Sports

Both sides knew even back at last year's All-Star game that this was coming. Everyone knew it, and no one did a thing about it.

One of last season's Super Bowl game participants should make a repeat appearance in February. The other? Not so much.

In a game that is a metaphor for war and is played for keeps, how do we stop a culture of violence, no matter how regulated we may want it to be?

I am picking the NY Giants to be repeat champions in 2013, and the salient reason for this choice is Eli Manning.

Hemingway said only heavy lifting was harder work than writing, so let us consider sportswriting the heavy lifting.

Now out of playoff contention, the Red Sox are finally starting to clean house, and did so today with an unbelievably big trade.

As Armstrong finally accepts his fate, we can only hang our heads in shame because of him and the other American sports figures who cheated or have done wrong.

Melky Cabrera is the latest in a long line of baseball players who thought he could get around the rules.

With nothing riding on this season, the Mets should approach Santana and ask him to go quietly into that good night.

Red Sox play is overall worse, not better under Bobby Valentine than it was under Terry Francona, but a change is not a-coming, unfortunately.