Chad Finn

1 day ago | bostonglobe.com | Chad Finn |Christopher L. Gasper |Christopher Price |Dan Shaughnessy |Tara Sullivan |Ben Volin | +1 more

We asked the Globe’s football cognoscenti to weigh in on what the Patriots should do and predict what they will do when they are on the clock with the No. 4 pick in Thursday night’s NFL Draft. What the Patriots should do: Pounce if the Giants do something stupid. It appears as though the Giants will do the obvious and take Penn State edge-rushing maniac Abdul Carter at No. 3, presuming Cam Ward and Travis Hunter go 1-2.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Chad Finn

The closer we get to the NFL Draft, the clearer it becomes that the Patriots’ win over the Bills to end the 2024 regular season was a kick-in-the-pants loss in the long run. Some of us — ahem — recognized that at the time, with the Joe Milton-led 23-16 victory over the Buffalo junior varsity dropping the Patriots from the first overall pick to the fourth in the 2025 draft.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Chad Finn

Drew Carter was about to embark on one of the great traditions in Boston sports when the inspiration struck him to participate in another. Carter, the Celtics’ play-by-play voice on NBC Sports Boston, is running the Boston Marathon to benefit the Shamrock Foundation, a Celtics program designed to support children in need.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Chad Finn

Just a pair of afterthoughts versus the Hornets remain in the Celtics’ 82-game warm-up act before they join the Thunder, Cavaliers, and, at least according to ESPN, the Lakers as the headliners on the NBA’s postseason stage.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Chad Finn

I caught up with Greg Whiteley, the four-time Emmy Award-winning director of the project, for a Q&A to include if he anticipated such candor, and other for other takeaways from a year spent with the Red Sox. Q. One of the realities that I think will stun people when they watch this is how the players are their own worst detractors, and how the pressures can affect their frame of mind. We see players like Duran, Triston Casas, and Brayan Bello beating themselves up constantly.