Joe Pace
New England Sports 366, #22: Dick Umile
Do I wish the Wildcats had managed one more goal in Anaheim in 1999? Of course I do. A national championship would have been a fitting...
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Joe Pace
Jan 21, 2020
New England Sports 366, #21: Rudy Pemberton
Rudy Pemberton is not particularly memorable, and yet for a few weeks he was a monster. He was a mediocre minor league outfielder in the...
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Joe Pace
Jan 20, 2020
New England Sports 366, #20: Bill Russell
Bill Russell is the greatest winner in the history of team sports. These are the facts of the case, and they are not in dispute....
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Joe Pace
Jan 19, 2020
New England Sports 366, #19: Mike Vrabel
So many postseason memories of this guy. And yet the earliest and latest memories are unpleasant. My first awareness of Mike Vrabel is...
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Jan 18, 2020
New England Sports 366, #18: Dwight Evans
Dewey belongs in the Hall of Fame. This is the way. I could go all sabermetrics here and bury you with numbers. Talk about how Evans was...
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Jan 17, 2020
New England Sports 366, #17: Walter McCarty
I wanted to lead this profile with “I. Love. Waltah!” And I do. Or I did, I guess, back in the late nineties and early aughts when he was...
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Joe Pace
Jan 16, 2020
New England Sports 366, #16: Sam Gash
I feel like writing about a fullback today. I was one myself, back in the day, a block-first, fourth-and-one pop-6 kind of guy. So I was...
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Joe Pace
Jan 15, 2020
New England Sports 366, #15: Joe Morgan
As we consider the uncertain future of the Red Sox managerial situation, I find myself thinking of one of our favorite Sox skippers...
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Joe Pace
Jan 14, 2020
New England Sports 366, #14: Robert Parish
The Celtics of the 1980s had the original Big Three, and when asked to name them, it's almost always recited as Bird, McHale, and Parish....
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Jan 13, 2020
New England Sports 366, #13: Aly Raisman
Simone Biles might be the greatest American gymnast - maybe the greatest gymnast in the history of the sport. But she's from Ohio and...
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Jan 12, 2020
New England Sports 366, #12: Marv Cook
Before Gronk, before Ben Coates, there was, briefly, Marv Cook. The Patriots drafted Cook in the third round out of Iowa in 1989. In 1991...
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Jan 11, 2020
New England Sports 366, #11: Adam Oates
When I was in high school and college, the Bruins were pretty good. They made the Stanley Cup Finals in 1990 (my freshman year at...
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