A female college student was allegedly sexually assaulted on the Esplanade and thrown into the Charles River on Sunday morning. A man told police he found the woman, soaking wet, near the Massachusetts Avenue bridge and se allegedly said she was assaulted. The victim left the area without her purse and identification and when police found her after that, she declined medical attention and couldn't describe the attacker. The Suffolk County D.A. and the State Police advised people to avoid traveling alone and stay in well-lit areas. [WCVB]
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Now that a couple of days have passed since Danny Ainge reshaped the roster of the Celtics, perhaps the team can be able to focus on basketball. They admitted the trades made at the trading deadline, epecially the stunning deal that shipped Kendrick Perkins to Denver, made Thursday's game a hard one to handle.
A title this year seems unlikely at this point. We know we shouldn't judge anything based on last night's 89-75 loss to Denver. They were shorthanded as their new players hadn't arrived yet. They had nothing left to counter Denver's decisive 14-0 run. Paul Pierce scored 17 points. Kevin Garnett added 14 points and 13 rebounds. The Celtics managed just three offensive rebounds.
Danny Ainge strikes again with some unexpected trading of Celtics players. The biggest deal involved sending Kendrick Perkins and Nate Robinson to Oklahoma City for Jeff Green, Nenad Krstic and a first-round draft choice in 2012. Green was chosen with the pick traded to Seattle in the Ray Allen deal.
The match-up of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV is good for the league as the sport's history is on display. We'll watch the game, as will the league's unanimous MVP Tom Brady.
After Kendrick Perkins put the Celtics (37-12) ahead 97-91 with 2:42 left in Friday's game against the Dallas Mavericks, the green didn't score again, and lost 101-97. Jason Kidd scored a three-pointer with 2.5 seconds left putting the Dallas Mavericks ahead to stay. Nowitzki (29 points) added two free throws with 2.2 seconds left.
Kendrick Perkins returned to action for the first time in seven months, and helped the Boston Celtics beat Cleveland 112-95 on Tuesday with seven points and six rebounds. Doc Rivers implied Perkins' presence in uniform sparked the green. "If you are a guy that works 9-to-5, you’ve got to love Perk because that’s who he is," he said.
The Celtics dispensed with the Toronto Raptors early, taking a 67-45 lead at the half and finishing with a 122-102 win, the 3,000th franchise victory. Luke Harangody had his best game as a pro, finishing with 17 points and 11 rebounds. Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 20 points in just three quarters of action. Ray Allen added 17 points and three three-pointers.
The Celtics tangle with the Philadelphia 76ers tonight. We know Doc Rivers will have the boys ready for the 76ers with the Green looking for a 14th straight win. But, he's got the big picture in mind, too. Kendrick Perkins and Jermaine O’Neal both practiced with the Celtics yesterday. Perkins is still 2-3 weeks from full contact drills, while O'Neal might go tonight.
Bostonist was tempted to write just those three words this morning because what can anyone say about Friday night's, uhhh, performance, we guess, by the Red Sox that doesn't involve profanity? Probably nothing.
We suspected it would happen, but it's official. Kendrick Perkins will miss Game Seven, not because of technicals, but because he tore both his MCL and ACL when he wrenched his knee last night. Yes, the same thing that knocked Wes Welker out for the Patriots' brief playoff run. Perk wants everyone to focus: "I don't want anybody to feel sorry for me...it's not about me. It's about winning the title." This means Rasheed Wallace will probably get the start with big Big Baby minutes off the bench. Hopefully, Perk will have to temporarily put off surgery and recovery because he'll be needed for a large civic event this weekend.
For five games in this series, the team on the losing end could look back and say," if we had just done this {better defense/better shooting/Tonya Harding'ed the refs}, we easily could have won this game." Not last night, brother.
We're all happy about Daisuke's good start, and outraged about the worst call ever, but baseball takes a back seat today. We've got a basketball game to watch tonight.
We'll start with some shocking news out of Los Angeles: our counterpart at LAist thinks his Lakers won't be able to pull the series off. We wish we could be that gracious and humble. In a rare example of cross-Finals and cross-country camaraderie, we'll be posting the results of a back-and-forth between the sides sometime tomorrow, though we have to admit LAist's pre-concession will take a little of the wind out of our sails.
