Fall Sports
Pigskin Prophets: Week 1
The football season is here, and everyone, even the experts, are trying to figure out who is going to rule the roost in 2025.
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The Season
The Season (2025): Manchester West Football, Episode 1
The 2025 football season is set to begin and the Manchester West High School team is ready to build on its first winning season since 2007.
Fall Sports
Bedford edges out Pinkerton to take top spot in preseason New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center/NHHSSports Football Coaches Poll
The Bedford High School football team is back where it was for most of last season.
Ninth State Sports Show
Ninth State Sports Show: Football Edition (Sept. 2), presented by The Event Center Nashua
The first game week is finally here, but before the regular season can start, Joe Marchilena and Mike Lochman give their preview of both Division II and Division III as both divisions get ready to start next weekend.
The Season
Manchester West football to be featured this fall on 'The Season'
The Manchester West High School football team did something last season that it hadn't done in a long time.
Fall Sports
Preseason Watch List announced for 2025 Yukica Football Player of the Year
The Joe Yukica New Hampshire Chapter of the National Football Foundation announced Thursday its initial watch list for the third annual Player of the Year Award.
Ninth State Sports Show
Ninth State Sports Show: Football Edition (Aug. 26)
As the start of the season gets closer, Joe Marchilena and Mike Lochman preview what the Division I landscape will look like this season. They also look back on the beginning of the football podcast as it enters its 10th year.
Ninth State Sports Show
Ninth State Sports Show: Football Edition (Aug. 19)
With the football preseason now underway, it's time for the return Ninth State Sports Show podcast. Joe Marchilena and Mike Lochman are back for the 2025 season, and they start the year with a special announcement. They also run down some things that are new as another football season kicks off.
Fall Sports
Time to trade in the sandals and swimsuits for the cleats and uniforms
Not far from the intersection where East Dunstable Road meets with Lamb Road and then continues left toward Spit Brook Road in Nashua, there is a sign for Bicentennial Elementary School.
Fall Sports
West beats East for 5th straight win in the CHaD All-Star Football Game (video)
MANCHESTER - There wasn't anything specific the West all-star football team did when defending inside its own 20-yard line.
Division I
New year brings new phase in Knight’s football coaching career
Hearing the news that Scott Knight had resigned as Nashua High School South football coach after 36 years in the program, to become an assistant at Plymouth State University, had Jason Robie reminiscing about a chilly winter night back in 1996.
Division I
Byrne ready for next phase in life’s journey after Windham football
Jack Byrne has always been about that next escapade in life. Whether it was packing everything up for a three-year move to Colorado or returning East to help give birth to a new high school and its football program in Windham, Byrne has always searched for the next exciting move in his career and l