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SWAT teams search homes in Watertown for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. (Getty Images)

BOSTON -- Boston Red Sox players and other team employees have been told to stay home until a decision is made on whether Friday night's game will be played.

The night game between the Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins also was on hold after the NHL teams canceled their morning skates because of the manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

"We're just following the lead of the city officials and we have no word yet on what's going to happen," Red Sox chief operating officer Sam Kennedy said, "but employees have been told to stay home following the lead of the city officials.

"Players have been told to stay home and stay safe and we're just awaiting any word like everybody else."

The Red Sox are scheduled to play the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park. Red Sox spokesman Kevin Gregg said the Royals have been in town since Wednesday night and spent their off day in the city on Thursday.

The bombings near the marathon finish line on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180. Police identified two suspects. One was killed during a shootout with police and the other was being sought in a massive manhunt Friday that virtually shut down the city and some suburbs.

The Royals are staying at the Westin Copley Place hotel, about a block from the marathon finish line.

"We've been told not to go outside. We've been told the hotel has been locked down, although I've seen a handful of people moving around," Royals vice president Mike Swanson said. "The streets are just, wow. It's numbingly quiet for a noon hour in Boston."

Bruins spokesman Matt Chmura said the team has no announcement yet on whether it will proceed with Friday night's game at TD Garden. The Bruins also announced that the sale of playoff tickets, scheduled to start at 11 a.m. on Friday, has been put off until 11 a.m. on Monday.

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THE WORDis MLSsoccer.com's weekly long-form series. This week, senior writer Jeff Bradley speaks with some of the best goalscorers in Major League Soccer history to determine which factors matter most when defining those precious few players blessed with the skill and the obsession to put the ball in the back the net, over and over again.

You go a game or two without a goal, and you start to think youll never score again.

Taylor Twellman, who scored 101 goals during his eight-year career with the New England Revolution, pauses for a second before continuing, as if he needs a moment to himself.

I think all guys who are paid to score know the feeling, he says. Lying awake at night, agonizing about it all day, your food tasting like cardboard. Its awful.

To overcome the anxiety, Twellman would stay after practice to do extra work. Not extra sprints or heading drills. This was the mental work every goalscorer seems to put in. For Twellman, this meant standing in front of an empty goal, and from a range where he could not possibly miss, firing the ball in. Over and over.

No matter what kind of practice I'd just had, I wanted it to end with me seeing the ball hit the net, Twellman says. I always wanted a mental picture of what it looked like.

Ante Razov, Major League Soccers fourth all-time scorer, had a similar ritual.

I was like a jump shooter in basketball with his two or three favorite spots on the floor, Razov says. Id go to those spots, in and around the box, and try to put shots into places where I knew they could not be saved. Upper corners, lower corners, spin it both ways. In a game, I wanted to feel like I could hit those spots with my eyes closed.

And Chris Wondolowski, whose 27 goals in 2012 famously tied the MLS single-season goalscoring record, sometimes actually does away with the ball.

Its very personal, the San Jose Earthquakes forward says of his routine. Its visualization. Sometimes, I just walk around the box and try to see myself scoring a goal.

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Inside the meticulous, manic mind of the MLS goalscorer | THE WORD

Published: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 10:21a.m. Updated 8 hours ago

The word is almost a cold comfort in post-9/11 America a way to describe the inconceivable, to somehow explain the twisted urge to commit mass murder. So when the bombs exploded in Boston, the word quickly became inescapable: terrorism.

Dictionaries, and people who study the age-old activity, define terrorism as the use of violence and fear to pursue political goals. But that definition may have expanded to fill a vacuum as the nation waits to learn a motive in the Boston Marathon explosions that killed three people and maimed scores more.

President Barack Obama chose not to use the word terrorism in his first remarks hours after Monday's bombing. The word has taken on a different meaning since 9/11, Obama advisor David Axelrod explained on MSNBC.

I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is, we really don't know who did this, Axelrod said on Tuesday morning.

But, in the public discussion, there was already a palpable hunger for the term. All the right words but one, was the headline of an analysis by the Defense Media Network. Only safe assumption: It was terrorism, another editorial was headlined in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Within hours of Axelrod's remarks, and with no suspects or motive announced, Obama said: Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terror.

In times of tension and uncertainty, words can become malleable vessels - for cultural fears, for political agendas, for ways to make sense of the momentous and the unknown. In 2013 America, the word terrorism exists at this ambiguous crossroads. And the opinions you'll find about it - this week in particular - often transcend mere linguistics.

Obama's conclusion about bombs and terror made perfect sense to Jay Winuk, whose brother, a lawyer and volunteer firefighter, died on September 11, 2001 while trying to evacuate the World Trade Center after it was attacked by fanatical Muslims.

Based on what we know so far, I do consider it an act of terrorism, Winuk said Wednesday, before news broke of a possible suspect in the case. I don't know that for me personally, political motivation is part of the equation.

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Is it ‘terrorism’? Anatomy of a very murky word

After choosing not to call the Boston Marathon bombings terrorism on Monday, President Obama used variations of the word terror four times in a public address on Tuesday. Given what we know about what took place, the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism, Obama said. Anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror.

His definition of terrorism was inaccurate, at least according legal guidelines that have been adopted by federal law enforcement. But the Presidents decision to embrace the term put him on the politically safer side of a linguistic problem that has bedeviled his presidency for years.

According to the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, an act of terrorism has three parts. First, it is an unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property. Second, it is intended to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, any segment thereof. Third, that intimidation or coercion is intended in furtherance of political or social objectives.

There are, as a result, possible scenarios in which a bombing of civilians would not be considered terrorism. An attack by a madman without any coherent social or political objectives, a targeted assassination by bomb, or a bombing intended as a distraction for another criminal act, like a bank robbery, would be examples. None of those are likely explanations for what took place in Boston on Monday.

But the use of the term terrorism remains politically fraught one. Nearly four years after U.S. Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13, the military has yet to call the event a terrorist act. Hasan had sent sympathetic e-mails about jihad and suicide attacks to Anwar al-Awlaki, a terrorist in Yemen who was later killed in a U.S. drone strike, and reportedly shouted Allahu Akbar before beginning his massacre. Despite the protests of victims and members of Congress, the Defense Department continues to categorize the event as workplace violence.

Last year, the use of the term terrorism became a major point of contention in the presidential election. Republicans, including Mitt Romney, charged that Obama had resisted labeling the attacks on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, terrorism for political reasons during an election. Obama countered that he had referred to acts of terror in his first statement on the attacks. Just weeks before the election, press secretary Jay Carney made clear that the White House had adopted a broad definition of terrorism with regards to the Libyan attacks. Anytime an embassy or diplomatic facility is attacked by force with weapons and Americans are killed, that is an act of terror under the definition of terrorism that applies at the NCTC [National Counterterrorism Center] and elsewhere, he said in press gaggle onboard Air Force One.

In his statement on the Boston attacks Monday night, Obama seemed deliberately cautious about using the word terrorism, even though the FBI was already moving to take over the investigation of the incident as a possible act of terrorism. With events still unfolding in Boston, the President issued a statement that seemed intended to avoid inflaming national alarm. But in an unusual move, an aide to the President spoke to the press moments after the President had concluded his remarks about the classification of the bombings. Any event with multiple explosive devices as this appears to be is clearly an act of terror, and will be approached as an act of terror, the White House official said.

Nonetheless, Obama received some criticism overnight about shying away from the word in his Monday remarks. On Tuesday, the clear emphasis of the term seemed designed to head off another Benghazi-like controversy. The American people refuse to be terrorized, Obama said.

With additional reporting by Zeke Miller

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