Yankees officials will convene at their complex in Tampa, Fla., starting Tuesday morning to debate the future of Joe Torre. Torre has led New York to the playoffs in all 12 of his seasons, but owner George Steinbrenner told The Record on Oct. 6 that he didn’t think he’d bring back the manager if the Yankees failed to advance to the AL championship series.
Now the Dallas Cowboys know they’re good enough to hang with the big boys in the AFC — just not yet ready to beat them. Especially not when Tom Brady plays like this. Brady threw a career-high five touchdown passes, with Donte Stallworth taking the final one 69 yards to break open a tight game early in the fourth quarter, as the New England Patriots won 48-27 on Sunday in a rare battle of teams…
Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Red Sox arrived in Cleveland ready to face the Indians — and possibly millions of bugs. Boston, which split the first two games of the AL championship series, watched the New York Yankees fall victim to a swarm of midges in the first round of the playoffs. They bugged rookie reliever Joba Chamberlain enough that he threw two costly wild pitches in Game 2 as the Indians…
Thanks to Vinny Testaverde, Carolina survived the battle of the backup quarterbacks. Testaverde hit Steve Smith for a 65-yard touchdown pass, DeAngelo Williams ran for 121 yards and a touchdown and the Panthers defeated Arizona 25-10 on Sunday. Testaverde’s touchdown pass gives him at least one in 21 straight season, extending his own NFL record.
A 20-win season. A microscopic ERA. Maybe even a gyroball or two. Daisuke Matsuzaka came to Boston with a $52 million contract — after the Red Sox agreed to pay $51.11 million just to negotiate with him — and a load of unrealistic expectations. Now there’s just one that his teammates want him to meet: a win over the Cleveland Indians on Monday night.
This is getting too easy for LaDainian Tomlinson and the San Diego Chargers. Bring on the archrival Oakland Raiders, and it’s practically a guaranteed victory. Tomlinson matched his career high with four touchdowns, rushing for 198 yards on 24 carries and leading the Chargers to their eighth straight win over the Raiders, 28-14, on Sunday.
Equally exhausted and exhilarated, the Cleveland Indians stumbled home looking for their postseason pillows. Sleep was at a premium Sunday after a late, late night out in nippy New England. The Indians were tired, for sure. Tied in the ALCS, too. With a record-setting, seven-run rally in the 11th inning of Game 2, the Indians, despite getting next-to-no help from their top two pitchers inside…
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady became the first NFL quarterback to throw at least three touchdown passes in each of the first six games of a season when he had three in the first half against Dallas on Sunday. Former San Francisco quarterback Steve Young threw at least three touchdowns in each of the first five games of the 1998 season.
No matter where or how he got the ball Sunday, Adrian Peterson seemed to find the opening in the Chicago Bears’ defense. Through the line, around the end, across the field with a split-second cutback and even on kickoff returns, he made the Bears miss. Peterson’s record-setting performance put the Minnesota Vikings in position for victory, one they secured Sunday when Ryan Longwell kicked a…
It was during a duck hunt six years ago that the idea for the Coors Field humidor was born. An employee in the Colorado Rockies’ engineering department noticed his leather boots had dried up and shrunk over the summer. He wondered whether cowhide baseballs were doing the same thing in Denver’s thin, bone-dry air.
