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Like New York and California, Massachusetts has fiscal liabilities for professional athletes.
Smart tactic: bring back the bunt.
Mobile sports betting is up in Massachusetts, can you dig it?
It helps teams like the Red Sox this year, but sucks intensity out of game.
Basking in basketball's glory over trivial oneupmanship.
GM Mike Elias hamstrung by Angelos family’s reluctance to spend money on free agents.
The consequences of an enormous phenomenon descending upon my city.
Major League Baseball has effectively blacklisted the sexually promiscuous pitcher, but until it’s proven he acted criminally, he’s a cheap pick-up for any team, including the Boston Red Sox, that looks past his character.
Why the Yankees make my teeth hurt and thoughts on the Red Sox’s lackluster offseason, partially saved by extending Rafael Devers.
Massachusetts will have legal sports betting next year.
Could a British soccer star become a professional football player?
Massachusetts is the only state in the country where boys can play high school field hockey.
Need publicity? Change the rules.
Reflections on the work of pro wrestling history.
Reflections on a dumb question posed during baseball’s “steroid era.”
Philadelphians understand the sports rallying cry.
One of the signature voices of my childhood has been silent for the past seven years.
At 5’7” and 250 pounds, the Central European wrestler loomed large on the world stage.
It’s fair to say we never saw the hulking wrestler’s like before he came along, and we’ve certainly never seen it since.
Born in 1852, the stocky Mancunian was very nearly the best wrestler of his era.
Mariusz Pudzianowski goes out with a bang.
A brief clip of Barr's heroic and anarchic take on the National Anthem at Jack Murphy Stadium.
The late Red Sox second baseman and longtime broadcaster talks with The Boston Globe's Chad Finn about the future of baseball.
Skip Caray's call of Francisco Cabrera's walk off hit to score Sid Bream and send the Atlanta Braves to the World Series in 1992.
Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) and Joshua Green join Maher to discuss attacks on Biles after her withdrawal from the Olympics.
The golf legend talks with Charlie Rose, two men who have seen better days, about his then current "comeback."
An interview with the American icon just 9 months before his death.
