'Gino' Fever Grips Boston

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The Roundup: MLB Draft, a Fight, and Brian Scalabrine
Published 6/6/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Shots) Great photo of Coco Crisp dodging a punch during the Fenway rumble yesterday. (Center Field) The more and more we read about Big Brown being a virtual lock Saturday, the more certain we are that it won’t happen. (USA Today) A live-blog of the MLB draft, including getting yelled at by the brother of one of the kids who got drafted! (Major League Jerk) The Gino mystery gripping Boston appears to be solved. (WSJ) What’s happening to the hockey night in Canada theme song? (The Star ...

Celtics Trying to Win One For 'Gino'
Published 6/6/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
... a hype video Boston plays late in games, and it features an American Bandstand clip of a grooving, hirsute man wearing a skin-tight shirt with the name "Gino" prominently displayed. Fans and players go wild. The 36-second mark of this video offers a glimpse. The man's not Gino; Gino is '70s singer Gino Vannelli, and you can read all about him here. The Wall Street Journal's Amol Sharma decided to track down the dancing king, something the Celtics considered. The Celtics organization ...

Friday Mini-Bullets
Published 6/6/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... If the Celtics have a big lead late in Game 2, Boston fans will get to see Gino. They loooooove Gino. Here's ...

Championship contender seeks dancer type with porno beard and hair helmet
Published 6/6/2008 by perkisabeast at perkisabeast.com Blog
... The Wall Street Journal reports that Celtics officials are trying to find Gino. Not the real Gino, but our Gino. However, the tale is sadder than you think. ...

Keep Talking Phil
Published 6/7/2008 by BigMck at RedsArmy.com: The Voice Of Celtics Fans
... On  a sad note, the Wall Street Journal reports our dancing “Gino” is dead. In fact, he died some 18-years ago. Let’s do it for Gino! ...

I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing 80s Red Sox Themes
Published 6/20/2008 by Jere (noreply@blogger.com) at A Red Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory
... I also wanted to make a list I've probably made here before. The songs channel 30 (and maybe 38, I still don't know if each affiliate had its own music/highlight theme packages) played during and on commercials for Sox games. I mean, obviously the voiceover was channel 30's own. I can still hear him. "Catch the Red Sox and the Brewers, Friday at 7:30, on 30!" I'd like to interview that guy, I wonder if he's alive, or if he went the way of the Gino guy. (Sad face here.) But was the music played all across 38-land, and each affiliate would put a voiceover on it? Or did 30 come up ...