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  • Music

    January 4, 2012

    New Music Resolutions for 2012

    Time to change up this rut we're in, music lovers

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Roger Maris and the Myth of the Asterisk

    ​Phil Pepe's superb new book, 1961: The Inside Story of the Maris-Mantle Home Run Chase (Triumph Books, $20.00) is the best thing yet written - or likely to be written - about the amazing season 50 years ago which captivated the country. Pepe dispels several myths about the legendary pursui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Bestiality Books For Sale at 99c Store! (NSFW)

    ​The Atlantic City boardwalk is known for 99-cent stores selling the world's most affordable candy, fly swatters, and novelty ash trays shaped like bosoms. But a whole new bunch of trash must have fallen off the truck because the other day, on my trip to the Boardwalk Empire, I found a cache ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Willie Mays Turns 80, and He's STILL Not the Greatest Player Ever

    ​Willie Mays turned 80 on Friday, and, as happens every few years, there was another shower of praise for Willie and testimonials to his having been the greatest player in baseball history. With every year Willie's stature grows, partly because he was fabulous and very well could have been th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Derek Jeter The Best NY Athlete of All Time? Really?

    ​In 1975, a survey representing America's biggest rock and roll stations asked several thousand listeners to name the greatest rock and roll record of all time. The Beatles, you might guess? Stones? Beach Boys? Stevie Wonder? Maybe Elvis? Or The Supremes? None of the above. According to those ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2010

    Unexpected Pairings: Lorrie Moore on The Wire

    ​This weekend in things you never thought you'd read: the writer Lorrie Moore, best known for her sad short stories about sad people, delivers an essay in the latest New York Review of Books on HBO's The Wire, based around two books about the show, The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Willie Mays Needs a Tiebreaker From These Clowns?

    ​Anyone out there feel as cheated by the final regular position episode of The Lineup as I did? The segment on center fielders was really the only one worth doing; the winners at the other positions -- Yogi Berra at catcher, Lou Gehrig at first, Jackie Robinson at second, Derek Jeter at short, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 22, 2009

    Speedy

    ​Anyone out there feel as cheated by the final regular position episode of The Lineup as I did? The segment on center fielders was really the only one worth doing; the winners at the other positions -- Yogi Berra at catcher, Lou Gehrig at first, Jackie Robinson at second, Derek Jeter at short, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Congratulations Douchebag Yankee Fans

    Lovingly borrowed from Yankees 2000 About the best thing you can say about the Yankees' Series victory is that it's been too long since the last one -- in which they defeated our beloved Mets -- for their fans to have achieved total douchebag status. True, last night they chanted "Who's Your Daddy" ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2009

    Speedy

    Lovingly borrowed from Yankees 2000 About the best thing you can say about the Yankees' Series victory is that it's been too long since the last one -- in which they defeated our beloved Mets -- for their fans to have achieved total douchebag status. True, last night they chanted "Who's Your Daddy" ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2009

    GOD OF SURF

    Dick Dale's still riding

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    City Says Fat Kids Lag in Learning; We Suggest the Prince Fielder Approach

    Mike Bloomberg, whose Administration has made education a priority, has bragged on rising test scores, greater matriculation into CUNY schools, and especially the shrinking achievement gap between minority students and white students. But what about the achievement gap between physically fit and phy ... More >>

  • News

    September 17, 2008

    Former Mets/Yankees Reflect on the Stadiums Facing Demolition

    Mike Bloomberg, whose Administration has made education a priority, has bragged on rising test scores, greater matriculation into CUNY schools, and especially the shrinking achievement gap between minority students and white students. But what about the achievement gap between physically fit and phy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    Yank Crankers: "Worst Loss of the Season"

    Mike Bloomberg, whose Administration has made education a priority, has bragged on rising test scores, greater matriculation into CUNY schools, and especially the shrinking achievement gap between minority students and white students. But what about the achievement gap between physically fit and phy ... More >>

  • News

    July 24, 2007

    Hoop Screams

    A Crooked Ref? Commissioner Stern's got much bigger problems

  • News

    February 20, 2007

    Can Cooperstown Save Baseball?

    The Hall of Fame's mountains of memorabilia might not be enough to salvage the sport's tarnished legacy

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2006

    Your Turn: Where the Yankees Spend Big

    The Hall of Fame's mountains of memorabilia might not be enough to salvage the sport's tarnished legacy

  • NYC Life

    August 22, 2006

    Atlas Slugged

    Alex Rodriguez is one of the greatest Yankees ever. And the whole world is on his back?

  • Music

    April 19, 2005

    Gropus Dei

    Rock's unincarcerated Lady of Guadalupe awaits sainthood

  • Film

    May 11, 2004

    Greenbacks

    Fluorescent foam-rubber gargantua gets another consumerist howl

  • Columns

    November 25, 2003

    Horoscope

    Fluorescent foam-rubber gargantua gets another consumerist howl

  • News

    October 21, 2003

    They're Still Your Idols

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    April 1, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    March 25, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    March 11, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    March 4, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    February 25, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    February 18, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    February 11, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    February 4, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    January 28, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    January 21, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • NYC Life

    January 14, 2003

    Listings

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • News

    October 22, 2002

    Sports

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • News

    September 24, 2002

    Sports

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • News

    June 25, 2002

    From the Crazy, Mixed-Up Files of the National Security Agency

    Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

  • News

    December 11, 2001

    The Numbers Game

    New-School Baseball Stats From A to Z

  • News

    July 17, 2001

    Where Have You Gone, Derek Jeter?

    Before We Enshrine the Local Hero, Let’s Take a Look at Some Cold Facts

  • News

    April 24, 2001

    Sports

    Before We Enshrine the Local Hero, Let’s Take a Look at Some Cold Facts

  • News

    February 6, 2001

    Hey Joe

    The Booing of the Great DiMaggio

  • Film

    January 11, 2000

    Times of Tumult

    The Booing of the Great DiMaggio

  • News

    January 4, 2000

    The Dis-Integration of Baseball

    A Modest Proposal for the Great Game

  • News

    July 6, 1999

    Home Away From Home

    A Yankee Fan's History of Fenway Park

  • News

    May 11, 1999

    Jocklit

    Surveying the Boys of Summer Books

  • Music

    April 20, 1999

    Prodigy Present the Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One

    Surveying the Boys of Summer Books

  • News

    March 9, 1999

    Legend in the Gray Flannel Suit

    Joseph Paul Dimaggio, 1914-1999

  • Specials

    October 6, 1998

    Letters

    Joseph Paul Dimaggio, 1914-1999

  • News

    September 22, 1998

    Swinging Sixties

    An Analysis of an Exclusive Baseball Club

  • News

    August 18, 1998

    Ghosts 2, Yankees 1

    The '98 Yankees' Place in the Pantheon

  • News

    April 28, 1998

    Bronx Tale

    The '98 Yankees' Place in the Pantheon

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