From There to Here

Tom Brady got a lot of interesting questions (and questioners) yesterday at media day, but none of them came from a reporter as good looking as Ines Gomez Mont.

If you were Tom Brady, would you rather talk to Ines or Bob Ryan? Dan Shaughnessy? Jackie Macmullan? Yeah, I thought so. The video of Brady answering […]

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Politics and sports in Boston have been like oil and water ever since Sen. John Kerry, during his 2004 presidential bid, combined David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez into one superpower, saying he liked the Red Sox player “Manny Ortez.” Having to watch Menino’s appearances on Fox25 TV before the MLB playoffs didn’t seem quite right […]

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No blogging today. I’m simply leaving you with this.
“Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live […]

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After reading Bill Simmons’ column for years, this highlight came on Friday, but I forgot to mention it until now. Chris’ friend, Terry, sent me a e-mail while I was in class on Friday.
“Are you the Bill Y. from Somerville in Bill Simmons’ column today?”
Yes. Yes I was. After reading Simmons for years, I finally […]

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Coming home from work tonight, and I stop to get gas. As I’m pumping it, the little digital screen has the following readout: “Please replace nozzle after use.”
What the hell was I going to do with it? And they have to tell people this?
Maybe it doesn’t seem that weird, but I just figured that was […]

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I might already have an entry titled this. In fact, I’m pretty sure I do.
But this bears repeating.
When I read Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN.com’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback was giving away an award called the “Tuesday Morning Quarterback Non-QB Non-RB NFL MVP,” I felt I needed to plug the person who should obviously win the award.
So […]

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I’m sitting around the house on Sunday watching Romo come completely unglued at the end of the Dallas game (he yelled at everyone: refs, his offensive line, Crayton, probably Jessica when he got home), and I turn to my roommate.
In my best PTI impression, I go “Tossup! Bigger playoff choker: ARod or Romo?”
We […]

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Very eloquent title, I know, but that’s all I’ve got for you. Welcome to Boston, Massachusetts, where, as comedian Lewis Black puts it, the weather sucks.
“The weather in this country is completely out of control and nobody seems to care about it. I knew we were in trouble 12 years ago when I was in […]

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(Yes, I haven’t updated in almost a month. Quickly, it was a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and today, on Islamic New Year’s Day, we’ll resume blogging as if I didn’t take a month off. Party!)
I was on ESPN.com early this morning before work, and it inspired me to come back to blogging after […]

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