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Sports Central September 28, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Yanks/Sox: "It's Like a Disagreement in a Family" "It's a heated rivalry," said Boston"s Dave Roberts. "There's respect between the teams, but there's no love lost." |
Sports Central August 21, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
At Least it Wasn't a Massacre There was a difference between this weekend's Boston Massacre and the one which helped to send the Red Sox toward eventual sinking 28 years before. |
Sports Central March 3, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees Hopeful Winter Deals Pay Off The Yankees appear substantially better off for the 2005 season, given their pitching acquisitions, but doubts still remain for the long haul in center field and at first base. |
Sports Central October 30, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 2: "That's Like, Wow, He Was On" The A.J. Burnett who makes you reach for the meds and maybe the couch? He wasn't anywhere within 40 nautical miles of the south Bronx Thursday night. |
Sports Central January 13, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
Back to the Future Sunday April 3, 2005. The Yankees and Red Sox officially kicked off the 2005 MLB season tonight in a highly-anticipated rematch of last year's ALCS. |
Sports Central October 14, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
Paterinty Test Revealed: Yanks Are Pedro's Daddy Management is different, the players are different, the game is different, but the Red Sox remain unchanged. Maybe there really is a curse. Or maybe Vegas and the prognosticators were wrong, and the Yankees really are the better team. |
Sports Central October 26, 2003 M. Edward Guest |
World Champion Marlins Are Ultimate Opportunists Even though many puritans and fair-minded people contend that they did not deserve this, they earned it nonetheless. |
Sports Central November 1, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 3: The Camera Blinked A clean enough double was actually a two-run bomb - the ball had hit a television camera off the right field fence. |
Sports Central November 5, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 6: A Long Time Coming Well, now we know how Joe Girardi's gamble on a three-man, three-days-rest World Series rotation worked for him. It won the Yankees a 27th World Series title. |
Sports Central October 20, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: The New Murphy's Law The Cubs are trying to figure out how a guy who's never hit more than fourteen home runs in any regular season has hit five in a single postseason, and off the league's top three Cy Young Award candidates while he was at it. |
Sports Central October 13, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
What Happened to the Yanks? The 2005 postseason for the New York Yankees followed one of the most challenging of all regular seasons for manager Joe Torre. |
Sports Central May 10, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
The Braves Bend the Pendulum What happened when the New York mets threw Jose Lima against a short-rested Atlanta Braves' John Smoltz? |
Sports Central July 13, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Derek Jeter's All-Star Blessing A lot of the folk are hemming and hawing over Derek Jeter's withdrawal from the All-Star Game. But nobody seems to catch onto his withdrawal as an inadvertent blessing upon it. |
Sports Central December 26, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Sports Central May 18, 2006 Zach Jones |
A Tale of Two Cities In the baseball season's past two weeks, two National League teams have thrown it in fifth gear and headed in opposite directions. But will these teams continue trending in their present directions? |
Sports Illustrated April 30, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Lowe-Hitters In a weekend of near no-hitters only Boston's Derek Lowe finished the job... |
Sports Illustrated October 10, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Breakdown: Yankees vs. Mariners A preview of the matchup for the American League Championship Series... |
Sports Central July 22, 2006 Bijan C. Bayne |
The Best Team Money Could Ruin At the dawn of the 21st century, the New York Yankees stood atop the baseball world. So what has gone wrong? |
Sports Central September 5, 2006 Mike Round |
Hot Topics as MLB Season Winds Down The A-Rod "slump" saga... Jim Leyland for AL Manager of the Year?... It's odds-against for the Boston Red Sox making the postseason... A few words on the AL MVP debate... etc. |
Salon.com October 24, 2000 Allen Barra |
News flash: Mets run out batted ball! And have a bat thrown at them for their trouble. The Yankees are making the plays, and that's why they're dominating the Series... |
Sports Central January 2, 2008 Rich Lyons |
Grading the MLB Offseason Moves Here is a list of the most notable MLB trades, along with a grade for the team(s) involved. |
Sports Central October 22, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: No Cubs Curses, Too Much Mets Time alone will determine whether the Mets and the Cubs develop a history between them comparable to that between the Yankees and the Red Sox for so many decades. |
Sports Central October 21, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: The Cubs, Ahead to the Past? Unless these Cubs find a way to hit better than their .158 LCS average or pitch better than their 4.68 LCS ERA in Game 4, just for openers, it will be forward to the past. |
Sports Central October 15, 2007 Bijan C. Bayne |
How to Right the Yankees' Sinking Ship The biggest change for the Yankees should be made in the front office. |
Sports Central June 15, 2007 Rich Lyons |
