BOSTON GLOBE SPORTS COLUMNISTS
All-Star Game needs to get real
Hard as this may be for the young’uns to grasp, the Major League All-Star Game was for decades one of the five biggest events on America’s national sporting calendar.
Winning at home has new meaning
Rasheed Wallace has been around and back again. He figured it would be the standard executive sales pitch.
Wakefield easily the star of six Stars for the Red Sox
It has been 14 years since Tim Wakefield put on the finest demonstration of knuckleball pitching in the history of baseball.
Fehr and loathing: Examining pro sports union heads
You want to ensure being loathed by the general public? Just become head of a major professional sports union.
The curious case of Rajon Rondo
There’s waaaaay too much smoke for there not to have been at least a small campfire. Something has been going on with Rajon Rondo.
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Putting the pieces together
Picked up pieces while waiting for ’Sheed to pick up his first “T.’’ Until I saw the Dos Equis commercials, I thought Schill was the most interesting man in the world.
Red Sox Pedroia benefits from embrace of hardball’s softer side
Dustin Pedroia didn’t play for the Red Sox Monday night. He rushed out of Fenway Park after batting practice because his wife - seven months pregnant with their first child - was hospitalized with complications.
Garciaparra was heart and soul, and Fenway Faithful remember
Before we go anywhere, let’s try to remember just how big Nomar was, and how much he was loved around here.
Ramirez still ‘the man’ to many fans
SAN DIEGO - Nobody cares about steroids. Sad, but true. What else explains the Manny Ramírez Freedom Tour, which soon will be coming to a ballpark near you?
The show goes on
Manny is back. Surrounded by the love of his teammates and thousands of Dodgers fans - some wearing “Free Manny’’ T-shirts - Manny Ramírez returned to the Los Angeles lineup at Petco Park (appropriate, no?) last night. He went 0 for 3 with a walk in the Dodgers’ 6-3 victory and was replaced in left field after ...
ALS event Saturday proves charity begins at home plate
Going to Fenway Park for Red Sox-Mariners Saturday? Bring a box of tissue. Bring your checkbook, too. Boston’s ancient baseball theater will be one of 15 major league parks honoring the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech (“I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth’’) and raising funds to support ALS research. It’s called “4ALS ...
Fractured fairy tale
State champion. Broken leg. The whole episode took less than 60 seconds.
Now is not the time to move Rondo
As far as we know, Rajon Rondo is still a member of the Boston Celtics. The draft has come and gone and Boston did not trade its starry point guard to Detroit, Memphis, Sacramento, Phoenix, Tri-Cities, or Real Madrid.
Kerrigan had ice in her veins
Tonight Boston honors some of its best athletes at the eighth “Tradition,’’ held at the New Garden for the benefit the Sports Museum.
When he returns, Manny will again be The Man
Here’s how you know you are not in Boston anymore: You drive up Elysian Park Avenue toward the entrance to Dodger Stadium on game night . . . and they wave you in. Free parking. For every fan.
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