FITCHBURG – The Meet of Champions’ opening day featured a combination of sweltering heat, triumph and tears. Competing at Fitchburg State were the absolute best, which led to events chockfull of personal records. Westford Academy senior Ryan Kyle set the bar early, crowning himself state champion with a new state record, 51.72, in the 400-meter hurdles. “Right away, I felt fast,” said Kyle, who won the race a day before his high school graduation. “The heat didn’t bother me – we were all running in the same conditions, so I just blocked that out.” Kyle, who is attending the University…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson had 39 points and 12 assists, and the New York Knicks moved a win away from their first Eastern Conference finals appearance in 25 years and pushed the defending champion Boston Celtics to the brink of elimination with a 121-113 victory Monday night in Game 4.The Celtics will have to make the NBA’s 14th comeback from a 3-1 deficit to extend their title reign and may have to do it without All-Star Jayson Tatum, who was carried off the court with a right leg injury with 2:58 left.Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns each added 23 points…
The minor league season continues in the Red Sox organization and May saw another promising month for the farm system. Roman Anthony continues to mash as the best prospect in baseball, another outfield prospect surged, a 2020 draft-pick made a necessary progression and young arms are on the rise. Here’s what we saw from the Red Sox farm system in May. What More Can Roman Do?We wrote last month that Anthony deserved his shot. The only thing that’s changed since then is that his case is even stronger. Anthony slashed .317/.444/.465 for a .910 OPS with just two more strikeouts…
The 2025 NBA Draft is shaping up to be pivotal for the Boston Celtics as they begin an offseason of transition. If Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens wants to get the organization under the second apron of the luxury tax, he’ll have to shed roughly $20 million in salary to get below that threshold, which means at least one rotational player from the championship core would need to be shipped out. Boston could find replacements for its departing players in the draft, during which it owns the No. 28 overall pick in the first round and the No.…
In the Div. 4 baseball second round, senior Madux Iovinelli went six strong innings as No. 2 Lynnfield (18-4) defeated No. 18 Stoneham 3-1. Connor Grieve threw a one-hitter with seven strikeouts while also going 2-for-3 at the plate as No. 8 Braintree (14-8) upended No. 24 Leominster 4-1 in the Div. 1 second round. Softball Reese Taylor went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI while also going the distance on the hill with four strikeouts as No. 3 Apponequet (19-5) blanked No. 19 Seekonk 4-0 in the Div. 3 second round. … Edy Latour went 4-for-4 and drove…
NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — The Boston Red Sox should just leave designated hitter Rafael Devers alone and let him decide if he wants to start playing first base, Hall of Famer David Ortiz told The Associated Press on Monday.The Red Sox signed Alex Bregman to a $120-million, three-year contract in spring training and told Devers he was going to be the fulltime DH.That was, until first baseman Triston Casas was lost for the season after rupturing a tendon in his left knee and undergoing surgery in early May.Speaking at his charity golf tournament — the David Ortiz Soiree of Hearts — the former Red…
The 2021 New England Patriots draft class certainly doesn’t look any better after the news regarding Joshuah Bledsoe. The Pittsburgh Steelers released the former Patriots safety on Thursday after signing defensive back Quindell Johnson. Bledsoe signed a futures contract with the Steelers in January in an attempt to revive his NFL career — the 26-year-old had previously joined the UFL’s San Antonio Brahmas. The Patriots drafted Bledsoe in the sixth round out of Missouri but he struggled with injuries and didn’t play in a single game as rookie. Bledsoe only appeared in four games and made just one tackle over…
Worcester Red Sox 9, Rochester Red Wings 1 (BOX) milb.com The Rochester Red Wings (WAS) are having a tough season at 22-35 and it didn’t get any better in the first inning on Wednesday, as the Woo Sox put up a 7-spot. Nate Eaton got the action going with an RBI single and a stolen base, part of a two-hit day, before Blaze Jordan doubled in a run. Nathan Hickey capped off the inning with a three-run homer (9). Jordan, in just his second game in Worcester, followed that up in the third with his first home run at the…
Before Brad Marchand was Patrice Bergeron’s sidekick, there was Marco Sturm. After the big Joe Thornton trade that brought Sturm – named the Bruins’ new head coach on Thursday – to Boston, Bergeron was moved to his natural center position and Sturm eventually found his way to the future captain’s left wing. And Sturm and Bergeron will be forever linked by the goal on which they combined at Fenway Park in 2010, Sturm’s overtime winner over the Flyers that continued to build momentum for the franchise that was just regaining its profile among all the local franchises that had already…
BOSTON (WHDH) – BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins hired Marco Sturm as coach on Thursday to help the Original Six franchise get back to the playoffs after missing them for the first time since 2016.The Bruins picked the 46-year-old German to replace interim coach Joe Sacco, who took over from Jim Montgomery in November and led the team to a 25-30-7 record — much of it after a trade deadline roster purge. Sturm, who spent the past three seasons as head coach of the AHL’s Ontario Reign and coached Germany to a silver medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, is a…