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TechBoston Bears win City FB title

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:21:36 +0000

The TechBoston High School football team took home the City League championship title by beating Brighton High School on Thanksgiving eve, 50-14, at Love Field at Roberts Playground.

The Dorchester-based team ended the season with a records of 7-4.

The Bears were led by Coach Raul Brown, who has been named the league’s Coach of the Year. The Player of the Year award was presented to TechBoston senior Xavier Landrum, who is shown above streaking toward the end zone on his way to scoring a touchdown against Brighton last week. Photo by Joe Allen

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Patriots spend an ‘off-day’ playing with Dot kids

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:16:45 +0000

Cassidy McNeeley, Reporter Staff

From minicamps to middle schools, the New England Patriots kicked off summertime fully dedicated to the organization’s two pillars: community and football at the highest level.

Last Tuesday (June 11) some 90 players on the team’s roster and their coaches left Foxborough and dispersed across Massachusetts to partake in a series of community field days. In Dorchester, some players, including long snapper Joe Cardona, visited the Lilla G. Frederick Middle School while others touched down at the Joseph Lee K-8 School/Perkins Community Center.

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BC High taps Zukauskas as new head football coach: Hall of Fame alumnus, veteran NFL lineman

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:29:13 +0000

Reporter Staff

Boston College High School has named Paul Zukauskas, who graduated from the Dorchester high school in 1997 and eventually played five seasons in the National Football League, as its new head football coach.

A standout athlete on the BC High gridiron, Zukauskas later was a four-year starter at Boston College. He was inducted into the BC High Hall of Fame in 2006.

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New Balance commits $10 million to UMass Boston for sports institute

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:51:38 +0000

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The University of Massachusetts Boston has received a $10 million commitment from Boston-based New Balance Athletics, Inc. to establish the New Balance Institute for Innovative Leadership in Sport on the Columbia Point campus. The gift will provide operational funds to launch the institute and endow it in perpetuity.

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BPS reverses course on suspension of winter sports

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:40:25 +0000

Seth Daniel, Reporter Correspondent

UPDATE: On Wednesday night, after this story was posted, the Boston School Committee announced that Athletics Director Avery Esdaile and the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) that they would allow winter high school athletics to proceed starting next Tuesday, Jan. 18.

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FLAG Flag Football League beats back Covid challenges

Wed, 26 May 2021 13:15:52 +0000

Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent

For 23 years, the FLAG (Friends, Lesbians, and Gays) Flag Football League has called Dorchester home. Founded in 1998, FLAG Flag Football lists its mission as “tackling stereotypes, building community, and transforming lives through sport for the LGBTQ and ally community.”

After starting with about 20 players its first year, FLAG Flag Football now boasts several hundred members, making it the region’s premier football league for the LGBTQ community, and the largest gay sports league in New England.

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Dot Youth Hockey's Under-12 girls team wins Mayor's Cup tournament

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:25:29 +0000

Kate Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent

In a season disrupted by Covid-19, Dorchester Youth Hockey’s Under-12 Girls team has cause for celebration this week: They didn’t just play against all-boys and co-ed teams in the Boston Mayor’s Cup Youth Hockey Tournament last week; they won the whole thing.

The girls skated to a 3-1 victory over Hyde Park in the final game of the tournament last Friday night at Neponset’s Devine Rink. According to assistant coach Ed Gracia, it was the first time an all-girls team had ever won the Mayor’s Cup A Division in play against boys’ and co-ed squads.

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Martin Richard Dorchester Field House pitched for Mt. Vernon Street property

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:32:51 +0000

Bill Forry, Editor

Two well-respected Dorchester institutions have joined forces to plan a new, $30 million indoor sports and community center that would be built on what is now a little-used field next to the McCormack Middle School on Columbia Point. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester and the Martin W. Richard Foundation submitted their plan for the proposed facility —named the Martin Richard Dorchester Field House— to the Boston Public Schools (BPS) this summer.

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BNBL, now 50, is looking at growth in Dot and Mattapan

Wed, 29 May 2019 16:25:10 +0000

Charlie Conners

Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff

This July will mark the 50th year of the Boston Neighborhood Basketball League (BNBL), the oldest municipal basketball league in the country and a summertime fixture for families across the city.

