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A-Rod just stuck out swinging to give Detroit the series and a trip to the ALCS finals. Final score 3-2.

The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 3-2 on Thursday to reach the American League Championship Series against the Texas Rangers.

BOSTON - Move over, Bucky Dent. Step aside, Bill Buckner. Make room, incredibly, for Jonathan Papelbon. The star closer is the stunned symbol of the latest Red Sox collapse. This one lasted a month and finally ended when there were no more games left to lose. Rays, Cardinals clinch playoff spots "This is just maybe the worst situation that I ever have been involved in my whole career," designated hitter David Ortiz said. "It's going to stay in a lot of people's minds for a while." No team has blown a bigger lead in September — a nine-game margin through...

Dennis thinks he might be toast based on his immigration answer last night.

On a summer day in Shoreham, New York, the Kevin Williams Memorial Field is a peaceful place. An American flag ripples as its steel chain clanks against the 40-foot pole. At the base of the pole, worn baseballs seem to grow from the earth, resting among the flowers. On one baseball, there's a handwritten message: "We Will Never Forget." Kevin Williams was 24 years old when he was killed on Sept. 11, 2001. He worked on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower as a bond salesman for investment firm Sandler O'Neill. He loved his job and...

We all know the old honeymoon standbys: There's the islands of Hawaii. The destinations in the Caribbean. Italy, France and Spain, too. But Afghanistan? I'm guessing the only honeymooning any Americans do there comes as a result of a deployment following the marriage of two members of the U.S. military. It's not on anyone's short list — or long list, for that matter.

Former Yankees pitcher Irabu dead in apparent suicide New York Yankees starting pitcher Hideki Irabu throws against the Toronto Blue Jays in the first inning of their game at New York's Yankee Stadium, August 4, 1999. REUTERS/Mike Segar By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES | Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:36pm EDT (Reuters) - Former Major League Baseball pitcher Hideki Irabu, who started for the New York Yankees for three seasons in the late 1990s, was found dead at his Los Angeles-area home of an apparent suicide, the coroner's office said on Thursday. Irabu, 42, one of the first players to join...

Two current news stories have a lot of people thinking about that age old question involving ethics and integrity: "What would you do?" The first is the less technical than you'd think hacking scandal that brought down the British tabloid News of the World. The second is the amazingly classy choice made by a New York Yankees fan at yesterday's game.

Derek Jeter’s bid for one of baseball’s most hallowed milestones, a mark never reached by other New York Yankees’ greats, is complete. Mobbed by his pinstriped pals after the ball sailed into the left-field seats, showered by ovations from his fans, Derek Jeter stood alone – the first Yankees player to 3,000 hits.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that President Obama signed into law this year didn't just bring us a fancy new FDA recall page. It also is sending the 125-year-old A.L. Bazzini Co., which makes the “official peanut of Yankee Stadium,” out of New York and into the loving embrace of Pennsylvania. The firm, which moved from TriBeCa to Hunts Point in 1997, says the new regulations would require them to perform a $40-million-dollar update to their production facility. And since they have this "state of the art" plant in Allentown (thanks to their recent purchase of the chocolate company...

The baseball clubhouse has always been a sanctum for its players, an area of refuge that's immediately available whenever anyone reports to the park. Well, unless the vice president of the United States wakes up one morning and decides he wants to make a spur-of-the-moment trip to hobnob with members of the opposing team.

A-Rod's Big, Fat, Upper West Side Condo Tax Break You know what rich people like? Staying rich! While it's unclear why exactly super-rich Yankees slugger and serial house hunter Alex Rodriguez finally decided to buy a $6 million place at the Rushmore condo, here's one factor that probably didn't hurt: The 421a tax break that will turn what could have been an annual $60,000+ tax bill into one that's just $1200 a year. Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez blasts the tax abatement program, "It grants as much as a 98% percent tax abatement for up to 25 years to condo...

WASHINGTON, - Cultural observers say Washington is losing the Southern charm that once made the U.S. capital the crossroads of North and South. A growing population of foreign immigrants and Yankees has gradually overtaken the Southern influence of the capital city, which actually sits just south of the Mason-Dixon Line. "We put Washington and the northern part of Virginia in what we call the Midland, which also includes Philadelphia and Pittsburgh," said Sharon Ash, a university of Pennsylvania professor of linguistics who specializes in U.S. speech. "Migration patterns are changing things everywhere." The Washington Post said Sunday that other experts...

PITTSBURGH -- For the first time since its original telecast, Game 7 of the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and Yankees will be aired on television on Wednesday. Beginning at 8 p.m. ET, the game will be shown in its entirety on MLB Network. Along with footage of the game, the telecast will include exclusive interviews taped during a viewing of the game at Pittsburgh's Byham Theater last month. Bob Costas interviewed players from Pittsburgh's '60 World Series championship club, as well as Vera Clemente, actor Michael Keaton and New York's Bobby Richardson. Though Bill Mazeroski was unable to...

The only man in major league history who might have won legitimate Gold Glove awards at three infield positions (second base, third base, shortstop), if they'd given the award during the seasons in which he might have won them, died Sunday morning after a long run with prostate cancer at 82. "There are three men who made Casey Stengel a genius---Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, and Gil McDougald," wrote Bill James, ranking McDougald the 33rd best second baseman of all time in 2001. Yogi was the only catcher in baseball history who could catch 145 games a year, hit cleanup, and...

Gil McDougald, the Yankees’ versatile All-Star infielder who played on five World Series championship teams but was remembered as well for a single at-bat resulting in one of baseball’s most frightening moments, died Sunday at his home in Wall Township, N.J. He was 82.

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...