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Yankees, Amazon Prime Video and YES Network team up to live stream 21 games in 2020

The New York Yankees, Amazon Prime Video and the YES Network are teaming up to live-stream 21 New York Yankees games this regular season on Prime Video at no additional cost to Prime members. The first Yankees game on Prime Video is scheduled for Friday, April 17, when the Yankees ...

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Yankee Global Enterprises with Strategic Partners Acquire YES Network from Disney

Yankee Global Enterprises, with strategic partners Sinclair Broadcast Group and Amazon, today announced the purchase of the YES Network (“YES”) from The Walt Disney Company, acquiring the 80 percent of the YES Network not already held by Yankee Global Enterprises at a total enterprise value of $3.47 billion. Additional equity ...

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Cricket World Cup Final, Epic Men’s Singles Wimbledon Final Top Thuuz Sports Most Exciting Rankings For June

Thuuz Sports, the most powerful automated video highlights production platform for worldwide sports, today announced their July Top 10 most exciting games, with a very unique 24 hour period in the UK, The Cricket World Cup and Men’s Final at Wimbledon outdistancing some exciting and emotional MLB matchups during the ...

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Some ’80s Yankees-In-Waiting Never Got To Wear The Interlocking NY

Yankee fans who lived through the late 1970s championships, then the up-and-down and ultimately title-less 1980s remember a familiar phrase: “The Columbus Shuttle.” Burly slugger Steve “Bye-Bye” Balboni may have been its most well-know rider, but the AAA International League entry, which switched to the Yankees in 1979 after serving ...

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Pivotal ‘85 N.Y. Baseball Season Remembered In New Book

When great New York baseball seasons are recalled, the years 1927, 1961 and 1998 (Yankees), 1954 (Giants), 1955 (Dodgers), 1969 and 1986 (Mets) are among those frequently mentioned. But when it comes to the Yankees and Mets, the first year that both teams were truly first-rate at the same time ...

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ESPN’s 30th Season of MLB Coverage Starts With 14 Season-Opening Games in 2019

ESPN will open its 30th season of Major League Baseball coverage with 14 season-opening games, beginning with an Opening Day tripleheader on Thursday, March 28, 2019. At 1 p.m. ET, the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge will host the Baltimore Orioles and Trey Mancini. At 4 p.m., the National League Champion ...

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Amore Book Takes Fans Up On The Hilltop

Origin stories aren’t just for superheroes. True Batman fans know about Bruce Wayne’s parents being murdered in front of his eyes, and those who love Superman know he left Krypton just before its destruction and ended up on Earth. And while baseball’s lineage is long disputed and quite a story ...

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‘If Ifs and Buts…’ New Book Looks At Great Sports What-Ifs

“Deep to Left… Yastrzemski will not get it… it’s foul by a few feet. Bucky Dent just missed giving the Yankees the lead.” Had Bill White‘s memorable call of Bucky Dent‘s iconic 1978 A.L. East playoff at-bat gone something like the above, followed by Dent making the out that his ...

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Former All-Star Pitcher Wells Talks CBDs, Opiate Addiction On Podcast

With the 2018 Major League Baseball season now underway, three-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion left-handed pitcher David Wells has more on his mind than balls and strikes. Wells recently joined long-time San Diego radio shock-jock and talk-show host Chris Cantore on his Yew Online podcast to talk about CBD, also known as Cannabidiol, to ...

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‘Voice of the Yankees’ Michael Kay to Receive Vin Scully Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting from WFUV Radio

Michael Kay, the Emmy Award-winning New York Yankees play-by-play announcer on YES Network and drive time host of The Michael Kay Show on ESPN NY 98.7 FM Radio, has been selected to be the 11th recipient of the Vin Scully Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting  from WFUV Radio (90.7 FM/wfuv.org), the noncommercial, member-supported public media service of Fordham University for more than 70 years, it was announced ...

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