Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on April 26, 2006.
Thursday, June 04, 2020
Monday, June 01, 2020
GOOD MORNING! Time to empty the notebook ...
THE ATLANTIC SALMON may be the perfect fish. Do not underestimate the seriousness of this declaration. I have been intimately exposed to every fish in New Hampshire and most in the United States. I know their strengths and weaknesses and can evaluate their existence on many levels. With all …
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on Aug. 19, 2003.
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on Jan. 28, 2003.
Saturday, May 16, 2020
MIKE RAMSHAW would have been preparing his staff for a big weekend home series against Binghamton.
What Penn State football coach James Franklin said in an interview with ESPN last week is only logical given how college football works: “I can’t imagine that right now we’re all going to open at the same time.”
Thursday, May 14, 2020
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on May 22, 2001.
Saturday, May 09, 2020
There are many outdoor activities to pursue in New Hampshire that fall under the category of “non-consumptive.”
Thursday, May 07, 2020
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on Aug. 5, 2008.
Saturday, May 02, 2020
IF YOU have been paying attention to your New England Patriots during this time of isolation, you might have noticed a subtle changing of the guard at Gillette Stadium.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on April 15, 2008.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Thursday, April 23, 2020
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on Aug. 4, 2009.
PUTTING IT into “Law & Order” terms, the Red Sox skated.
Saturday, April 18, 2020
IT’S NOTHING PERSONAL, Mr. Commissioner, but the Boston Red Sox would like some answers.
THE OFFICIAL ice-out on Lake Winnipesaukee was declared on April 6. When climate and weather conditions combine with the biology of a specific fish, successful anglers recognize the relationship and often have positive results.
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on Feb. 1, 2005.
Friday, April 10, 2020
PARDON the baseball reference, but let’s get one thing out of the way right off the bat.
Thursday, April 09, 2020
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on Feb. 20, 2007.
Everything is on the table.
Saturday, April 04, 2020
TAREK ROTHE likes the look of the New Hampshire Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl team, and he said the defense is what looks the best.
Friday, April 03, 2020
IT SHOULDN’T REALLY come as a shock, but every time it happens it’s a pleasant surprise.
Thursday, April 02, 2020
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on May 26, 2009.
DURHAM -- It was one of the most magical moments -- a priceless moment -- in a year jam-packed with them.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
NBA PLAYOFFS in September. Hockey on melted ice in August. Baseball on Christmas Day in warm weather, at neutral sites. Deshaun Watson playing quarterback for the Patriots. Baseball doubleheaders with seven-inning games. Drafts via conference/video call. Mookie Betts and others granted the y…
When I describe someone as “hardworking,” I take two factors into consideration. The first is obviously their effort toward a specific task and the second is the level of disdain they experience while working. In my opinion, a truly hard worker both sticks to the task and does so even when t…
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on March 17, 2009.
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
We're re-running columns by late Union Leader writer Joe Sullivan.
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on Jan. 28, 2003.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on May 22, 2001.
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on Aug. 5, 2008.
IT’S NOTHING PERSONAL, Mr. Commissioner, but the Boston Red Sox would like some answers.
PARDON the baseball reference, but let’s get one thing out of the way right off the bat.
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on Feb. 20, 2007.
TAREK ROTHE likes the look of the New Hampshire Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl team, and he said the defense is what looks the best.
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on May 26, 2009.
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on March 17, 2009.
THE NCAA’S DECISION to grant an extra year of eligibility to its spring athletes affected by COVID-19 could result in the Winnipesaukee Muskrats and the Keene Swamp Bats, New Hampshire’s two entries in the New England Collegiate Baseball League, having better talent on their rosters this sum…
PAUL HOGAN said he first spotted something special in his NHTI men’s basketball team during a game in mid-November. He wasn’t the only one who saw the team’s potential that night, either.
NO OTHER TEAM in Division I has experienced the kind of turnaround Bishop Guertin of Nashua has this year.
WITH TONIGHT marking the end of the girls’ Division I and II regular seasons, what better time than now to take an early look at how the playoff picture might shake out?
Tim MacLean's NH High School Basketball: At the halfway point, Div. I, II boys' races are compelling
AFTER tonight’s slate of games, every Division I boys’ basketball team will have completed at least half of its regular-season schedule, making this as good a time as any to take stock around the league. At this point, we should have a good feel for teams, as well as which programs will have…
In recent years, the name Teng has become synonymous with Manchester West basketball.
ALEX CORA is scheduled to be available to the media before Thursday night’s Boston Baseball Writers’ dinner.
WHEN polling coaches around the league for this season’s girls’ basketball preview, the same program was commonly uttered when asked who might challenge Bishop Guertin.
OK, let’s get this out of the way:
THIS WAS supposed to be the year two football teams not named Plymouth reached the NHIAA Division II championship game. Clearly the Bobcats didn’t get the memo.
Offense or defense, Londonderry has the weapons.
IT’S BEEN a rough year for quarterbacks, and we’re not talking about guys named Brees, Darnold, Foles or Roethlisberger.
Linebacker Quinlen Dean wasn’t in attendance when the University of New Hampshire football team opened practice Friday. Dean won’t be at any of the team’s other practices leading up to the Sept. 7 season opener against Holy Cross either, since he’s currently practicing with the Marshall Univ…
BOSTON — The good Chris Sale showed up at Fenway Park yesterday.
AMONG the myriad problems that has dropped the Red Sox into the world of mediocrity — 11 games out of first place through Wednesday — none is any bigger than what has happened to Chris Sale.
THE MOST accomplished active coach from New Hampshire in big-time college athletics isn’t Ryan Day, Dan Mullen or Chip Kelly. It’s Vanderbilt baseball coach Tim Corbin, who guided the Commodores to the 2014 national championship — the school’s first men’s national title in any sport — and ha…
WE’RE ALL AWARE that statistics are not to be trusted, or at least we should be. When it comes to the top of the Londonderry High School batting order, however, the numbers do paint an accurate picture.
ZDENO CHARA has so many things to be proud of during an NHL career that just doesn’t want to end.
THE Manchester West High School baseball team may have only a slim chance to qualify for the NHIAA Division II tournament this season.
CRAZY NIGHT. But then again, it’s that time of year.
THE RED SOX left Seattle having laid an egg in terms of a 1-3 record that easily could have been 0-4.
Manchester’s JFK Coliseum will be the venue for what could be a great night of high school hockey Wednesday, when ninth-seeded Salem (11-9-1) faces fifth-seeded Trinity (13-5-1) and second-seeded Concord (15-3-1) skates against third-seeded Bedford (15-3-1) in the NHIAA Division I semifinals.
Exeter favored, but ... : When the top boys’ basketball tournament opens, expect plenty of good teams to give the Blue Hawks a run.
Pedroia and Ellsbury: While the Red Sox second baseman is full speed ahead for a comeback, the Yanks outfielder is hurt. Still.
WHEN University of New Hampshire men’s hockey coach Mike Souza woke up on Dec. 2 last year his team had a 2-7-5 record and had scored more than three goals once in those 14 games.
We interrupt your Super BORE Sunday to bring you some notes, quotes and anecdotes from around the wide world of sports.