03/18/26 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Hockey jerseys no contain magic?
I love how Jim Nantz every year has to go from March Madness to The Masters two days later.
The Red Sox players performing well in the WBC is a positive sign for the season to come, right?
Upton Bell’s Father Bert Bell who founded the Philadelphia Eagles wanted Green from the very beginning.
Would totally watch a “Swingers”-style comedy starring Andy Wong, JStew, Sarge, and that other charmless slob.
Alex Caruso would be a beloved Celtic. I really believe that.
I’ve deleted a post incorrectly identifying who was suspended today. It was Johan Rojas of the Philadelphia Phillies who was suspended.
News Item: Bryce Huff announced that he is starting a company called Neighborstone, which will build safety infrastructure to help with fire risk on lithium-ion batteries.
I guess I’ll root for whichever team from a Massachusetts college or university made it into the Tournament.
Cakes are cooking for Carl Gottlieb, Drew Struzan, Brad Dourif, Rick Martel, Irene Cara, Luc Besson, James McMurtry, Bonnie Blair, Jerry Cantrell, Queen Latifah, Adam Levine, Chad Cordero, Lily Collins, and J.T. Realmuto.
Good to have an old-school Twitter night on tap (hopefully). #Oscars
I’m so damn proud of our gold medal winning sled hockey team. I hope someday to learn what their names are.
Åberg? Å no!
Meal prep, bro. Nothing like planning to essentially eat leftovers every day.
Sorry if I missed your tags today. I’m a little laid up w my back.
AI coach already telling me to tone down my weightlifting 10 days out from 20-mile race. This is the robot trying to weaken the man in order to take over the world. Cannot be fooled.
The winner of the WBC should face the winner of the NBA Cup.
Food cleanse includes booze? WTF.
I’m pretty sure there were entire months where the Revs didn’t score 6 total goals. Good job.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s good practice to keep your cream out of the refrigerator during coffee drinking hours; they don’t call it “table cream” for nothin’.
Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Playing in the NFL is pretty cool, but ya know what’s *really* cool? Preventing lithium battery fires.”
I watched “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare” last night on HBO and I can’t remember the last time a documentary brought me to tears that much.
Blue Line: Delays of about 10 minutes while a maintenance train inspects the overhead wires between Airport and Wonderland. Trains may stand by at stations.
The black dog and the wandering boy
Come around every night.
The wandering boy never gets any older
The black dog doesn’t bite.
He just sits on the floor at the corner of the bed
Watching for the things that haunt.
They oughta both go away when I take my meds:
But they don’t.
Hey, somebody lie to me
Hey, somebody lie to me.
There is no greater Lenten sacrifice than choosing a hot buttered lobster roll as your meatless Friday meal.
My lawyer laughed at “dipshit”.
Just so everyone knows: true NCAA tournament “upsets” begin at 4-13. And don’t even think about 9 over 8.
Honk if you remember the Gardner Museum heist.
Do you guys ever think about how epic Anya Taylor-Joy’s peripheral vision must be?
“Dubai Chocolate” is the weirdest psyop I’ve ever encountered.
You can tell I’m a weather enthusiast because I measure rainfall to the hundredth of an inch.
That wasn’t quite the St. Crispin’s Day speech, Aaron.
The clump of confiscated gallon containers of booze is a welcome addition to St. Patrick’s Day Parade B-roll footage.
Welcome Boston Legacy FC.
Maybe should have boiled the corned beef for another hour.
I wonder if any former Patriots player and a current Celtics player were ever guests on the Tonight Show before. Probably not.
Can’t put all your hopes into a Zacha hat trick every game.
Best bet for the weekend: Flag Football, what else?

Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Joe Giza, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Let’s dance.
