It seems that the Bruins' approach to the NHL trade deadline - to hold steady and remain as is - might just pay off. On Tuesday night, against an Ottawa Senators team that the Globe kindly referred to as "thoroughly disinterested" (read: someone's will to play didn't arrive at the TDBN Garden with the rest of the Senators' gear), the Bruins cruised along to a 4-0 win, extending the winning ways that began out on......

Republican presidential aspirant and former Massachsuetts governor Mitt Romney is the projected winner of the state of Massachusetts over John McCain this Super Tuesday, according to CNN. And that victory was by no means a given since Romney didn't exactly leave Massachusetts wanting more. However, Romney is still fighting for states, and Mike Huckabee (plus buddy Chuck Norris) is racking up enough votes that neither one can catch up to the front-runner, John McCain. Huckabee......

Is it even an argument at this point? Boston's Mayor Menino caused the Patriots' loss by planning the city's victory party a little too early and much too transparently. Last Wednesday, well before the unthinkable happened, the Herald was already proclaiming, "Tommy, you might as well have suited up for the hated Giants." While the mourning (and the blame game) continues, political life must also go on. With the Massachusetts primary being held tomorrow, the......

Today, we're not going to talk about YouKnowWhat XLII. Because there's nothing to talk about. Today, we're going to celebrate two big wins from our two local winter teams. (We will remind you, however, that we'll be live-blogging YouKnowWhat XLII starting 7:30ish on Sunday. Get your commentin' fingers in shape.) The Celtics were facing maybe their toughest test of the season so far. There have been Negative Nellies all over the land saying that the......

Update: Bostonist contacted the American University International Human Rights Law Clinic to see how people can help. They have contacted Senators Kennedy and Kerry, and you can let our senators know how you feel as well. Contact info, as well as information on what else the law clinic is doing to help Enwonwu after the jump! A Nigerian man who served as an informant for the United States' war on drugs might be deported to......

Both Massachusetts senators, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, have close experience with presidential campaigns, so who can blame them for waiting a little bit to make an endorsement? Kerry's dominance in the last go-round came as a surprise after the Dean campaign collapsed in Iowa. The field of Democrats is deep this year, and, like Deval Patrick, our Senators have to be cautious about making endorsements since the Clintons are such a powerful force. But......

A somewhat abbreviated Redux, since we're preparing for our live-blog of NFL Armageddon this afternoon. Let's start with the bad and end on a high note. First, the Bruins. They went to Ottawa last night to play the Senators, who are 11-1 and running away with the Northeast Division. So now the Bruins know how it feels to play any of the other teams from Boston. It was close, and the B's even led at......

Our Senators, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, are catching some heat for an earmark on a transportation bill designed to help prevent delays at airport hubs. The earmark is for $8 million, which is peanuts in guv'mint terms, but that $8 million isn't going to Logan--it's going to airports in Barnstable and Nantucket. And Barnstable and Nantucket are hardly "hubs." Money flowing into Massachusetts is a good thing, but an $8 million earmark for Barnstable......

UPDATE: From the AP: "US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday his agency will seek to "terminate" the deportation case against the wife of a Massachusetts soldier missing in Iraq so she can stay in the country and apply for permanent resident status." Unless we're mistaken, that sounds like Yaderlin Jimenez will be able to get her green card. Yesterday, word spread all over the Web that Yaderlin Jimenez, wife of missing......

You can't help but kind of miss Lenny DiNardo. The guy, for all accounts, is a pretty young, affable, decent enough guy with an arm that wasn't Beckett standout, but still something to look out for. When the Red Sox let him go to clear room on the roster for J.D. Drew, we weren't heartbroken, but there was a moment of disappointment, too. Of course, DiNardo looks even better when he's pitching scoreless ball -......

The Red Sox have been living large off of the Foes' inferior bullpens all season. Sadly, what goes around came around last night. The unstoppable Okajima and unbeatable Papelbon were respectively stopped and beaten by the Yankees, who took 2 out of 3 from the Sox for the second straight series. This one was a typical Sox-Yankees seesaw affair. Josh Beckett pitched well, but spotted the Yanks a 4-0 lead. But the Sox got it......

Things weren't exactly what one could consider promising yesterday afternoon, a few hours before the Red Sox and Yankees kicked off their series opener here in Boston. The skies were growling and peppered with sunshowers. Many of us were murmuring about whether we thought Alex Rodriguez was going to pull a stunt on the field (and whether Dustin Pedroia would be the first to lead the counter-attack). Starting pitcher Tim Wakefield was set to enter......

