The Los Angeles Dodgers are worth $1.4 billion, according to Forbes, which went live yesterday with its annual list of the world’s most valuable sports teams. At which value, we’d like to remind you, the club is worth $600 million less than a group led by Guggenheim Partners’ CEO Mark Walter and L.A. Lakers Read More
Last Friday evening, Dodger manager Joe Torre was sitting in the visitors’ dugout at Shea Stadium, fielding questions from about a dozen reporters about his struggling team. The Dodgers, who limped into a New York fresh off a three game sweep at the hands of the Chicago Cubs, had lost the series opener against the Read More
It is commonly assumed that if Joe Torre had been a free agent, rather than property of the Los Angeles Dodgers, he, and not Willie Randolph, would currently be manager of the New York Mets. That chorus will likely quiet a bit after the Mets completed a 5-2 homestand by defeating the Dodgers Sunday night, Read More
BEIJING—March 15 was what people conventionally call a great day for a ball game. A right-handed pull hitter might have disagreed, feeling the strong breeze coming in from the northwest. It was certainly a kind day for red flags, at least in Beijing. Along Chang’an Boulevard, by Tian’anmen Square and the Great Hall of the Read More
Irwin Winkler’s Home of the Brave, from a screenplay by Mark Friedman, based on an original story by Mr. Friedman and Mr. Winkler, enjoys some kind of pioneering distinction as the first major feature film to deal with the problems of veterans returning from the chaotic hostilities in Iraq. It is estimated that more than Read More
Irwin Winkler’s Home of the Brave, from a screenplay by Mark Friedman, based on an original story by Mr. Friedman and Mr. Winkler, enjoys some kind of pioneering distinction as the first major feature film to deal with the problems of veterans returning from the chaotic hostilities in Iraq. It is estimated that more than Read More
David Wright and Carlos Delgado entered the old Jets locker room under the Shea stands, and the roomful of reporters stopped. Delgado was wearing a blue undershirt and Wright was still in his home Mets jersey, covered in dirt.
The two men, who had slugged for five of the Mets’ six runs in a playoff-opening Read More
October is the ruthless month, October is when I go to Dan for comfort. He’s from Chicago, I’m from Baltimore. He’s a little older than I am and much more learned. “Did you watch?”
“Are you suffering today?” I said on Friday morning.
“I’m in a worse mood, yes. I’m sad.”
“Did you watch?”
“Not Read More
Here’s a quiz, Yankee fans:
To bring a World Series championship back to New York in the near future, George Steinbrenner should:
a) fire Brian Cashman and bring back Bob Watson.
b) fire Joe Torre and let him go to the Red Sox, who would be only too happy to tweak the Boss Read More
With all the talk recently of rebuilding New York, with the necessary focus on the redevelopment of downtown, one might forget that the real future of the city depends mostly upon Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s success-or failure-at rebuilding the system of public education. If New York’s 1.1 million public schoolchildren continue to endure lackluster teachers, corrupt Read More
