After Cliff Lee and Chase Utley got the World Series off to a memorable start for the Phillies on Wednesday, the Yankees evened things up with a crisp, methodical 3-1 victory last night. Like Game One, the game was well-pitched on both sides, and just as C.C. Sabathia was a smidge worse than Lee, the …
I loved the article in The New York Times the other day about the new ideas about the Battle of Agincourt, the mythic victory that the English under Henry V enjoyed over the French on St. Crispin’s Day, Oct. 25, in 1415, and that gave rise to Shakespeare‘s stirring “Band of Brothers” speech. “They devastated …
Game 5 was a wild, emotional affair. Consider: Five Angels batted and scored four runs before an out was recorded in the first; then the Yanks, stifled for six innings, erupted for six runs in the seventh, making me think the game was in the bag; but in the bottom of the seventh, Girardi made …
We spent an exciting and somewhat hectic weekend in beautiful Central New Jersey, where Cara was participating in the Equestrian Talent Search at Centenary College in Hackettstown (Just to be precise, the event was at Centenary’s Equestrian Center, which is actually in Long Valley. On Middle Valley Road in Long Valley. Atop a mountain on …
Ann Coulter, serial liar and firebug, has surfaced after some months of relative quietude with another of her typically overwrought and manifestly untrue provocations. Appearing yesterday on The Joy Behar Show, Coulter, aiming to counter the idea that President Obama might become vicitm of a right wing assassin, said, “Every presidential assassination or attempted presidential …
In New York, the rich are part of the landscape. One doesn’t pay too much attention to their excesses; in fact, it provides a little vicarious joy. You might think that seeing them leave the Park Avenue buildings where you’ll never live to enter the limo you’ll never ride in to go to the restaurant …
Excellent argument between Lawrence O’Donnell and Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe today. I give a TKO to Lawrence on points, because he did a better job of keeping his cool, and because he’s my friend. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
On latimes.com, James Rainey has an article about Amy Hertz, the editor of the Huffington Post’s new books section. “Hertz told me she has had so many submissions — “an embarrassment of riches”– in the opening days of HuffPost Books that she can’t find room for them all on the site, which does not pay …
After Monday’s long, exciting, over-managed and ultimately exasperating loss to the Angels, the Yankees finally played a complete game last night, and thoroughly beat the Angels 10-1. If L.A. woke up Tuesday feeling cheerful about having won a big game and about having on the mound on Tuesday Scott Kazmir, a top starter with a …
Frequent reader and correspondent Hugh Cook sends along this item from Mediaweek about the plummeting fortunes of my former employer: “Big cuts are in store at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, which is slashing its rate base a whopping 38 percent as the iconic men’s magazine battles advertising and circulation declines, Mediaweek has learned. Starting with the …