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August 23, 2009 - August 29, 2009 Archives
6:54 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Marla Ridenour Akron Beacon Journal NEW YORK -- Former quarterback Boomer Esiason witnessed the second start of Brady Quinn's career last year in Buffalo and still believes the 2007 first-round pick is "the real deal." But Esiason fears that......
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6:27 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Yankees have scrapped their plans for Joba Chamberlain once again. Manager Joe Girardi says Chamberlain will start on normal rest for the remainder of the season beginning with Sunday's game against the Chicago......
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6:12 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) - A former president of Madison Square Garden has sued New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, saying Steinbrenner reneged on a promise to make him a major part of the Yankees-operated television network after he suggested creating......
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3:48 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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If you're at home watching either of the games tonight, check in to projosports.com for a live web chat about the Pats and the Sox. We'll help you keep tabs on the games with analysis and photos, and you can......
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7:31 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Peter Uihlein has reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur. The Mattapoisett native won two matches Thursday, topping Connor Driscoll of Encinitas, Ca., 2 and 1, in the second round and then winning the first three holes on the......
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4:03 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Jim Harbaugh, the former NFL quarterback who is the head coach of the Stanford University football team, has generated some attention with the story of a luxury bathroom and shower -- said to cost between $50,000 and $70,000 -- that......
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3:04 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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BY MIKE SZOSTAK Journal Sports Writer SOUTH KINGSTOWN - When Joe Trainer returned to coach the University of Rhode Island football team after a nine-week stint as assistant head coach at Bowling Green, he started preaching that the Rams......
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12:18 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- A minor league baseball team has changed a Tim Tebow promotion after receiving a cease and desist e-mail from the University of Florida. Fort Myers Miracle fans expected "What Would Tim Tebow Do?" night Wednesday,......
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6:33 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Peter Uihlein and Matt Broome both went extra holes Wednesday in the first round of the U.S. Amateur in Oklahoma, with Uihlein winning in 19 holes and Broome losing, also on the 19th. Uihlein and James Sacheck of Texas......
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5:00 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
After vowing not to speak about the Karen Sypher case again, Louisville coach Rick Pitino called a press conference and spoke again today. It seems a Louisville TV station broke into day time programming and showed a clip of......
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3:06 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
The Dorchester Eagles Pop Warner football organization is fighting the three-year suspension the organization was slapped with after a brawl with the Edgewood, R.I., team at the Pop Warner Super Bowl in Orlando, Fla., in 2008. National Pop Warner officials......
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2:32 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Louisville coach Rick Pitino plans to speak to the media at 3 p.m. Sports information director Kenny Klein says he does not know the nature of Pitino's remarks. Klein says Pitino participated in individual workouts with......
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2:07 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The blog Rumors and Rants recently posted a fascinating list of the best active professional athletes to wear every uniform number from 0 to 99. Click here to see the full list. One lesson of the list is that some......
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1:54 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Individual tickets for all Celtics home games will go on sale beginning at 11 a.m. Fans will be able to purchase tickets by logging on to Celtics.com, by calling 1-800-4NBA-TIX (866-462-2849) or by visiting the TD Garden Box Office. There......
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12:53 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Didja hear the one about the guy who couldn't play soccer and chew gum at the same time? From Brazil comes this cautionary tale: SAO PAULO (AP) -- Chewing gum and playing soccer proved a dangerous mix for one Brazilian......
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12:37 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- Professional hockey skated into South County Wednesday morning with the introduction of the Rhode Island Storm, one of five teams in the new North East Professional Hockey League. The Storm will play their 22-game home schedule......
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12:26 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Big news from the University of Connecticut. The Huskies have replaced cheerleaders with a "spirit squad.'' "The 24 recently selected spirit squad members -- men and women -- will wear outfits similar to those of the cheerleaders, (UConn vice president......
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11:10 AM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
It's one thing to watch Jose Contreras of the Chicago White Sox botch an easy roller up the first-base line, as he did against the Red Sox on Monday night. For a fleeting second, you could feel bad for Contreras......
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8:50 PM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Barrington's Matt Broome and Mattapoisett's Peter Uihlein both have advanced to match play in the US Amateur Golf Championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Ok. Broome, who plays out of Rhode Island Country Club and is a red-shirt sophomore......
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12:45 PM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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It's the tournament before THE tournament, the purse is a million bucks, and admission is free. So if you will be in New York this week, check out the U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament at the USTA Billie Jean King......
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12:22 PM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
I don't know how I missed this, but it's been brought to my attention that Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment is hawking a different kind of product these days. According to Joe Flint of the Los Angeles Times, the "sexual......
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11:52 AM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
Dave Gibson, who played football and ran track at Middletown High School in the early 1990s, will be inducted into the Plymouth State University Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. 13. Gibson played linebacker for Plymouth State from 1994......
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11:33 AM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
Little East Conference soccer coaches have picked defending champion Rhode Island College to finish second in 2009. The Anchormen received two first-place votes and 55 points, just behind the pre-season favorite Eastern Connecticut, which received three first-place votes and......
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11:32 AM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
University of Pennsylvania defensive tackle Joe Goniprow of Barrington received honorable mention for the College Sporting News preseason All-America football team. Wide receiver Buddy Farnham, offensive tackle Paul Jasinowski, defensive tackle David Howard and defensive end James Develin, all......
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9:57 PM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
BLAINE, Minn. (AP) -- Only six former Olympians were picked Monday for the 23-player touring U.S. women's hockey team that will tune up for the Vancouver Games throughout the fall and winter. Two more cuts will be made before the......
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9:15 PM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Jed Lowrie, in his first game on rehab assignment from Boston, hit a home run in the fifth inning Monday night for the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium. The blast, batting lefthanded, went into the stands in right-center.......
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8:37 PM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Rhode Island Country Club's Matt Broome got off to a great start in the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship in Tulsa, Ok., Monday, firing a 1-under-par 69, which puts him in a tie for second in the 312-player field. Broome,......
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3:39 PM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
The new North East Professional Hockey League will skate into Rhode Island next winter. Officials from the NEPHL, the Boss Ice Arena, University of Rhode Island and the South Kingstown Chamber of Commerce will introduce the Rhode Island Storm......
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10:22 AM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
While this post is not exactly topical, it is certainly strange. For an explanation of what happened here in this mixed-martial arts "battle" between Ryohei Masuda and Takahiro Kuroishi in Tokyo, in 2008, and of the melee that followed, I......
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8:52 PM Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Kheli Dube scored three goals to give the New England Revolution a 3-1 win over Real Salt Lake on Sunday night. Dube scored his first goal in the ninth minute, when he converted a low cross......
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8:02 PM Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
A two-run fifth proved to be the key as the host team, Appleton, Wash., Babe Ruth baseball team downed Cranston, 12-6, in the 2009 Babe Ruth Baseball 14-year-old World Series late Saturday night. Appleton, the tourney's host team, scored two......
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7:56 PM Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Cranston split its two games on Saturday and Sunday at the Babe Ruth 13-15-year-olds World Series in Longview, Wash. On Saturday night, right-hander Karson Hysong pitched five innings of five-hit ball, and Centralia, Wash., held on for a 3-2 victory......
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5:26 PM Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Second baseman Eric Bruntlett turned an unassisted triple play to end the Philadelphia Phillies' wild 9-7 victory over the New York Mets on Sunday. It was the 15th unassisted triple play in major league history --......
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5:23 PM Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) -- Pat Cash of Australia defeated Jim Courier to defend his singles title at the Hall of Fame Champions Cup on Sunday. Cash defeated the American 6-3, 6-4 in the championship match at the International Tennis Hall......
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