New England Patriots Football Weekly • 31st August 2023

Tale of Two Halves | Patriots Win 1st, Drop 2nd

The Patriots' starters beat the nomadic Raiders' starters in the first half at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, Calif., but lost the game in the second half's battle of second stringers.

Cape Cod Life Magazine • 12th August 2023

Since 1923, Cape Cod’s ‘Summer Sons’ Have Always Come to ‘Play Ball!’

Unlike Brooklyn Dodgers fans, whose connection to their “boys of summer” is wistful, baseball fans on Cape Cod have a very vibrant, active relationship with their “summer sons,” the rotating cast of young men who compete in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) every summer.

Cape Cod Life Magazine • 27th September 2022

Foggy Memories

In the Cape Cod Baseball League’s famous ‘Fog Game,’ pitcher Andrew Miller tossed a modern masterpiece. Thanks to the league’s oral-storytelling tradition, the legend lives on.

BJ's Wholesale Club Journal • 5th August 2018

Bill Russell Rules . . . Both On and Off the Court

In his latest book, 'Russell Rules,' Celtics great shares insights on leadership and winning.

Patriots Football Weekly • 10th July 2018

Titletown Restored

The Super Bowl is no exception to the grand American tradition of excess. In fact, the National Football League’s championship game typifies it. So it should come as no surprise that the NFL team that scored most excessively all season long, the Green Bay Packers, continued that timeworn tradition of American gluttony with a 35-21 Super Bowl XXXI victory over the AFC Champion New England Patriots in the Louisiana Superdome.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 12th July 2018

PRESSing Concerns During Super Bowl Week

For the media, the trouble with Super Bowl Week is lies in digging up a meaty story.

New England Sport Magazine • 17th April 2018

Parcells is One Bill Worth Paying

Soon after hiring Bill Parcells, the New England Patriots discovered that he's one Bill worth paying.

Boston Baseball Magazine: 1999 All-Star Game Program • 1st May 2018

"Game of the Century" Gave Birth to Major League Baseball All-Star Game

The Midsummer Classic traces its roots to the Second City.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 8th August 2022

Wild One in Baltimore Birdland

Special teams aces Larry Whigham and Tedy Bruschi teamed up to deliver the winning TD in the Patriots' 46-38 victory over the Ravens at Baltimore's resurrected Memorial Stadium.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 15th December 2020

Taking the Good . . . With the Very Bad

Cheesesteaks and mistakes may have been featured items on the Veterans Stadium menu in Philadelphia on Thursday night –- entrees that gave Patriots Coach Bill Parcells a nasty case of indigestion –- but the young Patriots added a dash of spice to their offensive recipe as well, which may have salvaged dinner this night.

Boston Baseball Magazine • 7th September 2020

‘Baby-Faced Assassin’ Lets Live Fastball Do Talking

If Raymond Chandler was a PawSox beat writer, relief pitcher Cory Bailey might have been pegged as the "Baby-Faced Assassin.” Unlike some of his fellow relievers, Bailey doesn’t look the part of the menacing closer. Boston’s Jeff Russell sports an intimidating goatee – and even Ken Ryan has toyed with facial hair this summer – but Bailey’s All-American, clean-cut appearance does little to strike fear into the hearts of opposing batters.

Boston Baseball Magazine • 28th July 2020

Boston Baseball Opinion: Fenway Must Go

Progress, with a respectful nod to the past, is good. As much as I hate to admit it, the Red Sox seem to have actually done something right. HOK Architects of Kansas City and the Red Sox have designed a wonderful, comfortable new Fenway that retains most of the dimensions and quirks of the beloved original.

New England Sports Network (NESN) SportsCircuit Website • 31st May 2020

Mondor’s Midas Touch Transforms PawSox into Major Minor League Success Story

After amassing a fortune as a bankruptcy turnaround expert, Ben Mondor was lured out of an early retirement by a former Boston Brave to rescue the then-Rhode Island Red Sox. After some tactical business maneuvering, the Pawtucket Red Sox were born, and Mondor and lieutenant Mike Tamburro went on to build one of minor-league baseball's greatest franchises.

