More photos » Greg M. Cooper - AP Check out the bowtie. The “Big Farnsworth Bentley “? (AP Photo / Greg M. Cooper) Browse more photos » Today was a great summer off season day. The biggest story was Shaq’s press conference, which was pretty cool. He brought Doc Rivers up...

Celtics Schedule Released Open vs Miami, Christmas in Orlando, West coast trips in late Jan and Feb. Go here to see the original: Celtics Schedule Released

Shaquille O’Neal’s introductory press conference is scheduled for tomorrow, and, as the following will show, he can be a pretty quotable guy. As a prologue to tomorrow’s intro, here’s a short montage of some of Shaq’s finer quotes over the years. So, what will tomorrow...

Why does Brett Favre have the undying support of so many members of the national media? Why, despite a full decade of coming up short on the biggest stage, or throwing an ill-advised pass which is intercepted at the worst possible time, does the national media as a whole love and worship him, and certain...

Image by Mike Cialowicz from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr. The days are getting longer now. [ Boston Globe ] The “Annoying Dorm Resident of the Year” award goes to a freshman at Green Mountain College who is suing to change the bathrooms. [ Burlington Free Press ] Football...

Michael Dwyer / Associated Press Maybe the results are a little skewed, since the Charlotte Bobcats clearly didn’t belong on the same floor or in the same league as the Celtics last night. Or maybe the Bobcats just looked like that because the C’s’ defense locked them up so tight that...

        Madras Press is a new local venture dedicating to publishing groups of long “short” stories slash novellas and donating the profits to charity. It’s an innovative and generous approach to publishing in a challenging time for the industry. The first four...

Image by b_skerratt from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . Boston University set aside rooms for students exhibiting flu-like symptoms. Students are discussing the policy’s strengths and weaknesses. [ B.U. Daily Free Press ] Consider this: Could fears about the swine flu be more...

The Boston Fire Department has pulled off the most awesome campaign prank yet, according to Universal Hub . The BFD, an upstanding group of dudes , totally hates Thomas Menino because he wants them to stop being such a drugged up bunch of boozehounds. Today is election day, so what did they do? Boston...

Sources say a BU student had been drinking prior to falling to his death. [ Daily Free Press ] Somehow the cops found out about the Freedom Rally and showed up to write tickets for marijuana possession. [ Boston Herald ] Researchers at Northeastern and MIT team up to fight termites with sugar. [ Boston...