Photos by Lehigh Photo Service Playing hardball in Florida with Lil Papi and the other stars of Red Sox Nation’s one-of-a-kind women’s fantasy camp The sun is overhead, so bright it’s easy to lose a baseball popped high into the sky. It’s January, but Florida January, which means I’m comfortable in just a long-sleeved T-shirt. […]
HANCOCKS, KNOCKERS, AND SHAMROCKS (A GAY BOWL DISPATCH)
Photos by Patrick Lentz Photography Friendship, inclusion, and flag football at Gay Bowl XVII Danny Tyrrell was a high school athlete who quit sports in his junior year of high school because, he says, “It was too hard to be an athlete and an out gay man in a locker room.” Tyrrell is wearing a […]
LAWMAKERS PUSH TO RENAME THE YAWKEY MBTA STATION
This short feature is a sequel to “The Yawkey Way,” which caused some controversy, raised discussions, spurred subsequent coverage, earned attention from the larger sports and journalism communities, and was ultimately recognized as a notable story in the 2017 edition of Best American Sports Writing. Tom Yawkey has long been considered by some to be a blemish […]