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How would the Patriots top their Super Bowl victory over Carolina?
The Patriots were hoping for a much better result than they got the year following Super Bowl XXXVI. In 2002, New England missed the playoffs with a 9-7 record.
The Patriots were not going to be inconsistent any longer. They had become the measuring stick for consistency and instilled a winning tradition.
New England was then the team to beat and the franchise ...
Slack and Fold: Bruins Didn’t Have Enough Fight Against Pens
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Joe Gill in NHL
I had to sleep on this putrid effort displayed by the Bruins against the Penguins. I went to bed mad, frustrated, and just disappointed being a life long fan of the Black and Gold.
Or should the Bruins be called the Slack And Fold?
The bout with Pittsburgh had been one of the most anticipated regular season games in recent memory. It was time for payback. Old West Justice.
It was time to ...
Wanted Dead or Alive: Gutless Adversaries of the Boston Bruins
Posted: 12th March 2010 by Joe Gill in NHL
Call them what you will.
Villains.
Cheap shot artists.
Goons.
Instigators.
Turtles.
Cowards.
The Boston Bruins have had their fair share of run ins with gutless and spineless opponents over the past 30 years. These players don’t fight with their fists like real men, but creep around the corner and run players from behind.
They probably started rumors as children to start fights in school or got their siblings in trouble for taking cookies ...
Matt Cooke’s Hit On Marc Savard Goes Unpunished By Boston Bruins
Posted: 8th March 2010 by Joe Gill in NHL
Sean Connery’s character, Officer Malone, said it perfectly in the 1987 movie, The Untouchables .
“If they put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue!”
Granted Matt Cooke isn’t Al Capone, but the Bruins aren’t no Elliot Ness.
How can you not retaliate after your star offensive player, Marc Savard, was clocked by the notorious Matt Cooke?
Cooke, who is a player who has been suspended ...
We honor Dwight Evans as the Boston Sports Then and Now Athlete of the Month. With the opening of the baseball season around the corner, the choice of “Dewey” Evans is fitting. He was a player who gave his all, all the time to the Boston Red Sox where he played from 1972 to 1990. He is one of the best players not in the Baseball Hall Of ...
In no way am I a huge basketball fan.
I followed the Celtics as a teenager when the original ôBig Threeö of Bird, McHale, and Parish roamed the Parquet floor of the old Garden.
I remember watching the Celtics-Lakers on Sunday afternoons.
I remember where I was when Bird clanked his three pointer against the Lakers in the Æ87 Finals.
I was in Hershey, Pennsylvania on an eighth grade field trip, and I still ...