This won't work all the time. There are going to be nights when lollygagging it in the first half, then turning it on in the second, won't be enough. Last night was not one of those nights. The Celtics came out in the first half sluggish, especially on defense. "Their biorhythms are off," said radio announcer Sean Grande, and it sure looked like he was right. The Sixers, struggling all season and trying to welcome......

The fate of nations will be determined this evening in the meadowlands of New Jersey, and we don't mean the upcoming Tony Soprano/Phil Leotardo showdown. The NBA Lottery is tonight, and we'll know if the Celtics are about to take another chance on another unproven youngster, or land one of the two sure-thing prizes in this summer's draft. The C's have a 19.9% chance of landing the #1 pick (Greg Oden, and don't let anyone......

So the Celtics won a game against an injury-depleted Houston Rockets. That's swell and all, but the real sports news involved a man named "Cornbread." As the Sports Redux noted yesterday, Dave Adams at Universal Hub overheard WRKO Celtics announcer and former NBA player Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell say of female referee Violet Palmer, "Get back in the kitchen!" Apparently he didn't like one of her calls. Adams writes, "Max's partner, Sean Grande, tried to throw......