The Phoenix Network:
 
 
 
About  |  Advertise
Adult  |  Moonsigns  |  Band Guide  |  Blogs  |  In Pictures
 

george kimball

Latest Articles

Flashback_marathon_1979_thumb

Sporting Eye

See how they ran: No loneliness for these long-distance athletes
There were 7800 official entries and between 2000 and 3000 others along for the ride. By our crude calculations, the leaders were a mile and a half into the course by the time the last runner crossed the starting line.
By GEORGE KIMBALL and MICHAEL GEE  |  April 30, 2009
090404_clemens_list

Review: The Rocket that Fell to Earth

Roger Clemens's fall and rise and fall
On July 18, 1992, in a celebrated post-game meltdown at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, the pitcher formerly known as the Rocket expressed his displeasure over a column I had written.
By GEORGE KIMBALL  |  April 01, 2009
081024_beats2_list

Beating a dead horse

An excerpt from And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
I got home about 3:45 after eating breakfast at Riker’s on the corner of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue  
By JACK KEROUAC AND WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS  |  October 22, 2008

Hit men

George Kimball's Four Kings KO's the last golden era of boxing
At least one passage in Four Kings will get George Kimball cursed out in local bars.  
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  October 02, 2008
080711_mcmurtry_list

Bookman

Larry McMurtry’s life in the trade
Larry McMurtry, the best I can tell, remains the only man to have both won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and written an Academy Award–winning screenplay.
By GEORGE KIMBALL  |  July 08, 2008
080606-monty_list

Fore!

The thief who reinvented himself as a Hollywood celebrity
The new guy showed up as a guest at the Lakeside Golf Club in 1932, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, he won the club championship the first time he entered it.
By GEORGE KIMBALL  |  June 10, 2008
080530_greatest+_list

‘Great’ is definitely the wrong word

Richard Bradley’s fact-challenged book on the Sox-Yanks’ ’78 season finale is filled with Buckner-esque errors.
When I come across an obvious factual error in a book, my initial inclination is to wince in sympathy for the soon-to-be-embarrassed author. Unless, that is, the mistake is infuriatingly egregious, in which case I’m more apt to throw the book up against the wall in disgust.
By GEORGE KIMBALL  |  May 28, 2008

Ken Norton: A victim of tradition

Ali won, but his challenger didn’t lose
This article originally appeared in the October 5, 1976 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By GEORGE KIMBALL  |  November 14, 2006

Flashbacks: October 6, 2006

The Boston Phoenix  has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Dan Peleschuk, Ian Sands, and Eva Wolchover.
By PHOENIX FLASHBACKS  |  October 04, 2006

Today's Event Picks
MOST POPULAR
RSS Feed of for the most popular articles
 Most Viewed   Most Emailed 



  |  Sign In  |  Register
 
thePhoenix.com:
Phoenix Media/Communications Group:
TODAY'S FEATURED ADVERTISERS
Copyright © 2009 The Phoenix Media/Communications Group