Sports
Let’s face it, the big news story around here has to do with football. So, despite the fact that some knucklehead on the NY Football Giants website team thought they had already won, the game is in fact tonight. There are plenty of football storylines, but to a lot of people, it will be about…
Welcome to the party B’s!!!! source It’s official: in this century, Boston is the Hub of Champions!
That Providence College basketball has turned to a native son to turnaround it’s troubled program is not new news, but Kevin McNamara’s piece in today’s ProJo about new PC basketball coach Ed Cooley is one worth reading. He had a tough family life but was lucky to know a family that helped him out. Above…
Yes, we lost the bid to host the America’s Cup, but there is still opportunity to grow our economy by focusing on sailing related business. Warned ahead of time, the state administration immediately took a positive perspective, saying that Rhode Island is likely to host preliminary races that could become as big a benefit as…
I’m a soccer guy. I play and coach, follow the sport and needless to say I’m really into the World Cup. But I’m not a soccer proselytizer: I won’t force it on you, but don’t tell me I’m stupid for liking it. To each his own, right? This year’s U.S. Men’s Team has a different…
Boston’s Mayor Menino made one of his typical gaffes the other day when he was describing such “ionic” Boston sports moments like that time Varitek split the uprights for the Patriots. The Assistant Village Idiot (an “iconic” title đŸ˜‰ explained that the sports-knowledge and vocabulary deficiency that Menino displayed is an indicator about politicians’ knowledge…
I recently mentioned Ed Achorn’s book on Hoss Radbourn, Fifty-nine in ’84. Now, WRNI’s Ian Donnis has an interview with Achorn up. Radbourn had 59 wins in 1884 and pitched almost every game for the Providence Grays that year. Good stuff.
Those who read my previous post regarding Cranston’s attempt to help relieve their budgetary woes by combining various school sports programs from their two high schools via a waiver application to the Rhode Island Interscholastic League won’t be surprised to read that I think the RI Interscholastic League got it right: The Rhode Island Interscholastic…
…in response to the President filling out an NCAA Tournament Bracket, the games will be canceled, and the House Rules committee will simply be “deeming” the President’s choices as the winners. (Usual apologies to Bill Reynolds).
ProJo scribe Ed Achorn just released a new book, Fifty-nine in ’84, which tells the story of Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn’s 1884 season with the Providence Grays when he won 59 consecutive games. Old Hoss was indeed a character, something that can be seen even in the stills captured in this video: But there’s more…
