pit was a 6-3 boston college win, pbut the game was much closer pthan the score indicates. p>> it was a pretty good game puntil the last five minutes when pthey kind of took it away from pus. pwe' re looking forward to it. pthey are physical. pyou know they are going to be a pchallenge. pthey play good defensively. pblock shots. p>> -- jason: we are two days paway from super bowl the p50. anthers and the broncos will pmeet on sunday night at 6:30 peastern time. pcarolina is 17-1 and led the nfl pwith a franchise record 500 oints in the regular season, pbut denver has the top ranked pdefense in the league. pat last check, the panthers were p6 point favorites. p>> everything leading up to it, pall you see our panther-bronco pconversations. pit is hard to take it all in. pi keep saying it is a dream come ptrue and hopefully we get to -- pwe are prepared come sunday. p>> is a special opportunity and pi think our players understand pthat, are embracing that. pat the same time, we are getting repared to play a really good pteam on sunday. pjason: hopefully it' s a good ptom: stay

jamie: it will be a quiet week for boston sports. celtics on their all-star break until friday. bruins are on the road, they skate in columbus tomorrow night and in nashville on thursday. the nba all-star game held in toronto last night, isaiah thomas the only member of the had 19 minutes played. no defense at all. west wins 196-173. a return from injury for micaela shiffrin, she grew up in lyme new hampshire, suffered a knee injury in december and looked like she might be out for the season, but she's back and picked up where she left off, her 18th career world cup win. high school hockey, the bobcats against the spartans in hooksett. pembroke in white. sophomore matt trendably skates off the right side. worked once, let's do it again says tremblay. otherwise tir river trying to right now third perfect, 4-2 oyster river leading. monarchs had a memorable day, they visited with sick children, every time they visit chad, all the players in their first year with the new league, so this was their first visit to chad. the players were a hit with everybody, but it was max who stole th

the unh wildcats will play the back-half of their home and home series with boston university at agganis arena. last night in durham, unh rallied from behind twice, skating to a 3-3 overtime tie with the ninth-ranked terriers. danny tirone made 37 saves to keep the wildcats in the game. college hockey today. it was a packed house with saint semifinals. that made it 1-0 after one. and even better save. still in the second, the center. it was 2-0 hawks. last check, five minutes to go. saint and some still holding onto a 2-0 lead. the nhiaa wrestling championships were held in three different locations. nashua north hosted the division i meet. these are a few of the consolation matches. salem' s dylan chaffee finishing third in the 160-pound weight class. how about the big boys? 285 pounds. again, a consolation match between zach minch of central and john littlefield of nashua north. it was littlefield who won that match and took third place. we also know bedford' s bobby won. we will have an update tonight at 11:00. con-val. we don' t have the full results from that yet. we will try to get

tonight it's northeastern, just taking on boston university. congratulations to the dartmouth big green, now ranked in the top 20, the first time since february of 2013 that dartmouth cracks the top 20. u.n.h. has a tough weekend ahead at number 4 boston college friday. congratulations to the 600 or so nhiaa student athletes in divisions two and four that were honored today in concord. the governor declared it scholar athlete award day. i was on hand to enjoy the festivities. students need a b plus average and to earn a varsity letter. and over 1400 statewide have been able to do that. jennifer: thank you, jamie. tom: right now on wmur.com, before iowa holds its caulk ukes tonight, refresh up on how a caucus works, we have a video jennifer: and it is machine -- mansion monday on wmur.com.

@also in action tonight, the @boston bruins, they skate @against the l.a. kings at td @garden at 7:00. @there are all kinds of former @manchester monarchs on the kings @roster including leading scorer @tyler, and the garden will love @this, milan lucic will be back @on the ice at td garden, even if @it is with the visiting los @angeles kings. @he scored 139 goals with the @bruins, nearly 800 penalty @minutes, a fan favorite for @sure, especially on that stanley @cup winning team. @and we leave you with this, it's @and they had a rally there, @peyton was in his glory. @didn't say if he's coming back @next year or not. @big parade through downtown @denver. @jennifer: thanks for that. @tom: more on that breaking news @out of merrimack, town officials @and the secretary of state are @discussing the long lines of @people waiting to vote. @jennifer: what they are working @to decide right now is whether @or not to sten voting past 7:00. @we'll keep you updated on that. @and we've also just learned from @the city clerk in keene that @they are making copies of @demo

