Fenway Park is home to more than just baseball.

The historic park has played host to everything from soccer matches to the Pope, but never before has the Lyric Little Bandbox hosted a challenge like this.

In November, Spartan Race took over the ballyard and welcomed thousands of fans to enter the challenging course. NESN.com’s Alexandra Grace takes you through the course, as seen above.

Movember isn’t just an excuse to grow some awesome facial hair. For the UMass Lowell River Hawks, it’s also serious business.

The Hawks use the month as an opportunity to raise money and awareness toward the fight against neuroblastoma, a form of cancer that mostly affects children and infants. Last year, the team symbolically adopted a child fighting the disease. The child, whom the team called their “little brother,” attended practices and games with UMass Lowell.

It’s all part of a wider initiative to link college hockey teams with children fighting cancer, so check out a report about the River Hawks from NESN.com’s Alexandra Grace.

A couple of local golf enthusiasts who specialize in mobile technology have created a new way to improve your golf game. After all, co-founders Amit Jardosh and Krishna Ramchandran originally started developing the app in hopes of improving their own golf games.

UberSense is a free application compatible with your iPhone and iPad that allows you to record and analyze your golf swing. This tool is so popular it is being used by not just golfers, but also professional and Olympic athletes worldwide.

Watch NESN.com’s Alexandra Grace put UberSense to the test at Nashawtuc Country Club.

Fans lined the Fenway Park outfield on a September afternoon but instead of gloves and Red Sox gear, they had fishing rods and L.L. Bean gear.

The “Ultimate Outdoor Experience” was sponsored by L.L. Bean and the Red Sox in commemoration of the ballpark’s and L.L. Bean’s 100th anniversaries. Eight grand prize winners were teamed up with four fly casting experts, along with Red Sox outfielders Ryan Kalish and Daniel Nava. Each were given fly rods and learned the basics of fly casting on the edge of outfield.

Check out the clinic in the video with Alexandra Grace.

You don’t have to be one of the top golfers on the planet to get inside the ropes at TPC Boston during the Deutsche Bank Championship.

NESN.com’s Alexandra Grace recently toured with the volunteers and volunteer captains, to see how these dedicated folks keep things running smooth at the annual tournament in Norton, Mass.

Even if the local teams played poorly over the last 10 years, sports fans could still count on the playoffs rolling through the Greater Boston area each year.

That's because the Deutsche Bank Championship, a staple at TPC Boston since 2003, is coming to town Labor Day weekend. But this year's tournament is set to be a grand affair, as things inside and outside the ropes are looking a little different. In addition to completely renovating the pristine 18th hole's green, some hospitality areas around the Norton course have received impressive upgrades, as well.

Alexandra Grace stopped by TPC Boston to chat with Eric Baldwin and Brad Williams, as seen in the video above.

Some members of the Bruins are making the most of their time away from the ice by testing out some other sports.

Milan Lucic, Tuukka Rask and other B’s players, local media members and celebrities recently pitched in for charity when they took part in Lucic’s annual Rock and Jock softball game in Lowell.

NESN.com’s Alexandra Grace was there to catch the action, as seen in the video above.

Fenway Park has hosted the game’s best players every single year for 100 years.

This year, the yard hosted the game’s next best players in the seventh annual Futures and Fenway event. NESN.com’s Alexandra Grace caught up with Lowell Spinners pitcher Pat Light, former UMass standout Matt Gedman, now a Lowell Spinners third baseman (who is also the son of Red Sox great Rich Gedman), Leonardo Reginatto, a Hudson Valley Renegades infielder and Hudson Valley Renegades pitcher Kris Carlson as seen above.

They call it the dog days of August for a reason.

But after seeing the Dock Dogs competition in Mansfield, Mass., earlier this month, there should be a new meaning to the famous phrase.

NESN.com's Alexandra Grace attended the weekend festivities, that included high jumping, long jumping and everything in between, as seen in the video above.

Not everyone is good enough to make it to the Olympics in London. So Kings Boston decided to host its own event last month — the Bar Olympics.

Events included bar favorites such pool and shuffleboard as well as Kings’ specialty, bowling. Twenty teams entered, with the gold medal going to the creatively named (and Space Jam-inspired) Team Tickle MonStars.

NESN.com’s Alexandra Grace and Mike Cole were also among the participants and helped document the action. Check out the above video for a recap of the event.

Hundreds of kids accomplished a feat they will remember for a long time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over the summer — completing a triathlon.

