It was quite a night at TD Garden as Boston marked the official return of Jayson Tatum and a big Celtics win. Inside a packed Garden, it felt like a playoff atmosphere with fans pumped up to welcome back a superstar as the team focuses on a final push to playoffs. It was a slow start for Tatum, who missed his first six shot attempts of the game against the Dallas Mavericks, but he wasted no time getting some of the other guys involved with five assists in the first half. It was a tight game in the final minutes…
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ANDOVER — It’s a great luxury for Andover boys basketball coach Dave Fazio to look at his backcourt and know that when the Golden Warriors need points, they are likely coming. On Friday, inside a sold-out Dunn Gymnasium, Charlie Tutwiler and Josh Roux carried Andover when it needed it most. No. 10 Xaverian pushed the second seed for three quarters before Roux and Tutwiler put the Golden Warriors on their backs and carried them to a 56-42 win and a spot in the D1 Final Four against Bishop Feehan, a 65-60 double overtime winner against Bridgewater-Raynham. “In my humble opinion,…
Before Jayson Tatum made his long-awaited return from Achilles surgery Friday night, he took an opportunity to address the Celtics teammates he’d watched all season. Tatum spoke up in a team meeting on Thursday, sharing a message of gratitude and appreciation that resonated with head coach Joe Mazzulla. “He talked a little bit, and just the way that he talked to his teammates, about his teammates, I just think he came on the other side of (his injury) a better person,” Mazzulla said after Tatum played his first 27 minutes of the season in a 120-100 victory over the Dallas…
Do you know the last time the Red Sox finished a season without a single player hitting at least 20 home runs? If we’re not counting 2020 — which we shouldn’t, pretty much ever, for pretty much anything — then the answer is a loooooong time ago: 1945, to be exact. But, frankly, we shouldn’t even count the World War II years, either. Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio and the rest of the actual Red Sox were fighting overseas, leaving the lineup to be filled with 34-year-old infielders named Skeeter. Everyone knows that it’s impossible to be a power…
Celtics fans usually reserve their boos and let them rain down with a fury when an opponent’s starting lineup is introduced at TD Garden. On Friday night, they made an exception for Cooper Flagg. Flagg, the 19-year-old Maine native who grew up rooting for the Celtics and was taken No. 1 overall by the Mavericks in last year’s NBA draft, received a loud eruption of cheers from the Boston faithful when his name was called out prior to his first professional game on the famed parquet. It was a homecoming for Flagg, who had plenty of family and friends make…
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors on Friday in a deal to resolve a felony criminal case that arose immediately after he was fired for having an inappropriate relationship with his executive assistant.The deal was struck on the same day a judge planned to hear a challenge to Moore’s arrest in December on three charges, including felony home invasion. Those previous charges were dropped in exchange for Moore pleading no contest to misdemeanor trespassing and misdemeanor malicious use of a telecom device.“Things have changed,” Judge J. Cedric Simpson said.Moore had confronted the woman with whom he had been having…
In today’s video I break down every game on the March 6, 2026 NBA slate, sharing my NBA picks, predictions, and favorite player props. If you’re looking for NBA picks today, NBA predictions, spread picks, totals, and the best NBA props for today’s NBA slate, this video covers the full slate. Plays: Mikal Bridges Over 14.5 Points (1 unit, -109 Kalshi) SGP: LaMelo Ball 15+ Points, Brandon Miller 15+ Points, Tyler Herro 15+ Points (0.75 units, -105 FanDuel) SGP: LaMelo Ball 15+ Points & 2+ 3PM, Brandon Miller 15+ Points, Tyler Herro 15+ Points (0.25 units, +136 FanDuel boosted) Knicks/Nuggets…
The Red Sox were demolished by the Detroit Tigers, 11-3, at the AL Central club’s Lakeland, Fla., complex on Friday, but the early innings were promising. Rookie left-hander Connelly Early pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings in his second start and third overall Grapefruit League outing. With his fastball topping out at 96.2 mph and averaging 94.8, a 1.3 mph increase over his 2025 average, he held the Tigers to two hits, walked one, hit a batter and struck out four. Kristian Campbell‘s first home run of the 2026 preseason came against a future Hall of Famer. The versatile Red Sox…
It’s official: Jayson Tatum will make his long-awaited season debut Friday night at TD Garden. Hours before their 7 p.m. tipoff, the Celtics upgraded Tatum from questionable to available for their game against the Dallas Mavericks, clearing him to return to action nearly 10 months removed from Achilles surgery. Tatum missed Boston’s first 62 games of the season, during which the team went 41-21 while posting the NBA’s second-best net rating. By returning now, the All-NBA wing will have 20 games to ramp up and reacclimate before the postseason arrives. It was unclear as of Friday afternoon what that reacclimation…
BOSTON — It’s been 298 days since Jayson Tatum last played for the Celtics. That streak is likely to end Friday night at TD Garden. The Celtics star is expected to make his 2025-26 season debut Friday against the Dallas Mavericks, per ESPN’s Shams Charania. Tatum has been sidelined since May 12, when he ruptured his Achilles tendon in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Knicks. Tatum will return to a Celtics team that has vastly overachieved in his absence, entering Friday’s game with a 41-21 record and the No. 2 seed in the Eastern…