Boston&#39;s dominant play has curse on life support
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They are suffering inexplicable breakdowns, and unaccountable disasters. This used to be the Boston Red Sox in October. Now it is the teams they are playing.
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For all of the fuss about Pedro Martinez&#39;s genealogical assertions, the critical factor in the American League Championship Series has been Boston&#39;s inability to provide for its pitchers.
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Left for dead after a 19-8 shellacking on Sunday night, the Red Sox booked a return to New York with a second straight draining, pulsating, you&#39;ve-got-to-be-kidding-me victory in the American League Championship Series.
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October is in our sights, and the two important teams from Massachusetts are confounding the experts. It&#39;s the Red Sox baseball club, not the Kerry presidential campaign, that&#39;s supposed to be in its pre-autumn swoon.
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Are these guys ever going to have a game that doesn't come down to the last possession? It seems that, if nothing else, the Celtics give you 48 minutes worth. Sometimes more.
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ST. LOUIS - As any idiot will tell you, a two-game lead in a seven-game series does not guarantee a title. The Red Sox, those self-proclaimed &quot;Idiots,&quot; should know this better than anyone.
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Josh Beckett carries Boston Red  Sox World Series hopes to the mound on Thursday for a must-win  Game Five against the Cleveland Indians and they could not be  in safer hands.
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Their history is dotted with disappointment. But they are the Boston Red Sox, the team that New England can&#39;t help but root for.
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The history-defying Red Sox have touched on another crazy way to try to win their first World Series in 86 years -- by playing some of the shoddiest defense since the birth of the Fall Classic.
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When we look back on this improbable postseason turnaround by the Red Sox, one of the turning points will be hard to find unless we recall the words of Red Sox manager Terry Francona in the aftermath of the humiliating 19-8 loss to the Yankees in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series.
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Bostonâs victory in Game 2 of the World Series turned, in part, because of one of those understated, blink-and-itâs-gone moments.
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ST. LOUIS  - The Boston Red Sox lifted a  championship and buried a curse Wednesday, turning fantasy into  reality with a stirring World Series victory over the St. Louis  Cardinals.
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It looks like the Ghost of the Babe can now sleep forever. Last night the Boston Red Sox fully exorcized âThe Curse of the Bambino.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Ouch. There really is no other way to describe the New York Yankees trouncing of the Boston Red Sox in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series on Saturday night.
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After their epic comeback against the  New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox can now lift a curse  hanging over them for more than 80 years.
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Living in Boston as a Red Sox fan for the last year has been like riding a rollercoaster of epic proportions. Beginning with Bostonâs 6-5, extra-inning ,heartbreaking defeat in Yankee Stadium in Game 7 of
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BOSTON At the First Baptist Church here, a few blocks from Fenway Park at the corner of Commonwealth and Clarendon, the subject for this Sunday&#39;s service is: &quot;Why Does God Allow Suffering?