| 2007 has been a great year for sports | | | | saw them play to a 24-58 record, the |
| fan in Boston, with the city's national | | | | second worst in all of the NBA, the |
| sides in all of America's major | | | | Celtics are once again sitting at the |
| competitive sports tasting a degree of | | | | top of the Atlantic Division, having won |
| success, from baseball to soccer. | | | | twenty games and lost only two so far |
| The Boston Red Sox have quickly become | | | | this season, and are almost certain to |
| America's favourite baseball team, | | | | make it to the play-offs. |
| outshining their east coast rivals, the | | | | Another team improving on their fortunes |
| New York Yankees. The Sox topped their | | | | after a disastrous 2006-2007 season is |
| Eastern Division, and then beat Central | | | | the Boston Bruins, Boston's ice hockey |
| Division champions the Cleveland Indians | | | | team. They finished bottom of the league |
| by four games to three in the American | | | | last season, but have fought their way |
| League Championship Series play-offs; | | | | to serious championship contention this |
| before storming to victory in the World | | | | season, currently sitting in second |
| Series, defeating National League | | | | place of their Northeast Atlantic |
| champions, and World Series rookies the | | | | Division. |
| Colorado Rockies. The Red Sox won the | | | | The NFL, NHL and NBA seasons are all |
| Series in four games, sweeping the | | | | still in full swing, and anyone wishing |
| Rockies to collect their second World | | | | to catch Boston's teams in action on |
| Series championship in four seasons and | | | | their home turf can book into a hotel in |
| their seventh overall. It also marked | | | | Boston. |
| the third sweep in four years by the | | | | Although they don't play in Boston |
| American League champions. In the | | | | itself, the Foxborough-based New England |
| process, the Red Sox became the first | | | | Revolution soccer team represents all of |
| team to win the last two World Series | | | | New England. Up until their 3-2 victory |
| they had appeared in since the New York | | | | over FC Dallas in the 2007 US Open Cup, |
| Yankees who achieved it in 1998 and | | | | the Revolution had never won a major |
| 1999. | | | | trophy in Major League Soccer in their |
| Not to be outdone, Boston's football | | | | thirteen-year history. They were one of |
| team, the New England Patriots, recorded | | | | three teams in MLS that date back |
| another successful season, being crowned | | | | further than 2005 to have not won one of |
| Division Champions for the fifth season | | | | the three major titles in MLS (MLS Cup, |
| in a row. If their current form | | | | US Open Cup and the MLS Supporter's |
| continues through the play-offs, they | | | | Shield). They came close five times, |
| could well find themselves in the 42nd | | | | reaching the US Open Cup final in 2001 |
| annual Super Bowl in March 2008 as | | | | and the MLS Cup finals in 2002, 2005, |
| American Football Conference Champions. | | | | 2006 and 2007. |
| Things are also looking promising for | | | | There's never been a batter time to be a |
| Boston's basketball team, the Boston | | | | sports fan in Boston, and those fans |
| Celtics, who hold the record for most | | | | will be hoping that trend continues for |
| NBA championships ever with 16. After a | | | | some time. |
| disappointing 2006-2007 season, which | | | | |