The morning started with rumors of names mentioned in Senator George Mitchell's report to Major League Baseball, but not until this afternoon were any rumors substantiated. Stating in his report that “there is much about the illegal use of performance enhancing substances in baseball that I did not learn,” Mitchell proceeded to lay waste to the careers of many notable players, perhaps none more so than Roger Clemens. In the report Brian McNamee, Roger Clemens’......

Nineteen-year-old Kevin Brown was senteced to 3 1/2 years in prison for his brutal attack on two Chinese teenagers in Queens. Last summer, Brown and a friend, Paul Heavey, drove up next to a Lexus driven by Raymond Liang, John Lu and other Chinese friends. Brown and Heavey shouted slurs at them and rammed their car into the Lexus. Liang drove away, and when Lu got out to check the damage on the car, Brown......

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-Mets 3 Nationals 1: New York couldn’t break through against Washington starter, Tony Armas, Jr., but scored single runs off of the Nationals’ bullpen in the seventh, eighth and ninth for the victory. Michael Tucker homered on the first pitch he saw in the eighth to break the tie and Billy Wagner took over for Darren Oliver and got his 28th save of the season. -Angels 5 Yankees 3: New York became the latest team......

Baseball has a wacky transaction system. Yesterday the Yankees offered Bernie Williams arbitration, but only because they knew he would decline it. Why the apparent waste of time? Because without the offer, the Yankees would have lost negotiating rights to Bernie and if Bernie had accepted he would have been in line for a salary near ten million dollars for 2006. So, the Yankees and Bernie have until January 8th to make a deal. Even......

It was a season of lows and highs from an 11-19 start to 95 wins and a playoff spot the Yankees gave their fans a story with many twists and turns in 2005. There was the emergence of Robinson Cano and Chien-Ming Wang and the painful decline of Bernie Williams. In the end, the Yankees couldn’t keep the momentum they had built in September going and fell to the Angels in five games. The......

Maybe all Randy Johnson needed was to be angry when he pitched. He came to New York and angrily pushed a cameraman. After that day in February, the Randy Johnson of 2004 seemed to disappear and a mediocre forty-one year old pitcher took his place. This week, Randy Johnson got angry again and the results were impressive. Johnson flirted with a no-hitter and stuck out eleven batters Tuesday night as the Yankees beat the Twins......

The Yankees can’t wait to escape from California. They may have the dumbest name in baseball, but the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim can play baseball and on Saturday night they thumped the Yankees for the third straight game, this time winning 8-6. The Yankees actually had a 3-1 lead in this game courtesy of an RBI single from Alex Rodriguez and back-to-back homeruns by Derek Jeter and Robinson Cano, but with Kevin Brown on......

Monday’s game was a microcosm of the Yankees’ season, not pretty but ultimately effective. It took them almost four hours, but in the end the Yankees outlasted the Rangers 11-10. As a result, the Yankees are back in first place for the first time since April. Gary Sheffield, Jorge Posada and Hideki Matsui all had home runs for the Yankees, but Ruben Sierra delivered the big hit, a two-run single that put the Yankees ahead......

The Yankees may be taking this idea of developing their farm system a little too seriously. Forced to start Tim Redding and Darrell May in the past week, the Yankees turned to prospect, Al Leiter, to pitch Sunday night. Since leaving the Yankees sixteen years ago, Leiter had won 148 games and three World Series. Sunday night he stymied the Red Sox leading the Yankees to a 5-3 victory while striking out a season-high eight.......

Don’t look now, but the Yankees are winning again. Friday night they dispatched the Indians 5-4 and currently sit in second place, 3 1/2 games behind the disgruntled Boston Red Sox. Friday’s victory was due to solid, but not spectacular pitching from rookie, Chien-Ming Wang. Wang raised his record to 6-3 and has become an integral part of this team. With Kevin Brown, Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright all on the disabled list, the Yankees......

For those of you who thought the low-point of the 2005 Yankee season was losing three out of four games to the Devil Rays, guess again. The Kansas City Royals, winners of only 26 percent of their games before this series, completed a three game sweep of the Yankees Thursday night with a 5-2 victory. For the series, the Yankees managed to score a total of six runs against a pitching staff with an ERA......

The Yankees and Alex Rodriguez will be sorry to see Detroit leave town. Three games, three victories, the last one courtesy of a go-ahead home run by A Rod in the fifth inning. For the series, Rodriguez went 5-8 with 3 homers and six RBI’s. Not a bad start to the week. Kevin Brown continued his resurgence, pitching seven innings for his fourth straight win. Since getting bombed by the Devil Rays on May 6th,......

The Yankees put on an offensive display Tuesday night, socking six home runs on route to a 12-3 victory over the Tigers. Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada both homered twice and Gary Sheffield and Robinson Cano also went deep. Mike Mussina contributed seven scoreless innings to get his fifth win of the season. What seemed like a routine victory changed in the bottom of the seventh when Tigers’ pitcher, Franklyn German, hit Alex Rodriguez. It......

Mike Mussina led the way Friday night pitching seven, strong innings to pace the Yankees to a 9-4 victory over Oakland. Mussina ran into trouble in the third inning, when the first to Oakland batters reached base, but he escaped with the help of a great double play turned by Robinson Cano and Derek Jeter. Cano has impressed the Yankees with his defense and has recently started to hit, going 3-4 Friday with two doubles......

