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The Grief Performance: Football’s Concussions and Controversies
Ronald Metellus on concussions, Manti Te’o, and the complicity of fandom. Two Samoan linebackers have been making news lately. One is a graduating college senior and the other is dead. The latter,...
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Derek Jeter’s Secret Sauce
No, Skip Bayless wasn’t right. Neil Cohen tells us the secret is mental, not physical. Yogi Berra once said that “baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” A wise man, Berra couldn’t...
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Who Will Be the Next Face of Baseball?
As Derek Jeter nears retirement, Scott Behson muses, with his tongue in his cheek, about who will replace the Yankees captain as baseball’s poster boy. There used to be debates about who was the Face...
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The Best $10 Ticket inTown
Mark Spellun talks relationships, love and parenting in a Yankees-Red Sox world. “Tell me about yourself,” my future wife asked, already bored on our first date at a tony Manhattan restaurant. It was...
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Boston Strong
As a life-long Yankees fan, Neil Cohen has to tip his hat to the Red Sox, who, in the wake of April’s terror attacks on Boston, are forging a feel-good, worst-to-first season. I’ve never watched a...
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Bucky F#$&*ing Dent
35 years ago this week the dreaded Yankees beat Liam Day’s beloved Red Sox in a one-game playoff. What he remembers are the lessons, good and bad, his mother imparted. — Wild card games were the rage...
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The Yankees Embrace Their Dark Side
Despite losing Robinson Cano to the free agent market, the Yankees are doing what they always do—spend. Neil Cohen explains why they don’t really have a choice. — In 2008, the New York Yankees won 89...
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Where’s The Mentor Alex Rodriguez Never Had?
Joe Rutland looks at the drama behind Rodriguez and how a mentor could have helped him navigate his life and career with more honesty and grace. —- Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez could really use a...
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Derek Jeter’s Swan Song
The Yankee captain, Mr. November, perhaps the greatest shortstop in baseball history, is set to retire at the end of the 2014 season. Rob Scarborough takes a look back at Derek Jeter’s career. It’s the...
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The 40 Year Old . . . Jeter Fan
We grew up with Derek Jeter; his retirement is the end of an era in our lives. — Yesterday, Derek Jeter played his last game in pinstripes, concluding a sterling twenty-year career as the face and...
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Royals Run Recalls Memories of Rooting Against The Dreaded Yankees
This Kansas City Royals World Series appearance has Brian Harmon daydreaming of the ghosts of Royals past. Their center fielder introduced me to the beauty of an inside-the-park home run. Their...
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Former New York Yankee, Derek Jeter is… Doing It Right
A great baseball player on the field, a great person off the field. Derek Jeter is doing it right. — “If I make it to the Major Leagues, I want to set up a foundation that will have a positive impact...
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In Praise of the Underdog
In sports, as in life, we love the underdog. Every day we battle the odds, and now more than ever, we feel the deck is stacked for those richer and more powerful than us. When we sit glued to the TV...
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Our Tribute to a Baseball Legend and Legendary Philosopher
View image | gettyimages.com “Yogi Berra always satisfied my need for WTF quotes before WTF was an acronym.” — The world has lot a great ball player, a possibly greater philosopher. Yogi Berra has...
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It’s Not for Us to Know
Yogi Berra’s passing shows us that no life fits within a feel-good headline. ___ I have no idea whether Yogi Berra was a good man. Which is fine. After all, I never knew him. I did know “him,” though....
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Maas, Spencer and Bird: A Yankee Comparison for the Playoffs
Kevin Maas, Shane Spencer and Greg Bird As I’ve watched (mainly listened to) the Yankees’ games this past month and a half and witnessed Greg Bird’s awesome introduction to the major leagues, I’ve...
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Joe Girardi Just Illustrated 5 Ways Business Leaders Fail
Embed from Getty Images — If and when New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi leaves his career in baseball, he might consider a teaching job at the Harvard Business School. He’d have valuable first-hand...
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So…This Happened: Three Things in Sports (July 24, 2019 Edition)
‘So…This Happened’ is our quick-hitting weekly round-up of some of the biggest stories in sports. Take a read and own the water cooler sports conversations, if any of you actually have a water...
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Nice Guys Finish Last…. Except When They Are Reading
The first book that ever obsessed me, that changed my life, was Nice Guys Finish Last, an autobiography by Leo Durocher. I was twelve when I purchased the book with my birthday money. What first...
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Sports Detox: Episode 118
— Michael Kasdan and Wai Sallas talk sports. This week, they touch on the cheating scandals in baseball and football, the Yankees signing Gerrit Cole, and the greatness of Raven’s QB, Lamar Jackson. —...
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