Free agency opens on Friday. The Yankees need to sign C.C. Sabathia as soon as possible once it does. He is not the final piece—but it will be extremely difficult for New York them to win in 2009 without him. He represents something the Yankees...

In the paper today we talked to some publishing people about why more reporters out on the campaign trail aren't working on books about the election-and why the handful who are doing it think it's a good idea. One campaign book that has already bitte...

The Mets don't look like a winning team customarily looks. It seems impossible to imagine that a team with a bullpen so unreliable, and utterly devoid of quality performers, could manage to make the playoffs, let alone contend for a championship. But...

Last week, we told you about how Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore was slated to speak about the intersection of music and publishing at yesterday's Brooklyn Book Festival with fellow punk icon Ian MacKaye.