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Heading into the 2018 season there is plenty of hype surrounding both the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. Both teams are young and stacked with talent. Both teams are expecting big thing and today they start a three game series in Boston. Is this the return of one of the greatest rivalries in sports or just another series?

When I was a kid I wore a Yankees shirt on a class trip to Boston. Not as a statement, not as a threat just a 6th grade boy wearing his favorite shirt on a special day. Multiple "adults" harassed me for "repping the Yankees". Again small kid on a class trip being talked down to by adults...

Hated rivals. Heated rivalry. Post season implications. So much on the line. Yet in 1 game, baseballs best rivals showed why they will not be playing in the World Series and let's hope that home plate umpire Brian O'Nora won't be behind the dish in the playoffs...

Well seems Paul Pierce is now comfortable in his new surroundings of Brooklyn. In fact he is getting greedy about taking over the entire city. Pierce, traded to Brooklyn with Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry from the Boston Celtics is now talking up the rivalry with the NY Knicks...

In honoring the victims of the Boston Bombing the New York Yankees proved that at certain moments we can and do come together. The bitter rivals, who keep no secret of their distaste for each other, just ask the fans, put aside their decades old hatred and played the ultimate  Boston sports song, Sweet Caroline, after the 4th inning of the Yanks home game Tuesday night after the 3rd inning of thei

The rivalry adds another chapter, and Duke takes away what looked like a sure win for North Carolina thanks to a big shot by Austin Rivers.  Dukes wins 85-84.

New York vs. New York takes to the ice tonight as the New York Rangers get ready to do battle with their familiar rivals, The New York Islanders.

The Yankees and Red Sox is one of sports most bitter rivalries in all of sports.  Adding to this weekends match up between the two are some comments that Yankee catcher Russell Martin made about how much he hates the Red Sox.

Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli caused quite a stir during last night's 5-2 win over Boston. After a hitting a homerun in the 5th, Cervelli clapped his hands as he touched home plate.  The next time he was up to bat, Sox starter John Lackey drilled him in the back. Was Cervelli's "celebration" being over the top?

For the third time this season we see the greatest rivalry in sports come to a head. The Yankees once again welcome in the rival Red Sox as they battle for the AL East.

As we all get set for tonight's Syracuse/Georgetown & Duke/North Carolina games, it brings up a great debate about rivalries in sports. Let's face it, every fan has one game on their teams' schedule that they look forward to the most every year.  Throw out the records, when rivals get together, it's always a battle. So what is the best rivalry in all of sports?