The 18 and under North End Knights basketball team won the Greater Boston CYO Championship and the Eastern Massachusetts State Tournament last weekend. The team is moving on to play in the New England Regional Tournament from April 1-3rd in Bridgeport, Connecticut. To help offset expenses, the team has set up a GoFundMe page.
The Nazzaro Center-NEAA basketball league, a program servicing about 125 boys and girls ranging in age from 4-18, held its annual awards banquet at Filippos restaurant on Sunday March 13 and it looked like an old Boston Garden sellout of 13,909. Actually there were only about 200 children and their families but it did fill the hall to Read More…
Over a hundred people filled Filippo’s Restaurant to celebrate the ending of another successful hockey season for the North End Youth Hockey Introduction Program. In attendance were forty of our talented neighborhood hockey players, dedicated parents, coaches and special guests, members of the Boston Bruins, including: Dennis Seidenberg, Brad Marchand, Adam McQuaid, Landon Ferraro, Jimmy Hayes, Read More…
Brady will keep tossing them and Gronk will keep spiking ‘em, for the foreseeable future anyway. A week after agreeing to a two-year contract extension with quarterback Tom Brady, this past Monday, the team announced that it had picked up the remaining $6 million on a $10 million contract with tight end Rob Gronkowski. The Read More…
The Nazzaro Center Knights, a set of 6 traveling basketball teams grouped by age and gender, recently ended their highly successful seasons with two big exclamation points. On Friday night March 4, the 3rd + 4th Grade Boys team won their tournament by defeating St. Agatha of Milton 29-23! And just two days later, the 18-Under Read More…
Congratulations to the 3rd-4th grade Nazzaro Center-NEAA Knights for winning their basketball championship on Friday night and being undefeated in the playoffs! Shown above are the Knights with Coach Carl Ameno of the Nazzaro Community Center. (Photo by Karen D’Amico) “Neighborhood Photo” is a regular feature on NorthEndWaterfront.com. Email your photos to info@northendwaterfront.com. Please include a sentence (or Read More…
On April 18, Alexis Drzewiecki and Sean Murphy from the North End in Boston, Massachusetts, will run to conquer cancer as a member of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team in the 120th Boston Marathon®. Drzewiecki and Murphy, along with more than 550 Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge teammates from across the United States and around the world, will Read More…
The Nazzaro Center, for the 13th consecutive winter, made its annual trip to the New England Sports Park in Amesbury for a night of tubing. Easily the most popular and well attended of the field trips that the center runs, the 56 tubers and 16 adults who chose to watch made the total of 82 a little short of the Read More…
The Nazzaro Center Small Fry Basketball League, in its 44th consecutive season, held its final games of the 2016 season Friday February 19 and although the tournament is usually billed as the “Final Four” or the “Big Dance”, this year it had to be called the “3/4 Time Waltz“. That’s because the vacation week schedule of so many families affected Read More…
In the end, Peyton Manning the game manager was good enough for the Denver Broncos after all. Following an NFL career spent continually carrying teammates, it was his team that carried him in his 17th and possibly last season. All the way to a second Super Bowl title. “I feel very, very grateful,” said a Read More…
Players and coaches from the Corner Café softball team recently celebrated their 14th North End Softball League Championship. Team players and the trophy are shown here during a victory dinner at Amici’s Restaurant. Front row left to right: Anthony Coppola, Ricky Bevilacqua, Richie Longo, Ralph Martignetti, Steve Siciliano Back row left to right: Andrew Marsh, Stephen Read More…
“The biggest gap in sports is the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.” -John Madden The Super Bowl, a game that is the ultimate diversion from the world around us. A slice of Americana, right up there with the 4th of July, it is a trademark of our American culture. When Read More…