Archive for July, 2007

Just hours after Bill Belichick insisted at a press conference that he is evaluated day-to-day, cornerback Chad Scott was placed on injured reserve, which means he’s lost for the season. Albert Breer looks at what remains of the cornerback position. He doesn’t want you to panic. He’s right, no need to panic until week six [...]

New England Patriots fans are clearly excited about the 2007 season. 7,975 of us showed up to watch the team practice on Sunday morning July 29 during the pre-season training camp. “Hundreds” of fans were reportedly waiting by Gillette Stadium at 6:30, more than two hours before practice was scheduled to begin. The Patriots looked [...]

New England Patriots record: 18-1 New England Patriots 2007Regular Season Schedule 9/9 @ New York Jets 38-14 9/16 vs San Diego Chargers 38-14 9/23 vs Buffalo Bills 38-7 10/1 @ Cincinnati Bengals 34-13 10/7 vs Cleveland Browns 34-17 10/14 @ Dallas Cowboys 48-27 10/21 @ Miami Dolphins 49-28 10/28 vs Washington Redskins 52-7 11/4 @ [...]

Swedish daily newspaper Sydsvenskan reports that a minor brawl involving a dozen people broke out in a sauna at a community gym in southern Sweden when a group of men in their 30′s asked a group of teenagers to take off their swimming trunks in the sauna, as tradition bids, which led to verbal and [...]

In the years following the 2000 population count, the United States Census Bureau estimated a rather steep population decline for Boston, from 589,000 in 2000 to 559,000 in 2005. Then , in October last year, the Census Bureau issued a revised population estimate for Boston after the city’s mayor Thomas M. Menino had complained loudly [...]

Unless there are two sergeant detective John Daley in the Boston Police Department (and I suppose there could be a dozen of them) everybody’s favorite blogging cop John Daley has been promoted to Deputy Superintendent by police chief Ed Davis. Congratulations to Deputy Superintendent Daley!

The Boston Herald‘s Jessica Heslam was first to report Howie Carr’s move from 680 WRKO-AM to 96.5 WTKK-FM. I assume Mr. Carr instructed his lawyer, who was Ms. Heslam’s source, to give her the scoop. Ms. Heslam’s original report appeared on BostonHerald.com’s frontpage shortly after 3pm, I believe, on June 9. She updated the story [...]

Last month National Football League finally killed off the money losing, unnecessary, and quite possibly hurtful developmental league NFL Europa after 16 years of fruitless attempts to get it to work right. The league reportedly lost $30 million a year, did little (and increasingly less) to develop players and sucked scarce European and Japanese talent [...]

The Boston Herald‘s Jessica Heslam is reporting that Boston talk-show host Howie Carr is leaving WRKO to take over WTKK’s morning show. I guess WTKK’s management isn’t overly bothered by Mr. Carr repeatedly having called their station WTKKK for airing Mike Barnicle and Don Imus. I speculated almost a year ago that Mr. Carr would [...]

I’m back from a nearly two-week long vacation in the Pacific Northwest, mostly Washington state. Here are a few impressions, some of which I might elaborate on sometime: – There’s far more traffic in Washington than I had ever imagined. The Seattle area resembles Route 9 during rush hour. – People don’t speed much in [...]