It is an overused baseball axiom, but its’ truth cannot be denied; pitching wins championships. A week ago, the Yankee pitching staff was a mess, now it has turned in five straight quality starts, the latest coming from rookie, Chien-Ming Wang, who pitched seven and a third innings of solid baseball as the Yankees beat the Mariners 7-4. The victory was a season-high fourth in a row and brought the Yankee record to 15-19. Tino......

The Yankees finally took a step in the right direction this weekend, shutting out the Oakland A’s 6-0 and winning their first series at home since they took two of three from Boston to start the season. Much-maligned Kevin Brown pitched seven shutout innings a day after Mike Mussina pitched the first complete-game shutout for the Yankees in nearly two years. Alex Rodriguez, Tino Martinez and Jorge Posada all had home runs, and for two......

Alex Rodriguez had quite a night Tuesday at the Stadium. In fact, after his first three at bats, the real question was whether or not he would hit for the home run cycle. Alas, A Rod, did not, but his three homerun, ten RBI performance sparked the Yankees to a 124 win and may have indicated that the “real” A Rod has finally arrived in the Bronx. Regardless, for one night at least, the fans......

It was beginning to seem like the Yankees didn’t work weekends. After dropping two straight games to Texas, the Yankees had compiled a 2-7 record on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Desperately needing to salvage a win, the Yankees turned to their imported ace, Randy Johnson, and he delivered. Johnson pitched the way the Yankees envisioned he would when they acquired him, giving up three hits and one run in the Yankees’ 11-1 triumph. With Jaret......

In the movie, Caddyshack, Judge Smails famously opined that, “the world needs ditch diggers too.” That is great news for Kevin Brown as once again he dug a hole too deep for the Yankees to climb out of as they lost to Texas 5-3 on Friday night. Brown has now put the Yankees in the hole for three straight starts counting the playoffs and one has to wonder how long the Yankees will wait for......

Last October, the Yankees turned to Kevin Brown to save their season, Sunday they turned to him to save their weekend; once again he failed. Brown was the latest victim of the Orioles’ bats as they pounded him for six runs on their way to an 8-4 victory. Over the weekend, the Orioles outscored the lifeless Yankees 23-11, by getting clutch hitting and solid pitching. To make matters worse for the Yankees, owner, George Steinbrenner......

Monday Afternoon, the Yankees watched the Red Sox receive their World Series rings and then watched as the Red Sox ran circles around them. For the second game in a row, the Yankees looked listless as they succumbed to the Red Sox 8-1. Tim Wakefield continued his mastery of the Yankees, giving up only one run in seven innings by fooling the Yankee hitters with his knuckleball. The Yankee offense collected only five hits total.......

For Yankee fans, Opening Night 2005 could not have come soon enough. A brutal winter, the anticipation of seeing Randy Johnson in pinstripes and the disappointment left over from last year’s collapse, have created an urgency among the fans to see their team play ball. This year’s edition of the Yankees should be an improvement over last year’s, especially when you consider the starting pitching. Javier Vazquez, Jon Lieber and Jose Contreras, all starters......

The Red Sox and David Wells have agreed to a two-year contract worth at least $8 million. Wells, the former girthy Yankee starter will join the Red Sox after one season with the San Diego Padres when he was 12-8 with a 3.73 ERA in 31 games pitched. Before joining the Padres, the 41 year old Wells had back surgery after two seasons with the Yankees. For those two seasons. 2002-03, Wells was 34-14 in......

It's the second day of Yankee premature-post-season depression, and the local press is taking note. The Yankees went to the Bronx to clear out their lockers while Joe Torre and George Steinbrenner claimed they'd get back to work. Get back to work throwing money at players! There are legions of stunned Yankees fans in the city and all over the country; NY1 headed to Boston Market on 23rd Street and heard from one fan who......

...It just lays down and loses four straight games to its biggest rivals. In the span of four days, the Yankees managed to lose four games to become the first team in baseball post season history to be up three games to none and lose a seven game series. Gotta give credit where credit is due, the Red Sox have guts and they pulled off a miraculous series of wins. The biggest comeback and......

When did it become acceptable to act like a jackass and risk the safety of the players and umpires on playing field by throwing baseballs onto the field. It's one thing to express your displeasure with a call by booing or even cursing, but there was no excuse for the Yankee "fans" that threw balls onto the field in the 8th inning of last night's game. Those that threw the balls last night are......

Clearly, we were looking to work in some homonyms today. Too bad they aren't playing the Twins anymore. Anyway, last night, the Yankees defeated the Red Sox, 31 (box score). The Yankees now lead the best of seven series two games to none. While Pedro Martinez has proclaimed the Yankees are his daddies, his performance last night wasn't all that bad. He threw for six innings, giving up four hits and three runs. His......

In a game billed as a must win, the Yankees did just that last night. They defeated the Twins 7-6 in the 12th inning (box score) to even the series at one game each. Unlike game 1, the Yankees brought their bats, hitting three home runs against Twins' starter Brad Radke. By the time the game was decided though, the starters were well gone and the bullpens ended up playing key roles. In the 7th......

100 wins for $180 million? According to Gothamist's trusty calculator, that's just little over $1 million a game, clearly a bargain. Now that the Yankees have won the AL East for the seventh season in a row, it's all a matter of what they will do in the playoffs. Will they make it to the World Series, will they lose in the ALCS, or will lose in the ALDS? If all goes well, the Yankees......