New Relay Event Proposals For 2020 Summer Olympics As you no doubt have heard and internalized, the International Olympic Committee signed off this week on a proposal to add a new relay swimming event to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. There will be the first-ever-in-the-Olympics mixed gender relay. Details so far are sketchy. Last […]
When the College World Series kicks off this weekend. Eight teams are left standing, two of the eight are from the Atlantic Coast Conference. They are the Florida State Seminoles and the Louisville Cardinals. Both programs will be looking for their first national championship in baseball. For the Cardinals, this is their fourth trip to […]
Three BC Baseball Players Drafted in 2017 MLB Draft 19 have been selected under coach Mike Gambino CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Three members of the Boston College baseball team were selected in the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Players Draft on Wednesday. Seventh-year head coach Mike Gambino has seen 19 Eagles drafted under his watch. […]
The UMass Lowell baseball team is happy to announce that outfielder Chris Sharpe was selected in this year’s Major League Baseball draft. He was selected in the 14th round number 418 overall to the Pittsburgh Pirates. He becomes the highest Riverhawk selected since Jack Leathersich was taken in the fifth round of the 2011 draft. […]
Larry Bird “Best of Enemies” Documentary Overshadows NBA Finals Regardless of who won the basketball NBA Finals – if the Series ended last night (went to bed early so I could write this blog this morning) – regardless of how athletic LeBron James is, regardless of the fact that the new season of “House of […]
While the college basketball season is months away, premiere events that take place during the non-conference portion of the schedule are starting to take shape. The ACC- Big Ten Challenge is one such tournament, a week long worth of hoops featuring two of the top power five leagues in the country. Usually, this happens during […]
Game 3 of the NBA Finals gets underway tonight and there are plenty of questions surrounding the defending champs. The obvious one, to begin with, is can they stop this offensive machine in the Golden State Warriors? Is there any way to contain Kevin Durant and Steph Curry? Will someone other than LeBron James step […]
Game four of the Stanley Cup Final was played last night in Nashville Tn. with the Predators needing the win to avoid going down 3-1. For the Pittsburgh Penguins, it was win Game 3, and play for the Cup at home Wednesday. Inside Bridgestone Arena, it was bedlam and outside it was insane. Game two saw approximately 50,000 […]
Finally, No More Fake Basketball – NBA Finals Have Begun Finally, no more fake news and fake basketball. Finally, no more one-and-done, come-and-gone Kentucky teams, no more Greg Popovich sitting out his star San Antonio Spurs players for numerous regular season games, and no more Wizards playoff games. Finally, the NBA Finals are upon us. […]