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Dan Shaughnessy giving his acceptance speech for the Baseball Hall of Fame's J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 2016.

Dan Shaughnessy blasts NCAA Tournament: ‘I’ll be sitting this one out’

"I’m not sure I’d watch the Monday, April 7 men’s championship game if they played it in my driveway."

By Matt Yoder OnMar 18, 2025 0
Jarren Duran addresses media

Dan Shaughnessy calls out Jarren Duran for wearing profane t-shirt after using homophobic slur

"After getting suspended for 2 games for aiming homophobic slur at Fenway fan, Jarren Duran chose to wear this shirt in his pregame presser today."

By Brandon Contes OnAug 13, 2024 8
Dan Shaughnessy giving his acceptance speech for the Baseball Hall of Fame's J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 2016.

Thoughts pour in for Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy as he recovers from heart surgery

Veteran Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy is taking time off while he recovers from heart surgery.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 18, 2024 0
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Baseball Hall of Fame voters need to take a long, hard look in the mirror

Dan Shaughnessy accuses NESN anchor of covering for the Red Sox

"Embarrassing to be this desperate to please one's bosses."

By Alex Reimer OnMay 2, 2023 1

For the second Hall of Fame ballot in a row, Dan Shaughnessy only voted for Jeff Kent

Hooray for protest vote season!

By Jay Rigdon OnJan 11, 2022 11

Lists

This Year In Hot Takes: breaking down the 10 hottest sports takes of 2018

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This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick calls Lil Wayne a “low-life rapper,” complains about his “vulgar, N-worded lyrics”

The hottest takes for Sept 7-13, 2018.

This Week In Hot Takes: Dan Shaughnessy says Serena wasn’t mistreated because his niece said so, Herald Sun runs racist cartoon

The hottest takes from Sept. 7-13 included several on Serena Williams.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnSep 14, 2018 9
Tom Nichols' esports take topped the hot takes this week.

This Week In Hot Takes: Tom Nichols argues that professional esports are “the ridiculous next step of imperial decline”

Nichols' take on professional esports was the hottest of the week.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnAug 31, 2018 1
Rich Lowry brought this week's hottest take.

This Week In Hot Takes: Rich Lowry calls soccer “fundamentally flawed,” says baseball’s “purest” because…it’s not subjective?

"In this sense, baseball is the purest sport. It relies less on subjective umpire calls, especially now with replay."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 13, 2018 6
This Week In Hot Takes for May 4-10.

This Week In Hot Takes: Dan Shaughnessy blames Red Sox losses on Yawkey Way renaming, David Price’s hand issues on Fortnite

"Just about every person Price’s age plays video games, but none of them make $217 million playing baseball and none of them miss a start in New York this week due to carpal tunnel syndrome."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 11, 2018 4
This Week In Hot Takes for March 16-22.

This Week In Hot Takes: Josh Peter calls UConn’s win “a loss for women’s basketball,” says they need a mercy rule

The hot takes this week revolved around NCAA basketball, with Peter and Darren Rovell blasting the UConn women and Myron Medcalf, Chris Broussard and Dan Shaughnessy dropping hot takes on the men's side.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMar 23, 2018 1
Hot takes for Feb. 2-8 revolved around the Super Bowl and the Olympics.

This Week In Hot Takes: Fox News’ John Moody says USOC wants “Darker, Gayer, Different.” motto

Moody's argument that the United States Olympic Committee is trying to fill "quotas" with diverse athletes topped the Feb. 2-8 hot takes.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 9, 2018 4
Stephen A. Smith led This Week In Hot Takes.

This Week In Hot Takes: Stephen A. Smith says “If you need weed…you ain’t for professional sports!”

Stephen A.'s weed rant on his radio show was the hottest take of this week.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 27, 2017 10
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Does American media pay enough attention to women’s sports?

You may not know it from watching mainstream sports television or reading America’s newspapers, but women play professional...

By Alex Putterman OnJul 22, 2016 80

Dan Shaughnessy wins prestigious Spink Award, will be honored at Hall of Fame

The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy has won the prestigious J.G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Writers Association...

By Ken Fang OnDec 9, 2015 0

Michelle Beadle’s new show The Crossover replacing NBC Sports Talk

Last month, we wrote about Michelle Beadle's new sport show, "The Crossover." We knew it was going to...

By Reva Friedel OnJan 6, 2013 0

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