yankee stadium twice as big as the monument to babe ruth what's that all about that's about george steinbrenner being able to push through a one point five billion dollar new stadium that is largely funded with public dollars and so it's their tribute to george steinbrenner to supplying roughly eight hundred fifty million dollars in public funds and public money to be able to build that stadium steinbrenner is a bridge between the old era of paternalistic owners who cared about their cities and this new era that keeps score on the basis of how much money can you get for municipality how many political favors can you cash in and also acting like you know more than everybody else in the room because you're the person with the biggest check it's not that owners way back when were somehow nicer people and they visited kids in hospitals and gave wily pots to street urchins or anything like that but back then owners were accountable to the question of how many tickets do you sell that's how you determined whether or not your franchise was financially viable if you sold one million or two million tick

pretty but the saints will take it, they won it 25-22. >>> in baseball, the yankees honored george steinbrennerlast night. 7 x 5 foot bronze plaque, very fitting for the owner who brought seven world series titles to new york. steinbrenner would have been proud of granderson's performance. a two-run homer in the third and in the sixth he did it again. another home run, five rbi in all. they beat the rays, 8-6. >>> bases loaded for juan rivera who ripped a shot deep to center. julio borbon pushed it back into the park. a grand-slam-robbing grab for borbon. >>> remember earlier this season a fan was tasered by a security guard in philadelphia? it happened again but this time it was a player who stunned everyone. seventh inning, a fan wearing red spandex. he blindsided the masked man, tripped him up. security guards finished the job. he took it in stride. he said after the game he saw a guard with the taser and thought the fan would rather be tripped than tasered. i think you're right. great defensive play. that's your first look at sports. i'm fred roggin. >> and now for another quick look at the

. >>> in yanew york, the yshges honored george steinbrenner, very fitting for the larger than life owner who brought seven series title toes new york. steinbrenner would have been proud of granderson's performance. a two-run homer in the third and then he did it again. the yanks beat the rays, 8-6. >>> bases loaded for juan rivera who ripped a shot to center. the rangers julio grabbed the ball and pushed it back into the park. >>> this time, it was a player who stunned everyone. seventh inning, a fan wearing a spandex suit aletter security guards, and that's when the braves tripped him up. biaz kept it all in stride. he said after the game that he saw a guard with a taser and thought the fan would rather be tripped than tasered. i think you're right. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> case closed for one of lindsay lohan's legal issues. much different for the other. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, man's best friend gets a new buddy. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back. it's going to feel like summer

. >>> joe torre and don mattingly, returning to yankee stadium to honor george steinbrenner during pregame ceremonies. mattingly will take over of the dodgers next season. they unveil the memorial for the boss. bottom of six, curtis granderson. that one's not coming back. that's a bomb. second homer of the game. three-run shot. 21st of the year. yankees lead 8-4. top nine, mariano rivera forces matt joyce to ground out. the yankees win it, 8-6. >>> that will do it for this espn news update. now, back to new york and "america this morning." >>> michael douglas walked the red carpet here in new york last night, just weeks, of course, after announcing he's battling throat cancer. the academy award winner was promoting his new film "wall street: money never sleeps." it is getting some very good reviews. >>> well, the ballroom is back ohm for business. and so far, a dirty dancer is soaring above the competition. >>> the season premiere of "dancing with the stars" left actress jennifer grey with a nice top score of 24, thanks to her vie knees waltz, to a song from "dirty dancing." sarah palin wa

how do you begin to tackle george steinbrenner, this larger than life figure who's spanned, with theshooting was when the old stadium closed and you heard generation after generation talking about their experiences, their bonding, and then that stadium closed. george passed the torch to hal. hal took over. the new stadium came up, and unfortunately, george passed away and the old stadium went down. >> and a lot of what you talk about in the film is that transition from father to son, and what a weight to bear for hal steinbrenner and hank steinbrenner. how has that weighed on them? >> i think they're their own people. and hal says he will never be george. he believes in, you know, numbers. he's very introverted, he's not comfortable in front of a camera, but yet he's out there and he has the same love of baseball that his dad did. he just shows it in a more internal, introverted way. >> how did you choose to deal with the fact that more than a few people were upset. some remain upset, about the cost of the new stadium, to the city, to the taxpayers of the city, and to the residents o

honoring george steinbrenner.rre back as they unveil a monument to steinbrenner in monument park alongside the biggest name in yankee history, his widow, joan, unveiling the monument. to the game now. curtis granderson has turned it on in the last couple months. a two-run home run gives them the 2-0 lead. he was not done. in the bottom of the sixth after the yankees surrendered ee eed lead, he puts them up 8-4. they win 8-6, now a 1 1/2-game lead over the rays in the anc.l east. >>> why is it always philly? remember this one? we had to show you again. earlier this season, in philadelphia. a man tasered by a security guard. that's tough. well, we've got another one of those moments. in last night's braves/phillies game, a fan wearing a red spandex suit. ooh! goes onto the field. he gets away from security but braves' outfielder matt diaz literally steps in and takes down the masked man. just a little trip and a hip check there. after the game, diaz said, i saw this idiot coming right at me. i figured he'd be better