Charlie Conners, a Dorchester native and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department’s new program manager, told the Reporter that the Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods are in for something of a basketball renaissance this summer.

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Dot Pot street hockey tourney to benefit Bobby Collins

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:38:51 +0000

Elana Aurise, Reporter Staff

Now in its fifth year, the Dot Pot street hockey tournament — set to take place at Neponset’s Garvey Park on the weekend of May 25-27— is growing to include more teams. Two dozen clubs — each with 5 skaters and a goalie— will play in the charity event, which this year will benefit Dot’s own Bobby Collins, a coach and father of two who is battling terminal kidney failure and melanoma.

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A Dream Turns Real: Blindness no obstacle; marathoner finishes run

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:45:58 +0000

Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff

Dorchester resident Michael Besson completed his dream of running the Boston Marathon on Monday, finishing the 26.2-mile-long course in just over five hours. The blind, Haitian-born runner first told his inspirational story to the Reporter as he trained for the race last December.

At one point in his life, the 57-year-old Besson weighed as much as 500 pounds. But a lifestyle change to a plant-based diet spurred a dramatic weight loss and kindled in him a passion for fitness.

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Youth Hockey thrives at the Devine Rink

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:34:48 +0000

Yukun Zhang, Reporter Correspondent

It’s Friday night at the Devine Memorial Rink near Neponset Circle and the kids from Dorchester Youth Hockey’s Squirt A and B teams are blazing across the ice. It’s their last practice after a championship season — both teams won state titles the weekend before— and it shows.

“This is not like our normal practice. This is just kids having fun,” said coach Neil Janulewicz, whose son plays in Squirt B.

Two other Youth Hockey teams – Bantam A and B – also won division crowns in the Massachusetts Hockey tournament earlier this month.

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Patriots 13, Rams 3: Awesome to behold, but not by everyone

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:18:33 +0000

Tom Mulvoy, Associate Editor

Not five minutes into their Monday morning discussion of the Super Bowl on Boston radio station 98.5 FM, The Sports Hub, men named, or nicknamed, Jones, Hardy, and Johnson were busily working the downside of the game that the New England Patriots had won in marvelous – yes, marvelous – fashion the day before.

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ADSL offers kids' volleyball clinic on summer Saturdays

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:24:28 +0000

Isabel Lord, Reporter Correspondent

All Dorchester Sports and Leadership (ADSL) will host its first volleyball clinic in over a decade on Saturday, July 28 at 10 a.m. at Town Field in Dorchester. The 90-minute clinic is free and open to ages 8 through 14 and will be happening every Saturday until the start of the school year.

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The state’s top amateur golfers are flocking to Dot, Hyde Park

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:28:04 +0000

Tom Mulvoy, Associate Editor

Franklin Park, George Wright courses hosting championship play this week Monday through Friday

This week, the city of Boston’s two public golf courses, the William J. Devine Course in Franklin Park, in Dorchester along the edges of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, and George Wright Golf Club, in Hyde Park, are playing host to 144 of the state’s top male non-professional golfers as they compete in the Massachusetts Golf Association’s State Amateur championship.

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TechBoston Bears win City FB title

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Patriots spend an ‘off-day’ playing with Dot kids

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BC High taps Zukauskas as new head football coach: Hall of Fame alumnus, veteran NFL lineman

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New Balance commits $10 million to UMass Boston for sports institute

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BPS reverses course on suspension of winter sports

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FLAG Flag Football League beats back Covid challenges

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Dot Youth Hockey's Under-12 girls team wins Mayor's Cup tournament

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Martin Richard Dorchester Field House pitched for Mt. Vernon Street property

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BNBL, now 50, is looking at growth in Dot and Mattapan

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Dot Pot street hockey tourney to benefit Bobby Collins

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A Dream Turns Real: Blindness no obstacle; marathoner finishes run

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Youth Hockey thrives at the Devine Rink

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Patriots 13, Rams 3: Awesome to behold, but not by everyone

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The state’s top amateur golfers are flocking to Dot, Hyde Park

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