Speedway removes seats, adds new amenities to give fans better experience

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As cars speed around Turn 4 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend, fans will be able to stand just a few feet from the Loudon track while drinking a beer and playing lawn games on green turf.The track’s new bar and viewing area called Rock...

Dartmouth athletic director retires in wake of Title IX debacle

By PETE NAKOS

HANOVER — Dartmouth College on Tuesday said that Harry Sheehy will retire from his post as athletic director this month after more than a decade on the job. The news comes in the wake of the college’s announcement that it would reinstate five varsity...

Top-ranked Gilford wears down Coe-Brown for D-II volleyball title

By TIM O’SULLIVAN

DERRY – Coe-Brown arrived at Saturday’s Division II volleyball championships relaxed and ready. The No. 6 Bears didn’t have the weight of expectations on their shoulders against top-ranked, undefeated, defending-champion Gilford, but they did have...

Plagued by declining attendance, Manchester Monarchs have played last game

By NICK STOICO

After 18 years bringing professional hockey to central New Hampshire, the Manchester Monarchs announced Wednesday that the team will not return for another season.The organization announced the news in a letter to fans posted on the team’s website.The...

Bow freshman girl racking up accolades in wrestling, judo

By TIM O’SULLIVAN

In some ways, Skylar Hattendorf wrestling for Bow High is perfectly normal. She has been wrestling against boys for years, so being on a male-dominated team like the one at Bow is nothing new for Hattendorf, a freshman. It’s also nothing new at Bow,...

A roundup of local sports briefs, news and announcements

JV resultThe Concord High JV field hockey team defeated Keene, 4-1, with goals from Maddy Raymond, Maya Spataro, Lexi Bennett and Jordan Cromwell. Katlyn Spinney was strong in midfield and Riley Hollidge was strong on defense.Middle school resultsThe...

Winding sports road leads Landau to Belmont as athletic director

By TIM O’SULLIVAN

Paul Landau has taken a winding road through the sports world. He’s gone from player, to journalist, to coach and now, in his latest step, to athletic director at Belmont High.Landau, 33, spent the last five years teaching and coaching at ConVal...

The long and short of it: Aaron Judge, Jose Altuve drive their teams in ALCS

By DAVE SHEININ

NEW YORK – Every once in a while, the planets align, giant Jupiter and tiny Mercury, and we get the two best players in the American League Championship Series at the same vector, in the same camera shot, near the same base, and we are left to remind...

Sale plans to change number out of respect for Wakefield

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale will change the jersey number he’s worn for the last seven seasons with the Chicago White Sox. The reason? Out of respect for Tim Wakefield, of course.Wakefield wore the No. 49 for all 17 of his seasons with...

Craig Sager, TV sports reporter known for colorful wardrobe, dies at 65

By MATT CROSSMAN

Craig Sager, a television sportscaster whose outlandish outfits, decades interviewing the biggest names in basketball and public fight with cancer made him a beloved personality in the National Basketball Association, has died, just days after his...

Why the New England Patriots gave up on natural grass

By DAVE BROWN

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – In the fall of 2002, the New England Patriots embarked on a conquest against nature. Opening a brand new stadium that many thought would never exist, and raising a championship banner that seemed even more improbable, the Patriots...

Limited options for athletes seeking for scholarships in N.H.

By LEIF SKODNICK

Concord’s Andrew Lauderdale didn’t even think of playing football in college until his junior year at Trinity High School in Manchester. Then, the summer before his senior year, Lauderdale went to a football camp at Boston College, where he was seen...

Former Keene star Bosa proud to see son go to Chargers in 1st round

By BERNIE WILSON

Former Keene star Bosa proud to see son go to Chargers in 1st round- SAN DIEGO – Nearly three decades after he was a first-round draft pick of the Miami Dolphins, former Keene High star John Bosa sat with his wife, Cheryl, in the third row of the Chargers’ team meeting room and listened as their son Joey was introduced...