The owner said he was not upset about the empty clubhouse.

The silent, empty clubhouse told the story of a Yankee team that could not wait for another tomorrow to alter its fortune.

In the silent and nearly empty clubhouse afterward, the inevitable inquiry came: now what?

Rivera usually spends the first few innings in the solitude of an empty clubhouse, but he said, "Today, the guys needed me to be a help for them."

Not everyone in the nearly empty clubhouse agrees with Sports Minister Steve Tshwete's plan for giving more blacks a shot at top-level cricket.

Mendoza puttered in his locker and then he sat in the center of the empty clubhouse and read the magazine Baseball America.

Mike Piazza scurried across the mostly empty clubhouse yesterday like a man who was late for an important flight.

John Franco ambled across the empty and eerily silent clubhouse, a veteran reliever who knew the painful postgame routine.

Late Friday night, in his office just off a nearly empty clubhouse, Robinson stood with Roland Hemond, the vice president.

As these compliments were relayed to Rivera in an almost empty clubhouse at Shea Stadium on Thursday, a smile creased his thin lips.