2012 NBA Playoffs Expert Picks: First Round

By ⋅ April 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The playoffs are upon us, but that doesn’t mean anyone can afford to rest any players. Derrick Rose is already out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see him miss at least a vast majority of next regular season as well. The Bulls have done [...]

Celtics vs. Hawks: Playoff Preview

By ⋅ April 28, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The Celtics open their 2012 title quest with a first-round matchup against the Atlanta Hawks. The series tips off Sunday evening in Atlanta.

2011-2012 NBA Expert Picks Results

By ⋅ April 28, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

After a season without much rest for the weary, the playoffs are upon us, also without much rest for the weary. But before we talk about the playoffs, we have to recap the regular season picks our experts made back in December, and see how everything shaped up. Picking the field itself wasn’t much of [...]

2012 NHL Playoffs Expert Picks: First Round Results

By ⋅ April 27, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The first round is over, and it was full of upsets, particularly in the East. There wasn’t too much success overall picking series winners, though series length picks mitigated that somewhat. The Rangers were the easiest pick to make, though they could just as easily have lost. The Devils were the only other clear majority [...]

Power(less) Play Finally Costs Bruins

By ⋅ April 27, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

It was inevitable. The Boston Bruins dismal play with a man advantage has finally ended their defense of a championship they won in spite of their ability to capitalize on power play opportunities.  For two years, the Bruins have been less than impressive when opposing teams have one fewer man on the ice.  For two [...]

Knuckleball! Review: An Exercise in Slow-Motion

By ⋅ April 25, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

As I sat in my white plastic folding chair in the middle of the World Financial Center Plaza, eyes glued to the massive five story screen erected along the Hudson River in New York City, Knuckleball! seemed to unfold in slow motion over the course of two hours. Maybe it was because I was still [...]

Reviewing NESN’s Jenny Dell (So Far)

By ⋅ April 23, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

The 2012 season is about a month old and already two things are very clear: I miss last year’s bullpen and last year’s “sideline” reporter. Sorry folks, but Jenny Dell is not really doing it for me. I know, I know, the women reading this are calling me a superficial pig and the fellas reading this [...]

Celtics Report Card: Resting the Starters (I Guess)

By ⋅ April 23, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The Boston Celtics have locked up the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. But because NBA playoff rules for some reason give the #5 seed home-court for the first round if they have a better record, the Celtics may have to start on the road. That makes sense, except that it completely obsoletes the [...]

Bobby Valentine is the Red Sox Manager, So Let Him Manage!

By ⋅ April 20, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Owner John Henry said this in October of 2011: “Larry Lucchino runs the Red Sox.’’ That was made clear when new general manager Ben Cherington was sent on a hunt for a new manager of the Red Sox soon after Terry Francona was fired. Cherington soon found out that Lucchino was making the decision on [...]

Hey Bobby V, Why Such a Heavy Reliance on the Red Sox Bench?

By ⋅ April 20, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Another season, another horrid start, and a lot of concerns surrounding this year’s Red Sox squad. Mark Melancon’s ERA is higher than Jamie Moyer’s age, the DL has a higher payroll than the San Diego Padres, and Jacoby Ellsbury won’t be throwing the javelin anytime soon (let alone play the outfield). One trend that hasn’t [...]

The Felger & Mazz Agenda: Not Fact Or Opinion

By ⋅ April 20, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

A year and a half ago when the ratings at WEEI began to falter, Michael Felger and Tony Massarotti offered something refreshing. It was an alternative to what had become the Big Show’s stale rhetoric on WEEI. Also, by starting out as an FM station and adding the Bruins broadcast rights, 98.5 immediately gained street [...]

New “Knuckleball!” Film Features Tim Wakefield, R.A. Dickey

By ⋅ April 19, 2012 ⋅ One comment

I have always dreamed of being a major league baseball player, but in the last few years, as I’ve grown up from an adolescent benchwarmer on my high school baseball team to a still slightly immature but somewhat more realistic 23-year-old, my baseball idols have shifted. Instead of the Nomar Garciaparras and the Nolan Ryans, [...]

Celtics Report Card: Even a Raptors Loss Can’t Faze Me

By ⋅ April 16, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Normally a loss to the lowly Toronto Raptors (missing Jose Calderon and Andrea Bargnani, no less) would have me in fits. But this is no normal season, and this wasn’t a normal week. The Boston Celtics took two of three in their one and only back-to-back-to-back of the season, including a win without any members [...]

2012 NHL Playoffs Expert Picks: First Round

By ⋅ April 11, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The playoffs are here at last, and it’s time to see if the Bruins have what it takes to repeat in a year with several strong rivals. And for the occasion, we here at Sports of Boston have brought you a panel of our experts to give their thoughts on how everything will turn out. [...]

Celtics Report Card: Better than the Red Sox

By ⋅ April 10, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m just going to go ahead and say it: 2-2 looks a whole lot better than 0-3. Maybe it isn’t fair to compare the Boston Celtics’ week, as they round into end-of-season form, to that of the Boston Red Sox, but after witnessing the debacle in Detroit, somehow I find myself forgiving Boston’s basketball darlings [...]

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