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Steinbrenner Tributes: Honoring a Winner -- or the Ruthless Pursuit of Winning?
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics DailyWhen the media coverage of George Steinbrenner's death began last week, I had to shield my eyes from all the blustery tributes that glorified the contentious "lion" who changed the game of baseball forever. The Yankees are my team, and New York is my city. My heart surges with pride when we win. I am reliably grumpy when we don't. If happiness is rooting for a sports team that occasionally doesn't disappoint you, George Steinbrenner has contributed undeniably to my personal satisfaction. But he doesn't merit this posthumous adulation, which continued over the weekend with coverage of ...
Baseball and Knitting a Hot Double-Play Combo
By David Moye - AOL News(April 19) -- Considering the controversy over baseball players injecting steroids with needles, it's ironic if needles are the very things bringing people back to the ballpark. Especially sewing needles. www.meredithknitting.com Astrophysicist Meredith Wills-Davey spent the 2007 season knitting socks dedicated to her beloved Colorado Rockies. Those socks are now part of the Baseball Hall of Fame's permanent collection. But, believe it or not, the old-fashioned sewing circle is being replaced with a baseball diamond, thanks to a partnership between The National Needlearts Association and ...
A-Rod's 500th Home Run Ball Sells for Over $100K
By Anthony Olivieri - AOL NewsAlex Rodriguez's 500th home run ball sold for $103,579 to an anonymous bidder after an online auction ended Thursday night. It was a modest sum considering that, according to the New York Daily News, Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th career home run ball was sold for $752,467 in 2007. Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball, which set a new single-season record in 1998, sold for $3 million -- the highest price ever for a milestone baseball. The Daily News pointed out that the memorabilia produced by McGwire fetched such an exorbitant sum because it hit the market before the widespread use of ...
Mark Sanchez Ignores Girardi, Hurts Knee, Angers Rex Ryan
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsTORONTO -- So they go to all this trouble to bring in a very famous outside instructor to help you learn how to slide -- for your own protection, mind you. And the first chance you get to put the lessons into practice, what do you do? You dive head-first, hurt your knee and have to come out of the game. Mark Sanchez, you are in the doghouse. "He's got to understand that it's in the organization's best interest to slide," Jets coach Rex Ryan said of his rookie quarterback, who left Thursday night's 19-13 victory over the Bills with an injured right knee that's now bound for an MRI tube. "I love ...
Yankees' Blueprint a Lesson for Al Davis
By Nancy Gay - AOL NewsThe Boss, the one who rules Major League Baseball, wasn't in New York Wednesday night as the Yankees celebrated their 27th World Series title with a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. But George Steinbrenner, 79 -- still the architect of champions and the titan of New York sports -- was watching from his home in Tampa. Every out. Every pitch. Every player celebration. Steinbrenner could see and hear his players express their gratitude, and his family said he was overcome with joy. "Thank you. Thank you for everything," Yankees catcher Jorge Posada told the owner through a camera ...
Paperless Wall Street Gets Ticker Tape Bailout
By Buck Wolf - AOL NewsNew York (Nov. 5) -- Add this to the many problems confronting Wall Street: There's no ticker tape for a ticker tape parade -- and a shortage of open windows. When the New York Yankees locked down their 27th World Championship Wednesday night, plans were already under way for a victory parade through lower Manhattan's Canyon of Heroes. Unfortunately, traders can't just lean out the windows and toss ticker tape, as they did when Mickey Mantle was leading the Bronx Bombers. So, while Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez were dousing themselves in champagne, the Alliance for Downtown New York, lower ...
Football, Baseball and Brotherly Love - Philadelphia Is Sports Heaven
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsPHILADELPHIA -- Mike Alvarez is a lifelong Philadelphian with a Cole Hamels haircut and a vintage maroon Phillies cap who spent his Sunday in a parking lot. Alvarez didn't have tickets to the Eagles-Giants game in the afternoon. He didn't have tickets to the Phillies-Yankees World Series game at night. What he did have was a parking space for his truck, a seemingly bottomless supply of beer and enough slightly slurred wisdom to know that there was no place he would have rather been than this particular parking lot on this particular day, surrounded by his fellow Eagles and Phillies fans."They ...
Wings on Pigs, Icicles in Hell, A-Rod a World Series Hero ... Yet Again
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsPHILADELPHIA -- If the Phillies were trying to get into Alex Rodriguez's head by hitting him with pitches, they're going to need to find another tactic, and fast. Something very strange has happened here in late 2009, and the inside of that particular head is no longer the mushy, insecure, vulnerable place it once was. Matter of fact, when Cole Hamels hit Rodriguez with a pitch in the second inning on Halloween night, the Yankees' All-Star third baseman and would-be centaur says, it had the opposite effect. "Kind of woke me up a little bit," Rodriguez said early Monday morning, after his ...
The Contest in New Jersey: Yankees vs. the Phillies
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyTaking a momentary break from Corzine-Christie-Daggett, let's get to a polling question that counts: In New Jersey, which is overlapped by the New York and Philadelphia media markets, who are residents rooting for in the World Series, the Yankees or Phillies? ...
UFL Debuts in NYC Area, Competes with World Series
By Anthony Olivieri - AOL NewsThe UFL will debut in New York City's metropolitan area Thursday, though it's unclear who will notice.The New York Sentinels (0-2) are set to play their first home game this season, when they host the California Redwoods (1-2) at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey (7 PM ET). The contest will be played while the New York Yankees take on the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 2 of the World Series just a few miles away at Yankee Stadium (7:57 p.m. ET).The UFL has had problems drawing fans on normal nights, without the stiff competition of a highly-anticipated World Series, pitting the ...
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