Sports
Updating my post of a couple weeks ago (and confirming a comment by WJAR’s Bill Rappleye at the time), the RI Department of Education has issued a statement that school districts can’t charge fees for interscholastic sports (via ProJo 7to7): School districts cannot, under current state law, charge fees for interscholastic sports, and if a…
Conservative. Conservation. Fish Ladders. For years, a consortium of government agencies and advocacy groups has struggled for funding to knock down dams and build fish ladders to help restore local fish migrations. That work was jump-started on Tuesday when the federal government came forward with $3 million in stimulus money for six projects on the…
No deep thoughts to plumb (life can get like that, no?)….but I can offer this from National Review Online: For the Love of the Game: Thirty Major League Baseball fans lay out the reasons for their devotion: WHY I LOVE THE BOSTON RED SOX Walking through a Fenway Park turnstile is the sweetest feeling on…
No. We don’t. But the RI Senate is gonna try (S0169) (h/t Dan Yorke): 41-12-1. Legislative findings. – The Rhode Island general assembly finds that parents lack a proper outlet to share concerns and objections about youth sports. The general assembly further finds that there is a need for increased transparency and direction within youth…
Growing up in northern Maine, no week was bigger than Tournament Week–what we call February vacation here in Rhode Island. It is still a big deal. Basketball teams and their supporters congregate at the Bangor Auditorium from all over the northern 3/4s of the state, all for the purpose of representing “Eastern Maine” in the…
Sometimes its the sports pages that hold the important cultural news of the day. Today’s win-at-all costs sports culture provides plenty of fodder for those of us interested in supplying our youth with teaching moments. The recent admission by Alex Rodriguez that he took steroids is but one example of just one high profile and…
The NFL is generally considered to be the smartest and savviest of the major sports leagues. But they are screwing up, big time, here (h/t): The Super Bowl won’t let the military color guard stay and watch the big game? Yes you read that right. Was I skeptical? At first, but after I contacted the…
I’ve been sparse again….but instead of offering comment on the important political events of the day, I just want to note that Jim Ed Rice is finally in the Baseball HOF: Jim Rice was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame today, in his final year on the writers’ ballot. He earned 76.4 percent of the…
