Here's the latest: Thomas R. DiBenedetto, President of Boston International Group, Inc., and a group of American investors are bidding to buy top Italian club Roma in April. DiBenedetto's crew reportedly plans to drop $109 million on Unicredit bank for a 60%chunk of the three-time Serie A champs. He wants to return Roma to greatness. DiBenedetto wants a new stadium built.
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They can't defend their championship, but the Celtics have been named "Professional Sports Team of the Year." [WEEI]
After 3 years, the Arlington T station renovation is complete with an elevator and public restroom. [Boston Metro]
Mayor Mumbles is trying a new tack to randomly drug test firefighters. [Boston Herald]
Tom Brady and some his Best Buddies ride bikes on the Cape and raise $3.6 million for charity. [Cape Cod Times]
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A soldier from Beverly has died in Afghanistan. [The Salem News]
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Results tagged “soccer”
The Boston Breakers came away from Saturday night's game with a solid 3-1 victory over the visiting Washington Freedom with goals from Smith, Angeli, and Cheney. In addition to the victory, Puma's Project Pink event helped raise over $7,000 for the fight against cancer.
The World Cup ended more than a week ago. We still have soccer on the brain, though.
Timing is everything. One second, you're looking at a long plane ride home, a long period of soul-searching, and months and months of talking about referees. A second later, you're in ecstasy, shocked and delighted, on your way to the elimination rounds of the World Cup. And as gravy, you send Slovenia packing.
While the Washington Post struggles to understand why Americans don't like soccer (because we didn't invent it, basically), and Boston bids to help host a future World Cup (sign up to bring the Cup back to the U.S.), most soccer-crazy Bostonians are focused on one thing: the current World Cup, which started June 11. But where's a good place to watch in town?
You may have noticed that this image is not from the World Cup. (Bostonist readers: If you're in South Africa, post pictures!)
Forgive us if we're a little off today. We watched ESPN's coverage of the entire first round of the NFL draft, and if there's one thing that makes that a little better than spending four hours in a car with Chris Berman and company, it's that they don't make you swing into every roadside Wendy's for another burger.
With the truck headed for the FLA, the Association in All-Star hibernation and the Bruins off after escaping Tampa Bay with a 5-4 win, Bostonist is left with rumors.
The Celtics are finding ways to get it done. Period. That insane 2-game losing streak and that week of uncertainty look like they're way in the past - for the moment - as the C's went into San Antonio and stifled a very good Spurs team, 90-83.
Like we said on Monday, the New England Revolution came through with a win against the Chicago Fire in their first MLS playoff game of the season on Sunday. Bostonist was there to watch and came away with a couple of photos. The Revs face Chicago again on Saturday, this time in the Windy City. Play was sloppy at times in the first match. Though the first goal was made on a sweet header by Emmanuel Osei, the team's second goal (by Shalrie Joseph) came only after what seemed like hours of muddled chaos in front of the net. Let's hope the team can pull it together this weekend with some strong passing and smart shots.
Lorianne DiSabato has uploaded some great action shots from sports events in the past, and we wanted to show the New England Revolution a little love. These shots are from the Revolution's winning game against the Houston Dynamo at Gillette Stadium on March 29:
It's easy now to sit back and bask in the glory that has been the Boston athletics scene in 2007. World champions in baseball, undefeated in the NFL regular season, second place in Major League Soccer, packing crowds into the TD Banknorth Garden for the Celts and (to a lesser degree) the Bruins...we have it good.
Iranian Film Festival The Red Card (Carte ghermez) Mahnaz Afzali, 74 minutes, documentary, Persian with subtitles Saturday, November 17, 3:15 pm Remis Auditorium, MFA, Boston $10, Tickets and More Info While Iran's culture seems largely shut off from the United States or represented by the face of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the culture shares two strong similarities with that of America--celebrity worship and an attraction to bizarre crimes. The documentary The Red Card is like the OJ...
While you, and we, have been fixated on the Red Sox and the Patriots and the Celtics, the Revolution have quietly made their way back to the MLS Cup. And it's time attention is paid. The Revs are in the Finals for the third straight year, and fourth since 2002. They got there by outlasting Chicago 1-0, with Taylor Twellman scoring his second goal of the playoffs. Which was also the team's second goal of...
