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Bob Ryan is a retired columnist for the Globe’s Sports section whose work appears in the section semi-regularly. He has been writing for the Globe since 1968, covering all of Boston’s sports teams. Ryan is a regular panelist on ESPN’s Sunday morning roundtable, “The Sports Reporters.”
Bob Ryan
The movie about Jackie Robinson, as well-intentioned as it is, is another in an endless line of Hollywood biopics that wind up messing with history.
Bob Ryan
No team should feel entitled to the kind of loyalty that produced the Red Sox sellout streak. It’s good for them to have to win back fans’ trust.
Bob Ryan
The next time there will be three schools from New England in the Final Four — men or women’s — is the Twelfth of Never.
Bob Ryan
This is 2013. The athletes are themselves better than ever. So why should the theme of the NCAA Tournament be “first one to 60 wins”?