2008 Woodie Awards
1, 2,...3 Step?
Jim Tomasetti
Issue date: 3/1/05 Section: Sports
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It was undoubtedly the most memorable fall season in recent memory as we watched the Red Sox do something that no team in Major League Baseball had ever done-come from a 3-0 ALCS deficit to defeat the New York Yankees en route to winning eight consecutive playoff games, obviously cultivating their first World Series title in nearly a century.
The winter brought us another edition of monotonous Patriots football, which concluded with three of the most dominating victories in team history. Oh by the way, they won their third Lombardi Trophy in four years-real shocking.
This spring we can look forward to: the Celtics? Hehe. If I hear another person tell me how good the Celtics are because they lead the Atlantic Division with a meager 27-28 record...THEY PLAY IN THE ATLANTIC DIVISION; my grandfather could scrounge up a collection of buddies from Florida to compete in this division. Fans of the Green at least can look forward to seeing Antoine Walker back in a Celtics uniform, while destroying Doc Rivers running style offense by hoisting treys. What about the Brui...well we don't really know when the next time they will play a game, so that is just a moot point.
Well, then, I guess the Boston sports scene has had enough championship fever for one year. I mean a World Series trophy, complemented by a third Lombardi Trophy is a lot to ask for in one calendar year. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This is TITLE TOWN, baby! The City of Champions!
But with no professional sports teams in any type of contention, we may have to wait again until the Fall Classic in hopes the Red Sox can repeat. Well, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here.
The casual sports fan should stop reading this article right now. This is solely because you probably don't even know that Boston College had a Division I Men's Basketball Team. Well, actually they do have a solid Division I team; so solid, in fact, that heading into Wednesday night's game at the Pavilion in Villanova, the team was ranked third in the nation with a 22-1 record, the highest rating any Eagles team has ever received.
The winter brought us another edition of monotonous Patriots football, which concluded with three of the most dominating victories in team history. Oh by the way, they won their third Lombardi Trophy in four years-real shocking.
This spring we can look forward to: the Celtics? Hehe. If I hear another person tell me how good the Celtics are because they lead the Atlantic Division with a meager 27-28 record...THEY PLAY IN THE ATLANTIC DIVISION; my grandfather could scrounge up a collection of buddies from Florida to compete in this division. Fans of the Green at least can look forward to seeing Antoine Walker back in a Celtics uniform, while destroying Doc Rivers running style offense by hoisting treys. What about the Brui...well we don't really know when the next time they will play a game, so that is just a moot point.
Well, then, I guess the Boston sports scene has had enough championship fever for one year. I mean a World Series trophy, complemented by a third Lombardi Trophy is a lot to ask for in one calendar year. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This is TITLE TOWN, baby! The City of Champions!
But with no professional sports teams in any type of contention, we may have to wait again until the Fall Classic in hopes the Red Sox can repeat. Well, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here.
The casual sports fan should stop reading this article right now. This is solely because you probably don't even know that Boston College had a Division I Men's Basketball Team. Well, actually they do have a solid Division I team; so solid, in fact, that heading into Wednesday night's game at the Pavilion in Villanova, the team was ranked third in the nation with a 22-1 record, the highest rating any Eagles team has ever received.