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...October Chicago night. Within minutes local TV networks had interrupted their usual programming and the entire city was erupting in a gleeful frenzy of fireworks, honking car horns and footloose street celebration as Chicagoans by the thousands poured out of bars and basement rec rooms to celebrate their White Sox's World Series championship sweep over the Astros...
...baseball town that has endured 88 Octobers of sunken hopes since its last World Series trophy, October 26 was finally a night fans want to remember. On downtown blocks that usually go dark by 11 p.m., skyscraper lights burned into the wee hours with "Go Sox" signs flashing in their windows. On Michigan Avenue, the city's main drag, cars full of whooping, face-painted fans slowed traffic to a crawl. In the blue-collar Southside Bridgeport neighborhood, Sox home turf, giddy mobs of grown-ups in Sox regalia (a few of whom appeared old enough to have been around...
...Eleven hundred miles away, as he celebrated with his team in Houston's Minute Maid Park, Sox GM Kenny Williams wiped champagne from his eyes and told a reporter that the Sox win "has finally taken a lot of weight off my shoulders." That was an understatement: all of Chicago set down a heavy burden-the weight of 88 years of history. On Thursday morning the city's two daily newspapers both had special issues on newsstands with headlines shouting "Believe It!" and "Champs...
...Sox will be remembered for far more than just snapping one of pro sport's most infamous losing streaks. Their 1-0 victory in Game Four of the Series capped a great season and an even more impressive post-season, in which they lost only one game in their last twelve, always managing to win even in the tightest of circumstances. There were heart-stopping offensive heroics like Scott Podsednik's ninth-inning homer that decided Game One and Geoff Blum's 14th-inning game-winning shot in Game Three, in what was his first World Series...
...Nichols ’06, the founder and “Beer Czar” of the Harvard Beer Society. Murphy said that he had been spurred into action by a meeting he had with Boston Police officials after the death of Emerson student Victoria Snelgrove at the Red Sox celebrations last year. “[They] indicated that the biggest problem the police had was students not in student housing throwing parties,” Murphy said. “And then a couple of days later we discovered that there were in four neighbourhoods of Boston 67 kegs...