There’s a disgracefully long list of reasons the Red Sox lost Game 2 of last year’s Wild Card series to the Yankees, and I don’t think any of them are brought up enough.Ceddanne Rafaela tried to get a bunt down twice on a pair of pitches that were each about a foot outside of the strike zone (all while the Yankee bullpen was trying to giftwrap the go-ahead run). The team grounded into three double plays to kill rallies. And Nate Eaton couldn’t turn his elite (98th percentile) sprint speed into a run on this play thanks to below some…
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FOXBORO, MASS. (WHDH) – A home in Foxboro usually covered in holiday decor is now lit up by Patriots highlights that play from inside a massive snowglobe-looking inflatable. “My favorite holiday of the year is the NFL playoffs,” said Frank Slattery, who owns the 200-year-old home.Slattery said the display came together with a large orb, a small, inflatable pool, and a little New England ingenuity. “I put it together with a gigantic water walking orb,” he explained. “It’s filled with air, we know a lot about deflating things in New England, fortunately this has held up in the weather. We…
The New England Patriots and Houston Texans will look to bring themselves one step closer to ultimate glory in their divisional round matchup on Sunday. How? I’ve put together the keys to victory for both sides: NE: WIN THE ONE-ON-ONE MATCHUPS The Texans’ defensive style is legitimately fascinating, as they ranked first in total defensive EPA (-130.69) and points allowed per game (16.7) while also ranking dead last in blitz rate (21.6%) and simulated pressure rate (29.7%) — all while playing more man-coverage (67.9%) and single-high coverage (74.8%) than anyone in 2025. Kamari Lassiter, Jalen Pitre, Danielle Hunter, Derek Stingley…
By MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has identified a host of athletic competitions it classifies as “major sporting events” — aside from soccer’s 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympic Games — that athletes and coaches will be allowed to travel to the U.S. to take part in despite a broad visa ban on nearly 40 countries. In a cable sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates Wednesday, the State Department said athletes, coaches and support staff for the World Cup, the Olympics and events endorsed or run by a long list of collegiate and professional sporting…
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By STEPHEN WHYNO Burned in Zach Werenski’s memory is the first U.S. practice at the 4 Nations Face-Off last February. “You look around and see the skill,” Werenski said. “I was like, ‘This is fast.’ It’s wave after wave, player after player.” He and his countrymen fell short at that tournament, which was designed to be an appetizer of sorts for the return of NHL players to the Olympics. Over the summer, when the country’s best gathered again for an orientation camp ahead of next month’s Games in Milan, USA Hockey general manager Bill Guerin told them that nothing but…
Rare is the occurrence when a free agent is signed by a team and then that player immediately becomes captain. But Zdeno Chara was a rare breed indeed and, after he signed his deal with the Bruins before the 2006-07 season, the “C” was stitched on his jersey, remaining there for the next 14 years. B’s coach Marco Sturm was already a member of the team when Chara arrived. As Sturm recalled, he arrived with a bang. “The one practice we had – and this is still my favorite story – when guys didn’t go hard enough, he grabbed our…
The international signing period for this year opened on Thursday, and the Boston Red Sox started inking deals with prospects in this year’s class. The Red Sox have $5.94 million to work with this offseason. The funds are used to give signing bonuses to international prospects, and signing bonuses under $10,000 do not count against the team’s spending. The Red Sox reportedly signed Brazilian pitcher Claudio Pereira, per Baseball America’s Ben Badler. Pereira reportedly signed with a signing bonus of $500,000. It is reportedly the fourth-largest signing bonus the Red Sox will give out in this signing period. The biggest…
The 2005-06 NHL season was a disaster for the Boston Bruins. They traded away superstar center and captain Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks early in the campaign for a lackluster return package. The team lacked talent and toughness, and it finished with the fifth-worst record in the league. The franchise, which hadn’t been a real Stanley Cup contender since the late 1980s and early 1990s, appeared to be light years away from ending its championship drought, which in 2006 stood at 34 years. It was, essentially, rock bottom for the Bruins. And then everything changed July 1, 2006.…
Back in 2008, Milton girls hockey head coach Matt Lodi got a coaching gig with Natick’s boys junior varsity program. It was his introduction to coaching high school athletics. And from year to year since – and in his case, program to program – there’s a lot to absorb. Many details might fade. But after 17 years, he never forgot what it was like when he first started coaching against Ken Assad, who, before he took the King Philip girls head coaching role, coached the Franklin boys JV team. “First and foremost, Kenny was always a top-notch person,” Lodi said.…