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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 3, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 5: Cutting to the Chase All of a sudden there's a change in the weather in the Philadelphia clubhouse. |
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 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 November 2, 2009 Bill Hazell |
The Unlikely New Mr. Clutch On Sunday night, A-Rod earned his pinstripes once and for all. |
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 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 October 19, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Rabbit, Run A recap of Game 2 of the NLCS between the Phillies and the Giants. |
Sports Central October 10, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Orioles Like Mondays, So Far What a difference Monday makes. To Jim Johnson and to the Baltimore Orioles. |
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 November 5, 2008 Jeff Kallman |
The Phorever Men The Philadelphia Phillies finally march to the Promised Land. |
Sports Central October 30, 2008 Bill Hazell |
It's Finally Sunny in Philadelphia The Philadelphia Phillies won a championship Wednesday night in a game that had a large and noticeable fracture right in the middle of it. |
Sports Central December 1, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
A Baseball Negotiation, My Foot Derek Jeter may have won a 2010 Gold Glove that he doesn't really deserve. But neither does he deserve the apparent negotiating strategy of the New York Yankees, for whom he has been the franchise. |
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 March 20, 2010 Roy Daniel |
Top Contenders For the 2010 World Series I like to know who has the best shot at winning the World Series before the season starts. For some reason, it makes the season a bit more interesting. |
Sports Central October 16, 2012 Bob Ekstrom |
For Yankees, No Panic In Detroit (Just Yet) After dropping two home games against the Tigers, the New York Yankees have come face-to-face with their postseason mortality as the ALCS now shifts to Detroit. |
Sports Central September 26, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Jeter, Overmatched, But Not Outclassed Jeter's farewell season has been somewhat controversial for the point that questions arose all year long as to whether the 40-year-old Yankee captain belonged in the lineup as a regular anymore. |
Sports Illustrated November 6, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Greatness on display Hall of Fame-bound hurlers were the story of Game 7... |
Sports Central October 22, 2008 Mike Round |
2008 World Series Preview Tampa Bay's emergence from obscurity and irrelevance has captured the imagination of every sports fan in the nation and they will be the romantic pick. Those most unromantic of people, the Vegas oddsmakers, have them as favorites, too. |
Sports Central October 5, 2009 Ryan Day |
Why the Phillies Will Not Repeat The strengths that carried Philadelphia to win a championship last season have shown signs of rust this season and the parts that were lacking are, well, still lacking. |
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 July 1, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Mad Max, Chasing Face? This season, winning 12 without a loss at this writing, Max Scherzer's more than a feel-good story, he's almost the story for the otherwise Al Central-leading Tigers. |
Sports Central September 22, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
Resolving the AL MVP Wars Okay, so the Minnesota Twins are suddenly (so it seems) back in the American League Central race, and possibly for keeps. Helps bump up Joe Mauer's Most Valuable Player campaign, no? Well, not necessarily. |
Sports Central July 26, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Ichiro Goes From Worst to First According to just about every report that flooded cyberspace and the printed press in the hours to follow, Ichiro Suzuki approached the Mariners somewhere around the All-Star Break asking to be traded. |
Sports Central July 18, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The All-Star Game: Groovin' What happened at the All-Star Game with Derek Jeter and Adam Wainwright. |
Sports Central October 9, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
The Mighty Have Fallen With the second-best regular-season record in baseball, the New York Yankees couldn't out-hit their pitching issues while the Detroit Tigers figured out ways to hang in against both the Empire Emeritus's batting holes and pitching inconsistencies. |
Sports Illustrated October 10, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Breakdown: Yankees vs. Mariners A preview of the matchup for the American League Championship Series... |
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 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 April 22, 2006 Robert Pelletier |
Blue Birds Take Flight Going into the first series of the season against the Yankees, the Toronto Blue Jays' new acquisitions were behaving exactly the way they've always behaved. |
Sports Central October 7, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
AL Wild Card: Dallas Does Bronx Buttercups All around Astroworld, you could hear a soft sigh of nervousness in the bottom of the seventh Tuesday night. |
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. |
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... |
Sports Central August 18, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
NL Wild Card Wild Cards A break down of the NL wild card race, including a list of the wild cards each team has as they fight for the all important fourth playoff spot. |
Sports Central November 8, 2010 Clinton Riddle |
Let the Cliff Lee Sweepstakes Begin Now that free agents are hitting the market, there's one player who everyone is watching. Wherever he ends up, that team is going to pay out the nose for him. And he'll be worth every cent. |
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. |
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 August 24, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
The American League Shark Tank A good shark always knows a good deal when he sees one. 6/5 odds on the Yankees to win the AL, as unimpressive as it looks on paper, is still a better deal than anything you can get on any of the other teams. |
Sports Central October 24, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
Baseball Folklore, Meet Bradley Lidge Bradley Lidge, star closer of the Houston Astros is now the leader of the Postseason Choke: True grit ultimately advanced the Astros into their first World Series, where they promptly lost the opener to the Chicago White Sox on Saturday night. |
Sports Central September 22, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Save Some Drama For the Playoffs The Yankees and Rays simply bring out the best in themselves and each other. |
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. |
Sports Central July 22, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
Lordy, Lordy, Look Who's ... 30? With or without a birthday, Alex Rodriquez always draws a lot of controversy. Why do opinions on him vary so widely? |
Sports Illustrated October 17, 2001 Tom Verducci |
The sounds of October A's learn the hard way about importance of fundamentals... |
Sports Central January 28, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Fools Gold Yet Again For Yankees? With its new Murderer's Row lineup, the Yankees can't lose. Except they said the same thing last year. And the year before. |
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 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 October 24, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
What Indians Fans Don't Want to Hear Unexpected calamities or mental vapors at the worst possible moments? This used to happen to the Boston Red Sox all the time. |
Salon.com October 16, 2001 King Kaufman |
Playoff picking, but not grinning Our writer boldly holds forth on the Yankees, the Mariners and the most hideous uniforms in baseball, and asks himself, "How many times can you be wrong about one team?" |
Sports Central March 5, 2009 Mike Round |
Forget Steroids and Recession: Play Ball! Here's a look around MLB's American and National Leagues and predictions for the upcoming season. |
Salon.com July 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |