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The Stanley Cup Playoffs are finally here in their glory

The pucks will begin to drop on Wednesday at some select National Hockey League locations, and they'll have a different bounce. Hello again, Stanley – as in Stanley Cup Playoff time. It's the best. The hits will be harder, the saves more dramatic, and those made-for-TV shootouts a thing of ...

It’s finally time for that full swing into spring

Opening Day/Week has arrived. Yes, today marks the full beginning of the high school spring sports season. Sure, rain and raw weather could wipe out a good portion of it the next couple of days, but there's always another day to reschedule. It's that time, until just about June ...

Take a peek at some interesting early April observations

Here's your weekly Saturday tids, bits and thoughts of local and regional happenings: ---- No one outside of Bishop Guertin is shedding any sympathy tears for the Cardinals girls basketball program which, as reported this week, lost two key players in the title runs of the last two seasons, ...

Spring has sprung for local high schools

Some stray sports thoughts for the day as I wonder whether Chris Sale could actually break a pane of glass with his fastball these days ... The high school spring sports season is upon us and for most teams in all sports, save for volleyball, April is about survival. Wind, rain, snow, cold ...

Red Sox start slow, panic grips Hub!

With the Red Sox winning one of their first six games, it should surprise no one who has lived here for more than an hour that Panic Grips Hub. It has often been suggested that April is the worst possible time to assess a team’s destiny. Of course, such sober thinking has rarely caused a ...

Silver Knights wasting no time in moving ahead

Take a good, close look now at your Nashua Silver Knights. To the casual observer, they've been an off-season circus. Since the final out was made in Brockton back on August 6, the local Futures Collegiate Baseball League entry has had four general managers (two as co-GMs), two majority ...