The greatest thing about a sporting experience is not always the game itself. Yes, Gibby's walk-off home run in 1987 or MJ's jumper over Bryon Russell in 1998 are fixtures that will remain in our minds forever. But what we cannot forget are the other parts of the game that leave us with memories to draw upon. The modern sports star is no longer just an athlete, but an iconic pop star with the ability to draw attention off the court. Media is the funnel many of these athletes take to garner more exposure. Whether it be a movie, a bit ...
Why is it that Jacoby Ellsbury and Rajon Rondo are subject to more trade rumors than a Bernie Madoff scheme? Why are the two most dynamic players in Boston treated with less respect than Boston gives to Whitey Bulger? Two Boston stars, so similar in their team impact, also share the disaffection of many fans. We begin to wonder why Rondo and Ellsbury are targets of a conspiracy to send them packing. Bloggers on Red Sox and Celtics websites always fall back to their favorite tune: trade Rondo, or trade Ellsbury. What have they done to be branded with a ...
Perusing the various Bleacher Report entries on the Boston Celtics, a reader may well find there are merely five ways to improve the team for next year. In some cases there are 10 ways to improve the team, or in the best cases there are but three ways to improve the Celtics for next season, according to the optimists. How many times can you repeat the list to convince yourself the Boston Celtics will actually play games this fall, optimists? Let's delete the lockout-induced coma from the NBA's website, optimistic fans. We thought the season was in jeopardy, and guess ...
I recently turned 38 years old. Not old by most standards but certainly not young.With all these years under my belt, a small bit of wisdom has crept to the top of my psyche through all the sports statistics and Simpsons’ quotes. I’ve learned that in life, most of the time you get what you put into it, you reap what you sow, etc.I’m fairly content with my life, but I’m sure there’s more out there for me if I work for it. I’ve also learned that life isn’t always fair and with apologies to John Lennon and the Beatles, ...
Though we have had a few laughs at the expense of Jacoby Ellsbury for a few seasons and in a few of our humorous reports, he remains the epitome of the complete baseball player. We celebrate his inclusion on the All-Star team. He earned it and he deserves it. In a season of plenty, he may win more in the months ahead. Jacoby also will likely receive a just dessert: the title of Comeback Player of the Year in baseball.Of course, if we were speaking of football, Jacoby would not be eligible, as only those who have shot themselves in ...
Can you imagine Marion Bartoli or Sabine Lisicki playing against Petra Kvitova in the Wimbledon finals? I can. Bartoli and Lisicki both had a chance to make the finals this year—not by chance, but by quality of play. Maria Sharapova made the finals, which NBC was happy about. In women’s tennis these days, networks care about one thing only: sex appeal. When I read the headlines before the finals, all I saw were pictures and headlines of Sharapova: Is she the best grass court player today, is she the best women’s tennis player today, why Sharapova will win. Only Sharapova.If ...
Is it our imagination or does John Lackey seem like a man at the end of his rope? The trap door of the scaffold has not fallen open yet, but Lackey seems to be teetering on the brink of doom, and the rope is now fitting tightly around his neck. Lackey has a contract that is sweet enough for him to laugh all the way to the bank, but the Red Sox owners may begin to think of Lackey pitching as sourdough and a little hard to swallow. Lackey now fumes at his manager if Terry Francona wants to take ...
Glen Davis apparently likes the taste of Boston’s clam chowdah after all. His latest pronouncement is that he would like to remain with the Boston Celtics. Take the hint, Davis, and clam up. Whether he’s had a change of heart or a change of diapers we cannot yet determine. In a new and improved interview with The Boston Herald, Davis now confesses he really wants to stay in Boston because he loves that dirty water after all. Apparently, Davis' aspersions cast upon Coach Doc Rivers were all meant in jest and were words full of sound and fury signifying nothing. ...
HUMOR-- If you think Nostradamus is the backup center for the Oklahoma City Thunder, you are a tad off. He is the all-knowing "Oz" who stayed behind the curtains of 1555 when he wrote a few quatrains to predict the centuries ahead. Lately, there is circulating along the ever-reliable internet, a story that all-knowing Nostradamus wrote a prediction for Sunday’s Celtics/Heat playoff game, or is that a prediction for the Los Angeles Angels? It’s not easy to tell among the mixed metaphors of clairvoyance. The Wikileaked rhyming couplets, purported to be from Nostradamus, refer to skullduggery on the patchwork ...
The Boston Red Sox seem to be living in a Stephen King novel. Since Mr. Stephen King is a frequent visitor to Friendly Fenway, we must ask if he has some plan for a book on the horrors of the 2011 Red Sox season. King threw out the first ball during the opening game of the 2004 season. Documented forever in the movie Fever Pitch, the team won it all.Stephen King needs to start warming up again to change Sox fortune. The first month of 2011 season looks like Carrie’s Prom Night, and the April carnage will soon end. The ...
