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And So It Begins
How many columns do you think Shank will milk out of this Super Bowl rematch?FOXBOROUGH - Feeling 10 years younger today? You should. Your Patriots are going to the Super Bowl and it feels just like 2001-02, when the stars aligned and the Patriots were unlikely kings of the NFL.A decade ago, we had the Tuck Rule, snow angels, and a bunch of overachievers who redefined the word â...
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21 days ago
Discuss
DHL Dan XI?
It may or may not be a mailed in column, but it's fairly predictable.Tom Brady and Ray Lewis. The quarterback and the middle linebacker. Finesse and force.They are former Super Bowl MVPs, masters of their crafts, and the faces of their franchises - the New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens. Today they clash at Gillette Stadium, with the winner earning a trip to Super...
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22 days ago
Must Have Been An Open Bar
Shank attended the 73rd Baseball Writers Association of America annual meeting (Boston chapter). Shank's had a few months to calm down about the Red Sox and writes with far less venom, at least for now. He's also insistent that more money spent by the Red Sox is a good thing:After spending like Charlie Sheen on a weekend bender, the Sox suddenly are fiscally responsible in this bad...
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23 days ago
Indiana Dreaming
What's this? A rare midweek column from Shank?Go ahead and knock yourself out dissecting and analyzing Sunday’s conference championship games. Ravens vs. Patriots, followed by Giants vs. 49ers makes for a Sunday smorgasbord of playoff thrills and tension.Not me. I’ve already moved on. These potentially spectacular title games are merely compulsory exercises; games that must...
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26 days ago
Unstoppable
That's Shank, with two columns in two days!FOXBOROUGH - Route One was Easy Street. Foxborough was The Big Easy. Everybody at Gillette had that Peaceful, Easy Feeling. The game could have been dedicated to the late Easy Ed Macauley.Tebow TV ratings took a big dive.Winning their first playoff game in four years, the Patriots annihilated the Denver Broncos, 45-10, at frosty Gillette...
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29 days ago
DHL Dan X / Back On The Bandwagon
Yes indeed, we have the worst of both worlds!How does 73-0, Patriots, sound?The Belichickmen are playing the Denver Broncos tonight in the latest Game of the Millennium and everything is going New England’s way. Again.Could this be teed up any better? Could things be any easier for your New England Patriots?Of all the playoff scenarios, the Patriots got the one they wanted. No...
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January 14, 2012
Barry Larkin, Baseball HOF
Barry Larkin was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today. Here's what Shank, voting member of The Baseball Writers Association of America, had to say about it:
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January 09, 2012
That's Entertainment
A few times a year, Shank pretends to care about Boston Bruins hockey. This is one of those times.Playing the Vancouver Canucks is like playing a collection of A-Rods or a full squad of Bill Laimbeers. The defending NHL Western Conference champions are a virtual conga line of Claude Lemieuxes and Ulf Samuelssons.They are posers and floppers, arrogant and cowardly. It’s hard to...
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January 08, 2012
The Next Bill Russell?
Three days after a breakout performance from the Celtics' Greg Stiemsma, Shank gets off his lazy ass and jumps on the bandwagon with ridiculous, over-the-top praise worthy of an Al Pacino scene.Eleven days. Five games played. And already the kid is a cult hero.How long before they name the New Boston Garden after Greg Stiemsma?He’s the new Brian Scalabrine. He’s the new Greg...
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January 05, 2012
Off The Bandwagon Again
Shank's first column of 2012 is the usual offering of optimism regarding the playoff hopes of the New England Patriots:FOXBOROUGH - Maybe it’s because I’m Irish-Catholic and we always expect something bad to happen when things are going great.Maybe it’s because my folks lived through the Great Depression and taught us never to turn down work or free food - the bounty might...
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January 02, 2012
Christmas Wrapping
Shank emerges after a one week absence to write about the Celtics' first game of the year. It's a pretty good column until he interjects yet another Red Sox reference in a non-Red Sox piece:What is it about headphones and ownership guilt? When the 2011 Chicken-and-Beer Red Sox complained about playing a late-season day-night doubleheader, they were treated to a night on John...
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December 26, 2011
Dan Shaughnessy, The Ultimate Hypocrite?
Before I begin - am I being fair or unfair with this post?Dan Shaughnessy on accused child molester Jerry Sandusky (or rather, Sandusky's former connection with the Penn State football program):Penn State should cancel the rest of its football season.Now.Legendary coach Joe Paterno and school president Graham B. Spanier were fired by the Board of Trustees late Wednesday night...
