1976. The United States Bicentennial. Rocky Balboa, the legend, made his move from leg-breaking for a loan shark to boxing immortality. Apple Computer Company originated. The ABA merged with the NBA. My old man’s high school coaching career began. His and my Yankees got swept by “The Big Red Machine.” Dad’s first year as head […]
The Boys Basketball season in the Division IV ranks is tracing up to be a very interesting ride! We have been spoiled with overtimes galore, buzzer beaters, games coming down to the last shot, intensity, and we anticipate that trend continuing through mid-March. This is my favorite time of the year. The final stretch of […]
Happy Sunday Everyone! It’s hard to believe that the winter sports season has just over a month left to go. That saying, “time flies when you’re having fun,” is actually true, and is in full fruition this year with the action these student-athletes have been providing us fans. What a year it has been thus […]
By Jack Healey I went 13-2 in high school picks last week. Here goes for week #4: Friday September 20th Rutland over Essex. On NSN Otter Valley over Springfield Fair Haven over Mt. Anthony St. Johnsbury over Colchester. On NSN BFA Of St. Albans over CVU. On NSN Burlington/South Burlington over Rice. On NSN Middlebury […]
By Jack Healey I went 9-7 in the NFL picks last week and my overall record is now 19-12. Here goes: Thursday September 19th Tennessee over Jacksonville Sunday September 22nd Buffalo over Cincinnati Dallas over Miami Green Bay over Denver Atlanta over Indianapolis Kansas City over Baltimore Minnesota over Oakland NE Patriots over NY Jets […]
By Jack Healey I was looking forward to watching all the stuff at Fenway Park last night. You know all the Carl Yastrzemski, Mike Yastrzemski stuff. Let me say that Mike Yastrzemski didn’t disappoint, he had a home-run and a double. How dramatic was that? It’s moments like that that make baseball the great game […]
By Jack Healey I love inter league play in baseball. I have never understood the whining about it. I get it, not all the match-ups are exciting, but you still have Yankees-Mets, Cubs-White Sox, Angels-Dodgers. You have rematches of the World Series like Red Sox-Dodgers this season or possible previews of the World Series like […]
By Jack Healey I’ve addressed the Antonio Brown situation 100 times and I respect the accuser, but for many of you who are taking the moral high ground….CUT THE BULL!!! It’s about the Patriots! It’s about the Patriots being better with Brown and you know it! Where were you when Ben Roethlisberger was accused of […]
By Jack Healey I went 7-8 last week after a real good first week in high school football so I now stand at 17-12 and here goes for week #3: Friday September 13th: Rutland over Burlington/South Burlington. That game on nsnsports.net Mt. Abraham over Otter Valley Bellows Falls over Fair Haven Lyndon over Spaulding. that […]
by Jack Healey I went 10-5 last week and here I go with week #2 Thursday September 12th Carolina over Tampa Bay Sunday September 15th Baltimore over Arizona Cincinnati over San Francisco Detroit over LA Chargers Green Bay over Minnesota Houston over Jacksonville NE Patriots over Miami NY Giants over Buffalo Pittsburgh over Seattle Tennessee […]
