In an essay for Sports Illustrated, former Celtics player Jason Collins has become the first major American team sport athlete to come out while an active player, and he's citing a Massachusetts congressman as inspiration: I realized I … [Read more...]
By the way, the Celtics are really good
Seriously -- they are 20-2, and are on a twelve game winning streak. And they're looking pretty good to extend that streak to 13 tonight, as they're leading 63-39 over Washington at halftime. OK, OK, they're not (yet) close to the … [Read more...]
Powe vs Kobe. No Contest. Go Celts!
Jane Doe, Inc, the MA Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence organized the event on Valentine's Day this last Feb, and invite all men to take this pledge. Check out Leon Powe's short speech here. As we watch the NBA try in … [Read more...]
Help Henry Abbott find the real Boston
Via Adam, check out this extremely silly blog post from Henry Abbott, an ESPN blogger who has apparently just arrived in Boston for the first time. Anyone who has lived in New York, I suspect, finds Boston to be unbelievably ... tidy. New … [Read more...]
NBA Finals? Not so fast…
He makes a good case: Yes, Boston has won four games and Detroit only two. But it's hard to imagine a more arbitrary and undemocratic way to determine this series's outcome than "games won." It is, after all, a bedrock value of the game of … [Read more...]