Who’s the best? By Eric Berry This is a tough column, and mostly Vermont-centric and certainly basketball-centric, but thought provoking for me, and hopefully for you. I recently engaged in a social media messenger exchange with a good friend and a current Vermont high school basketball coach. We always ask each other questions like ‘who […]
Courtesy St. Michael’s Sports Information WORCESTER, MA. — Senior Levi Holmes III’s (East Brunswick, N.J./Rutgers Prep) fall-away in the lane with 4.3 seconds left in overtime put the Saint Michael’s College men’s basketball ahead for good in an 82-81 victory over regionally-ranked Assumption College on Wednesday evening in Laska Gymnasium during Northeast-10 Conference play. The […]
By Eric Berry We all know where the title of this blog hailed from don’t we? Will Ferrell’s follow up cry after his off-key rendition to Kansas’ ‘Dust in the Wind’ in the movie Old School. Why did I think of that movie? Well, the correlation between what the Celtics need to do against the […]
The boys and girls basketball and hockey seasons are finally over. Kudos to Bob Johnson and the VPA who managed to juggle the schedule of all the tournaments through an endless month of snow. It was worth the wait because it was great post season! In boys basketball: In Division 1 Rutland completes an undefeated […]
BURLINGTON — The Essex Hornets and the Woodstock Wasps were buzzing on Monday night, earning VPA State Championships with victories inside Gutterson Fieldhouse. In the first game of the doubleheader Woodstock broke a scoreless tie with three second period goals and went on to beat the Lyndon Institute Vikings 4-0 in the Division Two Championship […]
Courtesy Vermont Sports Information BURLINGTON – Vermont had six players reach double figures in a 102-53 rout of crosstown foe St. Michael’s on Saturday night. The Catamounts were efficient on the offensive end of the floor by making 58.7% (37-for-63) of their attempts and outscored the Purple Knights 58-12 in the paint. UVM’s defense held […]
FAVORITES FALL IN OPENING WEEK by Bill Murphy Champlain Valley Union High School we apologize. We gave you the kiss of death last week by picking you to be Division I regular season champions this season. While we are at the point of saying I am sorry, Essex, we will send one your way too. […]
The Red Sox lost a tough one yesterday against Kansas City by a score of 6-4. The type of loss that makes you want to throw up especially when a couple of major league pitchers can’t throw strikes. That being said the Red Sox have the 2nd best bullpen ERA in the American League and yesterday […]
As of this writing the Red Sox and Yankees are tied for first in the American League East, but let’s go back to Saturday night. That night the Sox are a game out of first place and they trot out Rick Porcello. Yes Rick Porcello, the most bogus Cy Young Award winner in baseball history. […]
I knew it was coming and I wish I said it here but take my word for it that I thought David Price would get lit up by the Yankees last night and he did. Did anybody really think that after his comments about the Boston media etc. that he was going out to toss a 2-hitter. I certainly didn’t. […]
