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Nava Using Tickets To Woo Erin Andrews
For most athletes, celebrity status and riches are enough to land any woman they may desire. But for a Major League Baseball rookie just days into his career, celebrity and riches aren’t the tools at his disposal quite yet. Daniel Nava made headlines when he hit a grand slam last Saturday for the Boston Red [...]
Sox Build Off Interleague Success In Fenway Against The Diamondbacks
On what was a perfect night for baseball, Fenway park sold out for the 586th game in a row despite the temptation for Boston fans to stay home and watch the Celtics close out the NBA finals. The Red Sox are currently in the midst of a 15 game stretch of inter-league matchups, and kicked [...]
Sports Rundown- Talkin’ Red Sox with the ProJo’s Dan Barbarisi
On this week’s Sports Rundown, we check in with Providence Journal Red Sox beat writer Dan Barbarisi to talk all things Red Sox, including:
a. The keys to the recent success of the team and what that success means in the larger picture of the season
b. The resurgence of David Ortiz
c. The MVP candidate that is [...]
Lars Anderson: Turning a Corner in 2010
Earlier today, Lars Anderson got a call up from the Red Sox Double-A affiliate in Portland to the Pawtucket Red Sox. WBRU Sports caught up with Anderson in spring training. The story is reprinted below.
Coming into the 2009 season, there was nobody in the Red Sox farm system who was more watched, more analyzed, and [...]
Sports Rundown- Red Sox need to play catchup, Bruins try to finish the upset, Olympian gets busted for natural male enhancement
1. The Red Sox have fallen into an early hole this season, getting swept in a 4 game series by the Tampa Bay Rays at home. Is it too early to start panicking?
2. Which players have been picking up the slack for the Sox so far?
3. David Ortiz vs. Mike Lowell. Who should start at [...]
Red Sox walk-off for second straight night, defeat Texas Rangers 8-7
Safe to say that productivity in New England tomorrow will be steadily on the downside. A dramatic walk-off double OT Bruins victory on Causeway Street was followed immediately by a walk-off double by Kevin Youkilis in the bottom of the 12th inning, the second walk-off victory for the Red Sox in as many games. For [...]
David Ortiz’s slow start and what the Red Sox should do about it
David Ortiz is off to another disappointing start this season, hitting 5-29 (.172 AVG) with a whopping 15 strikeouts, the most in baseball to go along with an outrageous 47% strikeout percentage. The average strikeout rate is 17%. Many writers have called for him to take a seat and have peppered him with questions about [...]
Sports Rundown: Red Sox start shakily, Bruins gearing up for the playoffs and a stickbeating in Slovenia
On this week’s edition of the Sports Rundown:
1. J-Load and Gabe discuss the Red Sox; what can we take from their first series of the season against the Yankees?
2. What can we expect from the Bruins should they make the playoffs?
3. What happens when you combine angry hockey players, a weak head coach and hockey [...]
The Greatest Boston Red Sox Video…Ever
“I’m sick and tired hearin’ about what a great baseball team the Yankees have! SCREW ‘EM!”
On a day marking the beginning of the Red Sox journey back to the top, Boston fans all knew that the Sox had to start the 2010 season off with a bang. Especially if they wanted to dethrone the defending [...]
WBRU Sports Exclusive Interview: Jonah Keri of BloombergSports.com
Jonah Keri is the lead baseball analyst for Bloomberg Sports and works as a journalist in the fields of sports and the stock market. He is also a regular contributor to ESPN.com and has written for a number of sports-related and non-sports-related publications, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Baseball Prospectus, Baseball [...]
