Ethan Fuller

LOWELL — It's only a matter of time before the Cathedral girls' basketball team breaks opponents with its blistering intensity.

LOWELL — In chasing a Division 2 championship, the Medfield girls' basketball team has routinely put its faith in freshman Naya Annigeri.

When the Holy Cross women's basketball team landed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday afternoon, the representative who greeted them was buzzing about women's basketball — and specifically, Caitlin Clark.

There's no wrong answer in the debate between Bishop Feehan and Foxborough as the best girls' basketball team in Eastern Massachusetts.

Girls' basketball in New England is booming, but as Saturday's Medina Dixon Tournament showed this weekend, the sport still feels like a tight-knit community.

See the Globe's complete coverage of the 2024 Boston Marathon. Former New England Patriots star Rob Gronkowski brought his signature enthusiasm

Emma Bates finished as the top American woman in the Boston Marathon for the second year in a row, crossing the finish line in 2 hours, 27 minutes, 14 seconds.

In his fourth Boston Marathon, CJ Albertson ran his best time to date, finishing seventh (2:09:53) as the top American in the men's elite race.

Dave McGillivray has run the Boston Marathon for 52 consecutive years. But since 1987, the race director has waited until the evening to run the course he oversees, finishing in the dark.

J ason Asemota is one of Massachusetts' brightest young basketball talents. A four-star wing from Lynn, Asemota just finished his senior season at Hillcrest Prep in Phoenix.