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August 30, 2009 - September 5, 2009 Archives
6:42 PM Sat, Sep 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon  Email
Sean O'Hair and Jim Furyk had their own little battle in the last two days as they played in the Deutsche Bank Championship. They ended up tied with each other _ and ahead of everyone else at the TPC......
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3:56 PM Sat, Sep 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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By ROBERT LEE Journal Sports Writer SOUTH KINGSTOWN - The University of Rhode Island football team got off to a great start under first year head coach Joe Trainer, who guided the Rams to an impressive, 41-28, victory over Fordham......
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2:33 PM Sat, Sep 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
The University of Rhode Island football team is putting a beating on Fordham University. The Rams are currently up 34-7 at halftime in their season opener. They have amassed 340 yards of offense in the first half and have limited......
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2:12 PM Sat, Sep 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Sean O'Hair and Jim Furyk had their own little battle in the last two days as they played in the Deutsche Bank Championship. They ended up tied with each other _ and ahead of everyone else midway through the......
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9:50 PM Fri, Sep 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) -- Amber Holt scored 11 of her 18 points in the fourth quarter and overtime and the Connecticut Sun kept their playoffs hopes alive with an 88-85 victory over the New York Liberty on Friday night. The......
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6:43 PM Fri, Sep 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
NORTON, Mass. _ JIm Furyk and Steve Stricker combined to record 16 birdies Friday _ and no bogeys _ as they tied for the first-round lead in the Deutsche Bank Championship at the TPC of Boston. Both players recorded......
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2:16 PM Fri, Sep 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
NORTON, Mass. _ Steve Stricker made five birdies in a row in the middle of his round on the way to shooting a 63 Friday to take the early first-round lead in the PGA Tour's Deutsche Bank Championship at......
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12:40 PM Fri, Sep 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
While URI, Bryant, Salve Regina and UMass Dartmouth do their final walk-throughs before their season-opening football games Saturday, Brown is scrimmaging Columbia Friday afternoon. The Bears, the 2008 Ivy League co-champion with Harvard, will open their season Sept. 19......
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12:05 PM Fri, Sep 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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By ROBERT LEE Journal Sports Writer WALTHAM, MA. - Marquis Daniels made one thing perfectly clear at his Celtics introductory press conference Friday morning at the Celtics training facility in Waltham - he joined the Celtics to win a championship.......
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10:59 AM Fri, Sep 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
The Marquis Daniels scheduled 10 a.m. press conference has been rescheduled for 11:35 a.m. There has been no sign of Daniels just yet. More to come when he arrives.......
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9:44 AM Fri, Sep 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
Waltham, MA -- The Celtics will hold a press conference this morning at 10 to introduce their newest acquisition, Marquis Daniels, who officially signed with the team on Tuesday. The former Indiana free agent will play a primary role for......
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5:00 PM Thu, Sep 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- George Steinbrenner is planning to travel to New York for some postseason games if the AL East-leading Yankees make the playoffs. Steinbrenner attended opening day at the new Yankee Stadium this season but has attended few......
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4:19 PM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Louisville has hired an assistant high school basketball coach with ties to a top recruit as a special assistant to coach Rick Pitino. Shabaka Lands, an assistant basketball coach at Pike High in Indianapolis, has joined......
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11:28 AM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
It could be the biggest Washington scandal since Watergate. Or not. It's still too early to tell. But today all of Washington is talking about the scam that the Redskins have been running on their loyal fans. At the top......
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11:10 AM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
One of the interesting names on the Brown football roster this fall is freshman John Ryan, a 6-2, 195-pound quarterback from Exton, Pa., who is the brother of 2008 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Matt Ryan. The younger Ryan......
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10:51 AM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
It's not only in Rhode Island. Cities and towns everywhere are having a hard time coming up with the money for high school sports, according to USA Today: "From Hawaii to Rhode Island, school systems are trimming compensation for coaches,......
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9:09 AM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Pro and college football coaches are generally a conservative bunch, so it's no surprise that more supported John McCain than Barack Obama. Steve Kornacki of The Wall Street Journal has the numbers to prove it: "During the 2008 campaign cycle,......
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3:14 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
Jason King of Yahoo! Sports has the Providence College men's basketball team ranked 12th in the 16 team Big East for the upcoming season. He has Villanova ranked first followed by West Virginia and the University of Connecticut. King writes......
