For Boston sports fans, few, if any, days top Patriot Day. The Red Sox take the field before noon, and the Boston Marathon starts up shortly thereafter.

But Patriot Day 2013 will forever be marred by two explosions that occurred at the Marathon’s finish line about an hour after the first runners crossed.

Earlier in the afternoon, Andrew Bailey blew his first save opportunity of the season as the Red Sox closer, but he proved sports don’t control his life with this tweet:

Very commendable, and let’s not even look into this as an attempt to curry favor with the Red Sox Faithful.

So apparently Carlos Quentin thought maybe — just maybe — Major League Baseball would reduce his eight-game suspension, a punishment he received for his role in Thursday night’s Dodgers/Padres brawl. Buuuuuuuut his San Diego Padres would probably relocate to Tijuana before MLB commish Bud Selig would lighten the sanction.

Quentin is the batter in the video below, and he charges the mound after Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke nails him with a 3-2 pitch in a one-run game — usually not the ideal time to plunk someone for shits and giggles.

Also, note that Greinke broke his collarbone as Quentin crashed into him. It takes a smart guy to think he could come off clean after sparking a brawl like that.

Thankfully, it seems that someone advised Quentin to drop his appeal.

Spike Albrecht was on fire in last night’s NCAA championship game, emerging as the least improbable catalyst in the title game’s history. So it shouldn’t be shocking that his confidence has surged to an all-time high.

Yes, he tweeted at that Kate Upton. The model of every guy’s dreams.

Of all the gutsy shots he took last night, this one tops them all.

Rutgers fired Mike Rice this week after ESPN aired footage of the school’s basketball coach abusing his players — both physically and verbally.

The cursing and pushing certainly won’t help Rice land another job in the coaching business, but he sure could star in a Dodgeball sequel. Rice displays exceptional accuracy with his chucks. Either Globo Gym or the Average Joes would love to have him on their roster.

Referees are supposed to be impartial, right?

Well, Ed Rush certainly lost credibility as an officiating role model, then.

According to a report by CBS’s Jeff Goodman, Rush, the Pac-12’s officials coordinator, told referees at the league’s semifinal he would give $5,000 or a trip to Cancun to the person who would whistle Arizona coach Sean Miller for a technical foul. Rush later said his comments were made in jest, but since an official actually T’d up Miller and Arizona lost the game by two points, Rush has drawn the ire of the nation’s college basketball community.

Well done, sir.

Middle Tennessee cracked the NCAA tournament’s field of 68 teams on Selection Sunday, much to the dismay of many college hoops pundits. But even though the Blue Raiders’ resume lacked quality wins, we’re happy Kermit Davis’ squad earned a Tuesday-night date with St. Mary’s because we were introduced to Monte Towe, a MTSU assistant coach and former national champ at NC State.

I’m not a member of the fraternity of 45-or-more-year-old college basketball buffs who had heard of Towe (rhymes with “ow”), so I cracked up when Marv Albert said the assistant’s name on the broadcast. It sounded strikingly similar to Manti Teo, the infamous Notre Dame linebacker who may or may not have known he was dating a fake girl.

Gerry Sandusky, the Baltimore sportscaster, still tops the All-No-That-Wasn’t-Me Team’s depth chart, though.

Sammy Sosa strained his back while sneezing, Jonathan Lucroy fractured his hand reaching under his bed for a sock and Clint Barmes broke his collarbone after a burdensome load of groceries tripped him up on the stairs.

Well, add Oakland Athletics prospect Michael Taylor to the list of baseball players injuring themselves in unique ways.

Apparently, Taylor sliced open his finger while throwing out his gum in the dugout, gashing his right pinkie on a light fixture.

One of the best defensive forwards to ever hit the NBA hardwood, Dennis Rodman helped the mid-1980s Detroit Pistons earn the “Bad Boys” nickname. He played with an edge, almost a disregard for human life, which makes his recent strides for peace confounding.

Just days after meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Rodman told TMZ he plans on sitting down with the new pope. He feels “needed” there or anywhere that could benefit from a “message of peace and love.”

That’s right, Rodman apparently views himself as a diplomatic peacemaker. He and peace fit together about as well as Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, so we’ll see where this new career path takes him.