Tina Brown's Daily Beast is always embarking on strange, sensationalistic "studies" that pronounce Emerson dangerous, or BC delicious. We often question their results, but this time around they might have gotten one thing right: Providence is pretty crazy.
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Results tagged “cincinnati”
"Bye-weeks. Bronco Nagurski didn't get no bye-weeks! And now he's dead! Well, maybe they're a good thing." - Moe, The Simpsons
Regardless of how you think he would have fared in 2006, one must admit that Bronson Arroyo was screwed over by the Red Sox organization. He plunks down money on a new house in Boston. He agrees to a hometown discount, $11.2 million contract (over three years) with the Sox, which was pretty much the one thing his agent didn't want him to do. And then the guy is promptly traded off to Cincy for who? Oh wait! Wily Mo Pena.
This won't work all the time. There are going to be nights when lollygagging it in the first half, then turning it on in the second, won't be enough. Last night was not one of those nights. The Celtics came out in the first half sluggish, especially on defense. "Their biorhythms are off," said radio announcer Sean Grande, and it sure looked like he was right. The Sixers, struggling all season and trying to welcome...
We're the most starry-eyed, green-Kool-Aid-guzzling optimists anywhere, but even we never thought it would be this good, this fast. Even on a night when two-thirds of Ghidorah wasn't quite up to snuff (Ray Allen 4-for-14, Kevin Garnett missing his usual double-double), the Celtics still had enough to put the clamps on Jersey and win their seventh straight. Any time you defensively hold a team to 69 points and 33% shooting, you're doing something right. And...
The Globe put out a brief little story announcing that some lackey for the New England Patriots football team inserted the wrong DVD into the players' screening equipment on a flight to Cincinnati. That DVD was for the movie The Recruit, which happened to star--but of course!--Tom Brady's babymama Bridget Moynahan. "Someone" (the Globe didn't say who) quickly popped out the movie. We'd like to think some prankster decided to ruffle Brady's feathers a bit...
Wonder whatever became of the Pats? Well, they missed their target of 38 points, but still comfortably routed the Bengals last night, 34-13. On paper, it looked like the Bengals hung around - it was 10-7 until late in the second quarter - but it never felt like they were any closer than a long arm's length. With Laurence Maroney sidelined due to a groin injury, the spotlight shone on Sammy Morris, who made the...
Forget for a moment the questions still lingering around the Red Sox. We know about those. Let's take a brief look at the angst-ridden article in today's LA Times about the myriad questions swirling around our first-round opponents, the AnaheimOrWhatever Angels. They don't know who's starting when (OK, neither do we). Two of their key sluggers, Vlad Guerrero and Gary Matthews, are nursing injuries and may not be 100% (hey, just like Manny!). Will their...
Put the champagne back in the fridge.
Well, on the bright side, Daisuke has nothing to complain about this morning in terms of getting run support. Before the last of the Blue Jays' traveling party had cleared Customs, the Red Sox had staked Dice to a 10-1 lead, the big blow courtesy of a 3-run shot by the red-hot Mike Lowell, [Editorial Insert to Whatever Front Office Types Are Reading This. There's going to be temptation this offseason to make a run...
Sam Adams is the flagship beer of the Boston Beer Company. On the tour of the brewery in JP, they'll tell you that there are a couple of reasons they call themselves "The Boston Beer Company" – the two most compelling – the name was available when Jim Koch started the company and they're located in Boston. A deal was announced today that will put the Boston Beer Company in a position to purchase a...
Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti...
If only Tim Wakefield could pitch in Toronto all the time. Wake shut down the Jays a month ago, and he did it again Thursday night, going seven innings and cruising to a 8-0 pounding of the Blue Jays, who have plummeted straight past "hapless". 26-5 was the final score of the three-game series. Wake had a little early trouble. The Jays loaded the bases with one out, but Wake struck out Frank Thomas, then...
