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September 13, 2009 - September 19, 2009 Archives
9:14 PM Sat, Sep 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By CHRIS HUMM Brown director of sports information STONY BROOK, N.Y. -- Brown and Stony Brook battled evenly for 60 minutes, but in the end the difference was a missed extra point as the Bears dropped their season-opening game to......
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9:08 PM Sat, Sep 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A newspaper that hired a daughter of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma says she'll continue to write a monthly blog for its Web site but will no longer be paid. Hartford Courant sports editor Jeff......
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7:10 PM Sat, Sep 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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AMHERST, Mass. (AP) -- Kyle Havens threw for two first-half touchdowns and Massachusetts defeated Rhode Island 30-10 on Saturday. Havens, who averaged 11 yards a pass, was 22 of 30 for 329 yards. After scoring passes of 4 and 5......
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7:00 PM Sat, Sep 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Erik Folk kicked a 22-yard field goal with 3 seconds remaining and Washington's fired-up defense stymied fill-in quarterback Aaron Corp and No. 3 Southern California in a 16-13 victory Saturday. It's the second consecutive season the Trojans......
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11:53 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- John Wolyniec scored an acrobatic goal in the 69th minute Friday night, enabling the New York Red Bulls to grab a 1-all draw with the New England Revolution. The draw enabled the Revolution (9-8-7) to......
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7:05 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA will hold training camp next week with replacement officials, saying the referees union has rejected its final contract offer. The National Basketball Referees Association has been bracing for a lockout since talks first broke......
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3:55 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Former Celtics point guard Delonte West, now a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, was arrested Thursday night and faces weapons and driving violations charges. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, West was charged with at least two counts of handgun......
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2:32 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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UMass Dartmouth (0-2) is taking its search for offense and defense on the road to Fitchburg State (1-1) on Saturday. The Corsairs were outscored, 77-12, in their first two games at home. They lost their opener to Alfred, 35-6,......
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2:29 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
If Salve Regina coach Chris Robertson had one word to preach this week, it would have been "finish." His Seahawks failed to finish their first two football games of the season, which is why they will take a 0-2......
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2:23 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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BY MIKE SZOSTAK Journal Sports Writer Quarterback Chris Paul-Etienne is fine and will direct the University of Rhode Island offense at No. 17 Massachusetts on Saturday. He strained ligaments in his left elbow and missed most of the second......
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11:51 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tania Ganguli The Orlando Sentinel NEW YORK - Once Mark Martin revealed Gucci Mane as his current favorite rap artist, there was a frenzy of activity in the control room at Forbes magazine's video studio as various people tried......
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11:17 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Nineteen teams from 14 nations returned to the waters off Newport aboard Swan 42s Friday for the third day of racing in the inaugural New York Yacht Club Invitational. After five races Wednesday and Thursday, Arethusa, skippered by Phil......
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11:01 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Here are two reasons why the Providence College field hockey team has the fourth-toughest schedule in NCAA Division I this season: No. 6 Connecticut and No. 4 Princeton. The Friars, ranked No. 20 at the start of the season,......
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10:50 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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About 1,000 runners from New England's NCAA Division III colleges will overrun UMass Dartmouth on Saturday for the 35th Annual UMass Dartmouth Cross Country Invitational. The event is the longest-running of its kind in New England. The Southeastern Massachusetts Shrine......
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10:37 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Keno Davis of Providence College, Jim Baron of the University of Rhode Island and Tim O'Shea of Bryant University will appear at a free coaching clinic at La Salle Academy Saturday. All head and assistant coaches are invited. Here is......
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9:01 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Sophomores Natalie Bates of North Kingstown and Amy Prince of Hope Valley, and freshman Maeghan Farrelly of Jamestown will try to lead the Daniel Webster College field hockey team to its fourth consecutive victory of the season Saturday. The......
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9:45 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Los Angeles scored a run in the ninth inning on a walk, a sacrifice and a bloop single to beat the Red Sox, 4-3, at Fenway Thursday night. Howie Kendrick, who had homered earlier, hit a blooper jsut over......
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6:36 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Scott Spence completed a wire-to-wire victory in the New England Open Thursday when he fired a 72 to win the event by four shots at Walpole Country Club. The pro from Carnegie Abbey finished with a 54-hole total of......
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4:50 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Kevin Youkilis will not start Thursday for the Red Sox in the series finale against the Angels, but it likely will be the last game he misses. ``We're not going to play him tonight, at least not start him,......
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4:29 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Victor Martinez is back, but Kevin Youkilis remains out for the Red Sox. Vlad Guerrero, who was hit in the ribs with a pitch Wednesday, is out for the Angels. Those are the changes for Thursday night's Red Sox......
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4:15 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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He's not much of a topic of conversation in New England -- perhaps the nation's only hotbed of college football apathy -- but around the country Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is a very big celebrity. And it's gotten to the......
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2:00 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced its 2009 Preseason Poll and both the Providence College men's and women's cross country teams are ranked in the top 20. The women find themselves......
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1:53 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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KINGSTON, R.I. - Rhode Island volleyball senior Caitlyn Welsh was named Atlantic 10 Co-Player of the Week by the league office on Monday. Welsh (Narragansett, R.I.) helped the Rams to a 2-1 record this past weekend at the 2009 Art......
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1:51 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
The University of Rhode Island's women's soccer team will put their undefeated record on the line when the 1-0 Rams visit Vermont this afternoon for a 4 o'clock start. The Rams beat Towson, 1-0, in their season opener. Alexis Veith......
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12:02 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
-- The rumors spread like wildfire this past summer - the Celtics were looking to trade Rajon Rondo. For about a month, it was in all of the newspapers, all over the sports radio talk shows, and talked about on......
