I Vow to Thee My Country is taken from the Jupiter movement of Gustav Holst's symphony The Planets, with words by distinguished diplomat Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, to lament the terrible human cost of ...

Gustav Holst (UCL Languages 1909) finishes composition of orchestral suite The Planets in 1916. Five years later, he sets a Cecil Spring-Rice poem to music and in doing so creates the patriotic song ...

This spring, Rice flashed his potential by slashing .242/.319 /.516 with five home runs and 10 RBI. With his performance coupled with the injury to Stanton, the young slugger was an easy choice to ...

Then, this spring, Rice came to camp stronger and with some swing tweaks. David Adler wrote a fantastic piece for MLB.com going through the subtle changes Rice made – mainly opening his stance – that ...

As the Yankees ready for the start of the 2025 season, they have their sights set on a return to the World Series and their first title since 2009. To achieve that, they’ll have to overcome ...

Former US president Woodrow Wilson was determined to keep the US out of the First World War ...

MIAMI — It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but both Jasson Domínguez and Ben Rice will be on the Yankees' Opening Day roster on Thursday. Yankees manager Aaron Boone made it official with an ...

The biggest surprise is Ben Rice. Coming off a breakout spring, Rice slides into the DH spot as Giancarlo Stanton nurses two painful elbows. With the ability to catch and play first base and the ...

He’s knocking on the door with a sledgehammer. This spring, Rice didn’t just put together a solid performance—he put together a compelling case to be a long-term fixture in the Yankees ...

January 12 1918. The world is at war. In Washington, the British ambassador to the United States, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, writes a letter to a former US secretary of state William Jennings Bryan ...