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By adamg - 2/21/24 - 1:33 pm

Citing the potential for "irreparable harm" to Franklin Park, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy yesterday sued Boston, a city trust fund and the group seeking to bring women's professional soccer to Franklin Park over plans for an $80-million rebuilding and expansion of White Stadium. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 1:32 pm

Bill Spero reports the Massachusetts Gaming Commission has vote - by 3-2 - to prohibit Massachusetts sports-betting outfits from offering bets on the winner of the coin toss that starts the Super Bowl - as well as derivative bets, for example, on whether the winner of the coin toss wins the game The majority said the issue is not that they have a problem with coin-toss bets but that operators brought up the idea too late for the commission to give it the sort of deep thought it needs.

By adamg - 1/11/24 - 9:24 am

WCVB reports Bill Belichick, the Super Bowliest coach in NFL history, will no longer be leading the Patriots by the end of the day.

By adamg - 12/19/23 - 10:46 am
Rendering of a game in the new White Stadium

Rendering by Stantec. See it larger.

The group working to bring professional women's soccer to Boston yesterday filed detailed plans for its part of the overhaul of the decaying, fire-ravaged White Stadium in Franklin Park, which includes a new soccer pitch, replacement of bleachers with individual seats, a separate dining area including room for food trucks, a year-round restaurant and a beer garden and overhanging shade over the seats designed as an homage to the surrounding greenery. Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/23 - 10:03 pm

Boston Real Estate Times reports the Boston Pickle Club has leased 20,000 square feet of space at 91 Sprague St. in Hyde Park for an indoor pickleball facility - which could open by Feb. 1. Read more.

By adamg - 12/1/23 - 9:42 am

The group working to bring a women's professional soccer team to Boston will soon file detailed renovation plans for turning the dilapidated White Stadium into a state-of-the-art soccer arena to be shared with Boston Public Schools and the general public - to be opened in time for the start of the 2026 National Women's Soccer League season. Read more.

By emac - 11/11/23 - 5:44 pm

Don’t let Goofus surprise you again: the B.A.A. Half Marathon on Sunday morning will shut down the Arborway, Jamaicaway, Riverway, much of Franklin Park and other area roads between 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM.

By adamg - 10/2/23 - 4:09 pm
Flag lowered at Fenway

In honor of Tim Wakefield.

By adamg - 10/1/23 - 5:00 pm
Boston City Hall in Red Sox colors to honor Tim Wakefied

City Hall lit in Sox colors tonight to honor Wakefield. Photo by Isabel Leon of the mayor's office.

The Red Sox announced pitching hero Tim Wakefield died today.

Wakefield, who pitched for two World Series-winning Sox teams, won 186 games for the team, third behind Cy Young and Roger Clemens.

He is survived by his wife Stacy, son Trevor and daughter Brianna.

By adamg - 9/29/23 - 10:30 pm

Josh Brogadir at WCVB said tonight the station learned a couple weeks ago about Tim Wakefield's battle with cancer but decided not to report it until Wakefield was ready to go public, out of common human decency. Curt Schilling, he continued, has no such decency.

This just adds to the list of despicable acts since he finished playing baseball.

By adamg - 9/28/23 - 3:48 pm

People sums up the story, includes Jason Varitek's wife telling Schilling what he can do with himself.

By adamg - 9/28/23 - 9:10 am
Man wearing 'Oar' Bruins jersey

BlueEyesRedHair spotted this gent near the Museum of Science the other day.

By adamg - 9/27/23 - 9:09 pm
Routes to White Stadium from possible parking lots

Routes from areas where the team might seek to set up parking. The numbers refer to total van rides, not the number of vans in use.

The team that won a professional women's soccer franchise for Boston tonight sketched out a preliminary transportation plan for roughly 20 home games a year at a renovated White Stadium in Franklin Park that could include shuttle vans from for-fee parking areas in more remote areas in places, possibly as far away as areas near Rte. 128, I-93 near the Neponset and north of Jackson Square. Read more.

By adamg - 9/19/23 - 9:58 pm

WCVB reports Boston will get a team in the National Women’s Soccer League, set to kick off in 2026 in White Stadium in Franklin Park, which the team plans to spend big bucks on to renovate.

By adamg - 9/19/23 - 10:14 am

GBH reports the team has drafted players, but has yet to pick a name.

By adamg - 9/5/23 - 6:03 pm

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office today dropped criminal charges against Jack Jones, who was arrested with two guns in his luggage at Logan Airport in June, in part because Massachusetts law gives people bringing lawfully obtained guns into the state up to 60 days to obtain a license and Jones was within that period. Read more.

By adamg - 8/20/23 - 9:06 pm

On the occasion of the Sox sweeping the Yankees in New York, Jake Reiser rewrites the Sinatra classic.

By adamg - 8/7/23 - 1:41 pm

Northeastern Global News interviews Nicole Laffan, assistant clinical professor at Bouvé College of Health Sciences, who says the constant sound of pickleballs being hit is not enough to harm your hearing, although she allowed how it might drive you crazy, especially if you have a headache already. Read more.

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