Dan McQuade

Rick Mathews has spent most recent weekends driving thousands of miles. Sometimes he flies somewhere and then drives. Sometimes he has several flights in a weekend between all that driving. This was what was required during the home stretch of his years-long quest to ride every roller coaster in the United States. On Sunday, Mathews…

The Phillies did not send their best lineup out there on Wednesday night. They needed just one win or one Dodgers loss to wrap up a playoff bye, and there were five games left in the season. It was going to happen; they did not really seem to be in a rush. Similarly, the top…

Bernie Parent was already a Flyers legend when he retired from the NHL in 1979. It’s the rest of his life that made him a Philadelphia legend. The Hall of Fame goaltender, who won consecutive Stanley Cups with the Flyers in 1974 and ’75, died Sunday at age 80. The Montreal native spent a decade…

Dan McQuade shares what his last year has been like since learning he’s living with neuroendocrine cancer.

Jay Cutler spent 12 years in the NFL. Eight of those were with the Chicago Bears, where he threw for 23,443 yards and 154 touchdowns; he also threw 107 interceptions and had a .500 career record. Even in the season when Cutler took the Bears to the NFC title game, he was still sacked a…

The Braves and Reds finally got back to baseball at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, even if it took them until Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! The game was originally scheduled for Saturday, but it began to rain late in the afternoon. After a long delay and an aborted start, the “Speedway Classic” resumed at 1…

The Minnesota Lynx absolutely obliterated the Las Vegas Aces on Saturday, 111-58—the 53-point victory breaking a 1998 record for the biggest road win in WNBA history. While Aces fans didn’t get much of a showing from the home team, they were treated to a better effort from the contestants of the halftime baby race. The […]

Last night on Love Island USA, a game show my wife watches while I’m in the room, the remaining male contestants played basketball. I do not know if this was part of the contest or just a pick-up game where the players happened to be wearing mic packs. However I do know, via osmosis, that […]

The vote looked like a funeral. Residents showed up to the council meeting dressed in black, carrying prop tombstones. One carried drooping flowers. “I feel that what the council has just done has sentenced us to a long, agonizing death,” she said. “We’re disgusted,” said another protester. Dire predictions had been made at earlier hearings. […]

“When Mitchell finally reaches the tube,” Boston Globe movie critic Kevin Kelly wrote in his review of the 1975 film, “you can alleviate its unending boredom by looking forward to the commercials.” Kelly was right that the movie needed an upgrade, and that TV would provide it. But it turns out there was a better […]