I first became aware of Trot Nixon when the Red Sox drafted him in the first round in 1993. He was only a year older than I was, and he...

It’s not always a Hall of Fame career. Sometimes we remember a player for one great season, or an improbably amazing game. Sometimes,...

Arlen was born in Exeter, NH. That made her a winner on day one. Everything that happened after is what made her a champion. At the age...

Drafted a round after Drew Bledsoe in 1993, Vincent Ultimate Brisby wasn't his draftmate's favorite pass-catcher (that would be a certain...

Do I wish the Wildcats had managed one more goal in Anaheim in 1999? Of course I do. A national championship would have been a fitting...

Rudy Pemberton is not particularly memorable, and yet for a few weeks he was a monster. He was a mediocre minor league outfielder in the...

Bill Russell is the greatest winner in the history of team sports. These are the facts of the case, and they are not in dispute....

So many postseason memories of this guy. And yet the earliest and latest memories are unpleasant. My first awareness of Mike Vrabel is...

Dewey belongs in the Hall of Fame. This is the way. I could go all sabermetrics here and bury you with numbers. Talk about how Evans was...

I wanted to lead this profile with “I. Love. Waltah!” And I do. Or I did, I guess, back in the late nineties and early aughts when he was...

I feel like writing about a fullback today. I was one myself, back in the day, a block-first, fourth-and-one pop-6 kind of guy. So I was...

As we consider the uncertain future of the Red Sox managerial situation, I find myself thinking of one of our favorite Sox skippers...