By Jack Healey The Vermont Basketball Coaches Association had its final day of high school basketball this past Saturday at Windsor High School. Rutland High’s Jamison Evans was named the Boys Player of the Year and St. Johnsbury’s Sadie Stetson was the Girls Player of the Year for the 2nd straight year. The NCAA mens […]
By Jack Healey How are your brackets doing? Man I hate that expression, but right now everybody’s bracket is perfect. For what it’s worth my “Final Four” is Tennessee, Duke, Michigan and Kentucky with Tennessee over Michigan in the championship. I’m really just guessing. Whether you’re an expert or not, all this bracket stuff is […]
By Jack Healey It was a terrific boys and girls basketball season and a terrific girls and boys hockey season as well. We still have the All-Star Senior basketball games coming up at Windsor High School and the Rotary Hockey Classic at Essex on Saturday. The four basketball All Star games at Windsor High School […]
By Jack Healey Giant fans can’t be too happy about losing Odell Beckam,Jr.? Jets fans have to be happy about signing Le’Veon Bell. He did sit out a year which isn’t always a good thing. I know this is called the “legal tampering” period, but it’s funny that the Patriots are the only team that […]
By Jack Healey Congratulations to the state champions in girls basketball:St. Johnsbury, Fair Haven, Thetford and West Rutland! How about St. Jay winning in Division 1? I don’t recall anybody predicting that one. Listen up people: The D2, D3 and D4 girls and boys basketball final 4 and championship games are played at the Barre […]
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 […]
