by Bill Murphy On paper, there is no bigger game this week than Woodstock-Windsor, BUT IN THE LONG RUN, how big can it be? Both teams will have home field advantage as long as they play, that is, UNTIL the title game which will be on a neutral field. The winner will likely have to […]

by Bill Murphy   The seedings are almost in place. Three divisions and three races. There will be excitement to the end of the 2017 High School Football season in Vermont. Two of the three divisions have surprise leaders from what one might of thought coming out of the hot days of early season workouts […]

  by Bill Murphy During my childhood, I was an optimist. IF they said wait until next year for the Red Sox, I drank the Kool Aid. The law of averages told me, it had to happen sooner OR later. I never imagined, later, would be something like fifty years. I remember I caught on […]

By Bill Murphy Let’s see. At least I got one thing correct. Division I have a lot of good football teams. Brennan Carney, veteran coach of the Burlington Seahorses, told us this morning, “IF anyone doesn’t come to play in a Division I football game, they could find themselves on the losing side. It doesn’t matter […]

by Bill Murphy By the time night falls on Vermont Saturday, half of the 2017 high school football season will be in the books. That was too quick for me. It was also probably too quick for a number of teams, who are already seeing their post season hopes or seeds dwindling. Saturday afternoon, the campus of […]

by Bill Murphy Everything is often about the schedule. The Red Sox play only four games the rest of the way versus a team with a winning record. For awhile, it appeared Houston at Boston September 28th through October 1st was a perfect ending to a season. Both teams would have a lot to play for and national […]

by Bill Murphy Each year the high school football season seems to sneak up on us. We have become accustomed to the change, which occurred sometime in the last couple of decades, that the campaign kicks off on Labor Day weekend, BUT, the hot weather that usually sets in for those late summer practices, always throws […]

by Bill Murphy This has not been a particularly easy season for the Boston Red Sox. Yet, with about five weeks remaining in the 2017 baseball season, the Sox are in the play-offs by six games. Following a losing streak against Cleveland and Baltimore, the Yankees have crawled back into the picture, BUT, does anyone really […]