Children as young as six years old showed up at the college campus for the inaugural New England Kids Triathlon. NESN.com’s Alexandra Grace caught up with some of the participants and their families, event organizers and even the New England Patriots’ Zoltan Mesko to talk about how kids can stay active through swimming, biking and running.

Check out the video above to see the efforts of the young athletes.

Mesko was able to chat with NESN.com on Thursday afternoon about the event, and all things going on in Zoltan's wild world.

NESN.com: Could you tell us a bit about the NFL's Play 60 program and why you're so interested in participating in it?
Zoltan Mesko: It's a great program to get kids active as far as having it benefit them down the road. Setting up good habits to exercise and eat healthy, and basically it's an investment in themselves as far as health and quality of life. So if you can partner up with something like Play 60 who is backed by the NFL and New England Patriots, it's an amazing tool that you can use to benefit many, many kids.  

NESN.com: It seems extra relevant today because there's a lot of talk about childhood obesity and social media sucking kids inside and keeping them from playing outside, it seems really relevant this day and age.
ZM: Yeah, exactly. I was always kicked out of the house by parents and pretty much forced to go play, so this is what we're trying to invite kids to do. Do burn off that sugar they put into their bodies these days. 

NESN.com: This weekend in Cambridge is the triathlon event for the kids.  What can you tell us about that?
ZM: It's a kick-start to hopefully a better lifestyle for many kids. A lot of them are active. We ended up going to YMCA camps where the kids are doing the right thing by joining these summer camps, but we also want to encourage kids who are not a part of these camps to come out and have a good time and watch us big kids embarrass ourselves as well. It's all in good fun and good nature as far as competition is concerned but it's a great event to kind of segue into getting active and eating healthy and doing everything you can to prolong your life as well as make it a more quality one.   

NESN.com: Have you yourself ever competed in a triathlon, marathon, or any endurance race?
ZM: No, I have not, and I’m very glad that it's a short one so I can get the suffering over with very quickly. 

NESN.com: If you could think of a Patriots teammate of yours, who would finish first and last in a triathlon?
ZM: I don't know if our bodies are conditioned for that endurance type of deal, we're more of short bursts and short explosiveness, that's what we train for. But I’m guessing one of the wide receivers who is pretty lean and mean could endure one of those. I'm not sure which YMCA we went to, but we had an Ironman contestant talk to us, it was a female, and having run a marathon in one day and then having biked 120 miles and then swam three-plus miles in one day, I can't even imagine the type of condition your body has to be in, to even finish such a race. Maybe it's something I'd like to try down the road when football is over. 

There's actually a YouTube video of a 79-year-old woman completing that Ironman and she's coming in and people are cheering her on. It's pretty phenomenal.

NESN.com: It seems like these endurance races require you to be physically fit but also have a lot of mental strength to complete it. 
ZM: It really comes down to a combination of it, of being physically fit and having the mental capacity to fight through the pain threshold. But it's definitely something you have to prepare yourself for early on as an athlete and that's what we're trying to promote here. Sports and athletics can be a great way to have fun while staying active. That's why we're doing it this way.

NESN.com: A lot of people stay in shape so they can look good on the beach. We recently saw a photo of you in Jamaica with some Patriots cheerleaders. Tell us about that.
ZM: Let me tell you the truth about that. I happen to be an excellent, excellent Photoshop artist and I happened to fool everyone but the cheerleaders that were there. If you look at the angle of the shadow from the sun it's pretty much flawless and I'm very proud of my Photoshop project. 

NESN.com: Do you have a favorite vacation spot? Have you ever been to Jamaica?
ZM: I have never been, but apparently I have now! I like the beach but I also like hanging out. Anywhere where friends are where you can have a good time, it could be anywhere. So vacation spots, I just need some friends and we will have a good time. 

NESN.com: You speak many languages, I'm sure that helps when you go on vacation you can talk to just about anybody.
ZM: Well I only know about four languages and there are about 200 you can learn, so I'm mostly talking with my hands, hand and legs trying to communicate with others. But everyone pretty much speaks English so people shouldn't be afraid of going out there.

NESN.com: So you were recently in New Hampshire for a NASCAR race, were you able to get behind the wheel at all?
ZM: No, but maybe one of these days I'll be able to do that just because it was such a cool experience meeting the drivers. A lot of the pit crew are very, very cool guys — all of them are ex-athletes, mostly football players, because you have to be of a bigger stature to throw those tires around and lift the fuel pump. But it's pretty cool how easy going everyone was and very nice, so I got to thank Toyota Racing for inviting us to attend.

