Results tagged “sportsredux”

How would you handle it? Straight up revenge, going after Matt Cooke? Eye-for-an-eye, going after Sidney Crosby? Or just try to win the game? That's the dilemma the Bruins face tonight, with Cooke and the Penguins in town for the first time since he knocked Marc Savard out for the year with the famous cheapshot to the back of Savvy's head. more ›

The Celtics AND the Bruins? Both winning in solid fashion against inferior opponents on consecutive nights? Has the world turned upside-down? more ›

It's not a cure-all, by any stretch. But last night, the Celtics played the kind of game exactly like we've been hoping for, as they raced out to an early lead against Detroit, and - wait for it - held on throughout, for a 119-93 whupping. We needed that. more ›

The NCAA Tournament is rolling around just in time. Because we're actually starting to forget what hard-fought, competitive basketball looks like. more ›

The Celtics didn't make any rumored changes to the starting five and routed the Indiana Pacers 122-103. But, the bench and its 26 first-half points provided a spark to help the Celtics quickly open a first-half lead. At the end of the first quarter, Marquis Daniels scored a bucket, Nate Robinson buried a three-pointer and Glen Davis blocked a shot to put Boston up six, 29-23. more ›

Offensive struggles? What offensive struggles? more ›

Maybe this will be the one that gets to them. The collapses against Orlando and Cleveland didn't do it. The close loss to LA didn't do it. The having to struggle just to get by Detroit and Washington didn't do it. And the loss to New Jersey didn't do it. more ›

Andy Warhol was misquoted! Turns out, what he meant was that in the future, everyone would be the Red Sox shortstop for 15 minutes. Or maybe he just meant Nomar Garciaparra, who will reportedly come to Fort Myers today for a press conference in which he'll sign a minor league deal, put on a Red Sox cap, retire and take a job with ESPN as an analyst. Or be packaged with Mike Lowell, we're not sure. more ›

Ulf Samuelsson. Bill Laimbeer. Bernard Pollard. And now, Matt Cooke? more ›

Maybe the Bruins didn't make any world-shattering moves at the trading deadline. But it seems like they pulled their ace goalie back from the brink of irrelevancy, and that might be enough to get them over the hump. more ›

Are you optimistic about the Celtics? Should you be? Friday's 96-86 win over Philadelphia is the team's third in a row after the debacle against the historically bad New Jersey Nets. Wins are wins even if they come against bad teams like Charlotte, Detroit and Philly. Boston's got a week of winnable games ahead of them until a trip to Cleveland next Sunday. The Celtics and some recent opponents are optimistic about the team and think they simply need to overcome injuries and gel as a team. Charlotte coach Larry Brown thinks the Celtics are for real. "They’ve had some injuries. They’re just starting to get healthy. So they’re going to be all right," Brown said. more ›

He wasn't the man of the hour - we'll get to that - but we're not going to pass up a trip through the headlines on a night when Miroslav Satan scored the game-winner for the Bruins. The Globe: "Satan has a hand in Bruins' win". ESPN: "Satan scores lone goal in SO...". And probably more, but it's hard to Google his name without getting sucked into the Internet for hours. more ›

As wildly inconsistent as the Celtics have been this season, there's one great truth: they love seeing the Charlotte Bobcats appear on the schedule. more ›

Where do you go after suffering what might be the worst loss in franchise history? (Hyperbole? How many other 5-52 teams have the Celtics ever lost to?) Do you give up on basketball? Walk the Earth like David Carradine and Jules Winnfield? more ›

We're up front and honest here at Bostonist. We'll fess up when we screw up. So in the interest of further disclosure, we'll freely admit that the words "Just as long as Sidney Crosby doesn't score the game-winner" were uttered by this Bostonist exactly 0.00045 seconds before Sidney Crosby scored the game-winner. Sorry about that. more ›

Well, that was something. Coming after a shaky stretch and an embarrassing collapse against Cleveland, the Celtics delighted a home crowd by playing their signature brand of tough D and opportunistic offense, taking advantage of a historically bad Nets team and rolling off their biggest blowout of the year. more ›

The last time we saw the Patriots, Baltimore beat them so badly, we didn't recognize them. The Herald seems to like the idea of, as the saying goes, putting the band back together so we can see them play like they used to back in 2007, or earlier. David Patten is back in the fold after a year off, and free agent Mike Vrabel wants back in. more ›

If NBA games were 30 minutes long, we're pretty sure the Celtics would still be talking about 72 wins. more ›

It started with a welcome sight: the Celtics playing at home for the first time in months and months (it seemed). It had a great moment when Eddie House came back, if you can call it back, since he hadn't missed any home games, and got and gave back all appropriate love from the Garden crowd. And, most importantly, it ended with a win, as the Celtics survived another big-lead-giveaway and held on to beat the Knicks 110-106. more ›

If you'd told us a couple of weeks ago that the Celtics, slogging their way through a mediocre winter, would come back from this post-ASG Western swing 3-1, we'd have first checked to see if you'd just been hit in the head with a 2x4, then we would have been pleasantly surprised. more ›

The Boston Celtics (35-18) four-game road swing continued with a third consecutive victory on Friday, a 96-76 decision over the Portand Trailblazers. Ray Allen paced the Green with 21 points, 11 coming in the fourth quarter as the home team tried to rally. "Ray is going to get traded tomorrow," Doc Rivers said. "We're going to keep saying it so he can keep playing well." more ›

Sure, the Lakers were shorthanded, missing a future Hall-of-Famer whose basket beat the Celtics in Boston back in January. But the Celtics were shorthanded, too, with one backup PG en route to the Knicks and the new one on his way to join the team out West. So the C's sympathize. more ›

Eddie House knows how this goes. You don't play on eight teams in ten years without understanding the business. You don't spend the early part of your career getting waived by chumps like the Bucks and Bobcats, only to find yourself a key rotation guy on a championship team, without realizing that basketball is a crazy world. And since he seems to internalized the fact that he'll be a Knick later today - "I have friends that I will have for the rest of my life on this team, but it’s life. It’s not the end of the world" - we're glad he's OK with it. Since we're still not sure if we are or not. more ›

It wasn't pretty, but the Celtics will take an unpretty win over an unpretty loss any day of the week. more ›

Well, our new(?) Big Three(?) did well for themselves on the NBA's biggest midseason stage. more ›

With the truck headed for the FLA, the Association in All-Star hibernation and the Bruins off after escaping Tampa Bay with a 5-4 win, Bostonist is left with rumors. more ›

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. more ›

Well, not an actual dictionary. We used the Internet. And even though Wikipedia informs us that you can't technically call it a "winning streak" until it hits three games, we're going to go ahead and award the battered Bruins the title after their second straight win. more ›

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. more ›

So sayeth Milan Lucic, whose overskating led to the game-tying goal yesterday at the Garden, as the Bruins' tour through the various circles of Hell continued with a 3-2 shootout loss to Vancouver, their 10th in a row. more ›