By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The next time you see a senior citizen barreling down the mountain, maybe doing a double-cork while he’s at it, don’t think twice. That might just be your neighborhood’s friendly new Olympic champion. Alex Ferreira, the freeskier who occasionally dons prosthetics to look 80 and calls his alter ego “Hotdog Hans” when he’s not kicking butt in the halfpipe, added a gold medal Friday night to the silver and bronze he’d won at the last two games to “finish the rainbow,” as his mother said. The 31-year-old, a longtime fixture…
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BEVERLY — The Endicott College men’s basketball team has stormed out to a 23–1 start to the 2025–26 season, including an unblemished 15–0 mark in Conference of New England play. At the center of that success is forward and Gloucester native Marcus Montagnino. The graduate student is having a tremendous season, putting up 21.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.6 assists a game, while shooting a very efficient 57.1% from the field. Montagnino graduated from Gloucester High in 2020 and is the third all-time leading scorer in school history with 1,293 points. His path to Endicott is anything but conventional, spanning…
The United States men’s hockey team has earned a chance to make history in Sunday’s gold medal game at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. A dominant 6-2 win for the U.S. over Slovakia in Friday’s semifinal game has set up a showdown against archrival Canada. It’s the moment this American team has been working toward since suffering a heartbreaking 3-2 overtime loss to Canada in the 4 Nations Face-off final in Boston exactly one year ago on Feb. 20, 2025. Team USA has not won a gold medal in Olympic men’s hockey since the Miracle on Ice team in…
Like many other rinks all over New England, Falmouth Ice Arena had a busy weekend. The Island Queen Buddy Ferreira Classic is a prominent regular-season boys hockey tournament that eight MIAA programs – some from close by, some from a substantial distance away – look forward to playing in every year. That buzz showed through quadruple-headers on Saturday and Sunday in the 30th edition’s first two days. By the time the championship came around Wednesday night, 11 games between state tournament-bound teams were successfully and safely completed – with performance and sportsmanship being, more or less, the only factors people…
Major League Soccer opens its 31st season this weekend, kicking off one of the most consequential two-year stretches in the league’s history.There’s the impact of the World Cup across the United States, Canada and Mexico this summer, then, in 2027, MLS will switch to a summer to spring schedule to align more closely with its international counterparts.MLS will take a seven-week break for the World Cup from May 25 to July 16. Many of the league’s stars, including Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi and LAFC’s Son Heung-min, are expected to play in the tournament.MLS is hoping after that to see the so-called “World Cup…
FT. MYERS, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 15: The sun rises against the Green Monster during a Boston Red Sox spring training team workout on February 15, 2024 at jetBlue Park at Fenway South in Fort Myers, Florida. (Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images) Getty Images Source link
FORT MYERS, Fla. – Amidst ongoing evaluations of the Red Sox infield options, manager Alex Cora simultaneously hinted at the preferred position for Marcelo Mayer and issued him a strongly-worded challenge. “If he wants to be the starting second baseman in Cincinnati, there’s a lot of work to do,” Cora said Friday morning. “It’s not a given that he’s second baseman or third baseman for this team.” The Red Sox selected Mayer, now 23, with the fourth overall pick in the 2021 MLB draft, their highest selection in decades. He’s a natural shortstop, but his path to playing there in…
FORT MYERS, Fla. – Kristian Campbell’s one-out single in the first plated the first Red Sox run of 2026, and he came within feet of a grand slam in the fourth but had to settle for a sacrifice fly in Friday’s 18-3 victory over the Northeastern Huskies. Even this early in spring training, it’s clear that Campbell feels more comfortable than last year, when he was a top prospect in his first big-league camp and competing to make the Opening Day roster, which he ultimately did. If his demeanor isn’t enough of an indication, he’ll gladly admit it, too. More reserved…
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By JULIA FRANKEL CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Spectators trekking through heavy snow to the Cortina Olympic curling stadium were delighted to be greeted by a traditional Scottish bagpipe performance from a group of high sock-wearing, kilt-sporting, snare drum-carrying, glengarry-topped … Italians. The Milan Cortina Winter Games have put their own spin on the tradition of having a pipe band play at Olympic curling medal ceremonies, an homage that is meant to honor the sport’s Scottish heritage. For this Games, the bagpipers are from northeastern Italy, more than 2,000 miles (about 3,200 kilometers) from Scotland. The Cateaters Pipe Band say…