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STOP THE PRESSES!

HOW NEWSPAPER STRIKE SAVED YANKEE PR MAN

ALL HELL was breaking loose around Mickey Morabito in that summer of 1978 when the man who ran the Yankees' public-relations office encountered the single greatest break in the entire history of...more >

SCHNEIDER PROVIDES PUNCH IN PINCH

PHILADELPHIA - This was your grand mother's secret recipe for calamity laid out in front of you at Citizens Bank Park, all of the ingredients thrown in this bandbox blender, a full house eager to...more >

SEE-LIG NO EVIL

MANNY LOOK-AWAY SAYS IT ALL ABOUT BUD

BUD Being Bud: Bud Selig never fails to pass on an opportunity to prove he's the Commissioner of Baseball. He never fails to remind us that the only thing that makes him take strong, decisive...more >

TURNS OUT, YANKS ARE 'SET'

JOBA Chamberlain starts tonight against the Red Sox, and it is not that big a deal. Part of the reason is that this will now be his seventh major-league start. But it also is not quite that big a...more >

C.C. YA IN ’09

SABATHIA, AS FREE AGENT, KEY TO YANKEES RELOAD

THE Yankees appear no more than interested bystanders in the C.C. Sabathia sweepstakes - for now. The Yanks would love to acquire a starter before the July 31 trade deadline and Sabathia is the...more >

RIVERA SAVES MORE THAN JUST A GAME

SUDDENLY, for the first time on this July Fourth weekend, it felt like Red Sox-Yankees. It felt tense. It felt thrilling. It felt like something vital was on the line. Which it was. It was called the...more >

MOOSE DESERVES A STAR-ING ROLE

NO big deal, said Mike Mussina, if he doesn't get to pitch in an All-Star Game in his home stadium, because it will give him a chance to go to the Lycoming County, Pa., Fair. "Demolition...more >

WILD BLUESHIRT YONDER

RETOOLED RANGERS A MYSTERY

WHILE wondering if Michal Rozsival and Petr Prucha were quite who the NHL had in mind when imposing upon the Blueshirts to open their 2008-09 season in Prague: The Rangers didn't clinch a...more >

HE'S THE BEST - FOR SHORE

THE International Game Fish Association's celebrated catch-and-release tournament is called the Super Bowl of inshore fishing with 32 anglers from around the world stalking the Florida Bay waters...more >

IAN STRUGGLES IN TRIPLE-A START

Though it won't count in his statistics, Ian Kennedy hit a speed bump on his path back to the majors Thursday night. Kennedy allowed one run on two hits (a double and homer) with two walks and...more >

OFFENSE IS OFFENSIVE

By JOEL SHERMAN

July 5, 2008 - JOE Girardi can scream behind a closed clubhouse door. Hank Steinbrenner can deliver pseudo threats/pep talks from his Tampa enclave. It is all merely background noise, the soundtrack of frustration...more >
STARTING TO WORRY

YANKS ROTATION STILL FAR FROM PLAYOFF-WORTHY

By JAY GREENBERG

July 5, 2008 - CALCULATED would not describe any attempt to scream a turnaround into your team just before having to pitch Darrell Rasner against Josh Beckett. No, Joe Girardi's anger was real. So is the...more >
MANUEL MOVES MAKE YOU SCRATCH YOUR HEAD

By MIKE VACCARO

July 5, 2008 - PHILADELPHIA - The honeymoon lasted all of 16 games - eight of them wins, eight of them losses. That was Jerry Manuel's New York internship, his apprenticeship, his postgraduate fellowship...more >
DISGRUNTLED JOE HAS A LOT TO FIX

By JOEL SHERMAN

July 4, 2008 - IN A little more than a week, Terry Francona will be back at Yankee Stadium. To sit in the home manager's office. To work the home dugout. To have many of his Red Sox players dress in the...more >
OFFENSIVE LOSS

SEASON SLIPPING AWAY AS BATS REMAIN ASLEEP

By KEVIN KERNAN

July 4, 2008 - WHEN the doors to the Yankee clubhouse finally opened last night after a searing 32-minute meeting held by Joe Girardi, the clock on the wall read 10:26. The Yankees know it is much later than that...more >
SNY POSITIVELY STUPID ON AMAZIN' LOSS

By PHIL MUSHNICK

July 4, 2008 - MEMO to SNY: Cut it out, cut it out, now. We're not that stupid. The Mets blew another one, Wednesday night in St. Louis. They had a 7-5 lead in the eighth, but lost to become a 41-43 team...more >
TIME TO DUKE IT OUT WITH PHILS, NOT SELVES

By MIKE VACCARO

July 4, 2008 - PHILADELPHIA - This is what happens when you have a history as shallow and abbreviated as the Mets' history: It is possible that two of the five most popular Mets in history can actually get...more >
LOOKS LIKE MESSAGE GOT THROUGH TO YANKS

By KEVIN KERNAN

July 3, 2008 - HANK Steinbrenner sent up his own Fourth of July fireworks yesterday, unloading on his unproductive Yankees hitters just in time for the big holiday weekend with the Red Sox coming to town tonight...more >
ROAD TO RECOVERY

A-ROD DRIVES CANCER FIGHTER TO STADIUM

By KEVIN KERNAN

July 2, 2008 - THE fight against cancer gets more difficult by the day for John Challis, but he wanted to see a game at Yankee Stadium, especially after the 18-year-old got the chance to meet the Yankees last week...more >
JETER TAKES SEAT FOR LATEST OF FENSIVE DUD

By JAY GREENBERG

July 2, 2008 - THE Iron Man sat, never mind the Yankees' offense came into the game suffering from anemia. "We're trying to make sure he stays strong and doesn't get hurt," Joe Girardi said...more >

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