Associated Press reports that "Tom Terrific" is so closely tied to former Mets pitcher Tom Seaver that it could not possibly let Tom Brady trademark the phrase.

It's ancient history by now, of course, but way back in June, Tomato Can Dan got his knickers in a bunch when an American team ran up the score against an opponent. That's just not fair, and it's so unseemly, he thundered about the US women's soccer team. This morning, Rev. Laura Everett wonders: Read more.

The Dominican Republic’s attorney general and national police director told reporters that the attempted murder was ordered from the United States by Victor Hugo Gomez, an associate of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. They said Gomez had hired a gang of killers to eliminate his cousin, whom Gomez suspected of turning him in to Dominican drug investigators in 2011.

ABC News reports.

WBZ reports that among the people nabbed in the Dominican Republic is the guy who allegedly shot David Ortiz in the back.

Update, Monday a.m.: Ortiz remains sedated and in the ICU after an operation in which his gallbladder and part of his intestines were removed.

CDN 37, a news station in Santo Domingo, is reporting (in Spanish) that David Ortiz was shot in the back outside a bar tonight by two men who rode up on a motorbike - one of whom was quickly surrounded and beaten by bystanders. Read more.

The Washington Post reports Mets fans are fuming that Tom Brady has trademarked "Tom Terrific," when they all know that Tom Terrific was and always will be Tom Seaver, one of the heroes of the '69 Amazin' Mets.

Dr. Zaius, er, Edward Everett Hale, shows his Bruins support in the Public Garden, just down the path from the Bruins-backing ducks.

Catboston sported the Bruins' biggest (headed) fan on the Esplanade today.

Earlier:
Fiedler likes the Red Sox, too.