East End youngsters competing with the best
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Fencing, traditionally a sport of gentlemen, has attracted world leaders and royalty to its ranks over the years with its chivalry and status as the most swashbuckling and romantic of all martial arts.
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Manchester United's fringe first-teamers see off Arsenal's starlets to move into the last four of the Carling Cup.
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The difficult game with prep-school roots is gaining a small bounce outside the East Coast.
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As the 2007 girls soccer season gets underway, teams across the Bay State are licking their lips in hopes of a trophy presentation in November. From the fields of Acton-Boxboro to the pitches at Dedham and Whitman-Hanson , this season is promising to be full of competitive battles to knock off two-time defending state champion Braintree .
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BOXING sensation Amir Khan is the toast of the nation. The 17-year-old wonderkid from Bolton - a true local hero - is on course to become the youngest Briton to win Olympic gold after his thrilling victory in Athens over Serik Yeleuov.
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Gloucester's Natasha Smith turned in the top performance among the several Massachusetts athletes who competed at the National Scholastic Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Armory in New York yesterday.
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Craig Mottram knows what he&#39;s got to do to mix it with the likes of Olympic gold medallists Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele.
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Senior Benyan Kerman scored twice and fellow senior Hayk Kaya scored and assisted on Kerman's goals in the Red Raiders' 3-2 victory over 14th-ranked Stoneham yesterday. It was the Watertown boys' soccer team's (4-1) first victory over its Middlesex League foe since 2001.
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In volume and variety, the Bay State Games series annually is the most intriguing amateur sports competition in Massachusetts. Among the hundreds of local athletes -- from ages in the single digits to the 70s -- competing last weekend and this week in a variety of sports, here are a few whose stories stand out: Badminton
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Thereâs one more activity emerging to give prepubescent go-getters a leg up these days: sports performance training.
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TEENAGERS Yasmine Regis-Moses and Samantha Hynes are jetting off to Australia after being selected for the English Commonwealth Youth Games team.
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The World Match Play Championship in England, which starts Thursday at Wentworth, has a roll call of champions that rivals any tournament.
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The enthusiasm with which Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Freddie Ljungberg drove balls at Manuel Almunia during yesterday&#39;s training session at London Colney suggested
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The Charlestown boys' basketball team put together an impressive performance against Boston City League rival East Boston, leading by as many as 27 points on its way to an 83-70 victory yesterday. But there was little celebration in Charlestown High's gym; no students were there to see it.
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IT has been touted as the biggest game of the season so far when some of the Actim Index&#39;s star performers lock horns as Arsenal host leaders Chelsea at Highbury tomorrow.
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The 10th-ranked Saxons continue their run of good play against top competition with a 2-1 victory over Oakton, showing they are one of the best teams in the area.
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Promotions for quartet of bright, young highflyers