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The Olympics are over. So is football. Pro hockey and basketball are winding down and it’s a wee bit early for March Madness. So baseball’s back. Tim Marchman praises “the G.M.’s who made the savviest moves of the off-season” Tom Verducci on the early buzz in spring training camp Albert Chen on run prevention as […]
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We finally got rid of football. Now if we can just get past these pesky Olympics… Baseball items will be coming fast and furious in the weeks ahead. Joe Po’s sweet piece on Willie Mays, pursuant to Hirsh’s new book. Tom Verducci’s assessment of recent retirees Frank Thomas and Tom Glavine. The Twins as the […]
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We finally got rid of football. Now if we can just get past these pesky Olympics… Baseball items will be coming fast and furious in the weeks ahead. Joe Po’s sweet piece on Willie Mays, pursuant to Hirsh’s new book. Tom Verducci’s assessment of recent retirees Frank Thomas and Tom Glavine. The Twins as the […]
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The scant baseball items include: Grow your own…ballpark, that is. Actually, that’s it, but last week (Jan. 18) there were these items: Joe Posnanski on Mark McGwire Joe Sheehan on Randy Johnson Ben Reiter on Tim Lincecum And, what the heck, on Jan. 11: What? No, that can’t be right…Nothing about Andre Dawson??
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Sorry, almost done with this catching up business, so bear with me. For those of you who haven’t seen it, here’s my take on the November session of Yankees Fantasy Camp in the Dec, 17 issue of the New Jersey Jewish News. In addition, My teammate Ira Jaskoll wrote this piece for the Jewish Magazine […]
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Congratulations to Derek Jeter, SI‘s Sportsman of the Year. I wonder which award is more prestigious: the AL MVP or this? On the one hand, the former is baseball recognizing its own. On the other hand, the latter encompasses all sports. Is there some sort of official award/plaque/trophy for that? Tom Verducci does the honors […]
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Surprise, surprise: The Yankees. NOT. Although Tom Verducci did write the story about the Yankees’ latest championship, as well as this sidebar on the upcoming hot stove league. And in a case of raining on the Yankees’ parade, this week’s “Sign of the Apocalypse”: New York City office workers who ran out of confetti during […]
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Baseball takes center stage for perhaps the last time in 2009. Derek Jeter makes an appropriate cover boy for Tom Verducci’s World Series story. This makes the 11th time Jeter has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Four of those have come for the post-season, including three World Series covers. Here’s a link to […]
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Who could have conceived of a time where the Nov. 2 issue wouldn’t include any information about World Series games that had already been played. Anyway, this week features Ryan Howard on the cover in a Series preview by Lee Jenkins. Also: Tom Verducci on Alex Rodriguez’s resurrgence in the post-season. Joe Sheehan’s prediction
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Basketball preview this week, so not much in the way of baseball. Basically it’s Joe Posnanski on the Yankees.
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Tom Verducci writes about the chances the Dodgers and Angels face each other in the Fall Classic. Lee Jenkins on Bobby Abreau, who had a major impact on his Angels teammates. And Phil Taylor’s column on the dyspepsia of being a Nationals fan.
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Tom Verducci on the how the return of Pedro Martinez helped propel the Phillies into the postseason. Joe Sheehan on the Cardinals-Dodgers match-up. The Twins-Tigers hadn’t played at the time SI went to press, which explains this piece by Sheehan.
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The cover pays tribute to the one and only Mariano Rivera, profiled by Tom Verducci. (Of course, there may be more than one “Mariano Rivera,” but you know what I mean.) Joe Posnanski contributed this piece on Mark Reynolds, the Diamondbacks’ strikeout artists — and I don’t mean the good kind. There’s this little item […]
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Lee Jenkins pays homage to Detroit, the backbone of the country, and the Tigers, with a photo of Comerica Park on the cover. Other baseball items of note: Joe Sheehan on the upcoming free agents: Buyer beware. Phil Taylor on Brad Lidge
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To break the ice at parties, some hosts might engage their guests in some questions, such as “Which character, real or fictional, would you enjoy having a dinner conversation with?” For many baseball fans, it might be Bill James, as Joe Posnanski, late of the Kansas City Star and new to SI.com, does in this […]
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Hey, I missed one. So sue me. Just wanted to highlight this article by Luke winn about “The Last Iconic Baseball Card.” Care to guess who it is before you read the piece? A Hint: it cae out 20 years ago. In a similarly belated development, MLB picked Topps as its “official” card of choice. […]
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The cover story is Insane Bolt and his record-breaking performances. As far as baseball goes: MLB Poll: Who’s the biggest Chatty Kathy on the field? With the final month of the season about to begin, Tom Verducci looks at those players that might make the difference between the post-season and the off-season for some teams, […]
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Player poll: Which opposing hitter do you fear most with the game on the line? Joe Sheehan on the Red Sox (“They’re not dead, they’re just restin’“)
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I no longer subscribe to the print version of SI, but I do pick up the occasional copy (which is kind of silly since the cost of four or five newsstand editions is roughly equivalent to a deep-discount subscription). The annual “Where Are They Now” is one of them. The editors usually do a good […]
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Uh-oh, Joe. Minnesota catcher Mauer is the cover story. You know what that means. Just ask Zack Gerinke, who appeared on the May 5 issue. Prior to the stiry, he was 6-0 with a 0.40 ERA. For four games, beginning with his May 31 start, he gave up 15 earned runs in 26 innings and […]
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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