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Sox Swept In Baltimore

by @ Sunday, May 2nd, 2010. Filed under Sports

Great moments are born from great opportunity

by @ Monday, April 5th, 2010. Filed under Sports, Uncategorized

Herb Brooks inspired the US Men’s Olympic hockey team to beat the Russians in 1980, in part, by delivering a passionate pregame speech which was relived in the 2004 movie “Miracle.” Four year old Joshua Sacco, from Tennessee memorized the speech and became an internet sensation on Youtube with his video of the speech. On [...]

Touching Moment Caps Off U.S. vs Haiti Women’s Soccer Match

by @ Saturday, March 13th, 2010. Filed under Sports

The US U17 women’s soccer team beat Haiti on the pitch, but US keeper Bryane Heaberlin displayed great sportsmanship when the match ended.  Reagan Alexander reports for tonic.com. This remarkable young woman and her teammates, who have trained to compete at the highest level of their sport at such a very young age, have managed [...]

Remdawg returns!

by @ Wednesday, August 19th, 2009. Filed under Sports

From NESN.com: The wait is over. Jerry Remy will return to NESN’s broadcast booth on a part-time basis beginning Friday when the Red Sox host the New York Yankees. Jerry will be back alongside play-by-play man Don Orsillo to resume his role as color commentator.

Take a breath, Sean.

by @ Friday, July 3rd, 2009. Filed under Sports

Sean Casey is the latest in a string of fill-in color commentators during Red Sox baseball games on NESN.  Could someone please tell the man they call “The Mayor” that he doesn’t need to talk for the whole 3+ hours of the game?  While a normal baseball game does have a lot of down time [...]

Do they know that the campaign is over?

by @ Wednesday, January 28th, 2009. Filed under Politics, Sports

Barack Obama won, he was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009.    However, the official White House website contains statements which are clearly political in nature. Here’s a link to the White House web page.  “President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast….President Obama [...]

A reason to eat at Taco Bell?

by @ Thursday, October 23rd, 2008. Filed under Chow, Sports

Probably not. But if you are insistent on doing it anyway you can get a free crunchy beef taco on Tuesday, October 28 thanks to Jason Bartlett, SS of the Tampa Bay Rays.

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