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Keeping Score: To Hang In, a Series Winner Must Learn to Let Go

More than any other team in American professional sports, the Yankees cannot afford to rebuild. The team’s partnership with the YES regional sports network is too lucrative when the Yankees are winning, their hulking palace of a stadium is too much of ...

From JONAH KERI, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Major League Baseball,  Mariano Rivera,  Florida Marlins,  Anaheim Angels

Jonah Keri: The New Market Inefficiency

"That's pretty much how I pitch, to try to keep my FIP as low as possible," Greinke said. As expected, the baseball cognoscenti has gone ga-ga for Tyler Kepner's New York Times piece on AL Cy Young winner Zack Greinke. And why not? Here's Greinke ...

From JONAH KERI, Huffington Post,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Cy Young,  Zack Greinke,  Brian Bannister,  David DeJesus

Jonah Keri: The Pedro I Know

When Pedro Martinez takes the mound to start tonight's Game 2 of the World Series for the Phillies, Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and many other observers will probably take the narrow view. They'll focus on Pedro's history of baiting Yankee fans, of Yankee ...

From JONAH KERI, Huffington Post,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Ken Hill,  Dan Duquette,  Mariano Rivera,  Pedro Martinez,  Jeff Fassero

Jonah Keri: On Franchise Loyalty, and Storytelling

It was kind of surreal to not have a team. I remember thinking back then, what it was like to be a city without a football team. To watch games, and have no rooting interest...It was just something that I had never experienced, and didn't know until ...

From JONAH KERI, Huffington Post,  27 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Baltimore Ravens,  ESPN,  NFL,  Microsoft Corporation,  Robert Irsay

Keeping Score: Taking the Measure of the Big East

It’s the majority opinion in the men’s college basketball world: the Big East is the strongest conference in the country. But some of the sport’s leading voices take the argument a step further. Pittsburghs DeJuan Blair with Notre Dames Luke Harangody. ...

From JONAH KERI, The New York Times,  21 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Jamie Dixon,  Pittsburgh Panthers,  University of Notre Dame,  DeJuan Blair,  Kyle McAlarney

Gen IXers changing style of game

Led by venerable coaches like Pat Summitt and star players like Nancy Lieberman and Teresa Weatherspoon, women's college basketball teams from Old Dominion, Louisiana Tech, Tennessee and Georgia once formed a powerful Southern bloc. Forty-point ...

From JONAH KERI, Denver Post,  8 Feb 2009
Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association,  Pat Summitt,  Nancy Lieberman,  Cheryl Miller

Keeping Score: New Frontiers Await the Next Title IX Generation

The Quad returns to a new season of college basketball coverage. Forty-point blowouts were par for the course. Parity did not exist. Through the late 1970s and much of the ’80s, top talent gravitated to a handful of top teams, widening the gap between ...

From JONAH KERI, The New York Times,  7 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Cheryl Miller,  Noggin

Luxury gifts for the sports lover

Kids love big things. And that goes for you kids in your 30s and 40s who haven't outgrown the thrill of seeing Redskins running back Clinton Portis emblazoned on your bedroom wall. Well, better make that your garage wall: Consider Fathead ($149). What ...

From KEVIN BERGER, JONAH KERI, MARK SCHONE, Salon,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Clinton Portis,  Jeff Gordon

Midrange gifts for the sports lover

Are you a Cleveland Cavaliers fan living in Miami? A Los Angeles Lakers fan shipped to the Lakers' old home in Minneapolis? A Boston Celtics fan on assignment in Omaha, Neb.? With NBA League Pass Broadband ($100), you can watch LeBron, Kobe, K.G. and ...

From KEVIN BERGER, JONAH KERI, MARK SCHONE, Salon,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Los Angeles Lakers,  Cleveland Cavaliers,  Boston Celtics,  National Basketball Association

Bargain gifts for the sports lover

Give the baseball junkie in your life a subscription to Bill James' Web site ($3 a month). Written with nonpareil authority, the site contains a treasure trove of stats and nuggets about your favorite players, past and present. Perfect for punching up ...

From KEVIN BERGER, JONAH KERI, MARK SCHONE, Salon,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Bill James,  Barack Obama

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