Key New England games
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NORTHEASTERN (2-1) vs. WILLIAM &amp; MARY (2-1) When/where: Tomorrow, 1 p.m., Williamsburg, Va. Radio: WJIB (740 AM). Last season: NU won, 48-14. Comments: The Huskies crushed Towson last Saturday, 27-3. Senior FS Gavin Potter was named Atlantic 10 defensive player of the week for his 10-tackle, 2-interception, 1-sack game. Junior TB Anthony Riley had 117 rushing yards. William &amp; Mary ...
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More than a hundred thousand are expected to descend on the city this weekend -- to watch some crew races. On Saturday evening at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro the New England Revolution will begin their first-round Major League Soccer playoff series.
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The start of last season seems eons ago now. Northeastern, which got off to an 0-11 start last season and didn't win until December, beat No. 10 Maine, 4-2, last night at Matthews Arena in its first Hockey East game of the season.
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TODAY'S GAMES Division 1 GREATER BOSTON -- Waltham at Somerville, 6:30; Arlington at Peabody, 7; Malden at Cambridge, 7; Medford at Revere, 7.
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On Sunday, the Patriots play for a place in history.
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Unless and until the National Hockey League gets back in business, hockey fans are going to have to get their fix watching other levels of the sport. Fortunately for those in New England, there is a minor league club in Providence and many strong college teams.
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With the biggest America East game of the season on tap at rival Vermont Sunday, Boston University ran the risk of overlooking the University of Maryland-Baltimore County last night.
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The New England Patriots  and Seattle Seahawks will play a pre-season China Bowl game in  Beijing next year to begin the countdown to the 2008 Olympic  Games.
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There's no denying the logjam in Hockey East this season. Perennial contender Boston University is down in the standings and Boston College has gone from a slow start to a point out of first. Northeastern, which showed promise last season, is atop the conference. New Hampshire, which is always flirting with the top spot, is tied with the Huskies with ...
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For the first half of the season, the University of New Hampshire has been the gold standard among local teams. The second-ranked Wildcats entered the holiday break with a 13-2-1 overall record and 10-1-1 mark in Hockey East.
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All the winning that the Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics have been doing lately raises the question: what has Boston lost? If not games, then perhaps a certain identity the region must now reconsider.
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The dissecting of the Patriots' Super Bowl loss will probably never end, but now that spring training has arrived, at least New England sports fans have another team to which they can turn their attention.
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The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) announced the locations and times for Saturday's Eastern Mass. Super Bowls. Home teams will be decided by a coin flip during the playoff organizational meeting today.
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TODAY'S GAMES Division 1 CATHOLIC -- St. John's Prep at Malden Catholic, 6. GREATER BOSTON -- Somerville at Malden, 6:30; Cambridge at Medford, 7; Everett at Peabody, 7; Revere at Waltham, 7.
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Massachusetts, which beat Division 1-AA runner-up Colgate earlier this year, gets a shot at the 2003 champion today when Delaware comes to McGuirk Stadium for an Atlantic 10 matchup of nationally ranked teams.
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Any time two Hockey East teams face off, the game will yield a fair amount of drama. When it's the iron of the conference, as it was last night between Boston College and New Hampshire, there is the potential for many subplots.
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They're visiting the defending Division 1-AA national champions, the top-ranked team in both preseason polls, in a venue that is one of the most difficult for visiting teams. They're trying to turn around what was once one of the best 1-AA programs in New England but has had six losing seasons in seven years.