All posts tagged "basketball"
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4.9K4New England PlacesThe Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Six Historic Opera Houses
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
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3.4K2Arts and LeisureEdwin Henderson Proves Black Men Can Jump
In 1906, many white Americans believed black Americans were poor at sports. An African-American physical education teacher named Edwin Henderson was at...
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14.4K4Arts and LeisureIn 1895, William Morgan Invents Mintonette
Mintonette, the game eventually called volleyball, was the brainchild of a man who happened to be friends with the man who invented...
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18.3K22Arts and LeisureMaine’s Great Clam Chowder War of 1939
A tomato-hating politician from Rockland set off the Maine clam chowder war of 1939 when he drafted a bill to criminalize clam...
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4.7K5Arts and LeisureHow Basketball History (and Basketball) Was Made in Springfield, Mass., in 1891
If it weren’t for a bad case of cabin fever, basketball history would never have been made. Nor, for that matter, would...
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8.6K1Arts and LeisureThe Boston Redskins Play Their Last Game
George Preston Marshall brought professional football to Boston in 1931 with a team known as the Boston Redskins — and which won...
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4.2K1MassachusettsLarry O’Brien, the Kennedy Mafioso Who Did In Richard Nixon
Larry O’Brien was a member of John F. Kennedy’s Irish Mafia who later – and inadvertently – helped end Richard Nixon’s presidency....
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7.5K11Arts and Leisure‘Havlicek Stole the Ball!’: The Greatest Broadcast Moment in Basketball History
To the New England sports fan, the phrase ‘Havlicek stole the ball!’ is as profound and as personal as ‘Ask not what...
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3.3K5Arts and LeisureHuskies Upset Princeton, And Huskymania Is Born
If Huskymania can be traced to a single moment, it would probably be March 13, 1964, when UConn Huskies guard Dom Perno...
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3.1KArts and LeisureWalt Dropo: UConn Legend, Red Sox Star
Walt Dropo graduated from the University of Connecticut as the greatest three-sport athlete in the college’s history. Between his sophomore and junior...
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