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Magnum farce

Sports blotter: "CSI: Binghamton" edition

By MATT TAIBBI | November 19, 2008

Crossword: ''So cute''

If it gets any cuter, I'll get a toothache.

By MATT JONES | October 22, 2008

Crossword: ''Bizarro world''

Everyone's against me!

By MATT JONES | July 23, 2008

The Love Guru

Derivative, crass, and boring
Guru Pitka is a self-help mogul with origins in Mike Myers’s now tired vision of the groovy ’60s.
By CHRIS WANGLER | June 25, 2008

Crossword: ''What's the problem?''

OK, we'll tell you.

By MATT JONES | June 25, 2008

Crossword: ''A greet addition''

Don't just say hello

By MATT JONES | April 16, 2008

Illegal use of hands

Sports blotter: "Personal foul" edition
It’s been a slow year so far for defensive-back arrests.
By MATT TAIBBI | February 27, 2008

After decades of curses and calamities, Boston’s sports fortunes are at an unprecedented high. So can we stop the whining?
No matter what happens over their next two games, the Patriots will not have gone undefeated in 2007.
By ADAM REILLY | December 19, 2007

Black + Gold go green

Offsides and offsets
As a kid in his native Alberta, NHL defenseman Andrew Ference was always outdoors — like a lot of Canadian kids, he loved snowboarding, skiing, and skating.
By SEAN KERRIGAN | November 07, 2007

The best of times

More than a decade into their career, Dropkick Murphys accept success — and pay tribute to the people and the city who helped them earn it
On Boston Harbor’s Long Island, two miles out in Quincy Bay, the Curley Building stands hulking and decrepit.
By MIKE MILIARD | September 07, 2007

Duck season

Sports blotter: "Somewhere, Izzy Alcantara smiled" edition
No one knows what got into Offerman — he’d never been arrested before.
By MATT TAIBBI | August 22, 2007

Anat, Elvis, and Jenny

Looking ahead to Newport Jazz and Folk, and to Jenny Scheinman
In the wake of a single solo album on her own label in 2005, Anat Cohen is suddenly everywhere.
By JON GARELICK | July 30, 2007

Got game?

A guide to the city's best sports bars

By HEATHER BOUZAN | May 21, 2007

Crossword: 'The choice is yours'

Make decisions, find your destiny.

By MATT JONES | June 28, 2006

Sports Blotter: the King James version

LeBron's Mom pulls a Carlo
In the most highly anticipated sports trial since the Marv Albert overbite case, Gloria James, mother of burgeoning NBA media supernova LeBron James, will finally face justice for her role in what has been hands down the most interesting sports DUI of the year.
By MATT TAIBBI | May 24, 2006

Canadians gone wild

Gretzky's bets, plus Clarett's woes
“BETZKY” screamed the inevitable New York Post headline, seemingly minutes after word leaked out that none other than the great Wayne Gretzky, his troublemaking big-haired wife Janet Jones, and Phoenix Coyotes assistant coach Ric Tocchet had been inveigled in the latest major gambling scandal to rock pro sports.
By MAT TAIBBI | February 15, 2006