they play northeastern and boston college. a lot of young talent on the sox roster, players that came into their own last season and will likely have starting jobs this year. utility man brock holt expects to continue to see time at multiple positions, while mookie betts should be a fixture in the outfield. >> any baseball player would tell you they would like to have one position to focus on and they know they will be playing. but for me, moving around has become what i do. it has gotten me a job in the big leagues. it has helped me stay. i enjoy it. i enjoyed moving around and playing different positions. i like helping out when and where i can. it is a thrill for me to be able to do that. >> i love playing no matter what. that is the main thing, not taking anything for granted. s and get better at the same time. jason: the nhiaa individual bowling championships were held today. garrett wilsom of keene winning the championship flight. on the left noah marsh of , sanborn regional won the medal flight. congratulations to them.

boston celtics play their one and only home game with the utah jazz tonight, gape starts at 7:30. celtics have won two straight games and they're in the middle of a five-game home stand. red sox open their spring training games with a college double header today, first against boston college, petruzzi pitched a second inning very strong, got mookie betts to fly out to joe cronin. it was scoreless until mookie betts crushed a home run, a the wall, the seats, and the red sox won that game over boston college 6-0. against northeastern, a first inning line shot off the center fielder's glove. he's a catcher, but he can run, senior captain. bryce brent hit a home run for the red sox. that was in the third inning, there it is right there. 5-0, the red sox took the lead after that one. hudson's tyler brown a sophomore pitcher for northeastern, he got devon morera swinging, red sox win 8-3. they get the twins on wednesday afternoon. tom: thank you. right now on wmur.com, it's mansion monday, a look inside this almost $1.5 million home in franconia, complete with views of franconia notch.

this is the beginning of a home and home series, the teams also play saturday in boston. last year's baker award winner, jack eichel is having a great rookie season with buffalo, he's played in all 51 games for the sabres with 16 goals and 19 assists, he's second on the team in scoring. eichel is from north chelmsford, massachusetts, grew up playing youth hockey in nashua. the u.n.h. basketball team is enjoying a break with six days off, and they've earned it after playing eight games in 19 dayses are the wildcats have made it through the america east schedule once with a good record of 5-3. now they get ready to play everyone again, it starts saturday at binghamton. >> right now we have to take care of business against people hopefully we can beat, and we just got to try to beat some teams that are above us, coming down the stretch. they're athletic and they they really hard. we have to do what we can to get this win. >> laconia's brendan mooney. not only is he a three-sport athlete for the sachems, he's the captain of all three sports he plays, football, basketball and

boston gets the gold. his 27th. he scored 12 in 12 games. in a second, jonas gets caught out of position. thomas makes him pay. and we are tied at 1-1. less than a minute later, in the net. the play was reviewed. it is a good goal, 13 on the year for him. bruins 2-1 after two. in the third, on the breakaway he will score. his 18th of the season. the bruins win four-to, the 500 win for the coach. they will play tomorrow at unh 3:30. and dartmouth are both home again today. dartmouth will host rpi at 7:00 p.m. unh and vermont are playing in durham right now. unh fell behind 2-0. andrew scored a goal in the second, his 19th of the season. right now, they are trailing 2-1 in the second. only five games to go in the regular season. hockey east playoffs. today is a milestone for unh head coach dick umile, coaching wildcats. in 25 seasons as head coach at his alma mater, umile has racked up 570 wins, along with 328 losses, and 101 ties. throw all that in with the hockey east championships and all adds up to a heck of a run with more still to come.

new boston, 46. durham about 44. compare that to the average high of 33 for this time in february, and that is very mild air. it was a good day to scrape the ice and snow you may have remaining on the driveway. temperatures still above at least in central and southern new hampshire. north. 28 in laconia. 29 in plymouth. with temperatures going below freezing, there could be black ice on the roadways tonight, especially the walkways and parking lots. be careful of that this evening super bowl parties. completely clear skies over the state at the moment. the clouds over northern areas have receded north. for much of the overnight, we temperatures will drop quickly. we see this big system about to have huge impacts on new england in the next 24 hours. you see mainly rain off the coast of north carolina. as that meets up with colder air moving in across the area here, it is going to be all snow and very heavy snow. let me show you the timing. you can keep track of that. 8:00 tonight, a few passing clouds. otherwise, clea

