A decision came down today regarding the fate of Major League Baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez regarding allegations that Rodriguez used performance-enhancing drugs. The MLB decided to suspended the New York Yankee player for 211 regular-season games, meaning Rodriguez will be out for the remainder of this season and the 2014 season. Rodriguez’s...
Two New York Yankees are Flushing, Queens-bound, but not in a blockbuster trade. Closer Mariano Rivera and second baseman Robinson Cano have been selected to the 2013 MLB All-Star Game, which will be held at Citi Field on Tuesday, July 16. Entering Sunday, July 7, Rivera, who is retiring after this season,...
Major League Baseball intends to suspend New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez for 100 games using incriminating testimony from Anthony Bosch, the owner of the now-defunct Biogenesis clinic in Coral Gables, Fla. who allegedly supplied Rodriguez and 19 other players with performance-enhancing drugs, according to ESPN’s Outside the Lines. Bosch, whose...
New York Mets fans are unlikely to witness their team make it to the playoffs this season, but at least they’ll have Subway Series bragging rights for the next year. The Mets (22-29) completed a two-borough, four-game sweep of the New York Yankees (30-23) at Yankee Stadium Thursday, winning the 2013 Subway...
The 2013 Subway Series moved from Citi Field to Yankee Stadium Wednesday, and the only difference this change of venue yielded was a convincing New York Mets (21-29) win over the New York Yankees (30-22). After defeating the Yankees 2-1 in Queens on Monday and Tuesday, the Mets crushed their crosstown rivals...
The New York Yankees will hold summer camps in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut beginning June 24, the team announced Wednesday. Additionally, the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council’s “Refuel with Chocolate Milk” initiative will sponsor the Yankees summer camp attendance of 85 Bronx children. FROM THE YANKEES: The New York...
When legendary closer Mariano Rivera faces three batters in an inning, it typically leads to a New York Yankees victory. Well, not in Tuesday night’s rain-delayed Subway Series game at Citi Field, where the New York Mets (20-29) beat the Yankees (30-21) 2-1 following David Wright and Lucas Duda’s back-to-back RBI singles...
The New York Yankees (30-20) have a far better record than the New York Mets (19-29) in 2013, but the Amazin’s were the better Big Apple team at Citi Field Monday night, taking Game 1 of this year’s Subway Series 2-1. The Memorial Day game between the crosstown rivals remained scoreless until...
With the opening month of Major League Baseball’s 2013 season in the books, the season is hardly lost for the reigning AL East champion New York Yankees. Despite missing several key players due to injury, the Yankees, after beating the Houston Astros (8-19) 7-4 at home Tuesday night, finished April with a...
The New York Yankees released a statement Tuesday in response to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and the families who were affected by the bombings and our respect and admiration go out to the police, medical personnel and first responders who acted so heroically,”...
Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z has just launched Roc Nation Sports, which announced New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano as its first client Tuesday. The new agency will jointly represent Cano with Creative Artists Agency’s sports division. “Because of my love of sports, it was a natural progression to form a company where...
The 2013 World Baseball Classic championship game will be an all-Latino affair thanks to the Dominican Republic’s 4-1 win over the Netherlands at AT&T Park in San Francisco Monday night. The Dominican Republic, 7-0 in the tournament, will face Puerto Rico (5-3) in the final at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday. Puerto Rico,...
Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake fans residing in and around New York City who’re unable to attend the pair’s Yankee Stadium concert on Friday, July 19 will have a second opportunity to witness them perform at the venue. The New York Yankees announced Tuesday that Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake are scheduled to perform...
Former New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada issued a touching statement regarding right-handed pitcher Mariano Rivera, who confirmed Saturday that 2013 will mark his final season. “There is only one Mariano Rivera,” Posada, Rivera’s teammate from 1995-2011, said. “There won’t be another person who will come along and do what he did....
Grammy Award-winning recording artists Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake will perform at Yankee Stadium on July 19, the New York Yankees announced Friday. The summer concert will be stop No. 2 of 12 of the rapper and R&B singer’s Legends of the Summer tour, which commences on July 17 at Rogers Centre—home of...
Entangled in Major League Baseball’s latest steroid scandal, third baseman Alex Rodriguez hopes to rejoin the New York Yankees once he recovers from his Jan. 16 hip surgery. “I am conducting two rehab sessions each and every day in an effort to get back on the field and rejoin my Yankees teammates,”...
Right-handed pitcher Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners finalized a seven-year, $175 million contract this week, ending any chance of the 2010 Cy Young Award winner wearing New York Yankees pinstripes any time soon. Hernandez, a three-time American League All-Star, went 13-9 with a 3.06 ERA in 2012. Also known as “King...
All eyes are on A-Rod and his latest scandal
Reports linking Alex Rodriguez to a Coral Gables, Fla. anti-aging clinic owner alleged to have supplied at least five other big-league players with performance-enhancing drugs may have provided the New York Yankees with an opening to escape the remainder of Rodriguez’s contract. While declining to comment on the allegations, the Yankees, according...
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