Sports Redux: A Curt Outing

Curt Schilling got a hit! After bunting into a strikeout in the second, Schill hit a bleeder in the fourth that rolled right past second base into center field for a single.

Maybe we should focus on that, since Curt's pitching was...well...bad. Two starts after his Flirt with Destiny, Schilling got rocked again, by Atlanta's bats, giving up six runs on ten hits in less than five innings. His fastball doesn't seem to be fast anymore, and Braves slugger Chipper Jones has an inkling that Curt might be hurt and (try to imagine this scenario) not telling anyone about it. Gulp.

The good news (what there could be in a 9-4 drubbing) was that J.D. Drew finally seems to resemble a competent hitter, and Coco Crisp shocked the world with two home runs (66.6% of his total thus far). But the Sox and their patchwork lineup (Ortiz sat; can we start using the DH again soon?) could only muster runs in little spurts, while Atlanta scored regularly throughout the night.

Tonight, Josh Beckett tries to get back on track after his first loss, against Atlanta's Tim Hudson. The Sox solved Hudson pretty convincingly a few weeks ago at Fenway, winning 6-3, so let's hope they remember what they did in that one.

The Bruins are reportedly set to announce Claude Julien as their next head coach. Julien coached the New Jersey Devils last season to second place in the Prince of Wales Eastern Conference, but got fired very late in the regular season. We tried to figure out why he got fired, but the Internet isn't being very helpful. Whatever he did wrong, we're confident Bruins fans will learn about before too long.

Finally, today is the 20th 21st anniversary of the dreadful day when brand-new Celtic Len Bias decided to celebrate his drafting by sampling some cocaine. We know how that turned out; Bias (by all accounts a hardworking, decent, smart kid and a hell of a ballplayer) dropped dead at 22, and the Celtics began their graceless plunge from the Unquestioned Rulers of the World to the trainwreck we have before us today. Excuse us while we go punch a wall or something.