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No fans, no Brady, but lot of Newton on fun but strange day

The ride down Route 1 was a breeze. No traffic. No fans walking along the side of the road heading toward Gillette Stadium after paying a little cheaper price to park than the stadium lots. Oh, the fans would have loved basking in the sun at Gillette on Sunday for the New England Patriots' ...

Are you ready for some football?

The day the area’s hard and true pro football fans have been craving for is here: The first Sunday of the National Football League season. You got a taste of it the other night with Kansas City and Houston opening things at Arrowhead. Now many of you will be glued to your TVs today when the ...

We’re definitely ready for some football, Chiefly speaking

It's hard to believe, but the National Football League season opens tonight. It's still hard for some to believe the New England Patriots aren't playing on the night reserved for the defending Super Bowl champions. It would have been a nice opener, but there 's no way last year's Patriots ...

High school sports has triumphantly returned to new normal

They're baaaaaaaaack.... One tweet from Nashua Athletics summed it up on Tuesday, as school began remotely in the city: “So great,” it said, “to see our student athletes return to athletics today.” Or, one from the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association: “First day of ...

What a summer

Farewell Summer of 2020. You felt that chill in the night air earlier this past week, right? It certainly was a sign that the summer is coming to a close. The unofficial end is Monday, with the arrival of Labor Day. But oh, for local sports, what a summer it was – especially after such ...

Once again, undersized Bruins skate into a playoff dead end

The end came swiftly and suddenly on Monday night, with Tampa Bay's game winning double overtime goal. What's next, Boston Bruins fans? Hopefully a more normal season, whenever and however that would begin (December?). Let's face it, this was a surreal experience, watching Bruins Stanley Cup ...