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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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.
Bruce Weber tells some serious tales about the ultimate thankless job.
The Queen City might not be on ESPN's 'Titletown' radar, but it rates with one newspaper columnist.

MANY TIMES, sports stories don't take place on football fields, baseball diamonds, basketball courts or in hockey rinks.
A LOCAL WRITER says unfortunate things seem to happen to many of the people whose exploits are documented in this space. Thanks to Claremont's Rich Gingras, I think I now know the truth.
DANNY SIDLED UP and joined two classmates and a teacher chatting about the weather. He was the fourth member of the quartet registered to run the now-defunct Manchester Police Pursuit five-mile road race.
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