It was a familiar sight for the Yankees, seeing Chien-Ming Wang’s sinker leading to a metronome of ground balls and swings and misses. Unfortunately for Wang, he provided another familiar sight on Thursday afternoon, when he pitched against his former team in a Washington Nationals uniform.
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The Detroit Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera paused, searching his memory for his favorite position to play. He ran through the time he had spent during his professional career in right field, left field, shortstop, first base and third base, and said what he liked about each. […]
After a steady march through the Southeastern Conference, No. 1 Kentucky is poised for March and the N.C.A.A. tournament. […]
Allan Houston still looks good in a basketball uniform. Shoots well, too. He even occasionally scrimmages with current Knicks players. So when Houston, the team’s 40-year-old assistant general manager, led a three-player franchise contingent to victory in the Shooting Stars competition Saturday, during the N.B.A. All-Star festivities, a questioner began to ask him about a possible comeback. […]
Amar’e Stoudemire stood before the open coffin, head bowed, eyes hidden behind sunglasses. Reaching in, he touched his brother’s body, holding his hand for several quiet seconds. […]
The 85-year-old man looked frail, sitting in a wheelchair in the center of the Orlando Magic’s circular locker room, a cane in his right hand. But when he spoke, Rich DeVos’s voice was strong, his message direct […]
As the Giants paraded through Lower Manhattan, it rained on the Yankees’ pre-spring training workout Tuesday. It was a steady rain, falling from a canopy of granite clouds that hovered over the team’s minor league complex, across the street from Steinbrenner Field. […]
A simmering season of discontent for wide receiver Santonio Holmes boiled to the surface Sunday, sending the Jets into the off-season as a splintered squad. […]
If there was any doubt about how much the Nets need a player of Dwight Howard’s caliber, especially now, a season before their move to Brooklyn, he punctuated that point with a violent blocked shot early in the first quarter of Thursday night’s game, airmailing the ball from beneath the basket into the fourth row of the courtside seats. […]
he official restart of the Miami Heat begins on Sunday with far less noise than a year ago, when a team constructed on superstar intrigue evoked breathless predictions and sputtering vitriol in equal measure.
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The dreams started when Dwight Howard was a boy, visiting him with vivid reality. Soon he came to see them as future frames on a filmstrip, a sneak peek at where the linear progression of his life would take him.
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