Sports

Interview with the Manny High-Five Guy

adamg — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:53:00 -0400

No, you won't read it in any of the papers. Joy of Sox has the interview with the Sox fan from, of all places, Oklahoma - at his first ever major-league game (another interview with him).

Enough to call off the Patriots fans with pitchforks?

adamg — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:47:58 -0400

You certainly can't accuse the Herald of hiding Tomase's Tapegate mea culpa. In case you're busy, the basic idea is:

Nobody lied to me, I just jumped to conclusions, I feel terrible, will carry this with me for the rest of my life, but I'm a better person for it and, yes, I'm still covering the Patriots and no, I'm not telling you my sources.

Bruce Allen: Um….so that's it?

Dan Kennedy deconstructs Tomase's deconstruction and wonders: Where were the editors?

David Scott conducts what is probably the first liveblogging of a newspaper column.

Glass houses and Herald sports columnists

adamg — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:54:12 -0400

On Day 2 of Herald Held Hostage, Bruce Allen begins to feel alienated by the Herald, especially Tony Massarotti:

... My instinct tells me it's the Herald capitalizing on the publicity that this whole incident has generated. Tony writes angry column. Fans can't help but read it. They respond by commenting and talking about it with others. More papers are purchased. More ads are shown online as more pageviews are generated. The comments fly in on the page. People return again and again to read them, creating even more page views and thus ad views. The column gets analyzed on blogs and on sports radio. ...

Dan Shaughnessy Watch is amazed by Massarotti's column today:

His column today was the nastiest, most ignorant piece I have ever read. It tops even Shank's 38pitches parody. ...

A Northeastern journalism professor wants answers.

Manny Ramirez's play in haiku

adamg — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:25:53 -0400

Poetry in motion.

Herald to Patriots: Our bad

adamg — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:27:38 -0400

Oops.

John Tomase and Tapegate

adamg — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:28:27 -0400

Bruce Allen tries to sort out the whole issue involving the Herald Patriots reporter and what did or didn't happen in New Orleans in 2002.

Bring it home, guys

adamg — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:59:06 -0400

KC: What's alarming is that the Celtics offense has just disappeared on the road ...

Rob: You can just hear the wheels spinning in Dan Shaughnessy's head, and hear his pen scribble on paper as he jots down a few notes for his new book: The Curse of Delonte.

Dan Miller finds it hard to root for this Celtics team.

Bruce Allen does the media roundup.

Oh, come on now

adamg — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:11:57 -0400

Yankees fan suckers Red Sox guy for $25g:

... [A] Yankees fan sued a member of Red Sox Nation for injuries sustained to his hand while he was punching said Sox fan in a bar fight. ...

There's a lot the CHB doesn't know about Cleveland

adamg — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:49:29 -0400

The Outraged Liberal, a Cleveland native, couldn't get past the fifth paragraph in Shaughnessy's column today because it's so riddled with factual errors about his birthplace.

No pink hats in his house

adamg — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:24:21 -0400

Don Martelli refuses to let his daughters wear pink Sox or Patriots caps:

... They are going to be raised as traditional fans. They wear enough pink so at the very least they can represent our home town teams in the right way. ...