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The ‘2012 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition’

Last weekend The New York Times proclaimed Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning , the debut video game of former Red Sox pitcher and outspoken Republican millionaire Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, "one of the finest action role-playing games yet made."
Bright spots
By GREG COOK | February 17, 2012

Talking the art of pitching with Theo, Schill, and Peter Gammons

There's a saying in baseball: you can never have too much pitching. If that's the case, you've come to the right place.
Payoff pitch
By PHOENIX STAFF | April 08, 2011

Thanks for nothing: Rhode Island Turkeys 2010

Thanksgiving has arrived. And you know what that means: dinner with your boorish uncle, the disturbing quiver of canned cranberry sauce, and the Phoenix 's second annual list of Rhode Island turkeys — people and institutions who committed crimes again
In our second annual list of Rhode Island Turkeys, the Phoenix fingers 12 people and institutions who committed crimes against the state
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | November 26, 2010

The backstory on Curt Schilling's Rhode Island jaunt

The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation's controversial decision to offer a $75 million loan guarantee to former Red Sox ace Curt Schilling's video-game company, 38 Studios, has become a prime issue on the campaign trail.
Origins
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | September 03, 2010

Profiles in frottage

Frottage, noun : masturbation by rubbing up against another person.
The EDC strikes out; 'A massage that went awry'; Refudiating Palin
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | July 30, 2010

Curt Schilling moving his company to Rhode Island. Boo-hoo.

Curt Schilling - the media personality who, if I understand correctly, once pitched for the Boston Red Sox - has moved his fledgling gaming company,...
By Ryan Stewart | July 29, 2010

A Rhode Island filmmaker’s tribute to the Good War

Amid the moral ambiguity of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — the handwringing over weapons of mass destruction, drone attacks, and the rights of detainees — there is something startling about the raw patriotism of the documentary Navy Heroes of Norman
Heroes
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 04, 2010

Massachusetts: You might be living in a red state if

Scott Brown’s Senatorial victory is merely the latest sign that red tides are creeping upon our once-progressive Commonwealth. Don’t believe us? Consider that Kenny Chesney sells out Gillette Stadium every summer, and, of course, that wealthy Republican
31 signs that Scott Brown’s victory is changing the face of the commonwealth for the worse
By CHRIS FARAONE | January 22, 2010

Ten years of great sports

Moments after Adam Vinatieri's field goal split the uprights as the clock expired in the Louisiana Superdome on February 3, 2002, the streets of Boston were in bedlam. Drunk people dangled from trees and hung off lampposts. Motorists leaned on their ho
Boston's road from Loserville to Title Town
By MIKE MILIARD | December 25, 2009

It's hip to be icosahedral

Be they beer geeks, comic-book geeks, or music geeks, nowadays people flout their geekdom proudly, even wearing it like a badge.
In a new book, Ethan Gilsdorf tracks his global quest to visit the holiest nerd-world sites
By MIKE MILIARD | October 02, 2009

The hyperbolic Mr. Schilling

Second paragraph from Curt Schilling's blog post today announcing that he won't run for US Senate: Given the amount of things going on I cannot...
By Adam Reilly | September 23, 2009

Blowhard, interrupted

Former Red Sox great Curt Schilling isn't the only prospective US Senate candidate agonizing over whether to run for Ted Kennedy's old seat. But unlike some of his potential rivals the Bloody Socked One seems determined to share his Hamlet act with the
If Curt Schilling runs for Senate, will he keep his sports-media perch?
By ADAM REILLY | September 11, 2009

New in the Phoenix: The Big Shill

In which I discuss WEEI's starring role in Curt Schilling's passive-aggressive pre-campaign for the US Senate--and explain why Schilling's sports-media advantage won't last. Please take...
By Adam Reilly | September 10, 2009

Post-steroid baseball

The bunting is hung. The chalk lines are laid out with Euclidian precision.
Nine questions that will shape the new season
By MIKE MILIARD | April 01, 2009

Curt Schilling

Dome-bellied, skinny-legged, pasty-complexioned, and crowned with thinning, hat-headed hair, Curt Schilling is starting to look more and more like the retard spawn of a Hall of Famer and a computer nerd, which he is. But perhaps big lug's foulest feature
Dome-bellied, skinny-legged, pasty-complexioned, and crowned with thinning, hat-headed hair, Curt Schilling is starting to look more and more like the retard spawn of a Hall of Famer and a computer nerd, which he is. But perhaps big lug's foulest feature is his mouth, which he uses to spout pseudo-profound conservative hunches about things he knows little about. If Washington is truly “Hollywood for ugly people,” then that rumored Senate run may be a perfect fit.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 26, 2009

Blowing up

Everyone’s got the bad-economy blues these days — but the mood among peddlers of the printed word is especially bleak.
No longer the wimpy kid brother to sports-Radio powerhouse WEEI-AM, WEEI.com now has its own seat at Boston sports media’s grown-ups’ table
By ADAM REILLY | December 10, 2008

Mobile-home game

The intersection of Brookline Avenue and Lansdowne Street, in the hours before, during, and after a Red Sox game, is not unlike a trading floor on pre-crash Wall Street: it’s chaotic, teeming with people, and everyone’s trying to make a buck.
Cross the Mayor of Lansdowne Street at your peril, Sox fans: you might be jinxing your team in the process
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 01, 2008

The ultimate Shill?

For a brief moment in late 2004, some people feared that Curt Schilling might pull through for President George W. Bush the way he did for the Sox.
Number 38's political timeline
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 17, 2008

Bad sports

When historians trace the rise of the blog as the dominant journalistic form of the 21st century, they’ll pay close attention to two recent developments.
While old and new media are mending many fences, they’re still squaring off in jockland
By ADAM REILLY | June 18, 2008

Ode to the Lonely Alumnus

Last Saturday my alma mater dropped a squeaker for the ages.
Balls and pucks
By RICK WORMWOOD | February 27, 2008

Critical depth

We may look back upon 2007 as the year games started to grow up.
Videogames: 2007 in review
By MITCH KRPATA | December 17, 2007

Menino’s hit list

At a recent political event, Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino asked Robert Crane, the former long-time state treasurer, how many years he had held that office.
40 potential candidates for the 2009 election who could take on the mayor — if they have the courage.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 28, 2007

The Most Hated Man in Boston

To understand the tortured tango that binds Dan Shaughnessy and his detractors, consider his item about Red Sox ace Curt Schilling’s blog, 38 Pitches.
What is it about The Globe ’s Dan Shaughnessy that makes ordinary, peaceable people want to kick his ass?
By ADAM REILLY | July 10, 2007

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