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  Nothing that ever happens on a baseball field will ever be as tough as what  Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill and his wife gone through.   The left handed reliever joined his teammates yesterday, just...

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I saw Gisele Bundchen for the first time in 2007 outside the Patriots locker room after a game in San Diego. As reporters lined up for access to the players for post game reaction, I heard one...

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It’s that time of year.  The NFL  has gone dark.  The torch has been extinguished.  March Madness is still weeks away.  Opening Day is way down the road, and so are the NBA and NHL playoffs....

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Ice is slippery.  Figure skating is hard. Olympic pressure is massive. Only the strong survive, and the toughest will win. Adelina Sotnikova is figure skating’s new ice queen because she competed like a street fighter. The...

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They call Yu Na Kim “the queen” for a reason.  The South Korean skater ruled the ice four years ago in Vancouver, and appears to have no intention of relinquishing her crown.  The skater that took...

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  You live by the quad and you die by the quad.  The strongest field ever in in the men’s Olympic figure skating event succumbed to the pressure of the Olympic stage, and to their...

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Plushenko pulls out

February 13, 2014

Watching Evgeni Plushenko pull out of the Olympics moments before his short program was stunning.  It doesn’t happen often in this sport. To see  a skater glide over to the judging table and tell the referee “I...

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As fresh and as fun as the American teams are, they could not match the experience, strength, consistency and classic style of the resurrected super power of pairs skating.  The Russians would rule, and it...

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By Alice Cook, She’s Game Sports The first team event in figure skating has made its Olympic debut, and so have New England’s own Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir.The United States finished third behind the Russians...

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  Olympic dreams do come true, although we rarely see “miracles” in the sport of figure skating. The last skater we saw come out of nowhere to win a gold medal was Sarah Hughes, back...

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