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Keeping Up with the 617: The effect of Chris Sale's injury

By Matt Goguen | April 6

Amid the suspension of the MLB due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris Sale underwent Tommy John surgery on his throwing elbow and is slated to miss the remainder of the season. Since the Red Sox blew up the offseason by trading Mookie Betts and David Price to the Dodgers, this current season seemed like a re-tooling year. Sale, who missed a portion of last season due to elbow soreness, seemed to suffer a minor setback in spring training.

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Off the Gridiron: The sneaky winners of NFL free agency

By Henry Gorelik | April 3

While the headlines of free agency were stolen by Tom Brady signing with the Buccaneers, the Cardinals robbing the Texans by landing DeAndre Hopkins, the Eagles rescuing Darius Slay from the Lions and the Dolphins making Byron Jones the league’s highest paid corner, several teams made quieter moves that will pay serious dividends during the season.

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Oldies But Goodies: 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'

By Peter Lindblom | April 3

In June of 2001, Wilco presented its newly finished album to its record company, Reprise Records, and was promptly dropped from the label. Time Warner had recently merged with America Online and wanted to cut costs with its record companies, which included Reprise Records. As a result, all it took was for one important person in the company to dislike the album, and that person happened to be interim President David Kahne.

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Game Day: Remembering a classic

By Alex Sharp | April 3

With temperatures increasing, the grass slowly becoming greener and the sun staying up later, spring is officially upon us.

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Shades of Gray: Joking ethically

By Riya Matta | April 3

I am a wholehearted believer in absurd, even morbid humor. As someone who’s experienced a fair amount of tragedy and death, I know as well as anyone that humor is perhaps the best antidepressant available to us, especially as college students — it is certainly far cheaper and more accessible than ...

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Primary Colors: The staying power of Bernie Sanders

By Matt Rice | March 31

Once again, Bernie Sanders will not be the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States. As of today, Sanders has won 914 pledged delegates, while former Vice President Joe Biden has won 1,217 of the 1,991 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. The last major primary Sanders won ...

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Medford Mom: Tiny beautiful things

By Lexi Serino | March 31

In times of sadness, darkness and confusion, I often cling to the comforting words of my favorite author, Cheryl Strayed. Her book “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar” (2012) is my own personal bible, and I found myself skimming through it nearly every day of the week ...

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Keeping up with the 617: Examining Tuukka Rask's hazy future

By Matt Goguen | March 30

The bad news continues to pile up for Boston sports fans. First reported by the Boston Globe's Matt Porter, Tuukka Rask has hinted at a retirement following the termination of his current contract, which ends after the 2020–21 season.When asked about his future workload, Rask said: "I have ...

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From seniors to citizens: Hard conversations

By Ross Sonnenblick | March 30

Senior spring to social security. On the hill to over the hill. Graduation to … grandchildren? Here's what seniors have to say before all is said and done.Kella Merlain-Moffatt knows who she is.  Her mother, and the world, often ask her to assess her identities.  At this point, months from her ...

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Primary Colors: What is Joe Kennedy doing?

By Matt Rice | March 27

At a debate hosted by WGBH on Feb. 11, moderator Margery Eagan asked Representative Joe Kennedy III, “why are you running to defeat a man who’s championed so many of the same policies that you support?” What followed Eagan’s question was a tornado of buzzwords, progressive phrases and calls ...

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Love It Or Haute It: Hair accessories

By Colette Smith and Madison Lehan | March 27

Introduction: During these challenging and uncertain times, it can feel like most things are coming to a grinding halt. We are here to remind you that there is something that waits behind for no one: fashion. So, while we would love to be lounging around, scrolling through TikToks, we have a job to ...

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Oldies But Goodies: 'Goodfellas'

By Peter Lindblom | March 27

You only need to have seen a “gangster” film or two to understand the nature of the genre: The films are almost always androcentric, and any scene can turn violent in a moment’s notice. Legendary director Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” (1990) undoubtedly fits into the “gangster” genre, ...

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Beginner Mentality: Thank you, friends

By Aidan Menchaca | March 26

These last two weeks have been a long train of emotions.First, was the disbelief that our college experience would be cut short. Decisively short. Shortly after President Monaco released the decision that Tufts' campus was closing, friends were already making plans to return after break, imagining ...

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The Little Londoner: COVID-19 and English football

By Jeremy Goldstein | March 26

This is a column that no one wants to write — my hand is almost forced simply due to the utter lack of content. However, a bevy of swirling topics of conversation looms in a football world that seems to have no long term answers to (or any lasting longer than a week). Consider this a primer on such ...

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The Turf Monster: A heartbreaking, powerful silence

By Aiden Herrod | March 26

As a sportswriter, college student and resident of the United States and the world, all I can say is: wow. You’ve likely read a thousand times how chaotic and unprecedented these times are. I’m not here to add any sort of exclamation mark to that. I’m here to deliver a sportswriter’s perspective, ...

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From seniors to citizens: Open doors

By Ross Sonnenblick | March 26

Senior spring to social security. On the hill to over the hill. Graduation to ... grandchildren? Here's what seniors have to say before all is said and done. From a young age, Emma Mitchell-Sparke traveled the world with her family. Now, as a worldly student bound for medical school, Mitchell-Sparke ...

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HillSide Story: Maybe (Super) Far Away

By Anna Hirshman and Allison Morgenstern | March 26

Welcome back to our column. It is with true sadness that we must report that these columns must now be written remotely as we now sit on couches about 1,000 miles apart from one another. But, as they say, the show must go on. At this point, the Olivier Awards have been canceled, and we cannot bear the ...

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Keeping up with the 617: The day the music died

By Matt Goguen | March 24

Tom Brady has officially left the New England Patriots and has signed a two-year contract to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That sentence makes me want to throw up, cry and defenestrate my computer. It doesn't even seem real that my childhood hero has left Gillette Stadium as a New England Patriot ...

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Off the Gridiron: TB is going to TB

By Henry Gorelik | March 24

I’m not sure that the image of Tom Brady in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniform will ever look right, but that’s the new reality for football fans.Last week, the G.O.A.T. signed with the Buccaneers on a two-year contract worth $50 million. Brady announced his departure from the Patriots after posting ...

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What's Next: Responses to crises

By Aadhya Shivakumar | March 12

Full disclosure: The connection between this week’s news event and episode of “The West Wing”(1999–2006) is rather tenuous. It is less an episode or plot point of the show and more just a quote that reminded me of something Donald Trump said a few weeks ago. I also just wanted a reason to talk ...

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