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The BC football team plays their 2nd ranked opponent in two weeks when they host #12 Notre Dame at Alumni Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Coming off of a loss to Louisville to drop to a 1-7 record, the Eagles’ season continues to spiral out of control due to a slew of injuries, offensive woes, and a myriad of other factors.Who: Boston College Eagles (1-7) vs #12 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (5-2)AdvertisementWhere: Alumni Stadium, Chestnut Hill, MAWhen: Saturday November 1st, 2025Kickoff Time: 3:30pm ETHow to Watch: This game will be broadcast live on ESPN and streamed live hereOur staff has spent…

Crunch time for football teams on bubble: South Shore Sports ShowHosts Chris McDaniel and Ryan Vermette recap another compelling week of high school football and look ahead to the final week of the regular season.Massachusetts high school football teams have finally reached the last week of the regular season.Teams across the state will play Thursday through Saturday in hopes of finishing the regular season strong and making a final push in the power rankings.The top 16 ranked teams in each of the eight divisions with at least three wins and seven games played will qualify for the postseason state tournament.Check…

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The rocky marriage of team sports and illicit gambling dates back more than a century in the United States, bookended by the game-fixing scandal by eight Chicago White Sox players in the 1919 World Series and the current FBI investigation into prop betting and poker game fixing involving various NBA figures. No major professional sport appears immune to gambling scandals, as the following partial timeline suggests.NBA1950: Sol Levy, an NBA referee from 1948-51, faced seven criminal counts related to fixing games during the 1950-51 season, primarily by calling fouls to affect scoring. As The New York Times reported, he received…

We’ve done this before — a Game 6 of the World Series in Toronto — and we’ll do it again on Friday night. As was the case the first time, the Blue Jays are up 3-2 in the series, this time against the Los Angeles Dodgers, and thus one win from the title. This raises the possibility, a tantalizing one for Jays rooters and those partial lightning-strike moments of high importance, that it will all happen again. It’s not likely, and indeed it’s quite unlikely. That’s the nature of such a precise set of circumstances required to make it all happen.…

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR’s daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. It’s Halloween! The weather may not compare to last year, but the skies should stay clear for trick-or-treating. Just bundle up, and remember to drive safe. Now, while you wait for Boston University’s annual pumpkin drop to begin, let’s get to the news:Hitting the books: Often, when Beacon Hill lawmakers pass something unanimously, it indicates there’s little pushback against the legislation. But not this week. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts House passed a…

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College baseball alum Blake Butera ’15 was named the manager of the Washington Nationals on Friday morning.Butera, 33, becomes the youngest first-year manager in Major League Baseball since Frank Quilici managed the Minnesota Twins at age 33 in 1972. Butera has spent the previous eleven seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays organization in a variety of roles:   2015-16: Infielder in the Rays’ minor league system. 2017: Named Rays’ Low-A affiliate Hudson Valley Renegades first base coach. 2018: Became the youngest manager in Minor League Baseball serving as manager of the Hudson Valley Renegades…

Also Thursday, the girls’ volleyball tournament got started in earnest and field hockey continued with first-round matchups. And, of course, all the scores live here.▪ With a 32-0 win over Wakefield, Burlington football completed its first undefeated regular season since 2006.▪ Cardinal Spellman senior captain Kaylee Perrault reached 500 career kills during a 3-0 preliminary-round win over Pope Francis in the Division 3 girls’ volleyball tournament. Four conference champions were crowned on the gridiron, as Barnstable won the Southeast Conference outright with a 28-18 win over Bridgewater-Raynham, Amesbury routed Manchester Essex, 40-0, to claim the Cape Ann League crown, Scituate…

Khusnutdinov kept the puck on a 3-on-1 and sent a wrist shot from the right circle to the short side. Morgan Geekie scored to extend his goal streak to six games (seven goals), and David Pastrnak had a goal and an assist for the Bruins (6-7-0), who have won two in a row and three of four. Joonas Korpisalo made 37 saves in his second consecutive start; he made 33 saves in a 5-2 win against the New York Islanders on Tuesday. Bruins top-line center Elias Lindholm left the game in the second period with a lower-body injury after a…

The Firebirds are seeking to regroup after an up-and-down regular season and a Week 10 loss to rival Lakota East. While the Big Blue — winners of three straight — are riding into the playoffs with confidence and purpose.Lakota West beat Hamilton 38-6 during the regular season, and Big Blue’s last win against the Firebirds came in 2017.Hamilton coach Arvie Crouch said the 2025 campaign has been a grind marked by perseverance. The Big Blue stumbled early, including a season-opening loss to Badin that Crouch admitted lingered longer than he’d hoped.But his group never folded.“It’s been long,” Crouch said. “I…