A note to the myriad owners, presidents, and general managers of NFL teams that read this blog hourly. I realize you’re all enamored of the Patriots coaching staff since they won a superbowl in 2004 and tend to make the playoffs, but thus far the coordinators that have fled the nest haven’t performed particularly well. [...]
The Sox won the World Series again last night for the second time in 4 years. This has been an amazing stretch for Boston sports teams and it’s a wonderful payoff for us fans who have stuck it out through some memorable low points. As Bob Ryan is wont to write, these are the good [...]
Dethroner looks at golf clubs. It's been a while since they tackled something useful from my perspective. — # 04/2/2007
Great article on Yahoo Sports about Big 10 Commissioner Jim Delany, the biggest current roadblock to a Div. 1-A college football playoff. "He readily admits a playoff could be good for Division I-A football at large, but quickly adds, 'I don't work for college football at large.'" — # 01/8/2007
ESPN does an E-Ticket feature on Grapes. So many great quotes from Don over the years. On Doug Gilmore, "no one outside the family loves this guy more than me." — # 11/22/2006
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
TBogg live blogs his non-watching of the SOTU (between myself and Messrs. Bogg & Marshall we’ve got quite the anti-SOTU thing going tonight) and finds no interesting baseball news on ESPN. Clearly TBogg is not a Sox fan as we devotees of the Olde Towne Team can go barely half a day this offseason without [...]
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Buying tickets for one of the Sox-A’s games in July this morning. As I’m completing the purchase process (and it is quite the process) I’m offered an option of printing my tickets at home. Looks interesting to me. I’ve got my printer right here, might be nice to print at home. I waver. Perhaps the [...]
Saturday, January 14, 2006
I had big plans for today. I was going to troll around SOMA and look for a good music and book store. Then I got down here and was pulled in by the irresistable force of Border’s, its t-mobile connection, and the chance to read nothing but pre-game stories in anticipation of tonight’s Pats-Broncos game. [...]
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We’re headed into our third overtime tonight in the Orange Bowl, and yet despite this incredibly exciting game featuring incredible defence, missed kicks and the fantastic storyline of two old codgers stalking the sidelines both ABC and Mike Tirico seem determined to convince us that the game isn’t exiciting. ABC keeps promoing the late local [...]
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Got the Wordpress install up and running. Still considering a few tweaks, but the look and feel is good for the moment. Ran into some trouble with the ‘links’ tab so I wasn’t able to plop down in front of the ND/OS game as I wanted. I was pulling for ND, but they never got [...]
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The NHL lockout continues with no movement towards a resolution. With little traction, one of the game’s greatest players put his thoughts on paper this weekend:
Orr: Get deal done or get out of the way
Sunday, April 24, 2005
By Bobby Orr
Special to The Eagle-Tribune
© Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company
Last September our game shut down because of the [...]
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I’m enjoying the desperate attempts by Yankee fans to validate their team a lot more than I thought I would. It’s clear the pansy-ass tactics of A-Rod (not to mention the biggest collapse in post-season history) is still eating away at them. I had a smile on my face during the entire game last night [...]
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Sports Guy talks about being a Sox fan this winter. I still have moments when I get giddy that the Sox finally won it all. It was the same in 2002 with the Pats. There’s nothing better than being a fan of a winner. Every die-hard fan should be able to [...]
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
25 years ago today was the Miracle on Ice. I was just over 3 at the time and yet it achieved iconic status for me as I grew up playing the game. In high school a friend of mine had a great poster that a gas station put out in 1980 to commemorate [...]
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Is Harry Sinden now advising the NHL on its negotiating tactics? Old Harry liked to use this strategy with Bruins free agents he didn’t want to sign. He’d go back and forth with the agent for a while and then right before the player was eligible to declare free agency, he’d throw down [...]
Exhuasted today after the Superbowl. The Pats won their third Superbowl in 4 years and I’m elated. I watch these games a little too closely and when I know I can’t replay something (for instance, when we go over to a friend’s apartment to watch the game) I watch all the more intensely. [...]
Taking a break (or submitting before he went) from his Superbowl festivities, Bill Simmons takes the time to look over the bed the NHL owners made but now refuse to lie in:
Even hockey diehards — a dying breed right up there with Eddie Murphy fans and handlebar-mustache fans — seem to agree this lockout is [...]
Thursday, February 3, 2005
Page 2 interviews Malcolm Gladwell about Blink today. Two things struck me about this interview. First, Jeff Merron seems to have actually read all or most of the book. Second, Gladwell seems a genuine sports fan. The result is a quality interview where both participants are on the same (or at [...]
I haven’t been following the most recent NHL lockout very closely because I think the league should be shut down completely and restarted free of the tragic missteps it has taken over the past 12 years. I grew up playing hockey in Massachusetts. I lived and breathed the sport for close to 20 [...]