In the sports universe, Boston earns its nickname as 'The Hub'
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The city's dominance in football, baseball, and basketball has fans in a rare feel-good mood.
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Pro sports can seem driven by commercialism, as team owners lust after fancy new stadiums, fans jeer losers and true believers seem quaint. Then there's Red Sox Nation, an island that seems almost immune to modern sports marketing. Now the club is cashing in on its World Series championship.
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BOSTON - The fans wanted it. For that matter the entire baseball world wanted it. Now it&#39;s here, and nobody is champing at the bit more than the Boston Red Sox.
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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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Maybe the sports scene started changing in Boston in 1986. Area teams were performing in the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and World Series. Youngsters who knew the difference between the World Cup and World Series were either a part of this transformation or would be positively affected by it.
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Let's say Boston is the sun of the baseball universe, where hope and criticism burn bright, where a city revolves around the game.
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The Boston Red Sox arrived at Fenway Park at 4:20 am EST Thursday, but that didn&#39;t deter a number of elated fans from demonstrating their undying passion by meeting the team&#39;s bus on Yawkey Way.
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There is symbolism in the matchup: two Big East teams, each moving into a new neighborhood, opening up their conference schedule.
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Atlanta -- Hammerin&#39; Hank Aaron was at the game. Boomin&#39; Barry Bonds was on his game. In the homers hub of the universe, the residence of the all-time champ, the past and future came together Sunday night
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Boston's bullying of the Atlantic Division is over. Toronto's torrid outside shooting took care of that.
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NEW YORK New York City can be a lonely place. Especially if you&#39;re a Boston Red Sox fan. But as baseball&#39;s fiercest rivalry is renewed in a series for the American League pennant, there are a few spots where
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The NBAâs balls popped up Portland onto the championship path. And they may have consigned my Celtics to another decade in pro basketball hell.
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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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CLEVELAND -- Boston sports fans have seen a team like this before. Once. Red Auerbach's Celtics, early 1960s.
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Until he finds a corporate sponsor to pay millions of dollars in naming-rights fees, Richard Krezwick, the chief executive of the FleetCenter, knows just the name he'd like to see atop the iconic Boston arena: The Rollie Krezwick Center, named after his dog, a wheaten terrier.
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ANAHEIM, California The Boston Red Sox opened the playoffs with a new nickname, a new Game 1 starter and a welcome new association with the number seven.
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With Allen Iverson asking for a trade out of Philadelphia, the Celtics generated buzz around Boston yesterday for the first time in awhile.