Author: BostonSportsNews

Let’s hear it for author David Winder for putting together a list of the top 50 most interesting high school nicknames.Of course, a school in California gets the No. 1 ranking. Life Academy of Health and Biosciences in Oakland has the Biohazards as their nickname.Here’s his selections:50. Poets (Dunbar HS – Baltimore)49. Burrs (West Catholic Preparatory HS – Philadelphia)48. Flying Flucos (Fluvanna County HS – Palmyra, Va.)47. Shiretowners (Houlton HS – Houlton, Maine)46. Amaguqs (Nunamiut School – Anaktuvuk Pass, Ark.)45. Syrupmakers (Cairo HS – Cairo, Ga.)44. Achaeans (Herron HS – Indianapolis, Ind.)43. Vulcans (Vassar HS – Vassar, Miss.)42. Spongers (Tarpon…

MacKenzie Loesch says she still has a clear memory of the encounter that broke her.It was 10 years ago, and Loesch was 12 — a rising taekwondo star from a small town in Missouri. Her training facility was two hours away, and her coach, Thomas Hardin, would often drive her there. One day, she was sitting in his car at a gas station when, she says, he handed her a blue rose. He told her he loved her and told her to say it back. Someday they’d get married, he said, according to Loesch.Loesch had been carrying the secret since she…

LYNN, Mass. (WWLP) – A $2 million lottery winner in Massachusetts matched all five numbers and the Power Play in one of the largest Powerball jackpots in history.The winning numbers drawn on Wednesday, August 12th were 26, 67, 69, 66, and 4 and red Powerball 9. The winning $1.040 billion ticket was bought at a Hy-Vee gas station in Quincy, Illinois. It wasn’t immediately clear if the winner has come forward yet. Will we ever know who won $1.04 billion Powerball jackpot? A ticket sold in Massachusetts also matched all the numbers except the Powerball number, but won $2 million because of…

Few experiences compare to the first days of a college football training camp. None of the hundreds of programs dotting the American landscape have completed a competitive drive or executed a full throttle tackle to stop an opposing offense. Specialists haven’t attempted pressure-packed field goals or landed coffin corner punts. Coaches haven’t devised game plans with the bulk of their work geared towards conditioning and strength workouts mapped onto whiteboards. The next season, the next steps for each of the 138 teams throughout the 10 bowl subdivision conferences, existed only in hypothetical conversations about the future, so the start of camp would…

Boston Bruins “We like leaders, not followers. So you can hopefully have 20 leaders.” Cam Neely said that the Bruins have still not decided on a captain yet. (Jonathan Wiggs Globe /Staff ) The Boston Bruins have not had a captain in place since the team traded Brad Marchand to the Florida Panthers in March 2025.Granted, that vacancy atop Boston’s leadership hierarchy didn’t appear to negatively impact Marco Sturm’s club last season.Behind an established veteran grouping led by David Pastrnak and Charlie McAvoy, the Bruins put a miserable, cellar-dwelling 2024-25 campaign in the rearview mirror en route to a brief…

FORT WORTH, Texas — Standing on the side of a practice field in mid-May, watching a training session for eight college defensive linemen they represent, Jacob Piasecki and Francesco Tricomi are discussing a topic they relish: people who can’t stand them.“NFL agents have no f—ing clue how to do this,” Tricomi said.Piasecki, 29, is the co-founder of A&P Sports Agency, an Austin-based company born five years ago at the dawn of college sports’ current era of chaos, and Tricomi, 26, is his director of operations. In just a few years, agencies such as A&P have barged into college sports like…

BYU has a new jersey patch sponsor for several of its Olympic sports.The university’s athletic department announced that it had reached a multi-year jersey patch agreement with BYU Continuing Education for the school’s Olympic sports programs.AdvertisementThis news comes after BYU football signed a jersey patch deal with tech giant Entrata. More athletic departments across the country are starting to announce deals with companies to generate non-traditional revenue in the NIL era. The Cougars were one of the first to have a deal on the books.The Big 12 worked out a separate patch deal with Monster Energy, which included branding on…

Healthcare company launches new tests to detect cyclosporaSwiss healthcare company Roche said it had launched two new tests to detect cyclospora amid a cyclosporiasis outbreak in the U.S.Massachusetts has been added to the list of states affected by the cyclospora outbreak, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.More than 140 cases of Cyclosporiasishave been reported in Massachusetts, leading Massachusetts to officially be declared part of the outbreak. Maine was also added to the list.It has also been confirmed that recalled iceberg lettuce products from Taylor Fresh Foods from June 29 through July 16 were distributed in the Commonwealth as…

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Schiller Family Head Hockey Coach Greg Brown has announced that former Boston College standout Ben Smith ’10 has joined the men’s hockey staff as an assistant coach.   Smith joins the staff after spending the 2025-26 year as a Player Development Coordinator for the Boston Bruins.   Smith, a 2010 graduate of Boston College, played four years on the Heights and helped the Eagles win three Hockey East Tournament Championships, two Beanpot titles and two National Championships (2008, 2010). Over his four-year career, he skated in 165 games, posting 122 points on 57 goals and 65…

The Boston Bruins announced today the schedule and details for the 2026 Fan Fest: Road to Opening Night presented by TD Bank U.S., which will make stops in Rhode Island and Massachusetts with the mission to grow the game throughout New England. For the first time, the Boston Bruins will bring Fan Fest to Warwick, RI and Worcester, MA. The full schedule can be found below. Saturday, September 12 (Warwick, RI) Rocky Point State Park | 1 Rocky Point Ave, Warwick, RI 02889 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sunday, September 13 (Worcester, MA) Worcester Common | 455 Main Street Worcester,…