An award-winning sports broadcaster with the YES Network, Nancy Newman hosts Brooklyn Nets Pre-Game presented by Fanduel Sportsbook and New York Yankees Batting Practice Today presented by Audi. She won one of her four Emmy Awards for hosting the latter program. Nancy Newman has covered the Yankees in some capacity since 2003.
Although it was the off-season for the Yankees, there was still live sports at Yankee Stadium in December 2021. The Virginia Tech Hokies played the Maryland Terrapins in the 2021 Pinstripe Bowl on December 29 and paid homage to the MLB franchise with an orange-and-white Yankees logo on one side of players' helmets.
The bond between the two organizations began in May 2007, when the Yankees donated $1 million to the Hokies Spirit Memorial Fund following the devastating Virginia Tech campus shootings on April 16 that resulted in 32 fatalities. Virginia Tech president Charles Steger threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Yankees game against the Boston Red Sox on the same night the donation was made.
The Yankees visited the Virginia Tech campus the following year to play an exhibition game against the Hokies baseball team. Stars like Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and Jorge Posada were among the Yankees players who signed autographs for Hokies players and fans.
