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All these playoffs tell us is that the Patriots lack firepower

Happy Conference Championship Day, New England Patriots fans. Remember when it used to be a big day for the region? You had one eye on the game and the other on making potential Super Bowl travel arrangements. The Patriots were always playing on this Sunday, a remarkable streak of seven ...

Time Travel: Royal Purple take apart Crimson Tide

JAN. 28, 1967 – “Displaying an awesome scoring punch with a stingy defense, the Nashua High Royal Purple roared to its sixth win of the season last night at the Chestnut St. Gym, annihilating the Crimson Tide of Concord High, 73-41, before an estimated gathering of 900 ...

Classic coach will be missed

Jim Gorham, in his first year as the Campbell High School head baseball coach – in fact the program’s first year – saw his team get no-hit in its first game – and three-hit in another game. So he figured it was time to show them how to hit. First pitch, he whiffed. Kids ...

That North-South magic is so good you see it on ESPN

Somehow, they pulled it off. Yes, Nashua North and South were incredibly able to turn Friday night's Battle of the Bridge into, well, the Battle of the Bridge. It was the library-like atmosphere of a year ago, when there were plenty of pandemic related fan restrictions and the stands weren't ...

Time Travel: New England hoop league fades fast

Maintaining a minor league baseball presence at Holman Stadium has been a topic of conversation since the famed Nashua Dodgers skipped town after the 1949 season. Organized baseball, all the way to the big leagues, labored in search of a strategy to live with the advent of television. The ...

Pats’ woes clear

Here are some tids and bits to try to stir some warmth and excitement into the January blahs as we enter the final week of the worst month of the year: First, obviously no New England Patriots game to forecast this weekend or for the next eight months. The question is, why? What happened? The ...