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New York Yankees

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Joe Torre Wants to Buy the Dodgers With Developer Rick Caruso; L.A. Rejoices

    If Frank McCourt is the most hated man in baseball -- and in Los Angeles in general -- Joe Torre might be the most loved. Which makes Torre's surprise resignation as executive vice president of the MLB, and announcement that he'll pursue ownership of the Dodgers alongside major L.A. developer Rick ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    September 22, 2011

    Moneyball Review

    If Frank McCourt is the most hated man in baseball -- and in Los Angeles in general -- Joe Torre might be the most loved. Which makes Torre's surprise resignation as executive vice president of the MLB, and announcement that he'll pursue ownership of the Dodgers alongside major L.A. developer Rick ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets

    ​ "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from a screenplay by Stephen Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, happens in the home stretch of a film abo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Anthony Bourdain Joins Writing Team on HBO's Treme

    Anthony Bourdain, no stranger to TV, is moving to the other side of the camera.​Under Anthony Bourdain's many writing credits - Kitchen Confidential, Bone in the Throat and Medium Raw, to name a few - we can now add HBO series Treme to that list. As the AVClub reports, via Nola.com, the sharp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Joe Torre: Out As Dodger Manager

    ​Joe Torre is out as Dodgers manager after this season, to be replaced by Don Mattingly next season, the Times reports. Torre could stay with the team in another capacity. The Dodgers have been 251-220 during his three-year tenure. Torre has been a manager for 28 years, the highlight an incr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    George Steinbrenner Will Be Remembered For The Hollywood Work On 'Seinfeld' He Didn't Actually Do

    NBC vis YouTube​As New Yorkers mourned the passing of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, a tribute was planned for Tuesday night's Major League Baseball game in Anaheim, and former team manager and former Yankees leader Joe Torre was speaking about his old boss to reporters at Dodger Stadium T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Yeah, Another George Steinbrenner Post: Remember His Mysterious Fight In L.A. During 1981 World Series?

    NBC via Youtube​ I was a huge Yankees fan in 1981, having that summer gone to my first Major League game at Yankee Stadium as a 6-year old. Reggie Jackson hit a monster home run, there was a bench-clearing brawl, the young women behind us were smoking weed, and we beat the traffic home. Thus, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Lakers Are The Sports Franchise Of The Decade

    Da Lakers.​Yes, another year-end, top-of-the-decade list, this time from Sports Illustrated. The magazine says the Los Angeles Lakers are the sports franchise of the decade. The Staples Center-based ballers beat out the NFL's New England Patriots (number two), the University of Connecticut's w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Hideki Matsui Coming to LA: A Designated Hitter A Japanese Curry House

    MLB.com​Hideki Matsui, the New York Yankees DH and MVP of the World Series, is coming to Los Angeles. Matsui has reportedly signed a 1-year contract with the Angels. So they get a guy who batted .615 over the 6 games of the series, and in arguably better news--depending on your culinary tastes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Dodgers/Phillies Game 5: Well, So Much For 2009. Thanks For the Memories.

    ​Turn out the lights, the party's over.There was a glimmer of hope when Andre Ethier hit a solo home run in the 1st inning, but the Phillies quickly snuffed it out in the bottom of the inning with that three-run dinger by Jayson Werth.The Dodgers needed another solid outing from Vicente Padilla bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Dodgers/Phillies: It'll Be Deja Vu All Over Again

    ​ Stupid Rockies.All they had to do Monday night was hold a two-run 9th inning lead to extend their series with the Phillies to a fifth game, but closer Huston Street blew it. The Rockies got the tying run on base in the bottom of the 9th, but couldn't push it across.So the NL Championship, beginn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2009

    Dodgers Finish Off Cardinals: What Did I Tell You?

    ​Yesterday I predicted the Dodgers would knock the Cards out this weekend, but I didn't think it would necessarily happen Saturday--or that the Blue Crew would make it look relatively easy. The Dodgers gradually silenced the St. Louis crowd as they built a 5-0 lead. The Cards scored a measly run i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    Positively Second Street: L.A.'s Tunnel Vision

    The L.A Times' car-biz writer Dan Neil has a great piece on the Second Street Tunnel -- its history, going back to 1924; its schizoid appearance, depending on which end you enter, and how it's "probably the most recognizable city landmark most Americans have never heard of," having figured in films ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2009

    Today in Photographs: February 28, 1963

    Kou Shows Off Form in Vero. L.A. Dodgers' pitching ace Sandy Koufax shows movie cameramen how it's done during spring training in Vero Beach, Florida. That summer would prove to be among Koufax's best and the Dodgers won the World Series, sweeping the New York Yankees in four games. Koufax, who'd s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Joe Torre Book Clips Yankees

    Call it another front in the N.Y. versus L.A. war, but now Los Angeles Dodger manager Joe Torre has launched a salvo against his former team, the New York Yankees. In an Associated Press story picked up by NBC Sports/MSNBC and other sources, Torre's new book, The Yankee Years, spills the dirt on:&nb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Don Larsen's Beautiful Nothing

