Catching up following a recent sojourn to Jamaica…
I like the new formatting for the Boston Globe sports articles. It’s a nice, clean, easy to read look. In a time when web pages are cramming as much as possible onto a page, it’s nice to be able to see something like this.
HOW BOSTON CAUGHT ARIAN FOSTER FEVER – I enjoyed this piece from Tom E Curran for how he exposed that certain writers allow themselves to be used to carry water for agents. In this case Jason Cole.
Similarly, Mike Reiss gets props for calling out the hypocrisy of the media over the Baltimore Ravens being investigated for a full pads minicamp:
Contrast that with Peter King, who, on the very same subject wrote:
Now this is downright strange. The NFL is investigating the by-the-book Ravens for violating one of the simplest and clearest rules in the collective bargaining agreement: practicing in pads during their rookie minicamp.
The “by-the-book” Ravens, who were previously penalized for something very similar. Got it. Pete doesn’t think this is a big deal, no draft picks will be taken, just a stern talking to should do it.
Kevin Paul Dupont is a Twitter coward and an unabashed troll, but his Saturday piece on CSNNE’s Trenni Kusnierek and her battles with anxiety and depression is definitely worth a read.
Some solid thoughts from Chad Finn on the revamped NESN Red Sox broadcasts. It’s hard to tell if they’re more enjoyable because of the talent or because the team looks like it might not finish in last place this year.
How’d you like to work in NFL PR these days? The league is in a protracted battle with the greatest quarterback it has ever had – over nothing – and got blasted by Former US solicitor general Theodore Olson who is part of Tom Brady’s legal team in a brief filed yesterday, which opens:
“This case arises from an arbitration ruling by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that undermines the rights and expectations of parties to collective bargaining agreements, and runs roughshod over the rule of law.”
Also yesterday, a Congressional study found that the NFL tried to influence a government concussion research overseen by the National Institutes of Health.
But you can be sure of one thing, all NFL owners, especially Robert Kraft, are going to say that Roger Goodell is doing a great job.
Boston Sports Media Watch 
The NFL reminds me of the Nazi party in the 1930s: Overdressed thugs who think they can do anything they want and constantly act with utter disregard for anyone. No, the analogy is incomplete, as they don’t advocate genocide. But I remember a talk Bill Shirer gave at my college about Himmler, Goebbels, Ribbentrop and all these other guys when they were coming up pre-WW2 and it sounds eerily familiar.
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Well, the NFL is doing everything it can to obscure the silent genocide of CTE among its players. #hottake
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Love how the aggregator site Boston.com uses a pic of the BAKSETBALL Hall of Fame to depict an article about the American HOCKEY League. But wait, they are both in Springfield so it works!
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