Cashman and Company To Work on No. 28
New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman and team president Randy Levine said it was not the right time to discuss the plans for next season. When that last out was made Wednesday evening in the Bronx Johnny Damon and Hideki Mastsui could have seen their last days in pinstripes. Yes the Yankees deserve the right to cherish and enjoy their nine year futility to get there again, the right to call them world champions of baseball, number 27 the most for any professional sports franchise. But in baseball, as we all know, it is getting harder to build a dynasty and win consecutive championships. As they received their Keys to the City of New York on the steps of City Hall

Knicks Lose In King James’ Broadway Audition
NEW YORK – The New York Knicks are a mere six games into their current NBA season, yet it’s certainly no secret that just about all diehard Knick fans have long been pointing toward who they’ll be watching a little less than a year from now, when their team raises the curtain on its 2010-11 season. Whether or not next season’s playbills… er, game programs… include the headliner which New York covets for every performance… er, basketball game… won’t be decided until next summer. Either way, consider Friday’s performance by megastar Lebron James, in his only regular season visit to the World’s Most Famous Theater… er, Arena… his likely final audi

Photos: Yankees Ticker Tape Parade
NYSD’s Bill Menzel took these shots from the Canyon of Heroes as the Yankees celebrated their 27th World Championship, after the thrilling six game series with the Philadelphia Phillies. [Show as slideshow] [View with PicLens]

NFL Power Rankings
While there are many power rankings out there based as much on hype, expectations, and too often, unrealized and inaccurate projections, at Football Reporters Online, we prefer to rank NFL teams on what’s actually happened, taking into account only how teams have performed on the field and who they’ve played. At F.R.O., you won’t find yet another power ranking that doesn’t tell you much. Instead, here are the F.R.O. NFL Performance Rankings: Week 8: THE ELITE:

Mandel’s Musings: Knicks Fall Again to James and Cavaliers
New York – Lebron James took his show on the road tonight to play in front of a jam-packed Madison Square Garden that included several players from baseball’s world champion New York Yankees, this town’s role models for what a winning franchise looks like. In stark contrast, James and his Cleveland Cavaliers were matched up on the court tonight with New York’s leading role model for a losing franchise, the New York Knickerbockers, who continued their dreary early-season play in what may turn out to be the dreariest of seasons as they were blown out by the Cleveland Cavaliers, 100-91. Blown out? A nine point differential? Yup, it was a blowout, not including a late Knicks