCK WASH SQ. PARK PLAN
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA group of Greenwich Village activists has sued to stop the city from renovating Washington Square Park - claiming the beloved green space is being cheapened and "Disneyfied." The Emergency...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amA California mom let her 13-year-old son drive to school - and got a call from a school officer after the boy ended his 14-mile ride. "I had a headache...
JESSIE SWAG SCAM SLAM
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe Jessica Simpson scammer who snagged designer goodies by posing as the singer's assistant wanted to sell the swag on the Internet, police said yesterday. Courtney Handel, 23, had not...
SIGNS POINT HERE ; BROWN BONDS WITH ISIAH; DOLAN MEETING AHEAD
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amLarry Brown appears to be on the verge of becoming the next Knicks coach. Imminent face-to-face meetings with money man James Dolan - possibly as early as today - and...
SEVENTH SINS; BOMBER STARTERS SPENT AFTER 6 INNINGS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amANAHEIM - While GM Brian Cashman searches the baseball globe for a center fielder and a starting pitcher, don't be surprised if the Yankees acquire bullpen help before next Sunday's...
CHEAP SKATES; RANGERS HAVEN'T PAID HOLIK, DARIUS BONUSES
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amPERHAPS it's a clue that the Rangers have already decided to buy out Bobby Holik and Darius Kasparaitis, or maybe it's just Glen Sather dubiously attempting to exercise a piece...
DIVING INTO TROUBLE; HEADFIRST TO FIRST GIVES RANDOLPH WILLIES
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Willie Randolph is always holding his breath when a Met races down the first-base line and dives headfirst into the bag. He has told his players not to...
JEFFERSON'S DOWN WITH COACH BROWN
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amRichard Jefferson plays on one side of the Hudson and usually could care less about developments on the other bank. But like all working-pulse members of the basketball world, he...
SMUGGLER SMOKES 'OAKS' FIELD
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amLooking like a winner every step of the mile-and-a-quarter under a heads-up ride by Edgar Prado, the blossoming 3-year-old filly Smuggler rallied from just off the pace to score her...
JOSE SAVES DAY - REYES RESCUES MARTINEZ, METS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amMets 7Dodgers 5 The Mets did some critical things wrong yesterday afternoon, but everything came out all right - especially for Carlos Beltran. Three muffs in the field, including two...
PRADO RUNAWAY RIDING KING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Edgar Prado is runaway winner of riding title for Belmont spring-summer, leaving John Velazquez, leading rider at this meet the previous four years, in his dust. But...
DEVILS AIM TO RE-SIGN NIEDER
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amWasting no time yesterday, Devils GM Lou Lamoriello was on the phone bright and early on the first day he could try to sign unrestricted Norris Trophy holder Scott Niedermayer....
JOSE SAVES DAY ; REYES RESCUES MARTINEZ, METS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amMets 7Dodgers 5 The Mets did some critical things wrong yesterday afternoon, but everything came out all right - especially for Carlos Beltran. Three fielding muffs due to the always...
SWING AND A MISS ; FLAKY OF WILLIAMS LATE FOR BATTING PRACTICE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Gerald Williams was a no-show for batting practice before yesterday's game, but Mets manager Willie Randolph said his reserve outfielder showed up "way before game time" and would...
AMAZIN' REYES IS METS' ART AND SOUL
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amHE is baseball's young Picasso, a surge of imaginative colors on a diamond canvas. To watch Jose Reyes play the game is fascinating. There is brilliance - or, sometimes, brilliant...
PEDRO GETS 'W' ... AND 'A' FOR EFFORT
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amWe've seen Pedro Martinez make it look easy, seen him put down enemy batters like a firing squad, and we've seen him paint masterpieces on the mound with relative ease....
YOU DON'T SAY! NATIONAL VOICES MISS KEY POINTS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amREAL-DEAL sports fans are very impressionable. All that's needed for a TV or radio announcer to be branded a fraud is one play. One play, and it's over; the play-by-player...
BAD NEWS ANGELS - VLAD SQUAD HANDS YANKS THIRD STRAIGHT LOSS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amAngels 8Yankees 6 ANAHEIM - The question in the UPS TV commercial asks, "What Can Brown Do For You?" When applied to the Yankees and pitcher Kevin Brown, the response...
