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Like sports teams, many of the major museums live and die by their seasonal lineup. A series of good shows attracts paying visitors, and generates the buzz that draws headlines, sponsorships, and donors.
Excellent both at the plate and in center field, Granderson is back in the race for MVP. His stats speak loudly and there's still a lot of baseball left to be played.
Our date nights are worked around game nights; dinner out means a local sports bar, my eyes glued to the big screen. Vacationing during the postseason doesn't even come up for discussion.
Baseball season is back, and what better reason to have friends over than to enjoy a game together as we all snack on delicious appetizers and have a glass of wine or favorite cocktail?
For many, baseball is a religion, and its stadiums, especially mine in the Bronx, serve as cathedrals.
They don't make too many athletes like Amare Stoudemire and Mariano Rivera anymore. Their grit and courage make them exemplary role models for this generation.
Despite an impressive 6-3 record to start the season, the New York Mets' defense will not keep them above .500 for much longer.
The Saints name Assistant Coach Joe Vitt the interim head coach filling in for the suspended Sean Payton. Vitt himself will be serving a six-game suspension for his role in the club's bounty system. So there will be an interim to the interim.
An improbable Super Bowl victory, a resurgent basketball team, a brewing quarterback war between a playboy and an evangelist. I haven't been this excited to be a New York sports fan since 1986 (or is that 1973? Or 1969?).
The feet are the first thing that hit the ground and without balanced feet a player's mechanics can be affected.
The Yankees are going downright thrifty. Hal Steinbrenner says the Yanks are going to lower their payroll in the coming years.
As a society, it would seem logical that we would want drug pushing, loan sharking and corporate influence peddling to stop. At the very least, we could go back to making it against the law.
Let me get this straight: Kuroda, an outstanding and under-appreciated NL pitcher, is going to pitch well in the AL East because he'shad success pitching in the NL West, where he made 20 of 32 starts in notorious pitching heavens? Just because?
Congratulations Dodgers fans, your long national nightmare is over. Frank McCourt has agreed to sell his personal piggy bank, make that the Los Angeles Dodgers.
While I love being a sports fan, I also love to be free of it. Every year when one of my teams is eliminated from the hunt, I sigh and then ready myself to move on. After all, I do have a life to live and the drama of sports is just form of pleasure, isn't it?
