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Schilling’s fire sale, by the numbers

Auction Blockhead
By now, most are likely aware of Curt Schilling's recent woes, but for those not privy: 38 Studios, the former Red Sox pitcher's Rhode Island–based video-game studio, was forced to declare bankruptcy back in the spring, sending him into a financial tailspin.

By: MICHAEL WALSH | October 31, 2012

The Grand Opening

Excerpted from Fenway Park: The Centennial (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
Three rainouts delayed the very first Opening Day at the new Fenway Park, and the sinking of the Titanic initially dimmed enthusiasm.

By: SAUL WISNIA | March 30, 2012

With the 2012 baseball season upon us, we ask the experts if size really does matter

Market factors
In Major League Baseball, where big-market teams have won eight out of the past 10 World Series, your payroll often determines how far into October you'll be playing.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | March 30, 2012

Yoda is in the building

A completely unanalytic guide to the most important sports analytics conference on Earth
First, the numbers: the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference grew 50 percent from 2011 to 2012, and has now grown 1300 percent from its inception, in 2007, as a roomful of MIT math nerds, to last weekend's 2200-strong blowout at the Hynes Convention Center.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | March 07, 2012

The year ahead in sports

Looking forward to more scoring and less scandal
It seemed for every hail Mary, walk-off homer, and buzzer beater in 2011, the sports pages had a story on work stoppages, performance-enhancing drugs, or mind-boggling college-conference realignments.

By: SEAN KERRIGAN | December 28, 2011

Have Bill Simmons and Grantland made it cool for geeks to like sports?

Game changer
"The paper quickly began its operations, grabbing all of the talent money could buy."

By: MATT PARISH | December 14, 2011

The Curse of Len Bias

The curious decline of a team that had it all
This article was originally published in the December 1, 1995 issue of the Boston Phoenix.

By: BILL SIMMONS | December 14, 2011

Photos: MIT's Prom Dress Rugby Tournament 2011

"Where Beauty and Brawn Meet Brains"
The MIT women's rugby team takes their formal wear to the field for the Prom Dress Rugby Tournament.

By: JEREMY DeGUZMAN AND SOPHIE LEE | May 18, 2011

Should sportswriters be allowed to gamble on sports?

Sucker bet
Halloween 2010 kicked off a rough week for Keith Olbermann and Bill Simmons.

By: SEAN KERRIGAN | February 05, 2011

Mush it real good

Dog Days Dept.
A thousand frozen dogsled fanatics line the track's edge as approaching yaps signal a start to the races.

By: SCOTT FAYNER | January 19, 2011

171 ski events to do this winter

Ride out the snowpocalypse the fun way
We've got everything from the Winter Dew Tour at Killington to the Gravity Control Rail Jam at Smugglers’ Notch.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | January 12, 2011

The worst and best of Boston sports in 2010

Jock strapped
The Patriots are 12-2, the Red Sox won Hot Stove season, the Bruins are skating off skeins of wins thanks in part to the pickup of an 18-year-old Wunderkind who may be the second coming of Jesus on ice skates, and the Celtics have twice dunked the Heat.

By: MICHAEL C. WALSH | December 22, 2010