Author: BostonSportsNews

Venezuela defeats U.S. 3-2 to claim World Baseball Classic title. Venezuela defeated the United States 3-2 in the World Baseball Classic final for the country’s first championsh …

Quincy, Massachusetts firefighters are trying to get the city to pay for gear that doesn’t include so-called “forever chemicals.” …

JOHN’S ISLAND, S.C. – The Boston College Women’s Golf team returned to South Carolina for the Briar’s Creek Invitational, hosted by the College of Charleston. They sit in the lead at 13-under par, with three of the five players in the lineup battling in the top five.   Senior Cynthia Zhang leads the field at 6-under par after shooting an opening round of 66. She leads the field in par 3’s (-1) and par 4’s (-4), and has a tournament-high seven birdies through 18 holes.   Next are junior Frances Kim at 4-under par and freshman Joyce Zhang at 3-under…

Marc-Andre Fleury talks retirement, goalie fights and moreMarc-Andre Fleury talks about his NHL career, his retirement and his partnership with Kraft.The Boston Bruins lost to the New Jersey Devils on Monday night despite being up 2-0 at one point in the game.The Boston Bruins will play the Montreal Canadiens tonight, March 17, 2026.Later this week, the Bruins will match up against the Winnipeg Jets.Ouch.The Boston Bruins’ bid for a wildcard spot in the NHL Playoffs took a hit last night when the team lost on the road to the New Jersey Devils.The game was tied 3-3 going into overtime, but…

It’s mid-March, which means it’s time for us sports reporters to tell you, “Winter is over!” while Mother Nature disagrees, blanketing the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan with multiple feet of snow, a layer of ice and providing more than enough winter weather to prove it is definitely still not spring.So, let me be precise; the winter sports season is officially over for the Gaylord area.It was yet another exciting few months inside gyms, ice rinks and out on the slopes for Gaylord High School, Gaylord St. Mary and Johannesburg-Lewiston athletes, highlighted by championship runs and exciting individual moments. Before…

While the Rose Bowl will host the men’s and women’s gold medal soccer matches for the 2028 Olympic Games, the iconic venue, site of the 1984 Olympic, 1994 World Cup and 1999 Women’s World Cup finals, will be limited to holding five matches during the Games because of field condition and security concerns. Under a tournament schedule released Monday by LA 28, just five of the 58 matches, less than nine percent, for the Olympic women’s and men’s tournaments will be played in the Los Angeles-Orange County market, the fewest number of matches held in a Games host city area…

BROOKLINE, Mass. — Local politicians in Massachusetts are speaking out after the violent attack at a Michigan synagogue, calling it another disturbing reminder of rising antisemitism across the country.Representative Jake Auchincloss says the tragic events in Michigan highlight ongoing security concerns for Jewish communities nationwide. He noted that some synagogues and Jewish daycare centers already rely on armed security because of previous attacks and mounting threats.Auchincloss described attackers like the one in Michigan as “lone wolves,” but emphasized that both nationally and globally, antisemitic incidents have been on the rise in recent years. He pointed to federal efforts such as…

BOSTON (AP) — Boston College has fired basketball coach Earl Grant after five seasons in which the Eagles never made the NCAA tournament and finished above .500 just once.Grant was 72-92 overall and 30-67 in the Atlantic Coast Conference since coming to Chestnut Hill to replace Jim Christian in 2021. BC has not reached the tournament since Al Skinner’s teams earned seven bids in nine years from 2001-09 — a period that spans four coaches, five athletic directors and two conferences. It is the longest NCAA slump in program history.Grant, 49, had five straight winning seasons at the College of…

After two years of just about overhauling their coaching staff, the New England Patriots have much more continuity going through this offseason. However the team did make a couple of changes over the past month, including promoting Zak Kuhr to defensive coordinator after he stepped in for Terrell Williams last season. On Monday, the team announced the coaching staff for 206 including Williams’ new role. He’ll be the ‘assistant head coach,’ a title he previously held under Mike Vrabel during their final year together with the Tennessee Titans in 2023.Williams, 51, was hired as the defensive coordinator by the Patriots…

Somehow, a line buried in a statement from Oklahoma coach Porter Moser about accepting an invitation to the College Basketball Crown — the joke of a tournament in Las Vegas that’s decided to compete with the NIT for no particular reason, because what everybody was of course demanding was a lame version of the NIT — managed to speak volumes about the current state of college sports and college basketball specifically:“The Crown had a very successful first year in 2025 and is comprised of all high-major teams.” There it is. The idea that the Crown had a very successful first…