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PHOTOS: Inside Boston's exclusive F1 Arcade Bar
The very first F1 Arcade Bar in the U.S. is opening in Boston’s Seaport District on Monday, giving people the chance to try their hand at Formula 1 racing with 69 realistic simulators. Take a spin through the circuit from a recent media preview event in these photos.
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Former Patriots star Malcolm Butler appears in RI court on DUI charge
Former New England Patriots star Malcolm Butler appeared in a Rhode Island courtroom Thursday to answer to a drunken driving charge. He was arraigned during the morning session at Kent County District Court in Warwick and entered a not guilty plea. He is scheduled to return to court on April 18 but also has to appear in traffic court on…
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Former Patriots star Malcolm Butler arrested on DUI charge in RI
Former New England Patriots star Malcolm Butler was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in North Providence, Rhode Island, this month, according to a police report. Butler, who caught the Super Bowl-clinching interception in 2015, was found by a police officer blocking a lane on Mineral Spring Avenue near the ramps to Route 146 with his car, a white Mercedes,…
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Designer of Patriots' iconic logo dies, team announces
The cartoonist who created the beloved original logo of the New England Patriots has died, the team announced Thursday, saying they were “deeply saddened” to learn the news. Phil Bissell’s design for Pat Patriot, a red-white-and-blue minuteman ready to hike a football, was established as the logo on April 19, 1960, ahead of the team’s inaugural season, according to the…
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Why someone was playing video games on Fenway Park's Jumbotron
It might be winter, but it was Game On at Fenway Park this week. Not for baseball, though, but “Fortnite.” Someone was spotted playing the popular video game on its big MassMutual-sponsored Jumbotron on Thursday — a social media post of the sight went viral. “I hate to be a snitch, but someone is playing Fortnite in Fenway right now,”…
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Story of Boston Celtics owner's blended family is headed to your TV — as a sitcom
Boston Celtics fans are about to get rare insight into the family life of the team’s majority owner, Wyc Grousbeck — his real-life blended family is the subject of “Extended Family,” a new sitcom debuting this weekend on NBC.
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Introducing Boston's newest sports team: Boston Common Golf
Boston has a professional football, basketball, baseball, hockey and soccer teams — and, as of Thursday, its own pro golf team. Led by stars Rory McIlroy and New England native Keegan Bradley, Boston Common Golf was unveiled as the region’s representatives in TGL, a new team-based, 15-hole, partially virtual golf league founded by McIlroy and Tiger Woods. A Vermont native…
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Boston Red Sox introduce new baseball operations chief Craig Breslow
Craig Breslow, the Boston Red Sox’s new chief baseball officer was introduced to the city on Thursday morning. Breslow, a former pitcher who won the 2013 World Series with Boston, has a reputation as “the smartest man in baseball” and will aim to pull the Sox out of the basement of the AL East. The New Haven, Connecticut, native and…
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Former NFL player Russ Francis dies in NY plane crash
Former New England Patriot and San Francisco 49er Russ Francis died in a small plane crash in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Sunday. He won the Super Bowl with the 49ers in 1985.
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Maine team headed to Little League World Series
Squads from Massachusetts and Maine faced off Thursday night for the right to represent New England at the Little League World Series. Gray, Maine beat out Canton, Massachusetts, 2-1. This is the second win for the Maine team over the Bay Staters – on Monday they took them out 7-1. Canton rebounded on Wednesday, beating New Hampshire 5-0, but that…