Dan Shaughnessy

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

Picked-up pieces while thinking hard about the Celtics, Red Sox, Patriots, and Bruins . . . ⋅ When all four of our main professional sports teams are good, this can be the best time of the year. Remember those April/May/June springs when the Celtics and Bruins were deep into the playoffs, the star-studded, big-market Red Sox were jousting with the Evil Empire, and the Tom Brady Patriots were reloading at draft time, bound for yet another AFC Championship showdown with the Colts, Steelers or Ravens?

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

Sorry if I can’t get all lathered up about this Celtics-Magic first-round playoff matchup. I mean, it was good to see the Celtics win (103-86) — the NBA requires Boston win 15 more games between now and mid-June to earn back-to-back championships — and I know they have to play somebody, but if this isn’t a four-game sweep, Adam Silver should put Ted Wells on the case. It’s not that the Magic are bad. They are professional basketball players and they won half their games this year.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

No. The only Celtics teams to win consecutive championships were the Bill Russell-led teams of the 1960s. Put it this way: When I walked into first grade at Groton Elementary School in September 1959, the Boston Celtics were defending NBA champs. I was a freshman in high school by the time I started classes in a September in which the Celtics were not defending champs. That’s right, ladies and gents. The Russell-Red Auerbach Celtics won eight consecutive championships from 1959-66.

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

What’s up Red Sox? I had faith. After ripping the Sox for five seasons, I took the cheese this spring. Spent nine days in Fort Myers, madly applauded the Alex Bregman signing, felt good about ownership getting back in the winning business, and picked these goofy guys to finish in first place in the American League East. Now this. My bad. I trusted them. I bleeped up.