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Former football coach Terry Donahue, the winningest coach in UCLA history, has died at age 77 after a two-year battle with cancer Sunday night at his Newport Beach home.

Three weeks after shaking up their front office by promoting coach Brad Stevens to president of basketball operations as Danny Ainge retired, the team is reportedly close to hiring a Brooklyn Nets assistant to be the new coach. Ime Udoka’s agreement was being finalized, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

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With Brad Stevens moving into the front office, who will be the next Celtics coach? We spotlight a bevy of potential candidates, from internal coaches to some long-shot names worthy of consideration.

Steve Waithe was a track and field coach at Northeastern in Boston from October 2018 to February 2019.

A middle school teacher in Duxbury, Massachusetts, has been fired amid accusations of sexually assaulting a student 15 years ago. John Blake, a longtime gym teacher and hockey coach at Duxbury Middle School, was placed on leave in the fall. Police are now investigating more than a dozen anonymous tips related to the case, according to The Boston Globe. A...

A middle school teacher in Duxbury, Massachusetts, has been fired amid accusations of sexually assaulting a student 15 years ago.

Is Jerod Mayo ready to take the leap? The Patriots inside linebackers coach reportedly will interview for the Eagles’ head coach job.

For the first time in NFL history there will be opposing playoff teams with female coaches. Here are the six women who will be on the sidelines Wild Card Weekend.

It’s midterm time. For the third time in the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick era, the Patriots have reached the halfway point of the season with a perfect mark of 8-0. Sounds like everything is going swimmingly, right? While New England can almost certainly bank on having homefield advantage throughout the postseason, en route to its fourth straight Super Bowl appearance, these...

Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy and his family have adopted a Labrador retriever mix that was a Michigan animal shelter’s last remaining dog following a pet adoption day.

Grammy award-winning artist Kelly Clarkson will host this year’s Clear the Shelters special, a 30-minute show recapping the NBC and Telemundo stations annual pet adoption drive. The program will air on NBC stations beginning Aug. 23 (check local listings).

Redskins rookie Wes Martin is committed to dog rescue as much if not more than football.

During LA Lakers exit interviews, Nick Young shares that Kobe Bryant refused to sign his Adidas shoes and threw them in the trash and Metta World Peace talks about Kobe’s speech pregame. Recorded on April 14, 2016

Coach Mike Foley of Wayland High School is a decorated swimming and diving coach that joined the 500 Club. Combined with his coaching wins from nearby Framingham High School, Foley’s victories total to nearly 700, making him the most winningest swimming coach in Massachusetts history.

It is a historic rivalry that is supposed to be family-friendly, but the Needham-Wellesley football game turned ugly on Thanksgiving Day. Wellesley, the home team, was up 27 to nothing when fists started flying with two minutes left in the game. Officials decided to call the game before the clock ran out due to the bench-clearing brawl, leaving some fans...

The Hanover High School football team shows support for its coach on and off the field as he battles cancer and endures the loss of loved ones.

With a breakaway layup at the overtime buzzer, Stephen F. Austin pulled off a shocker for the ages and did what no team outside the ACC had done in almost 20 years — topple mighty Duke at home.

Based on the standings, the Boston Bruins caught a break by drawing the Ottawa Senators instead of the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Washington Capitals in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

A Massachusetts man has been identified as one of the victims who died after an avalanche rushed down a mountainside at a New Mexico ski resort on Thursday. The avalanche near the highest peak of Taos Ski Valley happened around 11:30 a.m. NBC10 Boston has confirmed Matt Zonghetti, the man who was killed, was a graduate of Mansfield High School.