    Diane Pucin has a fine Memory Lane piece in today's L.A. Times Sports section. In "Scully Pulls Up His Own Chair," Pucin interviews L.A. Dodger announcer Vin Scully about Don Larsen's 1956 World Series no-hitter. It came in Game 5 between Larsen's team, the New York Yankees, and the Brooklyn Dodgers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Vin Scully Inducted into Hall of Fame

    Vin Scully, the TV and radio voice of the Dodgers for 59 years, will be inducted into the newly formed Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in New York City tonight.  Don Ohlmeyer will be joining  him, along with other broadcasting legends such as the late Chet Forte and Curt Gowdy. Scully, wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2008

    Statutory Tape: Nixon Library Unspools More Recordings

    Marx had Bismark in mind when described the "shallowness characteristic of all successful statesmen," but he may as well have been looking ahead to Richard Nixon. Today the Nixon Library has released a new batch of White House tapes and for my money the thrill is not in listening to the obvious mome ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2008

    Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign's Shameless Spin

    Photo by Erin Broadley. Click image for entire slideshow. After spending several hours at the Music Box Theater in Hollywood last night, watching the voter totals for the passage or defeat of Proposition 8 fluctuate every few minutes, it finally became apparent by 12:30 a.m. that things weren't l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Dodgers Win Big in Chicago

    Before the Lakers took over the minds and hearts of sports fans in Los Angeles, there were the Dodgers. Players such as Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Maury Wills, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Tommy John, and Fernando Valenzuela, among many others, were gods, and then things didn't go so well for the team in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    The Magic of Joe Torre

    Twelve years ago, Joe Torre was hired by the New York Yankees to manage a team that was expected to be a contender, but not necessarily the next world champions. In his first year, Torre made all the right moves, and with some dramatic hitting in the World Series against the Atlanta Braves--Yankee f ... More >>

  • Music

    September 25, 2008

    Confessions of a Promo-CD Junkie: Who Will Stop the Music Industry Gravy Train?

    With so much music available at the click of a mouse, do tastemakers really need hard copies anymore? Is it worth the waste?

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2008

    Donnie Baseball Comes to LA

    At 4:57 p.m. on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers sent out a press release with this headline in big, bold letters: "MATTINGLY TO RETURN AFTER THE ALL-STAR BREAK." Donnie Baseball is coming to LA. Don Mattingly, left, watches the Dodgers practice at spring training with manager Joe Torre. (photo ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 15, 2008

    Larry Bowa

    The third eye

  • Columns

    December 20, 2007

    What's So Bad About Performance Enhancement?

    The steroid debate rages on

  • Stage

    August 23, 2007

    Through the Looking Glass

    Unorthodox views in Modern Orthodox and Alice in Wonderland

  • LA Life

    July 26, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican! The Dope On Sinaloa

    "Why is Sinaloa considered the dope capital of Mexico? Every time I tell someone where my family is from, they immediately say that."

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    The Boras Factor

    Is super agent Scott Boras destroying the game of baseball? And what does he want now?

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    Love Letter to the L.A. Dodgers

    True blue

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    Dealing for Dollars

    Some of Scott Boras’ notable moves

  • News

    January 11, 2007

    Immortal Mayhem

    It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

  • Stage

    September 21, 2006

    The Walsh Brothers

    It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    Still a Working Stiff

    Never mind the buzz: To Woody Allen, Match Point is just a job well done

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Too Much Junkie Business

    An excerpt from Wrecking Crew

  • News

    July 28, 2005

    Sympathy for the Devil

    Everything you thought you knew about steroids is wrong

  • Columns

    July 21, 2005

    Get Real

    Everything you thought you knew about steroids is wrong

  • Music

    November 11, 2004

    Freedom Rides Again

    Ornette and Denardo Coleman, a harmolodic family

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Have Your Planet and Hummer, Too

    What Schwarznegger only dreamed, Tai Robinson delivered

  • Stage

    January 8, 2004

    New York Marquee

    Now playing in the big town

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    A Fan’s Notes: Top Moments in Sports

    Now playing in the big town

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Streets of Loathing

    George W. Bush and the London protests

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Gloom, Doom and George W. Bush

    The president does London

  • News

    August 14, 2003

    Riding the Wave

    An interview with Dana Brown

  • Columns

    November 14, 2002

    Masquerades: WeHo Family Values

    An interview with Dana Brown

  • Columns

    August 29, 2002

    Freeways to Perdition

    An interview with Dana Brown

  • Columns

    June 6, 2002

    The Man Show

    An interview with Dana Brown

  • Film+TV

    July 5, 2001

    Oldies But Goodies

    The television event

  • Stage

    September 14, 2000

    High Fidelity

    . . . the second time, as camp

  • Film+TV

    July 13, 2000

    Desert Island Bisque

    In Survivor, the Real World meets Outward Bound meets Lord of the Flies meets Esalen meets Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. Plus, Alec Baldwin in Nuremberg and a goodbye to The Sopranos’ Nancy Marchand

  • Art+Books

    November 18, 1999

    Pete Rose Web-a-thon

    In Survivor, the Real World meets Outward Bound meets Lord of the Flies meets Esalen meets Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. Plus, Alec Baldwin in Nuremberg and a goodbye to The Sopranos’ Nancy Marchand

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