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The Slipper Will Fit for These Two Cinderellas

Post author By Trevor
Post date February 22, 2005
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by Trevor Freeman

With college basketball’s regular season winding down, I felt it was time for me to peg the two teams which I feel will create the most bracket disruption come March. These two schools have all the qualities necessary to wear the “slipper” and I feel it is only a matter of time before you begin to hear names like Paul Marigney and Jamar Howard. While these teams generally do not get to the Final Four, they usually find their way to the Sweet 16 and if the Gods are aligned perhaps the Elite Eight. I think it is these “Cinderella” teams that make the NCAA Tournament the greatest sporting spectacle on the planet. If you did not get the hint above and do not know the two teams I see causing the most bracket damage in March, let me reveal them to you now.

High School Sports

For Once- They Got It Right

Post author By bsd987
Post date February 22, 2005
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They never get it right.

Never.

But Monday at Stony Brook University, the Section XI Division I wrestling coaches got it right: Chris Iorio was voted Most Outstanding Wrestler.

Boston Red Sox

Review of "Faith Rewarded"

Post author By weaver99
Post date February 22, 2005
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“One of the greatest comebacks you’ll ever see” You might think this quote is referring to the historic 2004 ALCS comeback by the Boston Red Sox, well in the NESN Faith Rewarded DVD this little quote is from Charlie Steiner the Yankees color man referring to that blackest of games in 2003. That’s right; the NESN DVD starts us off with the Aaron effin Boone homer and how Grady Little went to the mound in the 8th and forgot to bring a certain someone with him back to the dugout. Faith Rewarded does a great job of doing just that, taking us from the lowest of the low and then rewarding us with the highest of the high.

NBA General

Larry Legend- the Nation Turns its Lonely Eyes to You

Post author By BostonMac
Post date February 21, 2005
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By Ryan McGowan

A couple of months ago, I was playing cards at home with a few buddies in our usual Thursday night game. For whatever reason, we decided to put on my roommate’s DVD copy of Larry Bird: A Basketball Legend, a video on which at least four questions on the tenth-grade MCAS exam should be based. (Perhaps a compare-and-contrast essay topic in which the student has to dissect the Bird-Magic rivalry in the context of the greater cultural Boston-L.A. rivalry, for some interdisciplinary learning.)

Boston Red Sox

Red Sox 2005 Preview

Ahhh; 2004. I have a feeling sox fans will be clinging to that number for quite awhile. I’m not saying Boston will not win another championship for a long time, I’m simply putting it out there that many fans still have not come to grips with what the hell happened that magical October in 2004, and just how amazing it was. For me it hit me when I picked up the “Faith Rewarded” DVD and just sat back with a few beers. I had this smirk on my face the whole way through, you know like the one George Bush uses right after he say’s something completely serious but then throws that inappropriate smirk at you.

NBA General

Weekly Musings: All Star Edition

Post author By kcasini
Post date February 20, 2005
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The All-Star beak is approaching, and with it the trade deadline. So far the NBA Rumor Mill hasn’t been churning like the Musings had hoped. Some teams have to decide now whether or not they’re in it to win it (Boston, Philly). Other teams need to make decisions on impending free-agents and expiring contracts (Milwaukee, Minnesota) and the rest will sort things out after the season. Let’s take a look at some teams that could be players during All-Star Weekend and some players that could be stars.

NHL General

Hockey season has been cancelled. A good thing or a bad thing?

Post author By CMack
Post date February 19, 2005
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By Chris Mackey

The NHL has cancelled the remainder of the season. Is it a good thing or bad thing? Right now, it’s bad. But in the end it’s good. A second prominent sport in America will have a salary cap, more than likely, and maybe that will cause the other two, baseball and basketball, to follow suit.

NHL General

They Should Have Been Involved From the Beginning

Post author By skipperk8888
Post date February 18, 2005
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Reports out of Canada on Friday night have the NHL and NHLPA reaching an agreement in principle on a 45 million dollar cap. See guys this wasn’t that hard all you had to do was meet in the middle and a deal was possible.

NHL General

GET THE JOB DONE ALREADY

For the eight remaining hockey fans in the United States, this has been a tough week for us. We have been through as many deadlines as Robert Downey Jr. trips to rehab and finally a cancelltion, but as we head into the weekend there is speculation that the players and owners will be meeting this weekend in hopes of finding a resolution to this mess.

MLB General

Wins and Needles

Let me just get this out of the way right now: I’m a big juice fan. Always have been. It started with apple juice when I was younger, then I later moved on to orange juice, and finally to cranberry. So when I found out that my favorite baseball player of all-time was writing a book titled “Juiced”, I was thrilled. I innocently assumed that Jose Canseco was joining the juice/health/low-carb/tofu/styrofoam craze that’s been sweeping the nation, coming at it from the creepy Jack LaLanne juice-and-smoothie angle. Jose had always been careful about what he put in his body, so this book idea only made sense. At least that’s what passed for my defense of him until recently.