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Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Vote for Pedro: Let's end this un-unanimous streak

The Newtonite January 5, 2015

by Jacob Gurvis Hank Aaron, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Tom Seaver, Ted Williams, Cy Young. What do these men have in common? Sure, they are some of the greatest baseball players who ever lived. Another similarity?...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: Red Sox bolster rotation, but still in need of an ace

The Newtonite December 16, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis In the span of four days, the roster and outlook for the 2015 Boston Red Sox drastically changed. Everyone expected them to make major moves at the 2014 Winter Meetings that took place...

Three Fifty One is a weekly blog covering the 351 teams of Division 1 college basketball. Graphic by Maria Trias.

Three Fifty One: Turkey day

The Newtonite November 27, 2014

Three Fifty One is a weekly blog covering the 351 teams of Division 1 college basketball. Football controls Thanksgiving. You go to your high school football game in the morning, play a touch (or tackle,...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: Boston's big signings of Sandoval, Ramirez, demonstrate new aggressive nature of Sox

The Newtonite November 25, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis It may only be November, but the Red Sox are back. Am I being a bit premature? Probably. But given the fact that in the span of 24 hours, the Red Sox signed Pablo Sandoval to a five year...

Three Fifty One is a weekly blog covering the 351 teams of Division 1 college basketball. Graphic by Maria Trias.

Three-Fifty-One: Tipping off the season

The Newtonite November 20, 2014

Three Fifty One is a weekly blog covering the 351 teams of Division 1 college basketball. by Connor Vasu College basketball season, believe it or not, has arrived. Tuesday night’s exciting Champions...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: Hottest teams succeed in postseason

The Newtonite October 29, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis September. The pennant chase. Playoff berths. The last month of the regular season in baseball is exciting. Every game matters when teams are fighting for playoff spots. One win or loss...

“Colin Kaepernick” by Mike Morbeck is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Amigos Sports: The Colin Kaepernick Show

The Newtonite October 17, 2014

Amigos Sports is a sports blog run by North students. by Brett Mayville In case you missed it, Monday's game between the 49ers and the St. Louis Rams was a real showcase of Colin Kaepernick’s unparalleled...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

MLB Commissioner Bud Selig retiring after 22 years on the job

The Newtonite October 14, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis With the playoffs in full swing and the regular season over, an era has come to an end in Major League Baseball. Although it isn’t obvious exactly what this “era” is to most sports...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: Round-by-round predictions for the 2014 MLB Playoffs

The Newtonite September 30, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis The leaves are changing color, the temperature is dropping (except for the odd 80 degree weather last weekend), and October is here. All of this means one thing: playoff baseball is upon...

by Douglas Abrams

The Student Foodie: Elegant and easy sandwiches

The Newtonite September 29, 2014

by Douglas Abrams Sandwiches, unlike other foods, offer a uniquely wide array of possibilities. Just about anything will go between, on, under, inside, or through two pieces of bread. Sandwiches, the Student...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Baseball loses role model, ambassador with Derek Jeter's retirement

The Newtonite September 29, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis What Derek Jeter has done for the game of baseball over the last twenty years is not something that will be forgotten. He has been an exceptional role model to younger players and fans,...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: MLB head and shoulders above big, bad NFL when it comes to player behavior

The Newtonite September 19, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis The headlines throughout sports this week are not pretty. Child abusers, wife beaters, substance abusers. The list goes on. But wait, aren’t all those things that happened in the National...

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