MANCHESTER — Friday’s boys’ basketball season opener between Trinity and Manchester Memorial came less than a week after the teams were formed. The quick turnaround showed, with stretches of dysfunction and chaos by both clubs.
Right-hander Jordan Romano, who went 11-8 in 2018 for the Toronto Blue Jays’ Double-A team, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, was acquired by the Chicago White Sox in the Major League Baseball Rule 5 Draft on Thursday. The White Sox then traded Romano to Texas.
It was Brendan Barry's night. The junior hit for a career-high 31 points, including eight 3-pointers, to lift Dartmouth to a 78-68 victory over Boston University on Thursday night at Leede Arena in Hanover.
Dartmouth on Thursday released its schedules through the 2024 season. Among the highlights will be next season’s contest against Princeton, which will be played Saturday, Nov. 9 at Yankee Stadium.
NOAH CUMMINGS has experienced his share of losses in a Pembroke Academy uniform. The count sits at 23 setbacks to be exact, including an 0-17 Division I campaign when Cummings was a freshman three years ago.
CONCORD — NHTI will again host the annual Capital Area Holiday Basketball Tournament beginning Thursday through Sunday, Dec. 27-30.
Division II boys’ basketball gets started tonight, and two Manchester teams battle in the lone Division I contest when Trinity visits Memorial at 7 p.m.
LAS VEGAS — Red Sox postseason hero Joe Kelly is signing with the Dodgers, as first reported by Ken Rosenthal and Robert Murray of The Athletic. Kelly will reportedly sign a three-year, $25 million deal with Los Angeles.
DURHAM -- They’ve been to California a couple of times in the last few years and this past season they traveled to Colorado to play for the first time ever in the Rocky Mountain State.
KYRIE IRVING heard the chants again Wednesday night.
The Pinkerton Academy of Derry girls’ hockey team could not help but celebrate after its 7-2 loss to Bishop Brady/Trinity/West Wednesday at Tri-Town Ice Arena.
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Kyrie Irving hit a tiebreaking, 31-foot 3-pointer with 17 seconds remaining in overtime, and the visiting Boston Celtics held off the Washington Wizards 130-125 on Wednesday night.
A week and a half ago, the Patriots welcomed arguably the NFL’s top receiver tandem in Vikings wideouts Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs.
On Wednesday, Bill Belichick indirectly declared there’s no argument. The league’s top duo, it ain’t them.
GOING INTO its final six games before the holiday break, the University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team viewed that stretch as a season of its own.
If you entered JFK Coliseum not knowing which team was going to win Wednesday’s Division I game between Hanover and Manchester Central/West, you probably had it figured it out before the game was five minutes old.
There are a lot of new faces on this year’s Londonderry High School hockey team, and three of them scored during the team’s Division I opener Wednesday.
Alvirne/Milford began its inaugural season as a Division II boys’ hockey co-op team on the right note.
The Manchester Monarchs rallied but fell short in a 3-2 loss to the Worcester Railers on Wednesday night at the DCU Center.
Make that three for three.
David Krejci played his third straight full game between injured center Patrice Bergeron’s wingers, Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak, on Tuesday night at TD Garden. The Bruins won for the third straight time, beating the Coyotes, 4-3, because the line scored three goals in a span of 4:17 in the second period.
Bedford’s Josh Bauer, a sophomore on the UNH soccer team, was named the ECAC Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday.
Brad Marchand had two goals and an assist, and David Pastrnak added a goal and two assists as the Boston Bruins rallied from an early 2-0 deficit to win their third straight game, 4-3, over the visiting Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night.
LONDONDERRY — Nerves showed for the Goffstown High girls’ basketball team as it appeared in its first-ever Division I contest on Tuesday. They were on display from the get-go against Londonderry as the Grizzlies went scoreless on their first nine possessions.
MANCHESTER — Pinkerton Academy had a 10-point lead with 6:10 to play Tuesday night when University of New Hampshire-bound forward Brooke Kane asserted herself.
LAS VEGAS — Red Sox lefty Chris Sale is open to discussing an extension with the team, according to Evan Drellich of NBC Sports Boston. Sale is set to hit free agency after the 2019 season.
Lyric Grumblatt tossed in a game-high 25 points to help the Manchester Memorial girls’ basketball team overcome a four-point halftime deficit and defeat Nashua South 71-53 at home Tuesday on the opening night of Division I girls’ basketball.
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is banged up but hurting ribs won’t keep him from playing when the Steelers play host to the New England Patriots on Sunday. Roethlisberger required a pain-killing injection to deal with a rib injury suffered in the second quarter last week in Pittsb…
Plymouth’s Kyle Reisert, a senior on the University of New Hampshire football team, on Monday was named to the 2018 College Sports Information Directors of America Google Cloud Academic All-America NCAA Division I First Team.
Players to watch: Carissa Towlson, senior, forward, Exeter; Bryn Kable, senior, defense, Hanover; Dakota Markey, senior, forward, Exeter; Shannon Paquette, senior, forward, Souhegan; Izzy Day, senior, goalie, Exeter; Emma Tysinger, senior, defense, Hanover; Madison Lucontoni, senior, defense…
THE VOTING IS CLOSED.
The Hanover High School boys’ hockey team may be the defending NHIAA Division I champion but coach Dick Dodds said it has a ways to go before entering this year’s title conversation.
As it has been almost every year since varsity girls’ hockey began in the state, the question entering this season is whether any team can dethrone Hanover High School from its position atop the division.
Marcus Morris and Jayson Tatum combined to score 52 points as the short-handed Boston Celtics won their sixth game in a row by defeating the visiting New Orleans Pelicans 113-100 on Monday night.
Colby Gamache, Grady Chretien and Colin Burke scored for Goffstown High in its 3-3 overtime tie with Oyster River in a Division II boys’ hockey opener at the Whittemore Center in Durham on Monday night.
Junior forward Ashley Storey scored a career-high 23 points, leading the UNH women’s basketball team past Holy Cross 74-62 on Sunday at Lundholm Gym in Durham. Maggie Ahearn added 12 points and 11 rebounds for UNH (3-7) and Kari Brekke notched nine points and eight assists.
Relief pitcher Lee Smith and outfielder/designated hitter Harold Baines and were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday by the entity's Today's Game Era Committee.
Quarterback Dak Prescott threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Amari Cooper with 1:55 remaining in overtime to lift the Dallas Cowboys past the visiting Philadelphia Eagles 29-23 on Sunday.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The New England Patriots’ house of horrors has never been more terrifying.
The prevailing opinion is that Bedford High School wins at everything, right?
