Dan Shaughnessy blasts NCAA Tournament: ‘I’ll be sitting this one out’
"I’m not sure I’d watch the Monday, April 7 men’s championship game if they played it in my driveway."
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Dan Shaughnessy calls out Jarren Duran for wearing profane t-shirt after using homophobic slur
"After getting suspended for 2 games for aiming homophobic slur at Fenway fan, Jarren Duran chose to wear this shirt in his pregame presser today."
Thoughts pour in for Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy as he recovers from heart surgery
Veteran Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy is taking time off while he recovers from heart surgery.
Baseball Hall of Fame voters need to take a long, hard look in the mirror
Dan Shaughnessy accuses NESN anchor of covering for the Red Sox
"Embarrassing to be this desperate to please one's bosses."
For the second Hall of Fame ballot in a row, Dan Shaughnessy only voted for Jeff Kent
Hooray for protest vote season!
This Year In Hot Takes: breaking down the 10 hottest sports takes of 2018
This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick calls Lil Wayne a “low-life rapper,” complains about his “vulgar, N-worded lyrics”
This Week In Hot Takes: Dan Shaughnessy says Serena wasn’t mistreated because his niece said so, Herald Sun runs racist cartoon
The hottest takes from Sept. 7-13 included several on Serena Williams.
This Week In Hot Takes: Tom Nichols argues that professional esports are “the ridiculous next step of imperial decline”
Nichols' take on professional esports was the hottest of the week.
This Week In Hot Takes: Rich Lowry calls soccer “fundamentally flawed,” says baseball’s “purest” because…it’s not subjective?
"In this sense, baseball is the purest sport. It relies less on subjective umpire calls, especially now with replay."
This Week In Hot Takes: Dan Shaughnessy blames Red Sox losses on Yawkey Way renaming, David Price’s hand issues on Fortnite
"Just about every person Price’s age plays video games, but none of them make $217 million playing baseball and none of them miss a start in New York this week due to carpal tunnel syndrome."
This Week In Hot Takes: Josh Peter calls UConn’s win “a loss for women’s basketball,” says they need a mercy rule
The hot takes this week revolved around NCAA basketball, with Peter and Darren Rovell blasting the UConn women and Myron Medcalf, Chris Broussard and Dan Shaughnessy dropping hot takes on the men's side.
This Week In Hot Takes: Fox News’ John Moody says USOC wants “Darker, Gayer, Different.” motto
Moody's argument that the United States Olympic Committee is trying to fill "quotas" with diverse athletes topped the Feb. 2-8 hot takes.
This Week In Hot Takes: Stephen A. Smith says “If you need weed…you ain’t for professional sports!”
Stephen A.'s weed rant on his radio show was the hottest take of this week.
Does American media pay enough attention to women’s sports?
You may not know it from watching mainstream sports television or reading America’s newspapers, but women play professional...
Dan Shaughnessy wins prestigious Spink Award, will be honored at Hall of Fame
The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy has won the prestigious J.G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Writers Association...
Michelle Beadle’s new show The Crossover replacing NBC Sports Talk
Last month, we wrote about Michelle Beadle's new sport show, "The Crossover." We knew it was going to...