The Uprising of the Yankees The Yankees make their inevitable climb towards the top of the division. |
Sports Central May 20, 2005 William Geoghegan |
Yankees Will Find Middle Ground The Yankees aren't as good as their recent winning streak would lead you to believe, and not as bad as their stumbles out of the gate seemed to indicate. |
Sports Central February 24, 2004 Mike Round |
Why A-Rod Doesn't Guarantee a Yankee Championship Alexander Rodriguez becomes a Yankee as the new third baseman for the Bronx Bombers. The deal may have sent shock waves along I-95 to New England, but it guarantees George Steinbrenner nothing. |
Sports Central June 10, 2005 William Geoghegan |
These Cubs Are Dusty's Kind of Team The 2005 Cubs, the stripped-down, less powerful, injury-riddled, not-that-great-on-paper Cubs, are playing better than the 2004 edition really ever did. |
Salon.com October 21, 2000 Allen Barra |
The traffic jam Series Thanks to a bloated playoff format and declining TV viewership, this year's World Series doesn't have quite the resonance of those from the "Golden Age"... |
Salon.com October 27, 2000 Allen St. John |
Champions again, thank you very much Hype about a blood feud aside, the Mets prove to be delightful hosts as the Yankees storm to another title... |
Sports Central October 18, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
So Much for That Extra Day's Rest That the extra day's rest the Monday rain-out afforded may have wounded the Mets' lineup, dissolving their Sunday blowout momentum. |
Sports Central October 4, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Random Thoughts on MLB Playoffs We can still hope to see the first truly memorable game of the '06 playoffs, since none of Tuesday's games reached that level. |
Sports Central May 9, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
It's Lima Time in New York "He's always been one of those guys that seizes the moment," said the Mets' Willie Randolph. |
Sports Central June 20, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Are the Yankees Back? With new additions all over the field, the New York Yankees are once again romping through the regular season, despite some key injuries. Yet, does it really matter? Even if the Yankees win 105-110 games? |
Sports Central October 19, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: Harvey Paints a Mets Win Matt Harvey feeling fine is dangerous news. For the Cubs, that is. They may yet have to face him again before this set is over. Oh, thrill, oh, joy. |
Sports Central September 18, 2007 Ricky Dimon |
Hope Springs Eternal, But Should It? What do Cubs fans have if they don't have hope? |
Sports Central October 14, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLDS: Clubs (er, Cubs) Go to NLCS Believe it. The Chicago Cubs have clubbed their way into the National League Championship Series. |
Sports Central December 24, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Salon.com November 2, 2001 King Kaufman |
What next? With the World Series headed back to Phoenix for the finale, the Yankees have taught us to expect the extraordinary... |
Salon.com November 4, 2001 King Kaufman |
Surprise ending If life followed a script, the Yankees would have won the World Series. But it doesn't, and they didn't... |
Sports Central October 7, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Francona Leaves the Ship His Crew Sank Was it God's will that Terry Francona, arguably the most successful manager in Boston Red Sox history, should end the season not with a sixth trip to the postseason in eight seasons on the bridge, but with a walk away from the ship his own crew sank and a fall on his own sword? |
Sports Central July 12, 2007 Bill Hazell |
Four Bases the Hard Way Ichiro's home run is what stands out in the 2007 Midsummer Classic. |
Sports Central May 4, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Letter of the Law, Written and Otherwise Baseball, for all its controversies and crises, remains as invigorating a game in discourse as it is in play. |
Sports Central July 26, 2005 Billy Davis |
New and True in Yankee Blue What sort of test must a newcomer pass before earning recognition as a true New York Yankee? Thursday night's game against the Red Sox offered such a test for Alex Rodriguez. |
Sports Illustrated October 25, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
World Series Breakdown In theory the Diamondbacks have enough to win the Series -- Schilling and Johnson just have to win all four of their starts. That's easier said than done against the Yankees, though, who have dominant starters of their own and are smart enough to steal one of those games... |
Sports Central February 27, 2006 Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: American League It was an interesting offseason in the American League. Yet some burning questions still remain. |
Sports Central January 12, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Never Say Never With Yankees Many new faces will be showing up to the Yankees' Legends Field in Tampa this February, so much so that combining this offseason with last year's offseason, even an avid Yankee fan may have to think twice to name the entire place setting at this point. |
Sports Central April 8, 2008 Jeff Kallman |
Five Years Late, Five Dollars Short Moises Alou now says he wouldn't have caught the ball that fan Steve Bartman appeared to snatch from his glove. |
Sports Central October 12, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
It's Deja Vu, All Over Again Red Sox fans share a common belief, that this is their year. |
Sports Central July 11, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
Pity of the Yankees Eighty-percent of New York Yankees fans have either jumped on the bandwagon within the last decade or root for the team because they want to be with Derek Jeter. |