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Player of Games, #3: Dinosaur Island
Some of the games on this list I remember playing endlessly as a kid, my older brother and I on the floor in the basement, usually him...

Joe Pace
Jan 3, 2024
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Player of Games, #2: Baseball Mogul 2004
OK, sports fans, let's go back to the late-1990s and early 2000s. Back to when the Red Sox were still laboring under the Curse of the...

Joe Pace
Jan 2, 2024
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Player of Games, #1: Dungeon!
In 1975, the world was graced with two new arrivals. The new board game Dungeon! and, well, me. Dungeon! is basically to Dungeons &...

Joe Pace
Jan 1, 2024
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #384: Jim Brockmire
You may recall Hank Azaria from his turn as the Blue Rajah who wouldn't throw a knife on the under-the-radar superhero comedy "Mystery...

Joe Pace
Oct 20, 2023
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New England Sports 366, #367: Tuuka Rask
Here in New England, it's been a tough crowd since 2002. That ball went through the uprights off Vinatieri's foot, and two years later...

Joe Pace
Feb 11, 2022
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #383: Kate Bishop
I was a big fan of Hawkeye back in the 1980s. His turn as wisecracking-yet-responsible leader of the West Coast Avengers has always been...

Joe Pace
Feb 4, 2022
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #382: Roy Kent
There are no shortage of interesting characters in Ted Lasso's orbit. Ted himself, of course. The unstoppable and irrepressible Keeley...

Joe Pace
Jan 31, 2022
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #381: Jim Halpert
I was a latecomer to the pop culture phenomenon of The Office. I only started watching it a couple of years ago with my family. My boys,...

Joe Pace
Jan 30, 2022
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #380: Rogelio de la Vega
I was reluctant to start watching Jane the Virgin. We went in cold knowing nothing about it, and I wasn't sure what to make of the title....

Joe Pace
Aug 28, 2020
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New England Sports 366, #110: Johnny Pesky
We tend to think of Johnny Pesky as the old guy who hung around the Red Sox clubhouse, the eminence grise with the same name as the right...

Joe Pace
Apr 18, 2020
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New England Sports 366, #109: Alicia Sacramone
The second-most decorated American gymnast in World Championships history with ten medals was born in Boston and graduated from nearby...

Joe Pace
Apr 17, 2020
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New England Sports 366, #107: Asante Samuel
There have been some very gifted cornerbacks in recent Patriots history. Gilmore, Revis, Law. In that mix you can add Asante Samuel. His...

Joe Pace
Apr 15, 2020
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