Sidney Crosby: Sweet child of whine
The Kid is only 25 years old, born the same day as Red Sox youngster Ryan Lavarnway, so perhaps we should forgive him his adolescent posing and preening. Sidney Crosby is like the confused teenager in...
View ArticleCallahan: Who knows Claude Julien? His players do
Bill Belichick is an intensely private man, and yet we seem to know everything about him.We know he has three kids, all lacrosse players, and a girlfriend who tweets a lot. Linda Holliday even...
View ArticleScore a point for Doc Rivers
The Clippers are coming off a 56-win season and have a real chance to own the city of Los Angeles. The Lakers are down. The Angels and Dodgers are in furious competition to see who can squander the...
View ArticleCallahan: Winning, rebuilt Red Sox did it their way
How wrong was I? I was as wrong as a bald guy with a ponytail, as wrong as a plus-size woman in a sun dress, as wrong as Larry Lucchino in a
View ArticleCallahan: Tom Brady has parking spot, limited passing targets
Tom Brady got his prime parking space back, but a funny thing happened when he pulled up to it last week. His offense was gone. It must have been a shock to his system because he left it right there,...
View ArticleCallahan: Harsh reality is Tim Tebow can’t play
REPORTER: When you look beyond the stat line at the big picture, do you see positive steps for Tim Tebow?BILL BELICHICK: Yeah, definitely. There is something about Tim Tebow, Patriots quarterback, that...
View ArticleCallahan: Richie Incognito proves bad apple can ruin season
Ryan Dempster was about to board a duck boat in the Red Sox championship parade Saturday morning when he was asked what made this World Series-winning team so special. Dempster has been in the big...
View ArticleCallahan: Grim saga of hazy, crazy NFL locker-room culture
Say good night to the bad guy, as another big-screen villain once said. Say goodbye to the thug, the bully, the hazer, the mean girl who made poor Jonathan Martin’s life a living hell.He’s gone now,...
View ArticleCallahan: Manning’s cold-weather failures to doom Denver
It was lost in all the drama to come, but it was a moment that will go down in NFL history. As the Broncos and Patriots were lining up for the opening kickoff Sunday night, Al Michaels checked in with...
View ArticleCallahan: For seniors, Thanksgiving is game of their lives
The alarm will go off even earlier than usual tomorrow, but somehow it won’t be so tough to get up and out of bed. You couldn’t sleep any later if you tried. You’ll be awake half the night and into the...
View ArticleCallahan: Non-call interferes with logic
In the end, Rob Gronkowski simply was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was in Charlotte, N.C., at 11:33 Monday night, so a skittish cabal of NFL officials determined that he couldn’t have...
View ArticleCallahan: As the days get colder, Belichick and Brady seem to get hotter
This is not supposed to happen in the NFL.The numbers look like something from a great high school football program out of Western Pennsylvania or perhaps from the ’86 Celtics. They just don’t look...
View ArticlePeyton place isn’t first
As we count down the minutes to the greatest weekend in the greatest sport in the greatest country on earth — damn, those “Lone Survivor” commercials are getting to me — there is one question that...
View ArticleCallahan: Legacies on line in Brady vs. Manning
If Tom Brady wins in Denver on Sunday, he’ll become the first quarterback ever to start in six Super Bowls. He’ll have the opportunity to win a fourth Super Bowl, tying Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw...
View ArticleCallahan: Peyton's place isn’t first
As we count down the minutes to the greatest weekend in the greatest sport in the greatest country on earth — damn, those “Lone Survivor” commercials are getting to me — there is one question that...
View ArticleCallahan: Bill Belichick sounds foolish in accusing ex-Pat Wes Welker
Bill Belichick was 23 years old when he got a job as a special assistant with the Baltimore Colts. That was in 1975, and he’s been coaching in the NFL ever since. He has worked for seven organizations...
View ArticleCallahan: David Oriz can wait
First off, let’s paint the whole picture.David Ortiz didn’t just demand a contract extension from the Red Sox on “Sports Final” with Steve Burton on Sunday night. He demanded a contract extension while...
View ArticleCallahan: Best QB conversation no longer is Peyton’s place
If this were the Miss America pageant, Tom Brady and Joe Montana would hug now and hold hands and wait anxiously for the name of the runner-up to be announced.They are the final two contestants on the...
View ArticlePedro Martinez shouldn't share stage with Roger Clemens
Let’s get the lame old excuses out of the way first:He probably didn’t start doing steroids until after he left Boston. He was just trying to keep up with all the hitters who were juicing. They were...
View ArticleCallahan: Say tanks a lot, Danny Ainge
Hey, Danny Ainge, we’ve got to hand it to you. That’s a pretty good coach you’ve got there. Brad Stevens doesn’t look old enough to buy weed in Massachusetts, but...
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