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Sports Central August 4, 2008 Diane M. Grassi |
Gaming Congress, Yanks Could Strike Out The issues raised with the public financing of the new Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY may have a broad impact for cities across the United States. |
Sports Central March 12, 2008 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Goes to Harlem Seeking Welfare MLB and two of its two major league teams cash in on public entitlements, courtesy of the City of New York. |
Sports Central September 11, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Selig Shows Lack of Leadership We need direct communications oversight within the Commissioner's office to address matters of emergency, whether weather or security related, to avoid another debacle. |
Sports Central October 13, 2008 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB is No Longer Recession-Proof When Wall Street tanks, it not only has profound global ramifications, but impacts the local economies and the financing of MLB teams is entrenched in corporate sponsorships. |
Salon.com January 16, 2002 Allen Barra |
This just in: Giuliani, Steinbrenner are sleazebags! Plus: Barry Bonds' $90 million deal is a no-brainer... |
Sports Central November 30, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Jeopardizes 2006 Season for Nationals Any success the Washington Nationals enjoy in 2006 will be in spite of Commissioner Selig, not because of him. |
Sports Central October 21, 2012 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Haves and Have-Nots Not StubHub's Fault Now that the 2012 Major League Baseball postseason is in full swing, what better time than now to revisit the access fans have to attend MLB games? |
Sports Central December 20, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
Nation's Capitol, MLB Go Full Circle At one time, Major League Baseball was our celebrated pastime in the spring, summer, and early fall. Over the past couple of seasons, however, we have been put on a perpetual baseball calendar of an ongoing sideshow. |
InternetNews November 11, 2008 Christopher Saunders |
How Cisco's Wiring the Yankee House Wiring the new Yankee Stadium for omnipresent video, wireless connectivity and e-commerce is the name of the game for the multibillion-dollar sports franchise. |
Sports Central December 15, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
The Epitome of Hubris At a time when Major League Baseball could really use its players to promote a positive image, two of its biggest stars -- Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez -- choose to take the easiest route to earn the quickest return without including the community or its children. |
Fast Company April 2009 Zachary Wilson |
HOK Imagines the Ballpark of the Future A look at the Yankees' and Mets' pricey new homes -- and the baseball stadium of tomorrow. |
Sports Central March 16, 2006 Alfons Prince |
Nats Have New Stadium, But at What Cost? While the city remains divided over the stadium, the bigger problem may be trying to justify the stadium to those high school children who see bigger issues in the city. |
Sports Central September 15, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
Will MLB's Latest Tech Hurt the Game? As the end of the 2009 Major League Baseball season approaches, here's a critical look at the technological advances instituted in 2009 and intended for the game's future progress. |
Reason May 2005 Matt Welch |
Subsidies and Lies Few corporate welfare tales are filled with as many tawdry lies as the return of professional baseball to the nation's capital. |
Sports Central May 10, 2007 Diane M. Grassi |
Does Clemens' Contract Disrespect Baseball? There are a number of questions beneath the veneer that are far bigger than one Roger Clemens. |
Sports Central April 14, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Ramps Up Casino Sponsorships How does MLB oversee such sponsorships between MLB teams and those casino operations that allow legal sports betting on their premises? |
Reason May 2005 Daniel McGraw |
Demolishing Sports Welfare Two court cases could mean the end of publicly funded stadiums. |
Sports Central January 12, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Never Say Never With Yankees Many new faces will be showing up to the Yankees' Legends Field in Tampa this February, so much so that combining this offseason with last year's offseason, even an avid Yankee fan may have to think twice to name the entire place setting at this point. |
Sports Central October 2, 2007 Diane M. Grassi |
Ex-Slugger Remains Key Player in Urban Renewal Former Major League Baseball player Mo Vaughn actually may prove more exemplary in his post-playing career than he was during his 12 years on a baseball diamond. |
Sports Central June 20, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Are the Yankees Back? With new additions all over the field, the New York Yankees are once again romping through the regular season, despite some key injuries. Yet, does it really matter? Even if the Yankees win 105-110 games? |
Sports Central March 3, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees Hopeful Winter Deals Pay Off The Yankees appear substantially better off for the 2005 season, given their pitching acquisitions, but doubts still remain for the long haul in center field and at first base. |
Sports Central November 1, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
2004 MLB Season in Retrospect While articles, book deals and high-paying endorsements will be doled out to the Boston Red Sox and their individual players well into the 2005 season, the ending to the 2004 Major League Baseball season left a lot of us perplexed and yearning for a more balanced and tidier ending. |
Sports Central August 31, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Unaccountability Leaves Cloud Over MLB As long as positive drug test results can be dismissed by players, doubted in the headlines, and penalties to players so meager, Major League Baseball will continue to have a public relations cloud over its head. |
