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BoSox sweep Rockies to win 2nd World Series in 4 years

Two-year-olds on South Boston playgrounds could be heard saying this morning, "now i have lived a full life and can die happy," after suffering through a couple of long years not winning the world series. The curse of the Damino can finally be laid to rest! Now if the Schill Dog actually leaves town there can be some quiet to go along with this new found peace.

AP
Overwhelming in every way, the Red Sox swept to their second title in four years Sunday night. Jon Lester, Mike Lowell & Co. left little room for drama with a 4-3 win over the Colorado Rockies in Game 4.

Then again, no NL team could have blocked Boston this October.

This was hardly a repeat from 2004, when the Red Sox ended their 86-year championship drought by beating St. Louis. Boston is a major league bully these days, playing in rarefied air before crowds who demand to win.

"It doesn't get old," manager Terry Francona said.

Gone are those pleading, pathetic days when the Red Sox were practically begging to win a title. They've got this down pat now.

At this rate, New England fans might get spoiled. Francona's team has become a perfect counterpart to coach Bill Belichick's bruisers on the Patriots.

After trailing Cleveland 3-1 in the AL Championship Series, the Red Sox won seven straight games and won their seventh World Series crown.

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Dream Season??
Uconn's largest ever win puts them up to #16 in the AP with a big one home to Rutgers this Saturday. Uconn remains in sole possession of first place in the Big East ahead of WVU, the only other league team with less than two losses. I'm jet-lagged -- so the Courant article is below....

SHAWN COURCHESNE, Hartford Courant

UConn football coach Randy Edsall can be stubborn.

Getting him to talk about the significance of nearly any victory can be difficult. He likes to call every win just another deposit in the bank.

But on Saturday, UConn broke the bank.

The Huskies, picked to finish seventh in the Big East, got the statement victory that many said was missing from their surprising run through the first eight games of the season.

After taking a 16-0 halftime lead, UConn held off No. 11 South Florida to win 22-15 before 40,000 at Rentschler Field.

It was the first victory over a ranked opponent for UConn since going to Division I-A in 2000. The Bulls (6-2, 1-2) came in ranked 10th in the BCS standings and were No. 2 in the AP Top 25 before losing at Rutgers in its previous game.

UConn (7-1, 3-0) remains the only unbeaten team in the Big East. West Virginia is 2-1, but every other team has two losses.

Even Edsall, coaching his 100th game at UConn, couldn't avoid expounding on just how much it all meant. Pressed on the question, "Was this the biggest victory ever for UConn football?" he finally broke.

"You want me to say it?" Edsall said. "Yeah, it is. When you beat this team that's top 10 and we've never done it before, yeah, it's got to be the best victory we've ever had in football.

"I hope that there will be more to come and we're going to work very, very hard each and every day to make sure that we continue in these situations to find a way to win."

Moments after UConn quarterback Tyler Lorenzen took a final knee to let the clock run out, fans began jumping out of sections on the east end of the stadium to join players celebrating on the field. A slow trickle turned into a mass, as fans surrounded the team. Edsall said the fans deserved to come onto the field for the job they did in helping make for a chaotic fourth-quarter environment for the Bulls offense.

"There were a lot of naysayers who never thought a day like this would happen here at UConn and with this football program," Edsall said. "But when you have a bunch of young men and you have a group of older men leading and nobody cares who gets the credit and everyone is unselfish and more worried about the other guy than they are themselves, days like today happen. That's what it's all about. It's amazing. The band's still playing out there."