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As the Massachusetts city slowly returns to normal life after Friday night's events, Boston's three most important sports teams played Saturday and helped breath a semblance of normal life back into the exhausted citizens.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
In what is surely the weirdest story we've seen all day, the costume for Wally the Green Monster, the mascot of the Boston Red Sox, went missing from Fenway Park, and what elevated it beyond ho-hum theft (at least for us) was the suspicion that the culprit was wearing the suit about town.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had a silly response to the "really silly reporting" he identified in the White House pool report that noted that Red Sox fans booed President Obama at a fundraiser Monday night
The kickoff may be going to the way of leather helmets, hockey players are making up lost fighting time this postseason, and Bobby Valentine is working his divisive magic in Boston.
The Red Sox pitcher retires after 17 seasons with the club, how Peyton Manning got backed into a corner this week, and University of Maryland football coach Randy Edsall is not popular with the staff of The Washington Post.
Today in sports: Boston players are already grousing about the hiring of former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine, a class-action concussion suit takes aim at the NCAA, and Ndamukong Suh's frozen steak endorsement is on thin ice.
Today in sports: The iPad comes to the NFL locker room, the problem with the NFL's concussion policy, and a Red Sox pitcher says he only drank beer in the clubhouse to help the team.
Plus: NBA stars party as lockout grinds on; Big East thinks expansion
Plus: Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart had to talk on TV instead of watching baseball
Plus: The NFL is going keep sending teams to London until the idea works
The former outfielder was arrested last night on domestic battery charges
Plus: President Obama's speech won't infringe on the NFL opener
Plus: forget everything they taught you in food critic training
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