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Win No. 300 comes in what should be Belichick’s year

You want to know when it's your year? When the opposing team's offensive lineman's foot kicks the ball out of his running back's hands, and your linebacker picks it up and runs it in 26 yards for an easy score. Or....when the opposing team's same running back burts into the secondary, ...

Greenwood: Sox new man can stretch the dollar

It can be reasonably stated that the Red Sox’ new leader of baseball operations is the anti-Dave Dombrowski. Merely skimming Chaim Bloom’s baseball bona fides will reveal the difference before reaching the second paragraph: He was assistant general manager of the Tamp Bay Rays. Any ...

The whacky world of the Patriots and the NFL continues

Let's see, one AFC East team you love to hate has a player who is so hurt he's having surgery, yet the team disputes the injury. Another AFC East team – more near and dear to your hearts – has a player they say is hurt while all indications are, including hints from the player hmself – ...

Longo’s Friday Football Feast: Upset brewing at Stellos?

There is a time in every football season where urgency flips to desperation. That time is now. Who wants to win? And who needs to win? If you can differentiate and separate, you will find the victor as things get tight in these parts on the gridiron as teams play for their playoff lives ...

What’s wrong with Darnold seeing ghosts?

The only reason anyone is still thinking about Monday night’s Patriots’ laugher over the Jets concerns the call to let a seemingly benign comment from New York quarterback Sam Darnold go over the airwaves. Darnold told a teammate that he was “seeing ghosts.” NFL Films, gatekeeper of ...

Danny Ainge keeping Celtics on treadmill of mediocrity

After a decade of fruitless swings and misses, risk-taking and basically selling his franchise’s soul for a year-and-a-half of Kyrie Irving, Danny Ainge is playing it safe. The same guy who wouldn’t take no for an answer from Kevin Garnett, moved assets like a Wall Street power broker. He ...