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At least the Red Sox’ social media team can joke about the misery. Boston’s long national nightmare ended Wednesday, at least for a day, when the Red Sox snapped their nine-game losing streak and beat the Phillies 6-3. Their official Twitter account had a tweet ready to go to mark the occasion, with a line …

Bruins No. 1 goaltender Tuukka Rask cited family reasons when he opted to leave the NHL bubble prior to Game 3 against the Hurricanes this past Saturday, but apparently it was a family emergency regarding his daughter. Rask had revealed to WEEI’s Dale Arnold in a text message that he needed to return home to …

Just when the rivalry between the Yankees and Boston Red Sox seemed dead, Christian Vazquez fed the beast some trash talk. The first-place Yankees finished off a four-game sweep of the last-place Red Sox on Monday to extend their winning streak in the series to 10 games (seven this year) dating back to last season. …

This is the way it was — or at least the way it seemed — during the cozy 86 years that connected 1918 and 2004. For years, from New England, we would hear tortured tales of “The Rivalry,” about how the Red Sox could never quite get over the hump against their ancient rivals, the …

The Red Sox have reached the team meeting stage of a bad season. Before losing a second straight game to the Yankees on Saturday night — and fifth straight overall — the Red Sox held a team meeting at their hotel in New York to try to turn things around. It hasn’t paid immediate dividends, …

The Yankees continued to roll through the AL East with a 4-2 win over the Red Sox on Sunday night and got the first solid outing of the season from J.A. Happ. The left-hander allowed one run over 5 ²/₃ innings after having his starts pushed back — or skipped — and his results had …

The Yankees picked up another win Saturday night, but it came with another costly injury. DJ Lemahieu left Saturday’s 11-5 victory over the reeling Red Sox with a sprained left thumb suffered on an awkward swing. So far, though, nothing has slowed the Yankees’ offense. On Saturday, they belted three homers — including one from …

The Boston Bruins will be without their No. 1 goalie for the remainder of the 2020 NHL playoffs. Tuukka Rask announced Saturday that he was opting out of the playoffs with Boston tied 1-1 in its first-round series with the Carolina Hurricanes. “I want to be with my teammates competing,” Rask said in a statement, …

One game into the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs and already there’s an instant classic. Or make that two, depending on how you count. The Blue Jackets and Lightning went five overtimes — that’s two full games, plus two extra periods for good measure — before they could find a Game 1 winner, as Brayden Point …

Native New Yorker Kemba Walker admits he almost came home last summer to play for the Knicks. But they couldn’t land another star, and the rest is history. Walker ended up in Boston – currently third in the Eastern Conference, bound for the playoffs – while the Knicks have ended up bound for the lottery. …