Steve Buckley
Sports Columnist at The Athletic
Columnist for The Athletic (@TheAthletic). Author, “Wicked Good Year.” Shopkeeper of The Oldtime Baseball Game.
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Steve Buckley
BOSTON - Plenty of meaningful skating has taken place at TD Garden this year. The groundbreaking 4 Nations Face-Off final. The Beanpot. The Hockey East tourney. The high school tourneys. The World Figure Skating Championships. What's missing from this list? You know the answer to that question: The Boston Bruins. It's been a long time since the Bruins have played much in the way of meaningful hockey, unless you count their "Centennial Game" against the Montreal Canadiens on Dec. 1.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Steve Buckley
BRIGHTON, Mass. - Hold on to your caution flags until the fifth paragraph, OK? Here goes: If their 2024-25 regular season is any indication, the Boston Celtics have an excellent chance to repeat as NBA champions. The Celtics went 61-21, which includes a 19-3 record in March-April.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Steve Buckley
News release from the New England Patriots: "A 22-person nomination committee selects Julian Edelman, Logan Mankins, and Adam Vinatieri as the 2025 Patriots Hall of Fame finalists. Patriots fans now have until April 30 to vote for the finalist most deserving of Patriots Hall of Fame induction."No disrespect to Edelman and Mankins, two great Patriots whose time will come, but why is Vinatieri even on this ballot?
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Steve Buckley
BOSTON - Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora had plenty of time to craft an appropriate message after this week's news that star outfielder Jarren Duran is only three years removed from a suicide attempt. And yet Cora surprised a lot of people - including himself - when he put it out there that Duran deserves to receive baseball's prestigious Roberto Clemente Award. "It popped into my head while I was talking," Cora told me Wednesday afternoon, sitting in the first-base dugout at Fenway Park.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Steve Buckley
BOSTON - Jarren Duran is going to get quite an ovation the next time he steps up to bat at Fenway Park. It'll be thunderous, yet somehow warm. It'll be heartfelt, but from the gut. And it'll have absolutely nothing to do with the breakout, MVP-caliber season Duran gave the Red Sox in 2024.
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Red Sox manager Alex Cora: “We always complain about the weather in April. We don’t in October.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard it put quite that way.
Red Sox’s Jarren Duran will get warm ovation his next at-bat as his struggle touches us all. Reposting my column @TheAthletic … https://t.co/aXy3IFm3BB
RT @TheAthletic: Jarren Duran speaks candidly about his mental health struggles and reveals a suicide attempt in a Netflix documentary that…
