NASHUA --- When it comes to Kaylee Kacavas, Rivier University women's basketball coach Paul Williams doesn't mince words. “She's the best player who has ever played at Rivier,” Williams said. “Or at least she's in the conversation.” Williams is careful not to insult Hudson's (and ...
With the close of the 2019 winter high school season on Saturday (BTW, I like Salem in a Division I boys hoop upset over top-seeded, undefeated Exeter!), there is time to ponder some all-too-comical questions in sports. Well, sort of sports. It is a down time, leaving minds to wander. So ...
Can you just imagine if he ever makes it, this Batanda from Uganda, who got into the fight game because of Evander? The promotion opportunities could be limitless. Of course, that is light years away, but for now, Nashua’s Jesse Batanda is off to a flying start. The 23-year-old, a native ...
NASHUA – John Creedon, Jr. doesn't exactly who said what when and first. But he knows that the idea of him buying the Nashua Silver Knights from Drew Weber was something he and Weber had gone back and forth about for a few weeks, until they finally reached an agreement last week. And owning ...
NASHUA – A Nashua Silver Knights off-season of upheaval has been hit with the ultimate new development, as owner Drew Weber said he is in the process of selling the Futures Collegiate League franchise to Worcester Bravehearts owner John Creedon Jr. The team, both Weber and Creedon said, will ...
His eyes widened and a beautiful smile pursed his lips as he made his way toward the expanse of green. It had been more than 50 years since he’d been here, yet it seemed comfortingly familiar. Sure, the pine trees ringing the outfield were probably 60 feet taller than they were in 1946, and ...
The Nashua PAL Boxing Club attacked the recent Central New England Golden Gloves in Lowell without its cleanup hitter, Olympic hopeful Mike Fontanez. The club still wreaked havoc. Three Nashua PAL fighters took home titles and was probably robbed of a fourth with a brutal 3-2 decision loss ...
ATLANTA – Six rings. It’s the dead of winter, and all of New England will be celebrating like it’s the Fourth of July after the New England Patriots closed out the Los Angeles Rams, 13-3, to capture Super Bowl LIII Sunday night in front of 70,081 people at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. While ...
By HECTOR LONGO Staff Writer One year ago, Super Sunday just was not “super” for the New England Patriots. The same could not be said for the region’s girls indoor track contingent. Their performances at the 2018 NHIAA Indoor Track state championships on the same day the Eagles ...
ATLANTA – The low-flying helicopters that zoomed over the CNN Building and Mercedes-Benz Stadium could tell you Super Bowl LIII is just a day or two away. It was Friday of Super Bowl week and the joint was jumpin’. Temperatures got into the mid-50s. It was HotLanta once again. The ...
The Futures League has replaced former commissioner Chris Hall with two people. Joe Paolucci of Weymouth, Mass.was named the new FCBL commissioner, while Joe Malkin of Milford,Mass., was named as the league's administrator. Paolucci, wo played college baseball in the mid 1990s at ...
ATLANTA – Bummer. Maroon 5 backed out of doing the annual Super Bowl halftime entertainment press conference this week, something to do with all the Colin Kaepernick never ending controversies. That’s OK. They wouldn’t have been on par with Madonna, Lady Gaga, etc. NFL Commissioner ...
NASHUA – He was a Ram. And then he was a Patriot. And eventually, a Super Bowl champion. It was early November of 2001, and former Nashua High School and University of Massachusetts football standout Kole Ayi had to get his luggage off the Newark Airport conveyer ramp before it left to go ...
NASHUA – They now know when and where, and so do their fans. The Futures Collegiate Baseball League, after months of uncertainty whether it would go with seven or eight teams, released its 2019 schedule on Thursday. And, for the first time in their nine year history, the Nashua Silver ...
NASHUA --- Rivier University men's basketball coach Lance Bisson remembers watching UConn basketball when he was 12. “UConn was one of my favorite teams,” Bisson said. “And Jim Calhoun coached some of my favorite players.” And now, Bisson will look down the sideline on Saturday and ...
Although he hasn't officially retired from the National Football League, former Nashua High School North football standout Kendall Reyes will be on someone's sidelines for the 2019 season – the University of New Hampshire Wildcats. UNH announced the hiring of Reyes as an assistant coach ...
Wrestling Nashua North 36, Alvirne 30 Dominic Gentry’s first-period pin at 170 pounds locked up the tight victory for the Titans. Brian Mwangi and Andrew Tate each scored wins by fall for North, while Mickey Mathson and Matt Oliver had tight decision wins. Ayden Spencer scored a blazing ...
Of all the pains incurred by injury to a high school athlete, one stands out most ... Loneliness. “It’s not the physical, it’s the mental part,” said Milford High sprint sensation Viankah Williams. “Pushing through on your own each day? That’s the hard part.” Nashua High ...
It appears it will be a straight one-for-one swap on the 2019 Futures Collegiate Baseball League. Hello, Westfield. Good-bye, Martha's Vineyard. The New England Collegiate Baseball League announced Saturday morning that the Martha's Vineyard Sharks, who were in court disupte with the FCBL ...
Kendall Reyes remembers his first day at the then-San Diego Chargers headquarters, a day or two after being drafted by them in the second round of the NFL draft back in 2012 out of the University of Connecticut. The first player he saw was quarterback Philip Rivers. “That's the biggest ...