Michael Femia

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• Posted Sports Redux: A Fair Point to Bostonist
  Charles Krupa / Associated Press It's one point. A shootout loss. One goal. The Bruins will gratefully take it right now. With the offense struggling to even find the goal, let alone put the puck in it, and with swine flu racing towards the team, it's time to think about baby steps. Sure it took two games, two periods, and 19 minutes for the B's to find the net, but Patrice Bergeron did, just...
• Posted Sports Redux: Celtics Escape Wolf Trap to Bostonist
  Let's face it. That was uglier than Minnesota's starting power forward. But if the Celtics are going to make a run at 70+ wins this season (and while PTI and the Globe and others are speculating about the possibility, we say, let's can that talk and let things unfold), they have to win games like last night. Trap games, against young athletic teams, on the second night of back-to-backs. And somehow, finally, the Celtics did.
• Posted Sports Redux: TSOP (The Strangulation of Philadelphia) to Bostonist
  Matt Slocum / Associated Press Superficially, it looked like the old rivalry again. The Sixers have brought back the old logo, the old floor from the Spectrum (more or less) and uniforms that hearken back to the days of Dr. J and Andrew Toney. But the team that Philly put on the floor last night was no match for the early 09-10 Celtics. The '83 Sixers might not have been. The C's did what...
• Posted Sports Redux: The Chronicles of Rondo to Bostonist
  Photo from the Boston Celtics The Celtics are beating good teams by double digits. They're ticking off All-Star opponents. They're 4-0 after dispatching the Hornets last night at the Garden. And most importantly, they seem to have locked up their point guard for a few more years. The C's aren't confirming it, but Rajon Rondo's agent says that his client is close to working out a 5-year extension worth $55 million. Finally (if true)...
• Posted Sports Redux: The Target is Vladimir Sobotka to Bostonist
  Steve Babineau /NHLI Another even-numbered game on the schedule; another win. It's a more reliable way of telling time than waking up this morning and not remembering if your cell phone/computer/alarm clock made the change for you. In Game Twelve of the season, the Bruins and Oilers danced around one another for two periods, with Vladimir Sobotka finally finding the net at the end of the second. Well, a split second after the end...