Tag Archive | New York Yankees

$5 Million in 140 Characters

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Shaquille O'Neal, Tony Hawk, and other professional athletes are finding that Twitter is a cash register filled with sponsors. All they need to do is tell their fans, in 140 characters or less, to buy Oreos, pick up their Madden video game, or go to a nightclub.

Don’t Pay Attention to the Gold Gloves

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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Baseball may be over, but awards season is just getting started. As pundits across the web analyze this year's Gold Glove winners, author Michael Humphreys offers a new and more accurate way to rate fielders.

Secrets of a Major League Umpire

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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With the MLB postseason on the horizon, veteran signal caller Gerry Davis talks about playoff protocol, Paul O'Neill's crankiness, and why Willie Mays isn't so great after all.

Is This Man Too Smart for Baseball?

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Buck Showalter has an obsessive mind for the game. That’s been both his greatest strength — and his undoing.

The Golden Age of Sports Spats

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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Athletes have always feuded, but thanks in part to nifty new social-networking media, the amusement factor has reached record heights. MATT TAIBBI on his seven favorite tiffs.

Your Perfect Weekend, June 18-20

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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This Father's Day root, root, root for the home team in New York City, ride horses and line-dance upstate, kick off summer with one last ski in Utah; or sip wine in a California valley. We've got a little bit of everything for every Dad.

Nine Guys I Don’t Hate

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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There’s no shortage of athletes easy to despise. (Preening, overpaid, starbanging phony A-Rod comes to mind.) But even a rabid fan like me has a few opposing players he can’t get too worked up about.

Brian Cashman: The Bad Lieutenant

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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Brian Cashman, the GM of the New York Yankees, may be the worst ever at the best job in the world. Which is why he’ll inevitably fail this year in his shameless attempt to buy a World Series.