Huh: Lou Gehrig, a heroic slugger for the Yankees baseball team, was famed for brushing aside repeated fractures and batting after nearly being knocked unconscious, before giving his name to the disea
The wife, a Bronx native, demands to know whether Derek Jeter deserves this year’s AL MVP award. Jeter’s VORP of 56.8 is second only to that of Joe Mauer, but it’s distant second; th
Um… this seems like outrage for the sake of being outraged. The point about taxpayers subsidy of athletic stadiums is reasonable, although it would be kind of absurd to have a mass transit syste
The Yankees move from ordinary villainy to cartoonish super-villainy: The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit against the NYPD on behalf of a Queens man who was ejected from t
Wandering the internets while watching the classy Yankee Stadium farewell… Interesting NYT article on the Naval Academy. Most fascinating bit; Barack Obama beat USNA alumnus John McCain 13-7 in
Joe Posnanski, on how he wants to like Derek Jeter, but.. So why is it that I’m often writing negative things about Derek Jeter? I realized Friday that it has absolutely nothing to do with Jeter him