Doug Small reviews the biggest sports stories of the week, and the best sports stories of the week. Sometimes the biggest and the best are the same story, but usually Doug doesn’t think so.
Welcome to the first installment of my weekly column, “The Biggest and the Best”. I’ll be reviewing the week’s top sports stories, as well as its best. Sometimes, the same story qualifies as both. Usually not. Enough about how this works…let’s get started
Written by a Yankees fan, why the Yankees deserve to lose to the Red Sox this year.
I am a New York Yankees fan. Diehard, at that. Yet, for some reason, the intense Division race going on between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox doesn’t faze me. I’m not obsessing about it.
by Trevor Freeman
This morning I received an e-mail from a Yankee fan and smiled…….the nervousness is setting in.
“Why do you even bother? We all know how this ends….with the Bronx Bombers hoisting the World Series trophy for the 27th……let me repeat…27th time. The Oakland Athletics are not beating anyone, Boston will have its way with you guys and then they’ll head to the BX for their annual ass-kicking at the hands of the Yankees. Do yourself a favor and start mentally conditioning yourself for the inevitable.”
If you’re a sports nut, like I am, you constantly hear about the great teams of the past. The 1961 Yankees. The 1972 Dolphins. Wooden’s Bruins, Rockne’s Irish, Bowman’s Habs, and Russell’s Celtics.
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Is the latest run by the Red Sox another setup? I watch night after night almost expecting doom. Solid pitching, timely hitting, good defense. Pinch me I may be dreaming.
I want to sum up my emotions regarding the Sox since the trading deadline. It has been like watching two different teams, I like the current version much, much better.
The gates are open and the final run is on. It’s going to be a close race, a photo finish, right down to the wire, but however it turns out, the Yankees won’t even be close.
It is time once again to look back on the week in sports. Daniel Collins, host of “Sports Propaganda”, discusses all the events that shaped the week. The USA Basketball team, Gov. James McGreevey, and Deion Sanders are all targets for debate.
By Ryan McGowan
I ran into Dan Shaughnessy, sports columnist for the Boston Globe, a few weeks ago while I was waiting for an order at a Chinese restaurant in Newton. “Shank” is somewhat of a personal hero of mine, not as much for his writing ability (though I do think he is a good writer, even if many disagree with what he has to say) but more so for his status as a fellow Holy Cross graduate/ex-writer for the HC Crusader student newspaper. As there were only four people in the restaurant at the time (myself, Jennifer the Lovely Better Half, and two restaurant employees), you can imagine my startled expression when I was interrupted from reading a crusty 2001 back issue of Newsweek and listening to Muzak versions of “Sweet Home Alabama” by the grand entrance of a tall, lanky, curly-haired man, surrounded by his family, whose face I have seen countless times on TV and headlining the Globe columns bearing his name.
Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason, John Starks.
Remember when these guys were the heart and soul of New York basketball. They hustled for every loose ball and were not afraid to get dirty. They gave the New York Knicks an identity. These were gritty, in-your-face warriors.