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• Posted Sports Redux: Revenge to Bostonist
  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. It's not enough for the B's that the NHL is finally thinking about...
• Posted Sports Redux: That's More Like It, Too to Bostonist
  The Celtics AND the Bruins? Both winning in solid fashion against inferior opponents on consecutive nights? Has the world turned upside-down? Patrice Bergeron scored in the first 30 seconds, then the Bruins (after their lead slipped to 3-2) hit Carolina with two goals in the middle of the third period to close their road trip on a positive note with a 5-2 win. They still had to sweat it out when Bergeron was helped...
• Posted Sports Redux: That's More Like It to Bostonist
  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. Detroit, which was an Eastern Conference power like 20 minutes ago, looked like they didn't belong in the same building, and it got even worse for...
• Posted Sports Redux: March Badness to Bostonist
  The NCAA Tournament is rolling around just in time. Because we're actually starting to forget what hard-fought, competitive basketball looks like. The Celtics, who won't come out and admit that they're sleepwalking to the playoffs, but come on, hung around with Cleveland for three quarters, then either packed it it (which is maddening) or (more troubling, and more likely) couldn't sustain it for four, as the Cavs raced away with the 104-93 win. LeBron...
• Posted Sports Redux: Bruins Come Alive! to Bostonist
  Matt Slocum / Associated Press Offensive struggles? What offensive struggles? The Bruins put more goals on the board last night than they did in the entire month of February - well, that's how it seems - exploding for a 5-1 win in Philadelphia that showed they still have a little spunk in them. The big winner of the day was Patrice Bergeron, moved onto the first line after Marc Savard's injury (which they now...
• Posted Sports Redux: Another Week, Another Rock Bottom to Bostonist
  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. If the Celtics are going to find that magical extra gear that will allow them not to completely humiliate themselves once the playoffs start,...
• Posted Sports Redux: If I Were Shortstop For Just One Day to Bostonist
  Image from Wikipedia. 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...
• Posted Sports Redux: Bruins Lose More Than A Game to Bostonist
  Keith Srakokic / Associated Press Ulf Samuelsson. Bill Laimbeer. Bernard Pollard. And now, Matt Cooke? Cooke, a left-winger/jerk for the Penguins, who has already been suspended a couple of times this season for unacceptable hits, laid out Marc Savard with a blindside check late in the third period. When Savard finally came off the ice, it was on a board, and the diagnosis is concussion. The Bruins (who lost 2-1, but whatever) were outraged....
• Posted Sports Redux: Bruins' Trip Starts With A Win to Bostonist
  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. Tim Thomas followed up his sensational performance Thursday vs. Toronto with another stellar effort, as the B's stuffed the Islanders 3-2 to start their pivotal seven-game roadtrip with a victory. Thomas notched 37 saves on the afternoon,...
• Posted Sports Redux: So Many Miroslav Satan Headlines to Choose From to Bostonist
  Charles Krupa / Associated Press 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...
• Posted Sports Redux: We'll Always Have Charlotte to Bostonist
  Elise Amendola / Associated Press 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. Charlotte coach Larry Brown said, "I don't buy all this stuff that they're in trouble," but he may not be the best source, because the C's have shown an ability to throttle the Bobcats the way they throttle no others. Last night was case in...
• Posted Sports Redux: Knicks Help Celtics Beat Pistons to Bostonist
  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? Or do you reach into the Knicks' playbook for some inspiration? Doc Rivers wanted Nate Robinson to feel comfortable with the C's, so he spent the last couple of days, not reeling...
• Posted Sports Redux: Blame <strike>Canada</strike> Bostonist to Bostonist
  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. We don't even have any particularly strong beef against the hockey wunderkind. We were rooting for the US, of...
• Posted Sports Redux: Words Fail to Bostonist
  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. Except that none of that happened. Coming off a shaky stretch and an embarassing collapse against Cleveland, the Celtics lost to the historically bad Nets, showing...
• Commented on Insane Coupon Lady Saving Money, Making Everyone at CVS Want to Strangle Her
  As someone who has waited in many a line in my day, I still don't see a lot of people with multiple coupons. All I ask is that you (a) don't spend more than 14 minutes picking out your lottery...
• Posted Sports Redux: It's Getting Worse and Worse to Bostonist
  If NBA games were 30 minutes long, we're pretty sure the Celtics would still be talking about 72 wins. But they're not. And we're not. We're feeling all sorts of conflicting emotions about this team right now, but rampant overconfidence and optimism aren't among 'em. Because the Celtics (sing along if you like) built a big lead, and then watched it go completely to hell as the faster, hungrier, just-plain-better Cavaliers raced past them...
• Posted Sports Redux: Happy Homecoming to Bostonist
  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...
• Posted Sports Redux: Great Trip Ends In A Thud to Bostonist
  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. So we'll dwell on the overall record, and chalk up yesterday's loss in Denver to fatigue and whatever's ailing Paul Pierce. Because Ray's...
• Posted Our New Senator Totally Understands Why That Guy Flew A Plane Into A Building to Bostonist
  So, you're new Senator Scott Brown. You're on Fox News to talk about how horrible the government is, and to get your puss out on national TV in preparation for your 2012 run. And host Neil Cavuto throws you a soft question, asking you to react to the nutball flying his plane into the IRS offices in Austin. Do you: (a) express sympathy for the families, admit that there are some cracked individuals out...
• Posted Sports Redux: Hanging On For Dear Life to Bostonist
  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. OK, missing Eddie House/Nate Robinson isn't quite the same thing as missing Kobe Bryant. But the Lakers were 4-0 without Kobe, and are...