BLASTS FROM THE POST - A LOOK BACK AT GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTS: JULY 24-30
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amROSE THRILLS SHEA AS STREAK HITS 38 JULY 25, 1978 In 1941, Joe DiMaggio batted safely in 56 consecutive games. In 1941, Pete Rose was born. "Fifty-six? I'm not worried...
TAKE A PAGE FROM THE BOOK OF JOE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amSINCE we worship JoeTorre in this town (most of us, anyway), we're going to use one of his main philosophies: the hot bat. Torre loves the hot bat, no matter...
SPENT U.S.CAN GRAB GOLD CUP
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amSo far during this march toward the Gold Cup, the U.S. has lost four players and its head coach. The punishment has been so severe that coach Bruce Arena -...
PASSIONATE PEDRO LEADS BY EXAMPLE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amREMEMBER all the whining when Pedro Martinez took a step back from the All-Star Game? Critics were howling because Martinez was dissing the All-Star Game by not going to Detroit....
BUSCH READY FOR ANYTHING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amLONG POND, Pa. - Here we go again. NASCAR returns to Pocono Raceway today for the Pennsylvania 500, a race and track known for its unpredictability. It's a grueling test...
RANGER TICKET GIVEAWAY TOMORROW
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe Rangers will hold a fan festival at the Madison Square Garden box office tomorrow from noon to 2 p.m. The first 1,000 fans in attendance will receive a voucher...
OOH, THAT SMELL
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amIT SHOULD be obvious, but we'll point it out anyway. It just a coincidence that on the very day it gained its payroll cap and maximum player salary, the NHL...
JUST WINN, BABY .... CROSBY UNFAZED BY THE SCUTTLEBUTT
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM -While Randy Winn may not be the perfect upgrade in center, the Yankees are monitoring the Mariners' plans for their current left fielder. And the Mariners are...
MAJOR HIT - SINCE REACHING THE BIGS, CANO'S ANSWERED CALL
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - Robinson Cano is the leading candidate for AL Rookie of the Year honors, but he is also fast developing into something else for the Yankees: savior....
HEAD TO HEAD - BANISHING BERNIE
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amPost columnist Kevin Kernan and baseball writer Michael Morrissey slug it out over whether Yanks are right to bench Bernie Williams in favor of any Tom, Dick and Melky they...
SHUT UP & DEAL: BIG-NAME PROPOSALS FOR TRIGGER-HAPPY GMS
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amONE week until the trade deadline. Now we will finally see executives reveal their true intentions rather than demanding Albert Pujols in exchange for a sixth-inning reliever. Prices will fall,...
MINAYA HAS HIS EYE ON MANNY
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amRival executives say Omar Minaya is obsessed to find the Mets a power bat at first or right field either in this trade market or in the offseason. Paul Konerko...
5 KEYS TO GIANTS TRAINING CAMP
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amALL ABOUT ALBANY WHEN: Players report Friday, July 29. First practice Saturday, July 30. Giants break camp Aug 24. WHERE: University at Albany SCHEDULE: Two practices: 9-10:40 a.m. and 3:40-5:10...
5 KEYS TO JETS TRAINING CAMP
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amChad Pennington, who serves as the top key issue/question mark entering the Jets' 2005 season, is as sure about his recovery from offseason surgery on the rotator cuff in his...
IN LIVING COLOR - WILLIE MAKING NEGRO LEAGUE LEGEND O'NEIL PROUD
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amSOMETIMES, if a man lives long enough, he gets to see real change in his world. Sometimes, if he talks enough, pushes enough, tells enough stories and makes enough people...
HOW TO ROLL IN DOUGH AT SPA - SECRETS OF STRIKING IT RICH AT SARATOGA
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amSaratoga rides to the rescue this Wednesday, and not a moment too soon. After seven months of sub-par racing downstate, it's Christmas in July for New York horseplayers when the...
'TOMORROW ISN'T PROMISED' - ST. FRANCIS' DANTZLER CHERISHING HIS CHANCE TO RETURN AFTER SHOOTING
July 24, 2005 | 4:00amIt didn't take long after he heard shots fired for Sean Dantzler to realize that his life had changed. "I knew right away I got hit," Dantzler said. "And a...