Most times when I am watching a sporting event, especially in person, I have a rooting interest.  Though my four favorite men’s college basketball teams have limped out of the gate to a combined 5-37 mark (Fordham’s 2-8 record being the best of the bunch), with the Yankees winning the World...

Blogs and columns about Baseball Hall of Fame ballots from those of us who will never have an actual ballot are popular this time of year, and with good reason.  The tie to the past, through memories, photographs and statistics, is greater in baseball than in any other sport.  The numbers are there...

Let me start by saying that I’ve been a Yankees fan for more than 30 years, share a Stadium season ticket package with some friends and watch about 120 or so of their games each year.  I am about as big a fan of the team and the sport as there is. Today, while in the Manhattan office that I work...

From almost the moment that word got out that Tiger Woods had parallel parked between a tree and hydrant late last month, kind folks from all over have been offering him advice through the press.  Public relations people suggesting how he should come clean right away (never mind the legal ramifications...

Alessia Andrade Ran across a news item about a Hispanic sports awards ceremony last Thursday, which I reported on over at Baseball Digest.  By all accounts it was a great event and helped benefit The Ganley Foundation, a worthy cause. My favorite part was not that U.S. Open tennis champ Juan Martín...

Of all the entertainment innovations of the past decade, I think Netflix is the most fascinating to me.  While I would probably not go out and buy the DVD collections of every television series I enjoyed in my youth (except “Hawaii Five-o“, all seven available seasons of which I have ordered...

With the Yankees, Diamondbacks and Tigers reportedly completing the creative seven-player, three-way deal that brings the fleet and powerful Curtis Granderson to the Stadium’s expansive centerfield (and short right field porch) for 2010, an early look at the trade seems to have something for everyone. For...

The Baseball Hall of Fame continued its annual exercise in exclusion today, as the Committees on Executives and Pioneers and on Managers and Umpires announced the selections of two deserving candidates, Whitey Herzog and Doug Harvey, and continued its petty and vindictive rejection of Marvin Miller. The...

Tommy Henrich (left); photo courtesy Steiner Sports When I heard of the passing of former Yankee Tommy Henrich today at age 96, the first thing I thought of was his nickname. “Old Reliable.” Can you have a better nickname, in sports and in life, than “Old Reliable?” Baseball nicknames...