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☂️A hot day, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms and highs around 80. Sunset is at 8:18 p.m.

Today GBH’s Esteban Bustillos brings us the story of two identical twins, both middle school science teachers, who run a boxing gym on the side and are bringing their hustle and tussle to Fenway Park this weekend. But first: if you’re still disappointed about the Celtics season and looking for a local connection to root for in the NBA Finals, check out this story about Oklahoma City Thunder coach Mark Daigneault, who grew up in Leominster.

“Everyone always asks, ‘Did you think he would coach?’ Yes, I thought he would coach,” said Steve Dubzinski, Daigneault’s high school coach. “Did I think that he would be on the precipice of the NBA Finals, a Coach of the Year in the NBA and have a league MVP? I don’t think anyone can predict that.”


Four Things to Know

1. Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, the Milford High School student detained last weekend by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — sparking an uproar — can be released and return to his family’s home as his case continues, an immigration judge ruled yesterday. (Here’s some background about the story.)

Outside the courtroom, his girlfriend Julianys Rentas, 18, waited with her parents. “He’s not a criminal. He should have never been their target. It just wasn’t right. The way he’s being treated is not correct,” she said. When he gets out, she said, she already has a plan: “I’ll take him out to eat. He likes Dairy Queen, anything chicken. He loves chicken.”

2. Who should be able to access your phone’s location data? Massachusetts lawmakers have until Sunday to decide whether (and how) to move forward with a data privacy bill, which would make it illegal for anyone to sell location data from phones or apps to third parties. It would also put limits on what kind of location data companies can collect.

“Without protections of all of our data — including a long list of sensitive data, not just location — we are not protecting people enough,” said Rep. Tricia-Farley Bouvier, a Democrat from Pittsfield. “It is my goal to pass comprehensive data protections. That’s inclusive of precise location data.”

3. Haitians in Massachusetts said they’re worried after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning travel from their home country and 11 other nations which administration officials claim have “hostile attitudes” toward to U.S. Boston is home to America’s third-largest Haitian community.

“This is gut-wrenching and it’s unfortunate,” said Marvin Mathelier, executive director of the Toussaint L’Ouverture Cultural Center in Boston. “The message that we are seeing is that the U.S. does not stand with Haiti. We’re isolating them and we’re just watching that country continue to be in a situation that it is in today — and it’s unfair.”

4. Last night marked the start of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Some Palestinians in Boston, like Abdulla Awad, owner of the Yafa Bakery & Café in Somerville, are carrying grief over the ongoing war in Gaza during a usually celebratory time. Awad said he hopes the occasion will “deepen our compassion, renew our purposes and hopefully unite our hearts.”

“[While] some of us maybe gather in warmth, others are experiencing and going through unimaginable loss,” Awad said. “So we hope for peace that will prevail — some dignity, some humanity — for all of us to hopefully enjoy and celebrate Eid the way it should be.”


Waltham brothers seek a boxing renaissance. Their next venue? Fenway Park.

For years, twins Mark and Matt Nolan were middle school science teachers who did boxing promotion on the side. Now they’re taking their boxing boosterism to the major leagues: their Waltham gym, Nolan Bros Boxing and Fitness, is the title sponsor of Fight Night at Fenway tomorrow. It’s the first boxing match at Fenway since 1956, and the first-ever women’s boxing match at the ballpark.

“My first professional boxing show was less than a year ago,” Matt Nolan said. “So to go from nothing to Fenway is unheard of, literally.”

Boxing, once one of the most-viewed sports in the U.S., has declined in popularity in recent decades. Other contact sports like football and mixed martial arts have taken bigger slices of the pie, and researchers have found links between repeated head trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Sheniell Rodriguez, 30, said he stays in the ring despite the sport’s dangers. A few years ago he broke an orbital bone and lost vision in his right eye.

“When that happened, I was like, 'Man, I hate this sport. I don’t know why I got into it,'” Rodriguez said. But while his vision has not completely recovered, he is still boxing — and will be at Fenway tomorrow. He compared boxing to a form of therapy.

“Me coming back into this took all that away from me, you know what I mean? Like, all the anxiety and the depression and everything,” Rodriguez said.

Read Esteban Bustillos’ full reporting here.