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Senator invites Duxbury football team to meet with him
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ON THE SAME DAY Duxbury High School fired its head football coach, state Sen. Barry Finegold invited the varsity team to meet with him, as someone […]
Posted inEducation
How pro should college athletes go?
WHEN CHRIS WEBBER was a top basketball player for the University of Michigan in the early 1990s, paraphernalia with his name was being sold nationwide, but Webber could not receive […]
Posted inEducation
UMass football thrown for big losses
WHEN THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS opted to enter major college football in 2012, officials pitched the idea that the program would pay for itself over time, even bolstering non-revenue sports […]
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Celtics star hounded by Erdogan fans
This story has been updated to reflect that Bijan Rafiekian’s conviction was recently overturned. ENES KANTER was just trying to pray, but supporters of Turkey’s authoritarian leader found him on a […]
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Celtics star hounded by Erdogan fans
This story has been updated to reflect that Bijan Rafiekian’s conviction was recently overturned. Enes Kanter was just trying to pray, but supporters of Turkey’s authoritarian leader found him on […]
Posted inOpinion
A revolutionary idea for a Boston soccer venue
BOSTON, we have a soccer problem. We don’t have a home team. Our club in spirit—the pioneering and resurgent New England Revolution—still reside in the de facto exile of Gillette […]
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Worcester hires Zimbalist, Mullan
Worcester’s hush-hush courtship of the Pawtucket Red Sox just got a bit more interesting. The Telegram & Gazette reported that the city hired Smith College economist Andrew Zimbalist and former […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Why Boston drove Ali fight out of town
HE CALLED HIMSELF Muhammad Ali because his given name, he said, was “a slave’s name, and I’m no longer a slave.” In 1965 he was still called Cassius Clay, his father’s […]
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Football heading for trouble
Looking to stop the flow of tears falling into area beers, NECN’s Broadside host Sue O’Connell offered this on-the-bright-side tweet on Sunday night: “Hey #PatriotsNation, the good news is your […]
Posted inEconomy, Gambling, State House News Service
Healey proposes fantasy sports regs
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SAYING THAT HER ONGOING REVIEW of daily fantasy sports games uncovered “a number of significant concerns,” Attorney General Maura Healey on Thursday announced a series of […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Freedom’s just another word for sponsorship
What do you get when you mix patriotism with the free market? A whole lot of outrage. Those heart-tugging moments when a soldier in fatigues stands on the Fenway dugout between […]
Posted inEducation
Rich-poor divide in high school sports
EACH YEAR, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association compiles athletic participation data from public, charter, and parochial high schools across the state. In nine out of the past 10 years, the […]
Posted inEducation, The Back Story
Dissecting UMass coach’s bonus-laden salary
DEREK KELLOGG, the UMass men’s basketball coach, is the highest paid public employee in Massachusetts, but you’d never know it looking at his base salary. Kellogg’s base salary is $225,000, […]
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Shaughnessy vs. Henry
John Henry owns the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Globe, which can make for some awkward moments at times. The coverage of Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino […]
Posted inEconomy
Field of Dreams
You’ve owned several minor league professional teams in the Northeast. What about owning a team of college players in the Futures League in Brockton interested you when the previous owners, […]
Posted inEconomy
Mass. 1 of 11 states without ticket tax
LAST YEAR, nearly 3 million people walked through the gates of Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox, as bad as they were. More than 720,000 fans spun the turnstiles […]
Posted inOpinion, The Download
Play like a girl
The United States won the Women’s World Cup and many are predicting the game of soccer in this country will get a boost as well. But there was also one […]
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Losing Olympic bid could mean gold
In addition to the polarizing debate over whether or not Boston can and should host the 2024 Summer Olympics, there’s more than a few people on both sides wondering what actually prompted the bid. There’s […]
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On warpath over Redskins
The pressure on Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder just got ramped up exponentially after the US Patent Office revoked his team’s trademark on the name, calling it “disparaging” to Native […]
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Labor ruling on college athletes a game changer
When the “Sweet 16” round tips off tonight in college basketball’s March Madness, executives at CBS can’t wait – for the first commercial. The annual hoops championships is not only […]
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Jared Remy’s rage – and the fallout in the announcers’ booth
A picture can be worth a thousand words, and the shot of a steroid-bulked Jared Remy staring blankly at his murder arraignment last August said plenty, splayed out across the […]
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Derek Jeter is just the ticket
Leave it to a Yankee to spotlight the absurdity of Massachusetts ticket scalping and reselling laws. Shortstop Derek Jeter, a surefire first-ballot Hall of Famer, announced the upcoming season – […]
Posted inState House News Service, The Download
Can the Bay State think big about the Olympics?
With the Sochi Olympics as a backdrop, the Legislature’s Olympics special commission ponders whether the state’s capital city is up to the challenge of hosting the world’s premier sporting event […]
