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Nothin’ but smiles when it comes to support for South’s Tejada

Nashua High School North baseball coach Zach Harris, before meeting with his team after Saturday's tough 7-2 loss at the hands of rival Nashua South, did something very unusual. He walked across the diamond to where the rival Panthers were getting ready for their usual postgame ...

Socially speaking, this media fails at times

Social media, in its myriad varieties, usually beats traditional media in the speed with which they can report the news. It isn’t easy for this traditional media dinosaur to admit, but it is true enough. Anyone looking for breaking sports news spends at least a chunk of their day surfing the ...

Monarchs will be leaving a huge hockey void

An old friend passed away earlier this week. The Manchester Monarchs were just that to many – a collective friend, an entertainment venue, and at one time part of a formula that made the area a hockey hotbed with their American Hockey League rivalry with the Lowell (Mass.) Lock Monsters and ...

Celtics soap opera authored by Kyrie Irving

Big-league sports soap operas are mostly founded on greed and ego. Then there are those leading actors who are simply off-kilter, whose thoughts have a shelf life of 30 minutes or less. And then there is Kyrie Irving, whose chain of thoughts jump from one to another with every breath. It ...

PGA would be lots more fun with Woods sitting at home

For months, this seemed like a splendid idea: Make the PGA Championship the second golf major of the year, not the last. Fill that sports void in May. Why wait until nobody is paying attention in late July/August? And then “He” roared at Augusta at last month’s Masters, making this ...

What’s Bruin? A Stanley Cup title, that’s what

“We want the Cup.” Boston Bruins fans chanting that these days know a good thing when they see it. And a bad thing too. The good: Their team is destined to win their second Stanley Cup this decade. They know it, and they said it loud throughout the B’s 6-2 in Sunday’s Game 2 of the ...