Green was the color of the day on Super Bowl Sunday. Yes, Green Bay held off Pittsburgh, 31-25, to win Super Bowl XLV and Aaron Rodgers was named MVP, something #4 never did. Green also means Boston Celtics. They beat Orlando, 91-80, behind a 26-point, 7-assist effort from Rajon Rondo.
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ESPN/ABC reported Marquis Daniels suffered a neck injury in Sunday's Celtics-Magic game. He fell to the floor after colliding with Orlando's Gilbert Arenas in the second quarter. Watching the game live, Daniels looked awake, and motionless, as teammates and trainers looked on. He left the court on a stretcher and was taken to New England Baptist Hospital. He gave a "thumbs up" as he left the court. [Globe]
Another sizable half-court lead....another third quarter stinkbomb. Such are the ways of the Celtics in this young 2010. In this case, it was another total offensive breakdown and a pretty intense lack of defense that turned a 55-43 halftime lead into a 93-85 final score.
Sure, our team may have been unceremoniously thrown out of the playoffs. We may be getting older, showing weaknesses, and be in for a few years of uncertainty and anxiety. But for a few hours, last night, it didn't matter that the Patriots were firmly in the middle of the NFL pack, because we got to watch the Colts unravel on national TV on the game's biggest stage.
While Celtics owner Steve Pagliuca didn't get the win he was hoping for yesterday, he can at least take solace in the fact that his day job is going well, as the C's won their eight straight last night, slamming on the defensive clamps in the 4th quarter to finish off Milwaukee, 98-89.
When does Nick Green start? After Friday's disaster in Chicago, isn't that an appropriate question to ask? Paul Byrd allowed seven runs and 10 hits in just 2.1 innings and probably would have been hit just as hard by his kid's AAU team. Junichi Tazawa survived for 3.2 innings despite allowing five runs on seven hits. Believe it or not, Byrd and Tazawa were worse than it sounds as all 12 of Chicago's runs in the 12-2 loss were compressed into just three innings. Freddy Garcia allowed one run in six innings.
As a wise man once said, "sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar, welll, he eats you." Yesterday, the bar ate the Red Sox, as they couldn't solve Jays starter Mark Rzepczynski and couldn't overcome an outing in which Brad Penny turned into Bad Penny. Throw in defensive miscues like the one pictured here, and it all added up to a frustrating 6-2 loss in Toronto.
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