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Fenway Park Is a Century Old

Matt Cantor — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:18:05 CDT

Baseball's "Sistine Chapel" turns 100 today, a century to the day after its first regular-season game. As the oldest major-league stadium, Fenway Park has seen the Boston Red Sox through a turbulent century, hosting heroes from Babe Ruth to Ted Williams to Hank Aaron, the Boston Globe notes. Today, you...

8 More Accuse Red Sox Staffer of Sex Abuse

Matt Cantor — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:45:49 CST

Eight more men have claimed abuse by a Boston Red Sox clubhouse boss in what the Boston Globe is calling "the worst sexual abuse scandal in Major League Baseball history." The men—among them two former Baltimore Orioles batboys—join two ex-clubhouse attendants who recently filed a lawsuit against the...

Red Sox Hit With $10M Sex Abuse Lawsuit

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:41:00 CST

Two men who have accused a dead Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager of sexually abusing them when they were batboys are filing a $10 million lawsuit against the team. “These were inner city kids happy to have jobs with the Red Sox,” said their lawyer yesterday. “Then they were sexually...

Red Sox Drank Beer, Played Video Games During Games

Kevin Spak — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:17:05 CDT

The Boston Red Sox’s three highest-paid pitchers—Jon Lester, Josh Beckett, and John Lackey—were in the habit of drinking beer, playing video games, and eating fast-food fried chicken in the clubhouse during games instead of supporting their teammates in the dugout, according to a scathing Boston Globe piece examining...

Red Sox Dump Francona

Kevin Spak — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:19:39 CDT

Still reeling from their epic September collapse , the Red Sox have decided to part ways with longtime manager Terry Francona, sources tell the Boston Globe . The skipper is meeting with GM Theo Epstein and the team’s owners today, and the expected resolution will be that the team will not pick...

Stats Can't Explain Sox Collapse

Kevin Spak — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:37:36 CDT

“It’s hard to describe how epic the Red Sox collapse was,” writes Nate Silver in the New York Times , calling it statistically like Bill Buckner’s famous botched play of 1986 “multiplied by itself two or three times over." On Sept. 3, the Red Sox had a 99.6% chance of...

Red Sox Miss Playoffs After 'Worst Collapse Ever'

Rob Quinn — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:34:50 CDT

The Boston Red Sox are in the record books and out of playoff contention after a terrible night capped a terrible September. The Red Sox allowed two ninth-inning runs in a 4-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles last night, the AP reports. Minutes after the Red Sox trudged off the...

Victoria's Secret Slights Saints, Enrages Fans

Nick McMaster — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:54:54 CDT

Victoria's Secret has enraged Louisiana's female football fans—reputedly some of the most intense around—by excluding the New Orleans Saints from its Pink NFL lineup, Advertising Age reports. Not only are the defending Super Bowl champs missing, but the line does include the Boston Red Sox, which was not...

Nomar Garciaparra Retires at 36

Will McCahill — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:41:00 CST