Sports
| Club | Sport | League | Stadium | Established | League Titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Bruins | Ice hockey | National Hockey League | TD Garden (Boston) | 1924 | 6 Stanley Cups 7 Eastern Conference Titles |
| Boston Cannons | Lacrosse | Major League Lacrosse | Harvard Stadium (Boston) | 2001 | 1 MLL Championship |
| Boston Celtics | Basketball | National Basketball Association | TD Garden (Boston) | 1946 | 17 NBA Championships 21 Eastern Conference Titles |
| Boston Red Sox | Baseball | Major League Baseball (AL) | Fenway Park (Boston) | 1901 | 7-time MLB World Series Champions 12 American League Pennants |
| New England Patriots | Football | National Football League (American Football Conference) | Gillette Stadium (Foxboro) | 1960 (as Boston Patriots) |
3-time Super Bowl Champions 7-time AFC Champions |
| New England Revolution | Soccer | Major League Soccer | Gillette Stadium (Foxboro) | 1995 | 1 US Open Cup 1 SuperLiga |
Annual sporting events include:
- The Boston Marathon, which follows a course from Hopkinton to Boston
- The Head of the Charles Regatta
- The Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Sylvania 300 and New Hampshire Indy 225 auto races at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway oval track.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)