Tito, Theo, Papel-Gone. Don’t be surprised if Miss Heidi is next. That’s right, Heidi Watney might be the next member of the 2011 Red Sox cast to depart. Heidi’s contract is up at the end of the month and a person with knowledge of NESN’s upper management says Watney is done after four years as the Sox in-game reporter.
Why did we waste so much time on Albert Haynesworth when we had Andre Carter here all along? When he’s done playing, Carter has a future on television.
There has to be a way for Yale quarterback Patrick Witt to interview for the Rhodes Scholarship and still play in the Harvard-Yale game. Witt withdrew his application rather than miss the 128th playing of The Game in New Haven Saturday, the same day his interview was scheduled. Very noble of him, but The Rhodes is bigger than The Game.
One of the underplayed stories of the year came and went last week when Easy Ed Macauley died at the age of 83 in a St. Louis retirement home. Macauley is one of the underrated figures in Boston sports history. He came to the Celtics in 1950 and was Boston’s first basketball superstar. He was the pivotal figure in Red Auerbach’s masterful trade that brought Bill Russell to Boston after the 1955-56 season. Celtics owner Walter Brown did not want to part with Macauley, but the 6-foot-8-inch center/forward agreed to the deal because he wanted to return to his St. Louis home to care for his disabled son. The rest is basketball history. Macauley’s No. 22 hangs in the Garden rafters above the parquet floor.
Should be some good theater when the Bruins play at Buffalo the night before Thanksgiving. The Sabres need to do something after the way Milan Lucic pancaked Ryan Miller at the Garden Saturday night.
What a story it will be if Jacoby Ellsbury is named American League Most Valuable Player Monday. He’s got a better chance than you might think.
When you win as many games as the Patriots, four years between playoff wins is a long time. The Patriots look like a cinch for 12-4 and their eighth division title in nine years, but it won’t mean anything until they win in January.
