Here’s a few tids and bits to try to entertain and inform you while we watch the rabbits warm up to go hippity-hoppity:

The spring high school sports season got underway this week, but the opening of Stellos Stadium was truly special. Now, there wasn’t any big ceremony, etc., but the site of student athletes back playing on a brand new Motta Field turf, and their words after on how happy they were to be back was ceremony enough. Sough girls lacrosse players talked about how they have been playing at Stellos since they were six years old. Those of us who were around in the pre-Stellos days forget how much that facility has been part of the lives of Nashua’s youth in the last 20 years.

— Still looking at the spring, last year we had three great diamond sports stories in Bishop Guertin softball, Nashua North baseball, and Souhegan baseball. Two of the three made the finals and one made the semis. It’s a quick regular season, and we’ll all likely learn the lesson that each year is different. We’ll see how things shake out and see if we get a non-lacrosse/volleyball championship.

—– Last weekend late former Nashua Athletic Director Al Harringon was laid to rest, and he’ll be celebrated again next month with his induction into the Nashua Athletics Hall of Fame. But Gingras has a great story to tell: She was a Nashua High student when suddenly she was asked to report to the athletic director’s office. “I didn’t know what I had done,” Gingras said. “I thought I was in trouble.”

Nope. Harrington was looking for a baby sitter, and Gingras came highly recommended. “He had reached out to some coaches and coaches had said I was a quality person and trustworthy,” Gingras said, chuckling. “So I ended up babysitting (Harrington’s kids).”

—- Unfortunately last weekend’s lousy weather wiped out what was supposed to be a special, groundbreaking baseball event at Nashua North: a Cal Ripken coaches clinic involving the staffs of the Nashua North and South High School teams. A coach from each staff are now the Directors of Player and Coach Development with Cal Ripken, as a great partnership we told you about a couple of weeks ago has been made official.

“This partnership,” Cal Ripken official Matt Demers said, “aims to elevate Nashua baseball by unifying coaching approaches. This is great news for Nashua baseball.”

All involved are looking for a new date; we’ll keep you posted.

The NH Legends of Hockey are going to honor the hockey history of Nashua’s Club National at its Hall of Fame induction ceremony this October. (Courtesy photo)

—– If you’re anyone who is familiar, had family members, etc. with the hockey team that represented the Club National which is a private club that is in Nashua, then New Hampshire Legends of Hockey president Jim Hayes wants to hear from you. The Club National team played from 1922-25 and the history of Club National – or, as they call it, “Club Nationale” is going to be honored on October 26 at the NH Legends of Hockey Induction Ceremony in Concord. For more information, visit www.legendsofhockey.com. This hockey history will be fun to delve through.

—- The Masters was just incredible drama. But almost as incredible were the food prices there, believe it or not — in a good way. lunch almost seems on Augusta National. The menu of sandwiches, etc. has nothing over $3.00. Honest. Soda and water, two bucks each. Want a chicken biscuit for breakfast (ends at 10), its just three bucks. Absolutely incredible. Any event here at the North Pole would be three times that, at the very least.

—- It simply boggles the mind why NBA teams refuse to foul when a team that shoots the 3 ball as well as the Celtics do is down three with 11 seconds to go. The Knicks and their stuck-in-his-ways coach Tom Thibodeau did just that over a week ago and paid the price. The Celtics have to solve just two teams to repeat as champions, Cleveland and OKC.

— Watching the Duke meltdown and the final possession Houston had in the NCAA men’s Final Four should remind us all that, despite all the money now involved, this is not the NBA. These are still kids, believe it or not, and in those situations, the kids panicked. Pure and simple.

—– What is all the big fuss over the Patriots trading Joe Milton III to Dallas? He was a sixth round – that’s SIXTH – draft pick, and sure, has raw talent, etc. But he lasted that long in the draft for a reason. Now, that’s not to say Milton can’t become a star if his talent can be harnessed, but he wasn’t going to play in New England, and the team got a fifth round pick for him. Those who thought they could get a third round pick in a deal are nuts. Milton was a backup to the backup. Period, end of story. Stop with the nonsense and conspiracy theories. And let”s see who the Patriots draft at No. 4. We still say it should be LSU offensive lineman Will Campbell. Sorry.

Tom King can be reached at tking@nashuatelegraph.com, or at X (formerly Twitter) @Telegraph _TomK.