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Boston: America's newest sporting sweetheart

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



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