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Ten years of great sports

Boston's road from Loserville to Title Town
Moments after Adam Vinatieri's field goal split the uprights as the clock expired in the Louisiana Superdome on February 3, 2002, the streets of Boston were in bedlam. Drunk people dangled from trees and hung off lampposts. Motorists leaned on their horns. I saw a guy hug a cop
By MIKE MILIARD | December 22, 2009

Crossword: ''Remember the date''

We'll make it three times as easy for you.
We'll make it three times as easy for you.
By MATT JONES | September 23, 2009

Larry's Kidney

Being the true story of how I found myself in China with my black-sheep cousin and his mail-order bride, skirting the law to get him a transplant — and save his life
In this nonfiction account pretty accurately described by the book's subtitle, Daniel Asa Rose accompanies his nebbishy but mobbed-up relative on a mission for a Chinese two-fer: to get the organ he desperately needs and — why not, as long as we're here? — a wife, to boot. In this excerpt, the author first hears about his cousin's dubious — and, according to Chinese law, illegal — plan.
By DANIEL ASA ROSE | July 22, 2009

The Year of the Nerd

Screw the jocks and prom queens — in 2008, geeks took control of entertainment, pro sports . . . even the White House
Barack Obama is many things. Dedicated senator. Devoted husband and father. Adept orator. President-elect. Nerd.
By RYAN STEWART | December 24, 2008

The ultimate Schill?

Number 38's political timeline
For a brief moment in late 2004, some people feared that Curt Schilling might pull through for President George W. Bush the way he did for the Sox.
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 17, 2008

The O'Reilly factor

Letters to the Boston editor: June 6, 2008
Letters to the Boston editor: June 6, 2008
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | June 04, 2008

‘Great’ is definitely the wrong word

Richard Bradley’s fact-challenged book on the Sox-Yanks’ ’78 season finale is filled with Buckner-esque errors.
When I come across an obvious factual error in a book, my initial inclination is to wince in sympathy for the soon-to-be-embarrassed author. Unless, that is, the mistake is infuriatingly egregious, in which case I’m more apt to throw the book up against the wall in disgust.
By GEORGE KIMBALL | January 28, 2010

Bases very loaded

Spurred by fans’ ’roid rage, new books focus on our national pastime’s dark side. Meet baseball’s seven deadly sins.
Even as the sun rises on the new Major League Baseball season, skies are cloudy for the game we love.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 19, 2008

Not-so-instant karma

After decades of curses and calamities, Boston’s sports fortunes are at an unprecedented high. So can we stop the whining?
No matter what happens over their next two games, the Patriots will not have gone undefeated in 2007.
By ADAM REILLY | December 19, 2007

The old neighborhood

Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris at Gallery Kayafas, plus videos at MIT
Some call Charles “Teenie” Harris’s five decades of photos of Pittsburgh one of the grandest chronicles of African-American life ever assembled.
By GREG COOK | December 12, 2007

State of the Nation

If only the war attracted as much attention as sports
Can the Red Sox Nation become the Stop the War Nation?
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | November 19, 2007

Dreams of field

Our unlicensed psychiatrist answers disturbing questions about the joy of Sox
Do you see Dustin Pedroia in your sleep, riding a tiny blue bicycle?
By JAMES PARKER | October 31, 2007

Jockular plus

New England is the home of past and future champions
Phillipe + Jorge have been absolutely giddy, as we have gone crazy about the World Series’ success of the Olde Towne Team.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | October 31, 2007

Rocket science

Sports blotter: "Houston hydroponics" edition
Tough, tough summer for the Houston Rockets, arrest-wise.
By MATT TAIBBI | September 14, 2007

NAScar-bon neutral?

Motor sports make an improbable environmentalist example
Anyone trying to get their minds around the complicated puzzles of greenhouse gases and global warming can learn a thing or two by watching how motor sports are adapting to the growing pressure to become eco-friendly.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | May 30, 2007

Home of the Braves?

50 years after the Boston Braves' departure, it’s worth asking: did the wrong team leave town?
Fifty years ago this fall, a Boston team beat the Yankees in the World Series.
By MIKE MILIARD | May 09, 2007

The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 60-51

These guys couldn't turn on a radio
These guys couldn't turn on a radio
By | April 13, 2007

Worst in breed: Sports

The 100 Unsexiest men of 2007
Who are the unsexiest sports men of 2007
By PHOENIX STAFF | April 12, 2007

Play ball, Rhody-style

Nine innings’ worth of stuff you don’t know about Rhode Island and baseball
Baseball fans in New England view spring’s wispy introduction through a different lens.
By IAN DONNIS | April 06, 2007

Pride

Hope floats, and so does Terrance Howard
Predictable and rickety, yet heartfelt, Pride dips into the rage of civil rights.
By TOM MEEK | March 21, 2007

In the right field

Daniel Sonenberg gets everyone into the compositional league
In his third year as resident composer and professor at the University of Southern Maine, Daniel Sonenberg is making his mark in the field.
By BEN MEIKLEJOHN | March 12, 2007

Lowering the bar

New standards for lawyers? We don’t need no stinkin’ standards!
Here’s a bit of information for those of you who have recently arrived on Planet Earth: people don’t like lawyers.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | March 07, 2007

Who's your Padre?

Sports blotter: "Something is rotten in the state of Alabama" edition
The more jock arrests that pour in, the more obnoxious America’s cops seem.
By MATT TAIBBI | January 10, 2007

The Year of living strangely

A year in media
So let’s see if we have this straight.
By JOHN CARROLL | December 20, 2006

Romney’s real friends

Cash flow
As you probably know, word has leaked out that Mitt Romney once considered homosexuals to be actual human beings; this is giving him a little trouble with the social conservatives he’s trying so desperately to woo for his presidential run.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 13, 2006

A real stunner

Sports blotter: "The tasing refuses to stop" edition
Bob “The Bad One” Probert would have been proud.
By MATT TAIBBI | November 21, 2006

The Boston Red Sox

Are they racist?
This article originally appeared in the August 17, 1976 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By TOM SHEEHAN | November 14, 2006

Nice shot

Joshua Prager revisits the home run
No home run in baseball history is as famous as Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard round the world.”
By WILLIAM CORBETT | October 24, 2006

Political stock report

Who’s got the best chance of filling the Mass. GOP’s leadership void?
Charles Baker is the party establishment’s favorite, and with good reason. GOP RIP: Arguably at its lowest point ever, can the Massachusetts Republican Party rescue itself from its leaders? By David S. Bernstein
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 11, 2006

Brains, balls, and a key to Fenway

How one writer tried to set the record straight on the Sox’ past five years
Mnookin’s tale of unprecedented access lays bare the workings of one of the biggest and most beloved franchises in sports, during one of the most epochal eras of its 105-year history. Beyond "Dirty Water": Red Sox songs that don't suck. By Mike Miliard
By MIKE MILIARD | July 24, 2006