http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/ en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:22:25 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Our roundup of picks for this week's Jets-Patriots game. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/20/week_11_prediction_roundup/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/20/week_11_prediction_roundup/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:22:25 -0500 Beverly's Endicott College – 26.9 miles from Yawkey Way - will celebrate the Yankees' recent World Series victory on Monday with a ceremony on campus. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/19/yankees_celebration_catches_fire/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/19/yankees_celebration_catches_fire/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:36:30 -0500 I'm sure Ty Warren and Co. will appreciate knowing that they had a nine percent better chance of winning with the Colts virtually in the red zone. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/17/stat_lies/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/17/stat_lies/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:15:04 -0500 Our roundup of picks for this week's Patriots-Colts game. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/13/week_10_prediction_roundup/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/13/week_10_prediction_roundup/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:51:37 -0500 If baseball writers voted for the NFL MVP, Pat Williams' unintentional dig at New England fans, and the queasy nature of the Indy Star's "Toss 'Em" game. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/12/nfl_bits/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/12/nfl_bits/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:14 -0500 Not content just pumping in fake noise these days, it appears the Indianapolis Colts have turned to a new strategy for throwing the New England Patriots off their game: mouse poop. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/10/of_mice_and_manning/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/10/of_mice_and_manning/ Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:47:31 -0500 Thanks to Kris Brown, we'll never know if the Patriots and Colts could have potentially had identical records come next Monday morning. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/09/hold_your_horses/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/09/hold_your_horses/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:23:06 -0500 Isuzu pickup truck in Jonesborough, Tenn. Turns out, it was actually in the form of Ted Ginn Jr. ]]> http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/06/hyperbole_by_henning/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/06/hyperbole_by_henning/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:29:24 -0500 Our roundup of picks for this week's Dolphins-Patriots game. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/06/week_9_prediction_roundup/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/06/week_9_prediction_roundup/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:30:49 -0500 I was living in New York the last time the Yankees won the World Series. Yankee fans celebrated that title by crowding the local speakeasies and carousing with flapper girls, dancing the night away to the controversial lyrics of Rogers and Hammerstein. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/05/feast_off_famine/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/05/feast_off_famine/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:03:48 -0500 Not sure where to begin with the New York Post's front page this morning. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/04/baby_daddy/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/04/baby_daddy/ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:17:30 -0500 The delicious thought of the Yankees franchise following up the greatest choke in baseball postseason history with another to rival it just five years later is one that we're going to have a difficult time repressing until the time is right. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/03/six_on_the_reach/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/03/six_on_the_reach/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:05:47 -0500 We can assume the layout folks at the Philadelphia Inquirer aren't big baseball fans. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/02/no_truth_in_advertising/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/11/02/no_truth_in_advertising/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:48:32 -0500 Part of the pleasure in sports isn't only devotion to your team, but the fun in loathing your enemy. Red Sox fans rooting for the Yankees would be like Bill Belichick having Eric Mangini over for a friendly game of Twister or Deadspin and ESPN going into business together. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/10/29/deep_roots_will_not_bend/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/10/29/deep_roots_will_not_bend/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:53:40 -0500 They brought joy and satisfaction to Red Sox fans everywhere, and made a fat, dead ballplayer cry when his mythical curse came to an abrupt halt. http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/10/27/world_off_their_shoulders/ http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2009/10/27/world_off_their_shoulders/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:41:16 -0500