Saturday, July 16, 2005
Boston & Portugal - Together Again For The First Official Time...!!!
... e é sò a primeira de muitas vezes, rapaz!
Now that I know, without a shadow of a doubt (*lol*) that denizens of the erstwhile kingdom of Lusitania, aka Portugal, do visit the luminous blog... Lusitania being the faraway land of my ancestors and all... I feel obligated to address them! "É o meu dever e a minha obrigação!" as one of my forefathers would say...! I always found it fascinating that a bit of parallelism existed between the two "-on" cities; Boston and Lisbon! Of course, it really is Lisboa, I know that - but for my the sake of my "cosmic twin cities" theory's sake... go along with this, will you please! *lol*
The city of Boston certainly has more in common with Lisbon than the English town it was named after, that is for sure... Lisboa is magnificent - so is Boston, in a scaled-down way certainly... The legendary soccer club (it is futebol, I know - Americans stole the name football when they had no right to!) BENFICA knew years of glory (in the sixties most notably, when they were nearly unbeatable) while the Boston Celtics dominated the NBA too (being nearly undefeatable as well during the same years!). The trademark bad luck that the Boston BRUINS or Red Sox would display in the odd "big game" would find resonance in the odd loss on a worldly stage for Benfica - I remember a loss to Russia that should have never been. Likewise, the Bruins would always find themselves on the losing end of a match-up with the Moscow team Dynamo Kiev - those were merely exhibition games and the Dynamo was only the number two Russian team, at best!
Those are only sports statistics - and we are saturday, not statistics sunday! However, Boston was honored in Portugal recently with the "Spirit of Sport" award, honoring its Red Sox' dramatic comeback championship after an eighty-six year drought - this seems to crown years of, as I theorize, parallelism in the world of sports!
Beyond that, of course, Boston is as important historically speaking to North America as Lisboa is to Europe. I give the edge to Lisboa overall - of course - but, each in their own place, on their own continent, are equal indeed!
North America would not have been what it is without Boston.
The World would not have been the same without Lisboa... and men such as Dom Infante Henriques and Vasco Da Gama.
Então - por isso todo - benvinda especial para os portugueses que visitam o luminoso blog! ;)
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Red Sox Win Inaugural Spirit of Sport Award - May 16, 4:44 PM (ET)
By BARRY HATTON
ESTORIL, Portugal (AP) - The Boston Red Sox won the inaugural spirit of sport award from the Laureus World Sports Academy for winning their first World Series in 86 years.
Boston overcome a 3-0 deficit against the New York Yankees in the AL championship series and swept St. Louis in the World Series for its first title since 1919.
Roger Federer was honored as sportsman of the year after dominating men's tennis in 2004, and Britain's Kelly Holmes was selected sportswoman of the year for winning Olympic gold in the 800 and 1,500 meters at Athens.
Federer won three of the four Grand Slams and became No. 1 at age 23 last year. He won the award over Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, 2004 recipient and Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher, six-time Olympic gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, Olympic 1,500 and 5,000-meter champ Hicham El Guerrouj, and world motorcycling champ Valentino Rossi.
Liu Xiang was selected newcomer of the year for becoming the first Chinese man to win an Olympic short-distance track event, the 110-meter hurdles.
Ellen McArthur of Britain got the world alternative sportsperson of the year award after sailing solo around the world in record time. Italian F1 driver Alessandro Zanardi, who returned to the track after an accident in which he lost both legs, received the comeback of the year prize.
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By BARRY HATTON
ESTORIL, Portugal (AP) - The Boston Red Sox won the inaugural spirit of sport award from the Laureus World Sports Academy for winning their first World Series in 86 years.
Boston overcome a 3-0 deficit against the New York Yankees in the AL championship series and swept St. Louis in the World Series for its first title since 1919.
Roger Federer was honored as sportsman of the year after dominating men's tennis in 2004, and Britain's Kelly Holmes was selected sportswoman of the year for winning Olympic gold in the 800 and 1,500 meters at Athens.
Federer won three of the four Grand Slams and became No. 1 at age 23 last year. He won the award over Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, 2004 recipient and Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher, six-time Olympic gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, Olympic 1,500 and 5,000-meter champ Hicham El Guerrouj, and world motorcycling champ Valentino Rossi.
Liu Xiang was selected newcomer of the year for becoming the first Chinese man to win an Olympic short-distance track event, the 110-meter hurdles.
Ellen McArthur of Britain got the world alternative sportsperson of the year award after sailing solo around the world in record time. Italian F1 driver Alessandro Zanardi, who returned to the track after an accident in which he lost both legs, received the comeback of the year prize.
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