The New York Yankees are a money-making machine and on Tuesday, the company's television subsidiary cashed in. The YES Network is selling 49 percent of its business in a deal that values the network at $3 billion. And the numbers get even bigger from there.
The state Public Integrity Commission fined him more than $62,000 for accepting five free tickets to the 2009 World Series opener at Yankee Stadium. It's the latest chapter in the long and dubious history of politicians getting wooed at sports events.
The news of the New York Yankees owner's death from a heart attack might have come as more of a surprise to the public had it not been for sportswriter Franz Lidz, who called attention to "the Boss's" failing health back in 2007.
