A COUPLE of contracts to talk about before we take a look around on this final Sunday before Opening Day:
WE’RE LOOKING OUT our office window that faces Great Bay. But it’s scenery that this time of the year was very rare or never seen! It’s because the only ice on Great Bay is in chunks floating around on the open water, and this is a shame.
ALREADY in luxury tax hell, the Red Sox can’t be thrilled with the money flying around baseball these days.
Look up “Spoiled NBA Superstar” in the dictionary, and odds are a picture of him stares back at you.
It makes sense: Unique injury requires more time, and the Sox say there’s no target date for the second baseman to return.
BILL RAYCRAFT stunned a large portion of the state’s athletic community last Friday when he officially announced his resignation as Windham High School’s director of athletics and varsity football coach.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY notes and quotes with the baseball season starting this week in Japan:
ALTHOUGH Sebago Lake was the home of Landlocked Atlantic salmon, it was stocked with lake trout (Mainers call ‘em togue), as has happened in many of Maine’s big lakes. Togue are a very respected fish in Maine with a very heavy support group, especially ice fishermen, so everything seemed to be going well as the lakers started to thrive in Sebago.
BUCKLE UP, baseball fans.
Free agency: Flowers, Brown and Allen are gone, but does it matter as long as No. 12 is still around?
We'll kick off this week’s column with a bit of baseball news.
Your Sunday trip around the notes and quotes of the sports world.
We've been waterfowl hunting since we were too young to carry a gun.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Of all the things that have been said since Bryce Harper signed with the Phillies, 52 words that were uttered by the star right fielder in the midst of his 35-minute news conference here last Saturday keep swirling around and around in the collective head of his new fan base.
Craig Kimbrel still unemployed: Let’s talk about possible closers.
At some point, one would expect the Celtics to take this kind of thing personally.
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.
A Sunday trip around the sports landscape with the 2019 baseball season less than a month away.
When choosing a spot to ice fish, we take into consideration travel and lake access, so we often set out with more than one destination in approximately the same area.
IN A YEAR of bizarre quotes coming out of the mouth of a very special basketball player, listen to what Kyrie Irving said after Wednesday night’s fourth straight Celts loss, the sixth in the last eight games.
Like so many of his generation — and a couple of generations before him — Don Newcombe couldn’t play Major League Baseball when he started playing professionally as an 18-year-old in 1944 in his native New Jersey. He was black.
Exeter favored, but ... : When the top boys’ basketball tournament opens, expect plenty of good teams to give the Blue Hawks a run.
A look around at some news and notes as spring training games begin:
A lot of anglers, including me, have a fixation on catching that rainbow trout of your life.
With Patriots owner Robert Kraft facing two counts of soliciting prostitution, there is bound to be some fallout in the form of discipline from the NFL.
Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney hasn’t let this power surge fog up his glasses.
DON’T LOOK NOW, but the Bruins are getting more and more interesting every day.
When Zion Williamson’s foot burst through that sneaker just 33 seconds into the Duke-North Carolina game, he blew the seams off the whole deal. He exploded all the sophistry by the pocket-liners, the NCAA committeemen who make fortunes from their cut of TV and Nike apparel contracts, who ski…
He could have been the angriest man at Dodger Stadium.
Names abound: Beckham ... Brown ... Gronk ... Kaepernick all topics of conversation.
JAKE NELSON is playing college baseball in Texas, and he took a circuitous route to get there.
The Bruins are out west. The Red Sox are down south. The Celtics are on a break. The Patriots are still basking.
Ice fishing for big trout is a great winter sport but you need to use caution in what you choose for gear as the conditions are a lot trickier than open-water fishing!
Pedroia and Ellsbury: While the Red Sox second baseman is full speed ahead for a comeback, the Yanks outfielder is hurt. Still.
Bar has been raised: Hawks are ranked 11th nationally.
Some Sunday things to think about as you already wonder if Tom Brady will show up at OTA’s.
We do love to use whatever wild things we harvest and have some great recipes for different types of wild game and fish that we’re going to share.
AND THE BIG WINNERS of a busy NBA trade deadline day was …
