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Before Presidents Day, we get High School Hoop Finals Day

It's Finals Day. Yes, it will seem strange to wrap up the Divsion I and II boys and girls basketball seasons before we even observe Presidents Day but that's a subject that's been beaten to death. Whispers are the NHIAA will tack on two weeks to the season next year as a compromise. But today ...

Laurendi bows out … for now

Good coaches come, and when that happens, it’s great. You can sense a change, a newfound feeling of enthusiasm with whatever team they take over, be it high school or beyond. Good coaches also go. When that happens, there’s often a sense of loss, a sense of fearing change. They are ...

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 ...