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Lots to talk about today! (Especially since we had technical problems yesterday. Sorry.) Let's go chronologically, based on yesterday's action:
Fans showed up for yesterday's Celtics game and were surprised (well, we were, anyway) to find Kevin Garnett not in the building. Was he traded? Hurt? He's not the type to just not show up for a game, even one that started at noon. Turned out he was sick—sick enough to not play basketball, which for KG means he probably had an advanced case of bubonic plagues. So Big Baby got the start, and played pretty well. But it was Paul Pierce, who knew he'd have to elevate his game with the big guy out, who did the bulk of the damage (36 points) as the Celtics held off a feisty and spirited Timberwolves team, 109-101.
The Wolves got as nice a reception as any visitors will ever get, which makes sense when their coach is Kevin McHale, and two of their starters are Al Jefferson and Ryan Gomes. (Telfair, not so beloved.) Jefferson showed exactly why Minnesota wanted him in return for KG, as he poured in bucket after bucket in the third to keep the Wolves alive. He finished with 34.
The Bruins had a fantastic weekend, following a 1-0 win over the Rangers on Saturday with a 3-1 win at the suddenly not-so-scary Montreal. Saturday was the season debut of Tuukka Rask, who may be able to give Tim Thomas a night off now and then with Fernandez injured, and Rask played as well as a goalie can play, stopping 35 NYR shots and helping the B's cling to the 1-0 win. On Sunday, the Bruins went north and pushed the Habs around, with Thomas was back in goal and the B's fining more offense. Dennis Wideman scored in the last second of the first to tie it up 1-1, then Shawn Thornton scored in the second and Savard put in an empty-netter. "This is the reason you lace 'em up," said a jubilant Thornton afterwards.
And also yesterday, there was a football game that lived up to its hype. Actually, there hasn't been a really boring Super Bowl in years. Last night looked like it was going to be a Pittsburgh rout (running an INT back 100 yards at the gun in the first half will do that), then it looked like Arizona was going to get cheated out of a chance to come back (way more penalties for "late hits" and "unsportsmanlike conduct" than we though were warranted), then Arizona did come back, because Larry Fitzgerald is really as good as everyone said he was, then Ben Roethlisberger found Santonio Holmes on the micron-wide edge of the end zone for the game winner. That was fun, assuming you didn't have strong feelings about who won. And we don't want to hear anything about the commercials that doesn't begin and end with the genius of Alec Baldwin.
Michael Phelps was busted for smoking something that sure looked like marijuana. We'll see if this leads to a national discussion over whether something that doesn't keep a guy from winning a ton of gold medals is really all that bad, or if he'll become a national villain and lose his endorsements. Hmm. In a totally unrelated matter, Bob Lobel took over as interim sports-news anchor on WBZ radio from the recently retired Gil Santos. We'd double-check everything in the paper until Lobel gets his legs under him.
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I'm thrilled Bob Lobel is back, even if it's just for a few days. I hope this means he'll be back on TV soon to replace that hack Steve Burton.
But, I have news. I typed in Bob Lobel to search for more details. The first link was to Bostonist.
Woo Hoo!