Super Bowl reignites New York-Boston rivalry

By Daniel Trotta and Daniel Lovering NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - The rival camps have been infiltrating each other for centuries. New Yorkers head to Boston for an education. Bostonians follow their career paths right onto Wall Street. In the struggle for supremacy, curses are exchanged, aspersions cast. These two great American cities cannot avoid one another, and they are on a collision course once again in the Super Bowl. Sunday's big game between the New York Giants (who really play in New Jersey) and the New England Patriots (home town: Foxborough, Massachusetts) Continue reading >>>

Super Bowl reignites New York-Boston rivalry

By Daniel Trotta and Daniel Lovering NEW YORK/BOSTON | Wed Feb 1, 2012 10:08am EST NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - The rival camps have been infiltrating each other for centuries. New Yorkers head to Boston for an education. Bostonians follow their career paths right onto Wall Street. In the struggle for supremacy, curses are exchanged, aspersions cast. These two great American cities cannot avoid one another, and they are on a collision course once again in the Super Bowl.Sunday's big game between the New York Giants (who really play in New Jersey) Continue reading >>>

The new Joachim? Tom Hopper hails ‘great day’ as he makes his Leicester City debut

Published on Wednesday 1 February 2012 07:30 TEENAGER Tom Hopper followed in the footsteps of Julian Joachim on Saturday as he made his Leicester City debut. The striker – whose family home is in Stickney – told The Standard last year that it was his new year’s resolution to break into the Foxes’ first-team in 2012.And it took the hot prospect just 28 days to make Continue reading >>>

In Memoriam

Mayor Kevin White’s death is a moment for all of us to remember him and the days when he managed this city with an iron fist. He was above all, a real Bostonian with his early roots in West Roxbury and his adult life spent on Beacon Hill. He loved Boston. He loved downtown Boston. He loved the neighborhoods. Above all, he loved the people. Mayor Kevin White was this city’s guiding force when it was coming to life, literally coming out of a slumber, during a bygone era when everything about this city was changing and coming to life. <!--/* * The backup image section of this tag has Continue reading >>>

Truck Nutz and Newtonian Child Labor On the Florida Campaign Trail

Our libertarian-Bostonian correspondent is on the road in Florida, chasing the GOP clowns. Here is a video-photo dispatch from him! JACKSONVILLE — We always feel bad for the poor interns/work-study kids who get stuck holding those goofy signs in spin rooms after debates. Don’t their arms get tired? We asked one of the poor bastards stuck with this post-debate task, “What’s it like?” Maybe it’s all part of Newt Gingrich’s plan to make poor kids clean the school toilets? SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLA – But the highlight of our driving around Florida was this Jeep parked outside a polling Continue reading >>>