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Borges: We’ll never know what really motivated Aaron Hernandez
When the tears spilled out of Aaron Hernandez’s eyes last Friday after being acquitted of a double homicide, you couldn’t be sure who they were for. Now we’ll never know.That’s been the only truth we...
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Borges: Failure to finish puts Brad Marchand, Bruins on the brink
Brad Marchand looked stunned when he first heard the number before finally looking up and conceding the obvious.“Yeah I didn’t know that so, yeah, it’s a good stat,’’ he said, even though it was...
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Borges: Kyle Kennedy’s story adds new layer to Aaron Hernandez saga
WORCESTER — They started off as pen pals.That’s how the jailhouse relationship between former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez and fellow inmate Kyle Kennedy started. It began at the bottom of a...
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Borges: Roger Goodell’s stand on pot is pure reefer madness
This time of year, as the NFL draft consumes everyone involved in football, league personnel spend a lot of hours watching old films. Commissioner Roger Goodell must have been doing the same thing this...
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Borges: For Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., pride on the line in bout with Canelo...
LAS VEGAS — There is no sporting tradition more deeply embedded in the soul of Mexico than boxing. It is a country created by warriors and sustained by them today inside the most dangerous piece of...
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Borges: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has more than height to his advantage against...
LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez is literally facing the biggest challenge of his career tonight. Whether it will be his toughest is debatable.When Alvarez steps into the ring at T-Mobile Arena to face...
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Borges: Canelo Alvarez pummels Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in lopsided Las Vegas bout
LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez never really hurt Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. last night but he never let him into what became a decisive boxing lesson at the T-Mobile Arena either.For nearly all of what became...
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Borges: Canelo Alvarez fight with Gennady Golovkin could be the real main event
LAS VEGAS — The fight was not the climax, it was the preliminary bout. Considering how lopsided the former was Saturday night, having another main event in the wings after the one just concluded was a...
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Borges: Brain damage to Nick Buoniconti hits home after a life of football
The list grows and so does the sadness. One wonders if it will ever end.One fears it will not.In the May 15 issue of Sports Illustrated, S.L. Price pens a moving piece about another fallen NFL warrior,...
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Borges: In LeBron James, Celtics meet an all-time great at his height
There’s a reason this is the seventh straight year LeBron James’ team has been to the Eastern Conference finals that begin tonight at the Garden.The reason is LeBron James.The Celtics may be the No. 1...
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Borges: King James, Cavaliers rule Garden court by royal decree
Well that didn’t take long.Any lingering doubts that “anything can happen” in the Eastern Conference finals came to a crashing end by halftime of Game 1 last night when the Cleveland LeBrons took a...
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Borges: Conor McGregor vs. Mayweather Jr. all about the business
Why would Floyd Mayweather Jr. risk becoming the object of an unexpected but possible rear-naked choke hold? And why would the potential deliverer of such a hold, the UFC’s Conor McGregor, risk...
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Borges: Off or on a golf course, life continues to handcuff Tiger Woods
Subtitle: Arrested development adds to woesA week ago, Tiger Woods, or somebody working for Tiger Woods, wrote on his blog that “I haven’t felt this good in years.” In the dark hours of Monday morning,...
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Boxing notes: Jolted Kovalev is fighting mad, cites animosity for Ward in...
In two weeks, former unified light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev will get his wish. He will have the opportunity to avenge his hotly and highly disputed points loss to Andre Ward. Frankly though,...
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Borges: Golden State Warriors need to win Finals before they wear crown
If the Golden State Warriors are interested in winning their second NBA title in three years, they would be wise to cease concerning themselves with the 2001 Los Angeles Lakers.The portions of the...
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Borges: Sergio Garcia will give Grand Slam pursuit his best shot
ERIN, Wis. — Sergio Garcia laughed at the suggestion yesterday but agreeably embraced it as a simple fact of his golfing life at the moment. He is the only one left. So be it.Left to do what, you may...
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Borges: Five to watch at the U.S. Open
The U.S. Open begins today at Erin Hills Golf Course in Erin, Wisc. It is the first time the tournament will be played at the course, which opened in 2006. The par-72, 7,741-yard track is the longest...
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Borges: Keegan Bradley’s struggles qualify him as a battler
ERIN, Wis. — Keegan Bradley could feel it. He was on the razor’s edge. He felt alive.As he walked toward the 18th green of Brookside Golf and Country Club on June 5 in Columbus, Ohio, Bradley knew he...
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Borges: Justin Thomas moves way up on Moving Day with historic 9-under 63
ERIN, Wis. — Late Friday afternoon Justin Thomas pondered his predicament at the 117th U.S. Open. He was 5 shots back with a bus load of players between him and the top of the leaderboard, so he knew...
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Borges: Keegan Bradley controls emotions, then shoots into contention at...
CROMWELL, Conn. — Chad Reynolds glanced over at Keegan Bradley yesterday on the fourth hole at TPC River Highlands and knew what he was seeing. It was Mount Vesuvius rising.If Bradley has one weak...
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