Vanessa Mazandi
Vanessa Mazandi
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Gutsy win is testament to Tiger's legacy
Sunday marked the end of the 69th Masters, which was incidentally the "last" for top dog Jack Nicklaus and yet it was a day for underdogs. Amateur Ryan Moore, a senior at UNLV, had a huge day, shooting a 70 to give him a total of 287 -- a score that...
Sox fans can now feel like everyone else
Last night it finally hit home; the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. Funny that the I finally realized what a milestone the Sox reached on a night when it suffered a lackluster loss to its Empire State rivals. But the six-hit Sox of April 3, 2005...
Frosh track star deserves recognition
It's funny how sports work. I'm a casual, make that, horrible college basketball fan. To the tree that was cut-down to make my bracket sheet: I apologize. Admittedly, I do like excitement so I always get around to watching most of the NCAA Tournament...
Madness? I'd rather see Curt on C-SPAN
There are two types of sports fans in this world: Those who live and die by March Madness, watching every second of every game, and those who, when faced with the option on Thursday, watched the Congressional baseball hearings instead. If past history...
Spring training abounds with juicy storylines
"Sadly, they aren't playing hockey. Football, it's not in season, and we're not on steroids, so right now these guys are the best athletes in the world," Charles "now back when I was playing" Barkley said in typically outspoken fashion during the "NBA...
For BC, losing to Notre Dame is not the end
It was only moments after the Patriots became the 2004 Super Bowl Champions that my friend Josh Palazola declared, "Well, we gotta hope for some magic from the Celtics now, because I want to dominate the entire sports world." Alas, while the Boston Red...
Complete Pats team wins Bowl with class
This column is for my Uncle Jim. A Sunday resident of Foxboro, Mass. with season tickets for the last 16 falls, my Uncle Jimmy has always talked about the Patriots like they were a franchise just waiting to turn the corner. Jimmy was probably one of...
Media Day is a guilty pleasure
So it's already T-minus six days until the Super Bowl, which means it's only T-minus 24 hours until Media Day. Ahhh Media Day, the time when C-List celebrities from MTV and E! ask football players inane questions in the hopes of receiving ridiculous...
Pats win, but not without a late scare
Watching this weekend's AFC and NFC Championship games, one thing became glaringly apparent: I may need therapy. I had a doomsday complex that, much like a hangover after a night at Toad's, was sticking with me all day Sunday. I mostly kept it in check...
'Complete' Pats and Eagles on collision course for Super Bowl
"They played ball. That's the bottom line. They played basic football. Ain't no tricks; ain't no nothing. They just played ball." And so it seems a disoriented Edgerrin James may have been describing the Eagles just as much as he was referring to his...