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Have you ever had the experience of riding on a subway?

Subways are the easiest way to get around Boston but not the most fun! It seems no matter what day or time of day you get on the trains they are crowded with people and not always the "nicest" people...

Papi in Pawtucket

With the Red Sox off until tomorrow night in Anaheim, all eyes will be on McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, where tonight David Ortiz will begin a planned four-game rehab stint with the PawSox.We'll have...

Working the Clouds - Report from Structure 08

Lidija Davis is reporting for ReadWriteWeb from the Structure 08 conference in San Francisco In a recent report, Gartner predicted that early adopters will forgo capital expenditures, and instead...

Position players

  Here’s a little trick I’ve discovered, which works more often than you might expect. When you’re at a Red Sox game and the team is losing — the offense is anemic, say, and/or...

Sox-Lowell hook up again

Here's a press release announcing the extension of a player development contract with the Lowell Spinners: The Boston Red Sox and Lowell (MA) Spinners today announced the extension of their...

I hate interleague play, but…

…here is why it’s not going away anytime soon. Last night’s crowd was large (33,433) and loud, and today’s game is Standing Room Only.

Observed and overheard

At a bar near Fenway...* Why is Doug Mirabelli in a black overcoat? Great to have him back and all, but lat time D-Lowe and Dave Roberts wore their Red Sox jerseys. Is he planning to steal...

Spice Girls Inspire Mel C to Conceive

The Spice Girls' only childless member, Melanie Chisholm, wants to change her status to mom. She’s been inspired by the relationships between her bandmates and their kids and is keen to start...

Fort Myers send-off celebration

The Red Sox will host a send-off celebration tomorrow in Fort Myers as the World Series champs prepare for an 18-day road trip including the team's first-ever regular season series in Japan. The...

Health Care at SXSW - Health Getting Hot With Tech Crowd

SXSW 2008 will most likely be remembered for the Zuckerberg interview controversy. But a more interesting phenomenon, that in some ways broke through at SXSW, was health care and tech. Specifically...

Sox go down

JUPITER, Fla.? The Sox lost to the Marlins, 3-2, in front of a standing-room-only crowd of 8,151 at Roger Dean Stadium this afternoon. As expected, the place was packed with citizens of Red Sox...