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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Irish Eyes Are Smiling
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
…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