Forgive the analogy, but it occurred to us that a Peter Vecsey column is a lot like going hunting with Dick…
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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…
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It was Joe Biddle who once said: "Not everyone is going to like you. If you want that, go be a greeter at…
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The way we hear it, it's only a matter of time before citizens of the greater Boston area seize up torches and…
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Yes, he once wrote that "if Tom Brady were a politician, he'd be JFK." OK, he once, on assignment at the 2001…
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Out on the plains of Texas, the setting for John Ford westerns and Cindy Sheehan protest vigils, there once lived…
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"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.…
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OK, it's just time to say it: Roger Brown makes stuff up. That's the word on the street anyway. When a veteran…
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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.…
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We've received a lot of feedback about our selection of The Boston Globe's Bob Ryan as today's bad hometown…
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By all accounts, Bob Ryan was once a good writer. But then something happened. The molten lava, burning his…
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It was the best of times.
It was the worst of times.
It was the age of wisdom.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Wi…
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And now it's time for a new category: columnists who left sports to write for the living section but still manage…
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We're not even going to get into his show on ESPN, which we've well-documented elsewhere. We are here to discuss…
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OK, we surrender. The white flag you see waving above the rubble means that we're coming out peacefully, kicking…
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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…
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There must be a school out there, some sort of Hogwarts-inspired academy where columnists go to learn the art of…
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We have seen Bill Plaschke's desk. Well, to be more precise, we haven''t actually seen the surface of the desk —…
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