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The Red Sox's Lowball Offer Last Winter Probably Cost Them Jon Lester
Last winter, Jon Lester said he "absolutely" would offer a hometown discount to stay in Boston. In the end, the reason the lefty ace signed with the Cubs appears as simple as the Red Sox overestimating just how big a discount they could get away with proposing without pissing Lester off....
Rajon Rondo's Free Throw Shooting Is Historically Awful So Far
Rajon Rondo has never been a great free-throw shooter. Coming into the 2014-15 season his career average was 62.1 percent—substandard for a point guard—but so far this season, Rondo has been a calamity. He's shot a horrendous 9-30 (30.0 percent) clip from the "charity stripe" in his 15 games played....
Laptop Man Unfazed By Kobe-Rondo Meeting
Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo got breakfast together in Boston this morning, which is fine and good and probably means that Kobe is trying to convince Rondo to come play with him in L.A. so that the two can form some kind of super team of surly-assness and eventually kill each other. But that's not wh...
Reports: Red Sox To Sign Hanley Ramirez And Pablo Sandoval
It appears the Red Sox will not content themselves with just one premier free agent signing; credible reports have Boston inking both Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval to five-year deals, to be finalized as early as today....
Jameis Winston Wouldn't Take "No" For An Answer From That Official
In the third quarter of Florida State's 20-17 win over Boston College, Jameis Winston attempted, twice, to physically wrest an official out of the way so he could run a play. It was a weird moment, and per the letter of the law, Winston should have been ejected. But what the hell was actually happen...
Florida State Keeps Ruining Florida State Losses
I'm starting to think Florida State is just trolling all of us and will get into the playoffs and destroy everybody, 63-0. They have to be doing this on purpose....
Bruins Go Down 1-0 In First Period; Young Fan Loses All Sense Of Chill
This kid is apparently six years old, and that is an unsettling piece of information given the fact that he sounds like a nine-week-old baby when he gets upset. Anyway, he's mad because he's just watched his beloved Bruins go down 1-0 to the Leafs in the first period. ...
Seth Griffith Scores Backwards, Through-The-Legs Wonder Goal
This is only the fourth goal in Boston Bruin Seth Griffith's young career, but he may never score a better one. Turned around by Devils defenseman Marek Zidlicky, Griffith still managed to get his stick on the puck and poke it into the goal. This came after Griffith blocked a shot on the other end, ...
Marcus Smart Carted Off Floor After Suffering Leg Injury
Medical personnel wheeled Marcus Smart off the court on a stretcher tonight after the Celtics rookie severely rolled his ankle early in the fourth quarter of tonight's game against the Pacers in Boston....
Boston Celtics To Wear New, Ugly Alternate Jerseys
We're often beaten over the head by basketball curmudgeons about Boston's deep respect for basketball history, but these new Boston Celtics jerseys look like something your well-meaning mother picked you up from the TJ Maxx discount rack and you wear only out of pity. ...
Rajon Rondo Says He's A Nap-Time Decision For Home Opener
Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo's status for Wednesday's season opener is still in question due to a broken hand he suffered after slipping in the shower. Rondo's hand is mostly healed, but there's still a chance he won't be able to go at tip-off. Naturally, people have a lot of questions about his ...
Danny Briere Nets Game-Winner With 0.5 Seconds Left
It's early, but Colorado Avalanche center Danny Briere has already given us one of the craziest highlights of the year, swatting home a game-winning goal against the Bruins today with just milliseconds remaining on the clock. ...
Bob Ryan: Scribe
Over at Grantland, Bryan Curtis has an entertaining feature on Bob Ryan:...
So Did Rajon Rondo Break His Hand At A Trampoline Park Or Not?
The controversy over just how Rajon Rondo broke his hand, which should be nicknamed "TrampGate" but probably won't be, has entered its fourth day. And on Day 4, as these things usually go, the trampoline park manager has spoken....
Kosmic Mother Funk Grand Cru: A Sour Beer Worth Road-Tripping For
The Boston Beer Company confounds me. I do like their most famous and best-selling beer, Samuel Adams Boston Lager: It's a seminal brew in many a Masshole's drunken coming of age, mine included, and a large, unbalanced load of the Internet holds this fact against us. I can't swing a dead Yuengling a...
Derek Jeter Hits RBI Infield Single In Final At-Bat Of Career
Derek Jeter took his final at-bat in the third inning at Fenway Park today. He hit an RBI infield single before being subbed out for Brian McCann. Never again will Jeter have to play one of those 10-hour Yankees-Red Sox games....
Red Sox Hire Fake Aretha Franklin To Serenade Jeter With "Respect"
What better gift to give a departing Derek Jeter than a cheap Aretha knockoff? Observers are unimpressed:...
Rajon Rondo Has A Mysterious Broken Hand
This has not been a great week for Rajon Rondo. On Tuesday, Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck called the point guard "stubborn" and said he wasn't sure how "coachable [Rondo] really is."...