We've Marched into April. That should be a happy time. March should have brought us a lot of memories of madness, not sadness. And we usually take that athletic inspiration into this current month when spring has sprung. Instead, all those March dates yours truly laid out for you a month ago ...
Athlete of the Year Tori Conrad, Nashua North Coach of the Year Renee Archer, Nashua North First Team Abby Coy, Nashua North, Sr., 55 meters Adrienne Mckoy-Sophos, Alvirne, Soph., 300 meters Fiona Doherty, Bishop Guertin, Soph., 600 meters Chloe Trudel, Souhegan, Soph., 1000 ...
Robert Kraft, hero to New York. Huh? Yes, this COVID-19 crisis can make for strange bedfellows. Kraft, as was well publicized on Thursday, got over one million N95 masks for healthcare workers, etc. from China, flown in on the New England Patriots team plane. The Patriots owner and his son, ...
NASHUA -– Scott Ciszek was behind the Bishop Guertin High School girls hockey bench, guiding the Cardinals to a tournament win over Bishop Brady-Trinity-West at Tri-Town Arena early last month. High across the Cardinals bench, a few high school administrators were trying to watch the game, ...
Wrestler of the Year Kyle Gora, Alvirne Coach Of the Year Paul Rousseau, Bishop Guertin First Team Anthony Fernandez, Bishop Guertin, Frosh., 106 pounds Colby Spencer, Nashua South, Jr., 113 pounds Kyle Salemi, Nashua South, Sr., 120 pounds Connor McDonald, Bishop Guertin, ...
Kobe Bryant’s resume has yet another entry to prove his greatness: He’s now, officially, a Hall of Famer. And he’s got plenty of elite company in the 2020 class, one that may be as glitzy as any. Bryant and fellow NBA greats Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan headlined a nine-person group ...
Crowds left small hockey arenas in Manchester, Concord and Plymouth just over three weeks ago, excited about a full day of hockey at SNHU Arena in Manchester in a few days. Then, poof! The season plug was pulled, and high school hockey fans, coaches, and players all had to shift their thoughts ...
Sure, not having Tom Brady around will be a huge adjustment for the New England Patriots – especially running back James White. But he says he'll get over it, like the rest of the team. No choice, really. “It will be a little different,” White said Thursday during a media video ...
It's become almost a daily ritual for Nashua's Matt Neverett, former Nashua Silver Knights/WSMN radio broadcaster. He leaves his Las Vegas apartment, located about four or five blocks from the famed Vegas Strip, and takes a drive up and down the Strip. Normally, it might take him a half hour ...
The message is clear, and it is a good one. But will it be enough? Reading colleague Tom King’s notes from the NHIAA, then catching Jamie Staton’s WMUR-TV Face Time interview with Executive Director Jeff Collins, it was reassuring to see that the kids matter. They still matter, and ...
BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker found himself in need of an assist to help the state fight the coronavirus pandemic. He called on the New England Patriots. The team’s private plane was on schedule to return to Boston from China on Thursday evening carrying more than one ...
Mike Fontanez hasn’t swung in anger at anyone in weeks, and he is not happy. “I’m still working hard, still putting in the work. You can’t change it or control it,” said Nashua’s Fontanez, the reigning New England Golden Gloves 165-pound champion. “You just have to adjust and ...
Hope springs eternal. Tha's the way New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association Executive Director Jeff Collins is thinking as well as coaches and athletes as new dates for the spring season were announced on Tuesday. The NHIAA Executive Council, in accordance with Governor Chris ...
MIAMI (AP) – The biggest free agent deal for the Miami Dolphins this offseason has been one they didn’t make. The Dolphins spent more than $237 million last month and signed seven potential starters. But none will help their chances of overtaking the Patriots in the AFC East as much as ...
We don't know who the best teams in all the respective high school boys basketball divisions would have actually been this season. After all, that's why they play the games. But how about 2021? Assuming things will eventually be normal enough to forge ahead next winter, who would have the ...
For many high school seniors, the separation anxiety kicks in after graduation. For a pair like Hollis Brookline High School girls lacrosse captains Tasha White and Paisley Broadhurst, the spring season – or currently the lack of one – has pushed that urgency straight to the front of the ...
Let the healing begin. That's basically what some of the returning New England Patriots leaders have been saying about the loss of iconic face of the franchise Tom Brady, as well as some others. Newly re-signed special teams ace Matthew Slater is one of them. “A lot of our identity has ...
Leave it to that whiney, rich, spoiled, avaricious Phil Mickelson to come to our sports defense. In case you missed it, Mickelson told folks via Twitter this week that a potential match-play rematch with everyone’s bogus hero Tiger Woods could be imminent. “Working on it” Mickelson ...
As these strange times continue as if we are all living a sci-fi movie for real, here are some more notes to show where playland intersects reality: First, where was Nashua's Tim Neverett, now a Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster, when the plug on baseball was pulled? He was, believe it or not, ...
BOSTON (AP) – Red Sox starter Chris Sale had Tommy John surgery on his left elbow on Monday, his 31st birthday, waiting 11 days after doctors said he needed the operation because of difficulty in scheduling during the coronavirus pandemic. Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom said ...