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Mattahunt Center re-opens with wide array of activities
Oct. 19, 2011
Mattahunt Center: Cheerleaders from Mattapan Pop Warner helped celebrate the center's re-opening last week. Photo by Alex OwensThe grand re-opening of the Mattahunt Community Center was celebrated last Thursday, capping off an unprecedented transition from city-run facility to a center privately managed by Wheelock College that could serve as a model for future community centers across Boston.
Guests were invited to explore some of the programming to be offered at the center, which closed abruptly due to city budget cuts in spring 2010. The various athletic organizations affiliated with the Mattahunt-Wheelock Partnership held clinics for younger visitors while parents had the chance to talk with several groups about the upcoming services to be provided at the Mattahunt. Read more
Good luck, Terry Francona, and watch your back
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At the end of March on the eve of the 2011 baseball season, 36 of the game’s certified “experts” submitted their predictions about how the season would go and who would emerge triumphant. Banal as the exercise may be, it’s a custom as ingrained as the whistling of “Take Me out to the Ballgame” and as fundamental as peanuts and crackerjacks. Read more
Bruins' sensation Tyler Seguin scores big with kids
Sep. 14, 2011
Tyler Seguin at Leahy-Holloran Community Center: The Bruins center handed out pucks and opening day tickets on Tuesday. Reporter photo by Pat Tarantino
Kids at Dorchester’s Leahy-Holloran Community Center had a brush with greatness on Tuesday, when Boston Bruins center Tyler Seguin made a surprise appearance. After being met with a round of applause and cheers, Seguin announced that each of the 20 youngsters and a parent would be attending the Bruins’ October 6 home opener. Read more
NCAA to reform big-time football? It is to laugh
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For those who have been ranting and raving about this subject for about four decades, this ought to amount to some sort of moment of redemption.
The lid is off. The truth is beyond dispute. No one with sense enough to come in out of the rain will stoop to argue the point. The pathetic hypocrisies and abject double standards that have sustained the system’s runaway corruption are at last fully exposed. Not even the silliest yahoos, to whom the gridiron glories of good old Winsocki are dearer than life itself, will defend the nuttiness of the business any longer. Read more
Safe Summer Streets Basketball League Championships
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The 16-team Safe Summer Streets Basketball League concluded play in late August with the championship games for all three divisions of play. In the 4-team Girls division the Lady Thunder defeated the Lady Cavs in the first of two semi-final games, 59-52. Candace Andrews (30) led the Lady Thunder while Markiah Monteiro (40) led the Lady Cavs. In the second game The Lady Zags, behind Regina Crawford (39) defeated the Lady Tigers 51-40. Cadejia Matthews (19) led the Lady Tigers offense. Read more
Swimming pool re-opens to public at Mattahunt Center
Aug. 11, 2011
After being closed for more than one year, the Mattahunt Community Center pool is now open to the public again. The re-opening follows an effort by Wheelock College to help kickstart the center’s programming back into gear as the school year approaches. Read more
Who knew? At first, no one but the Bruins
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Toast of the town: Kostas Klokelis, from Framingham, Mass., toasts from a window overlooking the duck boats carrying the Boston Bruins and their families as they roll through downtown during a rally in celebration of their NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff victory Saturday, June 18. AP PhotoIn the end what made it so grand and unforgettable was the simple fact that it all came barreling out of nowhere like a spectacular thunderstorm late on a hot summer day. It was totally unheralded. No one expected it. No one predicted it. And even as it was happening, no one believed it would lead to where it led. Great sporting moments are always best when they take you completely by surprise.
What made this adventure notably delicious was that it stretched over two full months – 9 weeks/63 days – building slowly, relentlessly, impossibly, and allowing us time to catch the rhythm of the thing and fall in step.
Like Ravel’s Bolero, it began with low and guttural notes that were almost morose, gradually climbing, note after note and beat after beat, steadily rising in tone with an ever more pounding intensity and surging every couple of days until at last a certain inevitability held sway and we realized we were headed for the brink and it became only a question of how hard we might land when the music came crashing to a close. Read more
Umbrella fit for a team
Jun. 13, 2011
Soggy sluggers
The rain of the last week interrupted play for many of the scheduled games in the Cedar Grove Baseball league. Above, members of the Red Sox waited out a passing shower on Saturday at McMorrow Playground as they played for control of first place in Cedar Grove’s Minor League division. The Sox won to go to 9 and 3 on the season. Rain is in the forecast locally through Thursday. Photo by Timothy Devlin Read more
Youth hockey president Sweeney has built on league’s top-notch credentials
Apr. 27, 2011
Matt Sweeney, who has served as president of the Dorchester Youth Hockey program for the last three years, and his wife Jill accepted a grant from the Mike Cheever Grow Hockey Development program on March 10 at TD Garden. Also on hand to present the awards were co-chairs Jim Maimone, Ellie Cheever, Tom Songin, Steve Palmacci, and Bob Sweeney.
Matthew Sweeney, who has led Dorchester Youth Hockey (DYH) for the last three seasons, and has been a guiding force for the program for much of the last decade, will step down from his post later this month. Sweeney, who moved up the ranks of the volunteer board to attain the position of president, has been instrumental — along with his wife Jill— to the continued success of the Neponset-based organization, which is one of the region’s most highly respected hockey and ice-skating programs for youth.
Matt and Jill got involved because both of their sons have played in the program. Sweeney went from coordinator to vice president and finally to president. Read more
Cedar Grove, Savin Hill baseball join forces for teen play
Apr. 21, 2011
The ultimate goal of youth sports is for kids to have fun, compete, and learn, not just about the game, but also about an important values in life like teamwork, responsibility, and commitment. With that in mind, Cedar Grove Baseball and Savin Hill Baseball have come together to offer Babe Ruth baseball to as many children in the neighborhood as possible.
Tom Leahy and Mike Mackan from Cedar Grove Baseball have joined Mike Manning, Mike Christopher, and Tony King of Savin Hill Baseball to construct a league of six teams, with a total of around 90 children, ages 13-15. The games will be played at both Dorchester Park and McConnell Park throughout the season. For the first time, the teams will be mixed with Cedar Grove and Savin Hill kids on the same roster. Read more
