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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....