"Sporting Eye" by Chris Young
2003 archive
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

January 2003

Headline	Date Published
“The NFL playoff preview”	January 3, 2002
“Next stop, Mudville: Visiting the nation’s joyless sports towns”	January 6, 2002
“The changing face of Fenway Park”	January 10, 2003
“The Patriots pass the torch”	January 13, 2003
“Suddenly, the big, bad Bruins are simply bad”	January 17, 2003
“The Super Bowl breakdown”	January 24, 2003
“Putting a lid on the Raiders’ Super-size Buc-kicking”	January 27, 2003
“Tampa Bay gives hope to other championship-starved cities”	January 31, 2003

February 2003

Headline	Date Published
“A Boston sports fan’s dates with destiny”	February 3, 2003
“Midterm grades for the B’s and C’s”	February 10, 2003
“A valentine for cinema’s best sports comedy: Caddyshack”	February 14, 2003
“A sign of the times? Pedro Martinez takes on the Sox brass.”	February 18, 2003
“Cover Me: When Boston’s sports media become the story”	February 24, 2003

March 2003

Headline	Date Published
“Endgame: Bruins fans sense their team’s season slipping away race”	March 3, 2003
“Without a pitch being thrown, these teams have already been eliminated from the pennant race”	March 7, 2003
“Ballpark figures for March”	March 10, 2003
“A former Twin is knocked off his pedestal”	March 14, 2003
“As the curtain rises on the madness of March, America cries wolf and remembers 1983”	March 17, 2003
“Boston’s hockey coaches too often find that management has an axe to grind”	March 21, 2003
“Surviving the weekend’s sports bonanza”	March 24, 2003
“Compiling empirical data on the 2003 New York Yankees”	March 28, 2003

April 2003

Headline	Date Published
“The 2003 American League preview”	April 4, 2003
“The 2003 National League preview”	April 7, 2003
“Ode to an NCAA basketball champion”	April 11, 2003
“Boston fans may need to join Sandler and Nicholson on the couch”	April 14, 2003
“One man’s recollection of the ecstasy (and the agony) of the 100th Boston Marathon”	April 18, 2003
“A month into the baseball season, this is what we know”	April 28, 2003

May 2003

Headline	Date Published
“Don’t look now, but Celtics pride is back”	May 2, 2003
“Alumni reunion: Checking out the résumés of ex–Red Soxers”	May 5, 2003
“Alumni reunion, part two: Checking out the résumés of ex–Red Soxers ”	May 9, 2003
“There’s a lot to like about the 2003 Red Sox”	May 12, 2003
“For sports fans, what’s appropriate conduct?”	May 16, 2003
“A new low for D-Lowe, plus the Yanks come to town”	May 19, 2003
“At the Red Sox’ expense, the Rocket closes in on 300 wins”	May 23, 2003
“The country’s top-10 sports towns”	May 30, 2003

June 2003

Headline	Date Published
“Why are Red Sox players such an unhappy bunch?”	June 2, 2003
“Baseball’s big-money players: Are they worth it?”	June 6, 2003
“Are Yankees fans starting to get nervous?”	June 9, 2003
“My achin’ feet: When Cinderella’s slipper doesn’t quite fit”	June 13, 2003
“The Philadelphia story: Coming to terms with the Red Sox’ debacle at the Vet”	June 23, 2003
“For Sox fans, George is right: Joe Torre must go”	June 20, 2003
“A summer glance at the region’s other four teams”	June 27, 2003
“Major League Baseball’s midterm report”	June 30, 2003

July 2003

Headline	Date Published
“The American League’s All-Star game rosters, and the Jekyll-and-Hyde Sox visit the Bronx”	July 07, 2003
“Desperately looking for something to like in the 2003 Detroit Tigers”	July 11, 2003
“Becks makes US soccer look legit”	July 14, 2003
“Surviving the soccer tripleheader at Gillette Stadium ”	July 18, 2003
“Ballpark figures for July ”	July 21, 2003
“Trade ’Toine, Danny ”	July 25, 2003
“Scouting the Red Sox–Yankees series from behind enemy lines ”	July 29, 2003

August 2003

Headline	Date Published
“You’ve been traded: Baseball’s best and worst destinations, part 1”	August 01, 2003
“You’ve been traded: Baseball’s best and worst destinations, part two”	August 04, 2003
“Handicapping the American League playoff race”	August 08, 2003
“When good teams lose to bad teams”	August 11, 2003
“T’anks for nothin’: There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived”	August 15, 2003
“Turning Japanese: Analyzing the Sox’ seven-game West Coast swing”	August 18, 2003
“On Little Leaguers and Jimmy Funders”	August 22, 2003
“Jimmy Funders part two, and the Sox’ spiteful run”	August 25, 2003
“Won’t get fooled again: Fenway’s new bosses are getting in tune”	August 29, 2003

September 2003

Headline	Date Published
“Sights and sounds from the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston”	September 04, 2003
“2003 NFL preview: AFC”	September 05, 2003
“The 2003 NFL preview: NFC”	September 08, 2003
“The AL contenders: Do you feel lucky?”	September 12, 2003
“The Red Sox’ worst nightmare; and AFC thumbnails at the 1/8-pole”	September 15, 2003
“Misery loves company: HBO’s The Curse of the Bambino hits town”	September 19, 2003
“Man on a mission: Getting to World Series game seven”	September 22, 2003
“Baseball’s other 'teams of destiny'”	September 26, 2003
“Ballpark figures: AL playoffs edition”	September 29, 2003

October 2003

Headline	Date Published
“The Red Sox cannot escape the specter of the team in the mirror”	October 03, 2003
“The known and the unknown as the Red Sox head to New York”	October 07, 2003
“It's just as crazy in Chicago”	October 10, 2003
“Blowin’ in the wind: Looking for answers following the game-three lunacy”	October 13, 2003
“The Fenway cowboys’ wild ride ends in familiar fashion”	October 17, 2003
“Looking for the best in Grady Little’s worst moment”	October 20, 2003
“Choosing between the best of baseball's two remaining evils”	October 24, 2003
“The NFL season at the halfway point”	October 27, 2003
“First things first: New England's teams rule the roost”	October 31, 2003

November 2003

Headline	Date Published
“Did the Red Sox blow their last best chance?”	November 3, 2003
“Running rings around it: Baseball fingers its champs”	November 7, 2003
“The NFL’s five most mystifying teams”	November 10, 2003
“Will hockey fans care if the NHL goes on hiatus in 2004?”	November 14, 2003
“It’s time to take the New England Patriots seriously, once and for all”	November 17, 2003
“Googling Terry Francona”	November 21, 2003
“New England sports fans have lots to be thankful for”	November 24, 2003

December 2003

Headline	Date Published
“The NFL’s Week 13: Playoff contenders hit the home stretch”	December 3, 2003
“The AL pennant race is already under way”	December 5, 2003
“Heading to the mountains with lots of sports news a-brewing”	December 12, 2003
“Burned by the hot stove”	December 19, 2003
“If I were a Yankees fan, I wouldn’t be smiling right now”	December 23, 2003
“Seeing where the darts landed in September’s NFL preview”	December 30, 2003

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