Did you know you could receive a college scholarship to play badminton, squash or water polo?

Practices are usually uneventful to shoot for the paper. But when I pulled up the pictures on my laptop and saw the ball on a players’ nose, it stood out to me.

That’s no Gatorade or Powerade recipe for a sports drink. I’m sure my coaches weren’t thinking of e-coli bacteria, deadly viruses or poisoning when my teammates and I at Whitehall High School in Wisconsin, had to chug water during a break from football practice using an outdoor hose faucet and our football helmets. Looking back [...]

The Manchester School District passed a budget including extracurricular user fees for the city’s schools. Pay-to-play has spread to the queen city like a disease among behives.

Recreational youth sports leagues are an essential part of any town, no matter the population. They are not only the feeder programs for junior high and high school teams, but also play a key role in the healthiness of the town’s youngest generation.

It’s the standard high five - five fingers and your palm, to another hand. There’s a cracking sound, or maybe just silence. You missed! Or, maybe they forgot to put their hand up. You tap them on the head instead, and the next thing you know, you’re going to court.
That’s what happened in this story [...]

I had a headache last night, and ringing in my ears. It didn’t come from my car stereo, and not from cheering on the Red Sox last night. I blame it on the short woman sitting behind me at the Class L Junior Varsity Basketball Tournament yesterday at Manchester West High School.
When I picked out a seat in [...]

So what do you get for three bucks these days - one pound of propane to heat my house, a gallon of milk, a subscription to The Telegraph, but not admission into a basketball game at Bishop Guertin High School. That will cost you five BIG ONES.

One of the school budget-trimming proposals out there will eliminate the current junior high athletics as they are today, and replace them with intramural-style sports. After reading a letter sent out to parents of Nashua junior high students (provided to me by a friend), I wondered who is behind this shift - or shaft as many [...]

All good rules are not meant to be broken, but what about if there’s a flaw in the wording?
We all get sick at one time or another. I’ve been lucky not to, two years in a row so far. Must be the flu shot! But, the rest of my family hasn’t been so lucky.
A couple [...]