Remembering Red

The old C's coach and patriarch Arnold "Red" Auerbach died a year ago, so the Celtics home page had a little write-up about him in tribute. Nobody has nicknames like "Red" anymore. What a great name. You can't really pull it off with any other color. Purple? Yellow? No way. Whitey might have been cool a long time ago, but now that will either offend people or make them giggle. I like "Blue" as a name, but my friend pointed out that it's also a past-tense verb that could be bad. Um, yeah. Arnold Blue Auerbach would sound a bit dirty.

The Celtics Go to Washington

The Celtics just got honored at the White House for having such a great year. On the bus back,
Jeff Twiss, the VP of Media Relations said, "We started the season at the Vatican and ended at the White House. That's pretty neat."

It really is, isn't it? I mean, being in the NBA is cool enough. And of course there are the big paychecks, flocks of women, etc. But some of the other, weirder stuff is really cool. How many people ever even visit both the Vatican and the White House in their lives?

When the internet first became usable, I found it so annoying. But now it's my lifeline. In this age of venue name changes that happen every week, imagine trying to look up Fleet Center information in a phone book. (Yeah, I searched for that out of old habit. Early onset Alzheimer's, maybe?) But TD Banknorth Garden information gets you to the same place. I love that. Spell check is also my friend.