Sunday Notebooks

POSTED: 3:03 AM May 3, 2020

Topics include: Kyle Dugger, Damien Harris & Belichick's history; not taking a receiver and making the offense wait; overpaying for Dalton Keene; and the over-reliance on Michigan players and the...

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NHL Notebook: Maine’s coaching staff breaks down Jeremy Swayman’s development into one of hockey’s top goalie prospects

POSTED: 12:22 AM May 3, 2020

In his three-plus decades of coaching, Red Gendron has just about seen it all. At the high-school level, Gendron coached future NHL All-Star John LeClair for three seasons at Bellows...

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MLB Notebook: Pandemic will be a factor at negotiating table; replay to take hiatus?

POSTED: 5:32 PM May 2, 2020

In many ways, there’s a great deal that we don’t know about the immediate future of pro sports, and baseball in particular. What will the quality of play be like...

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NBA Notebook: Revisiting Rick Pitino’s Celtics beating the ‘Last Dance’ Bulls on opening night

POSTED: 3:11 PM April 26, 2020

The next two episodes of the 10-part ‘Last Dance’ documentary chronicling the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls will return tonight on ESPN (9 p.m. ET) after a successful start to the series...

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NHL Notebook: Cam Neely talks regional sites, potential ramp-up schedules & more

POSTED: 12:34 AM April 26, 2020

As the NHL continues to mull over the fate of the 2019-20 season, Bruins president Cam Neely spoke with season-ticket holders and media members via a virtual town hall on Thursday evening...

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MLB Notebook: Winners and Losers from 2018 sign-stealing; a look at best trades in Red Sox history

POSTED: 12:30 AM April 26, 2020

It took better than three months for Major League Baseball to conclude its investigation into the Red Sox’ sign-stealing from 2018. It took only minutes before the second-guessing of the...

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NBA Notebook: How will Jalen Green’s decision to skip college for G-League impact future top prospects?

POSTED: 5:01 PM April 19, 2020

There is plenty of meaningful change on the way for top NBA prospects in the next decade, but the NBA G-League took a strong first step towards appealing to top...

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NHL Notebook: Could compliance buyouts give Bruins some breathing room with uncertain cap situation?

POSTED: 7:00 AM April 19, 2020

It’s been over a month (37 days to be specific, but who’s really counting at this point?) since the NHL closed up shop amid the COVID-19 pandemic — and the...

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Best of BSJ Free Preview

NFL Notebook: Matt Peart to be Governor’s Academy own ‘Blind Side’ NFL draft story

POSTED: 5:36 PM April 18, 2020

Eight years ago, Peart had yet to play football after entering The Governor's Academy in Byfield on the North Shore as a top basketball prospect. Come Friday or Saturday, he'll...

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MLB Notebook: With no games this spring, Red Sox prepare for a draft like no other

POSTED: 1:39 PM April 18, 2020

The months of April and May are traditionally some of the busiest for the baseball scouting community. It’s the time to travel to tournaments, a chance to get another look...

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NBA Notebook: Gordon Hayward reveals the one positive for Celtics from long layoff

POSTED: 5:00 PM April 12, 2020

Before the NBA season was suspended due to coronavirus, the Celtics projected starting five (Kemba/Brown/Hayward/Tatum/Theis) started just 16 games together over 64 regular-season contests. Outside of Daniel Theis and Jayson...

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MLB Notebook: How the post-virus economy will affect ticket prices, long-term contracts and labor agreements

POSTED: 11:54 AM April 12, 2020

Given the number of trial balloons floated in the last few weeks — one plan involving the 2020 season being conducted in Arizona only; another with teams using their spring...

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NHL Notebook: Why a flat salary cap could do even more damage to Bruins’ top foes, Sweeney talks next steps for 2019-20 season

POSTED: 10:29 PM April 11, 2020

In a perfect world, the Bruins shouldn’t have had to worry all that much about a cap crunch this season. After all, Don Sweeney and the Bruins have pulled the...

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Patriots

NFL Notebook: Like Brett Favre before him, Tom Brady likely needed to leave to have successful final act

POSTED: 3:25 PM April 10, 2020

I've come around to believe that it was the right decision for Brady to leave. Not for the fans or the Patriots, for Brady. It really didn't hit home for...

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NBA Notebook: Re-living the 9 most memorable Kevin Garnett moments in Boston for the newly elected Hall of Famer

POSTED: 3:00 PM April 5, 2020

Kevin Garnett joined perhaps one of the most star-studded Hall of Fame classes in basketball history, joining Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan as the headliners of the Naismith Memorial Basketball...

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NHL Notebook: 33 years later, the Cam Neely trade is miraculously still paying off for the Bruins

POSTED: 11:35 AM April 5, 2020

When a GM finally opts to pull the trigger on a trade, there’s primarily two motivating factors at play — the short-term boost or the long-term retool. Boston has seen...

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MLB Notebook: Red Sox pitching coach Dave Bush trying to keep pitchers ready from afar

POSTED: 5:16 PM April 4, 2020

Under more ordinary circumstances, Dave Bush would be a week and a half into his first season as Red Sox pitching coach — studying scouting reports, conducting meetings, producing game...

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NFL DRAFT

NFL Notebook: Two good edge options should be there for Patriots at No. 23

POSTED: 2:50 PM April 4, 2020

Now that free agency has sufficiently concluded, it’s time to go heavy into the draft. Following up our first mock draft from about a month ago, we’ve had some shakeups...

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NBA Notebook: How a reduced salary cap in 2020-21 could change the Celtics offseason plans