Well, the Red Sox proved that they can win even when Colorado finds its offense. So it's 3-0, and teams coming back from 3-0 is a once-in-a-lifetime deal. (We're engaging in a little post-2004 thinking, but don't think we're not engaging in all the superstitions, wearing the same cap, drinking the same coffee, wearing the same underwear, etc., in the meantime). The Sox came out blazing, slapping Rockies starter Josh Fogg around for six in...
Jonathan Messinger Thursday, October 11, 7:00 pm Lorem Ipsum Books 157 Hampshire Street, Cambridge Official Site Chicagoist Interview Author Jonathan Messinger is such a busy guy that a) we're surprised he has time to sotp in Cambridge and b) we're surprised he had time to talk to us. He runs the Dollar Store Series, in which authors write pieces based on knickknacks found at dollar stores. He's book editor for Time Out Chicago. He started...
"Authorial Intent" is Bostonist's attempt to bring you the best readings in the area, all tied up with a shiny bow. Diane Ackerman, Wednesday, September 19, 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store. More info. In The Zookeeper's Wife, fiction writer, nonfiction writer, and poet Ackerman returns with the true story of zookeepers in Poland during World War II who hid Jews from the Nazis. The LA Times calls the novel "a shining book beyond category." Jonathan...
No lead is safe against the Yankees. In case 100 years of bitter history hadn't taught you that, the fiasco on Friday night illustrated the need to jump on them, as soon as possible, and stay there. These guys have more lives than horror-movie villains. The Sox apparently remembered that lesson sometime between Friday night and Saturday afternoon, as they used a Josh Beckett masterpiece and a barrage of timely hitting to rout the Yanks,...
Yeah, baby! We all know that the Red Sox should be thumping the Devil Rays, but it's hard to argue with two consecutive hard-fought, come-from-behind wins from a lineup that's been painful to watch for stretches this season. Last night, the Sox surrendered four early runs to Tampa Bay, with starter Jon Lester throwing 65,431 pitches and only making into the fourth inning. Rays starter Edwin Jackson, looking like a Cy Young candidate (the Sox...
--Massholes Behind the Wheel: A driver was so appalled by another driver that he called the phone number on the side of the truck. (Apparently the phone number wasn't 1-800-EAT-SHIT.) Anyway, instead of reaching an operator or supervisor, the bad driver himself answered and was surprised that another driver would dare question his driving. The BPD report notes that the truck driver argued with the other driver - with whom he was still sharing the...
Nothing gets the media - Bostonist included - more tickled than the thought of teenage girls being bad. This time, some teenage soccer players are accused of peeing on the field of an opponent. The players for Holliston's girls' soccer team are beefing with Medway's soccer team, and they decided to express themselves. Then they posted evidence to the Internet. Of course. (By the way, we tried to find the evidence but couldn't? You wouldn't...
Okay, okay. The masses, or at least one person in the tips section, have spoken. You want celebrity sightings, you got 'em! A tipster has announced that soccer star, husband of Posh, friend of Cruise David Beckham was spotted in a local Cheesecake Factory. Beckham was in the area with the LA Galaxy to play a game with the New England Revolution. He didn't actually play, though, so he had spare time to enjoy New...
Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,...
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled fretting and Chicken Littling to announce that, despite being only -5 games back, the Red Sox intend to remain competitive in the AL East race. See, whatever the Yankees do, whether it's fishgutting the Devil Rays, overthrowing the Royals, or....beating the Indians (there's no metaphor we can use there that doesn't make us feel so very wrong), they can't catch the Sox if the Sox keep winning. It's just that simple....
Remember May? When this kind of thing happened all the time? The Red Sox and White Sox played a close, competitive game for six innings. Then the Chicago bullpen melted down in a big way, and the good Sox found themselves on the right end of a 11-2 win. The Red Sox had a 2-1 lead going into the sixth, when a J.D. Drew RBI double and a Coco Crisp RBI single gave Kason Gabbard...
Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic...
When you're a kid, one of the fringe benefits to playing Little League or soccer is that you often got to stop at McDonald's on the way home. Win or lose. We're not sure if Major League teams have a similar policy, but if the Red Sox team bus stopped at a Mickey's outside of Detroit, no one on the team would be allowed to supersize today, after a miserable weekend getting swept by the...