0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/22/2016
I was looking back last night at the Facebook “On This Day” feature, which showed me everything I posted on June 21. And I saw that exactly four years ago, I posted the following about LeBron James winning his first NBA championship: “Congrats to LeBron James (the A-Rod of the NBA) and the Miami Heat […]
0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/19/2016
I once attended a roundtable for writers put on by Susan Shapiro, where editors from big-name publications like the New York Times gave advice to how (and what) to pitch first-person articles. Many of the details of the event escape me now, but I do remember a sports editor practically begging the audience not to […]
0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/14/2016
So former Met Ike Davis is coming to the Bronx. If only Nick Swisher had been a Met or a Red Sox. Then Brian Cashman might actually bring him up from Triple-A. Let’s face it. If you want the Yankees to pick you up from the proverbial baseball scrap heap, it helps if you have […]
0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/12/2016
I know that Yankee ticket sales are down this year, so I was curious to see what the demand would be for Old Timers’ Day. After all, there are two games that you can always figure will be sellouts: that and Opening Day. It used to be that I wouldn’t even try to get OTD […]
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0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/8/2016
Don’t be fooled by the Yankees winning against the Angels, one of the worst teams in baseball. The Bronx Bombers are just not a good team this year. And, as I’ve been saying for the last year, the Mets are poised to take over this town. Writer and Yankee fan Christopher Dale has a great piece […]
0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/7/2016
Rest in peace Muhammad Ali, a huge influence to this Squawker! No, not the boxing stuff. The sass! I was too young to remember most of his most famous fights (I remember Leon Spinks and Larry Holmes more than I do Joe Frazier or George Foreman.) But I do remember him giving great interviews, and […]
0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/6/2016
For the past year, I have written multiple times about how the Mets were gaining in popularity, while the Yankees were losing in popularity. And I repeatedly said that the team from Flushing was poised to take over this town from the Bronx Bombers. And I got a lot of grief for saying so — […]
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0 comments by Lisa Swan on 5/22/2016
Back in February, the day after I froze my tuchis off running a 10-mile race in Prospect Park, I froze my tuchis off again waiting two hours in the cold with Squawker Jon on Presidents’ Day to get free Mets tickets at the team’s Spring Training Sendoff at Citi Field. So Tuesday night, Squawker Jon and […]
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You know it’s an eventful week when I saw both Mariah Carey and a wild turkey walking down the street (although not together). And I also got my first cover story published in Guideposts Magazine, about Andrew McCutchen, who I interviewed last summer. Yet those items are not the biggest things that happened to me […]
0 comments by Lisa Swan on 5/16/2016
Sunday’s Yankees-White Sox game didn’t have the fireworks of that Rangers-Blue Jays game (seeing Rougned Odor cold-cock Jose Bautista was truly shocking!) But it was still a fun game in the Bronx for Squawker Jon and me. This was our second Yankee game together this year; we went to another game last month. I got […]
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One of my goals for 2016 is to try out stand-up paddleboarding. It looks like a heck of a lot of fun! Well, I haven’t gotten to do it yet on the water, but I recently got to do a yoga session at Chelsea Piers on a stand-up paddleboard, thanks to West Marine. West Marine […]
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