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The wild bunch

The 15 craziest athletes in Boston sports history
Stephon Marbury is just the latest in a long and illustrious line of Boston athletes whose tenure here was marked by kooky, flamboyant, inscrutable, or bad behavior.

By: MIKE MILIARD | March 04, 2009

Celtic crossed

If a certifiable crazy man is signed to your position, here is what you don't do: act weirder than him
It was nice knowing ya, Gabe Pruitt.

By: MATT TAIBBI | March 04, 2009

How weird is Stephon Marbury?

Brace yourselves for the Starbury show, starring Stephon Marbury — perhaps the strangest pro athlete ever to suit up in a Celtics uniform.
In 1994's The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams , author Darcy Frey offers potent evidence that the matchlessly bizarre Celtic Stephon Marbury dates back at least to early adolescence.

By: ADAM REILLY | March 10, 2009

Shuffle off . . . to jail

It was a rough week for he Buffalo Bills, past and present
Die-hard Patriots fans will remember Joe Panos as one in a very humorous sequence of nearly washed-up interior linemen.

By: MATT TAIBBI | February 25, 2009

Sox to win 98 in '09?

Statistically Speaking
Stat savant Nate Silver, widely lauded for foretelling the 2008 election in detail, was a baseball geek first.

By: MIKE MILIARD | February 27, 2009

Wideouts gone wild

Lock the liquor cabinet and hide the keys — it's that time of year again
Late February is a heavy-arrest period in American sports, for the simple reason that the college-football season is over, spring practices have not yet begun, and they have not yet deployed armed alcohol-sniffing police robots on college campuses around the nation.

By: MATT TAIBBI | February 18, 2009

Return of the big fatty

The sumos get stoned . . . again. Plus, an early leader in the 2009 Justin Miller-Award race.
It's nice to know that Michael Phelps isn't the only prominent athlete getting the shaft lately for sparking up.

By: MATT TAIBBI | February 11, 2009

What's in a name?

Okay, not that Dane Cook.
Hey, look everybody: Dane Cook got arrested!

By: MATT TAIBBI | February 04, 2009

Far and away

Some of the strangest cases we've had
Man, has this been an interesting few weeks in sports crime, featuring some of the weirder cases you'll ever hear about.

By: MATT TAIBBI | January 28, 2009

Meggett takes an early lead

Sad sack
When football scouts describe running backs, they like to talk about a back's "shake": his ability to make tacklers miss in the hole.

By: MATT TAIBBI | January 27, 2009

Sports blotter: Walker wiggle

Call a cab, genius
The last couple of weeks have sucked for Celtics fans.

By: MATT TAIBBI | January 14, 2009

Busting Balls: 20 ways to improve sports

We blow the whistle on the ridiculous rules and quirks that make the games lame
College football is stupid. Everybody knows it.

By: LANCE GOULD | January 12, 2009

Barkley edition

Barkley Rules
Thank you, Charles Barkley. Thank you!

By: MATT TAIBBI | January 07, 2009

Sports Blotter: A farewell to OJ

Any columnist covering this field who failed to note O.J. Simpson’s lamentable change of status from in-it-to-win-it sports-crime competitor to DQ’d resident of High Desert State Prison in Indian Springs, Nevada, would be grossly derelict in his duties.

By: MATT TAIBBI | December 30, 2008