The Boston sports world, an all-consuming caldron of angst, emotion and eternal hope cruelly dashed, is awash in ranting and raving about tonight’s NBA Draft lottery. Not even the draft itself, mind you, but the lotto-like pingpong ball extravaganza, raised, in an example of rabid hype promoted into an actual event, somehow, to the [...]
Abe Coleman, a squat powerhouse of a professional wrestler, billed by promoters as the Hebrew Hercules and known to opponents by the two-footed kick he copied from kangaroos, died Wednesday in New York. He was 101, probably making him the oldest professional wrestler, according to wrestling publications.
He weighed 220 pounds, stood [...]
Watching the Celtics get smoked last night by the lowly Atlanta Hawks, 100-96, ("Victory eludes Celtics") we were hounded by dark and negative thoughts. To wit: No wonder Red bought the farm a week before this Titanic edition of his beloved Celtics set sail.
Bob Cousy (guest announcer) informed us that the average age of [...]
How dominating is Tiger Woods’s lead in the world rankings? Consider that the 1,000th-ranked player in the world — Hsieh Chin-Sheng of Taiwan — is closer to No. 2 Jim Furyk (8.68 points behind) than Furyk is to Woods (11.17 behind).
from the Boston Globe Golf Notes
Tiger has reportedly converted a Korean War era aircraft [...]
When the Red Sox acquired relief pitcher (now #3 starter)
Julio Tavarez, our first thought was, "Finally, the Red Sox have a
player uglier than
(Yankees ace) Randy Johnson!" (Personal [...]
DUBLIN (Reuters) - It started as an April Fool’s joke but an Irish
bookmaker’s proposal to hold the world’s biggest strip poker contest
will become reality next month.
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NEW YORK — Former major leaguer David
Segui admitted yesterday in an ESPN interview that he used human growth
hormone and was among the players mentioned by ex-teammate Jason Grimsley
to federal investigators. Segui [...]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi tennis coach and two
of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were
wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a
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The
entire Miami Heat basketball team was suspended from league play today
by NBA Commissioner David Stern. The suspensions
were announced simultaneously with the launch of an investigation of
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Most of the time the parts of our brain responsible
for our career as an English teacher and the part of our brain responsible
for our career as a Red Sox fan are completely separate, and that’s the
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ROME
- The monkey on Roger Federer’s back - Rafael ”Raffa" Nadal -
has grown into a gorilla.
You expected the playful kid, 19-year-old Nadal, to finish the day swinging
through [...]
Houston Rockets forward Juwan Howard was accused today
of shoplifting a $2,000 pair of sunglasses from a Miami-area optical
store.
Miami police are investigating the claim, but no charges have been filed
[...]