Red Sox manager Chad Tracy on tonight’s pregame show, discussing his two catchers, presumably two grown men: “Narvy and Wonger.”

This story has officially made me a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Rest easy, 1963 Mets. Your 11-game losing streak has now been matched by the mighty 2026 squad for the second longest in team history. Next up/down is the 1962 team’s all-time mark of 17. We got this!

Shohei might throw a no-hitter tonight. It would burnish his astonishing resume, but it would come with an asterisk. It would come against the Mets. I mean, no offense, but…no offense.

The one and only Jackie Robinson in St. Augustine in 1964. share.google/z1XkL1sDwmmD...

The Great Brink’s Robbery in 1950. The theft of Mona Lisa in 1911. And this spree of three in 2026 by #JoAdell.

Never before, never again. A robbery spree for the ages www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R4Z...

MLK was assassinated 58 years ago tonight. I was only 7, but I remember that moment so vividly, so hauntingly: www.civilwriter.com

Geno/Dawn Staley post-game presser has Cheney/Calipari potential.

1972: 1) Last moon landing 2) Another technological breakthrough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiSh...

Sure sounds appetizing.

Thirty-four years later, the Christian Laettner shot has been dethroned.

The great Tofu Snafu. Talk about spilling the beans. Missouri definitely does not love company these days (or, more properly, the other way around). And the driver was in another accident 20 minutes beforehand? He's like the Tiger of Tofu. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

The shimmering possibilities when Martin met Malcolm, 63 years ago today. www.google.com/imgres?imgur... Read all about it later this year. Www.civilwriter.com

Are we headed for another Final Four showdown between the Gucci shoes of #RickPitino and the itchy shoes of #JohnCalipari? www.masslive.com/sports/2012/...

Apologies are a sign of strength, not weakness. They acknowledge that we all screw up—being humans and all. They show accountability and a genuine desire to improve. These are the top two headlines on ESPN.com right now.

“Spiderman robbing Superman”—great call!

Which nation is winning the #WorldBaseballClassic? Red Sox Nation.

TJ Power goes for 44 in the Ivy League championship. What a story! The Hollywood name. The innocence and purity of Ivy League sports. Except…played at Duke. Played at Virginia. Ah, the transfer portal. Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. www.espn.com/mens-college...

This is an ICE I can get behind: particularly with my former student, Justin Felisko, providing the coverage from Milan: teamusa.usahockey.com/news_article...

The guy just gets it. In the postgame interview: "Being able to learn about the past helps you figure out what the future needs."

Let's go even farther by marking 102 years! That's the current age of both Mrs. Cora Tyson and Mrs. Barbara Vickers, two great Americans in the nation's oldest city: www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022...

Great to see Karen furthering her father's legacy. The relationship between Bill Russell and Bob Cousy is one of the great interracial connections in sports history. Hear Cousy talk about it on "Liberty, Justice, and Ball" --the podcast I did with ESPN's Kris Rhim: www.hoophall.com/about/libert...

Great to see the NBA doing this, but I am mystified to see the omission of DON BARKSDALE: www.espn.com/boston/story...

Missing from this card is DON BARKSDALE, who might have been the greatest pioneer of them all: www.espn.com/boston/story...

4/4/68. I’m 7. I see the TV report about MLK’s assassination. Indelible now, even at 65. 10/15/69. I’m 8, watching my boyhood hero, Tom Seaver, beat the Orioles in the World Series. Indelible. 3/28/70. I’m 9. Seaver wins this MLK All-Star game. Never knew it ‘til now. www.mlb.com/news/martin-...

Indeed. He loved America for all the right reasons, and challenged the country to live up to the lofty words in our founding documents.

Congrats to the Dodgers for canceling the 2027 MLB season. And thanks—we all need more time in our lives.

MLK never campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize. He would have been 97 today. Hard to believe he’s been gone since 1968.

So many who did the hard work of bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice are little known and under-appreciated. Claudette Colvin made America greater.

True, he seemed like Darth Vader through parts of this successful first year as an NFL head coach. But there is a very sensitive soul underneath that toughness, as I learned when I wrote this story in The Boston Globe almost 20 years ago: umassathletics.com/news/2006/10...

“to inspire Americans to reflect on the nation’s past, renew commitment to founding values, and imagine a brighter future together”

The first season of the #WhiteLies podcast tells Reeb’s story with such unflinching eloquence.

Dear Mr. Stearns, Fans are fans because of their hearts. It’s about emotional connection to PEOPLE they truly like. People like Edwin Díaz, Brandon Nimmo, Jose Iglesias, Harrison Bader. Were there sweeter Mets moments in recent years than Timmy Trumpet or the whole team singing “OMG”?

Without Edwin Díaz and Brandon Nimmo, the Mets are not just a lesser team—they are a less likable team.

America, at this moment in history: www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

#RosaParks earned this statue with courageous activism 70 years ago today. Pictured here in 2023 with my students from #SpringfieldCollege, she continues to inspire young folks to do the hard but necessary work of bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

Rosa Parks’ defiance turns 70 today, but it never gets old. That’s Patriotism 101: standing up (or in this case sitting down) to injustice. She made America greater.

Down another Orwellian “memory hole.”

“There is no more essential ingredient than a free, strong, and independent press to our continued success in what the Founding Fathers called our ‘noble experiment’ in self-government.” —Ronald Reagan

I’d make this one exception to the “No Kings” movement. This Nobel Peace Prize winner truly cared about the poor, the hungry, the huddled masses yearning to be free.

Drake prevails over Baker in Pats’ sweetest win of the year.

Terrible, if true. But how completely off the rails we have become to allow bets on whether a single pitch is a ball or a strike. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Watching that Drake Maye throw on the half’s final play, I have to conclude—for better or for worse—the Patriots are REALLY back.

Maybe so, but the ENERGY of so many young people getting involved does seem pretty significant.

This might have been the moment when Tom Brady decided to “clown” his dog www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVZM...

If there were a writing Game 7, this might well be the winner: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

The absolute unbridled joy on Mookie Betts’ face is an indelible image of the game at its best. But we can well imagine what the faces look like on the other side. “Losing feels worse than winning feels good.”

There will be plenty of crying in baseball.

No fiction writer. Of course. Truth always stranger.