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New York Yankees stories: 240 news briefs
Star-Ledger Jul 3, 09 12:50 PM CDT
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Major League Baseball will honor the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s “luckiest man” retirement speech tomorrow, part of a campaign against the disease that now bears his name, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. “It’s one of the great moments in American sports and, arguably, American popular culture,” a professor says of the speech, immortalized by Gary Cooper, playing Gehrig, in The Pride of the Yankees .
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Hard-partying Yankee seems too tired to get off the bench
New York Post Jun 21, 09 1:30 PM CDT
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The Yankees have kept Alex Rodriguez benched due to "fatigue" for most of the past two games, but that hasn't stopped the slumping slugger from hitting the clubs in South Beach with current flame Kate Hudson. And whether or not he partied until 2:30am the night before, A-Rod still collects his $203,704.40 per game, writes the New York Post.
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AccuWeather.com Jun 10, 09 9:57 AM CDT
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Home runs have been flying out of the new Yankee Stadium, and the weather isn't to blame, writes Tim Buckley of AccuWeather.com. The team says the new park has the same dimensions as the old digs, but the right field wall is actually up to 9 feet closer to home plate in some places, and 2 feet shorter. Buckley's study revealed that 20 of the park's 105 homers can be attributed to that shorter porch.
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ANALYSIS
New stadium draws small, bitter crowds, opponent home runs
Wall Street Journal May 16, 09 10:12 AM CDT
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With its $1.5 billion price tag, you’d think the new Yankee Stadium would be pretty much perfect, right? But even the most loyal fans are griping as the “Taj Mahal” isn’t turning out to be everything it promised. From outrageous ticket prices to questionable outfield dimensions, the park is in danger of striking out, writes Darren Everson in the Wall Street Journal .
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New York Daily News May 12, 09 3:00 PM CDT
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Roger Clemens again denied past steroid use today, and criticized a new book that claims to detail his transgressions, the New York Daily News reports. It’s “impossible” that trainer Brian McNamee injected the pitcher with steroids “because he’s never given me any,” he told an ESPN radio show. “So it’s impossible.” Clemens also had harsh words for the News ’ book, American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens .
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OPINION
Wall Street Journal May 11, 09 9:23 AM CDT
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New Yorkers would like to go out to the ball game, but the Wipons and Steinbrenners “have let their unfettered greed keep the fans at bay,” writes Allen Barra in the Wall Street Journal . Fans are outraged that their tax dollars have gone to fund stadiums they can’t afford to visit, with the cost for a family of four to take in a Yankee game jumping 49% this year, to $410, while the Arizona Diamondbacks, for instance, dropped 29%, to $114.
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Associated Press May 8, 09 7:59 PM CDT
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Alex Rodriguez walked to the plate, and a dozen fans behind the screen swung into action. Holding up giant, foam syringes, they started with the taunts. Rodriguez answered them, all right. Back in the big leagues, the Yankees star launched the first pitch he saw deep into the left-field seats for a three-run homer tonight.
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UPDATED
Los Angeles Times May 7, 09 8:00 PM CDT
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Manny Ramirez has tested positive for a banned substance and will be suspended for 50 games beginning immediately, the Los Angeles Times reports. Reports have identified the substance as HCG, a drug commonly used to treat female infertility but also taken to raise testosterone levels at the end of steroid treatments. The substance is intended to boost sex drive and "is not a steroid and it is not human-growth hormone," a source told Yahoo Sports. The suspension runs through July 3 and will cost Ramirez nearly $8 million.
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Sources tell author slugger used in high school and after NY transfer
New York Daily News Apr 30, 09 4:05 AM CDT
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An explosive new book probing deep into A-Rod's career suggests the slugger has failed to fully come clean about his steroid use, the New York Daily News reports. Rodriguez insists he only used steroids as a Texas Ranger, but the book quotes sources who believe he was juicing both as a high school player and after coming to New York.
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Team red-faced after front rows left empty in new stadium
Associated Press Apr 29, 09 3:41 AM CDT
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The New York Yankees are cutting top-end ticket prices up to 50% after the best seats in the team's new stadium proved too pricey even for big spenders, AP reports. The team hopes the reductions—on seats costing up to $2500 for front-row seats near home plate—will fill the empty seats that have been an embarrassment at home games. Hundreds of premium season spots have not been sold.
