Morning Sports Update
Adams and Invoice Belichick have been classmates on the faculty within the Seventies. Now, the previous Belichick confidant might be a head coach for the primary time.
Ernie Adams returns to Phillips Andover: A face acquainted to most New England soccer followers might be strolling the sidelines for Phillips Andover’s soccer staff in 2026.
Ernie Adams, the longtime Patriots analysis director and Invoice Belichick confidant, has accepted the role of interim varsity football coach in a stunning transfer.
“That is positively an interim appointment,” the 72-year-old Adams told the Boston Globe on Tuesday. “The varsity goes to do a complete seek for a youthful, full-time soccer coach after the season, so I’m right here for this yr.”
Adams will exchange Trey Brown, who coached the college to a 2-7 document in 2025.
His connection to the college goes again many years to when he was a classmate of Belichick’s (Adams graduated in 1971). Each performed on the soccer staff.
Extra not too long ago, Adams started spending time on the faculty following his retirement from the Patriots in 2021, serving to to teach in a part-time capability. It will likely be his first head teaching position regardless of a lifetime spent in and round soccer.
Trivia: What creator, identified for an iconic ebook about soccer, graduated Phillips Andover one yr after Adams?
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Trace: Friday Night time Lights.
Scores and schedules:
At the moment at 3:10 p.m., USA males’s hockey will face Sweden within the Olympic quarterfinals.
Tomorrow at 1:10 p.m., USA ladies’s hockey will face Canada within the gold medal sport.
Additionally on Thursday, the Celtics return from the NBA All-Star break to face the Warriors on the street at 10 p.m.
On Saturday, the Revolution open the 2026 MLS common season in Nashville at 8:30 p.m.
Extra from Boston.com:
Connecticut’s personal: Mac Forehand added to his Olympic medal haul by profitable silver within the males’s massive air competitors. Forehand, a Norwalk native from Connecticut, completed second behind Norway’s Tormod Frostad.
An excellent Olympic replace: Throughout a cross nation snowboarding competitors on the Olympics on Wednesday, a canine wandered onto the course.
On this present day: In 1985, the Celtics rolled previous the Jazz 110-94. Larry Hen got here inside a fraction of an unbelievable basketball achievement: the quadruple-double. Hen completed with 30 factors, 12 rebounds, 10 assists, and 9 steals. He selected to complete his night time after simply 33 minutes, resisting the urge to chase a last steal.
“I already did sufficient harm,” Hen instructed reporters, per the Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy. “Why go for it after we’re up by 30?”
Day by day spotlight: Mikeala Shiffrin emphatically ended her Olympic drought by demolishing the sector in slalom on Wednesday, posting a ridiculous 1.5 second margin of victory (equal to the combined margins of victory in the preceding seven ladies’s Olympic slaloms).
Trivia reply: Buzz Bissinger
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