Jordan’s Furniture is hoping to hit back-to-back home runs. The Taunton-based furniture chain, which won free publicity worldwide last year by promising customers free furniture if the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, is planning another Sox promotion this year.

Beckett to DL; Casey, Wakefield, Timlin inactive
TOKYO — Even though the Red Sox were allowed to bring 30 players to Tokyo for the first two games of the season (not including Curt Schilling), the team is allowed just 25 on the active roster and three more designated as inactive, with those 28 players all eligible for the 25-man roster once the Red Sox head back to …

Here Come the Waterworks
Here Come the Waterworks Big business is bigger and better than ever, with better hair, bigger hits, and the kind of overwhelming Norman Schwarzkopf-style force that rolls like thunder, stings like a missile, and–above all–takes no shit. On Here Come the Waterworks, their second full-length, bassist/vocalist Jared Warren and drummer Coady […]

Harden strong as Athletics beat Red Sox 5-1 for split in Japan
Split two games, get back on a plane. Rich Harden struck out nine over six innings and Emil Brown hit a three-run homer, leading the Oakland Athletics to a 5-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night in the finale of their season-opening series in Japan.

Buchholz shows control
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Maybe people underestimated him because his looks were so incredibly deceiving. Clay Daniel Buchholz, a skinny kid from Lumberton, Texas, looked like a boy, not a man. He was tall and slight with a sleepy-eyed smile and a baseball cap crammed over his ears, and at first glance, when he jogged to the mound at Fenway …

Buchholz continues to struggle
TOKYO - As the regular season nears, it appears that Clay Buchholz , for now, holds down the fifth spot in the rotation. But he hasn’t exactly had a very good spring training. Though the Red Sox aren’t basing their decision solely on spring results, Buchholz has given up at least two runs in each of his four outings, including …

Some viewers were shut out
Technology is a beautiful thing - when it works. Yesterday morning was one of those times when it didn’t.

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