The Boston Celtics won their 17th World Championship last night, crushing the Lakers in the process. The final score was 131 to 92, but the game wasn’t that close. During the series’ first 5 games Boston figured out how to stop Kobe Bryant and exploit the porous Lakers defense, resulting in last night’s blowout.
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June 18th, 2008
Irish Eyes Are Smiling
May 5th, 2008
Nice Guys Finish Last
Baseball, like all sport, is about winning. That’s why a score is kept. Athletics for the fun of it is mere recreation, a fine thing in its own right, but not to be confused with competition whose goal is victory. Winning demands ones’ very best, never more so than when opponents are evenly matched. [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Current Affairs, Sports at 2:49 PM UTC
December 23rd, 2007
…and the Agony of Defeat
We Bruin football fans have grown accustomed to disappointment. For most of this century, UCLA’s teams have been characterized by inconsistency, punctuated by periods of outright ineptitude, all mercifully counter-balanced by occasional flights of heavenly accomplishment. Beating USC 13 to 9 last year comes to mind. But by and large, we true Bruins have settled into resolved despair, holding hope and [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 10:12 AM UTC
December 5th, 2007
Goodbye Karl
November 24th, 2007
No Mercy For Marion
November 20th, 2007
Enough to Make a Grown Man Cry
October 27th, 2007
Five Miles In the Snow, Uphill Both Ways
September 22nd, 2007
What’s a Hitter to Do?
September 12th, 2007
God Help Us If Sports are a Reflection of Society
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