CHAMPIONS, YES, BUT GREATNESS, NO
There are 8 million stories in the naked city and George Steinbrenner figures into most of them. The world champion Yankees won their last seven games but, it is so...
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FOR PADRES, COMING HOME WAS NO HELP
The World Series came west Tuesday night for what looks to be a very short stay in the land of the fish taco, the aloha shirt and serious sunsets, where...
NICER WEATHER PRODUCES THE SAME RESULT
The World Series came west Tuesday night for what looks to be a very short stay in the land of the fish taco, the aloha shirt and serious sunsets, where...
HERNANDEZ, THE MOVIE–CAN’T WAIT
It was several minutes into a conversation about L. Doo Kay, the Yankees' winning pitcher of Game 2--not on my World Series roster, by the way--that I asked the obvious...
EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE BIG APPLE IS CIDER
The notion that the World Series belongs nowhere else but Yankee Stadium is no more absurd than New York honoring Sammy Sosa for being the Buzz Aldrin of home run...
GET SET FOR SERIES HISTORY WRIT SMALL
New York Yankees in three--two, maybe. Not possible? Any year in which someone hits 70 home runs, anything is possible. Even the San Diego Padres in the World Series. So,...
TESTS TAKE A BITE OUT OF TYSON’S PSYCHE
One is flooded with relief at the news that Mike Tyson is not too sane to be allowed, once again as he has delicately put it, legally to knock a...
AS LEVEL OF PLAY SINKS, NASTY AROMA RISES
Because of the two small hills that flank the stadium, they call it football between the buttes. At least that's how they spell it here. Maybe it was not the...
IRISH BLOOM AGAIN ON DAY OF WEIRDNESS
Trip ticket to the Rose Bowl: Just go to Arizona and turn right. Once again Notre Dame has a big reward in front of it, if not as big as...
JORDAN A TEASER, MCGWIRE A BREEZER, HAWKS ARE GEEZERS
Some things you suspect, some things you guess at and some things you just know. Chicago hasn't seen a bigger tease than Michael Jordan since Sally Rand at the '33...