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We’ll have NHL games back soon, but where has this recent idiocy left the winter game?
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How shall we best remember the abominable National Hockey League labor dispute that has devoured half a season, making a proud lodge stocked with admirable characters the laughingstock of all professional sport?
Try this: As the most pointless, needless, and dumbest exercise in mass frustration in the history of organized fun and games. A battalion of dead-end kids running wild in a schoolyard sticking their tongues out at one another would make as much sense. This dispute was never faintly rational. Read more
Marr-lin swim team hosted Watertown
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Marr-lin Swim Team hosts Watertown - The Marr-lin Swim Team hosted the Watertown Club for their final dual-meet of 2012. Marr-lin swimmers helped propel the team to win all five age groups. Read more
Traft takes ring at TD Garden Night at Fights
Jan. 9, 2013
Billy Traft. Photo by Emily Harney
Billy Traft— the Dorchester boxer and Boston cop — will be part one of the featured match-ups at the upcoming TD Garden Night at the Fights on Sat., Jan. 26. Traft is scheduled to box Joe Powers as part of the card headlined by Framingham’s Danny O’Connor, who will square off against Derek Silveira. The event was originally set for last month, but was postponed after O’Connor was injured in training. Tickets sold for that Dec. 14 event will be honored for Jan. 26. Read more
It’s face-up-to-it time for Belichick and his boys
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In retrospect, it has been an odd Patriots’ season.
Even back in September, when they were smarting from consecutive losses and the Coach was stomping the sidelines like Rumplestilskin in his tiresome harangue of the replacement officials, you vaguely sensed that this team was able to turn it on at will, so you could tune them out for four months and check back come January without fear of missing much. And so it went, precisely according to such form. Read more
Arthur Duffey’s odyssey: A tale of redemption for the 'fastest human of 1902'
Dec. 27, 2012
Arthur Duffey, left, set the world record in the 100 yard dash in this May 1902 race captured by photographer W.N. Jennings.
On May 31, 1902, 22-year-old Arthur Francis Duffey, a Bostonian with ties to the city’s Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods who was at the time a student at Georgetown University, burst from the starting line of the 100-yard sprint in the national intercollegiate track and field championships at the Berkley Oval in New York City and hit the tape 9.6 seconds later, in the process lowering the world’s record from 9.8 seconds. Duffey’s time earned him the designation of “world’s fastest human”; it was a number that would not be bested for another 28 years. Read more
Lance Greene hits millennial mark for Endicott
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Lance Greene: Endicott sharpshooter.
Dorchester’s Lance Greene, a senior guard and captain of the Endicott College men’s basketball team, etched his name in the school’s history books on Saturday when he scored his 1,000th career collegiate point late in the first half in a non-conference game at Clark (Mass.). Greene scored a season-high 22 points against the Cougars in a losing outing, 80-74.
Greene finished an efficient 8-of-9 from the floor and 6-of-8 at the free throw line to go along with four rebounds, three steals, and two assists. The senior’s jumper with 3:16 remaining in the first half put him over 1,000 points for his career.
He now has 1,012 points for his career and is 15 points behind Graham Whitelaw ‘10 for eighth on the all-time Endicott leader board. For his career, Greene has averaged 14.4 points per game. This season, he is scoring at career-high rate of 16.2 points per game. Read more
While demons prowl across the overall NFL scene, in Foxborough, the band plays on
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During the week when the troubled football commissioner was posing on Time magazine’s cover for a story that wonders if he can save his game from its rampant demons, the Patriots were proving there’s no team in said game that’s better or nastier. Read more
Pop Warner Eagles return to Super Bowl: Team of 12-13 year olds bound for Florida
Nov. 29, 2012
Pop Warner regional champs heading to Super Bowl: Photo courtesy Toni Johnson
One of Dorchester’s Pop Warner football teams has won the New England regional title and the right to compete for a national championship once again.
The Eagles’ junior midget B squad defeated a team from New Britain, CT on Nov. 24 by a score of 14-0. The regional championship victory earned the Eagles a chance to return to the Pop Warner “Super Bowl” tournament in Orlando, Florida next weekend. Read more
Winter soccer clinic for kids at Mildred Ave. center
Nov. 20, 2012
The BCYF Mildred Ave. Community Center and Valeo Futbol Academy are starting a winter soccer clinic for young players looking to improve their skills. The clinic will run from Nov. 26 to March 14 at the BCYF Mildred Ave. Community Center, 5 Mildred Ave., Mattapan. Classes will be held Mondays and Thursdays from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Read more
