Maureen McCool vaguely remembers a pop. It was September, 2005, and she and then boyfriend Peter Broderick had just returned home from hiking Mount Coe in Baxter State Park. Working in the yard of her Farmington home, McCool began to feel ill. She couldn’t walk or speak above a very low whisper, and Broderick was […]
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Huddle Up: What we’ve learned, and what lies ahead
Four down. Four to go. The second half of the season begins Friday night and it usually flies by faster than the first. Maybe a guide to get you ready for it will help you stop and smell the potpourri or something. So here is a look at the local teams and the regions they […]
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Huddle Up: D-backs are the ones who could learn a thing or two about class
This past Thursday, the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated clinching the National League West by jumping into the pool beyond the right field fence at the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Chase Field. Adrian Gonzalez complained the water was too cold and Carl Crawford refused to wade into the deep end without a lifeguard on duty, but otherwise, the […]
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Huddle Up: Football has its own caution flags
Through two weekends of football, your humble correspondent witnessed: • Five games • Three players taken off the field in an ambulance; • One game I was scheduled to cover postponed by rain, like numerous others around the state, and one more moved to another field; • Zero killer mosquitoes, at least that I know […]
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Huddle Up: To get to four, Patriots need these 3 to be factors
If you have tuned into this column looking for bold predictions for the 2013 New England Patriots, I apologize for only having one: Rob Gronkowski will play in the opener against the Buffalo Bills (Editor’s note: Whitehouse is 0-for-1. Gronk was downgraded to out on Saturday night). Sure, I could forecast yet another AFC East […]
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Huddle Up: Johnny Manziel, sympathetic jerk, not a ground-breaker
Give Johnny Manziel this: He’s managed to perfect the image of a sympathetic jerk. That isn’t easy. Just ask Alex Rodriguez, who has dedicated the past 15 years of his life in vain (in every sense of the word) pursuit of America’s most likable lout status. Manziel gets the nod because he’s a rebel with […]
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Huddle Up: Should have taken Reggie Lewis’ death to heart sooner
Where were you when you heard Reggie Lewis died? That was the question all over the radio and social media Saturday, which marked the 20th anniversary of the Boston Celtics all-star’s death at 27. Articles, columns and talk show hosts paid tribute to the player and the man. I loved Reggie Lewis. I miss him […]
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Huddle Up: Red Sox have chance to rewrite sorry recent history
Bobby Valentine must be taking credit for this, right? Maybe not in front of someone with a camera or a notebook, but he has to have told someone he had something — no, everything — to do with the resurrection of the Boston Red Sox. One can imagine Bobby V, in his current capacity as […]
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Huddle Up: Pierce took fans along for ride
Paul Pierce was one of the most fascinating players to ever wear a Celtics uniform. And one of the most human. Now that he is gone, traded to Brooklyn with the equally incomparable Kevin Garnett, human nature makes us appreciate him more than ever. It starts with what the great Boston Globe columnist (and Bath […]