As opening acts go, the first big-time show of Chaim Bloom’s Red Sox administration couldn’t have gone much worse. The Mookie Betts-David Price-$48 million package sent to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Alex Verdugo and Injured Twins Pitching Prospect has finally been completed. The Dodgers, ...
Bridge Year Fever’s Grip on Hub grew even stronger with the Brusdar Graterol fiasco. For those who are still wondering why there hasn’t been a press conference to announce the Mookie Betts-David Price to Los Angeles deal, it is because of the iffy physical status of the Minnesota pitching ...
It's hard to let go. This is the first weekend without NFL football until August, and yes, while we will have the XFL to distract us beginning this weekend, it likely won't fill the bill. Either way, we have a few thoughts on the season that was and the off-season that will be: Illness ...
They used to call them rebuilding years. The obvious inference was that a team’s talent level had sunk to a certain depth that it needed to stock up on better players before declaring itself a legitimate contender. Then someone coined the term bridge year. The murky inference there is that ...
Some stray thoughts from the world of sports as I ponder if someone has told Kyle Shanahan the bad news – the two timeouts he took to the locker room with him at halftime of the Super Bowl are now gone for good. He is never getting them back. That man, along with being a pathetic in-game ...
It is the busiest day of the year for pizzerias and sub shops around America, so that means any sports scribe worth his coffee-stained shirt needs to weigh in on who will rule the National Football League as its champion once the party tables feature little more than crumbs. It’s a little ...
