Michael Femia

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• Posted Sports Redux: B's Hang On, Get 2 (Two!) Points to Bostonist
  The Bruins won! Sure, they gave up a 2-0 first-period lead, and they allowed Atlanta to tie the game again, 3-3, in the final minute. But Patrice Bergeron beat Ondrej Pavelec in the shootout to give the B's their first win in like forever. They got that 2-0 lead on goals by Marco Sturm and Michael Ryder. Tuukka Rask, filling in once again for the slightly-injured Tim Thomas, countered by letting two Thrasher shots by...
• Posted Sports Redux: Happy Days Are Here Again to Bostonist
  Elise Amendola / Associated Press Our long regional nightmare is over! After a five-game local losing streak, the Celtics - finally, eventually - shook off the civic torpor and wound up blasting the Golden State Warriors 109-95. Not that it was as easy as the 14-point win sounded. Golden State (a) isn't a very good team, (b) is at the end of a long road trip, and (c) had only eight healthy players. Yet,...
• Posted Sports Redux: No News Is Good News to Bostonist
  Kind of a welcome breather yesterday, huh? No controversial coaching decisions. No stymied power plays. No frustrating breakdowns in defensive adjustments. No Laurence Maroney running 11 yards to gain two. No leaving Tim Thomas helplessly out to dry against a flurry of goals. No settling for threes when the lane is wide open. No red zone failures. Nobody lost. Around here, this week...we'll take it. There was a little bit of a brouhaha yesterday afternoon...
• Posted Sports Redux: Um to Bostonist
  Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press In ten years prowling the Patriots' sidelines, Bill Belichick has earned all kinds of trust and goodwill and benefit-of-the-doubt. Which is good, because he needs it this morning. Bill's controversial (we probably need a word stronger than that) decision to go for it on fourth down, in Pats territory, late in the game, was the centerpiece of a bona fide fourth quarter collapse that turned a city around...
• Posted Sports Redux: Rust Belt Blues to Bostonist
  Did you spend all day yesterday watching the rain pour down and hoping that at least things would end well with a Celtic/Bruin doubleheader? If you did, you probably wished you'd gone out and stood in the rain all day instead; you'd feel about the same. We'll start with the Bruins, whose loss was a little less painful. Sure, Tim Thomas' shutout streak was broken, battered and mutilated. But every time the Penguins scored,...