Notes and thoughts on the Patriots’ one-time captain, defensive line investments, trade speculation, and more.

New England Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers enters this 2025 NFL campaign with a bit of a renewed hunger, not only to re-establish himself as one of the better ...

BRAINTREE -- Getting into first-half foul trouble in a closely contested Div. 1 quarterfinal wasn't an ideal situation for Braintree High girls basketball captain Francesca Spadorcia. But it ended ...

Peppers was placed on the Commissioner’s Exempt list following his arrest and sat out the next eight games. He returned to ...

Van Dyke, who divides his time between Green Bay and Baileys Harbor, began growing exotic peppers around 2015 and fell in love with all of the varieties and flavors. That led to experimenting with ...

This spiciness is detected because of capsaicinoid compounds. But for some peppers, despite high levels of capsaicinoids, the heat is mysteriously dull. Now, researchers reporting in the Journal ...

The Italian beef sandwich, available through May, is dipped in gravy and topped with sweet or hot peppers. The tribute also honors Italian Beef Month. Dubbed "The Leo," the sandwich features ...

Young rainbow smelt are among the migratory fish now able to populate upriver from Braintree. This year, herring in the Monatiquot River in Braintree will have an easier path to their spawning grounds ...

Hot peppers have become my orchids. Peppers are a slippery slope. Many gardeners start innocently, as I did, and soon find that they’ve become “pepper heads,” contributing actively to forums ...

BRAINTREE ― Wake up the bats. That was the Braintree High baseball team's rallying cry Friday, May 2, and things went according to plan. Two days after being shut out by Natick, the Wamps banged ...

BRAINTREE - After a rare shutout in a loss to Natick on Wednesday, Braintree baseball (8-3) needed to turn things around on Friday at home against Milton (5-7). “We don’t remember the last tim ...