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E-Boland and the Bombers

Yankees news, commentary and more musings from beat writer Erik Boland and the Newsday baseball team.

Cashman: Rivera's doing great

Yankee pitching great Mariano Rivera arrives in Midtown

Photo credit: Patrick E. McCarthy

DALLAS -- Mariano Rivera is in the clear.

"I've been told everything's fine," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Thursday morning.

Rivera had polyps removed from his vocal cords last Friday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The polyps then were sent to a lab to be examined.

Speaking at a Salvation Army charity event the day before the surgery, Rivera said he...

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