Hollywood tearjerkers aren’t my entertainment preference. I’ll acquiesce to the goosebumps and partake of one, however, if it’s somehow tethered to reality and common sense. The same goes for athletic feelgood stories. Sports are enough of an escape from the real world that I don’t need them to be my mood enhancer. I am quick […]
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The Hot Corner: Eckersley not totally blameless
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: Federer is the greatest among greats
Unless it’s your first time wandering into this space, you probably know the guy smiling (smirking?) back at you despises all the “greatest of,” “better than” and “buy or sell” phony arguments that talk radio and talking head TV throw at us each day. That said, I can almost tolerate that noise if it pertains […]
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The Hot Corner: Another nail in boxing's coffin
Boxing can’t get out of its own way. If you’re a reader of a certain age – say, 5 to 25 – the sweet science has known a sour relationship with prosperity your entire life. And sadly, early Sunday in Maine/Kentucky time, with a stationary target lumbering in its line of fire, boxing swung and […]
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The Hot Corner: Another nail in boxing's coffin
Boxing can’t get out of its own way. If you’re a reader of a certain age — say, 5 to 25 — the sweet science has known a sour relationship with prosperity your entire life. And sadly, early Sunday in Maine/Kentucky time, with a stationary target lumbering in its line of fire, boxing swung and […]
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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: Etiquette, schmetiquette: Sox, O’s were just soft
It’s not officially an oxymoron or an imaginary concept, such as “political transparency” or “Maine spring,” but “baseball etiquette” is equally silly. Do I really need to explain this? Baseball is still the purest and most beautiful game ever created. It isn’t a wedding or a debutante ball. The rulebook is sufficient. When we start […]
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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: Enjoy the greatness of Brady and Ortiz while it lasts
No, not to the pitiable creature who is commissioner of the National Football League. Not to the Worldwide Leader in Broadcast Hyperbole that wasted so much air time covering the non-scandal resulting in his one-month exile. Not to the naysayers who derive more ghoulish glee from trolling New England Patriots’ fans than cheering for one […]
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The Hot Corner: The Oxford 250, March Madness style
My 32-year streak is ending. For the first time since I was 11, sitting five rows from the top in Turn 1 and hooting and hollering as Mike Rowe became the first homegrown winner, I will not be in attendance at the HP Hood Oxford 250. I have moved to the great Commonwealth of Kentucky, […]