Talk high school football with Salem head coach Jack Gati for even a few minutes and you're bound to hear his season-long mantra: The next game is the biggest. What's upcoming -- the Division I championship -- tops them all.
►Pick up a print copy of Friday's Union Leader for Marc Thaler's complete "First and 10" analysis and his picks for this weekend's championship games.
►Click here to visit Marc Thaler's 'Moving the Chains' high school football blog
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DURHAM - Updated, 11:19 p.m. After going winless in five straight games, the UNH men's hockey team has won consecutive games for the first time since the third week of October.
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Before a recent golf event, I knew little about Joshua Frase, his dad, Paul, his mom, Alison, or the illness that they are fighting.
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When baseball and softball things irritate me, it's a different ball game because I love those games so much.
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I know my gambling friends will embrace this week's proposal, in which no one loses money, without question. It's the rest of you, the non-gamblers, I need to sway.
Yesterday's shutout loss extended the Fisher Cats' scoreless streak to 32-plus innings.
►Fisher Cats blanked for third straight game
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Bruce Weber tells some serious tales about the ultimate thankless job.
MANCHESTER - Winning ways at St. Anselm and SNHU recall glory days of Manchester college basketball.
The Queen City might not be on ESPN's 'Titletown' radar, but it rates with one newspaper columnist.
MANCHESTER - He's looking forward to playing every day for New Hampshire.
►Thunder comeback extends Fisher Cats' losing streak
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