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Mark Herrmann has been at Newsday since 1983, has covered the Mets and Yankees since 1988, and has been Newsday’s national golf writer since 2002. A former Mets beat reporter, he has covered baseball's special events, including the World Series, All-Star Game and Mark McGwire's home run record chase, and was vice chairman of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
At Newsday, he also has been a news reporter covering Brookhaven and Southampton towns; a high school sports columnist, Islanders beat reporter and Olympic hockey writer. He is former Long Island chapter chairman of the Professional Hockey Writers Association.
September 7, 2008
The clubhouses, the dugouts and the field were completely
barren at Shea Stadium yesterday afternoon, except for Billy Wagner, out there throwing with a trainer. Wagner felt strong and upbeat under the overcast sky. It was merely overcast. By his reckoning, there weren't the same bleak clouds that shrouded the Mets a year ago.
September 7, 2008
People think being an assistant golf pro is a terrific job.
Assistant pros agree, which is why they do it. They get to be around a golf course, get to talk about golf and even get to play a fair amount for free.
September 7, 2008
Sometime in the next couple of weeks, people in New Orleans
will be settled in their homes again, their lives will be back to close to normal again and they will have a chance to see the postponed premiere of the movie "Walking on Dead Fish," which will mean that much more to them.
September 6, 2008
The clubhouses, the dugouts and the field were completely barren at Shea Stadium Saturday afternoon, except for Billy Wagner, out there throwing with a trainer. Wagner felt strong and upbeat under the overcast sky. It was merely overcast. By his reckoning, there weren't the same bleak clouds that shrouded the Mets a year ago.
September 6, 2008
Sometime in the next couple of weeks, people in New Orleans will be settled in their homes again, their lives will be back to close to normal again and they will have a chance to see the postponed premiere of the movie "Walking on Dead Fish," which will mean that much more to them.
September 4, 2008
With the fall growing season right around the corner, the
superintendent at the East Marion Golf Association's course has great hopes that everything will look fresh. He is especially optimistic about how the tiny bent grass seeds will take root and germinate.
September 3, 2008
U.S. Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger, in Manhattan yesterday
to announce his four selections to fill out the roster, surely was sincere when he said that one of his "great regrets" is that Tiger Woods will not be playing.
September 1, 2008
The Yankees definitely will be younger at one position next
season: home stadium. You may have heard something about this. Granted, everyone in baseball has tried hard to keep it under wraps, but word has leaked out that the club is moving to a new park in 2009.
September 1, 2008
The Yankees definitely will be younger at one position next season: home stadium. You may have heard something about this. Granted, everyone in baseball has tried hard to keep it under wraps, but word has leaked out that the club is moving to a new park in 2009.
August 31, 2008
As a celebrated instructor (national teacher of the year in
1991) and author, Michael Hebron knows just about everything there is to know about the golf swing. That includes knowing that the swing isn't the thing.
August 31, 2008
There was no remorse the last time the Jets changed
facilities. Hofstra looked like the Taj Mahal compared to the place where they had been practicing.
August 28, 2008
Rumors of Tallgrass' demise have been greatly exaggerated
(apologies to Mark Twain).
August 27, 2008
It is hard to say which ideal gets trampled more by the
LPGA's new speak-English-or-you're-out policy, the spirit of golf or the spirit of America. Either way, the women's professional golf tour has turned a no-win situation into a big loss.
August 25, 2008
For a change, the Mets' biggest headache did not wait until
the end of the game when the bullpen coughed it up. This time, what really had them going to the medicine cabinet was the talk before the first inning, when manager Jerry Manuel admitted that John Maine might not work again this season.
August 24, 2008
To say that Mark Mielke set a record for years between Met
Open wins is good, but doesn't put it in perspective. This does: One of his close competitors in the final round Thursday, 15-year-old amateur Cameron Wilson, was not even born the last time Mielke won that tournament.
August 24, 2008
When Hofstra basketball coach Tom Pecora was in a C-130
plane early this month, flying from Kuwait to Baghdad, he was not thinking so much about the 100-something degree heat or intense silence on board. Nor was he focused on the body armor he was wearing. Nor was he particularly musing about the fact that it was not the safest place in the world.
August 23, 2008
When Hofstra basketball coach Tom Pecora was in a C-130 plane early this month, flying from Kuwait to Baghdad, he was not thinking so much about the 100-something degree heat or intense silence on board. Nor was he focused on the body armor he was wearing. Nor was he particularly musing about the fact that it was not the safest place in the world.
August 22, 2008
Don't ask for a logical explanation because there is none.
There really is no good reason to say this, but a person sure can't help have the feeling the Mets are going to win the division. Since when did logic have anything to say about the Mets winning anyway?
August 21, 2008
Pro golf never seemed farther away than it does this week,
with the PGA Tour in Paramus, N.J., rather than its old home at the Westchester Country Club. As far as Long Island fans are concerned, it might as well be in Kansas.
August 20, 2008
Pro golf never seemed farther away than it does this week, with the PGA Tour in Paramus, N.J., rather than its old home at the Westchester Country Club. As far as Long Island fans are concerned, it might as well be in Kansas.
August 17, 2008
Everyone knows how it is going to end. Somehow, the Yankees
are going to find a way to put it together and wind up on their feet. We have all seen it a million times, so we expect to see it a million and one.
August 17, 2008
There is history in those hills, more than anyone knows,
even as they are walking on them during a round at Port Jefferson Country Club (formerly Harbor Hills).
August 16, 2008
Everyone knows how it is going to end. Somehow, the Yankees are going to find a way to put it together and wind up on their feet. We have all seen it a million times, so we expect to see it a million and one.
August 14, 2008
Yes, Scott Gordon really does have a knack for building
hope in young hockey players. Erik Gordon, 9, had time to kill while he was hanging around his mother's Atlanta ballet school recently, so he did a big illustration on a wipe/erase message board.
August 14, 2008
Golf outings help pay medical expenses, defray college
tuition, keep food on some families' tables. Outings do many other things, too, such as keeping some golf courses in business.
August 13, 2008
Scott Gordon, hired last night to coach the Islanders,
definitely has the resume to win a Stanley Cup. We know this because it is the same as Peter Laviolette's, and we saw what happened to him.
August 12, 2008
Scott Gordon, hired Tuesday night to coach the Islanders, definitely has the resume to win a Stanley Cup. We know this because it is the same as Peter Laviolette's, and we saw what happened to him.
August 12, 2008
As awash as they are in nostalgia during Shea Stadium's
final season, the Mets still aren't bouncing around exclaiming, "Ya Gotta Believe!" Without a bullpen to believe in, the new credo is "We'll Try Anything," including using a starter as a closer.
August 11, 2008
As awash as they are in nostalgia during Shea Stadium's final season, the Mets still aren't bouncing around exclaiming, "Ya Gotta Believe!" Without a bullpen to believe in, the new credo is "We'll Try Anything," including using a starter as a closer.
August 10, 2008
Judging only from some of the open, emerald fairways, you
might think you were in Ireland. Judging from the views that encompass both tall trees and water, you might think you were at Pebble Beach. Judging from the general ambience, as Champions Tour player Loren Roberts recently did, you could say you were in heaven.
Email: mark.herrmann@newsday.com
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