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.
The year 2020 will be remembered as one filled with incredible headlines, with some of the most alarming involving our increasingly fragile climate. Wildfires are burning at a devastating rate and the range has never been more vast. Tropical storms have begun their persistent march toward th…
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.
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.
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.
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.
“OK boys, settle down, settle down. Remember rule No. 1: No one else talks when the head coach is speaking.
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.
LOOKS LIKE we made it to the starting line.
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.
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.
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…
I TRY to be a well-rounded angler. Persistence and scientific awareness is often blended with a slight flair for an artistic appreciation of the whole process. Utilizing this three-pronged approach, I would like to introduce a component to my fishing repertoire that may seem strange. Equipme…
Each playoff game between the Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning was expected to be passionate, dramatic and tight. But in Game 3 of the series that’s supposed to be between the two best teams in the league, the Bruins mailed in a no-show performance and lost, 7-1, at Scotiabank Arena.
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 March 28, 2006.
THE DAYS of the Concord Sunset League being a men’s amateur baseball league appear to be over.
THE 2020 New Hampshire Golf Association’s Junior Tour wrapped up with last Monday’s Junior Invitational at Abenaqui Country Club. The event featured the top players in each of the Junior Tour’s five divisions based on this season’s previous results.
GOOD MORNING! Time to empty the virtual notebook.
FISHING is not easy. Participants often take advantage of technological advances that offer a little help. Today, I would like to go on the record in the defense of those electronic devices used to find and catch fish.
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 5, 2005.
IT’S NOT the Eastern League, but baseball will be played at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium this week.
IT MAY BE hard to describe the summer of 2020 as typical but we have not lost all of the experiences that exemplify what we have come to love about August in New England. Luckily, many summertime activities have remained constant. In addition to burgers and dogs cooking on a grill and early-…
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of the late Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader columns. This one was originally published Aug. 18, 2009.
THE NORTHEAST TIDES are a first-year entry in the North Shore Baseball League, but they certainly don’t look — or play — like an expansion team.
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 12, 2005.
PAUL LaCOSTE likes to walk on the golf course, especially when he’s with a group of PGA players.
