Archive for November, 2007

I dubbed Asante Samuel’s interception return for a touchdown against the Philadelphia Eagles the best play of the year for the New England Patriots. So which might have been the worst play of the year for the league’s best team? The answer is obviously the Indianapolis Colts 73-yard touchdown pass to Joseph Addai late in [...]

I don’t know how I missed this but on November 19 the Indianapolis Colts (drumroll, please) added Mike Elgin to the practice squad. That’s right, the Mike Elgin. The offensive lineman from East North Central Iowa Community College Hawkeyes (or something like that) who was drafted by the New England Patriots, showed excellent skills during [...]

According to sources of probably ill repute a woman has to speak 6,000 words a day and she basically won’t stop talking until she’s filled that quota. In other words, ladies, when your married friends call, PICK UP THE PHONE!

Top Line: New England Patriots had a down day while the visiting Philadelphia Eagles played their game of the season. When it was all said and done Patriots stood as 31-28 winners, as winners of the AFC Division East and with a still-perfect 11-0 regular-season record while the Eagles were left thinking about what could [...]

The Boston Globe‘s Ms. Tania deLuzuriaga has an article today on the much-delayed and much cost-overran Kenmore bus station in the heart of Kenmore Square. Ms. deLuzuriaga writes that the “projected completion has been pushed back until at least late 2008.” Eight months ago the MBTA told the Globe‘s then traffic reporter Mr. Mac Daniel [...]

Top Line: New England Patriots improved their 2007 regular-season record to 10-0 by stomping Buffalo Bills 56-10 on the road. Quarterback Tom Brady threw five touchdown passes, four to wide receiver Randy Moss. New England’s defense held up its end of the bargain, limiting Buffalo’s offense to 229 yards, logging four sacks, forcing two turnovers [...]

Truly Jörg’s closed its Kenmore Square location last month. I don’t know if the closure was purely a function of revenue trajectory or the result of several factors, including revenue, staffing, logistics and the violent hold-up last May. It’s definitely a set-back for the upscale vision of the post-ruffian so-called new Kenmore Square. The main [...]

Yesterday, the injury ravaged Indianapolis Colts signed rookie offensive lineman Corey Hilliard, who first joined the team’s practice squad a couple of months ago after getting cut by the New England Patriots, the team who drafted him. Hilliard was an embarrassment at the rookie mini-camp, completely out of shape and unable to finish the work-out [...]

Winchester, Massachusetts, observed Veterans Day today with the annual parade through the downtown, from the Church Common to the Veterans Memorial. Veterans, honor guards, scout troops, the high-school band, civic associations and others participated. My wife snapped some photographs of the event. (Click here for a larger version (opens in a new window)).

Last Friday I went to a Boston Celtics game for the first time in seven years. That game back in 2000 was a pretty dreadful story. The Celtics played Chicago Bulls in the (final) post-Michael Jordan era. The Celtics stunk. The Bulls stunk. The game stunk. The crowd at hand was mostly interested in dancing [...]