Sunday Routine | C. B. Bucknor: For C.B. Bucknor, Umpire, Sundays Mean Ballgames or Dinner at Mom’s | New York Times
C. B. Bucknor, 50, was a physical therapist at what was then New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center when, on a whim, he used vacation time to attend umpire school in 1990. A career change ensued. Now, most of his Sundays involve ballgames and...
NBC's Pierre McGuire, hockey's 'Mr. Inside', protecting coaches and players at expense of NHL TV audience | New York Daily News
— baseball, basketball, fencing, volleyball — over the Internet (no satellite or fiber necessary) for networks like SportsNet New York, ESPN3 and CBS Sports Network. Major reason: Moo-la-dee. Working with the satellite hookup and production truck would cost SJU $45,000 per game. Last week SJU produced...
Teixeira delivers big hits again as Yankees defeat Oakland 9-2 | New York Post
among his career high-tying four hits to back CC Sabathia's sixth win of the year, and the New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 9-2 on Saturday for their fourth straight win. Teixeira and Robinson Cano each homered for a second straight day as the Yankees added three...
Raissman: Time for NBC to pump up the volume! | New York Daily News
— baseball, basketball, fencing, volleyball — over the Internet (no satellite or fiber necessary) for networks like SportsNet New York, ESPN3 and CBS Sports Network. Major reason: Moo-la-dee. Working with the satellite hookup and production truck would cost SJU $45,000 per game. Last week SJU produced...
The Score Hears: Times Square Mania | New York Daily News
Square has seen its share of action over the decades, whether it has involved the dropping of the New Year’s Eve ball or the dropping of pants at many other times. But according to the most eminent New York historians The Score could find, the heart of the...
Many Claim to Be Memorial Day Birthplace | New York Times
South. Some were more approving than others. The ladies of the South instituted this memorial day, read The New York Times on June 5, 1868. They wished to annoy the Yankees; and now the Grand Army of the Republic in retaliation and from no worthier motive, have determined to...
On Baseball: The Orioles Have Gone From Pushover to Bully in No Time | New York Times
Sports reported in the morning that the Orioles and center fielder Adam Jones were closing in on a new contract that could be the richest the team has ever given, eclipsing a six-year, $72 million deal in 2003 for Miguel Tejada. Jones then extended his hitting streak to 16...
The Score: The Babe, Boss and air raids | New York Daily News
Marty Appel, the author of “Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from before the Babe to after the Boss,” spent more than 20 years with the club either in media relations or as an executive producer for WPIX television...
Big City: Beach Town of Eclectics | New York Times
be summer and well into baseball season. We’ll honor the moment with a reading of a classic New York City ballpark novel, Mark Harris’s “Bang the Drum Slowly.” Written in 1956, and a sequel to his “Southpaw,” the book revolves around a star pitcher for the New...
Yankees play long ball to beat Athletics | New York Post
OAKLAND, Calif. Mark Teixeira and Nick Swisher hit two-run homers to help the New York Yankees win for the seventh straight time in Oakland, beating the Athletics 6-3 on Friday night. Robinson Cano also homered and Ivan Nova (5-2) allowed three runs in seven...
Chavez returns to Oakland with Yankees | New York Yankees
10th in franchise history with 1,320 career games played. He was on the disabled list when the Yankees visited Oakland last season, his first in New York. "I spent a long time here, met a lot of good people here," Chavez said. "I felt like we just...
Yankees sticking by slumping catcher Martin | New York Yankees
It is a familiar refrain from Joe Girardi, a defensive catcher himself during his playing days, that the Yankees manager would prefer to get stellar defense from his catcher than offense. Still, the Yankees could use more punch from Russell Martin. The second-year Bombers backstop entered Friday's game...
Nova starts for Yankees despite hamstring issue | New York Yankees
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com | 05/25/12 10:15 PM ET Comments Share: Google OAKLAND -- Yankees right-hander Ivan Nova is battling a minor right hamstring issue, though it was not enough to place his start on Friday into jeopardy. "It was a little tight. He's...
FRIDAY FIVE: New baseball cities | New York Post
The Mets continue their home series against San Diego tonight, while the Yankees open a series in Oakland. Which makes this list a natural: Best new cities in baseball. When I write new, I mean not part of the original group from 1901:...
Ex-Yank Curtis hit with 2 sex charges | New York Daily News
wrongdoing.” Between 1992 and 2001, Curtis played for the then-California Angels, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees and Texas Rangers. He won two World Series rings with the Yankees.
Bats: Yankees Rebut Daily News Report of a Possible Sale | New York Times
The Yankees and Major League Baseball swiftly denied a report in The Daily News on Thursday that the Steinbrenner family was exploring a possible sale of the team. Speculation about such a...
Exhibition Review: ‘Beer Here,’ on Brewing, at New-York Historical Society | New York Times
gradually descending, another was being lifted. Here, in the last gallery of the fresh and, yes, slightly intoxicating new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, Beer Here: Brewing New Yorks History, I was reminded just what all the fuss was about during the course of recorded history, or at...
Former Mets closer Benitez signs with Long Island Ducks | New York Post
Armando Benitez will give it a go for his third New York baseball team. The former Mets and Yankees reliever signed with the Atlantic Leagues Long Island Ducks on Thursday, the team announced on their website. The Ducks have been a...
Long refuses to sell struggling sluggers short | New York Yankees
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com | 05/24/12 1:00 PM ET Comments Share: Google NEW YORK -- The sun glinted in Kevin Long's sunglasses as batting practice concluded on Tuesday afternoon, and the Yankees' hitting coach found a comfortable spot in front of the...
Hal Steinbrenner: 'Yankees are not for sale' | New York Yankees
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com | 05/24/12 10:20 AM ET Comments "I expect that the Yankees will be in my family for many years to come," said Hal Steinbrenner. () NEW YORK -- Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner, responding to a published report in the...
Yankees for sale? That's the $3 billion question | New York Daily News
Manhattan without the Empire State Building? New York without the Statue of Liberty? Brooklyn without the Bridge? The Yankees without the Steinbrenners? Rumors are flying in Major League Baseball and New York banking circles that the family...
Feds could resort to Plan B12 in court against Clemens | New York Daily News
a room that was itself often locked up. He said trouble would have ensued if McNamee — the Yankees’ assistant strength coach in 2000 and 2001 — had injected players in open areas of the clubhouse, as Clemens claimed. “It would have been a problem for me,” said Monahan...
Feds could resort to Plan B12 vs. Clemens | New York Daily News
a room that was itself often locked up. He said trouble would have ensued if McNamee — the Yankees’ assistant strength coach in 2000 and 2001 — had injected players in open areas of the clubhouse, as Clemens claimed. “It would have been a problem for me,” said Monahan...
Jeter moves up hits list with No. 3,152 | New York Yankees
Joey Nowak, Steven Miller and Ethan Asofsky / MLB.com | 05/23/12 11:00 PM ET Comments Share: Google NEW YORK -- With his single in the eighth inning of Wednesday's 8-3 Yankees win over the Royals, shortstop Derek Jeter tied Hall of Famer Paul Waner for 15th place...
Pettitte strong, A-Rod blasts two homers in 8-3 win over KC | New York Daily News
YANKEES 8, ROYALS 3 Alex Rodriguez homers not once, but twice in the Yankees win over Kansas City. Here is his third inning solo shot. (Howard Simmons/New York Daily News) Following...