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Hopes high, purses low as Suffolk opens

The bell rang, the gates swung open, and Regal Regatta bounded out into the new thoroughbred season at Suffolk Downs a step ahead of the field. With jockey Winston Thompson aboard, Regal Regatta raced to the front in the Greater Boston Charitable ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  3 May 2009

Bolt thinks he can lower 100m record to 9.4 seconds

BOSTON (Reuters) - Jamaican Usain Bolt has his sights set on smashing his already electrifying 100 meters world record, the triple Olympic champion said on Sunday. "I think I could definitely go faster -- 9.5," Bolt, whose record is 9.69 seconds, told ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  26 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Dwain Chambers,  Tyson Gay

De Reuck masters the course

Colleen De Reuck, light and fit two years after the birth of her second daughter, was prepared to run a strong Boston Marathon yesterday - for a 45-year-old. The four-time Olympian is now a masters runner who juggles parenting, a part-time job, and her ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  21 Apr 2009

Julien sharpens skaters

For Julien, little has changed: Practice still makes perfect. "I'm never bored, there's always work to do, things to improve," he said. "At the beginning of the year we said, 'If we take care of our own game, it normally takes care of the outcome.' I ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  26 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University,  Marc Savard,  Chuck Kobasew,  Claude Julien

Flexing muscle bolsters Bruins

WILMINGTON - When the Bruins set down the New Jersey Devils, 4-1, Sunday, they did it to the sweet sounds of hammering and pounding in their defensive zone. Zdeno Chara, the 6-foot-9-inch linchpin of the team, and Aaron Ward, a player with three ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  25 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Aaron Ward,  New Jersey Devils,  Stanley Cup,  Marc Savard

Badgers, Vetter are so much the better

How did this team lose two games this season? The top-ranked Wisconsin women's hockey team started slowly, gained speed, and then sprinted away with the national championship yesterday, running roughshod over Mercyhurst, 5-0, before 2,437 at Agganis ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  23 Mar 2009
Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association

Lucic didn't monkey around

This is the time of a year when a loss gets labeled a lull, two consecutive losses a downslide, and three put a team in a sinkhole. In the stretch run to the playoffs, every team wants to appear strong and in control. The Bruins, with seven losses (two ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  23 Mar 2009
Related Topics: New Jersey Devils,  Claude Julien,  Yelle,  Marc Savard,  Phil Kessel

Wisconsin, Mercyhurst skate for title

For the Mercyhurst women's hockey team, the first few weeks of the season stunk. With only four seniors, there were a lot of new kids to break in, and team chemistry was an unfinished experiment. Always game to schedule the most challenging competition, ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  22 Mar 2009
Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association,  Wisconsin Badgers,  Harvard University,  Sarah Vaillancourt,  Mark Johnson (hockey)

And then there were two

Erika Lawler, Meghan Duggan, and Hilary Knight were happy and proud to bring their Wisconsin women's hockey team to Boston for the Frozen Four. Last night, in the semifinals, the trio of New Englanders showed their teammates just how much fun their ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  21 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Wisconsin Badgers,  Mark Johnson (hockey)

Cold shoulder for home teams

What if you gave a party and none of your friends came, just a bunch of strangers from out of town? The women's NCAA Hockey Tournament comes to Boston for the first time this weekend, and - how bad is this timing? - all the New England teams have been ...

From BARBARA MATSON, Boston Globe,  20 Mar 2009
Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association,  Harvard University,  Wisconsin Badgers,  Mark Johnson (hockey)

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