Eight weeks of high school football are complete in Vermont and for Divisions One and Three the second season is here. Quarterfinal playoff games (Note-REGULAR season games, only the semi’s and finals are VPA Tournament events) along with consolation round games come up next weekend. Meanwhile in Division Two, where only the top four go […]
by Bill Murphy Simple surface math has been at the forefront of Vermont Division II football all fall. The basic premise is, that all contenders have known from the start of play, that four cannot be divided by five evenly. Returning rosters told one and all, that there were five strong football teams in the […]
Wildly entertaining game last night in Toronto … got to discuss a couple of things … As bizarre as they play was when Texas took a 3-2 lead in the top of the 7th inning last night, and as bizarre as the rule is, give them credit … the umps got it right! And when […]
It is Week 8 in Vermont high school football … final weekend of the regular season in Divisions One and Three … the penultimate weekend of the season in Division Two … and there are some HUGE games on the slate. The top seed in D-1 will be on the line Friday night in White […]
So if you believe in momentum from game to game, all the division series will go to all the teams that won yesterday. Let’s start with the American League: Houston blows an 8th inning lead and will never recover to beat Kansas City in game 5 tomorrow right? Yes just like the Red Sox didn’t […]
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 […]
