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Randolph among Yankees reps for Draft
Email BALTIMORE -- Willie Randolph and Andy Cannizaro will serve as the Yankees' representatives for the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, which begins on June 6. Randolph spent the majority of his 18-year big league playing career with the Yankees, appearing in pinstripes for 13 seasons as a sure-handed second baseman from 1976-88. A six-time World Series champion as a player and also as a ...
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Wright focused on trying to not do too much
Email NEW YORK -- Above him, the lineup card has changed almost nightly. The Mets have received almost no production out of their leadoff hitters this season and have gone long stretches without production from the two-hole as well. Through it all, third hitter David Wright has tried to not do more than he is capable. "For me, it's a constant battle to not do that," Wright said. ...
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Empathetic Robertson donates to tornado victims
Email BALTIMORE -- Yankees reliever David Robertson is offering his support to the victims of the Oklahoma tornado tragedies, pledging to donate $100 for every strikeout he records this season. Robertson founded a charity, High Socks for Hope, after his hometown of Tuscaloosa, Ala., was ravaged by tornadoes in April 2011. Watching television coverage of the devastation centered in Moore, Okla., ...
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Strawberry McPhail to rep Mets at Draft
Email NEW YORK -- Darryl Strawberry and Marlin McPhail will represent the Mets at next month's First-Year Player Draft, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday. Strawberry, the No. 1 overall pick in the 1980 Draft, will join McPhail at Draft headquarters in Secaucus, N.J., where the Mets are slated to pick 11th overall. McPhail also knows a thing or two about Drafts, having scouted ...
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First home run ball finds its way to Adams
Email BALTIMORE -- When David Adams connected on a high, arcing drive toward the left-field foul pole on Monday, his biggest concern was that the ball would stay fair. Once it landed in fair territory for his first Major League home run, Adams said he didn't expect to see the ball again. But two members of the Yankees' security team were able to retrieve the souvenir for Adams, who ...
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Mets leadoff spot in flux due to Tejadas struggles
Email NEW YORK -- Mets manager Terry Collins has experimented with his leadoff spot all season long. He's tried different types of hitters, but the constant tinkering hasn't led to a definitive long-term answer. But all of that would be solved if Ruben Tejada returned to being the type of hitter he was last season. The Mets' shortstop was a line-drive hitter for the Mets in ...
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Anarchist jailed for not testifying over 2008 New York blast
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A self-described anarchist from Brooklyn who refused to testify before a federal grand jury thought to be investigating a 2008 bomb explosion in New York's Times Square was sent to jail on Tuesday after being found in civil ...
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For U.S. Companies Money Offshore Means Manhattan
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Florida volunteers head to Oklahoma to help tornado victims
LONGWOOD -- Central Floridians are stepping up to help in a disaster elsewhere in the country, as a team of 10 people from Longwood prepare to help survivors of a ...
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Cicadas start to invade Staten Island
Photo credit: (Getty Images) Staten Island has some new, but expected guests: cicadas. Billions of cicadas will emerge from their 17-year slumber on the East Coast in the coming weeks, and are already appearing on Staten Island, according to Ed Johnson, director of science at the Staten Island Museum. Hundreds of cicadas turned up on Monday night, he said, in areas such as Great Kills, ...
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Manchester City New York Yankees partners in new MLS team
Brian Marwood (left), Txiki Begiristain the Director of Football at Manchester City, Ferran Soriano the CEO and Vicky Kloss the chief communications officer of Manchester City look on prior to the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester City and Norwich City at Etihad Stadium on May 19, 2013 in Manchester, ...
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On Pro Basketball Strapped Knicks Stress Continuity Not Change
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In Mayoral Race de Blasio’s Focus Is Beyond Manhattan
He works out at the socially responsible Y.M.C.A. and opted for the all-hands-on-deck rigors of the Park Slope Childcare Collective. His wedding was a multicultural billboard for the borough: under a pin oak tree in Prospect Park, he married an African-American writer who previously identified as a lesbian. In the race for New York mayor, this is the new face of borough agitation. After ...
