Archive for April, 2007

The New England Patriots didn’t do much with the 2007 draft, other than picking Brandon Meriweather, a safety from Miami, in the first round. Meriweather fills a pressing need in a secondary that has been wrecked by injuries for three straight seasons. The headline grabbing move of the draft for the Patriots was the acquisition [...]

I admit it, when the Boston Red Sox trailed the NewYork Yankees 6-2 I thought for sure we were done for, but then came that magic 8th inning when the Bronx Bombers bombed big-timed and the Sox pulled out a 7-6 win. (By the way, how very hip, trendy, contemporary and totally trashy that NESN [...]

After last year’s Duke University varsity lacrosse rape-hoax debacle – which came to an end only last week – you’d think people, both media professionals and media amateurs, would have been a little bit reluctant to circulate rumors or rush to judgment after the massacre at Virginia Tech, but no. It’s a sad spectacle to [...]

Here are some pictures from today’s marathon. One of the media trucks: Here comes the winner: Here’s the winner running away: That’s all folks.

As I instructed them to, Patriots fans voted David Thomas’s catch the best by a Patriots player last season. This time around Patriots.com is running a poll on the best run by a Patriot last year. Of the five runs picked by Patriots.com, I’d vote for Lawrence Maroney’s 25-yard dash against the Cincinnati Bengals as [...]

Some thoughts on the demise of Don Imus (transcript of his remarks on the Rutgers women’s basketball team): 1) Here I was fearing that the powers that be in Boston were looking to go after local right-wing populist radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist Howie Carr, but instead Mr. Imus, one of Mr. Carr’s enemies, [...]

1) Be a hot blonde Swede. 2) Marry a rich American. 3) Hire a nanny who’s also a hot blonde Swede, but much younger. 4) Let nature take its course. 5) Ka-ching!

Pathfinder is a soon-to-be-released movie based on an actual comic book. According to the movie’s trailer the plot is based on the idea that mounted Vikings raided North America about 900 A.D. (“600 years before Columbus” as the trailer has it) – more or less at will, it seems – and one of the raiding [...]

Former New England Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe announced today that he is retiring from football after 14 seasons in the National Football League. Bledsoe was the first player picked in the 1993 draft and started in one Super Bowl. He lost his starting job after he got hurt early in 2001 season and left the [...]

The prosecution puts an end to the persecution: The eyewitness identification procedures were faulty and unreliable. No DNA confirms the accuser’s story. No other witness confirms her story. Other evidence contradicts her story. She contradicts herself.