Good Sports

We live in a crazy sports town. Here's how crazy.

Photo: Joe Schwartz

kay, sure, we live in the nation’s greatest sports town, but it isn’t all about the Pats, the Celtics, the Red Sox, and the Bruins. People around here are so sports-crazed they need to fill the time between seasons, between games, and between beers. For them, there are plenty of other choices. Think about shifting your patriotism to these little-known local sports teams and leagues.

Red Sox, Celtics, Patriots, and Bruins fans may seem crazed. But wait till you see the city’s most competitive dodgeball tournaments.
 

A robust competition in a sport you’d never guess. And there’s beer!
 

Thought female roller derby was something out of old movies? Think again.
 

The other major-league sport—the one you’ve never seen
 

Championship rugby, right here
 

Where they get really serious about a game you played in your basement