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A series by Joel Sherman chronicles how the Yankees’ fiasco of 1990 laid the groundwork for a dynasty. The room was a step up from a broom closet. The visiting manager’s office at the Kingdome was hastily turned into a forum for a press conference. The Yankees brought in general manager Pete Peterson and manager …
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that New York City would implement a mandatory curfew and increase its police presence to 800 officers in preparation for another night of violence in the wake of protests surrounding George Floyd’s death. In a joint statement, Cuomo and de …
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Following a judge’s ruling to dismiss his defamation and libel lawsuit against former Mets teammate Ron Darling, Lenny Dykstra claimed Darling and Mets owners, the Wilpons, were “all-in” on conspiring against him in a series of confusing, profanity-laced videos posted to Twitter on Monday night. While filming himself on the side of a freeway, Dykstra …
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The Knicks are one of two NBA teams that have not put out a public statement addressing the death of George Floyd and support for the black community in the face of police brutality, and reportedly some players and employees are “furious” about it, according to ESPN. A source confirmed some Knicks employees — including …
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Part 5 in a series analyzing the Yankees’ top prospects Any conversation about Yankees pitching prospects these days begins with Deivi Garcia and Clarke Schmidt. Or Clarke Schmidt and Deivi Garcia. You pick the order. Garcia, 20, pitched for Single-A Tampa, Double-A Trenton and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre last year and was mentioned as a possible September …
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Years later, Patrick Ewing would sit beside the long oak desk in a corner of the Georgetown basketball office. He’d spoken with great enthusiasm of this present passion, coaching his alma mater. He’d talked about the difficulty folding away in storage trunks all the memories he’d stored up as a player. “My life is a …
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The death of George Floyd sparked Rangers prospect K’Andre Miller to speak out Monday for the first time about being the target of hundreds of racial slurs while conducting an online Q&A with fans after signing his NHL contract. “I’ve struggled for months to find the words to express my frustration and anger over the …
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MLB and the Players Association would have difficulty reaching an agreement just because of their history of distrust and distaste and because they are navigating around those feelings during a pandemic. But accentuating the problematic relationship even further is that the sides are not even in accord on what they actually agreed to in late …
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Lenny Dykstra’s defamation and libel lawsuit against his former Mets teammate Ron Darling was dismissed by a judge Friday. The former Mets outfielder filed a lawsuit about a year ago against Darling following the release of the pitcher’s autobiography, “108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game.” …
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Widespread looting in New York City was planned advance by a coordinated group seeking to target wealthy neighborhoods, the head of the NYPD’s counterterrorism unit said on Sunday. A number of stores, many of them in the upscale Soho neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, were looted on Sunday evening during protests that followed the death of …
A series by Joel Sherman chronicles how the Yankees’ fiasco of 1990 laid the groundwork for a dynasty. The room was a step up from a broom closet. The visiting manager’s office at the Kingdome was hastily turned into a forum for a press conference. The Yankees brought in general manager Pete Peterson and manager …