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Marlins come bottom in latest ranking of baseball's MVTs
Forbes Apr 23, 09 8:56 AM CDT
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The New York Yankees' $1.5 billion valuation lands them solidly in the top spot in the Forbes ranking of baseball's most valuable teams. The crosstown Mets came second, trailing by almost $600 million. The Yanks, however, were one of only two teams to lose money last season, dropping $3.7 million. The Detroit Tigers lost a whopping $26.3 million.
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New York Daily News Apr 16, 09 8:32 PM CDT
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The New York Yankees pulled out all the stops in pregame ceremonies today to christen their new $1.5 billion stadium. Then they went and ruined things by playing baseball. The Indians routed the Yankees 10-2 after putting up nine runs in the 7th inning, the Daily News reports. "It's not how you want to start out a new stadium, but one game is not going to make the history of this Yankee Stadium or this year," said manager Joe Girardi.
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Suit alleges cops chucked man from stadium for God Bless America trip
Gawker Apr 16, 09 6:41 AM CDT
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A fan manhandled out of Yankee Stadium for trying to go to the restroom while God Bless America played is suing the NYPD, the Yankees, and the city, Gawker reports. Bradford Campeau-Laurion—whose suit is backed by the New York Civil Liberties Union—charges that two cops, believed to be off-duty and working security at the August 2008 game, stopped him in the aisle during the 7th-inning stretch and roughly chucked him out after he told them he needed to take a leak and didn't care about the song.
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glossies
Vanity Fair Apr 5, 09 5:30 PM CDT
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Players like Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth inspired America to endure the Great Depression, but with the season kicking off tonight, can overpaid and steroid-ridden players still mean something in hard times? Eric Spitznagel hits the spring training circuit for Vanity Fair to find out—and puts the question to feverish fans, blank-eyed players, and gob-spitting managers. "It inevitably comes back to just one thing," Spitznagel writes: "Daddy."
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slideshow
New York Post Apr 2, 09 3:35 PM CDT
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Players and fans checked out the new Yankee Stadium for the first time today, and they liked what they saw. "Wow! I'm in love," one fan who said he opposed the new ballpark told the New York Post. "They did a fantastic job." The $1.5 billion facility officially opens tomorrow with an exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs. See a slideshow of the new park at left.
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Slugger was 'hot as hell,' says ex-madam
New York Daily News Mar 22, 09 9:44 AM CDT
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Move over, Madonna. The former madam who helped keep disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer happy also supplied hookers to Yankees slugger and sometime Madonna boyfriend Alex Rodriguez, she tells the New York Daily News . She even dated A-Rod herself, and found him "hot as hell," says Kristin Davis. "Our paths have definitely crossed personally and professionally."
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INTERVIEW
Details Mar 17, 09 4:22 PM CDT
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Jason Gay interviewed Alex Rodriguez just a day before his past dalliances with performance-enhancing drugs were uncovered, he writes in Details. A-Rod knew what was coming, but the star was more concerned that his favorite Madonna song not be published, for fear of it being played at away games. “Looking back, his preoccupation seems surreal,” Gay writes. The interview, by the way, is drawing more attention for its photos, which show A-Rod kissing his own image in a mirror.
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ANALYSIS
Sport re-evaluates its pay structure
Esquire Mar 11, 09 8:38 PM CDT
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Looking at baseball, you’d think the country wasn’t in a recession—clubs are charging exorbitant ticket prices and shelling out tens of millions of dollars on top free agents. Will the bubble ever collapse? Probably not, writes Nate Silver for Esquire . MLB is, after all, a legally protected monopoly. But more importantly, the sport already has taken steps to add a dose of reality its out-of-control pay structure.
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OPINION
Fox Sports Mar 9, 09 3:07 PM CDT
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Alex Rodriguez’s troubles have less to do with what he’s done than who he is, Michael Rosenberg writes for Fox Sports. “We all know he is desperate to be liked,” Rosenberg writes. “And yet, everything he does to be liked makes people hate him.” A-Rod’s indiscretions may soon seem negligible—“With every year, steroid use in the pre-testing era makes more sense,” Rosenberg writes—but his attitude is another story.
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'You never should have married her in the first place,' bishop told DiMaggio
New York Post Mar 9, 09 5:19 AM CDT
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A Catholic bishop scolded divorced Joltin' Joe Dimaggio for marrying Marilyn Monroe—and the famous slugger never talked to the cleric again, reports the New York Post . After DiMaggio's marriage to Monroe dissolved, Bishop Fulton Sheen told him: "You had no business marrying her in the first place," a friend recalled. The Yankee "told Sheen where to go and never spoke to the bishop again."
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