The northern VT Basketball Officials’ Association is seeking men and women interested in becoming certified basketball officials for the upcoming 2015-16 season. Referee training classes will begin on Monday, October 26th at Lyndon State College, Room LAC 409, in the Samuel Read Library and Academic Center. The balance of the course will be run on […]
By Bill Murphy Up until last weekend, everyone expected a two team fight for the Division III title. The 2015 edition of Vermont D-III football has as many as six respectable teams, BUT, when one is talking about state title caliber elevens, the discussion started and stopped with Otter Valley and Union 32. Now, there […]
By Bill Murphy There were quite a few question marks about Vermont Division I Football when the 2015 season kicked off. Middlebury was expected to be one of the staples. There was a wonder of how good they would be this time around, BUT, everyone expected the Tigers to be in the hunt and they […]
A whopping 829 points were scored by the winning teams in the 17 high school football games over the weekend, an average of 49 points per game. One team in the 80’s, that was MSJ’s 84 on Friday night, two teams scored in the 70’s, Otter Valley which scored 77 and Winooski which scored 70 […]
Albert Einstein once said, “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” It seems like a fitting quote for fantasy football and my particular so called “specialized knowledge” of the game. I’m in a funk. I don’t know if it was brought on by 5 or 6 years of the […]
How much can you take from the first weekend in the NFL. The answer is nothing, but here goes anyway: Buffalo is pretty good. The Bills’ win over Indy was to me maybe the biggest surprise of the weekend. Seattle coach Pete Carroll has now had two games in a row with boneheaded calls. We […]
I guess the Patriots were behind the communication problems that the Pittsburgh coaching staff had last night. It comes with the territory I guess and the Patriots have made their own bed, but come on every time something goes wrong the Pats are behind it? Does anybody really think that after all that’s gone on […]
The Super Bowl champion New England Patriots after an off season of turmoil get their 2015 season underway tonight against the Pittsburgh Steelers. On the surface you look at all the distractions the Pats have had and you think it would be a miracle if they even won a game, but they do a good […]
By the time this column is out the Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots will have already played. As I write this column, some 14 hours before game time itself, I can’t help but think big points will be scored. As you know I’ve been high on Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown all preseason. I […]
EB’s Sports Life Has anyone noticed how absolutely terrible the marking of the football is after a play is dead in high school? Seriously, after a tackle is made it seems like they just arbitrarily set the ball down with no regard to where the player’s knee, and ball accordingly, were when they are ruled […]
