| 2007 has been a great year for sports fan in Boston, | | | | After a disappointing 2006-2007 season, which saw |
| with the city's national sides in all of America's major | | | | them play to a 24-58 record, the second worst in all |
| competitive sports tasting a degree of success, from | | | | of the NBA, the Celtics are once again sitting at the |
| baseball to soccer. | | | | top of the Atlantic Division, having won twenty |
| The Boston Red Sox have quickly become America's | | | | games and lost only two so far this season, and are |
| favourite baseball team, outshining their east coast | | | | almost certain to make it to the play-offs. |
| rivals, the New York Yankees. The Sox topped their | | | | Another team improving on their fortunes after a |
| Eastern Division, and then beat Central Division | | | | disastrous 2006-2007 season is the Boston Bruins, |
| champions the Cleveland Indians by four games to | | | | Boston's ice hockey team. They finished bottom of |
| three in the American League Championship Series | | | | the league last season, but have fought their way to |
| play-offs; before storming to victory in the World | | | | serious championship contention this season, currently |
| Series, defeating National League champions, and | | | | sitting in second place of their Northeast Atlantic |
| World Series rookies the Colorado Rockies. The Red | | | | Division. |
| Sox won the Series in four games, sweeping the | | | | The NFL, NHL and NBA seasons are all still in full |
| Rockies to collect their second World Series | | | | swing, and anyone wishing to catch Boston's teams in |
| championship in four seasons and their seventh | | | | action on their home turf can book into a hotel in |
| overall. It also marked the third sweep in four years | | | | Boston. |
| by the American League champions. In the process, | | | | Although they don't play in Boston itself, the |
| the Red Sox became the first team to win the last | | | | Foxborough-based New England Revolution soccer |
| two World Series they had appeared in since the | | | | team represents all of New England. Up until their 3-2 |
| New York Yankees who achieved it in 1998 and | | | | victory over FC Dallas in the 2007 US Open Cup, the |
| 1999. | | | | Revolution had never won a major trophy in Major |
| Not to be outdone, Boston's football team, the New | | | | League Soccer in their thirteen-year history. They |
| England Patriots, recorded another successful season, | | | | were one of three teams in MLS that date back |
| being crowned Division Champions for the fifth | | | | further than 2005 to have not won one of the three |
| season in a row. If their current form continues | | | | major titles in MLS (MLS Cup, US Open Cup and the |
| through the play-offs, they could well find | | | | MLS Supporter's Shield). They came close five times, |
| themselves in the 42nd annual Super Bowl in March | | | | reaching the US Open Cup final in 2001 and the MLS |
| 2008 as American Football Conference Champions. | | | | Cup finals in 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007. |
| Things are also looking promising for Boston's | | | | There's never been a batter time to be a sports fan |
| basketball team, the Boston Celtics, who hold the | | | | in Boston, and those fans will be hoping that trend |
| record for most NBA championships ever with 16. | | | | continues for some time. |