MOOKIE BETTS said it best.
THERE’S NO DOUBT about the marquee matchup in Division I boys’ basketball this week. When Salem travels to Exeter on Tuesday night (6:30) those in attendance will get to see two of the three unbeaten teams remaining in the division. Salem and Winnacunnet are 7-0, and Exeter is 6-0. Nashua No…
Patriots, Chiefs and other things noteworthy on a Championship Sunday/Red Sox Winter Weekend:
In hindsight, the decision to transfer from Saint Anselm College to Southern New Hampshire University following his first semester of college seems to have benefited Chris Moquin. It certainly benefited the SNHU hockey program.
Holding the No. 1 seed in the NFL playoffs is like drawing pocket aces in Texas Hold ‘Em.
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont ice anglers find that lake trout (togue as they are called in Maine) are probably the most sought after gamefish in northern New England.
MUCH has been made, especially around New York, about the 50th anniversary of the Joe Namath-led Jets who upset the Baltimore Colts and won Super Bowl III. And how that was the one and only title ever won by the J-E-T-S Jets, Jets, Jets. It was also their only trip to the big game.
Kansas City here they come: Sounds like Brady and company don’t mind being the underdogs.
FOR THOSE who don’t know, newly minted Fisher Cats manager Mike Mordecai was involved in one of the most famous games in major league history: Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series, a.k.a “The Bartman Game.”
Some odds and ends on a fairly important football day in New England:
I can never before recall the Patriots, at home, being the smallest of the four betting favorites in this round.
Tyler Brown may not be the most vocal guy in the dugout, but that doesn’t mean he’s lacking leadership qualities.
Global warming has certainly had an effect on our ice forming on Great Bay! For much of my “growing-up” years it was almost automatic that we’d spend New Year’s Eve out on the ice at “the Bay,” fishing for those small but delicious sea-run smelt.
PHILIP RIVERS said Wednesday that his Los Angeles Chargers would be flying into the Boston area a day early, today, to try to get used to the Eastern time zone.
WHILE you probably know plenty about the Division I football coaches with ties to Manchester — a group that includes Florida’s Dan Mullen, Elon’s Tony Trisciani, UCLA’s Chip Kelly, UNH’s Sean McDonnell and Ohio State’s Ryan Day — you may not know that one of the best Division I hockey coache…
Interesting note picked up watching a late hockey game Friday night: Anaheim goalie John Gibson is the NHL’s all-time leader in save percentage among players with at least 100 career starts: .923. Four are tie for second at .922. One of them was Tuukka Rask, the goaltender Bruins fans love to hate.
It's hard for me to accept, but we’re looking at a Great Bay that for a couple of days showed progress at creating some ice fishing opportunities. Right now there’s no ice in sight and the weather forecast isn’t that encouraging as it looks like warm weather will be with us for a few more days. No fun!
GORDON HAYWARD offered another glimpse Wednesday night.
PHOTOGRAPHS can be terrific and video is becoming more and more popular, but when it comes to telling a story or reliving a special moment nothing compares to the written or spoken word. With that in mind we present these quotations, all of which appeared in the Union Leader sports pages fol…
A Sunday glance at your sports world as we get ready to celebrate the new year...
We’re looking out our window at a Great Bay that is completely ice free, a sight in late December you’d never see just a few years back!
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The news came as a shock.
KEITH DICKSON couldn’t have expected more from his Saint Anselm College men’s basketball team to this point in the season. If he did, you’d have to call him greedy.
Some Sunday notes and quotes as you stare at those presents under the tree or enjoy the gifts you’ve already given or received.
GAME OF THE WEEK: STEELERS (8-5-1) at SAINTS (12-2).
When I was a pre-teen with a growing hunger for most of the hunting and fishing opportunities, Great Bay provided a playground for myself and several of my hunting and fishing buddies.
The news, not a complete shock given his history, still came like a bolt of lightning out of the blue.
There’s been something unPatriotic about this team this season.
When trying to evaluate what happened to the Patriots in Pittsburgh Sunday — and also dating back to Miami — the words of former baseball commissioner Happy Chandler come to mind.
WHEN TRYING to evaluate what happened to the Patriots in Pittsburgh Sunday — and also dating back to Miami — the words of former baseball commissioner Happy Chandler come to mind.
DANNY BRYSON said he saw exceptional raw talent in Akok Akok during the one season the two spent together at Manchester West High School. Still, Bryson wasn’t sure he saw Division I talent.
SUNDAY notes and quotes as Tom Brady looks to go 12-2 lifetime against the Steelers:
Tom Brady is 23-1 on TDs/picks vs. Pitt in the Mike Tomlin era, but blitzy Steelers lead NFL in sacks and could make a hectic day for the G.O.A.T.
KYRIE IRVING heard the chants again Wednesday night.
THE VOTING IS CLOSED.
The prevailing opinion is that Bedford High School wins at everything, right?
Ready for some Sunday football?
If we can pick a good day, we’ll try to get out on the ocean for catching some of what we like to call “eating fish.”
Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth are fist-bumping and dancing a jig over this Sunday nighter.
JOSH GORDON seems to have found a home in Foxborough, Mass.
At the conclusion of Monday’s Redskins-Eagles game, all 32 NFL teams will have completed three quarters of their regular-season schedules. What are the biggest questions at the season’s quarter pole? Let’s take a look:
The Green Bay Packers left no uncertainty Sunday afternoon about the kind of team they are, or about what the final month of their season will be about. They are a broken team, and December will be about sorting through the wreckage.
“THIS WILL MAKE for a good story,” former Fisher Cats manager John Schneider said from the other end of the phone call. “I’m in the hospital, so I have spotty cell service. I have a new baby screaming, a nurse trying to give discharge instructions and as we’re leaving the hospital that’s whe…
Having recently purchased tickets to see an 82-year-old Kris Kristofferson in concert, I thought it might be a good time to have some Sunday morning coming down — with some notes and quotes.
Although it's been legal to ice fish earlier in the season, the ice conditions locally and even in most of the far North are not that good.
These are two of the four teams chasing the Chiefs for the overall No. 1 AFC playoff seed, and also a tasty duel between a couple of 2004 draftmates who have done pretty good: Ben Roethlsiberger and Philip Rivers.
THE BASKETBALL TEAM formerly known as the Cleveland Cavaliers visits TD Garden tonight.
