Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Maybe it was karmic retribution for allowing the team to be the focal point of "The Love Guru."
The Toronto Maple Leafs became the first team in NHL history to squander a three-goal lead in the third period of a Game 7 on Monday night, getting eliminated by the Boston Bruins ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Bruins goalie Tim Thomas made major headlines this January when he declined attending Boston's championship trip to the White House in an effort to make a political statement against Barack Obama. (He said it was a statement against both political parties because the federal government has grown out of control, ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Yep, that's pretty much the best football catch ever - Unathletic
I'm not really worried about this dude's girlfriend so much as the apparent auto-erotic asphyxiation happening between him and his "horse" - Busted Coverage
The story isn't so much that they broke the curse, but that Boston has become the most ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Well, we have three games down in some of the Stanley Cup playoff quarterfinal series after Sunday's games, so it seems like a good time to see what we missed over the weekend and to take stock of where our predictions stand.
Early returns aren't nearly as embarrassing as they could ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
The Stanley Cup playoffs have at long last arrived, starting with several games tonight.
There are some who say these playoffs are the best in all of sport (we'll take March Madness, thanks) with its rich tradition and, of course, Lord Stanley's Cup, from which the winning team can drink whatever ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
The way I always saw it, if there was one town that seemed like a particularly good fit for me if I had to abandon my home, it would be Boston. It has lots of history, a good proportion of young people and an even better proportion of Irish people, ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
There aren't many people that enjoy Sean Avery's shenanigans except, well, Sean Avery.
Among Avery's all-time hits are the now-infamous "sloppy seconds" line, which was just classic comedy if you ask me. In the end, though, it got him run out of Dallas
Even farther back, there was the screen he pulled ...
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