Ponderous thoughts I was pondering as the high school basketball season dwindles down to a precious few games: - For some reason, and I'm not sure why, people are always looking to tinker with the tournament formats in Massachusetts high school sports be

PORTLAND—With as wide open a field as we've seen in years, consensus held that any of five or six teams could take home the Western Class A boys' basketball title when all was said and done. A team not included on that list was the seventh-ranked South P

Dustin Cole, still just a sophomore, led Bonny Eagle with an average of 17 points per game this season and will be a force in the Western Class A tournament. The Scots reached the regional final a year ago before falling to Cheverus. Josh Britten of Yarm

Phil Lesh and Friends is more of a rotating cast of characters than a set band like other Grateful Dead offshoots (Furthur, Bob Weir and Ratdog). This time, the "friends" that Lesh has brought along for his weekend stand at the 1stBank Center are the bes

AKRON, Ohio -- During testimony Wednesday against one-time pals Jimmy Dimora and Michael Gabor, former Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo named five judges whose offices he said he or Dimora had called seeking favors. But Russo was not given the chance

Few guitarists have weathered the dreck and trends of the last three decades with as much taste and success as John Scofield, who collates soul, funk, rock, and jazz into a style that bears only the brightest elements of fusion. The virtuoso is perhaps m