Welcome to your ultimate Irish football resource


Boston: America's newest sporting sweetheart

2007 has been a great year for sportssaw them play to a 24-58 record, the
fan in Boston, with the city's nationalsecond worst in all of the NBA, the
sides in all of America's majorCeltics are once again sitting at the
competitive sports tasting a degree oftop 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 becomethis season, and are almost certain to
America's favourite baseball team,make it to the play-offs.
outshining their east coast rivals, theAnother team improving on their fortunes
New York Yankees. The Sox topped theirafter a disastrous 2006-2007 season is
Eastern Division, and then beat Centralthe Boston Bruins, Boston's ice hockey
Division champions the Cleveland Indiansteam. They finished bottom of the league
by four games to three in the Americanlast season, but have fought their way
League Championship Series play-offs;to serious championship contention this
before storming to victory in the Worldseason, currently sitting in second
Series, defeating National Leagueplace of their Northeast Atlantic
champions, and World Series rookies theDivision.
Colorado Rockies. The Red Sox won theThe NFL, NHL and NBA seasons are all
Series in four games, sweeping thestill in full swing, and anyone wishing
Rockies to collect their second Worldto catch Boston's teams in action on
Series championship in four seasons andtheir home turf can book into a hotel in
their seventh overall. It also markedBoston.
the third sweep in four years by theAlthough they don't play in Boston
American League champions. In theitself, the Foxborough-based New England
process, the Red Sox became the firstRevolution soccer team represents all of
team to win the last two World SeriesNew England. Up until their 3-2 victory
they had appeared in since the New Yorkover FC Dallas in the 2007 US Open Cup,
Yankees who achieved it in 1998 andthe Revolution had never won a major
1999.trophy in Major League Soccer in their
Not to be outdone, Boston's footballthirteen-year history. They were one of
team, the New England Patriots, recordedthree teams in MLS that date back
another successful season, being crownedfurther than 2005 to have not won one of
Division Champions for the fifth seasonthe three major titles in MLS (MLS Cup,
in a row. If their current formUS Open Cup and the MLS Supporter's
continues through the play-offs, theyShield). They came close five times,
could well find themselves in the 42ndreaching the US Open Cup final in 2001
annual Super Bowl in March 2008 asand the MLS Cup finals in 2002, 2005,
American Football Conference Champions.2006 and 2007.
Things are also looking promising forThere's never been a batter time to be a
Boston's basketball team, the Bostonsports fan in Boston, and those fans
Celtics, who hold the record for mostwill be hoping that trend continues for
NBA championships ever with 16. After asome time.
disappointing 2006-2007 season, which



1 A B C D E 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128