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3:12 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Former Celtics star and current broadcaster Tommy Heinsohn has been in basketball for a long time. He's been painting even longer. In fact, Heinsohn credits art with helping him stay on the straight and narrow when he was growing up,......
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3:08 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
(AP) BRUSSELS -- The planned showdown between Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay at the Van Damme Memorial meet won't happen. In the wake of his 100-200 world record performance at the world championships in Berlin, Bolt has decided to run......
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2:50 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS HEAD COACH BILL BELICHICK PRESS CONFERENCE September 1, 2009 BB: OK, so we're in a short week this week and are moving along here on the Giants. As you know, that's a real quality football team there.......
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2:03 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
For the first time, B101-FM (WWBB) will be the official radio station for URI men's basketball. "We are absolutely thrilled to continue our longstanding relationship with the Clear Channel family to carry our men's and women's basketball and football broadcasts,"......
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1:53 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
DUBLIN (AP) - Boxing legend Muhammad Ali made a sentimental journey Tuesday to discover his Irish roots, and met distant relatives during celebrations at the local town hall and a nearby castle. Thousands lined the streets of Ennis, western......
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1:24 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Remember the storm of criticism that erupted last spring when the news came out that the New York Yankees were charging $2,500 for the most expensive seats -- the Legends seats right behind home plate -- in the new Yankee......
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12:35 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina appeals court has ruled that Duke University's former lacrosse coach can pursue a slander lawsuit against the school and its former spokesman. The Court of Appeals decided Tuesday that Michael Pressler, currently the......
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10:15 AM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
Providence 2004 Olympian Jason Estrada (15-2, 3 KOs), one of the most decorated amateur fighters in Rhode Island history, will get back into the ring Wednesday night at the Mohegan Sun Grandstand in Syracuse, N.Y., and look to rebound off......
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8:43 AM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
It has been a long time coming, but, according to the Boston Herald which cited unnamed sources, the Celtics will finally announce the signing of Indiana free agent Marquis Daniels today. The 6-foot-6 swingman is expected to sign for the......
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8:20 AM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
Mikki Moore's time in Boston was short. The free agent agreed to a reported one-year deal for the veteran minimum $1.3 million with the Golden State Warriors over the weekend. The 7-foot, 225-pound center was signed by the Celtics on......
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7:39 PM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
PROVIDENCE - Jon Fasick, of New England Country Club, fired a 31 on his final nine holes en route to a 5-under-par 67 to lead the Rhode Island Senior Amateur Golf Championship by three strokes after the first round on......
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2:22 PM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
-- While Pawtucket coach Ron Johnson is certainly happy that the PawSox have boasted one of the best pitching staffs in the International League this year, it's a safe bet to say that the people who receive food from the......
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1:58 PM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Baseball agent Scott Boras always creates a buzz. A swarm of bees invaded his dugout-level suite at Angel Stadium on Sunday, though Boras didn't appear to be at the game between Los Angeles and the Oakland......
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10:11 AM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
-- The new rankings won't come out until Sept. 8. So at least until then, the Providence College field hockey team is still ranked 20th in the country despite suffering a 1-0 loss to 17th ranked Massachusetts last week in......
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9:57 AM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
-- Former University of Rhode Island baseball pitcher Nick Greenwood, who was taken by the San Diego Padres in the 14th-round of the 2009 MLB Draft, was named to the 2009 Northwest League All-Star Team last week. A starter for......
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9:47 AM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- The University of Rhode Island men's soccer team will host the Second Annual Grassroot Soccer Night against in-state rival Brown University on Saturday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. at the URI Soccer Complex. All proceeds from the match will......
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9:15 AM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
-- Patriots beloved linebacker Tedy Bruschi will officially announce his retirement today at 10:45 a.m. This morning on WEEI's "Dennis & Callahan" show, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady talked about Bruschi's legacy. "Tedy is a wonderful man, he's a wonderful person,"......
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7:03 PM Sun, Aug 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By John Branch The New York Times A 3-pound Chihuahua named Princess, not much bigger than a tennis ball with legs, scampered happily under the pool table in a corner of the players lounge at the WTA tour stop near......
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