Let's just tear off the Band-Aid and get to it: the Sox lost with Dice-K on the mound for the second time in a row, this time in a tough 2-1 loss in Toronto. We're sure that the WEEI phone banks will be full with callers today wondering what the heck's going on with our millionaire import, especially considering that Daisuke Matsuzaka forced in the game-winning run with a walk in the fourth (this is known in pitching circles as "the worst thing EVER").
Adam at Universal Hub first brought this to our attention, then we heard it on WBZ in the car: it's a brilliant Gil Santos mashup in which he simultaneously announces the opening day games of all four of our local teams. That Zdeko Brady Matsuzaka is a hell of an athlete, leading the league in assists, RBIs, and completion percentage. The Red Sox joined the growing number of MLB teams who've had to cancel games...
The Sam Adams Boston Lager you're drinking was likely brewed in Cincinnati, or soon, Latrobe. The tour facility for the Boston Beer Company is within stumbling distance from the Stony Brook stop on the Orange Line – it's a good thing because they're just about to start up the summer season where the free tours happen pretty much every day, not just a few times a week. Today the Boston Beer Company, the parent of...
If you haven't seen the finish of the Division II Championship between Barton and Winona State, check it out. It's absolutely astounding; Barton's Anthony Atkinson scores 10 points in 39 seconds to turn a sure loss into an unbelievable victory. (Barton is located in Wilson, North Carolina, just so you don't have to look it up.) It's hard to match that kind of a comeback, but the Celtics sure gave Toronto a chance last night....
Day One is in the books, and sixteen teams have been given their handshakes and Certificates of Participation. Among them is Duke, who failed the reach the second round for the first time since '96. Since Duke-hate is second to only Yankee-hate in the land, that's going to make a lot of people happy. B.C. represented well in Round One, sending Texas Tech and mercurial coach Bobby Knight back to Lubbock with an 84-75 win....
We're eagerly waiting to see how our local NCAA matchups shake out. Boston College takes on Texas Tech and Bobby Knight tomorrow, and Holy Cross faces off against Southern Illinois on Friday. In the other big college basketball tournament, the NIT, the UMass Minutemen defeated Alabama in overtime 89 to 87. They'll advance into the next round to play West Virginia. So let's not forget the NIT in the face of March Madness. Speaking of,...
The rumors of the death of the Patriots have been greatly exaggerated. That paraphrase couldn’t be more true to Bostonians after the Pats dismantled the Cincinnati Bengals 38-13, in Cincy (they did not PROTECT THEIR HOUSE; that Under Armour guy would be heated with them), no less.
This first week of April has been quite spring-like and before you knew it, it's Thursday. Here are some things going on in the city this weekend. Welcome in Spring tonight at MJ O'Connors on Columbus Ave with their "Spring Beer Dinner" starting at 6 p.m. For $40, you get a 5 course meal prepared by the chefs at Anthem and MJ O'Connors, along with Sam Adams beer to compliment each course. If you ever...
The city of Cincinnati got some press in today's Sunday Boston Globe, which discussed how this midwestern city is getting some attention recently and how it measures up to Boston. Now Bostonist was very weary on this comparison, especially since Boston's nickname is "The Hub of the Universe," but Cincinnati, a.k.a. "Porkopolis," will soon have as many Fortune 500 company headquarters as we do here in Boston after the takeovers of Boston-area companies Filene's and Gillette. Businesses already located in Cincinnati include Toyota, Fidelity Investments, and even a new Boston Beer company plant. With a population of only 330,000 residents, this midwestern city might finally be catching up with the times. Average home prices are a low $143,000 (Boston is at $387,000) and business owners like the business costs too, which are below the national average. So why is Bostonist even mentioning Cincinnati? Well, with the recent loss of some staple company headquarters in the city, it looks like the trend to move west is hot like always. With companies leaving, the job market here in Boston will be harder to crack, leaving people here to fend for themselves...or moving to the midwest.
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