boston did not make any big deals at the trade dead line yesterday. tomorrow night the golden state warriors go for their 12th win in a row as they play at the l.a. clippers. manchester monarchs with a busy weekend, three games, on the road tonight at the reading royals. but you get two chances to watch them at home this week, monarchs will host reading tomorrow night and then el myra sunday at 3:00. college hockey, dartmouth home with colgate tonight at thompson arena. they have a big one tomorrow night as well when they host number 16 cornell. the big green tied for fifth in the standings. top four get a bye in the first round. so dartmouth looking to jump go in the regular season. as for the u.n.h. wildcats they get a home and home with the b.u. terriers, certainly a big weekend for the wildcats. game one of the series tonight in durham at 8:30. >> they're still one of the top teams in the country, i think they're ranked 9th as of this week. they're big, they're quick, they're strong, maguire is playing well for them in goal, they're not giving up

detroit knocks off boston. the monarchs home this afternoon taking on the wheeling nailers for the first time this season. the londonderry marching band in the house. about 300 members strong. he scores and made it one-zip. his first week with the team. he fires it in the back of the net. his sixth. made it 2-0. still in the first, he scores his seventh. he got his second goal of the game in the second. the monarchs skate away with a six-to win. the nba all-star game is tonight. isaiah thomas is the only representative from the boston celtics. thomas is making the first all-star appearance of his the celtics have won 10 of their last 12 games and are in third place in the conference. president of basketball operations danny ainge says they' re still trying to improve the roster, but bringing in a big-time name might not be the best way to go. >> obviously, that depends on who the all-star is. sometimes that does not work. sometimes it makes you go backwards. i think a transcendent player would be nice, but ther

so game saturday night, that's how we want to approach our game with with boston college. >> coaches trying to enforce the defensive side of the puck, so i feel like we have a great deal of momentum heading into this weekend. >> big top 10 team, -- >> the st. anselm men's basketball team continues to move up in the national ranges. tier now new 7 in the country for division two basketball. up two spots the hawks are 17-2 on the season, they hit the road to flay at franklin pierce university tomorrow night. three-time nascar champion tony stewart was hospitalized today with a back injury. and the team is unsure of the extent of his injuries, this comes just a week before he's expected in daytona to prepare for his final season in sprint cup the 44-year-old stewart was injured sunday during an accident while he was riding an stewart is retiring at the end of this nascar season, which begins on february 21 at the daytona 500. and looking ahead to tomorrow, it's national signing day for high school athletes with their colleges, including football programs. bishop guertin number 7 expecte

. >> boston is back at home to host the tampa bay lightning. both teams have 74 points, although the lightning have played one less game tonight bruins. a big game for the division and conference standings we'll have highlights tonight after the oscars. elsewhere today, capitals and blackhawks, 1-0 caps in the first, they can't clear a former u.n.h. wildcat trevor van reames dike, nice pass to kane and he scores. the blackhawks get a huge win, 3-2. both u.n.h. and dartmouth hockey teams ended their regular seasons with losses last night. but both will still play in their respective league tournaments. u.n.h. hit the road to play in the opening round of the hockey east tournament at merrimack college. games one and two will be all three games are 7:00 starts. and if necessary, the best of three-game series will move to sunday for game three. as for the big green, dartmouth will host cole gate in the first round of the ecac tournament, game times at 7:00 on friday and saturday. and again if necessary sunday's game three will be a 5:00 start. quar

plays in boston on saturday. wildcats struggling with their offense, 12 games in this calendar year, 2016. they have yet to score more than three goals. tom: we'll see you back here >>> breaking news tonight. chopper down. the helicopter crashing into the water near pearl harbor. civilians on board. a popular trip for tourists. witnesses say it dropped from the sky. several on board. the heroes jumping into the water. >>> also tonight, donald trump takes aim at pope francis, after the pope suggests trump is not christian. the moment on the pope's plane. and tonight, trump's fiery response. >>> the terror attack in california, and this evening, major developments. the fbi moving in. in san bernardino, what did they find? >>> forced to pay. the hackers locking personal computers, trapping your personal information, your photos. forcing you to pay to get it