Given as we are to deep thoughts, we need to make sense out of the darkest of sports moments we experience as sports fans. (Let’s say, for example, the New England Patriots playing their worst game in years and losing the Super Bowl to the New York Giants, who weren’t that much sharper until the very end).
We had a chat with reader Prospero after the debacle game. Analyst caps firmly in place, we were able to narrow down the Pats’ fatal flaw. It wasn’t Bill Belichick, or the defense that should have stopped the Giants on that last drive. It wasn’t even Tom …read more

In case you’re tuning in late, please check out Part I of our pre-Super Bowl interview with Winnie McCarthy, for whom Tom Brady held open a door back in their college days.
GoS: Was Tom wearing cologne the day he held the door open for you?
WM: Not that I can remember, but he did smell very clean, like he had showered right before class.
GoS: Did you ask him out?
WM: Only in my head.
GoS: Why not? 
WM: Stupidity. However, if I had done so, I could’ve changed the fate of the NFL forever. What if we fell in love, ran off together, and he …read more