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Tuck Rule!

Yes yesterday was the 14th anniversary of the “Tuck Rule”. Yes Patriot and Oakland Raider fans remember that fateful day in different ways. I’ve mentioned this stuff before , but in honor of the anniversary let me repeat a few things: If it happened to the Patriots I would’ve been upset. Of course!  I happened […]

Manning vs. Brady!

I’m back and just in time for the AFC and NFC championship games! It’s Manning vs. Brady! I’m a Patriots fan and a big Tom Brady fan of course, but I don’t hate Peyton Manning. I thought he played pretty well in Denver’s victory over Pittsburgh last Sunday and I didn’t see what some of […]

The Smart Money is on the Tide

The College Football season will wrap up tonight in California as top ranked undefeated Clemson takes on Alabama in the NCAA Division One Title Game. Clemson has answered every challenge all year. They are the top seed for a reason. But it won’t matter tonight … Tonight they are playing Alabama … 31-17 Tide … […]

Albany Dominates Cats … Again

Every team seems to have one opponent that they just can’t figure out, and for the Vermont men’s basketball team that opponent is Albany. The Danes beat Vermont yesterday at the Patrick Gym 69-57, and truth be told, the game wasn’t that close. Albany Coach Will Brown is not the most popular guy around Patrick, […]

Nights To Remember

Rice and Burlington staged another one of their boy’s basketball classics on Thursday night on Bernie Cieplicki Court. Ben Shungu’s 35 points were just enough to give the defending state DivisionOne champs the win against their previously unbeaten arch-rivals. We don’t call this one the ancient and honorable rivalry for nothing. So many great games […]

Football Rumblings

by Bill Murphy Still a very big proponent of Championship Saturday. Three games, one venue, a day in the outer limits for diehard high school football fans. Most of you know, New Hampshire, has many bigger schools, THUS, more outstanding players, BUT, what they don’t have, is the vision Vermont has. Seeing the success of […]

Title Day at Rutland High School

by Bill Murphy And then there were four, …… games that is, remaining in the 2015 Vermont High School Football season. No, we didn’t bump our head and forget OR purposely send out, the idea, that there are four Vermont Football playing divisions, even though we think there should be. No, there are four games […]

Big Weekend!

This is what makes covering sports in Vermont so much fun and it is the biggest weekend of the year as champions will be crowned in boys and girls soccer, high school field hockey, cross country and boys and girls volleyball. on top of that it’s semi-final weekend in high school football. Just sit back […]