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Greenwood: NBA should just wait until next season

Floating down a lonesome stream of consciousness, mulling over what is the leading promotion-gone-bad in Major League Baseball history – the Indians’ 10-Cent Beer night in 1974 or Bill Veeck’s Disco Demolition Night in 1979. … The NBA is proposing a 22-team resumption of play to begin ...

Time Travel: Walter Hagen visits Nashua Country Club

JUNE 5, 1925 – “Golf fans are eagerly awaiting Walter Hagen, who finished fifth with a 293 in the national open golf tournament at Worcester yesterday, when he arrives here tomorrow to play in a 36-hole match at the Nashua Country Club.” JUNE 5, 1940 – “With Ernie Rangazas pitching ...

Time Travel: Nashua High set for belated spring football practice

JUNE 4, 1965 – “Nashua High's spring football practice, interrupted by the uncooperative weatherman late in March, was resumed today when coaches Buzz Harvey and Tony Marandos greeted the 1965 hopefuls for the second time. “By holding the drills in June, Nashua reverts to an old format ...

Time Travel: High praise for Paul Bellavance

JUNE 3, 1960 – “University of New Hampshire (baseball) coach Hank Swasey, who has taught the game for over 40 years, states that Paul Bellavance is the best captain he ever had. “ 'Paul's a dandy,' the veteran UNH mentor stated. 'He runs the team and they know who's boss. After a game ...

Greenwood: MLB owners, players deserve one another

Apparently, even in the context of a pandemic, fatally stealing a man's most inalienable right and its resulting street violence, one of the few diversions is watching billionaires and millionaires squabble across a virtual negotiating table. Welcome to the latest skirmish in the ongoing war ...

Fall sports, fields, golf’s popularlity all in mind as June begins

Here are a few tids and bits as we welcome in June, hoping it brings progress following all the rough times we've all experienced or seen experienced lately: ---- Now that we're coming to the near end of the school year, the focus will soon be on the fall season possibilities for school ...