Gordon Brown, who is taking over for Tony Blair as British prime minister, has apparently visited Cape Cod a few times, which means Senators Kennedy and Kerry are eager to lay claim to the PM's time. He doesn't have a place there, but they're already assuming that Brown will come back. Ted Kennedy really wants Gordon Brown to sit next to him in the Cape Cod cafeteria. He released a statement calling Brown one of......

The happiest Red Sox fans around have to be the ones who stopped watching baseball around 7:30 last night. They would have seen Game 1 of the doubleheader, a 13-3 Sox rout/Home Run Derby. They would have seen the Yankees' nightmarish loss to the Mets. But most importantly, they would have been spared Game 2, in which Atlanta demolished the Sox 14-0. A wild day all around. Game One was a laugher thanks in part......

It was a tense time at Fenway Saturday. Curt Schilling looked human (or worse). The Sox were suffering from a chronic case of "hitting the ball right at Miguel Tejada". Losing two in a row to the Orioles looked like a distinct possibility. But then came the Orioles bullpen, who helped the Red Sox turn a nailbiter into a 13-4 rout. A 5-4 lead turned to 8-4, on a Crisp fielder's choice and a 2-run......

Daisuke Matsuzaka Mania has already jumped the shark, and the season hasn't even started yet. The Globe had a long, loving look at how the arrival of Matsuzaka is going to juice up Boston's economy. (Better hide Pastor Wall's warning to tourists about the risks of getting shot around here.) We are anticipating Matsuzaka's official debut as much as the next sports fan. And we are tickled that one guy is expected to pump $14......

Not that it matters for the Celtics. Yes, in the department of "Who's the new guy? He looks kinda familiar," Celtics forward Wally Szczerbiak returned to basketball after a lengthy time-out. It looked like it might be a good night for the Celtics. They were matching Agent Zero and the Wizards (sounds like a '50s band name) through the third quarter. And then it all unraveled as Wizards did their thing, and the they defeated......

Bruins 2, Ottawa Senators 5 - The Bruins may have been smoked, but this game is notable for marking the return of Bruin rookie Phil Kessel, who deserves a round of applause. He's already back on the ice after a bout with testicular cancer a month ago. We know you're thinking it, so we'll say it - anyone who can play hockey so soon after a terrible health scare has some serious cojones. And,......

It’s been a while, but now we’ve got to do some spring cleaning. Bostonist is cleaning out our ears and putting them to good use eavesdropping. We hope you’ll help us by sending in the things you overhear on your commute, at lunch, or as you’re waiting for your TurboIce at Gate B of Fenway Park. Drop them into an email and send it off to us cyber-space style to the address overheard –......

Have you noticed how Judge Samuel Alito's last name makes every reference to him sound like a spontaneously invented nickname? ("Hey Sam! Samalito! Sam-meister!") That's pretty much all Bostonist can think about these days when we hear the name of the man who would be judge, mostly because we're trying to distract ourselves from the awful fact of his imminent appointment. Luckily, a new diversion is coming down the pike, and its name is filibuster.......

Mo Vaugn really is the strangest guy ever. We understand that the end of his baseball career wasn't so dignified, but damn, do we have to keep learning new ways in which the former Sox slugger is really weird? First, we heard that he's opening up a high-end car wash in Attleboro, which despite making sense in light of his well-known love of Providence's Foxy Lady strip club, is pretty odd. Now it has come......

Bostonist doesn't pretend to be a statistician, but we're a little perplexed by the worry being aired over new Census Bureau figures that show the Commonwealth has lost population for two years running. It's not that our feelings aren't hurt - they are, because we definitely love Massachusetts and want people to love it too - it's just that we're not sure what the big deal is. The Globe points out that Massachusetts has lost......

After the Lobel v. Get Fuzzy controversy the Boston Globe wised up and ran the Doonesbury cartoon featuring the reference to Karl Rove as ‘Turd Blossom’ without edits last week. The affectionate reference to Bush’s number one advisor was not poetic license taken by author G.B. Trudeau, it’s been reported (in Time Magazine back in '01) that among the many nicknames Bush gives to his friends, colleagues, and media that Karl Rove has gained ‘Turd’......

Now that the secret that everybody already knew is out in the open, the smart money seems to be on Governor Romney's skipping a presidential bid in the long run. But why? After all, he is young(-ish), charismatic (kind of, we guess), and conservative-faking-it-as-a-centrist, all of which would make him a good Republican candidate. So what's the problem? Bostonist and many other folks think that Mitt's religion may prevent him from getting the Republican nod.......