The Bruins are back tonight less than four months after winning the Stanley Cup and bringing it back to Boston. The summer-long Cup fun is over, the players got their much-earned rings - 505 people got rings, even Tomas Kaberle, we think - that are almost as big as the Cup. Okay, not quite.
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The Boston Bruins (3-1-0) bring a three-game winning streak into TD Garden for tonight's home opener against the Washington Capitals at 7:00 p.m. The Bruins beat the Caps on Tuesday, 3-1.
PROGRAMMING NOTE: As we were about to post this, the U.S. just scored with either 2 seconds or 5 minutes left (damn you, confusing soccer clock). Which is really good news. More later...
Despite a promising 16-7 spurt to open the game, Atlanta's brash brand of confident basketball was too much for the Celtics to handle as the Hawks swept their way to a 100-91 win. Atlanta beat the Green three times in January to secure a season series sweep for the first time since 1998-99. Atlanta took over second place in the Eastern Conference with the win.
When Josh Beckett stomped off the mound after the fourth inning, he sure looked mad about something. Perhaps Beckett was realizing that he is done pitching against Atlanta for the balance of the 2009 season. Beckett (9-3) stopped the Braves cold, again, this time with seven shutout innings, six hits and six strikeouts as the Red Sox beat the Braves, 8-2. Beckett pitched 16 scoreless innings against Atlanta this year. Hideki Okajima and Jonathan Paplebon closed the game out. Both were adequate, at best, as Paplebon served up a home run to someone named David Ross, who exists and played eight games for Boston in 2008.
Comics Come Home Saturday, November 10, 7:30 pm Agganis Arena, Boston University Tickets The 13th annual Comics Come Home event, which raises money for the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care, is happening this weekend. Of course, Denis Leary is hosting, and Mike Birbiglia, the ubiquitous Lenny Clarke, Artie Lange, Jim Norton, Robert Kelly, Joe Yannetty, and Pete Correale will perform. Birbiglia is a favorite in the -Ist-a-Verse and has talked to Gothamist and SFist....
The Red Sox were at home, facing down the Oakland A's on Tuesday night, but everyone had one eye on events unfolding in Florida. And wouldn't you know? Things worked out perfectly. The drama-filled Oakland game (only in September would one be able to string those words together) was decisively won by Boston and featured numerous reasons for the Fenway crowd to stand up and cheer. Tampa Bay managed to scratch together a 10-inning, 7-6,...
Jerry Remy summed it up perfectly last night: "Both are terrible." The Rem wasn't talking about the play on display Saturday night at Petco Park in San Diego (although at times, he wouldn't have been far off), but was discussing the throwback uniforms worn by the Sox and Padres last night. Memo to both teams: burn those uniforms now. It looked as if "The Wizard of Oz" had thrown up all over Petco Park. Boston...
YouTube is still up and running and we're searching out some sweet copyrighted materials before Google really gets involved and forces some of it to come down. This week we've been hitting replay clip over and over trying to learn some new words to We Didn't Start the Fire thanks to bunkosquad. Take a look back at sports in the eighties in a five minute intro clip from the CBS 4 montage intro for their retrospective show "The Great 80's" – if we find the rest of the program we'll let you know. If you've somehow forgot the 80's in Boston sports have your memory jogged by images of Cam Neely, Bill Buckner, and of course Larry Bird in the short shorts.




