| KEN DAVIDOFF'S 7TH-INNING STRETCH http://www.newsday.com/spor... Baseball Articles Newsday - To think he played on Team USA in last year's World Baseball Classic, and he probably was the least-known guy there. Pitcher of the Week: Josh Beckett, Red Sox. Just another example that it takes years to fully evaluate trades. Dumbest Comment of the ... |
| SHAKEUP IN THE BRONX: Three step into spotlight http://www.newsday.com/spor... Baseball Articles Newsday - It stands out more as time goes on in baseball and such a transition becomes less frequent. Willie Randolph got the Mets' managing job despite similar inexperience, although he had been coaching for 11 years to Mattingly's four. But then again ... |
| Job of Yankees manager will become revolving door http://www.newsday.com/spor... Baseball Articles Newsday - Over time, he wasn't just a manager but a myth, memorialized by television executives, particularly those of Fox and NBC Sports, for whom a mere baseball game is never enough. Torre's story was so TV-ready and compelling - his years of waiting for his ... |
| Quick turn http://www.freep.com/apps/p... Baseball Articles Detroit Free Press - He batted .304, shared conference player of the year honors and rediscovered his love for baseball. "He's as good a person as he is a player," Walton said in a telephone interview last week. "If my daughter was that age, I'd hope she'd find somebody ... |
| Email This Story http://www.freep.com/apps/p... Baseball Articles Detroit Free Press - With a smile, Marinelli even offers a story about a hidden-ball trick Kiffin once pulled with a rosin bag while managing youth baseball in Nebraska. "If you talk to him again," Marinelli says, "ask him about that." No, Marinelli and Kiffin didn't talk ... |
| Tap. Tap. Tap. Enough! http://www.oregonlive.com/s... Baseball Articles Oregonian - Major League Baseball had to work itself back from a work stoppage. The NHL still is trying to work itself back from a work stoppage. And each of them had capital in the bank. The National Lacrosse League does not, and while we sit and wait to see ... |
| Opinion: Focus on Dice-K in Game 7 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... Baseball Articles MSNBC - ... Matsuzaka's first season in the major leagues, after all, Matsuzaka has oscillated from good (for the first four months) to bad (for the last two), and now it just so happens that the most highly publicized international pitching pursuit in baseball ... |
| Boston Banks on Schilling to Extend ALCS http://www.forbes.com/feeds... Baseball Articles Forbes - What Schilling - and the Red Sox - did next is part of baseball lore. "He really shouldn't have pitched," Boston manager Terry Francona said Friday before putting the team's season in Schilling's hands again. "And I can't remember one moment ever ... |
| Warming to idea of Yankees meltdown http://www.baltimoresun.com... Baseball Articles Baltimore Sun - They have taken a page from the early George Steinbrenner period, when the Boss was so busy seeking instant baseball gratification that he pushed the team into a 14-year postseason drought. It was Torre who restored the Yankees dynasty, and now the ... |
| One-year, incentive-based offer insulted Torre http://www.newsday.com/spor... Baseball Articles Newsday - RYE, N.Y. - Joe Torre said he saw through the Yankees' one-year, performance-based contract offer that would have allowed ... Yankees blog Baseball blog More Baseball Jets Giants Islanders Rangers Knicks College Sports Golf MMA/Boxing Keyboard Quarterbacks Sports ... |