By Tom O’Brien NEFJ Correspondent MALDEN- ‘The League’ officially kicked off its fifth year with games on Sunday. Three teams looking to put some good film together for college scouts played each other once in legitimate 11-on-11 games. “It’s the first week, the guys were competing and getting better,” said The League founder and BB&N head coach Mike Wiley. The first game was between the Boston Junkyard Dogs and the…

Tyler Coady has been named the new head coach at Hanover High School. Coady is replacing Brian Kelliher who stepped down earlier this off-season.

FRANKLIN, MA- The MIAA football committee convened in Franklin this past Wednesday to address both immediate scheduling concerns and the long-term structure of the postseason.

All images courtesy of Scott Sulkazi  By Rob Gullo NEFJ Correspondent WEST HARTFORD — Around a year ago, Mike Sloninia, CEO/owner of A Shot For Life (a non-profit organization that funds cancer research initiatives) introduced the ASFL initiative to high school football in Connecticut. Slonina, a Massachusetts native, started the A Shot For Life organization 15 years ago when he found out his mother was diagnosed with cancer. This led…

By Tom O’Brien NEFJ Correspondent MALDEN- Spring is truly here. In an unofficial sign, The League kicked off its season with a jamboree before official games begin next week. “It was kind of our last dress rehearsal before the games actually start next week, so we call this our jamboree. It’s like a combination of inside run, seven on seven, and then some 11-on-11 button up stuff and it was good,”…

By Tom O’Brien NEFJ Correspondent NEEDHAM – Weather and conditions were not ideal at St. Sebastian’s, but that didn’t stop some of the region’s best athletes from balling out in the “A Shot for Life” event for cancer research on Sunday. A Shot For Life is an organization that funds cancer research and through sport. They have multiple sports departments for different sports, such as soccer and football, among others….