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By ALEXANDER RAPP and RACHEL WACHMAN
Spanning three days, six ice rinks, and eight divisions, the 14th annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship and Winter Festival will bring together hockey players from around the state this weekend for several days of competition and celebration. Even with snow in the forecast on Thursday and Sunday, Chris Brown, founder of the 1883 Black Ice Hockey Association, says the games will go on.
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
The legal battle over New Hampshire’s transgender sports ban is expanding to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive orders preventing transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
By ALEXANDER RAPP
At 4 a.m., long before most of the city wakes up, Logan Priesel was at Helix Recovery & Wellness, gripping a barbell, feeling its weight press into his hands.
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
HANOVER — When the Oak Hill Outdoor Center in Hanover first fired up its snow guns in March, it was a game-changing upgrade for local athletes, providing expanded on-snow training and racing opportunities close to home. But when a recent mid-December...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Protests from outsiders and potential harm to students are driving the Bow School District’s continuing efforts to prevent parents from resuming pink armband demonstrations against transgender athletes, according to documents filed in a federal court...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
New England College is moving ahead with the second phase of its athletic facilities expansion. Starting in the spring of 2025, NEC will overhaul and renovate Bridges Gymnasium, build new offices for the athletic department and expand the strength...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
Virtual cars flew across the screens as competitors in the NHIAA’s first competitive Rocket League state esports championship played the popular soccer-like game that uses race cars as the players, all vying to score a goal in the opposing team’s...
By ALEX RAPP and DAN ATTORRI
Last season did not end the way the third-seeded Crimson Tide had hoped. They had a 14-4-1 record and reached the quarterfinals but were upset by No. 11 Exeter in overtime, 4-3.The Tide hockey team suffered its first back-to-back regular-season losses...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
The Franklin High School wrestling program is returning this season after an eight-year absence with George Tarwo, a former state-champion wrestler, as a coach who brings experienced leadership to revitalize the program.The last time the Golden...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
New England College’s women’s basketball team has a 1-2 guard punch that’s been terrorizing teams across the state and region since they first played together in elementary school.The two, Macy Gordon and Mackenzie McDonald, now juniors in college,...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
A resolution will not come until at least next school year in a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender girls’ participation on girls’ sports teams, a federal court judge ruled during a court conference on Thursday.Lawyers for the two...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
Cole Thompson has been glued to a motorcycle’s seat since he first got a Yamaha PW50 at age 3. Now 14, he has ascended from novice to amateur to compete in races across the region and country and aims to jump to expert races soon.Thompson and his...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
Franklin High School’s former track and field coach, William “Bill” Heydt, Sr., was inducted into the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Hall of Fame this past Sunday for his long-time coaching, commitment and leadership.Heydt...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
A group of Bow parents say the Pride Flag displayed at Bow High School’s music room is an example of the school’s district’s viewpoint discrimination.The federal lawsuit filed by Anthony Foote, Kyle Fellers and Nicole Foote, and Eldon Rash, a family...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
In Bow High School’s library, students are glued to gaming after school as they practice and train for esports competitions. They duke it out in Super Smash Bros. — a multiplayer fighting game where Nintendo characters go head-to-head until one has...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
One hundred and forty years after it built the first squash courts in the United States, St. Paul’s School is planning to build a 10-court replacement facility at its campus in Concord. The private boarding school’s current squash court building dates...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
In its first-ever Halloween youth street soccer tournament, Samba X drew teams from around the state with some colorful names like the Crayon Crushers, Team Gatorade and the Dead-Icated, to promote their soccer services and grow the sport through a...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
A Bow police officer has been removed as a defendant in a federal lawsuit against the Bow School District regarding allegations of free speech violations during a silent protest against transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports.The lawsuit,...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Lawyers on Thursday asked a federal court to rule New Hampshire’s controversial transgender sports law unconstitutional for all students – not just their two clients – setting up a potentially precedent-setting court decision.The new request – made...
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY
Gov. Chris Sununu sided with parents involved in recent protests and a lawsuit in Bow, citing First Amendment rights, three months after he signed a bill prohibiting transgender girls from competing in girls’ school sports.Last month, Bow High...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
Annie Mattarazzo will become the new NHTI athletics director, and the first female to assume the role in the college’s history. Mattarazzo was previously the athletic director for Bishop Brady High School in Concord and an assistant basketball coach...
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