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High school sports: Friday baseball, softball, soccer Published 8:27 pm Saturday, March 28, 2026     From staff reports CHINA GROVE  – Some struggles in the non-conference games have hurt the overall record, but Carson’s baseball team still has hopes of climbing back into the South Piedmont Conference race. The Cougars have been hampered by injuries, but they do have quite a bit of talent, and they rallied to beat Northwest Cabarrus 8-7 on Friday in a South Piedmont Conference game. Carson (4-8, 4-2) finished a sweep of the Trojans (2-9, 0-6). Carson lost twice to West Rowan, but still…

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is fast approaching, with this month’s international break a last chance for teams to tune up ahead of the tournament.As we count down to football’s biggest event, which teams are the favourites to take home the trophy?Advertisement2026 FIFA World Cup – Outright Winner OddsBrazil – 9/1Brazil endured an arduous road to World Cup qualification after a fifth-place finish in South America. The Selecao were beaten by France last week, their third defeat in their last six games, which also includes reverses against Bolivia and Japan.However, the five-time world champions are not a team to write…

U.S. Rep James P. McGovern’s full speech at Worcester’s No Kings protestFull speech from U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern during No Kings protest in WorcesterLarge scale anti-Trump protests are coming to Massachusetts for a third time, with 165 No Kings protests planned across the state on March 28.This round of No Kings protests might be the biggest so far: organizers anticipate it’ll be “one of the largest single-day nonviolent nationwide protests in U.S. history,” with more than 3,000 events already planned across the country on March 28.”As President Trump escalates his attempts to control us, it is on us, the people,…

The No. 14 Virginia Tech Hokies entered Sunday in search of their ninth consecutive win. Opposite the Hokies was a Boston College team that Tech had beaten on Friday by a combined score of 25-4 in a doubleheader.It would prove to be another short day of work for the Hokies, who blasted the Eagles 17-3 to earn a third consecutive run-rule win over BC this weekend.AdvertisementTech jumped ahead early, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning when Nora Abromavage hit her 11th home run of the season, second this series, to give VT an early 2-0 lead.The…

Connelly Early Impresses With 96-Pitch Outing In 2026 Red Sox Debut originally appeared on NESN. Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here.Boston Red Sox left-hander Connelly Early made his 2026 debut on Sunday afternoon against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park, and Early impressed.AdvertisementThe 23-year-old struck out six across 5 1/3 innings, allowing just five hits and walking two in 96 pitches (61 strikes).Early had a good chance to escape without any earned runs, but that was spoiled when Greg Weissert gave up a three-run blast to Eugenio Suarez shortly after coming in for Early. Connelly…

WASHINGTON — A White House roundtable spent nearly two hours discussing the future of college athletics on Friday afternoon, led by President Donald Trump and featuring the most prominent political and college sports leaders in the country.The meeting started with repeated acknowledgement of the many challenges facing the industry and ended with a frustrated Trump railing against Senate Democrats and the court system. Trump also promised to produce an executive order in the next week “because that’s the only way this is going to be solved.”Advertisement“So I’m going to sit down, and I’m going to write an executive order based…

CAPE TOWN (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya on Sunday expressed her disappointment with IOC President Kirsty Coventry over the decision to ban transgender women athletes from competing in women’s events at the Olympics.Semenya, who is South African, said she expected more from a woman leader like Coventry, who is from Zimbabwe and a fellow African.Advertisement“Personally, for her as a leader, she’s an African, I’m sure she understands how, you know, we as Africans, we are coming from, as a global South, you know, you cannot control genetics,” Semenya said at a press conference after a women’s race…

The U.S. Navy officially welcomed its newest warship into service this weekend, while it sat in Boston Harbor next to the Navy’s oldest operating warship.On Saturday the Navy commissioned the USS Massachusetts (SSN 798), a new Virginia-class fast-attack submarine. The submarine was in the harbor next to the wooden USS Constitution on the sunny day as the Massachusetts’ crew, sponsor Sheryl Sandberg and military and elected officials held a ceremony formally welcoming the ship into service.The Massachusetts is the latest Virginia-class sub to be commissioned, following the USS Iowa last spring; the submarines have been named after American states.“To the…

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College Men’s Golf prepares for its final regular season tournament before the ACC Championships, as they travel south for the Maridoe Invitational, hosted by North Texas, from march 28-30. The team will play at the Maridoe Golf Club in Carrollton, Texas.   The opening two rounds will take place on Monday morning, beginning at 9 a.m. EST in a shotgun start.   Maridoe Golf Club features an 18-hole, par-72 championship layout that stretches over 7,800 yards from the back tees, making it one of the longest courses in Texas. The course is routed across rolling…

National News Nearly 500 of the agency’s nearly 50,000 officers have quit since the shutdown started, according to DHS. Travelers wait in long security checkpoint lines at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Friday, March 27, 2026, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) By JOHN RABY and MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press March 29, 2026 | 7:47 AM 4 minutes to read With spring break in full swing, airline passengers continued to wait it out at major U.S. airports after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pay Transportation Security Administration officers aimed at alleviating long security lines. Trump’s executive order on Friday instructed the Department of…