My old alma mater hosted the Quidditch World Cup last weekend. Seriously.
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Cause, you know, we need more people talking ’bout sports.
Author Archives: Robert Schlesinger
Your Handy Guide to Interpreting Baseball Free Agency Reports
LoHud Yankees blog has a pretty good rundown on how to interpret free agency-related news items.
How much longer for Mangini?
Mid-afternoon Sunday, as the Jets were busy trying to hand a stunning victory to the Kansas City Chiefs, I sat at this keyboard contemplating a “time to fire Mangini” article.
It seems to me that Coach Mangini’s career hangs on every Brett Favre pass — each TD prolongs the Mangini coaching tenure, while more importantly each [...]
Cashman Stays With Yankees
The Cash-man does not cometh to DC. He’s staying with the Yankees for at least three more years, saying that he still has a “job to finish here.“
Hat tip to the Big G
LoHud’s excellent Yankees blog has this great little vignette about Jason Giambi. He’s a mixed bag, but stories like this make you love him.
What Killed the Yankees
Today’s New York Times post-mortem of the Yankees season and immediate future has a couple of good nuggets that explain where the organization finds itself. The keys here are health and youth.
The Steinbrenner Brothers — and Cashman’s Yankees Choice
Brian Cashman has reportedly told the Yankees that he wants to return (or not). They have affirmatively indicated an interest in having him return.
Cashman’s decision is likely to come down to this: With which face of his boss, Janus Steinbrenner, will he have to work? Happily for Yankees fans, there are growing indications that while [...]
Youth may not spring eternal, but hope surely does
Brett Favre joins other Hall of Famers who played for the Jets, like Art Monk and Ronnie Lott.
Oh? You don’t remember their Jet tenures?
And in 20 years Favre’s Jet tenure will be as memorable as Willie Joe Namath’s Rams go-round. This is how it has always been with the Jets and so it shall ever [...]