Sports Championships by City Since 2000

I wanted to visualize sports championships in Boston this century vs. everywhere else, so I made a graphic. The graphic shows all titles won in the four major sports from 1/30/2000 to 2/3/2019. Special thanks to Dan Holmes for providing the necessary data to fill in the chart (or “trophy case”). He previously posted a similar article on Medium here.

See and/or download a high-resolution version of the graphic here.

20 Free Things to do in Boston in February

February might be the shortest month, but it’s long on free events. The ‘r’ in February is silent, but maybe it stands for ‘R you serious with all of these free events?” 2019 might not be a leap year, but you’ll leap for joy when you see all of these free — OK I’ll stop. Here’s a bunch of free stuff to do around Boston this month. (more…)