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Time for Celtics’ brass to feel some heat

Are Danny Ainge and Brad Stevens in trouble? The Boston Celtics general manager and coach share the bullseye this morning. Their team, chock full of giant contracts and even more grandiose egos, has not budged from the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference with a pedestrian 35-21 mark heading ...

Cards will have tourney success, but who will join them?

It was quite an opportunity on Sunday at the Colligadome to see two defending Division I state championship girls basketball teams, Braintree (Mass.) and Bishop Guertin collide. Doesn't happen often. Guertin more than survived the collision to the tune of an incredibly impressive 68-43 win, ...

Some final Super thoughts on a memorable week that was

Here's a few New England Patriots/Super Bowl tids and bits as reflect on the couple of weeks that were as we hit the first non-NFL weekend since late July: ---The result of the game dictates all. A year ago, after the stunning loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, the Patriots and their fans were ...

Memo to Celtics’ Danny Ainge: Keep trying

Try. How’s that for a novel idea? From Danny Ainge, to the coach, to the players, it’s time these folks became accountable to their fans. Boston, heading into last night’s home date with LeBron James’ Lakers, stood at 35-19, tied for the No. 3 seed in the East and 51/2 games off the ...

Bored with the Super Bowl? We weren’t

Those of us who are familiar with that old bromide concerning faces only mothers could love understand why national TV ratings for the Super Bowl dwindled to their lowest ebb in 10 years. Much of the nation chose to turn away from the football train wreck that ended with the Patriots winning ...

This may have been Belichick’s finest three hours

ATLANTA – Julian Edelman, with Bill Belichick about 25 feet away, was recounting his early days as a New England Patriot Monday morning, less than 11 hours after being named the Most Valuable Player award for Super Bowl LIII. “I was a rookie, and it was about 11 o'clock at night,” ...