Sports Illustrated October 24, 2000 Rick Reilly |
The Out-of-Towner Folks in the rest of the country see this World Series as the government versus Microsoft. They don't care who wins as long as a whole lot of New Yorkers suffer. But having studied the Mets' and the Yankees' fans, it seems to me there are some basic differences... |
Sports Central October 13, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
What Happened to the Yanks? The 2005 postseason for the New York Yankees followed one of the most challenging of all regular seasons for manager Joe Torre. |
Sports Central July 13, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
George Steinbrenner, RIP: The Best Mistranslated, The Worst Exaggerated Remembering Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. |
Sports Central February 11, 2008 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Ownership Given Pass By Feds The way in which the drug culture was arguably enabled by MLB and its subsequent punishments were laughable and was perhaps the precursor to the abuse of steroids and HGH in the 1990s and into the 21st century. |
Sports Central December 25, 2008 Sean Crowe |
The Yankees Have Ruined My Christmas Someone needs to remind the Yankees that the United States is going through a pretty bad recession. |
CFO April 1, 2004 Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
Sports Central April 6, 2005 Venkat Ganesan |
Reviewing the Big Unit's Yankee Debut Randy Johnson leads the Yankees to an opening day win over the Red Sox. |
Sports Central June 20, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: The Damn Yankees Are the NY Yankees going to their customary form? |
Salon.com October 17, 2001 Allen Barra |
The decline and fall of the Yankees -- I mean, the A's Ancient arrogance beats the youthful variety -- this time... |
Sports Central November 18, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
I Don't Know Jack Would Mets fans still have no problem with the Jackie Robinson Rotunda if he had been a Yankee? |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: 2008 Baseball Games To Watch You can't watch every game, so you should at least try to catch some of these must-see games. |
Sports Central July 29, 2004 Phil Wohl |
Giambi Concerns Loom Over Yankees It's been a long season for New York Yankee slugger Jason Giambi. First, he was mentioned in the steroid scandal and then his strength was sapped by an intestinal parasite. Can the Yankees survive without their cleanup hitter? |
Sports Central September 22, 2008 Jeff Kallman |
"Fort Apache, Yankee Stadium" All this season's eulogizing the big ball orchard in the Bronx has been gushy, mushy, sentimental, and mostly on the mark. |
Salon.com October 21, 2000 Allen Barra |
The traffic jam Series Thanks to a bloated playoff format and declining TV viewership, this year's World Series doesn't have quite the resonance of those from the "Golden Age"... |
AskMen.com Malcolm MacMillan |
Top 10: MLB Landmarks To Visit In 2008 While the main interest is the actual ballgame, the actual stadium, the sights, the smells, and the sounds have a lot to do with the enjoyment of the game. |
Sports Illustrated April 17, 2002 Frank Deford |
Pay ball Watching games on free TV is not a constitutional right... |
Sports Illustrated October 30, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Dominating duo Schilling and Johnson control the World Series... |
Sports Central December 1, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
A Baseball Negotiation, My Foot Derek Jeter may have won a 2010 Gold Glove that he doesn't really deserve. But neither does he deserve the apparent negotiating strategy of the New York Yankees, for whom he has been the franchise. |
Sports Central August 2, 2011 Diane M. Grassi |
Joe Torre, the Next MLB Commissioner? Joe Torre, former Major League Baseball manager of no less than five MLB teams, as well as a former 17-year MLB player, has been making his way through the maze of MLB executive life in 2011. |
Sports Central October 20, 2004 Hank Waddles |
It's the End of the World As We Know It The seventh game of any series in any sport is special, but game between the Red Sox and Yankees is something more than we're used to, for about 1,918 reasons. Here are a few. |
Sports Central February 19, 2007 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Profits From Change in Immigration Law MLB has far more in common with American-based multi-national conglomerates than it does with the idea of inclusiveness, where bottom-line profits dictate company policy. |
Sports Central February 21, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Not-So-Great Yankee Double Switch One day after the 1964 World Series ended with the St. Louis Cardinals defeating the New York Yankees, both Series managers were out, and one of them went to work for the team he'd just opposed. |
Sports Central September 18, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
Revisionist History, Yankee Style There was a lot of misinformation after 9/11 (and, of course, there continues to be). Included in that is the delusion that the Yankees were some sort of panacea for all New Yorkers in 2001. |
Sports Central August 11, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Sportswriter Scoops Self to Remain Relevant When a journalist perhaps sees the writing on the proverbial wall, does he or she then deliberately bend the rules to remain relevant? Such apparently appears to be the case as evidenced in a July 27, 2009 NY Daily News column written by highly regarded sportswriter Bill Madden. |
Sports Central March 27, 2011 Jess Coleman |
Can You Buy Wins in Baseball? Could the Yankees' unlimited sum of cash really result in an astonishing 27 World Championships? |
Sports Central November 3, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
The A-Rod Conundrum A debate about Alex Rodriguez. |
AskMen.com Troy St. Louis |
The Cost Of Owning Stadium & Arena Naming Rights Of the current 121 teams that play North America's top four pro sports games (baseball, hockey, football, and basketball), 83 teams have their home stadiums and arenas named after corporate sponsors. |