Given that there were no local games to be had on Tuesday evening, we here at Bostonist wanted to dig below the surface, uncover some little-known facts about the local sports scene and its ripple effect. And did we* come up with some gems for you! -- Mike Ditka Doesn't Like the Pats! As we mentioned Tuesday afternoon, Ditka spoke out after Sunday's Pats win and said that Tom Brady was as wrong for acknowledging......

As today's Sports Redux pointed out, some journalists and coaches have suggested that players will try to "Kerrigan" Tom Brady if the New England Patriots keep running up the scores of their games. Now, someone has created a video revealing the prime suspects in case Tom Brady's knee finds itself in any danger: While we're good Bostonists and rooting for the local team, this video may be one of the funniest to ever appear on......

You'd think no one got anyone pregnant by accident before. But speculation about Tom Brady's baby is getting as big as the bump on baby mama Bridget Moynahan's body. First came the politicians, then came the nonnis. Yes, psychics. The Herald consulted Italian grandparents to see if they thought Brady would have a boy or a girl. This means that a crew of grandmas were staring hard at the shape of Bridget Moynahan's baby bump.......

The Boston Globe's Charlie Savage. Earlier today the Pulitzer Prizes were announced. The Globe's Charlie Savage won the honor for his work in National Reporting. It's good to know that our little newspaper of record is not being totally out done by its big brother (and owner) the New York Times. Savage won for his series of reports on Bush's use of signing statements to bypass parts of new laws. Boston.com has put together a......

Theatre companies and arts journalists nationwide are asking themselves how to generate younger audience interest. The League of American Theatres and Producers reported last year that the theatre audiences are getting younger, but the average age is still 42. Boston serves as a strong model for the rest of the U.S. to check out. The metro area's mix of new (The Boston Conservatory's new "Heaven & Hell -- The Fantastical Temptation of the 7 Deadly......

Marilyn Johnson will read from The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries tomorrow, Tuesday, March 6, at Harvard Book Store, 6:30 pm. You may have asked yourself how papers get obituaries published so fast. Easy. They write 'em in advance. A whole army of journalists are posted on a death watch of sorts, waiting for the moment to release the words that sum up the lives of the recently......

New Hampshire has been feeling the rays of national media attention thanks to numerous announcements from aspiring presidential candidates. The state is already getting ready for the politicians, the journalists, and Wolf Blitzer. New Hampshire has announced upcoming debates at Saint Anselm College on April 4 and April 5. The eminent Mr. Blitzer will moderate the fray. Not to be overshadowed by CNN, Fox News is also planning a Republican debate. Newly declared candidate Senator......

Just yesterday, Bostonist shared an interesting tract about world history, the mafia, the domestication of zebras, and the Simpsons, which was posted as a comment to our site. No sooner had we finished sharing that enlightening tidbit, than we received in our inbox what purports to be a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (or Gomzales, as his name is written elsewhere in the letter), complaining about some complicated, fraudulent scheme involving body doubles......

When her fancy vacation home is featured in the New York Times, and she's pilloried on Slate.com for having the gumption to show off that home, of course. Susan Orlean, New Yorker regular and a Boston resident since 1982 (and former Globe and Phoenix staffer), lately had her upstate New York weekend pad featured in the Times's impossibly bourgie "House Proud" section (in which people much richer than Bostonist demurely share details about their......

If you’re an astute reader of the postings here you’ll know that Bostonist packed up our things and moved to the other side of the tracks back in September. After a good bit of time living in Egleston Square our landlord decided to sell our triple-decker apartment building as affordable condos. They were priced affordably by Boston standards, not, unfortunately, by Bostonist standards. While living there we told our mother we were living in Jamaica......

The biggest story to hit the print media and sensationalized world of television news in Boston was the Fort Point Channel meth lab and death of Kevin McCormick. Initial medical examination suggests that McCormick died of a heart attack following or during sexual activity. Friends contacted the police after finding him dead in his apartment. When they arrived they removed McCormick’s body and more drug manufacturing equipment than quite possibly concentrated in any one place......

These days, Bostonist has noticed much talking-head time devoted to journalists' right to keep their sources confidential (if, in fact, such a right exists). Apparently, Senate President Robert Travaglini has also noticed, as he proposed a bill yesterday that would provide solid legal protection to journalists (as opposed to the less-than-certain First Amendment protection they've had to rely on up until now). Being pseudo-journalists ourselves, Bostonist tends to think this proposal is a good idea......

Our dear old Supreme Judicial Court, whose decisions so frequently bring ire to Americans outside the Commonwealth borders (and, to a lesser degree, to those within it), won a little victory yesterday, much to the chagrin of journalists everywhere. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take an appeal from the SJC by the Boston Globe, after the paper lost a libel suit and had to pay $1.68 million to a doctor implicated in the death......

This past weekend, the journalists hanging around the Boston clubhouse were met with the Red Sox players walking around in some new T-shirts. According to Peter Gammons' latest article at espn.com, where you now have to pay to read his words (If you ask Bostonist, it's well worth it), the Sox are walking around in custom-made T's saying "F*** Everybody" on the front and "All We Have Is Each Other" on the back. Let's examine......

Almost every morning while Bostonist waits in line at a Somerville Dunkin Donuts there's a good 20 seconds to scan the cover page of the Boston Herald to see what's going on - scorching hot day out? Bikini-clad beachgoer! "Oh it's just 'the Herald' being 'the Herald', right?" How many times has Bostonist seen the Herald's cover page, and chuckled at the latest in sensationalist Bostonian tabloid fare? It's as sure as the sun......

The fall of 2003 was historic and memorable for anyone who calls themselves a baseball fan. That fall the Red Sox battled through a 5 game series with Oakland (a series where we came back from the 0-2 defecist), and a 7-game war with the Yankees, ending in heartbreak thanks to Aaron Boone. But from before the first pitch of that post-season there was a playoff scenario so anticipated, so coveted, that fans (and FOX......

The first blogger was admitted into the White House's briefing room with an official press pass today; Garrett Graff, a 23 year-old blogger on mediabistro.com's new blog, Fishbowl D.C., had attempted for the past week to grab a daily press pass of his own and finally his pleading paid off. Graff was not truly impressed with the environment of the room, describing it as "dilapitated" and "cramped," adding insult to injury by calling the whole......