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September 20, 2009 - September 26, 2009 Archives
7:29 PM Fri, Sep 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak  Email
BOSTON -- Harvard's defense stopped Brown's bid for a dramatic comeback in the last minute and sparked the Crimson to a 24-21 victory before 17,263 spectators at Harvard Stadium Friday night. Bobby Sewall of Portsmouth scored all three Brown......
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6:58 PM Fri, Sep 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
By the Associated Press Floyd Mayweather Jr. was once boxing's pound-for-pound champion, and now he's evolving into its pay-per-view king as well. Mayweather's victory over Juan Manuel Marquez last weekend generated an impressive 1 million pay-per-view buys, HBO Sports announced......
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5:57 PM Fri, Sep 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Rhode Island turned in easily its highest finish ever in the United States Golf Association's State Team Championship Friday, finishing fourth among the 50 teams. Rhode Island had never been in the top 10 in the seven previous times the......
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1:10 PM Fri, Sep 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
WASHINGTON (AP) - A day after their 100th loss of 2009, the Washington Nationals have announced they're cutting prices on some tickets for 2010. More than 3,300 seats will have lower season-ticket costs, the team said Friday, and prices will......
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9:28 AM Fri, Sep 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
There's been a lot of concern about the impact of swine flu on college campuses, and certainly the pandemic has had some effect already on college sports teams. But we certainly hope we'll never again see anything like what happened......
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9:14 PM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Rhode Island is in a tie for second place, behind only Pennsylvania, through two days in the United States Golf Association's men's State Team Championship at the CC of St. Albans in St Louis. Charlie Blanchard had a 69......
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3:07 PM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- Brett Potas is so angry the University of North Dakota may drop its Fighting Sioux nickname that he's canceled his season hockey tickets and says he won't give his alma mater another dime. "They tried......
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2:05 PM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
This summer, the University of Oregon revealed in a news release that its football team had 80 different uniform possibilities at its disposal, when all the helmet, jersey and pant color combinations were taken into account. Oregon does, after all,......
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1:38 PM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Tony Romo is a great NFL overachiever. An undrafted player out of Eastern Illinois University, who was ignored by major colleges when he came out of high school in Wisconsin, Romo has already far exceeded what anyone could reasonably have......
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9:53 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but only if it doesn't get filmed by a Japanese news crew. A Japanese TV news report about Las Vegas pawn shops (perhaps meant to add context to the struggling economy, but I......
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9:35 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
-- Former Celtics star Antoine Walker has gone through a lot over the last two years. He was bound and robbed at gunpoint in 2007 by several robbers in his suburban Chicago residence. He was sued this past summer for......
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9:26 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
An hourlong documentary about Len Bias, the former University of Maryland star who died of a cocaine overdose after the Boston Celtics made him the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft, debuted in a private screening in Washington,......
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9:02 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
TROY, N.Y. (AP) -- Police are charging standout Binghamton University basketball player Emanuel "Tiki" Mayben with possessing and selling cocaine in his hometown. Mayben set a school single-season record for assists last year while leading Binghamton to its first-ever appearance......
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8:54 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Evander Holyfield, who in other news has been frequently appearing as a pitchman for Taco Bell, is planning to travel to South Korea for a boxing match in November. The 47-year-old Holyfield, who insists that he still wants to retire......
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8:46 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
-- The University of Rhode Island football team will travel to Rentschler Field on Saturday to take on the University of Connecticut at noon. The Rams (1-1) are looking to bounce back from a 30-10 loss to the University of......
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8:40 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
PHOENIX (AP) - Umpire Marty Foster was struck by three foul balls Wednesday and was taken for X-rays on his swollen and bruised left arm after San Francisco's 5-2 victory over Arizona. Foster was hit twice on the arm and......
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8:31 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By J. BRADY McCOLLOUGH The Kansas City Star LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Fights between members of the University of Kansas football and basketball teams the past two days may have shocked fans of the nationally ranked programs, but former players say......
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5:41 PM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- Two fights in two days between Kansas football and basketball players sent one basketball star to the hospital and left officials on this normally placid Midwestern campus red-faced with embarrassment. Tyshawn Taylor, a sophomore guard on......
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4:57 PM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
Herer is the press release. BOSTON -- Boston Celtics Captain Paul Pierce today announced that he is launching The Truth on Health Campaign, a national effort designed to bring health and fitness to America's youth. He made the announcement......
