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North Andover football time change

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2007 Comments

Saturday’s North Andover (3-2) at Lynnfield (1-4) football game has been changed to 2:30 p.m. The original starting time was 11 a.m.
Enjoy the Sox everybody.

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Choices, choices, choices

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2007 Comments

North Andover’s Chris Gilbert, a senior midfielder at Brooks, is getting looks from several Division 1 soccer powers.
According to Gilbert’s father Cesar, Chris is considering — among others — Notre Dame, Dartmouth, Duke, Holy Cross and Brown.
We’ll let you know when Gilbert makes his decision.
Gilbert’s sister Jaime, who was a star at Brooks, is a [...]

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Matty Nice

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2007 Comments

Note to all high school quarterbacks out there: Listen to Matt Ryan.
The Boston College signal caller has the Eagles off to a 6-0 record and a No. 4 ranking — their highest since Doug Flutie’s Heisman Trophy-winning season in 1984. A few weeks back, he reflected on his days as a schoolboy at William Penn [...]

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Rumor of the week … more hoop, grid thoughts

Posted in Basketball, Football, Hector Longo on Oct 6th, 2007 Comments

Ok, we’ll start with the rumor of the week.
Word out of Haverhill is that Jack O’Brien’s name was one of the first mentioned for the hoop job, vacated by Bob Walsh recently.
Yes, that Jack O’Brien. Incredible competitor Jack O’Brien. Former Charlestown, former Salem, Mass., almost Lynn coach Jack O’Brien.
The Haverhill job is a big one. [...]

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Weekly picks

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2007 Comments

It’s easy for coaches and fans of football to outsmart themselves.
You need look no further than Bill Belichick for evidence of that. The coach of the most talented team in the NFL effectively angered the ever-growing anti-Patriots population earlier this season when he got caught videotaping another team’s signals.
There’s a reason people were mad. It [...]

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Central rules Stadium … again … but it’s OK

Posted in Football, Hector Longo on Oct 2nd, 2007 Comments

This corner was ready to pounce on the City of Lawrence this week.
Once again, the Lancers, who go to high school now in the shadow of Veterans Stadium, will surrender the prime Friday night football to Central Catholic, which will host Billerica in a giant MVC showdown.
Lawrence High has been pushed back to Saturday night, [...]

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Life of Bryan

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2007 Comments

Former Pinkerton star Bryan Farris has had a better couple of weeks than the Colorado Rockies.
The 6-foot-3, 210-pound quarterback, who’s doing a prep year at Phillips Academy, has thrown for 562 yards and seven touchdowns for the Big Blue (2-0).
When I caught up to him for a story on the region’s quarterbacks — which will [...]

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Good Vibrations

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2007 Comments

A couple more things I forgot to mention while being distracted by another Patriots blowout…
David Koerner and the rest of his Rangers teammates are still pumped up about last Friday’s win, their first in the Merrimack Valley Conference since 2002.
“We’re feeling pretty good,” he said. “But we’ve kind of left it behind us.”
In this case, [...]

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Set your TiVos folks

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2007 Comments

Get your VCRs, DVRs and TiVos ready.
The “Friday Night Lights” season premiere will air Friday at 9 p.m. on NBC.
Whether you’re at Haverhill (0-4) at Andover (2-2), Tewksbury (3-1) at Methuen (2-2), Nashua North (0-5) at Londonderry (3-2) or Triton (1-3) at North Andover (2-1), there’s no excuse for not recording FNL.
Sure, high school football [...]

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