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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 ...

Fault lies not with one ex-Laker but with Celtics themselves

Let the conspiracy theorists begin the celebration. A story posted on larrybrownsports.com served up some red meat for anyone convinced that the Celtics could not possibly have imploded this season on their own. It alleges that Jayson Tatum, while working out last summer with Kobe Bryant, ...

It should now be a net gain for safety at Holman

Here's some worthwhile information while we hopefully can start the weekend on a sunny note: If you haven't been to Holman Stadium in a while, you will be surprised when you do. The city of Nashua along with the Nashua Silver Knights have taken the major step of installing netting all the way ...