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Red Sox diehard Matt Damon promises to wear a Yankees cap (Gasp!) if 200,000 New Yorkers vote with the Working Families Party in tomorrow’s election. Say it ain’t so, Matty D.! Taking to YouTube to promote the progressive — some might say Commie — initiative, Damon, who just turned 40, said fans can “really cheer me up” by voting for the WFP. The Party, he claims, is for cheaper mass transit cards, clean water and more health care reform. “He says that last one like it’s a thing people would support,” points out Time maggie. “Aw! We’re glad to see...

The bad news is that Texas Rangers fans won't be seeing Cliff Lee for a few days at least. That's because of the good news that New York Yankees fans won't have to look at Lee assassinating their heroes yet again. And that's because of the worse news for Yankee fans that, when next they see their heroes, the club may be altered slightly (it usually is) but their heroes won't be brandishing the World Series rings to which their fans think they're entitled every year. They have the Rangers to thank for that. It couldn't possibly get any better...

Down the the Yankees, oh yeah!

Rangers up 6-1 in the 8th. Yankees goin' down. So Hillary must be also be in campaign mode again, right?

Do you want to know how bad it's getting for the New York Yankees? A Yankee Stadium fan ran onto the field Monday night to bring Alex Rodriguez to account over . . . his reported relationship with actress Cameron Diaz. Said fan's plan was to choke the living daylights out of A-Rod the better to make himself a hero to Diaz, on whom the fan is said to have a ferocious crush. And that was before Cliff Lee finished what he started, a Game Three masterpiece that left the Yankees on the wrong end of the worst postseason shutout...

Life has been so busy lately with family, church, working on my website, that I have barely taken time to notice how terrible the Dallas Cowboys are doing this year. I have yet to watch one game because I know they are losing and I hate to watch them lose. I don't have time to invest in a losing team. That could be why I have not been interested in the Texas Rangers. While growing up in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, I remember the Dallas Cowboys winning more games than they lost. I remember the excitement. I remember the Cowboys...

It was a testament to how well Cliff Lee pitched Monday in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series—eight shutout innings, two hits, 13 strikeouts—that the most treacherous moment of his night occurred after he had beaten the Yankees. As he sat down for his postgame news conference, he slipped on his chair and became tangled in a microphone wire. A look of panic crossed the faces of the two Texas Rangers teammates who flanked him, Josh Hamilton and Michael Young, as if they feared a freak injury to their ace might sabotage their chances of reaching the World...

ALCS and NLCS 2010 live thread Yankees vs. Rangers--TBS Phillies vs. Giants--Fox World Series will be on Fox

The New York Yankees this year had a payroll of $206 million. The San Diego Padres had a payroll of $37 million — and neither team won its division. So who had the better year? I think it was Paul McCartney who once said, “I don’t care too much for money ‘cause money can’t buy you a World Series championship, although it can pretty consistently get you into the playoffs.” He’s right. Lance Berkman is making $14.5 million this year. That’s more than the combined salaries of the Indians’ entire starting lineup in their last game of the season —...

Ninth inning, 3 run bomb to give the Yankees what will hopefully be (rare, of late) win.Very dramatic.Like him or no, the guy is the best.

Gym-locker heists, bank robberies, daylight holdups — these New York City crimes have only one thing in common, and it is not the culprits. It is the Yankees caps they wore. A curious phenomenon has emerged at the intersection of fashion, sports and crime: dozens of men and women who have robbed, beaten, stabbed and shot at their fellow New Yorkers have done so while wearing Yankees caps or clothing. One of the three suspects in the gym break-ins wore a blue Yankees cap. A security camera photographed the man who tried to rob the Bronx bank, and though his...

(NECN: Martha's Vineyard) - New Jersey resident Tom Murro finally gave his gift to the present. By chance encounter, Tom was at Nancy's an Oak Bluffs restaurant Wednesday, when he saw the president. The gift was a signed World Series picture from Yogi Berra. Tom says he wanted to give the president the gift because a chance encounter last year on Martha's Vineyard, has changed his life

On Wednesday afternoon, a pool report from the President’s vacation in Martha’s Vineyard contained a line about POTUS taking an envelope from an unidentified man. “One man, standing at the edge of the yellow police tape, handed POTUS something (it looked like a maroon 8.5x11 folder but pool was too far away to tell.) POTUS looked at it, then handed it to Nicholson [Obama’s trip director],” read the report. So who was the man, and what was in the envelope?

Federal authorities have decided to indict Roger Clemens on charges of making false statements to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, according to two people briefed on the matter....

NEW YORK – Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to hit 600 home runs and did it with style, driving a pitch into Yankee Stadium's Monument Park in center field exactly three years to the day after his 500th homer. A-Rod reached the milestone Wednesday after a 12-game drought with a first-inning homer off Toronto's Shaun Marcum. Rodriguez connected with a 2-0 pitch over the middle of the plate for his 17th home run of the season, giving the Yankees a 2-0 lead on a sweltering summer afternoon. By hitting the homer into Monument Park, a stadium worker could retrieve...

The drought is over - Alex Rodriguez finally hit his 600th home run. More than two weeks after A-Rod cracked his last homer, the Yankee slugger socked a pitch by Shaun Marcum of the Toronto Blue Jays in the first inning of Wednesday's game into the center field of Yankee Stadium - and into history. A big grin creasing his face as he circled the bases, Rodriguez got a standing ovation from the fans and big hugs from his teammates. Yankee fans shared in Rodriguez' joy. "It's well deserved," said Joel Garcia, 20, of The Bronx. "He's such a good...

Celebrity and entertainment correspondent Tom Murro says that baseball legend Yogi Berra has a unique gift for President Barack Obama. As Yogi would say, "It ain't over till it's over," and the Hall of Famer is still going strong. Yogi Berra, who now lives in Montclair, New Jersey is an 15-time All-Star and three-time winner of the American League’s Most Valuable Player award as a catcher for the New York Yankees. Berra, who obviously has a sense of humor, was right on the money when he famously stated that “baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical.” Celebrity...

Attendance soared to 590,000 when the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees started playing at PNC Field in Moosic in 2007– a count that hadn’t been achieved since 1992, according to minor league statistics. But the numbers have been steadily declining since then, with last year’s attendance dipping to 363,000. It’s a record low in recent years because attendance hasn’t dropped below 381,000 in the preceding 19 years, the statistics show. The numbers don’t show an improvement this season, which is more than halfway through. PNC Field currently ranks second to last in attendance among the 13 other Triple-A venues in the International League,...

Ralph Houk, who died Wednesday at 90, inadvertently caused the cancellation of the Yankees' 1958 pennant-clinching party. On the team flight after the game, a few Yankees were celebrating rather heartily, perhaps none more so than relief star Ryne Duren, who was pounding cigars into Yankee faces when he came upon Houk, the former third-string catcher turned coach under Casey Stengel. Duren exuberantly smashed a cigar into Houk's mug. And Houk exuberantly smashed his left hand into Duren's mug, knocking the reliever flat onto his can. And the incident hit some particularly exuberant headlines back in New York, prodding co-owner...