Sports

Jackie Bradley Jr. coming back to Boston

By adamg - 12/1/21 - 11:58 pm

The Red Sox traded Hunter Renfroe to Milwaukee to get JBJ back. The Sox also got a pair of minor leaguers. The news comes just as Major League Baseball announced it was locking out players.

Patriots player sacks macaroni and cheese for Thanksgiving

By adamg - 11/23/21 - 12:12 pm

Don't invite Matthew Judon to dinner Thursday if you're planning on serving mac and cheese as a side.

The Head of the Charles isn't the end of river racing in the fall - it's followed by the Foot of the Charles

By adamg - 11/22/21 - 9:59 am

The Huntington News reports on the smaller set of races, which, unlike the bigger, better known regatta, draws competitors just from the Boston area (and Rhode Island).

Julio Lugo, who played on world-champion Red Sox team in 2007, dead at 45

By adamg - 11/15/21 - 12:06 pm

Lugo uses hidden ball trick on Callaspo

Héctor Gómez reports that Julio Lugo, who played shortstop for the world-champion 2007 Sox team, has died of a heart attack. His 46th birthday was tomorrow.

Jerry Remy, Red Sox player and announcer, dies at 68

By adamg - 10/31/21 - 11:07 am

Jerry Remy Air Guitar

WCVB reports Remy died after his seventh cancer diagnosis.

China blocks Celtics streaming after player calls its dictator brutal

By adamg - 10/21/21 - 12:43 pm

WBZ reports China didn't like it when Enes Kanter called Xi Jinping a "brutal dictator." Read more.

Tony DeMarco, world-champion North End boxer with his own statue, dies at 89

By adamg - 10/12/21 - 1:02 pm

DeMarco statue with memorial wreath today. Photo by Audrey.

The Ring reports the death on Monday of Tony DeMarco, "the wild-swinging Boston brawler who won the world welterweight championship in 1955" - at the Garden, no less. Read more.

The race to normalcy

By adamg - 10/11/21 - 10:41 pm

Photography Natalia watched the first Boston Marathon since Patriots Day, 2019.

Also on hand, in Brookline, a giant chicken: Read more.

Can you believe it, redux

By adamg - 10/11/21 - 10:38 pm

Onto the ALCS, with another walk-off win. "Can you believe it?" is getting routine for Joe Castiglione.

On WEEI, Joe Castiglione uttered his catch phrase at the end of the top of the 13th inning after the Sox caught a break with a ground-rule-double call, and then just a few minutes later after Vazquez hit a walk-off homer to win it in the bottom of the 13th.

Upset that most of the Boston Marathon is actually outside Boston, Dorchester group starts race that stays almost entirely within city limits

By adamg - 10/8/21 - 10:51 am

WGBH reports the Pioneers Run Club, will hold a marathon of its own tomorrow - starting and finishing at Malcolm X Park in Roxbury along a route that stays completely in Boston.

Time for annual pre-Marathon tradition: The measuring of the radiation levels

By adamg - 10/8/21 - 10:29 am

An Energy Department helicopter is flying along the route of the Monday Marathon today. As they do every year a few days before the Boston Marathon route, the crew is recording background radiation levels so they have a baseline to compare to should the worst happen.

Here it is in action: Read more.

Big Baby was a big cheater, feds charge

By adamg - 10/7/21 - 12:25 pm

Ronald Glen "Big Baby" Davis, who played on the last Celtics championship team, in 2008, was among 18 former NBA players indicted on charges they defrauded the league's health benefits plan, which covers both current players and retirees like him. Read more.

Shortage of youth-hockey refs blamed on parents who need to get a frickin' grip

By adamg - 10/6/21 - 12:03 pm

Mass Hockey, which oversees youth-hockey programs in the state, reports refs are quitting rather than putting up with nonsense from parents who seem to have forgotten we're talking about their children here, not NHL players: Read more.

Yanks can't dent the Red Sox this time

By adamg - 10/5/21 - 11:25 pm

Bring on the Rays.

Be a shame if a hawk took it out

By adamg - 10/5/21 - 1:32 pm

Boston Police alert us:

Fenway Park/ Kenmore Sq. Community Advisory: ESPN will be utilizing a drone this afternoon, in the area of 500 Commonwealth Avenue, through the end of tonight’s Red Sox and Yankee game.

Garden to require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test for everybody over 12

By adamg - 9/22/21 - 4:20 pm

The Garden announced today that starting Sept. 30, everybody attending a game or event there will have to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a recent negative test. Read more.

Of course: Chris Sale tests positive for Covid-19

By adamg - 9/10/21 - 12:17 pm

Tom Caron reports.

Time to get out the butter for the Red Sox

By adamg - 8/31/21 - 11:16 pm

They're toast. NESN reports Xander Bogaerts is the tenth player to either test positive for Covid-19 or be forced into isolation because of his contact with somebody who tested positive. Bogaerts was pulled in the second inning of today's game, which, of course, they lost.

So, who won the Italy/England soccer match?

By adamg - 7/11/21 - 6:44 pm

People celebrate Italy UEFA win on Hanover Street

One look at Hanover Street will tell you. Adam Castligioni shows us the scene on Hanover and Prince streets. He reports Hanover is now a pedestrian plaza. Read more.