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Charles P. Pierce, otherwise known as Charlie Pierce, is an American sportswriter. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts on December 28, 1953, he was raised as a Roman Catholic (according to his own statements on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!) and became a graduate of Marquette University. During his life, Pierce spent many summers at Wendell Philips Parker Nature Training School where his father taught eager kids weather and other subjects. Charlie enjoyed playing volleyball, Mr. Tucker's Trailblazer's class and Mr. Feer's rendition of Waltzing Matilda. Pierce currently writes for the Boston Globe Sunday magazine, a position he has held since April 2002. He has also written for the The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Esquire and GQ magazines, and the e-zine Slate as well as the Media Matters blog Altercation, hosted by historian/pundit Eric Alterman. Pierce also makes appearances on radio; he is a frequent contributor to NPR programs Only A Game and Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! He also represented the Globe on several occasions on ESPN's Around the Horn.

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The Butterball fix

Dear Butterball hot line: Not to put too much pressure on you, but you folks really are America. Seriously, in case you haven’t noticed, we are now Screw-Up Nation. The country that Put Men on the Moon can’t get across the room without turning an ankle ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Boston Globe,  21 Nov 2009

A dubious hand

Dear Professor Clyde Barrow: First of all, you’ve got guts. It takes a rare kind of fortitude to throw yourself behind the proposition of casino gambling here in Massachusetts while having the same name as the bandit -- the two-armed bandit, that is -- ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Boston Globe,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Warren Beatty,  Faye Dunaway,  Jesse James

The Stubborn, Impatient, Self-Centered, and Absolutely Essential Rajon Rondo

All great athletes create a permanence within themselves. So much else is out of their control. From the time they show promise, they are judged from afar, their future writ in scribbles on some distant clipboard. What other people think of them can be ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Boston Globe,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Basketball Association,  Rajon Rondo,  Boston Celtics,  Detroit Pistons,  Orlando Magic

You Are Not The Cosmos: A Review Of Bill Simmons' Book Of Basketball [Sports Guy]

I swear to Christ, there's a book in here somewhere, and probably a pretty good one. Unfortunately, at this point, it appears that I'm going to need diamond-tipped drill bits, Bruce Willis from Armageddon, that rock-eating thing from the original Star ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Deadspin,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Simmons,  Bruce Willis,  New York Times Company,  Mitch Albom,  Sarah Palin

When love rots

Dear Todd English and Erica Wang: Thank you from the bottom of our sticky, tabloidish little hearts. We haven’t had a good celebrity romantic hooley to talk about in this staid little burg in far too long. (And, no, Ben Affleck and the current Jen ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Boston Globe,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Todd English,  Ben Affleck,  Frank Capra,  Claudette Colbert

Unhealthy position

The third installment in a continuing series containing advice to the prospective candidates in a gubernatorial race about which it’s too early to be writing. Dear Charlie Baker: It’s not going to be easy being you for a year or so. Already, Christy ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Boston Globe,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Christy Mihos

Critter war

Dear Tennis Lilly: I hear you’ve been having troubles with beavers these days. (Note to outraged e-mailers: Can we establish right at the top here that, yes, this letter could set a land-speed record for unintentional double-entendres?) Of course, as ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Boston Globe,  24 Oct 2009

This infested house

Dear Frank Hoess: As I recently learned, it was you who, in the late 1930s, came to invent modern metal siding for residential buildings. Of course, World War II and the resulting demand for steel and aluminum put the kibosh on the business for a while. ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Boston Globe,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: History Channel

You’ve lost mail

Dear Alan Cote: It seems to me that, as head of the state’s Public Records Division, you’re the point person in this whole business about the deleted City Hall e-mails. The federal prosecutors in pursuit of Dianne Wilkerson and Chuck Turner wanted some ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Boston Globe,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dianne Wilkerson

Strain on the nerves

Dear H1N1: As a mark of respect, I call you by your actual name, and not by your nom de tabloid, “Swine Flu.” I am very interested in keeping and maintaining a mutual level of respect here because, quite honestly, I’d rather not have you stopping by ...

From CHARLES P. PIERCE, Boston Globe,  3 Oct 2009

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