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Derek Jeter may have won a 2010 Gold Glove that he doesn't really deserve. But neither does he deserve the apparent negotiating strategy of the New York Yankees, for whom he has been the franchise---don't even think about thinking otherwise---since the day the shortstop job became his to lose. In 1996. The skinny at this writing is that Jeter would like a five-year deal, likely to be his final major league baseball contract (anyone who thinks Jeter would like to finish his career in any uniform other than that of the Empire Emeritus is probably due for a controlled substances...

New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Tuesday that the Yankees have made a "fair and appropriate" contract offer to Derek Jeter and suggested that if the 36-year-old shortstop thinks otherwise, he should shop himself around to find out.

These are heady times for schadenfreude buffs. People who take delight in the misfortunes of others, and particularly those who love to see the high and mighty taken down a peg or two, are having a field day. Barack Obama just got his head handed to him in the midterm elections. Nancy Pelosi has been knocked from her perch. The Democratic party has taken more hits than Humpty Dumpty. If you're the kind of person who likes to see the tall poppies cut down to size, this is your year. This is not only true in the field of politics....

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...