It's sad that we're at the halfway mark for July, but the calendar never works backward, right? Here are some mid-summer tids and bits to take with you to the beach: --- Local umpire Steve Drescher is one of the classiest guys around, and he showed that this past Tuesday at the end of the ...
Give Major League Baseball credit for finally thinking outside the box. Unfortunately, MLB’s welcome, but fatally flawed radicalism shouldn’t make it beyond the batters box. The Lords of the Failing Game are partnering with the Atlantic League to test drive a packet of rules, ...
We were wrong. New Hampshire, after Governor Chris Sununu signed a bill into law, has made sports gambling legal in the Granite State. Somehow, some way, we thought that something would circumvent the process. Silly us. We figured you'd have to have the popular spot like a casino built and in ...
So a recent email “fan” disagreed with an assessment this corner had made on his Boston Red Sox that they are built on money and will therefore be fine, even in 2019. “Hector, you are the worst,” was his quote, forcing me to recall one of my great high school coach’s favorite lines: ...
Their time is now. It's Camp Week for the Nashua Silver Knights, but it also should be their week. There's no time like the present for the local Futures Collegiate League entry, both on the field and in the stands, because after Saturday night's rainout and Sunday's off day, they are home ...
There is no disputing the Red Sox' great success during the John Henry Administration. Four World Series championships, record attendance and Fenway Park's renaissance are on the record. Along the way, Henry has always seemed an honest sort, at least as far as any successful business person ...
It's been a sizzling start to summer so far, so here are some tids and bits to throw on the grill: One thing you can say about the current United States women's soccer team's run to a likely second straight World Cup title, with the finals vs. the Netherlands on Sunday, is that the march has ...
And so, Boston Celtics fans, I ask this question this morning as the New Jersey Nets prepare to hand him the key to their basketball Rolls: What if Kyrie Irving was the solution and not the problem? New England basketball fans are trusting sorts – you know, In Brad we trust; in Danny we ...
The Nashua Lions Club Holman Stadium Sports Legends Hall of Fame voters always seems to get it right. Thus, they've hit another one out of the park for this Thursday's induction of the father-son duo of Bolic “Bouncer” Tamulevich and his son, Carl, plus Frank Ulcickas. You see, the ...
Imagine, you spend more than anyone in Major League Baseball, nearly twice the league average, and your season hangs on the thrice-surgically repaired elbow of Nathan Eovaldi. These are your $240 million, Wild Card-bound, trail-the-Yankees-by-11-games-on-July-1 Boston Red Sox. Honestly, ...
Welcome, July. You've got to be better than April, May and June, right? You're the only month out of the year that doesn't have an NHIAA sanctioned high school event or organized full high school team practice. Yet your the best month out of the year in terms of weather. And as far as ...
Welcome, July. You’ve got to be better than April, May and June, right? You’re the only month out of the year that doesn’t have an NHIAA sanctioned high school event or organized full high school team practice. Yet you’re the best month out of the year in terms of weather. And as ...
One inning of baseball at London Stadium conjured two thoughts: The pitchers will do plenty of whining about the mound’s imperfections. The seats between the foul poles make the Oakland Coliseum look cozy. Before Rick Porcello tossed potentially the worst “third-of-an-inning” in his ...
Here are some final June tids to toss on the grill and turn into bits as we not only head into July but head into that zany NHL and NBA free agency period that begins on Sunday and Monday: Don't look now, but the Nashua American Legion Post #124 baseball team is off to a flying District B ...
The United States Women’s Soccer Team probably invited all this attention, this spotlight, all this heat, if you will. Good for them. If a soccer team can do anything to even the playing field on this planet for women everywhere, I’m behind them every step of the way. Paced by the ...
In a sport replete with stories of success and failure, in which a handful of bad outings could doom your career before it ever really has a chance to get off the ground, Bob Cain would one day found himself in the role of straight man. A left-handed pitcher, Cain was the No. 2 starter for ...
Warning: A back-in-the-day argument is bubbling to the surface. Anyone who is not inclined to endure an old grouch climbing onto his soap box should move along. The objection in question is the increasing use of video replay to determine if an official is right or wrong with the call he or ...
Puzzling. Google it and the Boston Red Sox of 2019 are certainly one of the top entries, right? If Monday night’s “thrilling” walk-off win over the Chicago White Sox (quick, name three starters ... no chance) proved anything, it is that something just is not right for this $240 ...
Here are some warm weather tids and bits just as we have the first official Saturday of summer: The dilemma the Eagles of the International Soccer Club of Nashua found themselves in was fairly predictable but there are a couple of underlying themes: First, it is a reminder of the limitations ...
We will hear for weeks/months/years about the New Orleans Pelicans and their NBA Draft lottery strike, Zion Williamson. The one-year Duke University phenom is the marquee man in what has universally been characterized as a three-man draft. The Boston Celtics? Like most every moment of the ...