04/01/26 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

There’s nothing wrong with our Sox that can’t be fixed by a few games at America’s Most Beloved Ballpark.
Ah. That’s how Tiger’s hitting ’em.
Mut pretending that reaction video was live is hilarious. Have you ever yelled “Trap, Trap!” at a TV screen?
I like NESN’s new score bug.
Duke fans watching the final seconds of that game must have felt a level of horror usually reserved for a manned spaceflight disaster.
If you think about it, every night should be Women In Sports Night.
Can you really get fired from a job when you worked three hours a week?
The creator of Severance definitely got the idea after listening to his wife recap her workday for two hours a night.
Will Italy take part in the Soccer NIT?
Cakes are cooking for Ali MacGraw, Robin Scott, Simon Crow, Billy Currie, Annette O’Toole, Barry Sonnenfeld, Mark White, Scott Stevens, Jumbo Elliott, Mark Jackson, Mike McCoy, Richard Christy, Magdalena Maleeva, David Gilliland, Jon Gosselin, Tangela Smith, Jean-Pierre Dumont, Bijou Phillips, Randy Orton, Hillary Scott, Mackenzie Davis, Brook Lopez, Logan Paul, and Álex Palou.
WTF happened to Lenny Dinardo? Vernon used to think he was dreamy, now he looks like an evil head of security for a nefarious corporation on a TV show.
Is there a media outlet that Andrew Raycroft doesn’t work for?
Colonoscopy went great. No polyps and don’t have to get another one for 10 years.
Just know people are staring at my weird-ass tan line at the gym right now.
Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “He’s without shame or competence.”
Ullmark with five goals against in the first after being mentally “unavailable” in the last game, but Sweeney got robbed getting Letourneau, Kastelic and Korpisalo with salary retained.
Every Grant Hill comment sounds like a generic sound bite in a video game.
Cassidy out, Torts in? Weird.
Blue Line: Delays of about 10 minutes due to an earlier signal problem at State.
Kid pulled up from the Lincoln Memorial. What a friggin’ shot!
Congratulations to Chris Boomer Berman on being named to the Disney Legends. I first met him watching Red Sox Batting Practice back in the late 80’s.
NBC does sports broadcasting the best and it isn’t even close.
Project Hail Mary renewed my faith in movies. And not just because Gosling’s character is Ryland Grace and his ship is Hail Mary. So it’s literally “Hail Mary, full of Grace.”
Why are there people clamoring to hear a Jared Carrabis podcast?
It’s not in the words that you told me, girl
It’s not in the way you say you’re mine
It’s not in the way that you came back to me
It’s not in the way that your love set me free
It’s not in the way you look or the things that you say that you do
Hold the line
Love isn’t always on time, whoa-whoa-whoa
Hold the line
Love isn’t always on time, whoa-whoa-whoa.
Is Perdue basketball legally obligated to have an ogre on their team every year?
UConn hero Braylon Mullins looks like someone who lied about being older than they are just so they could serve their country in World War I.
A: Dental dams.
TreVeyon could spend less time interpreting the Bible and more time watching defensive formations on film. Just sayin’.
Our Lady Peace still got it.
Tiger would have been fine if those stupid truck people hadn’t “slowed down” to “turn into a driveway,” Who does that!?
Honk if you remember The Great Blue Hill Volcano.
Just wait until someone reads the news to Ted Johnson!
Dual Cams. Nice for engines, less so for Twitter.
Is there a bin of discarded outfits from Dirty Water TV that Lucy changes into for Boston Has Entered the Chat?
Skenes got roughed up on Opening Day? Women weaken legs.
The Rooney Rule is really more of a Rooney Suggestion.
Triston Casas shut down? That never happens.
Best bet for the weekend: a humdinger of a game between Michigan and Arizona.

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. F-f-f-foolin’.
