Daily News: These days, a lot of time is spent trying to figure out how to "save" newspapers; can something that prints at a printer and then is delivered to a newsstand hours after the thing is "closed," to be purchased for money, really be relevant in the 24-hour instant-news cycle? Or something like that. Read More
New York Post: It's happened before: Vanity Fair breaks some news, and the New York Post floods the non-Vanity Fair demographic with all the goods. This morning it's accused Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff's secretary sounding off on what the guy was like before he got all lethargic and doughy. That apparently happened when the F.B.I. and Read More
Jacoby Ellsbury’s steal of home in Sunday night’s game – with New York third baseman Cody Ransom standing so far away from Ellsbury that he couldn’t have identified him in a police lineup -- didn’t end the season for the New York Yankees, but if things continue like this for much longer, Yankee fans Read More
Daily News: We've been counseling the Daily News not to fear overdoing the Craigslist Killer piece this week, but we fear the paper has proven us wrong. Today's front page promises "EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS" and offers one of them: the accused murderer caught in a candid in a sort of party fist-pump in front of some Read More
As the Yankees head into their final meeting of the year with the Red Sox, looking up at them like at a distant star, one has to wonder what all this means to them. If we are to believe what the commentators say, every Red Sox game is special, and despite the standings, the Yankees Read More
From the early moments of what ended up as the longest All Star Game in baseball history, it appeared that a member of the New York Yankees would play the hero in the festivities at Yankee Stadium Tuesday night. As it turned out, the hero would end up a member of the Boston Red Sox—J.D. Read More
BOSTON – Barack Obama reveled in his apparent Iowa momentum on Sunday night, even after moving on from the Hawkeye State to a low-cost fundraiser in Boston’s Park Plaza Castle.
“I just got back from Iowa, where it appears we’re doing pretty good,” he told a cheering crowd estimated by his campaign to number 2,100. “It’s Read More
Big enough that his status among the G.O.P. candidates as The Big Baseball Fan may have been usurped last night by Mitt Romney, a man Read More
Now it is up to the Yankees, who vowed not to negotiate with Rodriguez should he Read More
Micah Kellner, a Democratic Assemblyman from Manhattan and a Mets fan, takes a whack at Rudy Giuliani for supporting the Red Sox.
"This is the biggest flip-flop ever for him," Kellner says.
We’ve already seen the future of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry: flamethrowers like Joba Chamberlain and Philip Hughes joining second baseman Robinson Cano in the Bronx; second baseman Dustin Pedroia’s rookie-of-the-year caliber .324 average (entering Sunday’s game), phenom outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury’s near-.400 average in his first 66 big-league at bats, and rookie pitcher Clay Buchholz’s no-hitter Read More
When I met him at the Times Square offices of The New Yorker, Roger Angell—who’s just published a new book of autobiographical essays, Let Me Finish—seemed slightly out of place, though he’s been showing up for work at the magazine for 50 years. A spry and healthy 85, he may have looked the part, dressed Read More
When I met him at the Times Square offices of The New Yorker, Roger Angell—who’s just published a new book of autobiographical essays, Let Me Finish—seemed slightly out of place, though he’s been showing up for work at the magazine for 50 years. A spry and healthy 85, he may have looked the part, dressed Read More
Booing Johnny Damon—what a bunch of classless ingrates. As I remember, Johnny Damon was playing for the Oakland A's when the Red Sox took him, by giving him a ton more money, ripping off a small-market club. He came to Boston and put in three great years. He didn't complain, didn't hotdog, just played hard, Read More
Johnny Damon has completed his purchase of a condo at One Beacon Court for $400,000 under asking, as reported today in The Observer. However, Mr. Damon still owned two residences from his playing days in Boston. His Brookline home--which he most recently lived in--briefly went on the market last month. Now, he has finally Read More
