Those of you who had the good sense to call out sick today had the treat of watching New Kids on the Block perform for the first time in 15 years live on the Today Show. Us office-bound folks are saved by People.com, which rounds up clips of the highly-anticipated performance.
We’re sad to say that we’re not sure our favorite Kids nailed it.
The only thing we’re more excited to see than tomorrow’s edition of the Herald is next week’s season finale of Gossip Girl. Both the Globeand Heraldsay that John Tomase is going to explain how the erroneous report of a tape of the Rams’ 2001 Super Bowl walkthrough ever made it into the paper.
Last week, we argued against rushing to judgment on John Tomase, the Herald beat writer assigned to the Patriots, until the facts from the Matt Walsh Spygate testimony were in. Well, it’s judgment time.
Today, the Herald apologized for Tomase’s Super Bowl walkthrough tape story in the form of front and backpage headlines, and a three-paragraph retraction. Clearly this is no ordinary mea culpa. You may recall, there wasn’t this much outrage when the tab owned up to printing a piece of satire about Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney as straight news.
In this town, of course, the Patriots are bigger than a bogus story about presidential politics. (more…)
Back in April, Boston Daily had the brilliant idea (if we do say so ourself — and we do) to name the Fenway Hawk.
But it seems the Lowell Spinners had already teamed up with the Inside Track to have their own contest. And even though they beat us to the punch (unbeknown to us), they half-assed their effort.
Don’t worry, though. Our contest is still on-going.
With all the turnover at Morrisey Blvd., it’s tempting to forget about the talent that’s actually sticking around. Marc J. Spears took over the Celtics beat this year and brought a refreshing national perspective to the job. With longtime NBA scribe Peter May electing to take the buyout, Spears is now slated to take over the NBA beat.
His first Sunday Notes column for the Globe will appear this weekend.
It’s a dark day around Boston Daily HQ. The male staffers have started listening to breakup songs, and although he thinks I can’t hear him, Flannery is quietly crying into his keyboard.
We really shouldn’t be surprised to read about another high-profile name departing from the Globe newsroom, but this one’s gotta hurt the broadsheet. Adam Reilly reports that Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Charlie Savage has left Morrissey Boulevard for the New York Times.
The day Patriots fans had been dreading for months came and went yesterdaywhen Matt Walsh handed over the information he claimed to have about the his former employer.
After all the hints, whispers, and innuendo, this is what we got: eight tapes dating from 2000-2002, none of which were of the infamous Super Bowl walk-through practice. The only news to come out of the whole deal is the revelation that the Pats were also capturing their opponents offensive signals.
Still, if the entire debate hinged on a “smoking gun” walk-through tape, and one hasn’t been produced, the Pats come out of this appearing strangely vindicated. Either way, it looks like the whole Spygate debacle is just about done.
Harvard University has a lot of money, which is good for Harvard. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the other hand, does not have much dough kicking around these days. While the state holds together its infrastructure with silly putty and prayer, Harvard is sitting on a huge tax-free nest egg and is slowly expanding its empire campus into Allston.
Those of you who had the good sense to call out sick today had the treat of watching New Kids on the Block perform for the first time in 15 years live on the Today Show. Us office-bound folks are saved by People.com, which rounds up clips of the highly-anticipated performance.
The only thing we’re more excited to see than tomorrow’s edition of the Herald is next week’s season finale of Gossip Girl. Both the 
Back in April, Boston Daily had the brilliant idea (if we do say so ourself — and we do) to 
With all the turnover at Morrisey Blvd., it’s tempting to forget about the talent that’s actually sticking around. Marc J. Spears took over the Celtics beat this year and brought a refreshing national perspective to the job. With longtime NBA scribe Peter May electing to take the buyout, Spears is now slated to take over the NBA beat.
Harvard professor and former Barack Obama campaign adviser 
We really shouldn’t be surprised to read about another high-profile name departing from the Globe newsroom, but this one’s gotta hurt the broadsheet. 
Harvard University has