The Super Bowl is America’s most-hyped sports event of the year, so it’s perhaps no surprise that there are plenty of oddities that go with it—such as half time act Madonna getting her very own press conference. Among the questions asked was one about the rumored painting of Rodriguez ...

Just a quick comment on this, because it’s one of our most consistent themes here and neither you nor I needs to see me bang this drum until it get sore. Brian Cashman has reiterated that he remains interested in retaining Bartolo Colon or Freddy Garcia. The Yankees wouldn’t have accomplished ...

The identity of the Yankees' third starter for the Division Series remains an unsettled — and unsettling — mystery. Tuesday night was as crazy as this season has seen. With both leagues’ Wild Card races still up for grabs on the penultimate day of the regular season, no less than four games ...

The non-waiver trade deadline barrels towards us. You can boil the Yankees’ greatest needs down to three areas: It's not what's for dinner. Starting Rotation: The Yankees have three reliable starters in CC Sabathia, Bartolo Colon, and Freddy Garcia, but the last two can’t be taken for granted ...

A particularly tough day at the office for Bartolo Colon doesn't necessarily mean the fun of his comeback is over. (AP) The early and late innings of Thursday night’s loss to the Blue Jays were cringeworthy, but before everyone starts to shovel dirt on the Bartolo Colon era, it should be pointed ...

"There'll be no escape for the Princess this time." What can you say about a game like last night’s? Yankees pitching didn’t allow any home runs. They didn’t walk the ballpark. The defense had a bad night, which is not to excuse the pitching but to say that the loss didn’t ...

Derek Jeter resumed his quest for 3,000 hits on Thursday night. (AP) Still dealing with jet lag but in an appropriately analytical mood, I spent Thursday night’s game in the Yankee Stadium press box watching Derek Jeter inch closer to 3,000 hits and Bartolo Colon show up sans posse or his best ...

While the rest of Yankeeland was attuned to the impending returns of Phil Hughes and Derek Jeter at the respective expenses of Ivan Nova and Eduardo Nunez, I spent the past week wandering around Switzerland on a family vacation to celebrate my father’s 70th birthday. The Yankees weren’t far ...

Bartolo Colon's grimace says it all. The Bartolo Colon Miracle Comeback Express came to a grinding halt on Saturday at Yankee Stadium. Covering first base during the seventh inning of a start in which he’d dominated the Indians, the 38-year-old came up limping with an apparent leg injury, forcing ...

Bartolo Colon and Francisco Cervelli do the happy-player belly-buck. (AP) Bartolo Colon is purely amazing, the miracle of the century. Some might be tempted to grade his Monday shutout of the Athletics on some kind of curve given that the A’s have one of the sorriest offenses in baseball—even Connie ...

Criticizing Joe Girardi on last night’s removal of Bartolo Colon is the worst kind of second-guessing. If  Mariano Rivera had just done what he usually does, there would be nothing to criticize. Yes, Colon was dominant, and yes, he had thrown fewer than 90 pitches, but this is a guy who had been ...

Bob Cerv's location along the Kansas City-New York axis was often unknowable. Cerv-ing up some light reading… • ESPN’s Amy K. Nelson profiles Russell Martin, accompanying him to the nail salon — for baseball reasons: One of the simpler changes: manicures. Martin has no qualms about ...