Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken: Arrogant Boys of Summer
Were you glued to the television Sunday? Then you know that Mark McGwire struck first, to left field, but Zinedine Zidane quickly followed, with a header into the right side of the net. Both men ended...
View ArticleHe Was No Koufax, But…
Once every decade or so, one comes along like this, a movie star in sanitary socks and spikes–a ballplayer who drives a candy-apple red Cadillac convertible, who can’t make curfew to save his life, who...
View ArticleFirst Kiss at Yankees-Dodgers Series; Married the Day Mets Lost to Red Sox
Even though it’s only a few weeks old, I already know how the baseball season is going to end-in sadness, disappointment and self-pity. That’s because we’re a New York Mets family. I’m not talking...
View ArticleAre Yankees a Wounded Elephant Dripping Blood Through the Bronx?
When pygmies of a certain tribe set out to kill an elephant, this is what they do: They do not charge into combat with the giant, but steal up on it as it rests, spear it hard in the belly and flee....
View ArticleBushies Kvelling Over Orthodox Jeff Ballabon
In a rapid, confidential near-whisper, Jeff Ballabon was offering his counterintuitive take on former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. “If you go to his house today, he has a mezuzah on the door,”...
View ArticleCher’s ‘Believe’ and Kenny G?! ‘I’m a Bride in the Headlights.’
AIMEE: Brian and I settle in for our final consult with our wedding planner Jennifer Arezzo of A Simple Wish and the barrage of questions begins: menu choices, linens, gift bags, songlist…songlist,...
View ArticleDoes Booing Randy Johnson Help Anyone?
I heard the Yankee fans booing Randy Johnson yesterday, something The Times today did not mention. It makes you wonder whether the combination of New York’s unique fanbase (a lot of jerks), the...
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