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New England Patriots wide receiver and Super Bowl LIII MVP Julian Edelman had some words of encouragement for Bay Path senior Trish King, who was forced to miss the softball season as she battles leukemia.After the T&G's Jennifer Toland profiled King's fight last week, King's teammate, [...]

Warren Spahn won 363 games and made it to the Hall of Fame without an overpowering fastball, so he had to be pretty baseball smart. Further evidence is his take on another Hall of Famer, Casey Stengel, whose first job as a manager was in Worcester."I knew Casey before, and after, he was a genius," Spahn once said.Spahn pitched for Stengel’s lowly Boston Braves and again for Stengel’s hapless New York Mets. He missed the in- [...]

Most of the golfers are in their 60s, but 93-year-old Herschel Jones of Westminster has played since he was 66.Toby Snelson, 85, of Rutland returns from Florida each winter and has played since he reached the minimum age of 55.It’s a traveling senior men’s golf league and an average of 67 golfers took part at courses in Central and Western Mass. each week over the last four years. The most popular course was [...]

Clearview Country Club will be open at least through the end of this golf season after the residents of Millbury voted late last year not to purchase the property.Clearview owner Neil Loomis agreed to sell the land to a developer, Eastland Partners of Hopedale, but the town had the right of first refusal on the property because the course received preferential tax treatment as a recreational site.At a special election last December, Millbury residents [...]

Former Holy Cross women’s basketball coach Bill Gibbons on Saturday issued this statement, a reflection on his Holy Cross career, which spanned nearly four decades:"As I leave Holy Cross I am very grateful for being able to have coached basketball here for the last 38 years, the past 34 as the head coach of women’s basketball. In some ways it doesn't seem that long ago that I was an assistant men's coach from 1981-85 under George Blaney. I will always be thankful to [...]