While you, and we, have been fixated on the Red Sox and the Patriots and the Celtics, the Revolution have quietly made their way back to the MLS Cup. And it's time attention is paid.

The Revs are in the Finals for the third straight year, and fourth since 2002. They got there by outlasting Chicago 1-0, with Taylor Twellman scoring his second goal of the playoffs. Which was also the team's second goal of the playoffs. And it was spectacular. Seriously. Watch it. Meanwhile, Matt Reis notched his third straight shutout of the postseason. Even the Sox couldn't pull that off.

So now it's on to the championship, on November 18, against Houston or Kansas City. The Revolution would very much like to not be the early-90s Buffalo Bills of the MLS and finally bring a championship home. We're starved, boys; it's been almost two weeks since we last won something.

Meanwhile, the power outage continues for the Bruins. Bostonist went to the Garden to check the B's out in person last night; what we saw, and what seems to be a chronic issue for them, is a total lack of offensive energy. They don't keep time-of-possession stats in hockey (they don't, do they?), but our unofficial count was that the Bruins had the puck most of the game and yet could barely make any attack on Montreal goalie Carey Price.

The culprits were the passing (they still pass and receive passes like guys who just met each other yesterday afternoon), but mostly the power-play, which completely fizzled in the third period. The Bruins had 1:58 of a two-man advantage, and got only two shots out of it, passing it around deliberately like they hoped a Hab would fall asleep or see something shiny or something. At the other end, Tim Thomas did his standard yeoman's work, allowing two goals to Tomas Plekanec. Even two goals should occasionally be overcomeable. But not right now.

Patrice Bergeron met the media for the first time since his concussion two weeks ago. He said basically he feels crappy, he'd like to come back but he doesn't know when, and he'd really like it if nobody else ever got slammed face-first into the glass on a cheap shot from behind.

The Celtics host Atlanta tonight. Bob Ryan is fired up.