WHEN IT COMES to a good high school sports discussion few topics stir the drink — and produce passionate arguments — like NHIAA football. We all know what needs to be fixed and how we could do things better. At least we think we do.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Thursday, November 19, 2020
IF THERE’S an X Factor in this year’s Division I championship game between Goffstown and Nashua North, it’s Goffstown’s kickoff-return unit.
GOOD MORNING! And welcome to the final weekend of fall 2020 high school sports. A long, strange trip, for sure.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
BY NOW you’re probably familiar with many of the key players who will take the field for Saturday’s NHIAA Division I and Division II championship football games. All that’s needed to identify these players are their last names: Harris-Lopez and Ackerman from Nashua North; Henault and Picard …
IT WAS NOT difficult for the University of New Hampshire men’s hockey players to decide who should be their captain this season.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
WHO BETTER to help analyze the Division I semifinal between Winnacunnet and Goffstown than Manchester Memorial coach Rob Sturgis?
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
THE NUMBER OF NHIAA football teams remaining in the playoffs has been whittled to 12. The Division III and Division IV championship games are scheduled to kick off Saturday at 1 p.m., as are the Division I and Division II semifinals. Let’s hope nothing happens between now and then that preve…
Wednesday, November 04, 2020
The trade deadline came and went with only a few teams making moves to bolster their rosters. And most of those transactions came earlier in the week.
SURVEYING the New Hampshire sports landscape:
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Don’t be boring, Red Sox.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
AN ENCOURAGING look of normalcy will take the fields on Saturday when five Plymouth State University and Keene State College fall teams return to competition.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
THE NEWS was welcomed like a black cloud making its way toward the beach.
Saturday, October 10, 2020
THE MANCHESTER WEST girls volleyball team ensured right away that this fall would be a more successful one than its last.
Monday, October 05, 2020
A once-in-forever NBA postseason happening inside a hopefully once-in-forever bubble deserved something to shake the Finals out of its slumber.
Saturday, October 03, 2020
MATT BRYANT felt great after his team lost.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
HE’S one of the best tight ends in college football, and he comes from an unlikely place.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
During a recent after-school practice, The Derryfield School of Manchester field hockey players worked on skills five yards apart, boys’ soccer players executed ball-handling drills with eight yards of separation and the cross-country team ran in pairs instead of all together.
Thursday, September 17, 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. 9, 2005.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
SHORTLY AFTER Super Bowl LV ends Feb. 7, another football league may just be getting started. Rest assured, we’re not talking about the next version of the XFL.
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Columnist’s note: While you enjoy your Sunday morning cup of pumpkin spice coffee or apple cider — hot or iced — this new column will bring you some of the most interesting happenings and topics during a fall high school sports season that will be unlike any other due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
THE 2020 NHIAA golf season could end in unique fashion.
IT IS well known that this summer has been one of considerable drought throughout New Hampshire. In addition, temperatures soared into the 90s for more days than we average and official heat waves were declared.
Thursday, September 10, 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 Sept. 13, 2005.
Tuesday, September 08, 2020
“OK boys, settle down, settle down. Remember rule No. 1: No one else talks when the head coach is speaking.
Saturday, September 05, 2020
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Cam Newton is charming and charismatic in any setting. He makes a point of providing thoughtful, not to mention thought-provoking, answers to questions.
Friday, September 04, 2020
LOOKS LIKE we made it to the starting line.
Thursday, September 03, 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 July 8, 2008.
Tuesday, September 01, 2020
NOW THAT most NHIAA schools have rendered a decision regarding whether to offer fall sports — and what sports to offer — the state’s athletic directors have shifted their focus to the next piece of the puzzle: scheduling.
The nagging what-ifs are ever-present for good teams that don’t raise the Stanley Cup at the end of any season.
Saturday, August 29, 2020
THERE ARE at least two things that distinguish Bretwood Golf Course’s Bob Kearney from the other entrants in this year’s New England Golf Association Senior Amateur: Kearney is the only golfer in the field with a chance to win the tournament for the second time in as many years, and he’s the…
