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Greenwood: MLB owners, players need to face reality

Ignorance is often spawned by arrogance. For fresh evidence, look to the standoff between Major League owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association. The owners put forth a proposal that calls for an 82-game regular season on or about the Fourth of July. How much more poetic could ...

For many, the return of golf is a religious experience

Some argue that golf is not a sport, it's just a game. Others argue that golf is more than just a sport, it's a religion. We'll go with the latter. Just ask Green Meadow's Roland Delisle, who worked at the course for 28 years and as a reward now gets a lifetime of free golf. Delisle couldn't ...

Awful news for local ballplayers as American Legion season is cut

Floating down a lonesome stream of consciousness, each day wondering a bit more if Rob Gronkowski's defection from the Patriots was a lock well before he announced an end to his abbreviated retirement … Now that the American Legion baseball season has been scrapped, prepare for a parade of ...

Time Travel: Nashua High golf team shines

MAY 11, 1966 – “Nashua High's sparkling golf team continued its climb toward the state crown at hilly-chilly Derryfield Country Club yesterday when it posted a 7-2 win over Manchester West. “Medalist honors went to Ted Goulet with a 77 card. Dana Levesque fired a 79.” MAY 11, 1976 – ...

For Paladino, the time was right and the days will be shorter

Pete Paladino remembers one night at Merrimack College during his assistant athletic director days when Boston University coach Jack Parker was livid, seeking out a Hockey East official after a game controversy. “Uh, well, he's up on the roof right now chopping ice,” Paladino told a ...

Time Travel: Returning from the war

MAY 10, 1945 – From sports editor Frank Stawasz’s column, with World War II winding down: “Home for the first time in many months is Bob Jauron, former Purple football, baseball, basketball and track star, and later of Boston College where he played with the Frank Leahy national ...