BOSTON Sports Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings, Rumors

SPRING TRAINING 2010
Fort Myers, Fla.

Beckett Strong
Josh Beckett's arm, David Ortiz's legs stand out in Monday's win.
Terry Francona
The Red Sox manager likes what he's seen of his top prospects.

RED SOX BLOG

With news, video and analysis daily from Fort Myers, our Red Sox blog has the team covered. Sox blog »

PATRIOTS BLOG

MUST SEE

Nomar's Career

MLB analyst Tim Kurkjian puts Nomar Garciaparra's career in perspective.
Bruins' response

Barry Melrose talks about how Marc Savard's injury will affect the Bruins.

BIG BABY

Big Baby talks about new locker-mate Nate Nobinson and what really happened with Shaq. Diary »

DUSTIN PEDROIA

Baseball was easy for Dustin Pedroia compared to what he faced away from the park last year. Story »

BLOGS

COLUMNISTS

ESPNBOSTON.COM ON TWITTER

@GordonEdes Ellsbury hits HR, first this spring by regular. "What about Ortiz?" Tito said this a.m. College game. "I count those,'' he said. 5 minutes ago
@GordonEdes Lester 4 K's in 2.2 IP an unearned run 7 minutes ago
@ESPNForsberg Bummer, no Lester RT @KNiblettGrizzPR Brewer/Hunter are out tonight, Lester Hudson is not with team and Randolph is day-to-day. 8 minutes ago
@GordonEdes Price returned to dugout with hand bandaged 8 minutes ago
@GordonEdes Price left game with an abrasion on his right palm, according to Rays 10 minutes ago
@GordonEdes Beltre's bat shatters, barrel hits Rays lefty david Price, comes out of the game with towel wrapped around his right hand 37 minutes ago
@GordonEdes Now that Nomar's thrown out the first pitch, when do the Sox have the state boys basketball champion Fort Myers Green Waves do the honors? about an hour ago
@GordonEdes i said it two days ago, bears repeating today. 78 degrees here at The Fort. No more whining about an hour ago
@GordonEdes Sweet ovation for Nomaaah as he throws out ceremonial first pitch about an hour ago
@GordonEdes Gone not forgotten http://twitpic.com/17r50k about an hour ago
@GordonEdes There had been some talk of Nomar working out before the game today, but he's going to keep it to throwing out first pitch to J Varitek about an hour ago
@MikeReiss Vince Wilfork, on conference call, talking about leadership and locker room "bad seeds." Related link: http://bit.ly/ccvmZH about 3 hours ago
@MikeReiss Vince Wilfork says building new home in Fla is something new contract allows. He has land btwn Orlando & Tampa. Will be closer 2 retirement. about 3 hours ago
@MikeReiss Thomas reports that Fells could make a decision as soon as today. http://bit.ly/9KMsvt about 3 hours ago
@MikeReiss Patriots competing with Rams for free-agent TE Daniel Fells, according to Jim Thomas of St. Louis Post-Dispatch. about 3 hours ago
@GordonEdes Nomar is coming to work for the WWL on Baseball Tonight and as a commentator for select games. Makes me a colleague, I guess about 4 hours ago
@GordonEdes Does that mean his number becomes eligible to be retired? about 5 hours ago
@GordonEdes Lou Merloni, Nomar's good friend, tweets that Nomar will sign a one-day minor-league deal with Sox, so that he can end career with Sox. about 5 hours ago
@GordonEdes Sox have press conference at 10:30....Nomar is announcing he's retiring, according to multiple sources about 5 hours ago
@ESPNForsberg The latest Celtics Mailbag coming this afternoon on ESPNBoston.com. Get your last-minute questions in now: http://bit.ly/5D1Iln about 5 hours ago