WALTHAM, MASS. - Those familiar "Beat L.A.!" chants, once the sweetest sound of springtime in Boston, were replaced by a most unrecognizable chorus in the dead of winter last year.
Nostalgia is the order of the day when discussing the NBA championship series between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. What's actually needed, though, is the suspension of reality. This is not the NBA as it existed when Bill Russell and Bob Cousy of the Celtics were battling Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. Nor is it the NBA of Boston's Larry Bird and Kevin McHale vs. Magic Johnson and
Say, didn't you used to be the National League West? Eight months ago, the top two teams in the West were battling it out in the N.L. Championship Series. This year, only one team in the division has a winning record.
MUMBAI: Engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) led consortium has commissioned the country's largest blast furnace at Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur.
Two T. L. Hanna High School students, including one who graduated on Friday, have been linked to a brawl Sunday outside an Anderson fast-food restaurant.
Even though I lived in Los Angeles as a kid and was a Lakers fan, I didn't dislike the Boston Celtics. I was bigger than that. I hated the Boston Celtics. Still do. That hate is my last emotional link to the days when I lived and died with my teams, before I
Salem returns to the semis for the first time since '03. All season the Salem girls' soccer team has been wearing its goal on its warmup shirts. "Back to Glory," the shirts read. The Spartans won the Group AA state championship back in 2003 and hadn't been back to the state tournament again until this year.
They're still shaking their heads, a year later, at the amazing results of last year's Class L baseball tournament, where the rule was expect the unexpected. - By TOM KING Staff Writer
After 21 years and too many seasons of viewer apathy, it's great to see the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers back in the NBA Finals. Truly it is. There's nothing quite like two prominent blue states duking it out to invigorate the pollsters. Mike Kullen / Associated Press file, 1984 The Celtics and Lakers of the '80s were chock full of Hall of Famers like Larry Bird, left, Magic
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