Boston Baseball Magazine • 19th May 2020

Attorney Makes Convincing Case for Hoboken as Birthplace of Baseball

Perhaps best known as the birthplace of Frank Sinatra, Hoboken was the site of the first game of modern baseball. On June 19, 1846, members of the New York Nine and the Knickerbockers Base Ball Club met for the first known match of the 'gentleman's game' at the Elysian Fields, near the Hoboken waterfront.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 29th July 2018

NFL Films: Keepers of the Flame

In capturing the history of the NFL, NFL Films has developed one of the most distinguished looks and sounds in sports.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 10th October 2019

Denver Gives Overmatched Pats the Boot

Reality bites. It also hits hard, passes with precision, runs with abandon and scores at will. Reality is the Denver Broncos, who systematically dismantled the New England Patriots, 34-8, in a keenly anticipated AFC matchup on Sunday afternoon at Foxboro Stadium. It was the Patriots’ worst beating since the visiting Broncos administered a nationally televised 37-3 whipping on TNT last October.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 10th September 2019

A Game of Inches and . . . Feet

Strolling across the Bryant College campus in baggy shorts, a polo shirt and a baseball cap, Matt Bahr could almost pass for someone half his age. Father Time has been kind to the Patriots placekicker, whose impish face belies his 39 years, but nowhere is Father Time's blessing more evident than in Bahr's right leg, which has earned him a more-than-respectable living the past 16 years.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 2nd September 2019

Patriots Defuse Chargers, Roar Back into First Place with Win

From La Jolla to Mission Valley, word around these parts was that the Patriots wouldn’t pose a problem to the schizophrenic Chargers, who handled the Kansas City Chefs with ease a week earlier. But, as Bolts fandom soon found out, the Patriots aren’t a team to be taken lightly this year. Or as New England kicker Adam Vinatieri said, “You can’t take a team that has a better record than you lightly.”

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 5th April 2019

Patriots Edge Giants, Wrap Up Second Seed

The regular-season finale between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants was like an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. One peek at the Giants Stadium sidelines produced no glimpse of Robert Stack wearing headphones, yet the Saturday-afternoon game – a 23-22 New England victory – still had a surreal air about it.

NESN SportsCircuit Website • 5th April 2019

Double Eagle Mamula Strives to Live up to Expectations in Philly

Just more than a year after departing from the cozy confines of Boston College's Chestnut Hill campus, where both the fans and media were friendly to the All-World Eagle, Philadelphia defensive end Mike Mamula has experienced a rude awakening in his second incarnation as an Eagle.

Boston Bruins Website • 4th April 2019

Smarts, Single-Minded Dedication Make Bruins' Unassuming Sweeney Invaluable On and Off the Ice

Despite his Harvard pedigree, Bruins defenseman Don Sweeney has embraced the organization’s lunch pail approach to the game, suiting up for 793 games and counting. Among active Bruins, Sweeney trails only the Pan-like Bourque, who is approaching 1,500 games played.

Patriots Football Weekly • 2nd March 2019

'94 Offense: Just a Prelude to '95

Patriots Coach Bill Parcells realizes he has to create more options to accommodate third-year gunslinger Drew Bledsoe's burgeoning talents, so the former grind-it-out guru has adopted a radically different offensive philosophy than he employed during his final years with the Giants. Plus, former 49er Coach Bill Walsh offers his opinion on Bledsoe.

Eagle Action • 22nd February 2019

Eagles’ Well-Timed Lightning Strikes Down Fightin’ Irish

Notre Dame may well shake down the thunder, but it was the Boston College football team’s well-timed lightning that did in the Fighting Irish, 31-29, at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Bentley University Observer Magazine • 5th August 2018

Saying It With Numbers

As most of his colleagues and friends will tell you, Dick Lipe ’77 is a man of few words. But a lifelong love of numbers has made him a master storyteller for Bentley athletics over the past 35 years.