Do you need a college football team to root for? Eagle sports columnist Howard Herman has the perfect team — the Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks.

The Williams College basketball coaching tree has sprouted a new branch.

Walt Bell is out of a job because his former boss did not think the University of Massachusetts football team had really turned the corner.

Here it comes again.

Television ratings are good. Stadiums from Boston to Atlanta are standing room only. But not everybody is in love with the current iteration o…

J.D. Martinez, Enrique Hernandez, Jose Altuve and Jason Castro all stopped through Rick Murphy's Tri-City ValleyCats organization on their way to the 2021 ALCS with the Red Sox and Astros.

There have been a lot of homecoming parties in sports. We've seen Johnny Damon and Roger Clemens return to Fenway Park as members of the New York Yankees. We've seen Paul Pierce return to TD Garden as a Brooklyn Net. We've seen Big Z, Zdeno Chara skate into the Garden as a teammate of Alex Ovechkin's. But never have we gone to Defcon 5 level over a homecoming party — until this weekend.

If you did not get a chance to see the Ken Burns documentary this past week on Muhammad Ali, by all means, go watch it when you can.

Random thoughts while waiting for the calendar to change from Summer (today) to Autumn (Wednesday).