Word: celtic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here in Boston, M.L. Carr, is playing every game as an invaluable sixth man for the World Champion Boston Celtics, and he has earned the reputation in Bean-town that he enjoyed in Detroit. His energy and good humor on and off the court have prompted the Boston press to dub him the Celtic's spark plug...
...adds that he feels "fortunate to be playing for the Celtics; on some teams everyone's a star, [but] the only star here is him" (pointing cross court to Boston Celtic patriarch Red Auerbach). The general manager and former coach launches into a midday dance along the sidelines of the Boston Garden when M.L. gestures...
...final decision to fix the date was a direct response to an array of pagan harvest festivals, and ignored the philosophical arguments offered by some Christian theologians. Most sun-worshiping early religions--including the Persian, Roman Norse, Gothic, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon--staged lavish winter solstice celebrations to mark the annual rebirth...
McHale came off the bench with the Celtics clinging to a 94-93 lead and proceeded to score eight of Boston's next twelve points to boost the Celtic lead to 104-97, with just two minutes remaining...
...renovated Briggs Cage, not the fifth-floor high school gym at the IAB. In making his choice. Ferry--the more highly touted of the pair--benefited from the guidance of two fairly well-educated basketball men: his father, Bob Ferry Sr., general manager of the Washington Bullets, and Celtic guru Red Auerbach, a family friend...