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Tim Neverett: View From the Red Sox Booth

An extremely rare weekend at home for the Red Sox allowed the players and staff to prepare for the opener of the 2018 World Series that will begin Tuesday night at Fenway Park. The first pitch of this year’s Fall Classic is scheduled for 8:09 p.m. The Red Sox recently did what many ...

Now Celtics fans can settle in and watch the fun

For everyone who seamlessly clicked from the Red Sox to the Celtics on Tuesday, feel free to admit your fear. For those who refused to turn on the Celtics’ season opener until the game had passed the 5-minute mark, the haunting image of all haunting images tested your ...

Local pro sports fans couldn’t lose on Sunday night

Ah, the Big Choice: Patriots or Red Sox? Such was the dilemma for local sports fans on Sunday night, and of course there were compelling reasons to choose a Red Sox ALCS Game 2 over a New England Patriots Sunday night Game vs. the Kansas City Chiefs. Especially since the baseball started well ...

Who’s the better tight end? Or the better team?

It's the great debate: Who is the best tight end in the National Football League, Kansas City's Travis Kelce or New England's Rob Gronkowski? ESPN's Booger McFarland raised eyebrows a couple of weeks ago on the Monday Night broadcast when he declared it was Kelce. Of course, it plays right ...

Red Sox are in ALCS despite Kimbrel’s meltdown

Statistics, particularly those that have been amended and re-amended into irrelevancy, should be taken with a shaker of salt. Consider the save with which Craig Kimbrel padded his resume Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. Despite their closer’s ninth-inning buffoonery, the Red Sox are riding ...

Perfection proves elusive for high school football prognosticator

The big fella sits in total pout mode. Yep, again. Another 7-1 week. So close. Well not really, this time I was two scores away from perfection. But hey we drift into the final third of the regular season still hungry but often perplexed at 38-8. Game of the Week Hollis Brookline at ...