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The end of the line

    Well this is it. Yes, with the Game 6 loss against the Knicks the Boston Celtics run is finally over as we know it. Despite a valiant attempt at a comeback, the Celtics once again fell short as they just simply ran out of gas. Their age finally caught up to them, like

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Senior Citizen circuit: Celtics-Knicks Round 1

    Well here we are, the playoffs. One would be in hard-pressed to find a team that is as experienced(read: old) as the Celtics are. Boston rolling into New York to tip off the first round of the 2012-2013 playoffs on April 20th at 3 pm. The Knicks own the season series at an

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Father Time never loses

  As we approach the New Year, the Celtics continue to wade in mediocrity getting handled by the best team in L.A, the Clippers (who would have thought they would ever hear those words together?) by 29 points. After coming off a victory in Brooklyn on Christmas day which subsequently led to Nets coach Avery

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Offense keeps C’s afloat as D remains suspect

While the offense remains solid, Doc is left to answer questions about his team’s subpar defensive play. As we approach the end of November the NBA is starting to get into full swing the Celtics are remaining over .500, sitting at 8-6 at the time of this posting, but it is not the defense that

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Early tests for C’s lie ahead

  Celtics Big Three look towards their first test: 5 games in 7 days this season starting tonight. After the first 2 weeks of the season the Celtics have started out slow with the only things to show for it are two wins by the skin of their teeth against probably one of the worst

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Manute Bol left us with a GIANT of a kid!

  So I don’t know if anyone else has seen this but there is a video going around of the late NBA oddity Manute Bol’s son playing basketball. Bol Bol, Manutes son is on his middle schools basketball team. You may be asking, “Whats so interesting about a 7th grade basketball player, yea his dad

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John Rooke Interview

Saturday morning, thanks to a close family friend Peter Figueiredo, I had the tremendous opportunity to meet, speak to, and interview legendary sports broadcaster John Rooke.  Rooke is the public address announcer for the New England Patriots and has been the voice of Providence College basketball for the last 20 plus years.  He also has a radio show called

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Fan of the day

Here at New England Sports React, we are always looking for ways to improve the site and for variety towards it.  Much like we are dependent on all of our viewers, sports teams are dependent on their fans. So we have decided to combine these together and have a ‘Fan of the Day’ for each

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Mission Accomplished: US men capture gold

  Team USA celebrates Olympic gold in London with a thrilling victory over Spain 107-100 Though the game wasn’t easy at any point for the Americans,  there was always the feeling that they would somehow dig deep and come out with a victory in the gold medal match-up against the next-best international team in Spain,

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We meet again: Team USA faces off against Argentina in semi-finals

  As Team USA prepares for their latest challenge for a gold medal, they will not need to be doing too much research into their opponent as they have now faced off against each other 3 times in the past 3 weeks(the first time, being an exhibition game, and the 2nd being just a few

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