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The Rhode Show in outer space

Crooning with Chris Young; Nazi talk; Clemens v. congress; the lure of the bucket
Easily the most otherworldly, bizarre event in this year's busy campaign season was the August 23 appearance on Channel 12's The Rhode Show by Providence mayoral candidate Christopher Young, renowned for his multiple bids for office in the Biggest Little under the banner of the Monster Raving Loony Party.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | August 26, 2010

Slammed: Lance Stephenson's comeback goes south

Plus, Roger Clemens gets what he deserves.
Just a few months ago, Lance Stephenson was looking like basketball's feel-good comeback story.
By MATT TAIBBI | August 26, 2010

Breakfast of champions

Slipping into Surprise Me Mr. Davis
The Slip have been a fixture on the jam band scene for 15 years. Over the past six years, the Slip’s core members — bassist Marc Friedman, guitarist Brad Barr, and his brother Andrew behind the kit — along with pianist Marco Benevento and singer/songwriter Nathan Moore occasionally whip up a little something on the side they like to call Surprise Me Mr. Davis.
By CHRIS CONTI | April 08, 2010

Flashback: Sox Populi

A short story for opening week
The October wind plays tricks on a man when the last breeze of summer meets the first chill of winter in the stands at Fenway Park. When other teams in other parks are playing out the World Series, the air in the Fens hangs heavy.
By JAMES MCLINDON AND SCOTT BURRIS | April 27, 2009

Post-steroid baseball

Nine questions that will shape the new season
The bunting is hung. The chalk lines are laid out with Euclidian precision.
By MIKE MILIARD | April 02, 2009

Review: The Rocket that Fell to Earth

Roger Clemens's fall and rise and fall
On July 18, 1992, in a celebrated post-game meltdown at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, the pitcher formerly known as the Rocket expressed his displeasure over a column I had written.
By GEORGE KIMBALL | April 01, 2009

Annus horribilis

Balls, pucks, and Monster Trucks
It’s New Year’s, a time for reckoning. With the notable exception of the Celtics, the past twelve months were tough on my teams, starting with a huge, unforgettable disaster.
By RICK WORMWOOD | December 31, 2008

Astro naught

Sports blotter: "More trouble for the Clemens family" edition
Always a darned shame when we hear that the Clemens family has fallen on hard times.
By MATT TAIBBI | September 10, 2008

Bringing sexy back

Letters to the Boston editor, April 11, 2008
I give you serious props for listing all-time douche Roger Clemens at the number-one slot, as well as for giving Tom Cruise, Tom Brady, and other unsavories their, uh, “due.”
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | April 09, 2008

Bases very loaded

Spurred by fans’ ’roid rage, new books focus on our national pastime’s dark side. Meet baseball’s seven deadly sins.
Even as the sun rises on the new Major League Baseball season, skies are cloudy for the game we love.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 19, 2008

Pants afire

Fakeries and the faking fakers who fake them
The ratio of falsehood to truth in the universe has not, of course, altered one jot since the world began.
By JAMES PARKER | March 13, 2008

Ticket shock

Fans are paying the price for the Sox success: inside the Fenway fiasco
When NESN periodically broadcasts a historic Red Sox game during the off-season, the vast swaths of empty seats are enough to cause a sharp sense of wistfulness for many fans.
By IAN DONNIS | March 10, 2008

Dressed up for the letdown

Politics and other mistakes
I needed to get this column spiffed up, so I headed for the metaphor closet.
By AL DIAMON | January 16, 2008

The needle and the damage done

After the steroid debacle, how can America’s pastime possibly recover its dignity? By looking to the South African truth and reconciliation model.
Our country’s national pastime is a game stolen from the Brits, perfected by the Cubans, Dominicans, and Japanese, and best enjoyed while eating the cuisine of the Teutons.
By LANCE GOULD | December 21, 2007

The curly-haried boyfriend

Sports blotter: "Knight of the keyboard" edition
This is the third or fourth time I’ve seen this guy’s name attached to an arrest of a high-profile athlete.
By MATT TAIBBI | May 02, 2007

Play ball, Rhody-style

Nine innings’ worth of stuff you don’t know about Rhode Island and baseball
Baseball fans in New England view spring’s wispy introduction through a different lens.
By IAN DONNIS | April 06, 2007

32 worst lyrics of all time

The votes are in, Ms. Lavigne
The most horrific, the most god awful, the most offensively bad.
By BILL JENSEN AND RYAN STEWART | June 08, 2006

Yankee Hating 101

All you need to know about this national pastime
“Hate” is such a harsh word.
By CHRIS YOUNG | May 28, 2006

The 100 worst lyrics of all time

It's in your hands, America
"My lovely lady lumps," "She's my cherry pie," and other phrases that make you go "Ewwww."
By BILL JENSEN AND RYAN STEWART | January 28, 2010

Wild and Crispy

Yes, Damon’s departure changes the Sox, but they won’t be wanting for charisma
When Johnny Damon took a $52 million deal in December to join the New York Yankees, it cut through Red Sox Nation like a rusty knife.
By IAN DONNIS | April 11, 2006

10 sports stories that shook the world

From Ball Four to the bad trip
From Ball Four to the bad trip
By MARK JURKOWITZ | April 06, 2006

The Simpsons 20 best guest voices of all time

Will Gervais join them?
The TV gods are smiling upon us.
By RYAN STEWART | March 29, 2006

Ralph Hamilton

1946–2006
My lovable, impossible friend of more than 30 years, the artist Ralph Hamilton, died on February 19, of complications from diabetes. He was only 59. It’s a very sad loss. He was one of Boston’s most original and searching painters and had been doing some of his most ambitious and moving work.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | March 09, 2006

Caprios on the rise

Frank and David Caprio could challenge the Lynches as Rhode Island’s leading political family
Like professional athletes employing a well-worn phrase — the familiar expression about focusing on the task at hand and not looking too far ahead — brothers Frank T. Caprio and David A. Caprio strike the same muted tone in separately discussing their respective futures in public life.
By IAN DONNIS | March 02, 2006