Newsday.com - Mark Herrmann

Old-Timers' Day? Never gets old

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:33:00 -0400

Old-Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium Sunday will be well worth watching, and not just to see if Dr. Bobby Brown, 84, can pop one over the right-centerfield fence the way everyone else does.

Minaya under microscope

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:13:00 -0400

He is in a whole new territory in a completely different situation. He showed some huge promise a few years ago, but lately the results have been very spotty. Halfway into this baseball season, he has something major to prove and his reputation hinges on it.

Tavares shouldn't have weight of LI on his mind

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 22:23:00 -0400

You say "Tav-AIR-us," I say "Tav-ARE-us." And that's from his own family. True story: A snap poll of John Tavares' folks at his first Islanders news conference revealed that his mom, Barbara, pronounces it the first way and his dad, Joe, goes with the latter.

The July 4 signpost says Yanks are pretty good

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:43:00 -0400

It is possible to miscalculate how much of a milestone July 4 really is. Legend has it that on that very date in 1776, King George III of England wrote in his personal journal that nothing of importance happened that day. Oops.

Rare 'Albatrosses' highlight LIers' rounds

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:53:00 -0400

Becoming a good friend of a pro golfer who was in the U.S. Open was a big deal for Darryl Garner of Amityville. Garner even played a round with James Kamte, who had played a practice round with Tiger Woods. It just wasn't the greatest thrill of his golf career. Not even close.

Seventy years later, Gehrig not forgotten

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:07:00 -0400

Lou Gehrig did not stop after he said he considered himself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. There was much more to that speech, just as there was much more to the Yankees first baseman than the iron-man streak and the tearful, hopeful words of a dying man on July 4, 1939.

Bethpage Black an ideal venue for Ryder Cup

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:33:00 -0400

Pro golfers had never heard the eardrum- rattling cheering they experienced during the U.S. Open at Bethpage, so they started imagining what an amazing chorus that whole throng would make if it chanted "U-S-A!" It is worth thinking about holding the Ryder Cup on the Black Course, top players said, and officials tend to agree with them.

Champion Glover a New York kind of guy

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:13:00 -0400

Everybody knows that New York golf fans adopted Phil Mickelson in 2002, even though no one knows exactly why.

Champion Glover a New York kind of guy

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:07:00 -0400

Everybody knows that New York golf fans adopted Phil Mickelson in 2002 even though no one knows exactly why. This time, they seem to have made Ricky Barnes their new man, also inexplicably. Fine. There always is room in the family. The point is, though, that the golfer who was a much better fit all along was Lucas Glover.

For Ricky Barnes, tossin' and turnin', stomach churnin'

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:43:00 -0400

At least he did not have to sleep in his car. Unlike many golfers aiming for a big round at the Black Course in the morning, Ricky Barnes did not have to camp out in the parking lot for a tee time. He had to do something much tougher. He had to sleep on a share of the lead in the U.S. Open.