Mayor Tom Menino announced today that a statue to honor Boston Celtics center Bill Russell will be built at City Hall Plaza. The final design, slated to be revealed in the spring of 2012, will come from one of three artists, Fern Cunningham, Ann Hirsch, and Antonio Tobias Mendez.
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Months after President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Freedom to Bill Russell and suggested he deserved a statue, Boston is giving him one.
There is no NBA center who wants to be compared to a statue. Except Shaquille O'Neal on a day off. Shaq made good on a promise to be a statue for almost an hour in Harvard Square on Thursday.
Shaquille O'Neal moves his 7'1'', 325-pound frame pretty good for a such a big guy. He acquitted himself well on the court through three preseason games for the Boston Celtics. He also took some cuts at Fenway Park in a Green-only softball field trip.
The World Boxing Council should get its ears boxed. They have decided to build a statue honoring boxer Rocky Marciano. However, they are placing the statue in Boston, not in Brockton, where Marciano was from and where he became a legend. Brian Ballou at the Globe spoke with the World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman, who verbally punched Brockton below the belt: "Boston is visited by people of the world." Does that mean Brockton is...
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