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Yankees Still Four Wins From Acceptable

NEW YORK -- The Yankees partied into Monday's wee hours in "American League Champion" T-shirts. Then they should have burned the shirts. The franchise's 40th pennant, the AL East title, the 110 wins this year -- all are as worthless as one of those T-shirts if the Yankees don't win four more games. Such is life in...

Hideki Irabu Trying a Comeback?

The man George Steinbrenner once called a "fat toad" is attempting a comeback. Seriously. Hideki Irabu, who turns 40 in less than a month and hasn't pitched in the majors since 2002, is trying to make a comeback to baseball, with his ultimate goal being reportedly a "high level, like MLB or NPB (Nippon Professional...

Grandeur of New Yankee Stadium Hurt By Bad Timing

I almost feel sorry for the place. It isn't the fault of the new Yankee Stadium, with its $1.5 billion price tag and $2,625 top ticket and sizzling party scene and ThinkPad computer in every clubhouse locker, that construction was completed amid the worst economic climate since the Great Depression. In another era, we'd be...

Did the Titans Try to Keep Haynesworth?

The Redskins made the big early splash in this year's free-agent market, inking DT Albert Haynesworth to a seven-year, $100 million contract ($41 million guaranteed). But this latest from Terry McCormick of the Nashville City Paper makes you wonder if Washington needed to pay Hayneworth even half that much:"Tennessee's...

Joe Torre's Story Deserves to Be Told

NEW YORK -- Joe Torre's name is on the book, but it's a fair estimate not even one-fourth of the words are actually his. He says he's read it six times, perusing line for line, scanning chapters for quotes or anecdotes that have caused so much fuss. It is clear the New York Yankees, Torre's former employer, aren't pleased...

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Yankees For Sale?

New Yorkers may have been somewhat surprised on Thursday morning if they caught a glance of either the front or back cover of the Daily News. The Yankees might be sold?

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05/25/12 This Steinbrenner Is All Business Source: 1010 Wins George Steinbrenner made the New York Yankees his life.
05/24/12 Most Memorable Comeback Stories in Yankees History Source: Courier-Gazette - Newark NY At the time, his return was a "welcome home" that most Yankee fans weren't too crazy about.
05/22/12 âWhat would George Steinbrenner do?â What a... Source: Comcast SportsNet The Yankees are playing terrible baseball right now.
05/15/12 George Steinbrenner Kept Billy Martin Hidden from... Source: Bleacher Report Marty Appel, in his must-read book, Pinstripe Empire , provides great insight into Billy Martin's comments that forced the New York Yankees to fire him in 1978.
05/13/12 Robertson's road to Yankees' closer started with... Source: The Town Talk - Alexandria LA If not for a letter to George Steinbrenner a dozen years ago, David Robertson might never have become the New York Yankees' closer.