The NBA has rescinded Kendrick Perkins' second technical yesterday; the one where he walked away angrily from the ref, not the one where he was picking Pierce off the floor and elbowed a Magic player. (The league also upgraded Pierce's throwing of JJ Redick towards the sideline to a flagrant foul.) This means Perk is no longer subject to mandatory suspension, but if he looks at a ref crosseyed tomorrow, all bets are off. Dwight Howard's elbows have not been sanctioned.
Two caveats: (1) Most of your half-assed, ill-informed sports bloggers will be making all sorts of gleeful references to the Bruins' recent collapse and acting as if they're cracking the code of the Knights Templar by comparing it to the now 3-2 series lead the Celtics have. We will not be among them. (2) It's unseemly to complain about refereeing, unless you're a Lakers fan. We will therefore try to keep that to a minimum.
So...about that regular season.
Sticking it in the face of everyone who was skeptical about their ability to turn it on when it mattered (not that, you know, we ever doubted or anything), the Celtics won their fourth straight playoff game last night, sticking it to a Magic team that may have actually given them their best shot last night.
The NCAA Tournament is rolling around just in time. Because we're actually starting to forget what hard-fought, competitive basketball looks like.
The good news? The toughest three-game stretch of the season is over...three games against three legit contenders (yes, Atlanta, we hear you). The bad news? The Celtics fell short in all three. We won't see three games in a row like this until the playoffs, but the way things are going right now, how long do we really think the playoffs might last?
There was a little panic at 7:17 at the Garden last night. And not the usual panic that ensues when the Jumbotron finds and displays someone inhaling a tray of nachos, either. No, this panic came about when the C's came out to play Indiana without Kevin Garnett in the pregame layup lines. They never announced what had happened at the game (flu? traded to NY for Nate Robinson?), but turns out KG's thigh was bruised and they didn't want to aggravate it. It's not related to the knee problems he had last year, and he'll probably be ready for Christmas in Orlando. Whew.
When the Celtics were really, really good, the Charlotte Bobcats were one team that inexplicably gave them fits and made them work the whole game. Now that the Celtics are shakier (if, in fact, they are), the Bobcats, who just beat Cleveland in a week in which they blew out other teams, play like they're all up on catnip. It's a weird game.
Did you spend all day yesterday watching the rain pour down and hoping that at least things would end well with a Celtic/Bruin doubleheader? If you did, you probably wished you'd gone out and stood in the rain all day instead; you'd feel about the same.
So, Boston, which do you think is worse? The sudden, unexpected fatal heart attack that killed the Bruins last week? Or the slow bleeding-to-death-on-the-sidewalk feeling that permated the Garden throughout the second half last night?
It's tied. But not in the way you'd expect. Sure, Ray Allen had a good shooting night, and Rajon Rondo notched his third triple-double in the playoffs - those are the kinds of things you expect to see in a win, especially one as lopsided as last night's 112-94 triumph.
It IS over, right? They're not going to suddenly declare this 5-out-of-9, right? They're not going to suddenly announce that they found an extra couple of Bulls points in Game Five, so we have to play out another OT?
We don't ask for much. Just occasional warm weather (sigh), a really good omelet now and then, and a time machine, to go back to last January and bet the ranch on the Tampa Bay Rays winning the AL Pennant and the Arizona Cardinals going to the Superbowl. We'd be very rich right now.
CelticsBlog and Adam at Universal Hub have pointed us to plenty of reading material today. We thought we'd spotlight some of our favorite bits:
NOTE: We're going to try to liveblog the Finals again tonight, so check in around 9 to make sure everything's working. It may get a little incoherent near the end. We hope so, anyway.
--The Herald followed up on the story that New England Patriot Nick Kaczur allegedly turned informant after getting busted with oxy. They stated the obvious--being an informant can put one in a dangerous position. [Boston Herald]
We wish we'd thought of this first: the perfect metaphor for these Eastern Conference Finals. Everybody's exhausted, everybody keeps fighting, and everyone streaming out of the Garden last night felt like they just went 15 rounds with a giant chicken. Yes, really.
And just like that, the epic story of the Celtics' postseason road failures is over. The C's built a big lead, survived a Detroit run, built another big lead, survived another Detroit run, and walked out of the Palace of Auburn Hills up 2-1 with a 94-80 win. Home-court advantage is back, the haters and doubters are quiet, and all is more or less right with the world. Until we get to the Sox, that is.