Mariano Rivera, who did not redefine the closer position so much as he put a dominant, inimitable stamp on it, announced Saturday he will retire after the season, his 19th with the New York Yankees.

If you wanted to, you could entertain the notion that Rivera's record will be broken at some point down the line. After all, there will never be a shortage of good closers and, at some point ...

Mariano Rivera has been as consistent a player as any in professional sports. His prowess in the playoffs is simply unmatched by all challengers. While every year there seems to be a hot new ...

Mariano Rivera’s unanimous Baseball Hall of Fame ... stages of Yankees’ games to the tune of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” a song that became synonymous with the closer.

Cause when you hear ‘Enter Sandman,’ even today, you think of Mariano Rivera. When you hear ‘Hells Bells,’ you think of Trevor Hoffman. So, hopefully he keeps this going, and when you hear ...

Jonathan Green, one of Sandman's owners, is a big fan of Hall-of-Fame Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, who famously used "Enter Sandman" when he entered games. Green named the horse Sandman with the ...

Closer Mariano Rivera may have told the New York ... he gets the news that at the wedding it will be more like "Exit Sandman," Rivera told the Daily News, “I don’t think so.