| Boston Red Sox News: |
| Still a few spots before their eyes |
| With just more than a month remaining before the Red Sox begin to head to Fort Myers, Fla., (reporting date for pitchers and catchers is Feb. 12), they still find themselves with the same holes they had at the start of free agency. Though they did add a backup catcher ( Josh Bard) and a new competitor for the utility ... |
| Roger Shea, man behind scenes of Boston sports |
| From 1957 to 1972, Roger Shea was the man behind the scenes as director of televised Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins games, including nine seasons at WHDH doing Red Sox broadcasts. Wearing two headsets and working in a mobile van, he guided his crew of technicians and cameramen while staying in constant touch with his announcers, letting them know which camera angle was about to be utilized. |
| Penny ante |
| A year ago, Brad Penny was coming off the best season of his career, one that landed him third place in the Cy Young Award voting, and an Opening Day start for a Dodgers team that would go on to the postseason. He had a likely $9.25 million payday coming, as long as Los Angeles picked up his option for ... |
| Sox' Bard relishes chance to redeem himself |
| When Theo Epstein discussed the Red Sox' catching situation with Josh Bard this offseason, with an eye to potentially reacquiring the catcher as a foil for Tim Wakefield's knuckleball, there was a key question the general manager had to ask: What happened? |
| Red Sox, C Josh Bard agree to 1-year deal |
| Josh Bard is getting another chance to catch on with the Boston Red Sox. Bard agreed to a non-guaranteed, one-year contract with Boston, giving the Red Sox additional depth behind the plate. The deal announced Friday includes a club option for 2010. |
| Red Sox, C Josh Bard agree to 1-year deal |
| Josh Bard is getting another chance to catch on with the Boston Red Sox. Bard agreed to a non-guaranteed, one-year contract with Boston, giving the Red Sox additional depth behind the plate. The deal announced Friday includes a club option for 2010. |
| Winter wonderings |
| It's with a heavy heart that I bring you this edition of the mailbag. While you're all worried about the state of the Red Sox offense and the team's inability to sign Mark Teixeira -- though I know the Josh Bard deal gets your blood pumping -- I'm still in deep mourning over the way the Alamo Bowl ended. Northwestern ... |
| Shaping up as the winter of our content |
| They have given us our wintah back. We basically slogged through the first decade of the 21st century without a professional wintah sports season, and who needed it? We had baseball from "Pitchers and Catchers" in the middle of February till, usually, well into October, at which point we'd be six weeks into the NFL season and our newfound loves, ... |
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