Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Saturday, August 01, 2020
PAUL LaCOSTE likes to walk on the golf course, especially when he’s with a group of PGA players.
Thursday, July 30, 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 May 3, 2005.
Saturday, July 25, 2020
I HAVE A LOT TO LEARN about striper fishing. Fortunately, there are thousands of fishing reports written about striped bass in addition to books and magazines with this amazing fish as their sole topic. I love to catch them but my skill set is low and most of my luck is purely coincidental.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
WHO COULD HAVE imagined an event at Star Speedway in recent years where there might well be some ticket scalping going on?
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 June 22, 2004.
Saturday, July 18, 2020
NEW ENGLAND is home to some very specific linguistics and an overall vernacular that can be found nowhere else on Earth. I have lived in New Hampshire for all of my adult life and have picked up some of these traits while leaving others alone. I don’t call my wife mother and I still don’t kn…
Friday, July 17, 2020
WOLFEBORO turned out to be a great place for Mike and Suzanne Ryan to retire, in a house on a dead-end street with lots of room for the Irish Setter to run. Mike, who passed away last week at 78, was a quiet man who liked the simpler things in life.
Thursday, July 16, 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 Oct. 19, 2004. Tom Donnelly passed away on May 19, 2017.
Thursday, July 09, 2020
CLAREMONT, White Mountain and Monadnock had close competitive finishes to their headline events over the holiday weekend. At Claremont, Ray Christian III of Uncasville, Conn., won the Granite State Pro Stock Series 100 in style by taking to the high side and snatching the lead from Joey Pole…
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 Nov. 2, 2004.
Saturday, July 04, 2020
Thursday, July 02, 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 April 19, 2005.
The Cam Newton news broke Sunday night, shortly before Devin and Jason McCourty were scheduled to go on the air with their “Double Coverage” podcast.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
DON’T SEND the kids scurrying down the aisle to get a pre-game autograph from a favorite Nashua Silver Knight.
I’VE RECOGNIZED an obvious progression in fishing, specifically as it relates to the beginner.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
THE NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will make its first-ever appearance at White Mountain Motorsports Park in Woodstock on Saturday, July 4.
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 Oct. 16, 2007.
Saturday, June 20, 2020
R ELIGION AND POLITICS are taboo.
Thursday, June 18, 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 Jan. 20, 2009.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
AS THE SEASONS move along, those who love the New Hampshire outdoors are drawn to the normal activities that we undertake to appreciate the wonder of our state.
Thursday, June 11, 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. 16, 2005.
Saturday, June 06, 2020
FLY FISHING is an exercise in managing many variables. Should even one be incorrect or unsuccessful, the whole thing comes unglued and falls apart. Compared to most other styles of fishing, the number of variables is significantly larger and includes more knots, more lines and thousands of f…
HOW ODD and just a little bit hollow it would be if Chase Elliott finally did something grand on his home track Sunday and no one was there to see it.
Thursday, June 04, 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 April 26, 2006.
Monday, June 01, 2020
GOOD MORNING! Time to empty the notebook ...
THE ATLANTIC SALMON may be the perfect fish. Do not underestimate the seriousness of this declaration. I have been intimately exposed to every fish in New Hampshire and most in the United States. I know their strengths and weaknesses and can evaluate their existence on many levels. With all …
Thursday, May 28, 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. 19, 2003.
Thursday, May 21, 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 Jan. 28, 2003.
Saturday, May 16, 2020
MIKE RAMSHAW would have been preparing his staff for a big weekend home series against Binghamton.
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 May 3, 2005.
WHO COULD HAVE imagined an event at Star Speedway in recent years where there might well be some ticket scalping going on?
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 April 19, 2005.
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 Jan. 28, 2003.
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 May 22, 2001.
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. 5, 2008.
IT’S NOTHING PERSONAL, Mr. Commissioner, but the Boston Red Sox would like some answers.
PARDON the baseball reference, but let’s get one thing out of the way right off the bat.
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 Feb. 20, 2007.
TAREK ROTHE likes the look of the New Hampshire Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl team, and he said the defense is what looks the best.
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 May 26, 2009.
Editor’s note: The Union Leader is bringing back some of Joe Sullivan’s Union Leader sports columns. This one was originally published on March 17, 2009.
THE NCAA’S DECISION to grant an extra year of eligibility to its spring athletes affected by COVID-19 could result in the Winnipesaukee Muskrats and the Keene Swamp Bats, New Hampshire’s two entries in the New England Collegiate Baseball League, having better talent on their rosters this sum…
PAUL HOGAN said he first spotted something special in his NHTI men’s basketball team during a game in mid-November. He wasn’t the only one who saw the team’s potential that night, either.
NO OTHER TEAM in Division I has experienced the kind of turnaround Bishop Guertin of Nashua has this year.
WITH TONIGHT marking the end of the girls’ Division I and II regular seasons, what better time than now to take an early look at how the playoff picture might shake out?
Tim MacLean's NH High School Basketball: At the halfway point, Div. I, II boys' races are compelling
AFTER tonight’s slate of games, every Division I boys’ basketball team will have completed at least half of its regular-season schedule, making this as good a time as any to take stock around the league. At this point, we should have a good feel for teams, as well as which programs will have…
In recent years, the name Teng has become synonymous with Manchester West basketball.
ALEX CORA is scheduled to be available to the media before Thursday night’s Boston Baseball Writers’ dinner.
WHEN polling coaches around the league for this season’s girls’ basketball preview, the same program was commonly uttered when asked who might challenge Bishop Guertin.
OK, let’s get this out of the way:
THIS WAS supposed to be the year two football teams not named Plymouth reached the NHIAA Division II championship game. Clearly the Bobcats didn’t get the memo.
Offense or defense, Londonderry has the weapons.
IT’S BEEN a rough year for quarterbacks, and we’re not talking about guys named Brees, Darnold, Foles or Roethlisberger.
Linebacker Quinlen Dean wasn’t in attendance when the University of New Hampshire football team opened practice Friday. Dean won’t be at any of the team’s other practices leading up to the Sept. 7 season opener against Holy Cross either, since he’s currently practicing with the Marshall Univ…
BOSTON — The good Chris Sale showed up at Fenway Park yesterday.
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.
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…
WE’RE ALL AWARE that statistics are not to be trusted, or at least we should be. When it comes to the top of the Londonderry High School batting order, however, the numbers do paint an accurate picture.
ZDENO CHARA has so many things to be proud of during an NHL career that just doesn’t want to end.
THE Manchester West High School baseball team may have only a slim chance to qualify for the NHIAA Division II tournament this season.
CRAZY NIGHT. But then again, it’s that time of year.
THE RED SOX left Seattle having laid an egg in terms of a 1-3 record that easily could have been 0-4.
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.
