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December 28, 2008 - January 3, 2009 Archives
7:28 PM Sat, Jan 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Carolyn Thornton  Email
Former Journal sports writer Bob Leddy sends in this report on Andrew Springer's record-breaking run at the Brown High School Classic: PROVIDENCE - Westerly High senior Andrew Springer yesterday broke a New England record in the boys' indoor 3,000-meter run......
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7:28 PM Sat, Jan 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Carolyn Thornton Email
Former Journal sports writer Bob Leddy sends in this report on Andrew Springer's record-breaking run at the Brown High School Classic: PROVIDENCE - Westerly High senior Andrew Springer yesterday broke a New England record in the boys' indoor 3,000-meter run......
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8:36 PM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
BOSTON -- This is getting ugly. It's one thing for Boston's starters to build a 14-point lead after one quarter of play against the last-place Washington Wizards, but Boston's reserves are also embarrassing Washington. The Celtics are in the midst......
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8:04 PM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
BOSTON -- Washington coach Ed Tapscott said before the game that he knew the Celtics were an "angry team" after having gone 1-3 on their recent road trip. But the Wizards apparently weren't prepared for just how focused Boston would......
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7:51 PM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
BOSTON -- Washington starting forward Andray Blatche went down with an apparent leg injury 5:22 into the game with the Celtics leading 13-8.......
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7:19 PM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
BOSTON -- Washington coach Ed Tapscott loves visiting Boston. After all, he went to college in the City. Tapscott believes that he is the only person who graduated (1975) Boston's Tufts University who became a head coach in the NBA.......
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7:17 PM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
BOSTON -- Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen both rank in the top five in field goal percentage for NBA guards. Rondo, who is averaging 11.2 points, 7.5 assists, and 5.0 rebounds per game, ranks second among NBA guards in field......
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6:46 PM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
BOSTON -- Washington's top scorer Caron Butler returns to the Wizards lineup tonight after missing the last three games with an ankle injury, but Washington guard DeShawn Stevenson (6.9 points per game) will not play. He is sidelined with a......
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10:42 AM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
BOSTON - Boston coach Doc Rivers says that the Celtics are always looking to pick up players to improve their team, and there has been some recent development on that front. Rivers had his eye on Atlanta free agent center......
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5:56 PM Wed, Dec 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
PROVIDENCE -- It was quite a Big East opener for the Providence College Friars. After falling behind 11-0 in the game's opening minutes, the Friars outscored St. John's by 32 points the rest of the way and defeated the Johnnies,......
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12:49 PM Wed, Dec 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
By KEVIN McNAMARA PROVIDENCE - It's snowing like crazy right now in downtown Providence but the Big East does not have a case of Rhode Island's Snowitis: Today's PC game is on. The St. John's Red Storm is in......
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11:18 AM Wed, Dec 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
The Boston Bruins today assigned center Martin St. Pierre to the Providence Bruins and placed forward Patrice Bergeron, who suffered a concussion on Dec. 20, on injured reserve. St. Pierre saw action in all five games during the Bruins' recent......
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10:07 AM Wed, Dec 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Former NBA great Charles Barkley was arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving early Wednesday. An officer with a law enforcement task force that targets drunken driving saw the former NBA star run a stop......
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9:46 AM Wed, Dec 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jerod Mayo firmly answered everyone who criticized the Patriots for taking him with the 10th pick in April's draft by winning The Associated Press 2008 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award. Mayo was a......
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3:57 PM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Cleveland Browns have scheduled an interview Tuesday with fired New York Jets coach Eric Mangini, a person with knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press. Mangini, dismissed Monday by the Jets after they collapsed down......
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3:14 PM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Click the play button below to see and hear our latest edition of projo SportsTalk with Kevin McNamara. Kevin discusses the Friars' hot shooting last week against Bryant, the coming matchup with St. John's, the importance for the Friars of......
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2:32 PM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The following is from the Revolution's communications office: FOXBORO - New England Revolution midfielder Mauricio Castro has been called up to the Honduras National Team for a training camp beginning on Thursday, Jan. 1, in Miami, Fla. Castro, 27, has......
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2:16 PM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
Former big-league pitcher Todd Jones has long written a blog for SportingNews.com. And in his latest entry, he takes direct aim at the Yankees and their fans in the wake of the Yanks' spending nearly half-a-billion dollars to sign CC......
