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Leading Off: No Days’ Rest

The Phillies’ victory in Game 5 of the World Series prompts the question we will now be bludgeoned with for two days: Does it mean anything? Was this a proud team that staved off defeat in its own stadium, only to become the backdrop to a heroic ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Philadelphia Phillies,  New York Yankees,  Major League Baseball,  Tim McCarver,  Ford Motor Company

Leading Off: It’s Rodriguez’s World

The baseball playoffs have been going on for so long now that it is hard to pinpoint the exact moment that the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez took over the world. It probably arrived during one of his towering late-inning home runs, but it could have been ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kate Hudson,  New York Yankees,  Alex Rodriguez,  David Wells,  Ford Motor Company

Bouramdane Pushes Men’s Field Full of Previous Winners

Abderrahime Bouramdane of Morocco made the first move of the New York City Marathon, surging ahead on his own in the fourth mile of the 26.2-mile race, with a large pack of contenders running about seven seconds behind him. The elite men crossed the ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Santos, Ltd.,  Ryan Hall,  Abdi Abdirahman,  Robert Cheruiyot,  Alberto Salazar

Leading Off: Martinez’s Colorful Performance

Baseball owes a debt of gratitude to Pedro Martinez. In Game 2 of the World Series he played the perfect role: the crafty old pitcher reincarnated as a Phillie, serving as perfect foil for Yankees fans, self-aware enough to giggle as he left the mound ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Pedro Martinez,  New York Yankees,  Philadelphia Phillies,  Yahoo!,  Ryan Howard

Goodell Defends N.F.L.’s Handling of Head Injuries

N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell defended the league’s response to the issue of concussions and the care of retired players before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday during a hearing called to discuss the long-term effects of head injuries in ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Conyers,  DeMaurice Smith,  Roger Goodell,  New York Giants,  New York Jets

Leading Off: Fall Training

Never let it be said baseball is not environmentally friendly. Fan friendly, not so much, unless you enjoy staying up until 1 a.m. on November nights and freezing your backside off. But by eschewing the New Jersey Turnpike for chartered Amtrak trains, ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Amtrak,  New York Yankees,  Washington Redskins,  ESPN,  Michael Wilbon

Leading Off: Next Stop, World Series

After much ado, buckets of rain, piles of twisted hyperbole from Tim McCarver, 827,458 television camera shots of Kate Hudson, baseball finally produced what is being called the New Jersey Turnpike Series. To live up to this name, as any Turnpike ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Tim McCarver,  Kate Hudson,  Yahoo!,  New York Post

Leading Off: Umpires Officially Become the Villains

Gosh, some things move quickly in baseball. No, not the actual games, but the when it comes to the playoff villains changing places, that happens with head-spinning speed. In Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, the umpires grabbed the ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Joe Torre,  Jonathan Broxton,  Manny Ramirez

Leading Off: Girardi and Torre, Former Geniuses

The baseball playoffs have officially reached the point where everything is the manager’s fault. This is inevitable, of course. If you know little else about baseball, you know Grady Little once left Pedro Martinez in too long in a Red Sox collapse. ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Joe Girardi,  Joe Torre,  Pedro Martinez,  Mike Scioscia,  New York Yankees

Police Have No Suspect in UConn Player’s Death

The University of Connecticut police interviewed dozens of witnesses but had no suspect and had made no arrests Monday in the stabbing death of Jasper Howard, a starting cornerback on the football team, in an on-campus fight early Sunday. Interviews, ...

From LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: University of Connecticut,  Jasper Howard,  Randy Edsall

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