Below The Beltway

Peter Abraham has a series of blog posts up with pictures of what things look like at the Bronx Bombers’ new home.
There are some great shots of center field, the field from the first base side, the whole field with a view of what looks like one heck of a scoreboard, left field,, and the [...]

You’ve got a boat load of money, a new stadium, got shut out of the playoff for the first time in 15 years, and your boss’s last name is Steinbrenner.
What do you do ?
You go shopping:
The Yankees are about to go shopping again — and after missing the playoffs for the first time since [...]

In the end, there really weren’t any surprising in Evanston yesterday:
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — With Northwestern’s defense coming at him on a third-and-16 and his receivers bottled up, Terrelle Pryor calmly stayed in the pocket, waiting, waiting and waiting for what seemed like minutes before finally letting fly for a 44-yard pass.
If anyone wondered how [...]

Given that it featured two smaller market teams with limited national appeal, I can’t say that this is surprising:
The three-inning conclusion of the suspended Game 5 of the World Series attracted 19.8 million viewers on Wednesday night. Combined with those who watched the first five and a half innings Monday night, the game averaged 15.8 [...]

It’s been twenty-eight years since the Phillies won the World Series, so last night’s celebtration was especially sweet:
PHILADELPHIA — For a quarter of a century, it was an agonizing cycle for Philadelphia sports fans. Hope, despair, bitterness. For 9,282 days, other places had earned the right to raise banners and hoist trophies. No city with [...]

The weather intervened to cut what should have been a Philadelphia triumph short:
PHILADELPHIA — A city that has waited a quarter-century for a major professional sports championship will have to wait even longer. The fifth game of the World Series was suspended in the middle of the sixth inning at Citizens Bank Park on Monday [...]

With the possible exception of the 2006 showdown between then No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Michigan, last night’s battle in Columbus was probably the best college football game I’ve ever seen.
Too bad the wrong team won:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The plodding nature of the Big Ten was on full display here Saturday night, as [...]

ESPN previews Saturday night’s Ohio State-Penn State matchup:
The Team That Won’t Go Away has come back. With five straight victories, topped off by a — go ahead and say it — BCS-worthy, 45-7 rout on the road of Michigan State, Ohio State has played well enough to return to the top 10. That leaves it [...]

The Tampa Bay Rays are headed to the World Series:
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The doubts have smothered the Tampa Bay Rays all season. From arduous games to demanding tests, the Rays were expected to fade away. Sooner or later, the inspirational Rays would go home. But the Rays are not going home after all. They [...]

The Ohio State Buckeyes have something special in Freshman Quarterback Tyrelle Pyror, and yesterday’s victory over the Michigan State Sparatans showed why:
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Before the Ohio State football team boarded the bus Friday for the five-hour trip to Michigan State, the freshman quarterback Terrelle Pryor stopped by Coach Jim Tressel’s office with a [...]