Cover Up: SI Denies Yankees in Annual Sportsman Award

The SportsLifer has been a Sports Illustrated subscriber since his high school days in the 60s.
In other words, a loyal reader for more than 40 years.
And in all that time — and dating far beyond that first SI in 1954, a total of 55 awards — no New York Yankee has ever been named Sportsman [...]

19th Century Prizefight Brought Fame, Change to Obscure Hamlet of Boston Corners

Boston Corners is a quiet, obscure hamlet nestled in southeast Columbia County, New York, bracketed by the Taconic Mountains to the east and Route 22 and the Harlem Valley to the west. A town of mountain views, open spaces and farms.Boston Corners occupies a spot near where Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York converge, roughly [...]