A-Rod Homers, Kuroda Strong In Win NEW YORK — Jorge Posada is used to catching pitches behind the plate. On Friday, though, Posada threw one from the mound — to his father, Jorge Sr. The recently retired Yankees catcher threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to his former team’s home opener at Yankee Stadium. He is the 11th former… Read more →
A-Rod Homers, Kuroda Strong In Win NEW YORK — New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez called Ken Griffey Jr. “a teammate, brother and mentor, all in one.” So that made it even more special when A-Rod tied his former Seattle Mariners teammate on Major League Baseball’s home run list. Leading off the bottom of the third inning, Rodriguez belted… Read more →
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In the center of a messy, bowl-shaped pile of branches, twine, plastic bags and pizza plates, two baby hawks lifted their wobbly white pompom heads Friday morning to snap at red chunks of rat flesh dangling from their mother’s beak. Steadying the rodent corpse with a talon, she tore stringy entrails and delicately fed them to her offspring, bit by… Read more →
Fredric U. Dicker, state editor of The New York Post and one of Albany’s longest tenured reporters, announced on Friday that he was writing a biography of Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat elected governor in 2010. “He’s remarkably popular, being mentioned for president,” Mr. Dicker said on his daily radio show on WGDJ-AM in Albany. “What a great story, and what… Read more →
“No air,” he said. “I just could not breathe. That’s when I thought, if I don’t find this woman in a few minutes, we’re both going to die.” Less than 12 hours earlier, Mr. Booker had run into a burning house on his street and carried a woman to safety, but only after arguing with a police detective assigned to… Read more →
Ladies and gentlemen, meet your new Yankees cleanup hitter: Robinson Cano. Against right-handed starters, anyway. Joe Girardi flip-flopped Cano and Alex Rodriguez, his usual cleanup hitter, for today’s home opener against the Angels and Ervin Santana, their starting pitcher, an arrangement that as of today the manager says will be permanent. “This is the way it’s gonna be,” Girardi said… Read more →
W2W4: Angels-Yankees NEXT VIDEO W2W4: Angels-Yankees W2W4: Angels-Yankees Yankees Sweep Orioles In 10 Yankees Sweep Orioles In 10 ESPN New York 1050 Hot Topics ESPN New York 1050 Hot Topics BBTN: Angels-Yankees Series BBTN: Angels-Yankees Series The central focus of the 110th home opener in New York Yankees history will be that familiar battery of Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada…. Read more →
History Repeating Itself? Albert Pujols is hitting just .217 without a home run. But last season he hit under .200 in the first six games as the Cardinals started 2-4. He finished at .299 and the Cards won the World Series. powered by To Albert Pujols, Yankee Stadium may as well be any other ballpark on Friday. The mystique associated… Read more →
Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times Dear Diary: Metropolitan Diary Reader Tales From the City SCENE: In front of a landmark Upper West Side specialty food store, two young construction workers are in the process of deflating the now-ubiquitous huge Union-Buster Rat, which that day bears the sign “ASBESTOS KILLS.” A middle-aged soccer mom type approaches the two young men and,… Read more →
