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Thankful for Simple Pleasures on Thanksgiving

Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

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Mitchell Bard

I am thankful that my midlife crisis this year didn't involve a sports car or a fling with a younger woman, but instead led me to purchase tickets to seven concerts this past summer.

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Opening Day: Baseball Business Begins Again

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 11.18.2008 | Home

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Roger I. Abrams

While sports fans fill their days with football, basketball and hockey, the aficionados of the business of sports will keep an eye on the real game, the game in the boardrooms and at the negotiating tables.

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Open Letter to A-Rod: Please Sign My Ball Already

Lauren Lascher | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home

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Lauren Lascher

Dear Alex, I know you have been very busy. The reason for my letter is that I need you to finally sign the baseball you blasted at Yankee Stadium that fractured my collarbone.

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Media Owning Sports Teams: Bad Mix

Charles Warner | Posted 05.21.2008 | Home

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Charles Warner

Journalistic integrity and honest, candid reporting is compromised when media companies own sports teams or control the coverage by reporters. Is that why the Dolan Family bought Newsday?

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Steroids in Baseball: What's New York Got to Do with it?

Warren Goldstein | Posted 12.31.2007 | Home

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Warren Goldstein

Which sports town trains the most scrutiny on its teams, from all kinds of media? You got it. I love New York.

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Report: Yankees Offer Girardi Manager Job

AP | Posted 10.29.2007 | Home

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The New York Yankees reportedly have offered Joe Girardi the job to succeed Joe Torre as manager. Girardi beat out Yankees great and bench coach Don ...

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A Bronx Cheer For Boston's New Evil Empire

Tony Sachs | Posted 10.29.2007 | Home

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Tony Sachs

Show some NYC pride, for heaven's sake! The Red Sox don't need you any more! Now let's root, root root for the home team -- and throw stuff at anyone wearing red.

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A-Rod Walks Away From Baseball's Fattest Paycheck

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 10.28.2007 | Home

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Alex Rodriguez opted out of his $252 million, 10-year contract with the Yankees on Sunday in what appears to be the end of his career with New York. R...

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Judas Giuliani or the Yankee Flipper*

David Harsanyi | Posted 10.24.2007 | Home

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David Harsanyi

How you conduct yourself as a sports fan tells us plenty about you. Now this tells us that Giuliani is clueless or a depraved panderer -- or worse: not a real Yankees fan.

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The Joe Torre Subtext: Winning the American Way

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.22.2007 | Home

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Marcia G. Yerman

Joe Torre's philosophy embraced not just winning, but having each person get the most out of their abilities. And that didn't jive with the Yankee brass.

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Bloomberg, Giuliani Display 'Rapidly Increasing Animosity' While Sitting Together At Yankee Game

New York Sun | DAVID LOMBINO | Posted 10.09.2007 | Home

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At the Yankees playoff game last night, one seat spoke 1,000 words, and it's the reason why political consultants get paid hundreds of thousands of do...

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Live From The White House...With Feeling

Brian Williams | Posted 10.05.2007 | Home

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Brian Williams

On Oct. 5, 1947, President Harry S. Truman gave a speech to the nation that was -- for the first time in history -- broadcast live on television. What the president said that night was truly remarkable, especially in the context of today.

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Boys Night Out: Brad And Maddox Hit Yankee Stadium

NY Post | Brian Costello | Posted 09.05.2007 | Home

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Brad Pitt and son Maddox get special souvenirs courtesy of the 5-year-old's favorite player last night - a bat and ball from Derek Jeter . Brad and M...

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Wild Card Geisha: Widow is Too Tame a Term

Patricia Zohn | Posted 08.30.2007 | Home

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Patricia Zohn

Now that the Yanks are the reviled, overpaid, underperforming mess that they call a team, the whole house has lurched into what I like to call Pre-Playoff Depression and for which no amount of Wellbutrin seems to be enough.

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