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.
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.
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.
People sums up the story, includes Jason Varitek's wife telling Schilling what he can do with himself.
BlueEyesRedHair spotted this gent near the Museum of Science the other day.
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.
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.
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.
On the occasion of the Sox sweeping the Yankees in New York, Jake Reiser rewrites the Sinatra classic.
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.
Boston Women's Sports interviews John and JoJo Boynton, who sold the Boston Pride and two other teams as part of a deal in which two leagues will be merged into one and a bunch of teams will go out of business. Although they're sanguine about a single league, they don't know if Boston will keep its team.
Boston Women Sports reports two investor groups, one headed by former tennis star Billie Jean King, have bought the Premier Hockey Federation and immediately ripped up all the contracts with players, including those on the Boston Pride, because apparently there are contracts and there are contracts.
The two investment groups also bought another women's hockey league, plan to merge the two and eliminate several teams, according to reports last night.
There's some outrage in Jeffries Point this morning, where a city-owned street-hockey rink that the Bruins helped pay to resurface at Porzio Park was overlaid with markings for a new pickleball court - some residents are mad, especially since some people went to play hockey last night and were told it's now a pickleball court.
A dead trolley at Hynes means outbound Green Line service is facing at least 20 minute delays, just as people are relying on the Green Line to get to Kenmore for the Sox/Yankees game. Or as Michelle Greenberg reports:
Stuck on green line trying to get to Fenway. Train lost power all green line shut down
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