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Between Friday and Sunday, 16 high school basketball and hockey teams were crowned state champions. It took some dynamic, and downright unbelievable performances, for student-athletes to make sure their teams walked away from either the Tsongas Center or TD Garden with a state title in hand. Here is a look at some of the top performances from state championship weekend: Boys Basketball — Brody Bumila continued his dominant postseason, scoring 36 points and adding 21 rebounds in Bishop Feehan’s 66-63 win over Central Catholic in the Div. 1 state championship. On the losing side, Javi Lopez scored 30 points for…

While the Boston Red Sox have shown progress under interim manager Chad Tracy and arguably are going to be alright in the long run, they are still off to a start unlikely in a long time for the franchise. Boston dropped two of three contests against the Tampa Bay Rays over the weekend and now is 17-23 on the season and in last place in the American League East. After the Red Sox’s 4-1 loss against Tampa Bay on Mother’s Day, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale shared on X that this is the first time since 1997 that the Red Sox…

The NCAA men’s volleyball tournament is back and bigger than ever for 2026.The bracket has expanded from nine to 12 teams, with seven automatic qualifiers and five at-large teams. That opens the door for more schools to compete but the usual suspects enter postseason play as the favorites. One of this year’s top three seeds — No. 1 UCLA, No. 2 Hawaii and No. 3 Long Beach State — has won every NCAA title since 2018. Every championship match in that span except 2021, when Hawaii beat BYU for the title, has featured a matchup of two of those three schools…

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Saturdays jut hit different, even if eating seven bowls of Captain Crunch and watching Wile E. Coyote continue his New York Jet-rivaling streak of ineptitude on my agenda. Heck, I don’t even have to walk out front on Saturdays and pick up the paper before the sprinklers hit driveway. ••••••• • It’s been a minute since the S-R delivered a print edition to my doorstep on Saturdays. But at least there is still a facsimile on the newspaper’s website, making it possible to feel as if the past hasn’t disappeared completely. Even after Wily won…

A 22-year-old man from Massachusetts is facing arson and other charges after allegedly throwing a lit firework at a police cruiser in New Hampshire.Kyle Martel is accused of throwing a lit firework on April 19 from a wooded area at a Plymouth police officer’s cruiser.Video from a Ring security camera shows the firework exploding near the police officer and another person. No one was hurt.Martel was taken into custody Sunday in Massachusetts. He’s facing charges that include arson, malicious explosion, reckless conduct with a deadly weapon and two other charges.>> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the…

STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Boston College lacrosse fell to No. 5 seed Stony Book, 10-9, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium on Sunday afternoon.​The Eagles conclude the season at 10-8, while the Seawolves advance to face Johns Hopkins in the quarterfinals.​Kylee Colbert paced the offense with four goals, while Giulia Colarusso poured in four points with two scores, two assists and a team-high four draw controls. Marissa White found the back of the net twice, and Casey Colbert dished out two assists.​Shea Dolce made seven saves in the setback.​Trailing by as much as…

Crime One man was killed in a Mattapan shooting, while two others were shot just hours later in a separate shooting in Dorchester, police said. Police are investigating two separate shootings that killed one person and injured two others on Saturday and early Sunday morning in Boston, in a weekend that saw at least five people shot in Boston neighborhoods. The first shooting occurred in Mattapan on Saturday night, the Boston Police Department posted.  At 11:39 p.m., officers found a man suffering from a gunshot wound outside 28 Woolson St. First responders pronounced the man dead on scene, police said.At…

Cameron Young on winning in front of President Donald Trump at DoralCameron Young was asked what it was like to get a thumbs up from President Donald Trump after his victory Sunday at the Cadillac Championship.Nobody really knows what to expect from the Aronimink Golf Club in a major. The last time it hosted the PGA Championship, the Beatles hadn’t released their first album, and the New York Mets were in their first season. Tour pros have visited a few times since, the most recent for the 2018 BMW Championship, but the modern major championship history at this Donald Ross course outside of Philadelphia is essentially nonexistent.That makes the 2026 edition of golf’s…

SALT LAKE CITY — As expected, the International Olympic Committee has ruled out adding summer sports to the Winter Games — but only for 2030.Does that mean a decision is yet to be made on whether events like cross-country running, cyclocross, and even sports like judo that are already part of the Summer Games program could be part of Utah’s 2034 Winter Games?”You’re exactly right,” IOC President Kirsty Coventry responded during a virtual news conference Thursday that followed an IOC Executive Board meeting. “For 2030, we have taken the decision, no crossover sports, no summer sports.”But Coventry, who took office…

Brian Shortsleeve ‘On The Record’ about GOP run for governor of Massachusetts REPUBLICAN BRIAN SHORTSLEEVE WANTS TO BE YOUR GOVERNOR. IT IS TIME TO SAY TO MAURA HEALEY, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FORMER MBTA GENERAL MANAGER WILL BE ON THE PRIMARY BALLOT, BUT HE FACES AN UPHILL BATTLE AGAINST FELLOW REPUBLICAN MIKE MINOGUE. MIKE MINOGUE LET’S HAVE SOME REAL DEBATES ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS. ONE ON ONE THIS MORNING, SHORT SLEEVE GOES ON THE RECORD ABOUT THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR AND WHY HE THINKS HE SHOULD LEAD THE STATE. FROM WCVB CHANNEL 5 THE INSIDE WORD FROM BEACON HILL TO CAPITOL HILL.…