BPSsports.com is preparing its Fall Football Preview to run the first week of September but we need your help. Please fill out the survey below and email it back to me at rice.ju@gmail.com.
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I am also looking for students to cover your teams. Do you have a manager or student who would be willing to write up a couple paragraphs, similar to what you see in the Herald and Globe each Saturday, about your games? I will work with the students to teach them how to take stats, do interviews and write up the stories.
The Globe reports that the MIAA will get a clarification on a new state law that requires their member schools to participate in a head-injury safety training. Problem was the program was not complete.
Here’s a interesting story in today’s Globe about a new law directing anyone involved in an extracurricular athletic activity at an MIAA member school to participate in a head-injury safety training program. But with implementation of the rule targeted for Sept. 1, the program hasn’t been created.
Boston Latin School pitcher Brian Mylett takes the sign during the Bay State Games. Photo courtesy of Bay State Games.
By Betsey di Bonaventura
When Brian Mylett threw a no hitter on opening day this spring for Boston Latin School he followed his personal motto: Pitch as if no one was watching. That was a little harder to do while pitching in front of college and pro scouts at the Bay State Summer Games this month.
“I try to play the same no matter who is watching,” said the 17-year-old who tossed the no hitter against Boston Latin Academy in April.
The Dorchester native managed to pitch four innings in two contests for the Metro team in the Bay State Games without giving up a single run, including three scoreless relief innings to cement a win against Central.
“It’s a great opportunity to be able to play in front of that many coaches and possibly get the chance to play at the next level,” Mylett said.
Check out this story in yesterday’s Globe about DeSouto, who was convicted by a Norfolk Superior Court jury of participating in an armed robbery more than 2 1/2 years ago, before he quit the street life. He was 17 at the time.
DeSouto was registered for the fall semester at Potomac State College in West Virginia.
The Globe had a good piece in February about how DeSouto was turning his life around. Check it out here.
Check out this story in today’s Globe about former English High hoops star Alex DeSouto, who will be sentenced tomorrow after being convicted by a Norfolk Superior Court jury of participating in an armed robbery more than 2 1/2 years ago, before he quit the street life. He was 17 at the time.
DeSouto was registered for the fall semester at Potomac State College in West Virginia.
The Globe had a good piece in February about how DeSouto was turning his life around. Check it out here.
Here’s a slide show of Patrick O’Connor’s track pics. Memorial Day weekend is softball and baseball play-offs and championship games……watch for some more pics…..
Alexi Lalas with Boston Breakers' Kelly Smith and Laura Del Rio. Photos courtesy of America Scores New England.
By Justin A. Rice
With a poet for a mother, it was only fate that former US Men’s National team member and New England Revolution star, Alexi Lalas, was destined to be involved with America Scores—the national after school program that has brought creative writing and soccer to BPS students for more than a decade.
“My mother introduced to the Scores program,” Lalas said at the New England Scores 2010 Celebration silent auction & reception on Wednesday night at the Boston College Club. “I was living in Washington D.C. and playing for the National team many, many years ago in the ’90s and this was right up our alley. My mother is not only a writer but she’s a poet and I’m very, very proud of what she does even though I don’t understand half the stuff she writes. But she’s still my mother so I nod and say ‘That’s great.’
“It’s alright. I tell her that all the time. She wouldn’t mind. But it’s almost like I was destined to be part of this program because what it incorporates, two things that I love, in terms of creative writing and a sport we all know and love: soccer. And it was wonderful to find something like that.”
JAMAICA PLAIN — Working as an assistant coach at Thayer Academy in Braintree for the last 14 years, Chris Boswell learned a thing or two about football rivalries.
“We got Milton Academy, we got St. Sebs [Sebastian’s], the Belmont Hill game is always a good game,” Boswell said on Thursday afternoon after the first high school in the nation named him their first new head football coach in 30 years, thrusting the Roxbury native into the nation’s oldest continuous high school football rivalry game: English-Latin.
The only problem is that Boston English has only defeated Boston Latin School twice in the last 44 years.
“I’m not going to make any promises or predictions,” Boswell said. “We just want to play better and try to win a few of those. I was there last year, Thayer ends early, we only have eight games. I was kind of scouting the team seeing if I want to come on board. I was there and it was interesting.
“I’ve been told that’s our Super Bowl every year. The alumni are very interested in what happens in that game and what the outcome is and I embrace it and I’m ready to go. It’s what this school is all about and it’s a big thing.”
