Any leagues that still practice the traditional rules?

Around 2:25 p.m. people across the area, thousands of people who were not at Fenway Park for the Bruins/Penguins winter classic, suddenly heard a roar overhead, of the sort that might presage the kind of alien invasion only knowledge of Macintosh computer viruses and a stirring speech by Bill Pullman could fend off. Read more.

The Fort Pointer reports that with such nice weather, local hockey fans massed for a City Hall Plaza even in advance of the games at Fenway Park - and stood in a line the wrapped around the Government Center T stop to get in.

Jake had a great view out the window of his plane at the San Juan airport after he boarded for the trip back to Boston this afternoon.

Walter McCarty, who played forward for the Celtics and worked as an assistant coach here, yesterday sued the University of Evansville, a former student and her lawyer for libel over allegations he raped the student while he was head coach of the men's basketball team there. Read more.

The American and Dutch soccer teams were set to start their World Cup match at 10 a.m. Garrett Quinn got to the Banshee in Dorchester, which is World Cup central in Boston, around 7:30 a.m. to queue up for the bar's 8 a.m. opening

The Athletic reports John Henry's Fenway Sports Group has put its Liverpool soccer club up for sale. If Henry does sell the team, it would decrease the number of English footy teams owned by Boston area men by a full 50% (earlier this year, another area man lost his bid to buy a team across the pond).

H/t Gooner.

Updated with BPD info.

A melee that started on a Carter Playground tennis court near where two high-school football teams were finishing their game ended with cops from across the city flooding the area, Columbus Avenue shut down and one adult and six teenagers under arrest. Read more.

The Joy of Sox says farewell to Dennis Eckersley, retiring after today's final game of the Sox season.