The thought of a rainout during Derek Jeter's finale at Yankee Stadium brought to mind a certain kind of comeuppance for those haughty East Coasters who act like it's a felony that Target Field doesn't have a retractable roof (you heard from them during the All-Star festivities, when rain dared to delay the Home Run Derby by an hour) while never mentioning that Yankee Stadium is a much better candidate for one.
But it's true, per numbers crunched by James Santelli: Between April and September, only three MLB cities get more rain than New York. Minnesota is 13th, with 5 inches less than the Big Apple.
good read Ex-NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote at time.com about the NFL, Adrian Peterson and the trouble with saying, "That's how I was raised."
double standard? Washingtonpost.com examines whether ESPN's suspension of Bill Simmons was fair in light of investigative reporting also by ESPN.
