How to Root Against Boston After the Marathon Bombings

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A New York sports fan’s thoughts on how to cheer on the home team while respecting Boston.

The Best $10 Ticket inTown

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Mark Spellun talks relationships, love and parenting in a Yankees-Red Sox world.

9/11, Eleven Years On: Let Our Reflections Be Only a Brief Pause

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Slade Sohmer remembers 9/11: Running down 30 flights of stairs from his office on Wall Street, watching the sky turn yellow with smoke, and thinking of all the families who didn’t know they’d just lost their father, sister or child.

Mariano Rivera, The Epitome of Class

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Kaleb pays tribute to the greatest closer of all time in the wake of a torn ACL.

My First Kentucky Derby: The Infield

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Jamie Reidy reminisces on his blurry, yet memorable first trip to the Kentucky Derby.

Opening Day Tragedy at Fenway

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Why perhaps the greatest franchise in sports has been ruined.

Yankee Stadium, Behind Tinted Glass

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Three average fans got an unexpected taste of luxury at Yankee Stadium. Was it all it’s cracked up to be?

THE GMP SUPER BOWL PREDICTION

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Tom vs. Eli; NYC vs. Boston; Redeem vs Redemption; Gronk vs Cruz.

How to Save Baseball

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Tom Matlack thinks he can fix the game we all used to love.

Pinstriped Preschool Atrocity

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Aaron Gouveia thought his son was at the perfect preschool…until he saw the hat they’d given him.

Firm Believers in World Peace

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A long-standing Red Sox / Yankees rivalry will do that to you.

Baseball Needs to Be a Wormhole, Not a Time Capsule

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As baseball’s attendance dwindles, Aaron Gordon writes, its significance as a portal to the past is also in jeopardy.

Stadiums Shouldn’t Come Before Firehouses

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Though the Yankees’ and Mets’ new stadiums are “privately funded,” the tax breaks they receive keep New York from funding more important services.

A Masshole in Manhattan

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Will a Rondo debate ensue following every Celtics victory? Would knuckle sandwiches have been thrown if that foot-loving loudmouth had led the Jets to the Super Bowl?

How’d that taste New England?

“Uh…they scored more points than we did.” Bill Belichick, Patriots I was 1-3 this weekend in picking playoff games.  That’s sad.  For those of you who don’t know, I did sports talk radio for a few years.*  That makes my performance this weekend totally pathetic and makes me kind of a jackwad.  That’s OK, though.  [...]

The Other Kind of Fantasy Sports: Jeter, Ali, and the 19-0 Patriots

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An hour or so on Photoshop and some Post intern redefined “fantasy sports” for millions. And this isn’t the first time technology and sports have met in dreamland.