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New Yankee Stadium Snapshot: The View from the Field

NEW YORK -- A little more than two hours before the first pitch of tonight's exhibition game between the Yankees and the Cubs, I found myself in the visitors dugout, where Cubs players were milling about, checking out the new Stadium. (Yes, we capitalize "Stadium" when we talk about the one the Yankees play in.)"Nothing's...

New Yankee Stadium Snapshot: The Clubhouse of the Future?

NEW YORK - There's nothing unusual about ballplayers having pictures of their families hanging in their lockers. But at the new Yankee Stadium, everything's new and snazzy and ... at least a little different from what you're used to. So when you enter the cavernous home clubhouse, with its plush Yankee carpeting,...

Jim Beam Helps Wrigley Field, NASCAR Style

Chicago's Wrigley Field has been known to have its fair share of Cubs fans that aren't exactly sober in the stands, so is it at all surprising that a NASCAR Sprint Cup race car sponsored by none other than Jim Beam is lining up to support the effort to save Wrigley's name?Nah, just a little humorous.Robby Gordon's No. 7...

The Dugout: North Side/South Side

It's not quite Jonathan Papelbon in a Rastafarian wig doing "Blame it on the Rain," but the rap war between Ozzie Guillen's South Side Guys and Lou "Big Sweet" Piniella's North Side Guys has reached critical mass. Condescending insults have been the norm, but now the rivalry has lead to threats of physical violence. This...

Spring Dugz: Chicago Cubs

The Dugout is all about character growth. From day one we've watched Kyle Farnsworth evolve from a fan-kicking sociopath into the literal onion of psychological human study he has become. We've watched Jim Thome grow from a rosy-cheeked manchild with pee on his hat into a rosy-cheeked manchild with socks on his hat. Dmitri...