Yankees star blasts blackmail pitch
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ON or off the field, it doesn&#39;t pay to mess with New York Yankees slugger Gary Sheffield. Derrick Mosely, a self-described minister of religion, found this out the hard way when he allegedly tried to blackmail
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Against a nothing-to-lose team such as the Kansas City Royals, the Yankees&#39; manager wanted his team to put down the hammer early and not let baseball&#39;s second worst team believe it had a chance.
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Calling his client a &quot;poor man&#39;s Jesse Jackson,&quot; the attorney for the man accused of trying to blackmail Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield and his wife said yesterday the defendant
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Major League Baseball is concerned about New York Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield&#39;s admitting that he unknowingly used a steroids cream in 2002, but the commissioner
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That la-la-la sound you hear is from baseball, with its hands cupped over its ears to another retro-'roid accusation.
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The Yankeesâ sustained run of success in the past decade was smudged by the revelations that two of the teamâs vital pitchers had used performance enhancing substances.
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Big league smarts or bush league stunt? Fans were buzzing Thursday over whether Alex Rodriguez broke baseball's unwritten code by making a remark that distracted a Toronto infielder and allowed a ninth-inning popup to fall for a run-scoring single.
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A year ago, he was the new star in camp. Reporters begged for a moment of his time and he managed to avoid most of them. He was the centerpiece acquisition off a tumultuous offseason, a can't-miss kid with a World Series MVP (won in Yankee Stadium!) on his r&#xE9;sum&#xE9;.
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Mike Mussina is the resident graybeard in the Yankees locker room. As pitchers and catchers reported to camp Thursday, Mussina, 39, was the first to be asked how Andy Pettitte will deal with the ramifications of telling Congress Roger Clemens used HGH. Pettitte plans to report to camp Monday.
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Alex Rodriguezâs 85-game performance has jolted the Yankees into a change of thinking after previously saying they would not negotiate a contract extension during the season.
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New York Yankees acting manager Willie Randolph, filling in for manager Joe Torre serving a game suspension, gestures as he yells to the bench during the Yankees 4-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto, in this Oct. 2, 2004 file photo.
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Randy Johnson, who is expected to be introduced on Tuesday as the newest member of the New York Yankees, got into a heated argument and shoving match on Monday with a CBS television news cameraman.
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Joe Torre won't pick sides between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee, the former New York Yankees strength coach who accused the Rocket of using performance-enhancing drugs. "You're not going to get me in that jackpot," the former Yankees manager said Wednesday. "I'd rather just stay away from making any in-depth comment about the whole steroid-HGH thing."
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According to Javier Vazquez, the Yankees would be wrong to deal him to Arizona for Randy Johnson. Talking in Ponce, Puerto Rico, soft-spoken Vazquez questioned the Yankees&#39; intelligence if they
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The veteran relief pitcher was told by manager Terry Francona and pitching coach Dave Wallace prior to last night&#39;s game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays [stats, schedule
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MVP? On this night, that would stand for a mightily, vociferously peeved David Ortiz, distressed at the way his remarks about the American League MVP race were used to portray him as selfishly campaigning for himself while disparaging Derek Jeter of the Yankees.
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NEW YORK -- Randy Johnson's first pitch in pinstripes was an apology.