HAVING LEFT the Boston Herald baseball beat (for 10 years of covering BC football and basketball) in 1995, my dealings with Mariano Rivera were limited. You always heard what a pleasure he was to deal with and how he just went about the business of being the best closer ever to wear a uniform.
State American Legion tournament starts Friday at Holman Stadium in Nashua.
LOUDON — Christopher Bell of Norman, Okla., dominated the NASCAR Xfinity Series Roxor 200 to the tune of 186 laps led and a four-second margin of victory in the Joe Gibbs Racing Rheem-Watts Toyota No. 20 Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
WHEN Exeter’s Cody Morissette began his stint with the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League in June, being selected to play in the All-Star Game was far from a given.
THIRTEEN GOLFERS will represent New Hampshire in the 90th New England Amateur Championship, which is scheduled to begin Tuesday at The Quechee Club in Hartford, Vt.
WHEN I was very young, my mother told me an interesting fact about goldfish.
“A goldfish will stay small in size”, she said “when it is kept in a small bowl. Likewise, one kept in a larger bowl can grow much bigger.” I’m sure that her intention was a colorful metaphor encouraging her son to seek experience, exceed limitations and “grow” as much as I could in a great big world.
BOSTON — The good Chris Sale showed up at Fenway Park yesterday.
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour is about to make the first of two trips into New Hampshire Motor Speedway this season. The open-wheel rockets are slated for two events this weekend which culminates with the Monster Energy Cup Foxwoods Casino 301 Sunday.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.
IT APPEARS Nashua South lineman Nathaniel Tejada will play in next month’s Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl. For those who don’t know, this news item qualifies as a very big deal.
THERE IS a mantra among those in the real estate business that emphasizes success with mere repetition: location, location, location.
RECRUITED as a starting pitcher out of Bedford High School, Patrick Harrington spent his freshman season at Assumption College last year working exclusively out of the bullpen.
BROOKLINE resident Colin McCaigue learned something during this year’s New Hampshire Golf Association Amateur Championship. He learned that among golfers in the field 19 and younger, he posted the lowest score during the tournament’s two rounds of stroke play.
IT HAS BEEN 25 years since the movie “Angels In The Outfield,” a story about a boy praying for the Angels to win the pennant, was released.
WORLD SERIES rematch!
THE Fourth of July has come and gone and area short tracks are settling into their weekly summer schedules, which include some special events and touring series races here and there over the rest of the month.
IT’S THE ALL-STAR BREAK, and The Professor has come out of his office cubicle to serve up the grades for your under-achieving Red Sox through 90 games.
IT HAPPENED with very little fanfare, but Windham High School hired Mike McCaffrey to replace Bill Raycraft as the school’s director of athletics.
WE ARE about to go to the all-star break in Major League Baseball. The unofficial halfway mark of the season, this time allows players, coaches and fans a short break in the action and a time for reflection.
Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers and Christian Vazquez were all All-Star worthy when the original selections were being made. But as of Saturday afternoon, only Bogaerts, named as an injury replacement, was going.
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.
Brett Wilson didn’t need long to respond when he was asked who the favorite is in next week’s New Hampshire Amateur Championship at Portsmouth Country Club.
LAST YEAR at this time, things were looking up for the Boston Celtics.
DURHAM — It was a week of role reversal for Travis Cote and Jimmy Lauzon, the head coach for the East in Saturday night’s CHaD East-West All-Star Game at the University of New Hampshire.
Santiago Espinal will always have a place in baseball history whether he reaches the bigs or not.
I HAVE noticed that I often see aquariums full of fish in doctors’ offices. I have also seen them in dentists’ waiting rooms and only recently made a connection. The motion of a fish moving through water is quite tranquil and has a calming effect on those who witness it.
Trout, Bellinger lead the pack at MLB’s halfway point.
The American Canadian Tour (ACT) will get after it Saturday at Star Speedway in the $5,000-to-win Dream Ride 150, the finale of the Late Model Summer Kickoff Series.
NOTE TO Red Sox chief Dave Dombrowski:
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…
I DO some of my best thinking in my truck. Whether I am zooming along or stuck in traffic, driving puts me in a semi-meditative state and I’ve had some of my best (and worst) ideas behind the wheel.
THURSDAY NIGHT was the NBA’s annual night to shine.
Instead, it was the league’s annual night to shoot itself in the collective foot.
HIS TEAM had just completed a road sweep of the lowly Orioles and Christian Vazquez had a message for the Red Sox media last Sunday.
MANY A short track warrior will take to the Magic Mile at New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend for the 3rd Annual New England Short Track Showdown.
BORROWING a phrase from TV Land … where in the world is Kyrie Irving (going)?
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Gary Woodland shocked the golf world and stomped on the back-to-back-to-back U.S. Open championship dreams of Brooks Koepka on Sunday at Pebble Beach Golf Links.
Try as we can it’s difficult to work up a good sweat over the possibility that the Red Sox, hampered by a slow start and beset by pitching injuries, will be left out of the postseason.
I’VE OFTEN been asked: “What’s the biggest fish you’ve ever caught?” I’ve also been asked less subtle questions like; “Why do you fish so much? … Don’t you have a real job?”
PARIS — The most lopsided match in World Cup history shined a merciless light on the vast gulf between the world’s top-ranked women’s soccer team and its 34th. But neither the United States’ 13-0 rout of Thailand nor whatever unfolds when the defending World Cup champions take on 39th-ranked Chile Sunday in Paris should be interpreted as a bellwether for what lies ahead for the Americans.
THE SURGEON who operated on David Ortiz says Big Papi was a very lucky man to get out of the Dominican Republic alive.
