You know what’s worse than a breakup? An impending breakup. The kind of breakup where you spend your entire existence wondering if the love of your life is getting ready to leave you. It’s been threatened. It’s been talked about….

Major League Baseball announced the lineups for this year’s All-Star Game, and there’s a rather glaring omission in the list of Yankee infielders on the squad: Alex Rodriguez (starting third base) Derek Jeter (starting shortstop) Robinson Cano (starting second base)…

This was the sign in front of my parents’ house in October of 2000. The Yankees and Mets were playing each other in the World Series. What you don’t see here (and I’m forcing my mother to find a picture…

The longest surviving sports affiliation of my life is the New York Yankees, and I hate them. Fandom comes and goes, but loathing is forever. I discovered the Yankees in 1977, the year I turned nine and was sucked into…

…when it came to the Trade, Peterson was generally considered to be the winner. After all, he and Susanne are still married today, with children of their own. This result was predicted by Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV…

Michael Sokolove, writing for the NYT Magazine, pretty much wrote what I wanted to write about the 37-year-old .250-hitting Derek Jeter: But the careers of elite athletes, enviable as they may be, are foreshortened versions of a human lifespan. Physical…