Uncommon Wealth of Success in Boston for Big Three Teams
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All the winning that the Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics have been doing lately raises the question: what has Boston lost? If not games, then perhaps a certain identity the region must now reconsider.
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Are we the reverse Tevyes? Apparently so. It appears that allowing the Red Sox, Patriots, and Celtics to shower the sports fans of New England with victory after victory - with one championship secured, another very likely to follow, and a third now a reasonable goal - does not spoil any vast eternal plan whatsoever.
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No wild celebrations. No high-fives between strangers on city streets. No violent confrontations between police and unruly throngs of fans. In just a few years, sports-crazy Boston has been transformed from a city desperate for a championship into one with such an embarrassment of recent riches that winning has seemingly become almost blase.
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By GERRY CALLAHAN  There is, of course, no telling how the Ping-Pong balls will bounce come lottery day, but something unusual happened to the Boston Celtics last year. They got lucky.
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Tim Jarrett understands what I'm saying. What a great Superbowl, and what an opportunity for Boston sports fans to learn the value in losing. What? Value in losing? You bet.  It wasn't that long ago when Boston was one of the best cities in the USA for sports precisely because Boston teams were such spectacular losers. I'll never forget the misery of the Dowbrigade after the Red Sox lost something (or did they win, I forget). They must have lost because he swore he'd never let them break his heart again the way they had for his whole life (he's about my age). Losing teaches you that there's more to life than winning, and that's the best lesson possible and it's the one lesson you keep needing to learn over and over until you lose everything, which like it or not is what we all do in the end. People write poetry about losing, great music is composed about lost causes. Who writes an ode to winning? They're too busy getting drunk or getting laid.  Never have I loved a team more or felt more kinship with my fellow fans than when our team goes down in flames after a season of great ups and downs. No doubt there are no smiles or tears of joy in Boston today. But there is hope. And that, even when you win, is all that's left after a great season.
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Chris Carpenter and Roy Halladay were in top form Sunday. Daisuke Matsuzaka could hardly say the same. Boston's $103 million pitcher with the winning smile allowed homers to two non-roster players, struggled with his control and even threw away a potential double-play grounder in his home debut against a major league team.
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One of the best events in sports is happening this weekend, but I&#39;d be surprised if many of you know about it because I&#39;m not talking about a marquee college football matchup or the Yankees-Red Sox series.
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In the shadows of the mighty Patriots, Celtics and Red Sox are the Bentley Falcons, a Division II menâs basketball team that has won 45 consecutive regular-season games.
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Being a part of the team that won the Nation League Championship Series and now advances to Boston on Saturday to play in the World Series was wonderful.
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The two best success stories of 2007-08 were in Boston last night. The Celtics, well, were expected to be good, maybe not this good, but still pretty good. The Trail Blazers? After Greg Oden went down for the season, a lot of people figured they'd make marginal gains, if any, over last season (when they went 32-50) and would be ...
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Seattle rookie Kevin Durant found out what the rest of the NBA has discovered through two months of the season Â slowing down Boston's new Big Three isn't easy.
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It is rare, N.B.A. team executives say, that a player like Greg Oden possesses the physical prowess and crisp fundamentals that could alter a franchiseâs future.
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All of a sudden the AL East is getting interesting with the New York Yankees surging and the Boston Red Sox slumping.
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In Boston, the possibility is there for the spending: No more just missing the brass ring, but rather grabbing that ring season after season.
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Clevelandâs win over Detroit was the ultimate reversal of fortune for a beleaguered sports city accustomed to big-game failure.
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With a win over the Colorado Rockies, the Boston Red Sox become the first team to win multiple championships since 2000.
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Mike Matheny, Edgar Renteria and the St. Louis Cardinals can win with singles, doubles and triples, too.