Clik here to view.
How to Be a New York Soccer Fan In Salt Lake City -- 2017 Edition
The New York Red Bulls do not visit the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah, to take on Real Salt Lake this season, but New York City FC do, next Wednesday night.Note that they can call themselves "Real"...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Go to a New Jersey Jackals Game
With the folding of the new Newark Bears after the 2013 season, and with the Sussex County Miners being so far up in the boonies that they might as well be in the Catskill Mountains of New York or the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yankees Close Roadtrip With Loss to Reds
The Yankees couldn't quite complete the sweep of their 5-game Interleague roadtrip through the Midwest. On Tuesday night, against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park, the Yankees scored...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top 10 Athletes From Minnesota
May 11, 1858: Minnesota gains admission to the Union as the 32nd State.Top 10 Athletes from MinnesotaMinnesota's home teams, particularly the University of Minnesota, are very well represented...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Slump Alert: Once-Streaking Yankees Have Lost 2 Straight
A 2-game losing streak. Compared to their 20-6 run, the Yankees are now in a slump.Michael Pineda started last night, in the opener of a 4-game home series against the Houston Astros -- the teams with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Yankee Fan's Guide to the Galaxy: Don't Panic!
In Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy series of science fiction novels, the eponymous book-within-the-books has a cover that includes the words, "DON'T PANIC!"The Yankees started out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yanks Come Back to Beat Astros; Steve Palermo, 1949-2017
The Yankees needed to start hitting again. But that doesn't make much difference if you don't get good pitching.As Richie Ashburn, the Philadelphia Phillies' Hall of Fame center fielder turned...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yankees' Performances On Player "Days," 1924-2017
May 14, 1924: Babe Ruth Day. Honored with gifts. No number to retire yet. The Yankees lost to the St. Louis Browns 11-1. No home runs. Attendance: Listed as 25,000, which may be an estimate.May 30,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Derek Jeter Night Tarnished By an Actual Game
Legend has it that, in 1964, long before the Internet made such things easy to find out, the Mets played an afternoon game at Wrigley Field, and beat the Cubs 19-1. A guy was working during the day...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rethinking Monument Park
In the wake of Derek Jeter Night, the argument has been made again: The Yankees have "devalued" the retirements of uniform numbers and Monument Park.There is a point to be made. After all, there are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yale Lary, 1930-2017
A football legend has left us. And, because his best years were before the days of the NFL's saturation of television, and because he retired before the 1st Super Bowl was played, you might never have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Homers Back CC, Yanks Crown Royals
Last night, the Yankees began a 3-game series in Kansas City against the Royals. CC Sabathia started. He'd begun the season with 4 straight good starts, but had since followed them with 4 bad ones. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shouldn't Have Been a Save Situation
The Kansas City Royals have fallen way off from their back-to-back Pennant winners of 2014-15. Their fans might have expected a new era of dominance, but it just didn't happen.The Yankees, on the other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Did A-Rod Jinx Yanx Last Night?
As Kansas City native -- in fact, that's how he got his nickname: "Kansas City" became "K.C.," and that became "Casey" -- Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel said, "The Yankees don't pay me to win every...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A "Football" Fan's Guide to New York -- 2017 Edition
This Summer, there will be 3 "friendlies" -- what soccer fans call exhibition games -- featuring legendary teams in the New York Tri-State Area. The schedule is as follows:* June 1, Thursday, 8:00 PM,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thomson Reads Girardi's Binder, Screws Up Exactly Like Girardi Would've
Last night, the Yankees started a 3-game weekend series against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.Manager Joe Girardi was absent, attending his daughter's high school...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tanaka, Rothschild and Girardi Don't Stay Long, Yanks Lose
On Friday night, Joe Girardi missed the Yankees' game away to the Tampa Bay Rays because he was attending his daughter's high school graduation.Yesterday, he was on hand, but didn't see the whole game...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Yankees' 27 Percent Solution
The Yankees were looking to avoid a rather ignominious sweep by the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field yesterday afternoon. They did.As you know, Bob, Joe Girardi is terrified of his starting pitchers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Visit the Baseball Hall of Fame
Nice skyline, huh?In 1939, the Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York. So did Doubleday Field, a small ballpark, supposedly on the site of baseball's invention. As part of the Hall's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cortez Kennedy, 1968-2017
Sir Roger Moore died today, the 1st James Bond I ever saw. But he was 89, so that's not particularly surprising.But Cortez Kennedy? Wow.Cortez C. Kennedy (I don't have a record of what the C. stood...
View Article