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By Ryan McGowan
A local radio host (Andy Gresh of 98.5 the Sports Hub) got me thinking Sunday morning. Tom Brady, Gresh said, is Boston sports. With all due respect to Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Josh Beckett, and maybe Jason Varitek, when people think of sports in the Hub, #12 shows up in their minds as [...]
By Ryan McGowan
On December 31, I wrote “Five reasons the Patriots can win Super Bowl XLIV.”
Nice prediction. That’s right up there with the geniuses who predicted the Betamax would clobber the VHS, or that New Coke would be a sales bonanza for Coca-Cola, Inc. Predictions like that basically show why I don’t make my living [...]
By Ryan McGowan
As surely as the calendar changes from oh-nine to oh-ten, I’m back with my annual homerific justification and rationalization as to why the Patriots will solidify their Team of the Decade standing with a Super Bowl title. (Or, in the case of last year, why the Super Bowl XLIII champion will always have [...]
By Ryan McGowan
I didn’t sleep much last night. I usually pass out easily on Sunday nights, but this week I kept replaying the final two minutes over and over again in my head. Somehow, I eventually got to sleep—and when I woke up, it all made sense.
Belichick was right. He went for it on 4th [...]
By Ryan McGowan
The Patriots are done. Tom Brady is done. Bill Belichick is cooked.
It’s over.
By Ryan McGowan
Some quick hitters as we roll into August, even though by my internal weather-clock it should be late June here in the Northeast…
Ortiz, Manny on steroids
We didn’t get around to discussing this on the podcast yesterday. This topic lost out to Cliff Lee/Roy Halladay trade discussion, Michael Vick and Connecticut Puerto Rican cockfighting, [...]
By Ryan McGowan
There will be a head coach from some NFL team who will raise the Vince Lombardi Trophy at Raymond James Stadium on February 1, 2009. It very well might be Tony Dungy and the Colts for a second time. Perhaps it will be Mike Tomlin of the Steelers, or Tom Coughlin of the [...]
The following is a retort to an article in the October 3, 2008 issue of the Rice Thresher, which can be found here:
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: I don’t care about the National Football League. I do not care for the immaturity of Chad Ocho Cinco and Jeremy Shockey; I do [...]
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” -Plato
Curt Schilling reminds me of the generic and requisite Real World stock character: the cantankerous jackass who falsely assumes his “candor” is anything more than pathetic and offensive white noise. The guy whose audition tape sounds something like, “I [...]
This just in people: The New England Patriots did not lose to the Steelers, as the jaw-jacking back-up safety Anthony Smith so cleverly predicted. Oh, I’m sorry, guaranteed.
Not only did they once again step in the face of adversity and come out the winners, but they did so with the kind of confidence we have [...]
