Yankeesâ Levine Cries Foul on Criticism
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Yankees President Randy Levine said he could deal with criticism but that he was displeased that he had been stung by people with âundisclosed conflicts of interest.â
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Even Joe Torre says Alex Rodriguez was out of line. The New York Yankees manager concluded A-Rod shouldn't have distracted a Toronto fielder this week during a popup, joining a chorus of baseball people who said the two-time AL MVP broke the sport's unwritten code.
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Take more pitches. Draw more walks. Hit more grounders. For years, Jimmy Rollins heard the same criticism from people who said he's not a prototypical leadoff hitter. Try dissing J-Roll now.
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For much of the regular season, Boston  Red Sox fans fumed about their $70 million right-fielder,  taunting J.D. Drew with boos as he struggled at the plate and  venting their anger in bars and on radio phone-in shows.
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There is too much of the one-sided version of the story going around, especially in Boston, now that Pedro MartÃ­nez has said he is on his way to Shea Stadium.
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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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He is the punching bag of Red Sox Nation. He is the player Sox fans love to loathe. And a lot of Sox players apparently feel the same way.
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Cricket Australia defends Ricky Ponting and his team in the face of mounting criticism of their on-field behaviour.
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Should the Yankees be stripped of the Subway Series title?
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They had just been on the bottom side of the greatest el foldo in major league baseball playoff history. Maybe at some point down the road, that will irk the Yankees.
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Before last night&#39;s game with Tampa Bay at Fenway Park, every Boston player in sight was bombarded by questions about the drama that will be played out this weekend at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox&#39; hated rivals.
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The New York Yankees put all shades of Sox on notice this weekend: Don&#039;t count out the Bronx Bombers.
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Outspoken Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen apologized Wednesday for using a derogatory term in referring to Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti, then kept up his criticism of the writer.
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The face of Mariano Rivera, normally as placid as a pond in winter, was contorted in anger. &quot;Catch that ball, c&#39;mon,&quot; were the words that appeared
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ST. LOUIS -- Cardinals manager Tony La Russa always has been a sore loser, quick to lash out at the slightest provocation during postgame news conferences.
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Critics of Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.
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Jesse Jackson criticized Major League Baseball on Thursday for sending investigators to the hometowns of umpires to ask neighbors questions that include whether the ump belongs to the Ku Klux Klan.