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3:23 PM Sat, Aug 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone  Email
Elizabeth Beisel, the teenaged Olympian from Rhode Island, won the bronze medal for her third place finish in the 200-meter backstroke on Saturday at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Rome. The soon-to-be North Kingstown High Scool senior, who is......
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1:28 PM Fri, Jul 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
Elizabeth Beisel will race for a medal Saturday in the 200-meter backstroke final at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Rome. The 16-year-old North Kingstown High School senior finished fourth in the semifinals Friday after a third-place showing in......
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7:07 AM Fri, Jul 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
She had the fastest qualifying time so it was only natural to assume that Elizabeth Beisel would advance to the semifinals in the 200-meter backstroke at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Rome Friday. She did. The 16-year-old North......
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6:05 AM Fri, Jul 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
Elizabeth Beisel finished third in the preliminary heats of the 200-meter backstroke at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Rome on Friday and advanced to the semifinals later Friday. The 16-year-old North Kingstown High School senior covered the distance......
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9:38 PM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
BY CAROLYN THORNTON Journal Sports Writer CRANSTON -- They took the long road to get there, but they ultimately reached their destination. Playing their fifth game in six days, the Lincoln All-Stars completed a difficult-but-successful journey Thursday night, defeating the......
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5:58 PM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tom Garrick, former head women's basketball coach at the University of Rhode Island, is joining the Vanderbilt staff. Garrick has spent the past 11 years coaching at his alma mater, including the last five as head......
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2:52 PM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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BY MIKE SZOSTAK Journal Sports Writer PROVIDENCE -- Brendan Whittet, who grew up across the Seekonk River in East Providence and played hockey at Mount St. Charles and Brown, was introduced Thursday afternoon as Brown's new hockey coach. He......
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11:12 AM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Bloomberg The New York Yankees don't have to produce a catalog of subpoenaed documents tied to $950 million of low-cost financing from the New York City Industrial Development Agency for its new stadium, a judge ruled. The subpoena for documents......
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10:10 AM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
The University of Rhode Island football team hasn't done anything to earn the respect of Colonial Athletic Association coaches or media in their annual pre-season poll. They picked the Rams to finish last in the CAA North Division this......
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8:06 AM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
QUARTERBACKS 1. Tom Brady, New England, age 32: 76 yards. Sure, he only threw 11 passes last year before a season-ending injury, but he's also the same guy who threw an NFL-record 50 touchdowns in 2007 and has even more......
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7:56 AM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bloomberg While Omar Minaya got a vote of confidence from the New York Mets' front office, odds are he won't be back next season as general manager. Internet gambling Web site BetUS.com has posted 1-2 odds that Minaya will be......
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10:25 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
Read Carolyn Thornton's story here.......
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10:03 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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BY PAUL KENYON Journal Sports Writer MIDDLETOWN -- The strangest local golf season in memory took still another weird turn Wednesday, this time with the R.I. Open as the stage. URI grad Mike Carbone won the event at Newport National,......
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6:00 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
GRAND BLANC, Mich. (AP) -- John Daly says he hopes an upcoming reality show featuring him will provide a glimpse of his new-and-improved boring life. The popular player said Wednesday he is focusing on his golf career, which has been......
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5:43 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Fog has rolled in at Newport National in Middletown, where the Rhode Island Open is being played, forcing officials to suspend play. Most of the field has finished for the day. Michael Carbone of Brewster, Mass., leads Shawn Warren of......
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4:48 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- A veteran New Hampshire sports reporter has been accused of running a prostitution ring in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and possibly into Canada. Kevin Provencher pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two counts of deriving support from......
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2:51 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
The NBA season will open with the Boston Celtics playing LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Cleveland on Tuesday, Oct. 27, according to Brian Windhorst of The Plain Dealer. The NBA schedule won't be out until next month.......
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12:07 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
Brown University will introduce its new hockey coach Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Pizzitola Center. Brown has not disclosed its choice, but U.S. Hockey Report, U.S. College Hockey Online and College Hockey News have reported that Brendan Whittet,......
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9:47 AM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Dee Brown's finest moment as a Boston Celtic was his win in the 1991 NBA slam-dunk contest. Brown, 40, will be back on the New England hoops scene this season as the head coach of the NBA D-League Springfield......
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8:41 AM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Michael Wallace Miami Herald As the story goes, team president Pat Riley was in a room a few months back with dozens of Miami Heat fans on the verge of canceling their season tickets. The reasons they gave ranged......
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8:33 AM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The head of USA Gymnastics says Hartford has been chosen as the site of the 2010 national championships and the main world championship qualifier. An official announcement is planned for noon Wednesday at the state Capitol.......
