Re: Sports (NBA) - Pitino gives Beantown an earful after loss -3/2/00

[Marc Pierce <karhu@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Anne Cankosyan wrote:

> I don't post often, but I just have to vent.....
> 
> Ya know, Pitino may not be the perfect coach, but let's face it, he has a
> point with his post-game comments.  The city of BOSTON is SPOILED, and they
> are acting just like that, spoiled brats.  No one likes to lose, but when
> you have to pick up the pieces after the death of Len Bias and then Reggie
> Lewis, what do you expect??   I commend him for trying to keep his team
> positive.  They work hard, and it just going to take longer to recover from
> two major fall backs (Bias & Lewis).

But Bias died in 1986, Lewis in 1993.  We can't keep invoking their
deaths.  Which is of course not to say that they weren't major setbacks,
just that the statute of limitations has expired (to my mind, at least).

Marc Pierce