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Boston Globe
04-07-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy inducted into National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame
NBC broadcaster Shaughnessy has worked at the Globe for 47 years, first in a part-time capacity from 1973-77 and full-time since 1981. He was the 2016 recipient of the Baseball Writers' Association of America Career Excellence Award and is the author of 13 books, including his most recent, " Advertisement The Globe was recognized by APSE as one of Advertisement Matt Pepin can be reached at
Malaysian Reserve
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Malaysian Reserve
The Boston Globe Announces Launch of Dedicated Team Covering High School Sports
Veteran Journalists to Lead Comprehensive Coverage of Massachusetts High School Athletics, Full Stories Available at BOSTON, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Today, The Boston Globe announces a new high school sports initiative that will include a dedicated team covering the exciting and competitive high school sports scene in Massachusetts. Veteran sports journalists will bring the Globe's award-winning journalism to communities throughout the region, delivering authoritative analysis and expansive features across interests. The Boston Globe Announces Launch of Dedicated Team Covering High School Sports to Enhance Online and Print Reporting The Globe's High School Sports team is broadening coverage to meet the growing interest from schools, parents, and athletes as participation in high school sports reaches an all-time peak. 'We know the important place high school sports have in the sports landscape in and around Boston, and by dedicating more resources and developing a new coverage strategy, we're making sure Globe readers receive the best coverage of the communities, athletes, and games that matter most to them,' said Globe Sports Editor Matt Pepin. 'In a region where so many professional teams dominate, high school sports is the starting point for aspiring young athletes and their families. Their journeys are compelling story lines,' said Craig Larson, Globe assistant sports editor/schools. 'We've assembled a dedicated team to tell their stories.' Larson, with four decades of reporting/editing on high school and college sports in New England, leads a team that includes assistant high school sports editor Brendan Kurie and enterprise reporter Matt Porter, who is contributing feature pieces on key stories throughout the scholastic seasons. They are backed up by a 'nighthawk' desk of professionals assisted by college students, co-ops, and interns who will provide dispatches, assemble notebooks, and compile rankings in all sports. The Globe high school sports team will deliver exclusive reporting online that includes Top 20 Rankings, Players of the Week, nightly scores and roundups, as well as the popular All-Scholastics for fall, winter, and spring that will appear in special print editions. The Boston Globe's All-Scholastics for Winter 2024-25 is out now online and in Sunday's print edition. Special reporting will include a high school football preview with division capsules for every team in Eastern Massachusetts, exhaustive coverage of every state championship, playoff, and final, Thanksgiving football with database compilations of rivalries, previews, and predictions, Super Bowls, as well as reporting on the Globe Foundation / Phelps Scholar-Athletes and annual Scholastic Awards charting schools' regular-season winning percentage. Coverage will include live updates on key events, enterprise reporting on news and issues, and extensive photography and video. See all coverage of your community's teams by visiting or check out the sports pages of the Globe in print. Contact: Carla Kath, Director of Communications, About Boston Globe Media: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC is a locally owned, award-winning media company serving Boston and New England for over 153 years. Its cornerstone is The Boston Globe, a 27-time Pulitzer Prize-winning news source and one of the most successful metro news organizations in the United States. The Globe is headquartered in Boston with regional bureaus in Washington, D.C., Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. The Globe has been successfully growing its direct subscriber base, today boasting the highest total number of subscribers the organization has had since 2008. The Globe hosts events that connect community members to its journalism and provides a range of digital and home-delivered advertising solutions that reach more consumers than any other New England media brand. Boston Globe Media's portfolio includes The Boston Globe, , , STAT , The B-Side , Globe Publishing Services, Globe Events , Studio/B , and Boston magazine . View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE The Boston Globe
Boston Globe
14-04-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Celtics to begin NBA playoffs on Sunday against play-in game winner; See the schedule for all of the Game 1s
The Cavaliers are seeded first in the Eastern Conference and will face the other team to emerge from the conference's four-team play-in tournament on Sunday. After this week's play-in games, the first round of the NBA playoffs is scheduled to begin on Saturday, when Game 1 for the Bucks-Pacers (1 p.m., ESPN), Clippers-Nuggets (3:30 p.m., ESPN), Pistons-Knicks (6 p.m., ESPN), and Timberwolves-Lakers (8:30 p.m., ABC) series will be played. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up On Sunday, Game 1s will be held in the other series: East No. 8 seed at Cleveland, East No. 7 at Boston, West No. 8 at Oklahoma City, and West No. 7 at Houston. Times and television plans were not announced. Advertisement The play-in games begin Tuesday with the Hawks-Magic at 7:30 p.m., followed by Grizzlies-Warriors at 10 p.m. The Grizzlies-Warriors winner will advance to face the seventh-seeded Rockets on Sunday. Related : On Wednesday, the Heat face the Bulls at 7:30 p.m. and the loser is eliminated. The winner faces the Hawks-Magic loser on Friday and the winner of that game becomes the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference and will face the Cavaliers. Advertisement Also Wednesday, the Mavericks and Kings meet in an elimination game, with the winner advancing to a Friday matchup with the Grizzlies-Warriors loser. Friday's winner becomes the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference and will face the Thunder on Sunday. The remainder of the schedule for the first round has not been set. The Celtics (61-21) Matt Pepin can be reached at
