Well, the Eddy Curry Redemption didn’t last long. The papers are back to burying him today, after he left the Knicks first scrimmage with a strained right calf. “As predictable as Saratoga being the Mecca of horse racing every August,” read the Post lead; the Daily News went with the blander Read More
The Joe Torre era in New York is over.
Explaining that it was “time for the New York Yankees to move forward,” team President Randy Levine announced in an Oct. 18 conference call Thursday that Torre had rejected a one-year deal with a base salary of $5 million to pilot the Yankees in 2008.
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In the 1999 baseball season, New York Yankees manager Joe Torre has endured cancer; the near-firing of his No. 2 man, Don Zimmer; the lousy performance of his supposed ace pitcher, Roger Clemens; a changing of the guard in George Steinbrenner’s front office; and, in Chuck Knoblauch, a second baseman who sometimes forgets how to Read More
Now that President Bill Clinton has confessed to an affair with Monica Lewinsky, one might expect some camaraderie between two of the scandal’s prime movers: Clinton-hating literary agent Lucianne Goldberg and the journalist she affectionately nicknamed “Spikey,” Newsweek ‘s muckraking Washington correspondent, Michael Isikoff. But a recent outgoing message on Ms. Goldberg’s answering machine suggested Read More
Bobby Valentine, the manager of the New York Mets, can’t help but become a media critic. He can read about his flaws in seven metro-area newspapers and hear himself psychoanalyzed on sports-talk radio every day. He’s a bright guy, he picks up on stuff, and one of the things he has recognized is that there Read More