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December 21, 2011
DHL Dan - IX
When we get back-to-back columns from Shank, the second one tends to be of lesser quality than the first. On that scale, Shank comes through.DENVER - Leave it to the Patriots to ruin things for everybody else.Sports fans of America yesterday turned their eyes toward this stadium one mile above sea level, hoping to see another miracle; a burning bush, a football Fatima, perhaps 80...
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December 19, 2011
Revelations
Shank turns into a holy roller for this column.DENVER - Holy cow. Holy Toledo. Holy smokes. Holy water. Holy holiday. Holy Any Given Sunday of Obligation.The rest of the column is readable, believe it or not...
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December 18, 2011
And Now For More Boston Globe Bashing - IV
Presiding over the decline of a company in a near-obsolete industry can be quite rewarding:The New York Times Company (parent company of the Boston Globe - Ed.) today abruptly announced that its 61-year-old chief executive officer, Janet Robinson, will leave at the end of the year, with no permanent successor lined up.An SEC filing says Ms. Robinson will get $4.5 million plus health...
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December 16, 2011
Busted
The things you miss when you're at a tax seminar. I wonder if this was reported in the Boston Globe?Sam Shaughnessy, who as a star outfielder in high school was the subject of father Dan's book Senior Year, then played a year of college ball at BC, was arrested last Friday in Brookline, Mass. The charges: disorderly conduct, assault and battery on a police officer, and resisting...
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December 14, 2011
Swing And A Miss
I thought I had Shank's next column pegged with the previous post. I was thinking Shank would zig when instead he zagged and instead climbed aboard the Rob Gronkowski bandwagon:LANDOVER, Md. - Twenty-two-year-old tight end Rob Gronkowski has emerged as everybody’s favorite Patriot. Sure, that guy Brady’s OK, but Gronk is the man-child who catches everything, sheds tacklers...
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December 12, 2011
Missing In Action
We've not had a column from Shank in almost a week. Here's a guess on the topic of his next epic work:Manny Ramirez has officially been reinstated from the voluntary retirement list by Major League Baseball, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney on Saturday morning. Right in his wheelhouse, wouldn't you say?
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December 10, 2011
Zero Horsepower
For those of us that watch professional football at any level of interest, Shank states the obvious: The Colts are not good this year. Shank feigns disinterest in the game, telling us he'll be taking a nap instead. As you'd expect with any half-assed Shank column, it is chock full of Shankisms, like "the immortal Dan Orlovsky" and "the immortal Kenneth “Gameday...
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December 04, 2011
Glowing Words, Indeed
Shank celebrates the arrival of Bobby Valentine as the 45th manager of the Boston Red Sox. Why is it that almost every single person reporting on this hiring has to mention he's the 45th manager? Is there something unique with the number 45 that I haven't picked up on?A straightforward recap of Valentine's career and the people involved in the decision are mentioned...
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December 02, 2011
Oh Where, Oh Where
... is the Shank column on Bobby Valentine?
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December 01, 2011
Shank's Stomping His Feet Again
My, what a petulant little whiner this guy can be...Tomorrow marks the two-month anniversary of Terry Francona’s last day on the job and still the Red Sox are without a manager.The Clarence Thomas hearings were swifter and tidier than this.Unless you're name's Clarence Thomas, you would agree. Or is this a classic non sequitur?The world champion St. Louis Cardinals needed...
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November 29, 2011
Empty Feeling
Shank goes to another high school football game and gets another decent column out of it. I like the way he just happens to find a local angle to blend into the Penn State angle. It’s always a drag when you lose the last football game of your high school career, especially when it’s Thanksgiving and they dedicate the stadium to your school’s legendary coach.This was what it...
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November 25, 2011
A Shanksgiving Tale
Even the likes of Shank realize it's in bad form to trash local sports figures such as Curt Schilling, Manny Ramirez, Jacoby Ellsbury, Claude Julien, Bill Belichick, and Red Sox management and ownership one day from Thanksgiving, so we get the annual local high school athlete column. If Jonathan DiBiaso makes it to the National Football League, he can look forward to Shank treating...
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November 23, 2011
Shank Hearts Valentine
I neglected to mention Shank's other potential column subject - Bobby Valentine is the bomb!He is married to the daughter of Ralph Branca, who threw the gopher ball to Bobby Thomson at the Polo Grounds in 1951. His first roommate in professional baseball was Bill Buckner, when the two were drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1968. He managed the Texas Rangers, who were once...
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November 22, 2011
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