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BOSTON - There are cities which long for winners. Toronto would be one. There are cities which have perennial winners, yet to outsiders seem to take all those victories for granted. Atlanta, which didnt sell out some of those playoff games during the Braves heyday of the late 1990s and early 2000s, comes to mind. Then there are cities which have become accustomed to winning, regardless of the sport, enjoy the feeling and crave more. Fans get so involved, are so passionate, it becomes difficult to separate them from their team to the point they get credit for pushing their team to victory, even though their real effect is negligible. Boston, with your Red Sox and your Patriots and your Bruins and your Celtics, thats you. What cannot be denied, ever, is the unifying force a successful sports franchise has on an invested community. Standing on the lush green grass of Fenway Parks infield, minutes after the Red Sox had defeated the Tigers 5-2 in Game 6 to clinch the American League pennant and hours after the Dropkick Murphys had put their spin on the national anthem and belted out “Shipping Up To Boston,” it was hard to forget that only eight months earlier, Boston was a city in pain. It was April 15, Patriots Day, when the annual Boston Marathon was interrupted by two explosions near the finish line on Boylston Street in nearby Cambridge. Three people were killed and almost 300 others were hurt. A police officer was shot and killed in a gun battle with one of the suspects three days later. A city was wounded. The Red Sox, both overtly and covertly, have aided the city in its recovery from that horrific day. Saturday nights victory was their latest generous overture to their baseball-obsessed town. “It means so much to this city, so much to the guys on this team,” said catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia. A lot went right for Boston in this series. To win, it must. Nobody will talk about how David Ortiz was held to only two hits in the series, one of them a bloop single in Game 5. Thats because the other hit was a monstrous grand slam, which erased a 5-1 deficit in Game 2 and catapulted the Red Sox back into the series. It would have been a difficult task, heading to Detroit down two games and with the prospect of facing Justin Verlander in enemy territory. On another day, two actually, Mike Napoli was a hero. In the deciding Game 6, it was Shane Victorino with the seventh inning grand slam that turned a 2-1 deficit into a 5-2 lead. Xander Bogaerts, the steel-eyed 21-year-old who carries himself as if hes a 10-year veteran, went 3-5 with two doubles and two walks after taking over third base from Will Middlebrooks late in Game 4. He worked three full count plate appearances in the clincher, reached base each time and scored twice. Red Sox hitters struck out an ALCS record 73 times. Through four games, they were overwhelmed by the Tigers extraordinary starting rotation, a staff Detroit manager Jim Leyland referred to as the best hes had in his eight career postseasons. Yet, there was Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz and John Lackey matching their opponents pitch for pitch, sometimes getting by with just enough. How about that Boston bullpen? Koji Uehara, with three saves and a win to show for his six innings, was named the MVP of the ALCS. Junichi Tazawa found another gear and in three head-to-head meetings with Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera, shut him down on a strikeout and two ground balls, one of which was a key, rally-killing double play in the seventh inning of Game 5. Left-hander Craig Breslow offered up 3 1/3 scoreless innings, often working in specialty situations against Detroits potent left-handed and switch-hitters. Honourable mention also goes to youngster Brandon Workman, who worked the long role and cleaned up others messes. “Its an unbelievable team over there, extremely well coached, well managed and a great group of players,” said Canadian Ryan Dempster, who selflessly didnt raise a stink when he was asked, or more like told, he would be moving from the starting rotation to the bullpen for the playoffs. “We were able to fight through some tough times and come away with the series win and win our American League pennant. Now weve got to go on and have a real tough challenge with St. Louis.” The Tigers will lament the leg injury which severely limited Cabreras offensive and defensive effectiveness, the poor performance of Prince Fielder and, likely most of all, the inability of the bullpen to work at anywhere near the level of the starting rotation. For Detroit, which has two recent unsuccessful World Series appearances – 2006 and 2012 – along with ALCS losses to New York in 2009 and now, to Boston, it represents more playoff disappointment. For Boston, a community thats overcoming is celebrating another sporting victory, anticipating that the best is yet to come. The Cardinals will arrive on Tuesday and the World Series will start, at Fenway Park, on Wednesday. Here, there is nothing to distinguish the bombing victims from the Dropkick Murphys, from the players, from the fans. Theyre all the same in one respect. Theyre Red Sox Nation. Right now, were all living in it. USA Soccer Store . Now the Minnesota Vikings have set their sights on soccer. USA Soccer Jerseys 2020 . -- Jonas Hiller is cautiously confident he has kicked his vertigo. https://www.cheapusasoccer.com/. 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On Thursday night, Utah was stunned by a mediocre UCLA program on the road by a score of 69-59, snapping a two-game win streak for the Utes in the process. As for the Trojans, they continue to look up at the rest of the league with their 1-7 mark. They were tied with Washington State with the worst overall record among Pac-12 programs at 9-11 prior to the weekends action. Three nights ago, the team fought through three overtime periods before being brushed aside by Colorado, 98-94, at home. It was USCs fifth straight setback and the seventh in eight tries since the start of the new calendar year. The Utes easily won the first meeting of the season early last month by a score of 79-55 at home, as Delon Wright registered a double-double with 11 points and 10 assists, one of four players to score in double figures for a Utah squad that knocked down 56.9 percent from the field and 11-of-19 shots behind the 3-point line. With that victory at the Huntsman Center, Utah moved ahead in the all-time series by a count of 18-17. Utah made good on 57.1 percent from the floor in the first half against the Bruins, but still the visitors trailed by three at the break and eventually by 15 in the second half before settling for the 10-point road loss. Wright tried to keep the Utes competitive with 15 points and six rebounds, shooting 6-of-9 from the floor, followed by Brandon Taylor with 14 points and five assists as he connected on 4-of-9 tries out on the perimeter, the rest of the team combinning to make only 3-of-13 from distance.dddddddddddd Wright and Taylor have been the focal points on offense for the Utes when they head into battle against the rest of the Pac-12, the duo averaging 12.9 and 12.8 ppg, respectively. Wright, who has made good on all but four of his 35 free-throw attempts, is also the key figure when it comes to getting his teammates involved in the action, having handed out 53 assists in eight starts. Taylor is right behind him with another 33 dishes as they combine for 31 steals and just 27 turnovers as the team averages a shade over 10 miscues per contest. In an exhausting exhibition just three nights ago, Katin Reinhardt and Nikola Jovanovic became the first pair of Trojans to score 30 or more points in the same game, albeit doing it in three overtimes. However, the 35 points from Reinhardt and the 30 from Jovanovic were not enough to keep USC out of the loss column yet again. Reinhardt drained a total of nine 3-pointers to tie the single-game record set by Anthony Pendleton nearly 30 years ago, and setting the new mark at the Galen Center. Jordan McLaughlin, who missed a number of opportunities to potentially give USC the win, finished with 11 points, seven boards and seven assists, but at the same time shot only 5-of-12 at the free- throw line. As the only USC player to have started all eight league games, it makes sense that Jovanovic leads the team in scoring with 16.8 ppg as he shoots 59.3 percent from the floor. He is also first on the glass with 6.8 rpg, yet somehow has accidentally issued a mere five assists in 250 minutes of action. Reinhardt, who fouled out against Colorado, has converted 23 of his teams 40 3-pointers, leading to 14.1 ppg, while McLaughlin pitches in with 10.3 ppg and 26 assists, but is hitting a mere 28.4 percent from the floor overall. ' ' '