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Baseball and Knitting a Hot Double-Play Combo

(April 19) -- Considering the controversy over baseball players injecting steroids with needles, it's ironic if needles are the very things bringing people back to the ballpark. Especially sewing needles. www.meredithknitting.com Astrophysicist Meredith Wills-Davey spent the 2007 season knitting socks dedicated to her...

A-Rod's 500th Home Run Ball Sells for Over $100K

Alex Rodriguez's 500th home run ball sold for $103,579 to an anonymous bidder after an online auction ended Thursday night. It was a modest sum considering that, according to the New York Daily News, Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th career home run ball was sold for $752,467 in 2007. Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball,...

Mark Sanchez Ignores Girardi, Hurts Knee, Angers Rex Ryan

TORONTO -- So they go to all this trouble to bring in a very famous outside instructor to help you learn how to slide -- for your own protection, mind you. And the first chance you get to put the lessons into practice, what do you do? You dive head-first, hurt your knee and have to come out of the game. Mark Sanchez, you...

Yankees' Blueprint a Lesson for Al Davis

The Boss, the one who rules Major League Baseball, wasn't in New York Wednesday night as the Yankees celebrated their 27th World Series title with a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. But George Steinbrenner, 79 -- still the architect of champions and the titan of New York sports -- was watching from his home in...

Paperless Wall Street Gets Ticker Tape Bailout

New York (Nov. 5) -- Add this to the many problems confronting Wall Street: There's no ticker tape for a ticker tape parade -- and a shortage of open windows. When the New York Yankees locked down their 27th World Championship Wednesday night, plans were already under way for a victory parade through lower Manhattan's...