With Oregon and Xavier losing this week, it’s lookin like there’s a damn good chance the URI men’s basketball team will make the ESPN/USA Today top 25 today for the first time in, like, a while. (Not sure how long exactly, but no NCAA tourney since 1999.) The 11-1 Rams have already beaten four teams […]
Patriots to Providence — “Drop Dead” Cox Cable customers received a notice today that the final game of the regular season, December 29th/Patriots at Giants, will only be available in this area on the NFL Network, and for that you have to buy an extra sports bundle. (In Boston it will be carried on TV5
Dave Zirin is a great radical sportswriter, with whom I don’t always agree. But yesterday he had this dead-on excoriation of George Mitchell, which includes a tidbit that I’ve been unaware of: In a report that excoriates a “steroid era” in the sport, there is no recommendation for Selig to resign. This shouldn’t surprise because
I moved to Providence in part BECAUSE OF the snow — mixed with the hills. I was a passionate sledder in my youth, having grown up in a particularly hilly corner of the Maryland suburbs of DC. I have great memories of snow-days past: The 9th-grade ice-storm that had school closed for a whole week,
In honor of the season’s first wintry weather, I thought I’d remind everybody that some people long for what we’ve got — and fulfill their desires in the very most garish of ways. Let’s go Ski Dubai! [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmoa2LXs7WE]
You’re gonna hurt yourself on that thing. Thanks to multiple tipsters for passing on some info about Fountain Of Youth, a brand new skate shop opening right here on the West Side® by pro skater Donny Barley. The shop sits right next to our beloved E&O and from what you can see of the ongoing
It’s nice to see that soap box racing finally seems to have recovered from its Watergate-era nadir: the infamous Jimmy Gronen scandal of 1973. That’s when 14 year-old Jimmy and his uncle were caught having stuck a magnet in the front of Jimmy’s car — The metallic starting gate would pull the car forward when
Rumble In The Urban Jungle Friday September 21st, 2007 The Mob Squad and the Old Money Honeys face off for the biggest outdoor bout of the season. Halftime entertainment with Mustang Cobra and a men’s roller derby demonstration… and a whole circus of local talent!