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  • 18 2020 October

    Why Covid is killing the NFL

    Imagine an Olympic athlete getting out of the pool, off the ice, off the track or permanently down the mountain with the Games just several months away. These elite athletes all having something in common....

  • 14 2019 October

    Getting to know Kyle Van Noy

    Some fun facts that might surprise you about the Patriots linebacker. Van Noy was born in Reno, Nevada and was adopted at age 4 months by Kelly and Layne Van Noy. He went to Brigham...

  • 29 2019 July

    Scott Hamilton the survivor and optimist

    I interviewed Scott recently for WBUR’s “Only a Game.” He and I go way back in the world of figure skating. Scott won Olympic gold, I was just happy to be there. In this interview...

Just when the memories of Alex Rodriguez’s famous “I was young and stupid,” and Ryan Braun’s miraculous evasion of a 50-game drug suspension have faded, our hearts are once again ripped out as the biggest...

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Shanda weighs in on another crazy week in sports featuring Lil Wayne changing basketball alliances, Antonio Cromartie becoming a role model and more. ...

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Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final was a surprise to both Penguins and Bruins fans alike.  This is a Penguins team that has not been shut out all year and has the most prolific...

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Relative to most other sports towns, Boston has had an unparalleled amount of success since 2000. With seven major championships since 2001 — arguably the best decade in sports history for any town — Boston...

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The Los Angeles Kings and Chicago Blackhawks have only one other postseason series on record, and it was in 1974.  The main buildup to this series is that both of these teams have become the...

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After the first week of the French Open, it's the American women who are dominating the clay in Paris. A look at which Americans are left in the tournament and why they've been so successful...

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Idle thoughts while enduring the endless wait for Game 1 on Saturday: This interminable wait for the Bruins and Penguins to face off is driving me crazy. After a shortened hockey season with games played...

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With first place in the AL East on the line, the Boston Red Sox will travel to New York to take on the Yankees for a three-game slate of balanced match-ups this weekend. The Red...

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I’m terrified of the Pittsburgh Penguins. We’re still a solid three days away from Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals featuring the Pens and the Bruins, but Sidney Crosby‘s face is already haunting my...

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For Jeff Bauman, the bombings at the Boston Marathon shattered his world. After catastrophic injuries and a series of operations he came out having lost both legs due to the disaster. He also emerged as...

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