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A death spiral  is a figure skating pair move when the man leans back into a back outside pivot while holding his partner’s hand at arms length.  The woman can be going forward or backward,...

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January 6, 2014

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Handicapping the upcoming United States Figure Skating Championships is kind of like being tossed into the air for a triple twist for the first time.  It’s a pretty exciting flight, but you never really know how...

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  Next week the nation’s finest skaters will descend on Boston for the US Figure Skating Championships..  Every four years this competition deterimines who will make the United States Olympic Figure Skating Team. It will be...

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The Doc Rivers “love-in”  at the  TD Garden last night was one for the ages.   The pre-game show featured shots of Doc walking into the building with the local and national media following his every move....

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  I have covered football at every level.  There are too many  Patriots games to count.  I enjoyed covering Boston College especially because it’s my alma mater.  Every Thanksgiving for over 20 years I was...

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On April 15, 2013 Roseann Sdoia  stood at the Boston Marathon finish line waiting for her friends to come in. An avid runner, Roseann ran four to five times a week, 3 to 5 miles.  In...

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After the Monday Night game in Carolina I made sure to watch every second of the Patriots 5th Quarter.  There is nothing quite like watching the steam come out of Bill Belichick’s ears as he takes the post game...

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I was there in 2004 when they won in St. Louis,  breaking an 86 year old curse.   Thousands of Red Sox fans were there, but few who actually had a ticket.  When the game ended,...

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  Bill Shields and I worked in the same newsroom for 25 years at WBZ.  Born and bred in the heart of Texas, Billy never lost that southern drawl.  He proudly displays his “Texas”  decal on...

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