Category Archives: Sports

The Boston sports world, an all-consuming caldron of angst, emotion and eternal hope cruelly dashed, is awash in ranting and raving about tonight’s NBA Draft lottery. Not even the draft itself, mind you, but the lotto-like pingpong ball extravaganza, raised, … Continue reading →

Abe Coleman, a squat powerhouse of a professional wrestler, billed by promoters as the Hebrew Hercules and known to opponents by the two-footed kick he copied from kangaroos, died Wednesday in New York. He was 101, probably making him the … Continue reading →

Watching the Celtics get smoked last night by the lowly Atlanta Hawks, 100-96, ("Victory eludes Celtics") we were hounded by dark and negative thoughts. To wit: No wonder Red bought the farm a week before this Titanic edition of his … Continue reading →

  How dominating is Tiger Woods’s lead in the world rankings? Consider that the 1,000th-ranked player in the world — Hsieh Chin-Sheng of Taiwan — is closer to No. 2 Jim Furyk (8.68 points behind) than Furyk is to Woods … Continue reading →

When the Red Sox acquired relief pitcher (now #3 starter) Julio Tavarez, our first thought was, "Finally, the Red Sox have a player uglier than (Yankees ace) Randy Johnson!" (Personal disclaimer: the only person to ever refer to the Dowbrigade … Continue reading →

DUBLIN (Reuters) – It started as an April Fool’s joke but an Irish bookmaker’s proposal to hold the world’s biggest strip poker contest will become reality next month. Paddy Power floated the idea as a joke but it generated so … Continue reading →

NEW YORK — Former major leaguer David Segui admitted yesterday in an ESPN interview that he used human growth hormone and was among the players mentioned by ex-teammate Jason Grimsley to federal investigators. Segui added that he used the drug … Continue reading →

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to … Continue reading →

The entire Miami Heat basketball team was suspended from league play today by NBA Commissioner David Stern. The suspensions were announced simultaneously with the launch of an investigation of players and some coaching staff for "inappropriate touching, hugging, butt-patting and … Continue reading →

Most of the time the parts of our brain responsible for our career as an English teacher and the part of our brain responsible for our career as a Red Sox fan are completely separate, and that’s the way we … Continue reading →

ROME – The monkey on Roger Federer’s back – Rafael ”Raffa" Nadal – has grown into a gorilla. You expected the playful kid, 19-year-old Nadal, to finish the day swinging through the trees of the Borghese Gardens. And why not. … Continue reading →

Houston Rockets forward Juwan Howard was accused today of shoplifting a $2,000 pair of sunglasses from a Miami-area optical store. Miami police are investigating the claim, but no charges have been filed and Howard has denied any wrongdoing."I’m aware of … Continue reading →