Baseball is dead. Does anyone care?
My affinity for baseball is largely romantic, a medley of images and associations: the smell of leather and linseed oil, the crack of a...
Uncomfortably Numb
Fifty years from now, when historians look back on the year 2020, their tone will be somber. For 2020 has been a low point...
Nothing can top the 2004 Comeback
After three months without sports, reruns have been the life of our sports existence, with the Red Sox 2004 World Series run still at...
Absent Minded Musings
I’m going to say it plainly. I’m going to say it, and it will probably seem trite. I’m going to say it this way...
An Electric Night in the Time of Quarantine
Friday night will, invariably, go down as the most electric night in New England sports lore. Not only did the Boston Red Sox win...
Have faith in the big comeback
Like many New Englanders, sports has been a lifelong obsession. It began with a Larry Bird onesie being part of my wardrobe when I...
Mere anarchy
In the midst of the known world slipping into a dystopia, it might seem imprudent to muse on the words of an Irish poet—although...
Endgame: The World Adjusts to Life Without Sports
Do you ever finish streaming the latest season of like a really, edge-of-your-seat, pulse-pounding show? After the closing credits start, you kind of just...
Nationwide Timeout Is the Right Call
In an unprecedented move on Wednesday night, the NBA announced it was suspending the season as a result of Utah’s Rudy Gobert testing positive...
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