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Some holiday weekend leftovers to chew on

Here's a few tids and bits to chew over as those Thanksgiving leftovers just live seemingly forever: Here's a hint that the Futures Collegiate Baseball League is a league that will have a lot of changes coming in 2019. You see, usually by now a schedule is pretty much out. But that hasn't ...

We wish the Jets would get their act together

It's Jets Week, and unfortunately, there really isn't much of a buzz. We so thought there would be after the first couple of weeks, when rookie QB Sam Darnold was lighting it up. Finally, a Jets team with a quarterback that could at least make use of the forward pass. Unfortunately for Jet ...

Panther Pacheco gets the advantage over his Titan friend

Think of this: At one time, Nashua South hard-nosed runner Jaylan Pacheco and Nashua North electric quarterback/halfback Curtis Harris were neighbors. They could have been on the same South team rather than on opposing sides in the Panthers' 52-26 Turkey Eve Bowl triumph Wednesday night at ...

Giving thanks for great Nashua area football coaches

So, in our first year of picking high school football games here for The Telegraph, the Big Fella turns in a solid, if not thoroughly unspectacular 58-22 mark, a .725 win percentage, which sinks below the Brees Line – as in Drew Brees’ current record-setting completion rate (.769) with the ...

Alvirne’s ‘Bill Mak” answers call to NHIAA’s Hall

It was a special weekend for Alvirne High School, with its football team finally in a state championship game, even though the Broncos came out on the short end. But that’s not the whole story. It continued on Sunday when, in Concord, longtime game official, assigner and Alvirne athletic ...

Some better picks will cure the Bye Week Blues

The Bye Week Blues. Got 'em? New England Patriots fans must after last week's Torture in Tennessee. But the players probably couldn't get away from Foxborough and Gillette Stadium fast enough. They have today and Sunday off and then it's back to work. “I just think the morale changes,” ...