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Video Baby falcons get banded in their New York bridge home
Four peregrine falcon chicks that live in a box on the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan to New Jersey got identifying bands Tuesday and were pronounced healthy and ...
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Guptas lawyer seeks new insider trial
Procter & Gamble Co. urged an appeals court panel Tuesday to give his client a new trial, saying a judge had excluded evidence that might have led a jury to acquit him ...
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Staten Island Man Pleads Guilty in $82 Million Check Kiting Scam
BROOKLYN, NY-Staten Island, New York, resident Saquib Khan, 51, waived indictment and pleaded guilty today to charges that he engaged in a bank fraud scheme that netted approximately $5 million from six New York City area banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC"). To implement his scheme, the defendant transferred more than $82 million among various bank ...
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Columbia researchers predict an increase of heat related deaths in Manhattan from global warming
Photo credit: A thermometer indicates a temperature of 120 degrees Fahrenheit in 2006. (Getty) Think Manhattan is a hot place to live? You have no idea. As many as 1,000 extra weather-generated deaths a year may occur in the borough by the 2080s under the worst case global warming scenario, according to a new joint study by the Columbia University Earth Institute and the Mailman School of ...
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A Mileage Tax Monitored By Big Brother For All N.J. Drivers It Could Happen
UNION, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — It's a controversial proposal: Paying for every mile you drive to cover road repairs. While some say it’s necessary, others are saying it's time to put the brakes on the idea, CBS 2's Christine Sloan reported Tuesday. It’s the one thing New Jersey can boast about ...
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Signal Issue Triggering Delays On All NJ TRANSIT Trains
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – All NJ TRANSIT trains in and out of New York City are experiencing delays of up to an hour due to signal issues, the transit agency announced Tuesday afternoon. According ...
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Moore Okla. Residents’ Lives In Shambles After Tornado
MOORE, Okla. (CBSNewYork) — Residents of Moore, Okla., have begun the painful process of picking up the pieces of their lives, after the devastating tornado that ripped through the town on Monday. The National Weather Service confirmed ...
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Starter Reserve Knicks Unsure What STAT’s Role Will Be Next Season
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Oh, what to do with STAT? Amare Stoudemire will go into next season with $45 million left on his contract and no guarantee of a starting job. He also could remain a reserve who plays restricted ...
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Tornado Warning Issued Dropped For Parts Of Tri-State Area
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A tornado warning was issued Tuesday for parts of the Tri-State Area, and a spotter reported that a tornado touched down upstate. CBS 2's Lonnie Quinn reported four different systems came together to generate a storm capable of producing tornadoes. Thus, a tornado warning was issued for parts of Dutchess County, N.Y., and Litchfield County, Conn., Tuesday ...
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Montreal commemorates Kid by renaming street
A section of Faillon Street in Montreal will now bear Gary Carter's name. (Eric K. Boulianne) The city of Montreal will rename a street in Villeray to honor Hall of Famer Gary Carter. "The Kid" spent 12 of his 19 big league seasons with the Expos. The 11-time All-Star catcher slugged 324 home runs during his career and captured a World Series ring with the Mets in 1986. He died ...
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2 more reports of anti-gay attacks in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hours after New Yorkers rallied in response to a spate of gay-bashing that's resulted in one death and fueled concern about hate crimes, there were two more reports of possible anti-gay attacks on Manhattan streets, authorities said ...
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New York City seeing spike in anti-gay crime officials say
Candles, flowers and messages sit in a makeshift memorial for the late Mark Carson, a 32-year-old gay man who was shot and killed on May 17 at the corner of 6th Avenue and West 8th street, on the sidewalk at the site of his murder in New York City, May 20, ...
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New York's community gardens creating tension once more
Community gardening in New York is under threat again, but what are the ideas and opinions surrounding this ongoing battle between the people and the city?
Community gardening is a well-known term and idea in New York City thanks to the much-publicized opposition between former Mayor Giuliani and members of the New York City public, who brought a lawsuit to have the gardens protected. The issue was eventually resolved when Mayor Bloomberg replaced Giuliani and introduced the Garden Settlement of 2002. Read more
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