Recent content by Bruce_Shoebottom

This is the same Shaughnessy who referred to Ortiz as a "giant sack of you-know-what" when the Sox signed him as a free agent heading into 2004. It was meant as a slam on Theo Epstein's GM capabilities. An astute baseball mind, that Dan Shaughnessy.

Jacobs' teams have won 14 division titles, been to the Cup Finals five times, and won a Cup under his watch. Putting him in the same list as Donald Sterling is laughable.

There were probably people who harumphed because they wanted football to go back to the days before the forward pass was legal and baseball with legal spitballs. MMA is popular because boxing is the combat equivalent of basketball before they took the bottoms of the peach baskets.

The "I'm going down with the ship because I'm more hardcore in my newspaper dedication" types are far more annoying.

Boo-hoo. What type of ratings did that Astros-White Sox World Series do, again? When either of those teams produce baseball as epic as the Yanks and Sox did in 2003-04, they'll merit an hour in a documentary. Until then we'll just listen to small market teams' crybaby fans whine.

Except, you fail to explain how it provides "ammo." So MMA athletes are cheating. This makes them different than the major pro sports, Olympic sports, and every other sport how, exactly? And the paper is in the same market that produced the Bash Brothers, BALCO and Bonds' assault on the home run...

Actually, this just shows that their testing works. What if every time an NFL team pulled through California, the state athletic commission independently tested the starting quarterback, a lineman and a few other random players? Think they just might catch more players cheating than the NFL's...

So, you refuse to take an entire sport seriously because its spokesman isn't a Bettman-like corporate robot. OK then. I'd argue more journalists find White interesting and quotable specifically because he doesn't filter his thoughts or engage in the droning PR-speak you find everywhere else.

Fair point, Elliotte. Apologies, Dooley.

Yeah, so, UFC 118 is in Boston this weekend. It was A1 in the Globe yesterday and has been on the sports front all week. It is on the front page of the Herald and has been covered all week. It is the cover story of this week's Boston Phoenix. Now, do you think Joe Sullivan or any of the other...

How much of a jackass do you have to be to shirt on the Globe's workers? For one thing, you're ignoring that there have been several rounds of buyouts in the past decade in which higher-paid employees have been ushered out the door. Those replaced them have been brought in on the low end of the...

Wasn't Schmidt basically just chewed out by Singleton and Co. at the ASNE conference? Sounds like Google is reminding them who places where on the pecking order these days.

It's on an unregulated event in Alabama. He tried to fight on a legit show in a commission state last year and has his application denied.

Considering this year's men's national champ, UNC, would beat the UConn women by a score of roughly 177-30 or so, how about we change the title to "is this the best women's team ever?" You simply can't lump the men's and women's teams together in a best-ever comparison.

Couture also returned to the UFC a year later with his tail tucked between his legs. He walked out on a valid contract both sides negotiated in good faith and didn't have a legal leg to stand on.