Benny The Bull wrongly accused by Celtics

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 Benny The Bull wrongly accused by Celtics
Kevin Garnett and James Posey of the Boston Celtics took exception Tuesday when a couple of t-shirts hit them while the team huddled with just under three minutes to go in Boston's 106-92 win at the United Center. [link]

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Daily Links 4/4
Published 4/4/2008 at CelticsBlog
... Video: Tale of two seasons Metro Don't forget about the C's LOY's Place The Bulls hate James Posey Milford Daily News Celtics continue to get defensive Globe and Mail Raptors consider protesting against loss in Atlanta Lowell Sun Speeding C's hit 60, tie record NY Post Hey Donnie: Fire Zeke Wages of Wins Journal Missing the obvious on KG Chicago Sun Times Are Bulls ready for Carlisle as coach? Benny the Bull wrongly accused by Celtics Black Athlete Superior team deserves the superlatives ...

Fiddlin' and Diddlin' - Daily Links 4/4
Published 4/4/2008 by FLCeltsFan at LOY's PLACE a celtics green blog
... be allowed to decide the outcome. Lowell Sun Speeding C's hit 60, tie record NY Post Hey Donnie: Fire Zeke FL's Take: While I agree that Walsh needs to get rid of Isiah, I hate to see him go. The comic relief he offers the league has been priceless. Wages of Wins Journal Missing the obvious on KG Chicago Sun Times Are Bulls ready for Carlisle as coach? Benny the Bull wrongly accused by Celtics Black Athlete ...

Celtics Links: 4/4/08
Published 4/4/2008 by Jim at Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts
... believe it was real. I still don't know what to say about it. Although I do think that Bulls fans would be better off booing their own players at this point. The Wages of Wins Journal Missing the obvious on KG. Green Bandwagon Note - A lot of Celtics fans worried about the minutes of Garnett, Allen and Pierce at the beginning of the season. Well Doc Rivers has done a masterful job resting them. Doesn't he deserve some credit? Chicago Sun Times Benny The Bull wrongly accused by Celtics. Green Bandwagon Note - This deserves its own post. ...

Benny The Bull: Free At Last! [Wrongly Accused Mascots]
Published 4/4/2008 by Rick at Deadspin
Displaying the kind of investigative moxie that could have kept us out of this whole Iraq mess, the Chicago Sun-Times dug into Thursday's Benny the Bull T-shirt assault story and discovered that Benny had been wrongly accused! On Thursday it was reported that Benny — the costumed mascot for the Bulls — shot the Celtics' Kevin Garnett and James Posey from behind with a T-shirt gun. And since Benny had a record, we all believed it. But it just wasn't so, said the Bulls. The Bulls apologized to the Celtics and explained that one of ...

2007-08 NBA Worsties: Part 6
Published 15 days ago by Basketbawful (noreply@blogger.com) at Basketbawful
... The Bulls eventually tried to explain what "really" happened: "The Bulls apologized to the Celtics and explained that one of the members of the IncrediBulls -- a group that entertains during timeouts -- had tripped and his gun shot the shirts into the floor from where they bounced into the Celtics." ...

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