Once upon a time, there was a skinny young man who lacked muscle tone yet who had big NFL dreams. Yet he was pale and pasty, more of a candidate for water boy than for poster boy. If he hit the combine a few years later, he might have been funneled over to a casting call for "Beauty and the Geek" instead. However, someone at the 2000 Scouting Combine saw an ambitious glimmer in his......

Bostonist knows better to think that most of our dear readers are likely to take a jaunt to Nicaragua's capital anytime soon: Unlike, say, Montreal or the Cape, it's neither close nor pretty, and in terms of tourism, it has precious little to commend it, since most of the historical buildings and the civic center were completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1972. (Did we mention it is an absolutely terrible place to go with......

Bostonist always loves a bit of gossip now and then, so when the Boston Herald had a front page mention of a cheating Johnny Damon, we just had to read the blurb. Golden Boy Damon is loved for his playing out in the field and for his appearance by the female fans, but his ex-wife, Angie Vannice, is not loving him at all. The couple were high school sweethearts down in Orlando, and were married......