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    April 26, 2012

    Pudge Rodriguez Is One Of The Top Five Catchers In Baseball History -- Despite What Tim Kurkjian Thinks

    A few nights ago at the Ballpark in Arlington, ESPN's Tim Kurkjian, covering the retirement ceremony for Pudge Rodriguez, tweeted "His stats warrant first ballot Hall of Famer, ninth best C ever for me." No problem with the first statement, but what exactly is the second based on? I think most b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Q & A: Don Fleming On The Grunge Years, Courtney Love's Work Ethic, The Velvet Monkeys And Being Sonic Youth's "Manager"

    ​One of the more surreal moments in television history happened one superlate evening in 1989, when Sonic Youth appeared on the avant-garde-leaning music program Night Music on the severely avant-lacking NBC network. With downtown skuzz buddy Don Fleming playing SY's "manager on keyboards" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Sorting Out Post-Loss Rangers Fans Sensibilities

    We can thank Daily News writer John Harper for staying in top of the Texas Ranger CEO's comments on Yankees fans yesterday on ESPN radio - you know by now, Chuck Greenberg's remarks that fans at Yankee Stadium were "violent, apathetic, and an embarrassment." "Let's face it," Harpers says, "there is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Mike Lupica Achieves Long-Sought Sportswriting Perfection

    ​You could single out almost any Mike Lupica column as typical, but the one in today's Daily News as the Yankees prepare to play Texas in Game Three of the ALCS is really classic. We don't want to belabor the obvious -- that's Mike Lupica's job. Some examples: "The Yankees come home no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Why Game 1 Means More to the Yankees Than to the Rangers

    ​Everyone is saying that tonight's game, the first of the American League Championship Series, is critical for both the Yankees and Rangers. It appears more critical, though, for the Yankees for two very simple reasons. One, of course, is Cliff Lee. If Lee doesn't start until Game 3, then if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2010

    It's Obama's Fault People Think He's a Muslim, Say the Guys Who Keep Telling People He's a Muslim

    In journalism, the depths of August are often called "silly season," because many newsmakers are on vacation, forcing bored reporters to fill up space with goofy stories (e.g.). For rightbloggers, of course, silliness is a year-round thing. But with the New York mosque controversy -- a Burlington ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Naming the Dead: the 1969 March on Washington

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 20, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 58 A Half Million March For an Audience of One by Ron Rosenbaum WASHINGTON -- Thursday afternoon. "How to Attend a Military Funeral" was the title of a fact-filled article I found in Metronews, a PR mag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Hugh Acheson Coming to NYC; Benihana Gets a New Exec Chef

    ​Top Chef alum Spike Mendelsohn has plans to open outposts of his D.C. restaurant Good Stuff in, Arlington, Virginia, and Georgetown, and maybe in "Chicago, L.A., even London and Tokyo." [Bloomberg] Hugh Acheson, the chef-owner of Five & Ten in Athens, Ga. and a James Beard nominee, has just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

    Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Obama's Afghan Surge Proves He's Trying to Lose, Say Rightbloggers

    In his West Point speech on Tuesday, President Obama announced 30,000 fresh troops would be delivered to Afghanistan early next year. He also said that "after 18 months, our troops will begin to come home." "Begin to come home" is a vague term, perhaps purposefully so. In the 2007 surge, three a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2009

    Quick hits

    Tom Brokaw and his wife Meredith were involved in a three-car collision in the Bronx which left one woman dead on Friday. Suejas Estrada of the Bronx swerved to avoid a coil of cable on the Bruckner and forced a mail truck in the next lane into the path of Brokaw's car. Suejas was thrown from her ca ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2009

    The Pet-Death Business

    All dogs go to heaven. Yours will probably get there in an urn.

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2009

    Visitors board the USS New York in Louisiana

    ​ The USS New York, which contains 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the wreckage at Ground Zero, invited visitors on board for the first time this weekend. Northrup Grumman employees were allowed to bring family and friends aboard the New York, which has been under construction since 2004 at N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Mosquito Poisoning Next Week in Bronx, Queens, Staten Island

    The recent discovery of West Nile virus in Bronx mosquitoes has apparently got the Department of Health concerned, and they've started "aerial larviciding" -- that is, dropping poison from helicopters -- to cut it back. They actually hit some targets last month, and will recommence firing next Monda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Mosquito Poisoning Next Week in Bronx, Queens, Staten Island

    The recent discovery of West Nile virus in Bronx mosquitoes has apparently got the Department of Health concerned, and they've started "aerial larviciding" -- that is, dropping poison from helicopters -- to cut it back. They actually hit some targets last month, and will recommence firing next Monda ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2009

    The Next Frontier of the Stem Cell Debate

    "Snowflake" babies, embryo "adoption," and being pre-born again

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    President Obama Loves A Good Burger; For the First Lady, Mexican Food Rules

    Douglas Emlen, an entomologist at the University of Montana, has sparked some debate over his comments in an NPR broadcast about the dung beetle. During the segment, Emlen said that he avoids ground coffee because it's full of ground up cockroaches. [NPR] Robyn O'Brien, known as the Erin Brockovich ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Jockbeat: A-Rod's Juice Didn't Buy Him Much

    In the middle of this storm of anti-Rodriguez hype, a calm voice from sabermetrician J.C. Bradbury presents the case that the two steroids A-Rod took most likely had no impact on his performance: "It's probably best to say that there was no observed effect. It is possible that the steroids did give ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2008

    No Joy in Mudville

    In the middle of this storm of anti-Rodriguez hype, a calm voice from sabermetrician J.C. Bradbury presents the case that the two steroids A-Rod took most likely had no impact on his performance: "It's probably best to say that there was no observed effect. It is possible that the steroids did give ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2008

    TABLOIDED: The Post vs. The Daily News

    In the middle of this storm of anti-Rodriguez hype, a calm voice from sabermetrician J.C. Bradbury presents the case that the two steroids A-Rod took most likely had no impact on his performance: "It's probably best to say that there was no observed effect. It is possible that the steroids did give ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2005

    Morning Report 8/24/05
    Slab in the Face

    In the middle of this storm of anti-Rodriguez hype, a calm voice from sabermetrician J.C. Bradbury presents the case that the two steroids A-Rod took most likely had no impact on his performance: "It's probably best to say that there was no observed effect. It is possible that the steroids did give ... More >>

  • Specials

    June 21, 2005

    Letters

    In the middle of this storm of anti-Rodriguez hype, a calm voice from sabermetrician J.C. Bradbury presents the case that the two steroids A-Rod took most likely had no impact on his performance: "It's probably best to say that there was no observed effect. It is possible that the steroids did give ... More >>

  • Music

    June 14, 2005

    Sustenance Enough?

    Indie-rock heavy hitters get confused figuring out why they're doing it, doing it, doing it

  • News

    October 26, 2004

    The Best Votes Money Can Buy

    Facts and figures of the most expensive election campaign in U.S. history

  • News

    December 3, 2002

    The $25 Million Man

    The Real Reason Baseball Players Are So Rich

  • News

    December 11, 2001

    The Numbers Game

    New-School Baseball Stats From A to Z

  • Film

    July 6, 1999

    Losing It

    New-School Baseball Stats From A to Z

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