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In the late-1970s, the top football man of the San Francisco 49ers made a decision that would impact the organization for the rest of time. Joe Thomas, the 49ers’ general manager for two seasons, decided history did not matter. Vowing …

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — I’ve seen enough halls of fame to know what a great one looks like. The better ones I always return to. In the past two years I’ve visited the Pro Football Hall of Fame, National Baseball Hall …

FOXBORO — For Matt Szewczyk, a Patriots disciple, the high holy season soon begins. But the North Kingstown man can’t wait. So on this mid-August day, he put on his Patriots T-shirt, gathered up his family and marched (OK, drove) …

By Suzanne Stephens Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, has one of the few consistently picturesque New England campuses where brick-and-stone 19th-and-20th-century Federal, Classical Revival, and Gothic Revival structures are clustered around a large, tree-lined quad. You can walk from one …

As Little League approaches its diamond anniversary, the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum will get a $4 million facelift. The exterior will remain the same, but the interior and exhibits will be completely transformed over the next two years. …

CALGARY – Shadow boxing with Lennox Lewis, wheelchair racing against Chantal Petitclerc, and re-living Jacques Villeneuve’s championship Formula One season are just some of the interactive attractions at Canada’s new Sports Hall of Fame. Canada’s sports shrine opens Friday in …

The soft breeze and high summer sun that teased expressions of delight from the explorer Samuel de Champlain when he sailed into “Beauport” and put Gloucester Harbor on the map more than 400 years ago, appeared again Thursday to offer …

Jack Lord’s badge from the old Hawaii Five-O is moving to Waikiki, but most of the rock and pop culture memorabilia from Honolulu’s Hard Rock Cafe won’t make the transition to the new 13,000-square-foot restaurant and retail store that’s opening …

The University of Massachusetts Amherst recently closed a 60-yr-old coal-fired powerplant, as ordered by the state, and began serving its sprawling campus with a state-of-the-art gas-turbine-based energy center (Fig 1). Everyone who reads this journal knows what a powerplant is, …

The dedication in September 2004 of Westfield State College’s new Woodward Athletic Center coincided with the school’s 165th anniversary. It also marked a turning point for athletics at Westfield State and went far to boost school spirit and pride. “The …