Sports
The U.S. Olympic Committee announced Thursday that it has selected Boston out of four cities that competed to represent the United States in a bid for the 2024 Summer Games.
The USOC, after a day-long meeting at Denver airport and more than one round of... Read more
We have reached the mid-point of the National Hockey League’s grueling and remorseless regular season, a bitter forced-march crisscrossing some of North America’s most thankless winter pit-stops while giving new meaning to the term “redundant.”
An... Read more
DYH Squirt Bs celebrated their Mayor's Cup championship win: Photo courtesy Annissa Essaibi George
Shown above (front, l-r): Matt Mcdevitt, Finn Kelly, Aidan Ellis; 2nd row, Shay Meaney, Austin Kelly, David George, Sean Olsen; 3rd row, James Fitzgerald,... Read more
Just after noon on July 20, 2014, as Donnie Palmer walked out the doorway of his sister’s Fields Corner three-decker and onto a small porch, he spotted a Black Toyota lurking down the block. Yeah, he thought, it could very well be the same dude whom he... Read more
Just as the Dorchester Eagles Pop Warner team boarded a bus and headed to Florida, Mayor Martin Walsh announced $16,000 in fundraising for the team thanks to local businesses and civic leaders.
Walsh has received $16,000 in pledges and commitments to... Read more
Longtime East Boston High School coach and former headmaster Michael Rubin was inducted into the Massachusetts Basketball Coach Hall of Fame on Nov. 23 at the College of the Holy Cross. At right is his son Michael, who is now an assistant coach at Quabbin... Read more
The Dorchester Eagles Pop Warner program's Jr. Pee-Wee team — 33 youngsters ages 10-11— are hoping to travel to Orlando, Florida this weekend to compete in the annual Pop Warner national tournament. The team earned a spot in the tourney by winning the New... Read more
A new youth soccer program is under formation in Mattapan— a neighborhood that organizers say is primed to embrace the sport on a beautiful new playing field at Almont Park. Carolyn MacNeil, one of the founders of Mattapan Youth Soccer, says the league... Read more
The All Dorchester Sports League (ADSL) dedicated a city-owned field house in Fields Corner to longtime coach and mentor Jim Collyer on Sat., Nov 9. Mayor Martin Walsh spoke at the event which was also attended by State Senators Linda Dorcena Forry and... Read more
Team MR8The Martin W. Richard Charitable Foundation, an organization created to honor the memory of the eight year old Dorchester boy killed during the 2013 bombings near the finish of the Boston Marathon, is now accepting applications from charity... Read more