Author: BostonSportsNews

Players will have one final tune-up before the PGA Championship at this week’s 2026 Truist Championship. Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, is hosting this signature event with a 72-player field at the course where the PGA Championship was played in 2025. Below, we look at Truist Championship odds and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions before the first round begins on Thursday morning.Scottie Scheffler is taking the week off, but Rory McIlroy is playing for the first time since winning the Masters last month and is the favorite at +600. Xander Schauffele (+1100) and Ludvig Aberg (+1400)…

After taking gold in Paris, wrestler Sarah Hildebrandt jotted. She tracked every time she had an urge to keep competing and every time she felt ready to retire.Hildebrandt, one of four U.S. women to win an Olympic wrestling title, ultimately announced her retirement six months after the Games. She seized an opportunity to become a U.S. women’s national team assistant coach.Yet she kept updating that running log in her phone. “Every single day I was like, ‘Do I want to come back? I don’t know,’” she said. “I would sway back and forth.”Within two months of the retirement announcement, Hildebrandt…

Massachusetts is experiencing a vast outmigration of young people. Businesses are leaving, resulting in a loss of nearly $15 billion in income, and a new study says 40 percent of Bay State households are facing food insecurity.Other than that, things are just ducky.Study Shows Historic Drop in Business FormationOh, wait, another new report says, “The Commonwealth had the nation’s lowest net business formation rate from 2020 to 2024, losing more than 17,000 employer businesses over nine consecutive quarters.”The Pioneer Institute study says, “Once a national leader in entrepreneurship, Massachusetts has fallen to the back of the pack in generating new…

Local News The Cane Corso mix, named Balboa, is returning to a healthier weight and will be available for adoption in two to four weeks. An underweight stray dog was recently found and rescued in Dorchester.The Cane Corso mix, now named Balboa, was rescued by Boston Animal Control April 22 and brought to the MSPCA-Angell Animal Medical Center. Balboa is estimated to be around 3 years old, MSPCA-Angell Vice President of Animal Protection Mike Keiley told Boston.com.A Cane Corso, named Balboa, was rescued at 22.4 kilograms. – Courtesy of MSPCA-AngellAt the emergency room, Balboa weighed just under 50 pounds, according…

The transfer portal — and the debate surrounding it — dominates college sports.Now, a similar concept is being debated in Ohio high school athletics — whether students should be allowed to play for schools they do not attend.That idea is part of a broader set of proposed rule changes that could reshape how Ohio handles athletic transfers if approved in a statewide vote of school districts.The Ohio High School Athletic Association released its list of referendum issues earlier this month, with voting open through May 15. A simple majority is needed to change bylaws.The main focus of many of the…

The countdown to the 2026 World Cup is on! Each day ahead of the tournament’s return to North America, Yahoo Sports will highlight an insight or moment that showcases just how grand the world’s biggest sporting spectacle has become — even beyond the expanded field of this year’s global event.It was during the 1978 World Cup when Peruvian soccer legend Teófilo Cubillas scored one of his two opening-game goals against Scotland via a free kick. The midfielder’s outside-of-the-foot blast during a 3-1 victory would inspire José Luis Chilavert to want to take on the pressure of set pieces.The difference between…

Massachusetts, Kalshi clash over sports prediction markets heads to Supreme Judicial Court THAT’S MONEY. BET ON NBA ACTION AS IT HAPPENS. HEY, DAN, HAVE YOU HEARD OF CALSCI? YEAH, THE PREDICTION MARKET. THEY’LL LET YOU TRADE ANYTHING FROM SPORTS TO ALIEN SIGHTINGS. IF IT FEELS LIKE GAMBLING IS EVERYWHERE LATELY, THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS. FROM SPORTS BETTING TO PREDICTION MARKETS, GAMBLING IS MORE ACCESSIBLE THAN EVER BEFORE. IT’S A LOOMING PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. IN FACT, IT’S ALREADY HERE. OUR INDUSTRY ABSOLUTELY RECOGNIZES THAT GAMBLING IS AN ACTIVITY THAT CAN BECOME PROBLEMATIC. THIS MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION CHAIR JORDAN MAYNARD GOES…

The No. 8 Florida State Seminoles softball team crushed the Boston College Eagles on 10-0 on Friday in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Jazzy Francik threw her second no-hitter in as many weeks in the win, allowing just one base runner in six innings as FSu picked up the run-rule victory.The Seminoles (44-8, 19-3 ACC) are one win away from winning at least a share of the ACC regular season championship and a sweep away from winning it outright. It is her third no-hitter of the season and fourth of her career.AdvertisementFrancik was in control from the start and did not allow a base runner until…

The Boston Bruins went into the Stanley Cup playoffs feeling good about themselves. Not only had they confounded most of the NHL observers by earning a spot in the postseason, they had a 100-point season a year after finishing in last place in the Eastern Conference.The team had responded extremely well to first-year head coach Marco Sturm, and the Bruins came into their series with the Buffalo Sabres as an experienced team. While the Sabres had not been to the playoffs since 2011, the Bruins had made the postseason in eight of the last nine seasons. That appeared to be…

Solo Ball #1 of the UConn Huskies works against Trey McKenney #1 of the Michigan Wolverines during the second half of a game in the National Championship.If President Trump needs more evidence that the business of college sports needs to get reformed as soon as possible, he can point to recent hijinks in California federal court.This is where, sources close to Team Trump contend, a California magistrate judge might be given final say over the insane money grab that has upended collegiate sports. It also could make the White House’s efforts to restore sanity even more arduous, The Post has…