Sunday Notebooks

NBA Notebook: Eight opening thoughts on Celtics-Heat showdown

POSTED: 11:19 AM September 13, 2020

The Celtics and Heat are scheduled to start Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Tuesday night (official time TBA), which will allow the Celtics to grab three days...

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NFL Notebook: Ranking the Patriots’ roster from season killers, to players on scholarship; Plus, 5 reasons to believe

POSTED: 7:48 AM September 13, 2020

Let’s start our final season preview push with a study of the Patriots going right to the crux of the matter: ranking all 57 players in order by order of...

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NHL Notebook: A looming expansion draft could throw a wrench in Bruins’ ambitious offseason plans

POSTED: 10:48 PM September 12, 2020

Let’s go down the list, shall we? A closing title window? Check. An aging core in need of some reinforcements? Check. Assets at the ready? Check. Despite Cam Neely‘s words of caution when it...

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MLB Notebook: Some Red Sox questions still searching for answers in final two weeks

POSTED: 10:47 PM September 12, 2020

Two weeks remain in the worst Red Sox season in modern history. The losses matter less and less every day. Thirty….Thirty-one…..Does is matter anymore? For more than a month, it’s...

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NBA Notebook: Three ways for the Celtics offense to get on track against Raptors

POSTED: 1:23 PM September 6, 2020

Let’s start here with an obvious statement that became highlighted in Game 4 of Celtics-Raptors: The Celtics offense misses Gordon Hayward a great deal. Six straight wins and some hot...

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MLB Notebook: Red Sox leaving the AL East to others; Casas studying up

POSTED: 9:29 PM September 5, 2020

As you may have noticed, the Red Sox aren’t much of a factor in the American League East. Entering Saturday’s play, they were lodged in the division basement, 14.5 games...

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NHL Notebook: How Bruce Cassidy plans on sparking Bruins’ lagging 5v5 offense in 2021

POSTED: 5:11 PM September 5, 2020

The Bruins’ roster might look pretty different by the time the 2020-21 season commences, but the same (hopefully) won’t be said about Boston’s coaching staff. Speaking during his annual end-of-season...

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NFL Notebook: Cam Newton better bring more than energy to this Patriots team & more roster thoughts

POSTED: 6:00 AM September 5, 2020

A big storyline during this Patriots training camp: What kind of energy is Cam Newton bringing to the Patriots? Since when did the predominant talking point about a player —...

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NHL Notebook: Failure to go all in at deadline could have cost Bruins another deep Cup run

POSTED: 2:58 PM August 30, 2020

Well, time to come clean. By the time the dust settled following the NHL trade deadline back in February, I handed out some high praise for the Bruins, who managed...

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MLB Notebook: Baseball’s on-field diversity problem more apparent this week than ever; Groome bides his time

POSTED: 12:24 PM August 30, 2020

This past week has seen upheaval in the country and plenty of introspection in the game of baseball. As baseball preaches about the importance of diversity, it must also question...

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NFL Notebook: Patriots Road to 53, v. 20.04 – Receiver is a conundrum

POSTED: 11:05 PM August 29, 2020

With one more Patriots training camp practice open to the media on Sunday (yes, I'll be there), let's take another look at where we think the Patriots' roster shapes up...

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NBA Notebook: 8 questions that could determine Celtics-Raptors, plus a pick

POSTED: 8:53 PM August 29, 2020

The Celtics and Raptors are set to face off in the most anticipated series of the second round. We’ve broken down a number of matchups between both teams this week...

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NBA Notebook: Dissecting the impact of draft lottery results for Celtics

POSTED: 11:15 AM August 23, 2020

When exactly the NBA Draft will take place in 2020 is up in the air after multiple reports from ESPN.com this week that indicates the start of the next season...

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MLB Notebook: Putting this lousy Red Sox season into some historical perspective

POSTED: 10:10 PM August 22, 2020

News flash: Yup, they’re bad. Really, really bad. Next-to worst record-in-the-American-League bad. Just-gave-up-an-average-of-more-than-nine-runs-per-game bad. Would-have-to-play-.well-over-.600-ball-the-rest-of-the-way-just-to-finish-at-.500 bad. There’s no getting around: these 2020 Red Sox are really, really bad. When they...

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NHL Notebook: 10 questions that could determine Bruins-Lightning, plus a prediction

POSTED: 3:32 PM August 22, 2020

With the second round of the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs set to begin soon, here is a look at 10 questions that could decide this best-of-seven series between the Bruins...

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NFL Notebook: Despite how it looks, Patriots’ offense on different but confident path for 2020

POSTED: 3:20 PM August 22, 2020

If you look closely and put practice events in their proper context, there's some really good stuff brewing for this Patriots offense that will be more apparent in the games...

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NFL Notebook: What’s about to happen at Patriots camp, and pre-camp reads on battles

POSTED: 1:25 PM August 16, 2020

These are the things I’ll be looking for starting Monday — spots are limited with the NFL's tight Covid-19 restrictions and I'm not sure how often BSJ will be allowed...

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NHL Notebook: Why Bruins can still go far with Jaroslav Halak & other impressions through 3 games against Carolina

POSTED: 10:17 AM August 16, 2020

The Bruins have only taken part in three legitimate playoff matchups so far up in Toronto and … well, a whole lot has gone down since their first-round series against...

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NBA Notebook: Seven bubble thoughts and scouting the Sixers defense