By Jack Healey From a football point of view only, who wouldn’t want Antonio Brown on their team? This isn’t high school, it’s the pros! I never called Antonio Brown anything, but a great football player and quite frankly I wanted the Patriots to grab him if they could and they did. The reason fans […]
By Jack Healey Week #2 in high school. I was 10-4 last week and George was 7-7 last week. Friday September 6th at 7PM: Rutland over St. Johnsbury. That game on NSN BFA-St. Albans over Colchester. That game on NSN North Country over Spaulding . That game on NSN Middlebury over Burlington/South Burlington. That game […]
By Jack Healey The NFL season gets underway tonight as Green Bay will be at Chicago. Here goes: Green Bay over Chicago Sunday September 8th Minnesota over Atlanta Philadelphia over Washington Cleveland over Tennessee Kansas City over Jacksonville Carolina over LA Rams NY Jets over Buffalo Miami over Baltimore LA Chargers over Indianapolis Seattle over […]
By Jack Healey Interesting week #1 in high school football as I went 10-4 and George went 7-7. Rutland with an impressive 64-6 victory over CVU on the road. Hunter Postemski rushed for 115 yards on 21 carries and 3 touchdowns. Fans might recall that Postemski had a great opening game last year against Brattleboro […]
By Jack Healey Earlier this week I wrote that Will Fleming, the great Pawtucket Red Sox announcer who has been sitting in occasionally on Boston Red Sox radio broadcasts would be subbing for NESN’s Dave O’Brien during the series in Colorado. I was mistaken!The announcer on TV was Tom Helmer. I was misinformed. Meantime Dave […]
By Jack Healey One of the many voices on the Boston Red Sox radio broadcasts this year is Will Fleming. Fleming is also the voice of the Triple A Pawtucket Red Sox and he is excellent. Fleming is also fluent in Spanish which comes in handy when interviewing players like Rafael Devers. Fleming will be […]
By Jack Healey Back from vacation and feeling refreshed at least for a couple of days. This is not a political statement, but Boston Globe sportswriter Dan Shaughnessey made it political as usual! Former Celtics great Bob Cousy recently received the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” from President Trump and in accepting the honor Cousy said […]
By Jack Healey I went to the final day of the Travis Roy Foundation Wiffle Ball Tournament at little Fenway, Little Wrigley and little Field Of Dreams in Essex yesterday and as always it was special. A record $721,500 was raised this year breaking the record set last year by $100,000. if you haven’t seen […]
By Jack Healey Rutland native John Cameron whose cousins are Mike Cameron of WSYB radio in Rutland and former MSJ and Fair Haven head football coach Brian Grady, who is now the offensive coordinator at Castleton, was the public address announcer of the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl Game on Saturday at Dave Wolk Stadium at […]
By Jack Healey Nobody cares about the Shrine game? Tell that to the players, the Shriners and the patients at the Shriner’s hospitals and the just over the estimated 5000 fans on hand at sun drenched Dave Wolk Stadium at Castleton University this past Saturday! The Shrine game is special and it always will be! […]
