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Borges: Team Brady wins again
Subtitle: ‘Friendly’ contract pays QB big-timeAs I was saying when he signed his last contract extension, Tom Brady is not going to play quarterback for $9 million in 2016. And so he is not. Well,...
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Borges: Ballpark tobacco ban is tough to chew on
Major league players are receiving one-page written reminders this week from their union, as well as MLB management, that smokeless tobacco, aka chaw, is a banned substance in Boston, San Francisco and...
View ArticleBorges: Koji Uehara gets drop on hitters
Subtitle: Early look sets up hopeful springFORT MYERS — Sure it was just one pitch on a balmy March morning in Florida, but when you watched it tumble and then looked at the expression on the face of a...
View ArticleBorges: Don't worry, David Price will make it right
Subtitle: That’s how Sox new ace gets best resultsFORT MYERS — If you are the kind of person who grows alarmed at the first sign of trouble (which would make you your average Red Sox fan), David Price...
View ArticleBorges: Clay Buchholz aiming to stay healthy
Subtitle: Delivery tinkering a sign of his desireFORT MYERS — Clay Buchholz has been a prisoner of expectations ever since he threw a no-hitter in his second major league start. This spring, that...
View ArticleBorges: More or less, Barry Bonds still an enigma
FORT MYERS — The first thing you notice is that he’s harder to notice.As baseball’s all-time home run king stood behind the batting cage yesterday at JetBlue Park watching over the young hitters of the...
View ArticleBorges: Christian Vazquez throws hat in ring for Opening Day
FORT MYERS — Not that many people want to spend an early April afternoon in Cleveland. Heck, most people don’t want to spend a summer afternoon in Cleveland. But don’t count Christian Vazquez among...
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Borges: David Price gets taste of RedSox-Yankees rivalry
FORT MYERS — David Price got his first taste of what the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is all about last night, and it tasted good.Fans jammed JetBlue Park to boo A-Rod, hoot the Yankees, glory in the dress...
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Borges: David Ortiz explains why now is right time to retire
FORT MYERS — With one exception, the numbers argue he should stay. But the ravages of that last number, the number 40, kept speaking to David Ortiz this offseason, arguing with his body and his mind.In...
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Borges: For John Farrell, pressure to win comes from within
FORT MYERS — Although you might think otherwise, John Farrell has ears. He just doesn’t have rabbit ears.The beleaguered manager of the Red Sox hears the noise. He knows the situation he’s in, or at...
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Borges: Robert Kraft's plea for draft picks is all for show
BOCA RATON, Fla. — The truth of the matter was in the letterhead.Yesterday, Patriots owner Bob Kraft said he sent a letter a month ago to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell asking to reconsider his...
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Borges: Football a fatal attraction for Kevin Turner
Words don’t mean too much this morning, but a few do. “Goodbye” is one of them. “Wake up” are two others.My old friend Kevin Turner passed away last week at the age of 46. The cause of death was...
View ArticleBorges: Red Sox’ chances iffy at best
Subtitle: Questions outnumber answersOpening Day in Cleveland is less than a week away and the Red Sox remain what they’ve been the past four years: a question mark in crimson hose. They could be this...
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Borges: Claude Julien not to blame for Bruins collapse
If the Bruins’ skid continues and they miss the playoffs for the second straight season, there will be plenty of people to blame for their demise. Claude Julien isn’t one of them.Few coaches survive...
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Borges: In David Ortiz vs. Ted Williams, the edge goes to Ted
For the majority of Red Sox fans, Ted Williams stands alone. He is not only the greatest hitter in team history, he is arguably the greatest hitter who ever lived. It is a goal he once set for himself,...
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Borges: Here's a thought - to keep jobs, Red Sox must do their jobs
More than any other sport, baseball always has been a game of numbers. It still is but what numbers are important seems to have shifted, although last week a most unlikely team went old school,...
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Borges: Masters week rolls on, even without Tiger Woods
Today the azaleas and dogwood are in bloom. Just not around here.Here, the blooming snowblower resurfaced for one last hurrah. In New England, it’s “a tradition like no other,” just like the...
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Borges: Jordan Spieth has new link to Arnold Palmer
Even in defeat Sunday, Jordan Spieth joined some rarefied company. Good or ill, it seems his destiny.He did not become the first man in the 156-year history of major championship golf to win the same...
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Borges: Patriots' gamble on Dominique Easley a total breakdown
Subtitle: Legs, not heart, doom careerNot everybody is made to play professional football. Dominique Easley is only the latest to learn this sad fact of athletic life.A No. 1 pick just two years ago,...
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Borges: Bobbi Gibb, the Boston Marathon pioneer 50 years later
Thank goodness for the blooming forsythia bush. If there hadn’t been one in Hopkinton center 50 years ago this weekend who knows what would have happened to Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon?It was...
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