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3:17 PM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
Free agent guard Dan Dickau decided to pass on an invitation to the Celtics training camp, choosing to attend Phoenix's instead, according to the Boston Globe. Dickau, 31, played five games for the Brose Baskets in Germany last season, averaging......
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12:14 PM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
This kid has a future as either an actor or a hockey coach.......
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11:49 AM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
Providence College's basketball season will officially open on Friday, October 16 at Providence College's annual Late Night Madness event in Alumni Hall. Admission is free and doors will open at 9:30 p.m. The event will be streamed live online at......
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11:46 AM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona third baseman Mark Reynolds broke his major league strikeout record by fanning three times against San Francisco on Tuesday night. Reynolds has 206 strikeouts, breaking the record of 204 he set last season. After doubling in......
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11:21 AM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
The Boston Celtics will begin training camp at Salve Regina University in Newport on Tuesday. They will hold practices Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., but they are closed to the public. They will also hold a......
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8:53 AM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Rajon Rondo wants to stay in Boston. That's good news considering Rondo is one of the best point guards in the NBA. Sports Illustrated recently caught up with Rondo and he talked about an array of topics, including his......
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8:53 AM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By JOHN MONK The State (Columbia, S.C.) COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Cammie Colin is a typical high school student in many ways -- cheerleader, softball player, enjoys algebra, loves to dance, likes singers Freddie Gomez and Lil Wayne. Oh, and the......
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8:42 AM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Robert Lee Email
- U.S. Olympian Demetrius Andrade and former University of Rhode Island football player, Vladine Biosse, will be featured in separate bouts in a rare matinee pro boxing show, Oct. 3, at the Twin River Event Center. Andrade (7-0, 6......
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6:47 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
NESN has hired Jade McCarthy as an anchor/reporter starting in January. A native of Newton, Mass., McCarthy is currently working for a Philadelphia TV station.......
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3:47 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Providence, R.I. (September 22, 2009) - Providence College women's hockey team was picked to finish fourth in the Hockey East preseason poll, as voted by league coaches. The poll was released during the leagues annual coaches media teleconference. Defending champion......
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3:05 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Southern Methodist, led by a 70 from Kelly Kraft, came from behind and won the 16th annual Adam Cup of Newport championship Tuesday at Newport National. SMU finished with a 54-hole team total of 876, six better than Georgia......
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2:10 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Oregon's first-year coach, Chip Kelly (a native New Englander, from Manchester, N.H.), had a nightmarish debut when his team was pasted on the road in a nationally televised game against Boise State and a running back, LeGarrette Blount, threw a......
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2:04 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
It's tough enough that the 2008 Ivy League football co-champions, Brown and Harvard, are meeting in the Ivy League opener this weekend, but they are kicking off Friday night, which means 24 fewer hours to prepare. For the Bears,......
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12:38 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Counterterrorism officials have issued security bulletins about terrorist interest in attacking sports stadiums, entertainment complexes and hotels. The FBI and Homeland Security Department sent two bulletins Monday to police around the country, saying they know of no......
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10:13 AM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF The New York Times ARLINGTON, Texas -- Here's one thing that can be said for the new Cowboys Stadium, where the Dallas Cowboys will play their first home game of the regular season on Sunday against the......
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9:50 AM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Thank God for The Wall Street Journal. So that you and I wouldn't have to, The Journal's David Biderman clicked through the official team photos of every active NFL player to see how many had long hair. That's at least......
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9:01 AM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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"We've got a lot of teaching to do," says first-year Texas College coach Ricky Carson, whose team is off to a rough start this season. In the season opener, the Steers lost 68-0 to Concodia College (of Alabama). The next......
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10:17 PM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Pardon Ron Artest if he's a bit geographically challenged and had no idea that San Diego has a big league baseball team, even though he was wearing a Padres cap. This much he's sure of --......
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9:23 PM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- A top prospect for the San Francisco Giants was charged with murder in the death of a 25-year-old man last weekend at a bar in his Caribbean homeland. Angel Villalona, who received a club-record......
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8:36 PM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
The Adams Cup of Newport has one of its tightest races ever for the team title in the 16-year history of the event. New Mexico has the lead after the 36-hole first day with a 583 total at Newport......
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3:57 PM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
The University of New Mexico has taken the early first-round lead in the 16th annual Adams Cup of Newport Invitational Golf Tournament, sponsored by the University of Rhode Island. The Lobos posted a 287 total in Monday's first round......
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