“The New York Yankees are world champions!” I have waited my entire life to hear those fateful words. Okay, maybe not. Sure, it was only nine years since the previous Pinstripe parade through the Canyon of Heroes, but I was a mere lad of 13 years old. Full Article at Cornell Daily Sun

Mariano Rivera jogged slowly toward the mound. This is what the beginning of the end has looked like in this generation, Rivera’s steady procession toward the mound. The unfazed face, Enter Sandman booming. Full Article at New York Post

When the New York Yankees secured their 27th World Series title with a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday, it was eight years to the day that Luis Gonzalez delivered a broken-bat single off Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning of... Full Article at Sports Blogs

Planswere underway this week to bury another member of the Queens military community who was killed while fighting in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Full Article at Bayside Times

On the night of Nov. 1, 2001, I was sitting alone in the second-floor lounge of Shaw Hall on the campus of Syracuse University, having been banished there after cheering too loudly in the room of two Red Sox fans following Scott Brosius' game-tying two-... Full Article at Bleacher Report

NEW YORK — Paint the town in pinstripes! Nearly a decade after their dynasty ended on a blooper in the desert, the New York Yankees are baseball's best again. Full Article at Huffington Post