You don’t have to go to Boston to see good baseball this year. The NH Fisher Cats are playing excellent ball in Manchester. It costs less than a movie ticket with popcorn, and the ball park is cleaner and more comfortable than most cineplexes. I’ve seen enough games this year to recommend it to baseball fans, people looking for something to do on a date, and families looking for a clean, safe outing with their small children.

The latest edition of Race Day Preview at concordmonitor.com, with Dave D'Onofrio and Gavin Faretra looking ahead to the Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2010.

An audio-only version is posted below the video, with the option to download as a podcast available here.

Dave D’Onofrio and Gavin Faretra preview the 2010 Samsung Mobile 500, at Texas Motor Speedway, in the latest of installment of RaceDay Preview at concordmonitor.com.

Additionally this week, the segment is available in an audio-only form, too, with the podcast published below the video and available for download here.

Dave D'Onofrio and Gavin Faretra of the Monitor staff preview the upcoming Subway Fresh Fit 600 in the latest installment of the Raceday Preview series that will appear at concordmonitor.com throughout NASCAR's 2010 Sprint Cup Series season.

ALBANY, N.Y. – About 75 minutes before the puck dropped for what was probably the most important game in program history, the Rochester Institute of Technology hockey team filled a curtain-lined hallway that separated the media’s work space from its lunchroom at the Times Union Center, stretching, sprinting – and laughing.

Like the University of New Hampshire is likely doing right now at its team hotel here in Albany, let's take a crash course on the Rochester Institute of Technology hockey team -- the club the Wildcats will face tonight for the right to play in the Frozen Four.

Welcome to Albany's Times Union Center, where the University of New Hampshire begins its latest pursuit of a national championship by taking on Cornell in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament's East Regional. The teams met earlier this season, with the Big Red taking a 5-2 decision at the Whittemore Center, but the Wildcats believe they're a better team now than they were almost three months ago -- and tonight they get the chance to prove it.

A day before the teams meet in the first round of the NCAA hockey tournament, players and coaches from the University of New Hampshire and Cornell University met the media at the Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y. Here are some video highlights from Thursday's session.

ALBANY, N.Y. – Like a good Ivy Leaguer, Cornell goalie Ben Scrivens made every effort to be diplomatic in his remarks, heaping praise not only on the University of New Hampshire, but on all of Hockey East, as he discussed tonight’s NCAA Tournament tilt between his Big Red and the Wildcats.

DURHAM -- The latest on the University of New Hampshire hockey team as they boarded the bus on Wednesday afternoon and made their way to Albany for the East Regional of the NCAA Tournament. For more on their opponent, and the formidable defense Cornell figures to present, check out Thursday's print edition.