It was a moment of triumph for fourth-graders from the Joseph P. Mulready School in Hudson. Dressed in oversized Boston Celtic s jerseys, they cheered as Governor Mitt Romney, with a stroke of his pen, pronounced basketball the official sport of Massachusetts. (Full article: 729 words)

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