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As the 2025-26 season winds down, MassLive is taking a position-by-position look at some of the season’s top high school boys ice hockey players in the state. Our first list focuses on the best forwards. We contacted MIAA schools across the state and asked them to have their boys ice hockey coach fill out a survey requesting information about their team. These lists were compiled based on the information provided by the coaches who chose to respond.Think you belong on this list? Encourage your coach to fill out our survey! If you are an MIAA high school boys ice hockey…

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In a blow for local anti-abortion advocates, a federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a center’s claims that Massachusetts had violated its rights.“The issues before the Court are straightforward,” wrote Judge Leo T. Sorokin. He noted that the plaintiff, Your Options Medical, did not demonstrate the state had specifically targeted it “for actual or threatened enforcement action, let alone to stifle its protected speech or viewpoint.”After Roe v. Wade was overturned, Massachusetts leaders turned toward shoring up local access to abortions. One part of that effort was a state-funded marketing campaign, crafted with the help of a reproductive rights group, warning…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Atlantic Coast Conference is proud to celebrate and recognize over 60 exceptional student-athletes, including 32 selected as 2026 Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Postgraduate Scholarship recipients, three of whom will also receive the prestigious Jim & Pat Thacker Scholarship Award.From Boston College, Ask Ekeland from Men’s Soccer and Eva Kluskens from Field Hockey were recipients of the Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Award, while Luca Lombardo from Football and Shea Baker from Lacrosse were named to the ACC Excellence Award List.   “Each year, our ACC Postgraduate Scholarship recipients redefine what it means to be a student-athlete,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “This…

Drake Maye and the New England Patriots won’t have to wait long to get another crack at the Lombardi Trophy … they’ll be back next year for Super Bowl LXI, so says Mark Wahlberg!TMZ Sports ran into the actor and Pats superfan outside of ABC Studios in New York City on Wednesday, just a week and a half removed from New England’s 29-13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX.AdvertisementWe asked Mark about the loss and Maye’s setbacks — he had three turnovers and was sacked six times — but Wahlberg ain’t sweatin’ the crushing loss to the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The College Football Playoff National Championship trophy is headed to Bloomington, Indiana, and the school is planning a celebration Saturday for Indiana football. Indiana University announced on social media there will be a championship celebration from 1-1:30 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The parking lots open at 10 a.m., and gates open at 11:30 a.m. Fans in attendance will receive commemorative championship rally towels.With the winter weather headed for the area and as much as 1 foot of snow predicted, IU recommended everyone dress warmly and remain in their vehicles until close to 1 p.m. In a news release…

Takumi Minamino (31) has not played since suffering an ACL injury against AJ Auxerre at the end of December. And whilst the Japan international is not expected to feature again this season for AS Monaco, his manager at club level, Sébastien Pocognoli, suggested that his World Cup dream may still be alive.Recovery from ACL injuries is a long process, one last several months, even a year. So when Minamino suffered the injury in December, there was an assumption that his dream of representing Japan in this summer’s World Cup, for which they have already qualified, was over.AdvertisementSpeaking in a press…

Ahmed said that almost happened with Whoop. In 2012, as he neared graduation, Ahmed was planning to move to New York to start his company when he learned that Harvard’s innovation lab offered free office space. The experience taught him that many entrepreneurial graduates were ignorant of startup resources in the area.Fast forward to now: The new coalition “was really born out of this feeling that Boston and Massachusetts broadly contribute enormously to AI, but we’re not getting necessarily the credit and the talent staying power that we deserve,” Ahmed said. “And a question was, how do we keep and…

One month from now, you’ll be filling out our bracket, the First Four games will be tipping off in Dayton, and the anticipation for the best tournament in sports will be at its peak.To help us get there … answering questions on your mind this week.(Note: Submitted questions have been edited for clarity and length.)What is the over/under on new head coaches in the ACC for next season? — Tom W.Considering we had five ACC coaches listed on the hot seat in our recent check-in, 3.5 feels like a fair line.Of those five — Adrian Autry (Syracuse), Jeff Capel (Pitt),…

Dale Samuels netted his 1,000th career point as Holland Tech (Burke) defeated New Mission 50-45 to advance to a fifth straight Boston City League boys basketball championship. Samuels, who scored 11 points, reached the milestone in the fourth quarter after knocking down two free throws. “All the hard work, all the long days nobody sees,” said Samuels. The rubber match between the top-seeded Bulldogs and the No. 4 Titans turned out to be a battle of attrition. The teams split their regular season matchup, with New Mission winning their first meeting 65-61 followed by a 67-58 Bulldogs win in the…