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Time Travel: Big-leaguers haven’t always been greedy

What a hoot it would be to ask baseball players of earlier generations about the business of today’s Major League game. They’d be unimpressed, if not downright disdainful, by the mindset on both sides of the negotiating table. Winter for them meant finding decidedly unglamorous work to ...

It’s not really Super

Question: Does it really feel like Super Bowl Weekend? Answer: Not really. Maybe it’s the fact we’ve gone deeper into February than ever with the Super Bowl, which in its humble beginnings was held a month earlier than this. And later it somehow went from being the last Sunday in January ...

Time Travel: Recalling the classic bonspiel at NCC

In honor of curling, which we typically see only during the Winter Olympics: FEB. 11, 1952 – “Rink No. 2 of the host Nashua Country Club, skipped by Dr. E.J. Belanger, defeated the St. Andrews No. 2 rink of New York City, 16-13, in the exciting final round of the Granite State Bonspiel ...

High school track … cancelled again

March 13, 2020, changed the world for so many for a variety of reasons. It is not necessary to list what has happened since that date as we all know too well what the past 22 months have been like. But for our high school track athletes, it has been an endless waiting game. After finishing ...

From scrub to Hall of Famer

He was wide-eyed, if not bushy tailed. The young rookie was sitting at his locker in the old, cramped home team locker room Foxboro Stadium, as happy as could be. It was the end of sixth round draft pick Tom Brady’s first training camp as a New England Patriot. And he had made the team as ...

Time Travel: Diggins leads charge to track triumph

FEB. 5, 1962 – “Dick Diggins continues to beat the clock and Nashua High’s track team romped to its third straight victory by making a shambles of West and Central in a tri-meet at the Exeter Cage on Saturday. “The Purple track and field men scored a total of 73 points as Manchester ...