Sports Redux: No News Is Good News

Kind of a welcome breather yesterday, huh? No controversial coaching decisions. No stymied power plays. No frustrating breakdowns in defensive adjustments. No Laurence Maroney running 11 yards to gain two. No leaving Tim Thomas helplessly out to dry against a flurry of goals. No settling for threes when the lane is wide open. No red zone failures. Nobody lost. Around here, this week…we’ll take it. There was a little bit of a brouhaha yesterday afternoon when it was reported the Celtics might be involved in a three-way deal that would get Andres Nocioni from Sacramento and send J.R. Giddens, Tony Allen and Brian Scalabrine packing, but the C’s say it’s not going to happen. But for financial reasons having nothing to do with the personnel changes. There was a flurry of college basketball (if you watched all 24 hours of ESPN’s coverage, you probably feel like Dick Vitale this morning, and we’re sorry for anybody you work with). BC thumped St Francis, but they were the only local winners, as BU fell to George Washington, Northeastern to Siena, and Holy Cross to St.

Joseph’s. As the Patriots try to put Sunday behind them and focus on the Jets, the New York press is saying that NYJ coach Rex Ryan shouldn’t suddenly stop yapping now that his team is in a free-fall. Meanwhile, the Globe treats Tom Brady like he was suddenly added to the cast of Twilight and breathlessly celebrates his GQ pictorial with a photo gallery of Tom’s beautiful life. Suddenly, we wish we had a game to talk about. Zack Grienke, the reluctant superstar, got a burst of deserved but not-that-welcome fame when he won the AL Cy Young Award yesterday. "I really don’t like having a bunch of attention, so even if I did see myself in that light, I don’t do anything about it," said Greinke, who suffered through some major anxiety issues a couple of years ago, and makes baseball fans around the world glad that he’ll probably never do a money grab and go to New York (or, for that matter, come here).

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Sports Redux: No News Is Good News