New York Yankees legendary owner George Steinbrenner has passed away at the age of 80-years-old today due to an unexpected massive heart attack.
“George was ‘The Boss,’ make no mistake,” Hall of Famer Yogi Berra said. “He built the Yankees into champions, and that’s something nobody can ever deny. He was a very generous, caring, passionate man. George and I had our differences, but who didn’t? We became great friends over the last decade and I will miss him very much.”
Even the Commissioner of Major League Baseball had nothing but great things to say about Steinbrenner.
“He was and always will be as much of a New York Yankee as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and all of the other Yankee legends,” Bud Selig said. “Although we would have disagreements over the years, they never interfered with our friendship and commitment to each other. Our friendship was built on loyalty and trust and it never wavered.”
Love him or hate him, you have to respect the man. He knew how to build a winning baseball team.
Legendary New York Yankees announcer Bob Sheppard passed away over the weekend at the age of 99.
“For over a half century, fans were thrilled to hear his unforgettable voice and players were thrilled to hear his majestic enunciation of their names,” George Steinbrenner said. “Bob Sheppard was a great member of the Yankees family and his death leaves a lasting silence. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Mary, and their family.”
Above you can enjoy a very nice tribute video of the man behind the voice. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Sheppard family.
Longtime NFL and college football coach Lou Saban died early Sunday morning at the age of 87.
Saban played college football at Indiana University; then he played in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns before pursuing a coaching career. Read the rest of this entry »
In case you missed it here’s the Alex Rodriguez press conference everybody was talking about on Tuesday. The first video contains A-Roid’s opening statement and the 2nd video includes all te questions he answered from the media.
Alex Rodriguez sat down with ESPN’s Peter Gammons Monday and admitted testing positive for steroids 6 years ago when he was a Texas Ranger.
“When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day,” Rodriguez told Gammons. Read the rest of this entry »
