Gerry Callahan

Editor’s note: Gerry Callahan’s Thanksgiving football column was first published in 1992. It’s a Herald tradition to publish it again every year in advance of the holiday games. S…

Today we re-run the Father’s Day column written last year by longtime Herald columnist Gerry Callahan in memory of his dad, who passed away in 2015. The big, thick, boring history books he ha…

The big, thick, boring history books he had loved all his life no longer mattered to him. For the final few weeks, biographies of the Wright brothers and Calvin Coolidge sat like beanbag ashtrays o…

There were two outs and two on when Christian Hegarty hit a shot deep into the gap in right-center field. Up in the stands, his parents, Lauri and Jerry, rose up anxiously and thought, This is it. …

It probably won’t matter.In the end, Aaron Hernandez was probably too stupid and too arrogant and too evil to leave his lawyers anything to work with.As the prosecutor pointed out yesterday, …

Let’s get the lame old excuses out of the way first:He probably didn’t start doing steroids until after he left Boston. He was just trying to keep up with all the hitters who were juici…

Bill Belichick was 23 years old when he got a job as a special assistant with the Baltimore Colts. That was in 1975, and he’s been coaching in the NFL ever since. He has worked for seven orga…

The alarm will go off even earlier than usual tomorrow, but somehow it won’t be so tough to get up and out of bed. You couldn’t sleep any later if you tried. You’ll be awake half …

In the end, Rob Gronkowski simply was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was in Charlotte, N.C., at 11:33 Monday night, so a skittish cabal of NFL officials determined that he couldn’t …

We celebrate the facial hair and the tattoos and the hip-hop swagger as if they are all brand new around here, but the truth is they’ve been part of this Red Sox team for a while now. Eleven …

If we didn’t know any better, we’d think Tom Brady was a problem for this Patriots team. His passer rating of 80.5 is good for 22nd in the NFL, two spots below his old friend Brian Hoye…

The nightmare often begins with something small and seemingly insignificant: a bruise that won’t heal, a persistent head cold or just a routine visit to the pediatrician. For the Cassidys of …

REPORTER: When you look beyond the stat line at the big picture, do you see positive steps for Tim Tebow?BILL BELICHICK: Yeah, definitely. There is something about Tim Tebow, Patriots quarterback, …

The Kid is only 25 years old, born the same day as Red Sox youngster Ryan Lavarnway, so perhaps we should forgive him his adolescent posing and preening. Sidney Crosby is like the confused teenager…

With any other coach, on any other team, in any other sport, it wouldn’t be an issue. Wes Welker would be signed to a long-term contract. He would be a New England Patriot for life, celebrate…

For the final three years of his Hall of Fame career, Tom Brady will make an average of $9 million per NFL season — or half a million less than the Red Sox will pay Stephen Drew this season.R…

I felt like I had been bound and gagged and buried alive.I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t move, I couldn’t quite grasp what I was hearing. The last thing I asked before the anesthesia …