Growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, I lived in a mostly French-Canadian ethnic world. Two sets of my first-cousins had an Irish-American mother and father respectively. St. Patrick’s Day for my father meant a green tie with a shamrock for Mass on the Sunday closest to March 17. My…
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Between the UMass Lowell River Hawks skating and blasting their way into college hockey’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh this spring and now the surging Bruins, one win away from the Stanley Cup Finals for the second time in three years, our region is in prime condition for a spell of…
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After watching our quarterback in Detroit on TV yesterday, I have to say I’ve never seen Tom Brady play better than he did on a couple of those second half drives. I’m ready to put him on the Boston sports Mt Rushmore with Carl Yastrzemski, Bill Russell, and Bobby Orr.
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