This has been hockey’s week. New Hampshire High School hockey, especially locally, had the stage all to itself for the last 10 days with the boys and girls tournaments. That was because of the experimental condensed Division I and II and to some extent III basketball schedule that ended ...
Ice time has always been a precious commodity for amateur hockey teams. Ask the parent of any youth hockey player and they’ll tell you about the joys of stumbling out of bed at 3 a.m. to get their mini-mites to the rink for a 4 a.m. practice. Occasionally, the big kids have had the same ...
Let's try to figure out what exactly was gained with the Great MLB Lockout of 2022 that ended on Thursday. How about no regular season baseball in the chill of March? The numbers are all mind-boggling to the average fan who right now is paying anywhere between $4 and $7 for a gallon of gas, ...
Here are a few tids and bits as we’re underway in March and high school spring sports practices begin in just two weeks: A fabulous college career ended last weekend in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference finals when Emmanuel topped Saint Joseph’s of Maine in the conference title ...
For purely selfish reasons, one scribe’s preference is for all high school football games to be played at 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoons. Of course, that preference for afternoon games also applies to any assignment that crosses this desk. It’s not our problem if NESN’s ratings tank with ...
The talks are over, at least for now. Opening day is gone, too, and now we’re forced to wait to see if we get any baseball at all. If there was any good news coming out of baseball’s labor talks in Florida it was this: At least now we know who to blame. Here’s a hint: It’s not ...
