On a warm day after school this spring, athletes ran, jumped, smiled and tumbled across the blue mats in a dim Murdock gymnasium for cheer team tryouts. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight ...

The Gardner News put out a poll to let readers help decide the Team of the Year. After collecting votes from Gardner-area high school sports fans and combining staff votes, the winner has been chosen.

The heavy and frequent rains this spring left many teams rescheduling games and scrambling to fit the end of the season into the few days before the final day of the regular season on Memorial Day.

Some actors say they fought for a role, but Sharlto Copley means it. “When I was 12 years old. I started a gang playing 'The A-Team,' and another gang in school copied my idea,” Copley, who played ...