Morning Sports Update: Steve Bartman ‘overjoyed’ after Cubs win
The Bruins won, the Celtics loss, and Chicago’s most infamous fan weighed in on the Cubs’ World Series victory.
Steve Bartman ‘overjoyed’ by Cubs’ World Series win, won’t crash victory parade: “He was just overjoyed that the Cubs won, as all the Cubs fans are,’’ Frank Murtha, a lawyer who has served as Bartman’s spokesman, told USA TODAY Sports on Thursday. (USA Today)
Jimmy Hayes scores in 10th round of shootout, Bruins top Lightning: Hayes scored in the 10th round of a shootout, Tuukka Rask won his sixth straight game to start the season and the Bruins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Thursday night. (Boston.com)
LeBron, Cavaliers stay unbeaten with 128-122 win over Celtics: LeBron James scored a season-high 30 points and moved within two points of passing Hakeem Olajuwon for 10th place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. (Boston.com)
Q&A with Celtics legend and current Turner Sports analyst Kevin McHale: Given McHale’s Celtics ties and his friendship with president of basketball operations Danny Ainge, I took the opportunity to catch up with him on the state of the team. (Boston.com)
Harvard cancels men’s soccer season after finding explicit ‘scouting reports’ continued beyond 2012: Harvard University has canceled its men’s soccer season after a review by the school’s Office of General Counsel found the 2012 team’s sexually explicit “scouting report” continued beyond that season, including through the current one, according to the university. (Boston.com)
Celtics’ Jae Crowder likely out two weeks with sprained ankle: Celtics coach Brad Stevens said that the forward was “doing much better” on Thursday, but he added that he will probably be sidelined for two weeks. (Boston Globe)
KD’s masterpiece steals the show in rout of Westbrook, Thunder: Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors made the Oklahoma City Thunder look like a team bereft of more than the 2013-14 MVP. In a blowout that felt like a reckoning, the Thunder fell 122-96 on Thursday night. (ESPN.com)
Patriots’ trade of Jamie Collins hits home with Dont’a Hightower: “It could have happened to me,” Hightower told the Herald yesterday in his first comments since the trade. “Just as easy as it was Jamie, it could have been me. Just like Tom (Brady) said, it could happen to anybody. (Boston Herald)
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