Boston is in many ways the cougar's paradise. We have Bill Belichik's unending quest for the elusive predators, the Globe's unhealthy obsession with them, and lord knows how many Casual Encounters in which they take part. So, what better place for an upcoming reality television show called The Cougar to find bait? That's what they said. It's an open cougar casting call, so if you are a man between the ages of 21 and 29......

--Erwin Hirsch, chief of trauma surgery at Boston Medical Center, died yesterday when his boat capsized off the coast of Maine. Hirsch also did tours in Vietnam and Iraq. He was 72 years old. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe] --A lawyer for Neil Entwistle, the man who allegedly killed his wife and 9-month-old daughter in Hopkinton in 2006, has summoned ex-Herald reporter Michele McPhee and current Herald reporter Laurel Sweet for a story they did......