There have been few things in Wally Backman’s life that have come to him easily.  Now that he’s finally gotten a second chance to resume his managing career in affiliated baseball, he welcomes both the challenge and the opportunity to stay there.
“I couldn’t really ask for a better minor league job.” Backman told reporters at [...]

“After one game, one glorious game, Matsui already felt enveloped in the mystique and aura of the legendary Stadium where so much baseball history has happened. Actually, Matsui added to those feelings of invincibility by becoming the first Yankee to stroke a grand slam in his first game in the Bronx. He is now ahead [...]

BRONX, NY – Hideki Matsui has hit a lot of home runs in his long and storied career, but none bigger than his blast that evened up the World Series on Thursday night.
Matsui’s solo shot off Philadelphia’s Pedro Martinez in the sixth inning of Game 2 broke a 1-1 stalemate and was the key blow [...]

“This contract’s not going to change how I perform … It’s not going to change how I prepare. It’s not going to change how hard I play.”  – Chase Utley, 2007.
(BRONX, NY)  There were a few tense moments in the press box before Tuesday’s World Series opener, as the rain seemed to intensify the closer [...]

Bronx, NY – When the New York Yankees blew a 3-0 lead to the hated Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series in 2004, Andy Pettitte wasn’t there to make sure that the unthinkable didn’t happen.
On Sunday night, the left-hander from Baton Rouge did the next best thing, and did his part to [...]

Bronx, NY – It was a long, sloppy and frustrating game to watch.  But to the New York Yankees, now being up 2-0 in their best-of-seven series against the Los Angeles, it was a beautiful victory.
Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez continued his newfound postseason heroics with a game-tying solo home run in the 11th, and [...]

BRONX, NY -  For everything the brand-new Yankee Stadium provides to its fans, it does not offer climate control.  On Friday night, Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia did his best to make up for that shortcoming.
“Yeah, it was cold,” Sabathia said after the game.  “But you just gotta deal with it.”
The Yankee ace did just that, [...]

When ESPN reported that there was a “schism” in the Vikings’ locker room because of the very late addition of former MVP Brett Favre to quarterback the team this season, I wondered if the anaonymous complainers were, in fact, the very people that Favre was replacing.
I mean, really.  Outside of Tarvaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels, [...]