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Eagle-Tribune Baseball MVP Mike Calzetta has signed to play baseball for Ken Harring at UMass Lowell on a partial baseball scholarship.
“It seems like a good group, been there in the summer program as a kid, and I feel that they can get me ready for the next level,” said Calzetta.
The 6-foot-5 right-hander possibly left a [...]

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OK, sorry about all the delays.
Took Saturday, my 44th birthday, away from the blog and took the the wife and Ollie to Star Wars in Concert at the Garden.
Wow. i thought Nick laSpada’s Friday night show was spectacular. You should have seen Star Wars, and the music was stupendous.
Back to the gridiron.
My thoughts on the [...]

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OK, I’m going to harken back to my younger, fresher days at The Eagle-Tribune, back in the mid-1990s, when local cable TV was big, and I was willing to open my mouth for anyone who cared to listen.
Not much has changed with that, other than the fact that I don’t do any local cable anymore.
But [...]

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Central-Billerica at Veterans Memorial Stadium Friday night.
First off, I say, if you’re at the game, take a minute to look at the memorials in the stadium courtyard.
Wednesday was Veterans Day, of course. if you know me, you understand I’m a bit of a history buff. I simply think about all the sacrifices the generations before [...]

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All of you Whittier Tech bashers had better back off.
Look, I grilled Kevin a bit on his very iffy (at-best) non-league schedule.
After that, step off.
Whittier’s gritty win over Manchester was a pretty solid testament to the quality of this football team. A lot of people want to cheapshot the CAC.
They’ve done it in print.
When it [...]

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Friday night at Nicholson Stadium had to be.
I throw out this compliment with the deepest respect one can muster in these parts.
Somewhere right now, the late Larry Klimas is grinning, ear to ear.
His once-proud Methuen High football program is in incredibly competent hands.
Any dissenters to that statement, doubters of Pat Graham and his Methuen High [...]

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Name,
In case you missed my last 38 postings, I wanted to be sure you understood. The teams allowed to be ranked on Hector’s blog, by Hector, for readers of Hector are:
Amesbury, Andover, Central, Georgetown, Gr. Lawrence Tech, Haverhill, Lawrence, Londonderry, Methuen, North Andover, North Reading, Pelham, Pentucket, Pinkerton, Salem, Sanborn, Timberlane, Whittier.
Why? Because I said [...]

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Some random thoughts while I wonder how Susanna Hoffs is looking these days …
Sorry Sondra, the song is just sticking in my head.
The news whispers like the wind around the Merrimack Valley. All sides, remember I have nothing to do with this other than report the rumor. Do not ATTACK me.
There is word that a [...]

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