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New York Yankees stories: 277 news summaries

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ANALYSIS

 Yanks' $1.5B Park 
 a Big Strikeout 
 So Far 

New stadium draws small, bitter crowds, opponent home runs

May 16, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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New York Yankees • Yankee Stadium • stadium • arena • baseball • Jay-ZTV • baseball fans • ticket prices • Camden Yards • Veterans Stadium • Olympic Stadium • Miami Arena

(Newser) - 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... More »

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New York Yankees • Roger Clemens • New York Daily News • baseball • Brian McNamee • steroid use • investigative journalism • Nathaniel Vinton • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - 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... More »

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New York Mets • New York Yankees • Yankee Stadium • baseball • ticket sales • Citi Field

(AP) - 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... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • home run • baseball • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - 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... More »

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steroids • MLB • Manny Ramirez • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Los Angeles Dodgers • drug test • performance-enhancing drugs • sexual enhancement

 A-Rod Juiced 
 in School, on 
 Yankees: Book 

Sources tell author slugger used in high school and after NY transfer

Apr 30, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

Yankees Slash Luxury Ticket Prices to Fill Empty Seats

Team red-faced after front rows left empty in new stadium

Apr 29, 09 3:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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New York Yankees • Yankee Stadium • stadium • baseball • ticket sales

 $1.5B Yanks MLB's 
 Most Valuable Team 

Marlins come bottom in latest ranking of baseball's MVTs

Apr 23, 09 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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.... More »

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St. Louis Cardinals • Chicago White Sox • MLB • Philadelphia Phillies • Chicago Cubs • San Francisco Giants • Boston Red Sox • New York Mets • New York Yankees • Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim • Los Angeles Dodgers • Washington Nationals • baseball • valuation

(Newser) - 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. "... More »

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Cleveland Indians • New York Yankees • Yankee Stadium • stadium • baseball • CC Sabathia

 Booted for Unpatriotic 
 Bathroom Trip, 
 Yanks Fan Sues 

Suit alleges cops chucked man from stadium for God Bless America trip

Apr 16, 09 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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NYPD • New York Yankees • Yankee Stadium • lawsuit • baseball • God Bless America • patriotism • Bradford Campeau-Laurion

(Newser) - 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... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Babe Ruth • recession • Lou Gehrig • baseball • American

slideshow

 Yankees' 
 New Stadium 
 Takes a Bow 


Apr 2, 09 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Chicago Cubs • New York • New York Yankees • Yankee Stadium • Bronx Bombers • Johnny Damon • Bronx

Spitzer Madam: I Supplied A-Rod With Hookers

Slugger was 'hot as hell,' says ex-madam

Mar 22, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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.... More »

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New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Eliot Spitzer • Kristin Davis • Madonna • prostitute • hooker • madams

(Newser) - 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.... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Madonna • baseball • scandal • interview

ANALYSIS

Believe It or Not, Baseball Offers Frugal Lessons 

Sport re-evaluates its pay structure

Mar 11, 09 8:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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MLB • New York Yankees • Mark Teixeira • contract • free agency • free agent signings • baseball • free agent • financial crisis • CC Sabathia

(Newser) - 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.”... More »

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New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • public relations • baseball • public image • steroid use

 Church Scolded 
 Joe About Monroe 

'You never should have married her in the first place,' bishop told DiMaggio

Mar 9, 09 5:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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,"... More »

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divorce • Catholic Church • New York Yankees • Marilyn Monroe • Joe DiMaggio • celebrity divorces

Posh New Stadiums
Victims of Bad Timing

Recession means few takers for box seats for Yankees, Mets, Cowboys

Mar 6, 09 9:59 AM CST
(Newser) - When the Mets, the Yankees, and the Cowboys decided to build staggeringly expensive stadiums, they didn’t realize what kind of economy the arenas would open their doors to. The Wall Street Journal reports that the amenities-heavy fields, laden with luxury-boxes and steakhouses, are struggling to fill their swanky suites.... More »

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Dallas Cowboys • New York Mets • New York Yankees • Yankee Stadium • stadium • Shea Stadium

 Over Boos, 
 A-Rod Homers 
 in Spring Opener 

He played until fifth inning against Blue Jays

Feb 25, 09 4:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Despite the cacophony of boos, cheers, and cat calls hurled his way, Alex Rodriguez hit a two-run home run today in his first spring-training game for the New York Yankees, the AP reports. The maligned third baseman played until the fifth inning at the Toronto Blue Jays’ ballpark—his first... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • sports doping • baseball • spring training

(Newser) - Two New York Yankees—Johnny Damon and Xavier Nady— have had their finances frozen by the SEC in connection with the Stanford fraud scandal, Fox Sports reports. Both players kept their money in Stanford banks, and the SEC says they should have access to it in a few days. But... More »

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fraud • New York Yankees • SEC • Johnny Damon • Scott Boras • Xavier Nady • credit card accounts • Stanford Financial Group • Robert Allen Stanford • frozen account

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