BCC Press Club announces $1,000 in student scholarships
FALL RIVER — The Bristol Community College Press Club is proud to announce new scholarships available to BCC students through the BCC Foundation. Two $500 scholarship awards will be given to qualified students each year – $250 for the first semester … Read Full Story
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Penguins skate past Senators to take Game 1
Paul Martin and Chris Kunitz scored power-play goals and Pascal Dupuis added his sixth goal of the playoffs and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 4-1 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Tuesday.
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Pacers take 3-1 series lead with win over Knicks
George Hill scored 26 points and Paul George added 18 points and 14 rebounds Tuesday night, leading the Indiana Pacers to a 93-82 victory over the New York Knicks and a 3-1 lead in the second-round series.
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BRUINS NOTEBOOK: B’s hoping for good news about injured defensemen
The Bruins survived game seven of their first-round playoff series without veteran defensemen Dennis Deidenberg, andrew ference and Wade Redden. Younger, less experienced players may have to replace some in the veteran core in the second playoff round.
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Newcomer Jones looking to beat numbers game with Patriots
Donald Jones has made a career out of beating the odds. Now the former Buffalo Bill is looking to emerge from a field of 11 wide receivers in New England.
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COLLEGES: Abington’s Tyler Hitchcock is the top pitcher in the Commonwealth Coast Conference
The Endicott College senior takes an 8-1 record and a 1.65 earned run average into the NCAA Div. 3 New England Regional where the Gulls face Saint Joseph’s of Maine on Wednesday in Harwich.
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COLLEGES: Local players in NCAA Div. 3 baseball tournament
Wheaton College is the No. 2 seed in the New England Regional and has junior Ryan Grant of Easton as its closer. Grant has recorded 34 saves in three seasons, leaving him one shy of tying the school record.
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Rocky Marciano made first heavyweight title defense 60 years ago
The Brockton Blockbuster stopped Jersey Joe Walcott in the first round of their rematch on May 15, 1953 at Chicago Stadium. Marciano had won the championship from Walcott with a 13th-round knockout on Sept. 23, 1952.
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Local chefs cook for a cause at Boston Bites Back
Boston’s all-star chefs – including South Shore favorites Kevin Long (Tosca, Empire), Paul Wahlberg (Alma Nove) and Jasper White (Summer Shack) are stepping up to the plate to cook for a cause at Fenway Park.
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Chita Rivera honored at annual Elliot Norton Awards last night
At a star-studded gala last night, the Boston Theater Critics Association recognized the best of Boston theater during its 31st annual Elliot Norton Awards.
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Actress, celebrity Angelina Jolie says she had double mastectomy
Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.
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Bruins 5, Maple Leafs 4 (OT): A night to remember
Milan Lucic looked around the bench after Nazem Kadri scored with 14:31 left Monday night, putting the Maple Leafs up 4-1 over the Bruins at TD Garden in Game 7 of their first-round series. Lucic saw many of the same players he’s been teammates with for years, has taken countless flights with, has drank from the Stanley Cup with. It was all ending. Until a furious comeback ended with a Patrice Bergeron goal in overtime, and the Bruins emerged with a most improbable 5-4 win.
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Bergeron, Bruins send Maple Leafs packing in Game 7 thriller
Patrice Bergeron tied it with 51 seconds left in regulation then scored the game-winner 6:05 into overtime on Monday night to give Boston a 5-4 victory over the Maple Leafs in Game 7 as the Bruins turned back Toronto’s comeback with a rally of their own.
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Heat take 3-1 series lead with win over Bulls
LeBron James scored 27 points and the Miami Heat nearly matched a franchise record for points allowed in a playoff game, pounding the listless and short-handed Chicago Bulls 88-65 on Monday night to take a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
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SOFTBALL LOSS: Durfee falls to Coyle-Cassidy
Durfee (6-9) took it on the chin in all phases of the game on Monday in losing to Coyle-Cassidy 9-1 in non-league softball at Durfee High School.
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Peter Chianca: For Roger Ebert, sometimes bad was bad
Even as much as I’ve loved Ebert’s work, I had no intention of writing a tribute to him — plenty of other, better writers (and a few worse ones) did that soon after he passed. But as I’ve been reading his last collection of reviews of bad movies, it’s had me rethinking what’s drawn me to his writing over the years.
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Big Sandy’s timeless rock heats up Fall River
If you wanted to investigate the many musical roots of rock ‘n’ roll, one essential primer just might be Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, who tore it up–as usual–at the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River Friday night.
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Get Reel: Happy, happy birthday ‘American Grafitti’
I will posit right now that “American Graffiti,” which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, rates as one of the most significant films in cinematic history, if not cultural history in these United States.
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