NESN.com: Do you think that NASCAR fans and NFL fans are similar?
ZM: I was instantly hooked, just because of the team aspect of it. I love being a part of something that's bigger than myself and I love competition. As long as I can get that adrenaline rush, and I definitely felt some adrenaline going through my body as we were kind of cheering Joey Logano on and Kyle Bush, so it was pretty cool…maybe there's a future in it for me. Not necessarily driving because I'm too fat and I would weigh down the car too much.

NESN.com: Have you ever seen Talladega Night's with Ricky Bobby?
ZM: Yes, I had quoted the movie the entire day. It was pretty ridiculous. "If you ain't first, you're last." And there's so many more. We got to go on the track before the race started and I was doing the Ricky Bobby running around "I'm on fire! I'm on fire!" I'm a goofball at heart. That's what people need to know. 

NESN.com: You met Guy Fieri earlier this summer, what are a few signature dishes you've been known to make?
ZM: Me? I'm terrible at cooking. My eggs are pretty good in the morning though. I can make some pretty good scrambled eggs. That's about it.  But as far as cooking goes, I don't know. My family, my grandpa and great grandfather used to have a monopoly on the wedding cake industry back in Europe, back in Romania. But I never really showed an interest.

NESN.com: You don't bake?
ZM: Well I can follow instructions. It's all about experience. I'm sure I could learn [how to bake] but I would have to have some culinary chefs teach me a couple things. Maybe Guy Fieri can do that for me.

NESN.com: Do you have any restaurants in Boston that you think everybody has to try?
ZM: There are some pretty good ones, especially with the scenery. I love going to Del Frisco's Steak House, they've been very good, and they do a lot of work charity wise. They donate a lot of their services. It's pretty cool how much they do in their community. The people are great. I know some of the guys that work there. I like to go into the North End, maybe get some good Italian and then finish off with a good improv show at the Improv Asylum. I think everyone needs to do that experience. 

NESN.com: If you could sum up the Summer of Gronk in one sentence, what would it be?
ZM: It's always the Year of Gronk, but now it's more known. He's such a good guy. He's so hard working, first off. And he definitely deserves the recent contract that he got, just because he's one of the best out there, and there's no surprise to me why he is because he's always out there working hard at his craft. 

NESN.com: Is he the wackiest teammate you've had?
ZM: Not quite, there's been different categories. But he's definitely in the good genre of comedy when we go after it.

NESN.com: What other teammates have you had that are in that comedy genre?
ZM: We had Rich Ohrnberger on the team last season, who is an absolute comedian. He would hit it off as a standup right away. I don't know why he hasn't given it a shot yet but he needs to hit the scene hard because he would be successful. 

NESN.com: How would you describe Tom Brady's fashion and his hairstyles?
ZM: I don't know, I guess he's a trendsetter, right? If the media is following him then he must be a trendsetter, because everyone else is following suit.

NESN.com: Training camp kicks off next week. What's the best part about NFL training camp?
ZM: Best thing about it is getting back into football. I just love the aspect of training hard in the offseason and then getting to put that, I mean you have to work hard during the season as well but it's kind of like, what have you done in the offseason to improve technique wise, strength wise, and all the aspects that go into becoming a successful player and ultimately benefiting the team to win.

NESN.com: Do you still get the butterflies when football season comes around?
ZM: Oh yeah. I think once I stop getting the butterflies it's over for me. But so far so good.

NESN.com: For your position, what's the toughest part about NFL training camp?
ZM: For my position, it would have to be staying fresh. Not that it's a very big challenge because I listen to my body and I take care of it. But I like doing what I do and taking care of my body, especially when it's in training camp getting beaten up by the longevity of the practices and the sun just draining you.

Leaps, jumps, turns and sequins were ubiquitous during the Boston Celtics Dance Team’s final auditions for the 2012-2013 season.

The intense auditions consisted of a choreographed dance routine, group performance, interviews and a solo performance where candidates create their own choreography.

A panel of judges put on their best poker faces as 28 talented dancers brought out their greatest moves in hopes of impressing the judges and making the team. With flashy outfits and big curly hair, each candidate displayed her outstanding performance skills and presented her talent with the greatest of effort.

After a demanding audition, the judges went behind closed doors and deliberated (for what seemed like an eternity). At the end of the day, 18 lucky participants were chosen to comprise the 2012-2013 Celtics Dance Team.

Click here to see photos of the Celtics’ dance team final audtions >>