Bio: Cafardo covers news relating to the Boston Red Sox for the Boston Globe sports section. He covers issues associated with Major League Baseball and writes the Sunday baseball notes column. He also writes a baseball column on the Boston Red Sox and is a contributor on the New England Sports Network (NESN) Red Sox pre-game show. He previously served as beat writer for the Red Sox and New England Patriots and was the national football writer for the Globe. Cafardo authored the "The Impossible Team," the story of the 2001 Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and "None but the Braves," the story of the 1995 World Champion Atlanta Braves. Before joining the Globe, he covered the Red Sox for the Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) and Brockton Enterprise, where he covered the climb of Marvin Hagler to middleweight boxing world champion. Cafardo has been a member of the Boston Globe sports staff since November of 1989.