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...credit, Tom still offers his immensely popular Wine Seminar every spring. He’s also a regular staple of Stein Clubs, where his conversation vacillates between sophisticated chatter about fine wine and French films to impassioned rants on his fierce, if somewhat contradictory allegiances to the Boston Red Sox and New York Giants. Verena plays his quieter counterpart, welcoming freshmen like sheep into the fold and secretly accumulating information about everyone in the house so she can strike up conversation at the drop...
Frances R. Cardullo—the owner of Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe whose passion for food, travel, and the Red Sox made her an icon in Harvard Square—died last Wednesday at the age of 68. Born in Winchester, Mass., Cardullo—who underwent a gender reassignment surgery recently and identified as female—grew up in Cambridge and attended Tufts University. She earned a flying license at an early age and worked as a contract pilot for two decades before returning to take over the store, which had been founded by her father...
Thankfully, A-Rod has chosen to take the contrite and honest road in reaction to the allegations. Although the pinstripes he wears may prevent him from ever being a fan favorite in Red Sox Nation, through his openness and regret, he still has the chance to salvage his legacy. Now Major League Baseball must demonstrate similar accountability if it hopes to save...
...thing, but this game didn’t even deserve to be called a blowout: it was humiliation, pure and simple. In a country where bad sportsmanship in professional sports is not only prevalent but enjoyed by spectators—see any bench-clearing brawl between the Red Sox and Yankees for proof—the story of this episode of unthinkable athletic proportions swept throughout the country in a matter of days with outrage as opposed to pleasure. Local newspapers, national news networks, and bloggers everywhere were quick to pick up the story, and it even managed to dominate...
...occupied spots on the boards of the Walt Disney Co., Xerox and the Boston Red Sox, among other prominent corporations...