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NFL Picks: It’s good Pats honor past, just don’t live in it

Congratulations, Richard Seymour. The New England Patriots continue to celebrate their glorious past, even while everyone is worried about their present. Seymour was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame on Saturday, something certainly well-deserved. Seymour, in these eyes, will always ...

Turkey Bowl’s future highly debatable

There’s nothing more polarizing than any debate about the future of the Nashua High School North-South Turkey Bowl. Simply put, there’s a faction that wants to continue it if and when most of the public health concerns go away, and there’s one that doesn’t. Nashua athletic director ...

Time Travel: Injuries couldn’t slow down ’61 Panthers

OCT. 23, 1961 – “Playing without the services of no less than five key men, Nashua High School’s young football 11 yesterday sent a makeshift lineup against Manchester Central and staged the most brilliant performance of the season in humiliating its bitter and ancient rival 50-0 before ...

The 2021 Patriots keep coming up a play or two short

New England Patriots safety and captain Devin McCourty gave us all a reminder after Sunday's excruciating yet highly entertaining 35-29 overtime loss to so-called America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys. “I say it all the time,” McCourty began. “Everything in the past has nothing to do with ...

NFL Picks: Patriots need to win the battle of the headsets

Mike McCarthy didn't look like a very smart coach last year with the Dallas Cowboys, now did he? Gee, you think not having Dak Prescott at quarterback after he tore up his ankle early in the season had anything to do with that? That's why a healthy, good QB makes all the difference in the ...

Who’s really No. 1?

Here are some tids and bits as we try to take a breather before the high school tournament season begins in earnest, as field hockey starts this week and soccer and volleyball begin later this month: • Who’s No. 1? And what does that really mean? This past week the Bishop Guertin High ...