Boston Hockey Blog • 29th September 2024

Cole Eiserman hears the doubts surrounding his score-happy game. At BU, he’s out to prove them wrong. – The Boston Hockey Blog

USA Hockey National Team Development Program head coach Nick Fohr picked up a call from an NHL scout, sighing in frustration as he heard a familiar first question about his star forward, Cole Eiserman.
“Well, we know he’s selfish,” the scout began. “But…”
Fohr butted in. “What do you mean? You know he’s selfish? Where did that come from?”
“That’s what everybody says.”
“Well, who’s everybody?” Fohr replied. “Because I coached the kid for two years. He’s liked by his teammates. Yeah, he scores a l...

Brewster Whitecaps • 22nd June 2024

Will Ray bet on himself. 2 years later, he’s cashing in on the mound. | Brewster Whitecaps

Will Ray scrolls back a few years through his iPhone's camera roll and lands on a video of the moment that revived his baseball career.

At face value, the 10-second clip from March 16, 2022, is unremarkable. Standing on the mound at Wake Forest’s training facility, Ray winds up and uncorks the hardest fastball he can muster. As the ball snaps into the catcher’s mitt, someone pipes up from behind the camera: “That was kinda slow, bro.”

The voice is Danny Corona, one of Ray’s teammates at Wake F

The Sunday Telegraph • 4th May 2024

A Life Changing Pizza

This isn’t the kitchen at
Westwood’s trendy Newtown pizza
joint, or Orr’s chic restaurant and bar
in Surry Hills. This is the courtyard at
a Western Sydney juvenile detention
centre, and those manning the oven
are incarcerated youth.

The Boston Globe • 10th November 2023

After her arm was caught in a boat propeller, Malden Catholic’s Thea Sanzone was told her swimming career was over. She didn’t listen. - The Boston Globe

“I don’t think I really believed it or processed it,’’ said Sanzone, a three-year cocaptain of the Malden Catholic girls’ swimming team. “I was just kind of like, ‘Well, I’ll take it one day at a time.’ ”

Everyone around her — friends, family, coaches, and teammates — accepted her new reality. She did not.

After Thea Sanzone was injured in a boating accident two summers ago, a surgeon delivered the news that she may never swim competitively again.

More than a year after the accident, Sanzone

Boston Hockey Blog • 6th October 2023

BU’s McCarthy brothers are making an unlikely reunion reality – The Boston Hockey Blog

Little Gavin McCarthy lay face-down in the snowbank that lined the ice, his 5-foot-2 frame looking more like a crumpled checking dummy than a hockey player.

Gavin caught his breath, brushed the snow off his helmet cage and charged back onto the ice — if only to be crushed back into the snow seconds later by his older brother, Case. Fighting back was a tough proposition. After all, Case was five years older and double Gavin’s size.

Such was life at the McCarthys’ backyard ice rink in upstate Ne

12th May 2023

‘He’s like the mayor of Boston’: Looking back at Brian Durocher’s legendary coaching career – The Boston Hockey Blog

It’s 4:30 a.m., and Brian Durocher snaps open a red flair pen, reaches for a blank notecard and begins to write.

Sitting on the couch in his Brookline condo, Durocher jots a note of gratitude to a donor of the Boston University women’s hockey program. He signs the 4-by-6 card with a cursive “Coach D,” checks a name off his list and grabs a new letter for the next donor. A rerun of last night’s SportsCenter plays on a TV in the background.

When the sun rises in a few hours, Durocher will enjoy

7th February 2023

Toughness in the trenches powered Northeastern past BU in Beanpot semifinal – The Boston Hockey Blog

The Boston University men’s hockey team has filleted opposing defenses with speed and shiftiness all season long. On Monday night, Northeastern unearthed an antidote: unrelenting physicality.

The Boston Globe • 22nd January 2023

Wellesley girls’ attention to detail pays off with MSTCA Division 2 Relays title, while North Andover boys claim fourth in a row - The Boston Globe

That attention to detail paid off for the Raiders in a girls’ meet with razor-thin margins. Wellesley (46 points) pulled out a crucial second-place finish in the 4x400-meter race (4:09.04), leapfrogging Peabody (42 points) for the Raiders’ second straight state relay title at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.

“You really want to maximize the ability of being able to move through the zone,” McLaughlin said. “I always tell the girls to get as close to the finish line as possible.”

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The Daily Free Press • 1st November 2021

How the Boston Braves, now lost to history, once called BU’s Nickerson Field home – The Daily Free Press

Ralph Evans was 5 years old when he took his first batting practice at Braves Field. It was 1947, and Evans’ father pitched peanuts to him outside the stadium after they had attended a Boston Braves ballgame together. Evans swung at the peanuts with a mini bat as a small crowd looked on.

“They would cheer, and boo when I missed them,” Evans said.

Evans was — and is — a diehard Boston Braves fan. He recalls attending his first game at Braves Field in 1946 when he was only 4 years old, the ecsta