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Making It In the Bigs

Dowbrigade All Name Team

The
always interesting New England Patriots have presented the Dowbrigade
with a difficult dilemma.  We had almost resigned
ourself to the rude realization that our attempt to compete in the ESPN
[...]

Last Excuse for Having Countries

Don’t
know if any of the rest of you gives a damn, but the Dowbrigade has
been really enjoying the World
Baseball Classic now being played
out [...]

Keeping the Streak Alive

PINEROLO, Italy (Reuters) – Britain’s match against the
United States for the men’s curling bronze medal was interrupted on Friday
when a male streaker ran across the ice.
With poultry for a loin cloth, the man [...]

Branding the Olympics – Sports No Sports

This
ersatz network media event they are calling the Winter Olympics is really
starting to chap our ass. The whole thing leaves a nasty taste in our
mouth, as it seems to have been [...]

The Curse of Theo Epstein

"I am still hoping that Theo
comes out at 1 o’clock and tells us that he is staying with the Sox"
Dan Shaughnessy at 8 this morning on WEEI
You can bet your ass he was hoping Theo would change
his mind, because [...]

League of Legless Linemen

Last
year the
Dowbrigade reported on ANOTHER
legless lineman, Chris Gonzalez in California
Today the Boston Globe came [...]

Penalty Shots Fatal in Fundamentalist Football

An Op-ed
piece in the Times by Goeff
Porter translated a Fatwa concerning the righteousness of playing soccer,
and the Iman-approved rules of play.  It
[...]

Steroids and Government

Title Nine Unleashed

What is it about girls fighting that captures the
male mind like a steel trap on a drunken bear? Somehow it connects the
Sports Zone of the brain to the Sex Zone, which together
[...]

The Commissioner Weighs In

From what I understand, the decision by the International
Olympic Committee to eliminate baseball and softball was most likely
prompted by two problems with American baseball. (Softball, it seems,
was pretty much an innocent [...]

The Ebbing of Empire

From the hindsight of history it is often possible
to each a consensus on when and where an empire reaches its high water
mark. The Roman Empire in the 2nd century, the Byzantine Empire a thousand
[...]


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