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Time Travel: Football coaches not always grumpy

Bill Belichick stunned America last week with a toothy grin as he hugged his son, Steve, after the Patriots shut down the Bills on Buffalo’s final play of a 14-10 win. There is a heart beating somewhere in that hoodie after all. It can be surmised from the following that Nashua High ...

Count Pats among lucky

Things are getting worse around the National Football League, as the mid-week COVID total reached 75 players and counting as of this writing. But the New England Patriots – fingers crossed – have avoided losing any key players other than Kyle Dugger for one game after a positive COVID ...

Best thing about the bye week is the extra film time, right?

Are you all enjoying your bye week? Warm weather trip? Some cliff diving, scuba diving, snorkeling? Maybe some self scouting? Yeah right. It was probably Christmas shopping, other errands, and getting all those things done around the house. We're not able to use the New England Patriots as ...

Twomey truly irreplaceable

A quick check of the cell phone would indicate a call from Bill Twomey. Normally, the call back in that situation would be fairly immediate, if time allowed. But that was always the problem when Bill Twomey would call. You had to block off the time – a good hour – even if it was a simple ...

Time Travel: Hudson Legion Basketball dominates

DEC. 11, 1961 – “The Hudson Legion hoop team went on a scoring rampage to swamp the Raymond Town Team, 135-54, in a Saturday game at the Dr. H.O. Smith school gym. “No less than seven men hit double figures. Dick Ahrendt paced the attack with 30 points, Tom Gondek contributed 29, Charles ...

Patriots have ground control over the rest of the AFC

Ah, there's nothing like old time football. What do they say National Football League teams want to always do, at least back when football wasn't some glorified track meet? Run the ball, stop the run. Your New England Patriots did both in Monday night's 14-10 win in windy Orchard Park, and ...