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A beloved Boston icon is back for the winter season.

Cambridgeport second graders recently had an opportunity to learn ice skating at the Warrior Ice Arena. This initiative is part of their school's Physical Education Department’s locomotor movement unit. Most students tried ice skating for the first time during their initial trip earlier this month.

There are still some lesson times available with the Weston Skating Club, which uses the ice at Rivers School for all the crashing and skidding around. The Weston Skating Club provides lessons, family skate and men’s hockey with all activities starting up on December 3. The owlets were not...

The first of many shutdowns has begun. Correspondent Daniel Kool and senior producer Karen Shiffman explain the impact and how to get around it. Boston Globe Today: Watch now at BostonGlobe.com or weekdays at 5 p.m. ET on NESN. Take a deeper look at the stories impacting our community from...

A beloved longtime professional sports announcer has tragically died at 84 years old. Tom Larson, a legendary broadcaster whose career spanned more than four decades, passed away this weekend. The longtime Boston sports announcer was best known for calling Bruins games. He died in Virginia this ...

The Burlington Red Devil football team were outplayed by the Bedford Buccaneers on Thanksgiving Day, with a final score of 34-19 The Buccaneers started out strong, with Bedford’s senior and wide receiver Ricardo Laboy scoring on the opening drive. An unsuccessful extra point brought the score to 6-0. On...

The Beacons ran amuck in the Little East Conference this past fall, and with the cross country season now come and gone, runners of both men’s and women’s track and field look to boost their track records, which stem from their performances over the past couple of months. Men’s and women’s cross country had seasons filled with many highs for the programs’ most prolific runners, some of whom took home trophies for not only being key contributors for their respective programs, but also as top finishers in the Little East Conference.

About 160 attendees from the Marblehead and Swampscott Gridiron Clubs gathered at the Gerry 5 Nov. 20 to hear Charlie Baker, former Massachusetts governor and current NCAA president, share his thoughts on the power of football to forge life skills and create opportunities for student-athletes. Baker said that his son...

Joe CaseyLYNN — With tryouts for the 2023-24 basketball season underway across the state of Massachusetts, coaches are getting their first look at its players in the new year. This is especially exciting for Lynn English’s Sydney Brennan, who is entering her first year as head coach with the Bulldogs. Brennan, a former assistant at Masconomet […] The post Brennan looks to succeed in first year with English appeared first on Itemlive.

When the Colorado women’s basketball staff created its non-conference schedule, it knew it presented a series of challenges. For the most part, the Buffaloes have handled those challenges quite well. Now, for the first time, they’ve got to figure out how to bounce back from defeat. On Monday,...

BOSTON (AP) — Malcolm Chimezie had 17 points in Boston University’s 90-49 victory over North Vermont-Johnson on Sunday. Chimezie added six rebounds for the Terriers (2-4). Miles Brewster scored 14 points, going 5 of 8 (4 for 6 from 3-point range). Matai Baptiste shot 4 for 11, including 3 for 6 from beyond the arc to finish with 13 points.

STONEHAM, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — Mountain bikers gathered at Middlesex Fells in Stoneham over the weekend for a great cause. Along with their mountain bikes, each cyclist brought with them toys that were being collected for "Toys for Tots." Andrea Jones, with the Boston Chapter of New England Mountain...

The Marblehead Youth Basketball Association hosted its first “Meet Your Team Night” Nov. 21 at Veterans Middle School. The event included 300 boys finding out which team they would be playing on, meeting their coaches and teammates, and of course receiving their new team jersey. While loud and chaotic, it was great fun for all, according to MYBA’s leadership.

The referees' response to an injured player during Dover-Sherborn's girls soccer state semifinal loss prompted the athletic department to file an incident report with the MIAA. In the 70th minute of the Division 3 Final Four game against Hanover on Nov. 15 in Lynn, a Dover-Sherborn player only identified by number in the report crumbled to the turf after an elbow from a Hanover player connected with her face. ...

Indiana faced trials against a worthy opponent in a game where they showed signs of progress even if they weren’t completely convincing. The Hoosiers went on an 18-7 first half run to take a 36-31 lead, only to see Harvard respond with a 14-5 run of their own that spanned halftime and gave the Crimson a 45-41 lead. But it was an immediate 22-6 IU response early in the second half that gave Indiana same breathing room they wouldn’t relinquish.

White finished the 5K at Franklin Park in Boston in 17:30, claiming the bronze just 0.2 seconds ahead of the next runner.

Endicott's men's basketball team narrowly lost to Middlebury, ranked 24th nationally, with a final score of 90-86. The game was held at Pepin Gymnasium in Middlebury, Vermont, on a Sunday afternoon. Elijah Kinney was the top performer for Endicott, achieving career highs with 25 points, 15 rebounds, and 30 minutes of play. Jalen Echevarria and Mark Barrett also contributed significantly with 17 and 14 points respectively.

As a freshman at Harvard, I have often been told that some of the best moments of my undergraduate experience would come at Harvard-Yale. I couldn’t wait to don my crimson H sweater and see our esteemed institution battle Yale on the field. So, here’s the expectations versus reality for “The Game.”

Michigan offensive lineman Zak Zinter, the North Andover native and former Globe All-Scholastic, was carted off the field with two broken bones in his left leg in the Big Ten showdown against Ohio State in Ann Arbor, Mich., and underwent surgery Saturday night. Zinter’s mother, Tiffany, messaged on her Instagram...

On Monday, two Boston College football players announced their intentions to enter the transfer portal: defensive lineman Shitta Sillah and running back Andre Hines. Sillah was a three-star recruit coming out of high school in 2019 and a promising pass rusher, but never really blossomed as an Eagle. After getting some playing time his sophomore and junior seasons, he started to make an impact in the pass rush. Sillah looked like he was going to be an impact veteran on the defensive line before an injury took him out for the entire season in 2022. He never quite returned to form in 2023 and the Boston College pass rush was a weaker unit than they were projected to be.