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1:16 PM Tue, Jul 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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East Providence native Brendan Whittet has been offered the job as head coach of the Brown University men's hockey team, according to The U.S. Hockey Report. Whittet, a former defenseman for the Bears and a 1994 graduate, played for Mount......
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1:06 PM Tue, Jul 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
The 1998 U.S. Olympic Women's Hockey Team that won the gold medal in Nagano, Japan, with Sara DeCosta of Warwick sharing time in goal will be inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. USA Hockey announced the......
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12:25 PM Tue, Jul 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Kendrick Perkins of the Boston Celtics took time out from the Team USA minicamp over the weekend to marry Vanity Alpough in Texas. Teammates and former teammates who attended included Rajon Rondo, Ricky Davis and Patrick O'Bryant. Owner Steve Pagliuca......
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11:01 AM Tue, Jul 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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The New York Post's Fred Kerber speculates about a possible three-team deal that would put Celtics' restricted free agent Glen 'Big Baby' Davis in a New Jersey Nets' uniform. Kerber opines that a three-team trade between Boston, Indiana and New......
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9:22 AM Tue, Jul 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
MADRID (AP) -- Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong are sniping again after a fragile truce during the Tour de France. Contador, who secured his second Tour win on Sunday in Paris, said he had no admiration for the American as......
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7:23 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
CRANSTON _ The numbers Garrett Medeiros posted Monday in U.S. Amateur qualifying were not as spectacular as those he put up in R.I. Amateur qualifying two weeks ago, but they were plenty good enough to earn him a trip......
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6:00 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
The question was about Josh Beckett, but Terry Francona used his response to talk about how he feels his entire pitching staff is in good shape. Francona was asked in his pre-game press conference Monday if there was a......
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5:46 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama is using a bit of a replay when lauding the WNBA champion Detroit Shock. Part of his speech Monday was almost identical to remarks he gave three months ago, when hosting the Connecticut Huskies, the......
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5:18 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
The day after, Terry Francona is standing behind John Smoltz as strongly as ever. The Sox manager was asked before Monday's game against Oakland about Smoltz, who struggled again Sunday. Even as some are wondering if Smoltz will ever......
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4:22 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
For the second day in a row, Mike Lowell is not in Boston's starting lineup as the Sox begin a four-game series against Oakland tonight. Manager Terry Francona said Trevor Cahill, Oakland's 21-yar-old starting pitcher, is tougher on righthanders......
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3:31 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Vick has been conditionally reinstated by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Vick can participate without delay in preseason practices, workouts and meetings and can play in the final two preseason games -- if he can find......
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3:12 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Mets have fired team executive Tony Bernazard following his recent outburst in the minor leagues. A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Monday that Bernazard was let go. The......
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2:57 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
Tim Mayotte, who grew up in Springfield, Mass., won the NCAA singles championship for Stanford in 1981 and played at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport when he was on the ATP Tour in the 1980s, has......
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2:46 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
With Rhode Island colleges, high schools and communities installing synthetic surfaces on athletic fields, the following release might be of interest. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State University and FieldTurf, the world leader in sports surfacing, have partnered to......
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11:12 AM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
After over a decade and 797 games with the Boston Bruins, P.J. Axelsson has returned to Sweden. Axelsson, 34, has signed a four-year contract with Vastra Frolunda of the Swedish Elite League, the team he played for before he came......
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9:56 AM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is "seriously considering lifting Pete Rose's lifetime suspension from baseball,'' according to Bill Madden of The New York Daily News. All-time greats Hank Aaron, Joe Morgan and Frank Robinson reportedly are lobbying on behalf of Rose,......
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9:40 AM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
The New York Times For almost as long as children have been throwing baseballs, adults have been telling them about the worst thing they could do to their still-developing arms: throw curves. The warnings go back to the earliest days......
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6:03 PM Sun, Jul 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
By ROBERT LEE Journal Sports Writer BOSTON -- While many of his teammates continue to struggle at the plate, Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia continues to thrive. Pedroia was 1-for-4 with an RBI double on Sunday and is now......
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5:55 PM Sun, Jul 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
By ROBERT LEE Journal Sports Writer BOSTON -- The Red Sox two-game hit barrage came to a screeching halt Sunday afternoon in their 6-2 loss to Baltimore. Boston's hitters haven't had too much luck when facing rookie pitchers and Sunday......
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4:31 PM Sun, Jul 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A man who was attending a bachelor party at a bar next to the Philadelphia Phillies' ballpark has been beaten to death during a melee outside. Police say a group from the bachelor party got into a......
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4:08 PM Sun, Jul 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By ROBERT LEE Journal Sports Writer BOSTON - John Smoltz was hoping for a strong outing on Sunday afternoon against the lowly Baltimore Orioles to make a case for himself that he is deserving of a spot in the Red......
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