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2:10 PM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
Mike Florio of profootballtalk.com reports that former NFL wide receiver Cris Carter, now working as an ESPN analyst, has, in recent days, twice said he'd shoot Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens if he were in charge of a team that......
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1:31 PM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Click the play button below to see and hear this season's final edition of projo PatsTalk with Shalise Manza Young. The topics: Why the Patriots have themselves to blame more than the Jets for their failure to make the playoffs;......
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12:03 PM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
WRENTHAM, Mass. (AP) - A former NFL lineman and high school football coach has been ordered held on $100,000 cash bail after he was charged with raping a 15-year-old female student over a three-month period. Daniel Villa, who also was......
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11:26 AM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
The Providence Bruins have signed defenseman Jeff May to a Professional Tryout Agreement. May, 21, joins Providence from the Las Vegas Wranglers of the ECHL, where he registered 10 points (4g, 6a) in 23 games. The first-year blue-liner began this......
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10:37 AM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Romeo Crennel, the former Patriots defensive coordinator who was fired yesterday as head coach of the Cleveland Browns, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer last night that he was willing to work under the new Browns head coach, but only if......
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9:13 AM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Journal photos / Bob Thayer Goodbye Patriots; New England fans will miss you. But what's with the clothes? Ellis Hobbs had a Yankees cap while Antwain Spann was decked out in a Lakers hat with matching purple shorts as......
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12:29 AM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
SI.com reports that the Red Sox, aware of the need to improve their offense, attempted to trade for Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez -- whom they dealt to Florida in the Josh Beckett/Mike Lowell deal during the 2005-06 offseason -- but......
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10:36 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Rick Gosselin The Dallas Morning News The New England Patriots won 11 games and finished the season ranked in the top 10 in the NFL on offense and defense. But the defending AFC champion Patriots will not play on......
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9:10 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
After an offseason of inaction as they waited for Mark Teixeira to decide where he wanted to play, the Red Sox are now in the process of building their team. The Boston Globe reported last night that, in addition to......
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8:57 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Gary Peterson Contra Costa Times Generally speaking, it's a waste of energy to advocate for something that has no chance of coming to pass. It may be a staple of sports talk radio - "Hi, this is Headbanger from......
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8:34 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The NFL just announced the schedule for wild-card weekend. Here it is: Saturday Falcons at Cardinals, 4:30 p.m., NBC Colts at Chargers or Broncos, 8 p.m., NBC Sunday Ravens at Dolphins, 1 p.m., CBS Eagles at Vikings, 4:30 p.m., Fox......
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7:45 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
The Patriots missed the playoffs for only the third time since Bill Belichick became coach in 2000. But if history is any indication, greater glory lies directly ahead . . . MISSED PLAYOFFS IN 2000 Next season (2001): Won Super......
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7:31 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The New England Patriots' 2008 season is over. The Patriots beat the Buffalo Bills today, 13-0, in windy Ralph Wilson Stadium, but they were eliminated from the playoffs when the Miami Dolphins defeated the New York Jets, 24-17, clinching the......
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6:04 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
The Red Sox are close to signing right-hander Brad Penny to a one-year contract, according to Foxsports.com. Penny, 29, struggled with the Dodgers last year, suffering from a sore shoulder and going 6-9 with a 6.27 ERA in 17 starts......
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3:51 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
Well, they did their part. Now, after a smothering 13-0 win over the Bills in winds with hurricane-force gusts at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, all the Patriots can do is sit back and wait. New England's regular season is......
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3:24 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A boys high school basketball game in Stamford was suspended and the auditorium was cleared after a melee among fans in the stands spilled out onto the court. Stamford police say a 22-year-old city man was......
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2:16 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
WALPOLE, Mass. (AP) -- The lawyer for Danny Villa says the former New England Patriots player and high school football coach will plead not guilty to child rape charges. Villa, who had been working as the football coach at Walpole......
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1:50 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
WALPOLE, Mass. (AP) -- It could take up to a week to process all the paperwork before former New England Patriots player and high school football coach Danny Villa returns to Massachusetts to face charges that he raped a child.......
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12:54 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Our old friend Tom Curran, writing on NBCSpots.com, today quoted an unnamed league source who told him that Tom Brady's rehab is well behind schedule, and that Brady's 2009 season might be in jeopardy. If true, the report would end......
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