Hometown Columnists

Forgive the analogy, but it occurred to us that a Peter Vecsey column is a lot like going hunting with Dick…

We think we've found the ultimate critique of Sid Hartman — within, of all places, a review of Neil Young's album P…

We have very few requirements when reading our favorite sports columnists. One is that the article should be in…

It was Joe Biddle who once said: "Not everyone is going to like you. If you want that, go be a greeter at…

The way we hear it, it's only a matter of time before citizens of the greater Boston area seize up torches and…

Yes, he once wrote that "if Tom Brady were a politician, he'd be JFK." OK, he once, on assignment at the 2001…

Out on the plains of Texas, the setting for John Ford westerns and Cindy Sheehan protest vigils, there once lived…

"Steve Kelley looked at his column.

He had only one sentence so far, so he hit the "enter" key and described it.

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We've never met Dan Le Batard, but this is how we picture him: green makeup, pointy hat, always carries a broom.…

OK, it's just time to say it: Roger Brown makes stuff up. That's the word on the street anyway. When a veteran…

We've been doing this feature for a while now, but this is the first time we've dressed in a tux to write it.…

We've received a lot of feedback about our selection of The Boston Globe's Bob Ryan as today's bad hometown…

By all accounts, Bob Ryan was once a good writer. But then something happened. The molten lava, burning his…

It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times.

It was the age of wisdom.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Wi…

And now it's time for a new category: columnists who left sports to write for the living section but still manage…

We're not even going to get into his show on ESPN, which we've well-documented elsewhere. We are here to discuss…

OK, we surrender. The white flag you see waving above the rubble means that we're coming out peacefully, kicking…

OK, our problem with Bob Kravitz isn't that he's a terrible writer. (He isn't.) It's that too often he phones it…

There must be a school out there, some sort of Hogwarts-inspired academy where columnists go to learn the art of…

We have seen Bill Plaschke's desk. Well, to be more precise, we haven''t actually seen the surface of the desk —…