Here’s some tids and bits to chew on while we cringe at the thought that August has reached double digits:

— It’s hard to believe the Nashua Silver Knights season is over already. It’s even harder to believe how it ended over the last four weeks, with the team going 2-17 to miss the FCBL playoffs that are currently underway.

It’s always sad when the season wraps up, as it basically means the end of local baseball that went from high schools in April to summer Legion, and the Silver Knights, at Holman Stadium.

In the next week or so we’ll take a deep dive into just what went wrong on the field for the Knights but also a lot of the things that went right off it in terms of the business side. For example, Nashua finished third in the FCBL in attendance, with an average of 1,625 fans per game.

— Well, the time is coming. By the time the next edition of the Sunday Telegraph rolls into stores,etc., there will be high school football not only in the air, but on the fields all over the area and the state.

Remember, there will be three new coaches this fall: Nashua South’s Josh Porter, Alvirne’s Justin Hufft, and Hollis Brookline’s Patrick Gendron. Porter, you may remember, was a Panther assistant that retiring coach Scott Knight was hoping would get the position; Hufft, of course, guided Pelham to the state finals in Division II in an emergency fill-in role as the Pythons AD and is now the Alvirne AD, and Gendron was the former head coach at Westford Academy and lives just over the Hollis line.

All the news from the winter is now reality in late summer.

—- Here’s why we think the Patriots are going to be playing meaningful games in December: the schedule. But don’t look so much at the teams, look at the quarterbacks this revamped defense is facing. The Saints, Titans, Giants, Jets (twice) Browns, Panthers don’t exactly have Joe Namath as their signal callers. The key may be the games vs. Miami. Tua Tagovailoa has yet to lose to the Patriots, amazing.

—- It turns out Sean Holland isn’t the only Nashua South alum who is playing for an Irish National Team. Severen Johnson, who was a freshman midfielder this past spring for Tiffin (Ohio) University, has made the Team Ireland U20 team that will be competing in, yes, the U20 World Championships August 15-24 on Jeju Island, Korea.

Incredible. What are the odds that two alums of the same New Hampshire high school would be playing for two levels of Team Ireland? “I guess,” Rob Johnson said, “it’s become a trend.”

—- Bishop Guertin alum Hayden Moses continues to reap the benefits of the best move he ever made, going to Vanderbilt and being part of a major college football program. Vanderbilt recently distributed the Bowl game rings and earlier this week Netflix debued its “Any Given Saturday” which has clips of him frm last season working with the quarterbacks and also Vandy’s stunning win over Alabama, and dinner convos between Moses and Vanderbilt starting QB Diego Pavia. Check it out.

— Why is the WNBA seemingly less than enthusiastic about the potential of the Connecticut Sun moving to Boston thanks to the purchase of Steve Pagliuca?

Simple: The league is trying to get other cities interested in their brand for expansion, and control the movement of teams. They don’t like to see a community lose a team, which is why they spoke of Boston in terms of expansion, not losing a market. And it’s also about control. The league wants to dictate where teams go, and this wasn’t their move. But it’s a good one, although we don’t think T.D. Garden is the best spot. A smaller venue, with a packed house might be better, but where? We say UMass-Lowell’s Tsongas Arena.

—– It was almost surreal walking into LeLacheur Park for the first time in 14 years for the FCBL-UMass Lowell deal announcement. While UML bought the facility from the city of Lowell, it needs work. Ballparks, you see, don’t withstand the test of time when there’s no franchise tenant. UML plays there in the spring and while that’s great, it’s not quite the same when terms are set forth in a lease.

Why did it take so long for the Futures League to secure LeLacheur? It’s always seemed a no-brainer, especially with Nashua nearby and Worcester not that far away.

Simple: Lowell had success with the Spinners as a Red Sox short season Class A team, and the political powers were holding out for a pro team. Once that well was drying up and the Futures League put its best foot forward with the Silver Knights as an example key in the pursuit, University officials said OK and the pols backed off. We look forward to a great rivalry.

Tom King can be reached at tking@nashuatelegraph.com, or on X, formerly known as twitter, @Telegraph _TomK.