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Savannah Bananas coming to Boston
BOSTON, Mass. (WLNE) — The Savannah Bananas are coming to Boston. The Savannah Bananas, based out of Savannah, Georgia, are a choreographed baseball team that play the game in kilts. The show will be on June 8 at Fenway Park, and is already sold-out. Players perform choreographed dances every...
Boston Strong: Mainer who overcame serious spinal injury finishes Boston Marathon
BOSTON — There's nothing quite like the feeling of hard work paying off. It's something Dylan Woodhouse felt tenfold last month. The Kennebunk man was paralyzed from the chest down in 2010 after suffering a spinal cord injury from a bad dive at Old Orchard Beach. "I kind of...
WooSox’ Jamie Westbrook on his Western Mass. hometown: ‘I’m proud to be from Holyoke’
WORCESTER -- In Jamie Westbrook’s hometown, “if you can survive there, you can survive anywhere.”. The 28-year-old’s baseball career has taken him all over, across the country and all the way to Japan when he was a member of the silver-medal-winning U.S. National Baseball team in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Now, his journey has brought him close to home.
CCHS and Harlem Lacrosse ‘Stick Together’ on a winning weekend
The Concord-Carlisle High School girls and boys lacrosse teams both claimed victories on the field last Saturday — but the day was a win in even more ways. CCHS Girls Senior Captains Anna Crowley and Willow Cyr, along with CCHS Boys Senior Captains Derek Labadini, Harry Lefebvre, Kal Lonergan, and Jed Cain worked together on a day of action that included a lacrosse gear drive, a food truck, and an opportunity for Harlem Lacrosse and CC players to connect and play.
Team Impact celebrates second annual field day at Boston College
NEWTON - Hundreds of people gathered at Boston College's Alumni Stadium Sunday to celebrate some very special children at Team Impact's second annual Field Day.A sense of communityTeam Impact, a nonprofit based in Boston, matches children facing serious, chronic illnesses or disabilities with college sports teams."To create that win-win opportunity. The student athlete gains the perspective I mentioned before of what life's about but it wraps the family around a sense of community," said Team Impact Executive Director Ryan Irwin.The children get embedded into the fabric of college athletics to instantly become part of a team. It's a two-year program...
Minnesota 3, Boston 1
DP_Boston 0, Minnesota 1. LOB_Boston 8, Minnesota 7. 2B_O'Neill (3), Jeffers (10). HR_Kepler (2). SB_Hamilton (3), A.Martin (3), Castro (4). SF_Correa (1). HBP_Bernardino (Miranda). WP_Slaten(2). Umpires_Home, Lance Barksdale; First, Angel Hernandez; Second, Nic Lentz; Third, Emil Jimenez. T_2:34. A_23,587 (38,544).
Miles for Mom: Boston Marathon debut
Longtime Westwood resident Jessica Hajjar just recently ran her first Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15th, alongside her younger brother Matt. This sister-brother duo ran in honor of their late mother who tragically passed away in November 2023 after battling Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). ALS is an incredibly underfunded and...
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