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11:19 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
Kevin Garnett proclaimed two months ago that the rehabilitation on his surgically repaired right knee was ahead of schedule, and that he can't wait for the season to start. Yesterday, Celtics director of basketball operations Danny Ainge confirmed that Garnett's......
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10:44 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
There are very few NBA experts picking the Boston Celtics to win the NBA title this season, but if you ask Paul Pierce who the best team in the league will be this winter, he'll tell you, without a doubt......
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9:10 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By MARK DIVVER Assistant Sports Editor Mac Bennett has had a lot on his plate in the past few weeks. In late August he drove 22 hours from Narragansett to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he will play for the RoughRiders......
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7:04 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Charlie Blanchard is the only player ever to win the R.I. Golf Association's Mid-Amateur Championship more than once. The lefty from Wannamoisett now has done it six times. Blanchard sank a 30-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole......
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5:02 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Red Sox are not going to rush Kevin Youkilis back into the lineup, especially not with the team in such good shape in the playoff chase. Youkilis is out of the Boston lineup for the second straight night......
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3:15 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Las Vegas court has pushed back a status check to Oct. 29 for former NBA all-star Antoine Walker, amid talk of possible repayment in an $822,500 casino gambling debt case. Prosecutor Bernie Zadrowski said Wednesday......
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2:58 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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BOSTON (AP) -- Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca is joining the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. A top adviser tells The Associated Press he will formally announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination on Thursday at the......
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12:43 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Here's the school's news release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced its 2009 Preseason Poll and both the Providence College men's and women's cross country teams are ranked in the top......
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10:18 AM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
Providence world championship hopeful Matt Godfrey (20-1, 10 KOs) successfully retained his North American Boxing Federation cruiserweight title over the weekend. Just barely. The International Boxing Federation's No. 3 ranked boxer in the world was nearly upset by hometown fan......
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8:55 AM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
KINGSTON, R.I. - The Rhode Island men's soccer team returns to the URI Soccer Complex to take on Hartford on tonight at 7 p.m. Rhody is 10-12-2 all time against the Hawks, most recently posting a 1-0 double overtime victory......
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8:35 AM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Linda E. McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment chairman Vince McMahon, has declared her candidacy for U.S. Senate in Connecticut. McMahon will be running as a Republican, hoping to eventually challenge incumbent Democrat Christopher Dodd. The 60-year-old McMahon is the......
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8:34 AM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By JIM LITKE AP Sports Columnist No one seems to know with certainty how many concussions players suffer each season in the NFL. For too long, they went unreported and untreated. Too many players simply write them off as an......
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2:19 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Jimmy Baron, the decorated former University of Rhode Island guard, is one of six recipients of the ECAC Robbins Scholar-Athlete Award, the ECAC announced Tuesday. The award recognizes "outstanding academic and athletic achievements of student-athletes representing ECAC schools in......
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1:27 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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MIAMI (AP) -- Miami Heat basketball operations employees have accepted up to a 20 percent pay cut in order to avoid layoffs. The cuts affect everyone in the department, including team president Pat Riley, head coach Erik Spoelstra, assistant coaches,......
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12:20 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Stephen G. Pagliuca, a co-owner of the Boston Celtics, is mulling a bid for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy, according to The Boston Globe. Pagliuca, who is said to be worth $400 million, is a Democrat.......
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11:34 AM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Brown and the rest of the Ivy League will finally kick off their 2009 football season Saturday, two weeks after most of the rest of the college football world started. Bryant, for example, has played two games already and......
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10:37 AM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Were you inspired by Juan Martin del Potro and Kim Clijsters, Roger Federer and the Williams Sisters, or 17-year-old Melanie Oudin at the U.S. Open? Then tune up your serve, work on that backhand and play for a spot......
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10:10 AM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Natalie Bates of North Kingstown, a sophomore at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, N.H., is the New England Collegiate Conference field hockey player of the week. A sophomore forward, she scored three goals in two victories. She led the......
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9:41 AM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Veteran volleyball coach Bob Schneck of the University of Rhode Island won his 500th match Saturday night when his Rams shut out Brown, 3-0, at the Art Carmichael Invitational at Keaney Gym. Schneck is the 26th coach in NCAA......
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9:32 AM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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URI senior Caitlyn Welsh of Narragansett .is the Atlantic 10 Conference volleyball co-player of the week for leading the Rams to a 2-1 record at the Art Carmichael Invitational over the weekend. A 6-foot outside hitter, Welsh averaged 4.45......
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8:52 AM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- The University of Rhode Island versus Connecticut football game on Saturday, Sept. 26 will be available on ESPN360.com. -- ESPN's broadband sports network. The game will begin at noon. ESPN360.com is available at no cost to customers who receive......
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1:33 PM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bryant University junior Kyle Hoffman of Pawtucket tied for sixth, and the Bulldogs finished third at the Mulekicker Fall Classic at West Point over the weekend. Hoffman (Bishop Feehan) shot 70-73-143, six strokes behind the medalist, Matt Krembel of......
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1:22 PM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Brown's men's soccer team improved to 2-0-1 Sunday and won the adidas-Brown Soccer Classic with a 2-0 victory over Adelphia. The Bears had defeated SMU Friday night. Brown's Sean Rosa was the offensive MVP and Evan Coleman the defensive......
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1:09 PM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Teams from 19 yacht clubs from 14 nations are in Newport this week for the Inaugural New York Yacht Club Invitational Regatta. They are practicing Monday and Tuesday and will start racing on Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay......
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9:34 AM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Yachts from Canada and Sweden are the 2009 6mR World Cup champions after five days of racing in variable weather conditions on Narragansett Bay ended Saturday. Eric Jespersen's Gallant is the champion in the Classic Division for Six Metre......
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