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Life’s hard out there for pimps, cable salesmen and beat writers. So we really hate to slag someone for the seemingly minor journalistic offense of self-plagiarism. But this was too good — and by good, we mean bad — to pass up. In case you missed it, the Boston Bruins restored order to the hockey [...]

I don’t like things I am supposed to like. Also, I am cheap. I’m the Andy Rooney of baseball fans. So the odds of me enjoying an afternoon in the box seats at our local minor league park — provided gratis by my employer — were pretty low. But I had hopes of free beer, [...]

Now THAT was a no-hitter. If Francisco Liriano was among the American League starters least likely to throw a no-no, Justin Verlander falls into the exact opposite category. He’s a guy who almost surprises you when he isn’t dominant. It’s a testament to how fantastic Major League pitching has been the last few years that [...]

1. Law and Order reruns: Yes, somewhere on the globe, there is a TV station showing a Law and Order rerun; the sun never sets on Dick Wolf’s creation. But the show has everything I could ever want: mystery, courtroom scenes, sardonic humor, plot twists and Jerry Orbach. And you don’t need to have watched [...]

Casey at the Bat By Ernest Lawrence Thayer The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.   A [...]

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