When you become a New England Expatriate, you develop an even keener awareness that everything about Boston sports is magnified. Life just moves more slowly everywhere else. Fans in smaller, less tradition-rich markets support professional teams but don’t live and die with them. And if there are dueling daily newspapers in those markets, they don’t […]
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The Hot Corner: Appreciate each era’s greatness
I’ll always love sports and struggle to connect with people who don’t. Sports are the original reality television. They’re an invaluable learning tool, one that has given millions of children with mundane or even rotten childhoods the skills to lead prosperous adult lives. They unite us when everything else conspires to divide us. Love, love, […]
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The Hot Corner: The Red Sox need to make a change at the top
John Farrell must go. No, that isn’t breaking any new ground in the world of New England hot takes. And too many people point out the problem these days without offering a solution. Guilty as charged and admittedly adding to the noise here. We’re closing in on Memorial Day, and as of Sunday morning the […]
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The Hot Corner: Hernandez’s death not a tragedy
The longer the sordid, tawdry, far-more-than-cautionary tale of Aaron Hernandez gets dragged out, the more I wonder if I was the only one sick of him. He had already lost my interest while he rotted in prison and the New England Patriots embellished their trophy case with two more trophy cases as if he never […]
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The Hot Corner: I miss the tournament; I don't miss the tournament
Another Maine high school basketball tournament week has come and gone. Credit (or blame) technology, if you will, but I don’t feel as if I missed much. Yes, that statement is open to multiple interpretations. Maybe it’s an accurate depiction of my emotions on multiple levels. I get the impression from some of the dedicated […]
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Sun Journal picks up New England press awards
BOSTON, Mass. — The Sun Journal was awarded six New England Newspaper and Press Association awards at the organization’s annual conference Saturday. Lindsay Tice was honored with a first place award for racial or ethnic coverage for her report on domestic violence among the immigrant population titled “New attitude” (on domestic violence). The report was […]
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The Hot Corner: Longtime Patriots fans have earned the right to be proud
If you didn’t live through it, you can’t fully appreciate or understand it. That is true of most seismic shifts in society, and it is the phenomenon that a geezer such as I encounters when attempting to adequately put the New England Patriots’ greatness into perspective for somebody who is either much younger or a […]
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The Hot Corner: Patriots so good that Texans win looked bad
The New England Patriots are prisoners to their own ridiculousness. Only the Patriots could cover a silly spread of more than two touchdowns, against the team purported to have the No. 1 defense in the National Football League, in a game two steps away from the Super Bowl, and have it perceived as a sign […]
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The Hot Corner: New England sports Christmas wish list
Surely it will not shock anybody who has digested my work in this space for a substantial length of time that my cynicism developed far ahead of my years. Take Santa Claus, for example. By the time I reached kindergarten, I was a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic. How was a fat dude at the North Pole getting […]
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The Hot Corner: Red Sox fans should sit back and enjoy World Series
Lordy, doesn’t this week’s World Series test that theory? You could play Six Degrees of Lou Merloni with the Chicago Cubs’ and Cleveland Indians’ rosters and unearth nary a player, manager or front-office guru who isn’t somehow linked to 2004, 2007 or 2013. Let’s just focus on the obvious ones. Cleveland’s journey to the doorstep […]