Tom Brady, to the surprise of nobody, was named AFC offensive player of the week for the second week in a row. Brady, of course, deferred credit to the entire Patriots offense. Starting center Dan Koppen highlights a slew of injuries for the team. Koppen's broken fibula earned him a season-ending spot on injured reserve despite a slight chance he could return late in the season.
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Danny Ainge continues to remake the Boston Celtics by signing forward Troy Murphy to the veteran's minimum. He was bought out by the Golden State Warriors, after being traded by New Jersey there, and must clear waivers before he can officially sign. The new-look Bruins look good lately after a 1-0 shutout win over the Ottawa Senators last night. The Bruins swept through the league with a 6-0-0 record on a six-game trip.
Well, the question of whether the Knicks are for real has been answered. They are. A little too real, to the point where the Celtics had to dig deep and hang on for dear life to beat them last night in New York.
After losing four of five games, the Bruins now find themselves in a three-game winning streak with the Los Angeles Kings on the schedule tonight for a potential fourth straight win. It's simple to see why they're succeeding again with a 10-2 goal differential in three games.
The Bruins dropped consecutive games for the first time this season, losing 2-1 in a shootout to St. Louis Saturday. The Blues got a great performance from Jaroslav Halak with 33 saves on 34 shots as the ex-Canadiens goalie got his sixth straight win.
So, if the Bruins need to win nine more games to capture the Stanley Cup, and lose a player for the season every game and a half...can Chara, Satan and Rask beat San Jose 3-on-6?
Sox, Bruins, Celtics starting over in May
April is over. The 11-12 Red Sox hope their crappy play is over, too. Fittingly the month ended with the Sox losing a winnable game to Baltimore, 5-4, in 10 innings. Miguel Tejada was 3-4 with a home run and three RBI. Tejada tied the game at 4-4 in the eighth inning with a homer, and plated the winning run with a single in the 10th.
John Lackey struggled early by giving up two first-inning runs. He completed seven innings, allowing three runs on six hits. He left with a lead before Daniel Bard, Ramon Ramirez, Hideki Okajima, and Manny Delcarmen blew it. J.D. Drew (2) and Dustin Pedroia combined to hit three home runs for the Sox.
Jack Edwards put it succinctly. "Snowball 1, hell 0." The 2009-2010 Boston Bruins - the team that has battled injury, listlessness, and a frequently maddening inability to put a puck into the opposition's net - are going to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
And so does Youk. But we'll get to him.
The Bruins were down 2-0. In the long-ago regular season, that meant you could grab the shovel out of the closet and start digging right then and there. But the playoff Bruins are a completely different entity, and when they started the third period in a two-goal hole, they nodded grimly and went to work.
What a day. So much to talk about! And that's not even counting the Red Sox, who managed to lose both Friday night's game and Saturday night's game on the same evening, and are counting their lucky stars that the Orioles are lodged in the cellar to break their fall. And that there are two interesting playoff runs developing to distract us all.
After 200 pitches, over 3+ hours of baseball, and an hour-long rain delay, nothing was accomplished as the first game of 2010 between the Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays was suspended until Saturday because of rain. The game begins again tonight at 7:10 p.m., according to the Globe.
Josh Beckett earned his new, Texas-sized paycheck on Friday. The ace of (the) Sox completed seven innings and allowed one run on four hits, and allowed no runs or hits in the ninth. Unfortunately, for Beckett, his effort got him no decision.
We've got wins to cover. We've got a playoff matchup set, and another one developing with some bad blood. We've got near-injuries and shocking displays of power. And we won't mention T---- W---- or golf once, except for just now. Let's get started.
Somewhere between "walkoff HR by Julio Lugo" and "26 points, 15 rebounds for Rasheed Wallace" lies the recent clutch performance of the Bruins' Dennis Wideman. Having spent the whole year in a funk beyond funk, booed off the ice multiple times, Wideman suddenly has the announcers raving about his energy, and suddenly has a big time goal to his credit.
C's Drop 3rd Straight at Garden, Face LeBron Sunday
The Boston Celtics dropped their third straight game at home by a 119-114 (OT) score to the Houston Rockets. Their reward is an Easter Sunday visit from LeBron and Cleveland.
Doc Rivers said there were too many things the Green did wrong to win Friday to list. But, he recited a long list anyway. Here is the short version: "I don't think we played very smart, " Doc said. "We should have put it away (in the second half)."
Tuukka Rask has been worse for the psyches of Atlantans this season than General Sherman. Rask notched his second straight shutout of the Thrashers, 4-0 last night, giving the Bruins two desperately-needed points to create a little distance between themselves and the other playoff hopefuls.
Yes, the Bruins managed to achieve this modest goal yesterday, treating their fans to an actual win. A win that really matters, even, since the 2-1 decision over the Rangers pushed New York down to five points out of the playoffs and helped the B's keep a one-point lead over the hot Thrashers for that final spot.
Well, our new(?) Big Three(?) did well for themselves on the NBA's biggest midseason stage.
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.
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.
1925. Coolidge was President. The New Yorker debuted, and The Great Gatsby was published. Yogi Berra, Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcom X were born. And the Bruins had a nine-game winless streak.
One team's up, one team's down. One team is charging into the new year even with injuries, one has two stars out and is floundering. Our whole city is Even Steven today.
Phil Kessel's played two games in the Garden since became an ex-employee there. We wonder if he's wistful, since his Leafs were smacked around both times. Last night, he watched his old teammate build a 3-0 lead and hang on for a 5-2 win. Goals by Mark Stuart, Derek Morris and David Krejci built the lead, then after Tuukka Rask let in two, Mark Recchi took over and scored the insurance goal and an empty-net lagniappe to put the Leafs away.
The Bruins won! Sure, they gave up a 2-0 first-period lead, and they allowed Atlanta to tie the game again, 3-3, in the final minute. But Patrice Bergeron beat Ondrej Pavelec in the shootout to give the B's their first win in like forever.
“The season doesn’t wind down. It just comes to a crashing halt,” Boston manager Terry Francona.
That quote wraps up the entire sports day as the Boston Red Sox and the New England Patriots were on the losing end of comebacks today.
Paul Byrd comes back from a year on the shelf and throws a gem. Tim Wakefield comes back from the DL and gets a W. And now Daisuke Matsuzaka comes back from three months away and beats the Angels. Clearly, some of these guys need weeks and weeks off between starts. Let's seriously look into the 75-man rotation next year.
Lots to talk about today! (Especially since we had technical problems yesterday. Sorry.) Let's go chronologically, based on yesterday's action:
Hope you sports fans were able to relax yesterday. The disappointing non-slaughter of the Jets is in the rear view mirror, the Dolphins game isn't quite as exciting since the stupid Ravens ended Miami's bid for a winless season, everything is sewn up in the AFC, and the Monday Night game wasn't that exciting. Plus, the Celtics and Bruins were off.
The baseball winter meetings are over, and the Red Sox find themselves without an ace. Except for the one they have. And the Japanese guy who might yet become one. And the old cowboy back for one more year. And the two or three promising kids who might be a couple years away. But they haven't landed Johan Santana, which is either a failure (if they really were after Santana) or a success (if their...
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...
As tempting as it would have been for the Bruins to come out swinging last night, playing back the Flyers for Patrice Bergeron's concussion, that's not how they roll. And they needed the two points even more than they needed the visceral satisfaction of seeing the Flyers laid out like the wounded soldiers in Gone With the Wind. The 6-3 shellacking wasn't exactly a tea party, though. Defenseman Andrew Alberts left the game after a...