COMMENTARY
It was a little more than a year ago in this space when we first posed the possibility of a Boston sports grand slam, an all-too-enthusiastic romance which, on the doorstep of Super Bowl LII, positioned 2018 to give the city yet another monumental achievement in professional athletics.
As it figured, the Patriots were a given over the Philadelphia Eagles last February. So all that stood in the way of Boston becoming the first American city to claim a Super Bowl, NBA, NHL, and World Series championships in the same calendar year were the Celtics, Bruins, and Red Sox living up to their ends of the bargain.