Posts Tagged ‘new england patriots’

Political football

13Feb26

Fans around the country and especially in New England were puzzled and outraged by the recent exclusion of former Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and team owner Robert Kraft from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. What, people wondered, could be the reason that the Hall of Fame Selection Committee would deny one of the […]


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Danielle Resha heading for the Super Bowl – again!

26Jan18

By MARK SARDELLA WAKEFIELD – She’s done it again. For the second year in a row, the New England Patriots are in the Super Bowl and for the second straight year local businesswoman and Patriots super fan Danielle Resha has scored free tickets to the big game. She’ll be in the stands in Minneapolis on […]


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Food for thought

25Aug17

My horoscope for Saturday, Aug. 19 said that I would be faced with a difficult choice. As always, it was correct, which is why I base all major decisions on the stars. Everything good always happens on the same day. My dilemma on Saturday was whether to grab my Louisville Slugger and my mask and […]


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Local woman to bike for Best Buddies

04Apr17

Comedy fundraiser Sunday, April 9 at Giggles By MARK SARDELLA When last we heard from Salem Street resident Danielle Resha, she had won a trip to Superbowl 51 by doing the most pull-ups in 95 seconds in the Live ULTRA Pull-up Challenge sponsored by Michelob ULTRA. Well, she’s back from Houston, and witnessing Tom Brady […]


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Can parade organizers bring Tom Brady to Wakefield?

12Feb17

By MARK SARDELLA Last year, he got Boston Bruins great Terry O’Reilly to participate in the Wakefield Independence Day Parade. So why not shoot for the moon this year, right? Brian Fox, who books the non-musical acts for the parade, is hoping to get the greatest quarterback in NFL history to be part of the […]


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Danielle Resha scores Super Bowl trip

04Feb17

By MARK SARDELLA Danielle Resha of Salem Street in Wakefield came by her Super Bowl tickets the old fashioned way: she worked for them. Actually, she won them. But to do so, she had to pull her own weight – literally. The 2011 Wakefield High School graduate and hard-core Patriots fan entered “The Live ULTRA […]


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Storybook Ending

24Oct13

Game 2 of the 2013 ALCS was One for the Ages David Mamet couldn’t have written a better script. We headed into Boston for game 2 of the 2013 American League Championship Series with the Red Sox already down one game to the Detroit Tigers. Another loss would have put the home team down 0-2 […]


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Super Bowl Scorecard

02Feb12

Everyone in the Northeast, not to mention the entire nation, will be impacted by Sunday’s Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. Everybody has a role to play, whether they realize it or not. You may not need a scorecard to identify the players, but you’ll need one to categorize […]


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