Ken Laird

You can never have enough starting pitching. So with that in mind ... Who says no to this Red Sox trade with this Rangers? Red Sox get: SP Kyle Gibson. Rangers get: SP Tanner Houck. If Gibson, who has been simply dominant (6-0, 1.98 ERA) for the 33-52 Rangers, was on the last year of his contract we would immediately pass on this one. But he's not. The 33-year-old is in the second year of a three-year, $28 million deal and is due to make $7 million in 2022.

Danny Ainge may not be ready to admit that his team’s title hopes have hit rock bottom, but the holes dug by Crater Danny are doing a proper homage to Boston’s winter pothole tradition. Another late game fade by the Celtics in Dallas on Tuesday night sank the C’s record subterranean at 15-16, with losses in seven of their past 10.

Tom Brady didn’t fall off Max Kellerman’s cliff, but he did start the NFL down a slippery slope. Star quarterbacks will increasingly hold Brady’s Super Bowl LV title aloft as Exhibit A evidence as to why they, too, should be involved in personnel decisions and management hires. “Bruce Arians let Brady coach, Jason Licht let him hand-pick Antonio Brown, Leonard Fournette and Rob Gronkowski, and look what happened,” they’ll say.