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george steinbrenner was a larger than life personality, but look at the yankees monument. new yorkers are sounding off after yankees stadium unveiled his likeness. the monument towers over joe dimaggio. some wrote to the "new york times" calling the statue crass and the front office said steinbrenner gave all he had to the team and he belongs alongside the greats. >>> time now is 5:26. gop take over. are the countries's recovery going red? what republicans are promising the country just ahead. >> a bear area transit project chts the green light from the il we.st how much will it cost and how soon could work begin? [ male announcer ] the turn changes everything. ♪ the turn will make you think. ♪ make you re-examine your approach. change your line. innovate. and create one of the world's fastest-reacting suspensions, reading the road 1,000 times per second. it's the turn that leads you somewhere new. introducing the new 2011 cts-v coupe. from cadillac. the new standard of the world. our state has a huge deficit. meg whitman's plan will make it billions worse by eliminating t

it's a special night here in new york as the yankees honor their long-time owner, the late george steinbrennerhis widow helped unveil a monument to the man known simply as the boss. the tribute fits steinbrenner's outsized personality. at more than 7 feet tall and weighing 760 pounds it's the largest of the monuments in yankee stadium's so-called monument park. >> he was so synonymous for seinfeld. i think for so many people that's how they know him. >> you know who did the seinfeld voice? larry david. that was larry david. >> good to know. >> trivia, there you go. >>> here's a look at the tuesday forecast. 70-mile-an-hour winds, golf ball-sized hail, up to 2 inches of rain from nebraska to michigan. heavy rain in austin, corpus christi and houston. showers and thunderstorms in montana, arizona, and new mexico. >> 87 in albuquerque. 83 in colorado springs. 103 in phoenix. 73 in the twin cities. a wet 87 in chicago. 84 in detroit. boston just 69. new york 74. baltimore 77. >>> this is a really remarkable story. this guy has no legs and no arms but he is making waves that could inspire people wo

as george steinbrenner found out for most of his tenure as the yankee owner.mping cash into this game. takes leadership. the ability to spot talent. the ability to nurture that talent. the ability to manage those men and look at terry francona who has lost a roster and a half. manager of the year. they're still five, six games out. that's remarkable. >> ken burns, thank you. doris, thank you as well. >> thank you so much. >> the tenth inning premieres tonight and tomorrow at 8:00 eastern time on pbs. >> how exciting. ken, thank you for being here. >> thank you so much. introducing our quattron quadpixel technology. it adds yellow to the standard rgb color system, for colors never before seen on tv. notice the lifelike color on this yellow seahorse, oh sorry, yellow-ish seahorse on your tv with three color technology. observe this stunning blue sea, in your mind that is. well, you get the picture. actually, you don't. [ male announcer ] quattron from sharp. you have to see it, to see it. [ man ] i thought our family business would always be boots. until one day

. >> right, billy martin, george steinbrenner.gly identical. >> that's amazing. >> so despite the fact they've had different names. >> will you buy into it? >> the bush tax cut tastes exactly like the obama tax cut. >> they will not be the same if all tax cuts are passed. that would be the only difference. but remember, they've done this in the past. war on terror, couldn't say those words at all in this administration. instead it was overseas contingency operations. >> where is that bottle of bicard s bicardi? >> where it always is, right on my calf. >> he wants another bank bailout and says it will create thousands of jobs. stu varney says don't believe all the numbers you hear. >> stu varney, he's the real thing. starbucks customer takes a big step back responding to customer anger about their coffee menu. >> it's pumpkin spice latte season. this time they're on the guest list and have no problem getting in. >> it will be a first for "fox & friends." first on this day, the quote of the day. who said this? president obama needs

they hnored the late george steinbrenner. manager joe torre along with great don mattingly.i berra was on the outs for about 10 years and he was back. the steinbrenner monument will be placed behind the center field wall and the yankees in a battle for first place beat the tampa rays 8-6. curtis granderson with two homers. coming up later on, some exciting guests. you can go to kilmeade and friends.com. among our guests will be the great gretchen carlson who i haven't met yet but seems very nice. >> dresses just like you. >> in a female way. >> i don't know what that means. >> i don't either. >> here's a female name to get used to for the next week or so. that's lisa. this is kind of hard to pick up. see the blob of clouds to the far right of the screen if you're watching in wide screen. that is -- it had been tropical depression lisa. now it has been upgraded to a storm. lisa is out there. maximum sustained winds, 40 miles per hour. it is heading our way at 5 miles per hour to the north. meanwhile, take a look at these pictures, waves from former hurricane igor are being bl

players for the first time, joe torre and don mattingly come back to yankee stadium as george steinbrenner that yesterday after the game that joe and donny are going to be there. joe hasn't been back since he's left so it's going to be exciting to see him. it's going to be a special night for us to be able to get a plaque for mr. steinbrenner he's obviously meant so much to this town and to this organization and to the yankees. it's going to be a cool night at the stadium. >> i understand that you are smelling good these days. because you're doing -- you're doing a dove for men ad. >> yes. >> so tell me about it. because basically you want men to feel comfortable in their own skin, is that what it is? >> that's what it is. it's their campaign called journey to comfort. and when i was approached with it. >> look at you. >> i literally was having the last couple of years a lot of problems with dry skin. i spent a lot of time in the hot tubs, i mean, getting in the cold tanks and stuff like that. and literally this year, our team dermatologist was talking to me and he was like, have you ever