By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
• Scott’s Shots will offer up another EventBlog (EvBlog) Extravaganza this Saturday to coincide with the NFL Draft.
On the heels of our hugely popular NCAA Tournament EvBlog, Shots will sign-on around 11 a.m. on Saturday and stay with you through the entire first round of the annual winner for Most Overhyped [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
11:40 a.m
Just a few print/web follow-ups to the Sheff Charade:
• Nice work by the Herald and Michael Silverman in id’ing the alleged Sheff Shover, Chris House of Dorchester and getting quote form his fiancee. The story had an update of 6:37 a.m. on the web site, which we guess means that [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
12:01 a.m.
• Just as the most basic part of all this: Shouldn’t Sheff have thrown the ball in before retaliating? Just sayin’. (Yes, I’m trying to be hip like Gee.) You know, in Peabody Little League they always said: “Get the ball in. . . Then go beat the piss out [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
11:43 p.m.
• So, the week’s “Slategate” doesn’t seem to be over entirely. For those of you who have missed the riveting drama thus far, here’s the re-cap: A new Media Guy (Seth Stevenson of Slate Magazine – slate.com) ragged on an Old Media Guy (the Boston Herald’s Michael Gee) and a [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
• Some final leftovers from Ring Day ’05 and beyond:
There seems to be a lot being made of the inclusion of artsy bike racks on the latest Lansdowne incarnation. Which begs for the question: How many folks are riding bikes to the game and, if they are riding, can you be [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
Some 23-odd Hours After the City of Champions First Pitch
• We’re not ones to brag, but we too executed an almost flawless Ring Day ’05. Kilroy’s by noon, sausage by two and Bruschi by three. Postgame didn’t go quite as smoothly, if only because the sausage was so foreign to our [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
2:28 p.m.
Spring has sprung in Hull and young Percy the Dog is gnawing at his butcher bone, so I figured I’d do the same with the area sports bone. We’ll be hitting Fenway early on Monday – if you’re up for a Bloody (sock) Mary with Shots, email below and we’ll [...]

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<B>By David Scott
Boston Sports Media</B>
12:39 a.m.
• All the talk about <B>”Drew this and Drew that”</B> and I was thinking: Bledsoe’s back. Finally.
• It’s too embarrassing to admit I watched the hour-plus <B>NESN Fever Pitch</B> red carpet show, but I’m passing it off as “In the Line of Duty.”. . . The crap I do for [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
11:57 p.m.
• They’re stretching this thing out longer than the Oscars.
• Shining delivered as usual, but the Luther V. version isn’t all that great. But the pictures tell the story for the most part.
• I could go for DiGiorno right about now.
• There’s Bonnie - completely underused. You wish Weber won [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media
11:29 p.m.
• At least it’s not Duke.
• Pure exuberance. And some jersey tugs as well.
• What’s with taking off the jerseys? It was big in the dunk contest last week, too.
• Final Four MOP? Gotta be Mays, right?
• Nantz’s “It’s Monday night – a guy named Raymond stars in the late [...]

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