Best and worst places to be a sports fan Being a Tampa Bay sports fan these days is a pretty good gig. Not as good as Boston, but not as bad as across Alligator Alley. A little food for thought as the Rays head to the Big Apple, another fine place to be a sports fan. The five best and worst cities to be a sports fan these days. Five best places to be a fan 1. Boston They have the defending champs in baseball and basketball. And they should have had the defending champs in football. Even still, that football team has won three Super .Boston College Eagles vs Virginia Tech Hokies Basketball Tickets.

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Dear Sports Gods: A Couple More Wishes Boston College Eagles vs Virginia Tech Hokies Tickets, The Celtics, the Patriots and the Sox all won a championship in my lifetime. So now what? Do I root for the Bruins and the Revolution? Nah, I would involve watching the NHL and MLS, and I just can't do it. I just can't. Anywho, what else is there to root for? Sure, I will root for the home team.hing will ever top Game 4 of the Finals, or rallying from 0-3 or Vinatieri's game winner. As Bill Simmons already put it, I guess I'm suffering from Hugh Grant Syndrome: I seen it all so what.

Guest Blogger: BC Interruption Since I am a little busy this week, the guys from BC Interruption have generously offered to help out over here. For those who haven't been paying attention, Brian and Jeff have borrowed Pardon the Interruption's format and tweaked it to fit BC sports and blogging. In this post, they use one of PTI's recurring gimmicks (good cop/bad cop) to debate some of the BC issues of the summer. I provided the .".suspects.".and cannot thank them enough for their help this week. Without further ado, here's. NCAA.

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The Boston Celtics Defeat The Los Angeles Lakers For Championship College Basketball, The Boston Celtics Defeat The Los Angeles Lakers For Championship June 18th, 2008 Congratulations to the 2007-08 NBA Champion Boston Celtics for picking up their 17th league championship and embarrassing their hated rivals in the process. The Celtics? 131-92 victory over the Lakers is the largest margin of victory in a championship finale. Paul Pierce was named the finals MVP, but the last and deciding game was a team effort? Right down to the post game press conferences. Read the rest.

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Alaska at last! I've been overwhelmed by the volume of photos Brent and I (ok, mostly Brent) took during our Alaskan cruise, so it's taken me a while to gear up for this recap. I won't be doing the 6-part version like I did for our Italy recaps. Instead I'll give you some of my favorite highlights. Here's the big boat we called home for a week. It's the Island Princess. Here are some of the stunning snow-covered mountains we saw. Here is one of the many glaciers we admired. We even caught some.tickets.