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For CC Sabathia, there's no better place to pitch than Yankee Stadium. The big left-hander decided to stay with New York rather than test the free-agent market, agreeing Monday to a new deal that adds $30 million and one season to his existing contract, giving him a package that pays $122 million over the next five years.

Left-handed ace goes eight innings with little trouble to help New York claim the ALCS opener, 4-1, at Yankee Stadium.

NEW YORK Sure the money was nice, the tradition was compelling and the city, well you can't beat New York.

Celizic: The luxury boxes and $2,500 seats at the new Yankee Stadium aren’t easy sells in these times and this economy. And if the team isn’t winning, it’s impossible. So the Yankees have to win, now more than ever.

Yankees President Randy Levine says his team is paying to build its new stadium, not New York City taxpayers.

An official says a New York Assembly committee investigating the use of millions of dollars in public funding to build the new Yankee Stadium has issued subpoenas to the team's president and an official with the city economic development office.