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Not even a 22-point fourth quarter could lift the home team, Harvard Crimson, to a monumental win against archrival Yale as the Elis held on for a 34-29 victory before a crowd of 27,105 in the 140th playing of the game.

President Joe Biden welcomed the 2024 NBA champion Boston Celtics to the White House Thursday afternoon, congratulating them on winning their NBA-record 18th title.

Soccer at the high school level in Massachusetts has increased over the last few years. Dearborn STEM Academy, in its first season of its cooperative team with Albert D. Holland School of Technology, previously Jeremiah Burke High School, made it all the way to the Massachusetts Division 5 state title game against Sutton High School before losing a gut-wrenching 1-0 shootout victory that came down to penalty kicks, 3-1 in favor of Sutton.

The 2024 Harvard women’s basketball team leaders come from disparate places like Little Rock, Arkansas, Mansfield, Texas, and central Illinois. They are coached by a woman who played her college basketball at Central Michigan, followed by coaching stints at Michigan, Creighton, Princeton, and North Carolina, before taking the head coaching job at Harvard three years ago.

On November 28, a high school football tradition renews as the Boston Latin High School Dragons battle the Boston English High School Eagles at Harvard Stadium. This high school football game is one of the oldest Thanksgiving games in the United States.

The mid-term grades for National Football League teams are in, with varying results. Despite several close, one-score games, the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs sit atop the league standings with a perfect 9-0 record.

The inevitable conclusion to this incredible gift of life is death. Every human being faces this conclusion. We all wonder when, where and how our lives will end.

With a heart throbbing World Series concluded, conversation and speculation around the campfire has begun for the 2025 Major League Baseball season. Will a true Los Angeles Dodgers dynasty emerge? How will the New York Yankees rise above their embarrassing game five melt down?

Remember the names of Solo and Legacy Lewis. They are the sister team that sets the high standard of excellence that defines the Boston Lions Track Club. They are coached by Tomorrow Peeples-Taylor, who formed the Lions Track Club in 2018 in memory of her late father, Edward Hudson.

The Boston International Varsity Lions team is back. They are City League champs this year, beating the Holland Dearborn STEM Academy by a score of 2-0 to win the City League Championship at Madison Park.

As of this writing, the Los Angeles Dodgers hold a 3-0 lead over the New York Yankees in the 2024 Major League Baseball World Series. A breakdown of this series shows the Dodgers’ comeback ability and the Yankees’ failure to hit with runners on base.

After raising NBA Championship Banner No. 18, the most in NBA History, the Boston Celtics opened their 2024-25 regular season campaign by making a team record twenty-nine three-point shots enroute to their 132-109 victory over the New York Knickerbockers at the T.D. Bank Garden.