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By JIMMY GOLEN
BOSTON — The Boston Celtics ran away from the rest of the NBA in the regular season. So far, the playoffs have been more of the same.The team that won 64 games to claim the league’s overall top seed dumped the Miami Heat in five games, winning 118-84...
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
The Celtics entered the season vowing to turn recent playoff heartbreaks into happiness.Eight months later, they will toast the franchise’s 18th championship in what has become standard Boston celebratory fair, joined Friday by a huge crowd for a...
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
Jayson Tatum put his hands behind his head, with TD Garden fans standing on their feet cheering around him, and took it all in.Walking to the bench, he wrapped both arms around Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla.The journey was complete.The Boston Celtics...
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The 2024 NFL draft represents the next chapter in the remaking of the New England Patriots.Bill Belichick is gone after driving both the franchise’s on-field and personnel decisions for most of his more than two-decade run in New...
By JIMMY GOLEN
BOSTON — Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia set a blistering pace and held on to win the Boston Marathon on Monday, running alone through most of the course to finish in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 17 seconds — the 10th-fastest time in the race’s 128-year history.Hellen...
By JIMMY GOLEN
A ruling that gives the Dartmouth basketball team the right to unionize has far-reaching implications for all of college sports — from the quaint, academically oriented Ivy League to the big-money football factories like Michigan and Alabama.The...
By JIMMY GOLEN
HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted to unionize Tuesday in an unprecedented step toward forming the first labor union for college athletes and another attack on the NCAA’s deteriorating amateur business model.In an election...
By JIMMY GOLEN
Dartmouth basketball players remain on schedule to vote Tuesday on whether to form the nation’s first-ever college athletes’ labor union after a National Labor Relations Board official rejected the school’s request to reopen the case.NLRB regional...
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — For more than a decade, Matthew Slater was universally celebrated as being the emotional centerpiece of the New England Patriots’ locker room, building a resume as one of the league’s most-decorated special teams players. After 16...
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
The New England Patriots have an agreement in place with Los Angeles Rams assistant Jeremy Springer to become their special teams coordinator, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.The person spoke to the AP on condition...
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
Six-time NFL champion Bill Belichick agreed to part ways as the coach of the New England Patriots on Thursday, bringing an end to his 24-year tenure as the architect of the most decorated dynasty of the league’s Super Bowl era, a person with knowledge...
By KEN MAGUIRE
Milano injury ‘not looking good’ for Bills. McDermott questions London travel plans vs rested JagsEds: UPDATES: throughout with new lead, details, quotes, photos. Adds byline. With AP Photos.LONDON (AP) — The Bills arrived jolly. They came out flat....
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Depending on the day — and the team the New England Patriots happen to be preparing for in a given week — Bill Belichick can display both his reverence for NFL history and his ambivalence about anything that has to do with the...
By ANNE M. PETERSON
SYDNEY — Spain was celebrating its first Women’s World Cup trophy Sunday after an impressive display proved too much for England in a 1-0 victory for La Roja. Olga Carmona scored in the first half of the final and Spain held on to cap the month-long...
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Twila Kilgore will serve as interim coach of the U.S women’s national soccer team following the resignation of coach Vlatko Andonovski, the U.S. Soccer Federation announced on Thursday. Kilgore, the first American-born woman to earn U.S. Soccer’s...
By ANNE M. PETERSON
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The United States played its best game of this Women’s World Cup and it wasn’t good enough to stop the two-time reigning champions from being eliminated in the round of 16.The Americans’ bid to win an unprecedented third...
By ANNE M. PETERSON
MELBOURNE, Australia — Megan Rapinoe wanted a different finish for her final Women’s World Cup. Even with the disappointing conclusion, she was grateful for her wildly successful run with the U.S. national team.Rapinoe’s World Cup career ended on...
By JIMMY GOLEN
BOSTON — Masataka Yoshida scored the tying run with good baserunning and then homered to give Boston the lead in the eighth inning to help the Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 4-3 on Sunday and head into the All-Star break on a five-game winning...
By SCHUYLER DIXON
The Dallas Mavericks are acquiring Grant Williams from Boston in a sign-and-trade deal that includes the San Antonio Spurs, a person with knowledge of the agreement said late Wednesday night.Dallas is sending guard Reggie Bullock and a 2030 pick swap...
By JAY COHEN
CHICAGO — Taylor Hall knows a lot about being the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft.That should come in handy for Connor Bedard and the Chicago Blackhawks.Hall was traded from Boston to Chicago on Monday, clearing some valuable cap space for the Bruins and...
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
BOSTON — Armed with a raucous crowd and seemingly all the momentum after digging their way out of a 3-0 Eastern Conference finals hole, the Celtics entered their Game 7 matchup with the Heat eyeing a chance to make NBA history.It may have evaporated...
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